BITCOIN BREAKTHROUGH!

Stefan Molyneux

Sunday Morning Live 11 May 2025   In this episode, I explore the significance of motherhood, emphasizing its role in shaping identities beyond biological ties. We discuss the complexities of familial relationships, offering a philosophical approach to dealing with challenging dynamics through choices of engagement and boundary-setting.   Addressing listener concerns about conflict and estrangement, I highlight the difference between having a biological mother and experiencing true nurturing. We also examine gender differences in social behavior and their implications. Through philosophical insights and recommended readings, this episode invites listeners to engage thoughtfully with their familial connections while appreciating motherhood's profound impact.   GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND THE FULL AUDIOBOOK!  https://peacefulparenting.com/   Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free!   Subscribers get 12 HOURS on the "Truth About the French Revolution," multiple interactive multi-lingual philosophy AIs trained on thousands of hours of my material - as well as AIs for Real-Time Relationships, Bitcoin, Peaceful Parenting, and Call-In Shows!   You also receive private livestreams, HUNDREDS of exclusive premium shows, early release podcasts, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more!   See you soon!  https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/UPB2025

Transcript

00:00:00Good morning and welcome to, it is Sunday Morning Live, on the 11th of May, 2025.

00:00:08And very nice to have you here with me on this interestingly weathered day.

00:00:20So I'm happy, of course, to get your comments and questions and problems,

00:00:26criticisms, whatever is on your mind. Of course, of course, of course.

00:00:33Absolutely thrilled to wish everybody a very, very happy Mother's Day.

00:00:42We all have our mothers. Hopefully you had a good one, or at least, if not a good one,

00:00:46a reformed one with honest conversations. And I wish to give my very best love,

00:00:53warmth, hugs, and best wishes to the great mothers out there in the world. You are really

00:01:01the foundation of everything that men work for and the continuance of reason, philosophy,

00:01:07civilization, and knowledge. So I just want to give a big, massive hug and kiss out

00:01:13to all the great mothers that are out there. And thank you so much for everything that makes

00:01:20life worthwhile. The dedication and devotion of a father and a husband has a lot to do with the

00:01:26beauty of a wife and a mother. And to all the women out there who just make life great, wonderful,

00:01:34perfect, beautiful, and organized. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. It takes a man often to

00:01:42build a house, but it almost always takes a mother to make it into a home so that it's not

00:01:47mere bricks and mortar, but it's a sanctuary and a place of love and beauty, tenderness,

00:01:52and fun. So happy Mother's Day to everyone who is striving for and achieving beautiful motherhood.

00:02:03It is a beautiful thing, and I love you guys for all of that. And of course, don't forget

00:02:08peacefulparenting.com. All right. Thank you for your tip, freedomain.com slash donate to help out

00:02:14the show. Good morning, Stefan and community. Happy Mama's Day to all the lovely mothers in our

00:02:19community. And of course, to Stefan's wife, Izzy's mama. Happy Mother's Day. Glad I can jump on with

00:02:25everyone for a few minutes. Also filled with great perspectives and insights. Thank you very much.

00:02:29I appreciate that. I will pass that along to my lovely bride. Good morning. Happy Mother's Day.

00:02:36All right. Let's see here. Let's get to your comments. How do you deal with a family member

00:02:50who is consumed with pride and acts on occasion like a dictator?

00:02:55All right. That's a tough question. If it's constantly, you know, maybe better to obviously

00:03:08try to get the person to change, but view it, of course, as an optional relationship. But if it's

00:03:14on occasion, I think in general, correct me if I'm incorrect, of course, as usual. But I think in

00:03:24general, what you're talking about is people who are consumed by their emotions. People who don't

00:03:30have strict rules of behavior, but instead are ruled by the passions of the moment. That's a tough

00:03:40thing. So if they're in a good mood, things go well. If they're in a bad mood, things go badly.

00:03:44And they don't have, you know, you got to, you got to in life have that fiery line. You know,

00:03:50there's that fiery line, you shall not pass, right? Where behavior is not on the table.

00:03:58And of course, you've heard me say this to people as a whole in call-in shows and other kinds of

00:04:05conversations where I say, okay, so if you were, let's say, out of money, right? You were just broke

00:04:11for whatever reason. Would robbing a gas station be on your list of ways to solve or deal with being

00:04:20broke? And of course, the answer is that no, no, that would not be on your list of behaviors

00:04:30for being broke. I mean, you, you might beg, you might borrow, you would do whatever,

00:04:39but you wouldn't just go and rob someone because you were broke, right?

00:04:48So

00:04:48in the same way, when it comes to yelling at people, bullying people, calling them names,

00:05:01insulting them, escalation, intimidation, like there just has to be that fiery line.

00:05:07God, this is not something that I'm going to do. I will not cross that line. I will not engage

00:05:13in that behavior.

00:05:15And people who don't have that fiery line of not, not, not going to do it. It's not on my list of

00:05:27options. It's not, you know, I mean, obviously, you know, people can annoy us, people can bother us

00:05:35and so on, but we don't have, oh, I'm going to set fire to their house. Like that's not in any rational

00:05:42moral person. That's not on the list of optional responses to this kind of stuff, right? So

00:05:50people who don't have that fiery line,

00:05:53I mean, you really only have three choices, right? It just, you know, philosophy is all about clarity,

00:05:59right? So people who don't have that fiery line, the none shall pass line, the bull rug on the bridge

00:06:05line where they just don't do that kind of behavior at number one, you can attempt to

00:06:13get them to have that fiery line and not change and not, not indulge in that kind of behavior,

00:06:19right? So you would make the case for them that this is not what they should be doing

00:06:24and try to get them to create that fiery line and respect it, right? And that can take a while,

00:06:31but that's one option that you have, right? Now, the other option that you have is to

00:06:41accept and live with the behavior. As you say, it's occasional, it's occasional.

00:06:47So you have as an option to accept and just say, okay, once every three months,

00:06:55this person is just going to get kind of squirrely and aggressive, you know, and I'm just going to

00:07:02live with it, right? That's, you know, again, none of these, I'm not recommending or not,

00:07:06I generally recommend talking to people about moral issues and, you know, attempting to raise

00:07:11everybody's moral standards, create these fiery lines for destructive behavior for sure. But

00:07:19you can choose, and let's say you've had the conversation and they say,

00:07:23I have no problem with what I do, I'm just self-expressed, I'm a passionate person, blah,

00:07:27blah, blah. So let's say you have that conversation where you say, you know,

00:07:31this is kind of aggressive, it's kind of unpleasant, here's what I would suggest,

00:07:34and tell me what you think, right? And let's say you try to have a reasonable conversation, but, but,

00:07:40the person does not even admit fault and defends their actions as being honest and self-expressed,

00:07:47and don't try and control me, and don't bully me, now you're the bully, blah, blah, blah, right?

00:07:50Okay, so you have the conversation with them, they don't listen. So what do you do? Well,

00:07:57you can choose to live with the behavior. You can choose. Yeah. It's funny, you know,

00:08:05in general, I mean, outside of UPB violations, I'm less concerned with what you choose,

00:08:11rather than that you choose, right? It matters that you know that you're making a choice,

00:08:23consciously, not unconsciously, not in reaction, not in avoidance. It matters that you are making

00:08:31a choice. So if somebody has this kind of aggression, bullying, as you say, the pride,

00:08:36you can say, okay, I've had the conversation, maybe more than one, um, they're not going to

00:08:42change, they're not going to admit fault, and okay, so then you can say, I'm going to choose

00:08:48to live with this behavior. Now, live with your behavior doesn't mean repeatedly to subject yourself

00:08:53to it, but there's enough pluses in the relationship that I can handle or live with the minuses.

00:09:01So that, that's your second choice, right? First choice, get them to improve their behavior.

00:09:07Second choice, live with the negative behavior. Third choice is not have the relationship.

00:09:14Right? Improve, accept, reject. Improve, accept, reject. Those are your choices. Now,

00:09:23what choice you should make, I can't really tell you that, because it's complicated, right? I don't know

00:09:28the details, and even if I didn't know the details, the last thing I'd want to do is tell you what to

00:09:32do. I don't tell people what to do. I don't do that, because there's no point. I mean, that's like your

00:09:40tennis instructor serving for you. I mean, you're not learning anything, right? So that would be my

00:09:49approach, and hopefully that makes some sense to you. All right. Nina says, good morning, Steph. The interview

00:09:59you did with Keith Knight was very, very good. Loved the role-playing. It's funny, eh? It's funny. I remember,

00:10:05oh gosh, long ago, the late Marlon Brando was being interviewed by Connie Chung, who looked like a

00:10:11tiny moon of Phobos orbiting his rather immense bulk.

00:10:18And she was talking about, you know, what a great actor he was, and he had this whole speech about,

00:10:23I don't really care about who's the best, who's the worst. But what he did say, which sort of reminded

00:10:32me of this kind of stuff, he said, everybody acts, you know, a lot of the time, right? I mean,

00:10:38his dog came by, and he said, look, my dog is acting like he likes me when he just wants a treat.

00:10:44He's the greatest actor around, right? And it's funny how when, you know, people who would say,

00:10:51well, I'm not an actor, I'm not trained, I'm not a thespian, you get them into a role-play,

00:10:56and they can usually get it, like, bang on, right? That's pretty wild. It's amazing. And this,

00:11:02the ecosystem idea or argument, to some degree, came out of this sort of role-playing stuff,

00:11:07which is, we must have all of these different characteristics or characters in our head,

00:11:12because we can usually slip into them and argue with them in our minds, right?

00:11:18All right.

00:11:23Somebody says, parents are spreading gossip about me despite claiming to put God before family.

00:11:27What would you do? Well, if you're religious, if you're Christian, the Bible has that as its answer,

00:11:34that if you have an issue with someone who's in your religious community, you sit down with that

00:11:39person one-on-one and talk about those issues. So I guess if it's both parents, it would be one and two.

00:11:44And then the second thing you do is, if that doesn't resolve the issue, you sit down with

00:11:49members of the congregation and talk to the people you're having an issue with in a subsection of the

00:12:01congregation. If that doesn't work, maybe involve the priest, but you would talk to that person in

00:12:05front of the whole congregation. And if that doesn't work, then I think the Bible says you need to go

00:12:12your separate ways. But of course, check. I'm no theologian. So talk to your parents about the

00:12:21issues you're having individually or together with both of them, and then bring more members of the

00:12:27community in, and then bring maybe the entire congregation in, in conjunction with the priest,

00:12:31the priest, and take it from there. That would be my suggestion, according to my, obviously,

00:12:36amateur understanding of Christian dispute resolution. All right. You are welcome for the answer.

00:12:47All right. Do you have any history book recommendations? You know, a book that influenced

00:12:53me quite a lot was a book called Modern Times. Modern Times. It is by Paul Johnson.

00:13:06I actually read a bunch of his other stuff, and I didn't really like it that much.

00:13:11But that book to me was just amazing.

00:13:23The Palimpsests of Freedom. I sort of remember that. The Palimpsests of Freedom is a great title.

00:13:31And so it's really incredibly well written, very fast paced, and has some really good...

00:13:39I mean, it was originally The World from the 20s to the 80s, 1920s to the 1980s, and I think it was

00:13:44later updated. But it's a very, very good... That's a very, very good book.

00:13:50When was it last revised? Modern Times Revised Edition. I think it was last revised in 2001.

00:13:58But if you have to read one... Oh, well, so Paul Johnson... Actually, sorry,

00:14:06there's two books that I really, really liked. And one of them I talked about before. So,

00:14:11Paul Johnson has, of course, Modern Times. The second great Paul Johnson book is called Intellectuals.

00:14:20So good. Now, his basic argument goes something like this.

00:14:26So, modern intellectuals, secular intellectuals, usually on the left, not always, but usually on

00:14:30the left. What they did was they said,

00:14:37priests and Christianity and God and religion and worship are not able to create

00:14:44the good world, the good world, the good life.

00:14:48And so we're gonna... The basic argument was we're gonna get rid of the priests and we're gonna

00:14:53substitute these secular intellectuals as our moral guides, as our moral ideals,

00:15:01as our moral heroes. And we're gonna ditch the priests and go with secular intellectuals.

00:15:07And he said, okay, so if the secular intellectuals had such significant issues with the priests as a whole,

00:15:14then they judged the priests as being morally wanting.

00:15:23Well, let's have a look at the intellectuals and see what their moral character is like.

00:15:31And it's a very, very interesting read and had a big influence on me about intellectuals and their morals and so on, right?

00:15:46So, from the back cover, it says,

00:15:49A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world in an intriguing series of case studies.

00:15:53Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson,

00:16:01Victor Golanz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, and Noam Chansky,

00:16:08among others, are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous.

00:16:14And this was a revised edition, May 1st, 2007. I don't know what was revised with all of that,

00:16:22but he's a great writer, a very interesting thinker, and really does commit to his hypothesis,

00:16:33and it's really, really cool. So, I mean, those are just two books that I recommend off the top of my head.

00:16:41We could go into more if you're interested, but that would be my first shot at it.

00:16:45All right. More questions, please.

00:16:59All right. Good morning, Chris. Happy Mother's Day to you as well.

00:17:06All right. Let's get back to your questions. Oh, the tab I want is where? Ah, there it is. All right.

00:17:15Let's see here. How does one honor one's mother when they have chosen to cut off contact?

00:17:26I'm not sure what you mean. I'm not sure what your question is. Can you rephrase it?

00:17:34What do you mean by honor? What do you mean by... And I will say this. I mean, I've said it in call

00:17:41in shows, but I'll keep it brief here. I would say this sort of pretty clearly.

00:17:48That

00:17:54to parent... A parent is a verb, not a noun. So, where you have a mother, right? You had

00:18:02a woman with a womb who gave birth to you, right? So, you have a mother.

00:18:07And that's the act of impregnation and gestation and birth, right? So, you have... You were mothered.

00:18:13You had a mother in terms of the biological function.

00:18:18I don't know that we can have a whole lot of honor for the biological function.

00:18:22The question is, were you mothered? Did she mother you?

00:18:27Did she love you? Did she take delight in your company? Did she

00:18:31smile when you came into the room? Did she

00:18:34teach you about the world and life and women and conflict resolution and friendships and dating?

00:18:40Were you parented? But did you... You had parents in terms of there was a sperm and an egg and a

00:18:45gestation and a birth, but were you parented?

00:18:50Right? So, this is sort of the question

00:18:53that happens for people who are adopted, right? So, people who are adopted, they have a birth

00:18:59mother, and they have the mother who raised them, right? So, let's say that the birth

00:19:08mother was... gave up the child right after birth, right?

00:19:14So, who is your mother? The mother who birthed you and gave you away, or for whatever reason,

00:19:25right? We can come up with some sympathetic reasons so we don't paint her in some negative way.

00:19:30But, who is your mother? Let's say that you ended up with a really great

00:19:35foster mom, and she loved you and took care of you and taught you and instructed you and all of that,

00:19:45and gave you a really great foundation to sort of move forward in life.

00:19:57Who's your mother?

00:20:00Oh, what's your name? Who's your daddy? Right, who's your mother? Is your mother the woman who gave birth

00:20:04to you, or is your mother the woman who mothered you?

00:20:09So, when it comes to mother, it's important to separate the birth from the love, protection,

00:20:18and moral instruction, right? So,

00:20:25if you say, the Ten Commandments say, honor thy mother and thy father, okay? So, does that refer to

00:20:34a birth mother or a sperm donor, so to speak? I don't think so. I think it means honor those who

00:20:42mothered you and fathered you, honor those who parented you, not just those who went through the

00:20:50biological process of insemination and gestation and birth.

00:20:55All right, somebody says, best way to deal with Mother's Day loneliness when you defood five

00:21:08months ago and don't want to talk to a cruel mother and father. I've had them attempt to contact me quite

00:21:16a bit recently. No apology, dismanipulation in hopes of regaining control. I'm sorry about that. I'm

00:21:22really, it's a very difficult situation, and I just, my heart goes out to you. It's really, really tough.

00:21:28You know, if you think that there's anything that can be rescued in the relationship,

00:21:38or any possibility of a way of moving forward, then I would, I mean, if they're contacting you

00:21:49and you think that there's some possibility of something working in the future, I'm a big fan of

00:21:56family therapy, right? So you can contact a family therapist, you can maybe share what's been going

00:22:03on with your parents, get the family therapist advice. If the family therapist is willing and your

00:22:08parents are willing, you could all sit down together with the family therapist and try and work something

00:22:12else out. But in general, if you've had a really difficult and messed up relationship

00:22:18with your parents, which I would put largely on them, of course, right?

00:22:24Then trying to re-engage and make it work in the absence of a sort of third party, I mean,

00:22:33let's say that you're 30, I don't know how old you are, right? But let's say you're 30,

00:22:3630, and, you know, things of this messed up with your parents, the likelihood that,

00:22:43let's say your mother and your father and you, and maybe you've got some siblings,

00:22:46we'll just talk about the three of you. So the likelihood that after 30 years,

00:22:50the things of this messed up, and again, I put it almost all on the parents,

00:22:54the idea that you can solve it after 30 years of breaking it, right? So three people have broken

00:22:58it over 30 years, the idea that you can solve it is not likely. I mean,

00:23:05to put it as nicely as possible, it's just not likely. So in general, getting a credentialed

00:23:12expert outsider to review the relationship and try and provide some feedback and context.

00:23:20I think that's really, really important.

00:23:21Yeah, so mother and father have a very powerful, I mean, I mean, there's a reason why, you know,

00:23:35some dysfunctional workplaces say, well, we're family, we're family, right? And,

00:23:41and priests will call themselves father, and so on, right? So, and God, the father, and so on.

00:23:46So, the words mother and father have great power in our sort of minds, hearts, and souls.

00:23:53And I would, you have to work this out for yourself. But my strong suggestion would be

00:23:59to put the definition of mother and father most strongly on those who genuinely parented you,

00:24:06who gave you moral instruction and virtue and wisdom.

00:24:14Well, let's see here.

00:24:22Why women always want to go somewhere and do something, but men are happy to just stay in the

00:24:25house. In general, is it like this? Hmm. Interesting.

00:24:29Hmm.

00:24:36So, there's, and this is very much a gross generalization. There's tons of exceptions. So,

00:24:41um, don't, don't, don't come at me with exceptions. I fully accept that they are.

00:24:46So, in general, when women are younger, they want to be out and about and getting attention.

00:24:54Right? For obvious biological, romantic, and reproductive reasons, right? So, women

00:25:03don't want to stay at home when they're young and single.

00:25:12In general, though, women will not want to go out as much once they have kids, right? Because it's

00:25:18a lot of work to go out, it can be risky, and, um, so on, right? So, women are drawn to going out,

00:25:29getting attention, being noticed, being admired and desired, right? I mean, of course, right? I mean,

00:25:35if you have something of great value that you want to, quote, sell, you don't just leave it in your

00:25:41basement and hope that somebody comes by, goes down to your basement and wants to buy it, right?

00:25:46I mean, I knew a guy who was, wanted to date, but his mom kept making him meals,

00:25:55and he kept going over to his mom's place, right? And it was like, hey, man, I don't, you know,

00:26:00I don't know where the women are at, but I know where they're not. They're not at your mom's place,

00:26:04eating hamburger helper. So, uh, women are drawn for, again, social media has made this a little

00:26:11crazy, but women are drawn to going out into the world and being admired, desired, pursued,

00:26:21because the more men they get to choose from, the better quality man they can generally choose.

00:26:28Now, if you are, and remember, this was supposed to be, sorry, this was supposed to be a very short-term

00:26:36phase, right? So let's say a woman would be marriable. Let's just go by the age of 18.

00:26:45She's marriable and she's supposed to be married by 19 or if the latest 20. So this is a, a short-term

00:26:53phase. It's supposed to be six months of going out there and gaining male attention and all that,

00:27:01right? That's how it's supposed to work for women, evolutionarily, biologically, and so on. Okay.

00:27:11So it's supposed to be a very short-term phase and then she's supposed to choose a man and then she

00:27:17gets engaged, she gets married and, you know, pretty much on the honeymoon, you're getting pregnant,

00:27:23you know, in the absence of birth control, which was the case for most of our evolution.

00:27:26And so she's got, uh, she's on the dating market at 18. She's married by 19 or 20 and she has kids by

00:27:3620 or 21. So the go out and dress up and put your makeup on and be on display. Like I saw this video

00:27:43the other day, it was, you know, 80s girls getting ready for a night out. And it was like the hair

00:27:48spray, the hairdryer, the press on nails, the curlers, the like, just the makeup, the, the mascara,

00:27:55the like crazy false eyelashes, that kind of stuff at the lipstick and the rouge. Like it's just,

00:28:01it's a, it's a huge deal, right? Putting yourself out on display and, you know, trying to get the

00:28:07highest quality father for your children that you can. And there's nothing wrong with it. It's a

00:28:11beautiful thing. It's why we're all here. This is no, no criticism at all, but it's a very short

00:28:17phase. It's a very short phase. Now this modern world, that phase is just, it just goes on and

00:28:26on. This is longer and longer. It just keeps going on and on. So women are, you know, in their 30s

00:28:31and even 40s and sometimes even older are posting these thirst traps and, and, uh, you know, trying to

00:28:38provoke, uh, uh, male romantic attention or sexual attention, lust or something like that. It just goes on

00:28:44on and on. So if you're in a relationship, let's say you're married and your wife always wants to,

00:28:54you know, put a bunch of makeup on and go places and, and be seen and all of that.

00:28:59Um, maybe there's a certain level of commitment or maybe she hasn't in particular,

00:29:06um, she hasn't in particular made her decision about having kids because once you make your

00:29:18decision about having kids, then you get pregnant and you have kids and then, you know, you're kind

00:29:22of tired and, and your kids are sort of taking up your life. And so you're probably not as keen to

00:29:27go out and do, do things, if that makes sense. All right.

00:29:35And women, yeah, women generally run the social life as a whole.

00:29:42Oh, the book Intellectuals is on audiobook. Okay. The New Deal in Old Rome. Yeah, that's a good book, too.

00:29:49The Progressive Era by Rothbard is one of my favorite history books. Ah, yes,

00:29:53that man sure had an elegant pen, for sure.

00:29:57Have you ever read any Jack London? Ah, I have not.

00:30:16All right. Sorry, I'm just, uh, reading through here to get the questions.

00:30:21That's a good point. I think of my parents by their names, not calling them mother and father

00:30:28because they weren't that. I'm sorry to hear that. I really am. I really am. All right. Lady says,

00:30:35I recently had the talk with my mom and she apologized and took responsibility for what

00:30:40happened in my childhood and asks me daily if there's anything I want to discuss about it.

00:30:43We've had an ongoing discussion for a few months. I was not expecting her

00:30:47to be open to me, but it's the first time in my life we have actually been close previously as

00:30:52I was closed off to her. That is wonderful to hear. Wonderful. You know, for what it's worth,

00:30:58please pass along my congratulations to your mother for her humility and wisdom and maturity

00:31:06and all kinds of stuff. All right.

00:31:21Somebody says, I think guys just don't feel like wasting money sometimes and women feel the need

00:31:26to strengthen social bonds. Yeah, I think that's, I think that's a reasonable thing.

00:31:30Did you learn that in acting class as well, Father Molyneux? I don't mean that as sarcastically

00:31:37either. I remember them teaching us about different words to use to exercise your jaws full capacity.

00:31:43I mean, I certainly did take a whole bunch of acting classes, but what my point is that

00:31:48people who haven't taken acting classes can engage in role plays and really play someone else and so

00:31:52on. It's really wild. Somebody says, I know the old joke about the person wanting to date who never

00:32:10leaves their home. Okay. You're choosing between parcel delivery or food delivery drivers as potential

00:32:14spouses. Limited options that way. Perhaps not the most effective strategy. Yes. You know, there is

00:32:21a very strong tendency, particularly among people who are shy or introverted. There is a very strong

00:32:33tendency to work to avoid rejection. And that's very tough, right? People who, if you work to avoid

00:32:45rejection, then you kind of end up with nothing, right? So, so there's this thing in life, which is,

00:32:53well, I don't want to get rejected. So let's say a guy, right? I don't want to get rejected. So I'm not

00:32:57going to talk to women. Okay. So what is fearful about being rejected is that you end up alone. But if you

00:33:06don't talk to women, you end up alone, you end up alone. I mean, the cure to insecurity is to recognize

00:33:16that what you're afraid of will inevitably result from you avoiding that fear. I mean, this is one of

00:33:27the best ways to deal with fear, right? Is, you know, like a fear of the dentist. Well, I don't want

00:33:34the, the dentist might cause me pain. Okay. Well, what happens if you don't go to the dentist in

00:33:39general? Well, you're going to end up with a lot of, a lot of tooth pain, right? Whatever you might need

00:33:43to, to get done. So when it comes to fear, what is the end result of me following my fear, indulging

00:33:59my fear, letting the fear win, right? So, oh, well, you know, I don't want to, I don't want to talk to

00:34:05girls because they're going to reject me. I'm going to end up, I'm going to be alone. It's like, well,

00:34:08you know, talking to girls, if being alone is your biggest fear, not talking to girls

00:34:14guarantees you'll be alone, right? In general, I mean, unless some, it's not really like in general,

00:34:21right? Unless some weird coincidence happens, right? So if you look at, okay, I don't want to talk to

00:34:35girls because they might reject me and I'll feel bad. Okay. But that can have a lot to do with vanity

00:34:44as well. And vanity is, you know, it's a, it's a core human problem because we all know our own

00:34:52inner thoughts. In general, we all know our own values and we are lead actors in our own lives and

00:34:59so on. Whereas to someone else, like you say, you go up and talk to a woman on the street,

00:35:05you're just some guy who's going up to talk to some woman on the street, right? She doesn't have

00:35:08the history. She doesn't know all your, she, you're not the lead actor in her life. You're just a bit

00:35:12player. Maybe you want to promote yourself to lead actor, be your husband or whatever, but you're just

00:35:16a bit player. So that's tough, right? So sometimes, you know, going to talk to someone else,

00:35:28like going to talk to a woman, you have to relegate yourself to bit player status.

00:35:36And there's a certain amount of humility. I can, you know, when I was originally doing this show

00:35:41back in 2005, 2006,

00:35:45I was sending off my emails. I was posting on message boards. I was trying to sort of raise

00:35:56awareness of what it is that I was doing. And I knew, I knew that, I mean, hey man, this is super,

00:36:01super important for me. It's my show. It's philosophy. That's so important to me.

00:36:08But I'm just a semi-spam post on somebody else's message board, right?

00:36:14Being able to see yourself as other people see you is an act of profound humility because you're

00:36:21just not that important to them. I mean, most people, especially people you just meet, you're just

00:36:26not important to them, right?

00:36:32So sometimes the vanity is, I refuse to show up in someone else's life as a potentially annoying

00:36:41bit player, face of the crowd, extra, right?

00:36:44Because I sit in my own thoughts and I, I have my own history and I believe this and that and the

00:36:50other about myself and I know my intentions. So, you know, you, you're very vivid to yourself,

00:36:55but you're just a bit player to people you meet.

00:37:02So a lot of insecurity,

00:37:05I don't want to talk to girls, comes from an unwillingness to put yourself

00:37:10in the position of a potentially annoying bit player. The same thing happens in business,

00:37:16right? So there are a lot of people in business who hate cold calling. You know, just, I don't even

00:37:25know if people do this anymore because AI can do it, right? A thousand times a second. So there are a

00:37:32lot of people in the business world that can't stand cold calling because when you cold call,

00:37:36you're just a potentially annoying bit player in somebody else's day. And maybe, uh, they've just

00:37:47had a whole bunch of people who called them and they're just mad and upset and, uh, and unhappy and

00:37:52you're just, you're just annoying them and they're going to kind of rip you a new one and, and all of

00:37:56that, right? It's like a real thing, right? That's a real thing.

00:38:01So people hate it because, you know, I mean, certainly with myself, you know, if, uh, I didn't

00:38:10do much cold calling, I did some, I didn't do, I did some cold calling, but one of the reasons I

00:38:15didn't do a lot of cold calling, and this is another reason why actors and, and writers have

00:38:20agents is that like, you're too close to it. It's your baby. It's your book. It's your software

00:38:27product in my case. And so you're, you're too close to it and you can't be objective about

00:38:33it. And the rejection is too difficult, which is why generally you'll hire salespeople who

00:38:40it's not their product. They're just out there cold calling and trying to sell it. If that

00:38:44makes sense. So a lot of times people will not approach others out of vanity. It's not a fear

00:39:08of rejection. It's a fear of unimportance, which is a real thing, right? I'm important to me. I'm

00:39:16important to my family. I'm important to my friends. I have, you know, some importance to

00:39:20you guys. And thank you so much. Freedomain.com slash donate. If you'd like to help out, I really

00:39:24would appreciate it. But to most people, certainly back in the day when I was starting out, I was just

00:39:34some guy trying to, trying to get you to listen to an MP3. And that was like 80% of my day was just

00:39:44promoting the show because I was a director of marketing. I know all of that kind of stuff,

00:39:49right? All right. Yeah. So to ask a woman out, to pursue a job, to try and sell a product is to put

00:40:11yourself in a state of potentially annoying unimportance. And to have the ego strength to

00:40:19handle that is important. Otherwise you have this sort of fragile vanity and you just don't want to

00:40:24be unimportant. And of course, the reality is if for most people, for most people, if you don't get

00:40:31married, if you don't have kids, if you don't, you know, have a real strong social network because

00:40:36you're afraid of rejection. I don't want to feel unimportant. Well, you end up unimportant.

00:40:42Right? Don't vanish. Right? Especially in your 50s, man. You end up unimportant.

00:40:50I was talking about this the other day, well, quite a while ago. When I sort of got, yeah, I think I was

00:40:55like, I don't know, 56 or 57. I vanished. I could feel it. I could feel it. And people talk about this

00:41:03sort of as you age, right? And you just, you vanish. And, you know, obviously, what do I care?

00:41:11I've got a loving wife and family and friendships and all of that. So, but you can, you just, you just

00:41:16despond. And, you know, old women in particular will talk about this, you know, just trying to get

00:41:20people's attention, clerks' attention to shop, keepers' attention and so on. You just, you just vanish.

00:41:29Don't vanish. All right. Don't vanish. If you're afraid of approaching people because you don't

00:41:38want to feel unimportant, I guarantee you, you're going to end up feeling unimportant. That's right.

00:41:42Quite sad. All right. Let's see here.

00:41:47Talking to girls is fun. Even cold rejections are a lesson. I think it took me to a whole new

00:42:02level of humility, being able to go up to a girl on the street and risk being rejected. This has

00:42:06been a life-changing thing for me. Yeah. Yeah.

00:42:09And the other thing, too, is that people who are afraid of rejection also forget that they're

00:42:17rejecting others, right? If you're just staying home and not talking to people and so on. You

00:42:20know, if you're a person who, let's say, you don't want to talk to women or you're frightened

00:42:23to talk to women, you want to talk to women, you're frightened to talk to women. Well, there

00:42:26are women out there who want you to talk to them, but you reject them, right? So there

00:42:31is a certain amount of real solipsistic selfishness in, well, I'm just, I'm so afraid of being

00:42:37rejected. So then there's some girl who gives you a smile and you panic and whatever. Don't

00:42:42talk to her. But she experiences that as a rejection, right? You're rejecting her.

00:42:56All right. I was hanging with a sales guy a few days ago, says someone, and he was telling

00:43:01me how some of these business guys making millions find it way easier to make a million bucks

00:43:05than to go up and approach a woman. It's that unwillingness to be a bit player in the outside

00:43:11world and shatter them being in their own vanity, absorb bubble, fear of unimportance. Yeah.

00:43:17Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I don't want to be unimportant to people. So I'm going to spend my life alone,

00:43:21which ends up, and I'm telling you in your fifties, thank you, man, in your fifties, oof,

00:43:27man. Oof. You will be unimportant. And of course, I think it's fifties for men. And I think that for

00:43:38men, the fifties thing is when women look at you and think you might not make it through to,

00:43:45like, let's say that they have a baby with you. Let's say you're 57, right? So you're 57 as a man,

00:43:53right? And let's say, you know, you got to get your kids to the age of 18. So 57 plus 18 puts you at

00:44:0475, 75 years old, right? Well, that's not great, right? So I think for women, men's sexual market

00:44:13value crashes in the mid to late fifties because the odds are not small that they're not going to

00:44:20make it to the kids' adulthood. Or, you know, if their kids are out there trying to be adults and

00:44:26get out into the world that you're just aging out and getting sick and that's going to interfere with

00:44:31their kids' dating prospects, right? And so your fifties, middle eight fifties is when it happens

00:44:42for men, for women, of course, that women of a certain age used to be the phrase, right?

00:44:46So women in the past would talk about it in terms of 40 plus, right? Which is in general, the

00:44:54infertility window, right? So men get maybe another 17 years, but women sort of 40 plus,

00:45:05like I'm sure you've seen these photos or these memes that are in on social media, which is women

00:45:13saying, you know, like I'm over 40, you know, I have a nice house, I cook, I clean, I'm really that

00:45:19bad? And it's a woman sort of in tears and of course it's heavily filtered and she looks about 27, but

00:45:25not understanding. Sex, romance, lust, pair bonding, that's all for kids.

00:45:36And it has all evolved to serve children, to serve what is best and healthiest for children.

00:45:45And so if a woman wants some guy to wife her up and she wants a high quality guy to wife

00:46:03her up and she's 40 plus, well, it's for kids. His instincts are going to go elsewhere.

00:46:11You know, if some guy wants to be some sugar daddy and he's in his late 50s, a woman might use him

00:46:18for money, but she's probably, I mean, there are obviously exceptions, but she's probably not going

00:46:21to have children with him because her biological urge or her biological instincts are sort of saying,

00:46:29ah, you know, come on, this guy, I mean, he could get sick anytime. He could have health issues. He will

00:46:35probably have health issues, certainly in his 60s and 70s. I think it was Scott Adams, like almost

00:46:40nobody escapes health issues at that age, right? And he had his vocal issues for like two years,

00:46:45I think. So you are going to be less important to all newcomers as you age.

00:47:00Now, maybe of course, if you're very wealthy, you can have people care about you because of your money,

00:47:05but that's not going to be particularly satisfying. And that's not the same as obviously genuine affection

00:47:10and love, right? So do it now. Whatever you're afraid of now gets worse later, right?

00:47:24So, I mean, for a woman, let's say for a man, right? It's a little easier from a man's perspective

00:47:29for me to sort of follow this. So for a man, you say, okay, well, I don't want to, I'm a young guy.

00:47:33I don't want to talk to women because I'm going to feel rejected and unimportant if they say no,

00:47:38right? Okay. And the fact that the woman is saying no also might be a reflection of your vanity,

00:47:45right? If you've become corn addled, so to speak, right? And you just think a woman has to have

00:47:51a perfect body with a perfect face. What's that Phil Collins song? Her dog's talking to me,

00:47:56but she's out of reach. So if you think that the woman has to be, you know, sort of gorgeous and

00:48:09flawless and perfect and bubble butt and whatever, right? Well, that probably is some vanity, right?

00:48:18That probably is some vanity that one of the reasons that you feel anxious about approaching

00:48:25a woman is you are, your, your, your standards are unrealistically high and you're going to get

00:48:32toasted. So maybe it is your standards that need to change, right? Well, all of these things

00:48:42are possible, possible things, right? All right. People ripping you a new one is saving you from

00:48:57the pain of having a terrible customer. You have to fire later. Well, it may be the case, but

00:49:05a cold calling in general is kind of intrusive. You know, the, uh, cast extended warranty stuff,

00:49:16you know, you know, you're, you're trying to talk to someone, the phone rings, you answer it,

00:49:20and you've got to, you know, if you're kind of polite, like I certainly am, like a lot of people

00:49:24are, you can't just, you don't necessarily just want to hang up on someone. So you kind of got to

00:49:28talk about, it's just a little bit intrusive and it generally tends to happen when

00:49:33um, when, when people have had a lot of those in a row. Oh, she posts 47, no makeup. Yeah,

00:49:44definitely look young, but eggs don't lie. Right. And you look great. Honestly, you look great,

00:49:49but eggs don't lie. Uh, 47, uh, you look great. And, um, but you know, it's kind of like, you know,

00:50:00I mean, I think I look pretty good for, what is it? I'll be 59 this year. So I look pretty good.

00:50:05Doesn't make me, I mean, the fact that I, my skin is relatively not too old looking,

00:50:10uh, doesn't, um, doesn't change, right? It's, it's not like if you have a younger looking skin,

00:50:18you become immortal. Not me. Targe. Oh, that's not you. Okay. All right. I don't know who Targe is.

00:50:32So I don't know why you're posting pictures of somebody else saying 47, no makeup, but

00:50:36maybe I don't quite understand. Hey, it could be a youthful meme thing, which is not my

00:50:43Tarja. Married 23 years, 12 year old daughter. Okay. So I still don't know what that means.

00:50:53I still don't know what that means. Sorry. All right.

00:51:01I can't dance. I can't sing. All right. Uh, I have, uh, of course, uh, questions from the other

00:51:09platform. Let me just have a look here. What am I missing? What am I missing?

00:51:19All right. Sorry. These other ones are not coming through.

00:51:26I see a few thousand new subscribers. You're welcome. Fair warning. They are mostly based

00:51:31in well-read, not fanboys. Utilize them respectfully. Thank you. I appreciate that.

00:51:35What's the origin of mother's day. Is it the gateway drug to things like black history month and LGBT

00:51:41pride month or whatever? It always seems like less is propaganda to me. I don't know the origins of

00:51:46mother's day. I don't remember that. I don't know that. Uh, let's, let's look it up. Right. Let's look it

00:51:58up. Uh, the origin of mother's day can be traced to ancient celebrations of mothers and motherhood,

00:52:09particularly in ancient Greece and Rome, where festivals were held in honor of mother goddesses

00:52:13like Rhea and Cybele. The modern concept of mother's day is closely linked to the early

00:52:18Christian festival known as mothering Sunday, which celebrated mothers and maternal figures

00:52:22in the United States. The establishment of a national mother's day is attributed to figures

00:52:28like Ann Reeves, Java center daughter, Anna M. Java, who campaigned for the holiday in the early

00:52:3320th century. So it's like most things. It sounds like it started, um, uh, the origin,

00:52:45significance and history of mother's day in the U S are deeply entwined with nation's history

00:52:48and social movements following the American civil war. Okay. Well, you can look it up. So,

00:52:57um, it's ancient. It's like, it's like ancient festival stuff that gets co-opted by state power.

00:53:03That's usually the way these things kind of work. All right.

00:53:10What if the pain is immorality? Would it not be better to stay away from it rather than acquiescing

00:53:21pain or fear? Immorality. Oh, so you don't want to talk to a woman because talking to women is immoral.

00:53:29I don't think that is necessarily the, I don't think that there's anything causal as far as that goes.

00:53:36Now it could be.

00:53:45I was just pointing out girls and women can be human and not scary.

00:53:49Yeah. But you posted a bit of a scary picture, right?

00:53:53Side tongue and fangs.

00:53:54So, um, I, I, I think, I don't think that there are girls, women can be human and not scary. Yeah. I think that's the case.

00:54:08I approached this girl who looked 20 from a bit of a distance, but then I, when I spoke to her, realized she was like 45.

00:54:14Makeup. Had me tripping, bruh. Yeah.

00:54:18Yeah. Still no makeup for the eggs.

00:54:27Uh, what are

00:54:28bitty coins at?

00:54:32I don't know, but I will.

00:54:34145.

00:54:36Okay.

00:54:37So, that seems like it's up quite a bit.

00:54:41Is that right?

00:54:43Let's go a month.

00:54:45A month ago.

00:54:47Yeah.

00:54:47114.

00:54:49Yeah.

00:54:50So, it's gone up 30, 30 K.

00:54:51It's pretty wild when you think about this, right?

00:54:55So, Thomas Farah on X wrote,

00:54:57It took Bitcoin 10 years to go from zero to 20 K per coin.

00:55:02It just added 20 K in a month.

00:55:05I assume that's US, right?

00:55:06Gradually, then, suddenly.

00:55:09And according to Bitcoin News on X,

00:55:12Oregon

00:55:12has passed a law officially recognizing Bitcoin as collateral.

00:55:20Oregon has officially signed Senate Bill 167, SB 167,

00:55:24into law, making digital assets, including Bitcoin,

00:55:28legal collateral in financial transactions.

00:55:33That's pretty good.

00:55:35That's pretty good.

00:55:41I think, I think this is somewhat true,

00:55:44but, you know, taxes and tax avoidance,

00:55:49not tax evasion.

00:55:50Tax evasion is illegal.

00:55:52Tax avoidance, as far as I understand it, is legal.

00:55:54You know, just minimize your taxes through legal means.

00:55:57Again, I'm no expert,

00:55:58and for heaven's sakes,

00:55:59don't take any advice from me about any of this stuff,

00:56:01but I think this is kind of true.

00:56:05So, a millionaire makes $20 million,

00:56:07hires an artist for $25,000.

00:56:10The artist draws a single line.

00:56:13The millionaire has an appraiser slash friend value it.

00:56:15The appraiser says it's worth $20 million.

00:56:18The millionaire donates it to a museum,

00:56:21gets a $20 million tax write-off,

00:56:23pays no tax that year.

00:56:25Me at the museum.

00:56:26It's just a line?

00:56:27Hipster.

00:56:28You're just uncultured.

00:56:30So, I think there's some truth in this as a whole.

00:56:37Grok says,

00:56:38The ex-post critiques a tax loophole

00:56:41where a millionaire buys a simple artwork for $250,

00:56:45inflates its value to $20 million through an appraiser,

00:56:48donates it to a museum for a $20 million tax write-off,

00:56:50and pays no taxes that year,

00:56:52highlighting a legal but ethically questionable practice

00:56:54often used by the wealthy to reduce tax liability.

00:56:56The posts also reflect some broader art market controversies

00:57:02like the 2019 sale of Maurizio Catalan's duct tape banana

00:57:06for $6.2 million in 2024,

00:57:10illustrating how inflated art evaluations

00:57:11can serve as tools for tax evasion or money laundering,

00:57:17a point echoed in replies mentioning Hunter Biden's art sales.

00:57:20Yeah, there's truth in that too.

00:57:21So, a lot of the modern art stuff

00:57:26has to do with this trying to minimize taxes.

00:57:31It really doesn't have anything to do

00:57:32with what people objectively find a value, right?

00:57:38And then, of course,

00:57:39when you see a bunch of this stuff in the art galleries,

00:57:45then people end up saying,

00:57:47well, I mean, it's in these art galleries.

00:57:49It has to be Emperor's New Clothes, right?

00:57:51I mean, it has to be that there's value in it,

00:57:54even though I don't particularly see the value in it,

00:57:56but all these art galleries and, right,

00:57:58unless it's all just,

00:57:59a lot of it's just tax stuff, right?

00:58:03Pete Rizzo, the Bitcoin historian on X says,

00:58:06New River Financial says,

00:58:08more Americans now own Bitcoin than gold.

00:58:13So, gold, $36.7 million Bitcoin.

00:58:17More Americans are invested in Bitcoin than gold.

00:58:21$49.6 million.

00:58:22Now, that seems high.

00:58:24Let me just double check this.

00:58:26That seems very high.

00:58:35Yeah, gold's total value held by Americans

00:58:37remains significantly higher.

00:58:38Yeah, for sure.

00:58:39Bitcoin positions are often small,

00:58:41averaging a few hundred dollars per industry data.

00:58:42Okay, well, if it's through ETFs and stuff like that,

00:58:45I can see that.

00:58:46But I don't think almost 50 million Americans

00:58:48actually own Bitcoin directly.

00:58:50All right, let's see here.

00:59:09This is from Joe Burnett,

00:59:11Triple I Capital on X.

00:59:14Everyone needs Bitcoin.

00:59:16Almost nobody has Bitcoin.

00:59:18And about 94% of all Bitcoin

00:59:23has already been mined.

00:59:26Isn't that wild?

00:59:27I wouldn't have guessed it was that high,

00:59:29but almost about 95,

00:59:31sorry, about 94% of all Bitcoin

00:59:33has already been mined.

00:59:35Isn't that wild?

00:59:40It looks like a couple of hundred,

00:59:43is it a couple of hundred,

00:59:43maybe 50 white US,

00:59:46sorry, white South African farmers

00:59:47are trying to get

00:59:49coming in as refugees?

00:59:52And it's pretty wild.

00:59:53All right.

00:59:54Carl B. Menger wrote yesterday,

00:59:58only 4% of Americans see Bitcoin

01:00:00as the best long-term investment.

01:00:03The other 96% still believe in real estate

01:00:05and gold.

01:00:07Mass awakening hasn't even begun,

01:00:08he says.

01:00:09We're very,

01:00:09we're early,

01:00:10very early.

01:00:11Yes,

01:00:12the best long-term investment?

01:00:13I mean,

01:00:14it certainly has

01:00:15been pretty good so far.

01:00:21Returns since the US election.

01:00:23Bitcoin is up 49%.

01:00:24The S&P 500 down 2%.

01:00:28I mean,

01:00:31it went down and recovered,

01:00:32right?

01:00:33The S&P,

01:00:33is that right?

01:00:34So historical data from coin market cap

01:00:43shows Bitcoin often reacts to US elections.

01:00:45After Trump's 2016 win,

01:00:47it surged 2,221% in a year,

01:00:51reflecting its role as a safe haven asset

01:00:52during perceived instability,

01:00:54a pattern possibly repeating now.

01:00:57A CEPR study notes,

01:00:58Trump's re-election typically boosts equity markets,

01:01:00a 7% to 10% abnormal return

01:01:02in politically proximate sectors,

01:01:04but the current S&P 500 dip

01:01:06indicates broader economic skepticism

01:01:08potentially driving investors to Bitcoin

01:01:10as a hedge against traditional systems.

01:01:13Well,

01:01:14I mean,

01:01:14Trump has certainly taught

01:01:15Americans a lot about tariffs,

01:01:18and

01:01:18that's kind of cool

01:01:21because

01:01:24it

01:01:24goes back against this general narrative

01:01:27that

01:01:29we have

01:01:30some kind of free market.

01:01:32It's capitalism and so on,

01:01:33right?

01:01:42Former finance minister,

01:01:43sorry,

01:01:44not my minister,

01:01:44my apologies,

01:01:45former finance professor,

01:01:47Tad Smith.

01:01:48He said,

01:01:48after 25 years teaching

01:01:50finance,

01:01:51I realized at 58,

01:01:52if the money printer grows

01:01:538% to 10% annually

01:01:55and the S&P 500 returns

01:01:57are about 9%,

01:01:59it's just treading water.

01:02:00True wealth comes from

01:02:02outpacing the printer,

01:02:04right?

01:02:05That's the Bitcoin journey.

01:02:07Yeah.

01:02:08The illusion of wealth,

01:02:09right?

01:02:19So,

01:02:20according to the New York Fed,

01:02:22the following university majors

01:02:24are showing significantly worse

01:02:26employment prospects

01:02:27than philosophy.

01:02:28So,

01:02:28if you take philosophy,

01:02:29I think philosophy is the second

01:02:31highest IQ

01:02:31demand

01:02:33after physics.

01:02:35So,

01:02:35the following majors

01:02:36are showing significantly worse

01:02:37employment prospects

01:02:38than philosophy.

01:02:39One,

01:02:39computer science.

01:02:41Two,

01:02:41business management,

01:02:42chemistry,

01:02:43computer engineering,

01:02:43information systems,

01:02:45public policy and law,

01:02:46physics,

01:02:47and economics.

01:02:50So,

01:02:50that's interesting.

01:02:52That's interesting.

01:03:01All right.

01:03:02I think,

01:03:03going back through my bookmarks,

01:03:05SEC will approve tokenization

01:03:07on May 12th.

01:03:08Real world assets

01:03:09are coming on chain.

01:03:10That is very interesting.

01:03:12Interesting.

01:03:12So,

01:03:22tokenization could unlock trillions

01:03:23by digitizing traditional assets,

01:03:26a trend supported by

01:03:27chain analysis,

01:03:29sorry,

01:03:29chain analysis podcast.

01:03:31So,

01:03:32this actually goes back,

01:03:35I think,

01:03:36to

01:03:36what I

01:03:37did in my original

01:03:382014,

01:03:39the truth about

01:03:40Bitcoin presentation.

01:03:41Facebook to enable

01:03:44crypto payments

01:03:45for their 3 billion

01:03:46users,

01:03:47Bitcoin lightning

01:03:48is next.

01:03:50I'm suspicious

01:03:51of everything

01:03:51these days.

01:03:53It really amazes me

01:03:54just how much

01:03:54people can

01:03:55lie

01:03:56or just

01:03:57reproduce things,

01:03:58just repeat things

01:03:59that aren't true.

01:04:00Yeah,

01:04:02because

01:04:03they had

01:04:05Libra,

01:04:05it was a

01:04:05cryptocurrency project,

01:04:06but they got hit

01:04:07with regulatory

01:04:08hurdles

01:04:08and was discontinued.

01:04:11So,

01:04:12so it says

01:04:15Meta Platforms,

01:04:16formerly known as

01:04:16Facebook,

01:04:17is reportedly in

01:04:17discussions with

01:04:18cryptocurrency firms

01:04:19to integrate stable coins

01:04:20into its platforms,

01:04:21aiming to manage

01:04:22payouts for 3 billion

01:04:23users,

01:04:24potentially revolutionizing

01:04:25digital payments

01:04:26by leveraging the

01:04:26stability and low

01:04:27transaction costs

01:04:28of stable coins.

01:04:28that could be

01:04:32interesting.

01:04:33It'd be very cool

01:04:34if they went with

01:04:35Bitcoin lightning.

01:04:36That would really be

01:04:36quite a use case

01:04:37scenario because I

01:04:38know some people

01:04:39are still somewhat

01:04:40skeptical of Bitcoin

01:04:41lightning,

01:04:41but

01:04:41all right,

01:04:52let me,

01:04:55a cloud flare

01:04:56purportedly has

01:04:57100 lava lamps

01:04:58on a wall that are

01:04:58used to help

01:04:59create random

01:04:59encryption keys.

01:05:01It's pretty wild.

01:05:03It's pretty wild.

01:05:11Yeah,

01:05:11Dr. John Campbell

01:05:12on YouTube is,

01:05:13I think,

01:05:14a fairly credible

01:05:15guy to follow.

01:05:16In my view,

01:05:17I can't judge,

01:05:18obviously,

01:05:18the science,

01:05:19but

01:05:19I like this joke,

01:05:23telling the pregnant

01:05:23lady I need her seat

01:05:24because I just did

01:05:25leg day.

01:05:26that's wild.

01:05:28All right,

01:05:29let me get back

01:05:29to your questions

01:05:30and comments.

01:05:34All right.

01:05:39Yeah,

01:05:40and

01:05:40now I'll go back

01:05:46to that.

01:05:48The Ethereum pump

01:05:49was even more

01:05:49drastic.

01:05:50Yeah,

01:05:50but Ethereum

01:05:50has been pretty

01:05:51rough,

01:05:52right?

01:05:52Okay,

01:05:52have you read

01:05:58much Napoleon Hill?

01:06:00I just read

01:06:00chapter 10 of

01:06:01Think and Grow Rich

01:06:02as per a recommendation

01:06:03from another book

01:06:04about the importance

01:06:05of having productive

01:06:06and goal-oriented

01:06:06people around you

01:06:07in life.

01:06:07I've not read

01:06:08any Napoleon Hill,

01:06:09sorry.

01:06:09What business book

01:06:12would you say

01:06:12is your fave?

01:06:13Also,

01:06:14what sales book?

01:06:15I read Joe Girard's

01:06:16How to Sell Anything

01:06:16to Anyone,

01:06:17which I thought

01:06:17was great.

01:06:20Yeah,

01:06:20I mean,

01:06:21I read Strategic

01:06:22Inflection Points,

01:06:23the guy who was

01:06:23the head of Intel

01:06:24when they had

01:06:25that calculation

01:06:25issue.

01:06:26I read his book

01:06:27I thought was

01:06:27pretty good.

01:06:30Jack Welsh,

01:06:31was he G.E.,

01:06:32right?

01:06:34I've read

01:06:34a biography.

01:06:35I read his

01:06:36business book,

01:06:37which I thought

01:06:37was very good.

01:06:38I used to read

01:06:39the Harvard Business Review

01:06:40in my late teens

01:06:41and early 20s

01:06:42because I was

01:06:43in the library anyway.

01:06:44I'd just go

01:06:44sort of pull it down.

01:06:45I thought that was

01:06:46really good.

01:06:47It was really

01:06:47a bunch of influences.

01:06:48I mean,

01:06:48I'll do a whole show.

01:06:50Let me just make

01:06:50a note of this.

01:06:51I'll do a whole show

01:06:51on sort of business ideas

01:06:53that influenced me

01:06:53over the years.

01:06:57Show.

01:07:00That influenced me.

01:07:03Me.

01:07:07All right.

01:07:08More Americans

01:07:16own Bitcoin

01:07:17than gold.

01:07:17Yeah,

01:07:17again,

01:07:18I mean,

01:07:18the value

01:07:18is much higher

01:07:19of the gold

01:07:20and I think

01:07:20some of it

01:07:21is a couple

01:07:21of hundred bucks

01:07:22and a lot

01:07:22of it I think

01:07:22would be

01:07:23second or third

01:07:24hand through ETFs

01:07:25but yeah.

01:07:31Steph,

01:07:31in your new book,

01:07:32do you plan

01:07:33to address

01:07:33the difficulties

01:07:35of renegotiating

01:07:36the implicit rules

01:07:37of a relationship?

01:07:39If so,

01:07:39do you plan

01:07:39to mirror

01:07:40the low success rate

01:07:41based on this

01:07:41being a fairly new

01:07:42property of social

01:07:43relationships?

01:07:45A little bit like

01:07:46Rachel and Arliss's

01:07:47unspoken rules

01:07:48which Rachel breaks

01:07:49or will you try

01:07:50a different approach

01:07:50of exploring this?

01:07:52Yeah,

01:07:53I mean,

01:07:53I certainly,

01:07:54that's quite perceptive.

01:07:55I certainly do

01:07:56have the plan

01:07:56to have,

01:07:58how do people

01:07:58try and rewrite

01:07:59the rules

01:07:59in a relationship,

01:08:00right?

01:08:01That's a very,

01:08:02very good point.

01:08:02So yes,

01:08:03yes.

01:08:05Let's see here.

01:08:07I work in software,

01:08:08says someone.

01:08:09I would say

01:08:09electrical

01:08:10slash mechanical

01:08:11engineering

01:08:12or maths

01:08:12are better degrees

01:08:13to take

01:08:14than software engineering.

01:08:15The level of maths

01:08:16in software engineering

01:08:16is just worrying.

01:08:21Okay,

01:08:21practical question.

01:08:22If Bitcoin

01:08:23is serious

01:08:23long-term money

01:08:24of the future,

01:08:25to what date

01:08:26will future time travelers

01:08:27want to go back

01:08:28to corner of the market?

01:08:29There's no time travel.

01:08:31Of course,

01:08:31I know you're joking.

01:08:33Of course,

01:08:33time travel,

01:08:34I mean,

01:08:34if you were to go back

01:08:35a year,

01:08:37if you had the ability

01:08:38to go back a year,

01:08:39you'd just be floating

01:08:40in space

01:08:40because a year ago

01:08:42the earth wasn't

01:08:43where you are now,

01:08:44right?

01:08:48Just floating in nowhere.

01:08:50Real nowhere man.

01:08:51All right.

01:08:51I would appreciate

01:08:54if you would find

01:08:55this helpful

01:08:55and useful,

01:08:56I would appreciate

01:08:57tips

01:08:58at

01:09:00freedomain.com

01:09:02slash donate

01:09:03or of course

01:09:04right here

01:09:04in the apps.

01:09:06freedomain.com

01:09:07slash donate

01:09:07or right here

01:09:08in the apps.

01:09:10Thank you,

01:09:10David.

01:09:11I appreciate it.

01:09:13I appreciate it

01:09:14very much.

01:09:15Thank you,

01:09:22Dan.

01:09:25What percentage

01:09:26of boomers

01:09:26have Bitcoin?

01:09:27I don't know.

01:09:30I think that they

01:09:31would probably

01:09:31not own it directly,

01:09:32but they might

01:09:33own it indirectly

01:09:34like through

01:09:35some sort of

01:09:36investment fund

01:09:36or ETF

01:09:37or something

01:09:37like that.

01:09:38doom,

01:09:42doodle,

01:09:42doom,

01:09:43doom.

01:09:44All right.

01:09:52Let's see

01:09:53what else.

01:09:57Hmm.

01:09:58Steak and Shake

01:09:59are accepting

01:10:00Bitcoin payments

01:10:01at all locations

01:10:01starting May the 16th.

01:10:03five days

01:10:04making the

01:10:05cryptocurrency

01:10:06available to

01:10:06our more than

01:10:07100 million

01:10:08customers.

01:10:10The movement

01:10:11is just beginning.

01:10:12Okay.

01:10:12Is that right?

01:10:14Steak Toshi.

01:10:15100 million

01:10:16customers

01:10:16for Steak and Shake?

01:10:19No.

01:10:21No.

01:10:22I don't

01:10:22believe.

01:10:24I don't

01:10:25believe.

01:10:33All right.

01:10:34Well,

01:10:34I'll go

01:10:39with what

01:10:39they say.

01:10:49Can't time

01:10:50travel.

01:10:50Quantum

01:10:51entanglement

01:10:51says hold

01:10:52my beer.

01:10:52No,

01:10:53you can't

01:10:53time travel.

01:10:54I mean,

01:10:55let's say that

01:10:56even in some

01:10:57way you could

01:10:57travel through

01:10:58time,

01:10:58you would

01:10:59also have to

01:10:59instantaneously

01:11:00travel through

01:11:01space and

01:11:02land exactly

01:11:02on the

01:11:03Earth's

01:11:03surface a

01:11:04year ago,

01:11:05right?

01:11:06Because remember,

01:11:07the Earth is

01:11:07just spiraling

01:11:08like a big

01:11:10corkscrew pattern

01:11:10with the Sun

01:11:11at the center.

01:11:13It's just

01:11:13spiraling through

01:11:14the galaxy,

01:11:14right?

01:11:16So if you

01:11:17were able to

01:11:17go back to

01:11:18yesterday,

01:11:18you'd just be

01:11:19floating in

01:11:19space,

01:11:20right?

01:11:20So you'd

01:11:20have to

01:11:20instantaneously

01:11:21travel through

01:11:22time and

01:11:22space,

01:11:23and you can't

01:11:24travel through

01:11:24space.

01:11:25So even if

01:11:26you were to

01:11:26time travel,

01:11:27you'd just

01:11:27end up

01:11:27floating in

01:11:28an empty

01:11:29space void,

01:11:30right?

01:11:31Unless you

01:11:31went back,

01:11:32I don't

01:11:32know,

01:11:32a millisecond.

01:11:36In which

01:11:36case,

01:11:37I mean,

01:11:38the world

01:11:39would still

01:11:40be halfway

01:11:40up your

01:11:40calves,

01:11:41wouldn't it?

01:11:41Again,

01:11:41I'm just,

01:11:42I'm doing

01:11:43the math in

01:11:43my head as

01:11:43a philosophy

01:11:44guy.

01:11:44what was

01:11:49time cop?

01:11:50Time cop

01:11:51was a

01:11:51pretty funny

01:11:51movie.

01:11:53I remember

01:11:54the review

01:11:54Jean-Claude

01:11:57Van Damme

01:11:57with an

01:11:57achy-breaky

01:11:58hairdo,

01:11:58because he

01:11:59did have

01:11:59kind of a

01:11:59mullet thing,

01:12:00right?

01:12:02Yeah,

01:12:02quantum is

01:12:03not another

01:12:03word for

01:12:04magic,

01:12:05just so you

01:12:05know.

01:12:05Quantum is

01:12:06not just

01:12:07another word

01:12:07for magic.

01:12:09Anything can

01:12:10happen,

01:12:10because quantum

01:12:11is like,

01:12:11nope,

01:12:11that's not

01:12:12how quantum

01:12:13works.

01:12:15And of

01:12:15course,

01:12:15quantum,

01:12:16all quantum

01:12:17weirdness and

01:12:17irregularities

01:12:18cancel out

01:12:19long before

01:12:19you get to

01:12:20the level

01:12:20of sense

01:12:20data.

01:12:32Oh,

01:12:32pardon me.

01:12:33Oh.

01:12:38All right,

01:12:38let's see if

01:12:39you have any

01:12:39of the last

01:12:40questions,

01:12:40comments.

01:12:42How do

01:12:43people use

01:12:43the existence

01:12:44of material

01:12:44reality to

01:12:45somehow use

01:12:45it as evidence

01:12:46for the

01:12:46immaterial?

01:12:49Well,

01:12:49because they

01:12:50want to

01:12:51remain

01:12:51undisciplined

01:12:52in their

01:12:52minds,

01:12:53and therefore

01:12:53they have

01:12:53to be

01:12:54surrounded

01:12:54by magic,

01:12:55so they

01:12:55don't have

01:12:55to have

01:12:55any form

01:12:56of strictness

01:12:57with themselves.

01:12:59Everybody

01:13:00who's looking

01:13:00to break

01:13:01physical rules

01:13:01in the

01:13:01universe is

01:13:02looking to

01:13:02break moral

01:13:03rules in

01:13:03their heart.

01:13:04and that's

01:13:11why people

01:13:12who are

01:13:12very much

01:13:13into

01:13:14relativism

01:13:14when it

01:13:16comes to

01:13:17material reality

01:13:18are very much

01:13:19into moral

01:13:19relativism,

01:13:20which is to

01:13:20say that my

01:13:21vanity and

01:13:22hedonism and

01:13:22preferences should

01:13:23vastly or

01:13:24infinitely outstrip

01:13:25moral rules

01:13:26as a whole.

01:13:40All right,

01:13:41let's see here.

01:13:43freedomain.com

01:13:44slash donate

01:13:44if you're

01:13:45listening to

01:13:45this later.

01:13:49Would you

01:13:49say you're

01:13:50a materialist

01:13:51or do

01:13:51objectivists

01:13:52not use

01:13:52that label?

01:13:53I'm not

01:13:53an objectivist,

01:13:54although I

01:13:55accept

01:13:55objectivist

01:13:56metaphysics

01:13:56and epistemology,

01:13:57but when it

01:13:58comes to

01:13:58morals and

01:13:59politics,

01:14:00no.

01:14:04Light slit,

01:14:05yeah,

01:14:05I understand

01:14:06the light slit

01:14:06and the gold

01:14:07thing.

01:14:07I get all

01:14:08of that for

01:14:08sure,

01:14:09but it

01:14:09does no

01:14:09bearing on

01:14:10sense data

01:14:11processing,

01:14:11it has no

01:14:12bearing on

01:14:12morality,

01:14:13and it has

01:14:13no bearing

01:14:14on logic.

01:14:16I wouldn't

01:14:17say I'm a

01:14:18materialist.

01:14:18I'm definitely

01:14:19an empiricist

01:14:19in that reason

01:14:21comes from

01:14:21the predictable

01:14:22behavior of

01:14:22matter and

01:14:23energy as

01:14:24put in through

01:14:24the evidence

01:14:25of the senses.

01:14:25By the

01:14:27way,

01:14:27did you

01:14:27know that

01:14:27your brain

01:14:28doesn't

01:14:29know that

01:14:29your eyeballs

01:14:29exist?

01:14:30And if

01:14:30your brain

01:14:30did know

01:14:31your eyeballs

01:14:32existed,

01:14:33it would

01:14:33destroy them

01:14:35with the

01:14:35antibody

01:14:38system.

01:14:40They have to

01:14:40be totally

01:14:41sealed off.

01:14:42No eyes

01:14:42here,

01:14:43don't attack,

01:14:43don't attack.

01:14:45You're welcome

01:14:45for all the

01:14:46work that I

01:14:46do.

01:14:46I appreciate

01:14:47your support.

01:14:47Thank you

01:14:48very much.

01:15:04Oh,

01:15:05I'm sure

01:15:05Macron had

01:15:05a bag of

01:15:06sugar.

01:15:07All right,

01:15:08let me just

01:15:08check here

01:15:09for your last

01:15:09questions.

01:15:11Do-do-do-do.

01:15:20All right.

01:15:23Sorry, I

01:15:24missed a bunch of

01:15:24questions here.

01:15:26Okay,

01:15:26practical question.

01:15:28If Bitcoin is

01:15:29serious long-term

01:15:29money of the

01:15:30future, oh,

01:15:32sorry, that was

01:15:32the time

01:15:32traveler one.

01:15:33I saw some

01:15:38GenX person

01:15:39online saying

01:15:39the immaculate

01:15:40conception is

01:15:41proof of time

01:15:41travel.

01:15:43I'm sure

01:15:43that's his

01:15:43big moral

01:15:44issue.

01:15:46Ever read

01:15:47Wake Up

01:15:48All You

01:15:48Zombies Out

01:15:48There by

01:15:49Robert Heinlein?

01:15:49I've seen

01:15:50more convoluted

01:15:51logic.

01:15:53I was not a

01:15:54big fan of

01:15:54Robert.

01:15:55The Moon is

01:15:55a Harsh

01:15:55Mistress.

01:15:56I tried

01:15:56reading that,

01:15:57the one that

01:15:58Grock came

01:15:59from.

01:15:59I can't

01:15:59remember that

01:15:59one, but

01:16:00it felt

01:16:03too inhuman

01:16:04to me.

01:16:05I never

01:16:05really got

01:16:06the Robert

01:16:06Heinlein

01:16:07thing.

01:16:09No, no

01:16:09diss on

01:16:10Robert Heinlein.

01:16:11I like

01:16:11art that

01:16:13hits me a

01:16:13little bit

01:16:14more in

01:16:15the feels.

01:16:16If I want

01:16:17logic, then

01:16:18I'll read

01:16:18Aristotle.

01:16:19If I want

01:16:19art, it

01:16:20has to hit

01:16:20me in the

01:16:21feels.

01:16:21Robert

01:16:21Heinlein was

01:16:22just also

01:16:23self-consciously

01:16:23cool and

01:16:24neat and

01:16:25front and

01:16:25all that

01:16:26kind of

01:16:26stuff.

01:16:26Anyway.

01:16:33I really

01:16:35appreciate

01:16:35everyone's

01:16:36time today.

01:16:36Thank you

01:16:37so much

01:16:37for dropping

01:16:37by.

01:16:37FreeDomain.com

01:16:38to help

01:16:39out the

01:16:39show.

01:16:41Maybe I'll

01:16:41do a

01:16:42donor one

01:16:46maybe tomorrow

01:16:47or Tuesday.

01:16:48My apologies.

01:16:49I completely

01:16:50slipped my

01:16:50mind.

01:16:51That's because

01:16:51James is not

01:16:51here to

01:16:52remind me

01:16:52today.

01:16:53Sorry about

01:16:54that.

01:16:54We will

01:16:55do a

01:16:55donor one

01:16:55before

01:16:56Wednesday.

01:16:58Maybe on

01:16:58the donor

01:16:59one I'll

01:16:59read some

01:16:59bits of

01:17:00my new

01:17:00novel and

01:17:00get your

01:17:01guys'

01:17:01feedback and

01:17:02thoughts

01:17:02about how

01:17:02it's

01:17:02working.

01:17:03So I

01:17:04really do

01:17:04appreciate

01:17:04that.

01:17:05Thank you

01:17:06for your

01:17:06time my

01:17:06friends.

01:17:06Lots of

01:17:07love from

01:17:07up here.

01:17:08Talk to

01:17:09you soon.

01:17:10Bye.

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