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Fourth of April, my

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God, April already. 2020-24.

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Boy, time really is

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flying. And... I

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have topics, of course,

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I'm sure you're aware, that

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we do have topics

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as a whole. I have lots

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of space in my brain,

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heart and mind for your

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questions and comments

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and preferences and

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what is nice for you.

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And we could start with

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some fraud. So

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yeah, we could start with some

1:05

fraud. I mentioned this many years

1:07

ago, but I came across it

1:09

recently, and I thought it was worth talking

1:11

about a little bit. So Russell T.

1:13

Warren, that's Russ Warren, W.A.R.N.E. on

1:16

X, wrote, I finished reading Thebaud

1:18

Let Textsier's book, Investigating

1:21

the Stanford Prison Experiment, History

1:23

of a Lie. This is the

1:25

most thorough treatment of the

1:28

real history behind the Stanford

1:30

prison prison experiment, So

1:35

this is his perspective on it.

1:37

Obviously I haven't verified these claims,

1:39

but I'm putting them out there

1:41

because they're interesting. So the Stanford

1:43

Prison experiment was this idea that

1:45

you take a bunch of random

1:48

college students, you divide them into

1:50

guards, and you divide them into

1:52

prisoners, and you just give them

1:54

these roles to play, and the

1:56

guards become progressively more hangdoggy and

1:59

desperate and... so on, stiflingly

2:01

rebellious and all of

2:04

that, and that they

2:06

had to stop the

2:08

experiment very quickly because

2:10

the gods were just

2:12

becoming so crazy and sadistic.

2:15

And so the general

2:17

argument is that there's

2:20

this incipient sadism

2:22

that is in the hearts

2:24

and minds of people as

2:26

a whole. And

2:29

if you just, if

2:32

people get power, they

2:34

go crazy,

2:36

they get

2:39

crazy aggressive,

2:41

crazy hostile,

2:43

their personality

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has all this

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latent sadism

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and so on. And

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it's a very sort

2:54

of powerful experiment.

2:56

So, Russell writes, after reading the book,

2:59

it's hard to deny that it's impardo,

3:01

as the original psychologist lied about almost

3:03

every aspect of the study at some

3:05

point in the 53 years he lived

3:08

after conducting it. Some of the most

3:10

inexcusable lies include, saying that five, quote,

3:12

prisoners left the experiment early for mental

3:15

health reasons. In reality, only two to

3:17

three did, in fact, one left, because

3:19

the dry air and denial of access

3:21

to his medication was causing problems with

3:24

his eczema. Zimbabwe's

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then-girlfriend, later wife, was not the

3:28

cause of the study ending. In

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Zimbabwe, she visits on day six and

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is horrified about what's happened and convinces

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him to stop the study. In reality,

3:37

she had visited earlier, participated in a

3:39

fake parole board, and was aware of

3:41

what was happening in the study before it

3:43

ended. No, the quote guards did not

3:46

all turn sadistic. In fact, most were

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reluctant about embracing their role, and the

3:50

day shift guards were actually pretty lenient

3:52

about rules. Next, the

3:54

experiment did not get progressively

3:56

or increasingly intense with each

3:58

passing day. Also, the

4:01

guy's behavior was not spontaneous. They

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were coached multiple times about how

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to behave. They were given suggestions

4:08

for punishments, and they did not

4:10

invent the prison rules. There are

4:12

also lies of omission, as Embardo

4:14

did not come up with the

4:17

experiment himself. Some of his undergraduate

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students did a smaller version of

4:21

it a few months earlier as

4:24

a class project he almost

4:26

never credited them. The

4:29

guards were misled into believing that

4:31

they were part of the experimental

4:33

team. They thought the study was only

4:35

about prisoner behaviour. As a result, the

4:37

guards did not lose themselves in a

4:40

role by being placed in a fake

4:42

prison. They never thought of themselves

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as real guards. The participants were

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not all good or normal young

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men with no history of misconduct.

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Some had a history of a petty

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crime, drug use, social dysfunction, etc. participants

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treated the experiment as if it

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were real, both prisoners and guards

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were constantly aware that they were

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in an experiment, and that they

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were not really prisoners and guards.

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No one consistently lost himself in

5:07

his role. Variability was the rule

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in the Stanford Prison experiment, not

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the exception. For decades Imbardo portrayed

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all the prisoners as becoming

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rebellious and then broken as

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the guards became authoritarian and

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cruel. Some prisoners had good

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relationships with some guards. The

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day shift was business-like and

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some prisoners or guards saw

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the situation

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as a weird

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temporary job, whereas

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others desperately

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wanted out. Let's

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see. He says, Russell

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says, the Stanford

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Prison experiment. It was

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simply bad science. There are so

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many flaws that it cannot reveal

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anything about human behaviour. In the

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past I called it a performance

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art, he says, reading. Letexius book

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reinforce their view. The protocols were

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erratic, changed often and haphazardly.

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Almost nothing in the Stanford

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Prison experiment was systematic. Data

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collection was erratic. Irregular, resulting

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in sloppy data. In the

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months and years after the

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experiment, Zimbabwe's assistance and students

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warned him that the data were

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hired to interpret, he ignored them all.

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Zimbabwe started the study. With a

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predetermined goal in mind, he published a

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press release on the second day of

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the study touting its results. He testified

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to Congress and gave dozens of interviews

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before he had even analyzed his data.

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The demand characteristics must have

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been overwhelming, especially for the guards, who

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were coached in their behavior. Everybody knew

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or had a pretty good idea of

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the purpose of the study and what

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Zimbabwe wanted to see. There was almost

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constant supervision from Zimbabwe and

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his assistance. Conditions only superficially

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resemble the real prison. This is

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two consequences. One, running the experiment

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was sometimes cruel and definitely unethical,

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even by the standards of his

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time. The Stanford Prison experiment does

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not tell us anything about the effects

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of real imprisonment. Among the conditions that

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were worse than those of real American

7:11

prison were prisoner uniforms or

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gowns warm without underwear, which

7:16

sometimes exposed prisoners genitals. Conditions

7:18

were unsanitary, bathroom access was

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severely limited, at night the

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prisoners had to urinate and

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defecate in a bucket. Sometimes prisoners

7:26

even had to clean out the buckets

7:28

with their bare hands, the prisoners

7:30

were worried about disease. The prisoners

7:32

could not shower and were only allowed

7:35

to shave. I'll have a sponge bath if

7:37

outside visitors were expected. The prisoners

7:39

had no access to fresh air

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or exercise. Access

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to recreation was almost zero. Books were

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taken away, and prisoners were not allowed

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to have any personal effects or momentos.

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The quote, parole board was a total sham

7:52

that had no power to release prisoners early.

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Prisoners wore chains almost constantly,

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which caused discomfort and injury.

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For Zimbabwe, the lesson of

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the Stanford prison experiment was

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that potential for cruelty and

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evil lurks inside everyone, and

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the right or wrong situation could

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let out that in a monster. I

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think Zimbabwe thought this message

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resonated, says Russell, because he

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actually did do cruel things

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to other people. The conclusion

8:23

that everyone has evil inside

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them probably greatly swashed

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at Zimbabwe's guilt. Very

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sad. And I think

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it's probably a bit

8:36

of an atheist thing too,

8:38

right? In that, well, new

8:41

God, virtue, philosophy, doesn't

8:43

tame the beast

8:45

within and all

8:47

of that sort of stuff.

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All right, let me get...

8:52

We had an interview with

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Russell Warren back in

8:57

the day, didn't we really? Thank

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you. If you give me the

9:02

link, I'd appreciate that. Give me

9:04

the number. All right, so let's

9:06

get to your... So, the general

9:09

idea is that whenever there's

9:11

like a, what seems to be a

9:13

very sort of... This is Emil Kikegaard

9:16

wrote this, Remember kids,

9:18

whenever you hear one

9:21

important story or study

9:23

from social science with

9:25

some morality tail that

9:27

has, it's probably fake in

9:29

some way. was seriously misrepresented, you know,

9:31

this idea that this woman gets stabbed

9:33

to death and nobody does anything even

9:36

though dozens of people can hear her.

9:38

It's not really what happened, but you

9:40

can look that up. The murder of

9:42

Kitty Genovese, G-N-O-V-E-S-E, you can look that

9:44

up, debunked. It's very interesting. There's

9:47

all this stuff that was gospel when I

9:49

was growing up. Oh, okay, yes, sorry. Wrong about

9:51

IQ. So the show is four-oh-oh-five nine,

9:53

four-five nine, four-one, four-one,

9:55

four-one, four-one, four-one, four-one,

9:58

four-one, four-one, four-one. We

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did that show, one of the

10:02

intelligence experts. Okay. Thank you

10:04

for the tip. Flort Network, I'd

10:07

appreciate that. Country scholar

10:09

writes, what would you do if

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your wife and two daughters hated

10:13

the Mars, you made your SUV?

10:16

Would you add more off-road gadgetry

10:18

or give in and get something

10:20

more refined? My kids are forced

10:23

to ride with me for several

10:25

more years. Hmm. Well, I

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don't know, it's interesting. I

10:30

guess you made some manly

10:32

stuff that the women don't

10:34

appreciate. I would get

10:36

it changed, personally. I would get

10:39

it changed. I mean, it's not

10:41

like, I'm not saying you

10:43

should get bullied or pushed

10:45

around with every decision or

10:47

choice that you make, but

10:49

what I would say is that

10:52

you want your family to know

10:54

and understand that you care

10:56

more for their happiness then.

11:00

Tricked up thing for your SUV.

11:02

I mean if they hate it, just get rid

11:04

of it. You know, if I were to

11:06

buy, I don't know if I would buy

11:08

a shirt or a hat, then my wife

11:10

and daughter hated. I'd just get rid of

11:12

it. I'd just take it back if you

11:14

hate it. It's not big. So I would,

11:16

I mean, you should preview these things

11:19

with your family as a whole. Make

11:21

sure you get people's buying. But, uh, I

11:23

would, you know, it's not worth it's

11:25

not worth it. It's not worth it.

11:27

It's not worth it. Not a hill

11:29

to die on, so to

11:31

speak, right? James says,

11:33

I'm reminded of an

11:36

episode of Star Trek,

11:38

the next generation, where

11:41

the big moral was

11:43

there's an evil monster

11:46

that lives inside

11:48

all of us. Yeah. Yeah.

11:50

This is... It's not true.

11:52

I've never had an evil monster

11:54

that lives inside. I think we

11:57

all have the capacity to be

11:59

cruel, sure. But that's just

12:01

a larger part of self-protection

12:03

of the whole, right? All

12:06

right. Somebody writes, High

12:08

Staff, why do I feel burdened

12:10

by someone else's destructive

12:12

decisions? Because my friend,

12:14

in the past, secret,

12:16

secret, in the past, we

12:18

couldn't escape them. You grew

12:20

up in a small town, a small

12:23

village, a small tribe, and

12:25

somebody has some really destructive,

12:27

some really destructive...

12:30

opinion, some destructive

12:33

perspective, you really

12:35

can't escape it. So you

12:38

are burdened by it, you know.

12:40

The idea that you

12:43

can escape the disfunctions

12:45

of your childhood

12:48

environment is really

12:50

new. Or even the

12:52

possibility that you can really

12:54

do that is really new.

12:59

And because of that, you

13:01

had to stay focused and

13:03

attentive to what was going on.

13:05

Now you do have a choice, right?

13:08

Now you have a choice. In the

13:10

past you didn't. All right. Yeah,

13:12

I don't like the idea that,

13:14

you know, we're all just

13:16

different degrees of evil. And,

13:19

you know, we're all just, you know,

13:21

one day of power away

13:23

from becoming a sadist. I

13:25

don't believe that's true. All

13:29

right. Well, what do you

13:32

make of insomnia

13:34

so far as

13:36

philosophy goes? I would

13:38

say it's more of

13:40

a self-knowledge thing.

13:42

I think it's more

13:45

of a self-knowledge

13:47

thing. I think it's more

13:50

of a self-knowledge

13:52

thing. I

13:59

would say. that insomnia is

14:01

when there's, and I'm just

14:03

talking about, you know, self-knowledge

14:05

stuff, not any sort of

14:07

physical thing, but if you

14:09

have a big sort of

14:12

rank contradiction in your life,

14:14

I did, and I had

14:16

some insomnia when I was

14:18

in my late 20s, early

14:20

30s, if you have a

14:23

big rank contradiction in your

14:25

life, and mine was, I

14:27

was... reading about philosophy and

14:29

theorizing about philosophy, but not

14:31

practically living in a sort

14:33

of very material way philosophy.

14:36

So if you have a

14:38

big contradiction in your life,

14:40

it needs to be resolved.

14:42

Your contradictions will twist your

14:44

brain into some supernatural London

14:47

subway pretzel. It's really not

14:49

good for your mind as

14:51

a whole to have sort

14:53

of... big contradictions floating around

14:55

in your brain. So if

14:58

you've had yourself physically checked

15:00

out and you're fine sort

15:02

of physically, the place that

15:04

I would look for resolution

15:06

of insomnia is to look

15:08

for a big contradiction. I'll

15:11

give you some of the

15:13

typical ones, I mean, based

15:15

upon 20 years of calling

15:17

shows. So some of the

15:19

typical contradictions are, I say

15:22

I love someone, but I

15:24

don't. I claim

15:26

to love someone, but I don't

15:28

love that person. I claim to

15:30

be attached to someone who is

15:32

not producing any particular virtues that

15:35

are inspiring me to love worship

15:37

and adore. So if there's someone

15:39

in your life you claim to

15:41

love, maybe you have some historical

15:43

or residual affection for whatever, but

15:45

someone in your life that you

15:47

claim to love, but you don't

15:50

love them, that's a big one.

15:54

If your values are drifting

15:56

from the production of virtue?

15:58

In other words, if you're

16:01

pursuing sex for the sake

16:03

of sex alone, if you

16:05

are pursuing money for the

16:07

sake of money alone, if

16:10

you're pursuing status, or beauty,

16:12

or you know, like if

16:14

you're one of these sort

16:16

of Greek statue narcissists who

16:18

spends three hours a day

16:21

in the gym, if your

16:23

values and your decisions are

16:25

said by you to be

16:27

valuable, but they do not

16:30

directly contribute to the spread

16:32

of virtue in the world.

16:34

That's kind of a contradiction.

16:36

At least it will be

16:39

from a philosophical standpoint because

16:41

philosophically speaking we get the

16:43

most happiness from the production

16:45

of virtue in the world.

16:47

So that's another one. If

16:50

you are suppressing your true

16:52

self, but calling it... being

16:54

nice. That's a big, that's

16:56

a big problem. If you

16:59

are redefining negative traits, vices,

17:01

as positive, as positive traits,

17:03

you're going to have a

17:05

problem. You're going to have

17:08

a problem with your heart,

17:10

you're going to have a

17:12

problem with your peace of

17:14

mind. It's not so much

17:16

that we do negative things.

17:19

I mean... We do it.

17:21

It happens from time to

17:23

time. We do negative things.

17:25

But if we redefine those

17:28

negative things as a positive

17:30

thing, you know, if you,

17:32

let's say that you have

17:34

some dissolute friend who keeps

17:37

wanting to go out and

17:39

get drunk and you're like,

17:41

hey man, I deserve a

17:43

break, I deserve some relaxation,

17:45

I deserve to have fun,

17:48

all that that kind of

17:50

stuff. Then.

18:00

You're gonna have

18:02

problems because it's

18:05

it's it's it's

18:07

the dishonesty with

18:10

the South I

18:13

think that's that's

18:15

the big problem

18:18

All right, let's

18:20

see here. Oh,

18:23

so what are

18:26

the ones? Um

18:29

Severely undershooting your own potential?

18:31

That's a problem. And if

18:34

you are severely undershooting your

18:36

own potential, and you're not

18:39

honest yourself about it, that's

18:41

a big problem. That's going

18:44

to cause you, I think,

18:46

some significant unhappiness and problems.

18:49

What else? What do you

18:51

guys think? You ever had

18:54

this kind of insomnia that

18:56

comes from not? having a

18:59

very solid sense of, oh,

19:01

there's some sort of contradictions

19:04

going on in your brain.

19:06

Saying that you're happy with

19:09

your circumstances when you're simply

19:11

addicted to the familiar, I

19:13

think that's another one that

19:16

can be a big problem

19:18

for people. That's another one

19:21

that can be a big

19:23

problem for people. That's

19:27

right I missed check the various places

19:29

here. All right so somebody says thanks

19:32

deaf appreciate you I have recently a

19:34

long overdue increased my donations thank you

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very much I appreciate that C2 spark

19:39

nice to see you again says one

19:41

of the most successful shows breaking bad

19:43

premise was where one cancer diagnosis away

19:46

from becoming a violent drug lord yeah

19:48

yeah I couldn't stand that show I

19:50

couldn't do it. It was too gross.

19:53

too violent. What do you think of...

19:55

I'm saying I'm so lucky to have

19:57

her. Yeah, that is signaling a kind

20:00

of, I think that comes from having

20:02

a distant mother that you constantly had

20:04

to race around and try and please

20:07

and have her enjoy your company. I

20:09

think that just comes from that. It's

20:11

a very cuck behavior. I mean, I'm

20:14

lucky to have my wife. She's lucky

20:16

to have me. We both work hard.

20:18

We have a great relationship. We both

20:21

work hard and virtue and honesty. And

20:23

so we have a very sort of

20:25

direct and fun relationship. We're lucky to

20:28

have found each other. I think we

20:30

both earn and deserve each other as

20:32

a whole. I know that. So I

20:35

think it is a signal to say

20:37

to the woman, I don't know how

20:39

she's put up with me for so

20:42

long, blah blah, right? Of course a

20:44

woman would not want that. A woman

20:46

with self-esteem would not want a guy

20:49

who she has to kind of put

20:51

up with, deal with it, and so

20:53

on, right? Oh,

21:04

he says, yes, I've had some

21:06

of that very in line with

21:08

what you're talking about. Yeah. You

21:10

know, it's hard, if you didn't

21:12

have parents who are really devoted

21:14

to you, it's hard to feel

21:16

that people can really devote themselves

21:18

to you in the future, if

21:20

that makes sense. You always feel

21:22

like a little bit like you're

21:24

hanging on by a thread that

21:26

people are putting up with you,

21:28

that you're kind of tolerated, if

21:30

that makes sense. And that's not

21:32

fun. That's

21:36

no fun. Sorry,

21:38

just to go

21:40

back to the

21:42

Breaking Bad and

21:44

Stanford Prison experiment

21:46

and James, the

21:48

Star Trek show

21:50

that you talked

21:52

about, it's a

21:54

way of eroding

21:56

social trust. Right,

22:00

so this sort of mythology

22:02

of the, every single one

22:04

of us, the devil inside,

22:06

it's a way of having

22:08

you look around the world

22:10

and you don't see, you

22:12

know, normal people, you don't

22:14

see, you know, people with

22:16

their struggles and, you know,

22:18

average people, you see these

22:20

like caged demons in middle

22:22

class skin suits of vague

22:24

respectability, and I can turn

22:26

on you like that, right?

22:29

You can turn on

22:31

you like that. And

22:34

that really does erode

22:36

social trust. There's a

22:38

movie, I remember a

22:40

friend showing it to

22:42

me. Oh gosh, Dennis

22:44

Hopper, a comic last

22:46

then, I mentioned it

22:48

a couple of months

22:50

ago, the show's called

22:52

Blue Velvet. Isabella Rossolini?

22:54

And it starts with

22:56

a guy having a

22:58

heart attack and the

23:00

camera kind of zooms.

23:02

past the kids just

23:04

standing there the dog

23:06

is uninterested and he

23:08

the camera kind of

23:10

zooms down in to

23:12

the grass and in

23:14

the bottom of the

23:16

grass underneath the grass

23:18

is all of that

23:20

disgusting sounds of the

23:22

insects all eating each

23:24

other and fighting with

23:26

each other and so

23:28

on right and it

23:30

is this idea that

23:32

that there's this sort

23:34

of respectable life that

23:36

people have, but then

23:39

underneath that, and very,

23:41

you know, very quickly

23:43

underneath that, is this

23:45

really terrible predatory, violent,

23:47

ugly, nasty world. And

23:49

I mean, Dennis Harper

23:51

was a complete psycho

23:53

and really lobbied hard

23:55

to get this role

23:57

of Frank, whatever his

23:59

name was, because he

24:01

said, like, that guy's

24:03

me. So the idea

24:05

that everyone is, can

24:07

be easily possessed and

24:09

will turn on you

24:11

on a dime. And

24:13

it's a nasty, there's

24:15

a nasty perception to

24:17

have. And you... can't

24:19

really relax, you can't

24:21

trust, you can't get

24:23

a sort of productive

24:25

or healthy or happy

24:27

tribe around you, you

24:29

can't do any of

24:31

that. You just wait

24:33

for people to turn

24:35

on you. Now, the

24:37

counter-argument to that is

24:39

COVID, where people did

24:42

kind of turn on

24:44

each other. I very

24:46

much appreciate your support.

24:48

All right, let me

24:50

get back to... There's

24:52

great questions and comments,

24:54

thank you. Charles

25:03

Murray, did he write something?

25:05

The three laws of social

25:08

programs. I did see world

25:10

of engineering is always a

25:12

good thing to follow. The

25:14

human brain can store an

25:16

almost infinite amount of information

25:19

equivalent to about 2.5 million

25:21

gigabytes. Amazing. I don't know

25:23

if this is true as

25:25

a whole, but Brian Ramell

25:28

wrote. The AI generated only

25:30

fans workers are now scheduled

25:32

to make more than their

25:34

human workers by 2026, displacing

25:37

them by sheer numbers of

25:39

a thousand to one. I

25:41

don't know if that's true.

25:43

I'm not sure how you

25:45

would figure that out. I

25:48

suppose, I mean, isn't the

25:50

way that only fans works

25:52

that you can... Oh, somebody

25:54

says you're... post is a

25:57

fabrication Only Fans has strict

25:59

rules against AI generated content.

26:01

He said that it's absolutely

26:03

not the case, it is

26:06

rather easy to bypass the

26:08

rules. So that's interesting. It

26:10

seems unbelievable, but as far

26:12

as I understand it, Only

26:15

Fans works to some degree.

26:17

Because what you can do

26:19

is you can text the

26:21

only fans model and ask

26:23

you to do stuff, right?

26:26

And if you do that,

26:28

then she, you know, take

26:30

off your top, you know,

26:32

hold your hands up in

26:35

the air and shake him

26:37

with that old song. So

26:39

you would instruct the only

26:41

fans model on what it

26:44

is you want the only

26:46

fans model to do, and

26:48

then she'll do it. But

26:50

I suppose it's just an

26:53

AI prompt then at some

26:55

point, right? But

27:01

it will be very

27:03

interesting. It would be

27:05

very interesting to see

27:08

what happens if AI

27:10

can spontaneously generate pornographic

27:13

content based upon user

27:15

input in real time.

27:17

Interesting. And if AI

27:20

does that, then that

27:22

would... liberate more women

27:24

from this fairly vile

27:27

line of work I

27:29

suppose. So that could

27:31

be real positives around

27:34

that. people in Washington

27:36

D.C. and the people

27:38

on Twitter will be

27:41

really upset by it.

27:43

But I'm not sure

27:45

the American people will

27:48

ever understand why foreigners

27:50

can charge higher tariffs

27:52

on us than we

27:55

charge on them. If

27:57

you tell an American

28:00

that Trump is simply

28:02

matching the tariffs they

28:04

impose on us, most

28:07

Americans are going to

28:09

be happy about it.

28:11

And what is significant

28:14

is absolutely no one

28:16

in this whole frenzy

28:18

debate has made a

28:21

case about why foreign

28:23

countries should have higher

28:25

tariffs on us than

28:28

we have on them.

28:30

I've not seen one

28:32

person make that argument.

28:35

America should just suck

28:37

it up and take

28:39

it. So, it's an

28:42

interesting question, but of

28:44

course all of the

28:47

people who were instant

28:49

experts on, I've remarked

28:51

in, are now instant

28:54

experts on tariffs. It's

28:56

pretty wild. There's

29:00

a guy, a dude's posting

29:02

their wins, W's. This guy,

29:04

he sees, this guy is

29:07

staying in a hundred billion

29:09

dollar development project and he

29:11

basically has the entire city

29:13

to himself because barely anybody

29:15

lives, lives there. Isn't that

29:17

wild? It's across from Singapore

29:19

and there's, you know, a

29:21

few thousand people in this

29:24

massive... area. I remember seeing

29:26

this as this sort of

29:28

the ghost stuff that was

29:30

going on in China, right?

29:32

Which is, yet these malls

29:34

with like two stores out

29:36

of like 200 that were

29:38

actually running. Isn't that wild?

29:40

I mean, it is pretty

29:43

horrible. The amount of wasted

29:45

resources, but it's, I don't

29:47

know, I'd be curious visiting

29:49

a place like that. The

29:51

Redhead Libertarian posted this now.

29:53

a marriage vow from 1,450

29:55

years ago. I took a

29:57

youth to be my wife.

30:00

I hold your clothes here

30:02

as far as my wealth

30:04

allows. I won't invite the

30:06

friends for a drinking party.

30:08

If you are opposed to

30:10

it or I'm liable for

30:12

the penalty fee of 18

30:14

solittle. Solittle. That's, oh, sorry.

30:16

For some reason I thought

30:19

that was Italian. But it's

30:21

from Egypt. It's now at

30:23

the British library. Isn't that

30:25

funny? It

30:32

was funny, I'm seeing, or

30:34

interesting, was it yesterday? I

30:36

saw a bunch of tweets

30:38

and I got to see

30:40

my old alma mater. I

30:42

graduated with an undergraduate degree

30:45

in history from McGill. And

30:47

it's interesting seeing all the

30:49

streets I used to walk

30:51

and I'm taking over the

30:53

buildings and so on. It's

30:55

pretty wild man. Now did

30:58

you know this? Hit me

31:00

with a why. If

31:03

you are into anime, or know much

31:05

about anime, I don't. Not because there's

31:07

anything cool about it, I just, it

31:09

was not my demographic, not my generation,

31:11

really. But hit me with a why,

31:14

if you know much or anything about

31:16

the exciting world of anime and manga.

31:18

Animas, the cartoons and manga, the cartoons

31:20

and manga, the cartoons and manga, the

31:22

cartoons and manga, the cartoons and manga,

31:24

the cartoons, the cartoons, the cartoons and

31:27

manga, the cartoons, the cartoons and manga,

31:29

the comics, the comics, Is

31:33

that right, something like

31:35

that? I've not heard

31:38

of Brian Tracy, I'm

31:40

a friend. I'm not

31:42

really half-way, yeah. 50-50.

31:44

So this is wild.

31:46

It's sort of like

31:48

when you look into

31:50

how much money video

31:52

games make compared to

31:54

movies, it's just insane,

31:56

right? So this guy

31:58

wrote. Whether you like

32:00

it or not, it

32:02

is undoubtedly a huge

32:04

success story, what anime

32:06

has become. In 2024,

32:08

it produced a whopping

32:10

estimated $35 billion. For

32:12

comparison in box office

32:14

sales, the entire American

32:16

movie industry generated $8.7

32:19

billion in 2024. It's

32:21

almost four times. At

32:23

the core of most

32:25

Japanese storytelling reflected in

32:27

their anime. is honor,

32:29

courage, friendship, and hard

32:31

work. Is it a

32:33

surprise it is poised

32:35

to surpass the American

32:37

movie slash TV industry

32:39

which produces soldiers, corporate,

32:41

agenda-driven, dispassionate, contrived, and

32:43

predictable content? The Japanese

32:45

storytelling motto never give

32:47

up, American storytelling motto,

32:49

life is meaningless. Not

32:51

wild. There was of

32:53

course about a billion

32:55

memes about this. The

32:58

spectator index wrote, just

33:00

in, the US has

33:02

imposed tariffs on the

33:04

Australian territory of herd

33:06

and McDonald Islands, which

33:08

is uninhabited by humans,

33:10

but has colonies of

33:12

seals and penguins. I'm

33:14

always a joke, the

33:16

penguins are saying, you

33:18

think you can deport

33:20

us? We've been dealing

33:22

with ice for centuries.

33:24

Yeah. Of

33:28

course, the reason why you have

33:30

to include these things is that

33:33

if you don't include them, then

33:35

people would just set up little

33:37

shops or corporations there and then

33:39

be exempt from the tariffs. So

33:41

that's kind of how it works.

33:43

But yeah, of course, people do

33:45

find it funny and I get

33:47

that it's funny, but it's mid-wit

33:49

humor to put it mildly. Somebody

33:53

wrote, if you would

33:55

write out every number,

33:58

one, two, three, etc.

34:00

You wouldn't use the

34:02

letter B until you

34:04

have reached one. billion

34:07

dollars, one billion. That's

34:09

true. I guess that's

34:11

true, right? Now I

34:13

sure you remember me

34:16

talking about how sort

34:18

of pretty fake the

34:20

economy is as a

34:22

whole in America. Well,

34:25

most Western countries. So

34:27

this guy wrote almost

34:29

every year since 2008.

34:31

if you take out

34:34

increases in government spending.

34:36

And he wrote, that's

34:38

what radicalized me. Very

34:40

true. and it has

34:42

about 500 million neurons

34:45

more than the spinal

34:47

cord. It actually produces

34:49

90% of the body

34:51

serotonin, which affects mood.

34:54

This is why the

34:56

gut feelings are a

34:58

literal thing. That's very

35:00

true. Cut instincts, gut

35:03

feelings and so on.

35:05

Very interesting. Can I

35:07

cut with a great

35:09

quoted Stephen Moore, who

35:12

was saying, he said,

35:14

our tariffs, this is

35:16

the US, our tariffs

35:18

are about three to

35:20

five percent, and many

35:23

other countries are above

35:25

20 percent. The

35:28

US does have the lowest tariffs

35:30

virtually in the world and as

35:33

Trump has been saying these other

35:35

countries are ripping us off. In

35:37

2023, the United States had the

35:40

lowest trade barriers among G20 nations

35:42

and imposed lower tariffs than most

35:44

of them. Trump's right, we don't

35:47

have free trade and America is

35:49

getting ripped off. All

36:00

right, we'll get back to

36:02

your questions and comments. Can

36:04

we do a vote on

36:06

whether we want staff to

36:08

watch and review an anime?

36:10

I do that. I'll tell

36:13

you what, just hit me

36:15

with some animates. I used

36:17

to watch Dragon Ball Z.

36:19

I've never seen an anime.

36:21

Anime still tells stories. Western

36:23

movies. etc. about the message

36:25

in subversion. Yeah, true. There's

36:27

nothing organic in Western art

36:29

anymore. Hasn't been for decades.

36:32

Um, of Robo says, I

36:34

think that the anime motto

36:36

is actually, this series never

36:38

ends. They go on forever.

36:40

Good evening, James. Nice to

36:42

have you, you right? There

36:44

are strange elements in anime

36:46

series, but on our loyalty.

36:48

I remember really enjoying seeing

36:50

it portrayed. Okay, let me

36:53

just make some notes of

36:55

these. We got Attack on

36:57

Titan. And what's the other

36:59

one here? Death note. Death

37:01

note. Is that a movie?

37:03

Attack on Titan is very

37:05

violent. Grave of fireflies. I

37:07

used to when I was

37:09

a kid, when we moved

37:12

to Canada. There used to

37:14

be show on in the

37:16

morning from 830 until 9.

37:18

I never got to watch

37:20

the end of it because

37:22

I had to get to

37:24

school. Oh! Star Blazers! Star

37:26

Blazers! Star Blazers! We're off

37:28

to outer space to save

37:30

the human race! Anyway, it

37:33

was, uh... It was fun.

37:35

And it was half... I

37:37

guess it was half anime

37:39

and half not anime, because

37:41

some of the characters were

37:43

more realistic and some were

37:45

less. Yeah,

37:51

I don't want any

37:53

like sex tentacle stuff.

37:55

Thank you very much

37:58

Yeah, I don't want

38:00

anything too violent. I

38:02

don't want anything with

38:04

this grotesque, you know,

38:06

squealing Japanese girls being

38:08

penetrated by weird squid

38:11

beasts, I don't want

38:13

any of that nonsense.

38:15

You know, if you're

38:17

going to give me,

38:19

you know, good honor-based

38:21

and all of that,

38:24

then give me that.

38:26

If you could. Thank

38:28

you. And

38:33

I watched it on

38:35

the recommendation of an

38:37

FDR listener, I don't

38:39

know, 15 years ago,

38:41

found it a little

38:43

too weird. I watched

38:45

it again, didn't find

38:47

it that weird. Maybe

38:49

I've just become less

38:51

sensitive to weird. But

38:53

yeah, but it's not

38:55

anime? I guess it's

38:57

anime, right? Well, okay,

38:59

what is the definition

39:01

of anime? What is

39:03

anime? It's not all

39:05

Japanese comics, is it?

39:07

I've heard a lot

39:09

of references to Tengen

39:11

Topa Gavin Lagan. I

39:14

think I'm having a

39:16

stroke. I'll make a

39:18

note of that one

39:20

too. I might have

39:22

to ask my daughter.

39:24

Not that she's an

39:26

anime, but she might

39:28

know people who are.

39:34

Yuki, I'll make

39:36

a note of

39:39

that. Thanks. How

39:42

boy bebop? I've

39:44

heard of that.

39:47

It's a space

39:50

western followed outlaws

39:53

might be worth

39:55

washing a couple

39:58

of episodes to

40:01

see what you

40:04

think. Now Ruto

40:06

is another one?

40:09

Okay. Thank you.

40:12

Are they hard

40:15

to get these?

40:29

Yeah, but attack on

40:31

Titan is the violent

40:33

one, right? Cowboy Bebopop

40:35

is similar to Firefly.

40:37

Yeah, I was still

40:40

going to say that,

40:42

right? Cowboy Bebopopop. Okay,

40:44

I will check that

40:46

out. Thank you. Somebody

41:07

says, my brother was

41:09

big into Naruto, follows

41:11

a group of children

41:13

through moral and otherwise

41:15

trials and tribulations. Thank

41:17

you. I appreciate that.

41:20

You just sign up

41:22

for crunchy roll to

41:24

get most anime. Crunchy

41:26

roll. All right. Gets

41:28

most enemy. Now we'll

41:30

check that out. Thank

41:32

you. I assume they

41:34

have a trial. Thank

41:40

you for the link to

41:42

ugio, ugio, ugio, ugio. I'm

41:45

going to have to look

41:47

up how to pronounce these

41:50

things, I assume. Thank you.

41:52

Oh, that's on Netflix. Okay,

41:55

I'll check it out. All

41:57

right. On the topic of

42:00

products of Japan, have you

42:02

seen... seen people complaining because

42:05

the Nintendo switch too is

42:07

delayed because of the tariffs.

42:10

A grave of fireflies. Yeah,

42:12

my mother would have been

42:15

one of those. Well, not

42:17

in Japan, but in Germany.

42:20

Same, same kind of thing.

42:22

Thank you. somebody

42:34

says you can strike your child

42:36

but not your dog. Yet you

42:38

can leave your dog in the

42:40

car but not your child, what

42:42

a confused species humanity is. Yeah.

42:44

If we took the love that

42:46

people had for their pets and

42:48

put them into our children we

42:51

would have a transformed planet I

42:53

think. You truly transformed planet planet.

42:55

And if you're listening to this

42:57

later then you want to suggest

42:59

an anime. You can just email

43:01

me host H-O-S-O-S-O-S- Free-Free at Free

43:03

domain. Akira

43:06

is a much loved

43:09

anime movie. Thank you.

43:12

All right, appreciate that.

43:14

Thank you. All right,

43:17

so I'll move on.

43:19

I've got more than

43:22

enough, but I appreciate

43:25

that. I appreciate that.

43:39

All right, any other questions,

43:41

thoughts, issues, challenges, problems? Very

43:43

much appreciate you guys dropping

43:46

by tonight. Ghost in the

43:48

shell is also a grand

43:50

daily enemy. Hide in your

43:53

shell! Thank you, I appreciate

43:55

that, I grab that. Sorry,

44:14

this is a... Let's see here.

44:16

Do you know of Alan de

44:18

Beton? Alan a la de Beton

44:20

of School of Life? He recently

44:22

appeared on Chris Williamson Show and

44:25

had a marvelous conversation. Why does

44:27

that seem familiar? How's the earbuss

44:29

thing doing? It was better earlier

44:31

today. I did a show on

44:34

Taris for donors earlier today and

44:36

then I put these clamp on

44:38

headphones so I think it kind

44:40

of irritated the earbuss. So... It's

44:42

not as good this evening, but

44:45

it was certainly fine earlier today.

44:47

So it's, you know, like things

44:49

certain, sometimes things, physical things, they

44:51

improve, kind of zigzag, like better

44:53

worse, better worse, but generally, you

44:56

know, one step forward, two steps

44:58

back. So it's certainly better. All

45:00

right. And somebody writes,

45:02

the one thing good people could learn

45:05

from bad people is to just do

45:07

what they want instead of limiting themselves.

45:09

Like not doing something that isn't harmful

45:12

just because they need permissions for example.

45:14

They are children and need to grow

45:16

up. Hmm. I'm not sure what that

45:19

means. When you do sales on in

45:21

your software company, what do you think

45:23

is a reasonable sales rate? One to

45:26

five percent of companies who reached out

45:28

purchases, purchased. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would

45:30

say one to five percent is about

45:33

right. Especially it was less in the

45:35

very beginning because we were just starting

45:37

out and the software that I wrote

45:40

was new to the field. There was

45:42

nobody else doing it when we started.

45:44

So we had to really educate. You

45:47

know, if you have software as a

45:49

service, it's kind of people understand it

45:51

and you're just one of many, right?

45:54

A match three game. Everybody kind of.

45:56

understands that as a whole. know what

45:58

they're talking about. But when you have

46:01

an entirely new software offering, that's tough.

46:03

That's tough. Because you have to educate

46:05

people on that it even exists. It's

46:07

not a market. And then you spend

46:10

a little bit of time building that

46:12

up and then what happens is larger

46:14

companies say, oh, if there's a market

46:17

for us and they come in with

46:19

all of their experienced sales people and

46:21

existing customer contracts and all of that.

46:24

So yeah, it's quite a lot. But

46:26

yeah, I say. I was, I didn't

46:28

really do much cold calling. That was

46:31

generally the job of the sales people.

46:33

I was director of marketing, so I

46:35

created a knowledge of the software space

46:38

as a whole. But I did not

46:40

in general do the cold calling. I

46:42

did, oh, I don't know, this is

46:45

a while ago, so what I did

46:47

was there are databases where you can

46:49

find out a lot about public. companies,

46:52

right? All the public companies publish all

46:54

of their inner profits and losses and

46:56

income and expenditures and all of that.

46:59

And so I wrote code to get

47:01

that from a database and then create

47:03

mailouts that would go out to clients

47:06

that would say, you know, based upon

47:08

your expenditures of this and this, based

47:10

upon the cost savings that we can

47:13

provide because of this, this and this.

47:15

you know we can make a very

47:17

strong business case that our software can

47:20

pay for itself within 12 to 18

47:22

months and after that it's pure profit

47:24

and I had drafts and charts and

47:27

everything was just beautifully formatted reports that

47:29

went out to like a thousand different

47:31

companies and that was huge that went

47:34

out to like a thousand different companies

47:36

and that was huge that was huge

47:38

for us because it really looks because

47:41

I had coded it all it really

47:43

looked like we had individually prepared a

47:45

detailed presentation for each company. that I

47:48

did to raise awareness. And of course

47:50

I would go to conferences and I

47:52

would chat with people and we'd have

47:54

a little jar, you put your business

47:57

card in and then you win an

47:59

iPod. At the end of the

48:01

day, this is back when they were hard,

48:03

hard, hard drive IPots. So, I did a

48:05

lot of travel, I presented a lot of

48:08

places, and I would generally go down and

48:10

do the presentation of the software when the

48:12

sales people had it and then let them

48:14

hammer out the sort of business details, which

48:16

was not always wise. But, yeah, you just

48:18

have to get used. It's not really a

48:20

lot of rejection, right? You just have to,

48:22

you know, think of all of the women

48:24

that you find unattractive that you find unattractive,

48:26

unattractive, and then you'll understand that you'll understand

48:28

that you'll understand that. there are women who

48:30

find you unattractive and it's not it's not

48:32

terrible or bad it's just not a particular

48:34

type of thing so I think of all

48:36

the people who would love to sell you

48:39

stuff think of all the emails that come

48:41

in all the text messages or whatever you've

48:43

got right so I think of all the

48:45

people that you would like they would like

48:47

to sell you stuff and you say no

48:49

so you just have to recognize that you

48:51

just try to find the right fit for

48:53

people to really get value out of what

48:55

it is that you're doing Yeah,

49:02

so in Canada, this is back in

49:04

the day, there's these things called phase

49:06

one environmental side assessments. So if you're

49:09

buying some land, you want to make

49:11

sure there wasn't like a battery plant

49:13

or a gas station or something with

49:16

a lot of pollution because then you

49:18

buy the land and then you dig

49:20

down, you find a bunch of crap,

49:23

you've got to have it all remediated

49:25

and cleaned up and cleaned out. So

49:27

you do this sort of side assessment

49:30

and our software automated that process to

49:32

a large degree. and then you could

49:34

figure out whether you wanted the site

49:36

or not, whether it had, whether they

49:39

were underground storage tanks there before that

49:41

you need to remove or even above

49:43

ground storage tanks sometimes. So whether there

49:46

were any kind of VOCs, volatile organic

49:48

chemicals that were used on the site,

49:50

that kind of stuff, right? So you

49:53

could have a real portfolio of all

49:55

of your environmental liabilities and issues, which

49:57

was very important for legal reasons. And

50:00

yeah, super fun, yeah, like a super

50:02

fun site, right. Now of course the

50:04

Superfund sites were 80% of the money,

50:07

just went to lawyers, didn't even go

50:09

to clean up. Love Canal? You got

50:11

to look into Love Canal. It's not

50:13

a, I mean it was a very

50:16

striking name, but it's not, probably not

50:18

exactly what you remember. Love Canal was

50:20

a little overhyped, overhyped, over pumped, so

50:23

to speak. Have you pumping on the

50:25

Love Canal. Hey, we're back to AI.

50:27

AI, only fans. Now,

50:30

I remember the very first

50:32

software that I sold, I

50:35

remember that, it sold for

50:37

$5,000. Seems like all the

50:40

money in the world. So,

50:42

I did $5,000 and then

50:45

I think one of the

50:47

later ones was 1.25 million

50:50

US. So, we had some

50:52

growth. We had some growth.

50:55

We had some growth. And

51:05

I did a lot of work.

51:07

I built this whole thing called

51:09

the database builder, where you would

51:11

go down with the client and

51:13

you'd say, okay, so what do

51:16

you want the database to look

51:18

like? What matches your, what matches

51:20

your data? What do we have

51:22

to integrate with? And I wrote

51:24

a whole program where the client

51:26

would fill out spreadsheets or maybe

51:28

do it online. And then when

51:31

they had put together all of

51:33

the changes they wanted to the

51:35

system, then my code would go

51:37

and... change the system for them.

51:39

Change the data fields, the tables,

51:41

the queries, the forms, the reports,

51:43

the query forms, the whole thing.

51:46

It was wild. And it would

51:48

change also everything on the web

51:50

interface because it was all metadata.

51:52

It was a really great, great

51:54

code. Let's see here. If you

51:56

were 24 and had $10,000, would

51:58

you put it towards therapy or

52:01

towards... a business? Well, I would

52:03

say that if I didn't have

52:05

a business partner, I would put

52:07

it towards therapy, unless I'd had

52:09

a pretty good child, but in

52:11

which case, I would put it

52:14

towards the business. So there's a

52:16

lot of variables involved in that.

52:18

Therapy was really some of the

52:20

best money I'd ever invested or

52:22

spent in my life. I would

52:24

not have been able to get

52:26

married to my wife if I

52:29

had not gone through therapy, at

52:31

least I don't think so. So

52:33

if you had a bad childhood,

52:35

I think putting some money into

52:37

therapy is a good idea. Starting

52:39

a business at 24 without a

52:41

partner is pretty risky because there's

52:44

a lot to learn. I didn't

52:46

start a business. I co-founded a

52:48

business. I didn't start a business

52:50

entirely on my own. Oh, I

52:52

guess this one. That's... I was

52:54

older. That really depends. Sorry, I

52:56

hate to say that kind of

52:59

depends, but it kind of does.

53:01

If your child was okay, I'd

53:03

put it into the business, but

53:05

I would wait. I would wait

53:07

until I had a partner, somebody

53:09

who had more experience or least

53:12

some knowledge of how to get

53:14

a business going. And if I

53:16

had a bad child, I would

53:18

put it into therapy. If I

53:20

were in your shoes. All right.

53:22

Any last questions. Going

53:25

once, going twice. I'm all

53:28

years. One buzzy, one good.

53:51

All right, we just get two

53:54

other questions. Thank you so much.

53:56

Yeah, thank you guys for dropping

53:58

by tonight I'm sorry We're still

54:01

doing shows less than two or

54:03

three hours, but things are What

54:05

was the best thing you learned

54:07

in therapy? The best thing that

54:10

I learned in therapy was to

54:12

take my instincts with great seriousness.

54:14

You know, to peel you apart

54:17

from your instincts is the fundamental

54:19

goal of the propagandist and Lord

54:21

knows we're surrounded by little about

54:23

propaganda these days. So what I

54:26

learned, the most important thing that

54:28

I learned in therapy was to

54:30

take my instincts with great seriousness,

54:33

to take my dreams, my, you

54:35

know, that, the sense that I

54:37

was talking about earlier. Take yourself

54:39

very seriously. Take your thoughts, your

54:42

instincts, your suspicions. It's very easy.

54:44

You know, all of this language

54:46

is thrown at us to separate

54:49

us from our instincts. And, you

54:51

know, I'm not alerts, I'm paranoid,

54:53

right? I'm not legitimately angry, I'm

54:55

unreasonable, I'm aggressive, or whatever, right?

54:58

You can sort of... go through

55:00

all of this language. But the

55:02

language that is is hacked into

55:05

us to separate us, it's almost

55:07

like taking a sneaker and sawing

55:09

the soul off, right? But what

55:11

I learned through therapy was to

55:14

take my instincts, my gut sense,

55:16

my dreams, my intuitions, You know

55:18

trust but verify right? Trust but

55:21

verify So yeah, I would trust

55:23

my instincts. I wouldn't just act

55:25

on them because we're a combination

55:27

of things right mind body heart

55:30

soul that kind of stuff right?

55:32

Somebody says I've always felt that

55:34

when I don't follow my instincts

55:37

things go wrong. Yeah, are you

55:39

ever going to come back to

55:41

X? Not sure Somebody says, what

55:43

do you think of the avenues

55:46

by which to communicate with your

55:48

unconscious? Dream analysis, sentence, completion, exercise,

55:50

that sort of thing. What are

55:53

your favorite such avenues? Dream analysis

55:55

is very tough to do on

55:57

your own. So if you've got

55:59

someone you can talk about it

56:02

with who's good at that sort

56:04

of stuff, I think that's really,

56:06

really helpful. Since completion exercises, they

56:09

can be good as well. meditation,

56:11

I think, is very good just

56:13

to physically relaxing and letting your

56:15

instincts bubble up can be very

56:18

helpful. There's

56:22

a lot of workbooks. I've talked about

56:25

these before. Nathaniel Brandon has them, John

56:27

Gray has them, other people have them,

56:29

sort of workbooks to try and figure

56:31

out what's going on in your unconscious.

56:33

Very helpful. Somebody says, how can you

56:35

tell if a therapist is any good?

56:37

Had one who was encouraging me to

56:39

stay in touch with a crazy family

56:41

of origin because, quote, family. Now, I

56:43

always forget this number. I don't know

56:46

why have this bizarre block about it,

56:48

but let me find it. Let me

56:50

find it. Let me find it for

56:52

you. All right.

56:54

I think it's

56:57

1927. Yes, FDR

56:59

1927. I'll put

57:01

the MP3 link

57:03

here in the

57:06

chat. That's my

57:08

best thoughts. My

57:10

God, how old

57:13

is that show

57:15

now? June 8th,

57:17

2011. Wow. Almost

57:19

14 years ago.

57:23

That's a lot of

57:25

dog years. But yeah,

57:27

so I have a

57:29

thought on that. Yeah,

57:32

FDR 1927, how to

57:34

find a great therapist?

57:36

I'm trying to think

57:38

of a great question

57:41

to keep you live,

57:43

ha ha ha, thanks

57:45

again, donation to a

57:47

minute. All right. I

57:54

mean, yeah, it's funny because

57:56

therapists generally are not moralists.

57:58

So, there's that challenge. I

58:00

think that they'd be better

58:02

off if they were moralists,

58:05

but that can cause some

58:07

significant problems. But they're not

58:09

moralists. So I think what

58:11

you want is a therapist

58:13

who's really focused on what's

58:15

best for you, not trying

58:17

to impose an agenda. I

58:20

think that's really good. Hey,

58:22

Staff, do you read home

58:24

math tweets? I do. Yeah,

58:26

he's a doodler. And very

58:28

incisive and bitter, I get

58:30

it. I mean, I'm very

58:32

incisive and bitter, I get

58:35

it, I get it. which

58:37

I understand is not quite

58:39

as easy for younger men

58:41

these days. Well, that wasn't

58:43

easy for me either. But

58:45

yes, I have read Homath's

58:47

tweets and he's a very,

58:49

definitely a smart guy. Definitely

58:52

a smart guy. He has

58:54

a great intuitive grasp of

58:56

both female and male hypocrisy.

59:05

People are typing. I can

59:07

see it. All right. Oh,

59:10

I missed a couple here.

59:12

Have you spoken about love

59:14

bombing and red-pilling combined in

59:16

a new relationship? Thoughts if

59:19

no. Love bombing and red-pelling.

59:21

I'm not sure what you

59:23

mean, but I mean, I

59:26

know what the two-phone terms

59:28

mean individually, but I'm not

59:30

sure how that. Yeah,

59:34

hi Steph, why do narcissists colloquial engage

59:36

in smear campaigns? Because they want to

59:38

protect their territory, they want to protect

59:41

their turf, and they want to protect

59:43

those they're praying upon, so they need

59:45

to keep incisive people who can expose

59:47

their methods far away from a social

59:49

group. So they will project all of

59:51

their negative characteristics onto, usually the innocent

59:54

and accuse them of things that they

59:56

themselves are doing. So it's a form

59:58

of territorial, right? The

1:00:00

narcissists usually have

1:00:02

a kind of

1:00:04

stable of people

1:00:06

that they're exploiting

1:00:09

and they need

1:00:11

to keep those

1:00:13

with perceptiveness and

1:00:15

moral courage away

1:00:17

from their victims

1:00:19

so they can

1:00:21

continue to exploit

1:00:23

them. So the

1:00:25

smear campaigns are

1:00:27

this person is

1:00:29

bad and to

1:00:31

even question that

1:00:33

is wrong and

1:00:36

trust me bro,

1:00:38

all that kind

1:00:40

of stuff. So

1:00:42

it's just a

1:00:44

form of maintaining

1:00:46

control over the

1:00:48

people that are

1:00:50

exploiting, if that

1:00:52

makes sense. Thank

1:01:40

you very much for the donation.

1:01:42

I really really do appreciate that

1:01:45

Did you read the one about

1:01:47

video games and anime many angry

1:01:49

replies that remind me of weed

1:01:51

Alex when you point out that

1:01:53

they are addictive? Oh, thank you.

1:01:55

I will Have a look at

1:01:58

that. Let's see Let's

1:02:09

see here. Okay, I will

1:02:11

read that. That's quite long

1:02:14

too. Go on this as

1:02:16

a whole. So, I mean,

1:02:18

there's a couple of things

1:02:21

I really don't like about

1:02:23

anime, which is the combination

1:02:25

of baby faces with adult

1:02:28

female bodies. I find that

1:02:30

a little creepy. And again,

1:02:32

I'm not saying that to

1:02:35

everyone, but that's everyone, but

1:02:37

that's a lot. How

1:02:41

would you decide if

1:02:43

it's appropriate to defend

1:02:45

yourself against the campaign?

1:02:47

Well, you know, if

1:02:49

people, usually with the

1:02:51

narcissist, you don't notice

1:02:53

anything directly. You simply

1:02:56

notice a slight diminishment

1:02:58

or maybe a not

1:03:00

so slight diminishment of

1:03:02

social invitations and positive

1:03:04

feedback and curiosity and

1:03:06

contact and so on.

1:03:08

as a victim of

1:03:10

a smear campaign, then

1:03:12

things just kind of

1:03:14

seem to fall away.

1:03:16

Things just kind of

1:03:18

diminish. You don't get

1:03:20

the invites, you don't

1:03:22

like people kind of,

1:03:24

a little bit of

1:03:26

sort of closing the

1:03:28

walls and maybe somebody

1:03:30

will tell you. Well,

1:03:32

so-and-so said such and

1:03:34

such about something, right?

1:03:36

If you decide to

1:03:38

fight, it's going to

1:03:40

be extraordinarily volatile. I

1:03:42

just... say that straight

1:03:44

up. I'll just say

1:03:47

that straight up because

1:03:49

it is the NARS

1:03:51

assist in general views

1:03:53

any challenge to control

1:03:55

an authority as a

1:03:57

battle to the death.

1:03:59

So I think you

1:04:01

want to say the

1:04:03

truth. and those people

1:04:05

who care about you

1:04:07

will listen to the

1:04:09

truth and they'll make

1:04:11

the case and so

1:04:13

on and I would

1:04:15

definitely say that it

1:04:17

is very volatile and

1:04:19

most people most people

1:04:21

in the world like

1:04:23

90% of people they

1:04:25

really hate being caught.

1:04:27

to opposing moral forces.

1:04:29

They hate it. I

1:04:31

mean, it's funny because

1:04:33

everybody wants to watch

1:04:35

movies about this and

1:04:38

read stories about this

1:04:40

and the heroic and

1:04:42

fighting and good and

1:04:44

evil and so on,

1:04:46

but in the reality

1:04:48

is that most people

1:04:50

are desperate to avoid

1:04:52

any kind of moral

1:04:54

danger. And in general.

1:04:57

It's probably in my

1:04:59

opinion. It's probably not

1:05:01

worth fighting for a

1:05:03

community where the the

1:05:05

Smira the rumor spreader

1:05:07

where that person has

1:05:10

authority and that person

1:05:12

has control It's probably

1:05:14

not worth fighting because

1:05:16

you're probably just gonna

1:05:18

lose So

1:05:24

I think it's always worth trying

1:05:27

to get the truth out. It's

1:05:29

always worth getting the truth out,

1:05:31

but in general, people, they do

1:05:33

like their gossip. And I mean,

1:05:36

it's a minor weakness of mine,

1:05:38

if that's of any consolation, but

1:05:40

people do like their gossip. And

1:05:43

one of the ways that the

1:05:45

cruel people slowly pull others into

1:05:47

doing bad things is that they

1:05:49

get them to repeat salacious gossip,

1:05:52

which is why... you know, just

1:05:54

almost every conceivable moral system in

1:05:56

the universe tells you to avoid

1:05:58

gossip like the plague. And the

1:06:01

reason for that is that when

1:06:03

you get involved in gossip and

1:06:05

you repeat things, that turn out

1:06:07

to not be true. That's really

1:06:10

what gossip is. If it's true,

1:06:12

it's not really so much gossip.

1:06:14

It's exaggerated or distorted or something

1:06:16

like that. But you can't take

1:06:19

it back. Right? Once you have

1:06:21

used your words to create the

1:06:23

impression, a negative impression of something

1:06:25

or someone in someone else's mind,

1:06:28

you can't take it back. At

1:06:30

least not without a lot of...

1:06:32

a lot of work and apology

1:06:34

and all that kind of stuff.

1:06:37

So, yeah, try to avoid those

1:06:39

kind of, I've always been very

1:06:41

careful to try and make sure

1:06:43

that I don't repeat anything that

1:06:46

doesn't seem to be pretty true.

1:06:48

I mean, Lord knows. It's happened

1:06:50

to me once or twice over

1:06:53

the years. But

1:06:55

you can defend yourself, it's worth getting

1:06:57

the truth out, but for the most

1:06:59

part, most people will simply, most people

1:07:01

will simply bow to whoever has the

1:07:04

most power. Most people will simply bow

1:07:06

to whoever has the most power, and

1:07:08

it's the most willing to use it.

1:07:10

This is why, you know, bad people

1:07:12

kind of run the world and good

1:07:14

people hide like mammals at the feet

1:07:17

of dinosaurs. Because most people will... Simply

1:07:19

say, oh, well, you're a nice person,

1:07:21

you're a reasonable person, so you're not

1:07:23

going to attack me if I disagree

1:07:25

with you, this person is a very

1:07:27

crazy, aggressive person, so they will attack

1:07:30

me if I disagree with them, so

1:07:32

I'm afraid I'm going to have to

1:07:34

side with them against you, and it's

1:07:36

just the way that it is. And

1:07:38

until childhood is generally improved as a

1:07:40

whole, it's probably going to maintain itself

1:07:43

as the standard. All

1:07:56

right. I

1:07:58

think Somebody

1:08:02

says, used to used to think freedom

1:08:04

was the most important in life. in

1:08:07

Now I realize it is the

1:08:09

truth. Otherwise you end up with

1:08:11

fake freedom, fake you fake health, with

1:08:13

fake freedom, very true. love, fake health, true. Yeah.

1:08:16

Yeah, Rachel. Rachel. All right, well, thank you everyone right.

1:08:18

Well, thank you everyone so much

1:08:20

for a lovely philosophy. Have philosophy. Have a

1:08:22

a beautiful, beautiful night. We'll talk

1:08:24

to you on We'll talk to you on Sunday

1:08:26

morning. And you for all of the

1:08:28

people who are showing interest in

1:08:30

my new book. I am working

1:08:32

hard on it and I appreciate

1:08:34

everybody's thoughts about it. thoughts about it. I

1:08:36

love writing fiction. It is such a, I mean,

1:08:38

it's a I mean, it's a challenge

1:08:40

for sure, but I really do.

1:08:42

I I really do love it.

1:08:44

And you you everyone who listened really enjoying

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the new the new books. I'll give new

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show. Take care. Have a great Take care.

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Have a great night. a Bye. night. Bye.