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In this Sunday Morning Live on 21 December 2025, Stefan Molyneux shares personal stories and reflections on societal issues, starting with a casual look at the holiday season and his experiences raising a teenage daughter. He discusses the film "The Housemaid," looking at aspects of storytelling and moral critiques in media.
Drawing on the Epstein scandal, he critiques how society often overlooks ethical lapses by public figures and points out the difficulties in holding them accountable. Molyneux invites listeners to join in, emphasizing how dialogue can help build community and common values. In the end, he examines how memory, accountability, and the stories people follow connect.
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00:00Good morning, everybody. Hope you're doing well.
00:02Stefan Molyneux from Freedomain, 21st of December, 2025, only 3.14159627 days of shopping left until Christmas.
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00:40The world, if you want to, if you are on Locals, you can go to FDRURL.com slash live call, FDRURL.com slash live call.
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01:08Thanks, James.
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01:10I really have only one job, which is to not get things wrong when I announce where you can buy the merch.
01:17One day, one day, I will get that job right.
01:23I'm very excited to do that.
01:27I was talking to my daughter, actually, the other day.
01:32So the last show I think I did, I had some stutters and stumbles in it, which, you know, it's going to happen from time to time.
01:39When you talk extemporaneously, when you're not sort of reading off a teleprompter, you're going to get your, you know, and I was pointing out that she'd put a teenage voodoo curse on me.
01:58And what happened was I was in the car with her and I was chatting with her about something and I had a couple of verbal stumbles.
02:12And so she said a couple of times because, you know, teenagers are, especially teenage girls, I think, are this deep well and reservoir from which you duck your giraffe head to drink up massive amounts of self-esteem and confidence and positivity and enthusiasm for your own existence.
02:35They're just wonderful oases in the desert of negative feedback.
02:40No, she makes fun of me, which is actually fair and fun.
02:43I make fun of myself.
02:45But I was pointing out to her that she put this voodoo curse on me because I noticed that after she mocked me with a couple of, that I was having trouble in the show.
02:56Of course, it was a complete coincidence, but I thought it was kind of a funny coincidence.
02:59So there was that.
03:04And she had a lovely birthday.
03:05Thank you, everyone who sent her birthday wishes.
03:08Her birthday was, I should know this, yeah, two days ago.
03:13I have another job, which is to keep track of people's birthdays.
03:18But I outsourced that to my wife, like other important aspects of my life.
03:25So she had a lovely birthday.
03:27Thank you, everyone, so much for giving her birthday wishes.
03:29And we're probably going to try and do a show.
03:33So Jared and James and I went to go and see the movie The Housemaid.
03:44The Housemaid.
03:46And I made a joke about it yesterday.
03:49No one got the joke.
03:50And that's not because there's any problems with the joke.
03:53And I said, it has two stars, Sidney Sweeney.
04:01That's gold, baby.
04:02That's gold.
04:03See, I just slum it as a podcaster.
04:05But one day, I'm hoping to break into comedy.
04:08One day.
04:09You know, it'll be kind of like the Kool-Aid guy going through the wall.
04:14So, come on.
04:15Gold, baby.
04:16It's gold.
04:17Oh, well, I guess I didn't get any support for those jokes.
04:24Anyway, so we may do a show because that is an absolutely delightful movie.
04:33I think it's a lot of fun.
04:34I think it's worth going to see.
04:35It is glorious soap trash.
04:38And I'm going to talk about women and the government in the call.
04:47So, we'll do that hopefully later today.
04:49I've got another call-in show today.
04:52And we'll hopefully get around to that.
04:55Because, yeah, it really was glorious trash.
04:58It really was glorious trash.
04:59In my family, we read books aloud to each other.
05:10And so, I started reading that book.
05:17I can't even remember how or where.
05:19And I thought it was like glorious trash.
05:21So, obviously, I sanitized it a little as I'm reading it.
05:24But I did read that book aloud.
05:26And we had an absolutely hilarious time with that book.
05:29I mean, it's not that the book is just bad and trashy and not funny.
05:33But I am a master of fairly bad, outrageous accents.
05:41And there's a character.
05:42And there's a character.
05:43And he's a gardener.
05:47So, we had a lot of fun with Enzo.
05:52The gardener.
05:55Bird hands.
05:56So, and I, weirdly enough, do upper class, bitchy, neurotic housewives.
06:07I do those characters quite well.
06:10So, you know, I'm just a thwarted actor, basically.
06:14The only reason I do call-in shows is for role-playing.
06:20But, so, we went through that book, I think, in the summer.
06:26And we had a lot of fun with it.
06:30And because what we do is we'll read a chapter.
06:33And then we'll write down what we think is going to happen next.
06:37And whoever's closest, you know, wins the next, like, deciding the next day's outing and stuff like that.
06:42So, so we went through that book.
06:45And so, when it was heard, it was being made into a movie, which it should be.
06:48Like, it's a good story.
06:50It's a good story.
06:51But, it's interesting, yeah.
06:55Because, well, you know, we'll, I don't want to, I don't want to give any spoilers.
07:02So, we'll, we'll do it later on today.
07:04But, it was unabashedly glorious.
07:09I mean, there's a whole genre.
07:10And it's, it's a massive genre, which is, you know, pretty people in beautiful houses doing terrible things.
07:17It is your basic revenge against the rich, resentment, and so on.
07:22But, yeah, pretty people.
07:25And, and it's always the same.
07:27It's almost the same.
07:30There's a guy with a completely ass-stapled to the chair desk job who has the most glorious physique known to man.
07:43I mean, don't get me wrong.
07:44Well, I've seen some male buttocks over the course of my existence.
07:51Heck, if I'm feeling limber in my neck, I can even see my own.
07:55But, I have seen some buttocks over the course of my life.
08:00And, I would say it's rare to see rounded vanilla scoop cakes like this guy has.
08:06Something else, man.
08:08Man, bro doesn't even need a chair.
08:10It could be a stepladder if you need to change a light bulb.
08:13Ooh, is that a spoiler?
08:15Maybe.
08:15All right.
08:17So, we will get to that later today.
08:20But, I would recommend the movie.
08:22I would recommend the movie.
08:25And, it is really fascinating to see the female tropes play out.
08:29And, it's a good story.
08:31You know, people who were like, oh, you know, it's so whatever, whatever, right?
08:35But, no, it's a, those kinds of stories, you know, it's like a really good hook for a song.
08:42They are not easy to write.
08:43And, a story like that is not easy to write.
08:46All right.
08:47So, call us if you want to call.
08:49You are welcome.
08:50We can talk live.
08:54And, what have we got for questions here?
08:56Steph, did you see any of the Epstein 0.8% of photos released, and they already look really bad?
09:04And, it is, you know, I mean, I'll obviously just be straight up.
09:16It's, it's really sad.
09:21It's really sad.
09:26Noam Chomsky up there.
09:30I think, there's a guy who, I don't know for sure, looks like Steven Pinker.
09:34And, there's, I think somebody was trying to take a photo and hit video record by mistake,
09:37because there's like a three or four or five second clip of Jeffrey Epstein and a guy who looks like Steven Pinker.
09:44I don't know if it is or not.
09:45And, there's this plaintiff girl's voice saying,
09:48Where are you taking me?
09:52To hell itself.
09:54To hell itself.
09:56It is, it is monstrous.
10:00It is monstrous.
10:03Now, that's nothing compared to what they have.
10:05I mean, Jeffrey Epstein had hundreds or perhaps thousands of hours of video and Compromat on CDs and other storage medium.
10:14They were all over his brownstone and all of that.
10:17And, it all just vanished.
10:19It all just, they went in, they saw it all.
10:22Next time they came back, it was all gone.
10:24Nice tidy cleanup.
10:25So, this is, I think the under-discussed aspect of the Epstein story.
10:41I mean, there's the obvious, you know, of course it's blackmail and nobody can tell the truth.
10:46But, you know, like in Australia, there was a bunch of celebrities who came up to talk about, I don't know, like after the, apparently it's Bondi Beach, not Bondi Beach, because somebody had a stroke when they were talking about it.
11:03So, they're shooting and a bunch of celebrities came up for a PSA afterwards.
11:11And, people think this is organic.
11:12It's not.
11:13It's not at all organic.
11:15What happens is somebody wants celebrities to do a PSA about Islamophobia or gun control or whatever, whatever.
11:23And, they call up people's agents and the deal is clear.
11:29Like, you do the PSA or you're blacklisted.
11:31Like, nobody's doing it voluntarily.
11:32They're just a bunch of hostages to their own vanity and ambition.
11:36So, none of that is organic.
11:37I don't believe anybody believes anything.
11:39It's just like, well, if you want to have a career, you, because you don't want to say, there'll be articles written about this PSA, public service announcement, and then it'll be like, well, Bob, you know, we contacted Bob.
11:51But, he just outright refused to do it.
11:54I mean, he refused to cut a PSA against bigotry.
12:00I guess that tells you everything you need to know about Bob.
12:04And then, so, it's not.
12:05None of this stuff is organic.
12:06None of it is.
12:08I mean, you can say it's voluntary.
12:10Sure.
12:10Sure, it's voluntary.
12:11But, see, here's the thing.
12:13Actors are supremely controllable because they can't do anything else.
12:17They can't do.
12:18They have no other skills for the most part.
12:20But, so, actors, you know, the old saying, how do you give an actor CPR?
12:28They live.
12:29They live for attention.
12:31Right?
12:31They live for attention, and they can't survive without it, and they can't do anything else.
12:37I mean, not that he was an actor, but I remember somebody asking, Freddie Mercury, what would you do if you weren't a musician?
12:42He's like, I don't know.
12:44Be a stripper, maybe.
12:45They have no skills.
12:49They have no skills in any other area.
12:52I mean, how often do you hear of actors quitting the profession and getting real jobs that contribute something other than largely anti-white propaganda to the world?
13:03It's not very common.
13:05So, it's not like they have a bunch of options.
13:07Right?
13:07What are they going to do if they're not actors?
13:11Would you like fries with that?
13:15And I know this.
13:16I know this one really well because I spent almost two years at the National Theatre School and spent quite a bit of time around the acting world.
13:23And I've hired actors, produced my own play, and they're kind of useless as tits on a bull unless they're yawping at high volume on the boards.
13:36So, yeah, they don't have any choice about this.
13:39But I think that the under-discussed aspect of this is that you have, and this is true of the BBC as well, so you have these individuals, these organizations, these groups, all claim to be deep foundational experts at the identification of evil.
14:02These people, they're scanning, man, they're long-range scanners.
14:08They can reach across the world into other people's minds and imagine what's in there with almost perfect accuracy.
14:19Right?
14:19Well, secretly, he's a racist.
14:23Secretly, he's a, he doesn't say it, but you know, like they can mind read across the world.
14:33And they can, like, with the whole fine people hoax, right, from Charlottesville with Trump.
14:40So Trump said neo-Nazis should be condemned, white supremacists should be condemned.
14:48Which, you know, hey, I got no problem condemning white supremacists as long as you're condemning all the other racial supremacists and ethnic supremacists and religious supremacists.
14:56But if you're not, you're just a fucking racist.
14:57So I don't care what you have to say after that.
15:01Yeah, if you want to condemn supremacy, fantastic.
15:03Make it blanket.
15:05Make it blanket.
15:06If you're only singling out whites, you're just a racist.
15:09This is very boring.
15:11So, but people were like, well, no, but secretly, or I know what was in his mind.
15:16I know what was in his heart.
15:17So somebody can look into a camera, compassionately say, I condemn X.
15:25And they can say, no, no, but secretly, in his heart of hearts down there, in the brain worms of his bone marrow, he really supports that.
15:36He's just, he's only faking it.
15:37He's just saying that to please his base secretly.
15:39So they can read people's secret minds and hearts in the express opposite of what they actually say and with zero evidence whatsoever.
15:51I've seen zero evidence that Trump is any kind of racial supremacist.
15:55So, but they know, they know, they know in the absence of evidence and with passionate speeches repeatedly to the contrary,
16:04they can vault over all of that and they can burrow into people's secret hearts, arise in the chamber of their unconscious prejudice with perfect 100% sniper-like accuracy.
16:16It's amazing.
16:17They can read minds, read hearts, put their fingers through the fabric of people's souls and feel every little knot and cord and reversal.
16:25And these same people are hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein, totally fine.
16:38Some of them, even after Jeffrey Epstein, was convicted for sex crimes.
16:42It's like people saying that they are experts at sniffing out cancer, man.
16:56They're so good.
16:58They're so good at sniffing.
16:59They can detect cancer in the slight droop of someone's lip, just a tiny slight droop of someone's lip.
17:09They can detect, they just know, so good at it.
17:11Even if somebody appears perfectly healthy, they know.
17:16And the detection and rooting out of cancer is their number one job in the world.
17:22They're so good.
17:23They can, even if somebody like Cristian Ronaldo or anybody super healthy,
17:26oh, no, no, he's got cancer.
17:27I can't see it.
17:28The scans can't see it.
17:29But I know that it's there.
17:31Because rooting out, identifying and rooting out cancer is the number one job on the planet.
17:36And I'm an expert at it.
17:37What the doctors can't see, what the scans can't see, I can sniff like a cancer puppy.
17:44And then they're hanging around with a guy who's got like 19 giant fucking tumors hanging off his face.
17:55I don't say anything.
17:56Like the Jimmy Savile in the BBC, one of the most prolific and horrifying child and dead body rapists operating for decades in the BBC.
18:10And they're like, we can smell imaginary racism across the entire fucking Atlantic, people.
18:18Oh, yes.
18:19Well, we absolutely know.
18:21We know what's going on in the mind of the Yanks, don't you know?
18:24We can smell their bigotry, xenophobia, Christian nationalist racism from all the way across the pond,
18:29and even with people who show no evidence of it and deny it continually, we know, we absolutely know what is going on in the secret minds and hearts of people virtually on the other side of the planet, don't you know?
18:43What about the giant, multi-decade, unbelievably prolific, weirdo Jimmy Savile in your own fucking ranks?
18:53Prince Charles knows, amazingly, what the temperature of the world is going to be in a hundred years.
19:07Ooh, ooh, I say.
19:10That's, um, that's quite a power.
19:13That's quite a thing.
19:14That's what he knows.
19:17He's also best buds with Jimmy Savile taking marriage advice.
19:21From a relentless, multi-decade, hundreds of victims, pedophile.
19:32Very, very keen on saving the world from negative temperatures a hundred years from now.
19:37Not so keen at actually being able to identify rampant evil in his midst.
19:40So if you didn't see this kind of stuff, why would I listen to you about anything moral ever?
19:49Ever.
19:51I mean, they're either participants, enablers, or completely blind to foundational moral evil.
20:04What Jeffrey Epstein was up to was foundational moral evil.
20:08I mean, you can't get much more evil as a whole.
20:11Arguably, as bad or worse than murder.
20:24I mean, targeting kids with this kind of, for this kind of horror.
20:30And, in any sane society, are people like Bill Gates, who's still consorted with this,
20:45with this Mr. Epstein, after conviction?
20:55Oh, but, you see, he's very concerned about cow farts, and CO2, and methane, and viruses.
21:11And, like, he just wants the best for humanity, because he's such a fucking philanthropist.
21:16And then he goes and hangs out with Jeffrey Epstein.
21:30I mean, you get how just completely deranged this is, in any, even remotely moral universe.
21:40Anybody who hung out with this guy would never be taken with any seriousness about any moral,
21:51or ethical, or good-for-humanity idea or space ever.
22:03Ever.
22:03Like, it would never.
22:04Like, it would be beyond laughable.
22:10Well, I hung out with a convicted sex offender.
22:12You should really listen to me about what's best for humanity.
22:17I mean, that's crazy.
22:27Oh, madness.
22:29But, you know what it is?
22:31I think I know what it is.
22:34Yeah, Bill Gates met with Jeffrey Epstein multiple times after Epstein's 2008 conviction for procuring a minor for prostitution.
22:43Gates began meeting with Epstein in 2011 with numerous encounters,
22:46including at least three at Epstein's Manhattan townhouse, and one extending late into the night.
22:50But do you know what it is?
22:59This is the problem.
23:01And I don't know how to solve this problem, and I don't know if the problem is solvable.
23:11I don't know if people are just too fucking stupid.
23:15So, you know what the problem is?
23:16The problem is people can't hang on to anything in their minds.
23:22I don't know if it's a modern problem, if it's like a TikTok phenomenon or something.
23:27People can't hang on to anything.
23:30Now, in general, it's the media's job to remind people.
23:34Right, so it's the people's job to remind people.
23:39So it's the people's job to say to people,
23:42Oh, yeah, Bill Gates is off rambling about some bullshit,
23:46but Bill Gates hung out with a convicted sex offender,
23:49so what the fuck would we want to listen to him for?
23:51Bill Gates, who hung out with a convicted sex offender?
23:53Bill Gates, like whoever, right?
23:55Doesn't matter who in particular.
23:56Now, of course, a lot of people say,
24:03Look, there's a photograph with me, and it doesn't matter.
24:07It's like, okay, fun.
24:08Let's just say you just had dinner with the guy.
24:11Let's just say you were at a dinner table with Jeffrey Epstein.
24:21Then you can't identify evil when it's sitting right there.
24:24Now, don't tell me about all these distant evils and mind readings and this.
24:29You don't care.
24:30You can't do it.
24:32If you can't see somebody with 15 fucking tumors
24:35hanging off their face right in front of you,
24:37don't tell me that you can detect tumors on the other side of the world
24:40from people who are perfectly healthy or appear perfectly healthy.
24:44That's all I'm saying.
24:45Anybody who was in any substantial proximity with,
24:51I mean, Trump barred Epstein from Mar-a-Lago
24:54because Epstein was creeping on some teenage girl.
25:00But they don't remember.
25:07They can't.
25:09I think it's trauma.
25:10I think it's trauma.
25:11I don't know if it's just human nature.
25:12God, I hope it's trauma because that can be fixed.
25:16But people can't hang on to it.
25:17So people hear this thing in passing about, say, Bill Gates and Epstein,
25:28and then they just forget.
25:32Do you know what I mean?
25:33Like they're just gone.
25:35Then he comes forward.
25:35He's like, well, you know, we got to do,
25:37we can't be free until everyone is vaccinated.
25:39It's like, Jesus, man.
25:44I don't know if Bill Gates is more frightened of COVID
25:46or a fucking treadmill because that man is a pregnant emoji.
25:55Do you care enough about your health to, I don't know, exercise?
26:00It's just a thought.
26:01But they remember this, and this came out when Melinda Gates divorced him.
26:10I'm not sure we know exactly why,
26:11but I think it has a lot to do with whatever she found out about her husband
26:16and Epstein.
26:24But people, they just forget.
26:28They just forget.
26:29Oh, yeah, there's something about Epstein back in the day, I think.
26:34There's something.
26:35Oh, he's being taken seriously by who he interviewed about COVID.
26:38Well, it's taken, right?
26:40What?
26:42They just forget.
26:44They just forget.
26:46It's wild to me.
26:55It's wild to me.
26:59They just don't remember.
27:06So, first of all, 90% of the Epstein files are redacted.
27:13It's not to protect.
27:15It's not to protect the victims.
27:17I mean, you know, a good way to protect the victims is to arrest the child rapists.
27:21You know, that would be, I think, a reasonable way to protect the victims.
27:26But no.
27:27No.
27:29Bill Clinton's in photos.
27:33Prince Andrew, Bill Gates.
27:36Now, Donald Trump, but this is older photos from the 90s, often at Mar-a-Lago or events
27:40with Melania Trump and others.
27:44Photos also feature Mick Jagger, Richard Branson, Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker, Woody Allen, Steve
27:49Bannon.
27:49And, of course, it doesn't mean, of course, I mean, I don't, we're a smart audience, but
27:58just for the sake of looping around, it doesn't mean that they're involved in any crimes.
28:07It doesn't.
28:07Having dinner with Jeffrey Epstein does not mean that you're involved in any of his crimes.
28:18Right?
28:19It says Woody Allen, Kevin Spacey, Naomi Campbell, Chris Tucker, Alan Doshiewicz, Stephen Hawking.
28:23It doesn't, it just, it doesn't mean that you're involved in any of his crimes.
28:27Of course.
28:28I mean, that goes without saying.
28:31But it does mean that you can spend considerable time with a horrendously prolific sex criminal
28:41who targets children, and you don't notice a thing.
28:49You don't notice a thing.
29:03Sergey Brin.
29:07Who is Sergey Brin?
29:11I'm sure you're aware.
29:14Born Sergey Mikhailovich Brin, co-founder of Google.
29:27Undated photos released in December 2025 this month show Brin at a 2011 social dinner event.
29:37The Edge Group's, Jesus, really?
29:39The Annual Billionaire Dinner attended by Epstein, along with figures like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.
29:47Epstein was a guest despite his prior conviction.
29:55Other images show Brin in social settings from Epstein's collection.
29:59There's no evidence of wrongdoing or deeper involvement by Brin in Epstein's criminal activities.
30:03You know, Google kind of hated me, it seems.
30:13And it's sort of not hard to understand why.
30:16I don't take any particular major credit for my work bringing the truth out about Jeffrey Epstein.
30:22I mostly interviewed others who did this, and in particular, giant praise should go to the Miami Herald and to Mikhailov Cernovich, Mike Cernovich,
30:34for their rather heroic work on lawsuits to unseal the documents.
30:39But it goes to show you that, you know, one of the reasons why Google might have disliked me.
30:58Anyway, I think we all understand this, right?
31:00So, yeah, people don't remember.
31:08They don't remember.
31:12So, of course, I'm also not saying that everyone who was ever in a room with Jeffrey Epstein, I mean, I get that, right?
31:19I mean, but if you've hung out with the guy, if you've had dinner with the guy, if you've done projects with the guy,
31:25if you've met with the guy one-on-one and so on, that's a different matter.
31:29If you've done that, then don't tell me about your moral fucking compass or radar.
31:35That's all.
31:35Especially after the guy was convicted of sex crimes.
31:46That's all.
31:55All right.
31:56Let me get to your comments again.
31:58If you have calls, feel free to join.
32:00Indy Carlman.
32:02Join Indy Carlman.
32:05All right.
32:06If someone says, it feels better to forget those things.
32:09It makes it easier for an individual to avoid addressing their own immoral behaviors if they go easier on someone like Gates.
32:14I'm sure you're right.
32:16But I would also say that the genesis of this kind of moral forgetfulness is their parents.
32:22People's parents.
32:23In other words, people's parents do appalling things.
32:27I'm not talking about child rape, although it could be that.
32:29But, you know, they yell, scream, beat, and so on, a hit, and are just immature and petty and violent and slam cupboards and storm around and whatever, just petulant tantrum stuff.
32:42But they still have to live with these parents for another 10, 12, 14 years.
32:48So you've got to forget about these things.
32:49And then when the other people, when the parents come out and are nice or whatever, then you've got to pretend that nothing happened.
32:56So when you're around people who are abusive, neglectful, weird, bizarre, then those people will pretend that nothing happened.
33:09And you have to go along with that.
33:11So I think just ignoring horrendous moral compromises is just baked into that as a kid.
33:19I think that's where it comes from.
33:20I hope that's where it comes from.
33:26Somebody said, I think they don't care.
33:28The original poster replied, they do care.
33:30But it's way easier to pretend as though you don't.
33:32When you're managing your own issues, how can you truly hold someone else accountable for their actions?
33:35Yeah, that's probably true.
33:45Amazing speech.
33:47Fidel Castro hung out with Epstein.
33:48Is that true?
33:50Interesting.
33:54This is the basic idea many people don't seem to understand.
33:57If someone or an organization does immoral things, you can't then assume that they are doing anything in good faith at that point going forward.
34:05All right, sorry.
34:19Another comment here.
34:22Yes, of course.
34:23So we learned these behaviors in our first seven to eight years of life from the environment we're born in.
34:27But I was just stating in the moment how the individual is rationalizing their behavior.
34:31It certainly is, I think, it's hard to hold other people to account if you are horribly morally compromised yourself, for sure.
34:42Yeah, very true.
34:43All right.
34:53Any other questions, comments, issues, chatty chats?
34:58And I really do appreciate it.
34:59Of course, I just also want to say thank you guys so much for your support of freedomand.com.
35:05Freedomand.com slash donate.
35:07It is a challenge.
35:09Thanks for reading my comments, Steph.
35:10It's a real thrill.
35:11Smiley face.
35:12You are very welcome.
35:13Well, I appreciate the comments.
35:15Very, very incisive and very, very smart.
35:19All right.
35:20So, hey, Steph, whenever I find a good woman, she is always dating someone else.
35:24It seems like I will just have to steal one from someone else.
35:27Any advice on how to do that?
35:31Well, if she'll cheat with you, she'll cheat on you.
35:34So, there's only one really honorable way to get another guy's girl is to sort of be around and be better and let her break up with the other guy and see your value.
35:44I mean, it's the old joke, like 1v1 versus 1v20 if you're going after a girl who's got a boyfriend.
35:53But, so, I've certainly been attracted to women who are in relationships with men as part of my eternal hatred to drummers.
36:04But anyway, so, what do you call a drummer without a girlfriend?
36:09Homeless.
36:10Homeless.
36:11So, you can be around and you can be better and see if she chooses more wisely.
36:16That's all.
36:18That's all.
36:19Don't sleep with her when she's in a relationship.
36:22That's an indication of a bad character.
36:24And what you get will not last and will not work.
36:30So, although I did know someone, I don't think the relationship was great,
36:34but I did know someone who got involved with a woman when she was pregnant with another man's baby.
36:45Anyway, that'll be a story that will never be told.
36:47Anyway, so, and I think they lasted for a while.
36:52But, be better than the boyfriend and hope that she notices and chooses better.
36:59That's all.
37:00But don't plant seeds and don't, like, don't be manipulative and all of that.
37:03Just be honestly a better person than her boyfriend.
37:07And if she's a quality woman, she will choose better.
37:10And if she's not, she won't.
37:13And so, it's a filter to see, is she capable of recognizing quality?
37:16See, you can't be in a relationship with a woman that lasts if she doesn't recognize quality.
37:21You can't be in a good relationship with a woman if she doesn't recognize quality.
37:24Or if a man, with a man, if the man doesn't recognize quality.
37:28You cannot be in good relationships with people who don't recognize quality.
37:32So, just be a more quality person and see if she notices.
37:34And if she doesn't, then you don't want to be in that as well.
37:39And somebody says, oh, Monsieur Kind, I wanted to ask you about the holidays and the expected, quote, giving.
37:45I know many people struggle with it, meaning they want to enjoy the holidays,
37:47but don't feel good about just spending to meet expectations.
37:50Hey, I'm a drummer and I've done well.
37:53Come on, man.
37:55I know, it's very petty.
37:57It's nothing to do with you.
37:58It's all on me.
38:00It's all my fault.
38:01It's all my pettiness.
38:02I mean that with great, deep sincerity.
38:05I don't know if you've seen the movie with Nicolas Cage.
38:11He's like an angel.
38:13And the woman says, because he keeps meeting this woman in the park, looking kind of scraggly.
38:18And she says, are you homeless?
38:20He's like, no.
38:21She's like, are you a drummer?
38:25What's more likely to be homeless than a homeless guy?
38:28A drummer.
38:29So, no, I'm just kidding.
38:30I love a good backbeat.
38:31And so, the backbeat that is narrow and hard to master.
38:36Good for you, man.
38:37Obviously, it's just my complete pettiness about things from decades ago.
38:42All right.
38:45It's just spending to meet expectations.
38:48So, some of the most thoughtful gifts I've ever received have been completely free.
38:59Cost a person nothing.
39:00You know, somebody, I mean, my daughter, of course, when she's younger, she made me pictures and so on.
39:06She even gave me a lovely Rocket League card for Father's Day this year.
39:10And keeps asking me if I've actually got around to practicing.
39:15So, I don't think, and, you know, with my daughter, when she said, well, what do you want for Christmas?
39:21And I'm like, please, just make me something.
39:23That means more to me than anything.
39:24You know, I have a mug that I'm hesitant to use because it was a mug that my daughter made when she was very little with dad and, you know, lovely patterns and hearts and all of that.
39:38And it's like, I will be buried with this mug.
39:41Hopefully not soon.
39:41But I will be buried with this mug.
39:43That's in my will.
39:45But, I mean, those things are the best.
39:48I mean, I think you've all been to, you know, kids' parties where it's just an endless cavalcade of gifts.
39:53And you know they're going to be played with twice and then donated.
39:55And it's all just a big waste of time, effort, energy, and money.
40:03So, things that, I mean, either things that you need that you wouldn't buy for yourself.
40:08So, gifts are for things that you would like but aren't necessary and you wouldn't buy for yourself.
40:14Right?
40:17So, those are the kind of things.
40:21The frivolous things that are fun and nice that you wouldn't buy for yourself.
40:25You know, like my wife last Christmas got me a really nice scarf.
40:30I'm like, I've got a scarf.
40:33But she's like, no, no, this one's really nice.
40:34This one's really nice.
40:35I don't know why she's not Italian.
40:36It's a nice.
40:37It's a nice scarf.
40:38Look at your neck.
40:39And also Transylvanian.
40:41I'm not good at accents, but I pour heart and soul into them.
40:44And whenever I do a bad accent, my daughter is like, oh, no, I got booted out of theater school.
40:52I don't know why.
40:54Because, again, the deep well of self-regard that is available from the teenage heart is virtually bottomless.
41:00But, yeah, so she got me a scarf.
41:03And you know what?
41:03It's really nice.
41:05It's a soft scarf.
41:06It helps me know if I've shaven, you know, when you've got a scarf in the winter.
41:13Enzo gave me a scarf.
41:15That's right.
41:16That's right.
41:17You don't want to be given a scarf in a murder mystery story.
41:20Right?
41:22And what's the last thing?
41:24I find it very sad how at kids' parties nowadays, they don't even open gifts up in many cases.
41:29What's the point?
41:30It's like dropping off a product.
41:31Yeah.
41:32Yeah.
41:33Yeah.
41:35Yeah.
41:35And my daughter wanted to go skiing.
41:38I've been skiing for a while.
41:39Well, you know, there's nothing that helps you feel younger than doing a demanding sport that you haven't done for a while.
41:47And actually, I shouldn't say.
41:49It was mostly fine.
41:50I just, my calves.
41:53It's the kind of thing where stretching doesn't even work.
41:55I have to get, we call it the pain gun.
41:57It's like a massage gun.
41:58You're blah, blah, blah.
41:58Get it out and just, I have to, I have to cry my way back to limber calves.
42:03But it was, and it was, it was like crazy windy on the hill.
42:08Like crazy windy on the hill.
42:13And, and of course, you know, when it's windy on a ski slope, you feel it.
42:17You feel it.
42:19All right.
42:20Any other questions, comments, issues?
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