Should You Fear World War 3?

Stefan Molyneux

Friday Night Live 13 June 2025   This livestream examines personal reflections and geopolitical tensions, focusing on Iran and Israel. The host discusses political instability in America, the implications of child abuse statistics in Iran, and recent military confrontations between Israel and Iran. A tribute to Brian Wilson highlights his struggles with mental health. The episode explores themes of authenticity in relationships amidst societal fragmentation, concluding with a call for critical discourse on international conflicts and their impacts.   GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND THE FULL AUDIOBOOK!  https://peacefulparenting.com/   Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free!   Subscribers get 12 HOURS on the "Truth About the French Revolution," multiple interactive multi-lingual philosophy AIs trained on thousands of hours of my material - as well as AIs for Real-Time Relationships, Bitcoin, Peaceful Parenting, and Call-In Shows!   You also receive private livestreams, HUNDREDS of exclusive premium shows, early release podcasts, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more!   See you soon!  https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2025

Transcript

00:00:00Good evening, good evening. Oh my god, it's Friday, the 13th of June, 2025. Oh, the Knights Templar, 12th century. That's where it all comes from, apparently. So welcome to your Friday night live. And yes, the only fan noises should be coming from you, the lovely audience.

00:00:20Ah, it's beginning to get quieter. Excellent. All right. So I hope you're having an interesting week. An interesting week is certainly being happening to everyone, particularly those of our friends in America.

00:00:36Okay. So, how can I help you? I suppose, given the direness of the situation, it is probably worth me breaking a rule or two and being willing to talk politics, if you like, or geopolitics, or war, or anything like that.

00:00:58Okay. I can certainly help if you like. And if you have questions or comments or anything you want to talk about, I am all ears. I am all yours. I did a show today. Gosh, what a day of work.

00:01:17So, I went this morning to work on my novel, which I finished a chapter, chapter 11, about 45,000 words. It's going to be a long one, though. I'll tell you that.

00:01:32And then I went for an hour, almost two-hour hike, about an hour and a half, hour 40 hike, where I answered a challenging question from a listener about how moral philosophy is different from online sex work.

00:01:48Not something I was sure I was going to have to do in my life as a whole, but I guess some people have questions.

00:01:53I came back, spent some time with the old fam. I did some research in case you all wanted to talk about, oh, I don't know, what is there going on in the world that might be interesting for you to listen to or know about.

00:02:10Is it anything to do with, say, I don't know, an attack on Iran by Israel?

00:02:16So, let's look at what may be going on.

00:02:25A full disclosure, one of my favorite families, when I was a teenager, was headed by a Persian man.

00:02:33Of course, he was from Iran, but he insisted that it be referred to, which I understand, as Persian, which I sympathize with.

00:02:41A woman I dated in my 20s whose family was from Mumbai, also was Persian, and she was fairly light-skinned.

00:02:51She was almost Italian-looking, actually pretty much Italian-looking.

00:02:55So, I do have some history with regards to sympathy with understanding of the Persians, historical Persians.

00:03:04I have a great admiration for a lot of aspects of the Persian culture, and that, of course, was taken over in 79 with the Iranian fundamentalist Islamic takeover,

00:03:17where the leaders were replaced with mullahs, and the women went into their beekeeper outfits,

00:03:24and the world of the Persians kind of sank into a semi-middle-aged kind of perspective,

00:03:32which was not, of course, ideal, to put it mildly.

00:03:38Oh, yes, thank you for your tip, Joseph, freedom.com, slash donate.

00:03:42Wait, somebody says, I am from Iran.

00:03:45Oh, so, yeah, I am from Iran and also like to be called Persian.

00:03:49Yes, yes, that's right.

00:03:52That's right.

00:03:55So, let's talk about the origins of dysfunction and war in society on the Iranian side.

00:04:06So, let's look at the prevalence of physical abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect in both genders differed from 9.7 to 67.5 percent, 17.9 to 91.1 percent, and 23.6 to 81, sorry, 80.18, respectively.

00:04:33The pooled estimate of the prevalence of child physical abuse in both genders was 53.59 percent, which is really, really high.

00:04:45The pooled estimate of prevalence of child emotional abuse was almost 65 percent.

00:04:51Child neglect was 41 percent almost, and that's not great.

00:04:57Now, Iran has a population of more than 75 million.

00:05:01Some places I've read 90 million.

00:05:04Some places I've read average IQ of 85.

00:05:06Sometimes I've read higher.

00:05:10So, 31 percent of the population is younger than 19 years of age.

00:05:16And a study conducted in Tehran, the capital city of Iran, revealed the prevalence of 17.5 percent for physical abuse and prevalence of 36.4 and 49.46 for neglect and emotional abuse.

00:05:30Another study showed that the prevalence of emotional abuse, physical abuse, and neglect was 78, 56, and 39 percent in Zanjian, respectively.

00:05:37Lastly, the prevalence of childhood sexual abuse is estimated as high as 32.5 percent, one out of three children.

00:05:49So, that's not ideal.

00:05:52Existing laws do not specifically address child sexual abuse.

00:05:56Child abuse in Iran increased 12.5 percent in one year alone, 2019.

00:06:01Child abuse in Iran has risen during the coronavirus pandemic due to rising social ills like poverty and mental health problems.

00:06:09Violence against children has increased fivefold before the coronavirus crisis.

00:06:14The cases involve physical violence against children and even rape.

00:06:18The difference today is that the beating of children by their parents is constantly being repeated.

00:06:25Another issue in Iran, of course, which we know affects IQ.

00:06:28Iran has an almost 40 percent consanguinity marriage.

00:06:35Consanguinity is cousin marriage and other closely related marriages.

00:06:39It's very high.

00:06:42Russia is 0.1 percent.

00:06:44Iran is almost 40 percent.

00:06:48So, Mike Cernovich posted, I could not get confirmation of it,

00:06:56but he posted that Iran had a policy of letting high IQ people leave the country.

00:07:00I don't know that that's true.

00:07:02Maybe he's got some contacts, of course, in the Persian community, I think based on marriage.

00:07:08So, maybe that's true.

00:07:09I couldn't get any particular confirmation of it.

00:07:11But whether you accept that it is official or just unofficial,

00:07:21there has been a massive brain drain, of course, from Iran or the Persian region since the late 70s.

00:07:28So, that is a very big issue, and it just means that you've got a relatively low IQ population in general

00:07:43in battle against the Israelis, who are some of the smartest and most defensively aggressive people on the planet.

00:07:52I don't know that it's going to be much of a conflict.

00:07:57I mean, I don't know that it's going to be much of an equal fight over time.

00:07:59You sort of think of the pager thing and what happened, was it yesterday,

00:08:05where they had 200 Israeli fighters scouring the skies over Iran

00:08:11and decapitating military personnel, nuclear personnel, the sort of heads of these things.

00:08:17And it's funny, of course, it's just a coincidence, but I wrote about this almost 20 years ago in my book,

00:08:22Practical Anarchy, and I also wrote about it in my novel, The Future, which was, I guess, four or so years ago,

00:08:29that the way that you wage war most intelligently is to target the leaders of your enemies.

00:08:42Don't target the ground troops, target the leaders.

00:08:45And this, of course, seems to have happened.

00:08:47Again, I'm not saying this is anything to do with me, but it is an interesting coincidence about this.

00:08:54So, there are some estimates.

00:08:59The odds of the Israel around conflict spreading into a broader regional and global war

00:09:03involving multiple states or sustained multi-front fighting are low to moderate,

00:09:07with a rough probability range of 15 to 30 percent.

00:09:09So, low likelihood, 15 to 20 percent, the conflict remains limited to Israel and Iran,

00:09:16with missile-slash-drone exchanges fizzling out due to depleted stocks, diplomatic pressure,

00:09:21or Iran's weakened capacity.

00:09:23Regional and global powers stay out, and proxies play a minimal role.

00:09:26Moderate likelihood, 20 to 30 percent.

00:09:32Escalation occurs due to a miscalculation, a significant Iranian attack on U.S. basis,

00:09:38Israeli strikes causing mass civilian casualties, or covert Russian-slash-Chinese arms support.

00:09:43This could draw in limited proxy or regional involvement, but stops short of a full-scale war.

00:09:46Well, high likelihood is less than 10 percent a full-blown regional war involving major powers,

00:09:51U.S., Russia, China, or multiple states.

00:09:54It's highly unlikely due to strange strategic constraints, economic stakes, and historical restraint.

00:09:59Iran, in its sort of current Mueller-ruled form, is largely isolated from allies as a whole,

00:10:07and is viewed as a rogue state or a dangerous nation, even by the sort of the local powers that be.

00:10:12And please understand, I'm far from an expert in the Middle East, so I just wanted to sort of mention that as a whole.

00:10:22Let me just get to your comments here.

00:10:26Now, with regards to Israel and Iran, I mean, I obviously don't have any back channels,

00:10:32but, of course, Israel has struck because, according to Israeli intelligence,

00:10:37however much you accept or don't accept that, I can't tell you anything,

00:10:41because I don't have any answers that way.

00:10:43But they said that Iran was within weeks of getting a nuclear weapon.

00:10:51And now, I mean, I've been hearing about this since the early 90s.

00:10:54It seems like every year or two, it's like they're going to have a nuclear weapon within five years,

00:10:58three years, six years, six months, whatever.

00:10:59But the story from Israel is that Iran was imminently about to get a nuclear weapon.

00:11:09And given the hostility of the Iranian regime, who funds Hezbollah quite a bit,

00:11:15towards the Israeli state, a preemptive strike,

00:11:20it's something that they would justify according to that.

00:11:24Again, whether you believe it or not, I couldn't possibly tell you, but that is the official story.

00:11:32Now, as far as I understand it, Trump was opposed to the strike.

00:11:38He said, you know, let me work on the diplomatic side and let's go that way.

00:11:43And he did not want the strike to occur.

00:11:46And the strike did occur.

00:11:50What that's going to do to American-Israeli relations remains to be seen.

00:11:54But it is pretty wild to see the change from when I was younger about the general components of the Middle East.

00:12:03Of course, when I was younger, there was the first Gulf War.

00:12:05And then, of course, the invasion of Iraq and so on.

00:12:09And people were pretty gung-ho for that kind of stuff in America.

00:12:12Of course, after 9-11, people were pretty gung-ho because they had basically been led to believe that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction

00:12:22and had somehow been involved in 9-11, which I don't particularly think he was.

00:12:259-11 came out of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan.

00:12:31And they, of course, had been funded and trained by the CIA to fight against Russia in Afghanistan in the 80s.

00:12:37And then they turned on America for the ostensible reason that America had troops stationed in Saudi Arabia,

00:12:42which was considered holy land, to the Mujahideen.

00:12:46And so there was that.

00:12:48So, yeah.

00:12:54So, I mean, gold is up.

00:12:56Bitcoin is down.

00:12:57But Bitcoin bounced back after the last sort of threat.

00:13:00And so, where does this go?

00:13:04I mean, Russia is probably not going to do much.

00:13:06They're barked down in Ukraine.

00:13:08China has never had a history of directly engaging militarily in the Middle East.

00:13:14So they may offer Iran, you know, covert support by arming them or some sort of diplomatic support.

00:13:22But the idea that they would go in directly is quite unlikely.

00:13:29So, I think that they got some advance warning in America and have decided to work as best as they can,

00:13:41or at least this is what they say.

00:13:42They've decided to work as best as they can to sit this one out, whether that means indirect support, probably.

00:13:48But the, yeah.

00:13:54So, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Jordan have never really wanted Iran to get nukes.

00:14:05And they've cooperated with Israel.

00:14:08They intercepted Iranian drones in April 2024 to prevent this from happening.

00:14:15Turkey and Pakistan, I mean, they support the Muslim causes, but they, neither of them have signaled any intent to intervene militarily.

00:14:24And, of course, Pakistan's got its own internal challenges, and Turkey has NATO ties.

00:14:29So that makes the involvement kind of, kind of improbable.

00:14:33Now, of course, there was a, again, we don't know for sure, but according to Israel, they decapitated the leadership, both militarily and from a nuclear standpoint,

00:14:46because they said they were enriching the uranium far beyond what they need for civilian purposes, right?

00:14:51So they were, I think, like 5% enrichment for purposes that are civilian-based and power-based, and they were going 50% to 90%, which means that it was aiming towards the idea of getting nuclear weapons rather than just having nuclear power.

00:15:09And then, of course, as is the case in war, the enemy gets a vote, there was some strike back, I think about 100 rockets were sent towards Israel, and apparently only 5% to 7% got through because of the Iron Dome and so on,

00:15:24or other ways that they have to counter these kinds of things.

00:15:27So, of course, the hope is that it is illimited, that they have gotten their wish or their way, which is to prevent Iran from having these nuclear weapons and things go and quiet down and so on.

00:15:47But, yeah, it is pretty wild to see how different the reaction is now as opposed to the past.

00:15:53There does seem, I mean, the weariness in the U.S. regarding Iraq and regarding Afghanistan is something that is very new, and it's fairly unprecedented, really.

00:16:09It's fairly unprecedented for the American population to be this weary of Middle Eastern entanglements, but the humbling, I won't say the humiliation, because, I mean, America achieved its military objectives.

00:16:20It's just that the relative freedoms that were hoped for were unable to be sustained for a variety of religious and population reasons that the Middle East is not exactly the most fertile Ukrainian-style black soil ground for the emergence of a Jeffersonian-style republic.

00:16:38But given the failures, and you've probably seen this bitter meme that, you know, if you ever feel useless in your job, just remember it took the American military, you know, 20 years and trillions of dollars to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.

00:16:52And so this idea that it's like there's a bunch of seagulls eating some food, you run at them, they scatter, and then when you run past, they just come back, right?

00:17:05So there's this idea that it looks like you're doing something, everyone's gone, and then, for reasons that we've talked about before, they generally tend to coalesce back into their previous shape.

00:17:16And it is, of course, my massive hope and goal that any thoughts towards something like colonialism is scrubbed from the Western mindset.

00:17:27This white man's burden has just been an absolute, complete, and total fracking catastrophe for the West as a whole.

00:17:34And, of course, if the seagulls scatter, so to speak, and I'm sorry to be talking about human beings as seagulls, it's just an analogy,

00:17:40but if the seagulls scatter when you're there, and then the moment you leave, they just come back, then really, what's the point?

00:17:44I mean, you're not even really slowing things down that much.

00:17:48So there is a funny sort of sideswipe that happens in modern politics, which is the idea that if you're only supplying weapons or training, that you're somehow not involved.

00:18:02Now, of course, this is how things started out in the early 60s with Vietnam.

00:18:06It was just training, right?

00:18:08That's all that JFK was doing, just some training.

00:18:11But to me, just sort of my amateur non-military opinion, is that if you supply weapons to someone and you know that they're going to use it in an unjust fashion,

00:18:29or they're going to use it in a violent fashion, or, of course, weapons would be used as a violent fashion, then you are part of it.

00:18:34Like, if there are two cartels fighting, and you supply weapons to one of the cartels engaged in a turf battle with the other cartel,

00:18:44would that not be being an accessory to a crime?

00:18:47So supplying weapons to a combatant's army is getting involved.

00:18:54And that's just a bad idea as a whole.

00:19:00I mean, I'm against war, unless it's a purely defensive war based upon immediate imminent invasion.

00:19:06I'm against war, of course.

00:19:07I mean, that doesn't really take much to say or take any particular intelligence to put forward.

00:19:13But this idea that you're not involved if you're only supplying weaponry and training, it's like, you kind of are, at least legally, you would be in the eyes of most sort of Western common law practices.

00:19:27But people sort of think that it's a little asterisk.

00:19:30It's like, no, no, no, we're not, right?

00:19:31So personally, personally, my particular prediction is that this is going to fade out.

00:19:37I don't know that it's an accident, other than, of course, if Iran was about to get these nukes, and that's why Israel did what it did.

00:19:46It probably is not an accident that it occurred under a Republican president, because under a Republican president, those on the right are more likely to agree and approve of military action as opposed to on the left.

00:19:58Each team likes their own military leaders.

00:20:02I mean, as you know, I did a whole presentation on Barack Obama back in the day.

00:20:06He was dropping bombs every 20 minutes throughout his entire presidency.

00:20:11It was 100,000 plus bombs and, I mean, just crazy stuff.

00:20:16And, of course, people on the right were pointing out how bad that was.

00:20:19People on the left didn't mind it.

00:20:21In fact, they approved of it in some ways.

00:20:23And in the same way, if there is going to be military action in the Middle East, it seems to me more likely that it's going to happen under Trump than under a Democrat, because people have a loyalty to Trump that might surmount any skepticism or hostility they might have towards getting involved in the Middle East.

00:20:41So, personally, I mean, I guess I'm not beyond recruitment age in somewhere like Ukraine, and I'm obviously not in America.

00:20:54So, I would say that if you are a young man in America, I wouldn't worry.

00:21:02I don't think it's going to escalate.

00:21:04I don't think the U.S. is going to get dragged in.

00:21:07And I think this was a particular decap strike to prevent the possible imminent formulation of a nuclear weapon.

00:21:20And I think now that that is done, or that seems to be done, there'll be some, obviously, some blowback from Iran.

00:21:27Iran has had all of these, oh, they're going to suffer terrible ends.

00:21:29So, it's just a usual bunch of chest-thumping and posturing that occurs in these kinds of situations.

00:21:33But I would say that don't fret.

00:21:39And, you know, obviously, keep your eye on it.

00:21:41I mean, I'm keeping my eye on it for sure.

00:21:43Don't threat.

00:21:44I don't, sorry, don't threat.

00:21:45Don't fret, not much threat.

00:21:47Don't fret, not much threat.

00:21:48And I think it will calm down.

00:21:51And I don't think there's going to be any particular escalation.

00:21:54I mean, China has a whole, like, we'll sit back and wait to win, right?

00:21:57China is just sit back and wait to win.

00:21:59They are patient from the 500-year plans, I guess like mine, turning Japanese.

00:22:05I think I'm turning Japanese.

00:22:06I really think so.

00:22:08So, I would not get too worried.

00:22:11And what's worrying going to do anyway, right?

00:22:15Worrying is based on the fantasy that you can control these things and you really can't.

00:22:20All right.

00:22:23So, Saud says, very nice to have you.

00:22:26Missed you while you were gone.

00:22:27To explain why we like to be called Persian.

00:22:30Quite simple, actually.

00:22:30We don't like the correlation between Iranians and modern-day Iran.

00:22:34And so much of our culture is based on Zoroastrian theology, which has nothing to do with Muslim culture that Iran has adopted.

00:22:40I don't know that it was adopted.

00:22:43Adoption seems to be more voluntary.

00:22:45She says,

00:22:47And Iranians marry their cousins because it is considered an honor within the culture to keep the bloodline going.

00:22:51It is why mental health problems are so high.

00:22:53Oh, yeah.

00:22:54I mean, I talked about this years ago, about some of the issues with the expat Pakistanis in the West and the issues around mental health.

00:23:01All right.

00:23:07I heard Israel, says someone, just wants more attention slash power since the Gaza thing sizzled out.

00:23:12I don't believe that's true.

00:23:14Doesn't Israel have nuclear weapons, though, and assured mutual destruction mitigates large-scale conflict?

00:23:22Hmm.

00:23:23Well, if you recall, in the Second World War, there was some...

00:23:30How can I put this as nicely as possible for once?

00:23:33There were some Japanese pilots, particularly in the Pacific conflict, not overly concerned with their own longevity.

00:23:42Yes.

00:23:43I think that's probably the best way to put it.

00:23:45They were not...

00:23:46They were not necessarily over-concerned with their own longevity.

00:23:52And so it may not be that...

00:23:55I mean, there are suicide bombers, right?

00:23:58So it may not be that mutually assured destruction works the same in all cultures, if that makes sense.

00:24:06So I just had a couple other notes.

00:24:08Let me just see if there's anything else of juicy note and import.

00:24:12But, yeah, the child abuse, the consanguinity issues, these are not going to be great.

00:24:21Ah, yes.

00:24:22Iran has experienced substantial emigration of its educated elite.

00:24:27A 2000 IMF report noted that between 150,000 and 180,000 specialists left annually, costing Iran an estimated $50 billion, equivalent to a significant portion of its oil revenue.

00:24:40The 1979 Cultural Revolution, which closed universities and purged non-Islamic influences, drove many academics abroad.

00:24:49Economic stagnation, high unemployment, with only 75,000 of the 270,000 annual university graduates finding jobs, political crackdowns, such as those following the 2009 election protests, further fueled this exodus.

00:25:03By 2019, 3.1 million Iranians, or 3.8% of the population, had emigrated.

00:25:12So, you know, the government, of course, has made some efforts to retain talent.

00:25:18There was the Iran National Science Foundation in 2003.

00:25:22These have had limited success.

00:25:24So, the brain drain is a real thing.

00:25:31And, of course, we know the Pareto principle that the square root of any, in a relative meritocracy, the square root of all participants in an endeavor produce half the value, right?

00:25:40So, if you've got 10,000 people in a company, 100 of them are producing half the value, and 10 of them are producing half of that value.

00:25:49So, you've got 10 out of 10,000 producing fully one quarter of the value of the entire organization of 10,000 people, which is why the high producers get paid so much and why people get paid so crazy high.

00:26:00So, that is, of course, with regards to the brain drain.

00:26:07You are, you know, every person who's smart could be 100 to 1,000 times more productive than the average person.

00:26:18So, it is, yeah, I mean, so, with regards to Iran is on the verge of developing nuclear weapons, 1992.

00:26:31Benjamin Netanyahu, who was prime minister back then, began publicly stating Iran was close to achieving nuclear weapons capability, a timeline of a few years, 1995.

00:26:40It was, as I said, Iran was three to five years away.

00:26:432002, there was a discovery of Iran's secret nuclear facilities.

00:26:48Israel intensified warnings.

00:26:50Officials claiming Iran could have a bomb within a few years.

00:26:532009, Netanyahu told the UN General Assembly Iran's nuclear program was advancing rapidly.

00:26:582012, there was a fairly infamous UN speech from Netanyahu with a cartoon bomb diagram, claimed that Iran was months away from enough enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon.

00:27:09That's 13 years ago.

00:27:11So, 2018, 2019, 2024, and then 2025, leading up to the June 13th strike.

00:27:21Israel's leadership, including Netanyahu and IDF chief, Eyal Zamer, stated Iran was on the threshold of a nuclear breakthrough with enough enriched uranium for nine bombs and advanced weaponization steps.

00:27:31So, the International Atomic Energy Agency has reported that Iran's uranium enrichment progress, such as 60% purity stockpiles by 2025, enough for theoretical weapons if further enriched to 90%.

00:27:50The IAEA and U.S. intelligence have consistently estimated that building an actual deliverable nuclear weapon would take around six to 18 months, even with sufficient material.

00:28:01So, of course, I have no particular way of interpreting the reality or factuality of any of these things.

00:28:12So, look into this, it's very interesting, you want to look into the, it's really important to look, I think it's very helpful to look into why the Tiananmen Square protests happened.

00:28:32Someone says, even before Netanyahu, the Israeli press was claiming Iran was months away from having nukes all the way back in the mid-80s, right?

00:28:39I mean, all of this in general is the result of the environmental movement, right?

00:28:50We've talked about this before, so I can keep this brief.

00:28:53But all of this, I mean, fairly primitive cultures and so on don't produce a lot of economic value for reasons that are pretty clear to those who've listened for a while.

00:29:06But because the environmental movement, which is to some degree funded by Middle Eastern countries that want to retain a monopoly on the production and sale of oil,

00:29:20the environmental movement has prevented nuclear power, which would diminish America and the West's reliance upon foreign oil.

00:29:31And, of course, it's diminished domestic drilling and production for oil, right?

00:29:37The sort of famous Sarah Palin drill, baby drill stuff.

00:29:40A little over-sexualized, but we can live with it.

00:29:42So, if you want to reduce the power of fairly primitive regimes in the Middle East, you have to have domestic production of oil.

00:29:59And so, everyone who was saying, well, domestic production of oil is bad, they're simply taking the money from a relatively civilized economy and moving it to a relatively, I mean, uncivilized economy.

00:30:14It's just an IQ test.

00:30:15That's all, right?

00:30:16It's just, I don't want to see, I don't want to see smokestacks, Three Mile Island, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Chernobyl.

00:30:21And so, out of sight, out of mind is simply, it goes to worse places.

00:30:28So, I just wanted to mention that.

00:30:31And, of course, if you have questions, comments, support for the show would be greatly humbly and deeply appreciated.

00:30:38But I wouldn't worry about this one as a whole.

00:30:41You may have a certain amount of concern, given what happened in Ukraine versus the Russians, I guess, relatively recently, where they had 100-plus drones that struck the Russian airfield thousands of miles inside of Russia because they snuck them in under the roofs of these pretend buildings on wheels.

00:31:01China has brought up a whole bunch of land around American military installations, which, well, I don't know.

00:31:12What are you going to do?

00:31:13It's so funny.

00:31:15So, yeah, I wouldn't worry about it.

00:31:18I'm obviously, I could be completely talking about an armpit here, but I would not.

00:31:23I would not worry about it.

00:31:24And I think, also, the idea that Western intervention produces significantly better countries is no longer things that people believe in.

00:31:39And when that kind of belief goes puff-the-magged-dragon ways, it's really hard politically to move that kind of thing forward.

00:31:47So, I would not worry about it too much.

00:31:50And, in fact, it could be that people are beginning to learn that you can't just transplant your culture to another country and make them just like you, right?

00:32:01I mean, this has been going on for half a millennia in the West.

00:32:07Well, we'll go to country, Albania.

00:32:09We'll go to Albania.

00:32:10We'll give them our institutions.

00:32:14And they'll be just like us.

00:32:15I still have a bit of leftover.

00:32:22Sorry.

00:32:24I still have a bit of leftover.

00:32:25Something in my teeth.

00:32:26My apologies.

00:32:28Let's see if I can just ski that out with a little coffee.

00:32:35All dead and gone.

00:32:40All right.

00:32:40Steph, how do I make female friends as a woman when all the women are going insane due to unstable world conditions and a lack of solid principles?

00:32:47Like, what advice do you give Izzy?

00:32:52I mean, be yourself and see who likes you.

00:32:54I mean, honestly, I wish I could give you some big, deep philosophical, you know, voodoo that you can do.

00:33:00Some, like, real philosophical.

00:33:02You just, in life, you just be yourself no matter what they say.

00:33:05You just have to be who you are and see who likes it.

00:33:10Um, again, I wish I had some magical formula.

00:33:19How to be liked.

00:33:21I don't know that I'm really good at the how to be liked thing.

00:33:24I mean, I know how to do it, but I just, I don't want the cost of it.

00:33:31I don't like the cost of it.

00:33:32You can't also import people and have them, uh, adopt your ways.

00:33:43Look at all the Mexico flags during the protests.

00:33:45Yeah.

00:33:46Yeah, because Mexico was in charge of California for about 20 years and did absolutely nothing with it.

00:33:51And apparently it's still Mexican.

00:33:55You know, that meme of, like, the Mexican guy saying,

00:33:59Ah, Mexico!

00:34:00Viva Mexico!

00:34:00Mexico's the greatest!

00:34:01It's like, we're sending you back there.

00:34:02Oh, no!

00:34:02My life is over!

00:34:03Well, uh, you can't get free stuff as easily in Mexico.

00:34:11And, uh, Mexico has in its constitution that it, you can't change Mexico's demographics.

00:34:18I shouldn't love it.

00:34:19It's just kind of funny.

00:34:20Nobody gets mad at that.

00:34:22But God forbid, right?

00:34:24All right.

00:34:24And, of course, people forget that, uh, you know, that the legal structure, whatever you transplant from the West, doesn't matter, in particular, if that's not founded in the beliefs of people.

00:34:35And people's beliefs don't change according to reason and evidence.

00:34:38I mean, I think I can fairly robustly say that, with the exception of we few, we happy few, and so on.

00:34:45So, uh, the Russian constitution was fantastic.

00:34:50Like, the Haitian constitution is great on paper, right?

00:34:54But on paper, it's sort of irrelevant.

00:34:57What matters is, you know, I mean, theoretically, uh, the president is supposed to be the head of the military.

00:35:02It turns out there are, like, 700 judges who were higher than the president when it comes to the military.

00:35:07Thank you, Dylan.

00:35:07I appreciate that.

00:35:10All right.

00:35:11Any other questions, comments?

00:35:12I certainly have.

00:35:14I've been doing a lot of reading.

00:35:15And this, this very, uh, day or two, I've been doing some, uh, reading.

00:35:28Huh?

00:35:29Ah, what do you mean?

00:35:29Let me, let me get in there.

00:35:30Let me get in here.

00:35:31Hang on a second.

00:35:36Oh, I was born by the river.

00:35:41In a little tent.

00:35:42No, that's not it.

00:35:43All right.

00:35:49Sorry, um, because I was quite fascinated by, I've never been a huge Beach Boys fan, although I did actually, uh, see them many, many, uh, years ago in Toronto.

00:35:59I went with some friends, and we got back road seats, and I, um, danced the sidewalk clean.

00:36:08I remember just dancing to it, uh, all night.

00:36:12And it was a lot of fun.

00:36:15Now, uh, Brian Wilson, uh, died, uh, a day or two ago.

00:36:18He was 82, and he was an absolute child of the 60s.

00:36:25So, uh, just before I get into that, someone says, yeah, I guess the problem is, the female friend question, that I don't care about lying to be liked.

00:36:32Like being nice, that's exactly why women ostracize me.

00:36:36As a woman, it's tough because my physiology kind of demands emotional connection with others, but I hate compromising so I don't hurt other people's feelings.

00:36:43So, monk mode it is.

00:36:44So, one of the things you can do is, I'm sure you've thought of this, I'm just putting this out as a general thought, but one of the things you can do is you can try and find groups or hobbies or activities that are more likely to be populated by people with a similar mindset.

00:37:06Right?

00:37:06So, I mean, if you're conservative, you don't go to the Quiche Convention, you go to the gun show or something like that, or you go to a more fundamentalist church or something like that.

00:37:16Right?

00:37:16So, I would say that it's important to pre-filter for people like yourself.

00:37:23Right?

00:37:23So, I think that's probably a good idea.

00:37:26Again, I'm sure you've thought of that, but don't just say, well, I've just got a random scattershot, find people, or just be completely alone.

00:37:33There's filtering mechanisms that you can do ahead of time.

00:37:37So, my friends, let me ask you this.

00:37:39Give me a minus 10 to plus 10.

00:37:42Now, you know, zero to 10.

00:37:44Zero to 10, how much do you know about Brian Wilson of, sort of, founder, lead singer, falsetto dude of the Beach Boys?

00:37:53What do you know?

00:37:55Because I don't want to, I want to sort of gauge how much people know about this guy.

00:37:58Zero to 10, zero, Brian who?

00:38:01Two to 10, I was his spleen throughout most of the 70s.

00:38:05What have we got here in terms of knowledge of Brian Wilson?

00:38:12Minus 10, zero.

00:38:13We've got a four, a zero, minus 10.

00:38:16Okay.

00:38:16So, not much.

00:38:18Not much.

00:38:19Okay, well, I appreciate that.

00:38:19Thank you, thank you, thank you.

00:38:21I'm lying in bed just like Brian Wilson did.

00:38:24Yeah, there was a song, gosh, was that from the first album from the Bare Naked Ladies, who I also saw when I was a business exec.

00:38:31I was in, I was in New York giving a speech at a convention and I saw the Bare Naked Ladies because they just had nothing to do that night.

00:38:41And they were actually a lot of fun.

00:38:43Yeah, he was a shot in for a while and he spent a year in bed.

00:38:47They mocked this in a quasi Monty Python show called The Ruttles, which was a sort of takeoff on The Beatles.

00:38:53And so, he wrote, I think a couple of years ago, I think he had two sets of memoirs, but he wrote, I am Brian Wilson, a memoir.

00:39:06He wrote this a couple of years ago, shortly before he died.

00:39:10And yes, Brian Wilson had really significant mental health issues over the course of his life.

00:39:17Like, really, really significant mental health issues.

00:39:21Question, une question, s'il vous plaît, pour favor, une question.

00:39:29From a minus 10 to a plus 10, what do you think his childhood was like?

00:39:34Mental health issues, which we'll get into really bad, really bad mental health, like almost unbearable mental health issues.

00:39:44Minus 10 to a plus 10, what do you think his childhood was like?

00:39:50100, you are off the scale.

00:39:54Ecoute, écoute, please do listen.

00:39:58Please do listen.

00:40:00Minus 5, 0.

00:40:03His childhood was probably horrible, probably a lot of neglect and verbal abuse.

00:40:06Minus 10, minus 8, minus 10.

00:40:08So, I mean, obviously, it's kind of hard to gauge these things, but I will say that his childhood was probably a minus 7, and it went to like a minus 10 because of his drug use.

00:40:27Drugs are so dangerous, especially the hallucinogenic drugs.

00:40:32So, he says, he wrote, I also hear my dad in my head.

00:40:45His voice is louder than the others.

00:40:46What's the matter, buddy?

00:40:48You got any guts?

00:40:49Is this all about you?

00:40:50Why so many musicians?

00:40:51Rock and roll is two guitars and bass and drums.

00:40:53Any more than that is just about ego.

00:40:54So, when he says, I also hear my dad in my head, that's not an analogy.

00:41:00That's not, I kind of have this inner parent.

00:41:02That's like his, there are yelling voices in his head, which he had to live with for like 60 years.

00:41:09Yelling, screaming, cursing, audible hallucination, voices in his head.

00:41:15Not like, I'm feeling kind of down, and you trace it back, and it's a negative thing that your dad said 20 years ago.

00:41:20Like, voices in his ear.

00:41:25He says, there are other voices, too, along with Chuck Berry and Phil Spector and my dad.

00:41:29The other voices are worse.

00:41:30They're saying horrible things about my music.

00:41:32Your music is no damn good, Brian.

00:41:34Get to work, Brian.

00:41:35You're falling behind, Brian.

00:41:37Sometimes they just skip the music and go right for me.

00:41:40We're coming for you, Brian.

00:41:41This is the end, Brian.

00:41:43Brian, we are going to kill you, Brian.

00:41:48And he could only quiet the voices to some degree, like satanic tinnitus.

00:41:56He could only silence the voices to some degree by playing music, recording music, or being on stage, which he also kind of hated.

00:42:04He went through panic attacks, first and starting in the early, or mid-60s when they became famous.

00:42:09He was on a flight to Houston and completely had a, like, complete meltdown, panic attack.

00:42:15He said, with regards to the voices, I've heard them many days, and when I haven't heard them, I've worried about hearing them.

00:42:23And he would spend days just sitting on his chair or his couch, which has, he says, it's been covered and recovered because I have a habit of picking at the upholstery.

00:42:43And what does he think about?

00:42:47He says, usually it's that I really miss my brothers.

00:42:49Both of them are gone.

00:42:50Carl's for almost 20 years.

00:42:51Dennis for more than 30.

00:42:53Carl died of lung cancer from being a chain smoker from his teens.

00:42:57And Dennis, if I remember rightly, drank like a fish and then was at a beach somewhere in the tropics.

00:43:07And he'd thrown some stuff into the ocean a year before, and he decided when he was blind drunk to go in and look for it or try and get whatever he'd thrown in the ocean back.

00:43:16And then he drowned.

00:43:18I mean, I mean, it's not quite, well, it's a little more than Bee Gees kind of mortality.

00:43:27He was addicted to cigarettes.

00:43:30He was addicted to alcohol.

00:43:31I think he was addicted to drugs, and he actually got up to over 300 pounds at one point.

00:43:38And then he went down to the low 200s, then went back up to 311 pounds.

00:43:45He said, the worst of them, the years, 1978, was one of the worst years of my life.

00:43:50I went into a mental hospital in San Diego and then called Marilyn, that's his second wife, and I asked for a divorce.

00:43:55I couldn't control my thoughts, and I couldn't control my body.

00:43:58It wasn't the first time I had felt like that, but in some ways, it was the worst because of what I did to deal with it.

00:44:04I drank Bally High.

00:44:06God, I always think of that.

00:44:07Bally High, you'll find me.

00:44:09Sam Cook does a great version of that.

00:44:11I drank Bally High wine, he says, and did cocaine and smoked cigarettes, and my weight went higher than ever.

00:44:15At one point, I'd bit the scales at 311 pounds.

00:44:19And then he got caught up with this really sinister doctor, Dr. Landy.

00:44:27Dr. Landy, tell me I'm not just a pedagogue.

00:44:30Oh, that's where that line comes from, from Barenaked Ladies.

00:44:33Oof.

00:44:34Oof.

00:44:34Dr. Landy was charging him, I think, over $100,000 in sort of $20,000, $24,000, over $100,000 a month to treat him, and got, you know, screamed at him to make music, so they did albums together.

00:44:49He tried to do an album together with Brian Wilson.

00:44:51And he says, the first time, though, Dr. Landy had succeeded a little bit.

00:44:55His method was never perfect, but it gave me relief.

00:44:58The second time, though, there was no relief.

00:45:00Relief would have been a kind of freedom, and he didn't believe in freedom.

00:45:03He gave me more and more pills and called them vitamins.

00:45:06He sent girls to keep me company.

00:45:07He played games with me where he put his hand on my leg to see if I had feelings for anyone.

00:45:13He had barbecues at my house, but instead of inviting my friends or family, he invited his family and other doctors.

00:45:17He made big plans, like going back to Hawaii and then to London, but the plans disappeared without explanation.

00:45:23He let me have a margarita every once in a while.

00:45:25He screamed so loud.

00:45:26It made me cry.

00:45:31He got married at 22, and his first bride was 16.

00:45:3716.

00:45:40He had two brothers, so he had one house, three kids, two parents, my father, Murray, M-U-R-R-Y,

00:45:46who was actually, he sold industrial machinery lathes, I think it was, and also was big into music and wrote songs.

00:45:53One of his songs ended up being played by the Lawrence Welk Orchestra and recorded by a couple of people.

00:45:58And so his father, Murray, his mother, Audrey.

00:46:02My mother was gentle, kind, and loving.

00:46:03Oh, God!

00:46:05To die and have learned so little about your life.

00:46:10See, the father was a violent brute, but the mother was gentle, kind, and loving.

00:46:15Then why did she marry and allow her children to be abused by a violent brute?

00:46:22He said, Mom didn't discipline us much, except to warn us that her dad might.

00:46:26If we were doing something bad, she would stand back a little bit and put up a finger.

00:46:29You better watch out, she'd say, or your dad is going to get you.

00:46:32Which means she would tell the dad, and the dad would be violent towards the children.

00:46:38He said, there were days with my dad that I wish never happened, and not just a few of them.

00:46:41But they added up to months or even years, and they had a big effect on almost everything.

00:46:51At one point with his second wife, I think it was, he said, I told her that I was going to leave, not just the house, but her, the whole thing.

00:46:57I wasn't really serious, but I wanted to see how much it bothered her.

00:47:00She started to cry, which almost never happened.

00:47:02I tried to make her feel better, but I still felt bad.

00:47:04Now, I've heard sort of two stories on Brian Wilson, his right ear was dead.

00:47:17There had been, I think, the eighth, one of the eighth nerves or something had been severed.

00:47:21And there were some reports that had happened because his father hit him on the head with a two-by-four.

00:47:27Brian Wilson says that it happened because there was a, well, we'll get to that, there was a bully.

00:47:32So he had functionally no ear.

00:47:36The doctor said it was like 95% to 98% dead.

00:47:39So he basically had to turn his head all the time, couldn't figure out where sounds were coming from, and so on.

00:47:45And his father, he said, he smoked a pipe and usually wore his glasses, partly because when he was younger,

00:47:50he had worked at Goodyear, and there was an accident, and he lost his left eye.

00:47:53Isn't that wild?

00:47:54Father loses the left eye.

00:47:57Kid loses the right ear.

00:47:58He said he was rough.

00:48:02His father was rough with all of us, me and my brothers.

00:48:04He grabbed us by the arms and shoved us and hit us with hands that were sometimes open and sometimes even close,

00:48:09so straight up punching his children.

00:48:14He's talking about his grandfather, Buddy, his father's father.

00:48:18There was a story that once my dad did something that made his dad angry,

00:48:21and Buddy swung a lead pipe at the side of my dad's head.

00:48:24His ear was hanging off.

00:48:25They rushed him to the doctor, and eventually it was okay again.

00:48:29Now, this is how he says he lost his hearing.

00:48:33A kid hit me in the head with a lead pipe.

00:48:35His name was Seymour, I think, either his first or his last.

00:48:37The feeling was just shock at first.

00:48:40But the next day, I realized I couldn't hear as well out of my right ear.

00:48:42I told my mom, and she took me to the doctor, who examined me and said that the eighth nerve in my head was severed.

00:48:48I say that my right ear is completely deaf, though doctors are more specific.

00:48:51Some say 98%, some say 95%.

00:48:53So, now, why wouldn't you believe necessarily, Brian Wilson, about how he lost his hearing?

00:49:03Because he says that he makes things up.

00:49:06He doesn't like talking about his dad.

00:49:07He likes shifting blame.

00:49:09And certainly, the memoir is a work that was written, of course, by him.

00:49:15And in songs, he constantly changed details and all of that.

00:49:20So, it's hard to know.

00:49:21I've heard reports that it was his fatherhood.

00:49:23And by the two before, he says, a kid hit me on the head with a lead pipe.

00:49:27So, who knows, right?

00:49:29He says, the way my dad treated me was tough, and it made me tougher.

00:49:32Yeah, that's something that people say, right?

00:49:36That's something that people say.

00:49:38Not true.

00:49:39I mean, he was not.

00:49:39He was a very fragile guy throughout the course of most of his life.

00:49:42He said, my dad had lots of mood shifts.

00:49:44He was a cancerer, born in July.

00:49:46Cancers have lots of mood shifts.

00:49:47So, again, putting it to the placement of the stars when his father was born.

00:49:51All of this kind of nonsense.

00:49:54He said, maybe the worst thing about my dad was how he dealt with my fear.

00:50:01He couldn't deal with it.

00:50:02Whenever I got ahead, he would yell at me or slap me or call me a pussy.

00:50:06Lots of the grabbing and shoving started because something made me nervous, and I didn't know

00:50:10what to do.

00:50:11He couldn't stand to see me that way, and he did everything wrong to get me feeling differently.

00:50:20He said, once when I was a teenager, my dad and I were sitting in the kitchen.

00:50:25My next-door neighbor, Michael, came by.

00:50:27Hey, Brian.

00:50:27He said, I put up a hand.

00:50:28Michael, say that again.

00:50:30My dad said, I did.

00:50:31And he slapped me so hard across the face and said, don't ever yell at anybody.

00:50:37I was crying, not just because it hurt so much, but because it was so surprising.

00:50:40It happened again and again and again.

00:50:43At some point, it wasn't surprising.

00:50:45When he did put his hands on us, he tried to scare us.

00:50:48Sorry, when he didn't put his hands on us, he tried to scare us in other ways.

00:50:51He would take out his glass eye and make us look into the space where the eye used to be.

00:50:56Oh, God.

00:50:57Oh, my gosh.

00:51:04He would take out his glass eye and make us look into the space where the eye used to be.

00:51:10The identity, the personality, the eye, as in just the letter I.

00:51:15The hollow in the head where the eye was torn out.

00:51:19Ugh.

00:51:20He also said, Brian Wilson said, sometimes I provoked my dad once I took a shit on a plate and brought it to my dad.

00:51:27He said, here's your lunch.

00:51:28I said, he was sitting down with his pipe in his mouth.

00:51:30He didn't even stand up.

00:51:32Get in the bathroom, he said.

00:51:34Then he came in there and whipped the hell out of me.

00:51:37That one I may have deserved.

00:51:38But I was bringing the plate to him because of the times I didn't deserve it.

00:51:45Anyway, reading about his childhood, I mean, it's like Joe Jackson vibes, right?

00:51:52Joe Jackson vibes.

00:51:53Joe Jackson vibes.

00:51:54And the anxiety, the depression, the susceptibility to exploitation.

00:52:06I mean, his doctor, he finally had to get a restraining order against Dr. Landy because Dr. Landy had changed Brian Wilson's will to the point where Dr. Landy was going to go to all of his money when he died.

00:52:15So, yeah, it was just wild stuff.

00:52:18And Dr. Landy ended up losing his license for a variety of reasons, which I think took far too long.

00:52:23But what the hell do I know?

00:52:24And the funny thing, of course, is that Brian Wilson grew up very close to the beach, never went to the beach.

00:52:32He hated the beach because he was very pale.

00:52:34He'd go there in jeans so the sun wouldn't get him and he barely went there.

00:52:37He never surfed.

00:52:39And he had all of this surfing music and peppy music, right?

00:52:44Good, I'm waking up good vibrations.

00:52:46Or, you know, the absolute classic with the Hammond organ intro, I wish they all could, well, California Girls, In My Room.

00:52:55In My Room, I think, was Paul McCartney's favorite song.

00:52:58The favorite song, not just of the Beach Boys, but of everyone.

00:53:02And, yeah, it was just wild.

00:53:04I mean, quite a storied life.

00:53:05A lot of anxiety.

00:53:07Get kicked out of the band on a regular basis because he was just unable to perform.

00:53:11And, oof, it is, it's a rough life, man.

00:53:17It's a rough life.

00:53:19And he said, Brian Wilson said, when he took drugs, that's when the voices started.

00:53:25And this is why, I mean, this is the really horrible thing.

00:53:28Drugs are probably less dangerous to people without traumatic childhoods.

00:53:32But if you didn't have a traumatic childhood, you're much less likely to try drugs.

00:53:36Because you don't need to self-medicate based upon that kind of, those kinds of problems.

00:53:46So, he said, like, if there's one thing that I could go back and do differently, I wouldn't have done drugs.

00:53:50Which, I guess, is the Sid Barrett thing.

00:53:52Sid Barrett completely blew his mind out with drugs to the point where he got bald and obese and didn't know where he was, really.

00:53:58And ended up living with his mother, I think, for the rest of his life.

00:54:00And so, yeah, stay off drugs, man.

00:54:05But if you've had a traumatic childhood, you don't open up that portal.

00:54:11Don't open that, but you don't know what's going to come through.

00:54:13So, according to Brian Wilson, what happened was, he had this traumatic childhood.

00:54:22He found success very stressful.

00:54:25I mean, in one year, they recorded, like, material for three albums and did 100 shows.

00:54:29Like, that's mental.

00:54:30It was absolutely mental.

00:54:31I mean, and, of course, all of the lovely and humane record executives were like, whatch, whatch, whatch, right?

00:54:40More, more, more, money, money, money.

00:54:42They just work and whip them like horses.

00:54:45I mean, there's a reason why Prince changed, like, he had the symbol for slave tattooed on his forehead.

00:54:51And George Michael stopped working, I think it was, with Sony after some lawsuits.

00:54:54I mean, it's brutal in the entertainment industry and incredibly predatory.

00:54:59Just go watch that documentary with Alanis Morissette.

00:55:02What was it, 30 years ago that Jack and Little Pill came out?

00:55:05What an album.

00:55:05Holy crap.

00:55:06But, yeah, what she was preyed on as a teenager in the most appalling, monstrous ways.

00:55:16Just like Jennifer Lopez, right?

00:55:18I mean, warning everyone about how dangerous Trump is, never quite got around telling people

00:55:22about any danger that might be emanating from one P. Diddy and his infinite squishy waterfall of druggy oils.

00:55:33So, he didn't have the voices in his head, although he certainly had people screaming at him,

00:55:42his father in particular screaming at him, in his mind.

00:55:45And then he took the drugs and the portal, look, it opened up.

00:55:48The back rooms, the trauma, it opened up, and he lost the filter.

00:55:53You know, like, if you have had a bad parent, and I can't remember the last time I dreamt about my mother.

00:56:00I can't remember.

00:56:01Maybe, I think I maybe dreamt about my brother for the first time in a year or two the other night.

00:56:05But, probably some stupid anniversary that I'm not aware of consciously.

00:56:09The brain keeps metronome time.

00:56:11So, normally, you have this sort of thoughts in your head that show up in dreams, or you'll get the feeling,

00:56:19but without the actual, you have to sort of drill down to get the language.

00:56:23But it seems like, and I think Brian Wilson was saying this, he said it fairly explicitly,

00:56:27you know, after the drugs, the voices were like auditory hallucinations.

00:56:32And it took his second wife, you know, to tell him, look, these voices have been saying they're going to kill you for like decades,

00:56:39and they haven't done it yet, right?

00:56:41So, he said it was a close to daily occurrence that he would just have these voices that would interrupt any piece he might be able to get a hold of.

00:56:51So, this is why he became a sort of compulsive workaholic with music.

00:56:56And, of course, if you're a workaholic with music, it's tough to be productive.

00:57:02Wilson is the greatest composer of pop music, a genius surpassing any other by orders of magnitude.

00:57:08Do you think?

00:57:10Do you think?

00:57:13I mean, certainly, his 60s over was fantastic.

00:57:17I mean, as far as pop goes, since I wouldn't classify the Rolling Stones as pop,

00:57:21or early Led Zeppelin, as far as pop goes, probably only behind the Beatles.

00:57:29I mean, it was tough to get ahead in the 60s with the Beatles around, so.

00:57:33But, again, I'm not, all I know is like there are 15 greatest hits.

00:57:39So, I couldn't classify his.

00:57:42And I don't know what, I mean, he didn't, he wasn't involved in Kokomo, I think,

00:57:46which was the Beach Boys after he was gone.

00:57:48Kokomo, Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I want to take you.

00:57:53So, yeah, it's, um, it's really terrible.

00:57:58Sorry, people are just finding ways to connect.

00:58:05Good.

00:58:06Good, good.

00:58:09Steph really wasn't kidding in RTR when he said,

00:58:11taking the book to heart would remove, like, 99% of relationships from your life.

00:58:15I mean, sorry to be pedantic, oh, so pedantic, but it doesn't remove them,

00:58:22it just exposes them as not real relationships.

00:58:25Can you have a real relationship if you're not honest?

00:58:27No.

00:58:33All right, people talking to each other.

00:58:35Yeah, if you guys could do that off.

00:58:37Would Queen count as pop?

00:58:39I would not say so.

00:58:42I would not say so.

00:58:47I wouldn't say, yes, Queen doesn't do much pop.

00:58:49Queen started off, I mean, it's funny, because they did some ragtime,

00:58:53I'm thinking Seaside Rendezvous, Good Old Fashioned Loverboy,

00:58:59but earlier than that, they did rock and some lovely ballads.

00:59:05The night comes down and doing all right,

00:59:08just lovely ballads off their first album.

00:59:11Queen 2 was just a real pastiche of wide variety.

00:59:14Go listen to March of the Back Queen.

00:59:16I mean, it's a joyful bounce around of schizo pinball ricochets,

00:59:20just in terms of the, um, and, um,

00:59:24Nevermore.

00:59:25It's lovely, just Nevermore, beautiful bit off the end of that.

00:59:29Forget your sing-alongs and your lullabies,

00:59:31Surrender to the city of the fireflies,

00:59:33Dance with the devil, beat with the band,

00:59:35To hell with all of you hand in hand,

00:59:37Now it's time to be gone.

00:59:39It's really clever, funky, not funky,

00:59:41It's clever, uh, half ragtime,

00:59:45Half vaudeville,

00:59:47Lovely falsetto in the middle.

00:59:49It is just, it's unclassifiable and, and really cool.

00:59:52It's really the only song that I particularly liked of Queen 2.

00:59:55And then, of course, you've got, um,

00:59:58Sheer Heart Attack, uh,

00:59:59Which has, I love,

01:00:00John Deacon's first song,

01:00:01Misfire, which I find kind of cute and fun.

01:00:04So, I wouldn't say that they,

01:00:05but they were rock for sure.

01:00:07And then they went into folk with 39.

01:00:10Uh, they did, uh,

01:00:11Some fairly funky stuff with, uh,

01:00:12Another one rides the bus,

01:00:14Another one bites the desk.

01:00:15So, I wouldn't say particularly classifiable,

01:00:18But I wouldn't put them in the pop category at all.

01:00:21Uh, it's not, uh,

01:00:23It's not airy, frivolous,

01:00:26And breathly enough for a pop.

01:00:33All right.

01:00:34Similar to Robin Williams and Matthew Perry,

01:00:36Brian Wilson had the pleasing,

01:00:37Make Others Happy exterior,

01:00:39With very deep pain behind it.

01:00:41Yeah, and I think,

01:00:42I think it was early enough,

01:00:44I think it was early enough,

01:00:47That people didn't really get

01:00:51How much

01:00:52It

01:00:54Affects you,

01:00:56Your childhood.

01:00:57Like, I just don't think,

01:00:58You know,

01:00:58I don't think people got it

01:01:00Really as much at all.

01:01:06Forget your singer.

01:01:07All right, let's see here.

01:01:08What have I got here?

01:01:08Oh my gosh,

01:01:09That is the wrong.

01:01:11That is the wrong library.

01:01:13Boop, boop, boom.

01:01:15Boop, boop, boom.

01:01:16No, I won't do that.

01:01:18So, all right.

01:01:19Freedomain.com slash donate

01:01:21To help out the show

01:01:21Would be very deeply and humbly

01:01:23And gratefully appreciated.

01:01:25In each and every soul

01:01:29In each and every soul

01:01:29Lies a man

01:01:30Very soon

01:01:31And you'll receive and discover

01:01:33Yes, that's a lovely little bit.

01:01:37And no mortal man

01:01:38Can sing Freddie Mercury's falsetto.

01:01:41Just go listen to the song

01:01:42Cool Cat

01:01:42On the much maligned

01:01:44First Side Sucks,

01:01:46Second Side Is Great

01:01:47Hot Space album.

01:01:48Yeah, it is a great song

01:01:51And I don't know if it was drugs

01:01:54But that the

01:01:55I mean

01:01:55A queen

01:01:57And in particular

01:01:57Freddie Mercury

01:01:58Is like

01:01:59ADHD

01:02:00Musical shuffleboard

01:02:02Musical chairs

01:02:03Musical slate of hand

01:02:04He's like a wizard

01:02:05Oh, you like this bit

01:02:05It's gone

01:02:06Oh, this bit's cool

01:02:07It's changed

01:02:07And it's sort of like

01:02:10Scenes from an Italian restaurant

01:02:12Or

01:02:13Fool's Overture

01:02:14From Supertramp

01:02:15Where they basically

01:02:17Had a bunch of different songs

01:02:17Lying around

01:02:18And rather than

01:02:18Make them into a song

01:02:19They just

01:02:21Jammed together

01:02:22All of these scraps

01:02:22And had them

01:02:23In a bizarre way

01:02:24Kind of work together

01:02:25In terms of innovation

01:02:29In harmonics

01:02:29And the complexity

01:02:30Of compositions

01:02:31While at the same time

01:02:32Sounding simple and catchy

01:02:33Wilson has no peer

01:02:34I think

01:02:35I mean

01:02:35I've certainly heard musicians

01:02:36Over the years say

01:02:37You listen to a beach bar song

01:02:38And you think

01:02:38Oh, that's kind of cool

01:02:39And simple

01:02:40And then you start

01:02:40To dig into it

01:02:41And he was into

01:02:43Some of the

01:02:43Doo-wop groups

01:02:44From the 50s

01:02:45The Four Horsemen

01:02:45In particular

01:02:46And

01:02:47The complexity

01:02:49Of the

01:02:50Arrangements

01:02:51Because he only had one ear

01:02:52He's got to jam his ear

01:02:53Right up next to the

01:02:54Speakers

01:02:54His father

01:02:55Taught him a lot

01:02:56About harmonics

01:02:56And he just was able

01:02:57To unpack

01:02:58These harmonics

01:03:00In a way

01:03:01That was just amazing

01:03:02And if you've ever

01:03:03Really unpacked

01:03:04Like I do this

01:03:05With arguments

01:03:06Like I just did

01:03:07This show today

01:03:08On the ethics

01:03:09Of sex workers online

01:03:11And where they fit

01:03:12In UPB

01:03:13And I can

01:03:14I see

01:03:16Like the skeletal structure

01:03:18The sinews

01:03:19And the tendons

01:03:20Of an argument

01:03:20I see the argument

01:03:21And it explodes

01:03:22In my mind

01:03:22You know

01:03:23Like they have these

01:03:23They used to have

01:03:24These exploded diagrams

01:03:25I'm sure they still do

01:03:26Here's the engine

01:03:27Exploded out

01:03:28You know

01:03:28It looks like this

01:03:29Not actually exploded

01:03:30But sort of separated

01:03:30Conceptually

01:03:31So when I look

01:03:32At an argument

01:03:33It disassembles

01:03:35In my mind

01:03:35And that's because

01:03:38I've been

01:03:38Immensely self-critical

01:03:40Over the years

01:03:41I don't do

01:03:42To anyone else's

01:03:44Arguments

01:03:44Anything different

01:03:46From what I do

01:03:46To my own arguments

01:03:47I mean

01:03:47I have a lot of arguments

01:03:48That come to mind

01:03:50And I abandon them

01:03:53Because

01:03:55They're invalid

01:03:59They don't work

01:04:00They self-contradict

01:04:01Right

01:04:01So

01:04:02And I was doing this

01:04:03For years

01:04:03I used to have

01:04:04Like massive debates

01:04:05With my

01:04:05With myself

01:04:07About good or bad arguments

01:04:08So I see an argument

01:04:09And I can just

01:04:10Pull it apart

01:04:11Because I see

01:04:12All of the basic premises

01:04:13I see all the way

01:04:14From the metaphysics

01:04:14The epistemology

01:04:15The ethics

01:04:16The politics

01:04:17And so on

01:04:18And I often will see

01:04:19The psychological motivations

01:04:20Behind

01:04:21The arguments

01:04:23So

01:04:24With regards

01:04:26To looking at

01:04:27You know

01:04:29Whether it's deductive

01:04:30Or inductive reasoning

01:04:31The syllogisms

01:04:32They just

01:04:32And I used to be able

01:04:33To do this

01:04:34With computer code

01:04:34Back in the day

01:04:35Like you

01:04:35Need something done

01:04:36I would just be able

01:04:37To break it into

01:04:37Start here

01:04:38Call this

01:04:38Do that

01:04:39And just

01:04:39Explode it

01:04:40It would all

01:04:40Just disassemble

01:04:41In my mind

01:04:41I could see

01:04:42All of the source

01:04:42Components

01:04:43And see what worked

01:04:43And what doesn't

01:04:44I suppose

01:04:44If you're really

01:04:45Good at mechanics

01:04:45You can listen

01:04:47To a car

01:04:47And know what

01:04:47The problem is

01:04:48Right

01:04:48Or you know

01:04:49That old myth

01:04:50I think it's a myth

01:04:50That you know

01:04:51The indigenous population

01:04:52Could put their ears

01:04:53On the train tracks

01:04:54And hear the train

01:04:55Coming from miles

01:04:56And miles away

01:04:56So yeah

01:04:58I think that

01:04:59Brian Wilson

01:05:00Certainly was

01:05:01Without a doubt

01:05:02A musical genius

01:05:03I mean there's no question

01:05:04In my mind

01:05:04That he was a musical genius

01:05:05I wish he'd had a bit

01:05:07More sustainability

01:05:08But again

01:05:09Given the mental health

01:05:09Issues and so on

01:05:10He just didn't

01:05:11And maybe he did

01:05:12But I'm just not aware

01:05:13Of his later work

01:05:13But even the fact

01:05:14That I'm pretty into music

01:05:15And not aware

01:05:16Of his later work

01:05:16Is

01:05:17Is pretty

01:05:19Is somewhat telling

01:05:20Is somewhat telling

01:05:21And I

01:05:24I listen to music

01:05:26For the singers

01:05:27I'm a slave

01:05:28To the singer

01:05:29And Brian Wilson's voice

01:05:30Was you know

01:05:31To me kind of thin

01:05:32And not particularly

01:05:33Rich

01:05:34And

01:05:35Or flexible

01:05:36I mean he had

01:05:37A lovely falsetto

01:05:38Of course

01:05:38But yeah

01:05:39A very complex

01:05:40Writer

01:05:41And you know

01:05:42There's nothing more

01:05:44Powerful in a way

01:05:45Than the seemingly

01:05:45Simplistic things

01:05:46That turn out

01:05:47To be massively

01:05:48Complex when you

01:05:49Disassemble them

01:05:50And that is

01:05:51UPB

01:05:52And I think

01:05:53The equivalent

01:05:54Would be

01:05:54What someone like

01:05:56Brian Wilson was doing

01:05:57In particular

01:05:58With harmonics

01:05:59Do you like

01:06:00Ronnie James Dio

01:06:01I have no idea

01:06:02I mean no

01:06:03I don't like him

01:06:04Or dislike him

01:06:05I don't have

01:06:06The first clue

01:06:07What that is man

01:06:10I do not know

01:06:11I just like

01:06:15Brian Wilson did

01:06:17Alright

01:06:18Let me see

01:06:19Can I get to the story

01:06:20Of the kitten

01:06:21Bum

01:06:23Bum

01:06:24Bum

01:06:25Bum

01:06:26Bum

01:06:27Bum

01:06:28Bum

01:06:29Bum

01:06:30Bum

01:06:31Alright

01:06:31So let's see here

01:06:32Can I

01:06:34Log on

01:06:35Alright

01:06:40If you

01:06:41Have any other

01:06:42Questions or comments

01:06:43Or issues

01:06:44Or challenges

01:06:45I am thrilled

01:06:46To

01:06:48Hear about them

01:06:50Looking at my old

01:06:54Boy looking at my old

01:06:57What have I got here

01:06:57The moral case

01:06:58For fossil fuels

01:06:59From Alex Epstein

01:06:59Who I interviewed

01:07:00Like way ago

01:07:01Who killed the

01:07:02American family

01:07:03Phyllis Schlafly

01:07:04Treasure Island

01:07:05Pride and Prejudice

01:07:05Myths about Ayn Rand

01:07:07Mugged

01:07:07Goddess of the Market

01:07:10Ayn Rand

01:07:11And the American Right

01:07:12Fifty Shades of Grey

01:07:14For a review

01:07:15Oh yeah

01:07:17Anonymous Conservative

01:07:18The evolutionary psychology

01:07:19Behind politics

01:07:20Ayn Rand and the

01:07:22Something something

01:07:23Aesop's Fables

01:07:25I did that with my daughter

01:07:25Paul Craig Roberts

01:07:27The failure of

01:07:27Laissez-faire capitalism

01:07:28Wow

01:07:30Blacklisted by history

01:07:32M. Staunton Evans

01:07:34Wow

01:07:36Dinesh D'Souza

01:07:39The big lie

01:07:39Adios America

01:07:40Freud

01:07:41The making of an illusion

01:07:42Yeah

01:07:42That was for my

01:07:43Freud presentation

01:07:44That ended up

01:07:44I got round to

01:07:45Human accomplishments

01:07:45By Charles Murray

01:07:46The red thread

01:07:47By the great Diana West

01:07:48Who I also interviewed

01:07:50Anyway

01:07:50You don't need to know

01:07:51All of this

01:07:52But it's kind of neat

01:07:53And this is an old account

01:07:56I haven't used in forever

01:07:57All right

01:07:57Let's get back

01:07:58See if you have

01:07:59Any other questions

01:07:59Or issues

01:08:00So James says

01:08:04I've had that similar

01:08:05Experience as well

01:08:05In software

01:08:06I'd be able to move

01:08:07In and out of the

01:08:07Architecture

01:08:08To the detail

01:08:08And understand the

01:08:09Universe

01:08:09Yeah yeah

01:08:10Wilson's magnum opus

01:08:13The album Smile

01:08:14Oh that's with the

01:08:14Lowercase i

01:08:15The album Smile

01:08:16That he abandoned

01:08:17In 1967

01:08:18And completed in 2004

01:08:19Is a must hear

01:08:20All right

01:08:21Thank you

01:08:21Stefan

01:08:23I haven't heard you

01:08:23Speak about

01:08:24Thomas Sowell

01:08:24That much

01:08:25What is your

01:08:25Impression of him

01:08:26And do you

01:08:26Appreciate his work

01:08:27Um

01:08:28Yeah

01:08:29I um

01:08:30I like

01:08:31Dr. Sowell

01:08:32I think

01:08:33I mean

01:08:34I hate to say it

01:08:34But you know

01:08:35It's to me

01:08:35It's like

01:08:36Libertarianism 101

01:08:37It's kind of basic

01:08:38And um

01:08:39I think he rejects

01:08:40The IQ arguments

01:08:41Without really

01:08:42Addressing

01:08:43The science behind them

01:08:45So

01:08:45You know

01:08:47I don't mean to be

01:08:48Overly fussy

01:08:48But when I know

01:08:49Something quite detailed

01:08:50About a topic

01:08:51And somebody else

01:08:52Dismisses it

01:08:52Out of hand

01:08:53I become suspicious

01:08:55Of

01:08:55Everything

01:08:57Right

01:08:57I mean

01:08:57Obviously I'm not perfect

01:08:59Love to be corrected

01:09:00And all of that

01:09:01So if there's anything

01:09:02I'm saying

01:09:02Ever that's incorrect

01:09:03Please please let me know

01:09:04But

01:09:05When I'm fairly deeply

01:09:09Knowledgeable

01:09:10And of course

01:09:10I interviewed

01:09:1017 world experts

01:09:11On the field of IQ

01:09:12So

01:09:13When I'm deeply

01:09:14Knowledgeable

01:09:14About a topic

01:09:15And somebody else

01:09:18Blightly dismisses it

01:09:19Without any

01:09:20Good argument

01:09:21Then I have

01:09:22Concerns about

01:09:23Everything else

01:09:24That I'm not an expert on

01:09:25Do you know

01:09:26What I mean

01:09:26So if I know

01:09:28Something about IQ

01:09:30And then somebody

01:09:31Dismisses IQ arguments

01:09:32With no

01:09:34Real understanding

01:09:36Or basis

01:09:37Based on I guess

01:09:38Just some sort of

01:09:40Tribalism

01:09:40Then I

01:09:45They lose their

01:09:46Lustre for me

01:09:47Because it means

01:09:49That

01:09:49I can't really

01:09:50Trust them on the

01:09:51Things I'm not an

01:09:52Expert on

01:09:52If that makes sense

01:09:53And look

01:09:54I'm not a big

01:09:54Expert on IQ

01:09:55But I know

01:09:56Fairly well about it

01:10:00And

01:10:01If you don't

01:10:02Understand IQ

01:10:02You just can't

01:10:03Understand the world

01:10:04I mean

01:10:04To me

01:10:05Everybody who just

01:10:06Avoids that whole

01:10:07Topic

01:10:07It's like

01:10:08Okay

01:10:08You may have

01:10:09Some interesting

01:10:09Things to say

01:10:10But

01:10:10You can't really

01:10:12Explain much

01:10:12About the world

01:10:13So I like him

01:10:15I've read some

01:10:16Of his books

01:10:16The one about

01:10:19The southern rednecks

01:10:20And they're sort of

01:10:20Back to the

01:10:21British culture

01:10:22And so on

01:10:22Interesting stuff

01:10:23I like

01:10:24Of course

01:10:25The argument

01:10:25That

01:10:26I think he made

01:10:27The argument

01:10:27I'm not sure

01:10:28If it was just him

01:10:29But he

01:10:29Very

01:10:29In a very

01:10:32Emphatic way

01:10:35You know

01:10:35There are no

01:10:36Solutions

01:10:37There are only

01:10:38Trade-offs

01:10:38So

01:10:39I mean

01:10:39I like

01:10:41His stuff

01:10:42I think it's

01:10:43Interesting

01:10:43But

01:10:44Again

01:10:45And look

01:10:46It's not that

01:10:46People have to

01:10:47Be perfect

01:10:47Lord knows

01:10:48Lord knows

01:10:49I'd be the last

01:10:49Person to say

01:10:50That people have

01:10:51To be perfect

01:10:51But can they

01:10:52Be corrected

01:10:53Right

01:10:55Or can they

01:10:57Be corrected

01:10:58Right

01:10:58So

01:10:58Like

01:10:59Hundreds of

01:11:01Billions of

01:11:01Dollars

01:11:01Have been poured

01:11:02Into trying to

01:11:02Close the gap

01:11:03In IQ

01:11:03At some point

01:11:07I mean

01:11:07Do people talk

01:11:08About this

01:11:08Anyways

01:11:09I know some

01:11:09People are

01:11:10And it's

01:11:10Becoming a bit

01:11:10More of a topic

01:11:11But

01:11:11So

01:11:12I

01:11:13It takes a lot

01:11:17For me to

01:11:17Trust a thinker

01:11:18You know

01:11:20It takes

01:11:21It takes a lot

01:11:21For me to

01:11:22Trust a thinker

01:11:22Because

01:11:23You have to

01:11:24Rely upon the

01:11:25Thinker's

01:11:26Base integrity

01:11:27And willingness

01:11:27To think the

01:11:29Unthinkable

01:11:29And self-correct

01:11:31Their most

01:11:32Foundational

01:11:32Propositions

01:11:33And so on

01:11:33Like you

01:11:34Really

01:11:34Really have to

01:11:35For me

01:11:36It's very hard

01:11:37Because I've

01:11:37Gone through

01:11:37This process

01:11:38I can't even

01:11:39Tell you how

01:11:39Many times

01:11:40It's so sad

01:11:41It's so sad

01:11:42And it

01:11:43You know

01:11:43It speaks to

01:11:44My optimism

01:11:45If not

01:11:45Necessarily my

01:11:46Skepticism

01:11:47Which I should

01:11:48Probably have

01:11:49More of

01:11:49But I'm

01:11:49Very eager to

01:11:50Be positive

01:11:51About things

01:11:51And people

01:11:52Right

01:11:53And so

01:11:54I've just

01:11:55Gone through

01:11:56This a number

01:11:56Of times

01:11:57Where I

01:11:58Will elevate

01:11:59Someone

01:11:59To a

01:12:01Position or

01:12:01Situation

01:12:02Of

01:12:03Trust

01:12:05High trust

01:12:06And then

01:12:07I just

01:12:08Happen to

01:12:08Know something

01:12:08About a

01:12:09Particular

01:12:09Topic

01:12:10That's

01:12:10Fairly

01:12:11Deep

01:12:11I go

01:12:13To

01:12:15This person

01:12:16And then

01:12:16They say

01:12:17Something

01:12:17Completely

01:12:18Wrong

01:12:18I don't

01:12:19Know

01:12:20Should I

01:12:20Get into

01:12:20Details

01:12:21Probably

01:12:22Doesn't

01:12:22Matter

01:12:22I think

01:12:22We've

01:12:23All gone

01:12:23Through

01:12:23This

01:12:23Process

01:12:24You hold

01:12:25Someone

01:12:25In high

01:12:25Esteem

01:12:26And

01:12:27They just

01:12:29Get something

01:12:30Ridiculously

01:12:31Wrong

01:12:31And

01:12:32Don't

01:12:33Don't

01:12:34Correct

01:12:34Right

01:12:34Don't

01:12:35Correct

01:12:35And I know

01:12:36Some people

01:12:36Think that

01:12:37That was me

01:12:37With COVID

01:12:37I get

01:12:38That people

01:12:39Think that

01:12:40Was me

01:12:40With COVID

01:12:40But I

01:12:41Sure as

01:12:42Heck never

01:12:42Took that

01:12:42Vaccine

01:12:43And I

01:12:43Sure as

01:12:43Heck said

01:12:44That the

01:12:44Government

01:12:44Should get

01:12:45Should not

01:12:45Get involved

01:12:46In restricting

01:12:47People's

01:12:47Liberties

01:12:48And I

01:12:48Sure as

01:12:49Heck said

01:12:49Just as

01:12:50The lockdowns

01:12:50Were starting

01:12:51That they

01:12:51Were going

01:12:51To cause

01:12:52Far more

01:12:52Harm than

01:12:53Good

01:12:53Now

01:12:54Of course

01:12:54I was

01:12:55Also

01:12:55Worried

01:12:55And alarmed

01:12:56That what

01:12:56I perceived

01:12:57To be a

01:12:57Bioweapon

01:12:58Had come

01:12:58Out

01:12:58That it

01:12:59Was going

01:12:59To have

01:12:59Some pretty

01:12:59Sinister

01:13:00Effects

01:13:00And the

01:13:00Alpha

01:13:01Strain

01:13:01Was

01:13:01Pretty rough

01:13:07And began

01:13:09To sort of

01:13:10Calm down

01:13:11A little

01:13:11Bit

01:13:11But yeah

01:13:12So I

01:13:12Know that

01:13:13Some people

01:13:13I think

01:13:15That I

01:13:16But you

01:13:16Know hindsight

01:13:17Is 20

01:13:1720 blah blah

01:13:18Blah right

01:13:18I was

01:13:19I was

01:13:19Concerned

01:13:20And I

01:13:20Really

01:13:20I really

01:13:21Did and

01:13:21This was

01:13:21Again

01:13:22Part

01:13:22Partly

01:13:22My

01:13:22Optimism

01:13:23I

01:13:23Really

01:13:24Did

01:13:24Think

01:13:24That

01:13:25Borders

01:13:25Would be

01:13:26Closed

01:13:26Because of

01:13:26The

01:13:27Pandemic

01:13:27And that

01:13:28Was just

01:13:28My optimism

01:13:29So I

01:13:29Suppose I

01:13:30Got that

01:13:30Somewhat

01:13:30Wrong

01:13:31I mean

01:13:31I knew

01:13:31That the

01:13:31Democrats

01:13:32Wanted to

01:13:32Keep

01:13:32The

01:13:33Borders

01:13:33Open

01:13:34But yeah

01:13:35That was

01:13:35Something

01:13:35Else

01:13:36All right

01:13:41Steph do you

01:13:44Still think

01:13:44People should

01:13:45Get out

01:13:45Of the

01:13:45Cities

01:13:46Escalating

01:13:47Riots

01:13:47And war

01:13:47Tension

01:13:48Seem to

01:13:48Suggest

01:13:48It's

01:13:49Still a

01:13:49Good

01:13:49Idea

01:13:49Well

01:13:50So

01:13:52Smart

01:13:53People

01:13:54Generally

01:13:54Like smart

01:13:55People congregated

01:13:56In the

01:13:57Cities

01:13:57Until

01:13:59The

01:13:591960s

01:14:00And then

01:14:00Smart

01:14:01People have

01:14:01Just been

01:14:02Sort of

01:14:02Pushed

01:14:02Out of

01:14:03The

01:14:03Cities

01:14:03Welfare

01:14:04State

01:14:05And crime

01:14:06And single

01:14:06Motherhood

01:14:06And all

01:14:07Of the

01:14:07Intended

01:14:07Emotional

01:14:08And criminal

01:14:09Problems

01:14:09That kind

01:14:09Of come

01:14:10Pouring

01:14:10Out of

01:14:10That

01:14:10So generally

01:14:12Smart people

01:14:13Just have to

01:14:14Move further

01:14:14And further

01:14:14Out

01:14:15I mean

01:14:15Intelligence

01:14:15Is concentrated

01:14:16In the

01:14:16Cities

01:14:17In a

01:14:17Young

01:14:18Republic

01:14:18And then

01:14:19Intelligence

01:14:20Goes

01:14:20Further

01:14:21And further

01:14:21Out

01:14:21For reasons

01:14:22Of safety

01:14:22And peace

01:14:23And quiet

01:14:23As you

01:14:24Get older

01:14:25So

01:14:25I don't

01:14:28Think that

01:14:28Cities are

01:14:29Particularly

01:14:29Ideal

01:14:30You might

01:14:31Want to be

01:14:31Beyond the

01:14:32Bus and

01:14:32Subway

01:14:32Route

01:14:32At some

01:14:33Point

01:14:33It is

01:14:35Just a

01:14:35Mathematical

01:14:36Fact that

01:14:37The government

01:14:37Is going to

01:14:37Run out

01:14:38Of money

01:14:38And what

01:14:39Happens when

01:14:39The government

01:14:40Runs out

01:14:40Of money

01:14:40Well the

01:14:41Single moms

01:14:41Send out

01:14:42All their

01:14:42Feral sons

01:14:43Into the

01:14:44Streets to

01:14:44Get the

01:14:45Pre-built

01:14:46Brick

01:14:47Palettes

01:14:47Of

01:14:48Rioting

01:14:49And it's

01:14:49Just going

01:14:50To be

01:14:50Wild

01:14:51And it's

01:14:52Going to

01:14:52Be wild

01:14:53Because there

01:14:54Won't be an

01:14:55Immediate

01:14:55Solution

01:14:56Other than

01:14:56Violence

01:14:57Right

01:14:58So I

01:14:59Mean it

01:14:59Won't be

01:14:59Like you

01:15:00Can just

01:15:00Oh we'll

01:15:01You know

01:15:01Go home

01:15:02And we'll

01:15:03Up your

01:15:03Welfare

01:15:03Like there

01:15:04Will be

01:15:04No money

01:15:04Right

01:15:04So I

01:15:05Do think

01:15:06That cities

01:15:07Are not

01:15:09Going to

01:15:09Be where

01:15:10The most

01:15:11Peaceful future

01:15:12Is

01:15:12Particularly

01:15:13The inner

01:15:13Cities

01:15:14Oh yeah

01:15:16Hans Hoppe

01:15:17Talking about

01:15:17Spanking

01:15:18And then

01:15:19Was it

01:15:19Tom Woods

01:15:20And Jeffrey

01:15:20Tucker

01:15:20Who just

01:15:21Kind of

01:15:21Smiled

01:15:21And said

01:15:22Nothing

01:15:22That was

01:15:23Not

01:15:23Great

01:15:24Jordan

01:15:26Peterson

01:15:26Was not

01:15:28Solid against

01:15:29Corporate

01:15:29Punishment

01:15:30He also

01:15:30Doesn't

01:15:30Really

01:15:30Talk about

01:15:31IQ

01:15:31So you

01:15:32Know

01:15:32There's

01:15:32Like

01:15:32Just

01:15:34Things

01:15:34That

01:15:34Cities

01:15:36Are a

01:15:36Mecca

01:15:36For

01:15:37Degenerate

01:15:37Behavior

01:15:37Oh

01:15:38Not in

01:15:39Their

01:15:39Founding

01:15:39No

01:15:40In their

01:15:41Founding

01:15:41They are

01:15:42An escape

01:15:42From

01:15:42D

01:15:43Degenerate

01:15:43Behavior

01:15:44Of

01:15:44The

01:15:44Countryside

01:15:44So

01:15:46All right

01:15:47Yeah

01:15:50Somebody

01:15:50Says

01:15:50I was

01:15:51Huge

01:15:51Fan

01:15:51Of

01:15:51Jordan

01:15:51Peterson

01:15:52But

01:15:52After

01:15:52Watching

01:15:52Jordan

01:15:53Versus

01:15:53Atheists

01:15:54This

01:15:55Is

01:15:55Not

01:15:55The

01:15:55Same

01:15:55Person

01:15:56The

01:15:56Complexity

01:15:57Oh

01:15:57I should

01:15:58Autofocus

01:15:59The

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