Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
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Wednesday Night Live 6 November 2024

In this episode, I examine the psychological toll of election monitoring amid uncounted ballots in the U.S. I analyze inflated narratives around voter turnout and gender dynamics, using humor to critique societal views on women leaders. The discussion shifts to financial implications from a Bitcoin surge and a proposal for a U.S. Bitcoin reserve. I also touch on alternative health therapies, emphasizing mental well-being through exercise. Throughout, I stress the importance of resilience in political discourse and reflect on societal privilege, encouraging listeners to maintain hope and reflection in uncertain times.

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Transcript
00:00Good evening, 6th of November 2024, yes, that's right, I'm cooking on a little under four
00:11hours sleep because, you know that meme, this is how women sleep, you know, peacefully,
00:17and this is how men sleep, we don't!
00:20We're up monitoring the election to make sure that shit doesn't flip blue at four o'clock
00:26in the fucking morning.
00:29Don't blink, it'll get, it'll get switched!
00:34Did you have that?
00:35I'm like, I can't sleep because cause and effect is backwards for me, I still have PTSD
00:41from 2020.
00:46So yes, yes, good evening, good evening.
00:49Some answers as to where those 20 million mystery voters may have vanished, they're
00:55still only half finished I think in California.
00:58See, I know that there's some paper ballots and shit like that, but isn't the whole point
01:03of electronic stuff, isn't the whole point of electronic stuff that you're supposed to
01:08count it quickly?
01:09I mean, people with actual paper ballots count it faster than all of this fancy-dancy machinery.
01:17It's like you've got this giant Excel spreadsheet, right, and then your boss says, well, what's
01:21the total?
01:22And you're like, well, shit, I don't know, man, I'm gonna have to work that out by hand
01:24and it's like, don't you have an, didn't I pay a $3,000 computer and don't you have
01:29Excel training and you've got this giant spreadsheet with 90 tabs?
01:33No!
01:34I mean, I have a spreadsheet, that's true, but if you want the total, I'm gonna have
01:40to go and count things by hand and work it out with an abacus and my fucking toes.
01:48But you have, you have a computer, doesn't matter!
01:53In honor of how the U.S. runs its election, I will be going to everyone's house and doing
01:57the podcast by hand, I'll do it with hand puppets and yelling from probably the trunk
02:03of your car, so, yes, yes, yeah, yeah, you know, as it sort of turns out, as it turns
02:13out as a whole, going on empty vapid statements like threat to democracy, Nazi, rapist, racist,
02:21it turns out that doesn't actually change the price of groceries.
02:26Also turns out that women buy gas and eggs and milk a whole lot more than they buy abortions.
02:34Well, how did Joe Biden get 80 plus million votes?
02:42Well, it will be interesting to see if any of that gets investigated.
02:51I mean, I'm sure the evidence is long gone, but, oh yeah, Trump is the only man in history
03:00to win three presidential elections and stop two women from becoming president.
03:04Well, it's not so much the two women, it's two warmongering women.
03:09This would be Queen Boadicea's Valhalla spiked chariot wheels, harpies of absolute death.
03:17Absolute death.
03:18You know, women start wars as leaders.
03:20Women start wars more than men do, right?
03:24So anyway, I'm here to chew gum and answer questions, and I'm fresh out of gum.
03:34But how about a reverse song quiz?
03:39Days grow shorter and the nights are getting long.
03:41Feels like we're running out of time.
03:42Every day it seems much harder.
03:44Telling right from wrong.
03:45You've got to read between the lines.
03:46Don't get discouraged.
03:47Don't be afraid.
03:48We can make it through another day.
03:49Make it worth the price we pay.
03:50I don't know that song.
03:52Trump will actually free Ross?
03:54I don't know that song.
04:03Well, anybody want to talk Bitcoin?
04:07It seems to me that there might be a little bit of something going on on Bitcoin, in that
04:13Canadian it's gone up in the last day $8,415.83, which is not small.
04:21Which is not small.
04:24So right now Bitcoin is cooking at $105,377.60.
04:35And that is really, really something.
04:44So let's talk about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
04:51This is more health.
04:53I mean, holy crap, right?
04:57Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote,
05:02FDA's war on public health is about to end.
05:07This includes its aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk,
05:11hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins,
05:16clean food, sunshine exercise, nutraceuticals, and anything else that advances human health
05:22and can't be patented by pharma.
05:24Oh, come on, I'm sure Moderna's patented the sun already.
05:28If you work for the FDA and part of this corrupt system, I have two messages for you, Robert
05:31F. Kennedy Jr.
05:32One, preserve your records, and two, pack your bags!
05:37Oh boy, it's he who wrote the real Anthony Fauci.
05:42Holy crap.
05:43That, uh, that man is like,
05:47Gollum, Italian, God, no, I'm Satan.
05:53So 20 million votes weren't counted, somebody says hello, and somebody said although it's
05:57confirmed that Trump won 270 plus electoral votes, some states have not counted every
06:01ballot for the popular vote.
06:03For example, California has only counted 8 million votes, which is 54%.
06:07Once finished counting, millions more votes will be added to the total.
06:10So that's important to recognize.
06:16Senator Loomis, isn't that nice that it's like luminescence, and Senator Loomis has
06:23put forward a bill for the US government to buy $200,000 Bitcoin, sorry, 200,000 Bitcoin
06:29over five years for a total of 1 million Bitcoin.
06:33So today's price, that would be worth $76 billion.
06:37Well, well, well.
06:47That's interesting.
06:50That's interesting.
06:51I mean, do I think that's feasible?
06:53Well it's something.
06:55It's something.
06:56It's interesting.
06:59All right.
07:03If Trump can even do 50% of what he promised in full, that's unbelievable and a tremendous
07:06outcome for the US.
07:08And if he gets to 50%, that would be amazing.
07:10That would be amazing.
07:12It's fight the good fight by triumph.
07:13I don't know triumph very well.
07:16Bought some more Bitcoin after your post the other day.
07:18Here's some of today's profits.
07:20I appreciate that.
07:21Do you think there is a possibility of other assassination attempts on Trump?
07:25You know, it could be.
07:26It could be.
07:27Of course, anything's possible.
07:30But it feels to me, it's just a feeling.
07:33It's not a fact, right?
07:35It's just a feeling.
07:36You can tell me if you guys feel differently, but it feels to me like the wind is out of
07:43the sails for this anti-Trump stuff.
07:48There was no big October surprise.
07:51There was no race-baiting George Floyd riot summer of love.
07:55There just didn't seem to be the same hysteria.
07:59I think they've burned out.
08:03For now.
08:04I mean, they will gather their strength, I'm sure.
08:07But I think they've kind of burned themselves out at the moment.
08:13Hey, Steph, women are now not going to be loose women themselves as they say they no
08:19longer have access to abortion.
08:22Thank you, President Trump.
08:23Yeah, you know, it's really sad.
08:25Now, of course, this is not most women, right?
08:29The problem is, of course, that social media gives you an impression that is statistically
08:34wildly off from the center of the bell curve, right?
08:36The extremes tend to show up in social media, but there do seem to be a fair number of posts
08:45from women who are saying, well, that's it, guys.
08:48If you're not going to give us Kamala Harris, then you can't touch women for like four years.
08:55Like did you think that one through?
08:59And how strange it is to think that all you have to offer political discourse and contributions
09:08to the philosophical weight and meaty matters of epistemological and ethical discussions
09:13in society is the giant scissor sound of your legs closing.
09:17Well, I don't have an argument, but I do have an inaccessible snatch.
09:25Okay, that's again, it's very much a minority, but my gosh, my gosh, isn't that sad?
09:34Isn't that sad?
09:35That was a great Valley Girl impersonation.
09:37Well, we all have our inner self.
09:40They should bring back cyclamates too.
09:43Okay, what's your little, what's your pet thing about health?
09:47Let's just go completely off the reservation here.
09:49What is your pet thing or theory about health?
09:53None of this is medical advice.
09:54We're just jawboning as complete idiot amateurs, but what is your pet thing?
09:58I'll go first.
10:00My pet thing is that exercise and dancing is the best cure for depression and virtue,
10:04right?
10:05But virtue is kind of a given in what we talk about here, but exercise and dancing, dancing
10:09in particular is the best cure for depression.
10:15That's sort of my hot take for health, right?
10:23Oh yes, too much exercise, too much love will kill you.
10:28Too much exercise can kill you, especially if you're a white man, study finds 7.5 hours
10:33a week of fitness doubles your risk of heart disease.
10:36Well, I wonder though, I mean, I think that's all just not true at all, right?
10:41They don't want maybe white men who are generally free speech absolutists and small government
10:46guys.
10:47They don't want you working out because then you're weak and pathetic and easily led by
10:50the nose.
10:52But I wonder if it's 7.5 hours a week of fitness doubles your risk of heart disease or just
10:59maybe the people who work out that much, I mean, that's not a huge amount.
11:05I do that at least a week, but not all of course weights.
11:09But maybe it's the supplements or the steroids they're taking that has more to do with their
11:15heart disease risk, right?
11:17So somebody says, oh Kairos, germs don't cause disease, most diseases are caused by stress.
11:22Yeah, the stress thing is a big deal, I think.
11:26If you act healthy, even when you're sick, you'll get healthier faster.
11:30Body is an engine, got to keep it pumping to keep it healthy and clear.
11:39Somebody says, hi Steph, used to follow you on YouTube, but I haven't seen you since you
11:44got squashed.
11:45Sorry for bringing up war wounds.
11:46Can I ask you for a brief update on what you've been doing since?
11:49Yes, you certainly can.
11:51I have been helping the world, spreading parenting.
11:54I've written three books since I was deplatformed.
11:57Two novels, one called The Future about how a free society works in practical terms and
12:02it's a great drama.
12:03The other one called The Present about how society slides into the abyss of disaster
12:07because of statism and my book Peaceful Parenting.
12:11And so I've written three books, I've done probably a thousand or fifteen hundred shows,
12:18one of which we are going on tonight and helped tons of people apply philosophy in their lives
12:23through call-in shows and lots of great stuff.
12:26So yeah, that's what I've been up to.
12:28All right.
12:29Imagine being a voter and your sole political concern is not being able to murder your baby
12:32because you can't not have raw unprotected sex for one week.
12:37All right.
12:41What is 6.9?
12:42Do you guys know what 6.9 is?
12:44Do you know what 6.9 is?
12:486.9 is something fun interrupted by a period.
12:52All right.
12:53The sun is amazing.
12:54Getting sunlight is great.
12:55We evolved on this planet outside most of the time.
12:57Yes.
12:58Yes.
12:59For sure.
13:01Yeah, Zuckerberg started working out, became less woke.
13:08Used to dance all the time when I was young.
13:11Favorite music in front of the mirror, haven't had in a long time.
13:13You should, yeah.
13:14Dancing with your kids is great fun.
13:18In what order should your novels be read?
13:20You could go through time, like you could go through them in time.
13:25So in sequence, it would be Just Poor, Revolutions, Almost, The God of Atheists, The Present,
13:39The Future.
13:40I liked the Bear Grylls segments in your latest video.
13:47Good.
13:48But yeah, I mean, you can just go in whatever way you like.
13:53Whatever works for you.
13:55The God of Atheists is a great book, fdrural.com slash TGOA.
14:00It's a great, great book.
14:02Certainly one of the funniest things that I've written.
14:10Outside of Stefan, I truly admire Trump.
14:12The odds were stacked against him and he still won.
14:14This gives me so much inspiration to never give up.
14:16As I understand that, I do not what is possible for myself nor my potential, thank you, Stefan,
14:23for everything you have done and continue to do.
14:28There is no defeat, save surrender.
14:32True surrender, where you give up the fight.
14:34There's no defeat, save surrender.
14:36You just switch tactics.
14:37I mean, let's say it's France in the summer of 1940, May 1940, you lose very quickly to
14:45the Germans.
14:46Well, you go and regroup in England.
14:48Some of you will continue the government in exile in the south of France.
14:54Some of you will start doing guerrilla moves against the Germans.
14:59All you do in life, you don't surrender, you just switch tactics.
15:05All you do in life, you don't surrender, you just switch tactics.
15:11The way that I view my life is, I view my life as a giant cascade of water coming down
15:19the side of a mountain and just some water has to reach the bottom.
15:26As I am a giant body of water cascading down a mountain, well, you hit obstacles.
15:35You hit rocks and gullies and valleys and pools and you pool up sometimes and you have
15:38to wait for the rain to swell and then you continue.
15:41But you just keep going.
15:42You just keep going.
15:43You just, gravity and your will, you find a way to the bottom of the mountain.
15:47Not all of you does, but you do as much as you can.
15:51And sometimes, you know, there's that great quote, sadly, from an evil guy, I think it
15:55was Lennon, who said, there are decades in which nothing happens and then weeks in which
16:00decades happen.
16:01You just have to be patient, abide your time, continue on, work your will, and whatever
16:07obstacle you come up against is there to strengthen your resolve.
16:12You just keep willing.
16:14All you have to do in winning life, in general, is just not give up.
16:18So many people give up.
16:19So many people give up.
16:21It's a... the race is not to the swift, but who can endure it?
16:30Right.
16:35So just don't... giving up is a sin against life and conscience and virtue.
16:44And giving up is the brain saying, well, I really don't want the heart to give up.
16:50I really don't want the lungs to give up.
16:52But I'll fucking flake and fall over, like a fat kid on a hike.
16:57Right?
16:58You heart, you can't give up, because if you give up, we die.
17:01You lungs, you better not give up.
17:03You liver, you better... kidneys, digestion, stomach, you better not give up, man.
17:09Teeth, you better not give up.
17:11You keep going no matter what.
17:13But the brain is like, well, little star, I'm going to exempt myself from this because
17:16I'm a fastidious little aristocrat and in times when I just need my rest, I need to
17:22rest my feet on the back of a spiny surfboard and I just need to faint on the couch and,
17:28you know, just have my little vaporous and I need to fall over blanched wassail.
17:32But you heart, you better keep hammering, man.
17:34You better keep going.
17:35But me as the brain, I'm just so hard sometimes.
17:40It's just something that, you know, I want to punch myself when I do that voice.
17:47Hoping for less war with Trump, you say?
17:50But he seems to support Israel quite strongly, so we will see how much deeper and messier
17:53the Middle East gets.
17:54Well, well, well, well.
17:58Yes, there will be less war with Trump.
18:01There will be less war with Trump.
18:05Trump's resolution is beyond staggering.
18:08Well, I think they just dropped the cases against him, right?
18:10The DOJ dropped their cases against him today because you can't prosecute a sitting president
18:16and the guy's going to get fired.
18:21I think he's quit now.
18:22He's going to get fired anyway, right?
18:25Yeah, like all we can really hope for in the world of conscience and virtue and resolution
18:35is to have, you know, roughly the equivalent life, energy and willpower of our little fucking
18:43toe, right?
18:44That's all right.
18:45My little toe never gives up.
18:47It doesn't even know what it's there for, other than occasionally get its scalp pinched
18:51when I'm trimming my toenails.
18:53The little toe, what the fuck is it there for?
18:55It's just some leftover little finger.
18:57People lose their little toes and they don't sort of careen in like drunken sailors, right?
19:01They don't just fall over like people with vertigo.
19:04You don't just fall over.
19:05So the little toe is like, I don't know what the fuck I'm doing here.
19:08I'm just this vestigial leftover thing, like the appendix on the base of the spine monkey
19:13cut off.
19:15I don't know what the fuck I'm doing here, but I'm going to keep going, man.
19:18I'm going to grow.
19:19I'm going to shed skin.
19:20I'm going to take that blood and I'm going to stay alive and I'm not going to get necrotic.
19:25And I'm just going to fucking will my way forward.
19:27Why?
19:28I don't know.
19:29I'm a little toe.
19:30What do I want?
19:31I want to make more little toes.
19:32So whatever I can do to help the balls get the semen into an egg, fine.
19:37I mean, if missing a little toe is kind of weird, having an extra little toe, I mean,
19:40the sixth toe, don't even get me started.
19:42Let's just go with the five.
19:45Your little toe, my little toe, they don't know what the fuck they're here for.
19:48They don't see anything.
19:49They don't smell anything.
19:50They don't hear anything.
19:51They're just like, yep, I'll take some blood.
19:53I'll refresh the veins, the capillaries.
19:55I'll keep the flesh going.
19:57I won't rot.
19:58I won't fall off.
19:59I won't die.
20:00And just holy shit.
20:02Can we at least have the kind of dogged resolution in our hearts, minds, souls, and virtues?
20:07Can we at least have the kind of dogged resolution you get from your average little fucking toe?
20:13That's all.
20:15It just keeps going.
20:17It just keeps going.
20:18Little toe, it just keeps going.
20:22It gets no respect.
20:24It just sits there down at the end of your body.
20:30It's like the little peninsula, a little sort of pointless appendix peninsula in your body,
20:34and it just does its thing.
20:35It just does its thing.
20:38Doesn't give up.
20:40Doesn't give out.
20:41Just keeps chugging.
20:43Providing three and a half percent additional balance.
20:47Since time immemorial, the unsung little toe, whether it's weird, is that a nail, is that
20:52just something crusty, I don't know.
20:55You don't think about it.
20:56You don't care about it.
20:57You don't work it out.
20:59You just watch between it and slice that weird little half nail off.
21:04That's it.
21:05That's it.
21:06Be the toe.
21:12Work it hard.
21:13Be good.
21:14Embrace the toe.
21:15You embrace the toe, you can't be defeated.
21:19Little toe can't be defeated.
21:22Just embrace it.
21:23You don't even have to aim to be the Ringo Starr of the drum-style heartbeat.
21:28You don't even have to be that.
21:31You don't have to be that.
21:36Don't have to be so grandiose.
21:38Oh, eyes, please keep functioning.
21:41Oh, nose, please just keep smelling.
21:43No, just look at your little toe and say, well, that shit, he doesn't give up.
21:47I barely even think about it, but he doesn't give up.
21:50So who am I to give up if my little toe can keep going?
21:52At least don't be beaten out in resolution by your little toe.
22:00Only the couch corner can defeat the small toe.
22:03Yes, that is true.
22:05See, it doesn't do much, but occasionally we just ram it into something, and then it's
22:09like, oh, I will make you suffer.
22:12You don't have to notice me that much, but at least don't brain me with the couch corner.
22:17Yeah.
22:18Yeah, that's true.
22:19Well said.
22:20Well said.
22:21Indeed.
22:22All right.
22:23Let me get to your various questions.
22:28Keep on warring.
22:29All right.
22:30Imagine being a voter and you're so, yeah, yeah, we talked about that.
22:35I'm glad you found you again, so congrats on your success.
22:38I appreciate that.
22:39I'm still standing, yeah, yeah, yeah, well, I'm sitting, but you know what I'm saying.
22:45You know what I'm saying.
22:49Somebody says, with Trump, I'm more excited to leave the decaying city of Toronto and
22:52move to the U.S. next year, hoping to find the woman of my dreams before the move to
22:55run away with and pop a million babies or two.
23:00Well, statistically, that's kind of true.
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23:36All right.
23:43And I won't be too long.
23:46All right.
23:48So this is what Nick Carter wrote.
23:50I think he's a Bitcoin guy.
23:51Here's my Real Talk Trump 2.0 wish list.
23:54Just one man's views.
23:55Tell me which ones of these you agree with.
23:58COVID Nuremberg, most important.
24:00At a minimum, what was Fauci's role in gain of function?
24:03Research.
24:04I always read that as Game of Thrones research for no reason.
24:07Gain of function research.
24:08Ideally, jail time for those responsible.
24:09This one cannot be overlooked.
24:13Is that right?
24:13Jail time?
24:16I'm not quite sure I follow that.
24:20Maybe I'm missing something.
24:21I'm not sure how it would just be jail time.
24:23I mean, America has the death penalty for murder, right?
24:27So if you were, I don't know how this is going to play out, but if you were, say,
24:33using taxpayer money to fund gain of death research in the Wuhan lab or other places
24:42in a communist dictatorship, that would be mass murder, wouldn't it be?
24:50I'm no legal expert, but it would seem to me that if you funded and enabled
24:55gain of function research and hid it from people, then you would be responsible for
25:02the resulting deaths, right?
25:04And if you are responsible for however many millions of deaths occurred under COVID,
25:10I'm not sure that jail time would be the response in American law.
25:16Again, I'm no lawyer.
25:17It's just my opinion, but I don't think it would just be jail time.
25:23Fix and seal the border, right?
25:26A full investigation of OCP 2.0.
25:31Now, pardon my ignorance.
25:32What the hell does that mean?
25:36Open compute project.
25:38I don't know what that means.
25:39Maybe I'm missing something.
25:40But anyway, he says that, but how was the DOJ, Fed, FDIC able to weaponize the banks
25:47against his favorite causes, including crypto?
25:49Who was responsible?
25:50Prosecution when necessary.
25:53Stable coin legalization, market structure bill,
25:55overhauling the SEC, allowing legal token issuance.
25:59Restore the U.S. as the unquestioned crypto capital of the planet.
26:03Endless pointless wars like Russia-Ukraine.
26:05End funding to Ukraine.
26:06Allow Israel to win once and for all.
26:08He says new Abraham Accords force NATO to pay their fair share.
26:12End U.S. involvement in or support for the U.N.
26:15unless they massively reform and stop coddling terrorists.
26:18Completely withdraw from the World Health Organization.
26:21So a bunch of other things.
26:24End EU harassment of the U.S. tax sector.
26:27If they try and regulate, fine.
26:28And sue our tech companies responding to the Equal Force, pull all military subsidies, etc.
26:33Accelerate AI development.
26:35Massive expansion of energy base.
26:37Let America be the clear AI winner.
26:39End AI safety in all decel cults.
26:43Oh, deceleration cults forever.
26:44Unleash the private sector and so on, right?
26:46So interesting stuff.
26:49Well, I mean, saying that wars are pointless, I think is, you know, in my humble opinion,
26:53kind of missing the point.
26:55They exist because they serve some people's preferences and interests.
27:00Steph, did you see women losing their minds over the Trump victory?
27:04Yeah, Joe, don't fall for the PSYOP, right?
27:13So the PSYOP is, oh, you know, women are unstable and women are all leftists and women can't,
27:19right?
27:20These are people with severe personality disorders.
27:23It's got nothing to do with politics.
27:25They need drama.
27:27Then they grew up probably in hyper-stimulated and extremely dangerous environments.
27:32So they need hyper-stimulation and danger, a sense of danger, in order to just feel like
27:38they're alive.
27:38They are tragic victims of abuse.
27:43And women, of course, they voted for the left more than men, but white women in particular,
27:52it was white women, Gen X, and male Latinos that pushed Trump over the line.
27:58So, I guess usually married, right?
28:03Thank a married white woman for all of that.
28:06So, I mean, I did see some of this kind of stuff, but this is not, this is just people
28:11who have severe personality problems and like something is deeply wrong with their brains
28:16and their emotional and limbic systems.
28:19And so all of that is tough.
28:22But it's not representative of most people, right?
28:25Somebody says, oh, this is, yeah, from last time.
28:27Steph, I took your advice and politely confronted the executives in my company who've been going
28:32to my boss.
28:33I asked him if I'm missing something and if I should be going to his manager for questions.
28:36He looked like he saw a ghost and was manipulative, but we came to a great resolution.
28:40Super happy to have done it.
28:41Oh, good for you.
28:42Good for you.
28:42This is somebody whose other people in the company were going to his boss rather than
28:49coming to him with problems.
28:49So he said, well, should I go to your boss?
28:51Is that what we do in the company?
28:52Help me understand.
28:53And it looks like that's worked out.
28:55It's very nice.
28:56I mean, universalizing things in a peaceful and positive way is usually the best way,
29:01at least to start resolving conflicts.
29:02There's no absolute guarantee.
29:04It will, of course, resolve all conflicts because that's a free will issue.
29:07But thoughts on Joe Rogan making his endorsement the day before?
29:10Yeah, I had a pretty funny rant about this in the donor show, which you can check out
29:17at premium.freedomain.com.
29:20And of course, if you want to join this lovely crew of those who support philosophy,
29:24fdrural.com.locals.
29:26You can sign up for a month for free, see what you like.
29:28But there's great, great stuff up there.
29:32Yes, the gender mixing in women's sport is a problem.
29:36Yeah, so it took me a little while to understand this because I obviously was never a good
29:42enough or practiced enough sportsman to have it change my finances, right?
29:48So for me, it was like, I mean, I played a lot of different sports, but it never really
29:55led anywhere financial.
29:56But of course, in America in particular, and other places as well, but in America in particular,
30:01the girls need to do well in the sports in order to get their scholarships to universities.
30:07And sometimes these universities can be fairly blindingly expensive, right?
30:12So it is a big issue that really hits not just the sort of protective element of mothers
30:19and fathers, but also, you know, $50,000, $100,000 can hang in the balance with this
30:25kind of stuff as well.
30:30So it is a big deal for sure.
30:34It is a big deal.
30:35All right, so let me just check here and here and here.
30:51All right.
30:57All right, let me just see what else I had stored.
31:05It's a good quote from the Talmud.
31:08He who has mercy on the cruel will ultimately become cruel to the merciful.
31:12That's true.
31:18All right, what do we got here?
31:22Senator Cynthia Loomis, we are going to build a strategic Bitcoin reserve.
31:27That is pretty cool.
31:29That is cool.
31:30You have approximately three months until the US government puts into law active accumulation
31:34of Bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset.
31:36Other sovereigns will be discretely front-running.
31:39The clock has already started.
31:40So, I mean, this is stuff I talked about years ago, in that governments that are heavily
31:45indebted will probably need to get into crypto as the only possible chance of paying off
31:51their debt.
31:52So what you do is you get into — this is amoral, right?
31:58I'm just saying that this is a mathematical strategy that I believe could work — is
32:03you go into a bunch of crypto, you print money like crazy, deflate your currency, pay off
32:11your debt with crypto.
32:17So, that's it.
32:22Yes, this was a woman.
32:25Cancel all future plans with men.
32:29Use their own stupid traditional views against them.
32:31Say that you don't want sex before marriage.
32:33Say you're waiting for the right man.
32:35They will all be seething because they are sexually dependent on women who they called
32:38sluts.
32:39Yeah, see, this is the best angle.
32:41No sex before marriage.
32:42Give them what they voted for.
32:46Amazing.
32:49Amazing.
32:55Let's see here.
32:56Somebody says — oh, this is Libs of TikTok.
32:59So far, she wrote — Chaya, her name is?
33:02She's a great woman.
33:03So far, I've seen Democrats blame Kamala's loss on sexism, racism, Tim Waltz, white women,
33:10men, the media, Joe Biden, Latinos, everything but Kamala.
33:17They can't admit that choosing a candidate based on the principles of DEI is a terrible
33:21strategy, right?
33:23It's very hard in the world, and I struggle with this.
33:28So I guess I could say it's very hard.
33:29Like, that sort of gets me off the hook.
33:31But I struggle with this because I'm rational and really work hard to listen to evidence
33:43and adjust my beliefs and the contents of my mind according to reason and evidence.
33:47Because of all that, I keep thinking other people will do that, too.
33:53It's pretty wild, right?
33:55It is a big error.
33:56And we do this in order to have optimism, and sometimes that optimism is inspiring,
34:01and sometimes it's suicidal and insanely misplaced and dangerous, right?
34:07I mean, if you go into a conflict thinking that you can reason your way out when the
34:12other person is not itching to use violence, that optimism is dangerous, right?
34:16So, if you would vote for somebody based upon ethnicity and sex, right?
34:30What is she?
34:32Black, Indian, something, something.
34:35So, Kamala.
34:36So, Jamaican, Indian, something like that.
34:39Anyway, so if you say, well, I would vote for someone based upon race and gender, then
34:45you look out at the world, and because you see it through that lens, you say, well, because
34:48I would do it, other people will do it, too.
34:51And this just shows a massive amount of privilege.
34:54It's a massive amount of privilege to make decisions based upon not meritocracy, but
34:59ideology.
34:59That's privilege, right?
35:04It's like if you, I don't know if you've ever had in your life or been in the situation
35:09where you've had to take a job because you're broke.
35:18I've been in that situation where I just absolutely have to work my way back from the paycheck.
35:25And I used to take waitering jobs sometimes just because I needed the tips to eat, right?
35:30Because you get paid in cash, right?
35:32So, you cash out and get some food.
35:34I would take restaurant jobs because I would get food, which was important as a general
35:40thing.
35:40It's nice to have.
35:42So, if you can say, I don't really want this job.
35:51I'm living at home.
35:52I'm comfortable.
35:53I'm going to wait for just the right thing.
35:54Well, that's privilege, right?
35:55And I'm not saying it's a bad thing.
35:57It's just you have choices that other people don't.
36:00So, one of the reasons why people like some of this DEI stuff is it is a form of status,
36:06right?
36:06It's a form of status because what you're saying is I'm rich enough that considerations
36:13of meritocracy don't really apply to me.
36:16Like if you're a farmer and you've got to make it through the winter, you better be
36:19a damn good farmer and you better grow everything really well and you better chase all the birds
36:23away and you better make sure the boll weevils don't eat your cotton or whatever.
36:26So, if you're eating what you kill, then you have to be a really good hunter.
36:42You have to be a really good farmer.
36:45But if you are super wealthy, then you can be a hobby farmer.
36:51You can be a gentleman farmer.
36:52You can try all these different crops.
36:54You can fool around with things.
36:55You can give jobs to your buddies.
37:01Being against meritocracy as a whole is a status signal.
37:10It's a signal of having excess resources.
37:14If you look at women's fashion, a lot of women's fashion is to do with showing that you don't
37:19have to do physical labor, wearing impractical dresses, wearing stockings, wearing high heels,
37:24having nails, having makeup, having your hair done.
37:27All of these are status symbols of saying, I don't have to do one little stitch of manual
37:34labor, darling.
37:35Don't even touch these things.
37:38I supervise things.
37:39I don't actually do them myself.
37:41The more ornamental you are, the higher status you appear to be.
37:45It's kind of like the peacock's tail.
37:47If you can drag that thing around and still be successful, it means your genes are fantastic
37:51in terms of productivity.
37:52So, if you look at this sort of privileged life where you can make decisions not based
38:05upon raw meritocracy, but based upon these demographic considerations, what you're doing
38:11is you're saying, look, I'm so wealthy and privileged and so distant from reality that
38:16I can just jerk around things that aren't particularly meritorious.
38:20Meritocracy doesn't matter to me because I have all these excess resources, darling.
38:24So, it's just another status symbol.
38:30If you look at the people of every race who are in poor, desperate neighborhoods, they
38:35as a whole did not want the withdrawal of police from their environment because the
38:40police are the wall against them and the criminals they live among who prey upon them.
38:45So, all of the people who are like, oh, I don't want to back the blue.
38:49I think it's really important to have mental health professionals go to deal with people
38:54who are, you know, they're not immoral.
38:56They're not corrupt.
38:57They're not bad.
38:57They're not evil.
38:58They're just having various mental health crises, and I think it's really important.
39:02All you're saying is that you don't live in those neighborhoods.
39:04You have a gated community.
39:06You have a wall.
39:06You have private security.
39:07You've got a doorman.
39:10It's just a status thing.
39:12I think that police are vastly overused when it comes to dealing with criminals,
39:15where you're just saying you live in a wealthy neighborhood and you can afford other substitutes.
39:19I mean, one of the biggest things that stands between us and the truth is bullshit status
39:25displays.
39:29Bullshit status displays.
39:32And people who are interested in showing status
39:44can't ever get to the truth.
39:46It's all vanity.
39:48Vanity fair.
39:49All is vanity, right?
39:52All right.
39:56Let's get to your thoughts.
39:57Any plans to debate Andrew Wilson on spanking?
40:02Well, it's not huge on my list, but I'll mull it over.
40:11All right.
40:12Are there any names you could share, some of the people you expected most to have your
40:16back after the deplatforming who didn't?
40:19Were there a lot?
40:21I don't think you'd need to ask that, right?
40:22You would just do a search for people and see what they did after I was deplatformed.
40:30But the deplatforming as a whole, right?
40:33The deplatforming as a whole was the world's way of saying, go back to philosophy.
40:41Right?
40:43The deplatforming as a whole was entirely based on the world telling me, go back to
40:53core philosophy.
40:54There's lots of people who can do politics.
40:55There aren't that many who can do first principles.
40:57And in particular, the ethics of child raising and the non-aggression principle and so on,
41:02right?
41:09So, you can look up who was there and who was not there.
41:15And I don't blame people for it.
41:19I understand that for some people, it's a sort of practical gig.
41:23For me, it's a mad calling.
41:25I mean, it is just a mad calling, which is why I took all of these, quote, crazy risks
41:30and ended up with all these threats and problems and so on.
41:34For me, it's just a real calling.
41:37And for some people, it's just more of a practical gig.
41:41And I don't mind that at all.
41:42I mean, just telling you the way that it is.
41:44Okay.
41:45But the fact that people let me spiral off the spaceship without turning anything around
41:53to get me gave me a huge amount of liberty, right?
41:57They did me, honestly, did me huge favors.
42:00They did me huge favors.
42:02Because if people had really circled back and really worked hard to keep me in the public
42:06sphere and so on, I wouldn't have been able to do all of the great things that I did over
42:11the last couple of years and things which are better for the world objectively than
42:15my political analysis.
42:21Steph, didn't back in the day some aristocrats would get offended if you asked them if they
42:25knew how to do practical things because that would imply they can't afford someone to do
42:28it for them?
42:28Yes.
42:29Yeah, that's right.
42:30That's right.
42:37Let's see here.
42:41Bullshit status displays separate us from the truth.
42:45Jesus, that's such a good one to hear, Steph.
42:46It is.
42:47If you look at all of these, it's like the mass immigration question, right?
42:51All of the people who are for it are just saying that they don't have to live in the
42:54neighborhoods where this kind of stuff generally occurs and where the challenges are, right?
43:00Philip says, Lord Stefan of House Molyneux, speaker of truth, give her wisdom and bring
43:04her a peace.
43:05I have just sent you some Bitcoin.
43:07I thank you for everything you do.
43:08My son is raised peacefully.
43:10Thank to you.
43:11I appreciate that.
43:12Thank you very much.
43:20All right, let's get to some more comments.
43:24I won't do a super long show tonight because I already did a long show earlier today.
43:28People, keep on worrying because it won't be too long.
43:36All right, but it's pretty wild, you know, it's not a particularly political thing, but
43:44it is pretty wild to me that the degree to which the media's credibility has fallen over
43:55the past eight years is, well, nine years, really, is pretty staggering, right?
44:03The degree to which the media's credibility has fallen.
44:08It was gospel, honestly.
44:09I mean, for the younger people, you just don't know.
44:12He said, you know, wearing suspenders up to his nipples and whittling something on the
44:16back porch while complaining about the price of lemons for lemonade, but you don't know.
44:21It used to be such a monolith.
44:22It used to be such a monolith.
44:25And now, the fact that the entire, I think, morally compromised chattering classes from
44:35some Hollywood to TV, to the media, to the political classes, to the pundits, to the
44:41news anchors, to the talk show hosts, to the game show, to the late night TV show hosts,
44:46to the comedians, the fact that everybody, you know, 94 felonies, one conviction, two
44:53impeachments for Trump and so on, right, the E. Lewis Carroll thing and all of that,
44:59the fact that people voted for him en masse is such a wild rebellion against mainstream
45:06propaganda.
45:08I can't even tell you what an absolutely staggering development this is in human history.
45:14This is as big a development in human history as the break from the Catholic Church through
45:21Martin Luther, through the Calvinists, the Swingalians, the Anabaptists, and others.
45:27It's as big a break as that.
45:31Or the break from Jesus with former Judaism, the break with the Protestants from the Catholic
45:35Church, the break from mainstream media, the break from mainstream propaganda that they
45:42can say all of these things about this guy relentlessly, and he still wins the popular
45:49vote by five mil plus.
45:51That is...I can't even tell you how unbelievable that is.
46:01That is...Yeah, my grandfather always said Walter Cronkite lied about the Tet Offensive
46:06in 1968.
46:07Media's been suspect for a long time.
46:09Yeah, I mean the demoralization stuff with regards to the Vietnam War, and he said,
46:13well, it's become unwinnable in 68, and that changed the whole course of the war.
46:17So, I just wanted to say that this is absolutely, completely, and totally staggering.
46:28The loss of faith in the mainstream organs of propaganda has never been achieved before
46:35in human history.
46:37The loss of faith in mainstream propaganda organs is without precedent in human history.
46:53And let's see, what is the...I mean, what Jeff Bezos was writing about with the Washington
47:00Post and so on was really, really something.
47:04And I don't know what...where, let's see here.
47:10Trust in media has tanked.
47:12So, this is May 3rd, 2020.
47:20I'm just looking for some graphs here.
47:21But yeah, the media is...and this is why this sort of disinformation and misinformation
47:27is occurring.
47:31Because they're terrified that they can't control the way people think by repeating and morally
47:37frightening and being aggressive, right?
47:39Morally frightening people and being aggressive.
47:43It is really, really something.
47:49I'm just gonna...I mean, some of this stuff is 2023, which feels like forever.
47:53And a day ago as a whole...oh, 2021.
47:58There's no point going back there.
48:04Oh, cookies.
48:05You'd think they'd be a whole lot more fun.
48:07Oh, my gosh.
48:07January 2022.
48:09My God.
48:122023.
48:13What do we got here?
48:14Only...oh, yeah.
48:15So, only 7% of adults...this is American trust in media is near a record low study finds.
48:22This is from October 20th, 2023.
48:26So, just 13 months or so ago.
48:28Just a little under 13 months, 12 and a half months.
48:30Only 7% of adults have a great deal of trust in news media.
48:3438%, they say, say they have none at all.
48:41So, only 7% of Americans have a great deal of trust and confidence in the media, while
48:4527% say they have a fair amount of trust in mass media.
48:4828% of US adults surveyed in the poll say they don't have much confidence in the media,
48:55with 38% saying they have none at all.
49:02Isn't that wild?
49:06This poll is the first time the percentage of Americans with no trust in the media at
49:09all is higher than the percentage of respondents with a great deal or a fair amount of trust.
49:13Partisan divide, 70% of Democrats say they have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence
49:17in the media.
49:1914% of Republicans and 27% of independents say the same.
49:25A majority of Republicans indicated they have no trust at all in the media for the third
49:30straight year.
49:31So, this is a massive breakaway.
49:3414% of Republicans trust the media, 70% of Democrats.
49:40Well, that's because the Democrats have no interest in diversity.
49:45They are a monolith, right?
49:46They are an absolute monolith.
49:48They don't hire non-lefties, right?
49:56And it's one of the things, of course, that I worked on from most of my career, is just
50:01pointing out the falsehoods that the media has, right?
50:05I mean, if you ever want to know, there's two ways that you can figure out that the
50:13media is full of propaganda, right?
50:18And one of them, this is from Michael Crichton, I can't remember, the Gell-Mann effect or
50:22something like that.
50:23So, let's say you know a lot about Bitcoin, right?
50:28And then you read a mainstream media article about Bitcoin, you're like, oh my God, this
50:34doesn't, this is not true, this is not accurate, it's not right.
50:38And then you accept that, but then you turn over and the media is writing about Russia
50:42or Gaza or inflation or depression, and you think somehow that's better.
50:49Whereas everybody who's an expert, you can't be an expert in everything, right?
50:52I mean, there's lots of things I don't talk about because I'm not an expert in them, right?
50:55So, to be an expert in something and then read about what the media writes about, it
51:01is just like, whoa.
51:03But there's another level, and this is the true belly of the beast.
51:07Thank you for the tip.
51:08This is a true belly of the beast.
51:16Steph, I am glad you were wrong about Trump winning.
51:18I was so shocked when Trump won, it's really amazing.
51:20We are so back, boys.
51:21Sorry, I predicted on October the 30th, I predicted that Trump had the numbers.
51:27Assuming that there was not massive corruption, that Trump had the numbers to win.
51:32So, I don't quite understand what you're saying about being wrong about that.
51:37But no, I said he had the numbers, and he did.
51:41He had the numbers.
51:42And by numbers, I meant not just the electoral college, but the popular vote.
51:50So, maybe you're thinking about someone else or something else.
51:53I'm certainly happy to get that dealt with.
51:56So, the final boss of media falset is when they write about you.
52:03When they write about you, that's your final boss.
52:08That's truly a staggering experience.
52:11And so, if the media likes you, then they'll pump up your ego.
52:13And if they dislike you, they'll tear you down, neither of which has any particular
52:17relevance to facts as a whole.
52:21Sorry, I didn't see that video.
52:22Sorry, Steph.
52:23No, it's fine.
52:23I just don't know why you would think I didn't think he would win.
52:27I mean, the numbers were pretty clear.
52:29And again, you can go back to my show from October the 30th.
52:34I think it's at about the 14-minute mark.
52:36Somebody asked me what I think the chances of Trump are winning.
52:39And I said, yeah, he's got the numbers.
52:41And assuming that there is no particular corruption, he's got the numbers to win.
52:46And I don't think there was.
52:47And the interesting question is sort of why.
52:49I don't think that the 3 a.m. ballots would have worked this way or this time.
52:53And of course, they didn't have the same mail-in thing that they had with the 2020 election.
52:59And of course, the Republicans had learned a lot from 2020.
53:03And they had a lot of people on the ground.
53:05They had a lot of lawyers.
53:06They had a lot of experts.
53:07And they got to record everything.
53:09And, you know, they did the ground game of purging a lot of the voter rolls through Tom
53:14Fitton and Judicial Watch and things like that.
53:16So there was a lot of groundwork that was done to try and ensure a more accurate election.
53:26Yeah, it's a little thing.
53:27And I'm kind of fussy this way.
53:29Of course, not that I get everything right.
53:31Far from it.
53:32But if you say, oh, Steph thought Trump was going to lose, right?
53:39If you say that, if that's your particular belief or perception,
53:43you know, just do me a solid and check before talking about it.
53:46Because you'll be talking about this with other people.
53:48And so, oh, Steph got it wrong, and so on.
53:50And this sort of spreads.
53:52Like, you are responsible for the language you put out into the world, right?
53:57And it's not about me or anything.
53:59I'm not even in politics anymore.
54:00So I don't particularly care about the credibility.
54:03But be careful and double and triple check the things that you say, especially if they're
54:11consequential, right?
54:12Like, if you're saying something like, Steph did politics for many years, but he got something
54:16foundational like this wrong, when you put that out into the world, other people will
54:20listen to it.
54:21They will spread it.
54:22And it will be beyond recovery.
54:24Because you won't know who said everything.
54:26So don't spread rumors and don't spread false information about people.
54:31Because it turns into a sort of snowball or an avalanche or a beast of its own that you
54:37can't control anymore.
54:38So again, nobody's perfect.
54:40And I'm not trying to be this big nag.
54:41And I've certainly got things wrong.
54:43And I have to put out corrections and so on.
54:45But just try to be careful about the information you put out into the world.
54:52And make sure that you are correct as best you can, right?
54:55And so on, right?
54:56Because now, if you've told other people that I was wrong, now you've got to go and tell
55:00them and please tell other people.
55:01Because, you know, I assume if you've told people that I was wrong about something that
55:04I was in fact right about, then you will go and correct that.
55:12You will go and correct that impression.
55:14Is that fair to say?
55:16You will go and correct that impression.
55:18All right.
55:20The censorship is the biggest problem.
55:21They propagandize everyone and then they censor us.
55:23Yes, for sure.
55:25Not a nag at all.
55:26I understand.
55:26Didn't see that video.
55:27I apologize.
55:28No, no, but it's not a question of didn't see the video.
55:31The question is why you would have that impression in the first place, right?
55:33That's the question.
55:34Maybe someone told you and you just repeated it or whatever, right?
55:37So it's not a question of whether you saw the video or not.
55:39The question is that you are saying Steph is wrong about something.
55:45So you've got that impression from somewhere, right?
55:47If that makes sense.
55:51All right.
55:53All right.
55:53Any other last questions, comments, issues, challenges?
56:00You need to get replatformed and repopularized, Steph.
56:02I loved your content for so long.
56:04Maybe.
56:05Maybe.
56:05Maybe.
56:07Maybe.
56:08I'm not convinced.
56:15All right.
56:15Well, thank you, everyone, for your time, care, and attention tonight.
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56:31And have yourself a great couple of days.
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56:38Bye.