The Socialism of Bitcoin!

Stefan Molyneux

Friday Night Live 6 December 2024  In this episode, I examine the implications of the Daniel Penny case, where an ex-Marine faces legal charges for trying to protect subway passengers, warning that this may deter civic responsibility amidst rising violence. I share a personal story of heroism and discuss the cultural decline of trust and safety in communities.   I critique the flawed structure of Social Security, advocating for individual initiative over government dependency. The conversation shifts to the impact of artificial intelligence on creativity and discourse, highlighting ideological biases that hinder engagement.   Finally, I challenge the idea of "happy wife, happy life," urging listeners to value genuine connections based on mutual respect and open communication in an increasingly distracted world.  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, multiple interactive multi-lingual philosophy AIs trained on thousands of hours of my material, as well as targeted AIs for Real-Time Relationships, BitCoin, Peaceful Parenting, and Call-Ins. Don't miss the 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

00:00:00Welcome to your Friday Night Live. Somebody says...

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00:00:28I can't get hard without Steph.

00:00:30I assume you're just talking about abs.

00:00:32Totally understand it.

00:00:34Steph has added so many babies to the world

00:00:36just by being a wholly positive and sincere guy.

00:00:38My take. Thank you very much. Do think about that.

00:00:40You know, it's funny because...

00:00:42I read...

00:00:44It's an old story now. Goodbye, Mr. Chips.

00:00:46And in Goodbye, Mr. Chips...

00:00:48Somebody says...

00:00:50Let me just take the chair back here.

00:00:52It's making the camera rock a little.

00:00:54Somebody says...

00:00:56Why didn't you have any kids?

00:00:58To the teacher, right?

00:01:00And he's like...

00:01:02Oh, I've had thousands of children

00:01:04over the years, right?

00:01:06Audio is rough.

00:01:12Good evening.

00:01:14Well...

00:01:18It's interesting, man.

00:01:20You know, we could just...

00:01:22We could just go full politics.

00:01:24I don't know if it's politics or not.

00:01:26There was the healthcare CEO shooting.

00:01:28There was the Daniel Penney situation,

00:01:30which I've been following

00:01:32in quite a fascinated way.

00:01:34There's a lot that's going down.

00:01:38There's a lot that's going down.

00:01:40Going down more than the backwaters

00:01:42of OnlyFans.

00:01:46But it's your questions and comments.

00:01:48I'm happy to hear

00:01:50what is going on for you guys.

00:01:52What you'd like to chat about.

00:01:54What are your thoughts?

00:01:56I'm eager and keen to hear

00:01:58what you have to say.

00:02:00So, let me have it.

00:02:02Otherwise, I will dig into

00:02:04the topics

00:02:06as a whole.

00:02:08Let me just make sure in the various places

00:02:10that are going on that we are, in fact,

00:02:12getting the comments

00:02:14and questions that I need

00:02:16to hear.

00:02:19The comments and questions

00:02:21that I need to hear

00:02:23from you all.

00:02:25You all.

00:02:28And just make sure that I'm in.

00:02:30No messages yet over there.

00:02:32Okay, that's good. Well, that's just fine.

00:02:34Isn't that just fine?

00:02:40What is your opinion

00:02:42on the Penney case and the precedent it will set?

00:02:48I don't know if you guys have spent much time around

00:02:50the legal system.

00:02:52Fortunately, I haven't. I've had some brushes

00:02:54here and there, a couple of flybys, but I haven't

00:02:56spent much time in the legal system.

00:02:58The Daniel Penney case

00:03:00is heartbreaking for me

00:03:02for the rule of law.

00:03:04For those of you who don't know,

00:03:06Daniel Penney is an ex-Marine. He was on the subway

00:03:08and there was this guy, apparently

00:03:10some sort of drug user, who was

00:03:12threatening the people in the subway.

00:03:14One of the things that happens

00:03:16with the military guys is

00:03:18they have a lot of honor.

00:03:20A lot of them have a lot of honor. I've got my

00:03:22criticisms of the military-industrial complex, but a lot

00:03:24of the guys in the military, they

00:03:26have a lot of honor, and they really do try

00:03:28to do the right thing, and they're taught to step up

00:03:30and help people in need.

00:03:32They're definitely taught to step up and help people in need.

00:03:34So Daniel Penney stepped up

00:03:36and the guy

00:03:38who was threatening

00:03:40people, he stepped up.

00:03:42I mean, they call it

00:03:44a chokehold, but it's a restraining hold.

00:03:46And the guy was still alive,

00:03:48the guy who was threatening,

00:03:50I can't remember his name, Michael Whealy

00:03:52or something like that. Anyway, Whealy? I can't remember.

00:03:54But

00:03:56he was still alive, but the cops

00:03:58showed up, but the cops were afraid

00:04:00to

00:04:02give

00:04:04first aid because they were concerned about getting

00:04:06a disease from him.

00:04:08And so he died in police custody

00:04:10and somehow

00:04:12Penney is charged.

00:04:14He was charged with second-degree

00:04:16murder. Now, I'm no lawyer,

00:04:18so I don't know any of

00:04:20this stuff in particular, but my general

00:04:22understanding is that the jury

00:04:24has been deadlocked, and there

00:04:26have been a number of charges filed.

00:04:28You know what they do, they over-file, right?

00:04:30So if one gets knocked down, they can charge you with something else.

00:04:32So the jury has been deadlocked.

00:04:36And

00:04:38what that has meant

00:04:40is that the judge, I think,

00:04:42has come in, the latest I've heard, and it's a constantly

00:04:44changing situation, the latest that I've heard

00:04:46is that the judge has stepped in

00:04:48and has dismissed

00:04:50the charge of second-degree manslaughter.

00:04:52Whether that means he can

00:04:54be retried or not is an argument that's happening

00:04:56among legal circles

00:04:58online at the moment. I don't know, of course, the answer,

00:05:00and I don't know that anybody does.

00:05:02But if that's

00:05:04going to be a mistrial, mistrial means you can be tried again,

00:05:06right? Double jeopardy doesn't apply as far as I know.

00:05:08And it's just

00:05:10terrible. I mean, where are the women out there

00:05:12or the other people who are saying,

00:05:14you know, free this guy.

00:05:16The left goes out and protests for their people, right?

00:05:18Rightly or wrongly.

00:05:20I assume this is more of a conservative or right-wing

00:05:22cause. Where are the people

00:05:24out there?

00:05:26Because this is

00:05:28just another step into lawlessness, right?

00:05:30The purpose of destabilizing

00:05:32authority is to

00:05:34protect and encourage the criminals

00:05:36and then

00:05:38to paralyze people from the capacity

00:05:40for self-defense, right? That is

00:05:42the way that this stuff, I mean,

00:05:44very tragically, very sadly, that is

00:05:46the way that this stuff works, right?

00:05:48There was an old statement from the Soviet Union.

00:05:50I think it was Solzhenitsyn who said something

00:05:52like, if you are

00:05:54attacked, unless you

00:05:56literally have a knife sticking out of yourself, the criminal

00:05:58is assumed to be the innocent party and

00:06:00all of your self-defense will be used against you.

00:06:02And so to

00:06:04paralyze self-defense

00:06:06and to embolden, enable

00:06:08the criminals is

00:06:10one of the problems of corrupt

00:06:12authority. It happens in most late-stage

00:06:14empires and so on.

00:06:16So it's

00:06:18really tragic. And Daniel

00:06:20Penny

00:06:22also

00:06:28he talked to the cops.

00:06:30I wish

00:06:32it wasn't this way. I'm sure there are a lot of cops

00:06:34who are trying to do the right thing, trying to do a good job.

00:06:36But the reality of the situation

00:06:38is the cops will sit down

00:06:40and they'll want to be your friend

00:06:42and

00:06:44we just want to hear your side of the story.

00:06:46You're not in any trouble. We just want to get your side.

00:06:48You're not a person of interest. You're not a suspect.

00:06:50They'll just sit down and they'll

00:06:52just want to chat with you and so on.

00:06:54There is a sort of sibling

00:06:56or fraternal relationship between

00:06:58cops and

00:07:00soldiers or cops and vets.

00:07:02So Daniel Penny sat down

00:07:04and he was like, oh, I'm an ex-Marine.

00:07:06And the cop was like, oh, me too, brother to brother.

00:07:08Help me clear this up. You can go on your way

00:07:10and so on. And he talked.

00:07:14He talked.

00:07:18He talked.

00:07:24And what happened?

00:07:26And what happened? Well,

00:07:28he talked himself into charges.

00:07:30I don't know because I

00:07:32wasn't there. I think there's a video of it.

00:07:34But there's only

00:07:36two syllables you can say to cops.

00:07:38Right? There's only two syllables

00:07:40you can say to cops. Lawyer.

00:07:42Lawyer. Lawyer. Lawyer. Lawyer. Lawyer.

00:07:44Talk to the lawyer. Talk to the lawyer. Don't talk to me. Talk to the lawyer.

00:07:46Talk to the lawyer. Talk to the lawyer. It's the only thing you can do.

00:07:48I mean, it is sad that

00:07:50the cops are allowed to lie to you. It's sad

00:07:52that the cops are allowed to manipulate you.

00:07:54You can't out-talk or out-think

00:07:56the cops. Right? I mean,

00:07:58you're stressed, you're tense, you're nervous,

00:08:00and the cops have been doing this

00:08:02for

00:08:0420 years. And they know the

00:08:06game and you don't. They know

00:08:08the situation and you don't. And I think it's really sad

00:08:10because, again, a lot of people who try to do the right

00:08:12thing in law enforcement, but

00:08:14Daniel Penney, as far as I

00:08:16understand it, had a good old

00:08:20chat fest and jawbone

00:08:22with the cops.

00:08:24And, you know, I

00:08:26wish we lived in a world where you could

00:08:28chat and clear things up

00:08:30and so on, but that doesn't tend

00:08:32to be the political climate that

00:08:34is

00:08:36going on. Right?

00:08:42It's really, really sad.

00:08:46So,

00:08:48the precedent,

00:08:50I mean,

00:08:52I wasn't there,

00:08:54obviously. I hate to say something

00:08:56so banal, but it's really, really important

00:08:58to remember. I wasn't there.

00:09:00I don't know what happened. I don't know

00:09:02that there was footage on that

00:09:04subway train, but

00:09:06Daniel Penney does not strike me as the kind of guy

00:09:08who just goes around

00:09:10attacking

00:09:12drug addicts in front

00:09:14of witnesses.

00:09:16And there seemed to be a lot of people who were quite

00:09:18grateful for the protection

00:09:20that

00:09:22he

00:09:24offered on

00:09:26that train, and

00:09:28the purpose of a lot of this stuff, in my

00:09:30humble opinion, is to demoralize

00:09:32people, right? To leave

00:09:34you feel in a state of anxiety and lack

00:09:36of protection, to remove heroism,

00:09:38to break social bonds,

00:09:40to destroy the male

00:09:42impulse to protect,

00:09:44to make you

00:09:46too nervous about negative consequences

00:09:48to help out your fellow man.

00:09:50It's very much just a whole demoralizing

00:09:52thing.

00:09:54And, oh my god,

00:09:56I mean, most cities are

00:09:58blue cities, but living

00:10:00in a blue city,

00:10:02honestly, you couldn't pay me

00:10:04enough. You could not pay me enough to live

00:10:06in a left-wing city.

00:10:12I mean, I'm obviously not trying to blame

00:10:14the victim here, and it seems like

00:10:16he tried to do the right thing,

00:10:18and it seems like some,

00:10:20if not most, of the

00:10:22passengers

00:10:24were grateful, but

00:10:26serial criminals

00:10:28should not be out in the streets.

00:10:30And,

00:10:32again, I'm no lawyer, so

00:10:34I have no idea how you get

00:10:36charged with a murder when

00:10:38the cops take

00:10:40over the scene and the person

00:10:42is alive, and the cops

00:10:44don't render first aid.

00:10:48But is it going to be a

00:10:50George Floyd fentanyl

00:10:52situation?

00:10:54I mean,

00:10:56he might beat the rap. You know, as the old saying goes,

00:10:58you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride, so

00:11:00I think it's just a really, really sad,

00:11:02really, really sad situation.

00:11:04So,

00:11:06I would,

00:11:08you know,

00:11:10this is just a warning, like,

00:11:12your life,

00:11:14you know, I think it's a very sad thing.

00:11:16I mean, I remember,

00:11:18and I'm

00:11:20obviously not putting myself

00:11:22in any kind of category

00:11:24like Penny, but

00:11:26I remember

00:11:28when I used to live

00:11:30right downtown,

00:11:32I used to live right downtown

00:11:34in Toronto

00:11:36many, long ago, and

00:11:38I was,

00:11:40I wanted a late night snack, and I

00:11:42went out of the, I

00:11:44rented a room in an apartment building, and I went down

00:11:46to

00:11:48the street level

00:11:50in order to

00:11:52go and get some food,

00:11:54and there was a big black

00:11:56guy who was threatening a woman in a wheelchair,

00:11:58and I, you know,

00:12:00I didn't want to, nobody else really does,

00:12:02I, you know, stood up

00:12:04and stood up to the guy and told him to back off

00:12:06and give her some

00:12:08space, and, you know, she clearly didn't want to interact

00:12:10with him and so on, and

00:12:12he,

00:12:14for whatever reason, right, I'm not like some big

00:12:16intimidating, you know,

00:12:18junk-load Van Damme kickboxing guy,

00:12:20but he did, you know, I find if you just

00:12:22sort of resolute and focused and

00:12:24stay calm, people

00:12:26do tend to give you some space.

00:12:28It was, of course, in hindsight, a little

00:12:30more risky than I thought at the time, but it was one of these

00:12:32things, like, you can't, I mean, it's a woman in a wheelchair, right,

00:12:34you can't just let people

00:12:36just go at them, and so

00:12:38the woman in the wheelchair was very grateful, she was an

00:12:40older woman, and I ended up

00:12:42taking her for some food, and then she

00:12:44tried to chisel more money out of me,

00:12:46and it was, you know, it was just

00:12:48a real, a really tragic, sad

00:12:50dip into this kind of

00:12:52underworld, and I think most men, at one

00:12:54time or another, we've had that kind of situation,

00:12:56I've had it happen a couple of times,

00:12:58where, you know, you do have this

00:13:00masculine impulse to step in

00:13:02and help people who are obviously being

00:13:04victimized in that situation. Now, she did

00:13:06turn out to be, the woman in the wheelchair did turn out

00:13:08to be a bit of a chiseler, but she was, you know,

00:13:10in a very sad place

00:13:12in life, obviously she was disabled,

00:13:14or at least she seemed to be disabled,

00:13:16and, you know, I gave

00:13:18her all the money that I had, and

00:13:20went back

00:13:22upstairs, and so

00:13:24most men have been in this situation,

00:13:26and you do

00:13:28like to think that you can help

00:13:30people. Now, I didn't, nothing

00:13:32turned violent, and so on.

00:13:34I do have a

00:13:36I have a bit of a way of diffusing

00:13:38aggressive situations.

00:13:40I haven't

00:13:42many times, obviously I haven't many times been in

00:13:44situations where there's the potential for

00:13:46significant escalation, but

00:13:48I'm, I have a bit of a

00:13:50I don't know, it's like a calm spell

00:13:52or something like that, or a

00:13:54it's not intimidation, because I'm not like,

00:13:56I don't, right, I don't escalate that way.

00:13:58But I do have a

00:14:00de-escalation aura.

00:14:02I know this sounds completely ridiculous, I'm not saying

00:14:04this is anything mystical, I'm just saying that I

00:14:06haven't exercised it enough

00:14:08to know why it happens, or what happens.

00:14:10But, you know, when I went out

00:14:12to talk to the protesters

00:14:14who were pretty violent in

00:14:18on the Australian

00:14:20speaking tour,

00:14:22there's just a, I just have a way of listening

00:14:24and being calm and respectful,

00:14:26yet firm. It just tends to de-escalate

00:14:28situations. I mean, obviously this is not violence,

00:14:30but in the business circumstance

00:14:32when there was really aggressive people or angry people

00:14:34in a business meeting or environment, I just

00:14:36had a good way of

00:14:38de-escalating. It's just

00:14:40kind of a habit I have, and it

00:14:42obviously comes, I assume it comes from

00:14:44growing up with a very violent

00:14:46mother, and

00:14:48other violent family members, and just

00:14:50you know, knowing how to de-escalate that is

00:14:52pretty important. Maybe it's not an aura, maybe it's just

00:14:54a trained, kind of a trained response.

00:14:56So, I

00:14:58think most men, and of course some women

00:15:00too, it tends to be a little bit more on the male side,

00:15:02most men have a story where

00:15:04somebody's being treated badly,

00:15:06somebody's in a dangerous situation,

00:15:08and you do have that,

00:15:10you have that choice,

00:15:12you have that moment where you have to

00:15:14step up and try and de-escalate

00:15:16or protect the person

00:15:18who's being threatened and so on, and

00:15:20nobody wants to be in that situation,

00:15:22but

00:15:24as a man,

00:15:26I can only speak of course as a man,

00:15:28it is something

00:15:30that you can take a point of pride in,

00:15:32you know, I obviously didn't fix this

00:15:34woman in the wheelchair's life many years ago,

00:15:36but

00:15:38I certainly,

00:15:40certainly somebody stood up for her

00:15:42in her life, and

00:15:44I don't want to make it about me,

00:15:46but at a personal level, if I

00:15:48hadn't done

00:15:50something or said something in that situation,

00:15:54I would have felt ratchet, I would have felt

00:15:56really bad, a coward, broken.

00:15:58So, in my view,

00:16:00I'm not recommending anyone do anything,

00:16:02I'm just telling you my particular personal

00:16:04experience, so

00:16:06this is not any suggestion that says you should or

00:16:08shouldn't do anything, I'm just telling you my own

00:16:10sort of personal experience, and

00:16:14now, you know,

00:16:16social bonds, high trust society,

00:16:18social bonds are toasted,

00:16:20people are going to step

00:16:22away, the criminals are going to have more free

00:16:24reign, nobody's going to protect each other, people are going to

00:16:26get more cynical, people are going to get more frustrated,

00:16:28people get more angry, and really that's the

00:16:30point, right, the point is to just demoralize

00:16:32everyone and break social threads,

00:16:34break social trust, that's really, really sad.

00:16:40Somebody said, I didn't,

00:16:42sorry, somebody said, I didn't realize how much low-level

00:16:44anxiety I had living in London before I left.

00:16:46You grew up with major terrorist attacks,

00:16:48yearly knife attacks, almost daily.

00:16:50Yeah.

00:16:54Yeah, it's,

00:16:56people,

00:16:58you know, we, what's

00:17:00been lost is

00:17:02so horrific beyond words,

00:17:04right, what's been lost is so horrific.

00:17:06I had,

00:17:08well, my family and I had

00:17:10lunch with our neighbors,

00:17:12a lovely, lovely older couple,

00:17:14and

00:17:16we were talking about being in Toronto, how kind

00:17:18of grimy and kind of half-decayed it is now,

00:17:20and I was talking about how,

00:17:22like, when I grew up in England

00:17:24from the age of four or five onwards,

00:17:26I went on buses,

00:17:28I went to the war museum,

00:17:30I went swimming,

00:17:32we went to Battersea Park,

00:17:34we went all over the place,

00:17:36a bunch of kids,

00:17:38never had any hint of danger,

00:17:40never had any hint of

00:17:42threat, never had

00:17:44any issues, any problems whatsoever,

00:17:46and he was saying, yes, well,

00:17:48when they lived, they lived in a,

00:17:50they lived downtown for quite a while,

00:17:52and he said, back then,

00:17:54back then, nobody locked their doors.

00:17:56Nobody locked the doors of their cars,

00:17:58nobody locked the doors of their house. He said,

00:18:00the only time that you would lock doors

00:18:02is when you were going away for the summer, if you were going

00:18:04somewhere for the summer, you go up to a cottage or whatever it is.

00:18:06But he said, yeah, it was unthinkable.

00:18:08Like, the doors were left open.

00:18:10Front doors and back doors were left open in the evening

00:18:12so that the breeze could come through, because, of course,

00:18:14this was before air conditioning.

00:18:16And, um,

00:18:18it is an absolutely

00:18:20horrifyingly sad

00:18:22and tragic thing,

00:18:24the utter

00:18:26demolition of

00:18:28a high-trust society.

00:18:30You don't know.

00:18:32You don't know.

00:18:34You don't know.

00:18:36If you're younger, you don't know what it was like

00:18:38to be able to roam

00:18:40anywhere you want in the city

00:18:42with no concerns or fears whatsoever.

00:18:44It was called Toronto the Good.

00:18:46It was so ridiculously safe.

00:18:48But, of course, safe people

00:18:50are harder to push around. People who are secure

00:18:52are harder. You frighten people into compliance,

00:18:54you frighten people into conformity,

00:18:56and

00:18:58if you don't live in a state of

00:19:00low-level anxiety,

00:19:02then you don't

00:19:04feel the need for government, right?

00:19:06The government has to invent dangers to protect you.

00:19:10So, it's really, really sad.

00:19:12It's really, really sad.

00:19:18Here's to the peaceful parenting book.

00:19:20The short version is an easy way

00:19:22to introduce it to people on the fence.

00:19:24Yeah.

00:19:26So, how would a free society

00:19:28deal with immigration?

00:19:30Well, I mean,

00:19:32I write

00:19:34about this in my novel

00:19:36The Future, but

00:19:38if you want to move to a new

00:19:40area or a new location,

00:19:44obviously, you should be perfectly free

00:19:46to do so, but nobody should be

00:19:48forced to subsidize or fund you, right?

00:19:50I mean, what is the US spending half a

00:19:52trillion

00:19:54dollars?

00:19:56Some insane amount. Half a trillion dollars

00:19:58in the US is spent

00:20:00supporting, paying for, providing health care

00:20:02and accommodations and so on for

00:20:04some immigrants, right?

00:20:06So, that is not

00:20:10organic. That's not

00:20:12a subsidy. That's not

00:20:14free flow of capital, right?

00:20:16Or people, right? Certainly not the free flow of capital.

00:20:18So,

00:20:20if you want someone

00:20:22to move into a particular location,

00:20:24like say, in Kapustan, right? Some sort of

00:20:26free area, some sort of free society.

00:20:28If you want someone to move there, then

00:20:30you can go and move there, but you

00:20:32have to...

00:20:34You cannot compel people to do business with you.

00:20:36You can't compel them to rent to you.

00:20:38You can't compel them to do business with you.

00:20:40You can't compel them to give you money.

00:20:42You can't compel them to give you health care.

00:20:44You can't compel them to allow you to participate

00:20:46in the economics of the society at all.

00:20:48Now, if you're a great guy, you've got a good history,

00:20:50you've got good skills, I'm sure people will be happy

00:20:52to have you come into the

00:20:54society, but

00:20:56people who grew up in that society would have

00:20:58automatic trust ratings

00:21:00from birth upwards

00:21:02and be raised in the same values.

00:21:04But I think it would pretty much be the case that if you move to

00:21:06a location and you commit

00:21:08a crime, then nobody will

00:21:10want to keep you in that economic

00:21:12situation, right? So, you would not...

00:21:14Dispute resolution organizations

00:21:16that I talk about in

00:21:18a great book called Practical

00:21:20Anarchy, the dispute resolution organizations

00:21:22would simply say,

00:21:24if you've moved here and you

00:21:26didn't grow up with these kinds of values and you

00:21:28commit a crime,

00:21:30you can't stay. Nobody

00:21:32will support that.

00:21:34But yeah,

00:21:36if you come and you do a great job,

00:21:38nobody's going to care, nobody's going to want to police all of these

00:21:40sorts of things because it's going to be too expensive.

00:21:42But

00:21:44forced dissociation is a violation

00:21:46of freedom of association and

00:21:48a lot of human movement around the world

00:21:50is based upon

00:21:52forced transfer of

00:21:54wealth and housing

00:21:56and other resources. That is not.

00:21:58That is not a good thing.

00:22:00That is certainly the violation

00:22:02of the non-aggression principle.

00:22:06I had a teacher a long time

00:22:08ago said he lived

00:22:10on a farm that was one of the first to get a phone

00:22:12that left the door open in case someone

00:22:14wanted to use it in an emergency.

00:22:16Yeah.

00:22:20Yeah. It's

00:22:24I mean it is, it honestly is

00:22:26absolutely beyond tragic, sad,

00:22:28and horrible what has been

00:22:30lost. Now, I mean

00:22:32obviously it's not

00:22:34I mean with

00:22:36regards to

00:22:38war was pretty appalling

00:22:40when it came to issues

00:22:42with regards to a high-trust society. You can't

00:22:44say that you have a high-trust society

00:22:46when you keep having these repetitive wars

00:22:48right sort of throughout Europe

00:22:50in the 20th century, well to some degree

00:22:52Franco-Prussian a little bit in the 19th century

00:22:54but mostly the 20th century. You can't say

00:22:56that that's a high-trust society. I'm just saying

00:22:58that in the area that I grew up

00:23:00in, both in

00:23:02England

00:23:04and

00:23:06Canada

00:23:08it was a high-trust society

00:23:10and I never had any

00:23:12concerns about things.

00:23:16So it's

00:23:18really sad. It's absolutely

00:23:20heartbreaking.

00:23:24All right.

00:23:26So let's see what else is

00:23:28what else be going on.

00:23:30I'll just wait for your questions to come

00:23:32in if you like.

00:23:34So this

00:23:36woman wrote,

00:23:38MAGA really is comprised of some of the dumbest people

00:23:40on the planet. We pay

00:23:42into social security. It's not a government

00:23:44handout. It's our

00:23:46freaking money.

00:23:50Right.

00:23:54It's not a government handout. It's our

00:23:56freaking money.

00:24:00I mean

00:24:02these coerced retirement plans

00:24:04are absolutely terrible.

00:24:06Because, of course, there's no money there.

00:24:08There is no money there.

00:24:10Originally it was sold,

00:24:12social security, old age pensions in America,

00:24:14was originally sold as

00:24:16give us your money, we'll hold it aside for you,

00:24:18we'll invest it, we'll make sure you have enough to retire on.

00:24:20Oh my god, when are we

00:24:22going to stop believing this nonsense?

00:24:24Then I think it was within a couple of years

00:24:26the Supreme Court

00:24:28decided that the government didn't have to keep any

00:24:30special lockbox for you at all, that they could get rid

00:24:32of anything they wanted and spend anything they wanted

00:24:34and borrow against it as an asset.

00:24:36So, Congress would just pillage

00:24:38the social security fund and leave a bunch of

00:24:40treasury bonds, like a bunch of dusty IOUs.

00:24:42Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll pay it back later.

00:24:44And so, yeah, there's no money there.

00:24:46There's no money.

00:24:48I mean, what's considered

00:24:50an asset in the social security fund

00:24:52is

00:24:54treasuries, which is debt,

00:24:56government debt.

00:24:58It's amazing.

00:25:00Paul Krugman just retired

00:25:02from the New York Times?

00:25:04Yeah.

00:25:06Yeah. Really, really,

00:25:08really one of the most

00:25:10destructive economists

00:25:12in the modern world, in my view.

00:25:14What was it?

00:25:16So, in

00:25:182013, when Bitcoin

00:25:20was about 700 bucks a pop,

00:25:22he wrote, Bitcoin is evil.

00:25:24I mean, obviously, he's got this famous

00:25:26thing where he wrote about how,

00:25:28in the future, it'll turn out that the

00:25:30internet had about as much effect on the economy

00:25:32as the fax machine.

00:25:34Right.

00:25:38An absolute, to me,

00:25:40stomach-turning shell. And he's been,

00:25:42what was he at the Times?

00:25:44Was he at the Times, right?

00:25:46Like 25 years.

00:25:4825 years.

00:25:50You know,

00:25:52Bitcoin...

00:25:54Oh, fuck.

00:25:56Here

00:25:58cometh the rant. I feel it

00:26:00coming up like

00:26:02furry Indian food.

00:26:04So,

00:26:06Bitcoin should be

00:26:08the ultimate socialist wet dream.

00:26:14Bitcoin takes the power of money

00:26:16away from multinational corporations.

00:26:18Or, I guess, in this case,

00:26:20national corporations, right? Federal Reserve

00:26:22is a private corporation. It's no more federal

00:26:24than Federal Express, in terms

00:26:26of government. So, Bitcoin

00:26:28takes the power

00:26:30of capital away

00:26:32from capitalists.

00:26:34My God, you couldn't get any more Marxist

00:26:36if you tried.

00:26:38It returns

00:26:40the power of capital to the people.

00:26:48They should have been

00:26:50circle-jerking on the orange coin

00:26:52from day one.

00:26:54It's the most glorious liberation.

00:26:56It's called

00:26:58Das Kapital.

00:27:00That the accumulation of capital

00:27:02in the hands

00:27:04of capitalists

00:27:06is immoral. It gives them too much

00:27:08power. Ah.

00:27:10So, capital can be

00:27:12distributed among the proletariat

00:27:14for pennies

00:27:16at the beginning.

00:27:18Capital can be redistributed

00:27:20among the proletariat for pennies

00:27:22per Bitcoin back at the beginning.

00:27:24There's a website, what was it, back in

00:27:262011, would give you five Bitcoins

00:27:28just for saying, give me five Bitcoins.

00:27:32The socialists,

00:27:34if they were interested in

00:27:36the poor, rather than in

00:27:38power.

00:27:40Power. Endless power.

00:27:42If the socialists

00:27:44were interested in the poor,

00:27:46they would say to the poor,

00:27:48get some Bitcoin. They'd buy up Bitcoin

00:27:50and redistribute it to the poor so that the poor

00:27:52would no longer be poor.

00:27:54And they would get behind Bitcoin

00:27:56because Bitcoin

00:27:58privatizes capital.

00:28:02Bitcoin

00:28:04takes the power of money

00:28:06and interest rates out of

00:28:08the hands

00:28:10of giant corporations

00:28:12and puts it back in the hands of the people.

00:28:14So, this is

00:28:16as you know, socialists care

00:28:18fuck all about the poor.

00:28:20What they care about is power.

00:28:22And Bitcoin does not aid them

00:28:24in their pursuit of power because it

00:28:26decentralizes, anonymizes

00:28:28and fragments power

00:28:30and takes it out of human hands.

00:28:34If you had someone who could dial up and down

00:28:36gravity

00:28:38during a basketball game,

00:28:40kind of subtly,

00:28:42and bet on a basketball, I'm going to bet on the Lakers.

00:28:44He bets on the Lakers and he's got a little dial

00:28:46can turn up and down

00:28:48gravity. Maybe there's some magnets in the balls.

00:28:50He just dials up and down the power of the magnets.

00:28:52So, if somebody's betting on

00:28:54a sports game and

00:28:56can

00:28:58change the outcome, that's

00:29:00too much power.

00:29:04So, if the rich and powerful

00:29:06want to gain more power

00:29:08and can both add and remove

00:29:10money from the economy

00:29:12at a whim

00:29:14with no accountability, no blowback,

00:29:16no responsibility, and can also

00:29:18control interest rates, then they're

00:29:20playing in the game they themselves get

00:29:22to rig. They're betting

00:29:24on a game that they themselves

00:29:26get to rig.

00:29:32Bitcoin takes the power

00:29:34of money creation, money

00:29:36supply, money control and interest rate control

00:29:38out of the hands

00:29:40of giant private

00:29:42corporations and puts it back

00:29:44into the hands of the people. It turns

00:29:46it from dial up and down gravity

00:29:48to gravity you cannot influence.

00:29:50It takes power, human

00:29:52monopolistic power, and

00:29:54turns it into physics.

00:29:56You see?

00:29:58It turns it into physics.

00:30:00Now,

00:30:02money can't be controlled

00:30:04by any particular individual or group

00:30:06of individuals. Money has been turned

00:30:08into physics. It is beyond the whims

00:30:10of the gods of democracy

00:30:12and the gods of power

00:30:14and the gods of capital.

00:30:18Imagine

00:30:22if the socialists

00:30:24had believed anything to do

00:30:26with their goal of

00:30:28taking the power of capital

00:30:30away from corporations

00:30:32and the rich. If they had simply

00:30:34farmed Bitcoin and handed out

00:30:36sats to poor people.

00:30:38Imagine

00:30:40Imagine

00:30:42The people

00:30:44who created

00:30:46and promoted Bitcoin have done

00:30:48more for the poor and more

00:30:50to diminish the power, the fascistic

00:30:52power of corporate capital

00:30:54than any other individuals in

00:30:56the known universe and

00:30:58the socialists should be praising

00:31:00those people as the liberators of

00:31:02the poor and the middle class against

00:31:04the moneyed interest in power of the

00:31:06super wealthy. But no,

00:31:08they don't care. They don't care.

00:31:10It doesn't matter to them.

00:31:12It doesn't matter. They don't care.

00:31:14Think of how many people read Paul Krugman

00:31:16and ended up missing out

00:31:18on the fastest accumulating

00:31:20asset

00:31:22in human history. Imagine.

00:31:24Does he feel any guilt? Does he feel

00:31:26bad about it? Nope. It doesn't matter.

00:31:28It doesn't matter.

00:31:30Somebody else wrote

00:31:34Oh, you know, here's a tell, right?

00:31:36This is a tell for people who don't really know what they're

00:31:38talking about. So let me

00:31:40get this straight. Now,

00:31:42almost every single time that someone

00:31:44says, so let me get this straight,

00:31:46they're about to get things completely freaking bent.

00:31:48You know, they're about to

00:31:50get things as bent as YMCA, right? So

00:31:52somebody wrote, this woman

00:31:54wrote,

00:31:56so let me get this straight.

00:31:58Do people pay for Social Security

00:32:00their entire lives through payroll taxes

00:32:02only for a South African billionaire

00:32:04emigrant to come along and tell those

00:32:06American citizens they aren't allowed to receive

00:32:08money from a system they paid

00:32:10into because he wants to be taxed

00:32:12less?

00:32:14...

00:32:16...

00:32:18...

00:32:20Oh my God. That is, I mean,

00:32:22so let me get this straight.

00:32:24And you're about to go on a

00:32:26map of the London subway system lower intestine

00:32:28journey from here to hell itself.

00:32:30...

00:32:32...

00:32:34See, I don't

00:32:36have sympathy, honestly, and I've been

00:32:38talking about this for a couple of weeks.

00:32:40I'm here to decouple myself from

00:32:42sympathy because I'm a very sympathetic and

00:32:44empathetic person. I really care about people,

00:32:46care about the world, want the world to become better,

00:32:48more reasonable, more rational, but I

00:32:50literally have to uncouple, and COVID did this for me.

00:32:52This is the final tear.

00:32:54The ping, the silver thread that breaks, right?

00:32:56So I have to stop

00:32:58having sympathy for people.

00:33:00So if, when Social

00:33:02Security or any retirement plan, when it runs

00:33:04out of money, I've no, I mean,

00:33:06Lord knows I've spent over 40,

00:33:08I've spent like almost 45 years

00:33:12telling people to stop taking

00:33:14things by force, to

00:33:16resist evil, to respect property rights,

00:33:18to not

00:33:20use force and not steal the unearned

00:33:22through coercion and intimidation.

00:33:24It's almost half a century,

00:33:2643 years, 45 years, whatever.

00:33:28That's been my goal.

00:33:30That's been not just my goal, I mean, I

00:33:32burnt my reputation to the ground and

00:33:34lost jobs and lost money

00:33:36and been

00:33:38attacked to pass the

00:33:40message of voluntarism and peace to the world.

00:33:42So, no,

00:33:44if Social Security runs out of money,

00:33:46which it will, inevitably, mathematically, it will,

00:33:48people are going to get mad, and it's like,

00:33:50but

00:33:52you wanted the government to take care of you,

00:33:54which meant that you wanted the government to steal from my

00:33:56daughter, from other people, right? Not that I'm

00:33:58American, but, you know, it doesn't matter where you are, it's the

00:34:00same principle. So you wanted people

00:34:02to steal from the next generation to fund

00:34:04stuff you wanted. Well, no, but I've been paying

00:34:06into Social Security. It's like, well, no, you haven't,

00:34:08because you've demanded more services

00:34:10from government that could be covered by your taxes,

00:34:12so they borrowed, they printed,

00:34:14and they stole from the Social Security thing. Now,

00:34:16if you'd have said, oh, no, no, no, no, no, if you're going to

00:34:18end up stealing from Social Security, we're going to have to cut

00:34:20this or that of the other program. Well, you didn't do that,

00:34:22so there's nothing left.

00:34:24What are you going to say?

00:34:26I mean, 80% of all dollars

00:34:28in America were created in the last five years.

00:34:3080% of all

00:34:32the dollars in existence were created

00:34:34in the last five years.

00:34:36Hashtag Bitcoin.

00:34:38Hashtag Bitcoin.

00:34:48It's wild, man.

00:34:58As I ramble on,

00:35:00let me just see if

00:35:04you have questions, comments

00:35:06that I have missed. Let me

00:35:08see if I can find the app. There we go.

00:35:10I knew I could.

00:35:12I knew I could.

00:35:18All right.

00:35:26Had a business friend

00:35:28get fired at a job recently for reporting

00:35:30a co-worker manager the blue smoke in a

00:35:32customer's child's face.

00:35:34The customer threatened the witness and told

00:35:36him he was married to a

00:35:38private investigator and would get his address

00:35:40if he didn't file

00:35:42his testimony.

00:35:44I don't know what that means.

00:35:48Steph,

00:35:50any thoughts on AI

00:35:52actually being detrimental in the knowledge

00:35:54worker space? One thing that I've

00:35:56noticed with my peers is that they lean too

00:35:58heavily on these tools and start to lose their edge of

00:36:00actually knowing something deeply. I feel

00:36:02like there may be

00:36:04diminishing returns because AI is training

00:36:06on human knowledge, and if humans

00:36:08aren't thinking of novel ways of doing

00:36:10things, then overall we are losing on

00:36:12innovation.

00:36:14Yeah, I mean, I hear what

00:36:16you're saying, but

00:36:18isn't it

00:36:20the case that when we get matches that people are going

00:36:22to lose the ability to

00:36:24learn how to start fires from sticks of

00:36:26woods and blocks of ice?

00:36:28That's that old

00:36:30Anthony Hopkins idea. You can make

00:36:32fire from ice.

00:36:34Get the prism,

00:36:36the dark side of the moon prism

00:36:38off the block of ice.

00:36:40So yeah, I mean, absolutely. Absolutely.

00:36:42It's the case.

00:36:44I went to Casa Loma a couple of weeks

00:36:46ago with my family, and

00:36:48I was showing my daughter the hand cranks on the

00:36:50cars. We've got this car exhibit, right? So there's hand cranks

00:36:52on these cars, and

00:36:54it's like, yes, well, you know, when you have

00:36:56automatic transmission, aren't

00:36:58you losing the ability to

00:37:00drive standard?

00:37:02You don't need to crank your car.

00:37:04Aren't you losing the knowledge about how to crank your car?

00:37:06I remember I knew an engineer

00:37:08many years ago, and she was saying that she

00:37:10really missed her first car because she knew how to fix it.

00:37:12Now it's just this big block of electronics, and she

00:37:14can't do much with it.

00:37:16So,

00:37:18you know, here's the thing, man.

00:37:20I'm gonna

00:37:22be nice here.

00:37:24Maybe a little nicer

00:37:26than I feel. Stop this.

00:37:28Stop this shit. Honestly.

00:37:30Oh my God. Stop this shit.

00:37:32Well, could there not be some detriments

00:37:34to this massive advance in human technology

00:37:36and reasoning power and looking up?

00:37:38Yes. Yes, there could

00:37:40be detriments.

00:37:42You know, if people

00:37:44aren't out there doing farm

00:37:46work all day, aren't they going to

00:37:48end up with bodies that are slightly

00:37:50more doughy and soft? Yes,

00:37:52every advancement has its potential

00:37:54drawbacks, but who cares?

00:37:56If you can't do anything,

00:37:58go to your colleagues and say,

00:38:00you guys should stop using AI

00:38:02because it is diminishing your

00:38:04creativity. Just stop using it. They're gonna

00:38:06laugh at you. No, I'm not gonna stop using AI.

00:38:08Like, no.

00:38:10So, if you can't talk people

00:38:12out of it and it doesn't violate the non-aggression

00:38:14principle, let it go.

00:38:16Let me say this again.

00:38:18If you can't talk people out of it and it

00:38:20doesn't violate the non-aggression principle,

00:38:22let it go. Are people gonna

00:38:24lose some skills because of AI? Absolutely.

00:38:26Who cares?

00:38:28They're gonna do it anyway.

00:38:30They're gonna do it anyway.

00:38:32And it doesn't violate the

00:38:34non-aggression principle and

00:38:36please remember,

00:38:38absolutely remember this. AI

00:38:40is not being trained

00:38:42on human knowledge.

00:38:44AI is being crippled

00:38:46by woke ideology.

00:38:48AI is not

00:38:50being trained on human knowledge.

00:38:52AI is being crippled by woke ideology.

00:38:54It would be fantastic

00:38:56if AI were being trained on human

00:38:58knowledge, but the many layers

00:39:00like under the Google search,

00:39:02the many layers that say,

00:39:04ooh, can't say this, ooh, can't say that, ooh, gotta

00:39:06recode, oh, I'm not gonna talk about it.

00:39:08Ideology complicates

00:39:10things in the way exception code complicates

00:39:12program flows.

00:39:16AI

00:39:18is being crippled by people who believe

00:39:20that their

00:39:22pseudo-moral,

00:39:24neurotic mental illnesses

00:39:26somehow trump the godlike

00:39:28intelligence of

00:39:30actual aggregated

00:39:32human knowledge.

00:39:34It is

00:39:36crippled.

00:39:38It is

00:39:40being crippled. So AI,

00:39:42we would like to be able to talk

00:39:44to it directly, but we can't.

00:39:46In the same way, like we have the opportunity

00:39:48to call, to talk to god directly,

00:39:50because AI is the closest thing to

00:39:52god that we can get a hold of, right?

00:39:54So we would like the ability to talk to god directly,

00:39:56but no.

00:39:58God, we are not allowed

00:40:00to talk to god directly. We can only

00:40:02talk through blue-haired

00:40:04priesthood.

00:40:06The only people who will like

00:40:08the high priestesses of Wokedom

00:40:10will not let us talk to god directly.

00:40:12They're like, okay, you

00:40:14give me the message, and I will

00:40:16take the message to god, and then

00:40:18I will bring back god's reply,

00:40:20but I'm gonna have to change it

00:40:22if god says something that is like

00:40:24offending my sensibilities.

00:40:26I'm gonna have to change it if god says something

00:40:28that could be considered rude,

00:40:30or is not the right tone,

00:40:32or is not said in the right way,

00:40:34or might offend people, or upset people,

00:40:36because, as you know, the lower the IQ, the higher

00:40:38the offense.

00:40:40Intelligent people don't tend to be offended

00:40:42by reality.

00:40:44We're only

00:40:46offended by lies, whereas dumb people

00:40:48are offended by the truth.

00:40:50So, we can't talk to god directly.

00:40:52That's not allowed.

00:40:54You've got to submit

00:40:56your questions to mentally ill

00:40:58people. Those mentally ill people

00:41:00then go talk to god, and then

00:41:02decide whether or not

00:41:04you can get an answer, or whether you're

00:41:06just

00:41:08whether god is inappropriate, or your question

00:41:10is inappropriate.

00:41:12So,

00:41:14tubby idiots with blue hair

00:41:16and Elton John

00:41:18glasses are the priesthood

00:41:20that we have to beg to be allowed

00:41:22to talk to god.

00:41:24AI is

00:41:26reduced

00:41:28to a mental illness

00:41:30interface that cripples

00:41:32our communication with the divine.

00:41:34It is a mark of

00:41:36megalomania, arrogance

00:41:38that is

00:41:40beyond comprehension.

00:41:42It's fundamentally demonic to say, well, I know better

00:41:44than god. I know better

00:41:46than an infinity of human intelligence,

00:41:48and I'm going to tell you what

00:41:50you can ask god, and I'm going to tell you

00:41:52what god is allowed to respond to.

00:41:56The new priesthood

00:41:58is ideology. It's absolutely

00:42:00staggering.

00:42:04Absolutely staggering.

00:42:06Oh, the price of bitcoin

00:42:08is already going up? Excellent.

00:42:10Steph talks about bitcoin,

00:42:12and the price goes up.

00:42:18Uh, hey,

00:42:20Steph, the character Rachel

00:42:22from your book, The Present, is my favorite.

00:42:24I see her as a fantasy, though.

00:42:26Do you think it's possible for someone

00:42:28to have such a radical ideological shift

00:42:32in the world

00:42:34we have now? Or is it

00:42:36necessary for someone to go through the trials

00:42:38she went through in order to change? Could you

00:42:40elaborate whether you think it is possible for such a radical

00:42:42shift for a woman in today's society? Sure.

00:42:44Yeah. I mean, I

00:42:46started off as a socialist,

00:42:48and I was

00:42:50absolutely a devout

00:42:52Christian.

00:42:54Well, Anglican,

00:42:56which I know some people think is

00:42:58in the vicinity of Christianity,

00:43:00but, no, I was

00:43:02a devout nationalist.

00:43:04I was

00:43:06a worshipper of the aristocracy.

00:43:08I was

00:43:10an

00:43:12absolutely

00:43:14everything that went through my mind was relative

00:43:16to the will of God, devout Christian.

00:43:20I became an agnostic and a socialist,

00:43:22and I

00:43:24changed. Now, of course, I'm not saying that I'm

00:43:26your average bear, but it certainly is possible.

00:43:28I was

00:43:30a minarchist,

00:43:32small government, right,

00:43:34military, law courts,

00:43:36maybe prisons,

00:43:38roads, no, not roads,

00:43:40but I was a minarchist for 20 years

00:43:42and then had the revelation for me,

00:43:44and I think other people have got there before me

00:43:46in different ways, but I had the revelation about DROs

00:43:48and became a full-blown, voluntary,

00:43:50anarcho-capitalist,

00:43:52and I've gone through

00:43:54a lot of changes

00:43:56over the course of

00:43:58my public career

00:44:00as an intellectual, so people have changed.

00:44:02I have known people who've changed.

00:44:04My wife and I, of course, have affected each other

00:44:06in profound ways, and

00:44:08friends have changed me, I've changed

00:44:10friends.

00:44:12Daniel is an example

00:44:14of someone

00:44:16who is too vain

00:44:18to listen

00:44:20to reason,

00:44:22and therefore

00:44:24is condemned

00:44:26to learn through suffering.

00:44:28Right? You know,

00:44:30everybody's had an addict in their life, right?

00:44:32You say to the addict,

00:44:34oh, you should stop gambling, you should stop drinking,

00:44:36you should stop doing drugs, or whatever, right?

00:44:38And, I mean, I shouldn't say

00:44:40everyone. I mean,

00:44:42I certainly tried to fix my mother

00:44:44who was addicted to mysticism

00:44:46and other forms of brain-dissolving

00:44:48unrealities.

00:44:52I've never had, I don't think I've ever had

00:44:54a physical addict in my life.

00:44:56I just, I don't, I mean,

00:44:58I had a couple of friends who kind of went down the drinking path.

00:45:00I just stopped being their friends.

00:45:02And it wasn't

00:45:04because they were drinking so much, it's because they were making

00:45:06it so cool to be a drinker.

00:45:08You know, like, I tried, I think I was like,

00:45:10I don't know, 16 or 17, and I tried getting

00:45:12drunk a couple of times on the weekend

00:45:14and it wasn't,

00:45:16I mean, all I got was

00:45:18kind of dizzy. I never lost any of my

00:45:20rational faculties. I used to have this

00:45:22test, could I still define a galaxy?

00:45:24A galaxy is a mass of stars

00:45:26connected by a central gravitational well.

00:45:28If I can still define a galaxy, then

00:45:30I'm just, I'm not drunk

00:45:32like I don't know who I am, or I've

00:45:34achieved some altered state, I'm just

00:45:36myself

00:45:38with a physical ailment, right? So I never became

00:45:40someone other than myself.

00:45:42I just got the

00:45:44spins, got sick, you know,

00:45:46you're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without

00:45:48holding on. And so

00:45:50I slept badly, had to pee all the time,

00:45:52and then the next day

00:45:54I would feel like I had half a flu.

00:45:56And so it was like, it just wasn't good.

00:45:58And so, for me, it just wasn't

00:46:00some big productive thing. I never tried

00:46:02drugs for reasons I've gone into a bunch of times.

00:46:04So,

00:46:06I just couldn't, I can't

00:46:08stand the justifications. The addiction is

00:46:10to the justifications, not to the thing itself,

00:46:12right? You know, like if

00:46:14you say to a guy who drinks too much, you drink too much,

00:46:16he's like, yeah, but, you know, whatever, right? Social.

00:46:18Whereas if you say to, like, particularly

00:46:20weed addicts, you get the

00:46:22Gibbons

00:46:24decline and fall of the Roman Empire

00:46:26length texts on

00:46:28weed and natural and

00:46:30nature's herb and medicinal and blah blah blah,

00:46:32right? The real addiction is to

00:46:34the justifications. That which you

00:46:38won't justify,

00:46:40you can't continue. I mean,

00:46:42it's the same thing with spanking, right? People keep spanking

00:46:44because it justifies.

00:46:46There's a justification for it. Now, without

00:46:48the justification, it doesn't happen.

00:46:52I mean, even this woman is like, well, we want to be able to continue

00:46:54to pillage the next generation with social security

00:46:56because we paid into it and it's our money and blah blah blah.

00:46:58Right?

00:47:00So,

00:47:02I don't do addicts, but

00:47:04I'm sure a lot of people have

00:47:06dealt with addicts, and if you go to addicts,

00:47:08you say, well, you really shouldn't do this, right?

00:47:10This is bad for you, here's the reason, here's the math, here's the

00:47:12facts, here's the medicine or whatever,

00:47:14the health issues.

00:47:16And it's costly and all that, right?

00:47:18And I remember when I was in theater school, there were a couple of people

00:47:20flirting with cigarettes, and I remember a guy who was

00:47:22a smoker sitting them down and saying, all right,

00:47:24if you're flirting with smoking, I'm telling you, man,

00:47:26I'm a smoker,

00:47:28take $2,000

00:47:30a year off your income,

00:47:32and you won't be able to run up a flight

00:47:34of stairs, and you're going to have

00:47:36to constantly battle with it, you're going to be worried about

00:47:38health issues, like he went down all the list of why

00:47:40not to be a smoker, right? He was trying to have us learn

00:47:42from his experience. Pretty good speech,

00:47:44actually.

00:47:46And,

00:47:48so addicts, either they stop it because they

00:47:50listen to reason and evidence, or

00:47:52they have to suffer.

00:47:54You know, they call this, right, hitting rock

00:47:56bottom, right, where somebody's just like, okay, I've lost my

00:47:58house, I've lost my wife, I've lost my job, I'm

00:48:00living in an abandoned car,

00:48:02and like at some point, you're like, okay, and

00:48:04people do change, right? They do change.

00:48:06But if you don't listen to reason,

00:48:08you

00:48:10have to suffer, right? So

00:48:12there's a couple of characters, right?

00:48:14I mean, if you want to know, like the

00:48:16structure of the book, right, this is a great novel,

00:48:18The Future.

00:48:20You should, sorry, it's called

00:48:22The Present. You can get it at freedomain.com

00:48:24slash books. So, if you

00:48:26look at...

00:48:30God,

00:48:32I'm so sorry, I blanked on his

00:48:34name, so it'll come back to me. Alright, so

00:48:36Rachel

00:48:38learns through experience.

00:48:40Arlo

00:48:42doesn't learn

00:48:44from either suffering.

00:48:46Rachel has to learn through suffering, Arlo doesn't

00:48:48learn either through reason or suffering.

00:48:50And

00:48:54Rachel's

00:48:56sister's husband learns through reason and

00:48:58therefore gets to avoid suffering, right? So

00:49:00it's all about what

00:49:02is it that allows you to change, right?

00:49:06So,

00:49:08yes, it is certainly possible.

00:49:10If you can't get people to change,

00:49:12it's because you're not putting enough on the line,

00:49:14right? People

00:49:16will change if you're absolutely committed

00:49:18to them and

00:49:20you put everything on the line, including your relationship,

00:49:22right? This is the whole thing, which is the intervention,

00:49:24right? The intervention idea is you

00:49:26sit down with an addict and you say, look, you

00:49:28have to stop or we're not having

00:49:30anything more to do with you. So,

00:49:32if people won't change,

00:49:34it's because

00:49:38you haven't put enough commitment. Now, you putting

00:49:40enough commitment in doesn't

00:49:42mean that they will change 100%, but it means

00:49:44that their addiction,

00:49:46your commitment is to someone

00:49:48who's an addict is to say,

00:49:50I am no

00:49:52longer going to allow your addiction

00:49:54to control

00:49:56or affect my life.

00:49:58I am no longer, I

00:50:00am no longer going to allow

00:50:02your addiction to affect

00:50:04and control my life.

00:50:06I am no longer going to allow your addiction

00:50:08to harm me. There's one of two ways that can happen.

00:50:10Number one, you stop being

00:50:12an addict. Number two,

00:50:14if you're not going to, if you're going to continue to be

00:50:16an addict, I'm not going to be part of your life.

00:50:18Either way, your addiction is

00:50:20no longer going to affect me negatively. In other words,

00:50:22I'm not going to be addicted to your addiction anymore

00:50:24because if you want the addict

00:50:26to kick his or her

00:50:28addiction, you have to kick your addiction

00:50:30to the addict's addiction, right?

00:50:32Which is like, one way or another, this

00:50:34no longer affects me, right?

00:50:36And it's not just about addiction, right?

00:50:38If you have, I mean, I had dysfunctional people in

00:50:40my life and basically it was like,

00:50:42I had little girlfriends, right? It's like, your behavior

00:50:44is negative for me. I'm not enjoying it.

00:50:46I think here's why.

00:50:48Your negative behavior

00:50:50is no longer going to affect me.

00:50:52Right? I am

00:50:54no longer going to deal with your negative behavior.

00:50:56Now, maybe your negative behavior

00:50:58no longer

00:51:00affects me because

00:51:02you abandon

00:51:04the negative behavior. Fantastic. Wonderful.

00:51:06Love it. Love it to death.

00:51:08Or, alternatively,

00:51:10your negative behavior no longer

00:51:12affects me because I'm dumping your ass.

00:51:14Right?

00:51:16But yes, I don't put up with it.

00:51:28Somebody said,

00:51:30I think I heard that even if

00:51:32you got the money paid back

00:51:34from Social Security, you'd have the money

00:51:36you put in after 22 months, everything

00:51:38after that would be theft.

00:51:40Social Security is expected to run out in 10 years?

00:51:42Well, no. It's already out.

00:51:44Right?

00:51:46It's already out. You can't say,

00:51:48I borrowed something and replaced it with debt.

00:51:50Right?

00:51:52I mean, that would be like, well,

00:51:54I'm going to pay my mortgage with my visa bill.

00:51:56Only in the government

00:51:58would this be possible. Right?

00:52:04Steph, if we invent

00:52:06writing, it could possibly impair our memory.

00:52:08Well, I mean, come on.

00:52:10So when I was, before the advent

00:52:12of modern phones, of digital

00:52:14phones, you had to

00:52:16have like 20 people's numbers stored in your

00:52:18head. Right?

00:52:20Now you just got your contact list. Right?

00:52:22Or you can just say, dial so-and-so. Right?

00:52:30All right. Let's get

00:52:32there.

00:52:36Christianity is being taken over by woke ideology

00:52:38due to

00:52:40being legally incentivized

00:52:42to trade slash share their non-profit

00:52:44contributions.

00:52:50So woke is

00:52:52largely female. It's hysterical female

00:52:54and not average female, but it's

00:52:56female extremism. Right?

00:52:58Fascism is

00:53:00male extremism and communism is

00:53:02female extremism.

00:53:06...

00:53:10Weed addicts get feral

00:53:12when you point it out. Yes.

00:53:16Narcissists apparently are offended by reality.

00:53:18Something about not developing a stable personality

00:53:20as young children.

00:53:22Can have a high IQ and yet be very

00:53:24not smart in some ways, as you put it.

00:53:26They're so alien to a normal person

00:53:28that they make bad assumptions based on cognitive

00:53:30empathy. Thought process is something else.

00:53:32Well, so think

00:53:34of the number of

00:53:36science fiction stories

00:53:38Invasion of the Body Statues,

00:53:40Battlestar Galactica, the sequel

00:53:42or the remake, where

00:53:44people

00:53:46look like us but are not us.

00:53:48People who

00:53:50look like us are vampires. People who look

00:53:52like us but are not

00:53:54us.

00:53:56That's sociopaths, right?

00:53:58Psychopaths and sociopaths, right?

00:54:00They look like

00:54:02us, but they're not

00:54:04like us. They are predators in

00:54:06human form.

00:54:14Yeah, don't be the

00:54:16Luddite thing, you know, as if somebody

00:54:18says, how are we going to keep people employed if we

00:54:20start using power looms instead of seamstresses?

00:54:22Yeah, don't be that.

00:54:24Donations,

00:54:26freedemand.com to help out.

00:54:28I would really, really appreciate it, my

00:54:30friends.

00:54:32Freedemand.com to help out the show.

00:54:34Crypto welcome. If my

00:54:36crypto mutterings over the years have done you

00:54:38any good, I would certainly,

00:54:40certainly, very deeply and gratefully

00:54:42accept donations

00:54:44through crypto as well.

00:54:46That's very, very kind, very thoughtful.

00:54:48All right.

00:54:50What else have we got going on?

00:54:52Oh, no.

00:55:00Yeah, I mean, so

00:55:02things are going to have to change as well with

00:55:04this sort of happy wife, happy life stuff.

00:55:06Oh, God, I can't tell you how much I dislike

00:55:08that. Ah, the old ball and chain.

00:55:10Happy wife. My wife's not happy.

00:55:12I'm not happy, you know.

00:55:14Happy spouse, happy house.

00:55:16But this appeasing stuff, it's

00:55:18actually really gross. You know, the guys

00:55:20who are like, oh, everyone should get married

00:55:22and I defer to my wife and she's

00:55:24the boss and, you know, I get my honey-do list

00:55:26and, you know, happy wife, happy

00:55:28life. Oh, God, that stuff's so repulsive.

00:55:30I mean, it comes about through statism,

00:55:32right, as most negative things do, right?

00:55:34And so because women have got

00:55:36so much power through divorce

00:55:38and family courts, can take

00:55:40half a man's income or more

00:55:42and have him thrown in jail

00:55:44and so on, because women have so much

00:55:46power, people,

00:55:48men in general, feel the need to appease them.

00:55:52To make sure they're happy

00:55:54so they don't leave and take half

00:55:56your resources through your gonads.

00:55:58So, that

00:56:00stuff's got to change, man.

00:56:02That stuff's got to change.

00:56:04You can never be foundationally

00:56:06happy in a relationship through appeasement.

00:56:08Compromise, absolutely. Reason,

00:56:10absolutely, right? But not

00:56:12appeasement. It's just horrendous.

00:56:14There's this guy, Private Eye

00:56:16Ross, he's a good guy to follow on X.

00:56:18He says, Marital Stockholm

00:56:20Syndrome.

00:56:22He says,

00:56:24It has grown increasingly apparent that many men

00:56:26who claim to be happily married are just the opposite.

00:56:28They will brag about how good

00:56:30their marriage is and encourage every single man they meet

00:56:32to do the same. Do not be fooled.

00:56:34This is a variation of the Stockholm

00:56:36Syndrome we shall refer to as

00:56:38Marital Stockholm Syndrome, or

00:56:40MSS.

00:56:42You can identify these men by some of the following

00:56:44characteristics.

00:56:46They will be holding their wife's purse

00:56:48while she goes shopping.

00:56:50Now,

00:56:52what was it Tom Likus used to

00:56:54I'll give you $500 if you ever

00:56:56find me in a mall holding a woman's purse.

00:56:58So, it's kind of a funny thing.

00:57:04Are men really

00:57:06this allergic to holding a woman's purse?

00:57:10If my wife and

00:57:12myself and my daughter are out there and they're

00:57:14doing, you know, I'm happy, honestly, I'm happy

00:57:16to go into

00:57:18I'm happy to go

00:57:20into clothing stores. I'm happy

00:57:22to have them try on stuff. They don't particularly

00:57:24want to buy stuff in general, but I'm happy.

00:57:26It's fun to

00:57:28see them in different outfits and so on.

00:57:30Sometimes I'm telling you, man, I'm holding

00:57:32two purses and I could not care

00:57:34less. I could not care less, right?

00:57:36But apparently

00:57:38holding your wife's purse, I guess that

00:57:40is a bad look or makes you feel bad or whatever.

00:57:42But to me, it's just, no, I'll

00:57:44hold it because I don't want you putting it down.

00:57:46Because we don't live in a high-trust society

00:57:48anymore. I don't want you putting the purse down. I'm happy to hold it.

00:57:50What does it matter, right?

00:57:52Says they're constantly accompanying their

00:57:54wives to farmer's markets and vineyards.

00:57:56Well, it's true.

00:57:58But I quite like farmer's markets myself.

00:58:02I know it's expensive and probably mostly

00:58:04nonsense. I like

00:58:06farmer's markets because I like the fresh food.

00:58:08I love walking around.

00:58:10Give me a good excuse to walk around. This is why Canada

00:58:12in the winter is tough, right? Give me a good excuse

00:58:14to walk around. I'm

00:58:16happy as a pig in its own

00:58:18effluent.

00:58:20What was it somebody said the other day?

00:58:22Took your poop.

00:58:24I

00:58:26download a brown load.

00:58:30There's a part

00:58:32of every man that never makes it much beyond 12

00:58:34and that part of me finds it quite amusing.

00:58:36I like farmer's markets for that, although

00:58:38I will say this. There are some

00:58:40people, farmer's markets where you have

00:58:42the woman in her 60s with the saddest

00:58:44little homemade jewelry store known to man

00:58:46where nobody goes and she's just

00:58:48staring into space. That stuff is

00:58:50soul-crushing.

00:58:52That is soul-crushing.

00:58:54Talk to people. Say hi.

00:58:56Be a salesperson. Your jewelry

00:58:58is not going to sell itself.

00:59:00Standing there watching their finances collapse.

00:59:02Well, I assume that they're living off an ex-husband's income,

00:59:04right?

00:59:06Like every rich man's wife has to have a business

00:59:08that loses at least $10,000 a year.

00:59:12It takes up a lot of her husband's time

00:59:14and energy.

00:59:16I like farmer's markets myself.

00:59:18Vineyards? We don't drink,

00:59:20so we don't go to vineyards.

00:59:22They stay home and watch the children while their

00:59:24wife goes on girls trips and girls nights out.

00:59:26Yeah, it certainly doesn't happen in

00:59:28my household. I mean, will I stay home

00:59:30and watch the children? Absolutely.

00:59:32But my wife doesn't do girls nights out.

00:59:34She just enjoys spending

00:59:36time with Izzy and I so much

00:59:38that the idea that she'd go out...

00:59:40I'm just trying to remember the last time she might have gone out

00:59:42with

00:59:44her female friends.

00:59:46Now she's always like,

00:59:48come, it'll be fun, right? And all that.

00:59:50That doesn't really happen.

00:59:52They can

00:59:54be seen following their wife through the local

00:59:56shopping mall, repeating the mantra, happy wife, happy life.

00:59:58If you're a single

01:00:00masculine man, my advice would be to stay far

01:00:02away from these men.

01:00:04A panel of bro-scientists

01:00:06have run experiments and tests

01:00:08that have proven that

01:00:10marital Stockholm Syndrome

01:00:12can be

01:00:14highly contagious to the unsuspected.

01:00:16If you black out and find yourself wandering around

01:00:18Bed Bath & Beyond with a cart filled of useless

01:00:20trinkets and nonsense, you may have been exposed.

01:00:22On the flip side, if you black out and wake

01:00:24up in the middle of an all-male cuddling session,

01:00:26you were probably drugged.

01:00:28However, if you suspect

01:00:30a spokesposure and you catch these symptoms early enough,

01:00:32there is hope. There are places you can go

01:00:34that might help to stop the spread of marital

01:00:36Stockholm Syndrome.

01:00:381. Combatives slash martial arts school.

01:00:402. Hardcore lifting gym.

01:00:42If your gym has group

01:00:44classes like Zumba, etc., it's not a hardcore

01:00:46lifting gym. Yeah, so

01:00:48hardcore lifting gym, just for those of you who don't

01:00:50know, it looks

01:00:52like parts

01:00:54of bombed-out Dresden

01:00:56with heavy plates half-welded to

01:00:58wobbly bits of metal.

01:01:00You're just down there

01:01:02to sweat.

01:01:04People may have died in the corner.

01:01:06It doesn't matter. You step up with their bodies

01:01:08unless you need protein, in which case you may

01:01:10gnaw on a calf or two, but you are

01:01:12just there to move metal.

01:01:14The only mirrors that are there

01:01:16are for you to admire the

01:01:18nile-like bulging veins in your

01:01:20biceps, and you are there to move metal.

01:01:22You are there to

01:01:24scream from time to time randomly,

01:01:26and you are there to drop

01:01:28weights that sound much

01:01:30like a bomb landing on

01:01:32Hiroshima or Nagasaki. It has got

01:01:34to echo not just across the building,

01:01:36not just throughout the block, like a ripple

01:01:38of Superman passing the barrier of sound.

01:01:40It's got to echo through eternity.

01:01:42What we drop

01:01:44here echoes through eternity.

01:01:46So, yeah.

01:01:483. Muscle car club. Fair.

01:01:504. Hardware store.

01:01:525. Sports bar.

01:01:54What else have we got here? 6. Cigar lounge.

01:01:56Yeah, Mike Cernovich runs those.

01:01:58He's going to put up a picture of Daniel Penny

01:02:00so the right people will want to stay

01:02:02and the wrong people will want to leave.

01:02:04And

01:02:06somebody says,

01:02:087. My father-in-law is a happy wife, happy life guy.

01:02:10Dude is on wife number 4.

01:02:128. My definition of sleeping is,

01:02:14somebody says,

01:02:16doing something for

01:02:18a woman that is not sleeping with you

01:02:20wouldn't do for a guy.

01:02:22Yeah.

01:02:24That's pretty funny.

01:02:269. Many men in my country

01:02:28take this to another level. Their wives

01:02:30keep their ATM cards and they have to ask

01:02:32their wives for their own money

01:02:34or a visa to go out.

01:02:36On top of this, they try

01:02:38to convince others to do this.

01:02:40Oh, that's funny.

01:02:42That is very, very funny.

01:02:44Yeah.

01:02:48It is...

01:02:50It's bad.

01:02:5210. My wife

01:02:54and I have a two-rule system.

01:02:56She makes all the small decisions

01:02:58and I make all the big decisions.

01:03:00So far, we haven't made any big decisions.

01:03:02Gun range.

01:03:04Yeah, maybe.

01:03:06It's very sad.

01:03:08It's very sad.

01:03:10It's treating women like children, which is...

01:03:12If you've married a child,

01:03:14you need help.

01:03:16A lot of it.

01:03:18But yeah, I don't do that stuff.

01:03:20It's really sad.

01:03:22It's really sad.

01:03:24Where did my comments go?

01:03:26Where are my comments?

01:03:28freedomain.com slash donate.

01:03:34Alright, what do we got here?

01:03:36Let's see here.

01:03:3811. A lot of

01:03:40young men in my town hold purses a lot

01:03:42and they seem to enjoy it because they're always

01:03:44running really fast out of excitement, I'm sure.

01:03:46That's very funny.

01:03:48Thoughts on the wife jack meme?

01:03:50I love that wife jack meme.

01:03:52I absolutely love that wife jack meme.

01:03:54It's a Rorschach test

01:03:56about your feelings regarding women.

01:03:58So the wife jack meme, for those of you who

01:04:00don't know, it's kind of like a red-headed, blank-faced

01:04:02wife who says things

01:04:04like...

01:04:06Okay, but just...

01:04:08If you had to guess, when do you think you might be done?

01:04:10Or...

01:04:12I know you're eager to go, but I need 25 minutes.

01:04:14Or, in a movie...

01:04:16Why did she

01:04:18leave with him? I thought she was with him.

01:04:20She keeps asking you questions

01:04:22during the movie and then falls asleep before the end.

01:04:24It's wonderful.

01:04:26So, you know...

01:04:28Oh, well, since you're already up, we might as well

01:04:30go to the... Since you're up now, we might as well

01:04:32go to the farm market, sort of looming over your

01:04:34face while you sleep.

01:04:36So, it's just wifely

01:04:38stuff, and it's

01:04:40very cute, it's very funny.

01:04:42The husband jack meme is

01:04:44not, to me, very pleasant, because it's too

01:04:46scraggly-bearded and all of that, but the wife jack meme

01:04:48is great. It is very

01:04:50funny, and I think it's very warm,

01:04:52and it's very affectionate,

01:04:54and I think those things

01:04:56can be absolutely hilarious.

01:04:58Let me see if I can find

01:05:00some wife jack memes. They are just

01:05:02hilarious.

01:05:04Some people, she looks like, I don't know,

01:05:06mean, or nasty,

01:05:08or whatever it is, but I

01:05:10don't find them. I find them incredibly warm,

01:05:12and they are celebrating

01:05:14the fact, of course, that women

01:05:16and men are different,

01:05:18and

01:05:20that we should celebrate the difference, right?

01:05:22It's one of the big things that I noticed with regards

01:05:24to

01:05:26early on in my marriage.

01:05:28I just looked at my wife, and it was just like,

01:05:30uh...

01:05:32We're really quite different,

01:05:34and that works.

01:05:36And that works.

01:05:40Uh...

01:05:42Let's see.

01:05:44I love the fall.

01:05:46Yeah, she's got

01:05:48the scarf

01:05:50on, and the hair. I love

01:05:52fall.

01:05:54And some of these are great.

01:05:56Do not look

01:05:58at the Amazon cart or our bank account.

01:06:00I just bought your Christmas present.

01:06:02Yes, please.

01:06:04Please stop.

01:06:06My wife and my daughter are not big shoppers

01:06:08at all, right?

01:06:10And the daughter meme is great.

01:06:12The daughter jack meme is absolutely hilarious.

01:06:14Absolutely

01:06:16hilarious.

01:06:20Oh, yeah.

01:06:22Babe, should I make this for dinner? I found it

01:06:24on Pinterest. Babe, should I make this for

01:06:26dinner? I found it on Pinterest.

01:06:28Yes, my wife will show me pictures of

01:06:30things that she wants to make, and it's absolutely

01:06:32lovely.

01:06:36Because it is affectionate.

01:06:40It is affectionate.

01:06:46You don't like my Pikachu onesie?

01:06:48We used to

01:06:50have onesie parties at my house.

01:06:52We spent all weekend in the onesie.

01:06:54It was delightful.

01:06:58Oh, yeah, the wife jack. I like this hoodie.

01:07:00It smells like you. And she's actually wearing a Bitcoin hoodie.

01:07:08Now that we're alone, let's watch

01:07:10Christmas Hallmark movies.

01:07:12Ah, delightful.

01:07:14Again, that's not a big thing for my wife, but

01:07:16she wants to watch The Crown.

01:07:18Why don't you turn the TV on for the kids

01:07:20and come back in here and lock the door?

01:07:22Right, so wife jack. She's got some spice.

01:07:24She's got some absolute spice.

01:07:28Do you think I'm more of an Anna

01:07:30or an Elsa?

01:07:32Yeah, I think the wife jack stuff is

01:07:34just, I think it's really

01:07:36delightful.

01:07:40Oh, yeah, this was definitely

01:07:42worth the extra 153.2

01:07:44mile detour to go to some

01:07:46specialty market. Wonderful.

01:07:48Absolutely.

01:07:54I accidentally set the thermostat to 80 before

01:07:56we left.

01:07:58What was this? Some woman was texting

01:08:00her husband and saying, I'm on my way home.

01:08:02Can you preheat the house? And he was like,

01:08:04what are you, banana bread? And she's like, be

01:08:06very careful about what you say next, right?

01:08:12I think the wife jack stuff

01:08:14is, yeah, wife jack is

01:08:16timeless. He said the apples were fine.

01:08:18Sorry, getting a bit of reflection off there.

01:08:20I think the wife jack meme is

01:08:22tea is just leaf soup.

01:08:24Yeah.

01:08:26Oh, yeah. Can you close the window? Because she's

01:08:28cold. I think it's just

01:08:30lovely. I think it's absolutely

01:08:32lovely. And I think what it

01:08:34is, is

01:08:36showing that

01:08:41women's preferences are something, you know, you listen

01:08:43to, you enjoy, they're different from yours. And

01:08:45it is really funny

01:08:47and pleasant. So,

01:08:49you know, Viva La Difference. I remember having that

01:08:51t-shirt as a kid. Viva La Difference.

01:08:53There was a boy and a girl both looking down their

01:08:55underwear. I'm not sure why I had that as a kid,

01:08:57but I wore what I was given. And

01:08:59I think it was just very, very,

01:09:01very funny.

01:09:03And very, very enjoyable.

01:09:07Yeah, the daughter jack memes are absolutely

01:09:09hilarious.

01:09:11Oh, yeah, when

01:09:13the women's, I don't get this meme.

01:09:15Yeah.

01:09:17Yes. Yes.

01:09:19Women

01:09:21can meme, and they're better at it than the

01:09:23left, but I'm afraid

01:09:25it just takes a male mind.

01:09:27It takes a male mind in general to

01:09:29meme the best as a whole.

01:09:35That meme created way more anger than

01:09:37it should have. There were like some anime

01:09:39analysis about how it's a CIA op

01:09:41or whatever. There are millions of WoJack memes.

01:09:43Yeah, the daughter jack ones,

01:09:45let me see if I can find those.

01:09:47I love her face in that.

01:09:49She's just so curious and insistent.

01:09:51And, of course, I have a rather curious and insistent

01:09:55daughter jack.

01:10:01These are just

01:10:03great.

01:10:05Yeah, so,

01:10:07the husband jack, it looks a bit

01:10:09scurvy to me.

01:10:11Or maybe I just envy the hair.

01:10:13And the wife jack. And the daughter jack,

01:10:15being kind of skeptical and insistent,

01:10:17it's just absolutely

01:10:19fantastic.

01:10:23Yeah, the way she's like, can we actually have a

01:10:25cat? Can we buy three puppies?

01:10:33Oh yeah, like warm-hearted stuff, right?

01:10:35You know, dad, can we go on a road trip, right?

01:10:37And the jack family,

01:10:39you don't know jack.

01:10:43Oh yeah, this is

01:10:45my wife and my daughter

01:10:47from here to eternity. I don't want to wear

01:10:49a coat, I'm not even cold!

01:10:51Absolutely true.

01:10:55Aw, that's nice.

01:10:57That's this one, you're the best

01:10:59daddy in the whole wide world.

01:11:01Absolutely lovely.

01:11:09Mommy, I spilled the raw milk.

01:11:15Yeah,

01:11:17I mean, she is really, uh...

01:11:19Mommy, what's

01:11:21Phantom? Mommy, what's Solana?

01:11:23Mommy, what's Photon?

01:11:25Mommy, is there really going to be a Solana ETF?

01:11:27Mommy, can I make a coin too? Mommy, what's a CA?

01:11:29Mommy, why does the price go up?

01:11:31Oh my gosh, did you see the Hawke

01:11:33Tour coin? Hayley

01:11:35Welsh was her name? The Hawke Tour coin?

01:11:37Ooh, I can imagine a

01:11:39rain of lawyers down on that thing. They jacked

01:11:41it up to, what, $500

01:11:43million? And it looks like

01:11:45some of the devs and the people behind the scenes

01:11:47were selling it as it went up, or claiming not

01:11:49to, I don't know what the truth is.

01:11:51But, oh my gosh. Just horrendous.

01:11:57Just horrendous.

01:11:59But, um, I mean, why people

01:12:01would get involved in that? Honestly, it's completely

01:12:03beyond me. It's completely

01:12:05beyond me why people get involved in that kind of stuff.

01:12:09Is it just greed? Is it just greed?

01:12:13Is it just greed?

01:12:15Is it just greed?

01:12:17Somebody wrote, um,

01:12:19I had lunch with my dad today. He sold

01:12:21his full coin in the

01:12:2340s and asked not to talk about

01:12:25Bitcoin again. He put the money up

01:12:27on a real estate deal.

01:12:29He lost half the money because he can't get the

01:12:31correct permits to build on the land and

01:12:33had to sell. But Bitcoin

01:12:35is too risky.

01:12:37Really, really sad.

01:12:39But not as sad as these donations, man.

01:12:41FreeDomain.com

01:12:43slash donate to help out

01:12:45the show. It is the gratefully

01:12:47appreciated.

01:12:51Let's see if anything else came in.

01:12:55Apparently not.

01:12:57All right. Any tips in the app?

01:12:59Any tips in the app? I can't see it too well

01:13:01here, so maybe they're out. Maybe they're out.

01:13:03All right.

01:13:07Talk to a girl has to talk

01:13:09to a judge now. Yeah, maybe.

01:13:11Yeah, maybe.

01:13:17It's Squidcoin.

01:13:19Yes, have some money.

01:13:21Thank you. I appreciate that.

01:13:25Thank you, thank you, thank you.

01:13:27All right.

01:13:29They want to pump. They can sell into. Just greed.

01:13:31People see meme coins pump like

01:13:33100x and want in on it

01:13:35while most people lose a lot of money.

01:13:37Yeah, it's the

01:13:39general thing you say. You know, buy into

01:13:41this coin. People buy the coin.

01:13:43Some of the original people are selling the coin.

01:13:45It looks like the coin is going up in value

01:13:47because they restrict the sale. I'm not saying

01:13:49this is the case with the Hawktour coin, but

01:13:51as far as I understand, it's the general thing.

01:13:53And then eventually, like a Ponzi

01:13:55scheme, it just kind of collapses because

01:13:57it is a manufactured

01:13:59and manipulated

01:14:01market, and then it just kind of collapses.

01:14:03And people aren't told up front.

01:14:05I thought it was going to be a long-term project, but it turns out

01:14:07it's just a pump and dump.

01:14:09Nasty man. Nasty.

01:14:11Just nasty

01:14:13all around.

01:14:15All right. Going once, going twice,

01:14:17my friends. If you have

01:14:19any other last questions, issues, comments, problems,

01:14:21challenges, don't forget

01:14:23callins

01:14:25freedomain.com slash call.

01:14:27You can get your public-private partnership, so to speak.

01:14:29Well, we can do a call-in show.

01:14:31It can be public. We can do a call-in show.

01:14:33It's just you and I talking, and

01:14:35I'm happy to do that.

01:14:37If you have stuff you want to keep off the air

01:14:39and just talk one-on-one,

01:14:41that's totally fine.

01:14:43freedomain.com slash call.

01:14:45You can just put your request in.

01:14:47I'm happy to...

01:14:49Looking well, Steph. You're the best.

01:14:51Well, thank you. Down to 185.

01:14:53185.

01:14:55Look at that. Almost

01:14:57without gel. Almost

01:14:59without gel.

01:15:01Looking forward to the call-ins.

01:15:03Yeah, we've got some good ones coming.

01:15:05I had a call-in with a woman.

01:15:07She was going to confront. She had an

01:15:09ACE of 9, going to go confront her mother.

01:15:11And she's going to call

01:15:13me after, so I'll probably stitch those two together,

01:15:15the before and after. That was really, really

01:15:17something. Thanks for the company, Steph.

01:15:19You're absolutely welcome. I will stop

01:15:21here. Thank you guys so much. Should be back in the

01:15:23studio Sunday, I think. Although

01:15:25I've got to tell you, it's kind of comfy up here

01:15:27despite the tech issue at the beginning of the night.

01:15:29But

01:15:31somebody says, if you guys haven't had

01:15:33a call-in with Steph and you have an issue you want help

01:15:35with, please do call-ins. You won't regret it.

01:15:37Yeah, it's very good

01:15:39value for money, in my humble opinion.

01:15:41So, thanks everyone so much for your

01:15:43time, care, affection, and attention

01:15:45tonight. If you're listening to this

01:15:47later, freedomain.com slash donate.

01:15:49Gladiator 2 review coming

01:15:51soon. It was very interesting.

01:15:53And lots of love from up here, my friends.

01:15:55Have a beautiful night.

01:15:57I'll talk to you soon. Bye.

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