The Danger of Eternal VICTIMS! X Space

Stefan Molyneux

On the 13th of February 2026's Friday Night Live, Stefan Molyneux takes on the economic slowdown and the whole idea of professional victims. He walks through defensive investing tactics, fields calls from listeners wrestling with personal accountability, and lays out the key differences between fiat currency and real, sound money. He pulls in examples from his novel Dissolution to stress the role of virtue and the value of honest relationships. At the core, he pushes back hard against victimhood mindsets, urging people instead to own their choices and build connections that actually matter.  GET FREEDOMAIN MERCH! https://shop.freedomain.com/  SUBSCRIBE TO ME ON X! https://x.com/StefanMolyneux  Follow me on Youtube! https://www.youtube.com/@freedomain1  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, everybody. Friday Night Live with Stefan Molyneux. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

00:00:05Hope you're doing well. Hope you're having a lovely afternoon slash evening.

00:00:09And we are going to talk about a bunch of stuff today.

00:00:13I'm happy to take your calls on X. You can just hit request to talk.

00:00:18And there's two things that I wanted to talk about sort of kind of briefly here.

00:00:24And then we will get to your questions and comments.

00:00:30So the first thing I wanted to mention is, so everything's down, right?

00:00:35Everything's down. Gold, stocks, bonds, Bitcoin, everything's down.

00:00:44Everything's down. But why? But why?

00:00:47Well, the answer is A, I don't know, I'm not an expert.

00:00:52But B, the answer as to why everything is down is, in my obviously amateur opinion,

00:00:59not investment advice. The reason why everything is down is because everyone thinks that there's

00:01:06been some sort of kind of solution to the problem of inflation. That's right. Everyone thinks there's

00:01:12been a little bit of solution to the problem called inflation.

00:01:18Whether that's to do with the tightened monetary policy under the new Fed, but everyone thinks that

00:01:27there's... See, people don't want to be investing. People don't like investing. People don't want

00:01:33to invest as a whole. Why do they do it? Because their currency, their savings, their lifeblood,

00:01:42the jugular of their very heartfelt and hardworking existence is being hunted by the predator called

00:01:49fiat currency. That is why people invest. They invest as a defensive measure. They do not invest

00:01:59because they are greedy. They invest because the assholes who run central banking are greedy and keep

00:02:06printing more and more money so that they can keep handing out money to their friends, right? So,

00:02:13the way that it works in general is when you print a bunch of money, you give money to your

00:02:17friends,

00:02:18and your friends can spend it at full value. And then as it goes like a tsunami through the economy,

00:02:23it loses value until those at the bottom of the economic ladder, those people on fixed incomes and so

00:02:28on. They really get it in the shorts. They end up with monopoly money, nonsense money, paper toilet

00:02:38ass wiping currency, pretend. So, people don't want to be in gold. They don't want to be in stocks.

00:02:47They don't want to be in bonds. They don't want to be in Bitcoin. They don't want to be in

00:02:50any of

00:02:50this stuff. They don't. What they want to be is not being ripped off. Not being ripped off. That's

00:03:00the key. Now, if there is a perception among the moneyed classes, if there is a perception

00:03:10that tighter monetary policy is going to happen, then inflation, which is always and forever not

00:03:17prices rising, but inflation of the money supply, if they believe that central bankers are going to

00:03:23print less money, then they don't have to worry as much about inflation, which means they don't have

00:03:27to be in all of these defensive bunkers, right? You want to think of investments as a whole as air

00:03:39raid

00:03:39shelters, right? Air raid shelters, Mrs. Spinnifer style. So, if there's a war and the air raid siren

00:03:49goes off, everyone gets into their air raid shelters and they eat their tin cans and they hope

00:03:55that they're not going to get hit by anything direct, right? That's what people do when there's

00:04:01an air raid. If there's no air raid, then you don't spend time in the bunker, right? People don't,

00:04:10you know, of course, I think about my show. I have the same donation levels now that I did 21

00:04:19years

00:04:19ago, but $5 is not worth nearly as much as it was 21 years ago. So, I'm losing money. If

00:04:26you'd like to

00:04:26help out the show, fredomain.com slash donate, I really would appreciate it. But I'm losing money

00:04:31by having the same donation levels. But of course, if I raise my donation levels, people will say,

00:04:37oh, he's taking more money. It's like, no, I'm not. I'm not taking more money. I'm just trying to

00:04:47maintain an income as best I can. So, I think a lot of people in the investment world have interpreted

00:04:56the signals from the Fed about a tighter monetary policy and have said, oh, well, that's great

00:05:01because that means that we don't need to be in the air raid shelter. We can take some of our

00:05:08money

00:05:09out of these investment areas and maybe we can spend some or hold it as cash or whatever it is,

00:05:15right? Because people like to have some cash. It's kind of hard to feel wealthy if all of your money

00:05:22is locked up in financial instruments you can't get a hold of. That's like burying your treasure

00:05:29and never being able to go there, right? Like this guy lost a bunch of his bitcoins

00:05:33and his computer was thrown into a municipal landfill and he begged them to and offered them

00:05:39millions and millions of dollars if he can just go and get his computer back because they never let

00:05:44him do it. So, it's like having wealth that you can't access. So, people like having some cash

00:05:52because they like being able to spend their money, right? So, when people are not as afraid of

00:06:03inflation, instruments, financial instruments as a whole become less valuable and this is why I would

00:06:10assume that everything across the board is going down and somebody says, I like real estate best.

00:06:18Well, real estate though has become a challenge in America because of the deportations that are

00:06:26occurring. Obviously, at a very slow rate but like 10% of various Latin American countries, 10% of the

00:06:32population was let in under Biden. That's why they hit the J6s so hard because if the election

00:06:40was questioned, then they wouldn't get to wreck the country with mass immigration, illegal

00:06:46immigration. So, if people are leaving and of course, COVID transformed a lot of businesses and

00:06:54there's many real estate, commercial real estate is a big, obviously a big driver of any economy,

00:07:00particularly the American economy and combination of deportation plus the work from home stuff that

00:07:05came about as a result of COVID has lowered the value of real estate in some areas quite significantly.

00:07:11So, real estate is not also a kind of hedge. Real estate is a pseudo investment, like it's a

00:07:19pretend investment because things seem to be going up in value but it's all debt-based because mass

00:07:23immigration is driven by debt because immigrants are drawn usually by some free stuff.

00:07:32So, people are less interested in real estate because value could be going down. People are

00:07:37less interested in gold because they don't need as much of a hedge against inflation and people are

00:07:42less interested in Bitcoin and stocks and all these other sorts of things because most people aren't

00:07:47investing, they are protecting, they are trying desperately to hang on to their money. Your money is constantly

00:08:00being eroded and so that is the reality. So, that's the first thing I wanted to talk about.

00:08:11The second thing I wanted to talk about is, hit me with a why if you know professional victims. Professional

00:08:21victims aren't necessarily those who make all their money off victimhood. Professional victims are people

00:08:27who don't take any responsibility for their own bad decisions and constantly place the blame on others.

00:08:35And in fact, if you want to give me a number of the professional victims in your life, I would

00:08:41be

00:08:41thrilled, thrilled to hear it. How many professional victims do you know? Of course, most of them you

00:08:47haven't invited into your life voluntarily. Most of the professional victims that you have are in your

00:08:52life as a result of family and circumstances and so on. So, I wanted to talk a little bit about

00:09:01the dangers of professional victims. Gold recently hit an all-time high. Yes. And where is it now?

00:09:11Let's see here. Gold. I think it went down a little bit. I'm going to do it in the only

00:09:16currency that I

00:09:18truly grok. Gold is. Oh, no. No, you're right. No, it went back up. You're right. It dipped a bit

00:09:26and

00:09:26then it went back up. Yeah. Good. Good. So, maybe people are no longer believing that the inflation

00:09:31is going to hit as much. Used to be one recovering professional victim.

00:09:42More than five. Ouch. Why minus two? Okay, that's a little bit overly mathematical for me,

00:09:49if you don't mind. Oh, we have a request. Okay, let's take a week call. Maybe it's on the topic

00:09:57or

00:09:58related to the topic. But let's take a week call. Stefan, are you a Brit or a Canadian? I am

00:10:07a Canadian. Oh, I live in Canada. All right. Let's see if we can get

00:10:17a caller in. Joe. Can you hear me? Steph? Yes. Hey, thanks for responding to my request. You were

00:10:33talking about metals, one of my favorite hobbies to talk about. And I was wondering if you could

00:10:41go in a little bit about the divergence between the paper market and the physical market and

00:10:50what Trump's done with critical minerals, how that's going to put a floor on physical metal.

00:10:58And what I think I see going on here is a controlled demolition soft takedown of the ETFs

00:11:06so that the banks don't go under when the physical goes cuckoo with revaluation. And I'll stop talking

00:11:15because I'd like to hear your opinion on that. No, you tell me a little bit more about that. I've

00:11:19not really followed the regulatory stuff that happened with gold. I've been following some of

00:11:22the crypto regulations, but you're saying something regulatorily speaking has changed with gold.

00:11:27All kinds of stuff, stuff. You know, because monetary metals, we're talking about gold and silver,

00:11:35right? And copper used to be copper, but they can't make pennies of copper anymore because it's too

00:11:41expensive. Um, but if you've been following the metals, like, so like I have a little stack of what

00:11:51we call constitutional silver, and that's just coins that were made, you know, before 1964 with 80%

00:12:00silver. So they're more valuable than face. Now you kind of, their melt value was, well, whatever the

00:12:08spot is today. But if you look at the divergence in the market, the spot price isn't what you're paying

00:12:17for physical because they put a quote premium on top. So it's more than it's ever been. Um, but there's

00:12:25been some, been some regulatory stuff. What they've done is, is they've on them, they've created a

00:12:31situation and I'm not, I'm not, I'm a physical guy, but I'm not paper, but in the paper market,

00:12:38which controls, sorry, paper market means paper representations of gold holdings.

00:12:43Yes. It's called ETFs, ETFs. They've been trading ETFs for years.

00:12:48But ETFs aren't just for gold. ETFs are any way that people can own something without owning it

00:12:53directly. Like there are ETFs for Bitcoin, just, just to be clear. Right. So ETFs are ways of, um,

00:12:58holding things indirectly. Correct. And you can play with that. You can do like short selling with

00:13:04that stuff. You can do future training with that stuff. Whereas physical demands delivery. So if you

00:13:11look at the paper market, paper ETF silver, which you're right, there's a big ETF. Um, the silver market

00:13:19has been, um, spoofed. So there's been like, um, JP Morgan was caught spoofing the market. They've

00:13:26been, they've been dumping paper trades anytime they want to drive down the physical market. And

00:13:32they're getting to a point where they can't do that with silver anymore because of industrial demand,

00:13:38like things like solar panels and, uh, medical supplies. Cause silver has a lot of properties like

00:13:46that, um, antimicrobial, um, batteries, EV batteries, computer, all space stuff. So any space

00:13:54technology, you need silver. So they can't suppress it anymore. And what's happened is, is everyone's

00:14:01over leveraged. You ever see the big short, it was about the housing crisis. It's a great movie, uh, about

00:14:07how everyone was over leveraged with the, the subprime mortgage scandal in the 2008. This is like

00:14:15that, but on steroids, if, if someone pulled the plug, uh, the whole house of cards would come down.

00:14:21But what they've done recently is they've made it hard for any, anyone, but the big whales to do any

00:14:27business with paper ETFs. And there's something going on. China has shut down physical shipping and

00:14:35they're just buying and hoarding. Um, lots of funny stuff going on with the U S mint, Trump critical

00:14:42minerals talking about a project called the vault. And I know that they want to get the mineral rights,

00:14:50you know, up in Canada, I'm calling from Canada. I'm a U S citizen living in Nova Scotia dual. Um,

00:14:57they also want mineral rights in South America. I, I like Trump. I think he's trying to do the right

00:15:02thing. I mean, I know. Okay. I'm going to try, I mean, this, this is all a series of information.

00:15:07Can you kind of wrap it up and get to a question or a comment? Cause this is just a

00:15:10scrolling,

00:15:11uh, financial stuff about what you, and can you also do me a favor? So, uh, this is sort of

00:15:17the

00:15:17way that it's supposed to work is that if I start talking, if you could not talk the moment I

00:15:21start

00:15:21talking, that would be great. I mean, if you want to have your own show, you should do your own

00:15:24show.

00:15:24But if I start talking, if you could just wait for me to finish, I'd appreciate that. But yeah,

00:15:28if you can get your, um, more, more concentrate, cause, uh, this is not a financial show,

00:15:33but I'm certainly happy to tell you my thoughts. So, uh, how can I help more directly philosophically?

00:15:39I love that because I think this is a philosophical issue between fiat currency and sound money. And I

00:15:46think what you're seeing right now is the paper currency and ETFs collapsing because it's not based

00:15:53on reality. You know, like we're, we're Plato's cave. We've been trading shadows instead of sunshine.

00:16:01And that's my point. And I was just wondering what you had to say about the market decoupling,

00:16:07the, the shadow market of like the Plato shadows on the wall is the paper. The real metal is the

00:16:15sunshine. And that's all I have to say. I still don't know what your question is. Sorry.

00:16:21My question is, what do you think about that? They're coming apart at the seams. You brought it

00:16:26up base metal. This is the thing that's happening. It's, it's diverging paper.

00:16:30From physical, the fake market from the real market. This is Plato's cave, man. Someone just

00:16:37went outside and saw the sunshine and they're coming down and say, Hey, this paper you're

00:16:41trading, it's fake. It's fake. It ain't real. That's my question to you is what you think.

00:16:49It's, it's, it's fiat currency. And I've talked about this a number of times on the show. Of course,

00:16:53yeah, it's fiat currency. It's just gun to the head. Pretend that the image of the thing

00:16:59is the thing itself. Uh, your, your reality sense is held hostage by a gun to the head. Fiat means

00:17:06by decree, by government force. So by government force, you have to pretend that the bits and

00:17:12burps in a computer or the physical paper, uh, in, in your wallet is, it has value. It has value.

00:17:20And it's not, uh, it's not real value. And of course we know all paper currency, uh, and by that

00:17:27I include electronic currency without any backing, all paper currency goes to zero because force

00:17:32achieves the opposite of its stated goal, right? So people say, well, we need the government to

00:17:39protect our property. And is it the Netherlands? So, uh, for those of you who don't know, the Netherlands

00:17:44gave birth to capitalism hundreds and hundreds of years ago with the very first stock exchange,

00:17:53a stock exchange is one of the foundational elements of capitalism. In fact, I think Murray

00:17:57Rothbard said, basically, you don't have capitalism unless you have a robust and free stock exchange.

00:18:02And I think it was 16th century. The, uh, the Dutch gave birth to the free market by having the

00:18:09very

00:18:09first stock exchange. And now, uh, they've just passed a measure to tax what at 36, 37% to taxed,

00:18:17to tax unrealized capital gains, uh, in things like a crypto and stocks and other things, which is,

00:18:24uh, uh, complete and total, uh, theft. It is absolutely brutal. So what that means is if you've

00:18:32made a million dollars on paper, it's not real, right? This is why I don't particularly care about the

00:18:37price of Bitcoin from day to day. I'll check in it from time to time and I'll do my mental

00:18:41math or

00:18:42whatever, but I don't really care about it because it doesn't mean anything. If you don't sell it,

00:18:46if you don't sell it, it's just, you know, it's up and down. It's like watching someone through

00:18:50binoculars in a rollercoaster. It doesn't really, uh, add much because you're not strapped in because

00:18:55if you don't sell, it doesn't matter. And so what they've done is they've said something like,

00:19:00uh, if you've, if you've made a profit, even if you haven't sold, we're going to tax it.

00:19:04Um, and that's to some degree hatred for, uh, farms for a bourgeois. And of course it is in

00:19:12general, the boomers, uh, lifting up the ladder after they've climbed their way up so that they

00:19:17can nag people and say, well, you see, the reason that you don't have a house is, is you spend

00:19:21on

00:19:21lattes and rotisserie chicken and you Uber eats once a month. So yeah, it's, uh, it's a wretched,

00:19:28a wretched system and it is a guaranteed to bleed the country dry. It is guaranteed to bleed the

00:19:39country dry every country that they try. And I mean, the capital gains stuff is, is, is beyond

00:19:44appalling, but of course, most people don't really know much about it. And what this means of course

00:19:49is that, well, of course people will flee the country as, as quickly as they can, like as quick

00:19:54as Mark Zuckerberg gives hundreds of millions of dollars to Democrats. He funds the Democrats

00:20:00and now he's fleeing from California to Florida. So he funds Democrats and flees, uh, Democrats,

00:20:06I guess in the same way that locusts would finish off a field of grain and then move to a

00:20:12fresh,

00:20:12uh, field of grain in order to consume that as well. So yeah, governments won't protect your property.

00:20:18In fact, governments will lock you in and then take your property. Uh, governments, uh, for most of you

00:20:23who don't know, there's a lot, a lot of countries have an exit tax, which means if you, if you

00:20:27try to

00:20:28leave, you have to pay a brutal tax on, on everything. So you're, you're locked in. I mean, to leave

00:20:33is

00:20:33virtually, uh, virtually impossible. And so you're locked in and then they can just turn up the heat

00:20:39and turn up the heat and tax you more and tax you more. And what they can't tax for whatever

00:20:43reason,

00:20:44they will just inflate away, right? Because the, the inflation is just about the worst tax that there is.

00:20:48Because it's the most insidious, but governments like it because everyone gets mad at the shopkeepers

00:20:52rather than the central planners for the rise in prices. So yeah, it's, it's a brutal, uh, horrible,

00:20:58coercive, degrading, violent, enslaving system that, uh, always ends the same way. Uh, and, and whether

00:21:06it's, and people say, well, it's fiat. The problem is a currency that's not, well, I mean, of course they

00:21:11didn't have paper currency really in the Roman empire. They had, uh, well, shit coins, shit coins.

00:21:18So they had coins that they just mixed more and more trash metals into, right? The gold got mixed

00:21:23up with all kinds of other crap and diluted and so on. And, uh, of course the other thing that

00:21:29happened, uh, happens even with, with coins is that you shave the edges, right? So you, you put the

00:21:34coins in a bunch of, in a big bag, and then you, you shake the bag and it shapes the

00:21:39coins and drops

00:21:39a little bits off and then you can make more coins. Uh, there were people in England, uh, not many

00:21:44people, uh, know this. Of course they know Sir Isaac Newton, right? Famous scientist and so on.

00:21:50Sir Isaac Newton, if I've got the name right, I think I do, was also in charge of the mint

00:21:54and people were shaving down the edges of the coins. So he put ridges in, right? This is why

00:21:59coins have, uh, ridges in them. So it's not in particular fiat currency. Uh, it's all currencies,

00:22:07although fiat is a little easier to print, but governments will just degrade all of their

00:22:11currencies, whether they're fixed or not. They'll use lower, they'll use less and less

00:22:15and lower quality gold just so they can make more of them. And then people will counterfeit

00:22:20them like crazy. And fiat currency is just slightly more efficient form of a counterfeiting,

00:22:29but governments, uh, can, uh, can never be in charge of currency. And this is the whole

00:22:33point of Bitcoin, right? Is to have a currency system that governments aren't raping and pillaging

00:22:37left, right, and center. But Hey, I mean, all that child trafficking isn't going to fund

00:22:42itself. So you got to find a way, a way to do it. And people, you know, it's funny. It's

00:22:48something I've always remembered, uh, ever since I was a kid, right? So everybody knows that sort

00:22:53of famous Lord Acton, uh, quote, right? And the quote is, uh, a power tends to corrupt. Absolute

00:23:00power tends to corrupt. Absolutely. Right. That's a power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts.

00:23:05Absolutely. And everyone's like, yes, oh, human beings can't handle power. And then they all

00:23:10charge off to the government to get more, to give it more power to do more great things, right?

00:23:16That's what, that's what they do. And it's, it's completely contradictory. Uh, it is, is, it is people

00:23:21saying, uh, you know, smoking is bad for your lungs. Oh, uh, do I have, I have a, I have

00:23:26a, a double

00:23:27marathon to run. I better start smoking a pack or two a day. It literally is that, it's that

00:23:34contradictory. Everybody knows human beings can't handle power and power of course is the

00:23:39ability to impose rules on others that you yourself don't have to follow, right? To, to punish people

00:23:46for following the rules that you want to have, right? So you're not allowed to steal, but the

00:23:50government can crank out, uh, as much money as it wants. You're not allowed to counterfeit, but the

00:23:54government blah, blah, blah. So you're not allowed to just impose your violent will on your neighbors,

00:23:58but the government can impose its violent will on the entire population. So, uh, we can, of

00:24:04course, see all of this in the, uh, in the government, right? They, they regularly lose,

00:24:09um, uh, billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars, sometimes trillions of dollars. That

00:24:13sort of famous audit right before 9-11 that the, uh, what was it? The Pentagon had lost trillions

00:24:18of dollars. But if you send $601 to someone over Venmo, right? Right. So, uh, the whole point

00:24:27is to have rules for thee, but not for me. That's the whole point of power is to create

00:24:31rules that you yourself are excluded from. They're actually going through this process

00:24:34in Canada at the moment. So yeah, it is, um, people, everybody knows human beings can't

00:24:40handle power and all they want is to give the government more power because they hope

00:24:45to get free stuff from it. So, uh, that's, uh, not great. It's not great, but, uh, it's

00:24:52one of the, the wild, uh, it's one of the wild contradictions of the world as a whole.

00:24:58Is there anything else that you?

00:25:04Thanks for having me on stuff. You're a very, uh, insightful guy. I appreciate it.

00:25:08Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. And yeah, feel free to drop by X. Somebody had a dream

00:25:13about me last night. I hope that I was riding a muscly unicorn in the slow rain with the

00:25:21wind blowing past my armpit here because that's a dream. I think that the entire universe could

00:25:28get behind. Steph, your book Dissolution was amazing. Did Robert die from intense overwork?

00:25:39Spoiler! Because Helen would divorce him if his income ever went down. Well, uh, that is a good

00:25:46question. Um, the book is not heavily plot driven. It's heavily character driven. So

00:25:52it's still worth checking out the book. Um, and the book is called Dissolution. So, uh, with, with

00:26:02Robert, I wanted to explore, uh, and this is based upon, I dated the wrong woman in my twenties,

00:26:09married the right woman in my early thirties. Thank God, thank, thank Jesus. And so

00:26:18I wanted to, uh, explore a sort of alternate life where I chose the wrong woman over the right woman.

00:26:26And so, uh, Robert, uh, chooses a woman based upon her attractiveness and charisma rather than her

00:26:33character and her virtue. And then we see the lives of these two women diverge over the course of the

00:26:37novel because, uh, there's, there's some choices in life. It's almost impossible to undo, right? So you

00:26:42really, really, marriage is one of the, of course you can get divorced, but you can't ever be a not

00:26:46divorced person. And you go through that whole heartbreak and cost and expense and acid mitosis

00:26:51and all that. So I wanted with, with Robert to explore that Robert is kind of a slave, right?

00:26:57He's a slave to his boss, Peter. He is a slave to his wife, Helen. He's a slave to his

00:27:02children. He has

00:27:03no authority, which is why, uh, Justin holds him in such, uh, contempt. And Samuel doesn't really

00:27:08respect him and why Shane is so easily able to get in and subvert his family. So why is he

00:27:15a slave?

00:27:16Because he's a slave to his bad decisions. He's a slave to his greed, to his desire, to his thirst

00:27:20for status. Because if you want to be good in this life, the first thing that you have to give

00:27:26up is

00:27:27your desire for status because they will fuck you up. If you're a good person, they will frack you up.

00:27:33They will frack you with an unlooped barge pole. If you are a good person and they will drive down

00:27:40your state. I mean, come on. I mean, look, I think I'm a pretty good example of that. I'm a

00:27:44pretty

00:27:44good guy and, uh, tried to do a lot of good in the world and still doing some good in

00:27:48the world.

00:27:49And, uh, they went after me like nobody's business, right? To sort of drive my reputation down

00:27:56into the dirt. And of course, I remember saying at the time, uh, because I was talking about some

00:28:00pretty spicy stuff, even more spicy than usual. And people said, Ooh, this topic is going to get

00:28:05you banned. And I'm like, well, if this topic gets me banned, this topic is going to become the biggest

00:28:09topic in the world. Uh, because that's what people do, right? There's a Streisand effect.

00:28:15So, yep. And that's exactly what happened is that, uh, I got banned for talking about particularly

00:28:20spicy topics. And after I was banned, those topics became the biggest topics in the world.

00:28:24And now they're unstoppable and I'm not doing anything to change the course. Uh, it's exactly what I

00:28:29predicted. So if you want to be a good person, which means you want to be able to be loved,

00:28:35then, then I see somebody else wants to talk. So yeah, if you want to be a good person, the

00:28:39first

00:28:39thing you have to give up is status. You have to give up approval because that's how they'll go for

00:28:45you is they will go for your status and they will try to destroy your status, your reputation,

00:28:51your source of income. And of course they, the enemies, right? Of virtue. What they think

00:28:56is that if they destroy your status, then they destroy your life. Because if you are status

00:29:04obsessed and your status is destroyed, let's say you marry a woman or a man, you marry a woman

00:29:11and she's with you because of your status and then they destroy your status. They hope, they really hope

00:29:16that your wife is going to leave you and they hope that their friends will turn on you, but that's

00:29:21projection. Because that's what would happen in their life if they lost status. And so, uh, as

00:29:28virtuous people gain status, evildoers lose status and evildoers have a lot to lose because if evildoers

00:29:35lose status, then all the people who are with them just for their status flee like the Titanic,

00:29:40right? They don't go down with the ship. They flee like rats off a sinking ship. And so they attack,

00:29:45right? People always reveal themselves in their attacks, right?

00:29:48So they attack the virtuous man or woman in terms of income and status. And they say, well,

00:29:55I mean, if I lost my income and I lost my status, then my wife would leave me, my children

00:30:00wouldn't

00:30:00respect me, my friends would abandon me, and I'd be miserable and broken and lonely and blah, blah,

00:30:04blah, blah, blah. And they don't understand that if you're the good person, that isn't what happens.

00:30:10If you're under attack for justice, your moral friends, your moral companions get closer.

00:30:15They shore you up, you shore them up and you end up a stronger, better person out of it,

00:30:22right? So they made really aiming at my marriage. They were aiming at my friendships. They were aiming

00:30:25at everything. And then they missed, they missed, of course, right? Because they can only think of

00:30:31harming you in the way that they fear being harmed the most. So I wanted to explore in the character

00:30:38of

00:30:38Robert, a person who takes his cues from status. And what does that do? Well, he becomes a slave.

00:30:47Because if you're focused on status, you're not free. Because your value is dependent upon the approval

00:30:56and money and prestige granted to you by others. Your conscience is not your own. Your conscience is

00:31:02out there. It's been subverted and perverted into the approval of others. And therefore, you become

00:31:09a slave. So what happens is you get hollowed out by status. And even though Peter, his boss,

00:31:15was a complete warning of what was going to happen to him, to Robert, if he took that path,

00:31:20he took that path anyway. Because there's a lot of addictions, right? Helen is addicted to status and

00:31:25beauty, and therefore is paralyzed. Robert is addicted to status and money and prestige. Therefore,

00:31:31he's paralyzed. Of course, Shane is addicted to drugs and nihilism. And Robert's parents,

00:31:44Robert and Shane's parents, are addicted to, you know, boomer blindness, right? Boomers are just kind

00:31:48of like toddlers. You can't startle them with too much information or their brains short circuit.

00:31:56So I wanted to sort of explore that as a whole. With Robert, what happens is when you get addicted

00:32:01to status, you become a workaholic. Because when you become addicted to status, you have to succeed,

00:32:08you have to make more money, you have to rise in your profession and so on. And there's less of

00:32:14you

00:32:14to love because you're hollowed out by filling yourself with the transitory views of other people.

00:32:20It's like the women who post thirst traps and, you know, guys like them and, oh, you're so pretty,

00:32:26you're so hot and that kind of stuff. And they hollow out because nobody's actually regarding

00:32:31them for their virtues. And so Robert became a workaholic because he was all in on Peter's sort

00:32:37of demonic status machine. And also what happens is if you go for status, then you don't want to be

00:32:48home as much. Because there's less of you who's there richly, emotionally. Your wife doesn't love

00:32:55you. She just needs the money. You become a demonic deliverer of money and status in that way. And

00:33:02therefore, there's less of you to love. There's less reason to love you. And so he worked hard,

00:33:08not just because he wanted to keep delivering money to Helen, money and status to Helen, but also

00:33:13because he didn't like her that much. And you can see her impatience with him in the scene with the

00:33:19children in the cafe. She doesn't like him that much because he's just, he is serving the worst

00:33:26within her, right? He is serving the worst within her. And he's too terrified to leave her because

00:33:32that would harm his status, right? That would harm his status. So, and I actually knew a guy.

00:33:36I knew a guy when I was younger, um, in the business world. Yeah. Kind of worked himself to

00:33:42death. Heavy into status, right? I mean, he used to say to me, uh, his, uh, his, he had a

00:33:51family

00:33:51cottage way, like four or five hours North. And, uh, you know, his, uh, his family was up there the

00:33:58whole summer having a blast. And he was like sweating away in the city and working, you know,

00:34:0250 hours a week or 60 hours a week. And then maybe he'd drive up Friday night, get there real

00:34:07late and then be there for Saturday. And his wife would give him a whole list of things to fix

00:34:11around

00:34:11the cottage. And then he'd have to leave Sunday, uh, in the morning just to beat traffic. And he's

00:34:15like, yeah, they have, they have the best life. They have the best life on the planet. And I'm just

00:34:19a workhorse. And, uh, he ended up, uh, dying quite young. It was very sad. It was a very sad,

00:34:25big,

00:34:25big warning for me about, about workaholism. So I hope that makes some sense, but yeah, definitely.

00:34:32It's a great book to read and you should, you should read it. It's free.

00:34:41Power causes brain damage. Apparently I watched a study proving it with brain scans. That's

00:34:45interesting. Uh, what tips do you have for a guy going on his first cruise? I'm going on a cruise

00:34:53with my Asian wife and CNN watching in-laws who are allergic to meaningful conversation.

00:35:00So, uh, my, my particular perspective is I'm fine to avoid politics, especially with,

00:35:05with normies, like with NPCs. I'm fine. If you want to avoid politics and we just want to

00:35:09chat about things, but if, so I don't, I don't draw, I don't draw first. Right. Right.

00:35:20And, but I, I will, I will draw if other people draw. Right. So I will, I will give people

00:35:27a pass

00:35:27or two. Right. And you might get this dig in the ribs. Right. And you may get this dig in

00:35:35the ribs

00:35:36ribs from your wife if the parents start bringing up politics, right? And if your girlfriend's parents

00:35:50start bringing up politics, then, uh, I'll let them go once or twice. And I would expect, I would expect

00:35:58my wife, if I was in your shoes, I would expect my wife to say, let's move, let's move on.

00:36:03Right.

00:36:13What's this great line? It's a great line from

00:36:20maybe there's a God above, but all I've ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone

00:36:26who outdrew you. It's great. So yeah, if, if I were in your shoes, I would say to my wife,

00:36:34listen,

00:36:34I don't want to do politics. I don't really want to do politics. If they do politics, I need you

00:36:40to

00:36:40stop them. If they don't stop doing politics, I'm doing politics. And then just leave it on her,

00:36:48on her, on her shoes. All right.

00:36:58Um, uh, with the name of the novel is sorry. Dissolution D I S S O L U T I

00:37:11O N Dissolution.

00:37:18I don't know. Being a good person doesn't guarantee love and success. Nothing is guaranteed.

00:37:25Okay, my dear.

00:37:31Here's a tip, my friend. Here's a little tip. What was it? The leprosy to the prostitute? Um,

00:37:38I left a tip. So here's a little tip.

00:37:43So you're speaking out of bitterness and personal experience, which I sympathize with. And I,

00:37:47I think I reasonably understand. So before you say something, ask yourself, would intelligent people

00:37:54already know this? Right. So do you think that there's anybody in this live stream who thinks

00:38:05that if you are a virtuous person, uh, success and love are just guaranteed to you? Sorry,

00:38:13I don't mean to love. Do you think there's one person in this audience or anyone really who thinks

00:38:20that if you are good, noble and virtuous, that success and love and all of that are guaranteed?

00:38:30Do you think that there's anyone who thinks particularly with moral rewards, particularly

00:38:36after watching me get thunderstruck from the stratosphere and cast down into the Stygian depths

00:38:41over the last six years, do you think there's anyone who thinks that anything is guaranteed?

00:38:46So generally, generally what you want to do, and I, listen, I have to remind myself of this as well.

00:38:51So this is not any big, uh, big, big diss on you, but generally what you want to do is

00:38:56you want to say,

00:38:57am I speaking from emotional reaction or am I providing value? Because it's very clear,

00:39:02I think to most people, uh, if you say, I don't know, being a good person doesn't guarantee love

00:39:06and success, nothing is guaranteed. Do you think there's anybody here who doesn't know that?

00:39:10And because it's very obvious that there's nobody here who doesn't already know that,

00:39:13that you're speaking from personal bitterness, which again, I sympathize. We all have it. I

00:39:17sympathize with all of that, but just be, uh, be careful. And the reason you want to be careful

00:39:23of that is that if you state the blindingly obvious as if it's a big revelation, it would

00:39:28probably tend to alienate or push people away. Uh, because smart people don't like to be lectured

00:39:37to about obvious things. Uh, Joe says, I figured Robert was really afraid of losing his wife

00:39:41family due to money status since he was willing to do the shady illegal stuff at the law firm.

00:39:50Right. Right.

00:39:55I wonder if everyone has an addiction, like, is it part of human condition? You just need to get a

00:40:00healthy addiction. Uh, no, there's no such thing as a healthy addiction. And addiction by definition

00:40:04is a repetitive habit that harms your self-interest.

00:40:10So it's like, uh, am I addicted to, to working out? Well, if I was working out

00:40:16to the point where I had actually visible muscles, see, I got my cute little muscles there. They're

00:40:21nice little, little, little doughy things. It's like a nice little, nice little hamster asleep on my

00:40:27arm under a nice blanket of pudgy skin. And I got my cute little muscles. I'm very happy with them.

00:40:33I think that they're sweet. I think they're kind of adorable. I'm like a Pillsbury dough Ken boy with

00:40:38a few punches in the right direction. I have my, my cute little muscles. I'm happy with them. I think

00:40:42they're fine. They're useful for me. And, uh, so that's fine. If I, you know, I'm going to be 60

00:40:48this year. And if I was working out to the point where I was constantly getting injured and hurting

00:40:51myself, uh, that would be bad, right? If I wasn't working out at all, uh, then that would be addicted

00:40:56to laziness. So I tried to do the Aristotelian mean when it comes to exercise and so on. Right.

00:41:02I'm also can be susceptible to, um, to injuries. Right. Damn says, Chris, you're spot on. I've been

00:41:10a workaholic and that hits deep. Oh man, nothing drives ambition. Like being unhappy at home. I mean,

00:41:15I had that in my twenties. One of the reasons why I was quite a successful entrepreneur

00:41:19in my twenties was I didn't like going home. So yes, I'm happy to stay at work. I'm happy to

00:41:28stay

00:41:28at work. It's like at the beginning of Kramer versus Kramer where he's just sitting there chatting at

00:41:32work. It's not particularly important and so on. Right. Well, here she comes. Watch out boy.

00:41:38She'll chew you up. All right. Uh, Steph, your book Dissolution was great. How is it that Shane's

00:41:46mother found him alone on his brother's grave, uh, while he got there with his new girlfriend?

00:41:52Does this imply that there was more to that chain of events than the direct description? Uh, sorry.

00:41:57Um, again, a little bit of a spoiler here. So if you read that, uh, a section carefully, um,

00:42:04well, uh, this is a little bit of a literary allusion. So Beatrice was Dante's guide in the

00:42:11Inferno, not like a real person. And, uh, the girlfriend is made up. The girlfriend is not real.

00:42:18The girlfriend is a, the girlfriend is a phantasm from his drug addiction. And the wasp sting is him

00:42:28taking his final fatal heroin dose. So, uh, no, there was no, uh, there was no girlfriend. And,

00:42:36and if you read it again, if you read it carefully, uh, it's, it's fairly clear when you reread it,

00:42:40that there is no actual girlfriend. All right. Other than preferences, what ultimate standard is

00:42:53morality, uh, based in, uh, well, it is based on a reason, reason and evidence, like all the truths

00:42:59that we accept in the world. It is based on reason and evidence. Uh, to me, it's like saying, uh,

00:43:05what,

00:43:06what are the truths in science, uh, based on what are valid, what are valid hypotheses in science based

00:43:11on? Well, they're based on two things. One, uh, logical consistency and two empirical evidence.

00:43:16And it's the same thing with morality. For more on that, you can get my free book,

00:43:20universally preferable behavior, a rational proof of secular ethics.

00:43:28Uh, no, the, the, the wasp stink. Cause you know, um, I think I say it stings him on his

00:43:32vein or

00:43:32something like that. So, uh, it is, um, he, he has fallen back into drug use, uh, because the nihilism

00:43:38has won. And, uh, and, and you can say, like, if you read about Beatrice in, in the chapter with

00:43:47Shane's death, uh, she has no needs and preferences of her own. She has no life of her own. Uh,

00:43:52she has no

00:43:52ideas that go into it. Everything is part of his mind. She has no thoughts or opinions or

00:43:58perspectives of her own. Uh, so she is a, uh, a drug fantasy that comes out of his, uh, narcissistic

00:44:04nihilism.

00:44:09Okay. Jose, can you just stop typing all of this crap? It really doesn't help.

00:44:18Virtue does not exist. Virtue does not exist. All people do their desire, then justify it.

00:44:24Virtue does not exist.

00:44:30All right. Uh, then you, what you should do is you should

00:44:37jump on X and tell me about how virtue doesn't exist. I would love to have that conversation.

00:44:43I really would. I'm addicted to staff. Well, that's, that's fair. That's valid. That's a plus.

00:44:49I figured the girlfriend ran off. She did say she was allergic and Shane just stayed there and let the

00:44:55wasp, uh, uh, sting him. Right. And I'm sorry to, you know, again, to, to go into the mechanics of

00:45:01the

00:45:01novel, but the reason why she says that she's allergic is because she's a fantasy of Shane's mind.

00:45:08And if he dies of an overdose, she's going to die in his mind. Right. So she is allergic to

00:45:14his drugs

00:45:15because if he takes too many drugs and dies, which he's obviously in danger of doing, then she

00:45:20vanishes. So that's why she says she's allergic to the wasp sting.

00:45:25Thank you, Steph. I suspected that she was that, and it means a lot that you affirmed this. Yeah.

00:45:32You used to ride a bike to get around instead of a car in your twenties, right? Did that discourage

00:45:36you from going home? I don't know what that means. So I did get, uh, a, um, a car in

00:45:41my business

00:45:41career. Uh, I, in fact, I had to, I was given a car allowance and I, the board told me

00:45:46in no uncertain

00:45:46terms that I had to get a car and it had to be a nice car, uh, because I picked

00:45:51up clients from the

00:45:52airport from fortune 500 companies. Right. Uh, I watched the movie, a room with a view. I do not

00:46:01understand why you think that movie is so, uh, so good. Can you please explain? Thank you. Did it

00:46:06remind you of old style England? Sure. Yeah. So, uh, a room with a view is a glimpse into the

00:46:13world

00:46:13before the world war, before world war one, the Edwardian era. The world before world war one was

00:46:22a relative paradise in that Western Europe went through almost a hundred years of no war from

00:46:30the fall of Napoleon in 1815 to the side of the first world war in 1914. I mean, the Franco

00:46:36-Prussian

00:46:37war 1870s, but for the most part, it was war free and huge amounts of wealth were created.

00:46:46And all of that wealth was then destroyed in world war one. And, uh, it is a beautiful view

00:46:52into a world where the big issues were authenticity and love and directness and honesty and all of

00:47:01that. So, uh, that's a great plot device reminiscent of fight club, but better. Oh, thank you.

00:47:16Uh, that was the list of great intellects who got married. The virtue does not exist guy was claiming

00:47:20that smart guys don't get married. Well, smart girls don't get married to nihilists.

00:47:28Your takes regarding atheists, says somebody, lead me to the conclusion that atheists are just afraid,

00:47:33afraid to admit their transgressions and wickedness.

00:47:37Uh, atheists are useful because Christians tend to oppose the state and atheists worship the state.

00:47:45They displace God and replace it with the state. I call them state-theists, right? They're state-ist

00:47:49atheists. So, is having a high body count inherently bad or is it the attitude about your past that's

00:47:56most important? Uh, no, having a high body count is inherently bad and it's particularly bad for females.

00:48:02Um, would, would anyone be interested in the reasons why? Um, well, I can touch them. I can

00:48:08touch them, uh, touch on them briefly. Uh, so of course for men, uh, the big issue is paternity

00:48:14fraud and a woman with a high body count, uh, you can't be sure that you're raising your own children

00:48:19because people got married and right very, very quickly in the past. And so, uh, paternity fraud

00:48:25is tough. If a woman has a high body count, it means she has an addiction to a very wide

00:48:31sexual

00:48:31appetite, a very varied sexual appetite, which means that she's more likely to cheat on you.

00:48:38And so that's bad as well, which is why a woman who is a virgin is so highly prized, right?

00:48:44She's

00:48:44a virgin on your wedding night, you impregnate her, you know that the children are yours and you say,

00:48:48ah, yes, well, but modern DNA, blah, blah, blah. But that's not how we evolved.

00:48:52And in general, because it's, it's very simple for a woman to have a high body count. It's very

00:48:59simple. And it's hard for a man to have a high body count because it's hard to seduce women,

00:49:05but it's easy for a woman to get sex. If a woman goes out and offers sex to men in

00:49:12a bar, she will

00:49:13go home with a guy every night, every night, every night. If she's like, and it almost doesn't matter

00:49:18how she looks, she will go home with a guy every, every night. So it's very easy for women to

00:49:24get

00:49:24sex. And so if a woman is doing that, which is very easy and dangerous, right? So she can get

00:49:31stalkers, she can get creeps, she can get STDs, she can get unwanted pregnancies. And in particular in

00:49:35the past, it just means that she's making bad decisions. And in general, men don't want to marry

00:49:40women who make bad decisions because a man is putting his life in her hands, so to speak,

00:49:45particularly legally, uh, to, to make good decisions. And so it's a hedonistic and, uh, and

00:49:53so on. And so, yeah, you don't want her to cheat on you. You want to make sure that your

00:49:59children

00:49:59are your own. And see, that's the funny thing, right? There's something kind of gay about this

00:50:08sort of modern stuff. I'm not putting this on anyone in the, in the chat here, but something

00:50:12kind of gay about it. So women say, we want to be like men. We want to be the same

00:50:18as men.

00:50:18And why, why could, why should there be a double standard? Well, you know why there's a double

00:50:22standard? Because straight men aren't gay. And because we're not gay, we don't want women who

00:50:28act like men. Because if we wanted women who acted like men, we'd be straight. We'd be gay,

00:50:33right? Not straight. So we want women who are very different from men. And so there's something

00:50:39kind of gay about convincing women to act like men. So a woman with a high body count

00:50:46is like a man, because most men would have a high body count if they could. And so a woman

00:50:52who has a high body count is like a gay man, because gay men in general have very high body

00:50:58counts. I mean, the number of, I mean, I know that there's some men who are monogamous in

00:51:03the gay community, but it's kind of rare. And I mean, I had a bunch of gay roommates when I

00:51:09was in

00:51:09college. And I mean, the sexual stories I heard from them were just astounding. Like one night,

00:51:15one of my roommates was telling me how he got a call. It was the wrong number, but they ended

00:51:21up

00:51:21having sex. I mean, it was crazy. It was crazy. And I had another roommate who would go to these

00:51:29clubs and come home with a different guy every night. And so a high body count is gay for men,

00:51:36because you're like a man. You have the, you know, you're like a man in that you have a high

00:51:42body count and you're supposed to be different from a man. Because if you want a straight man,

00:51:46you can't be like a man, because the only men who want women who are like men are gay men

00:51:51or

00:51:51something like that. So, all right. All right. Somebody, okay. So I hear a lot of talk about

00:52:10how having a high body count makes it difficult to pair bond. I don't understand what that means

00:52:15in reality. Does that mean you can't experience true love ever if you have a high body count

00:52:19because you're damaged or incapable afterwards? I mean, the analogy is like a piece of sticky tape,

00:52:26like you keep attaching it and removing it and attaching and removing it because every time you

00:52:29get your heart broken, you get a little bit of PTSD. You get a little bit more scared, a little

00:52:33bit

00:52:33more nervous, a little bit more jumpy, a little bit more defensive, a little bit less willing to

00:52:37surrender your heart and so on. Right. So I don't know why I said Western Europe. Russia,

00:52:44Turkish war is not Western Europe. You have to listen, listen, listen. All these people who want

00:52:51to seem smart, all these people who want to seem smart and all they're doing is not listening.

00:52:59What if you have a high body count, but it's mostly before the age of 21? Well,

00:53:02that's the reformed virgin stuff for sure. Right. Well, I mean, if it's long ago and you've

00:53:11reformed, then that's better, right? All right. What are your thoughts on libertarianism? You can

00:53:24go to fdrpodcast.com and do a search for libertarianism. I think it's pretty good.

00:53:28It's certainly better than conservatism, which conserves nothing, of course.

00:53:35Why do you think that some people believe that white knuckling it can actually work in terms of

00:53:39willing to change of something beyond their control? Is it a belief that force works?

00:53:45Well, so the reason that people want to white knuckle away from bad habits is they don't want

00:53:49to dig down into the root of their bad habits. And the reason they don't want to dig down into

00:53:53the

00:53:53root of their bad habits is because the people who raised them don't want them to dig around into the

00:53:58root of their bad habits, right? Nobody won the First World War. Yeah, nobody won the First World War.

00:54:04Now, the First World War was an example, of course, of how foreign intervention is just

00:54:10absolutely disastrous. Because in the First World War, they were fighting to a standstill

00:54:15and they would have all just had to go home because they were just running out of people,

00:54:21running out of money, even with money printing. And so in the First World War, they were just,

00:54:26it would have ended relatively quickly. But then when America came into the war in 1917,

00:54:31you got a fresh influx of troops on the Western Front. And then that meant that Germany had to

00:54:37move troops to the Western Front, which meant it had to do a deal with Russia, which meant that it

00:54:40had to ship the communists through Finland into Russia. And so as a result of joining the First

00:54:48World War, Russia fell to communism, and then eventually through Russia, a third of the world

00:54:52fell to communism. So it's just another example of just how bad it is, right?

00:55:02Yeah, libertarians, they mostly talk about, they talk about politics because they don't want to

00:55:06deal with violence within the family. Yeah, so women are told to be like men. Women are told that

00:55:14men is the ideal, men have power, men are free, men are the standard, and you should be like men.

00:55:21And no, you shouldn't be like men, and men shouldn't be like women. My wife is delightfully

00:55:26incomprehensible to me. She's very much a female, and she's very feminine, and it's beautiful. I mean,

00:55:34because I want the feminine as a straight man, I want the feminine. And as a straight woman,

00:55:40she wants the masculine, which I provide.

00:55:48I mean, the real body count for women isn't sex, but abortions.

00:55:57Yeah, and newsflash, straight guys don't want to date dudes. Yeah. So, I mean, this is what women

00:56:02have been sold, is that, you know, you got to be this tough chick, this Linda Hamilton. I mean,

00:56:08she was bipolar, but she's completely mental, right? So you got to be this tough chick, and you got to

00:56:12kick ass, and you got to, you know, chew gum and spit, and, you know, it's just like, whatever,

00:56:17right? All right. Somebody says, Steph, your latest article was brilliant. Well, thank you. I can't help

00:56:24but agree. I had the idea that it might be helpful to the uninitiated reader to include a negative

00:56:30example to the moral reasoning, as in why the avoidance of offensive speech does not qualify

00:56:34as UPB. The latter would be a misuse of the reasoning you apply. I appreciate that. Thank you.

00:56:38That's a good idea. I.e. to murder. How would you argue that? Offensive speech.

00:56:56Offensive speech. Yeah, I mean, the UPB argument about offensive speech is, it can't be universalized.

00:57:03Because if you say to me, Steph, your speech is offensive, and I say, well, your speech is

00:57:07offensive, and they say, can everyone ban speech they find offensive? Well, then nobody would be

00:57:11able to speak, and, right, so it can't be done. How do you put up with Christians in your life

00:57:19who

00:57:19aren't fighting tooth and nail to save people? I mean, I just view them as performative Christians

00:57:25for the most part. All right.

00:57:40Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger is a great memoir about World War I from the German perspective.

00:57:47What is feminine? That's a great question. I said incomprehensible, okay? Don't you hear me? I'm

00:57:52just kidding. What is a feminine? I mean, and feminine is nurturing. It cares about the environment.

00:57:59It runs the household. It works reasonably to keep people happy as best as possible. It is

00:58:06accommodating, and it surrenders to the masculine. I mean, there are certain areas in which men should

00:58:11surrender to women, and there are certain areas in which women should surrender to men. The cross

00:58:15surrendering is how you know the masculine from the feminine. There's areas in which my wife has

00:58:21unquestioned authority. There are areas in, well, it doesn't mean she can't be questioned. It's just

00:58:26that she gets the final say. And there's areas where I get unquestioned authority, and there, you know,

00:58:32obviously would be in typical masculine and feminine stuff. So feminine is when you find a man that you

00:58:37trust, and you just trust him, right? Because men have to put massive amounts of trust in women,

00:58:43because, again, we don't want to raise children who aren't our own. And also, men put massive amounts

00:58:49of trust in women, because men fight fair, and women generally fight kind of dirty, right? Women fight

00:58:53with reputational destruction. They fight with, if they want to kill you, right? It's poison, right? So

00:58:59one of the things that kind of changed with the introduction of autopsies was that women couldn't

00:59:05just poison their men, right? Because women have a very high body count in that regard. And if you

00:59:10look at searches for, like, how to kill a woman and how to kill a man, the how to kill

00:59:15a man is way

00:59:16higher. So women fight very dirty. A man very much puts his trust in the woman, and she needs to

00:59:24be

00:59:24trustworthy, even more so in some ways than the man needs to be trustworthy, because the woman always

00:59:31knows that she can find some man to provide for her. But if the woman turns on the man, she

00:59:39can kill

00:59:39him. Men don't generally kill their women, at least to the same degree or in the same ways, more subtle

00:59:45ways, maybe, poison and so on, or working them to death. But if a man breaks up with a woman,

00:59:56then

00:59:56she usually inherits the entire social circle, and he's kind of banned, because she immediately starts

01:00:01rushing around, lays the foundation as to how the man was brutal and terrible and bad and wrong and

01:00:05a narcissist and a sociopath and evil and scary and weird and unsettling and creepy. So she starts

01:00:12sowing all the seeds, and so his entire social circle is detonated. So he needs to trust that

01:00:18she's not going to do any of that kind of stuff. And so women need to gain men's trust, and

01:00:24they need

01:00:24to do that by respecting the man's perspective and opinions, right? So a woman who won't give you an area

01:00:31of authority is not a woman who can be trusted, right?

01:00:37All right.

01:00:42Yeah, I've got a whole truth about World War I, which you should check.

01:00:47Do you ever have to deal with noisy or obnoxious neighbors? What is your strategy?

01:00:52I mean, yeah, sometimes in apartments, I would have to deal with them, and I would just go and

01:00:56talk to them.

01:01:05Let's see here.

01:01:12Thoughts on Roy Kurzweil?

01:01:15I don't have any thoughts on Roy Kurzweil. Sorry, I don't know really anything about him other than

01:01:19some vague transhumanist stuff.

01:01:28Right.

01:01:31I guess I'm so fascinating that you all just want to receive.

01:01:34Okay. So I'm happy to take more questions. I can take a caller before the end of the show,

01:01:40but I thought I would spend a few minutes. Well, no, I'll hit me with the Y. Do you want

01:01:44to just,

01:01:45I can keep doing questions from the chat. Do C for chat, and V for victim, if you would like

01:01:56me to

01:01:56talk more about the dangers of professional victims?

01:02:06In America, sometimes those loud and obnoxious neighbors pretend not to speak English. Yeah,

01:02:09that's true.

01:02:11Joe Rogan mentioned in Epstein files. No wonder Rogan banned you.

01:02:15Well, I think that Joe Rogan was mentioned in that Epstein wanted Joe Rogan to come to a party

01:02:21and didn't. He didn't go. So he may be all right as far as that. All right. So, so victimhood.

01:02:28Okay.

01:02:28So victimhood. So victimhood as a whole is granting yourself permission for endless levels of aggression.

01:02:40So victimhood is like the fist coming back. Victimhood is like the gun being loaded and the

01:02:46chamber, like you're cocking the gun. And so it is, you know, like if you're out in the ocean and

01:02:56the

01:02:57ocean sort of sinks very suddenly, it's because that big giant tsunami is coming. Right. And so when

01:03:03somebody says, uh, I've been taken advantage of, people don't listen to me. Everybody screws me over.

01:03:08Uh, what they're doing is they're signaling that they are going to be, uh, very aggressive,

01:03:14that they have given themselves complete permission to be as aggressive as they want.

01:03:21That is what they are saying to themselves. So it is a very dangerous thing. It is a very dangerous

01:03:28thing to have those kinds of people in your life. Okay. Hang on. We got a call or maybe it's

01:03:36something to do with this topic. Maybe not. Let us find out. All right. You are on the line,

01:03:44my friend. What is on your mind? Maybe you are, maybe you're hearing. Yes. Oh, okay. Yeah. Um,

01:03:57I, um, I would say that by the time a woman is 18, her body count is incredibly high.

01:04:03Recently I banged out this girl who's 18 and she told me that before me she had 15 dudes and

01:04:10I'm

01:04:10like, wow, that's crazy. It was just shocking, you know, but it was good anyway. So yeah, I banged

01:04:18her out too. I mean, yeah. So you're basically sleeping with 15 guys. I don't know, man. That's

01:04:26just like every chick nowadays, even all the chicks in my hair and they've all have like,

01:04:31there's no chick that doesn't have a body count that's over 20 by the time she's probably 16. So

01:04:36I don't know. Yeah. Okay. All the chicks in my hair. I don't believe these guys for a second.

01:04:43I mean, and, and it's pretty funny. Oh, that's pretty funny. Yeah. I, I, you know, the guys who are

01:04:51like, Oh, the chicks in my hair and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Uh, I mean, either the guy is

01:04:56lying through his teeth, which I'm almost certain he is, or he's not in which case he just has to

01:05:00hang around the trashiest women, uh, known to man. Right. He just has to hang around the trashiest

01:05:07people, women known to man. And that's, that's pretty, that's pretty wretched. All right. We have

01:05:11somebody else to talk to. I just don't want to promote that kind of stuff because, you know,

01:05:15we want pair bonding, we want family formation and, and so on. Right. All right. We have somebody

01:05:22else on the line. If you want to unmute, I'm happy to hear what you have to say. Thanks for

01:05:28having me

01:05:29up. I appreciate that. Uh, coming off the Twitter space here, X, whatever, um, whoever that guy was

01:05:35before, I don't know, I guess he's not, uh, an adult man because an adult man who's over his forties

01:05:41should be maybe possibly having children right now who are in their twenties, going to college

01:05:48whatnot. So that would be just to me a little bit fucking weird to be having sex with such a

01:05:54young

01:05:54woman. Um, I don't know. That's strange to me. I don't know what the feeling is amongst the crowd

01:06:00or whatnot, but whoever that dude was, that's just crazy. In my opinion, assuming any of it's true,

01:06:06which I would doubt. Yeah. I mean, I mean, it's just weird as fuck to even discuss.

01:06:11Such things. But, uh, Stefan, man, I got a question for you. Like, um, how do you feel

01:06:16about, there's like so many questions I really have. Cause I'm just a long time listener, first

01:06:22time caller. And, um, you know, how do you feel about, uh, cryptocurrencies, maybe Epstein?

01:06:30I don't know. There's like a lot of just different directions you could go besides, um, feminine,

01:06:36masculine, whatever. I mean, I, I guess that's a point to have a discussion about, but

01:06:41in my opinion, like, you know, if we can change the money, we can fix the world. I don't know.

01:06:48That's just sort of my, uh, situation. I don't know. What do you feel about all this? What's

01:06:53going on currently? Uh, crypto, which is fine. So you're giving me a softball, spin it. You can

01:07:01spin stuff. Uh, okay. So I was talking about the victimhood. Let me ask you this. Have you

01:07:06ever had a professional victim or a heavy victimology kind of person in your life?

01:07:14Um, I don't know exactly what that terminology means. Perhaps you could break it down a little

01:07:20bit further for me. Like people who have been victimized by me or no, what I mean is that

01:07:25me behaving as a victim. Okay. So if you're going to, if you don't ask me the question, then

01:07:29let me answer. Okay. So what I mean by victimhood is the people who do bad things and, or make

01:07:38bad choices and then say it's everyone else's fault. So the woman who, you know, there's

01:07:43this kind of disparity in that diagnosed, uh, narcissists are very small, like a couple

01:07:50of percent of the population. And yet, if you talk to a lot of women, they've all claimed

01:07:54to have dated a narcissist and they're all just self-diagnosing or making things up. And

01:07:59a lot of times a woman says that a man is controlling when he just has reasonable limits

01:08:06on the behavior he expects from her. Like he doesn't want her to go to some nightclub

01:08:09and, uh, you know, bump and grind around the guys who want to sleep with her. And he says,

01:08:14I don't want you to go to the club. And you're like, Oh, you're so insecure. So controlling,

01:08:18such a narcissist, like whatever. Like, so, so people who make bad decisions or women who

01:08:23get involved with the guy who's clearly wrong and bad, right? So one of the ways that society

01:08:28gets completely hosed by the elites is they tell women, you can't trust men. Now, one thing that

01:08:34men know, we may not know a lot about women, but we do know about men and men, boys, we

01:08:39grew up with

01:08:40good men and good boys and bad men and bad boys around us. So we can spot bullies. We can

01:08:47spot

01:08:47dysfunctional men. We can spot mean guys. We can spot violent guys. We can spot shifty guys. We can

01:08:53spot sociopaths and, and we can spot the charming guys who've got no substance behind them. And we've

01:08:58got, we can spot guys who only talk women up, uh, for sex because we've all had those impulses.

01:09:04We've all had to master them in ourselves to one degree or another. So, uh, men are very good at

01:09:09figuring out, uh, bad men. And, uh, the problem is of course that women have been taught, uh, don't

01:09:15listen to men. You can't trust men, uh, and so on. And so anytime a man tries to give a

01:09:20woman good

01:09:21advice, like, yeah, don't date that guy. He's, he's not a good guy. Who are you to tell me what

01:09:25to do? Uh, I I'm a strong independent woman. And then they go to make these stupid mistakes. They

01:09:29date these guys. And then they say, well, what do women always say? If they've dated a bad guy,

01:09:34it turns out to be a bad guy. What did they always say? Well, he just turned out to be

01:09:37a bad guy.

01:09:38There was no sign ahead of time. He couldn't tell, couldn't know, couldn't possible, right?

01:09:41Right. And all of that. Right. So, uh, so have you ever known people could be men, most likely a

01:09:49woman? Have you, I guess we don't get it. Men don't get any excuses for our mistakes. So like

01:09:53nobody gives us any excuses for our mistakes. So have you ever known women who, or men who make bad

01:09:59choices and then blame everybody else and take no responsibility for themselves? Yeah, sure. I mean,

01:10:06there's like various degrees of these people, um, which I have, you know, previously or in my future

01:10:13probably will be associated with in one way or another. And it's, um, I guess it's a matter of

01:10:19going about, you know, how do even me, myself, I might even have been a victim of my own victimhood.

01:10:26I don't know exactly, you know, life. It's a complicated process, man. I appreciate your,

01:10:31your input. Well, we are victims sometimes. I mean, we're not responsible for the families,

01:10:35families we're born into. Right. But the typical victim conversation from male to female is the

01:10:40woman complains about a bad guy. And the man says, what, well, why did you date him? Well,

01:10:45I didn't know. There was no way to know. He was like, I mean, I dated with him. I dated

01:10:51him for

01:10:51like a year. And then he just turned into a monster out of nowhere. Like they just spread this absolute

01:10:56nonsense. Like men can just be perfectly nice and wonderful. And then, you know, Jekyll and Miss

01:11:01die, they get possessed and they just change. And it's all a complete lie. I mean, personality is

01:11:08one of the most stable things in life. I've mentioned this story before, but many, many years

01:11:13ago, I went to a high school reunion. It was actually just by accident. I was just hanging

01:11:16out with a friend in Domas. We went to the high school reunion and, and everybody was the same.

01:11:22Everybody, the shy girls were still shy. The outgoing guys were still outgoing. The, the autistic guys

01:11:28were still autistic. The nerdy guys were still nerdy. I was still me. And everyone was like,

01:11:31my God, you're the same as you were 20 years ago. It's like, yes, personality is very stable

01:11:36over the course of life. I mean, there are stresses and problems. Maybe you get sick or whatever. Right.

01:11:40But personality is very stable. And of course, and I had a woman talk to me, uh, not too, too

01:11:47long

01:11:47ago, complaining about a guy, uh, that, that she'd, uh, she'd married. Right. And I was like, well,

01:11:54did, did you ask any men their advice? No, no. It's like, well, men know bad men. We know bad

01:12:01men. We know we have bad impulses ourselves. We mastered them. We can see them in others,

01:12:05uh, but you can't get, you know, it's, it's patriarchal to give women good advice about bad

01:12:09men. So women date these bad guys. Cause you know, maybe they give them the tingles or there's

01:12:14a little bit of, what's it, uh, uh, this sort of fetish that women have for civilia or something

01:12:20like that for, for criminals or whatever. So she dates some bad guy and then, uh, he turns out to

01:12:25be a lazy guy or a bad guy or a violent guy or a neglectful guy or an addict or

01:12:30something like that.

01:12:31And she's like, you know, why did you date the bad guy? Well, I didn't know. There was no way

01:12:34to

01:12:34know. And, and everyone's like, Oh, Pat, Pat, Pat. That's so sad. Right. When men claim they didn't

01:12:39know, everyone's like, well, that was stupid. But when women claim they didn't know, it's like,

01:12:42well, okay, you couldn't have possibly known. And what they do is they spread then this general

01:12:47existential anxiety and terror and fear into everyone else that you can date someone who's

01:12:52just really nice. And then just mysteriously, uh, they turn bad. And, you know, I've been married

01:12:57for like, I've been with my wife for almost a quarter century now. And she's as great now as

01:13:01when I first met her and better in many ways. Uh, and I don't wake up every morning thinking,

01:13:07Hey, is she going to be a completely different human being? Of course not. She doesn't wake up

01:13:11wondering if I'm going to be a completely different human being. That's called love. Love is trust.

01:13:16Trust is pair bonding. Pair bonding is the recognition that a person who has integrity

01:13:21is not going to behave randomly. And so, yeah, so victims are very dangerous because victims

01:13:27by saying there was no way I could have known and then blaming everyone else instill and in,

01:13:32and so within you a general paranoia about falling in love because they say, well, I fell in love

01:13:37and the guy just became mysteriously bad after six months or a year or two years or three years or

01:13:41whatever. It was just, just terrible. It was just terrible. And, and that's, you know,

01:13:46that's really toxic and dangerous. So there's a lot of subtle negative things that victimizers are

01:13:52going to, um, do for you. And one of the things is they will make you absolutely paranoid about

01:13:59trusting people and, uh, falling in love. All right. Uh, thank you for the questions.

01:14:05Yes. Pie. You have, uh, something that you wanted to add or mention or, uh, somewhat like that, lad.

01:14:14Yes. Can you hear me? Am I coming through? Uh, you are very quiet, my friend.

01:14:18Can you hear me now? Is this better? Uh, well, it's hard to hear, but, uh, you can, uh, maybe

01:14:23just

01:14:23give me a brief question. Cause I don't know if we can have a conversation with your volume level.

01:14:28Uh, I'll just get out of the way. Thanks for having me on. Okay. All right. Uh,

01:14:35herbristophilia. Thank you. Thank you. I knew it was some sort of word that you sound out when

01:14:40you're having a stroke. Uh, Oh, wait, we've got Alex. Alexikoff. If you want to unmute, I'm happy to hear.

01:14:53Hey, um, uh, I've got a quick question. Uh, and I apologize if you already answered it. Cause I did

01:14:59ask a couple of times in a couple of comments and whatnot, but I was wondering if, um, if you

01:15:05had

01:15:07any insight as to the, uh, the Bitcoin, uh, core update version 30, uh, if you thought that,

01:15:15you know, the, the changes to the op return, if you thought that that had any, uh,

01:15:21thing to do with the recent drop in price. No, I don't think so. Fundamentally. Um, I did a show

01:15:28on this, uh, recently, uh, just to do, do a search for my last, uh, Bitcoin show. And I also

01:15:33did a show

01:15:33where I went through the, uh, upgrade, uh, in, in fairly big detail. So I won't sort of go over

01:15:39that,

01:15:40uh, as a whole. Uh, no, I, I don't think it's foundational to that. I think it is a, um,

01:15:48I think it has to do with institutional investors who are not true believers in that sense. They're

01:15:59not foundational true believers in the mission of Bitcoin for them. Bitcoin is a money, uh, making

01:16:04machine. And so there's a certain amount of stability to it. And let's just see here. It

01:16:15it bounced down to into the Canadian, it bounced down to, you know, 88, 89. Now it's back up to

01:16:2393. Uh, it's almost back up to 94. So it's gone up. Uh, so there's a certain, um, uh, purchase

01:16:31and

01:16:32sell that's automated. So in the past people bought and sold based upon some, to some degree, greed,

01:16:37but also a mission. Uh, now it's just a financial instrument. And there are tons of people who are

01:16:42trading from major institutions that aren't any kind of true believers. So because of that,

01:16:49uh, it is just a profit loss, uh, situation. So, uh, I don't think it's, I think it had to

01:16:55do with

01:16:55people thinking that there was going to be a tighter money supply. And if there's a tighter

01:16:59money supply and the dollar rises in value, then Bitcoin becomes less attractive as an inflation

01:17:04hedge. I think that's the, the major issue. But again, you can go more into the detail, uh,

01:17:09uh, in my recent shows on Bitcoin and in particular, the one where I talk about the, um, uh, the,

01:17:17the actual, um, technical aspects of that upgrade.

01:17:23Right. I, I did actually, uh, that was the only reason that I do about the, the, uh, update in

01:17:28the

01:17:28first place. And, and it seems like the, the price has gone down. Uh, you know, I mean, it's,

01:17:34it's not, I mean, it is par for the course for Bitcoin to kind of do this. Um,

01:17:39so I'm not like overly concerned, but I was looking at, uh, um, you know, whether or not

01:17:47people have kind of just switched over to knots for their nodes and whatnot. It does seem like

01:17:50the majority are still sticking with core. And do you think that that, um, still kind

01:17:57of the pot, when I listened to, to your talk on the, uh, on the version 30 update, the, the

01:18:05version, the update hadn't gone through yet. And now that it has gone through, um, I was just

01:18:11wondering if you, uh, think that that's any kind of cause for concern or, I mean, compared to what

01:18:19like fiat currency is going to zero, you know, that, right? I mean, we all know that, right?

01:18:23Fiat currency is going to zero and yeah, I, I don't believe given the massive explosion in,

01:18:29um, the debt, right? So, so the sort of mass migration is supposed to be a way of dealing

01:18:34with the debt. Like the U S economy, uh, since COVID has not grown except in the healthcare

01:18:40sector. Like if you take out the healthcare sector, it's stagnant as hell. And yet there's

01:18:44a huge amount of liability that is in there. I mean, the, the open borders under Biden brought

01:18:51into America, massive financial liabilities in that, you know, there's a lot of people who

01:18:57are being paid a lot of money to be in the country and they're driving down wages and to get

01:19:03them out

01:19:03is very expensive. So it's a massive minus on the ledger sheet and the American economy, uh, couldn't

01:19:10even survive that not happening. Right. I mean, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the numbers, uh, are, are

01:19:17absolutely staggering and it is completely accelerating the destruction of the U S dollar as any

01:19:22kind of reserve, uh, currency, right? So let me just get you some numbers here. So I sort of make,

01:19:29make sense, uh, about, uh, about what I'm talking about. Come on, you can, you can do it.

01:19:44Why is the search broken? I think the search is broken. Okay. So it's not searching for me. So let

01:19:50me

01:19:50just, um, uh, see if I can dig it up a little bit faster, but the amount of people who

01:19:57came into

01:19:57America under Biden and are sending money out of the country is truly staggering. And people, I don't

01:20:07think have much of a grasp, and I'm sorry to sound sort of annoying about this, but I don't think

01:20:13that

01:20:13people have much of a grasp on, on how big the numbers are as a whole. And I was talking

01:20:24about

01:20:25this sort of many years ago, how much of the Mexican economy was dependent upon remittances from people

01:20:32in the, uh, in the U S right. And, and of course, you know, you get people who come into

01:20:36the country

01:20:37and they go to emergency, uh, for healthcare and they can't say no to them because of laws.

01:20:42And so that drives the price of healthcare through the roof. Cause it's just about the most expensive

01:20:47way to get healthcare is through the emergency room. And so, uh, it's just everywhere that, uh,

01:20:55you look, there's just a massive amount of costs being sort of baked in to the cost of housing is

01:21:05going through the roof and, uh, the wages are, are, are crashing and young people can't get their

01:21:11foot in the door because most people would rather hire, hire adults than teenagers because teenagers

01:21:16are just kind of passing through. And it is just wild. How much like 10% of some South or

01:21:27Central

01:21:27American countries, 10% of the population came to America and is really, they're just sending massive

01:21:33amounts of money back to their home country. And sometimes, you know, 10%, 20% of the entire GDP

01:21:42of those other countries is money being hoovered up out of the American economy and sent overseas.

01:21:49Now I get it's a round trip. They have to buy something American and so on, but it's really not,

01:21:53uh, not quite the same. Okay. I'm going to try one more.

01:22:02Thank you, Steph. Yeah. And, and of course, what should happen is remittances should be,

01:22:06uh, should be taxed, right? Remittances should be taxed. Uh, that would make the most sense,

01:22:12uh, but that's a pretty tough. Oh yeah, here we go. Uh, 37% of Nicaragua's, sorry, this is from

01:22:19White Papers Policy Institute. 37% of Nicaragua's GDP is remittances from the U.S. $6.2 billion.

01:22:2625% of El Salvador's GDP is remittances from America. 27% of Honduras's economy is remittances.

01:22:3619% of Guatemala's economy. 70% of Hispanic migrants are using the welfare state.

01:22:43So Americans are paying for this, right? Migration boom drove record $38.2 billion in remittances in

01:22:522024. Uh, that is in Australia. Uh, 5.16 to 6.2 million Indians live in the U.S., a

01:23:02larger

01:23:03population than that of 14 of India's own states and territories. 38 billion in remittances flowed

01:23:08to India from the U.S. in 2025. Meanwhile, American tech grads struggle to find work while companies

01:23:14import more H-1Bs. About 10% of the Somali diaspora live in the United States, 180,000 people. Another

01:23:2110% in Britain, 12% in Europe. Remittances to Somalia were $1.7 billion. 40% of families in

01:23:29Somalia are receiving money from remittances. Western taxpayers are funding 17 to 20% of Somalia's

01:23:35GDP. It's wild. 366 million pounds per month in remittances flows from to Pakistan from Britain,

01:23:454.4 billion dollars annually. 33% of Pakistanis in the U.K. have never worked. Uh, it's, uh, and

01:23:54these, these, um, these numbers could go, go on and on. Remittances from the U.S. to Mexico

01:24:00accounted for $28 billion in 2016. That's about 25% of the national GDP of $1.11 billion that

01:24:07year. And of course, it's much, much higher now. And so it's, uh, it's, uh, it's quite, uh, it's

01:24:18quite, it's quite mad. And, and so, yeah, so you can say, oh, well, the Bitcoin core and the numbers

01:24:23and the, you know, but it's like compared to what, I mean, honestly, uh, to me, and I'm not trying

01:24:29to

01:24:29put you in any negative light, but for me, it's like saying, well, uh, you know, the, the color of

01:24:35the, the cushions on the life raft are not quite to my, my satisfaction. So, and I'm down to 1

01:24:40% on

01:24:40my phone here. So I think I'm going to have to, uh, end that stuff because I'm, I'm about to

01:24:44go

01:24:44dark on X. Sorry about that. Uh, I didn't quite get around to setting up the full charge today.

01:24:49So, uh, I hope that's helpful and I, I appreciate that. And given that I am at 1%, I should

01:24:54probably

01:24:54end here. Let me go back and see if there's anything else to answer on the rumble, the rumble.

01:25:02Yeah. There were no signs. He just changed out of nowhere. This is what people say. Yeah. It's,

01:25:06it's crazy. What if my wife mysteriously turns fat? Well, of course, if your wife loves you,

01:25:10she won't turn fat. I mean, except to be big with child to keep, continue your line. But one of

01:25:15the

01:25:15reasons I work out is that I have a monopoly on my wife's romantic affections. And so if I have

01:25:20a

01:25:20monopoly, I've got to stay healthy, right? When the personality is altered by PTSD, I feel there is

01:25:25lots of room for change for better during the recovery. Yeah. Today's free domain show way

01:25:30better than bad bunnies halftime show. I think so. You should listen to that guy without the backup.

01:25:36Uh, it's crazy. All right. Let's see here.

01:25:45In March 2019, Bitcoin was 3500. Two months later, 17K. Three months later, 21K. Two months later,

01:25:5250K. Yeah. Yeah. Congress won't stop overspending. Well, I think that's a guaranteed truth for sure.

01:26:01It's going to get much lower. I believe. I don't think so. I don't think so.

01:26:07Because, uh, uh, previously it didn't have institutional purchases, right?

01:26:14Do, do, do. All right. Let's see here. Oh, uh, uh, uh, Tuesday, Tuesday morning,

01:26:19I'll be on the, uh, Scott Adams Memorial. It's not quite a Memorial show, but the Scott Adams thing.

01:26:23Oh, and also I forgot to mention, uh, my, my date has been moved to April 11th for World War

01:26:29Debate,

01:26:30World War Debate in Atlantic City. You should definitely come out there. There'll be a whole

01:26:35dinner and a whole meet and greet and all of that, but I will be out there, um, on the

01:26:4011th of April,

01:26:41uh, wordwardebate.com, wordwardebate.com. All right. Let's see here. What a show. Thank you,

01:26:50Steph. Well, I appreciate that. Thank you for dropping by. Did you see AI Scott Adams show? No,

01:26:55I think that's too close to having a seance and will invite demons into my brain.

01:26:59So no, I didn't. All right. Well, thanks everyone for a great chat tonight. We will talk to you of

01:27:03course, Sunday morning at 10 AM for the subscriber show, freedomain.com slash donate to help out the

01:27:08show shop.freedomain.com for your, uh, merch and freedomain.com slash books. You can get the tasty

01:27:17new physical copies of, uh, the book and maybe I'll send some books out to Atlantic City and have

01:27:25them available for a signed purchase. That might be kind of cool. I did that in Australia back in the

01:27:29day. It was very, very fun and cool. So yeah, uh, Tuesday morning at, um, I think it's 10 AM,

01:27:35uh, Scott, uh, beyond Scott, the Scott Adams, um, the post Scott Adams, uh, show. And I've got some

01:27:41other shows coming up, hopefully in a week or two, an in-studio show that I did recently, which was

01:27:46quite interesting. Uh, we'll be out and, um, have yourself a glorious evening. Lots of love from up

01:27:53here, my friends. Bye.

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