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In this episode, I address listener questions about "defooing" and distancing from unhealthy family dynamics, emphasizing the importance of maintaining a non-victim mindset. We explore the "childlike voice" in women and its implications in gender dynamics and politics, as well as the competitive nature of war and its societal narratives. I share insights on peacemaking, the balance between compassion and honesty, and guiding principles for establishing healthy boundaries in relationships. We briefly discuss cryptocurrency trends in relation to recent political events, concluding with a call for listeners to embrace their personal narratives and the transformative power of vulnerability.

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Transcript
00:00:00Good morning everybody, Stefan Molyneux from Freedomain. I have come back from church.
00:00:07This is the 2nd of March, 2025, and thank you for dropping by, thank you for giving
00:00:13me the room to go and make a joyful sound, and I was talking about it in the pre-show,
00:00:20so maybe I'll do another show on it, but I really do appreciate everyone coming by a
00:00:27little bit later in the day, it's 1pm, so let's get straight to it. Question.
00:00:34Hi Stef, after you defood, did you feel scared if you had only a small amount of people in
00:00:40your life? How can you prevent yourself from getting into the victim mindset of feeling
00:00:44bad for yourself that you have so much work and reparenting slash learning to do as you
00:00:49were never taught or loved properly by your parents?
00:00:54Well, that is a lot of questions right there. That is a lot of questions. I'm not sure why,
00:01:06I don't know why people jam so much. That's a 10 show series, right? So, could you do
00:01:13me a favor, because you've got 2 or 3 giant questions in there. Pick one, and I'll attempt
00:01:19to answer it, but I'm not going to try and attempt to do justice to such a complex set
00:01:23of questions. You're going to have to pick one. Sorry. So, I mean, you don't order at
00:01:30a restaurant by the page, right? I'll take page one, right? So you've got to pick a dish.
00:01:35Pick a dish. Hi Stef, could you please remind me of the word that is used for women who
00:01:43intentionally use a high-pitched voice to manipulate men and people in general? I don't
00:01:48know if there's a word for that. Childlike? But yeah, it's definitely a thing. Alexandria
00:01:55Ocasio-Cortez does it all the time. She has the cutie doll baby girl voice. The Betty
00:02:02Boop voice. She does it all the time. And it is, of course, designed to disarm men.
00:02:08And you know, I mean, it's funny because if people haven't been around masculine men,
00:02:15if they've only been around sort of effeminate men, they feel that masculinity is mean, right?
00:02:23It's the Kevin Samuels thing, right? He's just being blunt and honest. I try to be blunt
00:02:27and honest. I think I have a little bit more sympathy than Mr. KS. But when people have
00:02:35not been around masculine directness, then it feels like they're being oppressed. It
00:02:41feels like this. It's toxic. Toxic masculinity is just masculinity. Thank you, Chris. I appreciate
00:02:47that. Hit me with a why. I'll put the why in. Would you like me to talk about the true
00:02:53purpose of war? What war is for? Why there is war? We can see this, of course, happening
00:03:05in real time at the moment. Do you know what the real purpose of war is? Okay, good. Right.
00:03:15Former Marine. Okay. So I will tell you the purpose of war and why it exists. And really
00:03:29we're talking about not necessarily evolutionary war, but war as it exists in the world that
00:03:37is, certainly in the post-Second World War world. So the purpose of war is for the left
00:03:47wing to kill off the right wing by making the right wing fight each other while under
00:03:52the control of the left wing. Or to put it another way, for more effeminate men to kill
00:03:58off their primary competitors, which is the more masculine men, by provoking the masculine
00:04:03men to fight each other. It is a battle, intrasexual battle. That is what is going on. So Marco
00:04:16Rubio was on Caitlyn, I can't remember her name, some CNN woman. I just called her Alice.
00:04:24I can't remember her name, but she absolutely gives me the creeps and willies. And Marco
00:04:30Rubio was talking about how he's trying to create this peace deal, like he and Trump
00:04:34are trying to create this peace deal, and Zelensky kind of torpedoed it. And the CNN
00:04:42woman was like, well, didn't you call Putin a dictator? And didn't you do this? And she's
00:04:46just provoking, right? And the way that it came across to me is there's a couple, they're
00:04:54upset with each other. The woman comes over to her best friend's house, and they're like,
00:05:04oh, I really want to work it out with him. We've got kids, we loved each other for a
00:05:11long time, we're having some problems. And she's like, well, didn't he do this? And didn't
00:05:14you call him an asshole? And didn't this just wedge, wedge, wedge, wedge, right? Just driving
00:05:18the wedge and escalating, right? Honor is a concept generally invented by people with
00:05:27no honor in order to manipulate masculine men. I'm not saying there's no such thing
00:05:33as honor, I'm just saying in general, right? So the typical thing which you'll see, and
00:05:39you'll see this all over the place in social media, I don't know if you knew this, but
00:05:41Ukraine has a foreign legion, like you can go and join. You don't have to be from Ukraine,
00:05:45you don't even have to speak Ukrainian, you can go and join the war, right? So if you
00:05:48care a lot about the war, then you would go and fight, right? If you feel it's so important,
00:05:54right? Or maybe you'd try and send your family members or something like that. If you're
00:05:58too old, although I think it's like 20 to 60, you can sign up to fight. So all of the
00:06:04people who are talking about the war, promoting the war, provoking the war, and so on, are
00:06:15not fighting themselves, but they want other people to fight. Now, we know, just in terms
00:06:20of evolution, that similar gene sets protect each other, whereas competing gene sets attack
00:06:28each other, right? So subspecies rarely inhabit the same geographical location for long without
00:06:35one of them displacing the other, right? So the red squirrel, when I was a kid, there
00:06:39were gray squirrels in England, and there was rare red squirrels. And if you saw a red
00:06:42squirrel, that was kind of cool. And the reason was, of course, that the gray squirrels
00:06:48moved in and they displaced or pushed out the gray squirrels. So animals that are in
00:06:56competition will often attack the eggs or attack the young and so on, but they don't
00:07:00attack their own young because their own young are closely genetically related, whereas competing
00:07:05genetics attack each other, right? Whereas when you have a single family, they don't
00:07:11attack their young, usually, right? So if we just look at it this way, we know that
00:07:18those engaged in competition for the same resources attack each other. Now, of course,
00:07:25the resources that are in question in society are, of course, the material resources, you
00:07:30know, the land, the food, the housing, whatever, right? And, of course, also the women, right?
00:07:37Now the feminine men have a tough time because the masculine men are pretty dominant, and
00:07:43the masculine men can kick their ass, and the masculine men will push them around, take
00:07:48their lunch money, and take their women, right? So what do the feminine men do? Well, the
00:07:59low T, high T, whatever you want to call it, the verbal skills versus the practical skills,
00:08:04what do they do? Well, they have a problem. They can't compete in terms of fighting and
00:08:11practicality and usefulness. They can't compete with the high T or the masculine men. So what
00:08:19do they do? Well, they invent this concept called honor, and to some degree, patriotism.
00:08:24And I'm not saying that honor and patriotism aren't real values. It's just that the people
00:08:28who invent them don't follow them. In other words, if you really cared about the war in
00:08:33Ukraine, you would go fight. Or at the very least, if you cared about the funding of the
00:08:41war in Ukraine, you and all of your friends would send $1,000 to Zelensky, and you would
00:08:47cover his war bills for a while. So the low T men invent rules of morality and respect and
00:09:03honor and so on that they themselves don't follow. And they inflict that on the high T men,
00:09:09and then they provoke conflicts among the high T men, so the high T men kill each other and thus
00:09:13leave more resources available for the low T men. And of course, you'll notice that the people
00:09:22provoking the war are not the people fighting the war. And this is sort of what I'm talking about,
00:09:27right? So Republicans are generally more practical, often more kind, less manipulative,
00:09:37more direct, higher physical skills, and certainly much more in the military.
00:09:45So from stats that I've read, about 6% of those in the military are Democrats,
00:09:55about 6%. A lot of independents, a lot of Republicans, as you can imagine. And I would
00:09:59imagine that those 6% of people in the military who are Democrats are likely pencil pushers or
00:10:06women, right? Because women tend to skew higher Democrat. So there is effectively
00:10:18zero Democrats in the military. And certainly, I would imagine on the front lines,
00:10:23fighting and shooting and so on, right? So when the Democrats, as they do in the media,
00:10:27when they provoke and exacerbate wars, what they're doing is they are eliminating the competition.
00:10:34And certainly, in a political stance, since those in the South and those in the military
00:10:38tend to vote Republican, they are eliminating voters, right, by sort of provoking these wars.
00:10:46Now, the question then is, and a lot of people have this great mystery, right? The great mystery
00:10:52is, well, gee, why was the left so anti-war in the past? And now they seem to be so pro-war now.
00:10:58I mean, there's a number of factors they are fighting. Russia tends to be more Christian
00:11:05and conservative and nationalistic and so on. And so when America was fighting left-wing
00:11:12organizations, then the left tends to be anti-war, right? I mean, you can read all of this.
00:11:22The Pinochet versus Allende. Allende was a socialist-slash-communist who was about to
00:11:27take over in Chile and then the famous helicopter things. So you've got these endless books
00:11:32about how awful Pinochet was and how noble and wonderful and lovely Allende, I think his name
00:11:41was, because he was left-wing and Pinochet was right-wing. So they hate that dictatorship,
00:11:48when you were fighting against the Vietnamese, the Vietnamese were communists, the North Vietnamese,
00:11:52or at least the soldiers were, or at least the leadership was, and each a soldier.
00:11:55So that was bad. Same thing with Korea. But the biggest difference, of course, was the draft.
00:12:02So when you had a draft, I mean, of course, a lot more left-wingers would hide out in
00:12:08universities or flee to Canada or some other place, right? But when you had a draft,
00:12:14then you had a much higher proportion of low-T or weak or leftist men in the military,
00:12:21and therefore they were anti-war because it was capturing a wider net of people, which
00:12:26eliminated friends as well as enemies. But now that the war, it's largely voluntary. I mean,
00:12:33it's not voluntary in terms of the taxpayers who fund it and all of that, but conscription is not
00:12:37a thing. The draft is not a thing. So now if you get two armies fighting each other,
00:12:45you are going to be mostly eliminating high-T right-wing men, which if you're a low-T left-wing
00:12:53man and you're amoral, then that's a way of eliminating your competition for social resources
00:13:00and women and political power and so on. So, yeah, I just wanted to mention that.
00:13:13True though leftists are typically less physically capable and so would be more likely to fail
00:13:20to qualify for the draft, at least until the more able-bodied were killed. I don't think you can get
00:13:25out of the draft just by being kind of short and weak. I think you have to have more than that.
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00:14:02I think the draft was random too, so leftists also got sent to fight. Yeah, for sure. Right,
00:14:06so they were drafted to send to fight against people a lot of them ideologically agreed with,
00:14:11i.e. communists, right? Or another way of arguing it is to look and then say the war in which the
00:14:21most high-T men are both fighting. I think Asians have a little bit lower T than say whites,
00:14:28and I think whites have lower T than blacks. So, when more high-T people are fighting,
00:14:38it tends to be approved of. You are quite effeminate yourself, probably because you
00:14:49grew up with a single mother. Yeah, I don't, that's not true. I mean, that's good trolling,
00:14:52but this guy has been a troll here before. It's pretty funny. It's pretty funny.
00:14:59I've had my blood work done. All right. Okay, so let's get back to a question.
00:15:06With regards to de-fooing, how did you explain to your daughter why you de-fooed without burdening
00:15:10her with the details of the abuse you suffered? In other words, how do you gauge how much you
00:15:14should share with your own child? Well, I mean, I'm not sure why I would need to detail
00:15:19the abuses that I suffered, because she trusts me, right? So, if I say, well, I was treated badly,
00:15:26and I tried to fix it, right? Because I treat her well, and she sees me and my wife get along
00:15:33very well, and all of that. So, I don't need the detail. I don't need to justify it, because she
00:15:36trusts me, right? The big glasses that go with the high-pitched voice. Yeah, for sure.
00:15:47Somebody says, my Catholic priest during mass stood at the foot of a four-meter
00:15:51Christ statue and apologized to the Muslims for the Crusades. I never went back. Oh yeah,
00:15:55you should watch my, you can get this at FDRpodcast.com. You should watch my show,
00:15:59The Truth About the Crusades. Really, really important. I mean, it's so misunderstood. Well,
00:16:04it's just lied about, right? All right. So, this is the lady who had big questions.
00:16:10How can you prevent yourself from feeling despair slash hopelessness, or in a victim mindset,
00:16:14post-defeat regarding all the self-work we need to do, and instead feel optimistic?
00:16:21I'm not, why would, I mean, if you escape from captivity, right? Or you break out of,
00:16:28like you're unjustly imprisoned and you break out of jail and you're free,
00:16:32why would you feel despair? I mean, I'm not sure. I'm happy to be corrected on this. I'm not sure
00:16:38why that would be the default position, right? I was unjustly imprisoned. I managed to sneak out
00:16:48or break out of prison. I'm free. I can't get caught. I mean, let's just say I go to some
00:16:54other country, no extradition treaty, whatever. I'm free. Why would I not celebrate? Why would
00:16:59the default position be despair or hopeless? I mean, why would I feel that if I've gotten out
00:17:07of an unjust situation, right? So, I'm not sure I follow why that would be the default
00:17:16emotional position. If you're feeling despair and hopeless, that's one thing. But saying it's
00:17:20a default position, you know, like how do you deal with pain when you have a really bad back?
00:17:25It's like, well, having a really bad back hurts, I guess. So, that's the default position. But I
00:17:29don't know why despair or hopelessness, when I've gotten out of an abusive relationship,
00:17:34I'm not sure why hopelessness. Oh, so all the self-work we need to do. Yeah, I get that. I get
00:17:42that. But at this point in my life, this doesn't justify anything. But honestly, I'm just telling
00:17:48you how I feel. It's just a perspective that I have. At this point in my life, and really for
00:17:57the past 20 years, was I better off or am I better off because I had a bad childhood or would I have
00:18:05been better off if I'd had a normal average childhood? Or let's put it another way. Is the
00:18:12world better off because I had a bad childhood or would the world have been better off if I had
00:18:19a normal average childhood? I mean, I can tell you I'm better off for having had a bad childhood.
00:18:28I'm going to tell you that straight up. And I think the world, I mean, I just did a show on
00:18:38Friday and somebody was like, how this conversation, this philosophy, what we talk about
00:18:42here, saved his life, absolutely saved his life. And of course, I know that millions of children
00:18:47are not being hit because of what I've done over the years. I have a great relationship with my
00:18:54daughter, a wonderfully happy marriage and all this kind of good stuff. So I'm better off having
00:18:59had a bad childhood than if I would have had an average childhood, a normal childhood, because
00:19:04I actually knew for many years, the people I grew up with, some of them had these normal average
00:19:09childhoods and they didn't really achieve much, if any good in the world at all. And they don't
00:19:14seem to have very good relationships. And so I'm better off having had a bad childhood.
00:19:22Now, I know like when you're just going through it and you're just waking up to it, that's a lot
00:19:26to ask. So I'm just telling you this is after the smoke has cleared and all of that kind of
00:19:30perspective, but I'm better off. I don't sit there and say I'm so thankful for the bad childhood,
00:19:36but I do recognize that I'm almost infinitely better off because of that. And I think the
00:19:43world is much better off as well because of that. All right. DJ Big Chatty Forehead. Ah,
00:19:53occasionally. Do you generally align with the Bitcoin maxi ethos? I don't know what that means
00:19:59really. Was the going to church metaphoric or brick and mortar? Yeah. No, I went to a brick
00:20:04and mortar church. I dressed up and listened to the priest. I bet you couldn't last in the army.
00:20:15Yeah. I mean, this is the funny, this is the funny troll. I mean, he's learned nothing and
00:20:18all of that. I mean, I did, I've done a lot of manual labor, a lot of hard manual labor.
00:20:24You know, I, I humped giant drill bits through the frozen tundra, used flame throwers to cut
00:20:28through the permafrost. And you know, if you want to watch my documentary, just by the by,
00:20:32if you want to watch my documentary on Hong Kong, I marched straight into cannons, firing tear gas,
00:20:38got tear gassed, went back. Right. So I think I certainly got the physical strength and endurance.
00:20:42I've done the manual labor and I've walked into quote fire, right? Obviously it's just tear gas,
00:20:48although there's could have hit my face or eye. So, I mean, I'm comfortable with that.
00:20:53I mean, if it was a good army, I don't think I would go very well in the current army. All right.
00:21:01All right. So, Lenski is five foot five.
00:21:10Ah, somebody says from D live under, uh, I love this talk. Would Democrats rig drafts like they
00:21:16rig elections to recruit more Republicans and have them eliminated on the battlefield?
00:21:21Well, they do rig drafts, right? And so the way that you rig the draft is you say, well,
00:21:25if you're in university, right? If you're in university, if you come from wealth,
00:21:30you're often more likely to be on the left because you don't have any sense of sort of
00:21:35base reality. I mean, one of the reasons that I ended up not on the left was because
00:21:39paid my own bill since I was 15. So math and property rights is pretty, pretty important.
00:21:44So they do rig it by saying, if you're in university, then you don't have to be drafted,
00:21:53right? Because, uh, wealthier people, people who are more skilled often in the intellectual arts
00:21:58of, um, sophistry and so on, they can get into university and so on. Right. So
00:22:05I was being genuine. You call being genuine, trawling.
00:22:08Somebody says, you're an asshole. That's kind of rude. No, man. I was just being genuine.
00:22:12Oh, it's so girly. It's so girly. Oh, there's so girly jab, jab, jab. Hey, man, I'm just making a
00:22:20joke. You're a feminine. That's kind of trolley. Oh man. I'm just being genuine. It's so girly. Oh,
00:22:28projection, projection, projection. All right. Um, let's see. I'm just being genuine.
00:22:38I've not read much of Hoppy's work. He was post banking, I think.
00:22:48I believe your bad childhood made you the man you are today. Would we get the same
00:22:52stuff if you had a great childhood? No, no, for sure. I don't know. I obviously can't theorize
00:22:58what it would have been, but it sure as heck wouldn't be what it is without a doubt.
00:23:03The world is better off. My cousin and I talk about this type of thing
00:23:07often. We and our kids are better off having a bad childhood and we wouldn't change it.
00:23:14No, I can't get to the end there because if I say, well, gee, I'm a better man
00:23:21having a terrible childhood, then if I want my daughter to be a better person,
00:23:25wouldn't I do terrible things as a father? No. So, um, yes, I would change it.
00:23:31But it is quite scary not having a large support network and figuring
00:23:36the world out mostly alone. What is a large support network?
00:23:43Are these people codependent people who prop you up? I don't know what a large support network is.
00:23:47People who agree with you, people who give you endless sympathy no matter what you do. I don't
00:23:51know what a large support network is, but that seems, no, the trolls are not on rumble.
00:23:56Oh, car issues, computer issues, etc. bring so much anxiety because before defooing my family
00:24:02would help me. Well, I mean, get a boyfriend, right? Get a boyfriend and your boyfriend will
00:24:08help you with car issues and computer issues, right?
00:24:15All right. I went to a social meetup of men Friday night who think differently and we all
00:24:20had a discussion about what we thought was most controversial. And I was like,
00:24:24what we thought was most controversial. There was one leftist there who was mostly
00:24:28decent and didn't freak out. So that was interesting. Maybe he'll convert to full
00:24:31rationality. No, but if there's only one leftist there, he's going to conform,
00:24:35right? They conform until they get the majority and then they're, they're bullies, right? Like,
00:24:39you know how the left was into free speech until they controlled the institutions and the media
00:24:43and now they're into censorship, right? I'm eating chips now, but I have a Q question in 10 minutes.
00:24:54That's a, that's good. Sorry. It's a bit of a female that might be a female, but it's,
00:24:57it's just a little bit of a female thing, right? I'll be there in 10 minutes. I'm doing this. I'm
00:25:02going to do my hair. Just keeping you, calling you effeminate, isn't it? Calling you effeminate,
00:25:07isn't it? Insult. Oh, that's sad, man. Good Lord. Relentless, right? It's just, he's got that,
00:25:14that brain of just like cowardly insults. All right. I'm sorry. Am I the only one who thinks
00:25:20deaf going to church is a new thing? Did I miss a show or something explaining this new journey?
00:25:24I don't know. Did you miss a show? I don't know. All right. I don't think, oh, James says,
00:25:30I don't think I'd come close to doing the good I've done had I had a less terrible childhood.
00:25:34Yeah, I think so. All right. When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy. All
00:25:48right. When I left my family, I had issues with my income. I'm sorry. I had issues, but my income
00:25:53doubled, now almost tripling soon, since I have some more confidence in whatever habits that
00:25:58brought bad people to me or good people to treat me badly is almost gone. Put on the full armor of
00:26:05God, right? That's the way it works. When you don't have bad people in your life, you are almost
00:26:12magically shielded from bad people coming into your life. I can't honestly, I can't remember. I
00:26:18can't honestly remember the last time I had an infiltration, like some bad person trying to get
00:26:22into my life. So yeah, it's just a funny thing. I mean, defooing is leaving, if your parents are
00:26:32sort of relentlessly corrupt, or your family of origin is relentlessly corrupt, defooing is leaving
00:26:37the entire trash planet. It's like break in orbit and exploring the universe. It's not just
00:26:42about your family. When you don't put up with bad people, bad people sense that and stay away.
00:26:48It's not so much about separating from the past. It is about shielding yourself in the future.
00:26:59But I need to heal post defoo before entering a relationship, and that could take a long while.
00:27:03Okay, so you are a female, right?
00:27:11No. What is it? I don't know what healing means in this context.
00:27:28So healing is something that we generally get from
00:27:34the body, the physical realm. You break your arm and your arm heals. I have this little finger
00:27:41here. I was playing volleyball and a guy spiked it straight into my finger and bent it backwards,
00:27:45and I could barely move it for weeks. Now it's like 99% back to normal. So it's healed. It's
00:27:51back to normal. I could stretch it a little bit more, but it doesn't really matter.
00:27:56But yeah, it was sore for a long time. I mean, when I moved it too much. So that's healing.
00:28:02It's back to normal. Break your arm, put it in a cast. It heals back to normal, right?
00:28:14So healing is a return to a pre-functioning state.
00:28:21There is no healing in abused childhood because you cannot get to a pre-functioning state because
00:28:26you never had that in the first place. If you grew up in a very violent, abusive,
00:28:31neglectful, dysfunctional environment, there's no healing.
00:28:38I mean, because there is no pre-functional state that you can get back to. There wasn't like a you
00:28:45that got damaged, and then you can heal and go back to the you that was not damaged because you
00:28:51were damaged from the beginning. I don't say this to give you despair. I say this to give you hope.
00:28:57There is no return. I do not think there'll be a return journey, Mr. Frodo. There is no return
00:29:02journey. There is no going back and being whole. There is no going back and being undamaged.
00:29:10You have to work with what is, and that can be a great strength for you.
00:29:13It can turn you into a very powerful person. But healing, from what I understand, and correct me,
00:29:20of course, if I've got something wrong, but there is no healing.
00:29:27There is no healing in the way that it would happen with the body, where you have something
00:29:31functional, and then you return back to that. Because if you grew up in a toxic, dysfunctional
00:29:37family, there was no functional you because you were just surviving that from the very beginning.
00:29:42There was no functional you that you can return to. There is no circling back and making whole.
00:29:48There is only pressing on and finding strength, finding strength in the suffering. There is no
00:29:54going back and undoing the suffering. There is no healing. There is only pressing on and finding
00:30:00strength through the suffering. I was told by a crazy German woman, don't think.
00:30:11Okay, when a crazy person tells you not to think, probably the best thing you can do is think,
00:30:18I was raised with an entire group of people who believed in subjective morality and lived pretty
00:30:24terrible lives. So, if your fat uncle tells you what he eats, you don't follow that diet.
00:30:38If your drunken uncle tells you, well, you know, alcohol technically is a solution.
00:30:43That's how you deal with things. Go out, party, have fun, drink. And then he dies of
00:30:50liver failure or something and don't do that.
00:30:59So, I was raised with a bunch of people who gave me massive examples of everything not to do,
00:31:06and I've lived my life in reaction to that insanity and found deep sanity.
00:31:14But I can't return to some sane thing that I had because I was raised by crazy people. I can't
00:31:19return to some sane stuff that's somehow back there. I can only press on to the same stuff
00:31:26that I get by judoing the trauma into deep and robust health. There's no healing. There's only
00:31:34health. There's only pressing on to health. No circling back. There's no undo. There's no
00:31:40original you that was not harmed. And I'm sorry for that. I really am. And I'm not trying to give
00:31:44you any despair. I'm trying to have you not wallow and circle back, trying to achieve something that
00:31:49can't be achieved called healing. You can't heal yourself. But you can press on and find strength
00:32:00in the suffering, find robustness and sanity. Like, I can't go back and be raised by sane people,
00:32:06but I can use the lessons of the insane people and become super sane myself.
00:32:15There is no return to healing. There is only advancing to health.
00:32:27Bitcoin mooning. I owe you a lot. Oh, is it back up? I haven't checked.
00:32:32Well, of course, Trump just announced on Truth Social. Whoa, holy crap. It just went up almost
00:32:3812 grand. Well, I guess here's the funny thing. I think I bookmarked it, but Trump,
00:32:45holy, I haven't seen that in a while, although I'm pretty sure it was coming.
00:32:49So as the US economy looked like it was going to get better, then people took money out of
00:32:55Bitcoin. I assume that's why it went down. And now they're talking about a strategic reserve.
00:32:59It's going to go back up, right? So Trump wrote on Truth Social,
00:33:07the US crypto reserve will elevate this critical industry after years of corrupt attacks by the
00:33:11Biden administration, which is why my executive order on digital assets directed at the
00:33:16presidential working group to move forward on a crypto strategic reserve that includes
00:33:20XRP, SOL and ADA. I will make sure the US is the crypto capital of the world. We are making
00:33:26America great again. Now, I don't know, of course, he doesn't have the capacity,
00:33:30I don't think constitutionally to executive direct the creation of that, but he can
00:33:35executive direct the working group or whatever. But it's interesting that he didn't mention
00:33:39Bitcoin there as whole, but that seems quite important. So yeah, wow, that is a whiplash,
00:33:48man. Like, come on, do something, man. So yeah, Canadian, it just went up 10%
00:33:53in, I mean, since when? Since 10 this morning. Oh, so I went to church and it mooned.
00:34:00Wow. What is that thing? It's like, buy the dip. With what?
00:34:07With what am I supposed to buy the dip?
00:34:12All right. So that's interesting.
00:34:22That is, yeah, that is quite a pump and who knows, right?
00:34:32Yeah, like if you've smoked for a long time, you don't get to
00:34:37undo the effects of smoking, but maybe what you can do is you can commit to robust exercise regime
00:34:43and weight control and whatever that is going to give you the best chance of staying healthy,
00:34:47despite the fact that you smoked, right? So, all right. Well, that's interesting.
00:34:53Good moon. Good moon.
00:35:02All right. Sorry. Let me just get back to your comments.
00:35:10Nah, I'm not a female. It's called the art of the deal, bro. I'm reserving the queue.
00:35:18Oh, so you're telling me that I'm going to answer your question.
00:35:21You do not understand the art of the deal at all. The important thing to know is,
00:35:25do I have leverage? Do I have leverage, right? So, if you're rude to me or, you know,
00:35:33it's called the art of the deal, bro. I'm reserving the queue. Why would I answer your
00:35:37question? Like, what hold do you have over me that I'm going to answer your question?
00:35:40It's a funny thing, right? I mean, if you're my boss, I guess you could be a little rude and
00:35:45brusque with me and tell me I've spent my life making deals. I was in the business world making
00:35:52deals, made multi-million dollar deals and sold the company twice. So, I know a little bit about
00:35:57the deal. So, if you lecture me about the art of the deal and that you're reserving a question,
00:36:02how the fuck are you reserving a question? Why would I need to answer shit from you?
00:36:09You're telling me about the art of the deal. I've done tons of deals and you're telling me
00:36:13about the art of the deal while pulling a full Zelensky on getting me motivated
00:36:18to answer your question. That is pretty funny. Oh, that's great. I'm gonna keep a note of that.
00:36:23That is delightful. Yeah, it's called the art of the deal, bro. I'm reserving the question.
00:36:30Not if I don't answer it. You're not.
00:36:35So, people lecturing me on deals while making demands with no leverage. It's pretty funny.
00:36:40It's pretty funny. Can you shed light on Ukraine? How is Zelensky the one in charge?
00:36:51What do you mean, how is Zelensky the one in charge? Just go look up Gonzalo the late.
00:36:57Gonzalo Lira had a good explanation of all of that. You can go look that up.
00:37:00All right. Aha. Oh, this is his question. This is the guy who was lecturing me about
00:37:14the art of the deal, telling me that I have to answer his question. So, here's his question.
00:37:21Okay. I know you've spoken and given a ton of dating advice to young men dating women. I haven't
00:37:26heard all of the recent episodes yet, although I wanted to see if you had some guiding principles
00:37:30for approaching women. I've been cold approaching women these last few weeks, something I was super
00:37:35scared of my whole life. I'm 24. I want to know what you think. If I thought that I'd filter
00:37:41the women I approached to only those who gave me eye contact, and if a smile, definitely approach
00:37:46them. What? I want to know what you think. I thought that I'd filter the women I approached,
00:37:52oh, to only those who give me eye contact, and if a smile, definitely approach them.
00:37:56Yeah, I'll get right on answering that, if you do one thing first, and you know what that is.
00:38:03All right. What helps you find strength in the suffering, if you ever feel really sad,
00:38:13or the weight of the past is on your shoulders? What's wrong with feeling really sad? Sorry,
00:38:22do you think that sadness is just some affliction to be cured and eliminated, that the state of life
00:38:27as a whole is just deep joy? What's wrong with feeling sad? Sadness is not a problem to be
00:38:43solved or fixed. It's just a state of mind that is teaching you that there's something to learn.
00:38:48So you figure out what sadness is trying to teach you to learn, and you learn it,
00:38:52and then your sadness will go away, right? If you're sitting on something,
00:39:00and it's hurting your ass, right? You ever do this? You sit in your car, your car keys are in
00:39:04your back pocket, and they jab your ass. Oh, that's just, that's uncomfortable. Well, what's
00:39:08my body telling me? You have keys in your ass, attempting to unlock your sphincter, and
00:39:14you take the keys out of your back pocket, and you're better, right? So, sadness is not a problem
00:39:20to be solved. Well, what do you, how do you get rid of sadness? How do you deal with sadness,
00:39:22Molly? Learn a lesson, right? Learn a lesson. Don't get shitty with me, Steph. It's boring AF.
00:39:34You've praised yourself thousands of times for proving ethics without religion.
00:39:38Ethics without religion. Now you were listening to sermons? Do tell.
00:39:47You're fucking hilarious. That is too funny. Why the fuck would I want to talk with you?
00:39:52I mean, it's so weird to me that people are just like,
00:39:56you, well, you got to tell me this. I don't have to do shit.
00:40:01I don't have to do shit with you. Don't get shitty with me.
00:40:04Answer my question, you hypocrite. It's like, what the fuck would I want to engage with you?
00:40:09I mean, maybe this works with trashy people in your life. I don't know.
00:40:14That's so weird to me. Like, why would people think that I would engage with them when they're
00:40:22kind of shitty and trashing me? That's so weird to me. I don't need to. I've got lots of people
00:40:29I enjoy engaging with. Why would I engage with somebody who's kind of rude to me? Anyway,
00:40:33it's just weird to me. I don't know why. I don't know why people do that.
00:40:41Like the entitlement, the narcissism is just staggering, right?
00:40:45Heal as in stop making bad choices and make good choices and stop repeating unhealthy
00:40:50habits of the past. Simon the boxer stuff.
00:41:01Well, if you know what good choices are, you just have to make them.
00:41:07Like you just have to make the good choices. There's no magic in that.
00:41:13So stop repeating unhealthy habits of the past. Well, of course, but the best way to stop
00:41:18repeating unhealthy habits of the past is to get toxic people out of your life because the
00:41:23unhealthy habits developed in response to toxic people in the past, right?
00:41:31Learning about peaceful parenting from you has definitely made me better going into fatherhood
00:41:35and my kids lives are a lot better on a lot better path than mine. Thank you, Stefan. Thank you,
00:41:41my friend. That is great to hear. Congratulations. Beautiful. Beautiful. I haven't seen Stefan
00:41:47promoting any religion. He has been reviewing the Bible and giving his thoughts on the sayings
00:41:51therein. Yeah, fantastic stuff. Yeah, that's, I mean, sorry, I don't mean my thoughts, although
00:41:55I think that's true too, but yeah, the Bible stuff is, I'm really, really finding that wonderful.
00:42:03All right.
00:42:12Powerful thoughts on healing. I'm glad to be of help.
00:42:18What helps you find the strength in the suffering? Oh yeah, sorry, we did that one.
00:42:33All right.
00:42:36Let's get, um, I heard that one of the best philosophies is error correction.
00:42:42Have you explained that? I'm sure. Error correction.
00:42:48That's a bit of a accordion squished in sentence. One of the best philosophies is error correction.
00:42:54Have you explored that? I'm sure. You're going to have to give me more. I don't want to answer
00:42:58something that's irrelevant to your question and I could really interpret that a bunch of different
00:43:01ways. All right. Strategic reserve of imaginary assets seems imprudent.
00:43:10Strategic reserve of imaginary assets. Oh, are you saying that
00:43:22government type bullshit into your own bank account fiat ass wipe fantasy currency
00:43:27is the real stuff, whereas a digitally limited and easy to transfer a store of value like Bitcoin
00:43:34is somehow imaginary.
00:43:42Oh, that's funny. That is very funny, man. Good for you. Well, government, uh, you know, the,
00:43:48the government currency, which they order you to have to use in which they counterfeit at will,
00:43:54that's the real money. Whereas the digital transfer of information, which is how you're
00:44:00typing and how I'm delivering this lecture is imaginary. So that what you're interacting with
00:44:05is not real, but the stuff that government makes up out of whole cloth and thin air and forces
00:44:09people at gunpoint to use that's real. Oh man, that's great, man. Good for you. Good for you.
00:44:16That's, that's some willpower, man. That is, that is some swallow the propaganda,
00:44:20wholesale willpower. That's fantastic. He mentioned Bitcoin. Oh, Trump mentioned Bitcoin
00:44:24and later tweets that it's obvious. Yeah, for sure. For sure. For sure. Obviously a theory
00:44:29on Bitcoin will be in it as well. Yeah, for sure. Uh, Frida says comparing the heal yourself
00:44:39platitude to physical healing just struck me. Maybe this word is constantly used by people
00:44:44who refuse self-reflection because healing in physical terms is an automatic process.
00:44:48So for example, if a woman dated a bad guy, they can heal from just ignoring the reasons
00:44:53she dated him and just numbing the pain with fun and distraction. Healing is a red flag term used
00:44:59by people without self-knowledge. Well, I think that's true to some degree. Not that I have some
00:45:03ultimate authority in this, but I would say that a healing is set up by society so that
00:45:15you are on a never ending quest.
00:45:16Right. Never ending quest. It's one of the problems I have with religion as a whole is,
00:45:26well, I'm going to infect you with an imaginary sin. Sorry. I'm going to infect you with an
00:45:30imaginary illness and I'm going to sell you the cure weekly for the rest of your life.
00:45:34It's cynical. It's cynical, but this is one of the issues that I have.
00:45:39So the infliction of guilt is the ultimate strip mining of the resources of the human soul. There's
00:45:44nothing really that turns us more into slaves and livestock than guilt or shame or the infliction of
00:45:54an imaginary negative that then you have to pay for the rest of your life to remove.
00:46:00Right. So a sin, of course, is one of them. You are born sinful and you can pay us every week for
00:46:06the rest of our lives to lift this curse called sin. Well, that doesn't seem very honorable or
00:46:12decent as a whole. Right. That's one. Another one, of course, is the chemical imbalance theory
00:46:17of mental illness. You have a chemical imbalance, which we can't ever test for,
00:46:21we can't ever prove and doesn't seem to be supported by any of the research in any robust
00:46:25fashion. So you have this chemical imbalance. And if you just pay us every week for the rest
00:46:30of your life, we'll fix it. Or, well, you're a racist. And if you donate here and you give that
00:46:38and you subjugate this and you shame yourself about that, or you kneel here, we'll remove
00:46:42temporarily, we'll remove this curse called racism or whatever it is. Right. Misogyny. You've got to
00:46:48promote women and do that. Or you're a misogynist. We're going to hit you with this curse. We're
00:46:52going to hit you with this imaginary illness or ailment. And then you've got to pay us every week
00:46:57for the rest of your life, forever and ever, amen, to lift this curse. I don't consider that
00:47:03particularly, how can I put this nicely? I don't consider that the very summit of honor. I have
00:47:10never, ever said that you are infected with some imaginary illness and you got to give me money to
00:47:17lift that curse on a weekly basis. No, thank you. That is not how it works. So of course, if let's
00:47:26say the mental health monolithic industry, the mental health industry is selling you healing,
00:47:37then they are selling you, in my view, my amateur, obviously not advice, that is just my amateur
00:47:43idiot view, but they're selling you a nirvana that you can get to called healing, which is to have
00:47:49not been hurt in the first place, or to have returned to a state of robust health that never
00:47:53existed in the first place, because you were traumatized from very early on. If you had a
00:47:56really bad family, so they're giving you a nirvana or a fantasy that if you give the money,
00:48:05time, resources, obedience, or whatever, they'll get you to, and you never get there.
00:48:10So that's why healing, I just press on, press on and find the strength in your suffering.
00:48:17Because you see this like all over the place, like all over the place, you can see this stuff
00:48:21on the internet, right? Well, are you tired, down, sad, low energy? Vitamin XYZ is your problem,
00:48:30and you just buy this supplement. There's always this nirvana that we can get you to, and you just
00:48:36gotta, you know, pay on, pay on, pay on. So, I don't, uh, I'm trying to reserve the question,
00:48:50lol, I was being sarcastic, wanting to make you laugh, but I apologize because it wasn't obvious,
00:48:56and that's not respectful to you. So, I was being sarcastic, wanting to make you laugh.
00:49:00No, that's not, that's not what was happening. What was happening was,
00:49:08I thought you were a female, you got insulted by that, and then you tried to level up and be
00:49:13superior to me. It's called the art of the deal, bro, right? So, uh, this is not, uh, you're not
00:49:19being honest. I mean, I know what was going on, you know what was going on, you felt stung by the
00:49:22fact that I thought you were a female, and then you attempted to level up by making yourself
00:49:27superior to me, lecturing me on the art of the deal, and saying that you had authority over me
00:49:31because you were reserving the question, right? So, this is just a level up, this is not an honest
00:49:34statement. This, uh, this bit where people say, like, there's nothing funny about this, right?
00:49:40It's called the art of the deal, bro, I'm reserving the question. It's not, it's not a joke.
00:49:44I'm a funny guy. You think I'm here to amuse you? I'm a funny guy, so I have good sense of humor,
00:49:51I enjoy comedy a lot, and, uh, I try to make, give a smile and make people laugh everywhere I go.
00:49:56I'm pretty good at comedy, and pretty good at understanding it, um, so when you say to me,
00:50:01no, no, no, I just wanted to make you laugh. It wasn't obvious. So, now saying this is another
00:50:05call to leveling up is you don't want to say, yeah, I was kind of stung, and I got kind of pissed at
00:50:09you, and I got kind of mad, and I wanted to level up. I mean, that's fine, I can respect that, right?
00:50:13Happens. So, yeah, so this, this, uh, I just told a joke, but clearly you didn't get it. That's
00:50:21another form of leveling up, so, sorry. All right. The sadness is painful, but that's right,
00:50:30it's telling me something, and once I've figured it out, it won't be painful anymore. Thank you.
00:50:33Good, good. Steve. Who's Steve? Sorry, I guess you're talking to someone else. All right.
00:50:45Oh, Steph. Was that Steph? Oh, yeah, okay, no problem. Steph, would you consider a Doge report
00:50:49a couple of times a month? Also, how historical is Doge in your opinion? I mean, Bill Clyde,
00:50:54remember when Bill Clinton fired 277,000 government workers? What's interesting about Doge
00:51:02is the transparency, um, where people, they really seem like they're opening up the data,
00:51:08and I don't, we've never had, I don't think we've ever had someone as elementally
00:51:14competent as Donald Trump and Elon Musk looking at these kinds of issues, so that is new. That
00:51:22is new. All right. Let's see here. How are we doing for donations? Because, you know,
00:51:30like to work a little? Not great. Not great. If you'd like to help and support out, you know,
00:51:36I think I'm also modeling a little bit of assertiveness without being mean, but all right.
00:51:44The troll is not used to interacting with people with self-respect. Yeah, it's funny.
00:51:50It kind of breaks my heart to see how thin-skinned and petty Steph has become.
00:51:54Obviously, many of us are wasting our time here if we're not basking him in praise.
00:51:59Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, my God. Oh, you know, it's really, really tough dealing with
00:52:19people going through menopause. Like, it's really tough. It's really tough.
00:52:23You're thin-skinned and petty. We're just wasting our time here.
00:52:28We're not basking him in praise. Oh, no.
00:52:37That's so low-t. It's going to make my hair regrow. Oh, no. I'm getting man tits just reading it.
00:52:42Oh, no. Oh, my God, man. I tell you, please go get your T-levels checked and lift some weights.
00:52:59I'm telling you, I'm so sad how thin-skinned and petty Steph has become.
00:53:04Yes, yes. Of course, I took on the most controversial topics, though,
00:53:11in the man because all I want to do is be basked in praise. Yeah,
00:53:14just look at my Wikipedia page. It's just nothing but being basked in praise.
00:53:22Oh, holy merciful my doll, that's really something.
00:53:26Oh, my God, that's hilarious.
00:53:46Oh, it's so girly and manipulative. That
00:53:50makes the average girl guide look like John Cena. I'm so disappointed in you.
00:54:03Be professional.
00:54:06All right. Oh, dear, oh, dear. What is your favorite novel or non-fiction book you've
00:54:10written? I mean, Peaceful Parenting is great, but my favorite one is Almost. All right.
00:54:19This is one of the reasons why I love the emphasis on moral behavior,
00:54:22which is empirical and can be observed as opposed to the hidden guilt ghost. Yeah,
00:54:26that's all. I don't put ghosts in the machine.
00:54:31Hi, Steph, I'm a father of two in my 40s. I've worked since I was 12. I've recently
00:54:34achieved financial independence. Now I feel lost. Any advice? I feel lost. Where's your wife?
00:54:42Where's your wife? Tell me. What's your opinion on altcoins? It's Bitcoin or nothing, really.
00:54:49For me, Bitcoin or nothing. I remember you proposed to make a detailed presentation on
00:54:53why the birth rate in the West has collapsed. It's not just the West. In the past few weeks,
00:54:58you've mentioned birth rates on a few occasions. For example, income tax is about lowering birth
00:55:01rates. Yes, a truth about. I think somebody is working on it, and I'm sure they will get back to
00:55:07me. All right. That's true, Steph. Listening to you changes my entire rhetoric into one that wins.
00:55:19I'm pointing out what you're doing is simply projection. You're the one being thin-skinned
00:55:27and petty. Oh, sorry. That's talking to the troll. All right. Oh, dear. Other hot flashes
00:55:34getting to you. That's a good point, man. I appreciate the feedback. Sometimes I use that
00:55:43joking thing as a shield from accepting the truth. My friend pointed this out last week.
00:55:48It did piss me off when you said the female thing. I definitely do that superiority thing a lot,
00:55:53for what I said was insulting to you, and I'm sorry for that. Hey, man. Nobody's spoken. No
00:55:56problem. I appreciate that. So, yes. Somebody mentioned that it was a show last week where
00:56:02I talked about how to approach women, and I hope that you will check that out.
00:56:07All right. Holy merciful, my little title for the show.
00:56:15Oh, dear, oh, dear. Let's see here.
00:56:26I was here before most of you, lol. How am I a troll?
00:56:30You don't feel like a troll. I'm not going to try and argue you and convince you.
00:56:39All right. Somebody says, almost a year after my defood, there was a week I couldn't stop crying.
00:56:44Thought I was going crazy, but really tried not to judge the emotions and was able to figure out
00:56:48so much over the course of that week. Ended up actually being one of the most memorable
00:56:52signs I was on my way out of the desert. Wow, that's interesting. It's interesting because
00:56:59you were in a desert. You wept, which is a rain. You made the desert green with grief.
00:57:12We don't actually leave the desert. We just turn the desert green,
00:57:17and sorrow is the one. I wrote a book of poetry when I was in my teens called The Dead Live in
00:57:22Dry Eyes, that you can't let go of the past if you don't accept your suffering. This is something,
00:57:27actually, Nathaniel Brando was very good with this kind of stuff. Weak in some areas, in my
00:57:32humble opinion, and I interviewed him, I think, once or twice on this show, but very good with
00:57:37one of his wives. He was married, I think, a couple of times. One of his wives drowned,
00:57:42and he would throw himself on the bed and weep, and sometimes he'd feel fine. He said,
00:57:47just got to let the emotions flow through you. Be in partnership with your gut. Be in partnership
00:57:52with your heart. Be in partnership with your body. Don't be like your intellect just rides
00:57:57your body like the jolly green giant on a Shetland pony. You'd be in partnership with
00:58:01your whole system. That's where the real strength is, because you can talk yourself in and out of
00:58:05anything intellectually, but it is in the gut that real certainty is. All right.
00:58:20I thanked Steph for teaching me about Bitcoin in 2014,
00:58:24but to still be a Bitcoin maxi in 2025 is just absurd to me.
00:58:28It's a dino tech for the industry, which is why I got out in 2019.
00:58:33Oh, you sold all your Bitcoin in 2019? Okay.
00:58:39All right. Stefan's steely logic applied to the text that comprise the English translation
00:58:44called the Bible is better than the control-freaking I hear from many churches. I'm
00:58:48enjoying a logical take very much. Yeah, this morning I did, to me, what was a
00:58:53holy trinity of ethical commandments, which was, I turned the other cheek, and
00:58:59if an enemy asks you to walk a mile, walk two miles, and if you are sued for your shirt,
00:59:04give you a cloak also. That was very powerful for me this morning.
00:59:10So here's the funny thing. I did 40 minutes on that, and then I challenged my daughter
00:59:16to what she would think of these three commandments, and she got it in less than
00:59:20five seconds. Honestly, she got it and said, I took 40 minutes. And I was like, she said,
00:59:25is that right? And I'm like, yes, but I'm trying to think why I took 40 minutes and you took
00:59:31five seconds. Oh, well, that's good. That's good. That's good.
00:59:40My friend Kyra said it's a three-year process to get over a defoo to a healthy level.
00:59:45I truly believe that. There's a lot to process. Once it's signaled to your subconscious that
00:59:49you no longer have these abuses in your life, there's a lot that unravels. I wouldn't necessarily
00:59:52say three years. It really depends how hard you commit.
00:59:58Yes, I did an interview with Nathaniel Brandon, show 1521, and 2855 was an elegy for his passing.
01:00:29All right, let's see here.
01:00:36Steph's Bible verse series has been amazing. Yeah, it just kind of came about by accident.
01:00:39Somebody asked me for my thoughts, and I felt such elemental power in the response. I'm like,
01:00:43I could do that again. And so far, so good.
01:00:50So there's a principle in life that however long you think something is going to take is how long
01:00:56it's going to take. If you say, well, I have to clean up my room by Saturday, you will not clean
01:01:04up your room before Saturday. If you say, I have to clean up my room in the next 20 minutes, you'll
01:01:09clean up your room in the next 20 minutes. So be very careful at saying, well, it's going to take
01:01:13three years. Well, then you just have that in your mind. And that lowers the urgency of dealing with
01:01:18things. I never say to myself, I have six months to write this book, right? I just work hard until
01:01:28the inspiration dries up every day until the book is done. So try to avoid saying it's going to take
01:01:35X before I get what I want, X amount of time, right? If you say, well, I'll be happy when I'm
01:01:44a millionaire, you're just programming yourself to be unhappy. And then by the time you become a
01:01:48millionaire, you've gotten so used to being unhappy that the million dollars don't save you.
01:01:58So giving yourself deadlines is giving yourself delays.
01:02:06I didn't say to myself with peaceful parenting, well, I'm going to take a year to write this book,
01:02:11right? We know this also, they've done studies on this, right? So in Canada, some places or lots of
01:02:18places, you get like a year of unemployment insurance, or they changed the name to EI,
01:02:24employment insurance, right? So you got a year. So you got a year because they say, well, it could
01:02:30take you a year to get a job. So you get a year of employment, you should get a year of quote free
01:02:33money, right? If you lose your job or whatever, right? Okay. So when do people start looking for
01:02:39work? About 11 and a half months. Just the way it is. It's just the way it is.
01:02:47Don't give yourself deadlines. Don't even give yourself goals. Just do work. Just do work.
01:03:01My goal was not, I'm going to write this book on peaceful parenting. My goal was,
01:03:07I mean, obviously plan to write a book and then just write every day.
01:03:11I wasn't sure exactly when I was going to be done. I wasn't sure exactly
01:03:15how long it was going to take, just working.
01:03:20Just do the work because oftentimes deadlines are delays and focusing on big goals feels
01:03:29overwhelming and you don't want to start it, right? So, I mean, I'm not perfect at this. I'm
01:03:34trying to find the time to carve out the time because I've got a lot of stuff going on at the
01:03:38moment, trying to find the time. I want to write this new novel, which is a love story in reverse,
01:03:42right? Because I want people to see here's the end disaster. Let's step back and see all the
01:03:46little things that led up to it. So I've been wanting to write this for like two months or
01:03:52three months and I've had a variety of things where I just need some carved out time where I'm
01:03:56not going to get interrupted because I hate getting interrupted when writing novels because
01:03:59there's so many balls in the air, especially if it's about sex on a rollercoaster, right?
01:04:05So when I start a novel, I don't think about, oh my God, it's so complex. I got
01:04:12all these characters, all these themes, all this dialogue, all this stuff, right? Then
01:04:20I just want to write this scene as well as I can. As deeply, richly, and beautifully,
01:04:26I want to write this scene as I can. I want to empathize with the characters,
01:04:29really get their dialogue, really respect their presence and so on, right? And do that,
01:04:34right? And then do the next one. And there's like, so if somebody said, I weekly said,
01:04:43I'll move out by the end of December. And you said the same thing you're saying here. Yeah.
01:04:47I mean, I'll tell you this, man, I got a lot of stuff done in my life and that's because
01:04:51I won't give myself deadlines and I won't think of the big project.
01:05:00I can relate to that framing. Steph, you helped me setting a set date to move out
01:05:04from my parents' place. Yeah, it really helped. Everyone I shared it with from my therapist and
01:05:10my friends thought it was too soon. I moved out earlier than my set date. Yeah, for sure.
01:05:15Yeah. Deadlines are delays. Deadlines are delays.
01:05:35All right. Steph, did you ever write a play or do you have any plans in the future to write one?
01:05:41I did. I've written about 30 plays because I was in theater school as an actor and as a playwright,
01:05:48right? And they loved me for the first while and said, oh, you're such a good actor. You should
01:05:55forget about the playwriting and just do the acting. And then they hated me both as an actor
01:06:00and a playwright once they realized I was an anti-communist. So yes, and I actually,
01:06:09I have produced, I mean, I wrote a short movie and produced it and I wrote, directed and produced
01:06:18a play in Toronto called Seduction, which was an adaptation of Fathers and Sons by Turgenev.
01:06:26So yes, I have written a lot of plays. I don't know if I have them anywhere, but I certainly wrote them.
01:06:39Systems, not goals. Yeah, I, I, that's a, I've never quite followed that one.
01:06:44I haven't really looked into it from Scott Adams, but maybe that helps.
01:07:03All right. Did you ever see the Zeitgeist documentary from the early 2000s?
01:07:10That is an interesting question. That is a very interesting question.
01:07:16So, yes, this was done by, I did see the Zeitgeist documentary, interesting, but didn't
01:07:26really move me very much. But resource-based economy, wasn't that Peter Joseph's thing?
01:07:32My God, what's he doing these days? Because I had a pretty ferocious debate
01:07:39with Peter Joseph who did the Zeitgeist movies, right?
01:07:45Peter Joseph, what is he doing these days?
01:07:47Yes, Venus Project. Oh my God, this is taking me back. He's now 46 years of age.
01:08:06He supported the Occupy movement.
01:08:09All right. Oh, he made a new Zeitgeist, a fourth one called Requiem.
01:08:28So yeah, I don't, I don't know what he's been doing, but yeah, so I have watched it and I did
01:08:32watch, I did a debate with him that was pretty good. It was pretty, pretty fun.
01:08:39Pretty enjoyable. So you should check that out. FDR podcasts and so on. Yeah.
01:08:44Give Peter Joseph a search on FDR podcasts.
01:08:48Yes. Zeitgeist moving forward, a reply to Peter Joseph that was 1844 and the debate is
01:08:58show 2492. Zeitgeist versus the market, Peter Joseph debates, Stefan Molyneux.
01:09:04Stefan, you were a project manager. Did you create Gantt charts or try to just finish
01:09:09everything as fast as possible? Any tips that made you a good project manager?
01:09:14No, I didn't create Gantt charts. So mostly I was in charge of upgrading the software,
01:09:18writing new versions of the software, adding features and upgrading it and so on. So I just
01:09:22worked on individual things, but I didn't have a general project as a whole.
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01:10:14of Gene Hackman, his mysterious death, his career? A good actor, a good actor for sure. And he had a
01:10:19face like a potato, which he'd be the first to admit. Obviously a very talented guy. Gene Hackman
01:10:24was interesting because he got the lowest marks in his theater school and he and Dustin Hoffman,
01:10:28who was of course another famous actor, were both voted least likely to succeed.
01:10:33And so what I like about Gene Hackman is he was basically like, screw that. They think I'm going
01:10:38to fail. I'm going to show them success. Trust me. I know a little bit about this. I know a little
01:10:43bit about this one. Screw people. I'm going to succeed even if they think it's bad. Gene Hackman
01:10:49better than Jack Nicholson? I think Jack Nicholson had more range from as good as it gets to a few
01:10:56good men was pretty, pretty wild. Yeah. Gene and Dustin, they were friends. They were roommates
01:11:04along with Robert Duvall, I think it was. And Gene Hackman was the kind of guy you tell him
01:11:09he can't do because he was in the Marines for years, right? He was in the Marines for like
01:11:12four years, Gene Hackman. And so if you're going to say to Gene Hackman, you can't do something,
01:11:16that's like telling a Marine something is impossible. He'll like, I'll show you, right?
01:11:21And of course, I've had to bounce back from endless amounts of like, get knocked down,
01:11:25get back up again. So yeah, he just worked hard. He had an incredible run as an actor and
01:11:34he took risks, right? So Young Frankenstein by Mel Brooks with Gene Wilder and Corey, no,
01:11:40Marty Feldman, not Corey Feldman. It's a little different. He would have been a fetus. But
01:11:44I, Gene Hackman played a blind guy and he was, he wasn't even supposed to be in the film,
01:11:49but he said to Mel Brooks, like, I've always wanted to do comedy. Give me something, right?
01:11:53And so he did that. He of course was great as Lex Luthor in Superman. The only good,
01:12:01the only great Superman was Christopher Reeve, the very first one in the seventies. Love that.
01:12:05I even bought little baseball cards with the stills from the movie and put them up in my
01:12:10room. I was completely inspired by Superman when I was a little kid.
01:12:15But yeah, Hackman portrayed being angry very well. Yeah, of course the scene in Crimson
01:12:21Tide, is it, with him and Denzel Washington is quite powerful. A very interesting, complicated
01:12:28movie, Mississippi Burning. He was very good in that. And so yeah, Chris Reeves was so perfectly
01:12:34cast. Yeah. He's such a wholesome guy and also was best friends. And they went to theater school,
01:12:38was Christopher Reeves and Robin Williams. And after Christopher Reeve had his terrible accident,
01:12:43but he played rear window after that, Robin Williams came to try and cheer him up.
01:12:50So I've never seen the extended TV cut of Reeves as Superman.
01:12:58I've never seen the Poseidon adventure or that burning building one.
01:13:02Tender Mercies, but that was Robert Duvall, right? Movie called Tomorrow with Robert Duvall
01:13:08really broke my heart. Yeah. Now of course the big question with Gene Hackman is what the hell
01:13:13happened? So he was 95 and also he quit movies because his doctor said, Gene Hackman's, I don't
01:13:19know why I know all this stuff I just did, but Gene Hackman's doctor said like your heart really
01:13:23can't handle it. So a lot of stress, right? Making movies is stress, physical exertion and so on.
01:13:28In the French connection, that's actually Gene Hackman driving the car and one of the most famous
01:13:32car sequences of all cinema history. And the car he ran into was actually a real guy. It was just
01:13:39drove through, forgot, like somehow got past the closed off movie set thing. I didn't even know if
01:13:44they closed it off. It's kind of like what happened in Midnight Cowboy with John Voight
01:13:49and Dustin Hoffman, but Dustin Hoffman, like the car drives up and I'm walking here, I'm walking
01:13:52here. Totally breaking character, totally different voice, but it was pretty, pretty funny scene,
01:13:56right? That he stayed in character when he almost got run over by a cab driver
01:14:00as Ratso Rizzo. And so, yeah, it's pretty, pretty amazing stuff.
01:14:07It's pretty amazing stuff. The big question, of course, is what the hell happened
01:14:10to Gene Hackman, right? Thank you, Cameron. Big question, like what the hell happened?
01:14:18I mean, according to his pacemaker, he died. I've sort of read reports either a week, 10 days,
01:14:23two weeks ago. Gene Hackman died. His 63-year-old Asian wife also died. One of his dogs died,
01:14:30but the other wasn't. They've tested negative for carbon monoxide. So it looks pretty,
01:14:34it looks pretty shady. It looks pretty shady. Now, of course, there's all these theories.
01:14:40Anytime there's these theories, it's always like Vax, but I'm pretty sure the dog didn't get the
01:14:44COVID Vax. Or it's like he was about to reveal the Epstein list or something like that, like
01:14:49as if there's ever going to be a revelation of the Epstein. It's not going to happen.
01:14:54It's not going to happen. It's not going to happen.
01:14:58So I don't know. I don't know. It's not carbon monoxide.
01:15:08Obviously, that didn't seem to be bludgeoning or anything like that, like the pharmaceutical
01:15:14company, the pharmaceutical couple in Canada, which was just, it seemed to me just was a hit.
01:15:21But there's obviously no bludgeoning because initially they said that the death of Gene
01:15:24Hackman, his wife and the dog were not suspicious, but he was dead for a long time. And it was really,
01:15:29really tough. It's really, really tough to know. If it was foul play, it's almost certain
01:15:38that it will not be figured out because if you, if somebody wants to take you out and they get a
01:15:44professional to do it, well, the professionals are very good at what they do. They know exactly what
01:15:48to bypass. They know exactly what to avoid. They know exactly how to not leave any prints or any
01:15:52evidence. So the odds, if somebody really wants to take you out, I mean, you can get one of those
01:15:58heart attack guns or I don't know, something like that. Right. But if somebody really wants to take
01:16:01you out, then you're going to be taken out and you know, they never found out who killed Seth
01:16:10Rich. Right. So if they, so if he, I don't imagine what a 95 year old guy he retired from acting and
01:16:16started writing novels and stuff. I don't know what a 95 year old guy, what threat he poses,
01:16:20why somebody might've taken him out, but it does seem odd unless it was carbon monoxide.
01:16:25Wasn't that Ben Stiller's parents or something? No, a weird Al Yankovic's parents died that way,
01:16:29I think just bad luck carbon monoxide stuff. So we will probably never know. It'll probably be
01:16:35just one of these wild mysteries as to what happened. Maybe he pissed people off. Maybe
01:16:42he was going to reveal something untoward and he was taken out. But I mean, theorizing,
01:16:48it will never know. Right. Never get the Epstein list and we'll never know what happened to Gene
01:16:53Hackman. At least that's my guess. 95 is not bad. That's true. That's true.
01:17:04The hat is not for sale, but the hat is here so that I don't have to remember to put the logo
01:17:10on the video. All right. Any other last questions, comments? Again, support is
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01:17:35Great show, Steph. Connecting plenty, in my opinion. I'm a subscriber, but one of my goals
01:17:39is to drop 100 USD per show. Working on it may or may not succeed, but as far as I see,
01:17:43you sure deserve it. Thank you. I appreciate that.
01:17:48Oh, joke from the 90s. What's the opposite of Christopher Reeve? Christopher Walken?
01:17:52Ouch. Christopher Walken is a creepy guy. And he was on the boat, wasn't he, with
01:18:02Wagner, Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood. What's the only wood that doesn't float? Natalie Wood.
01:18:09Jack Nicholson is fantastic. Yeah. Cuckoo's Nest is just incredibly good. And of course,
01:18:15Five Easy Pieces is also fantastic from Jack Nicholson. It's massively disappointing the
01:18:22movie he made with Marlon Brando, though. Very sad. Would you do a talk or video on
01:18:27your favorite movies and shows that are worth watching? I don't know. How long can I talk about
01:18:32Burn Notice? Absolutely one of my favorites. If I would say one of my favorite TV shows ever was
01:18:41Burn Notice. Unbelievably great. All right.
01:18:49Why did the police say there was no foul play at the same time they announced his death?
01:18:53Yeah, you know, they should investigate first, right?
01:19:04We still don't know what happened, with certainty, to Jim Morrison 50 years ago. Yeah,
01:19:08I read his autobiography of Jim Morrison. There still is mysteries, right? Your logic
01:19:15that you share with us to help people is a real treasure in this world. Thank you. I appreciate
01:19:18that. All right. It's a good show. Watched it twice over the years. Yes. Yeah, Burn Notice is
01:19:33a fantastic. Jeffrey Donovan or whatever his name. I don't know if he's showed up anywhere else,
01:19:39but he played Hamlet, and I don't know if it was ever recorded. I'd love to have seen that.
01:19:43All right. Well, thank you, everyone, so much for a show today. I appreciate that. I will maybe drop
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