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00:00Well, good morning, everybody.
00:02This is Jan Marlen from Freedomain.
00:04It's time for our social media review.
00:08And this...
00:10I can't believe.
00:12I mean, what an absolutely glorious
00:14and genius
00:16waste of time.
00:18I had no idea
00:20why these people were
00:22showing up on my feed
00:24until...
00:26I just had to start this video.
00:42I can't believe it.
00:52I can't believe it.
00:56Yeah, that's just absolutely
00:58astounding and astonishing.
01:02I don't hugely love the song.
01:04I mean, the whole band is completely
01:06satanic, but
01:08that is something else.
01:10I guess the real challenge is
01:12can you get the song
01:14just from looking
01:16at the names?
01:18But it's amazing. It's also amazing how the brain,
01:20when you read something, the brain will translate it
01:22into what you're hearing.
01:24And that's really something as well.
01:26So I just thought that was just glorious.
01:28Now, for those of you who don't know,
01:30not that you would particularly care,
01:32but I'm a pretty huge fan of escalating humor.
01:34To me, there is no
01:36part of humor, if it works,
01:38that can go too far.
01:40So here we go.
01:42This is your
01:44Zuno game.
01:46I'm not sure why he's got
01:48giraffes.
01:50That's excellent.
01:52You can't go too far. Can you go too far?
01:56You cannot go too far.
01:58Oh my
02:00gosh.
02:02See, now that's something.
02:06I call it the hand cramp.
02:08When you're playing a game where you're supposed to discard your cards,
02:10you end up with too many cards,
02:12and your hand starts cramping. It's painful.
02:14Or the bleated cry
02:16from the Pater Familius
02:18of the environment.
02:20Organizing my cards.
02:22That is
02:24something else. Cheat is a great game,
02:26if you haven't played that, with just regular cards,
02:28but it's fun too.
02:30This
02:32arouses within me
02:34pure Viking memories.
02:36This is where you would
02:40pound meat
02:42with your burly, bearded
02:44buddies before going out
02:46to disassemble the planet and rearrange it
02:48in various ways.
02:50I actually feel a deep yearning for
02:52if, and of course,
02:54naturally I sent this to my wife,
02:56saying Merry Christmas to me.
02:58I have fingers crossed,
03:00but not very much crossed.
03:02I don't know that it would fit with our general decor,
03:04because if you're married
03:06and your wife has great taste,
03:08and of course, how could you complain about her taste?
03:10If you're married, she's married to you,
03:12right, so
03:14you get a little bit on the
03:16female side of the decor.
03:18Nothing wrong with that.
03:20But this would
03:22butch up things
03:24quite a bit.
03:26Yesterday, I just picked up my car
03:28from
03:30the shop,
03:32and the guy had
03:34to lead me through
03:36the tool and repair area
03:38in order to, because it was parked out back
03:40or whatever, right, and I was just like,
03:42oh man, I feel more
03:44manly. My chest hair is growing just coming
03:46back through all these tools.
03:48It's so manly. And then I let out
03:50a rather girly shriek when I noticed
03:52a couple of laptops with massive amounts of
03:54dust all over them. Like, oh no, that's terrible.
03:56So I think I may have just
03:58estrogened this up a little bit, but
04:00doesn't that, oh look at that.
04:02Pound mead.
04:04Make ship go overseas.
04:06Bring back
04:08mead. Anyway,
04:10there you go. There's your Christmas.
04:12Okay, from the slightly less enjoyable
04:14part here.
04:22Yep.
04:24Violence works.
04:26Violence works
04:28at the expense
04:30of trust.
04:32Violence works
04:34at the expense of trust.
04:36Smack.
04:38Violence works at the expense of trust.
04:40Look at that face. That's the bond being broken.
04:42Alright.
04:44Gin and McDonald's playgrounds.
04:46There we go.
04:48That is the saddest little thing.
04:50I like those death
04:52if I could go back in time with my daughter.
04:54Those 1920s playgrounds
04:56that are basically circus dances.
04:58But this is
05:00really sad.
05:02And this is...
05:04Playgrounds.
05:06Women are a little bit more risk-averse.
05:08Except when it comes to dating.
05:10In which case, they seem to have no
05:12amygdala whatsoever.
05:14Playgrounds for men
05:16are like, well, it has to be exciting
05:18enough to...
05:20It has to be exciting enough
05:22that
05:24kids will want to go there and play
05:26because that way they get strong, they exercise,
05:28and they learn how to manage their own risk.
05:30All the at-home kids who are just learning to
05:32manage risk by
05:34playing video games,
05:36well, they're not learning how to manage risk
05:38at all because there are no
05:40particular risks in video games.
05:42You need to learn how to manage physical
05:44risk in order to
05:46have a safe life.
05:48And this stay
05:50home, it's a lot of moms,
05:52some fathers too, but
05:54a little bit more moms just sort of managing
05:56their own anxiety by having their kids inside
05:58and at home. Well, I know where they are. I don't have to worry.
06:00It's like, well, life is not about
06:02you worrying. Life is learning how to
06:04manage risk, which is why you're
06:06getting all of these people. It's very convenient for the
06:08powers that be, of course, that you have
06:10all of these people
06:12in the world who have no idea how to manage
06:14risk.
06:16No idea how to manage risk. It's kind of
06:18interesting to me, and it would be interesting to see
06:20if there's a correlation
06:22between people who understand Bitcoin
06:24and people who got to play outside.
06:26Right?
06:28Because Bitcoin is a way
06:30of managing risk.
06:32And
06:34to me, the analogy is that
06:36staying inside
06:38to manage your risk
06:40is like trusting fiat currency
06:42as a store of value.
06:44Well, it's familiar, seems kind of safe,
06:46it's what I'm used to, but it actually
06:48is extremely, extremely dangerous.
06:50So, yeah, this is
06:52very sad.
06:56A boyfriend says
06:58he will make me split bills
07:00if he's making 300k and I'm making 50k.
07:02Right now, my boyfriend of 10 years...
07:04Oh, God, that's just so sad.
07:06Boyfriend of 10 years. Oh,
07:08wretch. Wretch, wretch,
07:10wretch.
07:12A boyfriend is a job
07:14applicant for marriage.
07:16A boyfriend
07:18is a job applicant for marriage. So, as a hiring
07:20guy, right? I've interviewed like a thousand
07:22people, hired like a hundred people over the course of my
07:24career, and I would say
07:26I only had to fire a couple of
07:28people, so I had like a 95-
07:3097% success rate. Pretty good.
07:32I was pretty good at that stuff.
07:34But
07:36the way that it works
07:38is, or the way it's supposed to work, is
07:40a date is a job application
07:42and dating
07:46is your trial period.
07:48So, the way that it
07:50worked, the way that it works in a lot of
07:52companies, or at least it used to,
07:54is that
07:56you would
07:58be on probation,
08:00right? So, for the first three months,
08:02when I hired people
08:04back in the day, for the first three months
08:06we kind of had an agreement that
08:08if they didn't like the job, they could leave
08:10and if
08:12we didn't like them, for whatever reason,
08:14then we could fire them.
08:16Now, after that, then
08:18things got more formal and so
08:20on, so there was this kind of a, it's called being
08:22on probation. You get this
08:24in universities too, academic probation
08:26and so on. So,
08:28dating is a job interview
08:30and
08:32sorry,
08:34a date is a job interview, dating is
08:36being on probation.
08:38So, this idea that you'd be like,
08:40well, right now, I've been
08:42working for this company for 10 years,
08:44I'm still on probation, they haven't committed
08:46to hiring me permanently.
08:48Oh, that's sad. I mean, where's
08:50your pride, for God's sakes?
08:52Right now, my boyfriend of 10 years makes
08:54115k, I make 47k and bills are split evenly
08:56except for a 37 discount per
08:58week in exchange for one extra hour of house cleaning
09:00on my part. Oh, my God.
09:02Oh, that's so horrifying.
09:04Oh, all
09:06successful relationships,
09:08you throw everything, I mean, all successful
09:10relationships, you throw everything into it
09:12and see what comes back.
09:14And
09:16generosity
09:18is incredibly liberating.
09:20You just have to make sure that you keep an eye
09:22on reciprocity, that's all it comes down to.
09:24So, one girlfriend I
09:26had many years ago had a passion project
09:28and I funded it
09:30and
09:32then
09:34I said, oh, okay, now we've done
09:36your passion project, which I funded,
09:38because it's what you wanted to do for her life.
09:40I'm like, oh, maybe you could
09:42read through one of my novels
09:44and help me out and she just kept hedging
09:46and hedging and I said, well,
09:48I did your passion project, why aren't you helping
09:50me out with my novel? She's like, well, you're just not motivating
09:52me to and I'm like, okay, well,
09:54so then that was it, right?
09:56Generosity is liberation.
09:58So,
10:00I'm a big fan of, you know,
10:02offer to pay, offer to pay and
10:04be generous and be accommodating
10:06and be helpful and then the moment
10:08I found a woman who reciprocated that,
10:10boom, married, baby,
10:1222 years
10:14next month.
10:16It's perfect.
10:18So, this idea that I'm going to give 1%,
10:20see if you give 1% more,
10:22this hedging stuff, nope, no,
10:24be generous, in my humble opinion,
10:26be generous and
10:28it's an investment in security
10:30because if you're generous and then somebody else
10:32is stingy back, you can
10:34move on and you don't
10:36have to get dragged through family court.
10:38So, alright.
10:40So she says, I thought about it
10:42and feel like it would be better for things to be more proportional
10:44so we could live a similar lifestyle.
10:46That's a,
10:48that's a great way of saying
10:50I want to get paid more for having sex.
10:52Women have
10:54so many different words for this.
10:56I've been going to food banks through Ford Rent in Seattle
10:58where he insists on living because it gives him access to a high-paying
11:00job, tech job, and his family and friends are close by.
11:02I have no friends.
11:04My family lives states away. My monthly rent is $1,600
11:06after the $150 a month
11:08discount in exchange for cleaning.
11:10What?
11:12$150. Yeah, okay, sorry, that's right.
11:14Which is financially irresponsible given my income level.
11:16We split the test.
11:18The test of the utilities
11:20right down the middle.
11:24We are already living a different lifestyle.
11:26He spends hundreds of dollars on gym.
11:28Memberships each month, for instance,
11:30which isn't in my budget.
11:32So,
11:34yes, men make more
11:36money. Why?
11:38Why do men make more money?
11:40Why do men
11:42fund families?
11:44Men pay for families.
11:46Why does a man give his wife
11:48and his children the vast
11:50majority of his income?
11:52Because in return,
11:54he gets
11:56a family.
11:58Someone's got to pay access
12:00because kids aren't economically productive.
12:02Child-bearing
12:04women, breastfeeding women,
12:06toddler-raising children are not economically
12:08productive.
12:10The privilege of men.
12:12Why did
12:14women not have bank
12:16accounts in the past?
12:18Well, because
12:20women were
12:22busy having and raising
12:24children and doing the old continuation
12:26of culture that makes life worthwhile.
12:28And also because
12:30women could not be held legally liable
12:32or accountable for
12:34paying the bills of a family. Only a man
12:36could. And this is privilege, right?
12:38This is privilege, boys. This is privilege.
12:40You get to go to war, and 90%
12:42of your income goes to your wife and kids
12:44who don't have to be out there
12:46battling others in the workplace
12:48to earn the filthy lucre required
12:50to continue the species. That's your privilege, boys.
12:52A workhorse
12:54and a soldier privilege.
12:56So, yeah. It's
12:58just really sad.
13:00So, this woman wants
13:02her boyfriend
13:04She wants her boyfriend's money
13:06but isn't producing children.
13:08Well, that's a hack.
13:10That's just pillaging something that nature
13:12set up in terms of man's productivity
13:14and dedication to labor.
13:16She wants the money
13:18but she doesn't
13:20want to give him the children
13:22or have the children with him.
13:24Well, I mean, that's just pathetic
13:26on both of their parts, right?
13:28If this guy's making good money,
13:30go make some babies.
13:32This woman wants
13:34half or more of his income.
13:36She can get 90% of his income
13:38but she's going to have to have kids.
13:40Instead, boyfriend of 10 years
13:42so I assume they're in their 30s, right?
13:44So,
13:46after
13:5015 years in the workplace,
13:52she's making
13:54$47,000.
13:56And she'd rather do that
13:58than have some beautiful babies
14:00which is so sad.
14:02Ah, yes.
14:04When it comes to risk, this is what I mean by risk, right?
14:0680% of all dollars
14:08in the US were created in the last 5 years.
14:10Look at that line!
14:12Look at that line!
14:14If people can't process
14:16that risk, it meant that they were
14:18forced to play indoors.
14:20They never learned
14:22how to assess risk
14:24out there in the real world
14:26which
14:28can be dangerous
14:30but there is no elimination
14:32of danger. If you eliminate
14:34danger in the moment, you increase danger
14:36later on for kids, right?
14:38Of course you want a bell curve of danger.
14:40You don't want too little, you don't want too much
14:42but children have to be able to learn
14:44how to manage
14:46risk and also
14:48injury to others, right?
14:50This is partly what play fighting is all about.
14:52It's learning how to manage your aggression.
14:54You know, like when my friend's son
14:56came in for the play fight,
14:58I'm like, great, let's do it, right?
15:00And then you have to learn how to be aggressive.
15:02This is partly what sports are about too.
15:04This is why you are very aggressive and then shake hands afterwards.
15:06That's a
15:08preparation for mercy
15:10and war which you hope is going to be reciprocal.
15:14But you go in hard
15:16with your play fighting and then every now and then
15:18someone gets injured, someone cries
15:20and you're like, oh, went too far, didn't manage my aggression.
15:22And the
15:24women are all like, oh, this play fighting is so loud.
15:26And it's like, okay, do you really want
15:28men to grow up, boys to grow up into men
15:30with no idea how to handle
15:32their own aggression? That's not good
15:34for society, so
15:36safety now is
15:38danger later.
15:40Danger later,
15:42safety now. And I'm
15:44trying to think, so most of the people I knew
15:46most of the people I knew
15:48who ended up getting into Austrian economics, which is
15:50the gateway drug or the
15:52yellow brick road to Bitcoin, yellow to
15:54orange transition. They
15:56grew up in the wilds, they grew
15:58up in anarchy, they grew up
16:00having to make up their own games, roaming
16:02the neighborhood.
16:04Apparently this, you see this, this is not
16:06risky, but boy, Bitcoin is, right?
16:08So this is the number of dollars printed
16:10and recently this has been Bitcoin's
16:12price, right, this sort of graph.
16:14Alright.
16:16So this
16:18woman, Mary Talley
16:20Bowden, she's a doctor, she says,
16:22I spoke to Dr. John Little today
16:24and we're both seeing a large number of patients who
16:26need but refuse conventional medical treatment
16:28because they've lost all trust in medicine. Without
16:30transparency plus accountability, we have no hope
16:32of restoring trust.
16:34I know, man, I feel for the doctors, right? I mean
16:36these licensing boards for
16:38doctors, which were never demanded
16:40by
16:42patients
16:44or the population as a whole. It was just a
16:46kind of state-run scam
16:48to limit entrance into the workplace
16:50for doctors. So, yeah,
16:52if you didn't follow the particular
16:54recommendations, you got in trouble. Now you can't
16:56apologize or you might get in trouble.
16:58It's a horrible line
17:00or thread that people have to tread
17:02in this kind of stuff.
17:04There may be some transparency.
17:06I mean, obviously the
17:08Pfizer docs are out and
17:10Naomi Wolf and her team of
17:12magic data elves
17:14is pulling the pieces
17:16apart for that in very heroic
17:18and productive ways, but
17:20accountability? No, it's not.
17:22It's not going to happen.
17:24It's not going to happen. All right.
17:26Notorious Bitcoin hater
17:28Nouriel Roubini
17:30is visibly annoyed with Bitcoin price
17:32over 100k. When asked
17:34whether he's rethought his position on Bitcoin,
17:36so what does he say?
17:38It's interesting for me. You've had a big move
17:40in Bitcoin over the last month or so. Had a big move
17:42over the last several years. Have you rethought
17:44the way you think about what's happening here?
17:46Not really.
17:48Okay, so this is interesting.
17:50When people make predictions
17:52and
17:54they get those predictions wrong,
17:56they should
17:58be called out on what
18:00they misinterpreted.
18:02This is a humility thing
18:04too. I mean, I've made
18:06a bunch of predictions over the
18:08years. If I get a prediction
18:10wrong,
18:12then
18:14it is
18:16incumbent upon me not to be caught
18:18out or cornered, but to say
18:20gee, what did I get wrong?
18:22In what way was
18:24my model incorrect?
18:26Right?
18:28And when people
18:30are wrong
18:32and don't admit it,
18:34they're either
18:36vainglorious or there's some
18:38weird legal reason
18:40why they can't
18:42sort of admit fault or whatever, right?
18:44So,
18:46I can't tell you how much my respect for people
18:48falls when I see them
18:50being wrong
18:52about something and then
18:54not saying, well,
18:56you know, I still don't believe in crypto, but
18:58here's what I got wrong, here's what I misunderstood,
19:00here's, you know, blah blah blah, right?
19:02But no. Okay.
19:04People talk about Bitcoin being a
19:06cryptocurrency like the other ones, but they're not really
19:08currencies. Ah, okay, so they're not
19:10really currencies. So then
19:12the question is, it's a fine question,
19:14the question then, if you say
19:16X does not fit into this
19:18conceptual category, right?
19:20A tree is not an animal.
19:22A rock is not a cloud. Okay.
19:24Bitcoin is not a currency.
19:26Well then,
19:28you need to define what a currency is.
19:30And the general way, I don't know what this guy does,
19:32but
19:34in general,
19:36is that a hair transplant?
19:38That's a suspicious hairline.
19:40Anyway, so
19:42what people do is they say, well, Bitcoin
19:44is not a currency, you see. Why? Why is
19:46Bitcoin not a currency? Because, you see, a currency
19:48is that mandated by
19:50the government that's in common use.
19:52That's what a currency is.
19:54Which is like saying, well, education
19:56is government education.
19:58Roads are government roads.
20:00And currency is
20:02that dictated by the government
20:04required to pay your taxes
20:08that is in common use.
20:10It's like, well, of course it's in common use.
20:12It's mandated. It's mandated.
20:14Ah!
20:16So,
20:18anyway, let's see what he has to say.
20:20They're not a unit of account. They're not a scalable
20:22means of payment. They're not a stable store of value.
20:24Ah, stable store of value.
20:26Ah,
20:28they're not a stable store
20:30of value.
20:32So, the fact that Bitcoin
20:34has gone up 99.9%
20:36against gold over the last decade or so,
20:38the fact that it's accumulated over the last 5 to
20:406 years, 99% increase in value
20:42versus real estate, means
20:44it's unstable.
20:46Oh, my God!
20:48Ah, as opposed to
20:50the dollar
20:52losing 98% of its value
20:54since
20:56over the last century or so.
20:58Apparently, that's stable, you see.
21:00A
21:02currency, a fiat currency,
21:04government-decreed,
21:06a fiat currency that is used
21:08to fund war,
21:10that is used to leverage debt
21:12against the next generation and create
21:14hundreds of trillions of dollars,
21:16hundreds of trillions, not billions, trillions of dollars
21:18of unfunded liabilities,
21:20that is stable.
21:22But a currency that increases in value
21:24is not stable.
21:26So, I want you to think of two guys,
21:28Bob and Doug.
21:30Now, Bob, over the last 10 years,
21:32has lost 50% of his health.
21:34Hit points, gone from
21:3620 to 10.
21:38He's down 50% of lung volume.
21:40He's lost one lung, one kidney.
21:42He's lost 50% of his health
21:44over the last 10 years.
21:46Now,
21:48I want you also to look at
21:50a healthy baby that was born
21:5210 years ago, who's now 10 years old,
21:54right?
21:56Incredibly robust health.
21:58Can run like the wind,
22:00can do gymnastics, and so on, right?
22:02So, you've got a guy,
22:04over the last 10 years, he's lost 50% of his health,
22:06and
22:08a baby has
22:10grown like a wildflower, has grown like the wind,
22:12and is incredibly healthy.
22:18So, if you look at these two,
22:20from a biological standpoint,
22:22which one is more stable?
22:24The guy who has lost 50% of his health
22:26is more, quote, stable
22:28than the baby who's grown to the age of 10.
22:30Because,
22:32I mean, if you want to take it 15 years,
22:34that's even better, because then we hit puberty
22:36and all of that, right?
22:38So, 15 years, guy's lost 50% of his health,
22:4015 years,
22:42the baby has gone from being born
22:44to being 6 feet tall,
22:46right?
22:48Whereas the height of the guy who's dying
22:50hasn't really changed at all.
22:52He hasn't fluctuated enormously,
22:54but the baby went from like
22:568 pounds to
22:58160 pounds. That's wildly unstable.
23:00So, the dying guy
23:02is more
23:04stable than the baby
23:06who's grown to near adulthood.
23:08This stability
23:10thing is like,
23:12ah! What can you say?
23:14A single numerator, Bitcoin in the past
23:16went to 17 down, then to 16,
23:18now it's above 100, you could have another
23:2050% correction.
23:22Yeah, they say this thing,
23:24correction is,
23:26correction to me is a very suspect word.
23:28So,
23:30yes,
23:32a currency, or
23:34let's say,
23:36a store of value,
23:38a technology,
23:40an asset, let's say.
23:42So, an asset that goes against
23:44everybody's
23:46general mode of thinking, that challenges
23:48an entire conception
23:50of the way things are,
23:52is going to be unstable.
23:54Any
23:56asset
23:58that rises in value quickly is
24:00going to have some instability,
24:02particularly if it's a giant
24:04unknown like Bitcoin, an unknown for most people.
24:06To understand the value of Bitcoin,
24:08you have to face the horrors of fiat currency
24:10and state control
24:12of money
24:14and interest rates.
24:16It is
24:18shocking, right? And it alienates,
24:20you have to pop out of the matrix, it alienates
24:22you from the general thinkers, and so
24:24on, right? So, of course it's going to be
24:26instability.
24:28Because people also have to live, right?
24:30So when there's a big price
24:32uptick in the past, people would sell.
24:34Because they have to live, and part of the reason
24:36they have to live is they have to pay their taxes, and they have to
24:38pay their bills. And generally that has to be
24:40done in fiat currency because it's an early technology.
24:42So,
24:44it's not correction. A correction is,
24:46well, here's the correct price, it went too
24:48high, and this is just anti-Austrian
24:50economics, which to me is anti-good
24:52economics, right? There is no
24:54correct price for anything.
24:56Price gouging.
24:58It's overinflated.
25:00It's a correction, which is to say
25:02that there is some ideal price for something.
25:04There's no ideal price for something.
25:06Right? How much are you
25:08going to pay for a bottle of water when you're not thirsty?
25:10Zero. How much
25:12will you pay for a bottle of water
25:14in the desert when you're about to die? Well,
25:16everything you have.
25:18So what is the
25:20correct price for a bottle of water? Well, there isn't one.
25:22This idea
25:24that there's some theoretical correct
25:26platonic, it's a platonic correct price
25:28that exists independently
25:30of people's needs and preferences
25:32and demands.
25:34Anyway, so
25:36it's a speculative asset like
25:38stocks, SPACs and others,
25:40which are relatively volatile. Many people are going to it,
25:42but take El Salvador. They force
25:44everyone to use Bitcoin as a legal tender
25:46and less than 1% of all transactions are occurring
25:48in Bitcoin.
25:50So, less than
25:521% of transactions
25:54in El Salvador. Now, I don't
25:56think in El Salvador you can pay your
25:58taxes in Bitcoin,
26:00but that would seem to be
26:02somewhat important. Because if you
26:04have a legal requirement to convert
26:06Bitcoin
26:08cash to fiat for the purpose of
26:10paying taxes and so on,
26:12I don't exactly know.
26:14If the government demands you buy something,
26:16then that which competes with that something
26:18is going to be more volatile and harder
26:20to grow.
26:22I don't think it's going to ever
26:24become a currency, but it's going to be a speculative
26:26asset. One thing the dollar is depreciated against
26:28is Bitcoin. And I think this is where
26:30I would see some separation between what's happening with
26:32mean coins and mean stocks and what is happening with Bitcoin.
26:34There seems to be a preference, there are market participants
26:36who believe that this is a place to be
26:38if you're worried about the depreciation of the US dollar
26:40and a fiscal trajectory of the United States of America.
26:42Do you see a case for it there?
26:44Okay, so the only way
26:46that you can make a case
26:48against Bitcoin
26:50as a hedge against
26:52fiat currency inflation is to say
26:54well, no,
26:56because here's how the debt's going to be
26:58paid off. Here's how the deficit is going
27:00to be narrowed. Here's how the unfunded liabilities
27:02are going to be funded. Right?
27:04The only way is you have to say here's a path forward
27:06for, let's say
27:08the US dollar, right? It could be any currency.
27:10Here's the path forward, here's how it's going to be
27:12saved, right? Okay.
27:14So the only way to save
27:16the US dollar, or any dollar,
27:18is instability.
27:20Right? This is the Ron Paul
27:22spearheaded Elon Musk,
27:24Vivek Ramaswamy, Department of Government
27:26Efficiency. Really just genius marketing
27:28move. It's just astonishing how good
27:30Elon Musk is at these things.
27:32And
27:34so if
27:36they want to cut significant portions
27:38of US spending, right? There's a whole bunch
27:40of mandated things which is very tough to overturn.
27:42But if they want to cut
27:44a bunch of spending,
27:46only 6% of federal workers come into the office
27:48on a regular basis. It's crazy, right?
27:50They have all this real estate, right?
27:52So the only way to save the US dollar
27:54is
27:56through instability.
27:58Right?
28:00The only way to avert a slow
28:02decline is instability.
28:04You have to disrupt
28:06the system, right?
28:08You have to disrupt the system.
28:10If a plane runs out of power, it can glide
28:12for a while, and the only way it's not going to land
28:14hard is if something is disrupted,
28:16something is changed, something refuels
28:18it in midair, right? There's a massive
28:20updraft, or something,
28:22at some point gravity's going to win out
28:24in the long run for sure, right?
28:26Or everyone has to jump out of the plane.
28:28So something has to change
28:30if there's a slow decline.
28:32And that change is going to be,
28:34it's going to cause instability
28:36in the system, right?
28:38So if they cut 10%
28:40of government spending,
28:42then that's going to cause massive instabilities
28:44in the economic
28:46system. So the idea that
28:48a slow decline
28:50is preferable to any instability,
28:52you know, if you've got a cancer
28:54and that cancer's going to kill you,
28:56then you have to take some treatment
28:58or some path or some approach
29:00that's going to destabilize things. Because a slow
29:02decline... Anyway, I think you get it.
29:04Not really, because actually...
29:06Sorry, I apologize for that. That was a little rude.
29:08I think you get it. What I mean is,
29:10I think I'm over-explaining it. Let me sort of be more
29:12clear. It's not that you don't get it. I'm over-explaining it.
29:14Sorry about that. And the
29:16Fed was essentially rising rates
29:18and inflation was higher. Bitcoin was
29:20falling, like in 22, as there was a stock market
29:22correction, and now the stocks are going higher
29:24and the Fed is easing and inflation has fallen
29:26and Bitcoin is going higher again. So, historically
29:28there's not been a hedge against inflation.
29:30So the fact that stocks
29:32are going higher does
29:34not solve the problem of
29:36the US national debt.
29:38What can they do?
29:40Actually, it looks like... You know, even if they
29:42tax 100% of every
29:44billionaire's wealth and assets, they could fund the government
29:46for like a couple of months.
29:48So he's not talking about how the
29:50debt is going to be solved.
29:52And to me, anyone
29:54who's not talking about the national debt
29:56has zero credibility in
29:58economic matters.
30:00They're just telling people
30:02to stay on the Titanic, in my view.
30:04Highly correlated positively with the stocks
30:06and better relative to the equity market.
30:08So it's not a traditional hedge
30:10like gold that is...
30:12Ah, you see, this is...
30:14Oh, what can I say?
30:16You know,
30:18you know, the
30:20Internet is
30:22not the traditional
30:24method of delivering messages, which would be
30:26the Pony Express
30:28or smoke signals, or maybe
30:30even the post office, if that's not
30:32considered too new and too radical.
30:34Oh, my God.
30:36This guy's
30:38wearing glasses. You know, glasses
30:40are not nature's
30:42traditional way of having you
30:44see. It's like, yeah,
30:46okay, I agree.
30:48But you're wearing glasses. A lot of newfangled
30:50new technology. New stuff
30:52is not traditional.
30:54New is different from old.
30:56What has not been here
30:58before was not here before.
31:00Bitcoin
31:02is radically new. Therefore,
31:04it is not traditional. I am very wise.
31:08Periods of time of inflation rising,
31:10or the basement, or worries about the dollarization.
31:12So it's something to me that looks like speculative assets
31:14that is highly correlated with equity.
31:16Hedge against inflation.
31:18You've had a big move in Bitcoin.
31:20I'm not talking about this guy in particular, but
31:22these sort of
31:24smooth-talking financial guys
31:26who say blindingly obvious things.
31:28Bitcoin is not traditional.
31:30It's great.
31:32Oh, Steve Harvey.
31:34Keep your damn
31:36mouth shut.
31:38This is like how to
31:40win in marriage, how to get ahead
31:42in marriage.
31:44Shut up.
31:46Don't say nothing.
31:48It's best don't say nothing.
31:50That way you ain't got to fix it.
31:52What?
31:54Okay, so this is
31:56a happy wife, happy life stuff.
31:58It's so wretched.
32:00Talk about the cucking and emasculation
32:02of any male authority.
32:04And by authority, I don't mean dominance.
32:06I just mean respect, right?
32:08This is absolutely appalling.
32:10Now, of course,
32:12women on the left
32:14in general want female supremacy
32:16because women in general, particularly single women,
32:18vote left.
32:20And we all need authority.
32:22We all need authority.
32:24I have my authority.
32:26I have reason, philosophy, evidence,
32:28feedback from the net.
32:30I have my wonderful wife and daughter
32:32who help keep me on the straight and narrow.
32:34I have my own...
32:36We all need authority, otherwise we're just
32:38untrammeled, narcissistic, dominant will.
32:40So we all need authority.
32:42And one of the reasons why
32:44people on the left like
32:46stripping male authority
32:48is that people will gravitate to an authority.
32:50If they don't have a personal authority in their life,
32:52then they will gravitate to the government
32:54and the government will become their authority.
32:56So,
32:58we as a social species,
33:00we have socialized our conscience, right?
33:02So, you've heard
33:04this a million times in my call-in shows
33:06where someone doesn't know what's going
33:08wrong in their life, but an outside eye
33:10it's just easier to see.
33:12It's just easier to see.
33:14All social creatures
33:16socialize essential operations of consciousness.
33:18It's why we have eyes in the front of our head
33:20because we're supposed to have people watching
33:22our backs, right? So we don't need eyes in the back of our head
33:24because we've socialized that. So we use somebody else's
33:26eyes and substitute for our own.
33:28So,
33:30if you don't have
33:32authority in your life, you will gravitate towards
33:34a state authority, and that's why
33:36the removal of authority
33:38for women, right? And again, I'm not
33:40talking about, it seems kind of pathetic and ridiculous
33:42sorry to hedge the survey, I'm not talking about
33:44anyone being bossy, I'm just talking about
33:46genuine authority, like my wife has
33:48authority in certain
33:50areas of my life. If she says do it, I do it.
33:52Right? She's really
33:54good at these things, she cares about me, so she has
33:56authority in those other areas where I have authority.
33:58So yeah, remove authority,
34:00remove male authority from women's life, they gravitate to
34:02the state.
34:04So he says, how could you possibly be right?
34:06You can't be
34:08right as a man.
34:10Now, Steve Harvey is an incredibly
34:12charismatic, charming,
34:14funny, and brilliant guy.
34:16He's been, I don't know exactly, I think he's been
34:18an actor, but certainly
34:20he's been a talk show host, and he's
34:22very funny at that. He's been
34:24a comedian, and he started from
34:26nothing. Like he was living in his car
34:28or something, like some couple
34:30helped him out early on in his career, so
34:32this is a brilliant guy.
34:34And confident
34:36and witty, and so on.
34:38And he is saying,
34:40you can't survive almost
34:42without bending the knee.
34:44And look at this cackling,
34:46right.
34:48What did you say?
34:50What did you say?
34:52What did you write?
34:54What did you write?
34:56Are you married?
34:58You actually said that?
35:00What did you write?
35:04I mean, sometimes.
35:06What?
35:08Boy, your dumbass ain't on May 15th, I can tell you that right now.
35:10So,
35:12if you contradict
35:14a woman,
35:16you can't be married to her.
35:18Enter the
35:20longhouse, enter ye
35:22the mystery slave school.
35:24And this,
35:26yuck, yuck, yuck, so funny,
35:28you're always right, men are stupid,
35:30you just shut up, and you just bow, and you nod,
35:32and you hand over money, and so on.
35:34This is part of the shit that's absolutely
35:36murdering the birth rate.
35:38Like, no man with an ounce
35:40of
35:42pride or masculinity
35:44would ever
35:46participate in a conversation like this.
35:48Incredibly disrespectful to women.
35:50Oh, women are so fragile, they can't
35:52handle any contradiction. I can't get my
35:54protein. So, it is
35:56just...
35:58Oh my gosh, it's just terrible.
36:00It's just terrible.
36:02This is also part of, you know,
36:04only simps should get married
36:06and have kids. Because if this is how you
36:08portray marriage, no man with an ounce
36:10of pride, masculinity,
36:12testosterone,
36:14or confidence is going to want to put himself in this
36:16situation where he's got to nod,
36:18and bow, and scrape, and bend the knee
36:20to a woman's narcissistic delusions.
36:22It's just to me,
36:24it's... I don't know.
36:26Maybe he'll call him. He'll talk about his mom.
36:30Yeah, women are dying. No one knows.
36:32One story. I saw another one where
36:34a woman died and no one knew for two years. The only reason
36:36they ever found out was because of the smell of the decomposing
36:38body. Yeah.
36:40This, you know, it's a funny thing.
36:42It's a great quote
36:44from Lord of the Rings.
36:46I wish it need not have happened in my time, said Frodo.
36:48So do I, said Gandalf.
36:50And so do all who live to see such times.
36:52But that is not for them to decide.
36:54All we have to decide is what to do with the time
36:56that is given us.
36:58I love these charcoal drawings. Wizard
37:00staff, tall hat,
37:02staring out into the wilderness. Oh,
37:04ancestral memories. I'm really kind of
37:06big on these these days because they seem to be coming
37:08pretty fast and furious, probably in preparation
37:10for the wrenching changes that are coming.
37:12I read my novel, The Present.
37:14It's really, really important. But
37:18to wander the wilderness in pursuit of a
37:20virtuous objective. Well, I guess that's what I'm doing right now.
37:24This is really, really good.
37:26What happened to men pursuing girls? When was
37:28the pivotal moment that a man chose to not go after a girl
37:30anymore or put in any effort? How about when a woman called a man
37:32weak for opening her car door? Or the time that
37:34men pursued women on dating apps and him
37:36saying, hey, how are you, wasn't good enough?
37:38How about the pivotal moment when a man is looking
37:40out into the open and happens to glance
37:42in a woman's direction and somehow he is
37:44undressing her with his eyes?
37:46Yeah, so for a lot of men,
37:48women want
37:50to be attractive and repel men,
37:52like young women, right, in general. They want to be
37:54attractive enough to draw men
37:56to them, but they also want to reject most
37:58of the men because they want to sift and go for the
38:00highest status male as a whole
38:02that they can.
38:04And
38:06women
38:08have also,
38:10and this was, you know, Kevin
38:12Samuels got given work and mission in a way,
38:14was to say to women, okay,
38:16so if you want the top 5% of men,
38:18what do the top 5% of men want and are you
38:20providing it? He used to get
38:22quite mad at
38:24the black women, or the black women female
38:26community, saying like, we told you guys,
38:28we want you to be slender, we don't want
38:30this fake eyelashes, we don't want
38:32all of this fake hair, we don't want any of the stuff,
38:34and you all keep doing it, right?
38:36And so
38:38women being told that they are the prize
38:40and they don't need to participate
38:42turns them into kind of entitled
38:44monsters
38:46that the man has to do
38:48all of these acrobatics for, and in return
38:50they just have to exist.
38:52Right?
38:54I mean, when the women say,
38:56oh, the reason why
38:58you have to pay for the date is I have to spend all this
39:00money on makeup. It's like,
39:02but I
39:04I don't
39:06I've never
39:08met a man who says
39:10that he wants
39:12to spend the rest
39:14of his life waiting for a woman to put her makeup on.
39:16Right? I mean, this woman
39:18doesn't seem to have much of any
39:20makeup on, maybe a bit of
39:22eyeshadow, but
39:24makeup is not
39:26for the man.
39:28Makeup, it may be sort of
39:30on the filters
39:32to attract a man, but a woman
39:34in general
39:36is putting makeup
39:38on because she wants to feel pretty, it's going to increase her
39:40confidence, but the man
39:42is not dying
39:44for the woman to have ridiculous
39:46amounts of makeup on. Maybe if he's a more shallow guy
39:48and he wants
39:50the
39:52woman to look
39:54good and maybe raises his status, but that's
39:56not a guy who's going to settle down or anything like that.
39:58So, you know,
40:00I just have to look good and
40:02work and all of that, and then you have to do everything else.
40:04That's, I mean,
40:06a man will have sex with a woman like that,
40:08but he's not going to merge his
40:10household lineage with her because she's going to have to
40:12do work, right?
40:14I mean, my wife and I are both pretty,
40:16actually very hard workers,
40:18and the idea that
40:20you're just going to buy some ornament who's going to do
40:22makeup and consume your capital
40:24and not want to have kids, because if
40:26she looks obsessed, then her
40:28looks will be interfered with by kids,
40:30so it is a mating display
40:32only for sexuality, not for reproduction.
40:34How about the moment when women
40:36considered everything the bare minimum and nothing is ever
40:38good enough? Or what about the pivotal moment where men
40:40have to fix everything in a relationship to make it work
40:42and women have to simply exist? Or how about the
40:44time there was a study done that said 80% of women
40:46find men unattractive, so why would they try anymore?
40:48Or the pivotal moment where men can be
40:50accused of S.A. or grave at any given moment
40:52by accident just because a woman is
40:54pissed off because she was rejected? Or what about the pivotal
40:56moment that women have constantly told men
40:58that they're so undesirable that they would rather pick a
41:00bear over a human being? Yeah, I mean,
41:02it's a supply and demand thing. Women can treat men
41:04with contempt, and then men won't
41:06approach women.
41:08It's really not that complicated
41:10if women treat men
41:12with contempt
41:14as a whole, and if that's the general
41:16movement, and of course, you know, there are crazy
41:18people, I mean, do crazy people dominate
41:20the conversation, right? That's the foundational
41:22aspect of society, right? Do crazy people
41:24dominate the conversation? If crazy people
41:26dominate the conversation, then what
41:28happens is men
41:30look at women, they see sort of crazy
41:32extremist man-haters dominating the
41:34conversation, and other women not saying
41:36much, then what men
41:38are going to assume is that the crazy
41:40extremists speak for women as a whole.
41:42Right?
41:46I mean, that's how
41:48society works, right? Now,
41:50if crazy extremists say stuff,
41:52and
41:56women sort of rise
41:58en masse and say, oh, that's not what I
42:00believe, that's crazy, can't believe it, you know,
42:02they act against it, well, that's fine, right?
42:04So, if, you know,
42:06Daniel Penney in New York,
42:08I think he just had his manslaughter charge
42:10removed by the judge, it's not
42:12exactly the best outcome,
42:14so the fact that
42:16a man who worked to protect mostly
42:18women, and really put
42:20himself at risk to
42:22protect women
42:24in the subway is being charged
42:26of the fact that women aren't out there protesting
42:28what men perceive, rightly or wrongly,
42:30what men perceive is that women
42:32agree that men should not protect them.
42:34Women agree with
42:36Daniel Penney being charged
42:38because women don't want men
42:40to protect them.
42:42Okay, so we listen to that.
42:44If
42:46a large
42:48group
42:50does not
42:52strongly counter
42:54extremist sentiments coming from within that group,
42:56in general,
42:58outsiders will perceive
43:00that there's agreement with those
43:02sentiments, right?
43:04So, if
43:06women as a whole say
43:08we don't need men,
43:10right,
43:12sorry, if extremists say
43:14we don't need men, and women as a whole
43:16don't contradict or counteract that,
43:18then men will simply
43:20assume that the majority of women agree with that
43:22because they're not countersignaling it, right?
43:24So,
43:26anyway.
43:28Or how about the pivotal moment that every
43:30single man that ever chased a woman was considered a simp
43:32and women simply didn't respect them or want to be with them
43:34because they're chasing and they're trying too hard?
43:36What about the pivotal moment when the nice guy gets left
43:38because he's not toxic enough?
43:40What about the pivotal moment where men can't even simply be respectful
43:42without it being considered creepy or too friendly?
43:44Or what about the time that women decided that not even
43:46Cheesecake Factory was good enough for a first date
43:48and that they didn't want to get to know men for who they are,
43:50they wanted to know how much money they made and their status?
43:52I don't know about you, but that doesn't sound worth chasing.
43:54What happened to men pursuing?
43:56Pearl Davis throwing the
43:58estrogen bombs
44:00in the calm lakes of female avoidance.
44:02Why is it hard for women to accept that
44:04we don't stay young and hot forever?
44:06It's super weird to see women 40 plus trying to prove they still got it.
44:08Just take the L.
44:10But it's not a loss.
44:12I mean, it's not a loss to age.
44:14I mean, the loss is to not age, right?
44:16But yes, it is.
44:18I mean, of course, women want to stay attractive, men want to stay attractive,
44:20but, you know, I was talking about this,
44:22like, I remember on a show I did, like, I don't know,
44:2412 or 13 years ago, I showed a picture
44:26of my teenage self and a picture of me now,
44:28and I'm like, yeah, that's not the same.
44:30One of these things is not the same.
44:32Of course, the goal is to gain in wisdom and virtue
44:34and love and happiness and all of that,
44:36which is the compensation for
44:38some of the loss of youthful vitality
44:40and energy to gain in wisdom
44:42and lose in constitution in the D&D way.
44:44It's a good trade-off.
44:46I mean, it's really the only trade-off you get.
44:48All right, no dating.
44:50Oh, yeah, I talked about this in the show.
44:54Why
44:58people bought the blowjob coin
45:00is utterly beyond me, but
45:02I'm sort of out of this kind of stuff
45:04as a whole.
45:06I don't know why this woman is oiled like a
45:08P. Diddy bidet,
45:10but it says, at some point,
45:12babes, she says, we have to stop being delusional
45:14and recognize that our taste in men
45:16is utterly disgusting.
45:18Like, what do you mean a guy who literally doesn't care
45:20if I exist gives me butterflies,
45:22but the guy who shows up at my doorstep with flowers
45:24gives me the ick?
45:26Yeah.
45:28Well, liberated from the need to provide,
45:30women can choose sexiness
45:32and danger over virtue
45:34and consistency.
45:36Zoopy,
45:38a really great guy on X,
45:40says, how do the people
45:42who disowned
45:44family members and destroyed their relationships
45:46over the jab feel now? Do they even feel?
45:48Yeah, I was reading about how
45:50the vaccine seems to have
45:52some effect on personality structure
45:54and so on, right? Because I think it crosses the blood-brain
45:56barrier and does all kinds of funky stuff in the upstairs.
46:00Oh, yeah, this is tough, man.
46:02So what's the plan to make people want to have children again?
46:044K a month mortgage to get a starter home
46:06with both parents working full-time
46:08to avoid two cars and bills
46:10while daycare costs $1,500 plus a month
46:12per child. Neighbors no longer help each other
46:14and families live far apart
46:16and even if they're close, everyone is
46:18working full-time. Schools get out at 2.30
46:20and corporations want everyone back in the office until 5 every day.
46:22One day at an amusement park
46:24for four costs $500. Call me crazy,
46:26but it just doesn't sound that appealing
46:28if I was young again.
46:30Well, so you have to stop being the conveyor belts
46:32of paid entertainment for your children.
46:34We have to go back to basics
46:36which is connection,
46:38storytelling.
46:40My daughter and I
46:42did like seven years
46:44of a story
46:46that we sort of participated in
46:48and so on and we called it role-playing.
46:50And so if I would
46:52say to my daughter,
46:54do you want to go to an amusement park
46:56or do you want to role-play? She'd be like,
46:58role-play. And it was free
47:00and it was great fun. You just have to get
47:02minimalist. You just have to.
47:04You can't have as much as your parents had.
47:06It's just a fact.
47:08If you're going to compare yourself to the wealthiest
47:10generation in human history
47:12who lost control of the state due to
47:14vanity and avoidance, then
47:16you're just
47:18in a losing game. You're going to have to go
47:20back to living in an apartment.
47:22You're going to have to go back to
47:24eating out less
47:26and the way that I was raised.
47:28Anyway, it's fine.
47:30So this is very interesting
47:32because what is the big argument against
47:34Bitcoin? Oh my God, what if the
47:36entire internet goes down?
47:38So the internet
47:40has gone orbital,
47:42which means that
47:44Bitcoin is in space.
47:46It's really, really important. So Elon Musk says
47:48even if an entire region or country
47:50lost connectivity because of a severe natural
47:52disaster, even if all the
47:54towers are taken out, your phone will still work.
47:56So
47:58Orange is in orbit.
48:00Bitcoin
48:02has left
48:04this mortal realm and ascended to the heavens
48:06which means that the internet
48:08cannot be killed. So even if you just
48:10have solar charges,
48:12everything goes out. You still got solar charges
48:14for your phone.
48:16You can charge it up that way.
48:18You can
48:20still do Bitcoin.
48:22It's massive.
48:24Oh yeah, the shooter
48:26thing. I don't know about that, man.
48:28Alright, so
48:30I think, oh yeah, a study finds high blood sugar
48:32in healthy adults linked to lower brain activity.
48:34Very
48:36interesting. High blood sugar may
48:38impair brain health even in people without diabetes.
48:40So
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48:48intergalactically
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