 The radical. Fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Book Show. All right everybody welcome to Iran Book Show on this Tuesday January 31st indeed the second show of the day. Glad to have many of you back and some of you listening for the first time today maybe some of you listening for the first time ever so thanks for joining us. We've got a pretty rowdy show today we're going to be talking about Andrew Tate the whole issue of masculinity kind of Matt Walsh's response to Andrew Tate and to the popularity of Andrew Tate and his version of masculinity and we're going to throw up our hands and say what the hell the world's insane. I mean all the alternatives that are presented by the popular voices in the culture are all false and that is the biggest challenge we face in the world in which we live. I'm going to leave the headphones on because I've got a bunch of videos I'm going to show you. Let's see what I want to say before we get started. Yeah I'm doing this partially because I think I was too I wasn't hard enough hitting on Andrew Tate before. I want to do this scumbag justice so and I'm not sure even I can do him justice I think to do him justice you're gonna some of you just gonna have to go watch his videos and see for yourself but I think I'll indicate I'll give you a little sputtering of indication of how bad this guy is and what an awful awful awful influence he is on on young people out there in the world. So I want to do that I want just to think of justice I've talked about Andrew Tate but I just didn't think I went far enough I didn't have enough information I didn't know enough about him so I've done a little bit research I've watched some of his videos I've read some articles I've read some of his tweets I've done all this stuff you know only for that just for that I I don't know I should get combat pay or something risk adjusted because yeah it's pretty pretty disgusting stuff and then I thought it was interesting okay so so he has a particular vision of masculinity that we will see that we will you know I we won't really see directly we'll see indirectly through his behavior and through what he says because often he says things that are much better than what is actually what actually it all means I'm curious about what then is the response by by people and kind of I'm less interested in the response from the left because the response to the left is basically anti-masculinity it's basically to reject masculinity more broadly toxic masculinity there is no such thing as the masculine to reject the male generally so the response on the left is less interesting what really is interesting what really is interesting is is the response on the right so what we'll watch is because really the debate here is around masculinity really is happening the positive debate on masculinity that is if masculinity is a positive thing masculinity is something to be achieved it's really that debate is really happening on the right and and it's happening between the likes of and rotate and the likes of Matt Welsh Welsh Welsh with with a variety and then I will give you my take again I'm not an expert in masculinity if you're interested in in we can ask we can ask Gina Gorlin on Thursday what she thinks about masculinity but anyway we can have we can I'll give you my take on masculinity in contrast and and the Matt Walsh video both of these actually both the and rotate and the might wash illustrate a deeper and wider point about self-interest and about selfishness because one of Matt Walsh's criticism of and rotate and Matt Walsh you know is very much opposed to to and rotate for many of the same reasons I am so the reasons we reject and rotate are very somewhat similar but then Matt Walsh as we'll see ascribes and selfishness to and rotate he ascribes self-interest to and rotate and and it proposes as alternative which is the opposite of self-interest so it is it is a good opportunity to discuss kind of the the the whole issue of self-interest selfishness the whole issue of masculinity the whole issue of pursuing your values and what it means and what it is and and this is so this is a you know an interesting plus very very much topic very much very much in the culture I I did think that putting and rotate in the title and Matt Walsh in the title together would generate a lot of views so that's interesting that there would be a lot a lot of people also watching live but but we will see I'm not sure maybe I'm late to the topic maybe two weeks ago would have been better but you know I have to do research that's that's the sucky thing about this right actually I actually have to know what I'm talking about but I'm hoping that this video will be watched by many people because it is an opportunity how am I streaming on this thing god all right I'm just going to kill this channel remove channel all right it's gone it is not part of my thing I can't do it anymore I have no idea how it streams um it's not intentional so I have no idea how that happened because I've got it literally off the button in YouTube is set to off do not stream on that channel and it still streams on that channel so what's the point of having a toggle on off button when it doesn't work and when everything is on no matter what you do anyway um generally Matt Walsh is a is a real source of good content on the the right and what the way thinks and where the right positions itself he is massive in terms of his YouTube channel is I think got over two million subscribers and he is part of Ben Shapiro's network a massive influence on the right and so he's good to he's good to listen to he's good to review and and what you'll see today is some of his more tame videos we will be discussing some other videos of his where he's a little bit more um what is the term Michael says fascist yeah more tyrannical um and and irrational but but we will we'll talk about we'll talk about all of that so okay that's the plan for today we'll watch some and rotate videos we'll watch some uh Matt Walsh videos I'll read you some quotes because I'm not I don't want to put too much videos of and routine in particular I find it pretty disgusting and despicable so I'll read you some quotes from him although I'm sure people will say I'm taking him out of context but I'll do that with the video as well um I'm hoping this convinced some people I mean uh you know who knows the reality is that last 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obviously value it to somewhat all right all right enough of all that let's get into it so Enroute as you all know is this character almost cartoonish character uh who really represents uh this attitude uh towards masculinity and and towards strength and towards what it means to be a man uh which basically is uh you know the the the the conventional um the conventional but it almost turned into caricature because he really is somewhat of a character the idea of a masculine man is somebody who works out a lot is in great shape is as you know if you work the body and you get the body in great shape supposedly your mind follows it is somebody who can get any woman he wants and he only wants beautiful attractive women because that all that matters after all is how we look uh he wants uh he he sleeps with uh yeah sex with many of them uh why they can choose when you can have access to so many women sex is what drives him he is successful at making money although how he makes money and and uh the means by which money is made is doesn't really matter it's not about the activity of production it is about the money that it generates and then it's about ability to consume that money it is about having fancy cars and fancy toys and fancy homes Enroute Tate represents a purely unadulterated and I think unbelievably corrupt materialistic view of man there is no spiritual dimension there is no soul there is no consciousness there is no for that matter intelligence none of those things matter the only thing that matters is material superiority material superiority of strength physical strength material superiority in getting women and the more the better and the material the material view that the value of women only is constituted in the the sex they can provide the male maybe that they provide them with children but there is no value there is no value in the relationship there is no value in the woman's intelligence there is no value in the woman core human being but only as a instrument of sex and only as an instrument of procreation this is pure barbaric ancient you know um uh materialism and it's it's indeed quite shocking that so many of the right on the right have so many good things to say about Enroute Tate I mean even if they're going to condemn him they start out by praising him because even those in the right who don't like Enroute Tate there's something about him that they're jealous of they they they they laugh they they uh I mean here's somebody I respect whose article on Enroute Tate is quite good um uh John Hawkins who writes the cultureciddle.com um which is a substack and I recommend it and and he often has insightful things to say he's a little bit too much of a Trumpist but other than that you know he's he's he's pretty good but here's what he writes I want to know my initial impression of Enroute Tate none of which I'll take back today he's a strong smart good looking highly intelligent very charismatic cool wealthy marketing genius who's extraordinary good with women I mean that is so bizarre that is so bizarre just take the final point extraordinary good with women which women women are value women you would want women that you desire not me no man of self-esteem wants the kind of women that Enroute Tate wants Enroute Tate is exactly the kind of person that I mean talks about about having gratuitous you know lots of sex is an empty attempt to gain his own self-esteem Enroute Tate is cool by what measure of coolness what is being cool mean yes he is wealthy yes he's probably good at marketing he's figured this out he is very charismatic highly intelligent I'm skeptical skeptical he's manipulative he knows people he knows how to manipulate people to the extent that people manipulation requires intelligence maybe he's intelligent is he good looking I don't know maybe the women in the room could tell me I'm not very good at these things he's strong yeah I mean he was a kickboxer world champion kickboxing he's definitely strong no question about that smart highly intelligent it's smart but the really extraordinary thing is he's extraordinary good with women I mean it tells you so much about the person writing this there is a sudden jealousy there is he cool again by what standard so what women what women attract it to this guy I guarantee you my wife is not the one woman actually want is not attracted to him so extraordinary good with slots extraordinary good with dumb women extraordinary good with pathetic women extraordinary good with easily manipulative old women extraordinary good with fill in the blank but not desirable women not to use their language quality women now to uh John Hawkins credit he goes on to criticize and and and call you know Andrew Tate the kind of and identify him and and and illustrate the fact that Andrew Tate is nothing but a real scumbag but that's how he describes him and he says he wouldn't take any of that back he has an example and and in the story that John Hawkins presents he gives all the details this is a story that um that uh uh Andrew Tate tells about himself and I'm not going to go through the whole thing partially because it's just he tells it in in a series of tweets uh it's uh you know this is an account that I think is not the fun called Tate speech where he tells the whole story of him seduction of this woman I'm going to summarize it for you quickly actually in in in John Hawkins's terminology this is what Andrew Tate tells in this tweet he tells the story that he met a woman in London seduced falsely made a think the two of them might have a future together and convinced her to move back to Romania I I've read all the tweets none of this is an exaggeration this is exactly right when her mother smells BS Tate has a conversation at his conversation with her and convinced her that he really truly cared about her daughter then after this woman quit her job and moved for him she finds out he's already in a relationship and her only option is to be part of a threesome didn't tell her in advance about any of this after doing this for a while the threesome thing she starts to suspect finally that Tate cares nothing about her and asks for some proof note the things Tate says she wanted she wanted to get married she wanted to have a baby clearly this is someone who for unfathomable reasons given the circumstances has actually been snookered into believing that Andrew Tate is someone who may very well want to spend the rest of his life with her so he tells this naive woman that he'll prove he's serious if she tattoos his name on her body can you imagine any woman that you i'm talking to the men right now any woman that you as a man would desire who would fall for any of this crap now john harkins as an aside puts incident they don't know how many women have these tattoos but Tate has openly said that there are more than 20 women with tats like this on their bodies doesn't that tell you everything you need about Andrew Tate that he requires women to put their name so apparently it's something he gets off on convincing women to do and i mean there's a man of self-esteem talk about narcissism in any case she gets a tattoo and by his own admission Tate did nothing to show he was serious about her because he's not he's just leading her on so he's just nothing this comes to a head when he leaves town she gets mad at him disobeys him this is Tate's word she disobeyed me disobeys him by going to a festival and Tate retaliates by never talking to her again Tate would tell you those were just boundaries boundaries maybe between a master and a slave or a serial killer and someone stuck in a hole in their basement these are appropriate boundaries but what he is talking about here is unhealthy to the point of being bizarre among human beings in a relationship look that was me reading from john harkins article where he he gives the actual tweets you can you can actually go and read this and i encourage you to you don't go check out uh uh john harkins and who Tate is a you know i don't want to call him any psychological term because i don't know what he is technically although he is clearly a narcissist but he is a sick human being he's not a model of manhood he is not a model of masculinity he is a a model of somebody who should not be allowed to be anywhere near women well not be allowed socially i'm not arguing although as you probably know he's been arrested on claims of raping women and basically forcing women to work for him in his uh what do you call it uh um you know video uh video webcam porn service right he and his brother and two romanian women i mean this is a man who makes money off a porn but i'm sure they're better people who make money off a porn than this comeback yes he's super rich making money off a porn there's a productive endeavor for you a virtuous endeavor one that represents real and in our deleted video on Tate's youtube channel he explained that by the way he moved to romania he lives in romania this is what also he's been arrested he says in this work in this deleted video he's trying to explain why he moved to romania and part of the reason he moved to romania is because they have less harsh laws about rape in romania he says quote this is probably 40 of the reason i moved to romania i'm not a fucking rapist but i like the idea of just being able to do what i want i like being free free free to rape he said men living in any western country have decided to live somewhere that any woman at any point in the future can destroy their lives now this is true but this is a consequence of non objective laws this is a consequence of the the the you know demonization of men this is a yes the left and the culture is terrible on men is terrible on masculinity but the alternative is not a culture of rape or a culture forgiving of rape by the way somebody says never trust the single word romanian law enforcement says i'm not reading law enforcement i'm reading Tate and by the way in this case i think law enforcement in romania are probably 100 percent right we'll see as it goes through the legal system but every everything everything about this man's behavior suggests that he cons women by having sex with him i'll tell you in a minute i'll show you in a minute right it says he loves corruption he loves corrupt regimes this is why he moved to romania he says i like eastern europe as a whole because corruption is far more accessible i find it offensive that a police officer in england will stop me and refuse to take take a bribe wow then of course he said uh he said about rape about women if you put yourself in a position to be raped you must bear some responsibility i'm not saying it's okay to get you got raped no woman should be abused regardless however with sexual assault they want to put zero blame on the victim whatsoever he then compared women to leaving a quote a million dollars outside my front door saying that he had no sympathy for women who went out and drank alcohol then got sexually assaulted really take some personal responsibility he said this zero blame game is damaging to the female cause as a whole protect yourself all right let's see so with the god to these women working for him this is the the the case that the romanians are making right here's how he describes how he recruits people to work for him he says first of all 50 of his employees the people who work in the porn business for him um 50 of the employees were his girlfriend at one point quote none were in the adult entertainment industry before they met me uh he then explains how he gets them he says my job job was to me to go go on a few dates sleep with her test if she's qualified gets at the fall in love with me to where she do anything i say and then get her on webcam so we could become rich together tate said that if you want to go into a business like this he's instructing young men and how to start a business like this he said you have to have sex with the women you employ quote you cannot sit and do a purely professional business relationship with a female it doesn't work if you're not fucking the girl she is fucking someone else and that other person she's fucking is going to have a control over her mind as opposed to you women who have control over their mind they don't have a mind of themselves notice anyway uh whether the romanians have a case against him or not he basically in his own words has declared himself guilty this is exactly what he does you know how how does he use women to recruit other women i'm going to find the girl and i'm going to bring her to you and you're going to tell her how good it is to work for me and how great it is to be a webcamming thing and a smart wheel he said he would go on dates with women for the sole purpose of getting them to start making content for his webcam business i don't mention webcam until i've had sex with the girl and then she falls in love with him and she'll do anything he says now he also doesn't allow women to leave his home this is this was in that long tweet he describes but he's also said this in other places quote i'm all over the place so i end up with all these chicks just stuck in the house sitting there bored completely in love with me and of course they don't go out they're not allowed to they're not allowed to they're not allowed to he said people might assume the women can go out with their friends when he's not there but that was wrong you don't go to the club with your friends i don't know what kind of bitch ass dude is letting his chicks go to clubs without him no you stay at house in the house you don't go anyway no restaurants no clubs nothing this is a man this is um this is masculine this is the most horrible barbaric primitive animal this is not a man he's not deserving of the of the title man he's certainly not deserving of the title masculine he's just a sick human being and any woman who follows this guy is sick and of course he is the kind of man who believes it's all about force all about force force makes right might makes right you don't believe me so here's here's a short video here's a short video of and you can see how good looking this guy is it's a short video it's it's one of those short videos on on youtube so it's it's long so that's why it's kind of funny in the frame but hopefully you can see that and let me let me see if i can play this and and you can tell see for yourself um this is the guy millions and millions and millions of young men admire and respect and want to learn from and want advice from this is the symbol of a masculine man and this is primarily on the right this is the right now we'll get to why this is in a minute but let's uh this is the kind of this is the kind of human being that so many people um love and respect and we have somebody in the chat who's who's a your aunt still lives in the past it's 2013 in the age of only fans you cannot let women go out alone with her friends you're a barbarian if you think that and no you'll never get a decent woman you'll never get a decent woman if you don't trust your woman to go to a club by herself at your restaurant by yourself you don't deserve a decent woman and you'll never get a decent woman this is exactly this is exactly the kind of mentality that will guarantee you being a either alone or alone and and you know pathetic just just absolutely pathetic i don't care what year it is i mean the only reason not to let a woman go alone somewhere like that is you're afraid for safety but we live in a fairly safe society i don't think that is the consideration here's andrew tate on might makes right seriously who was right about two plus two you're smart i'm stupid we decide to argue you say two plus two is four i say two plus two is five you continue to say it's four i continue to say it's five until i'm enraged now that i'm enraged i've decided to rip your arms from your body you say no it's still four i destroy you left hook your chin snaps your head hits the floor and you die who was right seriously who was right about two plus two yeah who was right guys who was right uh god yes i you know i live in the past because i don't let i mean the past is where you don't let your woman go anywhere since when are women why should women listen to you who the hell are you to tell your woman whether she'd go out she can go out or not you guys are nuts and note that they hear right here on on the chat this is not i'm not making these people up now you just saw andrew tate tell you the two plus two equals five because he's stronger than you he can rip your arms out he can kill you and therefore two plus two equals whatever he says it is this is a guy anybody should follow this is a guy anybody should listen to anything he says now what i find interesting about this is what happens to a guy like this what where does he go for for for um uh his uh belief system and and what is really interesting here is that there are rumors uh there are rumors that um um he converted to Islam late last year i don't know if those rumors are true there's a bunch of video showing it but i did find this video where he is waving about the muslim world where you're not just the muslim world he's slump and i want you to watch this because this is exactly right this is what andrew tate is he is a a a throwback to a primitive world a primitive world of islam a primitive world of pre civilization a primitive world a pre yeah pre civilization whether it's islam or any other religion in this world right now what represents that attitude towards women what represents that brutality of force well it it's islam so i want to show you this quick video of andrew tate talking about the muslim world i mean we can i won't show you the whole thing you can find it on youtube um it's uh christian kickboxing champion praises islam there's andrew tate you can find the youtube video you can watch the whole thing i'm just going to show you a little bit he's he's he's talking here about the fact that he loves katar katar you can go to katar you can fall asleep with a million dollars on your lap in the middle of the street nothing's gonna happen sorry arabia that's also true by the way of of uh south korea and in japan i i wonder if he's just please go to south by the way but the difference is that in in in um in katar in saudi arabia the reason is that the punishment for touching that million dollars is so severe that yeah people are scared and people are really really afraid nothing will happen you can go to buy ua e nothing they leave their cars parked with the these are the inside it's so safe wow it's it's so safe women everyone's married every woman obeys her husband every single woman has four or five every woman obeys her husband that's the standard i don't know there are a few women listening to the show i think my wife might be uh gayle you gotta learn from this you gotta you gotta be your husband who it tessie is here and i'm sure uh you know and and uh all you women out there jennifer's there you gotta just to be your your your your husband and and four five or six kids that's a necessary necessity i have six kids big families all you know what big families means in islam he doesn't mention this but you know what big families mean in islam it means multiple wives multiple wives so it's not just big family multiple wives lots of kids and women obeying their husbands this is what could be better than muslim world really and and an amazing thing is everything he's talking about is life pre-civilization and yet he's the darling of millions of kids and is the darling and the right kanda saun kanda saun is a big defender of this guy kanda saun she loves him she thinks oh these the what the romanians accusing of none of that is true he's such a nice guy he's a great guy great guy all the things we're talking about all the problems we have here right they've got none of that none of that islam yep because of is no less long keeps society in the role where women obey their man women obey them and have children women have big families women are exceptionally happy to do so yeah you've heard you've heard of all the happy women in saudi arabia and all the happy women in katao and all the happy women in the ua e really i mean happy i mean maybe men like tata sudo happy but women are happy in these countries god what i mean the audacity of claiming this nonsense and this is this is the american right today women are happy when they obey women are happy when they shut up and have kids before before some western girl comes in here and runs her mouth the islamic women are happier you're going to see in the club tonight they're very true they're happy society is functioning their population is growing because in most western countries the population is declining yep tim kass is talking about it today i'm talking about two people have one kid doesn't work doesn't work right the two people need to have three point one kids he doesn't even know the math three point one kids they need two point one kids not three point one right people die particularly blah blah blah so we have population problems in the west they have none of the population problems society is functioning and that's that's what society is society is all right enough of him society is functioning it's functioning this is great they're having kids they're being their husbands they're quote happy what could go wrong i mean society is just cruising along there it is wonderful it is fantastic so why is andrew traits are successful i mean he has a gazillion more followers than i do he has a lot of young men i don't i mean i have you guys there are some young men there but um he's super successful why is that well and why does the right love him so much well first the right loves him because he's anti left he hates the left he hates the whole feminized feminist um anti man uh you know anti masculinity left so they love him because yeah we'll have an ally we'll align ourselves with anybody who's anti left where are all the my followers who usually are on the show and tell me how evil the left is and we should align with anybody to take over the left and well how many of you want to align yourself with andrew tate he is also talking about a real problem in him in in our society and that is that men are attacked for their strengths for their dynamism men are attacked for being successful success is despised we live in a culture in which you know success generally is denigrated but where women are on the rise have been for 20 30 40 years women are on the rise because they were held back for so long and more importantly i think because the changes in technology the changes in our economy make it possible for women to do as well as men and for some women much better than the men around them because we're becoming more and more and more of a society i've talked about this before that relies on the mind not on physical strength to produce and the more society relies on the mind the more women can do the same job men can do and some women can do it better than some men it is not rare anymore the women make more money than men and if you don't have self-esteem that really bothers you if you don't have self-esteem that's unthinkable to you we live in a society the women women can live don't need a man to protect themselves they can buy a gun we live in a society in which women can be heads of corporations they can run businesses they can run pretty much everything because our societies have become more and more reliant on brain versus muscle a world of muscle is a world of men and the world has shifted from muscle to brain which is a good thing because fundamentally what makes us human is our mind not a brawn and as we've shifted from muscle to brain from reliance on muscle from reliance on strength from the reliance on the physical to brain women have become man's equal men's equal and men don't know how to handle it when with low men with low self-esteem are afraid of women they're afraid of strong women they're afraid of women who are as smart or smarter than them they're afraid of strong-willed women they're afraid of women who can earn more than them who gain more respect than them god today is going to be a long show i mean even god in the mat wash and i've got like 500 super chat questions how about we only because we got so many questions we only do 20 dollar questions or above for the rest of tonight and and if anybody can do 100 dollar questions that'd be good but uh yeah this is this is going to be long so um it needs to be rewarding so uh only 20 questions from now on because it's going to be a while i mean what and rotate is leveraging is a disrespect for the human mind by the way he's leveraging the same stuff as is what was it uh bronze age perverts and anybody who is who's focused on the material focused on the physical focused on the mind less there's a reason why it calls us a bronze age it's the age of muscle it's the age of force it's the age of coercion and it's an age where women did what men told them or they'd have their throats slit we live in an age where women don't have to do what men tell them why because we live in an age where the mind matters not muscle and as such our conception of masculinity has to adapt it's not enough for us to be strong as men to be masculine to go out and protect it's good to be strong you should be in shape but so should women should all be strong we should all have some muscle you could argue maybe it's more important to man maybe for men but it doesn't matter that much not in a sense of how you're gonna make a living not in a sense of actually being able to protect not in a sense of actually succeeding in life no guys the thing is about you guys are out of touch you guys are out of touch the people who think and rotate as any clue are out of touch because you're out of touch with what it means to be successful in the world in which we're in you're out of touch of what it means to live a successful life in the world in which we live you're out of touch and what it means to live a happy life whatever the dating dynamic of the 21st century it cannot be that the standard is wanting to sleep with as many women as you want manipulating them demanding that they obey you seeking money any way you can so that you can have material goodies it doesn't matter what the dating environment is it doesn't matter what women what what what what the reality is well women choose the men so what why is that a bad thing if women choose men the man she can't force you see you have to choose her as well it doesn't work like that anymore no it's exactly how it works and rotate is how it worked 300 years ago and it shouldn't work that way it should never work that way you want a woman you have to earn a woman you have to be good enough for a woman it's not true that women has always chosen the man that's not true mh but the problem is that you guys don't live in the modern world you guys want to hang on to some weird view of the past yeah it's definitely a bad thing to sleep around it's definitely not a good thing certainly not a masculine thing to just sleep around and it's certainly not going to get you a happy successful life it's certainly not something you will be rewarded for when you're older that you will reward yourself for when you're older and if you have the attitude that women should obey you then thank god women won't date you because you don't deserve a date if you have an attitude that andrew tate is a model for anything then you don't deserve them yes the dating environment at 21st century is different yes the dating environment at 21st century is very difficult i get all that but that's your responsibility to figure it out your responsibility to find the right woman your responsibility to find a woman that you deserve and who deserves you the standard of good is not sleeping around with a bunch of pretty girls never has been i mean it is for andrew tate i mean andrew tate tweeted like where's that tweet i have this tweet of andrew tate let's see oops it's not there all right maybe it's disappeared no there it is here's is andrew tate standard for for for for masculinity for success gingis kahn had endless women and 200 children as a reward for conquest yes there's the standard gingis kahn is the standard for the modern man we should all seek to be like gingis kahn the barbarian i am the most searched man on the planet this is andrew tate not me i have conquered earth i am the highest status male on the planet females do not expect loyalty from me they only expect that of a lesser man really the the females you attract andrew tate which are you got to be kidding me all right and this is the problem that men face they find is andrew trade on the one side the left on the other side and on the third side the side that seems to be you know rejecting the left but also rejects andrew tate is mad walsh so let's take a look at what mad walsh thinks the essence of masculinity is and what its appeal is right and we'll see that this is the false economy the false presentation it's the same thing that that that ben shapiro does it's all you know this this materialism if you don't have materialism what do you need what you need religion you won't mention religion here but it's it's implied it's all underneath it's either materialism religion those are the two options in life and i understand that if those are the two options in life you might you might want to choose i don't know i i think if those are the two options in life it might be time for suicide to consider suicide men like andrew tate get the hottest women and regular men today enjoy their fat whales really you have no clue whoever wrote that you have no clue what he doesn't get the hottest woman he gets a dumbest woman he doesn't get the hottest woman he gets the most the the easy the women who are most easy to manipulate you want a really hot woman is a good-looking woman with brains and he doesn't get a single one of those but those are the ones that a good human being a good man a masculine man properly understood those are the kind of women you should see a woman with a character a woman with a mind a woman with a brain that's what you want but not if you're a pure materialist not if you think it's just about life and and he's pathetic he has no self-esteem everything you know he believes in muscle he's a barbarian and barbarians have no self-esteem because if human life requires reason and if they cannot not in the world i mean this is the this is the problem today this is why they're so confused today what they're confused about today is the fact that they used to they used to be the dominant man because in a world of muscle they were the they were the top of the heap and today they're not today people like bill gates steve jobs you ever see that documentary called was it the revenge of the nerds it's the nerds at the top and rotate has no self-esteem no self-esteem at all ultimately he hates himself yes i absolutely believe that people who emphasize the material or emphasize force who emphasize who sleep around no that is not a lie he has no self-esteem if you understand what self-esteem is he has none of it self-esteem comes from using this to achieve your values not being a little child materialism is not self-esteem lashing out in the way he does it's not self-esteem saying two plus two equals whatever i say it is because i'm strong is not representative of self-esteem self-esteem is knowing you belong on this earth because you know you can use your mind he doesn't have that because he can't he can use his mind to manipulate he can use his mind to manipulate people he can't use his mind to actually to actually change the world to actually have an impact on the world read the definition of self-esteem and rotate does not qualify all right uh and and he's not i mean he's not this is why islam is so attractive to him this is why you'll probably land up in jail for a long long time uh let's see okay mad boss those of you don't know him this is mad welsh mad welsh is a religious conservative he's part of the daily wire he has 2.06 million subscribers he is one of the most uh particular voices on the uh the right again he is part of uh ben Shapiro's empire at the daily wire and um i'm gonna talk about mad welsh on a different show uh you know regarding his belief in in uh in public beatings james please no questions under twenty dollars otherwise i'll be here all night if i have to answer every five dollar question so i'm trying to minimize the number of questions now and and i'd like to you know and i know we can achieve the goal but i'd like to minimize it and uh and get us to um and get us to the goal but with 20 20 dollar questions not five i appreciate all the five dollar questions i really really do but there's just so many of them i just i won't be able to i'll be here all night answering all these questions so please if you're gonna ask focus on the 20 dollar ones all right um so mad welsh is very well known he's huge uh you know he he just commended singapore for having uh some fantastic um uh some fantastic uh laws because they because they kill uh drug dealers let's be clear ashton annotate has no self-respect if you have self-respect you don't have sex with stupid manipulated women that's exact opposite of self-respect a human being with self-respect has sex only with people who truly represent a value to him um in some dimension he is equal in some dimension admirable who they all once have sex with a you know you can pay for that kind of sex who they all once have sex with a bimbo who stands and represents nothing that's not self-respect that's the you know you're respecting yourself in the gutter i told i gave you the tweets where he says about this woman he sleeps with in london and you know lies to her to get her to come to romania and sleep gets involved in a threesome over there and sleeps with her but the guy has no self-esteem no self-respect you have to you have to check your premises about what self-respect and what self-esteem actually mean if you think that andrutate has them he doesn't and indeed most people who boastful who most people who show off most people who you know who like to like to you know like to say i'm the highest status male on the planet that anybody who says that it's a sign that he has no self-respect and self-esteem he might have kind of a sense of self-confidence as a marketer but that's not self-respect and that's not self-esteem confidence is not self-respect or self-esteem and even there the confidence is very narrow anybody who has to tweet about how great they are has no self-respect or self-esteem he's just obnoxious he's indeed i think his whole behavior is motivated and inrand wrote about this motivated by a lack of self-esteem by a desire to achieve what she called the pseudo self-esteem all right here is matt walsh and this is matt walsh is so matt walsh has a critique of andrutate that's similar to mine although he's more sympathetic to andrutate because andrutate is against the left and anything that's against the left is good all right i know lots of world champions and all kinds of things who don't have who lacks self-esteem particularly in the physical sport again not what self-esteem is so here's matt walsh this is his i'm not giving you his critique of andrutate although it's pretty good i'm focusing here on his alternative yes men should reject the programming that our culture wants to subject them to a programming which seeks to neuter and feminize them yes they should work hard they should take care of their minds and their bodies yes yes they should strive for success including financial success but a life of hedonism and materialism and luxurious wealth remaining unmarried while sleeping with a dozens of different women and so on is not the ideal to strive towards i agree with all of that i agree with all of that it's not the ideal to strive towards and it's and it's a recipe for a disastrous life it's a recipe for for for uh you know for unhappiness for unhappiness and it's again motivated by a hole within you that you're trying to fill with superficiality rather what men are called to and created for and the only sort of life that will be truly happy that they'll find true happiness and joy in is a life of service as so here's the false dichotomy protector and provider so here's the false dichotomy presented andrutate shallow and so on but andrutate is represents here man seeking his own desires man seeking his own self-interest man doing what's good for himself and that is bad says religion says mad walsh says conventional morality what he really should be seeking what he really should be seeking is service it's altruism it's service to others and indeed the definition of masculinity is protecting others serving others that's the essence of masculinity from mad walsh and when you have this version and you have the left saying it's all toxic don't be man don't be a man then what you're left with is well i'll just be a hedonistic nihilist by the way ashton i don't believe that everyone who's not an objectivist doesn't have self-esteem i think a lot of people out there have self-esteem steve jobs at self-esteem steve jobs i think at real self-esteem i think a lot of businessmen have a lot of self-esteem i think out andrutate has no self-esteem has negative self-esteem so andrutate is rejecting the altruism that mad walsh presents but instead of adopting a a a self-interest consistent with human nature a self-interest anchored in reason and rationality he adopts a you know hedonistic nihilism that is just self-destructive what's bad what's wrong with existential nihilism it's destructive it's the end of civilization it's um it's it leads to the destruction of your own life it leads to having a horrible pathetic existence it lacks happiness and it's destructive human life that is you cannot build a civilization around it and you cannot build a life around it you are it's in every dimension both as an individual and a societal level it's destructive that's the problem with it steve job rejected part of his family he wasn't it wasn't the fact that he was rich that it gave him a self-esteem just watch videos of him he had pride he had confidence he had understanding he was a man of the mind ashton einrand explicitly wrote about andrutate like people and specifically said they don't have self-esteem and i you know i should have got the quote from her but uh you know we can we can probably uh we can probably find it um let's uh let's see if uh if we can um here we go here's is a quote from einrand that relates this right sex is one of the most important aspects of man's life and therefore must never be approached likely or casually a sexual relationship is proper only on the ground of the highest values one can find in a human being sex must not be anything other than a response to values and that is why i consider promiscuity immoral not because sex is evil but because sex is too good and too important now let me see where because i know there is let me see if i can find the section on self-esteem here we go the man who despises himself the man who despises himself tries to gain self-esteem from sexual adventures which can't be done because sex is not the cause but the effect and the expression of a man's sense of his own value the man who thinks that wealth comes from material resources and has no intellectual root or meaning are the men who think for the same reason that sex is a physical capacity which functions independently of one's mind choice of quarter values they think that your body creates a desire and makes a choice for you just about in the same such way as if iron ore transformed itself into railroad railroad rails of its own volition love is blind they say sex is impervious impervious to reason and mocks the power of the all philosophers but in fact the man's sexual choice is the result of the sum of his fundamental convictions tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and i will tell you his entire philosophy of life show me the woman he sleeps with and i will tell you his valuation of himself that's good show me the woman he sleeps with and i will tell you his valuation of himself what does that say about andrew tate given the woman he sleeps with no matter what corruption he's taught about the virtue of selfishness selflessness sorry sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts an act which he cannot perform only perform for only any motive but his own enjoyment just try to think of performing it in in a spirit of selfless charity an act which is not possible in self abasement only in self-exaltation only in the confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire it is an act that forces him to stand naked in spirit as well as embody and accept his real ego as a standard of value he will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest deepest vision of himself the woman who's surrender permits him to experience or to fake a sense of self-esteem fake a sense of self-esteem that's andrew love is our response our highest values and can be nothing else i'm not quoting her as the authority but since ashton uh you know was claiming that i would not call for it um here it is no i'm not saying anybody's an objective is does not self self-esteem again i'm saying that uh people like andrew tate who sleep with women who have no objective value um have no mind that are not that are nothing have no self-esteem that's what i'm saying and i'm saying that he doesn't have self-esteem he has a measure of self-confidence in a particular context um but he has no self-respect and you can't without self-respect you can't have self-esteem self-esteem is not just about confidence it's about more than that and if you read i ran uh did james tagger to have self-esteem even though he ran railroad and was ceo and dealt with politicians and was in the all the highest realms of so-called power and everything no i ran rejects the idea that he had anything like self-esteem anyway uh that this is for sure on self-esteem uh and and we can ask i mean everybody would be a good topic to ask gina about self-esteem uh who has self-esteem and what self-esteem constitutes so note the the the the the kind of juxtaposition you can even serve be be protector and a husband the only option is get married or sleep around and and and have kids get married have kids have a family serve all of those notions of masculinity are wrong wrong and in the 21st century whatever definition we come up with for masculinity has to take into account well in any time the the world of the mind wants competence and yes there is a sense in which the masculine is the physical there is a sense in which masculinity is linked to testosterone but how that is that's what needs to be worked out but it's certainly not about either sleeping around or leading a conventional married life of sacrifice and selflessness thomas says marriage is failing on every metric what marriage is failing on every metric my marriage is not failing on every metric god some of this is strange all right let's see um i could do more on matt walsh but i'm gonna stop here because it is getting late and we'll probably um be dealing with matt walsh on other topics soon and we can refer back to this i do know that i owe some movie reviews and some tv reviews i will get to those soon um and i will get to those in an episode very soon all right let's um let's go back to first let me say please 20 dollar questions or more um we've just got a million questions right now um and i'm gonna go over the 20 dollar questions right now and see which ones are related to the topic and i'll take those first then we'll do the other 20 dollar questions then we'll get to the 10 dollar questions and five dollar questions but from now on 20 dollar questions or more uh only but let's let's start with uh ashton who asked a question for a hundred dollars well i'm gonna skip i'm gonna wait with that one just because it's not on topic let me start with michael um just because it's on matt walsh i could not believe that matt walsh video responding to cow kolinsky he outright admitted to wanting a christian fascist dictatorship these conservatives are dangerous they seem reasonable in attacking woke but they are just as tyrannical yes i've been telling you this uh for years now they are just a tyrannical they seem reasonable but when it comes to what they really want i mean matt walsh has complimented singapore for executing drug dealers he's complimenting singapore for beating prisoners uh all kinds of prisoners in public uh public flogging is what he wants to return to uh this is real barbarism this is this is what we had 300 400 years ago he also claims the family is that the scent of civilization and women having kids and men and women staying together and being monogamous well we had that 500 years ago we didn't have civilization we had that a thousand years ago and we didn't have civilization we had that 2 000 years ago and in some places we had civilization other places we didn't maybe civilization is not tied to families maybe family is not what defines civilization i mean this conservative nonsense is truly nonsense and and it's in many ways barbaric all right awesome michael uh no let me do this uh daniel tates associates in a manosphere or red pill community have similar views on masculinity femininity determinism materialism zero-sum thinking seem to be the fundamental symptoms systems of rationalization for lack of self-esteem i agree completely i mean um we the whole manosphere red pill is is again a bunch of pseudo self-esteem people um it is driven by a certain genetic determinism um there is no respect for the mind there is no respect for for for the individual uh we treated as lumps of flesh and nothing more than that this is why you can have sex with whomever uh you know and it means nothing and it symbolizes nothing and it it represents nothing uh and it's um it's pretty sad it's a it's a pretty sad reflection on our world that um you know these are the kind of attitudes these are the kind of attitudes that we have towards uh towards femininity masculinity and sex and it is driven by a materialism and a determinism in our culture determinism i.e. that we're just material we're just atoms and it's all predetermined so anything you do goes anything there is no choice there is no fundamental spiritual essence of being human beings i think casual sex once in a while not as the system of life is fine is it the be all end all no it's it's it's just okay it's can be enjoyable and you move on but if you take sex seriously and you take your life seriously and you have self-esteem i.e. you value yourself not just you you deeply respect yourself you value yourself then you don't just give it up to anybody whether you're a man or a female doesn't matter it's funny though you know if a woman sleeps around we call her a slut if a man sleeps around oh that's cool and and they have they have self-esteem but the woman she's a slut all of that is bullshit women can have self-esteem and women sleep with more than one guy and a and a and a guy can have self-esteem and choose to sleep on you with one woman it it the whole attitude towards sex is bizarre in the 21st century it's men are seeking seem to be seeking a you know a 300 going backwards 300 years and women you know seem to be abolishing you know desiring the abolishment of sex altogether all right let's see Dave says on a more benevolent note about masculinities whoops i i skipped that there we go where's Dave there's Dave all right on a more benevolent note about masculinity is $200 good for Dave i had an email exchange with chris hadfield the former commander of the international space station that's cool i told him his use of language and sense of life is like that of an iron man hero and that he would absolutely love reading iron man yeah i mean i don't know chris hadfield but any the former commander of the international space station sounds like a pretty cool pretty masculine job that combines both physical command of your environment and heavy use of your brain and your intellect and your mind so that sounds like the perfect combination masculine combination um and uh yeah i mean uh the fact that he might be iron man hero is terrific good job uh let's see uh james says i think the issue with people like tate and others exerting energy to compensate for an inferiority complex i agree he's got an inferiority complex uh knows some way in their mind that they have evaded and their subconscious can't and won't let it go yeah well it's a question of where the inferiority complex comes from and that's a psychological question but yes i'm sure there's a there's an evasion there somewhere um and that is that it is partially responsible for um this state andrew asks what do the romantic relationships of iron rand's novel show us to be healthy causes of sexual chemistry um i think in iron rand's novels that the sexual chemistry comes from a deep sense of efficaciousness of of of competence of confidence and and and valuing and success but but a deep deep just efficaciousness of competence and that's what i think i mean heroes respond to sexually it's what i think you know a strength of character we don't talk about character enough but don't you want to sleep with a woman who has character rather than a woman who has none don't you as a woman want to sleep with a man of character moral character um so i think that's what her heroes respond to they they respond to the productiveness they respond to the reason and rationality they respond to the the strength and the commitment and the values the values the values the values the rational values that the heroes exhibit the commitment to reality the commitment to the truth all of that is part of what makes those romantic relationships work all right let's just go through these oh uh in uh here's one from casing in light of the epstein case what do you expect to come of this prosecution would you speak about the other people who are still culpable in epstines in a circle and now tates well i don't know how many people are culpable within tate circle i i don't know much about the circle if you will but suddenly i did a whole show on epstein i did more than one show on epstein this is jeffrey epstein um you know i i think that um i don't know you know are you talking about which epstein are you talking about the the one with the uh with the island or the one in hollywood i mean both are horrible but clearly the one on the island is worse and we know a lot more about it um it is really horrific that not more of the names of people who uh molested young girls and young women uh in jeffrey epstein's island in a state and so on have been prosecuted uh it is truly horrific oh the other guy's wine stein that's right other guy's wine stein but epstein um you know uh it seems like it's him and and the one i forget the name of the woman who helped him and it's ended and you know years are going to go by and we hear nothing about it but why isn't there more being done given the the horrors of what jeffrey epstein and his cardway of assistance women and men and and all the men that you know he facilitated for them sex with underage women what about just laying and everybody else and why why you know why aren't there deep investigations into um into their responsibility and culpability in everything that happened it seems like money has bought a lot of people their freedom money and power and influence this is the case certainly the case for uh you know what's his name the royal but i'm sure this is the case of a lot of people who fear uh their name and and they're being disclosed but i get a sense that nobody cares that's part of the problem nobody really cares everybody's gone on and and by the standards of andrew tate eh he's just a man trying to sleep around what's wrong with that and women are just things to be commanded they just have to so the these powerful people are not being brought to justice and i think that's sick and sad and pathetic and it tells us a lot about the nature of justice in our society the fact that these people are not being prosecuted and not being gone after you know if they committed financial crimes they they'd get them like that they'd get them like that but sexual crimes strong powerful men yeah that's fine it's sad um john bols says i take a small amount of pride in the fact that i have no idea who andrew tate person is i did too i i did not know who was for a long time um only recently they discover him unfortunately but you know i'm a cultural commentator so i have to know about these things you guys pay me to know about the stuff and to and to expose you to them all right ashton says do you think that the events of the 20th century like let me just say something ashton because you might be at the events of the 20th century let me just give you some other examples of people i think who had no self-esteem hitler starlin um donald trump um well joe biden i think most politicians have no self-esteem almost all of them but i think a lot of scientists have self-esteem i think a lot of business people have self-esteem so it's not that i think all of all non-objectives have no self-esteem but politicians generally but certainly dictators putin putin's another example of a man with no self-esteem no self-esteem lenin you could add all the authoritarian thugs out there don't have self-esteem so i mean it it's a different it's a it's a different way of viewing what self-esteem actually means these people are all slow deeply unhappy human beings deeply unhappy human beings all right ashton asks do you think that the events of the 20th century like european colonialism world war one the rise of fascism communism world war two and the holocaust left european civilization and a state of nihilism like it is today has western civilization become soulless because of it that's a great question okay so let let me let me step back and and try to really walk us through through this um i suddenly think that the 20th century the first half of the 20th century um was a slap in the face of what made the west great i mean this would be a this would be an entire show let me copy this and i'll give you the quick answer now but it deserves of an entire show because it is a really really good question um and by the way i colonialism maybe is in a slightly different category here but um i think the 19th century was an awakening of a certain spirit in humanity that in some sense as humanity had never had before maybe short periods in Greece and in roman history but really humanity had never experienced before it was a it was the expression of the enlightenment it was an expression of freedom and um it was an expression of freedom and an expression of individualism and an expression of the the efficacy of the human mind it was it was this beautiful success story it had a lot of ugliness associated with it had a lot of bad things going on at the same time this is also the rise of nationalism and and and uh racism and all kinds of other things but the essential characteristic for for for humanity the 19th century was this magnificent expression of uh of the enlightenment and um again individualism and reason individualism and the efficacy of the human mind as expressed in in human life on on a on a global or not global but on on a on a on a large large scale but it was never completely it was never completely um solidified uh because the enlightenment was weak the enlightenment had never solidified the set of ideas that made the 19th century the industrial revolution capitalism uh possible it was always built on in a sense a house of quicksand the enlightenment had not fundamentally challenged altruism the enlightenment had not at the end of the day fundamentally challenged faith and and religion the enlightenment had not ground provided us with a theory grounding of reason and egoism and and the pursuit of happiness they gave us an indication a direction and that was enough to create the greatest advancement in human history and at the same time and at the same time see i i don't see it as existential ashton i see it as ideological and existential at the same time so we'll get to the existential issues and at the same time um opposition to the enlightenment immediately arose and you see that throughout the 19th century in khan hegel schopenhauer marx niche all rejecting enlightenment all reject reason all rejecting individualism in one form or another and as a consequence of that rejection as a consequence of the move away from away from uh reason individualism we got the first world war and i think the first world war was of all the wars the most traumatic i think it was more traumatic than the second i think it was more traumatic than communism because the the first world war shattered shattered the belief in reason it shattered the belief in individualism it shattered the west's confidence in itself it shattered their belief in absolute values and and in in positive values it shattered their belief in the enlightenment indeed the rise of fascism and communism come out of world war one it's not an accident communism is for the first time successful during world war one in russia and grows as a consequence of the disaster and horrors of world war one it shatters the confidence of the british and ultimately results in the complete you know destruction of of of the empire it it shatters europe it sets germany up for world war two and of course the holocaust and i think what we're left with in the post world war two era is a situation where much of the best parts or almost all the best parts of the world we live in today is still animated by this weak sense of the enlightenment by this week still exists respect for the enlightenment for individualism and and reason it still lingers from back then but weakened dramatically by the events of the first half of the 20th century but much stronger than that is a ongoing beat of those things that are posed whether it's religion whether it's communism whether it's total subjectivism whether it's nationalism all those things that rejected all those ideologies that rejected the enlightenment all those ideologies that were anti man anti individualism anti reason they're all there and when one looks and sees the enlightenment in decline the enlightenment's being weakened can't take it too seriously and yet the alternative is communism well that's failed fascism that failed there is no idealism all idealism is gone and what people are left with i think what some people are left with is nihilism and that's the soulless nature of western civilization it is it's because it's rejected its roots in in the enlightenment it's because it's rejected yes no absolutes it's because it's rejected reason and individualism reason individualism that it has no way to go no way to go and it is stuck so it's it's it's what does it got it's got and rotate no absolutes and and rotate two plus two because five if i say so and it's got matt walsh an absolutely matt walsh whatever god says is absolute and then you've got the left which is completely post-modern is given up on reality completely so you've got all the alternatives that that are available to human beings are have given up on reality so you know of all of those i guess some people find and rotates the kind of the nihilism the hedonism as i don't know the most the least offensive maybe although i think that the most offensive but they seem to be the least offensive but it is it they're stuck with this nihilism they're stuck and i think most of society is not nihilistic i think most society is just depressed society is just low energy societies i mean in that sense it's anti-masculine i think masculinity equals energy there's something about masculinity that's associated with energy they're they're stuck with depression they're stuck with passivity they're stuck with going nowhere because they're no absolute there's no reality there's no truth there's no goodness there's no happiness there's no objective standards and again yeah and you know yeah i will do a whole show on this because it's it's the actual sequence of events the transition between world war one and world war two i mean all of the history is really interesting and important okay michael asked on his show steven krauter just said there are a lot of secular humanists in hollywood and in conservative media with jewish last names who've written exploitative contracts yeah right we always thought the anti-semitism semitism was on the left but the right is mainstreaming it fast no i mean i never thought it was on the left anti-semitism is everywhere it's on the left and it's on the right it's it's historically been on the right um and uh it it's everywhere and yes this this idea that uh jewish people in jewish media um writing contracts that exploit people really because these people are idiots these people are stupid how many how many gazillionaires have quote jewish agents created and made and helped promote how many producers and of jewish origin have have you know created massive movies and studios and anyway it's unbelievable that steven krauter would say that and uh i guess maybe this is part of his back lashing out against ben Shapiro because he feels like they only offered him 50 million dollars and he's worth a lot more than that how come nobody offers me 50 million dollars i guess i i need to change some of my views hopper camo says how can you argue how how can you argue a lack of understanding of free will is like a lack of understanding of gravity we have some understanding of gravity there's hard science there whereas free will all we have is introspection well okay so you could argue that um free will is in in in the status of gravity before we had that understanding of his physics i don't know enough physics to say that we have any kind of physics so newton has no understanding of gravity of of the causes of gravity all he could do is identify it and say it exists that's exactly the same thing with free will so we're not at a at a uh at a uh more advanced level than newton was our understanding of free will is no better than newton's understanding of gravity that's not a bad place to be so uh yeah i mean uh free will is an evident part of reality that we can understand from a physical perspective fine so what it's a self-evident part of reality as you know we know that because we are the agents of free will liam says to what extent does the irrational and predictable propaganda by modern philosophy responsible for bipolar disorder it seems these impulsive mood swings must come from some sort of disintegrated epistemology i mean i don't know i'm not an expert of this um so i i you know i i i don't like i mean as i said uh lene peak i've had a talk where he explains at least some of the uh psychological disorders in terms of epistemology epistemology and philosophy i think generally that having a bad philosophy in a culture and having bad epistemology culture increases the the occurrences of of of psychological problems of psychological issues but i don't think it's the only cause or and i don't know that it's the primary cause there's suddenly uh issue of uh chemical imbalances there's suddenly issues where there's some things that are outside of our control that impact us it could also be stuff that that we observed as kids but but suddenly we don't have full control over every aspect of our mind and in that sense bipolar could certainly be a consequence of disintegrated epistemology or caused by something external but i do think the prevalence of these kind of issues is a consequence of bad philosophy it's hard to measure it because we've always had bad philosophy it's nothing unique about modern times modern philosophy is bad but so is old philosophy it's not like religion is a good philosophy it's not like there was good philosophy 400 years ago but that's a good question also to ask uh Gina golden right she's in this right um the godfather asked i saw a so-called forum debate about ending the Fed i got lost in some of the details mainly the historical and international comments could you comment on the debate it was between Frederick Mishkin former governor Fed and Larry White i haven't seen the debate so i can't comment on it i'll i'll look for it and see you know what i can comment about it but generally i would be in Larry White's side i think Larry White is absolutely is excellent on issues of the history of the Fed and understands the the disaster that is the Fed reserve but i'm not surprised that economists got bugged down on details rather than on a principled case against central planning central planning is bad morally and practically and the federal reserve is a case of central planning Michael says would you say people like Hitler and Putin are mentally ill or sane and just evil or is evil only a feature of the mental interest i would say they evil uh insane uh they might also evil and insane i don't know but i i don't think it's meaningful if if you then qualify if the evil person is an insane person i think the evil insane i think evil is a category it's a category of evasive that as that leads people to doing horrible horrific things Leonard Peacock has a a lecture where he talks about different levels of evil and and we he discusses this in greater detail you might want to look for that degrees of evil maybe is the name or maybe that's in the in the description you can probably find it on youtube Liam says are there any geniuses alive today like Newton or Einwand or has our mixed economy crushed them when we achieve a fully free world what we see geniuses like Einwand pop up every decade or so so um i definitely think there probably are geniuses like Newton Einwand out there they unfortunately because our culture has so encouraged people to specialize they're probably super specialized on something i certainly don't think Elon Musk is a genius of the caliber of Einwand or Isaac Newton but you know he might be i don't i don't know but uh you know i i think what made Einwand unique is the scope to be a genius and philosophy is extraordinarily liberate but that's because most geniuses go into very narrow fields like mathematics or or or physics but you know i don't know i i will say this there's no question that good societies you suddenly see a flourishing of geniuses and you can see that the best example i know of that is the renaissance pre renaissance how many names of people do you have pre renaissance i mean of of geniuses of of of great minds almost nobody Dante maybe right but in the same geographic area in in Florence starting in i don't know around 1400 or 1450 or something about there suddenly there's just these amazing geniuses you know some of them we all know from from Galileo you know Galileo is late but Michelangelo Leonardo da Vinci Raphael you know and and and those are just the most visible and well known but all the ones who led up to them just hundreds hundreds of geniuses i mean i went to the cemetery in Florence Florence tiny little town town little town and just you know Machiavelli you know and and the the what do you call it the the god the rulers of Venice at the time the rulers of Florence at the time um the Medici family i mean there were these amazing human beings all proof out of nowhere same town that produced nothing before suddenly produces dozens of amazing human beings of what you would consider geniuses of their time so culture education culture um and freedom even relative freedom produce genius and it's just proof that it's not all about the genes because the genes in the pool in Florence didn't change rather to do common uh restating an early question from Liam is the prevalence of tattoos a sign of nihilistic times why are people ruining their bodies with ink it seems disgusting especially in beautiful women i agree i don't get it i i think it's horrible i think it really is horrible um and tattoos i think again a form of self mutilation again a sign of lack of self-esteem not a sign of self-esteem a lack of self a lack of self-respect it just it just seems horrible and many of the tattoos are kind of dark you know this is not a any kind of celebration and positive things i'm not a big fan of tattoos at all i you know and uh yeah i don't i don't like it body paint is fine i mean body paint you can paint yourself in in different ways for a particular occasion for a particular party and then you wash it off the thing about tattoos is that permanent they're there forever it's not just a game it's not just something you're not just a decor a temporary decoration or something this is forever and you're making decisions about the rest of your life by having a tattoo and and they're big and they cover the whole they cover last quantities of the body again they're usually dark or aggressive or again a a i think a form of barbarism i mean tattoos were warrior things that warriors and i don't know bronze age type people use so i'm not a fan of tattoos themas to ask what are the roots of anti-semitism where jews hate it would jews hate it before world war two well of course jews have always been hated i mean the roots of anti-semitism is hatred of the other hatred of the other that looks different that worships a different god that lives isolated from you um in in a world of of faith and mysticism the other represents the unknowable cause of bad stuff that's happening all around you by the way we're at like 908 dollars raised how about we make it to a thousand we haven't done a thousand dollar in in one show in a while so given that we're going on two hours yeah another hundred dollars we could we could do that i think that's doable so the roots of anti-semitism i have to do with otherism with the fact that the other is scary with the fact that other is easy to blame for all your problems i think the other is is a is a big part of it add to that the whole mythology of of jews having responsible for the death of jesus christianity had kind of at some point built into it this idea of of hating the jews for killing jesus which was just a excuse i think for the otherism for the hatred of another tribe a hatred of people who won't adopt your so-called universal religion hatred for the fact that they are not with you that they separate themselves from you as a consequence of that all kinds of conspiracy theories arose from poisoning poisoning the locals to drinking babies blood to all kinds of things they because they rituals are different than yours so the it was easy to make them out as as as as as horrible people and then uh then as you get into the middle ages um their success jews were very successful they were the money lenders i have a whole essay about money lenders and how the fact that jews were the money lenders led to more anti-semitism jews were allowed to lend money christians were not for reasons that i tell in the essay you can find it in my book on the mall case for finance which i highly recommend richard thank you wow um bringing us much closer to the thousand dollars so so all of those uh lead to the anti-semitism of world war two but yes anti-semitism begins basically with the beginning of christianity and is is around has been around since then and uh and world war two is just one crescendo in many crescendos i mean the russians killed jews uh in large large numbers the ukranians the russians the poles uh during the 19th century it's why so many jews left europe and immigrated to the united states and elsewhere around the world um they were persecuted uh for anti-semitism in france in the 19th century in germany in the 19th century of jews during the i forget the 17th century you put into ghettos to be separate from everybody else because people didn't want to mix with them so they were they had a live and they and the the gates of the ghetto were locked every night by the christians they kept them in the ghetto overnight so god forbid the jews wouldn't do anything to them so no anti-semitism goes back a long long time all right richard says i hate the u.s immigration system yeah join join the club my girlfriend is applying for h1b and she's accepted uh accepted she'll have to pay six thousand dollars for the privilege of staying here she only had a 20 chance of getting it otherwise she will have to go back to korea i mean it's just horrible it's just horrible i mean it's one thing to pay six thousand dollars for staying here you know i can think of worse things but going back to korea i mean i'm sure your girlfriend is talented and and productive and what is it why don't we want it i mean the immigration system in the united states is complete and utter trash it's it's horrific it's despicable um and and you can't talk to people about it you can't talk to people about it because god forbid you know you advocate for more immigration much more immigration huge humongously more immigration and making it super easy to get to immigrate to the united states but people freak out when you say that i still owe you guys a show on immigration we'll do it thank you richard appreciate it okay here we go we've got the lot of five to ten dollar questions so we're gonna do these fast liam says uh were you always obsessed with persuasion growing up that has been my issue since i discovered objectivism i may come across is too nerdy to convince people of the truth no i don't think so i mean i was always convinced stuff i was always interested in the truth i was always interested in ideas i was always interested in yeah i was always interested in in that but i don't know that i was always interested in persuasion i think that came i mean when i discovered objectivism i wanted to argue with everybody around me but even that gave way i i i think that came that focus on persuasion came came later as i discovered my love of teaching james says 80 a million is in the u.s never inherited any wealth is that the case in europe and israel or is it mostly intergenerational wealth in europe i think the percentage of intergenerational wealth is much higher in israel it's probably even lower than the u.s israel there was nothing to inherit um so in israel israel was a poor country once not that long ago so almost all the wealth all the rich people in israel are self-made rich self-made millionaires uh and billionaires so um israel is probably more than the united states europe more of the aristocracy of old wealth um much more of that because there was wealth in the old aristocracy also is a lot of wealth in land in europe and people who owned land a long time ago have made a lot of money off of that so that's in more inherited wealth um richard says are you afraid that there will be another wave of persecution against jews in the west people like taka and korben are saying really scary things and have even heard people on fox making anti-semitic innuendros yeah i mean i i think i am scared i still don't think it'll happen in in um in the u.s but it is definitely possible that it could happen in the u.s um i do think that as the u.s descends and moves away from civilization one of the phenomena that always happens is a rise in anti-semitism so as we move away from reason and we move away from um from um individualism and and we become more racist as a society racism both left and right anti-semitism will rise and it definitely is something that i worry about and i think everybody should be worried about some of the things that motivates me in in what i do i think that would be horrific because whether i consider myself a jew or not whether my kids don't even know what being a jew means they would they they have no conception of it it doesn't matter because the anti-semitism will always consider all of us jews it's it's based on our grandparents it's the hitler test right if your grandparents were jews you jewish so we're all victims of this anti-semitism potentially victims um and um i worry about both left and right here in terms of and and i'm seeing the right become more explicit much more explicit than they used to be michael can christianity and religion in general not last forever because repressing emotions always leads to backlash like sexual devency well they've lasted 2000 years i'm not sure what that means i don't think christianity will last i don't think it'll last because it's false and i think therefore the truth will win out the truth will come out and people will reject christianity because it's just false i think that's enough cook um matt walsh made a pager university video years ago about how self-esteem is as real as unicorns yes i remember that um matt walsh claimed self-esteem just doesn't exist he's not against self-esteem he's not for self-esteem this just isn't a thing called self-esteem but one of the problems with that video is he defines self-esteem the way the left does as giving a ribbon to anybody the way you instill self-esteem is just by giving ribbons to everybody i think by the way matt walsh has more self-esteem than and and rotate because matt walsh has a set of values he's committed to i still don't think he has much but he has more because he has some real values and rotate has none richard says do you think our immigration system by the way we've reached a thousand dollars so thank you richard who's almost single-handedly bought us there together with mh08 and bash bannigan um do you think our immigration system is deliberately designed to be racist i don't like using that as a go-to argument but the insane complexity and obscurity do you think the immigration system is deliberately designed to be racist i don't think well i mean this is the thing about about it it was originally all immigration restrictions in the united states were designed to be racist originally so the first immigration law in the united states was designed to keep out chinese and you could broaden it to keep out asians but it was primarily targeted at chinese because the chinese were taking labor away from the irish others there was a big backlash against the chinese who were who were building the railroads right god forbid uh so and then the immigration laws of the 1920s basically stopped immigration and and with almost there was very little immigration allowed and and then when immigration was allowed there was a clear emphasis a clear emphasis to allow in europeans and not allowing mexicans and asians and others and that's from 1920s until 1965 but not jews for example but but you know good white europeans non-jewish white europeans that's what the immigration system in the 1920s the progressives like wilson were super super racist and um and this is why i say racism has not gone from our society because uh you know it's all over the police and it's it was an immigration law so then in the 60s there was a backlash against that as part of the civil rights movement and therefore what they did was they they created this family unit reunification program which has turned out to be massively beneficial to uh you know the hispanic immigrants and less beneficial to europeans and there was an effort to suppress european immigration or to at least reduce it and and to suppress and and to make it a more level playing field and that's why you get you got a lot of asians a lot of a lot of um of hispanics a lot of non-whites immigrating post-1968 but again it was all kind of motivated in this time in a little bit of a reverse by racial issues and again it was the wrong immigration debate it wasn't about work it wasn't about producing it was about just families and and and now there's of course all this you know humanitarian stuff and asylum and all of that so we've never had since nine since the first anti-immigration law which was 1890 something we haven't had good immigration law the original immigration immigration to the united states with a lot of chinese and with a lot of all europeans and pretty much a lot anybody in it's complete open immigration in much of the 19th century that was the right immigration policy and that went away starting in the 1890s for racist reasons racist reasons racism is a much bigger part of the american story than a lot of people would like to admit and that's why i suspect that it's a bigger part of our present than most people would like to admit jakem says unobjective immoral unethical to recommend covid vaccines to pregnant zero long-term studies long-term risk and unknown pregnant excluded from trials thermopylaid only pulled after three years i i i don't believe that's true jakem i can pull the research and look into it we now have i suspect million a pregnant millions of pregnant women who have been vaccinated we know what the consequences are we can pull the studies and see what the consequences are i know for example at least one woman who was very scientifically educated um who got who got vaccinated but i i could pull the studies on the millions of women who've now been vaccinated and my suspicion strong suspicion is that it's fine it's fine um michael says have you ever evaded in your life what made you uncomfortable enough that you wanted to reject those relevant facts from your awareness yeah i mean i'm sure i've evaded i i remember evading before i read objectivism with regard to ethics with regard to the fact that altruism was untenable but i couldn't conceive of an alternative so i basically decided not to look there and just accept altruism by default that was an evasion but um i'm sure i've evaded in other circumstances um but the thing about evading is is you've got to make up for it by refocusing uh and and making up making up for it by making amends by by figuring out what it was and and and correcting yourself and fixing it right so if if you evade and let it stay that's when it does damage if you evade you still get damaged there's no free lunch in the world but if you correct for it if you adjust for it if you understand it uh and you fix it then i think you're fine robert nasa they these are the same types who despise individualism unless it's presented as rugged individualism small wonder the tate thinks a woman's and his primary virtues are charisma and being hot yes i i agree completely the godfather i would love to get a review of ted lasso a show i truly enjoyed i think you may like it too i i really enjoyed ted lasso i i did review it i reviewed the first season which i thought was better the best of the seasons yeah it's super benevolent super positive super american pro american very very unusual usually shows about an american going to europe always make fun of the american always a cynical always undermine the american always and and this one like the american is a good guy and and he's his positivity and optimism and and naivete are all presented as positives of good things as as virtues so i'm a big fan of ted lasso uh well zlope as you've spoken out against pornography but doesn't it exalt the human form no i i think photography of the nude and painting and sculpture of the nude um exalt the human form i think sculpture and painting of of of nudes are magnificent even think photography and of the nude is amazing and i and i don't and i'm not completely rejecting of pornography i think there's some value in pornography um certain types of pornography i think people can learn about sex from pornography i think pornography can educate us about what's possible in sex i'm not sure about who the people who do the pornography but in terms of the people in terms of of actually viewing pornography i'm not against it um and and i think in a repressed society in which people don't know much about sex in which we don't educate people about sex in which we found sex to be offensive um we don't have a kama sutra like the indians do our closest we have to come as sutra's pornography and so consume it uh and learn from it and and it can stimulate it can stimulate you in ways that are interesting and provocative and in ways in which you hopefully can then bring into the bedroom because i'm all for i'm all for sex generally and if you can find ways in which to enhance your experience in the bedroom then go for it right um but um i i think people obsessed with that i think some pornography is super ugly i think the obsession with pornography is ugly but i don't think consuming pornography is necessarily bad i think for many people it is but i don't think it's necessarily bad many men use it as a in to replace the lack of a relationship and no surprise if they follow and rotate that they have no relationships oh and what does a board of directors do and how do they are they chosen i know publicly traded companies are chosen by stock owners but a right also has one um a board of directors basically oversees the uh the company it oversees the actions of the executive team of the ceo it appoints the ceo it um it it approves usually typically approves budgets it approves strategy it doesn't do strategy but it approves strategy so the board of directors is responsible for approving strategy um and uh a board of directors is responsible for um choosing a ceo it's not responsible for managing a company it's not responsible for but it's responsible kicking out a ceo that doesn't do his job it's responsible for uh replacing ceos it's responsible for challenging the ceo strategy it's responsible for making sure that the organization pursues its mission and and is consistent with its values from non-profit um there is a founding board which is usually uh part of its charter that and then the board is self perpetuating the board should be a representative should represent the interests of the donors of the of the people who contribute to the to the charity but the board nominates itself it it has a process every board has a um a set of rules which govern it uh any donor can ask for those any any contributing can ask for those and make sure that they want to still support uh the the organization and basically the board um the board is self perpetuating in the sense that it nominates new directors to replace the directors that and the board um can then nominate new directors can kick out directors can force directors out of those hard very hard to force the director out it's not easy but a board of a non-profit does the same is responsibility is the same as for for profit and a for profit the board is technically um appointed by shareholders they vote on him but uh the the nominees the people suggested to the shareholders are all suggested by the board itself so again there's a sense in which it's self perpetuating is the prevalence of tattoo a sign of nihilistic times why are people ruining the but oh we just did that that was liam i guess that was a question off of liam's tacy says you're on you're rocking the social commentary this week uh epitomized and tonight's take commentary keep going thank you uh tacy hopefully we'll this will get viewership subscribers and everything else up although it might cause people to unsubscribe because people a certain percentage of my subscribers don't like my social commentary hopper cambal did you have your doubts about alex septstein when you first brought him on board why would you ask a question like that or did you know he was going to be super successful i obviously thought he was going to be i i don't didn't know don't know for certain whether people are going to be super successful i thought he was going to be super successful because that's why i hired him because i thought he was smart and otherwise i wouldn't have hired him i don't hire people who i don't think are going to be super successful sometimes i've right sometimes i'm wrong alex was obviously super uh bright uh so successful he had there were question marks as i'm sure there are question marks about anybody you hire but yeah he's done phenomenally well i'm super proud of him i'm super proud of the part i played in his success uh the surreal truth this backward perspective is also catching on among women on the right even liberty types i don't get it who is happy to see themselves this way i don't know it's weird cantisone is a good example she's weird anyway but yes there's a bunch of women who think this is this is right going back to bronze age uh wesley why do you think both rates in israel are higher than any other developed country even among the secular i've commented on this before i think the reason is that israel over the last 20 years has become a very optimistic society it is basically has confidence i think optimism drives childbirth i think an optimistic people people with self-esteem of people with confidence about the future have kids people who are depressed people who don't have lost confidence about the future lost their their their self-esteem don't have kids and i think that's what europe is leading the way and i think the united states is following in just not being confident about the future i think asia is the same way lack of confidence and israel has that it's conk it's defeated its enemies basically uh or at least it feels that way it's become rich it's become successful it's it's it's and there is this uh there is this um but you know even among secular jews uh they have more kids than any other country any other developed country in the world uh michael why has objectivism only had an influence of business but not science where's the objective is shan kao i don't know who shan kao is but um i don't know where the objectivist uh shan kao is or where the objectivist great scientist is they're out there it's just a matter of time it's it's been i'm sure in business but also in engineering um and and it will the you know science is just rare to be exceptional in science is rare and there will be an objectivist there will be exception on science i have no doubt about that gao i think he is a very dangerous character capable of anything horrible this is uh and rotate yes i agree james taylor philosophy is not about moving words around and trying to win arguments it's about trying to achieve happiness using a particular method agree michael how does iran's principle of knowledge building on knowledge and wealth building on wealth work in a highly regulated and taxed environment well it's still true that your knowledge builds another knowledge and uh we still have freedom to access knowledge and build the knowledge and present our knowledge and speak our knowledge so the knowledge is certain building on top of each other wealth building on wealth is harder it's still possible because we're still relatively free but as you become more regulated and taxed and controlled that process has becomes harder and harder and as capital is taxed more and more that process becomes harder and harder so it is it is a it is a it is a real challenge in this environment and that principle is a principle of freedom not a principle of authoritarianism james taylor a narcissistic persona is a way of avoiding confounding which a subconscious throws at you yes i i think that's right again a lack of self-esteem is another way of looking at it michael says do you think that the vast majority of people today are insecure and inferiority conflict narcissism of some degree i don't invest majority i mean there might not be narcissistic because a lot of them are inferiority conflicts absolutely but that manifests itself in a variety of different worlds i think we suffer in the world today for a massive lack of self-esteem massive lack of self-esteem massive massive excess of inferiority complexes um michael matt walsh and steven crowder are more polished versions of nick fuentes that's why nick fuentes is becoming so popular he's saying what they won't he is more bold and consistent maybe i don't know if nick if matt walsh is an anti-semite i don't know if i'd say that an an erasist i i don't know maybe he is but i don't know uh whereas nick fuentes clearly is but yes i think i think um i think nick fuentes is more consistent and uh matt walsh and the the the right today the the right of the right is setting is softening the culture up for the nick fuentes of the world and and certainly trump did that as well michael says can you do a show titled in defense of big tech or big tech are the last american heroes yes but remember sponsor show is a thousand dollars michael what's the best way to feel composed and optimistic about things when you're facing real adversity well to to to have to respect your mind and and to know that you can deal with that adversity with logic and facts and a commitment to reality there's no and and to know that you can overcome uh as um you know if you apply yourself that comes from that sense of self-esteem but it's all about respecting and having confidence in your mind uh specker says not many people answer the question why when advocating for any specific ideas like why are people so adamant about supporting christian values when those same values leave them hood because those values also uh you know give them some kind of meaning uh supposedly in their life now it's a false meaning but they they find it very difficult to give up that meaning first of all when they when they don't conceive of an alternative but also when facing an alternative they find it difficult because so much of their energy of their soul of their mind of their time has been committed to these forces it's hard to give up yeah and there's a real there's a real fear of of the question why because it causes them to have to think deeply about themselves and they might not like what they find when they think deeply uh mh08 thank you really appreciate that and bash bannigan asked when did you last feel fear i don't know i mean i don't generally feel a lot of fear i mean sometimes when um there's a lot of turbulence on an airplane uh i don't i really don't like that and i think the feeling is fear um but i generally don't feel a lot of fear it's you know the the time i feel fear and i'm not going to get too personal here but the time i feel fear is when um i have a sense that um a great value of mine is is has the potential being lost so that is scary the loss of values um out of my control outside of my control by disease or illness or something like that that is the thing that it's still more fear in me than anything else like i don't seem to feel fear when i'm attacked on stage when people yell at me when people are you to rush the stage i remember when antifa attacked me i didn't feel afraid um i think it's mainly fear comes to me mainly when i when i feel like i don't have control over a loss of a really really important value to me all right thank you everybody uh wow long show 2015 minutes uh raised a lot of money thank you for all the superchatters thank you for all the people who support the show um please like the show before you leave we've had a lot of people watching the show who forgot to like it before they left so please try to do that before you leave and i will see you all tomorrow morning back yeah there's no rest for the Iran book