July 24, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| All right. | |
| Shatten in the Mart. | |
| I am Olias, my friend. | |
| What is on your mind? | |
| How can philosophy help you today? | |
| Hi, could you say the $1 meme? | |
| I know you're known for that. | |
| That's all I know you for. | |
| You want me to do what? | |
| There was a video of you where it's like someone sent you a dollar because they liked your advice and you said $1. | |
| I thought that was very funny. | |
| I'm not sure if you remember. | |
| Well, you really did say this. | |
| There's a mentality. | |
| That's an urban myth. | |
| Yeah, that's just so you know, that's a falsehood. | |
| So your understanding is that I said one fecking dollar or something like that. | |
| That's not what happened. | |
| I mean, in case anyone's curious, it's amazing. | |
| It has this sort of lifeblood all of its own. | |
| Would you be interested in the origin story behind that meme? | |
| Yeah, sure. | |
| Sure. | |
| So what happened was somebody sent me $2. | |
| And what I did was I posted a little picture of the donation. | |
| Of course, I took out the email and the name and anything like that. | |
| And what I wrote was, I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but dot, dot, dot. | |
| That was it. | |
| I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but. | |
| And from that, of course. | |
| So I wrote, I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but, right? | |
| And it's true. | |
| And people lost their minds about this, which I thought was very funny. | |
| Because if somebody sends me $2, one of two things is happening. | |
| Either it's their last $2 and they can't possibly afford anymore. | |
| They can't afford bus fare. | |
| They can't afford ramen noodles. | |
| They're starving to death. | |
| In which case, please, this is a general principle. | |
| If it's your last $2, don't send it to me. | |
| Please, use it to buy bus fare to get a job or buy some ramen noodles or whatever it is, right? | |
| But yeah, don't send me your last $2. | |
| If somebody, and this is from when I was a waiter. | |
| When I was a waiter, if somebody left me no tip, maybe I just assumed that they don't really know about tipping culture. | |
| They're not really down with that and all of that. | |
| But if it's a $100 bill, like the bill is for $100, and they leave me a dollar tip, or I guess, you know, whatever it is, right? | |
| Then that would be annoying, right? | |
| Now, when it comes to just basic business acumen, somebody who sends me $2, well, I've got to track it. | |
| I've got to report it. | |
| I've got to pay tax on it. | |
| It's a bit of a hassle. | |
| Right. | |
| So anyway, just people lost their minds. | |
| And like, I was so ungrateful. | |
| And I just, I scorned and mocked somebody who was poor. | |
| Like people just lost their minds over this, which I actually find is kind of funny. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So basically that's what happened with that meme. | |
| And, you know, it's like the meme that there was another meme or I guess another sort of rumor that I pretended to be a teenage girl to comment positively on my frozen movie review. | |
| And this, of course, was not true. | |
| I've never created alt accounts and commented positively on my YouTube videos. | |
| That would be ridiculous. | |
| And what it really was was there used to be an old thing, for those of you who don't know, there was a competitor to Facebook and Twitter called Google Plus. | |
| And what happened was somebody had, the woman had made, the young woman had made the comment on my frozen video. | |
| I had reposted it to Google Plus. | |
| And then because of the way that Google Plus worked, it ended up showing up under my account as a teenage girl on YouTube. | |
| But it's just silly things that people say rather than actually engaging in the realm of ideas. |
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