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November 01, 2023

This episode covers the French Revolution, music industry rebellion, Bitcoin, social media complaints, and the vaccine dilemma. They emphasize balancing passion and rationality. Listeners are encouraged to join their community.

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Chapters

0:00:01 Introduction and Promotion of "The Truth About the French Revolution"
0:04:04 Rant on Music Rebels who Folded under Social Pressure
0:10:50 Rebel Bands and the Illusion of Revolution
0:21:37 Bitcoin: A Peaceful Revolution Begins
0:26:57 Complimenting women on traditional hobbies sparks controversy
0:30:22 Women's obsession with attractiveness and the boredom of complaints
0:35:16 The simplified war between the sexes as a mating strategy
0:38:22 Social Media and the Web of Manipulation
0:42:00 The Impact of Fathers and Mothers on Childhood Experience
0:47:25 Focusing on Moms and Dads in Childhood
0:58:13 Einstein's Twitter and Time Management
1:02:09 Responsibility and Support for Content Consumption
1:08:36 Motivating people through positive and negative consequences
1:18:58 Striving for Equality in Relationships
1:30:31 Value of philosophy is in choosing to donate
1:33:37 The transformative power and value of the show
1:37:18 Quantifying the cost of unequal relationships
1:40:37 Asking important questions to the subconscious mind
1:41:46 Aiming for Immortal Love: What Would You Do?
1:43:46 The Hidden Forces Limiting Us
1:45:25 The Dilemma: Mediocre Child or Great Love?
1:46:46 Desperate Plea for Companionship
1:47:25 The Unconscious: A Deep Connection to Life's Origins
1:50:45 Balancing Passion and Reason: The Key to Greatness
1:55:48 Disconnecting from the Conversation
1:56:08 The Need for Love and Attention
1:59:35 The fear of losing one's bloodline and genes
2:02:44 Overcoming the influence of enemies and self-ownership
2:05:46 Defying imaginary fears through self-confrontation
2:08:56 Questioning the motive behind sympathy for abstract women

Long Summary

In this part of the conversation, I wanted to highlight our recent episode on Jared the Magnificent's research on the French Revolution. It was a fantastic episode, and I highly recommend checking it out. We also mentioned in passing that I am working on my upcoming thesis on Napoleon, so stay tuned for that.

I want to take a moment to encourage all of our listeners to reach out with any questions, comments, or donations. We truly value your support and engagement with the show. And speaking of engagement, we briefly mentioned Anne Hathaway's performance in Les Misérables and defended bands like Nickelback. We believe that creating good music is difficult and deserves credit.

Moving on to a more thought-provoking topic, we discuss the lack of true rebellion in the music industry and prominent figures. It's disheartening to see artists and celebrities quickly fold under social pressure and abandon their rebellious stances. We provide examples of musicians and celebrities we believe have compromised their rebellious image. Additionally, we criticize the exploitation of young female artists and touch on controversial incidents in sports, specifically related to professional hockey players resisting leftist ideals.

We then delve into a discussion on the ethics of emergency and the importance of making ethical choices in everyday life. We contrast the unrealistic heroism portrayed in movies with the significance of ethical decision-making. The French Revolution comes up as an example, and we discuss characteristics of individuals who easily adapt to different ideas. Although we briefly mention Jordan B. Peterson's Alliance for Responsible Citizens initiative, we dismiss the idea of being involved ourselves due to our focus on laying the foundations of a better future.

Shifting gears, Bitcoin becomes the next topic of discussion. We mention the anniversary of Satoshi Nakamoto's first posting of the Bitcoin protocols and reflect on our involvement in Bitcoin, including giving speeches, interviewing people, and reading the white paper. Regrettably, we express our remorse about not investing in Bitcoin in 2016 and reflect on our past investment in gold. We discuss the relationship between Bitcoin and peaceful parenting, noting that both are not subject to manipulation.

The conversation takes a turn as we address social media complaints regarding complimenting women on certain hobbies and bring up the issue of taxes. We reflect on the return on investment in Bitcoin compared to other investments and share personal experiences related to feminism and valuing women. We discuss the amount of money women spend on their appearances and the potential for investing that money instead.

The topic then shifts to the war between the sexes and how it is a form of mating strategy to get the unearned. We provide examples of individuals using manipulation to get what they haven't earned and emphasize the power of manipulation in today's society. We touch on conflicts, irritability, and the importance of controlling one's own emotions. Furthermore, we address the tendency to focus on mothers in discussions about childhood and discuss the impact of dysfunctional families on father involvement.

We engage with feedback from callers, including an angry father and a woman who brought her husband to the conversation. We discuss our audience's gender distribution and the importance of choosing the right partner for parenting. We reflect on our own upbringing and respond to a comment about our focus on mothers in discussions about childhood experiences.

In a separate section, we discuss whether starting a conversation with an insult is more male or female and describe someone named Simon who uses insults as a way to reproduce rejection. We express that people who consume our content have an obligation to pay back for the time, energy, and money invested in producing the content. We prioritize integrity over fame, prominence, and extra income. We also mention our admiration for Elon Musk and his ability to back up his words with action.

In a recent discussion, I talked about my purchase of Twitter and expressed my concern about the state of the world resembling San Francisco. Although I enjoy using Twitter, I am aware of its addictive nature. We contrast the reactive individuals lacking critical thinking skills on Twitter with the high-quality feedback we receive on this show. We express disappointment in people denying basic facts and engaging in absurd behavior on Twitter. We mention our desire to have Elon Musk on Twitter, but we worry it would take away time from our one-on-one live streams.

Shifting gears once again, we touch on the vaccine dilemma and the challenges of achieving immense commercial success while maintaining true philosophical integrity. We emphasize that on this show, we strive to provide value without judgment or critique, creating a space for listeners to rest and rejuvenate. While financial support from listeners is appreciated, it is not required to consume the show. Our intention is to share information and empower our listeners.

We highlight the importance of striking a balance between our passions and rationality and confronting the bureaucracy within ourselves. Greatness, we believe, comes from finding harmony between passion and reason and constantly adapting. We shouldn't let our emotions run wild, but we also shouldn't suppress them entirely. We encourage cultivating meaningful relationships and questioning our fears and insecurities. We discuss how philosophy has the power to change our genes and alter our bloodlines, and we believe it is essential to challenge those who oppose our growth. Instead of criticizing others, we should focus on realizing our own potential.

Tonight, we stumbled upon something intriguing, although we're unsure which drone it was. It's absolutely fascinating, and we believe we could compile a whole list of these discoveries. Maybe we should dedicate a show to questions to ask your unconscious. We jot that down, but we'll make it exclusive for our donors. Trust us, it's mind-blowing material.

On a lighter note, has anyone watched the Five Nights at Freddy's movie? We're just curious. It may not seem impressive, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be reviewed, right?

Now, let's shift gears once again. We ponder why it's so difficult to find mature, high-quality women outside of our immediate circle. Perhaps we were looking in the wrong places. Maybe it's worth asking our unconscious for some guidance. And why do we struggle to put in the necessary effort to find these high-quality women? It's a bit perplexing, but let us share this joke our daughter suggested.

We mentioned to her that we want to see Five Nights at Freddy's, but it seems like a significant time commitment for a movie. She discouraged us from making that joke, but we might just go ahead with it anyway. We suppose we've made up our mind.

You might be wondering if our sympathy or compassion for these women reflects an unconscious desire for compassion. We're not entirely sure, that's your brain doing its thing. But we can say this, it's not sympathy or compassion when we insult women by generalizing that they don't mature past high school. That's merely a way to avoid self-reflection, personal growth, and empowerment. It's also a way to distance ourselves from women. If we're busy criticizing women as a whole, it becomes challenging to confront our own flaws and maintain relationships.

So, are we wrapping up this discussion? We thought we were making progress, but we're not entirely certain what that entails. Nevertheless, if you have any final tips after this exhilarating show, feel free to share them. Thank you, Jimmy, for your invaluable assistance. These unconscious questions have been truly amazing. We'll definitely delve deeper into them. We might even revisit our old therapy journal, which spans over 5,000 pages, and see what questions we were asking ourselves back then.

Thank you, my friend. Your kind words mean so much to us. And don't be afraid to embrace your own strength and power. It would be a waste to let it go untapped. Also, if anyone wants to call in, head over to freedomain.com. Anthony, thank you for your generous donation. Your support is truly invaluable, and we genuinely appreciate it.

Lastly, remember to explore the French Revolution material – it's mind-blowing! Before we wrap things up, let us address a few other points here. Oh, we almost forgot something. There we go. We wish the show could go on longer; time always seems to fly. But hey, we've managed to cover a solid two and a quarter hours. That's pretty impressive.

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Sending love to everyone. Take care and talk to you soon. Bye!

Brief Summary

In this episode, we cover a range of topics, including the French Revolution, music industry rebellion, ethical decision-making, Bitcoin, social media complaints, and the war between the sexes. We engage with listener feedback, discuss Twitter's addictive nature, and touch on the vaccine dilemma. We emphasize the importance of balancing passion and rationality and cultivating meaningful relationships. We thank listeners for their support and encourage them to explore the French Revolution material and join our locals community. Stay tuned for more!

Introduction and Promotion of "The Truth About the French Revolution"

[0:01] There we go, there's a recording. And yes, you should absolutely check out the great work I am piggybacking off Jared the Magnificent's research, The Truth About the French Revolution.
And it's available for subscribers at freedomain.locals.com.
I just did part two today, and let me tell you, it's blowing my hair back.
Blow my hair back.
So yeah, you should check it out, freedomain.locals.com.
Just sign up, you can use the promo code, all caps UPB2022 and get it for free.
If you don't like it, you can just get and just cancel it, costs you nothing.
I can't do better than free.
Let's see if the new Napoleon movie is woke or not.
All you have to do is scan the extras, right? Scan the extras.
But yeah, we've got a great thesis about the French Revolution, and we're also working on the truth about Napoleon.
So that's going to be fascinating. Fascinating stuff. So looking forward to that.
Hit me with your questions, comments, let me just go back here, tips, donations, absolutely welcome.
In fact, more than greatly and deeply appreciated.

[1:25] Last time I was this early, Steph had a mullet. Never had a mullet.
I had a ponytail when I was in art school. Well, that's kind of inevitable, right?
That sort of feels inevitable.

[1:39] Are you enjoying the Bitcoin, the Planet O Bitcoin? The truth about Les Miserables, why do people like it?
Well, are you talking about the musical or are you talking about the book?
And when the book, are you talking about the Mondo lengthy Atlas Shrugged with a revolution spice book, or are you talking about the sort of shaved down shorter one?

[2:09] The musical it goes on forever? The musical is magnificent in my humble opinion. He thinks that man is me knew him at a glance. Yeah music is I mean you hear Colm Wilkinson do bring him home and man if that doesn't move you to tears I don't know what will. The movie is terrible the movie is just appalling, not just because they had some significant non singers in it but also because the director made this weird choice in the movie with Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman and so on. He made this weird choice to have the actress sing not in a studio but just sing live and just do it over and over and over again he could have busted their voices into a million pieces. Now if you you want to put the headphones on and you want to listen to the original cast recording with Colm Wilkinson of Les Mis, it's magnificent.
It is a beautiful, beautiful story and really well done. And if I saw the stage twice, Anne Hathaway, Anne Hathaway was great in that, you know, it was great in that.
She embraced ugly in the way that only beautiful people can.
No, I thought Anne Hathaway was great. A lot of people find her annoying.
Oh, come on, man, nobody finds anyone anything, God.

[3:22] I mean, look into, you know, you've heard this thing like, Nickelback, Nickelback is bad, right?
Have you heard this like, Nickelback is just, Nickelback's embarrassing.
Look at this graph. You know that there's no truth behind any of that, right?
It was just a meme. It was just a meme that just became kind of popular.
And now everyone hates on Nickelback because they've heard everyone hates on Nickelback in the same way that right after Halloween, you get the thawing out the Mariah Carey all I want for Christmas song. Like it just it's become a thing nobody thinks for themselves and nobody knows what's going on. Of course I take this kind of stuff personally right and people think I'm bad because other people have heard that I'm bad.

Rant on Music Rebels who Folded under Social Pressure

[4:04] Nickelback is a great it's a great band it's a great band. You know how hard it is do you know, how hard it is to be a great band? It's like unbelievably hard. I think about this from time I think about this, you know, yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away.
You think that song is like a two and a half minute song, right?
It's now been recorded by 8,000 different artists or something like that, right?
Just a little dink-a-dee-dee-dee-dee, like a little tune, little ditty.
Or, you know, hit the road, Jack. You know what, you come back no more, no more, no more, no more, hit the road.
Simple song, dee-dee-dee-dee, right?
You know how hard those jams are to create? sitting in the morning sun, you know, it's so hard to make those songs. I mean I've written songs when I was younger, I was in a garage band or two here and there and man it's hard work.

[4:58] From high up on my lonely cloud, far down can I see The barren plains my heart to search for one to comfort me I mean that's cheesy bad stuff and it's really hard to make good songs man, Creed had a resurgence out of nowhere from Annoying to Beloved well Creed had a resurgence because people looked at their Superbowl show from years ago as the height of Americana because you could actually have Pride and all of this rotten cancerous anti-western anti-christian stuff hadn't seeped into the very fabric of the universe at that point, so people look back on that with some significant, nostalgia. But, oh no.

[5:40] Rantus Ticulus already? No. No. We need some foreplay, don't we?
I mean, we can't just jump into it, right? No lube, no nothing?
Not even a hi, how you doing?
Bias dinner? Hey man, absolutely. It's a paid service, it's fine to get to action.
Hit me with a why if you're ready for a rant.
It's been a while, feels like it's been a while. I almost forgot I did them.
All right, just in time. Okay, so here we go.
Damn it.

[6:27] Hey, do you remember all of those rebels? You remember all those rebels in the music world?
F you, I won't do what you tell me. You gotta fight for your right to party.
Rebel, F the man, F the po-po.
F the system, think for yourself. Be in, wait, what?
Wait, Pfizer's handing out money? Oh, fuck.
How absolutely atrocious it was for a lot of people who believed in the tin foil rebels, with the Axe guitars how quickly they all folded like pathetic watercolor origami when, the tiniest bit of social pressure came along.
Oh, we're done. We've folded. You've got to fu- Oh, wait, there's a social narrative?
Okay, yeah, fine, fold, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, F your freedoms, F rebellion, F thinking for yourself, to hell with all of that. Nope, folded, folded like a cheap suit in a laundromat.
Just absolutely terrible. Give me some examples. Give me some examples of the people who just.
Crashed and folded in the most pathetic, embarrassing, spineless, conceivable manner.
Rage in support of the machine. Rage against the machine became annoyance against the Tinker Toys.
Oh man, wasn't it sad?

[7:56] Rage for the machine.
Oh man. Oh my gosh. You know, like I think about, I don't know, So way back, the Rolling Stones, were they on Ed Sullivan and it was too risqué for them to sing Let's spend the night together. So they apparently just sang Let's spend some time together.
And Elvis Costello, they wanted him to play the new song, but he played the old song on Letterman.
He's so angry. Oh my God, it's just absolutely sad.
F you, you do what they tell you, Jello Baffer from the Dead Kennedys.
Didn't the Dead Kennedys have a song after Elvis died called The Big Fat Jerk Is Dead?
I think they did. I think they did.
I think a lot of that rebel sentiment was only popular because Bush was president.

[8:50] Well it wasn't just Bush, I mean the world was much more conservative back then, much more Christian and so on, because you know the old guard was sort of there and running the show.
So yeah, oh Howard Stern, oh my god yeah don't even get me started on Howard Stern and uh who else?
The Hall of Shame, um well the Terminator of course, Schwarzenegger and so on.
Perfect Circle, Counting Bodies to the Rhythm of the War Drums, they folded.
Bruce Springsteen, yep. Eric Clapton, yeah he actually did, he bucked the trend man.
Michael Moore, yeah, Mick Jagger, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, was it Eminem, yeah, Eminem, just Metallica, at least in Napster days, yeah, Nick Cannon, yeah, it's just, yeah, John Cena plays a tough guy on TV, but heaven forbid he offends the Chinese, Neil Young, Tony Folden, Oh, did South Park fold? They'd be the last to fold, wouldn't they?

[9:59] But yeah, these plastic rebel dolls that you play with only when it's not controversial is really, really sad. Wasn't that... that was really the ultimate test of independent thinking, right?
South Park was kind of pro-vax, yeah. Family Guy was an eternal fold from the beginning, yeah.
Yeah. South Park called the unvaccinated selfish. Well, I guess they can go back to making fun of really tough opponents like Barbara Streisand and Meghan and Harry and the head of Disney, oh did Jay-Z fold as well?
Yes, that's right, oh my god, that was sad.

[10:40] The Rock apologized for claiming he spoke Chinese. Chinese is not a language, it's a country. You mean Mandarin? Sichuan or something? I don't know, whatever it is.

Rebel Bands and the Illusion of Revolution

[10:50] Yeah, somebody should absolutely do a parody. We had Al Neverwood, right? John Cena?
Yeah, somebody should absolutely just do a parody of all of these rebel bands that just totally faulted. Oh, I will fight for the, I will fight the power, I will fight imperialism, I will fight the patriarchy, I will fight capital. Oh, it's an airborne virus. Okay, govern me harder baby. Yeah, soccer players and tennis players were more rebellious, although not many, right? A lot of big music acts, most of Hollywood types are PSYOP divisions of the state. Yeah, not gonna disagree with that. You know when you, Did you ever have a dream like when you were younger man, it wouldn't be great to have musical talent and play stadiums and growl your songs And it wouldn't how wouldn't that be fantastic?
Boy, go go and watch the um documentary on Alanis morissette who was one of the biggest turnaround acts in the history of music, uh You would not, Believe you would not believe what happened, you would not believe what happened to Alanis Morissette as a teenager, as a very young girl, as a very young girl. The music industry is, well.

[12:17] Well, it's not super spicy virtuous, I think you could say. All we want to do is get the young girls, separate them from their parents.
Anyway, it's just monstrous. Professional hockey players don't play around with leftist crap.
Oh, did they fight the mandates and stuff like that? Tupac was convicted of rape, was he?
1994. see him as a sensitive poet. E. Michael Jones parodied Neil Young. I didn't see that.

[12:54] Yeah, now did you see that hockey player who like half beheaded the other hockey player with the kick to the throat with his blade? I mean, it's just unbelievable. Never seen or heard anything like that in my life. Yeah, it's hard to unsee that. Yeah, I really, really try and avoid seeing like direct murder obviously. I just I don't want to see people getting shot.
Like I just almost it's almost like you're inviting demons into your brain almost like right. Seemed on purpose kicked I think that guy it was a black guy right had a real history of affair aggression as far I understand it but.

[13:35] All right, let's get your questions to your comments. But yeah, all these people, they play rebels, right? They play rebels.
And this is one of the things I said many, many, many years ago about how art tends to bleed you of your capacity for heroism by constantly portraying heroism in situations you'll never face, right?
Well, you know, if I land from Krypton and I have superpowers and I face Gene Hackman, man, I'm taken, I guess, like things that will never happen.
All these ethics of emergency stuff.

[14:11] All this ethics of emergency stuff.
And it gives you heroism so far removed from your life that it is bleeding any capacity for strength and virtue out of your life.
This is, you know, when I talk about, you know, all my call-in shows is sort of fundamentally, I mean almost all my shows, but all my call-in shows is fundamentally about ethics, right?
And it's about the ethics that you can have in your real life. Will you tell the truth to your parents? Will you tell the truth to your siblings? Will you tell the truth to your spouse? Will you tell the truth to those around you? That's stuff you can actually do, as opposed to the Marvel movies where it's like, well, you know, when I face a giggling Joker head with wild spandex and, nunchuck toys, man, I'm gonna be well trained for that. It's like, no, no, you won't. All the this just bleeding out your virtue from your daily life into the nothing verse, right?
Across the nothing verse.
That's just appalling. When I'm underwater and look like someone from Game of Thrones, man, then I'll be really virtuous.
And it's like, oh, it's terrible. Just bleeds you right off.

[15:27] It's like your sexual energy going into sensual movies. Speaking of which, all right.
So, all right. Questions, comments, issues, challenges.
What's on your brain, my beauties? What is on your brain?
I had a, just while I'm waiting for the comments to come in, I did a couple of hours on the French Revolution today, a couple of hours on the French Revolution today, and then I did a call-in show.
Do you have in any way the wind blows kind of guy or gal in your life?
We should do this, yes. We should do the opposite, yes. We should do neither, yes.
We should do all at the same time, of course. Do you have one of those amoeba, squid, spineless, adapt itself to any fashionable container kind of person.

[16:31] What do you think about Jordan B. Peterson's Alliance for Responsible Citizens initiative?
Would you consider being a contributor if invited, and if not, why not?

[16:44] I'm sorry, I've just been talking about moral situations you're never going to face. I'm never, going to get invited to have anything to do with that. I'm never going to be invited to have anything to do with that. Oh my gosh, that's funny. That is funny. That is very funny.

[17:12] Yeah, right. Let's see here. That's just, I mean, sorry. That's funny. I mean, I have such an eye to the future. Like I'm, in terms of the work that I do, I don't know if anybody cares to lift the lid behind the work that I do.
The work that I do, I have such an eye to the future that these sort of hiccups, bumps and little valleys and this and that and the other.
Like if you're climbing Mount Everest and there's a little gully and like the gully doesn't matter because you're going up thousands and thousands of feet, right?
So I have such an eye from the future and I feel such a responsibility from the future to try and lay the foundations of a better world, that the idea I would join some highly compromised initiative that nobody's gonna be able to tell the truth anyway.
Just, yeah, it's a 500 year game plan. So yeah, it's really something.

[18:18] All right. Can there be a revolution without bloodshed? Is it possible that it's engaged with society?
You abstaining with politics and Twitter while still maintaining geographical presence.
Oh yes, revolutions without bloodshed.
The most important revolutions in my life have all been peaceful.
Yeah, they can be revolutions. countries all countries ended slavery without violence except for America where it really wasn't about slavery.
The scientific revolution, well I suppose there were some attacks from very reactionary forces but for the most part it was relatively bloodless. Expansion of the free market was relatively bloodless.
The most important revolutions don't involve violence.

[19:12] And in my life, my most important revolutions have been about rejecting violence, rejecting exploitation, rejecting cold people, rejecting disloyal people, rejecting abusive people, rejecting trash talkers, rejecting negative people, rejecting losers and failures.
Because we all start out, at least I did with my friends, we all started out as failures.
We all started out like single moms and bad households and you know, smart, but, you know, so we all started out as kind of losers and failures and you use that as the propulsion to get you somewhere.
And then other people, you know, they don't make progress, what do they make?
You know what happens when you don't make progress or why you don't make progress?
You make progress or you make excuses.

[19:58] That's it, that's it. You make progress or you make excuses.
And the people who made excuses, They don't like you making progress, so then they'll start to undermine you because they're addicted to excuses.
And excuses are low time preference, right? Low time preference, which means you'd rather feel better in the here and now than you would, feeling better in the long run.
You'd rather feel better, oh, something didn't go right, well, I'll just make an excuse.
It's somebody else's fault, it wasn't me, bad people, blah.
And rather than make progress, right?
That's high time preference. I thought high time preference was, oh, high time preference, sorry, deferral of gratification. High time preference is when you want stuff now rather than later.
Yeah, sorry, I got that backwards. Thank you, I appreciate that.
Totally, totally right.

[20:56] In an earlier show, you said that you're courageous, not suicidal with some of the topics you can talk about.
How would you go about finding such topics There's someone like me trying to look for them.
That's very funny. So Steph, those things you're not gonna talk about, can you talk about them?
I'm sorry, don't mean to laugh. I don't know.
I don't know what goes through people's minds sometimes. I'm sorry.
Hey, that thing you said you were never gonna tell me, can you tell me?
Not today, CIA! That's pretty funny. That's pretty funny.

Bitcoin: A Peaceful Revolution Begins

[21:37] So.
Bitcoin, well yeah, Bitcoin as far as a peaceful revolution goes.
Yeah, it just was it yesterday, it was the 15 year anniversary of Satoshi Nakamoto's, reading of, well, his first posting of the Bitcoin protocols and all of that.
James, can you do me a favor? Can you just look up when I read, I read Satoshi Nakamoto's entire paper as a show way back in the day.
Can you do me a favor and just find out what the price of Bitcoin was when I first...
Stay out of my Isotope. That'd be pretty cool. That'd be pretty cool. Yeah, look, what was the price? I mean, on what was the price when I first talked about it, I think in 2011 or 2012 or something like that. I've really trying to help everyone low these many years. I've really, really been trying to help everyone low these many years. But of course, I can't tell you what to do.
I can't go and say, buy this, buy that.
I still take Bitcoin for donations. Absolutely, freedomain.com slash donate. Stuff right there.
Right there.
You know, I gave lots of.

[22:47] I gave lots of speeches at Bitcoin conferences. I interviewed Bitcoin people.
I read the white paper. I talked about it on many, many, many shows.
I heard about Bitcoin from you in 2016. if only I had bought back then.
Yeah. Well, look, I mean, I put money into gold at one point, which, you know, hasn't done quite as well. That's fine.
That's fine. As long as you've got enough to eat, right?

[23:15] Yeah, I mean, I would have loved to shake everyone by the neck and tell them to buy, but I can't. I can't do that.
I mean, that's not appropriate, right?

[23:28] Yeah, gold sucks.
Are Bitcoin and peaceful parenting related? They seem to be, but I can't quite figure it out.
Yeah, so, Bitcoin is not subject to human wills or manipulation.
Peaceful parenting isn't either.
The life of virtue is when you're not subject to each particular whim, but you have a standard of principles, right?
Too late to buy more Satoshis. Well, you're going to have to make that choice for yourself, right?
I can't tell you what to buy or what not to buy. I can't do that.
First Bitcoin, first podcast with Bitcoin in it is 1932. I thought that was the year.
I'm like, well, I really was ahead of the curve. June, 2011.
Yeah.
June, 2011.
Yeah, and I, yeah, looking up the price, yeah, June 2011, it's going to make, going to make people cry, right?
I'm not coming, I'm not familiar with Kim Jong-Pain's parenting books.
It was 30 bucks, it was 30 bucks back then.

[24:50] Honestly, the other night, just to help myself get to sleep, I was thinking about all the stuff I've been right about.
Yeah.
Adam versus the man, yeah, the debate's on that.

[25:12] Yeah, and I think I talked about it on the message board even before that, so.
30 bucks. And what percentage of the current price is that? On 2000th?
On June 11th, Bitcoin opened at $18.55. $18.
$18 yeah it went down it went down to two bucks again after the show and so after I talked about Bitcoin it was down at two bucks at some point right.
So let's see what's it at I think I last time checked $48,000 so let's see let's say three divided by 48,000. Yeah, so it's gone up a lot. Let's do it the other way, sorry.
Let's do 48,000 divided by 3. Yeah, so since I first started talking about Bitcoin at its lowest point to now, it's gone up 16,000 times.

[26:37] That's wild, right? Thank you for everything since 2015, I love you. Thank you.
I just bought 500 coins, how do I transfer it here? I don't know, but I mean, you can just transfer coins, right?

Complimenting women on traditional hobbies sparks controversy

[26:57] Steph, I recently saw a woman on social media complaining that it's not okay to compliment a woman on her womanly hobbies such as cooking or knitting, that women should not be given value based on how useful he is to a man slash potential husband.
Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh.

[27:22] Yeah, like I'll listen more to women's complaints about men when women stop taking men's taxes at a rate massively higher than men do. Like women are net takers of taxes, men are net contributors to taxes.
So, you know, maybe stop taking half my money and then we can talk about how I shouldn't talk about you being a good cook.
You know, that's kind of funny, right? Like if I were to say, if I were to say, if I were to say to women, well, the price of me not complimenting your cooking is that you stopped taking tax money.
I wonder what they'd choose.
I wonder what they choose. Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh. I wonder what other investments, oh thank you for the tip, I appreciate that.
I wonder what other investments even came close to that return in 12 years.
Well, hard to say. thinking you would be a great wife is insulting.
Yeah.

[28:42] Well, I mean, you just have to look up the ratio of men to women in, like, the actual essential stuff that keeps society running.
Like, you know, the construction, the sewage treatment, sewage handling, sewage processing, the roads, the provision of food, the trucking, the actual stuff that keeps society running.
Not sure that OnlyFans is an absolute necessity for human survival?
Reminds me of an ex when I asked her whether she'd take a jab due to the fertility risks and she responded, do you only value women for their fertility?
Until then she was super conservative but that brought the feminist down.
Yeah, I mean, so, you only value women for their fertility.
You know, do you guys remember how much women spend on their faces over the course of their life?
Do you know how much money women spend on their faces over the course of their life?
Do you remember that?
Yeah, 300,000. Now, somebody said, that's kind of high, and I thought, well, you know, 15 to 85, yeah, 70 years every day, it's about 11 bucks a day, and yeah.
And that doesn't even count if you took that money and invested it.
If you took that money and invested it, it'd be millions and millions and millions of dollars.

[30:09] So yeah, if women say, well, you only value us for our fertility and our attractiveness, it's like, you know, I've been to the fucking mall, lady.
I've been to the mall.

Women's obsession with attractiveness and the boredom of complaints

[30:22] It's not men buying all that shit. And frankly, we don't even care that much.
It's not men who are valuing women's attractiveness. It's women who are obsessed with female attractiveness.

[30:39] And, you know, it's just a test, right? You all know it's just a nonsense test for the most part.
And the response to most of this stuff is just an eye roll. Like, oh yeah, you said I asked her if she'd prefer a guy who makes more. She said, yes. So I said, you only value men for our wages?
Yeah. It's just an eye roll. Like, honestly, I've known a lot of, Particularly these days, a lot of really hard-working women who've got like five kids, six kids, they've got mid-teens, new babies, like they are hard-working and they do charity work, they do homeschooling work, they are parents, they are wives, they're upstanding members of their community, and how much time do you think they spend worrying about whether somebody compliments compliments them for their cooking. Like just out of curiosity, a lot of this stuff is just unbelievable levels of boredom. They're just bored people who complain. Do you understand? Like you know how this works right? Most people who are complaining are just complaining of being bored. Well I'm bored let me just poke and see if I can stimulate something and see if I can rouse my torpid emotional system. Like do you know you get bored and irritated. Don't you get irritated when you're bored?

[32:08] I mean, it's just boring. You know, go do some good in your community, right?
The people who complain, oh, I can't believe you complimented my cooking or my knitting, and I'm like, okay, do you, how much time a week do you spend on charity work?
How much time do you, how much time a week do you spend on contributing to your community or doing something good in the world or helping people out or reading to the blind or whatever it is, right?
You all know it's zero, right? You all know it's zero.

[32:46] It's really boring. I mean, just bored, right? Just bored.
Just bored.
And bored people get miserable because they know that they're sacrificing any kind of good that they can do in the world just for the sake of being self-indulgent, right?

[33:12] Yeah, idle hands are the devil's work, yeah, for sure. Like human beings, like here's the funny thing, right?
It's been a while since I've mentioned this, so if you haven't been around for a while, hit me with a why, if you don't mind your mind getting blown out of your ear, hit me with a why.
You okay, you ready?
Right.
There's no such thing as less conflict.

[33:43] There's no such thing as less conflict. The level of conflict, stress and tension in your life is pretty much going to be the same. Because if you're too peaceful, you'll just start trouble.
We are friction-based life forms. We are energetic movers and shakers, apex predators.
We are sharks. We can't stop. We don't have a bladder.
We just sink and die. The level of stress and tension and conflict in your life is going to be the same pretty much no matter what you do. So, you can either be productive or you can be avoidant. You can be social, you can be isolationist, you can go out there and do things in the world or you can stay home and do nothing. Your level of stress and tension, pretty much going to be the same. I mean, it'll spike up and down a little bit here and there, but it's pretty much the same. Haven't you ever had this? You're battling through something really tough and difficult and you get to the end and like three hours later, you're just like, I gotta do something else.
Or you get annoyed, right? I mean, there was a phase in my life where I was either...
I was either tense or irritable. That was my... Tense or irritable?
Right? I'd rather be tense, because that's more exciting, right?

[35:03] So yeah, you're gonna be stressed either way, you're gonna be wound up either way, you might as well put it to some good use, because there's no way to avoid it.

The simplified war between the sexes as a mating strategy

[35:16] Men love women's looks, women only care about men's wallets.
The war between the sexes, so-called argument summed up.
What and who and how does that help anyone other than lining pockets of troublemakers?
No, the war between the sexes is a form of mating strategy to get the unearned, right?
You know that, right? Do we know this?
It's a way of getting the unearned.
So, I'll just give you a real brief example, we can talk about it more if it's helpful or of value to you, but the real brief example is the man who doesn't make much money who, complains vociferously that women only want men for money in the hopes, what is he hoping for?
He's hoping he'll find a woman who will accept a man with less money. Boom!
Mating strategy achieved. A woman who's overweight, who says that any man who prefers a woman who's not overweight is fatphobic and that way she can get a man to commit to her without losing the weight.
It's just a way of trying to get something that's unearned, right?
A real man, a real man knows to step up and take care of a single mother because they're brave and noble and heroic, blah blah blah blah blah, right?
So the normal natural human impulse is to take care of your own kids.
But if you can convince people to take care of someone else's kids, then you can get what you wouldn't have otherwise earned, right?
Does this make sense?

[36:43] It's just a way of getting what you haven't earned, right? In the same way, like guilt trips are a way of getting what you haven't earned.
If you don't like your mom, she was mean to you or distant or doesn't add really any value to your life, is kind of petty and boring or whatever it is, right?
So you don't really want to spend time with her. She guilts you, oh, really, you're my mother, I gave up everything for you.
And then you just trudge your way over and blah, blah, blah.
I mean, I remember this, my mother would go to these dances.
She loved to dance and she had, you know, she had a very slender figure and she was very attractive, right? So.
And she wanted me to come and dance with her and I was in my 20s or whatever and I really didn't wanna go, but just, you know, really push the issue and, you know, all that I sacrificed and stuff.
And I was like, eh, okay, fine. And I went and it was okay, but, you know, a manipulation is just, I'm too lazy to earn it.

[37:40] So I'm just going to manipulate it. We're too lazy to earn it.
Is it easier to go out, raise pigs, feed pigs, clean up after pigs, slaughter pigs, bleed them out, carve them up, cook them, or is it just easier to say, hey man, can I have some of your bacon?
Or rob the farmer. No, but I'm talking about manipulation, right?
I was talking to this woman today whose father was manipulative, and she said, you know, I just think of him as weak.
I'm like, weak? Manipulation is not weak. Manipulation is incredibly powerful.

Social Media and the Web of Manipulation

[38:22] Manipulation is magic. Manipulation is how the world runs these days.
There's a small minority, it's like an inverted pyramid of a few people, like us and 12 other guys working to produce stuff, and then everyone else is just this inverted pyramid gilting everyone and everything into passing it along.
Manipulation is the physics of the modern world.
It's everything. It's the entire predatory cobweb bullshit, spine-robbing nonsense that you've got to dodge through and run through every day.
I mean, especially if you spend any time on social media.

[38:59] I have to have an opinion about this, and I have to have an opinion about that, and manipulate this.
I mean, all of the lies coming out these days about conflicts, I mean, it's just, anyway.

[39:13] That's good, I don't have to care about any of it, it's lovely.
All right, thank you for your tip.
You had a previous question? Did you, my friend, did you have a previous question?
Could you retype it? I'd appreciate it, or just copy paste it if you don't mind.
After the painful conflicts of defooing, I found myself talking to friends about childhood and confronting bad parenting in public. So I can confirm, conflict is constant and it can be endlessly unproductive if you get complacent.
Oh, yeah, no, then the avoidance of conflict in general raises more conflict, right?
Like if you avoid some weird lump in your body, it's probably going to get worse, right?
Have you ever seen John Cleese's program on how to irritate people?
Mother used some guilt trips to keep her grown son at home watching TV rather than going out because an actual ball and chain would be too obvious, yeah.
He actually, John Cleese did a lot of pretty good work. He did a lot of therapy himself and he wrote a book with his therapist, if I remember rightly, which was very good.
And one of the things I got out of that book was either you control your own emotions or you end up having to control other people, so.
Let's see here.

[40:36] He did a lot of corporate training programs about how to be productive in meetings and so on.
So yeah, he did a lot of cool stuff.
Brillianteen Stick Insect was how his wife described him in Fawlty Towers, which I thought was actually pretty funny.
And the man's got some hamstrings. You see those funny walks, man.
Man's got some Kramer-style hamstrings. Let's see here. Steph, you're an idiot.
When it comes to people's lives that had under-involved slash abusive tics, I just say that because Because I notice how you focus on the mom a lot more when people mention their childhood.
Is tics dads?
Let me see here. Is tics dads? I don't understand. Boy, there's something kind of Freudian about that.
When you mistype the word dad, you're trying to type the word dad and you type tic.
When it comes to people's lives that had under-involved or abusive dads, I just say that because I I notice how you focus on the mom a lot more when people mention their childhood.
That is very interesting. And what do you guys think?
I'm perfectly happy to hear that as critical feedback.
Do I focus too much on moms in call-in chats?

[41:57] Moms raise babies? No. Yeah, it could be.

The Impact of Fathers and Mothers on Childhood Experience

[42:00] I mean, I certainly can tell you, I try to follow the lead of the caller.
Like, if the caller says, I really want to talk about my dad.
I don't say, no, we have to talk about your mom. I mean, I generally follow the lead.
And generally, generally when you have a bad dad, the dad breaks orbit.
Do you know what that means?
Breaks orbit.
Yeah, he's gone, right? He just breaks orbit, whereas moms boomerang, right?
Dads break orbit, moms boomerang over the course of people's lives.
Does that make any sense?
So the moms tend to be more immediate to people because the moms are trying to borrow back in or are messing them up or something like that.
So that tends to be more approximate, but.

[42:54] Is there a plague of government-sponsored single father families?
I think to ask the question is to answer it. I don't believe so, and long ago call-ins we've done, you've not driven the convo to my mother when I was talking about my father.
No, and it's funny too, because I just, I mean, obviously this is anecdotal and all that, but I just did a call-in show with, it was very interesting, well, I did two that were, one was, I don't know if you heard this, but one was a father who was very angry that I had talked to his daughter.
So we had a discussion about that.
Always happy to hear, honestly, I know that sounds bizarre, But I'm happy to hear because you know if there's things I'm doing wrong things I could do better always happy to hear, So yeah, I had a conversation with a guy. He was pretty mad The dad show is not released yet. No, Somebody says in my call and we talked a lot more about my father. I It's your conversation. I always said that to people so, You always express great sympathy with people who had uninvolved fathers So and the other interesting show that I did today, which is very interesting was it was a woman who's been listening to me for a long time, and she brought her husband in who didn't know who I was at all.

[44:02] That's a very interesting conversation to have because it's like one person's very experienced, the other person doesn't know what's going on at all.
And it was very, very interesting. And the reason I'm saying that is that the husband had what I viewed as a pretty distant father.
So we did a role play where the husband was playing his father and I was playing him.
And so that was a very father-centric on his side. It was more maternal-centric on her side, but it was more father-centric on his side.
So yeah, I mean, listen, I mean, I'm, I'll keep it in my mind.
I mean, I've heard certainly the people who are like, oh, Steph, you, you just, uh, you simp with the women and you're more harsh with the men and so on.
Right? Somebody says, I think focus tends to be appropriate because I find there's not enough emphasis on toxic femininity, lots about toxic masculinity out there though.
Yes, fathers tend to be, I mean certainly more involved than they used to be, but in dysfunctional families fathers tend to be a little less involved Now that still has issues, but they're usually not as immediate and pressing And the other thing too, of course, as people have pointed out, my audience skews a little bit more on the sausage fest side of things So, is it worse for a man to have a bad relationship with his father or a bad relationship with his mother?

[45:30] What do you think, Yeah, because he's if he's straight right he's going to get romantically involved with a woman so it's the maternal side of things that's probably gonna have more impact on his dating life and, When he's a father it's the father absence is probably gonna have more effect on his parenting But in terms of dating and it's more important to pick the right person to have children with, because then your parenting job becomes that much easier, right? But if you choose the wrong person to have children with, it's often fairly unrecoverable, so.
All right.
Why do you explain perfectly why women voting doesn't work but still believe women should vote? I don't know that I've addressed those arguments in any detail in particular, I could be wrong, but I'll let you have a chat with yourself there.
Here, enjoy your hand puppet.
All right.

[46:32] Pardon me, I was looking for the mute button. I'm like, too many buttons, couldn't find it.
Sorry about that. Don't mean to give you a ear cancer there.
I think your point of view is based on a generation that's actually used to masculine men and feminine women.
I don't think it's simping to talk to women like women and to push hard on men.
Um, I'm a generation that's used to masculine men and feminine women.
Not when I was growing up, man. When I was growing up, there was all single moms around and there was almost no dads around and the dads that were around were complete trash heaps in wife beaters.
So I mean, maybe a little bit more in the media, but there was Kramer versus Kramer, which I went to pay to literally go and see their movie three times in the theaters because because I found it very interesting and well done.
Lots to think about, lots to talk about in that. All right, let's see here.

Focusing on Moms and Dads in Childhood

[47:25] Now what's interesting though, it's interesting that when you say Steph you're an idiot when it comes to people's lives that had under-involved or abusive dads, I notice how you focus on the moms a lot more when people mention their childhood.
So that's interesting. Let me ask you this. I'm going to paste this back in because I'm half and half on this.
Not sure why the parent balance question included an insult.
Well you're an idiot obviously is not it's never an insult right it's never really an insult because you wouldn't say that to somebody who had a genuine cognitive limitation right.
If you go to somebody who's got some physical cognitive limitation and you say you're an idiot that's just me right so the only person you'd say you're an idiot to is someone you don't think is an idiot.
So i never really i mean honestly don't take it.
I don't take that personally. Because it's literally like saying to someone, I hate your center part. It's like, oh, I got a big wide center part, like a Moses center part.
So when you say, Steph, you're an idiot when it comes to people's lives, blah, blah, blah.
I just say that because I notice how you focus on the mom a lot more when people mention their childhood.
So is that more male or female to start off with an insult?

[48:45] It could be both. I'm not entirely sure. Is it more male? Let me just paste this in again. Is it more male or female to start off with an insult?
Yeah, I think it's 50-50. I think it's 50-50 because it was a so starting off with an insult That's undermining and passive-aggressive maybe more female but a direct insult. You're an idiot is probably more male. So I, Mean it's cucky either way, but, and, This is someone who is Simon. He's Simon the boxer ring He's repetition compulsion of not being listened to, right?
Cause most people, when you say you're an idiot, they'll just say, oh, F you and write all that kind of stuff.
Right. Cause they take it personally, which doesn't make any sense.
But this is somebody who had a rejecting parent and he's attacking me as a way of reproducing that rejection because he's just used to handling rejection and feeling self pity and nobody listens.
And you know, I just tried my best and blah, blah, blah, blah.
Amazing. All right, tough question. The devil's officer, the devil's officer, the devil's offer.
Seeing that you aren't prepared to go back onto social media.

[49:55] What?
Seeing that you aren't prepared to go back onto social media. What does that mean?
When did I say I wasn't prepared to go back on social media freedomain.com forward slash connect and you can see all the places on social media I'm on at least a dozen platforms so I'm not quite sure what that means.
Seeing that you aren't supposed to you aren't prepared to go back on social media and potentially getting more of an audience the responsibility of support falls onto the few who contribute here to keep your business afloat is that good.
Eek, that's an interesting, he means Twitter.

[50:42] Yeah, we're on social media right now. Yes, yes, indeed. So seeing that you, this is interesting, seeing that you aren't prepared to go back onto social media, we can just say Twitter, seeing that you aren't prepared to go back onto Twitter and potentially getting more of an audience, the responsibility of support falls onto the few who contribute here to keep your business afloat.
Is that good? Eek.
Well, whether I was on Twitter or not, people who consume my content have some honor obligation, to pay back for the time and energy and money that I'm spending to produce content.
Does that make sense?
Like I'm not sure, like if people listen to and find value in what I'm doing, it would, be honor bound for them to contribute, to pay back, right?
Because I spend time, I spend money, I spend energy, I've burned an entire reputation and a career to get the truth out. So I think people are honor bound to pay back for what it is they consume, right?
I mean, to pay back for what it is that you consume.
I'm not sure how me going back on Twitter would fundamentally change that.
Now, there may be more people, there may be more people who would contribute after a while if I went back on Twitter, right? So if I went back on Twitter and.

[52:07] I don't know, my listenership went up considerably over time then there would be more donations.

[52:17] But that wouldn't change the obligation of any individual who's consuming my content.
Does that make sense?

[52:28] I mean that would be more people who would be honor bound to support what I do or pay back for the value that they have received.
There would be more people on a band but I don't know how that would change any individual unless I'm missing something.
So I'm happy to hear another argument but. I mean it's my choice obviously to forgo the fame prominence and extra income that might come from going on twitter that's And I don't know, is it, I can have more integrity here.

[53:12] And I'm not sure, maybe I have given some different impressions, you guys let me know, but I'm not sure I've given much of an impression that I would sell my principles for money.
Have I given that impression as a whole? That I would be like, oh, is there more money over there?
Well, chat with my principals, I'll take the cash. I mean, good Lord.
I mean, the whole basis of the show was taking a massive pay cut out of my entrepreneurial career to do philosophy.

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