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June 17, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux

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MY RETURN TO TWITTER!

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	We can hear!
	Oh my god!
	We're alive!
	That's right.
	I've basically spent the last half decade doing straight cocaine.
	Just kidding.
	That didn't happen at all.
	All right.
	Hello, hello.
	All right.
	You can hear me.
	You can hear me.
	Excellent.
	Molly Meme!
	That's right.
	Five long years.
	All right.
	Welcome back.
	We missed you.
	Everyone is so excited you've come back to X. I appreciate that.
	I like to think that X has come back to me like a boomerang ex-girlfriend.
	All right.
	Back status check.
	I just wanted everyone to know that either it's me or it's fairly bad AI that went bald.
	I don't know.
	We're still working on which and what and how and why.
	What changed your mind on X?
	Yeah, hit me with your questions, man.
	Hit me!
	Hit me with your questions.
	I'm happy to answer most, if not What made you, what changed your mind on X?
	So for those of you who don't know, I was deplatformed about a half decade ago from most digital media platforms.
	I think my kidney tried to leave me and my house turned on me like a rabid Venus flytrap.
	And one of the places I was kicked off from was in the summer of 2020 was X because I was talking about, I don't know, Elections and the pandemic and, you know, the usual bugaboos that people get freaked out about because apparently speech you hate is just hate speech and should be banned.
	You know, the old thing that everything I like should be massively subsidized and everything I dislike should be banned.
	The hyperestrogen emotionality of the modern hysterical framework of Blanche Dubois mindsets.
	So I had a sort of standard for coming back, which was...
	That's generally how I've given advice to people over the years.
	It's the advice I try to implement.
	In my own life, it actually works pretty well.
	My daughter, who, those of you who've been around for a while, I started the show.
	Oh, I'm so old.
	Oh, my God.
	I started this show in 2005.
	My daughter was not even close to being a glimmer in her daddy's eye.
	And now she's going to be 17 this year.
	Yes, that's right.
	It's a time slice.
	It's a time flash.
	So my daughter is, as you can imagine, whip smart and a very good debater.
	Arguer, as teenagers tend to be, and she made what to me was an irrefutable case.
	She just made an irrefutable case.
	I can get into that another time.
	And I will always try to bow to reason, evidence, and logic, and steel myself to follow reason wherever it happens to lead.
	Sometimes that's to a beautiful sunlit upper plain of Mount Everest-style view of beauty.
	Other times it's a landmine.
	And a toe-eating World War I trench, which is kind of what happened when I was in politics.
	So my daughter made a great case.
	I couldn't argue against it.
	And then she reminded me that I'm supposed to organize my life according to reason.
	And if I can't disagree with someone, I should implement what they say.
	And so that is what happened.
	That is what happened.
	So there we are.
	There we are.
	So, just wanted to let everyone know about that.
	And again, if you have questions or issues, I'm certainly more than happy to hear what is on your mind.
	And of course, it is lovely to see everyone here live.
	I want to get openly passionate, honest, and vulnerable and say, boy, does it ever really, really, really mean the world to me.
	The kind words that were pouring in since I posted last night about my book, Peaceful Parenting, which I hope that you will check out.
	It's free at peacefulparenting.com.
	I even have programmed an AI for you to interact with if you have parenting questions.
	I loaded it up with a whole bunch of podcasts and articles and, of course, the whole Peaceful Parenting book, and you can ask that AI in almost any language known to man and God and a few to demons alone.
	And I hope that you will check that out.
	It's free.
	It's a free resource I'm providing to help improve the parenting.
	And I just wanted to say, you know, honestly, openly, and with great humility, I really, really, really do appreciate all the kind words that have come pouring in.
	Since I posted last night, it is beyond beautiful, beyond beautiful to just see.
	What philosophy has done for so many people, to their love lives, to their careers, and in particular, of course, most close and dear to my own tie-fighter ventricles, is that what it has done to people's parenting and to the quality of what's happened.
	In general, I have...
	So that is incredibly, beautifully humbling for me, and I just thank you all so much for giving me your kind thoughts and experiences about how philosophy has helped your life for the better.
	Thank you, thank you, thank you so much.
	For all of that.
	Now, let me just see here.
	I want to just make sure that I am getting the updated chat because it was not.
	It was not happening.
	All right.
	So, let me just get, if you have questions, comments, issues, I'm, of course, perfectly thrilled to be, to tell you my thoughts and respond to what it is that you are saying.
	Somebody writes, it's been a minute.
	I used to download you regularly on a podcast I can't even remember the name of.
	Free domain.
	Freedom is domain thing.
	Free domain thing.
	And freedom should be your domain.
	Should be where you live.
	Utopia.
	Y-O-U-T-O-P-I-A, which means have as many voluntary positive and moral relationships in your life as you can stand.
	And hopefully you can stand quite a few.
	20th anniversary this November.
	That's right.
	The inimitable James, who I work with, reminds me, it's the 20th anniversary.
	It's funny, because I was doing philosophy for over 20 years before I went public with it, which is why I kind of hit the ground running.
	I was like the Beatles in Munich.
	And now it's been almost 20 years that I've been doing it.
	So, let's see here.
	I loved your rendition of the cave allegory on Mike Surinovich's documentary, Hoaxed.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate that.
	And that kind of got me spurred to do my own documentaries, for those of you who don't know.
	I did a documentary on Poland.
	I did a documentary in Hong Kong where I faced down the rather fascist government apparatus with the anti-communist protesters and took tear gas to the face and coughed up half a lung and went back from war because I guess I come from a fairly martial family background.
	And I did also a documentary, a long series on California called Sunset and the Golden State.
	These are all free.
	You can get them at freedomain.com slash documentaries.
	We're very happy you're back.
	Please read crime statistics to us.
	It's a bedtime story that will have you never sleep again.
	Welcome back, Mr. Molyneux.
	We love you.
	Thank you.
	We love you.
	You've been missed.
	Appreciate that.
	Good evening, Chris.
	What was the argument Casey made?
	I'll get into that another time.
	Steph returns when Israel gets attacked.
	Coincidence?
	Yes, I think it is, in fact.
	Are you still staying away from politics?
	I mean, I can talk about that a little bit more.
	I just want to get through the initial questions and see if people have big objections.
	I'm just happy you're back.
	The world needs reason more than ever.
	I think that's certainly true.
	I think that is certainly true.
	Peaceful parenting is the path to world peace.
	Absolutely behind you and all of that.
	Happy to see you back.
	Thank you very much.
	Somebody says, I loved your episode on Joe Rogan.
	Sorry, I thought that was my episode on Rogaine.
	But Joe Rogan, that's where I first found you.
	But towards the end, he and his producer accused you of culty behavior.
	How do you feel the criticism of you has held up all these years later after being deplatformed?
	Well, Holly, that was in fact before I was deplatformed.
	I think a couple of years before I was deplatformed.
	Yeah, so I was on Joe Rogan three times, once with P. Diddy Oil.
	Just kidding.
	Never happened.
	But I was on Joe Rogan three times.
	The first two were a great deal of fun, and he was very enthusiastic and wanted to sort of help me become more prominent in the one.
	And I don't know if he got a call or something like that, but the third time I was on Joe Rogan, it was a total ambush, right?
	He had all of these things queued up where I was supposedly saying all these dastardly things like, you don't have to be in abusive relationships.
	You know, this is the kind of crazy cult-like behavior that I've been accused of.
	You don't have to be.
	In abusive relationships where the other person isn't going to change and continues to escalate.
	I don't care if it's your parents.
	I don't care.
	Like, philosophically, the category parent-child does not absolve one of moral responsibility, right?
	I mean, if a father drives the getaway car for his adult son who's a bank robber, you don't say, well, we'll put the kid in jail, but the dad can get off scot-free because parenthood.
	It means that you're immune to moral considerations.
	Now, parents should be more subject to moral considerations than just about anyone because we need the most morality where the power disparity is the greatest.
	And there's no greater power disparity than that between parent and child.
	So we should have the highest moral standards for our parents.
	Yes, it's entirely culty, apparently, to say to people that if your parents are relentlessly abusive and you've tried talking to them, if it's safe, you've tried making things better, you've offered them family therapy, and if they remain relentlessly abusive, you don't have to have them in your life.
	Apparently, that's culty behavior.
	If that's culty behavior, then, well, the truth of the matter is that abusive families are the real cult where you can't get out.
	All right.
	How many eggs does Emma Watson have left?
	Ooh, let me check my...
	I've got Taylor Swift.
	Emma Watson.
	I was going to say Emma Thompson, but I think she's down to minus something or other, but I don't know.
	But apparently it's creepy to even speculate on these things.
	Thank you for coming back.
	You were the one who started to open my eyes.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate that.
	Peaceful parenting isn't the same thing as permissive parenting for people asking in the chat.
	Oh, yeah, absolutely.
	I'm new here.
	What happened?
	Well, welcome.
	Philosopher returning from somewhat self-imposed exile for a half a decade.
	Saw Sam Hyde repost your first new post last night and couldn't believe my eyes.
	So glad you're back.
	Oh, I appreciate that.
	And I appreciate Sam for posting that.
	If so, how do you recommend it be accomplished?
	Well, it depends what you mean by tough.
	Is it better to win fights or avoid fights?
	I think it's important that if you're in a fight that you come out ahead, but it's even more important to avoid fights.
	So, with my daughter, I don't want my daughter to be tough in her relationships.
	I want her to be happy, open, and vulnerable, and connected, and honest, and virtuous in her relationships, as I am and her mother is.
	So I think I need her to be tough.
	You know, when I was touring Australia and New Zealand, which New Zealand apparently...
	Apparently, it's just all turned into Mordor.
	Just sort of one of the all-seeing eye of the Prime Minister back then was flaming its toothy way across the sky.
	And I was kind of in these media interviews where, you know, there was a lot of confrontation and, you know, some fairly ridiculous insults and so on.
	So I think you need to be tough in those situations, for sure.
	But you don't want to have relationships as a whole where you have to be tough.
	You want to have relationships where you're loved.
	People love you and you don't have to be tough.
	You can just be yourself.
	Can Canada be saved?
	That is up to each individual.
	All I can do is exhort.
	I don't make predictions about the future in specificity because that would be to deny free will.
	Don't leave Twitter ever again.
	I appreciate the enthusiasm.
	Bitcoin needs you in the OP return debate.
	I wish I was tied in enough technically to know what that meant.
	This is monumental.
	Just tuned in.
	Why are you back?
	Well, because baby got back.
	I'm back because my daughter made an irrefutable case to return.
	X was getting really stale with the influence bros all reposting the same stuff.
	Thrilled to have some interesting discussions again.
	Thank you.
	I remember in late 29, sorry, I used to be able to read That was fantastic.
	Somebody says...
	Oh, I was also deplatformed from SoundCloud.
	I told my friends to keep watching COVID in December that year.
	No one believed me.
	Then you vanished.
	No, I didn't vanish in...
	I didn't vanish.
	I was banished.
	I was banished.
	I didn't vanish.
	Hey, I feel like I'm about to start rapping.
	Missed you ever since, friend.
	Thank you for your coverage back then.
	Yeah, I did say, of course, very early on that COVID was going to be And that the lockdowns were going to do far more damage than good.
	And that, yeah, it came from a lab.
	Stuff that wasn't particularly tough to figure out.
	But I made a whole video called The Case Against China.
	I didn't trace it all the way back to UNC.
	But anyway, so.
	All right.
	I remember Free Domain, but neither of the podcast apps I used to download exist anymore.
	All right.
	Welcome back.
	We missed you.
	Thank you.
	And I missed you as well.
	I missed you as well.
	Somebody says, it was the Anna Kasparian video you did.
	He got a lot of flack for platforming you after you did that video.
	Yeah, maybe.
	I mean, but I'm sure as a strong, independent woman.
	Anyway.
	Great to see you, Steph.
	Thank you, Sam.
	I appreciate that.
	It's great to be back.
	Been listening since I was about 20 years old.
	So glad to see Stefan back on X. Mmm.
	It's great to be taking people all the way from springy knees to bad backs.
	Love you, bud.
	We have an NCAP world leader.
	What are your thoughts?
	Oh, Javier Millet?
	Absolutely fascinating.
	Absolutely fascinating.
	Wow.
	A guy with wild ideas, a populist bent, and a strange haircut.
	Who could have guessed that that would be a formula for success?
	but it is and of course it's Postmodernism.
	Is this causing more narcissism?
	Well, if you want to invade a country, you need to disarm the army.
	Then you can just walk in.
	And so when you tell people there's no such thing as truth, you take away any weapon they might have to defend themselves.
	Against falsehood, and therefore liars rule.
	Liars will always teach you there's no such thing as truth, so you can't oppose the lies they spread, and so postmodernism is just another way of a corrupt people to make sure that they disarm the virtuous and sell them subjectivism and relativism in the place of the kind of consistent and rational virtues that lead to moral strength and love.
	All right.
	Are you still going to stay away from politics?
	I think so.
	Yeah, I don't find politics particularly interesting, and I think it's fairly safe to say that a lot of political debates in America seem to have moved just a little bit beyond the awesome power of PowerPoints.
	Graphs, charts, facts, data, reason, and evidence don't seem to be the deciding factors these days.
	It seems to be pallets of bricks and hails of bullets.
	It's not a particularly productive place for a philosopher to be, but we'll see.
	All right.
	What do we got here?
	I just went to your site.
	The book is free!
	Awesome, thank you.
	Can't wait to get through it.
	The book is free.
	The last thing I want is to have a barrier between people who want to become better parents and the tools and arguments for them to become.
	Better parents.
	In other words, I would be charging money so that more children could be hit.
	And that is not the way.
	All right.
	I just subscribed to X. Say hi.
	It is nice to have you on X. This is better than tossing you lemons one side over.
	Yeah, I appreciate that.
	Thank you, thank you, thank you.
	X.com value just increased.
	Few.
	No, yeah.
	I return to X and Bitcoin pumps.
	Oh, just crazy wild coincidences.
	What can I tell you?
	The most justified in hindsight man alive today.
	Well, oh, well, well, well.
	Let me tell you a little something about that, which you might find somewhat interesting.
	You know, it would be nice if the world was a little bit kinder to those who would write early.
	Just a little bit.
	You know, I'm not saying that they have to put statues up to me.
	I mean, I'm not George Floyd.
	But it would be nice if society was just a little bit nicer to people who would write early.
	That would be nice.
	Because otherwise you lose people's enthusiasm who are right early and then you don't get the early warning signals of upcoming disasters, right?
	So society can be a tad vicious to people who are right early.
	And now, of course, a lot of the stuff that I talked about, you know, 15, 20 years ago has become somewhat common parlance.
	But what happens, of course, if you're early, you end up with all these arrows in your back.
	People step on your wounds, tread your face into the gritty, flea-infested mud, and move on, and then everyone else scoops up the victory and never circles back to say, hey, thanks, man.
	You really broke the ice for us.
	That's just not the way it works.
	Do I sound bitter?
	No, I bet I don't, because I'm really not.
	Actually, deplatforming was fantastic for me.
	I loved it.
	I loved it.
	All right.
	Good to see you're doing well.
	I hope you reconsider making YouTube truth about videos again.
	Maybe.
	I've done some.
	Of course, for those of you who don't know, out of your sight has not been out of my mind, at least I hope not, for the last five years.
	I have done, I don't know, thousands of shows, hundreds of conversations, the call-in shows.
	I have written three books, two novels, and Peaceful Parenting, and I'm actually about a third of the way through a new book.
	So I've been very busy, very active.
	I'm not playing stadiums anymore.
	We're doing nice, tight, little, only shaking my hips a little bit, private dancer jazz club conversations where we've been getting into real in-depth philosophical stuff, which has been great for me.
	I mean, my first love was novel writing and metaphysics and epistemology, like study of the nature of reality, study of the nature of knowledge.
	That's my juicy, juicy stuff.
	So I've been working on that kind of stuff.
	I've done presentations on AI, updated presentations on Bitcoin.
	So there's a lot of stuff.
	You can go to fdrpodcasts.com.
	Fdrpodcasts.com.
	Yeah, that was a good video.
	It was a good video.
	I feel like the That was fantastic.
	I'm like, I mean, I've done a little bit since then, but I get that people like the old hits.
	All right.
	I miss you playing Doom 3 as well.
	Yeah, I've downloaded the new Doom.
	I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
	Somebody says, I will remember everyone who didn't stand up for you after your cancellation.
	I will remember.
	Do you remember?
	All right.
	Andrew says, I learned about you through Cernovich.
	Yes.
	Mike had some very nice things to say, and I really did appreciate.
	It was not the easiest thing to be pro-Monsieur Molineux post-deplatforming, but he did a yeoman's heroic armor-polishing work, and I really did appreciate that.
	Welcome back.
	All right.
	Scooter!
	Oh, so nice to see you.
	So good to see you, Steph.
	What's your best parenting advice?
	That's a good question.
	It's a difficult question.
	I'm just going to pause until everyone forgets it because it's kind of tough to answer.
	Ah, best parenting advice.
	You know, I think, I mean, I've been a stay-at-home parent for almost 17 years, and my daughter is, you know, a year and change from...
	And it's been wonderful.
	I mean, I always said that parenting is all about the teenage years.
	Everything is in preparation for the teenage years.
	And we've had just a lovely time when she's a teenager and she's had a great time too, I think.
	So my best parenting advice, honestly, seriously, man, just remember, you know, remember what it was like to be a kid.
	Remember how much you really wanted to please your parents.
	Remember how much you wanted to have responsibility.
	Remember how much you wanted to be trusted.
	Remember how much you wanted to be reasoned with rather than pushed around or bullied or aggressed against or ignored or whatever.
	Just remember that amazing meaty umbilical bond soul to soul, little soul to tall soul.
	That your parents are gods whose approval you crave, and you just want to have fun with them, you want to be loved by them, you want to love them in return.
	Remember what it was like being a child, all the things that you wanted.
	Just try and provide those things to your children, and you'll absolutely have a beautiful, wonderful time.
	Welcome back, teacher!
	So beautiful to hear your voice in my home again.
	Well, thank you.
	I appreciate that.
	All right.
	Well, I appreciate that.
	I really do.
	I'm pretty sure good old EM is not going to be lining up for a chat with me.
	But I will say this.
	If you think that the world is going to be saved by Elon Musk and myself having a conversation, with all due respect and affection, I'd really appreciate you being here.
	You are thinking with your armpits.
	The way that the world gets saved is every little conversation you have with people about false things they believe in.
	That's how the world gets saved.
	It's individual conversations you have with friends, with family.
	Whether you can do it at work or not, obviously don't get fired, but can you?
	Little dinner parties or whatever.
	I always try and slip a little in, right?
	I always try and slip a little in, even if I'm just in some generic social gathering where it's kind of passing or whatever.
	I was in a pickleball league and I actually won.
	Anyway, I was in pickleball league and, you know, just little things, little things here, just little chipping away at things, just putting out little facts here and there.
	That's the what does it.
	Because if everyone did that, and I know saying, well, if everyone did that is kind of a, that's a hole with no bottom.
	It never actually gets achieved.
	But if more people did that kind of stuff, where they just put forward the little nuggets of truth that can have people pause and become curious, We're all on this conveyor belt of propaganda that's there to deliver us from birth to grave, ruffling as few feathers of those in power as humanly possible, and anything that can just jolt people off that conveyor belt, you know, that kind of blank-eyed zombie shuffling forward like you're on some meat hook from the ceiling.
	Anything that you can do to interrupt the general ASMR propaganda hypnosis that people are in is good, and you don't have to do it in a way where they I want to run you out of town with a pitchfork.
	I mean, that's my preferred method because I find it quite exciting, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to do it that way.
	It's every little conversation.
	People are always looking.
	This is the Q thing, right?
	People are always looking for some big external movement to save the world, but everybody has to participate in saving the world with direct, small, challenging without being...
	It is not anybody else who's going to save the world but you.
	That's what you have to work with.
	Because if you think someone else is going to save the world, you get passive, and you start nagging other people.
	I'm not saying you're nagging me.
	I'm just saying there's this tendency, right?
	Other people are supposed to fix the world and save the world, and then you just have to convince them to do X, Y, O, Z. That's not how the world gets saved, though.
	That's not how the world gets saved.
	All right.
	Somebody says, I just became a father and I'm grateful for you.
	Hey, congratulations, man.
	Beautiful journey.
	Sadly, dealing with mom is infinitely more difficult.
	Maybe talk of the dynamic where parents are not together would be in your wheelhouse.
	So you don't mean you're a mom, you mean your child's mom.
	So you had a child with a woman you don't get along with and is difficult.
	Well, Unfortunately, you tend to be condemned to, you can't tell much truth to your kids if you don't get along with their mother.
	And credibility is tough.
	Because, of course, if you say, let's say that the woman, I'm just making things up here, I don't know what the details are, freedomain.com slash call, if you want to do a call-in show, you'd be more than welcome to.
	But let's say that, you know, she screamed at you and cheated on you.
	Okay, well, that's a bad...
	And you are responsible for that, 100%, right?
	And what can you say?
	Why are you and mommy not together?
	Why is mommy living in a different house?
	Well, she screamed at me and cheated on me, right?
	And you say that to some little kid, and then they go back to the mom and says, well, dad says you cheated on him and screamed at me, right?
	So you've got to hide a lot.
	And, of course, not everyone is that respectful of the child's need for So it could be the case that the mom is being kind of hostile and difficult and is trash-talking you because, of course, the family courts are much more pro-female than pro-male, so they have that power, and power generally tends to corrupt.
	So it is very, very tough.
	It is very, very tough.
	Styx also stood up for you in many occasions.
	Hey, man, I neither need the rock band nor...
	No, you mean sticks, hex and hammer, which I appreciate.
	Yes, I did see that from time to time as well.
	Now, what the heck's going on with this chat?
	Which is worse, parents who hit their kids or parents who give them an iPad as a toddler?
	Right.
	Okay.
	Hit me with a Y if you know people who have screen time issues with kids.
	Swipey, wipey.
	Kids who open up an old-fashioned magazine and try and pinch-zoom on the photographs.
	Hit me with a Y if you know of people who have issues with their kids, or maybe with your kids, or as a kid yourself, issues with screen time.
	It is the big challenge, right?
	It is the big challenge of the modern world.
	And I will tell you the answer.
	So, the answer is you have to be more interesting than screens.
	That is your challenge.
	You know, it's like if a girl you like is interested in some guy with a great haircut and nice clothes, well, you better get yourself a good haircut and some nice clothes, right?
	It's a challenge, right?
	There's been studies done, countless studies done.
	If you're a runner and somebody is You will run faster and harder and better and longer.
	Boy, I sound like an ED ad.
	But you will outstrip your own personal best if somebody's pacing you in the extreme.
	So for parents, yeah, you've got an infinite cavalcade of swipey-dipy entertainment and brain-rot Instagram videos and you name it, right?
	So what you have to do is you have to take that as a challenge, which is, how can I be more interesting?
	Can I tell my kid really funny stories?
	Can we go, my daughter and I are very keen on river walks, right?
	Where we just, we walk down the river, we try to catch fish, we pick up crayfish, we look under rocks and look for frogs and so on.
	So if my daughter is given the choice when she was younger, we still do it now even, but when she was younger, it was like, well, you can spend time on your tablet or we can go for a river walk.
	She's like, Riverwalk!
	And, you know, tons of other things that you can do.
	And so, with regards to screens, they're a competition that allows you to become a better parent.
	I mean, my daughter and I, for I think six years, we did these, we called it role-playing, where we had this whole fantasy imaginary story where she was a hero in a sort of medieval She ran for office as a mayor.
	She befriended monsters and explored dungeons.
	And if there was a choice between sitting on her tablet and role-playing, role-playing every time.
	Every time.
	So that is your challenge, is to be more interesting than a tablet, rather than, well, you can't, right?
	You can't look at the tablet.
	That's like saying to a potential girlfriend, you can't talk to, Biff Chantley Chest here because, you know, he outstrips me and so you just have to use it to up your game as a whole.
	All right.
	Where to meet women, being 32, living in a small village, working remotely and hating dancing?
	Take me to church.
	Yeah, I would say go to church.
	You're probably going to meet some pretty decent women that way.
	The conversations that nobody will ever know about will be the apparent catalyst.
	Take every conversation with consideration.
	Yeah, you never know.
	You never know really who you're talking to.
	It could be somebody with immense rhetorical abilities.
	It could be somebody with bottomless vats of jiffy lube charisma.
	It could be any number of things.
	That maybe tomorrow they inherit $100 million, something goofy like that, right?
	You never know who you're talking to and what kind of power they might have.
	Or maybe it's not them, but it's somebody they talk to who ends up breaking through in some.
	You don't know.
	It is an absolute butterfly effect, which is why you should bend your rational maximum towards the promotion of truth, reason, and virtue every opportunity you get.
	I don't think anyone gets to the end of the life, at least I hope I don't, get to the end of the life and say, I wish I'd been less rational.
	I wish I'd promoted less morality and virtue and reason and evidence and all that kind of stuff.
	All right.
	Let's see here.
	Raise my sons based on your peaceful parenting lectures.
	Thank you, seven and nine and flourishing.
	That is wonderful to hear.
	Love it, love it, love it.
	I would hug my monitor if it wasn't for you getting full-on 58-year-old nipple vision.
	All right.
	Yes, I'm a teacher and the screen stuff is out of control for sure.
	Shouldn't let a kid have an iPad?
	But that's the sugar question, right?
	I mean, do you just prevent your children from having sugar?
	Well, I mean, when I first went to university, after high school and before I went to university, I did a lot of pretty intense labor, gold prospecting and panning for gold and prospecting and marking out the territory for...
	And so when I went to university, I was thrilled to be there.
	I didn't really party.
	I didn't really drink.
	I got drunk once in university, which was at the cast party after I played Macbeth.
	And I didn't want to do any of that stuff.
	The people who got drunk were the people who were really constrained as children, right?
	So with regards to sugar, well, at some point, your kids are going to get older and they're going to be able to get a hold of their own sugar or they're going to be at someone's house where there's sugar available.
	Just withholding things from your kids doesn't teach them how to manage those things and how to manage desire and how to manage temptation and opportunity.
	So I think raising your kids to the point where they say, well, I don't want to waste my life on screen time.
	I'm going to set up a limit.
	You want the kids to do that.
	I mean, my daughter, I mean, it was just last night, you know, she was like, hey, do you want to go for a walk?
	You know, it's like 10 o 'clock at night.
	Okay, I was little.
	Again, I'm getting a smidge up there.
	And I was like, I could basically go to bed.
	But like, nope.
	When I get older, I'm going to be like, boy, I wish I'd had fewer walks for an hour or two with my daughter.
	Nope.
	Nope, nope, nope.
	All right.
	What a great reframing.
	Screens are an opportunity to be a better parent.
	Well, they're not just an opportunity.
	They're a requirement to be a better parent.
	All right.
	Since so many people are tuning in, you could maybe try Twitter Spaces next time.
	What the hell are Twitter Spaces?
	Is that like where you see people talking?
	Is that like where the audio comes in?
	Is that right?
	Is that right?
	All right.
	I will look into Twitter Spaces.
	I'm a smidge behind on the old tech.
	I mean, it really is.
	Man, I used to be a chief.
	Technical officer and head of research and development.
	I'm a heavy coder and so on.
	I got to tell you, man, what the X coders are.
	It sounds like the ones who got fired, which I'm actually quite happy about.
	But what the Twitter coders have done is beyond staggering.
	It's like the Grok thing, now they have the encrypted chats thing, I guess the Twitter spaces, the live streaming thing, that wasn't around.
	The monetization stuff, ah!
	Amazing what they have done.
	And, you know, hats off and massive kudos to them.
	All right.
	I had to look twice, says Scott, because I didn't believe my eyes when I saw Steph was live.
	Love is alive.
	X is a better place now.
	Is this being streamed somewhere else also?
	Yes.
	Locals on Rumble.
	So glad to see you.
	I miss your YouTube videos.
	Well, Laurie, everyone else, please stop listening.
	This is just for Laurie and I. Laurie.
	I read Lori, yellow Lori.
	That was my tongue twister as a kid.
	All right, Lori, just between you and I, just keep this to yourself.
	FDRpodcasts.com.
	FDRpodcasts.com.
	All the videos are there.
	All of them.
	Hi, Def.
	Some even 60 frames a second when you want that liquid digital goodness pouring down your eyeballs like greasy waterfalls.
	FDRpodcasts.com.
	Just do a search, man.
	Click.
	Right down at the bottom will be the links to all the videos.
	They live.
	All right.
	Okay, everyone else, you can start listening again.
	All right.
	Can't believe you're back, Steph.
	Believe it.
	Believe.
	All right.
	Let us refresh.
	Hello.
	How do I find out how many people are watching?
	How do I know?
	How do I know?
	How will I know?
	All right.
	Video quality.
	720p!
	Actually, I shouldn't complain about that.
	As I get older and more wrinkled, the technology gets better and more detailed.
	I need to get those good old Hedy Lamarr full-on Vaseline lens 240p cameras so that it'll look like a youthful potato.
	Oh, well, that's nice to see.
	That is nice to see.
	All right.
	If Elon Musk gets that peaceful parenting is the way to save civilization, he will move mountains.
	I mean, bro's moving mountains every time he breathes, yes.
	And he seems pretty nice to his kids.
	I mean, he's a little bit of a spray-and-pray scattershot seed merchant, but he seems pretty nice to his kids.
	Spaces where listeners can ask you questions, etc.
	But you can't ask me questions!
	Steph, spaces is like your telegram talks.
	I just swore in...
	All right.
	Can I have your back, Steph?
	Celebrate, Steph.
	I'm going to celebrate.
	All right.
	Man, we missed you.
	I appreciate that.
	Jeez, it's like stepping through a time portal.
	Yes, I haven't aged a day in five years.
	All right.
	Thank you, thank you, thank you.
	Love what you do, Steph.
	A true inspiration.
	Appreciate that.
	Good that you were doing your own video archive before the YouTube ban.
	It was a brutal move by them.
	Yeah, and Susan, I guess the woman who was in charge of YouTube when I was banned, didn't her son die of an overdose and then she died and, oh, just terrible.
	Terrible stuff.
	Terrible stuff.
	In a world of transactional leadership, we need a philosophical voice shouting from the wilderness.
	I appreciate that!
	Boomers are beyond repair for parenting.
	Absolutely true.
	You kind of noticed that If you've ever parented toddlers, and again, I've been a stay-at-home dad for almost 17 years.
	If you parent toddlers, you kind of have to withhold a lot of facts from them.
	Otherwise, they kind of freak out.
	You have to be very gentle and soft-spoken and don't let them get...
	So boomers are kind of like that.
	You have to just withhold a lot of facts from them.
	Otherwise, it collides with the CNN Uber Boomer programming that they produce.
	You're arguing with the television.
	The television can't hear you and doesn't care.
	So, spaces is a place on X where people can speak with you.
	Yeah, that'd be great.
	Peaceful grandparenting.
	What role do grandparents play in peaceful parenting?
	Yeah, it's tough, man.
	That's a tough call.
	A, I don't know.
	I'm not a grandfather myself.
	And neither my nor my wife's parents are in the picture.
	Well, we're down to one, and that's my mom, and that's not going to happen.
	So I don't really know.
	I know statistically that if grandparents are reasonably healthy and dedicated, that it is a big plus to have grandparents in children's lives.
	So on the balance, I think it's worth indulging, even if there's some hiccups.
	You know, part of your social life as a whole, I mean, you can't have a social circle of any size unless you're willing to be occasionally annoyed by people and them by you as well.
	So grandparents play in peaceful parenting.
	It's tough because, of course, the big temptation for grandparents is to indulge, and this sets the children against the parents.
	Also, if the parents, if the grandparents were mean to the parents, often they're super nice to the grandkids, which is just another way.
	I really don't.
	Not my thing.
	Also, huge welcome back.
	Listener from all the way back in 2013.
	Wow.
	When my daughter was five.
	It's funny, right?
	Because 2013, when I was younger, felt like a total science fiction age.
	You know?
	Like we would have paid money to go to the moon and Mars in permanent basis rather than dump it all in the third world for no real feedback at all.
	Long time no see.
	Had no idea you were still in the public eye.
	Well, Shelley, I appreciate that.
	And I'm going to be a little mean.
	I apologize in advance.
	I'm going to be just a little.
	Because, you know, people call me based.
	And I'm based and also sort of a little acidic.
	So all the people who were like, hey, man, I thought you're still alive.
	I thought you died.
	Haven't heard of you or thought of you in years.
	Occasionally I think of you, but I didn't know where you'd gone.
	So y 'all, And I say this with all due respect, affection, and I love the fact that you're here, really do.
	Y 'all are why deplatforming works.
	Deplatforming works because if they move me one website over, in fact, you can go to onewebsiteover.com, onewebsiteover.com.
	If they move me one website over, I'm gone, baby.
	I'm gone.
	That's why it works.
	Because typing in, say, youtube.com, I can do that.
	Right?
	But typing in freedomain.com or, you know, subscribing off the other video platforms that I'm on, well, that's just not possible, man.
	I can only do so much.
	Steph, you should absolutely risk life and limb, have your reputation shredded, have your finances, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	You should absolutely take all these risks for the cause of truth, reason, and liberty.
	But, man, if they ask me to go one website over, I mean, come on, man, I'm only human.
	That's like more typing.
	So, you know, you get that I was kind of dangling over a precipice right back in the day.
	And I do that, you know, I have a particular skill slash homoerotic fetish for truth.
	So I get that I'm willing to sort of take those risks.
	But all the people who are saying, wow, you're still around.
	I used to love your work, man.
	I don't know what happened to you.
	You know, so this is my analogy.
	You know, whether I'm right or wrong, I'll just sort of give you my analogy and you can tell me whether it makes any sense at all, right?
	So I know a lot of y 'all were very passionate about the work that I did, and I absolutely, completely, totally and deeply, humbly appreciate that with every last fiber of my soul.
	But it's like, imagine I'm your best friend, right?
	And I've been...
	Let's call her Anna, right?
	Because nothing's better than a good palindrome of lust.
	So, Anna.
	I love Anna.
	Anna's the greatest.
	She's the one.
	She's my soulmate, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	And I'm dating Anna, and it's going along fantastically, man.
	We're going to get married.
	We're going to have babies together.
	that we're going to found an empire of truth, lust, reason, and growth.
	And then, Anna was Instead of 779 Main Street, she's 781 Main Street.
	She is one house over.
	And you say, how are things with Anna?
	This woman you were so passionate about and loved and were going to make family, babies, dynasty, everything.
	Love of your life.
	Twin soul, she completed you.
	And I say, oh, God, Anna, that's right.
	Jeez.
	Oh, that's so funny.
	I have not thought about Anna in, oh, gosh, months, really.
	And then you say, what?
	God, what happened?
	What terrible thing happened?
	That you completely forgot about Anna, love of your life, light of your heart, twin of your soul.
	Plato's Play-Doh merging together in one swirl of united color.
	What happened, man?
	What terrible tragedy happened?
	And I say, oh, yeah.
	Well, she moved like a house further away.
	Wouldn't you be like, what now?
	Sorry, did I...
	This love of your life moved one house further away and you forgot about her completely?
	I mean, how ADHD are you, brother?
	Wouldn't that be a strange thing to And people are like, but he's not right in front of me.
	He's not showing up in my feed and I'm helpless to do any kind of search.
	What was the name of that show?
	Was it...
	No?
	Free Domain?
	Oh, yeah.
	Okay, let me just try FreeDomain.com.
	And Anna comes back, topless, doing the Dance of the Seven Veils, grinding you like a pepper shaker, doing the kind of lap dance that has your hips become two-dimensional.
	One website over!
	But apparently, for a lot of people, that's just a bridge too far.
	And that's why deplatforming works.
	I'd just be straight up.
	I'd just be straight up.
	Straight up?
	All right.
	All right.
	Somebody says, I shared your peaceful parenting book with my sister who just had a baby.
	Happy to see you back on X. Thank you very much.
	Yeah, freedomain.locals.com.
	You can check it out.
	Somebody says, Steph, my wife, and I called in back in 2017 or so, just after we had our two kids.
	Our brief chat on parenting and marriage was great.
	Happy to report great success and all is well near a decade on.
	Appreciate you.
	Fantastic.
	I'd give you a hickey if I could do so without deep-throwing the camera.
	I really, really do appreciate that.
	Thank you so much.
	All right.
	All right.
	It does work, sadly.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Steph, platforms make money for a reason.
	They shove content into your mouth and do it well.
	Right, so you can mime to me as if you're passive in this world and didn't make the choice to forget me.
	It's just not true, right?
	So, well, the platform is sending me a feed.
	What can I do?
	It's like, what are you, Pac-Man?
	No, you just make a choice in life.
	And listen, let me be clear about this.
	Let me be clear about this.
	It's going to blow your mind.
	I hope.
	We'll see.
	Because, you know, it's been a while.
	And I've changed, man.
	I mean, in the last five years, I've changed my underwear.
	Hang on.
	Twice.
	I can't even get up from this chair anymore.
	It's like Velcro.
	I'm stuck.
	But I don't want to sound bitter about being one website over and people forgetting about me.
	Like, you know, Will Smith with that.
	That pen, right, in that movie, right?
	Who's Steph?
	I don't know.
	It's gone, right?
	I love the fact that everyone forgot me.
	I really do.
	I love the fact that people forgot me because I got to do core philosophy.
	I got to work the jazz clubs.
	I had really great conversations with people.
	And as I was saying, it's like getting kicked out of the army.
	You know, if the army forgets about you, and then they go off and get blown up in a war, are you really that sad, right?
	So, yeah, things were getting real dicey back in the 2020s, right?
	I mean, there were a lot of lasers on a lot of forehead.
	So, I have no problem with it.
	All I'm doing is I'm pointing it out, that it's kind of funny that everyone forgot about me, or most people did.
	But I'm thrilled, because the number of people, I'll be straight up with you guys.
	Okay, let me ask you, and if you know the answer to this, because I've talked about it before.
	Please don't mention it.
	Please don't mention it.
	But, um...
	What percentage of my audience went one website over?
	Just out of curiosity, what percentage of my audience went...
	Please make it less than 100.
	And more than zero.
	That incredible journey, you know, that apocalypse now, heart of darkness journey to the Antarctic and back, what percentage made the arduous getting elephants over the Himalayas baton death march to one website over?
	Even when I put out newsletters and even on X, I was telling people where to go because there was a bit of a sort of domino effect, right?
	So, one percentage of people, Steph, your show is so important.
	I love philosophy.
	It's absolutely essential for the world.
	Oh, Steph's gone?
	Steph who?
	Who?
	Flatlined.
	Oops, flatlined.
	So, yeah, it was about 5%.
	About 5% of people came over.
	Thank you, thank you, thank you.
	To the 95%.
	This sounds sarcastic.
	Just because I'm British, I sound sarcastic and a little bit more intelligent.
	But I don't have an accent like this.
	So thank you, thank you, thank you.
	Because if 95% of my audience had come over, I would have felt a sincere obligation to continue running into the machine gun fire that was taking out my kneecaps and kidneys.
	So I really thank you.
	If you forgot about me, I owe you a huge debt of gratitude.
	Seriously, I really appreciate that fact.
	The fact that I despawned meant that people didn't find philosophy important enough to go one website over, which meant I didn't have to worry about saving the world for a while.
	And I still don't worry about it in particular.
	I'm thrilled.
	I'm thrilled to be having this conversation, but you released me from an obligation that was...
	So I really thank you for forgetting about me, for allowing me to despawn in peace, and to go and work on my books and philosophy and the videos that I've been doing and the conversations that I've been having, which, you know, it's the Mark Twain thing, right?
	Mark Twain, for those of you who don't know, Mark Twain for decades had a newspaper column, and he talked about politics, current events, and so on.
	He was stringently anti-imperialistic, whichever one should be.
	Which is relevant now.
	But Mark Twain, you probably didn't even know, and there's no reason why you would know, but you probably didn't even know that he had, I don't know, thousands and thousands and thousands of newspaper articles because no one cares.
	That's current events, that's politics.
	What people remember is his extremely problematic novels, right?
	at least in the modern world, right?
	And so...
	Focusing on politics is like eating a lot of sugar or cocaine.
	Hey, there's a high, but it comes at a cost.
	So focusing on current events, which is what people most wanted me to do, my show blew up.
	Sorry, that's probably not the right way.
	To say, after my Australia tour.
	But my show expanded rapidly when I started talking about current events, and I enjoyed that.
	I think bringing philosophical principles to current events is a great and positive thing to do in the world.
	But it kind of comes and goes.
	It becomes of interest to obsessive archivers in the future, and it vanishes as much as Mark Twain's orb.
	Gosh, I mean, you could think of all the people who've had newspaper columns over the years.
	Winston Churchill would be another one.
	And by releasing me from the serrated, cocaine-laced bear trap of current events, I got to work on some pretty deep philosophical stuff, which is my great love.
	And I'll give you an example.
	I did a 24-pot...
	Sorry, let me quote that accurately.
	I mean, it's my show.
	I should remember what I did.
	But sometimes it comes and goes.
	So I did a 24-part series on the history of philosophers, which I went all the way from the pre-Socratics through Buddha, through the Greeks, through the Romans, through the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages.
	And I did 24 major philosophers along with some sort of icing water in between of the general trends.
	Amazing stuff for me.
	I did a whole series on Bible verses and what they mean philosophically and morally, and I just did some really, for me, really deep, meaty, beautiful, connected stuff.
	And that's entirely because people forgot me.
	And, you know, not that I'm putting you in the position of wolves, but you want to be forgotten by the predators, right?
	Which I guess I'm not doing a great job of right now, but you want to kind of be forgotten.
	Like if wolves are hunting you, you want them to kind of pass by the cave and not, right, to forget about you and move on.
	Squirrel!
	Right?
	Get distracted.
	So I got a half century, sorry, I'm thinking it's going to be valuable in half a century.
	I got a half decade of pure, deep, powerful, philosophical work because you forgetting about me released me from current events.
	Now, it could always have been my choice.
	So me saying, you did this and you did that, it's always my choice.
	But it's a little tempting, to put it mildly.
	So I thank you for that.
	I'm sort of tanned, rested, relaxed, and ready to engage with the world again.
	So I appreciate that.
	All right.
	Somebody says, calling out his own audience for BS is my favorite part of every Stefan Molyneux show.
	This beating is well-deserved.
	It's not a beating.
	I mean, it's just my honest experience, and I could be wrong about all of this, right?
	Not me.
	I did.
	I did.
	What, forget about me or coming back?
	John says, I started listening to Stef in 2005 up until he got cancelled.
	I gave him $20 a month for years.
	Thank you.
	When cancelled, Stef went silent for a long time.
	I never came back.
	Uh, no.
	That's not true, John.
	And personally, given that I'm always aiming to be a truth teller, obviously sometimes at my own expense, you should check that kind of information before you spread it.
	Spreading false rumors is a bit of a sin, right?
	And we all do it, right?
	So I'm not trying to throw spears from some high guru-like place of perfection, but you shouldn't say things that are not true.
	I did not go silent for a long time at all.
	All right.
	If you count the people who watch viral videos like the Trayvon Martin one, a tiny fraction of a percent.
	Yeah, it's funny because I remember very clearly the video that was processing when my YouTube channel was yanked, and it was a video where a friend of mine who's a police officer in the States got a friend of his who was an absolutely hilarious black cop.
	So it was a white cop, a black cop, and me talking about George Floyd.
	And what might have happened.
	And it was an amazing show, fantastic show.
	And it was just processing, and it was like, because they needed their summer of love, right?
	They needed their mostly peaceful protests, you know, like mostly peaceful religious ceremonies that the Aztecs did with their children, right?
	Mostly peaceful, except for pulling out hearts and all of that.
	All right.
	All right.
	People call in about their personal problems.
	I mean, that's an interesting thing, right?
	So some people love the call-in shows where I just talk to people about their lives and how philosophy can help them.
	And it's funny because the call-in shows, nothing in it specifies, and there's no requirement that you talk about personal issues.
	People can do a call-in show, and we've done it, where people come in to argue UPB or argue against metaphysics or argue free will versus determinism.
	That's just what people want to talk about.
	And really, I don't think there's any other place in the world where you can get free conversations applying rational philosophical principles to what seems like intransigent life problems.
	That's the only place.
	It's the only place.
	It's a singular venue.
	and I'm thrilled that philosophy is practical.
	I have always hated, hated, hated the idea that philosophy is some abstract ivory tower discipline where you...
	If you can't put philosophy in plain, actionable terms that help people's lives in a practical sense, you're just a sophist and a noisemaker that is there to obfuscate the practical applicability of philosophical principles.
	They should be simple, rational, and applicable.
	Like, it's the same thing with morality.
	Morality shouldn't be crazy complicated.
	Monsieur Harris, right?
	It shouldn't be crazy complicated because we ask three or four-year-olds to be moral.
	So if three or four-year-olds can't understand it because it's all so complicated and there's this, well, there's utilitarianism and then there's pragmatism and the greatest good for the greatest number and you've got to balance and there's self and other and, you know, in and out group preferences.
	Then stop telling three or four or five-year-olds that they should not push, hit, or steal.
	Because if it's so complicated, we don't ask.
	Toddlers understand quantum mechanics, and there's a lot more comprehensibility in quantum mechanics than most modern people's moral systems.
	It's got to be practical, it's got to be simple.
	I mean, go read your Socrates, or go read your Plato, reporting on Socrates.
	Bro never used the term epistemology or anything like that, so.
	All right.
	All right.
	Joe says, I found you just before you got cancelled and then followed you to free me and learned so many life lessons.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, it's a shame, too.
	I mean, if you forgot about me, don't you?
	Okay, we don't have to get all 80s.
	Or do we?
	Well, no, I'll get 80s in about 30 years.
	So, yeah, you did not have access to half a decade of practical philosophy if you didn't follow me.
	Because, honestly, I think I'm the only one doing it in this kind of way.
	At least I've never found anybody else even close.
	All right.
	Oh, yeah.
	There was the guy who had to buy a water buffalo for his Thai girlfriend's family.
	Not for his Thai girlfriend.
	I have a show.
	You can just look up the word buffalo on the search engine at fdrpodcast.com.
	Yeah, I did a call-in show with a guy who was complaining that he had to buy a water buffalo for his wife's family in Thailand in order to date her.
	The things we do for love.
	All right.
	For those of us who went one side over, we've been blessed with intimate conversations, and I hope we don't lose that.
	It's been incredibly valuable, so yes, thank you to all of those who didn't move over.
	Yeah, I mean, listen, if you want to go see the Rolling Stones, he said putting himself in slim-hipped and exaggerated company, if you want to go see the Stones, don't you want to go and see them in a jazz club rather than a stadium?
	So, all right.
	When the world needed him the most, he disappeared.
	laughs
	Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
	A, I didn't disappear, and B, it wasn't my choice.
	I was deplatformed.
	I mean, if you aim to go out on a date with a girl and she gets kidnapped on the way, do you say, well, man, you just never showed up?
	Oliver Twist, right?
	You just disappear.
	It's like, bro, she was kidnapped.
	Don't blame her.
	All right.
	All right.
	Kevin Samuels is gone.
	Who else can we take dating advice from?
	That is a fairly significant tragedy.
	Kevin Samuels was beyond brilliant, in my humble opinion.
	I mean, age, dress size, what you weighed last time, you weighed yourself.
	Do you have any kids?
	I was going to say kids.
	Yeah, please go listen to Kevin Samuels.
	He is dead and gone, and I don't know what happened.
	I think it was hypertension or something like that.
	I mean, I think Bro had some stress, like Tommy Sotomayor, who's been on this show.
	But yeah, he's a great guy to listen to about stuff.
	I mean, it's easy to get a little cynical in the same way you can get a little cynical from the whatever podcast because they don't seem to have necessarily, I'm not saying that's their fault or issue, but...
	And it's easy when you just see this conveyor belt of fairly low quality people to think that's somehow human nature.
	And it's not.
	It's not.
	All right.
	Please stay here forever.
	In your mind, in your heart, on this live stream.
	When it comes to philosophy, it's important to be specific.
	I don't know who to take dating advice from.
	I have...
	I'm going to get your feedback on this, if you don't mind.
	I have a vague suspicion, my friends, that I may be a little old to give young people dating advice.
	Hit me with an O if you think I'm too old.
	Hit me with a Y if you think it's just fine for me to give dating advice.
	I mean, I haven't been in the market dating-wise for like a quarter century, and I did date a lot when I was younger.
	But I do think that things have changed just a little bit.
	For instance, for instance, one of the things that's changed, when I was a wee lad, when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, a kind of cool thing happened where guys would ask girls out.
	Oh, wild, man.
	Like you'd screw your courage to the sticking place and you'd walk up to a girl and you'd say, Hi, honey.
	a little, you'd yodel her into a hopefully surrender to your And you'd go, hey, you want to go to the movies on Friday?
	And, okay, most people are like, yes, you are not too old.
	Not too old.
	But, yeah, so, I mean, a bunch of stuff has changed.
	Do boys really ask girls out that much anymore?
	Doesn't seem to happen.
	Yeah, basic human nature never changes.
	Yeah, I mean, we're in the late stages of Women are Boromir, right?
	And I'm not saying in and of their nature, and I love the fact there are lots of women here.
	I have a beautiful wife, I have a wonderful daughter, so I love women as a whole.
	But unfortunately, women have been corrupted more by the state than men, because men pay like 80% of the taxes and women receive vast amounts of the benefits.
	And women score higher generally in the psychological trait called agreement.
	And there's nothing wrong with that.
	It's a beautiful part of human nature, but it is corrupted by the state, and women are hit a lot harder with propaganda than men.
	they kind of give up with propaganda with us as men, as a whole.
	But, I mean, if you sort of look at the left-right Widening.
	That's going on in society.
	Women are getting hit incredibly hard with propaganda.
	And because they've been effectively separated from any respect for men, they don't have the normal protectors from propaganda, which is men's skepticism.
	It's rough.
	Rough like a dog sitting on sandpaper.
	Rough.
	All right.
	Yeah, we haven't, did we?
	I don't think we've had a single dad joke, this whole...
	Reboot, reboot.
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	You don't have to do that, but if you would, I certainly wouldn't say no.
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	All right.
	Twitter Live really needs a live chat.
	I think there is.
	What are your thoughts on Christianity?
	Well, there are a lot of thoughts I have on Christianity.
	If you would like my thoughts on Christianity, sorry, I was trying to think of a more elegant way to put it, but there really isn't any way without butching it up quite a bit.
	So, I've written a novel.
	I've written two novels, one called The Future.
	It's a science fiction novel about a perfect society in the future and how it deals with corruption and violence and child abuse.
	It's called The Future, and then there's another novel I wrote called The Present, which is What happens in social collapse?
	And I deal very deeply with Christianity in my novel, The Present.
	So it's free, freedomain.com books.
	I hope that you will check it out.
	So if you want to know what my thoughts are on Christianity, it's that.
	I certainly have been going to church.
	All right.
	So, the one thing that I would say with dating is the world has become a lot simpler for the discriminating.
	I mean, let's take the sort of typical example of the puffy-faced, blue-haired girl with enough facial piercings that it looks like she walked into a wind turbine holding a tackle box.
	So I would say that the unstable have become...
	Very obvious.
	And when I was younger, it was tougher to find the crazy people because they were really well camouflaged.
	The one thing that the corruption of the modern world has done, which is of great service to moral men and women, and just to talk about it from the male perspective here, since again, as I say, propaganda has hit women a lot harder, the crazy people, the women who are just not And more than 50% of middle-aged liberal women have been diagnosed with a mental disorder, right?
	And I know that I've got a whole video called The Myth of Mental Illness, which, you know, but there's usually something wrong when something like that is happening.
	So the people are saying, oh, there's so many crazy people around.
	It's tough to date.
	It's like, hmm, I'm not going to agree with that.
	To me, it's like if you're a zebra out there in the African wilderness and some kind person has attached a big, tall red flag to the backs of the lions, so you see this big wire and this flag moving through the tall grasses of the veldskun, then the African veld, isn't that good?
	You can literally see the lions.
	The predators are clear.
	And so what propaganda has done is it has caused the unstable to self-brand themselves as obviously nuts.
	Whereas when I was younger, sometimes you'd have to date a woman for a month or two before, you know, mask came off and the beast comes out.
	So now, you know, you got your random tats, you got your body image issues, you got your crazy haircuts, you got your thingy.
	I mean, all kinds of things, right?
	You've got the crazy makeup for the women who can't be loved for who they are, but only the Jackson Pollock, Bizarro, Picasso painting that they present themselves with, which is about as much reality as Lara Croft's digital boobs.
	So now it's real clear.
	You know, I mean, Tell me what you guys think.
	Please, I'm begging you.
	Give me your percentage of sane people to date.
	Just out of curiosity, tell me what percentage of people do you think are available to date?
	That would date, not necessarily your soulmate, but would be a reasonable person to date.
	And there's a reasonable possibility of a stable and loving relationship.
	What percentage do you think is at the 5% that followed you over to locals?
	That's right.
	They followed me to locals and then fell into the special underground vat for all the fertile women that occurs at the free domain compound.
	All right, what do we got here?
	5%, 40%.
	That's generous.
	10%, 5%, 25%, 20%.
	Western women are so difficult to date and have so many red flags, most guys I know are becoming passport bros.
	Yeah, because outside the West, the women are all totally sane.
	Welcome to my entire family.
	Did you bring your water buffalo?
	So, all right.
	There is a certain number that I would give, right?
	I'm sure everybody here has at least some passing familiarity with my formulation for love.
	Love is our involuntary response to virtue if we're virtuous.
	If we're virtuous, we love virtue.
	If we're virtuous, we dislike evil.
	If we're evil, we dislike virtue.
	And if we're evil, we have a positive response to evil, although it's not stable because of the aforementioned evil thing.
	Yeah, freedomain.locals.com has a lot of women.
	Yeah, I mean, half the call-ins I do seem to be with women these days, which is wonderful, and so on, right?
	So, I mean, I'm sure you've heard of the Milgram experiments.
	So, about 65% of people will just kill others if they're given some slight indication to do so by somebody they perceive to be an authority, right?
	About two-thirds of people, and in terms of who took the first round of boosters and so on, about two-thirds of people fundamentally don't exist as moral entities.
	They are stuff full of snips and snails and puppy dog tails and propaganda and half-remembered snatches of things from CNN and some article they read where there was some sophist who passionately exhorted them to hate some particular group or some particular mindset or whatever.
	Two-thirds of people don't have any genuine, independent psychological existence, and they certainly don't seem to have much of a conscience.
	Because again, in these experiments, which have been replicated all over the world and across many decades, it's about two-thirds, sometimes a little higher, of people don't have any moral center.
	Like if somebody just says, yeah, I'd like you to continue the experiment, they will kill people in their own mind.
	It's all.
	Faked, but they'll dial up the electricity until people are screaming and begging and pretending to die.
	So if you want love, you have to be moral, and your partner has to be moral.
	You can't fake it.
	You can't love anything other than virtue any more than you can live on gravel.
	You can't love anything other than virtue.
	And virtue requires a universal, objective moral standard.
	And a willingness to pursue it and a reasonable chance of attaining it and maintaining it.
	It's like an exercise regime.
	It has to be somewhat possible, like push-ups on the moon, not really possible.
	So it has to be somewhat possible and you have to be able to attain it and maintain it, right?
	So it's the same thing with virtue.
	So we can only love virtue.
	And people who don't have a moral center, who don't have any particular moral standards, relativists, subjectivists, and all of the people who simply ape, Morality by repeating slogans, spare the rod, spoil the child, means hit your children, like somebody who doesn't exist morally.
	And I say that with sympathy, you know, it comes from trauma and it comes from propaganda, but at some point it also becomes a choice that you want to avoid anything difficult in life, so you just go along with the mob and, you know, lynch both the good and the bad people in your environment.
	So two-thirds of people, straight off.
	I mean, if you want to fall in love and you want to be loved, then people who just...
	So two-thirds of those people.
	Now, those people used to be hidden.
	You know, if you see the original Milgram experiments, those people look totally normal.
	Yet they are, in a sense, quite soulless and incapable of love or being loved.
	Now, they self-brand themselves, brothers and sisters.
	They self-brand themselves.
	All narcissists have abs.
	That's why I don't have abs.
	Well, I have an ab.
	An ab.
	Middle-aged ab.
	You could say that it's gotten harder, but I would also argue that it's gotten easier.
	I mean, wouldn't it be a lot easier to apply for jobs if you knew ahead of time whether you'd just be rejected right away?
	It'd be great.
	It'd save you a lot of time, effort, and money.
	There is definitely some real benefits to modern dating that I sure wish was there in the past.
	All right.
	Somebody says 18.6%.
	That's very specific.
	Oh, somebody who would work with my craziness, probably minus, probably about, sorry, that's a squiggle, not a minus, 0.1%.
	All right.
	Basket case theory, everyone is a basket case when you get to know them.
	No, I don't think that's true.
	I mean, is that Scott Adams' theory?
	Love the Adams, but I don't agree with that for sure.
	So love, of course, requires predictability of behavior.
	You can't love someone who's unstable, although I understand that unstable women, Can be great for sex, but cocaine can be great for happiness.
	Doesn't mean it's a good long-term plan.
	So you need stable and predictable behavior.
	I mean, I hope that you haven't heard from me in five years.
	I hope I'm not wildly different with completely reversed opinions from what I had before, because I'm not ever going to go against the truth.
	I don't really care what they do to me.
	I'm not ever going to go against the truth.
	If they ban me after this, I'm still going to tell the truth.
	The truth is more important than any immediate material gain or threat.
	Predictable behavior requires consistent morality.
	So, anyway, all right.
	5%, somebody says, Christian values, you may be understanding, non-COVID vaxxed, intellectually curious, healthy weight.
	Yeah, yeah, boy.
	You know, it's funny, too, because having been catapulted or yeeted from the public view for most of y 'all, For half a decade, we really didn't get to talk much about COVID now, did we?
	Boy, wasn't that mask off for society as a whole?
	Oh, my God.
	Like, you know, when they finally opened up the vaults of the Gestapo in Eastern Germany, and this was the case in Russia as well under the NKPD.
	Most people informed on their neighbors, right?
	Most people were very happy to call up the authorities and say, so-and-so said something bad.
	Oh, my God, there are two cars in their driveway.
	There are super spreaders.
	All right.
	You should wear a lab coat telling people to be virtuous.
	I should.
	Just tie a lab coat to my head and be completely naked after that.
	Only Stefan's should be the way to go.
	That's right.
	Do you think people don't take as many risks these days?
	Yes, but that's because they grow up without fathers.
	And mothers bubble wrap their children because they're afraid of...
	And so they're constantly around, we've got to childproof and street proof and be careful and don't write too fast.
	Whereas the dads are just like, yeah, you'll learn from pain sometimes.
	It's a good thing.
	So people don't take risks because fathers have been driven from the home.
	And as a result, the men have been made a little bit more.
	Effemina, which is a standard practice of tyrants, is to feminize the boys.
	All right.
	Is it wrong to say that your definition for love, definition of love, can be used to evaluate if your feeling of attraction is love or something else?
	No, so the way that you would know whether your feeling of attraction is love or something else is if you only have a boner and not moral admiration.
	If you only have a boner, if you're only pitching a tent, And there are no virtue elves pitching it for you, then that's called lust.
	In other words, if you want the person not to talk, but just to spread them like day-old butter, then that would be lust.
	So presence of boner does not indicate only lust, because you can certainly lust after the virtuous.
	But if it's mostly boner or only boner, in other words, if you've been dicknapped, Your penis has stolen your brain, redirected your blood flow to reproduce like a copy-paste your genes without any consideration for the quality of the woman, then you've been dick-napped and it's just lust.
	So do you actually morally admire the woman?
	Do you enjoy conversing with her?
	And are you torn between sex and continuing the conversation?
	If you're just like, well, I can't wait for the conversation to be over so I can have sex, that's probably lust.
	So the boner factor is quite important.
	If it's soul boner, And not boner plus virtuous admiration?
	Then that would be lust.
	And your penis is trying to drag you off a cliff into the endless, jagged, bouncing, deep-sea rocks of the family courts.
	Do not succumb.
	All right.
	The incentives for women to leave men in favor of the state are much higher in the U.S. than, say, in Latin America.
	Get a remote job, move 2,000 miles south, start a family, and be happy.
	Yeah, but then you've got multicultural kids, you've got to adapt to another culture, learn another language.
	I mean, abandoning the post is not always the best way to win a conflict.
	All right.
	How do you know the truth?
	So the truth is when the ideas in your mind conform to reason and evidence, evidence being the evidence of the senses reproducible by others, right?
	So the truth is, first, rational consistency, and secondly, empirical.
	Validation.
	All right.
	A basic science 101, but for philosophy as well.
	Emilio says, thanks for coming back to X. Please keep posting.
	I can't get used to this name, man.
	X. Well, I'm still going to call Meta Facebook.
	All right.
	Your chin got squarer in the last five years.
	You have undergone chattification.
	Well, I weigh now what I weighed when I was 16. I've lost a little more weight.
	All right.
	So glad to have you back, Steph.
	Been listening since 2014.
	Was starstruck when I met you at Politicon in 2018.
	Time to bring back the egg carton memes.
	My God.
	Talk about, like, talk about not knowing what on earth you're doing.
	There's this thing in the movie industry, like, nobody knows what they're doing.
	Everyone thinks they're making an Oscar winner or whatever, except maybe Rob Zombie.
	But, I don't know, sometimes, man, social media.
	Hit me with a Y if you are familiar.
	With something that I take perverse pride in was voted the worst tweet in human history.
	The worst tweet in human history.
	I kiss my dark, devious brain.
	Do you know the Taylor Swift tweet?
	Do you know the infamous Stygian darkness of the Taylor Swift tweet, which truly drew some disturbed and demonic personalities out of the woodwork?
	You know this tweet?
	Do you know it?
	Can somebody post it here?
	James, can you grab it and post it?
	It's worth reading again.
	Because what was that, five or six years ago?
	And still, there are no Tay-Tay minors.
	No Tay-Tay juniors.
	Yeah.
	And of course, I thought it was a perfectly positive and nice thing in my optimism for human nature.
	I thought it was a perfectly lovely little tweet, encouraging and positive and very friendly towards...
	And not in the fun way.
	That we all enjoy.
	Gotta sleep.
	Always a great show.
	Thank you.
	Bye.
	No!
	Truth is worth more than sleep.
	What do the Muslims say?
	Prayer is better than sleep.
	Truth, reason is better than sleep.
	Waking up to reality is better than sleep.
	All right.
	Here we go.
	Here we go.
	Satellite radio.
	You all get hit with the boom.
	Boom.
	Yes.
	When was this?
	December 9th, 2019.
	Well, that is five and a half years ago.
	All right.
	I don't want to promote the tweet.
	Thank you very much.
	That's fine.
	I don't want to promote the tweet.
	I just want to read it.
	Stop helping me.
	Don't promote.
	There we go.
	All right.
	Good Lord.
	I don't want to delete it either.
	Okay, there we go.
	So I wrote, I can't believe Taylor Swift is about to turn...
	I need to read this in an idiot, optimist voice.
	I can't believe Taylor Swift is about to turn 30. She still looks so young.
	It's strange to think that 90% of her eggs are already gone.
	97% by the time she turns 40. So I hope she thinks about having kids before it's too late.
	She'd be a fun mom.
	Smiley face.
	Hey, what's that?
	Hey, is that a bird?
	Songbirds have come to sing me to my rest and to bring me joy and honey and bees.
	Oh, that's a stuka bomb.
	That really was something.
	That really, really was something.
	My gosh, did people go.
	This is the worst thing I've ever seen.
	This is from Zach Bornstein.
	Yeah, very strange.
	I've never understood this.
	And listen, please, educate me.
	Like, I'm not kidding about this.
	Educate me.
	Educate me.
	Why?
	Why?
	Jackie Chan face.
	Why do people get mad at facts?
	I don't understand.
	Why do people get mad at facts?
	Help me in my ridiculous...
	What is wrong with my brain?
	What is wrong with my brain that I can't understand why people get mad at facts?
	I don't understand.
	Why?
	Help me.
	Please, please, help a brother out.
	Help a philosopher out who has no excuse for this level of naivety.
	I cannot understand it.
	Ah.
	Balding men in glasses.
	Wait, there's more than one?
	Alright.
	1am in the UK.
	Right.
	You know, the UK could use a dose or two of truth as well, right?
	I have a one-year-old.
	What is the best way you've...
	Pre-verbal is kind of tough.
	The best thing you can do is just model the behavior that you want to see in your child.
	You know, obviously you don't want your child to yell, so don't yell.
	You don't want your child to hit, so don't hit.
	Calm and reason.
	But you can't really teach moral behavior to a one-year-old unless they're ridiculously precocious.
	But I think my daughter was about 18 months.
	The standard is about 18 months children can start to perform.
	Moral and statistical reasoning.
	So one might be a little young.
	Best you can do is model the behavior that you want, and I'm sure that your child will copy-paste you.
	All right.
	Facts threaten formed identities.
	Yeah, I'm afraid that's too concise.
	You may not be aware of my Floridan endless...
	Way too concise.
	But that's such a beautiful way of putting it.
	Facts threaten formed identities.
	Okay, I have a formed identity.
	I just, I have a formed identity around accepting facts.
	I just find it's kind of a slave morality to reject facts.
	You know, like there's this whole modern thing that's going on in the world, the humiliation ritual of making you mouth things that are...
	All these modern ideologies that you just have to kind of nod and say, yeah, that's true.
	That's true.
	Obesity is healthy.
	It's just a different choice.
	Body positivity.
	Things are just not true.
	It's a humiliation ritual.
	I'm sure that the people with power like the fact that you can't just say basic truths and that you have to kind of cringe and say things that are false because that shows the power that they have over you.
	You are live on X right now!
	No, no, it's not live, just so you know.
	I'm just really, really good at pre-guessing the questions.
	So, no.
	In a Christian context, it's because the truth shines a light on their sin and people love their sin.
	So, the truth shines a light on their sin and people love their sin.
	It's very interesting.
	I mean, technically they don't.
	They're attached to it, like Stockholm Syndrome or some sort of sick Mickey Rourke codependency.
	All right.
	It's like the Peter Principle.
	I thought lust was the Peter Principle.
	No.
	We rise to the level of incompetence.
	Facts mean downgrade.
	Like knowing what you're good and bad at.
	I'm not sure I quite follow that, and I'm not saying that's your bad explanation.
	I just don't quite follow it.
	Most of us are emotional creatures, not logical.
	Right.
	I'm an emotional creature too, and I hate.
	Rejecting facts, because when I reject facts, that means somebody's exercising power over me.
	Because why on earth would I reject facts unless somebody's exercising power over me?
	And I hate the idea that people are exercising power over me.
	That's why I'll say the truth and get yeeted into the far reaches of the intellectual galaxy rather than lie instead.
	All right.
	A human being in cognitive dissonance will do anything to get out of it, even vote for socialism.
	Yeah, I mean, the fall of Iran started with them voting for a socialist, right?
	Hi, Steph.
	Rachel!
	Ah, the one they call Bride of Andrew.
	Very nice to meet you.
	Love some of the stuff you do.
	Hi, Steph.
	I found you back in 2012, I think.
	You would enjoy my book, We Should Chat Sometime.
	Glad to see you back on X. Ah, The Occult History of Feminism.
	Is that the book?
	I'm reaching for the title from the deep recesses of my crusty brain.
	Is that right?
	But yes, it would be great to chat.
	It breaks certain people to hear a fact outside of mainstream channels' sources they're accustomed to.
	Interesting.
	Yeah, I mean, I sort of think about, I mean, the most typical example is like the fine people hoax that Trump called the people at Charlottesville, the Nazis or the white supremacists, the fine people, although he condemned them.
	My guess would be something like, and this is very sketchy, so I apologize for thinking on the fly, but I think it's something like, Your friends all say something.
	If you bring them the truth, will they still be your friends?
	In other words, do you have friends who value you for what you think and reason with, or do you have just a bunch of people tied together by sort of a sickening brand of propaganda and the denial of reality, and you're basically just a bunch of slaves in a galley thinking that you're on a delightful cruise, right?
	Can you bring the truth to your friends, and will they reject you if you bring the truth to them?
	Peterson's trajectory are, his early success was partly due to your support.
	I appreciate that.
	It's very kind.
	I mean, Jordan Peterson has a titanic set of skills and abilities that would have far surmounted any support or lack of support that I might have given him at the beginning.
	He was on his way no matter what.
	Maybe I gave him a little bit of a step up here and there.
	It's not an arc that I would choose in particular.
	I am a very fierce...
	To help out the show, I would very much appreciate it.
	But, I mean, I was offered sort of back in the day.
	I had a variety of flybys and offers, and I was just like, I mean, I'm not going to lie.
	It was kind of tempting and some decent coin.
	But I just, like, I...
	I have to remain independent.
	I can't have anyone between me and just that glorious sun of truth that I try to navigate every day by.
	And I think for me, independence, though it costs me just about everything, is well worth it.
	I would not want to have any considerations floating in my mind other than the truth.
	And I want everyone to come here because I will always strive to tell the truth as best I can to the greatest level of detail and with the greatest level of integrity that I can, I will always strive and aim to tell the truth.
	The cost of the truth is not actually that important.
	I mean, it really isn't that important.
	I mean, I've lost a lot.
	I've gained some stuff.
	It doesn't fundamentally matter.
	What matters is that there is a record of somebody, and I'm not saying I'm the only one, but a record of somebody just sort of planting themselves deep in the world, weathering the storms, Of outrageous slander, falsehood, and, you know, I mean, when I did my speaking tours, like bomb threats, death threats, physical attacks of every kind, attacking the listeners, and, you know, poor Lauren in Australia, she was rushed on the stage and security had to tackle the person.
	I was hunted through the streets of Brisbane by a bunch of radical lunatics and so on.
	So yeah, there's been some excitement about it.
	And none of that stuff fundamentally really matters.
	What really matters is that...
	Because it's kind of, you know, in a funny way, what it is that I do in the world is really just a manifestation of the values that I was taught as a child.
	I mean, I'm really not radical in any way or form.
	All I am is I listened to what people told me when I was a kid.
	I took it seriously.
	So I was told, you know, tell the truth though the skies fall.
	Tell the truth and shame the devil.
	Just tell the truth.
	And the truth really does set you free.
	I don't have a single dysfunctional relationship left in my life.
	my gosh, and glory above, does the truth ever set you free?
	The truth will set you free in a way that is almost impossible to comprehend.
	And it is well worth, you know, strangers hate you, but those you really care about love you and you love them.
	And if the price of love is the hatred of strangers, and it kinda is.
	Let them hate, so that I can be loved.
	Let them hate and lie and slander, so that I can also love.
	Because consistency in moral excellence is the price you pay to love and be loved.
	Consistency in moral excellence, particularly if it touches anywhere in the public sphere, draws the hatred of people who are corrupt.
	But the more good you do in the world, the more you are loved.
	And hated.
	And the price of being hated is inconsequential relative to the benefit of loving and being loved.
	There is nothing greater, nothing deeper, nothing that is worth more.
	So I hope that you would consider paying that price.
	The cost can be exciting.
	I'm not going to lie.
	The cards can be exciting.
	The rewards...
	I mean, I wake up every morning completely delighted to be in the presence of those I live with.
	And I look forward to many decades of that to come.
	So I was raised to tell the truth and shame the devil.
	I was raised with the most foundational ethic.
	I think of, it's the most foundational virtue because it is the virtue upon which all other virtues depend.
	Thou shalt not bear false witness.
	Thou shalt not bear false witness.
	I was told to tell the truth.
	And I was also told, and this is kind of a funny thing, I go into this in Peaceful Parenting in more detail, so I'll just touch on it very briefly here, because you should get the book.
	It's free and you should definitely consume it.
	And you consume Peaceful Parenting, it will consume...
	It certainly helped with me.
	But when I was raised, as a kid, I was raised, of course, I was born in the 60s and raised in the 70s.
	Got my moral instruction as a kid in the 70s.
	And it was the age of divorce.
	And I was told, hey, man, if you're just unhappy in a relationship, you don't even have to be abused.
	If you're just dissatisfied in a relationship, just leave.
	And these are relationships you voluntarily chose.
	So when I got older and I was like, Okay, so if you're unhappy in relationships, you don't have to be there.
	Surely, that applies much more to relationships you didn't choose than relationships you did choose.
	So why wouldn't that include parents?
	I mean, I was taught that.
	But, you know, people teach you stuff to corrupt you, and then when you apply it consistently, they get all kind of butthurt, right?
	All right.
	Let's do a couple more.
	So, nice to be back chatting with you all.
	Nice to be back in the stadium, stadium, stadium, stadium.
	What is that old joke?
	My dick is so big it only plays stadiums.
	All right.
	Let's see here.
	Great to see you all.
	My internet is glitching.
	We'll check back in later.
	Nice to see you, Lisa Marie.
	Appreciate that.
	People like to be in mobs.
	But the price of being in a mob is you can never be loved because you're just an NPC, right?
	All right.
	Facts challenge the current status.
	We will do more to avoid pain than restructure for higher positions.
	Facts challenge current status.
	I think I understand what you mean, Carolyn.
	Sorry, I think I understand.
	Please correct me if I'm astray.
	Do you mean the current status of your relationship?
	Like if you marry someone and you haven't really told them much truth, then telling them the truth might threaten the marriage?
	Or I think, one thing I do know is that if you've parented badly, Then you're going to be pretty sensitive to the voluntary family and peaceful parenting, right?
	You're radically consistent, Steph.
	Thank you.
	You're radically consistent and don't compromise.
	Well, I must say I was quite enamored by Howard Rourke, and I've obviously been a bit more lighthearted, but definitely that.
	All right.
	James, that's cool.
	You can do what?
	I don't know.
	Great to see you on here, Steph, my friend.
	I look forward to seeing the expansion of amazing philosophy to the masses on X once again.
	Once more, under the breach.
	Man, it would be interesting to see you on Rogan again.
	He probably has a totally different outlook.
	Really?
	I don't think Rogan is quite as independent as you think he is, in my humble opinion.
	Thank you for the donation, Stephen.
	I appreciate that.
	Sean Connery style.
	I appreciate that very much.
	All right.
	What am I?
	Too many screens.
	What have I got here?
	Great to see Stefan back.
	Helped shape my current worldview over a decade ago.
	Well, thank you.
	I appreciate that.
	Stefan radicalized me.
	No, I didn't.
	No, I didn't.
	Truth, consistency, and virtue is not radical.
	Radicalism is just a word that people who want to propagandize you use when you stumble over the truth.
	Radicalized!
	No.
	No.
	I would say that the guy who shot up the congresswoman, was he a senator?
	And her husband?
	Yeah, that's pretty radical.
	I'd like to see you on at whatever.
	I don't know, man.
	Can a man survive that much orbiting cleavage?
	I mean, it could take the coroner three weeks to get the smile off his face.
	Well, you know, it's funny.
	I can tell you why.
	If I were to go on whatever, and I'm not saying I would, not for any particular reason or not.
	I just haven't traveled much lately.
	But if I were to go on whatever, I think that the challenge would be that I would ask these women about their childhoods.
	I don't particularly care about their ideology.
	I don't care about their propaganda or their programming or anything like that.
	I would just be like, tell me about your childhood.
	Because what's the point of pretending you understand anyone or what they say without understanding where they came from?
	I mean, I've been pretty open about my own childhood, and I, of course, ask people a lot about their childhoods.
	Why does something matter to someone and all of that?
	So, all right.
	And I would be quite interested to know.
	I think it would be pure chaos if I was on the whatever.
	I was asking people about their childhoods.
	I think that there would be genuine meltdowns because, and I say this with all the deepest sympathy in the known universe as a father of a young woman, that I think that what a lot of these young women have gone through has been absolutely appalling.
	And as children, we can conjecture without identifying anyone in particular, of course, right?
	But I think that what a lot of these young women have gone through has been sheerly demonic.
	Worst evils you can think of, multiply them by the infinity and attach them like bat wings to a young woman's, young girl's life.
	And I think that that's some of the products that come out of it.
	And I think sort of arguing at the surface level of ideology and men's rights and so on is interesting, but not foundationally revelatory.
	You come across, you either agree with people or you don't, but Whereas if you say, okay, ideology is to scar tissue from early wounds, right?
	Why is it that you are drawn to an ideology?
	Because you've been punished for thinking.
	And your consolation prize is conformity.
	So, what I would want to know is, why are they drawn to ideology?
	Which is conclusions without processes based upon prejudice.
	Things that feel right because of early trauma.
	Why would they want to exploit men?
	Because they've been exploited by men, probably as little girls, in horrible ways.
	Why would they be so mistrustful of men?
	Because men have betrayed them, but they can't identify it because it's usually the men that their single mothers chose to have in the household that betrayed them.
	With a non-related adult in the household is 30 times more likely.
	3,000 times more likely to be abused.
	But tracing back the abuse of the non-related adult male in the household, the boyfriend, to the choices of the single mother is very, very emotionally difficult.
	So they turn to ideology.
	That there's a male power structure that oppresses women, and men are sex-crazed exploiters.
	Okay.
	So, I think it would be a pretty interesting show, but I'm not sure what they'd do to follow.
	All right, let's do another...
	It's been a while since I've spoken to a big crowd.
	How am I doing?
	Give me minus 10. Blows into galactic chunks.
	Plus 10. You wish to marry my speckled goose egg visage.
	How am I doing?
	Indulge me for a moment if you can.
	Give me some feedback.
	Minus 10. Terrible.
	Live stream plus 10. Positive live stream.
	I'd love to know what you think because, again, it's been a while.
	Maybe it is like riding a bike.
	Maybe it's not.
	Maybe it's not.
	All right.
	That show was made for you.
	Andrew needs an exorcism every time he does whatever.
	Yes, yes.
	Bro can be a smidge provocative, just a tiny bit.
	Listen, I'm not saying like I'm not above that or below that or whatever you want to call it.
	All right.
	Tell me about your childhood.
	God, I missed that question.
	No, ask people in your life.
	Somebody says, I've never watched a whatever podcast, only clips, but I'd love to watch that.
	Maybe it could do a lot of good to have that lid on childhood lifted when it comes to these women.
	Honestly, I think that it would be so surprising to them that they might just storm out.
	And again, I say this with deep sympathy, because so much of what people do in life is to cover up for early unhappiness or trauma, that if they're not expecting it, man, I mean, people confronted with sudden sympathy in a lifetime of provocation.
	Can really be destabilized.
	So I'm not sure it would be a very long show to put it that way, right?
	Your videos and books helped me shape my worldview.
	I'm excited for your return to X so a new generation can discover your message and teachings.
	Well, thank you.
	All right.
	So how is the show...
	Plus 10, plus 10, thank you.
	Plus 9, 10 if you make the pop sound again.
	That's why I did it.
	6, so you give me a 6. Your local shows are usually an 8 or a 9. Yeah, well, I appreciate that.
	I appreciate that feedback as well.
	10, talk about Israel.
	Israel.
	You mean the Hawaiian singer?
	I think he's dead.
	Plus 9.9.
	Ooh, so close.
	10, 10, 10. Thank you.
	Plus 10. It's like watching a remake.
	You haven't really changed that much.
	Again, underwear twice, man.
	Every two and a half years, whether I need them or not, and I just get out the, you know, the spatula.
	All right.
	I'm a regular.
	Plus 10. Quite the return.
	We've missed you.
	All right.
	Excellent.
	I loved your homage.
	To Scott Adams.
	Yeah, I mean, my heart goes out to the guy.
	I had a history of cancer myself about 14 years ago, and I had much greater fortune than he did.
	You know, I really dislike it as a whole when people say, oh, he fought cancer and he was fighting the good fight.
	It's like, no, you just, you take your treatments and you cross your fingers.
	So I hope our good friend Mr. Adams has a And I certainly have him in my thoughts and I hope that he does well.
	And if he doesn't do well, I hope that he at least takes great comfort in the good that he's done in the world, which has been considerable.
	Plus 10, plus 10. Somebody else gave me a 6 out of 10. Glad you're back following you.
	So just passed.
	Following you since 2013, I know you're 10 and today was good, not a 10. No, that's fair.
	That's fair.
	That's fair.
	I appreciate that feedback as well.
	All right.
	What else have we got?
	Let's do another couple of minutes.
	You guys do another couple of minutes, right?
	Always leave them wanting more, unless you're in bed with them.
	All right.
	Somebody says, oh, regarding the whatever podcast.
	Yeah, they could storm out, but they might at some level sense this could be the first time they've seen such compassion and understanding, thus stick around out of curiosity.
	Right.
	I missed you, man.
	Well, you know what?
	I gotta tell you.
	I didn't think of Twitter daily, and there would be weeks where I wouldn't think about it at all.
	But like a boomerang, because, you know, I'm this close to boomer, right?
	Boomerang.
	It came back.
	And I missed you guys too.
	I really, really did at times.
	At times it was like a yearning, burning, hunger!
	A hunger!
	A hunger!
	And to sort of re-engage with the world in this kind of way was really tempting.
	And I was very, very, very drawn to it.
	So anyway, I'm glad that it's working out that I'm back and I'm...
	Somebody says, thank you for all the light you bring into this world.
	You've helped my wife and I to be better parents.
	Thank you, thank you, thank you, doctor.
	I really, really do appreciate that.
	And, I mean, it makes it all worthwhile.
	I mean, there's been, as you may or may not have noticed, to be frank, can I be frank with you?
	Frank Sinatra!
	So, my career, such as it is, There have been a couple of ups and downs.
	It's been a smidge uneven, you know, in the same way that the, I don't know, the brain scan of somebody having a stroke is a smidge uneven.
	It's been a little bit uneven.
	And I would say that coming back tonight and chatting with you all and getting your questions and feedback is a real deep pleasure and a high point.
	And I've missed you guys, and I'm very happy to be back.
	And you can thank my daughter.
	All right.
	Plus 11. Always turn it up to 11. This one, guys, up to 11. Singularity.
	I never know what that means, really.
	It's like synchronicity.
	It's just a crappy way for Sting to seem smart.
	All right.
	Are you returning to YouTube as well?
	I cannot return to YouTube.
	I'm still banned, which is a shame.
	It is a real shame.
	I don't really know if there's anything I can do, but I...
	Maybe Elon will buy that as well.
	This return is more shocking than World War III?
	Well, there's a lot of thermonuclear truth coming down the pipe there.
	Really?
	I would say...
	Is that a picture of Murray Rothbard?
	I would say that...
	All right.
	Your return is one of the best things to happen this year.
	The UPB framework is one of the most legendary human accomplishments of all time.
	Love you, Steph.
	Bro, that is very kind.
	That is very kind.
	Look, I mean, I obviously think I solved the problem of secular ethics, which has eluded philosophers for 3,000 years.
	Not a bad way to spend a rainy afternoon 20 years ago.
	So, yes, I appreciate that.
	Thank you very much.
	And, of course, in the long run, UBB, when accepted, will change more than any physics equation ever has.
	How do you make money as a philosopher?
	freedomain.com slash donate.
	I took the Socratic business model, which is to speak as much truth as people can survive and then ask them for lunch.
	So, all right.
	That's how the magic happens.
	You donate and you get philosophy in exchange to the masses.
	Well, of course, it's really nice because this way you don't have ads.
	You know, one of the reasons that I have in general tried to avoid ads is, you know, especially in call-in shows, you know, people like weeping and wailing about truly difficult childhoods.
	And then it's like, yes, but this VPN will save you from alphabet agencies.
	I would say that it's well worth it to work on the donation basis.
	Plus, it keeps me more sensitive to the audience.
	You know, I never want anyone between...
	I don't want anyone or anything really to come between us and the directness of this conversation, right?
	And if I had somebody who was paying me, like some umbrella organization...
	If I had ads, then I would not be in the business of serving truth to you.
	I'd be in the business of serving you to the advertisers.
	And I just, I don't see how that could work nearly as well.
	So, all right.
	Your return is shocking, but everyone I respect on X missed you.
	Well, thank you very much.
	You know what?
	I'm going to donate now.
	Thank you, Coco.
	I really, really appreciate that.
	Your message when you were banned from YouTube still makes my blood boil.
	All those years of conversations.
	Lost.
	Like tears.
	And I've seen things you people couldn't even believe.
	This is why they didn't give me that role.
	Because Rutger Hauer nailed it, and I would have just nailed it to a cross.
	All right.
	Thank you, Rachel.
	That is very kind.
	I appreciate your support.
	Deeply, humbly, and gratefully.
	Accepted.
	Accepted.
	JoJo style.
	Acceptable.
	Super nanny, right?
	That's a very obscure reference.
	Ask some great aunt.
	All right.
	Your theory of peaceful parenting has completely changed my life.
	Thank you so much.
	I appreciate that.
	Thank you.
	Thank you so much.
	Stefan, if you can hear us, please save me.
	It started off so well.
	freedomain.com slash call.
	I would be very happy to bring philosophy to your potential salvation, but All right.
	To see the farm is to leave it was the all-time red pill.
	Well, it's a 30-minute video that's 15 years old.
	So, yeah, the story of your enslavement, you should...
	I do private calls, by the way, as well.
	I just did one today about business.
	So I've been an entrepreneur for decades, so...
	Not too, too bad.
	All right.
	Well, I could have danced all night.
	I could talk all night.
	I miss watching the King Lear video.
	Well, FDR Podcast.
	Let me type it in.
	FDRpodcast.com.
	It's a great search engine.
	You can do a search for shows.
	And from those shows, you can just scroll down a bit and the videos will be there.
	You can.
	This is a King Lear.
	I did a great show with Dr. Duke Pesta.
	A professor of literature.
	He actually did one on one of my novels, too, which was great.
	Somebody says, I just had my first child two weeks ago, and we intend on implementing your teachings on nonviolent parenting.
	Thank you, sir.
	Well, congratulations.
	I envy your journey.
	You know, near the end of my direct and immediate parenting journey, lo these many years, I absolutely envy you on the beginning of your journey.
	It is such a beautiful and wonderful thing to be a parent that, Can't beat it.
	All right.
	Thanks for the stream.
	It was really great.
	Hey, what's with the past tense?
	I haven't signed off yet.
	Don't box me in, man.
	Don't corner me.
	Thanks, Steph.
	I feel young again.
	Oh, is that because I'm aging?
	Yes, that's right.
	Always loved listening.
	Locals was banned in Brazil for a good while, so I had to pay a VPN to continue quietly listening.
	It was worth it.
	Welcome back.
	Thank you.
	I will absolutely thank Izzy, such a wise young lady.
	She is...
	She's just the greatest.
	She really is the greatest.
	So, all right.
	Any other last questions, issues, challenges, problems?
	I will be live streaming Wednesday night, 7 p.m., Friday night, 7 p.m., Saturdays, 11 a.m., all in the – they call it – Egg Steffen Time, E-S-T.
	That's how you remember it.
	You can remember it with the mnemonic Eastern Standard Time.
	It is Egg Steffen Time, E-S-T.
	So 7 p.m.
	Wednesday, 7 p.m.
	Friday, 11 a.m.
	Sunday, that has been...
	And the second half is for donors only, where we get into some serious tarragon spice.
	So I hope you will join us for that, and maybe I'll figure out how to do the...
	The audio thing, so we can have a chat that way, or I'll just open up spaces, right?
	Do you need anything special for...
	Yeah, I'll announce it on X. Do I need anything special?
	Other than being special, do I need anything special for...
	Because it'd be real nice if that happened and there were actually people in my ear.
	Lying in bed just like Brian Wilson did.
	Great energy, Steph.
	You the man!
	Thank you, I appreciate that.
	I am thrilled to be back and pumped, baby!
	Pumped!
	Like one of Joe Rogan's early flashlight contraptions.
	All right, are we done?
	Let me just do a quick refresh here.
	Always leave them wanting more.
	Encore!
	There is no encore.
	Spaces is voice only where anyone can request the mic.
	All right.
	I appreciate that.
	And the return is special.
	Well, thank you.
	Yeah, social media.
	You can go to freedomman.com slash connect and various social media stuff.
	All right.
	Guys, guys, guys, thank you so much for dropping by tonight.
	It absolutely, completely and totally, and with great humility and gratitude.
	I tell you, it means the world to me.
	It really does.
	To know that I was missed, to know that there's a value in me returning, that my life's work has added up to more than just a couple of scraps of faded digital memories in people's neurocortex.
	I really, really do appreciate that.
	And have yourselves an absolutely beautiful, wonderful evening.
	Please, please, please, peacefulparenting.com, free books at freedomain.com slash books.
	Check out my novels.
	You can read the present, then you can read the future.
	You can read them in reverse as you want as well.
	And love you guys, and thank you so much for really making me feel special, and obviously it puts some real solves on some of the wounds of the world, and I really do appreciate that.
	I don't know how to end this graciously, so this may be awkward, but I'll do my very best.
	Lots of love, everyone.
	I'll talk to you Friday night.
	Take care, my friends.

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