Respect Male Bodies! Listener Questions

Stefan Molyneux

Philosopher Stefan Molyneux demands respect for male bodies in this listener questions show, arguing the body gives the real empirical ground while propaganda and authority try to override it by trashing male instincts and pushing blind obedience to kings, clergy, and states. He urges trusting those instincts to spot lies, pull over from tailgaters, and build a life free of violence and rights violations.  0:00:00 Questions  0:02:09 The Body Knows Best  0:06:43 Power Hates Empirical Truth  0:15:44 Instincts Expose the Ritual  0:17:36 Chasing Truth, Not Numbers  0:30:09 Why Young Leaders Are Rare  0:34:03 Bitcoin Hype and Market Games  0:35:56 How to Handle Road Rage  0:40:42 Healthy Pleasure or Hedonism?   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/FREEDOMAIN2026

Transcript

00:00Hey everybody, it's the Femme Molyneux from FreeDomain, hope you're doing well.

00:04This is round two, take two, tech issues, but anyway.

00:08So these are questions from the Wednesday last live stream, sorry I didn't get to them

00:13there, but I want to follow up, there's some great questions.

00:16So, Eric writes, my sister has a saying, don't get involved with matters of the heart.

00:22As much as I get on her about her behavior, I've learned not to meddle with her boyfriend

00:30stuff, it breaks my heart.

00:31Yeah, so there's a general perception in the world that the mind is a seat of reason and

00:40the body is this seething mass of contradictions and passions and hedonism and lust and pain

00:46and it's somehow inferior or base or negative or a problem.

00:51This view is entirely pushed by hyper-political power-mongers of the primarily familial, religious

01:01and political stripe in order to have you self-surrender to their endless bullshit.

01:09So, I studied philosophy for 20 years before I really began to put it into practice because

01:17the study of philosophy and the abstractions and these beautiful, high, snow-capped, alpine,

01:25crystalline, platonic ideals are just intoxicating and to study reason and to study argumentation

01:34and metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, it's just fantastic.

01:38Actually putting it into practice, though, eh, kind of a different matter.

01:43And once I started to actually put philosophy into practice, all of my relationships fell

01:47apart.

01:48I was cast into the wilderness for a lot longer than 40 days and 40 nights until I found rational

01:55people and built an entirely new life.

01:58I tell you, man, I pretty much thought I was going to die in that there desert, but I pushed

02:04through and found a wonderful new village of truly beautiful people.

02:10So, the body is not your enemy.

02:15The body is the basis of your brain.

02:18The body is like the foundation.

02:20It is like the basement walls.

02:23It is the first floor, the second floor, the roof.

02:26Your consciousness is like a little chimney on top.

02:29The chimney can't exist without the base.

02:33And the body is far older than the conscious mind, a couple hundred thousand years versus

02:43tens of millions.

02:44It's way older.

02:45Of course, the instincts go further away, back all the way to single-celled organisms have

02:50their, quote, instincts in a way.

02:52They pursue food and avoid negatives.

02:56So, as a whole, the body is older and wiser than the mind.

03:04The mind has, the conscious mind has its own specific powers and abilities, which are fantastic

03:09and beautiful, but I can't communicate my thoughts without the body, right?

03:13Without the hands, without the voice, without the eyes.

03:16I can't read the questions, right?

03:18So, the body is the foundation of life.

03:22If the body is the foundation of the mind, the body can exist and survive without the

03:26mind.

03:27I mean, if hooked up to machines and so on, or there's lots of mindless people around

03:30there who don't allow two thoughts in a row to trouble them for their entire existence,

03:35but the mind cannot exist without the body.

03:39The body has a second brain, a gut brain.

03:41It has finely tuned instincts that have evolved over millions and millions of years, or you could

03:48argue billions of years, and the instincts are empirical.

03:54See, the conscious mind can be anti-empirical, right?

03:57There's no such thing as the world of Lord of the Rings or Star Wars, but the mind can

04:02create those things.

04:03The mind can be anti-empirical, which is a good thing.

04:08It's a good thing.

04:08That's how we get to the actual truths, right?

04:10I mean, the world looks flat, it's round, blah, blah, blah.

04:12So, the mind is anti-empirical, or has that capacity, which is great, but we still absolutely

04:21desperately need the empiricism of the body.

04:25That we absolutely and desperately and completely need is the empiricism of the body.

04:30All propaganda is designed to give you counterintuitive empiricism.

04:35So, like in propaganda, the well-put-together girl from the seemingly nice family is secretly

04:41anorexic and a total witch with a capital B, whereas the blue-haired, tubby, face-tattooed

04:47girl is really sweet and sensitive and thoughtful and mature and white.

04:51Like, it's just counter-signaling all the time.

04:52That's all you get from propaganda.

04:55It is designed to overwhelm your body's empirical nature to program you with the opposite of what

05:00is usually true.

05:05So, the body is empirical, the mind is abstract, and both things are needed, right?

05:12So, in the scientific method, which is a union of the mind and the body, in the scientific

05:17method, your abstractions matter, but they need to be empirically tested in the real world,

05:29right?

05:30I mean, I remember when I was taking my English degree, about two years in, about a year and

05:38a half in, I was like, I can basically say anything.

05:40Oh, I think this book is about this.

05:41I think the theme is this.

05:42I think the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

05:43I can basically say anything.

05:45There's no grounding.

05:45There's no reality.

05:46That's why I switched.

05:47Well, I went to the National Theatre School for almost two years and then studying acting

05:51and playwriting, and then I went to finish my undergrad and graduate degree in history,

05:55because at least there's some facts, some reality, some truth there.

06:00It's not just spinning spiderwebs in the clouds that are attached to nothing and don't last.

06:07So, the body is empirical.

06:10If you go to sleep hungry and you have a dream of eating at a fantastic buffet, you wake up

06:18with no additional calories.

06:19The body is empirical.

06:22You can say, oh, I'm fine.

06:24I don't need any sunscreen.

06:26I'm not going to sunburn, but your body will get a sunburn.

06:29Your body is empirical.

06:31So, the reason why the powers that be oppose the body is that the body doesn't recognize

06:41power.

06:44This is really, really important.

06:47And, sorry, not like the other things aren't, but in particular, everybody's had that funny

06:53feeling when you see, say, Prince Charles in this wildly ornate throne with this goofy

06:59gay crown and stuff like that, and he's talking about, oh, we're going to get digital

07:04ID.

07:06I mean, everybody has the thought, don't you, that Emperor's New Clothes thought.

07:14Look, this is just a goofy guy in a funny hat, because that's what he is.

07:19He's a goofy guy, goofy jugglered guy with weird sexual habits in a funny hat.

07:26That's all he is.

07:28He's not the king.

07:31He's just a goofy guy in a funny hat.

07:33Same thing with the Pope or whatever, right?

07:35And so, the body is empirical.

07:39And what does the body see when it looks at a king?

07:42It sees a guy in a funny hat, or a queen, it's a girl, a woman in a funny hat,

07:46right?

07:49And you look at the Pope, and the Pope exists.

07:52The body, right?

07:54The guy, and the learning, and all of that, that's real.

07:57The Popemobile exists.

07:59The Vatican is a physical place.

08:01The robes exist.

08:02The funny hat exists.

08:03But the Pope, as a glowing acolyte with proximity to the divine, who regularly receives divine

08:11commandments, like you throw refuse from the roof down those pipes into the dumpster when

08:16you're doing construction, that the Pope is the regular recipient of perfectly divine

08:22commandments that can never be explained or proven, and it's just, trust me, bro, that

08:26doesn't exist.

08:27The king, as an ornate messenger of the gods placed there by the divine to rule over you,

08:33that's not real.

08:34That's not a thing.

08:36You see, a government, the government doesn't exist.

08:40Buildings, people, guns, prisons, other guys in funny wigs, the judges in England, they all

08:46exist.

08:47The government doesn't.

08:49The physical church exists.

08:51God's grace, God.

08:53The body can't see God.

08:55The body can't see the threads of kingly order and perfection that drive his divine right

09:04to rule over you.

09:05Nope.

09:06The body doesn't see the collective.

09:10Sees a bunch of people, but doesn't see any particular additional thing other than those

09:17bunch of people.

09:18Doesn't gain legitimacy.

09:2051% versus 49% does not gain moral legitimacy.

09:23So the body doesn't see power.

09:27The body sees people and things and guns and objects and buildings and books and letters

09:32and laws.

09:33I mean, words on a piece of paper exist, and people who are willing to shoot you if you

09:40don't obey them, that all exists.

09:42The law is not something that exists independent of the writings and the enforcement.

09:49So the body is the enemy of those in power because the body sees those in power as just

09:56more bodies.

09:57Just other bodies.

09:59There's no divine right.

10:00There's no nimbus.

10:01There's no glow.

10:02There's no aura.

10:03There's no magical extra essence of humanity that gives them the right to rule over you.

10:08They're just people.

10:11The body sees bodies.

10:12It does not see power, which is why those in power have to tell you that the body is

10:17wretched and evil and sinful and satanic and demonic and lustful and hedonistic and

10:21greedy and feted and wretched and farty and gassy and sick and dying and aging and wrinkled

10:27and bleh, right?

10:29And in particular, the male body, right?

10:31There's this old Seinfeld episode where the female, the debate is about why is it good

10:38for a woman to walk around with no clothes on in the apartment, but it's bad for a man

10:42to do so.

10:42And the woman says, well, the woman's body is a thing of beauty.

10:45The man's body is just functional.

10:47It's just like a Jeep.

10:47It just gets you from place to place.

10:49So, the male body has to be in particular denigrated as a smarty, skidmarky, and gassy

10:56and smelly and, right, and dad body and tubby, like, because the women tend to follow power

11:05more and men tend to be more skeptical of it.

11:07So, the male body is the greatest threat to the powers that be, which is why the male

11:11body has to be constantly attacked and denigrated, the body as a whole.

11:14And this is true of religion, that the body, but to the girl, though the gods inherit below

11:18is all the fiends.

11:20So, religion has a particular hostility to the body and in particular to the male body.

11:26There are many religious paintings of the beauty of the female body, but few, of course, with

11:31regards to the beauty of the male body, because the male body is the entity in the universe

11:37least likely to accept without question the existence of gods and churches and theology

11:44and divine power and the authority of priests and the infallibility of the pope.

11:47But that's all, the body is just like, a bunch of nonsense, just a bunch of people.

11:53So, you're going to be attacked for the body, through the body, via the body.

11:57So, when there's this argument, oh, the heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.

12:02The heart, the mysterious instincts that oppose the elevated purity of your ideal beliefs

12:10and the body is dragged down to the flesh, right?

12:13No, no, that's a, I mean, instincts literally saved my life.

12:18I'm just, just so you know, just, it's really, really personal to me.

12:21So, I'm very passionate about these, these instincts.

12:25Because my instincts were telling me that I was living a life asleep.

12:29I was living a life of imaginary virtue rather than practical morals.

12:37And that the people around me didn't care about me, didn't ask me how I was doing, whether

12:42I was happy, what I wanted.

12:44They were going to just let me sail off and marry entirely the wrong woman.

12:47People I'd known for like 20 years.

12:50I had nothing to say about it.

12:51Didn't bring me up short.

12:52And I was like, okay, well, I don't have a good troop around me.

12:56I don't have a good group around me.

12:57I have a group of indifferent, attached people who like my company, but don't care about me.

13:03Hey, I'm entertaining, I'm engaging, I'm funny, I'm wise, I'm meh.

13:08But anyway, as far as actually me, no, no.

13:12I mean, it's a funny thing because I'm thinking about this question.

13:17One thing that pops into my mind is a haunting slash funny memory of when I was six.

13:25So as I mentioned before, I went to boarding school for a couple of years from six to

13:28eight and I was playing soccer with my friends in the quad and somebody kicked the ball over

13:40the fence, a little wrought iron fence on a brick wall.

13:43And we could have conceivably tried to go and get a teacher or a prefect and go and get

13:49the ball back, but it would have taken forever.

13:51And we were neck and neck in a very exciting game.

13:56So I just climbed up, climbed over the fence, got the ball and came back.

13:59But then one of the weaselly little greasy prefects or some other student knocked on me

14:05and I got pulled up to the principal's office, the headmaster's office.

14:08It was a very solemn, long-faced fellow in his fifties, I suppose.

14:15And he gave me a lecture on rules and propriety and respect and maturity and all sorts of

14:21nonsense, all of which was a preamble to beating me on the ass with a cane.

14:30And I mean, it didn't actually even hurt that much, but I do remember being bent over his

14:37desk and being beaten on the ass with a cane, thinking, well, this is weird.

14:45This is just some old guy who wants to beat little boys on the butt with a stick.

14:54And I remember there was this breathing, his breathing, a little bit of spittle flying

14:58by on the side of my vision in the sunlight and just the dust coming up from the beating

15:04and the tug on the desk where, and it was just like, okay, this is just some weird, panting,

15:11sweaty guy who wants to beat me on the butt with a stick.

15:15It wasn't a headmaster who was enforcing the golden rules of obedience and respect and the

15:20empire.

15:20It was just like, I didn't do anything bad, anything wrong.

15:23I just went to go and get a ball.

15:25I didn't dangle a kid out of the third story window or set fire to the infirmary.

15:29Nope, I just went to get a ball.

15:31Like, it was all nonsense, right?

15:31And it was just like, okay, so this is just some weird, fetishistic, sweaty guy, a weird

15:37old creepy guy who wants to beat boys on the butt with a stick.

15:45And that flushed a vague masturbatory satisfaction when it was all said and done.

15:50It's like, it was all just a bunch of nonsense and rituals, and he was just a weird old guy

15:56who wanted to hit kids on the butt.

15:58He had an ass fetish or something, a beating ass fetish or something.

16:01I mean, so the body is just like, well, this is weird.

16:04But of course, the mind is like, ah, but I disobeyed the rules, and I'm showing disrespect

16:08for the institution, and I'm putting people in danger.

16:11Ah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

16:12It's like, ah, it's just a weird old guy who likes to hit kids on the butt because he's

16:17completely screwed up.

16:20So, yeah, respect the instincts.

16:24They are there to help you.

16:25They are there to instruct you on what is real rather than what is imagined.

16:33Right?

16:33So your parents say, ah, I love you.

16:35I love you.

16:35I love you so much.

16:36And maybe they do.

16:37And if they do, wonderful, great.

16:38They care about you.

16:39They ask you about things.

16:39They give you wisdom.

16:40They're close to you and so on.

16:41Fantastic.

16:42But a lot of times, people just say stuff, and it's a whole lot easier to say stuff than

16:46to do stuff.

16:47Right?

16:47It's a lot easier to say, I want to lose weight than to actually diet and lose weight.

16:50It's a lot easier to say, I want muscles than it is to go to the gym, get your protein,

16:54and learn about things, and exercise, and hurt, and limp, and right?

16:57It's a whole lot easier.

16:58So people can just say stuff.

16:59And saying stuff is the purview of the mind, and the real stuff is the purview of the body.

17:03And the unreality of the mind is a great thing.

17:06I had to envision being a public philosopher before I became a public philosopher.

17:10So, right, it wasn't real until I made it real.

17:13So the unreality of the mind is fine.

17:15The reality of the body is essential.

17:17And so when people say, oh, but my heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing,

17:25they're saying that the mind is rational and the body is irrational, when very often the

17:31mind is irrational and the body is rational by being empirical, right?

17:37So, all right.

17:41Somebody asks, for some reason, capitalism used to mean having a market to sell products

17:46to more humans, and was a good thing.

17:49Since we've become a quasi-capitalist government system, it seems the individual isn't that

17:53important.

17:54Also, convenience or laziness?

17:56I don't understand that question.

17:57Please rephrase.

18:00YouTube John from YouTube.

18:01John writes, Steph, will you do a collaboration with Academy of Ideas?

18:06Thoughts on YouTube channel.

18:08I mean, I guess it's a bit picked in, but that's all right, it's typing.

18:11So, yeah, I'll tell you what I think about that.

18:19And for those of you who don't know, in my multifaceted disco ball of a career, I was also

18:24a director of marketing for some time.

18:28So, I will dig deep and tell you all about the reality of this.

18:33I don't know Academy of Ideas.

18:35I think I've come across them once or twice.

18:37Would they do a collaboration with me?

18:40So, for a variety of reasons, which we can get into, I'm not much of a draw, right?

18:46So, I'm on other people's shows, occasionally, like once every month or two, I do someone else's

18:50show.

18:50I was on BTC sessions, and as I've done other people's shows, there's not a big, huge rise

18:57in their numbers, right?

18:58So, it's not like they get 10 times the numbers if I'm on their show.

19:02I'm not that much of a draw.

19:10And most people, they sit around, right?

19:14They're a bunch of people who do a show, and they sit around and say, who can we collaborate

19:17with?

19:17Who can we do a show with?

19:18Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

19:19That's fine.

19:20And I understand how that process works.

19:22I've done it the same thing.

19:24And what they're doing is they're saying, basically, who's going to pump her numbers?

19:29Who's going to be someone who's going to get her numbers up?

19:32Not who's right, not who's moral, not who's good, not who's unjustly attacked or persecuted,

19:37not who has integrity, but who's going to pump her numbers, right?

19:43So, I don't pump people's numbers.

19:46I don't go on people's shows and they get, well, we normally get 50,000 views, but we

19:51got 500,000 views because Steph was on our show, right?

19:58It's not because I don't have compelling and interesting things to say.

20:00I know that I do, but it's because there is, again, this is very abstract, maybe true,

20:07maybe not true.

20:08My general theory is that the world is keeping me from prominence so I can keep doing philosophy.

20:14It's an unconscious process where it's sort of deeply rooted and so on.

20:17Like, if your brother just joins you on the front in 1915 in the war in France and he was

20:25squatting down and he's like, oh, I got to stretch my legs.

20:28I got to stand up.

20:38So, no, I don't stand up.

20:42And so, I think that in an unconscious way, the world as a whole is keeping me from prominence,

20:47right?

20:48So, the way that I say like 95, 97% of my listeners vanished when I was deplatformed is

20:54because I would get 100,000 plus average views on YouTube and then when I was on BitChute,

21:00I'd maybe get 3,000, right?

21:01So, again, there were a couple other venues and it wasn't as bad on the podcast side, but

21:05people left.

21:06Now, if the Streisand effect had occurred and if I had gone from 100,000 views to 2 million

21:12views because of my deplatforming, then the powers that be who want me gone would have

21:19escalated to the point of severe danger and or death.

21:23I mean, that's generally what happens.

21:25So, I think people withdrew from viewing what I do to keep me safe because if the Streisand

21:33effect had occurred, things would have escalated to the point of, you know, extremely dangerous,

21:37let's just say extremely dangerous opposition.

21:40So, I think that people avoid and maybe they don't want to be associated with watching me

21:46or, you know, self-protection and other things, but there's a whole bunch of things colluding

21:49to allow me to continue to do philosophy for the next 30 years as opposed to not because

21:54it used to be mostly threats.

21:56Now, sometimes it is a bullet to the neck, a la Charlie Kirk, rest in peace.

22:02So, what people are doing is they're saying, okay, Steph's kind of controversial and they're

22:06not evaluating, well, is he right?

22:08Is he true?

22:08Is he accurate?

22:09Is he, does he have integrity?

22:10Is he virtue?

22:11Is he moral courage?

22:12What they do is they say, will he pump her numbers and they do a cost-benefit analysis,

22:17right?

22:17So, for instance, and this is no hate on Tim Poole, seems like a fine enough guy, a good

22:22skateboarder, obviously very talented and congratulations on being a new father.

22:27So, I've been around the space for 21 years, a lot longer than Tim Poole.

22:32He certainly knows about me.

22:33He's interviewed many people that I've interviewed, but I've never received an invitation from

22:37Tim Poole.

22:38This is not any kind of like, and it's terrible, I get it, right?

22:42So, whereas Tim Poole will have a very morally questioned person like Kanye West on.

22:46Now, why will he have Kanye West on?

22:47Because Kanye West will drive his numbers and I will not.

22:51And so, it doesn't matter whether I'm a better person or a worse person or more right or

22:54more moral or less moral than, say, Kanye West, it is Kanye West will drive numbers and

22:59I won't drive numbers and so I'm not invited and Kanye West is.

23:03Because Tucker Carlson will have some pretty, well, I mean, who would he have on?

23:10Nick Fuentes and so on and he will have Milo Yiannopoulos on and I like Milo in a lot of

23:17ways.

23:17I mean, the Asterian of the anti-left movement has his own particular charms.

23:24I did, of course, have criticisms as did other people, of course, in the past when he was

23:29praising the molestation of children and so on, but Tucker Carlson will have him on and

23:34have a very friendly interview.

23:36Tucker Carlson will not have me on because I won't drive his numbers.

23:43You see what I mean?

23:44Like, it's not about whether the person is good or bad, moral or immoral, right or wrong,

23:48has integrity and is consistently been accurate.

23:52That has nothing to do with it.

23:53The fact that I've solved the problem of secular ethics, the fact that I've been right about

23:56just about everything over the past 21 years, it doesn't matter.

24:00It doesn't matter.

24:01What matters is do I drive the numbers and I don't drive the numbers and because people

24:07aren't doing a moral calculation, they're doing a cost-benefit calculation, they won't

24:11have me on, right?

24:12That makes sense, right?

24:15Sorry, I'm a little paranoid that I have possibly lost my recording here.

24:26So let me just, there they are.

24:28Let me just double check.

24:29This is still chugging.

24:30Yes.

24:30Okay, good.

24:31Always good to know.

24:36So the world as a whole is colluding to keep me below the parapet so that I don't get taken

24:41out because the work that I'm doing here is so essential.

24:43And I'll sort of give you an analogy.

24:46So in the 19th century, there were a bunch of snake oil, quote, products that are completely

24:50untested, often which had copious amounts of morphine or opiates, heroin, cocaine, or

24:58something like that.

24:59And it was like miracle cure for blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

25:01And there were these fights, right?

25:02And let's say that there was one that was actually a cure, right?

25:06But it didn't sell very well because they didn't have the advertising or people wanted the flashy

25:11stuff with the cocaine or whatever.

25:12So I'm kind of hypnotizing you with my Italian hands here, but there would be, well, this

25:19Dr. Bob's remedy for everything sold a million and Dr. Jake's remedy for everything only sold

25:26half a million and they sort of battled it out in the marketplace and one sold more and

25:29one sold less.

25:30But the one that actually did do good, did it actually help, ended up being very, very important

25:35in the long run while these other snake oil stuff just kind of fell away and the numbers

25:39that they made or didn't make don't really matter to us in the present, right?

25:43So bending over for the numbers or battling for the numbers, I get it.

25:47It's a business plan and it means that you got to chase not the right, the good, the true

25:52and the virtuous.

25:54You have to chase the numbers.

25:55You have to chase the popularity.

25:57You have to chase the money.

25:58You have to chase the approval.

26:00You have to chase the numbers, right?

26:02So Megyn Kelly can go from holding Russell Brand, a pretty formerly degenerate comedian

26:09now, miraculous Christian, where she can be invested in a hugely negative view of Russell

26:18Brand, but she can then have him come on her show and give him a friendly interview because

26:26he will drive the numbers.

26:27It's not about truth or virtue or righteousness or integrity or whatever, right?

26:32And again, there's not a criticism.

26:34Honestly, I'm just telling you the way that it is, having been in this industry for a long

26:38time and also having experience as a marketing guy.

26:42So there's a cost-benefit analysis.

26:44So what is it called again?

26:45The Academy of Ideas.

26:50So, I mean, I'm sure they've heard of me.

26:52I was pretty much the most popular intellectual for quite some years in the past.

26:56So they've certainly heard of me.

26:59Do they say, well, Steph has been right about a lot of stuff.

27:04He solved the problem of secular ethics.

27:05He's been ahead of the curve by decades in a wide variety of things.

27:10So we should have him on regardless of controversy, regardless of numbers, because he's right.

27:15No, that's not how they make their decision any more than Tucker Carlson or Tim Poole or

27:22Stephen Crowder or, again, no dislike, right?

27:24They're chasing numbers.

27:25They've got payroll.

27:26They've got, you know, they've got a big expansionist place.

27:29I've tried to keep free domain as lean as possible with regards to expenditures

27:38because I can't chase numbers.

27:40I can't chase numbers and the truth.

27:41And I will toss numbers aside.

27:44I will carve the truth with a compass into barkwood under a tree at midnight in a storm

27:50rather than chase numbers.

27:52I think it's fairly clear that I am not a numbers chasing guy.

27:56I'm a truth chasing guy because that's what matters the most in philosophy.

27:59It's not popularity, not numbers, but actual truth and virtue and that which helps the future

28:05the most in the long run.

28:09So, you know, when I said multiculturalism wasn't going to work like 20 years ago, and

28:13now people are saying, hey, multicultural.

28:14So people don't, right, when I say diversity decreases social trust, blah, blah, blah.

28:19It doesn't matter that I've been ahead of the curve.

28:21It doesn't matter that I'm right.

28:22It doesn't matter my level of virtue and integrity or accuracy or morality.

28:26That doesn't matter.

28:26What matters is, do I push the numbers for people?

28:28And I don't push the numbers for people.

28:30And I suppose I come with some level of risk, although I think that's mostly in the past.

28:33I don't want to be like this Japanese soldier still fighting the war 20 years after it's

28:37over.

28:38But so the Academy of Ideas, they're not going to do a collaboration with me because they're

28:47not going to choose to collaborate with me because I'm right or moral or accurate.

28:52They're going to choose to collaborate with me if the risk-reward ratio is pleasing to

28:57them, is a positive.

28:59In other words, I will drive the most numbers with the least controversy.

29:06So that's the reality.

29:07I mean, I haven't received any invitations in forever to speak at Bitcoin conferences,

29:12and I used to do great speeches at Bitcoin conferences because the people who run those

29:17Bitcoin conferences, and again, this is not any big criticism, it's just a fact, it's

29:22a reality.

29:22The people who run those Bitcoin conferences, it doesn't matter that I was talking about

29:27Bitcoin in 2011.

29:28It doesn't matter that I've been right.

29:30It doesn't matter that I've helped Bitcoin grow considerably.

29:32Certainly prior to de-platforming, I had almost a decade in on Bitcoin and promoting it and

29:37helping it grow and interviewing people.

29:39And I've given great speeches about Bitcoin.

29:41And that doesn't matter.

29:42It doesn't matter that I'm right, honorable, moral, and accurate.

29:46Well, it's just a cost-benefit, right?

29:49Will I bring the bodies into the seats?

29:51And is there a risk associated?

29:53It's just a cost-benefit analysis.

29:55And that's how most people run their lives.

29:56It's just a cost-benefit analysis.

29:59So I don't imagine that there will be any upcoming collaborations because that's not how

30:08they're making decisions.

30:09All right, John asks, why are there zero young people in politics, like literally nowhere

30:16in the world, are there young leaders?

30:19But I mean, there's a few.

30:21I mean, I guess you could say Emmanuel Macron is relatively young.

30:24He certainly was underage when he got together with his wife, it seems.

30:29Could be.

30:33But Justin Trudeau, of course, he comes from a big political family in Canada.

30:39His proto-communist father was instrumental in dismantling Canada in the 70s, beginning

30:44that process.

30:50So the reason why, I mean, there's many reasons why, the one that I would focus on, maybe two,

30:56is that you need to be older to not have a youthful indiscretion bad footprint on social

31:04media, right?

31:05So the edgelord jokes that you made when you were 13 on Xbox Live could be recorded, the

31:11text you sent, the screenshots that other people might have made of the edgelord jokes

31:16that you've made, and perhaps your browser history?

31:20I don't know, right?

31:21So people are like, and Kavanaugh was a huge thing for this, right?

31:24He was a Supreme Court nominee who was attacked by the left for SA back in the day, and he

31:31was to some degree saved only by the fact that he had this sort of OCD habit of both

31:36writing down what he was doing for necessary reasons, and then keeping that calendar so

31:41he had a calendar that seemed to pretty much disprove what Blasey Ford was.

31:46Christine Blasey Ford, I think her name was, was accusing him of, and so on, right?

31:49And even Matt Damon, absolute piece of human trash, went and jumped on the bandwagon to

31:55attack Kavanaugh for having these creepy calendars, man.

32:00What an absolute appalling waste of space that guy is.

32:04It's the reason why actors used to be compared to whores.

32:07It's actually kind of an insult to whores.

32:09But, so, so people saw that, they've seen this happen a wide variety of times, they've

32:15seen it happen to me, not with those accusations, with deplatforming.

32:19And so, young people have seen that the left will make up stuff if they have to, if you

32:25are going to get into something that opposes their power.

32:27They've seen, of course, what's happened to Trump, they saw what happened to Kavanaugh,

32:29and they know the kind of stuff deep down that they've been writing or texting or saying

32:35or whatever it is online, they don't know what's been kept or preserved or what could

32:38be dug up through whatever forensic tools or, you know, whatever could be occurring.

32:42They don't know what stuff gets stored or, you know what it is.

32:44So, they're like, well, what's the point?

32:48Now, older people don't have that sort of old history of that kind of stuff.

32:52So, yeah.

32:54So, I think that's one of the main reasons.

33:00And they also, of course, recognize that everything that they've been told about the society is

33:08kind of a lie, right?

33:09That people care about the young.

33:11No, they just care about using the young as bargaining collateral for endless loans

33:15and unfunded liabilities that are going to swallow the future of the young whole.

33:18They didn't get told the truth about Nixon.

33:21They didn't get told the truth about JFK or McCarthy's a big one or...

33:28Martin Luther King Jr., I mean, just sort of go on and on, right?

33:31The Cold War, who won in World War II, blah, blah, blah, what the whole reality or purpose

33:36of that conflict was, you know, Powell, like, you name it, right?

33:39They've just been lied to about everything.

33:41And that gives them a great sense that there are people out there in the world

33:44who have control of pretty much all of the organs of communication

33:48who are utterly dedicated to lying about everything in order to expand their power.

34:00And I don't think they, in particular, want to play.

34:03All right.

34:04So, a YouTube, Jorge, says,

34:07Steph, you stated in a recent interview that you're glad that the media isn't championing Bitcoin,

34:11but CNBC has been pounding the table for Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain for years.

34:16Yeah, okay.

34:17So, when I say the media, I don't mean every single organ or entity in the media, right?

34:26So, I don't know anything about CNBC and their, obviously, their economic holdings,

34:32but I will say that if CNBC has been promoting, let's say to say Bitcoin,

34:38if CNBC has been promoting Bitcoin, I assume it's because significant people in charge of CNBC

34:45have Bitcoin, so they want to promote it to raise the price.

34:48Unless they want to buy the dip, in which case they might reverse and say,

34:51it's hit its peak, it's nowhere to go but down by here, it's going to half, it's going to zero,

34:56the regulations are going to kill it, China's going to ban it again.

34:59And so, there'll be a dip, and they'll buy the dip, and then they'll say,

35:01oh, it's miraculously recovered tonight.

35:02So, you know that the inverse Kramer stuff, right?

35:05Again, I don't know anything about Jim Kramer, but I would imagine that the equation goes something

35:09like this, that when Jim Kramer, when Jim Kramer and his friends want to buy a stock,

35:12he says it's about to crash so that people sell it so they can buy it on the cheap when

35:16they want

35:16to sell a stock, he says it's going to the moon, and that way, they can sell the stock

35:20because they'll generate buyers.

35:22So, I mean, I remember I had a friend many years ago who used to send me articles on

35:27Bitcoin.

35:28Oh, Bitcoin's going up, Bitcoin's going down, it's hit its peak, it's going to zero.

35:31And I'd be like, don't send me these articles, nobody knows.

35:34Nobody knows, it's all just made up nonsense.

35:37And so, yeah, that's why I've never told anyone to buy or sell anything, because nobody knows.

35:41Nobody knows, you've had people like monkeys throwing darts at a newspaper stock chart do

35:48better than professional stock pickers.

35:50So, nobody knows, it's all, it's all nonsense.

35:53So, that's it.

35:56All right, somebody says, I had a guy tailgating me aggressively for miles, I was driving at

36:02the speed limit.

36:03After a stop sign, he blew by me, shouting and raising his middle finger.

36:06How do you handle this stuff, as with so much of the rudeness within society, it seems that

36:14tailgating has been on the rise.

36:15I've grown so numb to all of it that I have grown disinterested in meeting people.

36:22Okay, that's kind of hysterical, bro.

36:24Come on.

36:25Okay, well, so first, first and foremost, yes, people, people tailgate.

36:29They'll come up behind you, they'll flash the lights, they'll gesture, they'll recurse and

36:32spittle, we'll coat the inside of the windshield, whatever, right?

36:34So, I just pull over, just pull over.

36:37I've even pulled off the street, if it's a one lane and someone's rolled behind me, I'll

36:41just take off on a side street, I'll do a little loop, I'll come back.

36:44I don't want somebody up my ass who's going to cause a crash or have a heart attack or

36:48something like that.

36:49So, I've pulled into gas stations on occasion just to let aggressive people go by and have

36:54their accident and heart attack elsewhere.

36:56So, yeah.

36:57I view tailgating and that sort of intrusiveness as complete entitled sociopathy, complete lack

37:02of empathy, hostility, these people are just kind of monstrous.

37:05Now, it could be that, you know, maybe the guy's having a heart attack and trying to get

37:08to the hospital.

37:09Maybe he's got a wife in the backseat who's about to give birth.

37:12Maybe, you know, his house is on fire or on his webcam at home.

37:16Somebody's breaking in and he's got, like, maybe there's some absolute panic reason which

37:20you would have as well and maybe that's going on.

37:23You know, it's possible.

37:25But there's very few people who do it that aggressively and so on, right?

37:28So, just pull over, let the guy pass.

37:32What's the big deal?

37:34Well, I mean, people take driving so seriously, you know?

37:36I mean, obviously, it's serious.

37:38You're in charge of a 6,000-pound, heavily-fueled explosion death machine.

37:42I get all of that.

37:44But it's like the people who are like, oh, that's my exit!

37:46And they've got to weave past three lanes of heavy traffic to get to their exit.

37:49It's like, no, you don't.

37:51Just leave.

37:52Just go past.

37:53It's going to add 10 minutes to your journey, maybe 15 minutes max.

37:56Who cares?

37:58It's better to arrive a little bit late than not to arrive at all.

38:01So, people, oh, I got to get, I got to, you know?

38:04This guy's going so slow.

38:05Like, who cares?

38:07I mean, go back to horse riding or walking places.

38:11Go back to lurchy 17th-century carriages and then complain about listening to music in

38:16air-conditioned comfort in a smooth-as-glass hover machine.

38:21I mean, it's incredible.

38:22Driving is just this absolute gift and beauty and glory.

38:24And people get so tense and frustrated and angry about it.

38:27I mean, in general, I'm a very defensive driver.

38:30I mean, I'll drive like everyone's texting and hallucinating and playing video games with

38:34their feet.

38:35I just assume everyone's driving badly.

38:37And that's been pretty, pretty good.

38:40So, yeah.

38:40Occasionally, you get assholes who are really cranked up.

38:45And, you know, their lives are terrible, right?

38:47Nobody wants to be around them who's got any quality to them.

38:50And they're just awful people as a whole.

38:52And they yell at people.

38:53Their kids hate them.

38:54And so, you know, their lives are punishment enough.

38:57But this idea that, sorry, I didn't mean to laugh because, I mean, I get it serious,

39:01but it's just, it's an excuse, right?

39:03You know, there are a couple of people who are really rude on the road.

39:07So, I can't have a social life at all.

39:09I mean, that's bullshit.

39:11That's total cope, man.

39:12That is not a real thing.

39:13That is not you.

39:14You can't let the bad people in the world run your entire life.

39:18I mean, that's just giving them way too much power.

39:20Why would you give up your entire social life because there were some D-bags on the road

39:26flipping you the bird?

39:28What's to handle?

39:30Doesn't do you any harm?

39:31It's just some jerk who's wound up, who's had a bad childhood, who hasn't dealt with anything

39:36and is a hysterical and aggressive bully.

39:40I mean, he's not shot you.

39:42He's not rammed you with his car.

39:43He's just, he's made a finger.

39:45What does it matter?

39:46I mean, he might as well be picking his nose.

39:48What does it matter, right?

39:50So, what's to handle?

39:52If somebody's being really intrusive and a dangerous driver around you, you move aside

39:57and you let, hopefully the cops will handle it.

40:00Hopefully, if he crashes, he won't take anyone else out.

40:03But you just, I don't know what, what is there to handle?

40:08You just move aside, take your safe space, let him go off, have his accident elsewhere

40:14and recognize that his life is his own punishment and you don't need to lift a finger.

40:18But as to why you don't want to meet anyone, no, no, no, you've got social problems, you've

40:22got maybe social anxiety or something like that and you're putting it on some guy who

40:27flipped you off at a stop sign.

40:29That's not a real thing.

40:30It's not true.

40:31Uh, and it's giving, it's giving idiots who are aggressive way too much power and control

40:37over your life.

40:37You can, you can't choose whether he flips you off.

40:40You can choose whether you let it define humanity as a whole for you.

40:43All right.

40:44Somebody from locals, freedomain.locals.com says, Steph, you recently described hedonism

40:48as toddlerhood plus sex and drugs.

40:51Pretty catchy.

40:52He says, as far as I'm aware, there are two distinct forms, syramaic, distractive hedonism,

40:59immediate intense pleasures, ignoring long-term consequences, and epicurean, nourishing hedonism,

41:05calm, restorative pleasures like nature, sun, solitude, and creative pursuits that build lasting

41:11well-being.

41:11If you agree with the distinction, what's the best way to guide women towards nourishing?

41:16Hedonism.

41:17Okay, then that's no, which hedonism, right?

41:20And why would it be women in particular?

41:22Men have a higher sex drive to the whole.

41:24So, yeah, I don't, I don't like words that include the thing and its opposite, right?

41:32I mean, saying that I'm going to use the same word, hedonism, to include a rabid addiction

41:40to hard drugs that costs you your teeth, your youth, your job, your family, your house, your

41:47savings, and has you lying in a gutter, toothless, and 98 pounds, that that's, well, that's based

41:57on pleasure, you see, pleasure-seeking, and also a calm walk in the woods where you contemplate

42:03nature and enjoy sunshine.

42:05Well, that's in the same category.

42:07It's like, it's really not.

42:09It's really not, it's like saying some lunatic who takes a hammer and knocks out his own

42:14teeth that are perfectly healthy is the same as a dentist who has to remove a tooth because

42:19it's gotten rotten and can't be recovered.

42:22Well, both involve the loss of teeth, though they're both in the same category.

42:26It's like, no, they're really not.

42:27One is destructive and one is helpful, right?

42:30It's helping you.

42:32So, if you say, well, I'm going to use the word hedonism for that which destroys your

42:36life and that which makes you better and healthy, then you're just, it's the wrong category.

42:41It is using the wrong word for the wrong thing.

42:42You can't use the word to mean the thing, and it's opposite.

42:49So, I mean, that's like saying that the free capitalism means both the voluntary trade

42:54between consenting adults, and it also means joining up with the government to use force

43:00to prevent competition or exploit your workers, right?

43:04Voluntary and violent.

43:05When you see both lovemaking and SA involve sex and vagina, and therefore, they're under

43:12the same category.

43:13It's like, no, they're really kind of opposites.

43:15And so, I don't view hedonism as an appropriate word for the pleasure-seeking that is healthy

43:21and good for you, right?

43:23Healthy food, exercise, sunlight, walks around, good social contacts.

43:28These are all pleasure-based, but it's very different from sex addiction, gambling addiction,

43:34you know, that gets you beaten up by the mafia or something.

43:36These are not in the same categories, right?

43:40That which is healthy cannot be conjoined under the same category of that which is infinitely

43:44destructive, not just to yourself, but of course, as addicts tend to be emotional terrorists

43:49is incredibly destructive to everyone around you.

43:50So, I would reject that completely and not use the same word for both as far as guiding

43:55women towards it.

43:56The solution to everything is less violence.

43:58The solution to everything is fewer violations of the non-aggression principle, and that will

44:02lead people to rational pleasures rather than destructive addictions.

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44:16Lots of love.

44:17Thanks for these great questions.

44:18Always keep them coming.

44:19Lots of love from up here, my friends.

44:21I'll talk to you soon.

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