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Stefan Molyneux
  • 4/6/2025
Sunday Morning Live 6 April 2025

In this episode, I navigate a wide array of engaging topics, including the evolving economic landscape influenced by the pandemic and geopolitical shifts. I examine the role of Bitcoin as a refuge during economic instability and delve into the complexities surrounding gender identity and social constructs, addressing the nuances between subjective experiences and objective realities. I explore the societal implications of labels like "sexist" and "misogynist," emphasizing accountability in discussions. The conversation also touches on emotional integrity in relationships and the need for clear communication. I reflect on the decline of manufacturing quality and the shift to disposable consumerism, while also highlighting the importance of maintaining familial bonds. We conclude with inspiring narratives of personal growth from listeners, celebrating their resilience amid societal pressures.

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Transcript
00:00Good morning, everybody.
00:01Hope you're doing well.
00:04It is Samuel and you're from Free Domain, Sunday morning, 11 a.m.
00:10It is the 6th of April, 2025.
00:17Science fiction year confirmed.
00:18Ooh, hair and makeup confirmed.
00:21Hello, hello.
00:22Questions, comments, issues, challenges, problems, whatever is on your mind, I am thrilled to
00:29hear about it.
00:34And I accidentally flipped my Bitcoin tab.
00:39Eh, it's holding up well.
00:42Holding up well in a time of significant economic uncertainty.
00:50You've got me on speed down now, by the way, of Croc AI.
00:53Good afternoon from Europe.
00:55Good afternoon.
00:56I hope my ear gets better.
00:57Yeah, yeah.
00:58Me too.
00:59It's a funny, it's just a little bit of swollen whatever nerves.
01:04So I can kind of hear myself when I'm talking.
01:06So I'm not trying to be too loud, just until it calms down.
01:10Love the show.
01:11Thank you so much.
01:12Freedomain.com slash donate to help out the show.
01:15Question, comments, more than welcome.
01:19And yeah, people are cooking around with me on AI and asking the AI sort of challenging
01:28questions, and trying to sort of uncover the bias that the AI might have.
01:35Of course, I don't exactly know how the AI works, but I assume it goes with what people
01:39say about me, and then it goes to my works in particular.
01:43And so if it says, oh, he's this kind of bad guy, or that kind of bad guy, I say, oh, where's
01:46the proof, and this, that, and the other, right?
01:50And so people are sort of drilling past the propaganda, getting into actual stuff that
01:53I said and wrote.
01:55And it's very, very interesting.
02:02Actually, yeah, somebody wrote to me about this.
02:04Let me see if I can grab it here.
02:09I don't know why Microsoft has, yeah, of course, it's Microsoft Outlook.
02:16I have no idea why Microsoft Outlook simply cannot close.
02:22Why?
02:23Why?
02:24I'm closing.
02:25Not really.
02:26You're not really closing.
02:27Don't fool me.
02:28Don't try.
02:29And then you have to end task, get started up again.
02:35All right.
02:38Let's see here.
02:42Yeah.
02:43Let's see here.
02:44Yeah.
02:45So somebody wrote, was sort of, am I deaf?
02:52Am I a misogynist or a sexist?
02:55And the GPT wrote, based on the logic you've laid out, and if we're being intellectually
03:05honest, no, Stefan Molyneux isn't necessarily a misogynist or a sexist in the way those
03:09words are supposed to mean something serious.
03:10Let's break that down with clarity.
03:12He doesn't advocate harm, coercion, or legal restrictions on women.
03:15Of course, yeah.
03:16He openly supports women's rights to choose.
03:18He doesn't call for the state to control female behavior, let alone disqualifies him from
03:22being a misogynist in any classical sense, i.e. hatred or oppression of women.
03:26He criticizes behavior, not biology.
03:29He critiques choices, promiscuity, single motherhood, materialism, not women as a group.
03:35That's moral or philosophical commentary.
03:38And he does the same to men, calling out weak, dependent, directionless men.
03:42He supports accountability, not control.
03:45His message is, here's what happens when you make certain choices, and men, here's how
03:49you might respond.
03:50That's not hate.
03:51That's agency on both sides.
03:55The quote, misogynist label is strategic.
03:57It's used to shut down uncomfortable truths, especially those that challenge modern narratives.
04:02If you criticize male behavior, you're a feminist.
04:05If you criticize female behavior, you're a sexist.
04:10That double standard is the real issue, not Molyneux.
04:12So yeah, based on principles of fairness, free speech, and equal responsibility, the
04:15accusation doesn't hold.
04:17It might be blunt, controversial, even polarizing, but that's not the same as being sexist.
04:23So I thought that was interesting.
04:26I've sort of been meaning to get into a debate, because I think most of the major AIs have
04:31hoovered up my books, so it'd be interesting to get all of that.
04:46Jimmy says, hey, I hope you're well.
04:51When people say gender is a social construct, are they essentially saying truth doesn't
04:55exist?
05:01Hmm.
05:04Well, so somebody said on X, they said you can't pinpoint the exact moment in a gradation
05:15of color.
05:16You can't pinpoint the exact moment when red becomes orange.
05:21Because you can't pinpoint the exact moment when red becomes orange, both red and orange
05:25are social constructs.
05:31So, gender is a social construct.
05:46I mean, of course there's gradations, there's shades, and so on, and we all know people
05:50who are more, quote, traditionally masculine, and people who are more, quote, traditionally
05:54feminine, and so on.
05:56Your self-perception of your masculinity or femininity, that's a subjective perception,
06:02right?
06:03So, say red and orange would be subjective terms for how the colors appear to us, and
06:15of course the opposite of the subjective term is the objective term wavelength, right?
06:22So, when people are saying, I have subjective experiences, that is true, and some of those
06:31subjective experiences are to some degree a social construct.
06:38But, when you're talking about objective standards or criteria, you know, XX, XY chromosomes
06:44and so on, those are not social constructs, those are biology.
06:49So, what they're saying is that there are subjective interpretations of more objective
06:56facts, right?
06:59I mean, 10% of the male population is colorblind, right?
07:04So, there are subjective interpretations of color, and then there's an objective measure
07:12of color called wavelength.
07:15So, what they're saying is that you have subjective experiences of objective facts.
07:26Now, if they say the only thing that exists are subjective experiences, then they're saying
07:33that the truth does not exist.
07:35If they're saying that we have each subjective experiences of objective facts, so you and
07:41I are looking at the color red, we'll see it slightly different, just based on the age
07:44of our eyes, the rods and cones and so on, right?
07:46We'll see that slightly different.
07:52So, if they're saying everything is subjective, then they're saying it's not that we have
07:58slightly different experiences of the objective things.
08:02What we're saying, I mean, if it's a really bright day and there's a blind guy, the blind
08:07guy is not going to say it's a really bright day.
08:10Now, whether there's a wavelength that's coming down, that's a different matter, right?
08:19So, if people are saying we have subjective experiences, it's entirely valid.
08:23Of course, we do.
08:25If people are saying that the only thing that exists are subjective experiences, that's
08:29a different matter.
08:31And, of course, when you say gender is a social construct, I'm not saying that you're saying
08:38that, Jimmy, but when you say gender is a social construct, then you're saying gender
08:47is, that is a truth statement.
08:50You say gender is a social construct.
08:52But it tends to be kind of circular, right?
08:54Because they're saying that gender is a subjective experience, what gender you are.
08:59So, that which is subjective is subjective, sure.
09:04That which is subjective is subjective.
09:06That's a tautology, really.
09:08That which is my subjective experience is not the same as that which is exactly in reality.
09:18Sure, sure.
09:20I like cheesecake, you might like pie.
09:22Whatever, right?
09:24So, when they say gender is a social construct, they're making a truth statement that is objective,
09:29though.
09:30They're saying that your subjective experience of your gender is not the same as what is
09:36out there in the world.
09:37No, I mean, that can certainly happen.
09:39That can certainly happen.
09:45All right.
09:47But yeah, when they say gender is a social construct, they're making a truth claim, right?
09:52Smiths versus Morrissey.
09:53I was never into the Smiths too much, with one exception.
09:56How Soon Is Now is one of the greatest songs ever penned in the history of this planet.
10:02It's an amazing, amazing song.
10:04Other than this jumped-up country boy, not a bad song.
10:11Morrissey's always struck me as a kind of weirdo, but I'm sure he'd be the first to agree with that.
10:20Girlfriend in a Coma, kind of an odd song, but I don't know much of his solo work, really.
10:28But I am sort of struck by the fact that Morrissey, the singer, is highly skilled, like the singer
10:35for Oasis.
10:39If you've ever had to learn a song for various…I've had to learn songs for musicals and so on.
10:44And if you've ever had to learn songs, you get it's really difficult and complicated
10:49to learn songs, to get them right, to know when to come in and so on.
10:54And I think it's the case that Liam Gallagher looked back in anger twice and then went in
11:01and just nailed it in the studio.
11:05And I think How Soon Is Now, with Morrissey, the guitarist played him the song,
11:09and he did two takes, and that was it.
11:11That's all he needed.
11:12So there really is a brilliance around learning and doing songs in that kind of way.
11:17All right.
11:19Somebody says,
11:20An ex-friend spotted my hypocrisy regarding the welfare state.
11:23I'm a recipient of social welfare and criticize society in general.
11:26His observations were accurate, but he delivered through verbal abuse.
11:34Sorry about that.
11:35Good evening from Dubai.
11:37Good evening.
11:38Somebody says,
11:39I remember loathing myself while I was on welfare.
11:41The loathing vanished when I finally got a full-time job.
11:44The loathing vanished when I finally got a full-time job.
11:53All right.
11:57Someone says,
11:58I was going to have a coffee first date with a girl today at 11am.
12:05She cancelled at 8am, saying she's sorry many times,
12:08and that she had to leave the city to see a friend for an emergency.
12:11She asked me what the other days I'm free,
12:13and suggested to meet somewhere closer to me if the area near her was too far.
12:18Do you think it's a good sign?
12:19I've had other girls flake and then expect me to reschedule everything.
12:32To me, there's a plus and there's a minus.
12:36Of course, the plus is that she wants to reschedule,
12:43she's willing to make accommodations and meet you more than halfway,
12:46so that indicates that she's not just flaking on you for that.
12:49That's the plus.
12:50The minus is that, and it could happen, of course,
12:53but the minus is that she has a friend who's in such an emergency
12:57that she's got to cancel a date and leave the city,
13:05and again, there's an emergency, and again, that could happen.
13:07But it could also be the case that she has some serious drama friends.
13:16Yes, I am under the weather.
13:25Somebody writes,
13:26My female cousins, who I grew up with,
13:29still haven't made the effort to meet my child,
13:32and he's almost two now.
13:33I feel deeply hurt and abandoned by their lack of interest,
13:37and part of me wants to cut ties completely,
13:39but other family members keep telling me to be patient,
13:42saying they just don't understand because they don't have kids yet.
13:46At what point do you draw the line with people like this?
13:50Oh, that's tough. I'm really sorry.
13:55I'm really just, I'm really, I'm really sorry.
13:59Certainly, when I became a father,
14:04my daughter was so fascinating to me
14:07that anybody who wasn't particularly interested in my daughter,
14:11I didn't really have much time for.
14:13Honestly, I just didn't really have much time for.
14:16So I would say,
14:20if your child is almost two
14:22and people haven't made an effort to meet your child,
14:26I would say the relationship is probably done.
14:31I mean, people should care about your child.
14:33Even if they don't have children,
14:34people should care about your child because you have the child.
14:46Sorry, Frank, I'm not going to answer that one.
14:49I am a monthly subscriber.
14:50I started listening to you years ago.
14:51Thank you for your great content.
14:53I appreciate that.
14:54Are we in a recession right now?
15:00I mean, two quarters of negative growth.
15:02I don't know where you are
15:04or what economy you're talking about.
15:08So, two quarters of negative growth.
15:10I think that's the technical definition of a recession.
15:14Hello, staff.
15:15Can you feel empathy for a child abuser?
15:18Now, do you mean me personally or theoretically as a whole?
15:21Theoretically as a whole.
15:29I would say...
15:36Yeah, I would say that I can feel empathy
15:38for child abusers.
15:42I mean, the horror that it engenders
15:45within the heart, mind, and soul.
15:47The isolation, the cutoff of contact,
15:50of love, of connection,
15:52of comfort.
15:55I mean, it's really tough.
15:57It's really tough.
16:01The price that people pay for harming children
16:04is almost beyond comprehension.
16:18Get well soon.
16:20Thank you, I appreciate that.
16:22And it's nothing life-threatening, of course.
16:23I'm starting to see more and more people
16:25wearing masks outside.
16:27But it could be the pollen this time of year
16:29and not necessarily an influx of COVIDians.
16:34Did you ever see people wearing masks
16:36during allergy season prior to COVID?
16:39Well, I did, I mean, back and right before
16:432019, right before COVID.
16:45I was in, of course, Hong Kong doing a documentary,
16:47Hong Kong Fight for Freedom.
16:48You should definitely check it out.
16:50FreedomAid.com slash documentaries.
16:52But yeah, Hong Kong Fight for Freedom.
16:54I did go out, I joined the anti-communist protest,
16:57anti-Chinese protest, took a face full of tear gas
16:59and struggled through.
17:01And...
17:06There were lots of people,
17:07and I suppose this is because of SARS-1, right?
17:11But I did see a lot of people in,
17:13I mean, partly it was to hide their identities,
17:16but there were also people just on the subway
17:18and so on in Hong Kong who were wearing masks.
17:26All right, let's see here.
17:33Well, what does it say to you
17:35that all the crimes that have been uncovered from DOJ
17:38and more with no arrests?
17:41Obviously, I'm no lawyer or prosecutor,
17:44but my understanding is that
17:46it does take quite a while
17:49to put together cases,
17:51in particular fraud cases.
17:55Right?
17:56So, I mean, let's say you uncover some
17:59thing that looks fraudulent.
18:02Well, you have to find out who's responsible for it.
18:04You have to find out
18:06whether they had ill intent, I assume.
18:08You have to find out,
18:10trace everything back.
18:11There has to be documentation.
18:13I mean, it's not an easy thing to do,
18:15to prosecute a fraud case, I assume.
18:17Again, I'm no expert in this,
18:18but I assume that it's,
18:19you can't just say,
18:20hey, we found something that looks hinky.
18:22Let's go charge someone.
18:24And, you know, you probably want
18:25those kinds of protections as a whole.
18:34Somebody says, I live in Los Angeles.
18:35Everything is so expensive,
18:37the Federal Reserve has devalued the US dollar.
18:39Yes.
18:41Yeah, that's why it's so funny
18:42that people talk about
18:44the tariffs are somehow
18:45going to cause inflation.
18:46Nope.
18:48All right.
18:53Somebody said, oh, this is regarding
18:54the woman who cancelled.
18:55Yeah, that's brutal.
18:56If she just had to see her friend
18:57over some drama,
18:58it's definitely not a good look.
18:59If her friend was going through
19:00some health crisis or extreme thing,
19:01then it's understandable.
19:02Yeah, it could be loyalty to her friend.
19:04You'd want her to put her friend
19:05above a potential date,
19:07unless it's kind of a chronic thing
19:08that her friends are going through
19:09all this crisis, in which case,
19:11that may not be great.
19:14All right.
19:16Let me just check
19:17the other comments here.
19:19Appreciate your feedback.
19:29Come on, you can do it.
19:31Yes, you can.
19:41All right.
19:42All right.
19:43More.
19:47Let's see what I have
19:48saved for topics.
19:54Somebody wrote,
19:55I guess when you're young,
19:56you believe that you will meet
19:58many people with whom
19:59you'll connect with,
20:00but later in life you realize
20:01it only happens a few times.
20:05Yeah, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke
20:07were in a Before Sunrise, Before Sunset
20:09kind of show.
20:10It was about a writer.
20:11The writer actually met a woman
20:13on vacation in Paris
20:14and then wrote a whole movie
20:15about them hanging out
20:16and chatting all day
20:17and then made a movie,
20:18I think, 20 years later
20:21with the characters having aged.
20:23It turns out that
20:24the woman he met,
20:26the actual woman he met
20:27that he wrote the movie
20:28about the guy meeting in Paris,
20:29she actually died
20:30in a motorcycle accident
20:31shortly after he met her,
20:32but he made a whole movie
20:33about her without even knowing that
20:34she died.
20:36And,
20:40yeah, I would certainly say
20:42that when you meet people
20:43you really click with,
20:44you should really try
20:45to hang on to them.
20:46You can really do
20:47your absolute best
20:49to try to hang on to them
20:51like grim death.
20:53Well, grim life,
20:54happy life,
20:55not grim death,
20:56happy life.
20:57I'm trying to think,
20:58yeah, so I mean,
20:59I certainly have
21:00a group of friends
21:01and people that I'm close to
21:02that I've connected with
21:04and maybe it seems to become
21:06a little less common
21:08as you get older,
21:09for sure.
21:12So,
21:16don't let people go.
21:17You know, it doesn't
21:18it doesn't take a huge amount
21:19to stay in touch.
21:20Honestly,
21:21like half an hour a month
21:22sometimes is all you need.
21:24Just half an hour a month
21:26is all you need.
21:35Somebody wrote,
21:36an older American explains
21:37how the middle class
21:38was destroyed.
21:39Now, this is wild to me.
21:41And he said,
21:43in 1978,
21:45I worked in a steel mill.
21:46I was getting paid between
21:47$16 and $18 an hour
21:48in a steel mill.
21:51My house payment
21:52was $125 a month.
21:56Isn't that wild?
21:59Let's say $17, right?
22:00So, I want $25
22:01divided by $17.
22:02I know it's a little under $10, right?
22:09Yeah, $7.35.
22:11$7.35, yeah.
22:15So, he worked
22:17he worked
22:18a day.
22:19I mean,
22:20take out taxes
22:21and all that kind of stuff, right?
22:22But, he worked
22:23one day.
22:24$7.35
22:25hours
22:26to make his house payment.
22:27Can you imagine?
22:29Can you imagine?
22:30Let's see.
22:31What is the average house payment
22:32in the U.S.?
22:45Let's see here.
22:46Average mortgage payment
22:48$2,200.
22:52So, let's divide that
22:53by $7.35.
22:56Means you should be betting
22:57that he was getting paid
22:58the equivalent of $300 an hour.
23:02He was getting paid
23:04this guy
23:05in 1978
23:06because his $16.18 an hour
23:08in the steel mill
23:09and his house payment
23:10was $125 a month.
23:14So,
23:15if your average house payment
23:16now is $2,200 a month
23:22then you should be getting paid
23:23$300 an hour
23:24to match.
23:27So, I mean,
23:28this kind of economy
23:30you know, for
23:31for people who were
23:32younger
23:33you don't
23:35you don't really know
23:36what the economy
23:37was like.
23:40You don't really know.
23:42So,
23:43yeah,
23:44to
23:45to have
23:46the kind of
23:47income to
23:48house payment
23:49ratio
23:50that some guy had
23:51in 1978
23:53when he was a young guy, right?
23:54Umm
23:58You'd have to be making
23:59$300 an hour.
24:01Now,
24:03the amount of money
24:05that
24:07is
24:08taken away
24:09through the system
24:10is
24:11almost beyond comprehension.
24:16Alright, so this guy goes on
24:17to say
24:19my house payment
24:20was $125 a month
24:21I was doing well.
24:22Then we started not
24:23putting tariffs on China's steel
24:24steel coming in from China
24:25and other countries.
24:27They were supplementing
24:28their industry
24:29and they took our steel industry
24:30away from us
24:31so I lost my job.
24:32They shut the mill down
24:33and then I had to go
24:34figure it out.
24:37At the time
24:38I was married with three kids
24:39and this was in the 80s
24:40early 80s
24:41and I had to figure it out.
24:42I couldn't get a job
24:43that was going to pay sufficient for
24:44to be able to survive
24:45so I had to create
24:46my own business
24:47and I've done that ever since.
24:49But it was the taking
24:50of the steel mills
24:51from this country
24:52and all these others
24:53that they've taken
24:54the auto industry
24:55and everything else
24:56that's killed our economy.
24:59Now you start making
25:00a fair playing field
25:01is what Mr. Trump is doing.
25:02President Trump is doing.
25:03These jobs will come back
25:04people will start making money
25:05and you say
25:06oh well you know
25:07now we're not going to get
25:08cheap products.
25:09Now we're not going to get
25:10cheap products
25:11but all the money
25:12that we're paying those countries
25:13for those cheap products
25:14will stay in this country
25:15and we will start manufacturing
25:16and we will have those
25:17jobs that pay well again.
25:18You'll see.
25:23So somebody wrote
25:28$16 per hour in 1978
25:32would be equivalent
25:33to $78.30 per hour today
25:36or $156,000
25:38that's just in terms
25:39of inflation.
25:46Somebody wrote
25:47in 1974
25:48I was a machinist
25:49a GE in Pittsburgh, Massachusetts
25:51my weekly take-home pay
25:52averaged about $160 a week.
25:54My rent for a one-bedroom apartment
25:57was $110 a month
25:59and included heat
26:00hot water and trash.
26:01I only paid for electric and phone.
26:03$110 today
26:04is about $700
26:05good luck with trying to find
26:06a nice one-bedroom apartment
26:07for that price today
26:08and I didn't have any credit cards.
26:18Now one of the things
26:20that
26:22I think is kind of
26:23under-discussed
26:24with regards to
26:26this sort of free-trade argument
26:28is
26:30the question of quality.
26:34The question of quality.
26:35I would say
26:38that
26:40quality has
26:43significantly collapsed
26:45since I was a kid.
26:47If you've bought things
26:49as a sort of middle-aged
26:50or older guy
26:51things just don't particularly last.
26:55They don't last well
26:56they break down
26:57and then it takes a while
26:58to get parts
26:59and so on, right?
27:01I mean
27:02I have
27:03a couple of things wrong
27:04in my house
27:05like
27:06my fridge lights
27:08don't really work
27:10they're very dim
27:12so if it's night time
27:13and I'm getting a snack
27:14or whatever
27:15to take out my phone
27:16to look in the fridge
27:17just the lights don't work
27:18I remember looking into
27:19trying to get them
27:20and it's like
27:21this was during COVID
27:22I haven't really looked since
27:23it was going to take forever
27:24it was going to be hundreds of dollars
27:25and I just never
27:26never kind of got around
27:27to doing it.
27:30A friend of mine has a pool
27:31and half the pool lights
27:32don't work
27:33and so on.
27:34And so
27:36when it comes to quality
27:39how well
27:40are things doing?
27:41Ah, well they're cheaper.
27:42It's like, yeah, well
27:43I get that
27:44I get that
27:45that's cheaper for sure.
27:47But is it cheaper
27:48in the long run?
27:49And this is actually
27:50kind of full circle
27:51to the debate I had
27:52with Peter Joseph
27:53back in the day
27:54where he was talking about
27:55how, you know,
27:56cheaper stuff
27:57lasts less long.
27:59And it's something
28:00my wife's parents said
28:01once that
28:02when we were younger
28:03we were too broke
28:04to be cheap.
28:06Right?
28:07You had to buy
28:08decent stuff
28:09because, you know
28:10a vacuum cleaner
28:11had to last for
28:1220, 30 years
28:13or more.
28:14And it just kind of feels
28:15like it doesn't really last
28:16that much anymore
28:17and things just kind of
28:18stop working.
28:19And you just kind of
28:20have to put up
28:21with
28:22lower quality
28:23less quality stuff.
28:30So does it really
28:31does it really pay?
28:33You know
28:34you can see these videos
28:35on X
28:36about home construction.
28:37Right?
28:38That you get
28:39sort of cheap labor
28:40unskilled labor
28:41and maybe the house
28:42is a little cheaper
28:43but then
28:44how much money
28:45do you have to spend
28:46to fix things up
28:47later?
28:51You know, I mean
28:52I grew up in these
28:53apartment buildings
28:55and
28:56we never had to
28:57replace anything.
28:59The fridge never
29:00stopped working.
29:01The stoves
29:02never stopped working.
29:04Things just
29:05worked.
29:06I barely remember
29:07having any issues
29:08with the taps
29:09or the plumbing
29:10or anything like that.
29:14The fans
29:15just kept working
29:16like the fans
29:17in the bathroom
29:18and so on.
29:19The windows
29:20opened and closed.
29:21Like everything
29:22just kept working.
29:23Just
29:24undead quality.
29:25Right?
29:26I don't think
29:27that's really the case anymore.
29:28I think stuff is
29:29cheaper
29:30but
29:31you end up
29:32backfilling it
29:33with a lot more
29:34expense down the road.
29:37All right.
29:38Somebody writes
29:39Thanks.
29:40Your education
29:41helped me stop
29:42spanking my kids.
29:43But I thought
29:44that's how it is
29:45since I was spanked
29:46at school
29:47and not just
29:48by my parents.
29:49Oh.
29:50That's wonderful
29:51to hear.
29:52I'm thrilled
29:53to hear that.
29:54That is absolutely
29:55great.
29:56Thank you so much.
29:57All right.
30:01Somebody says
30:02I attended a wake
30:03for a family member
30:04this weekend.
30:05It's a funeral thing.
30:06Old friends
30:07of the family
30:08attended also.
30:09A man I dated
30:10back 30 years ago
30:11was there too.
30:12And I asked
30:13how he was doing.
30:14Small talk.
30:15Two hours later
30:16I was getting ready
30:17to leave
30:18and he told me
30:19he still thinks of me
30:20often.
30:21Admitted he was married
30:22but wishes time
30:23could go back
30:24to when we were younger.
30:25It was beyond awkward
30:26getting away
30:27from that conversation.
30:28How can someone
30:29still be stuck
30:30in a place
30:31in time
30:32and not move on?
30:33Hmm.
30:34Ah.
30:35Regrets.
30:37Regrets.
30:38Regrets.
30:39Regrets.
30:43Um.
30:48Well if he feels
30:49he made a mistake,
30:50right, so
30:51if you're listening
30:52to this show
30:53I'm going to go out
30:54on a huge limb
30:55and I'm going to say
30:56you're a high quality person.
30:57Right?
30:58So maybe this guy
30:59maybe this
31:00guy you dated
31:0130 years ago
31:02maybe he chose
31:03a woman
31:04because she was hot
31:06or
31:08had that sort of
31:09crazy chaotic energy
31:10that some
31:11people have
31:12that kind of
31:13destabilizing in the long run.
31:15So maybe
31:17he married.
31:19Um.
31:21Maybe
31:26he chose the wrong woman
31:27for the wrong reasons.
31:29And he's
31:30he was married
31:31so of course
31:32the marriage didn't work out
31:33and maybe
31:34I don't know if he has kids
31:35but maybe because the marriage
31:36didn't work out
31:37he didn't end up
31:38having kids
31:40and now he's older
31:41and
31:42he's too old
31:43to have kids
31:45so
31:46maybe he just looks back
31:47and he's like
31:48I wish I could go back
31:49I wish I could turn back time
31:50I wish I could change things
31:52and all of that.
32:00freedomain.com
32:01slash donate to help out the show
32:02really would appreciate it.
32:07Somebody says
32:08my uncle bought his house
32:09in 1975
32:10for 40 grand
32:12and that same house
32:13is worth $400,000
32:14but he lost money
32:15if you price the house
32:16in grams
32:17or ounces of gold.
32:18Yeah.
32:22Now I mentioned this
32:23many years ago
32:24that I was at a
32:25house party once
32:26talking to a boomer
32:28and the boomer
32:29was making
32:30$9,000 a year
32:31in the 60s
32:32as a teacher
32:33and was able to buy a house
32:34for $13,000.
32:38Mmm.
32:47Somebody says
32:48I had to remodel
32:49my basement
32:50unexpectedly
32:51over the last six months
32:52due to mold.
32:53Thanks to your advice
32:54I invested in bitcoin
32:55back at $27,000.
33:02Instead of the remodel
33:03costing us half our savings
33:04it only cost us
33:05about a fifth.
33:06Thanks for your effort there.
33:07Oh, your effort.
33:08I appreciate that.
33:10James says
33:11oh man everything breaks
33:12nothing works anymore.
33:13Yeah.
33:15It's cheap crap
33:16looks tacky
33:17and crappy.
33:18Yeah.
33:20Your nighttime snack
33:21better contain some protein.
33:22Yeah.
33:33This week I had to have
33:34jeans repaired
33:35after one year
33:36of wearing.
33:37Crazy.
33:38I still wear clothes
33:39from the early 2000s.
33:40Yeah.
33:42Too broke to be cheap
33:43has been a valuable piece
33:44of advice I learned
33:45from you many years ago.
33:46Yeah.
33:49Our selected contractors.
33:50Yeah.
33:51Yeah.
33:52Very true.
33:55Somebody says
33:56as an appliance technician
33:57I saw how cheaply
33:58things were made
33:59and how many
34:00corners cut
34:02up close and personal.
34:03Yeah.
34:04True.
34:06Yeah.
34:11Somebody writes
34:12a few times
34:13in my marriage
34:14my wife
34:15has given me
34:16the cold shoulder
34:17refusing to say
34:18what she thinks I did
34:19wrong
34:20or communicate with me.
34:21It always breaks me down
34:22emotionally
34:23within the day.
34:24I break down in tears
34:25I'm never able to guess
34:26what the issue was.
34:27I don't know
34:28what I can do about it.
34:29I also get anxious
34:30when she's 30 minutes late
34:31and out of contact
34:32even though nothing
34:33ever happened to her.
34:34I think I might not have been
34:35as polite as a child
34:36or my mother did say
34:37she breastfed me.
34:38Hmm.
34:39I'm sorry to hear about that.
34:42So
34:44all
34:45successful relationships
34:46rely on
34:48explicit contracts.
34:50I mean you could say implicit
34:51but if the contract
34:52is not working
34:53then it needs to be made
34:54explicit, right?
34:57So if you had
34:59if you have a vulnerability
35:00and it sounds like you do
35:01it sounds like your mother
35:02was kind of cold
35:03maybe a little distant
35:04maybe you didn't get
35:05hugged as a child
35:06so if you have
35:07that vulnerability
35:08then your wife needs
35:09to know that you have
35:10that vulnerability
35:11and she needs to
35:12absolutely make sure
35:13absolutely make sure
35:15that
35:17she does not
35:18poke that wound
35:19that she does not
35:20poke that wound.
35:25So you need to
35:26sit down with your wife
35:27in a time
35:28where there's no conflict
35:29and you need to say
35:30I find this kind of
35:31unbearable
35:32we have to find
35:33some other kind of
35:34solution
35:35we have to find
35:36some other kind of
35:37solution
35:38than you just
35:39freezing me out
35:40like we have to have
35:41a commitment to talk
35:42about things
35:43you know
35:44because it is
35:45it is really
35:46really difficult
35:47and painful for me
35:48when you do that.
35:49Right?
35:50So you have to sit down
35:51and be vulnerable
35:52and how difficult it is
35:53and your past
35:54and your history.
35:55You know one of the
35:56things that happens
35:57of course
35:58when you get older
36:00is
36:01when you
36:02when you unite with someone
36:03when you love someone
36:04and you combine
36:05and unite with them
36:06is that you learn
36:07all about their
36:08strengths and weaknesses
36:09their
36:10peaks and their valleys
36:11their vulnerabilities
36:12and so on. Right?
36:13You learn all about those things
36:14and one of the things
36:15that's absolutely
36:16essential to do
36:18is to make an
36:20absolute commitment
36:21to not
36:26exploit
36:27any of the
36:28wounds left by
36:29prior people.
36:32You know if you have
36:33a wife and people
36:34yell at her
36:35then you can never
36:36be verbally aggressive.
36:37You have to
36:38you have to work around
36:39right?
36:40And then she'll work
36:41around yours.
36:42So I would say
36:45that
36:46you
36:47need to sit down
36:48with your wife
36:49and say you know
36:50for various reasons
36:51that aren't your fault
36:52this is kind of
36:53unbearable for me
36:54I'd really really
36:55appreciate it
36:56if you could
36:57find a way to
36:58talk to me
36:59when you're
37:00upset
37:01because
37:02talking to your
37:03wife
37:04is way too
37:05difficult for me
37:06and
37:07it's kind of
37:08unpleasant
37:09and you know
37:10it's not a
37:11subjective thing
37:12that you're not
37:13asking her to do
37:14the Macarena
37:15every time she's
37:16upset
37:17you're just
37:18saying I
37:19need you to
37:20talk to me
37:21when you're
37:22upset.
37:23Alright.
37:24Excuse me
37:25well
37:26oh
37:27how rude
37:28sorry
37:29the amount
37:30of skills
37:31that have been
37:32lost
37:33in manufacturing
37:34since the 70s
37:35you know
37:36talking 40 years
37:3750 years
37:41the skills
37:42that have been
37:43lost
37:44I mean
37:45a lot of the
37:46people who were
37:47in manufacturing
37:48back then
37:49have retired
37:50and
37:51because there
37:52hasn't been
37:53new manufacturing
37:54plants for a
37:55long time
37:56at least not
37:57many
37:58so
37:59it's
38:00really
38:01hard
38:02for us
38:03to teach
38:04the younger
38:05guys how
38:06to do
38:07stuff
38:08you know
38:09you can
38:10it's just
38:11one twist
38:12of the
38:13wheel
38:14and you
38:15go off
38:16the edge
38:17of the
38:18cliff
38:19in a car
38:20right
38:21and things
38:22are really
38:23bad after
38:24that
38:25so
38:26even
39:57if you
39:58have a
39:59job that's
40:00a waste
40:01of time
40:02imagine
40:03there's
40:04somebody
40:05installing
40:06turn signals
40:07on BMWs
40:08somebody
40:09says yes
40:10I find
40:11listening to
40:12you has
40:13boosted my
40:14drive to
40:15exercise and
40:16start a
40:17healthier
40:18lifestyle
40:19I'm
40:20thrilled
40:21I'm
40:22thrilled
40:23to hear
40:24congratulations
40:25all right
40:27as somebody
40:28wrote
40:29Jason Helms
40:30on X
40:31wrote
40:32Zoomers do
40:33not understand
40:34how bad
40:352008 was
40:36at all
40:37half the
40:38homes in our
40:39neighborhood
40:40were in
40:41foreclosure and
40:42empty
40:43half of the
40:44remaining
40:45homes were
40:46being rented
40:47because the
40:48owners couldn't
40:49afford them
40:50people were
40:51just tossing
40:52the keys
40:53on the
40:54counter and
40:55Canada escaped
40:56that to a
40:57large degree
40:58but I remember
40:59being in
41:00Florida in
41:012008 and
41:02holy crap
41:03holy crap
41:04it was mad
41:05we were on a
41:06little cul-de-sac
41:07and it was
41:08dirt cheap
41:09to get a
41:10place
41:11and
41:12yeah
41:13the places
41:14were insanely
41:15cheap
41:16and
41:17it was
41:18mad
41:19just
41:20everybody
41:21walking around
41:22like zombies
41:23just shell
41:24so
41:25this is
41:26not
41:27that
41:28all
41:29right
41:3085%
41:31of
41:32infidelity
41:33occurs
41:34in
41:35the
41:36absence
41:37of
41:38a
41:39place
41:40and
41:41it
41:42is
41:43not
41:44that
41:45it
41:46is
41:47not
41:48a
41:49place
41:50and
41:51it
41:52is
43:24not
43:25a
43:26place
43:27and
43:28it
43:29is
43:30not
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43:32place
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43:34it
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43:38place
43:39and
43:40it
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43:44place
43:45and
43:46it
43:47is
43:48not
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43:50place
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43:52it
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43:56place
43:57and
43:58it
43:59is
44:00not
44:01a
44:02place
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44:04it
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44:08place
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49:28not
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49:30place
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49:36place
49:37and
49:38it
49:39is
49:40not
49:41Japanese grandparents to make a single grandchild.
49:45One quarter of native-born Americans disappear every generation.
49:48In Europe it's a third.
49:50What can reverse it?
49:55Very tough.
50:01World of Engineering always a good follow.
50:03Space fact.
50:04One million Earths could fit inside the Sun.
50:10From April 4th, Vietnam has folded.
50:12Official calls Trump says they want to remove all tariffs in a deal with the U.S.
50:16Hopefully that will continue.
50:19Let's see what else I have.
50:30Somebody wrote, if your work laptop looks like this, your company will survive tariffs.
50:38And I think it's an old ThinkPad with the little, there was a little rubber button in
50:43the middle that you use as your mouse substitute sometimes.
50:46Kind of old, and I don't think that's been done for a while.
50:50All right, let me get back to your comments.
51:01Good conversation today.
51:02This has been an informative show.
51:05I hate to black pill everyone, says someone, but the latest stat is more babies were born
51:14in Pakistan alone than all of Europe.
51:17Yeah, it's a particular kind of warfare on the birth rate, right?
51:23But it's still better than a hot war, in my opinion.
51:36All right, any other last questions or comments?
51:39I just need to still, because I'm getting a little buzzing in my ear when I talk, I
51:43just don't need to rest the ear, so I'm not going to do too many shows until it should
51:47be better.
51:48I'm on some meds for it, so I should end up this week.
51:52I don't know whether I should vote with my principals and vote PPC or vote strategically
51:56and vote Conservative.
51:57Yeah, I'm sort of out of the political scene, so I don't really give dating, well, I give
52:01some dating advice, but wouldn't really give voting advice.
52:06All right, last questions.
52:14And sorry for the shorter shows, but we will get this sorted out soon.
52:20I'm sorry, I can't really give investment advice.
52:26And I did a show, it's a premium show, I did a show on tariffs, which is available at premium.freedomain.com.
52:33Premium.freedomain.com.
52:42Should I date a politician?
52:46I get what you're doing.
52:47Dating and politics together, together at last.
52:50Well done, well done.
52:52All right.
52:53Well, thanks, everyone, for a great chat today.
52:55Really do appreciate these absolutely wonderful and lovely and delightful questions.
52:59I will be back, I'm sure, over the next week for full engagement and length of shows, but
53:07I appreciate everybody's patience while I work through this little inner ear issue.
53:11Lots of love from everyone, well, from everyone, from me up here, and take care, my friends.
53:15I'll talk to you soon.
53:16Bye.
53:17Bye.
53:18Bye.
53:19Bye.