Academia WILL FALL!

Stefan Molyneux

Wednesday Night Live 25 September 2024  In this episode, I reflect on my recent birthday, sharing humorous family moments and transitioning to a deeper discussion on relationship dynamics, including the significance of waiting for marriage to engage in intimacy. I emphasize personal accountability and the philosophical pursuit of higher standards in relationships.  We also examine societal challenges, such as youth entitlement and the impact of the digital age on attention spans and gratification. I critique drug use as a form of escapism, arguing that true growth comes from confronting fears rather than avoiding them.  We touch on moral responsibilities in today's society, including issues of censorship and research integrity, while sharing personal stories about familial changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. I highlight the importance of mental maturity and self-reflection, encouraging listeners to embrace difficult truths for meaningful personal growth.  GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND AUDIOBOOK!  https://peacefulparenting.com/  Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free!  Also get the Truth About the French Revolution, the interactive multi-lingual philosophy AI trained on thousands of hours of my material, private livestreams, premium call in shows, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more!  See you soon!  https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2022

Transcript

00:00:00Hello everybody, 25th of September 2024, I am in the 58th, thank you for your inquiries,

00:00:09I had a lovely lovely birthday, I went bowling with a group, my daughter was in charge of

00:00:16the names for everyone and she put me down a senior discount, very very funny, she put

00:00:27me down a senior discount, my wife down as midget and her as offspring, I couldn't figure

00:00:34out, senior discount has won, what? Oh that would be me, yes it was very very funny, alright,

00:00:41thank you for the tip, let's get straight to your questions, alright. Steph, is it illogical

00:00:46and hypocritical to want to wait until engagement or marriage if you have had sex in the past?

00:00:52Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it's really hard to, it's really hard to make a strong case for

00:01:08better than your worst decisions, right, it's a tough thing to make a case that you should

00:01:15get better than your worst decisions, it's sort of like saying I should get paid a lot

00:01:22more than I'm willing to get paid for, if that makes sense, right, like if you say well

00:01:30I will accept $60,000 a year but I should be being paid $160,000 a year, that doesn't

00:01:36really make much sense, and this is somewhat in the present, it's not like, you know, my

00:01:42first job was getting $2.45 an hour, $2.45 an hour, it's not like I'd take that now,

00:01:48but it's hard to say I deserve more than my lowest standard, right, so if your lowest

00:01:58standard is well I don't care if she's, you know, obese and tattooed and blue hair and

00:02:03piercings all over the place, you know, I deserve a better woman than that but I'll

00:02:07date her anyway, well, what would it mean to say that you deserve something that's better

00:02:16than what you're willing to settle for? Jesus, these glasses, I have this terrible habit

00:02:23of trying to clean things on my shirt and I come up and it's like P. Diddy's oil cabinet

00:02:29if it was in fact oil and not some rub-on drug, but, do you see, there was a black guy

00:02:37who did a TikTok, it doesn't matter that he was black, it was just kind of, he was really

00:02:40funny, this is really tough comic timing, so, and it's a dark comedy matter but he was filming

00:02:48himself in the grocery store reaching for some baby oil and then like P. Diddy emerges

00:02:53over his shoulder, it was very funny but a little dark, anyway, so, is it illogical

00:03:00and hypocritical to wait until engagement or marriage if you've had sex in the past,

00:03:04so this is a big question I suppose in the man-osphere, right, but it's like if she has

00:03:13had sex with men in the past relatively quickly, why is she making me wait, right, if she's

00:03:21had sex with men in the past, thank you Adam, why is she making me wait?

00:03:36It doesn't seem right, is that right?

00:03:44It doesn't seem right, it's like going to a car dealership, this is a Kevin Samuels

00:03:55bit, right, it's like going to a car dealership and there's a car that is $1,000 and then

00:04:03there's another car that's the same car that is $10,000, it's like why are you making one

00:04:11guy wait, you know, like why would you make one guy wait until marriage when you had sex

00:04:17with the other guy after a week?

00:04:23So it is tough to raise your standards after you've made bad decisions, like you don't

00:04:30get a better man than the man you had kids with in general, right, you just don't get

00:04:35that.

00:04:38And it just feels manipulative, this born-again virgin stuff, sorry, hymen don't regrow and

00:04:44you cannot put the toothpaste back in the tube and you cannot unring the bell, right,

00:04:51you cannot unring the bell, so.

00:04:55Now if a woman says, I had sex too quickly in the past, I've learned better now, I wait,

00:05:05maybe but just you have to wait when other people didn't have to wait doesn't really

00:05:09make sense, alright.

00:05:15I mean certainly a woman who doesn't have at least a three-month rule is kind of suspect,

00:05:22in my view, kind of suspect, alright.

00:05:32Chalks, thank you for the tip, rights.

00:05:36Hey Steph, I have been feeling increasingly more cynical about training apprentices that

00:05:39give them plenty of opportunity and take the blame when things go wrong.

00:05:43They seem to be getting more and more entitled and never show gratitude.

00:05:46Is it fair to think appreciation should be shown with the opportunity given?

00:05:50Yes, but people's dopamine circuits are absolutely fried these days, and this is true for young

00:05:58people in particular, they're just fried.

00:06:05It's the badink-badink generation, badink-badink being you're playing Mario, you're playing

00:06:09some game and there's these rotating coins, badink-badink-badink, pick up the coins, badink-badink,

00:06:14it's like the gratification, the stimulus to gratification is like nothing, badink-badink-badink,

00:06:19I got coins.

00:06:21As opposed to you're trying to train apprentices and it's like, it's probably going to take

00:06:25you six to 12 months to get any good at this, no, no, badink-badink-badink-badink, dopamine

00:06:30needs feeding, I can't defer gratification, I need to be good at things now.

00:06:39Philosophy is the worst of all for that shit, man, I mean it took me 20 years to start contributing

00:06:46anything of value to the field, 20 years, 20 years to start contributing anything of

00:06:57real value to the field, and now it's 20 years and counting, so can you imagine, the badink-badink

00:07:04generation, I'm not interested in this TikTok, I'm going to the next one, I don't like this

00:07:09song, I'm going to skip it.

00:07:17I don't need skill, I'm going to dump her, she said something wrong, it's over, badink-badink-badink,

00:07:21spinning coins that don't exist.

00:07:25You know, it's tough, I mean personally, personally, if I were hiring, I would ask, hey, have you

00:07:35read any good books lately, what are the, tell me some books you've read, would you

00:07:39like, do you like books, fiction, non-fiction, if they don't read books, no thanks, man.

00:07:46I can't, badink-badink, I can't be a spinning coin, because you don't have the capacity

00:07:51to defer gratification, it's got to be good now, good now, why does this game take so

00:07:58long to load, so, yeah, I understand it, I get where you're coming from, but man, I would

00:08:09not in a zillion years hire anybody, hello, Kang, Kang like Steph, good, so, I would just

00:08:20ask about, do you write books, any word on the liquid Zulu debate, why does that seem

00:08:27like something I should know, liquid Zulu, tick-tock, don't know, I'm sorry, oh, I

00:08:39did, liquid Zulu, the non-aggression principles, fundamentals of libertarian ethics, wait,

00:08:49didn't I read this, did I read this, did I do a review on this, maybe, don't know, is

00:08:59there a debate, all right, who really won, I did win, you didn't pass out on your birthday

00:09:06like the video going around of people doing ayahuasca, oh, no, oh, no, oh, no, you didn't

00:09:17trigger me on the ayahuasca thing, you didn't trigger me on the ayahuasca thing, did you,

00:09:24I mean, I don't want to get off on a rant here, I don't want to get off on a rant here,

00:09:42but yeah, okay, ayahuasca, my God, how much must you hate and fear basic and essential

00:09:54self-knowledge if you'd rather ralph up your innards on an Amazon rainforest floor with

00:10:00panthers scoping you out from above while a 6D heliocentric demon rearranges your neurons

00:10:06to the point where you can't think straight anymore, well, I could just be honest about

00:10:16my past, or, hang on, go with me here, just hear me out, hear me out, I could enter a

00:10:22portal that drives men mad, vomit myself into oblivion, fry my entire neural center with

00:10:31a carpet bomb of incredibly neuron-rearranging dancing demon footsteps, and I could just

00:10:38do that instead, what do you think, or I could just criticize my parents or my society or

00:10:46my teachers or my priests, I could do that, or I could put my brain through the witch

00:10:52doctor cheese grater of n-dimensional neuron stomping and call myself enlightened.

00:11:03I fuckin' hate drugs, fuckin' I hate drugs, flamethrower, Gabriel, blow the trumpets,

00:11:14call down the airstrikes, the columns of fire, I hate drugs, not quite as much as I hate

00:11:22doggies, but I hate drugs with a loathing, burning, Old Testament, biblical foot stomp

00:11:27of the hammer guards of Thor's ass cracking down on their heads, I hate the drugs, hate

00:11:33drugs, I hate the cowardice of the people who take drugs, I hate the fact that people

00:11:37can't just say, I'm a lazy addict and they've got to have walls of text if it's all natural

00:11:42and it's a healing thing and it's 20 years of therapy in one night, hehehe, no, face

00:11:48your demons, don't drug them, look in the mirror, don't fall into nothing chased by

00:11:56the falling Lucifer, a brain-frying rearrangement agents, I hate, I hate the people, I hate

00:12:08the people who, well I could learn things about myself and I could deal with the trauma

00:12:14and the issues and I could be honest with myself or I could just face plant into a giant

00:12:19bowl of bottomless pharma goop, scramble my brains, get suicidal ideation, murderous fantasies,

00:12:27I mean, my God, it's really not that bad to look into yourself and see the truth, it's

00:12:35really really not that bad, how much do your parents want to keep their crimes hidden,

00:12:48if you'll blow yourself through the jet engine of neural rearrangement, courting permanent

00:12:55brain fucking damage, no, to me all of that stuff is just a slow suicide of avoidance

00:13:05of parental crimes, it's all it is to me, I just hate drugs, I hate them with a burning

00:13:19passion of a thousand suns, still better than sports, watching sports that is, oh

00:13:29my God, see there are a few people who win the lottery and there are a few people who

00:13:37get some interesting insights out of drugs, but for every one person who wins the lottery

00:13:44there are hundreds of thousands who lose their savings and for every one person who's

00:13:51like well I took a micro hit of LSD and my gosh it opened me up creatively and I never

00:13:56felt anxiety again, maybe that's true, I think it's bullshit, can't prove it, maybe it's

00:14:01true, yes and for every person who jumps out of a plane without a parachute for every 10,000

00:14:06people there's one guy who makes it down alive, I still recommend a parachute, it's like all

00:14:14these fucking writers, oh it's so important to follow your dreams, you must commit to

00:14:20your dreams, you must never back down, just believe in yourself, never back down, dream,

00:14:25dream, dream, well that's because you won, because you mouth enough mealy-mouthed communist

00:14:32bullshit brain-soaking blood-curdling human disassembling practical bullshit that the

00:14:40communist said okay fine you can have access to the audience, only if you poison them though,

00:14:44only if you poison them, follow your dreams, says the one in a thousand people whose dreams

00:14:56work out, they were lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, people are like well I took a little

00:15:10bit of LSD and it just opened my mind and I dealt with all of this blah blah blah blah,

00:15:13no you didn't, no you didn't, it's bullshit, lies, absolute complete and total lies, well

00:15:19I got these insights, fuck insights, fuck them, fuck them with a tree stump, I'm telling

00:15:26you fuck insights, I hate insights too, well that's, I got such an insight about why, it's

00:15:31like no you didn't, insights without a moral core of rage are absolute useless self-indulgent

00:15:38navel-gazing circle-jerk ookie-cookie bullshit, if you have some insight that doesn't make

00:15:46you mad at the evils of the world and vow to fight them, then your insight is just self-indulgent,

00:15:53oh I made connections, I put a few pieces together and I'm whole, it's all just such

00:15:59lies, there is no path to peace that does not go right through the center of philosophy,

00:16:08everybody wants a shortcut, everybody wants the easy road, everybody wants the soft little

00:16:18hammock of self-indulgent bullshit, everybody wants every excuse for everything but the actual

00:16:29fucking truth, and it's a little fucking tiring, weed led me right to the center of myself,

00:16:38nope, weed gave you the illusions of connections and excused you from the necessary panic of moral

00:16:45improvement, weed turned you into fertilizer to be rolled over by the combine harvester of the

00:16:52manure spreading propaganda machines, never heard anyone say, you know I took some drugs and then I

00:17:05realized that the most foundational issue in the world was child abuse and I'm doing everything I

00:17:10can to deal with that, no it's always some, well I realized this about myself man, me, I, me, me,

00:17:18I, I realized this, you know I had this connection between myself and my past and my this, shut up,

00:17:26shut up about yourself, all the goddamn time, druggies cannot talk about other people if you

00:17:33drugged them, I'm just so fascinating man, like I'm so deep I didn't realize, like I got all these

00:17:42layers, oh my god, shut up, I want to hear that sound of you pulling your head out of your ass,

00:17:51looking around and doing some good in the world that doesn't involve masturbating in your own

00:17:55halls of mirrored history, just a bit, just once in a fucking while, it's repulsive to me, to me,

00:18:08not that I don't sympathize with the suffering that caused it, I absolutely do, I absolutely

00:18:16sympathize with the suffering, what I don't sympathize with is the running away and calling

00:18:22in virtue, that's what I don't like, you go to a guy who drinks too much, he's like yeah, I should

00:18:27probably cut back, you go to a guy who smokes too much weed, wall of text, justifications, you're

00:18:33square, you know how to relax, you know how to fun, it's all natural, like arsenic, bleh.

00:18:53Just horrendous.

00:18:58No, and I had people back in the day, 15, 17 years ago on the show, and they'd tell me all

00:19:06the insights, man, all of those insights that they got out of their drug use, man, and I'm like okay,

00:19:14well, tell me, tell me an insight, tell me an insight that you got out of doing drugs.

00:19:27Because it's just the feeling of connection, like heroin is the feeling of happiness, it's not

00:19:34happiness, it's the feeling of connection, yeah man, everything's kind of coming together, what's

00:19:40coming together? Stuff. I'm making all these connections, between what and what, between this

00:19:45and that, here and there, up and down, black and white, stuff and stuff, other stuff, man. You can't

00:19:51just categorize it, man, it's just fluid, it's a feeling, bleh, shut up, you got nothing, you got

00:19:59nothing.

00:20:02Include nicotine and alcohol to that list, Steph.

00:20:05I can include alcohol, nicotine is definitely a brain stimulant, and not as bad as the other drugs,

00:20:12not mind-altering.

00:20:24It's like when we talk on a previous show, people just want a pill to fix everything, in this case,

00:20:27the ayahuasca pill. Yeah, I have social anxiety disorder, maybe you have asshole proximity

00:20:34disorder, maybe everyone who surrounds you is an asshole. Maybe you have anxiety because you're

00:20:39guilty about some bad shit, you know, can't ever have the moral stuff, no, have a pill. You just

00:20:46need to manage your anxiety, you just need to manage your self-attack, well, maybe you're attacking

00:20:51yourself because you did some shitty things. I know in my life, when I've done shitty things, I tend

00:20:56to attack myself, because shitty things are attack worthy.

00:21:02No, I can't think badly of myself, why not? Are you perfect? I know I'm not.

00:21:12I feel really down on myself. Okay, maybe you're right, maybe you're right. Yeah, it turns out I abused my

00:21:23younger sister for 10 years, but I'm just really down on myself, yeah, you should be.

00:21:29But it's all about...

00:21:35No, I just, I have these negative feelings, and I just want to make them go away.

00:21:43Just, I need to find some way to make these negative feelings go away. When did we become such absolute

00:21:50albino craven cowards in the face of, ooh, feels bad, feels bad, man.

00:21:58What ever happened to embrace the suck? Like a man stepping out of a spaceship without his suit.

00:22:05Embrace. The. Suck.

00:22:12Nope, can't handle bad feelings. It's all fiat currency, can't handle bad feelings.

00:22:20Can't make any tough choices. Easily scared.

00:22:26We're going to scare you with global warming, even though the temperature hasn't really budged for 15 years.

00:22:32We're going to scare you about global warming until you cough up all of your freedoms and your children's

00:22:38economic future. Because you can't handle, either A, there is global warming and you're doomed, or B, we're lying

00:22:44about it and complete predatory fucking assholes. Neither one of which is much fun.

00:22:50How about we learn to handle negative feelings, just a thought. Just a thought.

00:22:55How about we learn to stand in the storm of negative feelings and say, embrace the suck.

00:23:00Maybe the negative feelings have something to tell me, you know, like a sore tooth.

00:23:06Your tooth is infected and it's probably going to kill you if you don't deal with it.

00:23:11Oh, I just want to make these negative feelings go away.

00:23:14I don't want to investigate whether my tooth is healthy or not.

00:23:17Oh, I just need to find a way to make these bad feelings go away.

00:23:26I see these poor homeless people on the street and I feel bad.

00:23:31Take them in or shut up.

00:23:35Take them in or shut up.

00:23:38You know, a lot of times, if you take in homeless people, you'll find out very quickly why they're homeless.

00:23:45And that's because they tend to be addicts who steal everything that both is and is not nailed down.

00:23:51And you wake up with your TV gone, your cell phone gone, your kidney gone,

00:23:56your girlfriend broken up and sold for parts in the subway tunnels underneath the city.

00:24:02And then you're like, oh, so that's why they were homeless,

00:24:05because no one can stand to live with them or even have them sleep on the couch.

00:24:10And again, massive sympathies for the suffering that engenders those negative feelings.

00:24:16But we used to have a framework to deal with negative feelings called accepting the temptations of the devil.

00:24:24And now in the secular world, negative feelings are just absolutely unacceptable

00:24:30and must be nuked away at every given opportunity.

00:24:35Take a pill, take ayahuasca, smoke drugs, blah, blah, blah.

00:24:43Distract yourself with porn and video games.

00:24:46Get into politics.

00:24:48Anything to avoid the negative feelings.

00:24:55I'm going to carve myself up into good and bad.

00:24:58This part of me, I likeeth.

00:25:01This part of me gets my stamp of approval.

00:25:04I will lick its nads from North Pole to South Pole,

00:25:07because this part of me, massive positive, much likey.

00:25:11Ooh, this part of me, though.

00:25:14Maybe the pattern recognition part of me, that's absolutely unacceptable.

00:25:19Bad must be nuked with drugs, distraction, alcohol, weed, you name it.

00:25:26Make it go away, not part of me.

00:25:28Devil, cast it out.

00:25:30Nope.

00:25:31Everybody gets a seat at the table.

00:25:33I've been saying this for almost 20 years.

00:25:35And me?

00:25:37Everyone gets a seat at the table.

00:25:39Everyone.

00:25:40Nobody gets cast into the outer darkness.

00:25:41Nobody gets drugged and nuked.

00:25:43I'm going to carve myself up into good and bad.

00:25:46This part of me, massive positive, much likey.

00:25:49I will lick its nads from North Pole to South Pole, because this part of me, massive positive, much likey.

00:25:55Make it go away, not part of me.

00:25:57Everybody gets a seat at the table.

00:25:59I've been saying this for almost 20 years.

00:26:01Everyone gets a seat at the table.

00:26:03Everybody gets a seat at the table.

00:26:05I've been saying this for almost 20 years.

00:26:07Everybody gets a seat at the table.

00:26:09I've been saying this for almost 20 years.

00:26:11Negative feelings are the mark of bad character.

00:26:16No.

00:26:17Negative feelings are the mark of a good character, if you accept them.

00:26:20Negative feelings are the mark of a good character.

00:26:24Because negative feelings are the actions of a robust conscience, a lot of times.

00:26:33Negative feelings are the actions of a robust conscience.

00:26:42Can you imagine trying to navigate life with no negative feelings, with no acceptance of negative feelings?

00:26:51You'd be numb.

00:26:54And there's this funny idea, too, that life is supposed to be this eternal cavalcade of rip-bodied, beachside, drunken happiness.

00:27:05It's just supposed to be nothing but fun to be alive.

00:27:11It's absolutely wretched.

00:27:13There is almost nothing that would destroy your life faster or deeper than the belief that it's all supposed to be so much fucking fun.

00:27:28That not having fun is bad.

00:27:33Having a bad time is bad.

00:27:35Because then you surround yourself with shallow people who won't ever accept that you're unhappy and help you with it.

00:27:44Hey, shake it off, man.

00:27:46It's literally not that serious.

00:27:48Nothing's that serious, man.

00:27:49Shake it off.

00:27:50Come on.

00:27:51Let's go have fun.

00:27:52Let's go party.

00:27:55Let's go party.

00:28:00Loosen up.

00:28:02Fall apart.

00:28:04So...

00:28:14Someone said I was talking to a therapist about my inner critic and he said I ought to tie up my inner critic and throw him away.

00:28:20That alarmed me.

00:28:21Well, I'm not one to contradict your therapist.

00:28:24I'm just talking about my own experience that my inner critics were bang on, man.

00:28:30My inner critics were bang on.

00:28:33My inner critics saved my life.

00:28:47Life is a lot of not fun.

00:28:50Life should in general be a positive experience for sure.

00:28:54But you cannot achieve anything positive without a whole lot of not fun.

00:29:04You can't start a business.

00:29:07You can't raise children.

00:29:10Marriage has been generally a lot of fun.

00:29:13You certainly can't do any good in the world.

00:29:15See, making you addicted to pleasure is one of the primary mechanisms by which evildoers gain power over the world.

00:29:24Because if you're not committed to virtue but rather pleasure, all that evildoers have to do is make it unpleasant for you to spread virtue.

00:29:32They're like, whoa, okay, let's not do that.

00:29:36Let's not do that.

00:29:38That's unpleasant.

00:29:41Hedonism turns the world over to the bad guys.

00:29:45Hedonism turns the world over to the bad guys.

00:29:52It's very bad.

00:29:55Out of my brain on the train.

00:30:00All right, let's get to your question.

00:30:02Hi, Steph, I'm currently in a position where my boss and senior co-workers are assholes and bullying me.

00:30:06They are micromanagers and very unprofessional.

00:30:09I've gone ahead and applied to an internal position in the same department.

00:30:12The manager is much better.

00:30:13I'm worried about telling my manager that I've applied but feel like I'm betraying him if I don't tell him and just announce I got a new job if I do get this job.

00:30:26I'm sorry, you've been bullied by someone and you're concerned about your moral status with him?

00:30:35What am I missing here?

00:30:39Well, Steph, I'm nine years old and my mom gives me five bucks for lunch every day.

00:30:50And this kid has been beating me up and taking away my lunch money for the whole school year.

00:30:59It's mostly over now.

00:31:00It's the whole school year, seven or eight months.

00:31:05So my mom has switched to packing me monkey brains and snake soup and cucumber sea slug salad.

00:31:23Now, the bully in the playground, he's expecting his five bucks like every day.

00:31:31Now, next week I start on the ghastly lunch no money plan.

00:31:39He's not going to want the monkey brains and he's not going to get the five bucks.

00:31:43I feel so guilty, man.

00:31:44I feel like I've got to warn him.

00:31:46I feel like I've really got to just tell him that I'm just not going to be able to give him five bucks or he's not going to be able to bully the five bucks every day of me for lunch.

00:32:00He's only going to get snake soup, cucumber, sea slug salad and monkey brains.

00:32:08I mean, I feel like I'm betraying him if I don't tell him and warn him ahead of time that he needs to, you know, find some other solution for his monetary needs and his desire to dominate and beat the shit out of me.

00:32:22Because I just, I feel like I owe him so much.

00:32:24Like, he's gotten used to getting this money from me and I feel like I, in a sense, like I owe him this money now.

00:32:31So, I just, I'm betraying him if I don't warn him ahead of time that his income source is drying up and he's just going to get monkey brains instead.

00:32:41Tough question, my friend.

00:32:45Tough question.

00:32:52All right.

00:32:55Steph, what were your inner critics?

00:32:57Any tips on how to identify them or what to look for?

00:33:00Inner critics are aggressive when you attack and don't listen to them.

00:33:06We all are, right?

00:33:07If you're desperate to help someone and they won't listen to you and scorn you, right?

00:33:13You know, everybody's seen these in the scenes in movies where I saw this thing, man, and nobody else can see it.

00:33:18You got to believe me, man.

00:33:19And nobody believes, right?

00:33:21People, if you're desperate, right?

00:33:23If you're desperate to tell people disaster is coming and they don't believe you, you tend to escalate and get more aggressive because you absolutely need people to listen.

00:33:36How to identify them?

00:33:38What to look for?

00:33:40Well, counterintuitive.

00:33:42Again, I can't speak for you.

00:33:43I can only speak for myself.

00:33:44That for me, my inner critics, I had to apologize.

00:33:49Sorry.

00:33:50Sorry.

00:33:52I'm so sorry.

00:33:53You're upset because I haven't been listening to you and you're desperately trying to tell me something.

00:33:57I apologize.

00:33:59I fell into this girly, don't be down on yourself.

00:34:04It's like, why not?

00:34:06Why not?

00:34:07We can see in modern society the absolute collapse of self-criticism and where it's leading.

00:34:18Now, everybody's a genius.

00:34:19Everybody gets a participation trophy.

00:34:21Everybody's fat and thin and sexy and good-looking, no matter what their body type.

00:34:26The absolute collapse of self-criticism is a catastrophe.

00:34:30Civilization is accepting criticism.

00:34:33Tyrants don't accept criticism, but civilization is being willing to accept criticism.

00:34:38That's what free speech is, being willing to be criticized.

00:34:46What are you trying to protect me from?

00:34:48What do I need to listen to that you're telling me that I'm not listening to?

00:34:59A therapist told me inner critics are there to protect you.

00:35:01Do you agree with that?

00:35:02Yes, for sure.

00:35:04My inner mother is there to protect me or was there to protect me from my outer mother.

00:35:09And they want to stop criticizing you too, right?

00:35:13Like if your doctor is saying you're fat, your doctor wants to stop criticizing you

00:35:17by you not being fat anymore, right?

00:35:22So, inner critics, they're bored of being critics too.

00:35:36Somebody says, being unpleasant is a poor reason not to do things I have found.

00:35:41I have had to give up a lot of bad thinking, a few bad habits.

00:35:44Still have to get rid of some bad habits.

00:35:46The addiction sure is not pleasant to face down, but getting to the other side feels great.

00:35:50As you've said about delayed gratification is paying off in my life.

00:35:54Thrilled to hear it.

00:35:55Congratulations.

00:35:56Well done.

00:35:57Well, well done.

00:36:03So, in 1990 in America, zero states had obesity rates over 20%.

00:36:12Now, no states have obesity rates less than 20%.

00:36:16Isn't that wild?

00:36:21Isn't that wild?

00:36:32There has been a, you know, this trust the science thing.

00:36:36There's this meme floating around on the internet.

00:36:38There's a guy shouting out to his wife, hey, I found something that all the world's top scientists and doctors have missed.

00:36:45Right?

00:36:46You've seen this?

00:36:47It's a big debate, right?

00:36:49It's dangerous in a pandemic to do your own research.

00:36:54Trust us.

00:36:56Jacinda Ardern, toothy golem.

00:36:59She is all about, we should be the only source of your information.

00:37:05The only source.

00:37:07Don't talk to anyone else.

00:37:09Right, because what abusers always want to do is isolate you, right?

00:37:12Don't talk to anyone else.

00:37:13You can only talk to me.

00:37:16Abusers will say, oh, so-and-so was bitching about you.

00:37:19Oh, well, I'll talk to so-and-so.

00:37:20No, don't, because they don't want to find out that so-and-so wasn't bitching about you, right?

00:37:26Keep you isolated.

00:37:28And that's what censorship does.

00:37:34Trust the experts.

00:37:36Sir Owen Gregorian on X writes, when scientists make important discoveries, both big and small, they typically publish their findings in scientific journals for others to read.

00:37:48This sharing of knowledge helps to advance science.

00:37:50It can, in turn, lead to more important discoveries.

00:37:52But published research papers can be retracted if there is an issue with their accuracy or integrity.

00:37:59And in recent years, the number of retractions has been rising sharply.

00:38:03So, in 2023, the last year for which there is full year's data, how many research papers were retracted?

00:38:14What would you guess?

00:38:16How many research papers were retracted?

00:38:28And it has to be pretty big and serious to be retracted.

00:38:32Zero.

00:38:33Well, there are zeros involved.

00:38:36More than one.

00:38:45So, not quite close.

00:38:47So, the actual number is 10,000 research papers were retracted.

00:38:56I'll put that in here.

00:38:5810,000.

00:39:00More than 10,000 research papers were retracted globally.

00:39:03This marked a new record.

00:39:08The huge number of retractions indicates a lot of government research funding is being wasted.

00:39:13Oh, if only the government only wasted money instead of funding gain-of-function research and war.

00:39:21If only the government just took your money and set fire to it in a lovely cheery bonfire,

00:39:27at least we could get some s'mores or something, right?

00:39:30If only the government just wasted money, that would be an unbelievably fantastic improvement.

00:39:36He goes on to write,

00:39:38The publication of research papers drives university rankings and career progression,

00:39:41yet the relentless pressure to publish has contributed to an increase in fraudulent data.

00:39:47Unless this changes, the entire research landscape may shift towards a less rigorous standard,

00:39:51hindering vital progress in fields such as medicine, technology, and climate science.

00:39:55And climate science.

00:39:57Climate science.

00:40:02See, the government doesn't care about the fact that your children are born into a million dollars of bottomless debt.

00:40:11They don't care about that at all.

00:40:15They don't care that children had what seemed to be some semi-permanent IQ drops over the pandemic.

00:40:25They don't care that for a year or two, you really didn't have any access to a doctor.

00:40:30They don't care that there are 200 trillion dollars of unfunded liabilities.

00:40:35But you know what they do care about?

00:40:37Oh my gosh, they just absolutely, completely, and totally care about the temperature in a hundred years.

00:40:45They just, they lie awake.

00:40:48War? No problem.

00:40:51Children increasingly being abused to some degree as a result of single mother households?

00:40:56No problem.

00:40:59Mass rape along the border? No problem.

00:41:04But, the fact that it could be a couple of degrees warmer, 60 or 70 years after I'm dead?

00:41:14My God, do I care about that.

00:41:16The fact that it also gives me trillions of dollars of income, it's completely besides the point, man.

00:41:20How dare you insinuate such a thing.

00:41:22I care about the temperature.

00:41:24I'm in love with ice.

00:41:26I need beaches.

00:41:30It is, it is just a massive IQ test.

00:41:34I mean, it's just a massive IQ test.

00:41:43Oh my, we don't care about increased crime, but we sure care about COVID.

00:41:53We don't care about massive rising obesity and chronic health conditions, but we don't want you to get sick from COVID.

00:42:02And boy, I can't, I just keep coming back to this man, it's traumatic to me, it's horrible.

00:42:07The temperature in a hundred years.

00:42:13I can't even.

00:42:14The temperature in a hundred years.

00:42:19We don't care that you voted for Trump, but the temperature in a hundred years.

00:42:25There could be three to four inches less ice.

00:42:32Oh yeah, climate science.

00:42:35Oh, that's a cold hand in my pocket, man.

00:42:38All right.

00:42:39Universities and research institutes commonly use the rate of publication as a key indicator of research productivity and reputation.

00:42:45Right.

00:42:46Why?

00:42:50Tips welcome.

00:42:52Tips welcome.

00:42:53Don't forget, freedomain.com slash donate to help out the show.

00:42:59So why are they using metrics like the number and quality and spread of publications?

00:43:07Why?

00:43:08Why would they do that?

00:43:09Well, they would do that because there's no fucking market involved whatsoever.

00:43:14You know how you know if something is valuable?

00:43:19People will pay for it more than it costs to, I don't know, produce it.

00:43:29You know, when you're a kid and you have, as most kids do, the idea of having a lemonade stand.

00:43:34And you say, well, it's going to cost me four cents for the lemonade, but I can sell it for a quarter and I can make 21 cents.

00:43:41Because people are willing to pay for the cuteness and the lemonade more than it costs me to produce the lemonade.

00:43:47That's how you know the lemonade has some value or at least the lemonade stand has some value.

00:43:52You want to encourage the kids and lemonade is refreshing and all that.

00:44:00So universities aren't selling anything.

00:44:11They're enforcing and inflicting socialism, but they don't sell fuck all except lies to teenagers.

00:44:22So you don't need all of this journals and publishing and publish or perish and peer review.

00:44:29You don't even need that shit.

00:44:31You just need to sell some stuff in the free market.

00:44:34Freedomain.com slash donate.

00:44:36You just need to sell some stuff in the free market.

00:44:37That's it.

00:44:41But you've got to create all of this artificial, well, it's how much you publish and there's all this politics because there's no price.

00:44:47There's no free market at all.

00:44:54Recent evidence indicates the constant pressure to generate data and publish papers may be affecting the quality of research and fueling retractions of research papers.

00:45:03Retraction Watch is one of the largest databases to monitor scientific retractions.

00:45:09Launched in 2010, it reveals a growing trend in the number of publications being retracted.

00:45:16We'll post this into the chat.

00:45:20Look at those numbers.

00:45:24Isn't that something?

00:45:28What have we got here?

00:45:29Let's get some numbers out.

00:45:31That's right.

00:45:342013, 1510, 2014, 1192.

00:45:37And then it just goes up and up and up and up and up and up and up.

00:45:43Too close to 10K.

00:45:44I assume that there's some other stuff in there as well.

00:45:48So over a decade, it's gone up what?

00:45:51Sevenfold?

00:45:52Eightfold?

00:45:55In the past decade, there have been more than 39,000 retractions.

00:45:58But don't worry.

00:45:59I'm sure that the taxpayers got all their money back for those retractions.

00:46:04And the annual number of retractions is growing by around 23% each year.

00:46:08Of course, as you also know, there's this little lovely little socialist mousetrap in academia called tenure,

00:46:13which means you basically can't get fired.

00:46:15Say, oh, well, we don't want people getting fired for their controversial opinions.

00:46:19That would never happen in society, would it?

00:46:21So all that happens is that nobody with any controversial opinions ever gets hired because they can't get fired.

00:46:31So this guy is pretty funny too, right?

00:46:37Constant pressure to generate data and publish papers.

00:46:40Oh, all the poor academics.

00:46:43Oh, the little sweethearts, the sweet summer children academics.

00:46:47How tragic and sad it is for them to have the business of pillaging the fucking taxpayer at the point of a gun.

00:46:53Lying to teenagers about the value of their degrees.

00:46:56Getting four months off in the summer.

00:46:59Sabbatical years off every couple of years.

00:47:02Nice conferences in warm places, always kind of by the beach.

00:47:05Oh, but you see, they're going through some pressure.

00:47:09Oh, and don't forget, they have to work at least 10 to 12 hours a week.

00:47:13Lazy fuckers.

00:47:17And they can't get fired.

00:47:18Oh, the poor academics.

00:47:21Oh, so tough for them.

00:47:24Oh, they're having such a difficult time.

00:47:26There's so much pressure on them.

00:47:28Well, quit, assholes.

00:47:31Come to the free market.

00:47:33Oh, don't want to do that, do you?

00:47:35Well, I guess I won't find quite as much sympathy for the pressure you're facing.

00:47:44Bunch of vampires, a lot of them.

00:47:49Nearly half their attractions.

00:47:51In this tweet, nearly half their attractions were due to issues related to the authenticity of the data.

00:47:58Issues related to the authenticity of the data.

00:48:04So they lied.

00:48:05For example, in August, the United States Office of Research Integrity found that Richard Eckert,

00:48:10a senior biochemist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, faked data in 13 published papers.

00:48:17Four of these papers have been corrected.

00:48:20One has been retracted, and the remainder are still awaiting action.

00:48:26Plagiarism was the second most common reason research papers were retracted, accounting for 60% of retractions.

00:48:32Fake peer review was another reason why research papers were retracted.

00:48:40So the use of fake peer reviewers has increased tenfold over the past decade.

00:48:45There's also been an eightfold rise in publications linked to so-called paper mills,

00:48:48which are businesses that provide fake papers for a fee.

00:48:55Genuine mistakes in the scientific process accounted for only roughly 6% of all retractions in the last decade.

00:49:06Oh, man.

00:49:09Oh, the poor academics.

00:49:11So here's the funny thing, right?

00:49:13It's the tip of the iceberg.

00:49:17It's the tip of the iceberg.

00:49:21So wait for AI to get its hands on these papers.

00:49:33Wait for AI to get its hands on these papers and the source data.

00:49:40There is going to be a fucking forest fire through academia,

00:49:43and it's all going to be revealed as largely made-up bullshit.

00:49:48Wait until AI gets its hands on the modeling of the temperatures 100 years from now.

00:49:59Just wait.

00:50:00Now, of course, there's going to be lots of people,

00:50:02Oh, you know, for privacy reasons, I can't make my data.

00:50:06Oh, okay.

00:50:07If you don't publish your data, in my view, my opinion, my opinion,

00:50:12if you don't publish your data, you're just a fucking liar

00:50:15and a thief of the taxpayers' money and a con man, in my opinion.

00:50:20Just release it.

00:50:21Put the data out.

00:50:22You can anonymize it, right?

00:50:23Put the data out.

00:50:33So when the data is put out and AI goes like a wildfire

00:50:40through the dry tinderwood of academic dry brain,

00:50:44it is going to be revelatory in the extreme.

00:50:50That academia is largely a mirrored maze of infinite bullshit,

00:50:57plagiarism, lies, falsification, unclear assumptions,

00:51:01lack of replication or replicatability.

00:51:06It's going to be wild.

00:51:08When AI gets the source data and can compare the source data

00:51:11with a rigorous methodology and also then compares

00:51:15everybody's conclusions with everyone else's conclusions,

00:51:18there's some AI that's doing that now that's just looking

00:51:20for publicly available data and looking for correlations,

00:51:26which haven't been seen before.

00:51:27But when AI gets its hands on source data and can compare

00:51:33your source data with the other guy's source data,

00:51:35with your conclusions, your methodology,

00:51:37and this can all happen in an automated fashion,

00:51:41the amount of papers that are retracted are big and important

00:51:45enough for people to find and challenge them.

00:51:49The average academic paper gets no more than a couple

00:51:51of dozen reads.

00:51:54And if there was any justice on this planet,

00:51:57the academics as a whole would be quaking in their boots

00:52:00at the idea that AI is going to automate.

00:52:04It's going to automate the cross-examination

00:52:08of the data methodology and conclusions

00:52:11and potential plagiarism of every research paper

00:52:16known to man, god, and devil.

00:52:22And in my view, in my prediction,

00:52:24the entire house of cards of credibility is going to come

00:52:26crashing the fuck down.

00:52:43Heard of someone being kicked off TikTok for promoting

00:52:45dieting being fit as it may be harmful because it might

00:52:47trigger eating disorders?

00:52:48Well, fat positive is promoted.

00:52:50That's how sick it is.

00:52:52Well, no, that's just fifth generation warfare, right?

00:52:55You understand that, right?

00:52:56Thank you, Matt.

00:52:57It's just fifth generation warfare.

00:53:00Well, nuclear weapons have made conventional war obsolete.

00:53:07So now we'll just wage war and make your women so unattractive

00:53:10that the birth rate plummets.

00:53:12You understand, right?

00:53:13This is not complicated.

00:53:14I'm sure we all understand this, right?

00:53:17We're just going to make your women so unattractive

00:53:19by promoting things that men hate, like obesity,

00:53:23so that the birth rate plummets.

00:53:24And that way we don't have to kill your soldiers.

00:53:26We'll just make sure they're never born in the first place.

00:53:34Yeah, I mean, it's not that the climate...

00:53:36I mean, I did environmental modeling in my career,

00:53:38so I know a little bit about this.

00:53:40So, like, I spent years working on environmental modeling,

00:53:43not about the weather, but about best practices in business

00:53:47going forward to minimize environmental impact.

00:53:50So I do a little bit.

00:53:51Coding about how to do environmental modeling

00:53:54and seek best case scenarios and all of that.

00:53:58It's not so much that...

00:53:59I mean, of course, it's all just a bunch of assumptions.

00:54:03And if you say to someone,

00:54:05well, you're going to get $100 million if your assumptions produce X,

00:54:09and there's no way to objectively validate those assumptions,

00:54:12don't be surprised if the assumptions produce X.

00:54:20It's like giving someone a lottery ticket that's blank

00:54:23after the winning lottery ticket has been announced and saying,

00:54:26well, you can fill this out yourself.

00:54:29What do you think they're going to fill out?

00:54:31They're going to fill out the winning lottery ticket.

00:54:34It's not that complicated.

00:54:36If you fill out these numbers, you get a million dollars.

00:54:44Since you're welcoming tips, somebody sent $2.

00:54:52Yeah, I'm not...

00:54:53My particular thing is I don't care about the nukes.

00:54:59I don't think the nukes are going to go anywhere.

00:55:02Because now we have...

00:55:03This is why war has become different now.

00:55:08Because the leaders get blown up.

00:55:15You know, it's not much fun running a war if you get vaporized, too.

00:55:20So conventional warfare has become, between nuclear powers,

00:55:25has become impossible.

00:55:27And so this is why you're getting all this other stuff.

00:55:36That's why I like the jolly heretic.

00:55:38He's a scientist funded by his viewers.

00:55:40And quite self-expressed, I might add, as well.

00:55:42I flipped on one of his videos the other day, and there he was in a blonde wig.

00:55:47I appreciate the flexibility in presentation style.

00:55:54I'm sitting here listening while I work and absolutely loving today's rant so far.

00:55:57Good insight. Thank you. Thank you, Rachel. I appreciate that.

00:56:04Nukes will be deployed on military bases, not cities.

00:56:06China needs living space.

00:56:10Now, I don't even think nukes will be deployed on military bases,

00:56:12because it's too easy to escalate once that Rubicon gets crossed,

00:56:16and because the radiation will drift in the wind, and, yeah, it's...

00:56:21I don't think the nukes are going to be used.

00:56:26I mean, why do you need nukes when you have gain-of-function research?

00:56:30Right? Why?

00:56:33When you can weaponize the cold and then weaponize the propaganda systems,

00:56:39why would you need nukes?

00:56:47All right. Let's see. Other questions.

00:56:50So, yeah, this confirmation bias is all too funny.

00:57:01Oh, yeah, the abortion wars and bleeding out in parking lots.

00:57:05Woman charged with murder after losing her pregnancy.

00:57:08A South Carolina woman had a miscarriage and was charged with murder,

00:57:11a direct consequence of the Republican abortion bans in the state, CNN reports.

00:57:19Oh, gosh.

00:57:25And apparently, this is according to reports,

00:57:27a state grand jury declined to pursue charges against a former

00:57:30South Carolina State University student accused of murder

00:57:33after her baby died following a premature birth.

00:57:38So, what are the actual facts?

00:57:47Did she just have a tragic miscarriage, like 20 to 30 percent,

00:57:50or sometimes even more, depending on the age,

00:57:53a pregnancy's result in miscarriage?

00:57:58So, was it that a woman had a miscarriage and she was charged with murder?

00:58:02I mean, how does anyone believe this stuff even at face value?

00:58:06Right. So, what is the actual story?

00:58:10Amari Marsh was a 22-year-old college student in February 2023

00:58:17when she traveled to an Orangeburg area hospital

00:58:19after experiencing pain in her abdomen connected to her pregnancy.

00:58:23She left the emergency room and suffered a miscarriage

00:58:25the following morning while on the toilet.

00:58:31According to the police, the fetus, then gestating for several months,

00:58:35was still exhibiting signs of life when recovered by Orangeburg EMS

00:58:38but died shortly after.

00:58:46So, later, the police had learned that Marsh had sought medication

00:58:51from a Columbia chapter of Planned Parenthood in January

00:58:53that could have caused an abortion.

00:58:57So, what does that mean?

00:59:00It means that, according to some allegations,

00:59:04I don't know what the truth is, but according to some allegations,

00:59:15Marsh was charged with murder because she had a live birth,

00:59:18did not render aid to her newborn, and left the newborn in the toilet to die.

00:59:22She was not charged in relation to any abortion-restricting laws.

00:59:27This poor young black woman, right?

00:59:29Marsh was charged with murder because she had a live birth,

00:59:32did not render aid to her newborn, and left the newborn in the toilet to die.

00:59:36She was not charged in relation to any abortion-restricting laws.

00:59:46Ah, all these pictures of, uh, the handmaiden's tale.

00:59:54And abortion isn't even banned in South Carolina.

00:59:56Oh, it's just astonishing.

00:59:59People just get, ah, upset, right?

01:00:03Somebody says, she delivered a live baby that she dumped into the toilet and allowed to die.

01:00:07This was murder, not a miscarriage.

01:00:11Again, the facts, I'm not going to say that anything on social media is gospel,

01:00:17or anything I'm going to read about this at all is gospel.

01:00:25But my gosh.

01:00:33China is currently colonizing Africa.

01:00:35Yes! A lot of free loans flowing from China to African warlords.

01:00:41You know, it's going to be wild.

01:00:43It's going to be absolutely wild to see how the indigenous population of Africa

01:00:50fares under the Chinese as opposed to the Europeans.

01:00:56Meet the new boss.

01:00:58Ain't the same as the old boss.

01:01:00And there's going to be like, wow, we really didn't know how good we had it

01:01:04when it wasn't the Chinese in charge.

01:01:08Are you planning on doing any more collab videos like you used to do in the past,

01:01:12or interviews of interesting people?

01:01:14Yes, I just did a five-part series with Keith Knight,

01:01:16a video with the Lodacetus,

01:01:18I did a video with the Lodacetus and an interview about peaceful parenting.

01:01:21Yeah, I've got one coming up too.

01:01:23In October.

01:01:26In October.

01:01:29There's a couple of people I would absolutely love to interview.

01:01:32I'm still mulling it over.

01:01:36You know, honestly, I have some concern about...

01:01:41I have some concern about people getting in some trouble

01:01:48because of collaborating with me.

01:01:50That's all.

01:01:52Kevin Bass, Ph.D., M.S.

01:01:54Oh, I guess he's a M.S. too.

01:01:56Master's of Science, I assume, Ph.D., Master's of Science.

01:02:00He wrote a 2023 meta-analysis of 40 high-quality studies.

01:02:06COVID death rate in 2020 for people younger than 70 was 0.07%, or 1 in 1,500.

01:02:13That is not even counting comorbidities and other things as well.

01:02:17And didn't the flu just kind of mysteriously vanish?

01:02:21Over that time period as well?

01:02:25Isn't that something?

01:02:271 in 1,500.

01:02:32And all of this was known in the summer of 2020.

01:02:40That's crazy.

01:02:43Just wild.

01:02:50Oh, yes.

01:02:52Making scientific discoveries simply by connecting information already existing in the public domain.

01:02:58So, this guy named Swanson realized he could make discoveries

01:03:01by connecting information from scientific articles and subspecialty domains

01:03:06that never cited one another and that had no scientists who worked together.

01:03:09For example, by systematically cross-referencing databases of literature

01:03:14from different disciplines, he uncovered 11 neglected connections

01:03:18between magnesium deficiency and migraine research

01:03:20and proposed that they could be tested.

01:03:23So, that's pretty wild.

01:03:31And that's not even AI, but when AI starts to do all of this stuff,

01:03:36just fantastic.

01:03:42The IT unemployment rate has been higher than the national unemployment rate

01:03:46for seven of the past eight months.

01:03:48If you know anyone in tech, give them a hug.

01:03:50It's hard times.

01:03:52Yeah, and the IT stuff is just going to get worse and worse and worse.

01:03:57That's because the amount of code that AI can write is absolutely staggering.

01:04:10And somebody wrote,

01:04:11Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on the decline of tech jobs,

01:04:15particularly entry-level and recruiting roles, suggesting they might be gone for good.

01:04:19I initially thought it was exaggerated,

01:04:20but then saw a UC Berkeley computer science professor mention

01:04:23that even his top students are struggling to get job offers.

01:04:26That's concerning.

01:04:27My kid is far from college, but I'm curious how a parent of high school

01:04:29is approaching career guidance for their kids in light of this.

01:04:33Yeah, IT age.

01:04:34The IT age to me, the fun IT age, was the 80s and the 90s.

01:04:38It got worse after that.

01:04:41The death rate from COVID for those age 0 to 19 years is 0.0003%,

01:04:49or one in 333,333.

01:04:53They shut down schools for that, he wrote.

01:04:55Many children experience unrecoverable developmental delays.

01:04:58They sacrifice large numbers of the young for a tiny minority of the very old.

01:05:03Yes.

01:05:05I mean, I said this back in 2020,

01:05:08that the lockdowns would do far more harm to people than COVID ever could.

01:05:19And that seems to be the case for sure.

01:05:31Yeah, the chronic disease epidemic is really something.

01:05:35I'm literally half frightened of food these days, if that makes any sense.

01:05:39I could be completely wrong about this.

01:05:41It's just my subjective experience.

01:05:44But I am legit frightened of food now.

01:05:53I'm like, if it's not whole, like eggs or fruit,

01:05:57or if it's been tampered by human beings in any way,

01:06:02I assume it's half poison.

01:06:03Just my particular opinion.

01:06:07Yeah, you need to look up King Leopold.

01:06:09The history is not what you're told.

01:06:12All right.

01:06:13Hey Steph, you said that it takes about half the time of the relationship

01:06:16to recover from a breakup.

01:06:17If it's so, how should the transition look like?

01:06:20If a girl is three years in a relationship and I would steal her from the guy,

01:06:23should she first mourn for 1.5 years and then date me?

01:06:26Is it a bad sign if she would be willing to break up and immediately start dating me?

01:06:30Is that a sign that she cannot form a strong bond?

01:06:32Yes.

01:06:33So the reason you need,

01:06:35it's an old Japanese proverb,

01:06:37like if you're in a train,

01:06:39I guess it's not that old,

01:06:40if you're in a train going the wrong direction,

01:06:42get off at the first stop,

01:06:43because otherwise you just got longer to travel back, right?

01:06:47So the question is,

01:06:51the question is,

01:07:00what is the pause for?

01:07:02Just having had a pause.

01:07:03What is the pause for?

01:07:04Why do you need time after a relationship?

01:07:09To heal?

01:07:10Well, because you need to figure out why you got in

01:07:13and why you stayed in,

01:07:14and that takes a while.

01:07:16It's not like it's magic, right?

01:07:18It just, on average,

01:07:19it takes people a year and a half to stop blaming the other person

01:07:22and start taking some goddamn accountability for their bad decisions.

01:07:27That's all.

01:07:29That's all.

01:07:30It just takes people

01:07:36that long to stop blaming the other person

01:07:38and take just a little smidge of accountability in their lives.

01:07:44One advantage of much in Europe

01:07:47is that they still have strict laws against NGOs, etc.

01:07:52NGOs?

01:07:54Non-

01:07:57genomic organizations.

01:07:59I'm so sorry.

01:08:00I probably know that by a different acronym.

01:08:02I'm sorry.

01:08:03I'm either having a brain fart or something like that.

01:08:05NGOs are non-government organizations, right?

01:08:10I don't think you mean NGOs.

01:08:12Maybe you do, and it's an acronym.

01:08:13I don't know.

01:08:14GMOs?

01:08:15Do you mean GMOs?

01:08:16Genetically modified organisms?

01:08:17Is that what you mean?

01:08:32Somebody says,

01:08:33I believe autism is caused by child abuse.

01:08:36Well, there's-

01:08:37What is it?

01:08:38They did a study of the Amish,

01:08:39and they found only three cases of autism,

01:08:41and those were all adopted from outside.

01:08:45But the other thing too

01:08:46is that the government doesn't really seem to care

01:08:48why autism rates are just going through the roof.

01:08:52And again,

01:08:53they don't even care why this brain affliction

01:08:56is hitting so many kids,

01:08:57and in particular boys.

01:08:58They don't care about that in particular,

01:08:59but apparently they really care about the temperature

01:09:01a hundred years from now.

01:09:02It's just wild.

01:09:04It's just wild.

01:09:05GMOs, I meant.

01:09:06Sorry, not NGOs.

01:09:07Yeah, I thought so.

01:09:09Hey, I puzzled it out myself.

01:09:12All right, let's check over here.

01:09:16Summer 2020.

01:09:17What a time.

01:09:19What a time.

01:09:22My whole life, I'm like,

01:09:23we should privatize healthcare.

01:09:24Well, people have to have access to healthcare.

01:09:29Well, apparently not.

01:09:30You can just turn it off, right?

01:09:32Just turn off their access.

01:09:35People can go without healthcare for a year or two.

01:09:38Apparently it's totally fine.

01:09:39It's totally fine.

01:09:43Among 45-plus-year-old Americans,

01:09:467% of those with children would have zero

01:09:49if they could go back.

01:09:5056% of those without children

01:09:53would have some if they could go back.

01:10:007% of those with children

01:10:02would have zero if they could go back.

01:10:04And I would assume, I would assume

01:10:06that the 7% who wish they hadn't had kids

01:10:09are the ones who dumped them in daycares

01:10:10and parented badly,

01:10:11and then their kids turned out badly,

01:10:12and they regret having them,

01:10:13but what you should really regret

01:10:14is being bad parents.

01:10:16I'm not saying that's true for all of them,

01:10:17but that would be my first argument.

01:10:24So this is why 56% of those without children

01:10:27would have some if they could go back.

01:10:29I assume the numbers are higher,

01:10:31but people have a way of overcoming those regrets.

01:10:43So here's pretty wild, right?

01:10:44And let me ask you this.

01:10:45This is a question that Stillwell Links posted on X.

01:10:51Please ask how many...

01:10:52Sorry.

01:10:53Welcome to the club, Naomi.

01:10:54Oh, this is...

01:10:55Let me...

01:10:56Sorry, I lost that.

01:10:57All right.

01:10:58Please ask.

01:10:59Please ask.

01:11:00This is Naomi Wolf.

01:11:01Please ask how many of your followers

01:11:03are now disconnected from their family members since COVID?

01:11:05I'm interested in your results.

01:11:11Isn't that interesting?

01:11:13So when I said to people,

01:11:14you don't have to stay in abusive relationships,

01:11:16I was called like an evil cult leader

01:11:17all across the world for years and years and years,

01:11:20and then all the people who were like,

01:11:22well, I got to stay with these abusive people

01:11:24just got dumped over COVID anyway.

01:11:26Apparently, separating families is really bad

01:11:28if the family is evil, then you're virtuous,

01:11:30but it's totally fine if you're afraid of a bad cult.

01:11:33All right.

01:11:34So this is my question to you,

01:11:36and we can make this the last question of the night,

01:11:39but...

01:11:44Did you lose members?

01:11:46Did you lose family members over COVID?

01:11:49Did you?

01:11:51So a few people answered.

01:11:55Very disconnected,

01:11:56but especially disconnected from the one I needed,

01:11:58who passed away.

01:11:59And I've heard a complaint to say,

01:12:01dead instead.

01:12:02Nope, passed away.

01:12:03In heaven, alive in Jesus' arms,

01:12:04complete with visitations and reassurances,

01:12:06still disconnected.

01:12:08What does that mean?

01:12:12Uh, I think that means died?

01:12:15Me too, lost two dear friends,

01:12:17both highly vaxxed,

01:12:18163, the other 59,

01:12:20both totally against ivermectin.

01:12:22Boy, I remember when 59 seemed really old,

01:12:25as opposed to slightly less than a year away.

01:12:30Somebody wrote,

01:12:31I was born and raised in Los Angeles since the 1950s,

01:12:33and like many of us,

01:12:34I left my home, family, and friends in 2021

01:12:37for a new life along Florida's Treasure Coast.

01:12:40They didn't want to hear my conspiracy theories,

01:12:42and I couldn't watch their mass suicide.

01:12:44We made new friends.

01:12:46Uh, somebody writes,

01:12:47our belief that it was a pandemic and not real

01:12:49divided us from our adult children

01:12:51who went along with their spouse's fear and got the jab.

01:12:56Somebody wrote,

01:12:58this is very sad for me,

01:13:00not completely disconnected,

01:13:01but only because we are far too Midwestern for that,

01:13:03but a major chilling.

01:13:05We're not the same family at all.

01:13:07My sister was my person,

01:13:08and now it's just niceties at holidays.

01:13:12Woman writes,

01:13:13still heartbroken.

01:13:15I was not allowed to see my daughter-in-law

01:13:17or attend her baby shower

01:13:18while she was carrying my first grandchild.

01:13:20I had to wait two months to meet him.

01:13:22I've never had COVID,

01:13:23two blood tests,

01:13:24no hotel for the visit.

01:13:25Our relationship has crumbled.

01:13:26My head hurts.

01:13:29Somebody writes,

01:13:30my son's father has never met

01:13:32his almost four-year-old granddaughter.

01:13:34He will not see his only son

01:13:36because they aren't fully vaccinated.

01:13:38A woman named Erin writes,

01:13:40I've lost an entire friend group.

01:13:43A woman writes,

01:13:44three of my four kids have gone woke and got the shots.

01:13:46They're very defensive of their decision.

01:13:48One is combatively defensive

01:13:49and will not comply with an acceptance

01:13:51of an agreement to disagree.

01:13:52She has to push it all the time.

01:13:54I'm just a crazy mom.

01:13:55Better to stay away, sadly.

01:13:58Britney writes,

01:13:59I felt isolated from what was my church family.

01:14:05Sadly, this happened to my husband and me.

01:14:07We had one child, a girl,

01:14:08and she completely cut us out of her

01:14:10and our granddaughter's lives.

01:14:11She was raised in a loving home,

01:14:12grew up in church,

01:14:13and had a wonderful childhood.

01:14:14I believe wholeheartedly she was indoctrinated.

01:14:18Jim writes,

01:14:19my two nephews won't talk to me

01:14:20because of COVID and Trump.

01:14:21My friend, who I've known since fifth grade,

01:14:23told me he's gotten all shots,

01:14:24boosters, etc.

01:14:27I mentioned Ivor Macdon,

01:14:28he said he hadn't heard about it

01:14:29but thought I was crazy.

01:14:30Haven't spoken since,

01:14:31that was months ago.

01:14:39Eugenia writes,

01:14:40I have a close friend who has eight boosters,

01:14:43had an M.I. two weeks after her eighth booster,

01:14:47and just recently had COVID again.

01:14:50All day, every day,

01:14:51it's COVID this and that,

01:14:52and now,

01:14:53and then got really angry at my husband and I

01:14:54because we voted Republican.

01:14:55Angry to the point of crying.

01:14:57I don't know,

01:14:58had an M.I.

01:15:00two weeks after her eighth booster,

01:15:01I'm not sure what that is.

01:15:02I'm sure it's obvious

01:15:03if I think about it in hindsight,

01:15:04but I don't know what that is.

01:15:11I mean,

01:15:13people who are indoctrinated

01:15:14cannot be moral

01:15:15because they don't

01:15:16have any particular reasons

01:15:17behind what they're doing,

01:15:18so people who are indoctrinated

01:15:21on the left or the right

01:15:22can't particularly be moral.

01:15:27All right.

01:15:29Yeah,

01:15:30the stories of the family disintegrations

01:15:32under COVID

01:15:34was just terrible.

01:15:38Michael writes,

01:15:39yes, I raised seven,

01:15:40and they're supposed to be independent thinkers.

01:15:42Some are nurses and doctors,

01:15:43lawyers, accountants,

01:15:44and financial wizards.

01:15:45Others are amazing in their own right.

01:15:46COVID almost tore us apart.

01:15:47But the further removed we are from COVID,

01:15:49I see hope on the horizon.

01:15:53Katrina writes,

01:15:54we don't talk about it.

01:15:55They know my opinion,

01:15:56and I know theirs.

01:15:57As much as it's frustrating,

01:15:58I know I'm loved,

01:15:59and I can't fathom

01:16:00not spending time with them

01:16:01because they're all jabbed.

01:16:02As much as it pains me,

01:16:03they've changed in other positive ways

01:16:04and love me.

01:16:05And love me, they're lost.

01:16:08Someone writes,

01:16:09we were uninvited

01:16:10to our annual 0704 family gathering.

01:16:12We understood,

01:16:13but saw pics of them

01:16:14with other unvaccinated grandkids.

01:16:16They said,

01:16:17Fauci said it was okay

01:16:18if they were under 14.

01:16:19We'd already had it at that point.

01:16:21Too much to explain.

01:16:23But we're the only conservatives.

01:16:25Yeah, I wrote about this

01:16:30in my novel,

01:16:31The Present,

01:16:32with Oliver's family

01:16:33and the gathering together

01:16:34of gratitude and love

01:16:35and faith.

01:16:37And

01:16:40the woke woman,

01:16:42well, the woke daughter

01:16:43and her mother,

01:16:44it was just ugly.

01:16:46Ugly people.

01:16:48Friends and Jen writes,

01:16:49friends and family

01:16:50sadly can't think for themselves

01:16:51and believe all the life

01:16:52they've been fed about vaccines

01:16:53and many other things

01:16:54in our lifetime.

01:16:56Somebody writes,

01:16:57I'm estranged from my older sister.

01:16:59She never believed me

01:17:00about anything

01:17:01and now that so much

01:17:02of what she poo-pooed

01:17:03has been exposed,

01:17:04there's no apology

01:17:05or acknowledgement.

01:17:06My husband's sister

01:17:07has disowned him

01:17:08because he's a Trumpster

01:17:09and unvaxxed.

01:17:10Nice people, right?

01:17:12Hmm.

01:17:16Somebody writes,

01:17:17I stated early on

01:17:18I wasn't getting vaxxed.

01:17:19I was given the cold shoulder

01:17:20by many for that winter.

01:17:21Not allowed to attend

01:17:22a dear friend's funeral

01:17:23was the cruelest,

01:17:24but I'm glad to say

01:17:25I now have recovered

01:17:26my family and friends.

01:17:27Seeing me healthy through,

01:17:28out, I think,

01:17:29sent a powerful message.

01:17:32Yeah, it's very sad.

01:17:35I find this stuff

01:17:36just heartbreaking.

01:17:38Am I a myocardial infraction

01:17:40or heart attack?

01:17:41Oh, thank you.

01:17:42Okay, thank you.

01:17:48Alright,

01:17:49let's finish up here.

01:17:50Any other last tips?

01:17:51I would really appreciate it.

01:17:54Someone wanting into your pants

01:17:55are not going to be

01:17:56the most trustworthy person

01:17:57to tell you

01:17:58why your last relationship

01:17:59failed.

01:18:00Yeah, for sure.

01:18:10All of us family get together.

01:18:11Sounds like a fun time.

01:18:12Yeah, yeah.

01:18:14Yes, yes, yes.

01:18:18Alright, any other

01:18:19last questions, comments?

01:18:20Let me just check over here

01:18:21on the rumble.

01:18:24Steph's audience is

01:18:25oh, damn!

01:18:26No, this is not my audience.

01:18:27This is,

01:18:28I'm just reading from Twitter.

01:18:30I'm just reading from Twitter.

01:18:34Twit to the er.

01:18:41All right, going once,

01:18:42going twice.

01:18:43I really appreciate

01:18:44everyone's time tonight.

01:18:45Sorry, we've been a little bit light

01:18:46on the call-in shows lately.

01:18:47I'm sort of aware of that.

01:18:48I know the call-in shows

01:18:49are very popular.

01:18:50We've been a little bit light

01:18:51on the call-in shows

01:18:52because I've been doing

01:18:53some private calls.

01:18:55People really want to have calls

01:18:59outside of the public eye,

01:19:00so I've been doing those,

01:19:01but we have more coming up.

01:19:03So, I'm sorry,

01:19:04but we've been a little light

01:19:05on the call-in shows,

01:19:06but they're coming up.

01:19:07Somebody writes,

01:19:08I think on the subject

01:19:09of women changing

01:19:10their stance-slash-behavior

01:19:11on premarital sex,

01:19:12one good reason

01:19:13is that it's irresponsible

01:19:14to risk bringing a child

01:19:15into an unstable relationship.

01:19:23So, but,

01:19:25the reality is that

01:19:30going from bad decisions

01:19:32to good decisions

01:19:33is really complicated

01:19:34and tough in life, man.

01:19:36Going from bad decisions

01:19:37to good decisions

01:19:38is really complicated

01:19:39and tough.

01:19:40So, if a woman slept around

01:19:43and used sex

01:19:46as a mechanism to get men,

01:19:50as a mechanism to get attention,

01:19:52that's really unhealthy,

01:19:54and the question is,

01:19:55how did she end up

01:19:56so unhealthy?

01:19:57So, the reality is

01:19:58that it's irresponsible

01:19:59to risk bringing a child

01:20:00into an unstable relationship.

01:20:03So, it's not just

01:20:04a question of,

01:20:05well, I've seen the error

01:20:06of my ways,

01:20:07the question is,

01:20:08why did you have

01:20:09to figure that out

01:20:10for yourself?

01:20:11So, let's just talk

01:20:12about women, right?

01:20:13So, if a woman

01:20:15slept around,

01:20:17has a high body count,

01:20:19then the question is,

01:20:20why?

01:20:21Did her parents

01:20:22not prepare her

01:20:23for the sexual

01:20:25or romantic power

01:20:26that she was going to have

01:20:27in the world?

01:20:28Did they not teach her

01:20:29how to do well

01:20:30and to honor her body

01:20:31and the beauty of sexuality

01:20:33and so on

01:20:34by reserving it

01:20:35to a genuinely

01:20:36loving relationship?

01:20:38So, either she had

01:20:39good parents

01:20:40she didn't listen to,

01:20:41or she had bad parents.

01:20:42Either way,

01:20:44well, I guess,

01:20:46if your kid

01:20:47doesn't listen to you,

01:20:49it's your fault

01:20:50as the parent, right?

01:20:51Because you're responsible

01:20:52for having credibility

01:20:53in your relationship

01:20:54with your kids.

01:20:56So, it indicates

01:20:57a significant dysfunction.

01:20:59Also, she's in

01:21:00the wrong crowd.

01:21:01She's with the wrong people.

01:21:02She doesn't have an internalized

01:21:03sense of morality.

01:21:04She hasn't thought

01:21:05about the downsides.

01:21:06She's hedonistic,

01:21:07and she hasn't thought

01:21:08about the downsides

01:21:09of getting involved

01:21:13with a sexual relationship

01:21:15with someone you don't

01:21:16know very well

01:21:17or isn't a quality person.

01:21:18She hasn't thought

01:21:19about the downsides.

01:21:20She hasn't read

01:21:21counter-arguments.

01:21:22She hasn't pondered it deeply.

01:21:23Right?

01:21:24So, it's all

01:21:25tip of the iceberg.

01:21:26The decision to sleep around

01:21:27is not just,

01:21:28well, there's a body count

01:21:29and you can just say,

01:21:30well, I'm going to change.

01:21:31It's like, no, no, no.

01:21:32You've got to figure out

01:21:33why you ended up

01:21:34making such unwise decisions.

01:21:37And for women in particular,

01:21:39a high body count

01:21:41is just brutal.

01:21:46It is more difficult.

01:21:51It is much more difficult

01:21:53for women to deal

01:21:54with a high body count

01:21:55because during a time of war,

01:21:58they needed to sleep

01:21:59with a lot of women

01:22:00to replenish the tribe.

01:22:05So,

01:22:11it's not good.

01:22:13It's not good at all.

01:22:16It's not good at all.

01:22:22Women are more pair-bonded.

01:22:23They have more investment.

01:22:24So, for a woman

01:22:25to sleep around

01:22:26is generally worse.

01:22:27It's great for men, for sure.

01:22:29But it is worse as a whole

01:22:35for women than it is for men.

01:22:38All right.

01:22:40Let's see here.

01:22:44Do you still plan to add

01:22:45to the History of Philosophy series?

01:22:47Yes, the AI bots

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01:23:31My girlfriend,

01:23:32says Bob,

01:23:33my girlfriend is loving

01:23:34your book Real-Time Relationships.

01:23:35She says it flows really well

01:23:36and it's easily understood.

01:23:37Thanks for your work.

01:23:38Much appreciated.

01:23:39Oh, thank you.

01:23:41Oh, regarding a woman

01:23:42who sleeps around,

01:23:43could it be that she was raised

01:23:44in a broken home

01:23:45with little to no parental guidance

01:23:46and later realized

01:23:47that it was wrong

01:23:48and she should break this cycle

01:23:49by making sure

01:23:50she doesn't have a child

01:23:51out of wedlock?

01:23:52Sure, but how much

01:23:54time and energy

01:23:55and effort

01:23:56does it take to deal

01:23:57with being raised

01:23:58in a broken home?

01:24:00How can you find out

01:24:01the true body count

01:24:02of a woman

01:24:03since she can just lie

01:24:04when asked?

01:24:06Well,

01:24:07you can just look

01:24:08at her social media, right?

01:24:10And has she traveled,

01:24:12right?

01:24:13If she's been to college,

01:24:14almost certainly

01:24:15a high body count.

01:24:16If she has tattoos,

01:24:17almost certainly

01:24:18a high body count.

01:24:19If she's ever done drugs,

01:24:20if she's ever done

01:24:21a lot of drinking,

01:24:22ever gone to a lot of parties,

01:24:23ever traveled

01:24:24when young

01:24:25without a lot of money,

01:24:27and so on, right?

01:24:28If she's ever had

01:24:29suspiciously high purchases

01:24:30for a relatively

01:24:31low-income person,

01:24:32and if she's ever posted

01:24:33thirst traps

01:24:35on social media,

01:24:37then she almost certainly

01:24:38has a high body count.

01:24:40So there's lots of ways

01:24:41that you can figure

01:24:42this stuff out.

01:24:43If the AI gets

01:24:44good enough stuff,

01:24:45maybe done away with

01:24:46once it takes over.

01:24:47No, it will never get that.

01:24:48It will never get that good.

01:24:50What are your thoughts

01:24:51on Gen Z and hope

01:24:52for the future?

01:24:53You're going to have to

01:24:54be a bit more specific.

01:24:55You can email me

01:24:56at

01:24:57host at

01:24:58freedomain.com

01:24:59host at

01:25:00freedomain.com

01:25:01Just be a little bit

01:25:02more specific.

01:25:03That's too generic

01:25:04a question for me

01:25:05to answer.

01:25:06All right.

01:25:07Okay, well,

01:25:08thanks everyone so much

01:25:09for your time

01:25:10this evening.

01:25:12Somebody says,

01:25:13personally, I'm not sure.

01:25:14I was raised in a broken home

01:25:15but never had premarital sex.

01:25:16I realized a lot

01:25:17of the problems

01:25:18with my upbringing

01:25:19in my late teens

01:25:20when I got into your content.

01:25:24See,

01:25:25this is somebody

01:25:26with Doug and Jessica, right?

01:25:27So,

01:25:28this is Jessica, right?

01:25:29This is Jessica.

01:25:33This is Jessica.

01:25:34You are doing the meme.

01:25:37Yeah, you're doing the meme.

01:25:39You're doing a meme.

01:25:40Here's a general question.

01:25:42Here's a general answer.

01:25:43But it doesn't apply

01:25:44to my specific case.

01:25:45Yes, so you're doing

01:25:46the female meme.

01:25:47I love you for it.

01:25:48I think it's great.

01:25:49But you do realize

01:25:50this is a complete cliche.

01:25:52We're having an argument

01:25:53about an abstract topic

01:25:54that involves

01:25:55everyone on the planet.

01:25:56But it doesn't apply

01:25:57to your specific situation.

01:25:59So then you say,

01:26:00no, not sure

01:26:01because me, I,

01:26:02me, me, I,

01:26:03I, me, me, I.

01:26:04Most people

01:26:05don't win the lottery.

01:26:06No, I don't,

01:26:07I don't really think

01:26:08that's true

01:26:09because I won the lottery.

01:26:10It's like, no,

01:26:11so this is the meme, right?

01:26:12You understand?

01:26:13It's,

01:26:14it's,

01:26:15I love the way

01:26:16but this is one

01:26:17of the ways

01:26:18that it's very predictable

01:26:19for the most part, right?

01:26:20Tons of exceptions

01:26:21but this is one part

01:26:22that's very predictable

01:26:23which is

01:26:24women can compare

01:26:25abstractions

01:26:26to their own

01:26:27personal experience

01:26:28in general, right?

01:26:29In general.

01:26:31The point that you

01:26:32brought up in past streams

01:26:33on the amount of young women

01:26:34who are all in

01:26:35on abortion is chilling.

01:26:36Oh yeah,

01:26:37it's absolutely brutal.

01:26:39I just don't know

01:26:40how long it takes

01:26:41to get past

01:26:42the broken home situation

01:26:43for a woman

01:26:44who's slept around.

01:26:46But it's a lot of work.

01:26:48I was able to,

01:26:49I mean, I did,

01:26:50I'm pretty good

01:26:51at this stuff,

01:26:52you know,

01:26:53with some humility,

01:26:54like nobody's perfect

01:26:55but I'm pretty good

01:26:56at this stuff.

01:26:57I started getting into

01:26:58self-knowledge

01:26:59when I was in my mid-teens.

01:27:01I really started

01:27:02getting into it

01:27:03in my early twenties

01:27:05and then

01:27:06in my early thirties

01:27:07I did

01:27:0818 months

01:27:09of therapy

01:27:10which was

01:27:11three hours a week,

01:27:12two sessions

01:27:13of an hour and a half

01:27:14on Wednesdays afternoon

01:27:15did 20 months

01:27:16I think it was

01:27:17of therapy

01:27:18and

01:27:19so three hours a week

01:27:20with very little breaks

01:27:21and also I did

01:27:22eight to ten hours

01:27:23of journaling

01:27:24and other forms

01:27:25of

01:27:26work.

01:27:28And then I was ready

01:27:29to get married.

01:27:30So.

01:27:32Your thoughts on how I

01:27:33can assess my level

01:27:34of mental maturity

01:27:35even if I'm mature enough

01:27:36for my age?

01:27:37That is a good question.

01:27:39I will not do that now.

01:27:41I will do it this week.

01:27:42Just make a note of it here.

01:27:44And I will save it.

01:27:46But that's a great question.

01:27:47How will you assess

01:27:48your own mental maturity?

01:27:51I support women

01:27:52withholding sex without access

01:27:53to abortion.

01:27:54Save it to the marriage bed.

01:27:56All right.

01:27:57Well, thanks everyone so much

01:27:58for a lovely,

01:27:59lovely chat this evening.

01:28:00I was a little low energy

01:28:01coming in for a variety

01:28:02of reasons.

01:28:03I did two other shows today.

01:28:04So,

01:28:05but I really do appreciate

01:28:06your time,

01:28:07care and attention.

01:28:08If you're listening to this later

01:28:09you can make up for.

01:28:10Listen, I understand

01:28:11it's a low donation night.

01:28:12People were kind

01:28:13to my birthday,

01:28:14so no problem with that.

01:28:15If you're listening to this later,

01:28:16if you can help out

01:28:17at freedomain.com

01:28:18slash donate,

01:28:19hugely appreciate it.

01:28:20Thank you,

01:28:21my lovely darlings,

01:28:22for a beautiful evening.

01:28:23Lots of love from up here.

01:28:24I'll talk soon.

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