Good evening, everybody. Welcome to Wednesday Night Live, 7th of May, 2024. A tech rant. Why is it that Outlook just can't close? Do you have that shortcut? You do your function windows and the shortcut is force kill like force kill outlook why can it not close it's just impossible does it need a priest an exorcism why does outlook not just close it's a mystery You shouldn't have to go into Task Manager to close down your email app. Sad but true. All right, ready for questions, comments.
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hello freedom man listening to your novel the future well i hope you're starting it tomorrow Back up to David talking about the children who were missed. I'm feeling the heartache of the pain, the moral dilemma of privacy, hands-off approach, and then being responsible or feeling responsible when agency is abused to harm others.
maybe the closest we get to knowing how god feels to some degree about humanity as a whole since we are his spirit children really thought-provoking and heart-wrenching stuff thank you yeah so that's not much of a spoiler um my novel The future is set 500 years from now, after the Cataclysms, which I talk about the beginning of in my novel, The Present, which you should, again, do some great, great books, freedoman.com slash books.
you know even if you don't read novels as a whole i mean it's really great stuff um you know it's deep the characters are strong and the stories lines are great so it's about a future society and how does it deal with child abuse is one of the central elements of a couple of chapters in the book, in particular one chapter. And it is of course complete wish fulfillment for me. Which is, wouldn't it have been nice if my brother and I had been treated this way with regards to my mother.
we want and because of that we get a book like the future so just check it out i mean it's a vivid way to utopia is very rarely shown in science fiction i was interested in thomas moore wrote a book called utopia of course you know 500 years ago or whatever and i used to read i read that um there was a little bit of some idealism in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which I read, but none of this in particular leaves any kind of impression on me. But Utopia...
in a practical sense, in a moral sense. I mean, you could argue Star Trek is kind of a utopia and so on, but it's way too collectivist for me. Продолжение следует... So can a novelist, a creative person and a philosopher like myself, can we write a novel? accurately and emotionally and morally portraying an ideal society.
without a violation of human nature. Because a lot of people write stories about a perfect world with the unfortunate aspect that it requires a complete and total violation of human nature. If only people weren't tribal. If only people weren't motivated by profits. If only people blah blah blah blah blah. Right? What if human beings don't need to be changed, but the system needs to align with virtue and human nature? Well, that of course is the basic premise of my novel.
the future and i hope that you will check it out it's free and it's free in large part due to the lovely donors So, yeah, it is a very powerful book for me. It's very powerful to write. To write the world that I so desperately want to live in and raise my daughter in. It is a consummation devoutly to be wished. It is agony to be this conceptually close to a perfect world. and knowing that it's going to be hundreds of years until it has a chance
is tough. And knowing that the barriers to the perfect world is not human nature, it is not coercion, it is simply, I mean, the barrier to the perfect world is simply people belief in things that are false. That's all. If people stopped believing in things that are false, we could have a beautiful world this time next year. Thank you. So. We must be patient. Errors take a long time to exit stage left these days. Alright.
Sopanta says, I found reading or listening to the present and the future of these two novels. I got a lot of ideas and perspectives in philosophy. Click more. than any podcast or non-fiction book has. Seeing the ideas and characters really makes a difference. Yeah, I mean, in many ways the future belongs to the best storytellers. Sadly, not the most rational, but...
to the best storytellers. And unfortunately, the left are very good at telling stories. That's propaganda, I get all of that, but they're very good at telling stories. and it's funny you know because i will regularly see On social media. are people complaining that like where's the art coming from the right and again i wouldn't specifically say that i'm on the right but
Whereas the art coming from, say, the anti-leftists. So leftists have dominant power at the moment, so that's who needs to be opposed. And nobody ever mentions my novels. Nobody ever mentioned my novels, and I get it.
I love writing novels and working on another one at the moment. Oh, man. I wrote some of the best dialogue I've ever written two days ago. Like, honestly, just... crackerjack dialogue about a breakup of a romantic relationship based upon betrayal it's like ah you know how people avoid the topic and then it just drops like an moab in the conversation
It had me on the edge of my seat and I was writing it. That's how vivid and real it feels to me. I feel like I'm transcribing and I can see every freckle on the character's faces. So good. Maybe we'll do some of it later. All right. Especially peaceful parenting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Did you know Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire? I was trying to explain this. This is from Milo Yiannopoulos at Nero. It's a bitterly funny, of course, account to follow.
I have a lot of respect for the man if that means anything. So he pointed out. Okay. Let me ask you, can you puzzle this one out? What was the biggest year for ringtone sales? And how much were they? What was the total aggregate of the market? What was the biggest year ringtone sale? So you used to buy different ringtones than the ones that came automatically with your phone? So what was the biggest year for ringtone sales And how much was it? Like I gotta tell you, I've never bought a ringtone.
in my life. I don't think so. I think maybe I bought one or two different backgrounds for like $1.50 when I was farting around on a phone once, but I never bought a ringtone. Although I've often wanted to replace my, when I call my wife, to have it be, honey, honey, honey, honey, honey, until her eyes just explode. that's important because she wouldn't think that i'm calling her or she'd just think i'm in the next room and need something honey honey
Just play that over and over and no court would convict you of strangulation. So people are guessing 2006 a million dollars. 2012, $100 million. 2003, no, not correct. The biggest year for ringtone sales. was 2007 and it was American 1.2 billion dollars. 1.2 billion dollars.
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So... Do you have kids or are you yourself in university or do you have any sort of portal nether region window to what's going on in academia at the moment? because what have you do? If you do, it's pretty wild. Steve McGuire on X wrote this. For higher education, AI's takeover is a full-blown existential crisis. College is just how well I can use chat GPT at this point. I think we are years or months probably away from a world where nobody thinks using AI for homework is considered cheating.
It isn't as if cheating is new. But now, as one student put it, the ceiling has been blown off. Who could resist a tool that makes every assignment easier with seemingly no consequences? Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees and into the workforce who are essentially illiterate. The humanities and writing in particular are quickly becoming an anachronistic art elective like basket weaving. Many teachers now seem to be in a state of despair.
Every time I talk to a college student about this, the same thing comes up. I'm sorry. Every time I talk to a colleague, I guess the professors about this, the same thing comes up. Retirement. When can I retire? When can I get out of this? This is what we're all thinking now. And the Intelligencer wrote, this is from James D. Walsh, everyone is cheating their way through college. ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
And it's funny because on my word processor, when I'm writing, a little bubble thing pops up and I can help you with that. And it's like, get thee behind me, Satan. Would you like a rant and would the rant be on a 1 to 10 scale? I don't know, you know, as my voice is repaired, my ear is repairing, I just, I don't know whether it would be too startling for you all to have a vivid and passionate rant.
this might be a tear the hat off the head rant all right 10 10 10 5 11 1.5 and that's very specific right Oh, the poor professors. Yeah, oh dear. Are you going to actually have to try and figure out whether your students can...
think or not? Are you actually going to have to get back to maybe oral cross-examination of your students Are you going to somehow die from not picking up your $250,000 EO paychecks by sloughing off all of the badly written ballpoint pen essays on your teacher's assistants while you prepare yourself for yet another fucking sabbatical or conference in Hawaii to study whether nouns actually exist in Kantian reality.
Are you actually going to have to teach in a way that motivates students to learn how to think? Or is everyone just going through the same stupid bullshit jump through hoops? You give me obedience, I give you the degree. Absolute total nonsense. The professor is actually going to have to motivate their students to do something other than go through the ritual of praying before the electronic gods of AI in order to cough up a...
vaguely coherent essay that is based upon the pre-assembled thoughts of everyone in the known universe, because that's all university has been for as long as I was there. It was almost all complete bullshit. swallow regurgitate not swallow regurgitate rearrange pass that's all it was That's all. Ed. Wise. You would do a mind map of what the professor believed. You would absorb it. You would regurgitate it with some rearranging.
what is wrong with oral exams exactly oh but you see oral exams they're they're a little tough my friends they're a little tough And you might embarrass people. And people might get mad at you. Like oral exams, that's a lot of work. See, the way the university works is you stuff, God, what was it in the University of Toronto? University of Toronto back in the day had like I don't know what a thousand fifteen hundred people in the intro to psych courses
So the professors would spill over rooms. There'd just be a bunch of people looking at TVs and making notes. And the professor... you know, wouldn't do much other than lecture. And then the TAs would handle everything, the teacher's assistant. And, you know, they get, what, four months off in the summer. They work a cozy 10 to 15 hours a week, and every fifth year is a sabbatical where they get paid to write books that nobody fucking reads.
it is a livestock grinding ink paper substitute for IQ because they're illegal bunch of bullshit university as a whole as a whole I did two years of an English degree. at Glendon Campus of York University. I did almost two years at theatre school writing, acting, playwriting. I did two years
finishing my undergraduate in history at York, sorry, at McGill University. And then I did a year and change of a graduate degree, getting my master's in the history of philosophy at the University of Toronto.
I'm sure a lot of y'all went to school to university do you remember a single thing that you were taught i took was i think it was charles taylor took an entire year course on political science now i'm actually quite interested in political science written entire books on it that have done quite well you know at one point my books were being Downloaded at the rate of 100,000 a month. 5,000 in Canada is a bestseller in the whole lifespan of the book.
So what is that, a 20x bestseller per month? Well, that was more than one book. And I remember absolutely nothing, NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING from any of it. I did an entire course, a full year course, on the history of Rome and the Roman Empire. I remember nothing, nothing from it at all. I do remember a little bit from the rise of Protestantism, of course. I remember a little bit about that. I did a lot of work on that, on medieval populations with charts and graphs. I took the bullet.
What else I took? God, it's even hard to remember. Now. Oh yeah, the rise of capitalism and the socialist response. I battled like crazy the professor who was for me a standard Marxist built like a bearded fridge, non-entity of resentment. So, if somebody says, I went to a top engineering school, did a lot for me, sure. Yeah, I get it. There's very practical skills. I'm talking about the heart.
history, English. I did a lot of theater. I acted in a lot of plays. Snap my finger, get a lead. It was pretty easy, right? So... The problem is that ChatGPT is disrupting the money printing conveyor belt of non-education that passes for higher education in these diploma mills. Bullshit facilities.
like people might actually have to be enthusiastic about learning people might actually have to be enthusiastic and compelling in their teaching and people might actually have to engage in debate rather than just Air type, Air print and get graded. So I love, I love, love, love, love what AI is doing to universities. love it if you can't beat AI
you shouldn't be in university. It used to be that only 10% of people went to university because it was kind of the elite. Right now it's widened and expanded and all of that kind of stuff because nobody talks about IQ. So, yeah. And now, of course, in some universities you have to have introduction to basic math. That's got to be part of it, right? Oh, my God. I mean, everybody knows, of course, that. Schools are teaching almost nothing these days except guilt. And...
It's very sad. It's very, very sad. Alright, let me just get to you. I haven't even checked whether there are any donations. Total life tips. Zero. Oh my god. Oh my god. freedom.com slash donate to help out the show. I would really appreciate that. And we could say really a little bit more than appreciate it. It's fairly important for the show as a whole. Thank you, Tony. Appreciate it. Appreciate it.
So, yeah, the fake teaching, like the fake thinking has now caught up with the fake teaching to the point where they're canceling each other out. And yeah, universities need to be reclaimed from the propagandizing idiots who largely inhabit, not exclusively, but largely inhabit its corridors. Well, I guess university hopefully will go through the same process that people who knew how to use a sextant and a slide rule have gone through. Oh my gosh.
Somebody says, this is from Zito on X. The kids are cooked. Chungun Roy Lee stepped onto Columbia University's campus this past fall and by his own admission proceeded to use generative artificial intelligence to cheat on nearly every assignment. As a computer science major, he depended on AI for his introductory programming classes. I just dumped the prompt into ChatGPT and hand in whatever it spat out. By his rough math, AI wrote 80% of every essay he'd turned in.
At the end, I'd put on the finishing touches. I'd just insert 20% of my humanity, my voice, into it. Lee was born in South Korea, ah yes those South Koreans totally typical of from people who cheat in school.
i remember many years ago there was a you know stay in school kids and it was a young asian girl who was like dropping out it's like ah yes the asian girls just forming their own gangs and dropping out of school all the time anyway it's just natural right leave us born in south korea and grew up outside atlanta
Should be Atlantis, but we'll go with Atlanta. Where his parents ran a college prep consulting business. He said he was admitted to Harvard early in his senior year of high school. But the university rescinded its offer after he was suspended for sneaking out during an overnight field trip before graduation. Wow.
A year later, he applied to 26 schools. He didn't get into any of them, so he spent the next year at community college before transferring to Columbia. His personal essay, which turned his winding road to higher education into a parable for his ambition to build companies, was written with help from Chad GPT.
When he started at Columbia as a sophomore this past September, he didn't worry much about academics or his GPA. Most assignments in college are not relevant, he told me. They're hackable by AI, and I just have no interest in doing them. while other new students fretted over the university's rigorous core curriculum described by the school as intellectually expansive and personally transformative.
I bet you they used AI to come up with that marketing bullshit too. Lee used AI to breeze through with minimal effort. When I asked him why he had gone through much trouble to get into an ivy league university only to offload all the learning to a robot he said what's the best mate it's the best place to meet your co-founder and your wife
In January 2023, just two months after OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a survey of a thousand college students found that nearly 90% of them had used the chatbot to help with homework assignments. I suppose the other 10% were just lying. In its first year of existence, ChatGPT's total monthly visit steadily increased month over month until June when schools let out for the summer. Yeah, traffic dipped again over the summer in 2024.
professors and teaching assistants increasingly found themselves staring at essays filled with clunky robotic phrasing that, though grammatically flawless, didn't sound quite like a college student or even a human. Two and a half years later, students at large state schools like the Ivies, liberal arts schools in New England, universities abroad, professional schools, community colleges are relying AI to ease their way through every facet of their education.
Generative AI chatbots, chat GPT, but also Google's Gemini, Anthropics, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, and others take their notes during class, devise their study guides and practice tests, summarize novels and textbooks, and brainstorm, outline and draft their essays. STEM students are using AI to automate their research and data analysis and to sail through dense coding and debugging assignments.
College is just how well I can use ChatGPT at this point. A student in Utah recently captioned a video of herself copy and pasting a chapter from genocide and mass atrocity textbook into ChatGPT. That's Wendy, right? Let me just double check this. Once the chat pod had outlined, Wendy's essay provided her with a list of topic sentences and bullet points of ideas. All she had to do was fill it in.
Wendy delivered a tidy five-page paper at an acceptably tardy 10.17am. When I asked her how she did on the assignment, she said she got a good grade. I really like writing, she said, sounding strangely nostalgic for her high school English class the last time she wrote an essay unassisted.
honestly she continued i think there's beauty in trying to plan your essay you learn a lot you have to think oh what kind of writing this paragraph or what should my thesis be but she'd rather get good grades an essay with chat GPT it's like it just gives you straight up what you have to follow you just don't really have to think that much
See why people like thinking? Thinking just gets you punished. Right? Just gets you punished. That's all. Boys, I'm going to teach us about Brainiac Apple Polisher. How much did you get admired for thinking when you were younger? How much did you get admired for thinking when you were younger? Oh my gosh. Great. No, I mean, the quicker that universities can... implode into irrelevance the greater the chance we have of at least postponing civilizational seppuku. はい E aí
Somebody says, my younger brother, 19, was going to art school for jazz performance. He said he was surrounded by people who seemed to skate through life. He ended up joining the military instead. where you're just skating, you're just getting pushed. Joe says, I'm tipping next week. Thank you. FreedomAid.com slash donate to help out the show.
At least in the US, we need to get government out of the loan business and allow student loans to be dischargeable in bankruptcy. The free market will take care of the rest. It's not going to happen. No, it's not going to happen. The leftists need the universities because if you can get people to pay for their own propaganda, that's fantastic. It's not going to happen.
Also imagine what it would be like to be the last guy who still had to pay for his loans and the next guy gets to refuse them because he doesn't have to pay them back. So if you don't have to pay them, I mean, it's not going to happen, right? Denise, so nice to see you, Melanie, she says. I just graduated my PhD in biochemistry this past Friday. Congratulations. I think that's wonderful.
Biochemistry, if I remember rightly. I've always thought I'd be a researcher having my own lab, but I recently decided that being in industry is a better choice than academia because of how bad everything is currently. Pray for me, it's a huge shift in my life and I'm pretty scared. Yeah, well, science in government and academia has just turned into conformist, superstition, non-reproducible stuff. So it's just terrible.
Somebody says, my customers are now using chat GPT to generate images for interior decorating purposes visualizing how various options work with their space it works surprisingly well quite handy oh yeah like if if you go to um chat gpt and You upload the image of a room and you say, what would go best in here? It's pretty good, right? You're the best, Steph. Thank you. It's actually S-T-E-F-A-N, but I appreciate that. All right, hit me with a Y if you're on a weight loss journey.
Are you on any kind of weight loss journey? I want to know I want to know. It's hard to imagine I wouldn't have used chat GPT in college, honestly. Wow, that's interesting. Most of you. Most of you on some kind of weight loss journey. Always. Oh yeah. So I actually just haven't weighed myself in a while. I weighed myself today. I don't weigh myself at home. I don't really trust scales at home. But in a supermarket not too far from where I am is an actual physical scale, which I trust.
whatever reason if it's digital i just assume it's mostly nonsense but i did weigh myself now at my maximum i was 225 pounds or so And... What did I just weigh in at? ご視聴ありがとうございました What do you think? 225 at my max. There's a picture of me kind of bloated at some meetup. Yes. Well, I'm not kind of bloated. Just junky. Just overweight. Just overweight. You got it, Alan. 180. Yes, I'm down 45 pounds.
from my max now i mean it's not the most honorable weight loss i've just been concerned about my ear and my hearing and i've been concerned about tinnitus and blah blah blah so i mean i just don't particularly eat when i'm concerned or waiting for things to saddle because I'm It's a three-month healing process. I think I'm like seven weeks in. My voice is certainly better. I can speak better without it hurting in my ear, but the tinnitus is there for sure.
For sure. But the doc says it'll settle down quite a bit, too. So, yeah. So yeah, people are 37 pounds down. You're jogging right now as I listen to free demand. Oh, good. Good. Now, frankly, I should gain some weight. I'm the other type effort to gain and maintain weight. Yeah, yeah. That's not easy. It's not easy. 1.5 milligrams of Caggrillentide? What is that? Caggrillentide. I don't know what that is. Congrats, Steph. Yeah, I appreciate it. I appreciate it. I, um...
I feel because I became an older parent, I feel it's fairly important to stay. I have to stay pretty healthy, if that makes sense. I don't want... I don't want to be a burden to my daughter when she's having kids and married and I don't want to be any kind of burden for that so I work hard to stay pretty healthy and then I get a virus in my inner ear well just some bad luck just some bad luck
down 160 pounds over the past 13 years holy crap well good for you man good for you peptides i don't know i mean what do i do a little creatine And... CoQ2 enzymes are they? a little bit of lutein for the eyes So, yeah, I'm a little creative. That's about it. But yeah, just have an ailment that's alarming and you'll lose weight. That's how it goes.
all right let me get to other questions comments donations of course are very very welcome is this true i don't know i'm gonna just maybe i'll grok this Maybe I'll grok this. But there was a note that 80% of eligible men are not dating. Is that true? Let me just see here. 80% of eligible men. This is from Gender Studies for Men. John Davis, JDLLM. large language model 80% of eligible men are no longer dating 80-20 rule
Peer research study shows only 30% of US men aged 18 to 29 are single and not dating. Okay. So, yeah, it does seem a bit high. It does seem a bit high. It's true for you at the moment, yeah. James says my all-time max weight was around 315. Well, over 15 years ago, down about 90 from that point, with a recent drop of 30 to 35 pounds in the last two years. Yes, we have seen that. James is turning into, we're painting the roses red, a playing card. Two-dimensional.
dimensional that's pretty wild man I don't think it's 80%. I think that's the 80-20 thing. I think what was it Rolo Tomasi said women are actually only dating the top 4.5% which sounds like one of these things that is so specific it can't really be the case. But I, you know, I don't envy the guys out there at the moment, man. I don't envy the guys out there at the moment. you All right, let me get your questions and comments. Appreciate your thoughts. E aí What do we got?
Steph, when you started your software company how long did it take to sell your first software? How long approximately do you think it should take to sell a startup product? I built the software. I think it took 4-6 weeks. This was in Microsoft Access 1.1. Not even 2. 16-bit. But we had a commission to build some software which we sold and then we gave a good price on the sale on the assumption that we can adapt it and resell it to others. So how long should it take to sell a startup product?
So... This is the way that I think you should work if you have a startup. Well, actually, let me just make sure. Is this of interest to people? If you hit me with a why, if this topic, sort of the entrepreneur stuff, and is it of interest to you? Is it of value to you? If I talk about, because it's not specific to software, this is just.
how to get a business off the ground to begin with because I've done like three and they've all been successful. This doesn't mean that, you know, some of it's luck and so on, right? But I'm batting a thousand on three. companies. Okay. Good, good. All right. So, we'll just talk about software at the moment, right? Oh, Eggie von Egginess. This way, I never have to remember to put the logo in because the logo is on the hat. There we go. Okay.
So you want to find someone in the industry who's willing to work with you and get a free copy of the software So my software was in environmental. They're called EMIS, Environmental Management Information Systems. So through my partner, we'll just call him Bob, right? So through Bob, Bob had contacts in the industry. So, and Bob also was in the industry. So Bob gave me some specifications and we worked with the company to make sure that it worked for them. And...
Because it works for someone in the industry, it's probably going to work for others, or at least a fair proportion of it is going to work for others. So don't just build it and they will come. in a movie that's classified as fiction, because it is. You don't just build it, and then they'll come. Don't do that. Don't do that. You have to work with someone in the industry to make sure that it matches needs somehow.
And whatever you have to do to find someone in the industry who's willing to work with you. And it could be just about anything. So the way that I worked with a company that will remain unnamed is they gave me a binder of the kind of reports they had to produce. and I reverse engineered from that binder to have software that could produce those reports. So what kind of data do I need to gather? How is it best gathered? How do I need to collate it? How do I need to summarize it? And so on.
I remember wrestling like crazy to produce these reports to the point where I had to create tables on the fly, populate them, base the report on those tables. That was just nuts how challenging it was.
you need to have the output that is a value to someone and figure out how to automate that output so don't just build something and cross your fingers it's almost never going to work now if you have experience in the industry that's one thing maybe you do in which case you can do it that way but you need to have an end product that you are able to produce that has value to people and then you need to build a business case
Everybody wants to build the product. Nobody wants to build a business case. Right? So one of the pieces of software that I built was a, and this was crazy back in the day, to build portable stuff. Now everyone's got phones and tablets, but back in the day, it was really crazy to build stuff you could take on site.
So what I did was I built, here are the typical questions when you do an environmental site assessment called an ESA. An environmental site assessment, is it going to buy a piece of land? You need to... go and do soil samples to make sure there's no weird like oh 50 years ago this was a battery factory and there's all kinds of crazy
toxic stuff in the ground or you need to go and make sure that it was never used as a gas station because there might still be half rotting underground storage tanks buried in the ground and all that. Gracias. these things used to cost about 2500 bucks because you'd have to go out take a bunch of notes write a whole report and all of that so got the the price of it down let me see here see if I remember these numbers it's been a while So I got it from $2,500 down to $1,500.
And because people could go and they could take notes or take notes on a computer and then the computer would automatically generate the report for them. So it was much, much faster. Because you're not selling a product. You're not charging money. You are giving people money. You are giving people money.
So when I worked with companies in Canada, I'd say, you know, and I created a whole program to make this business case that actually produced a whole business case. So you'd say, okay, how many of these ESAs, how many environmental site assessments do you do? in any given year oh okay so you do you know it was like oh we do 50 you know we do 50 of these right Okay, so...
So given that the price was $2,500, now it's $1,500, you do $50, that's $50,000 a year that you're saving. My software is $75,000, it pays for itself in 18 months. Everything after that is just profit. It's just, I'm not taking... the money I'm not taking $75,000 I'm giving them $1,000 off every site assessment.
And this is a sort of typical example, right? Because most people want to sell their vision. They want to sell their cool stuff. And if you're Steve Jobs and it's a generic consumer product, sure, okay. But even that has to have cool, gooey stuff that Apple had way before while Xerox had before the IBM. apple had before after xerox but before the ibm so you're not you're not um
You're not charging people. You're not taking money from them. You're not selling a product. You are giving them money. You are giving them time. You are giving them pleasure. You're giving them ease. Anything like that, right? I mean when I would push a button and that was very early on I automated Word 95 when you had to write the code in Word and there was no debugging, it was crazy. So here's how you enter the information. It's real easy, real simple.
Here's how the information is validated to make sure it doesn't contradict each other. And then I push the button and Word would start up and it would fill in a whole report. that normally would take people you know two days to write and people could see it just being filled in right away And the report even had footnotes. I should find the software somewhere. I still got it somewhere, I'm sure. It would actually put in footnotes. So UST, underground storage tank, and PVCs.
would define those and AGSTs, above ground storage tanks. So not only would it produce the report, but because the report would often go to non-technical people, all of the technical had this giant database of technical terms. All of the technical terms would have footnotes. It would have a table of contents. It would have the company logo. It was just like a beautiful polished report, which you could just read over. Maybe you need to tweak a little bit here and there. And it was beautiful.
That's beautiful. And... you need to get people's eyes to light up like that I mean you've probably seen this in some fashion or in some manner something you see where you're just like holy crap like I remember when I first heard G I remember what was the the first player I had was a Rio 500 her name is Rio it was a Rio 500 and boy what did it have 64 megs and I think I got an expansion of 32 extra megs and I mean that thing was fantastic.
At the moment I saw, oh my gosh, you know, I don't have to say, I mean, I still know, I could probably go through all of this, I still remember the mixtape I had for working out in university. It started off with Paul Simon's The Obvious Child, then it went to... Face the Face by Pete Townsend. Then it went to Dragon Attack by Queen. And then it went to It Can Happen by Yes. And I just, that was my workout tape. And the idea that you could just load up.
You know, I used to love working out to Eminence Front by The Who and stuff like that. so i just remember when i first saw that stuff or i remember the first time i got a what was it a five a five gig hard drive mp3 player ah fantastic fantastic so You've probably seen those kinds of things. I remember the first time I saw a flat-screen plasma TV because it always bothered me, the shatteriness of the regular TVs. I'm a high-res kind of guy, right?
You've got to have something where people are just, you've got to have it. You've got to have a push button, produce report. Fantastic, right? Somebody says, you mentioned that with your product, you're giving people time, money, etc. Could you also consider giving people functionality? For example, without a camera, you can't stream. But that's not a good example, John.
I mean, I'm using a sort of specific camera for streaming. This is a Sony. But most people will stream. They just start their streaming with a phone or a tablet or whatever. I built a webcam in there. On their notebook, Windows notebook, or I suppose in particular. Microsoft had good cameras on their notebooks. Or on... an apple macbook and so on right so yeah i mean of course functionality for sure for sure but the problem with functionality is that it's just cost benefit
And cost-benefit doesn't wow. The wow is, I gotta have it. I gotta have it. And... With a camera, okay, well, people, you have to say, well, yes, your phone has a camera, but this is much better because X, Y, and Z, or yes, your notebook has a camera, but this is much better because of X, Y, and Z, and so on, right?
so then it's just cost benefits and if you are starting a new product a new company really you gotta aim for that just blow your eyelids back wow factor Like, you gotta have people... sweating sex juice from their armpits. Just gotta have it. Gotta have it. To the point where they're not the same after your presentation. That's what I was always trying to give. you're not the same like your mind has just been stretched into it like you know once once i saw an mp3 player
And then I, what did I get? I got another one because WMA was a really good format because you could get half the size and similar audio quality. And I got 128 megs. WMAs were half the site, so it was effective at 256 megs. So I didn't, you know, and I realized, of course, that before I would go to a workout, I'd spend 10 minutes picking my playlist, which was not the most efficient thing, but it was kind of cool and still a lot easier than making a mixtech.
So, yeah, just have it, right? You just gotta have it, gotta have it. Can't live without it, right? Can't live without it. I used to listen to audiobooks that were giant boxes of tapes. Oh yeah, like I mentioned this in a couple of streams ago, I took a Tesla for a test drive. I mean, I'm perfectly happy with my eight-year-old secondhand car, but I was just kind of curious. What is it like to have a car drive you somewhere?
Now, I gotta tell you, it's the greatest thing I've seen in I don't even know how long. I mean, other than, you know, me and doing these live streams and you. Thank you for the tip. It's the greatest thing. If I was even remotely in the market for a car, I would just move heaven and earth to try and find a way to get one. so i mean it's incredible it's mind-blowing how good it is so Yeah, don't... This is true with life as a whole. It's not about what you get, it's about what you give.
I mean, obviously I... want donations and support for the show, which I appreciate at freedomaid.com slash donate. But I'm trying to provide value to you. I'm trying to give you a mindset that in life, what really matters is what you give, not what you're going to get. Right.
If you focus on what you give, on the value that you can provide to people in business, in romance, in friendship, wherever, If you focus on what you can provide, you'd be amazed at how reciprocal people will be and how much they will want to provide back. So, yeah.
you've got to just be passionate enough to just build incredible incredible stuff and if you don't have some incredible idea like with me it was on-site entering data and generating reports in a word processor and later on and because we had to customize the system for everyone and that turned out to be quite time consuming so I built a whole interface that allowed customers to customize their own system of build tables, queries, forms, reports, you name it.
It was just like, oh, you want something new? You can add it. Here it shows up in the interface. And then I mapped everything in the system into a database, including where the... Entry boxes the forms of the controls they're called by the entry boxes and so it could be reproduced on the web And yeah, so you can make this change.
and do this demonstration. Oh, you want to add this piece of information, you want to delete this one, you have this dropdown, this whole new table form report. Boom, there it is. Oh, and let's go over to the web system, hit refresh. Oh, look, there it shows up on the web and you can enter it from wherever. Like it was just...
amazing stuff. I called it the database builder. I was actually looking at building that as a separate product and going off and selling that, but for a variety of reasons, I never did. But it was amazing stuff back then. Amazing. Alright.
Yeah, just in in life just figure out what you can provide to people and really there's the best route to success is just relentlessly trying to provide value I'm doing this 20 years I'm still relentlessly trying to provide value right I mean, this kind of stuff would be very expensive to get from a business consultant, but I'm just handing it out like candy.
The Tesla avoiding the moose is what sold me on Tesla initially. The wow factor is big. What really differentiates your product from the rest? What extra value does it bring? Yeah, I mean, I remember when I was a Director of Marketing, I convinced the board to pay money to give me access to a business database that gave me a bunch of statistics on companies, obviously the official ones for public companies and the guest estimates for private companies.
And then I built a whole program that produced about 1,500 query letters that said, you know, here's your annual revenue, here's what you spend on this estimate, you know, here's what our system saves, and it produced a whole chart and graphs and pretty stuff and a whole document that said you know here's the cost of the software here's the value it saves every year you're cash flow positive is in you know 4.2 years and uh yes you know so it just produced
and an entire series and we sent these all out and got a huge amount of interest in the product because it was really customized. Now, some of the data was off, which we can only do so much with, but it was, you know, that was... I mean, to get 1,500 personalized query letters out to major industry factors showing it looks completely personalized. And this is like 30 years ago. It looks completely personalized.
It tells them exactly how quickly the software will pay for itself. What is the ROI? Great stuff. Great stuff. Alright. Let's see here. Somebody is saying that that question may have gone. All right, now Denisa says, oh. I noticed something in a recent calling. Do you know how sometimes when people tell a story about childhood they seem possessed by their parents and the telling of it?
well i noticed that when you tell the story of your dad neglecting you as a baby while he played tennis and you got into that oil or car fluid no sadly it was um It was a weed killer and your mom was just so mad at him It was a precipice to her leaving it sounds to me like that's her narrative because she was also very neglectful, right?
I could be very off. She was neglectful, but not to the point where I was into... I got into a weed killer and drank it, which could have been why I got cancer and any number of things, right? So... I remember very clearly being with my father and being very little, maybe three or four years old. We were in a town in Ireland could have been Athlon because that's near where I was born and I remember it being in a big crowd in a market and My father was gone. He was just gone.
And I remember wandering around for quite some time. I remember, you know, very kindly people leaning over, oh, you lost son. And then they took me to a police station and I chatted with the police and they gave me a little drawing pads and let me play with handcuffs and all of that. Unfortunately that was not a foreshadow. And eventually my father, hours later, my father showed up at the police station and got me back.
I obviously can't really fathom my father's state of mind and he's fairly likely dead now. But it seems to me that that would just come out of annoyance and irritation. Oh, just keep up. You know, that kind of stuff, right? I mean, I remember when I went hiking with my father, he was just, you know, he was like, he was a dot up the mountain. Like he just...
you know like i'm thirsty it's like i'm stuck on this rock and produce survival and apparently that was stuck on a rock it's like is this an analogy for your heart So, yeah, of course, you know, my mother had her narrative about my father for sure and was clearly not objective. but i also did spend some time with my father and he was impatient and children were slowing him down and just to keep up and pay attention and you know
It's not very... So, I mean, I do have some... You're right, I mean, of course, it's my mother's perspective, but I do have some direct experience of my own, so... That's it. I appreciate the comment. Thank you. I'm about to change line of work and I've chosen to study IT, either DevOps or MLOPS, but I'm not sure which one is the better choice. Given your background in IT, what do you recommend? ご視聴ありがとうございました I don't know what MLOPS is. deploy and maintain machine learning models.
I mean, if I had the choice between going into... artificial intelligence or just straight up development, I would go into artificial intelligence because one is growing and one is shrinking. Excuse me. That's so much professionalism right there. AI is growing and regular coding is diminishing I love how the people on the left are complaining that the AI power usage is so high, right? AI power usage is so high, and it's like,
But the left is so largely responsible for that because they demand that the AI not be offensive or factual. It has to be woke compliant to a large degree and you have to trick it into giving you... information that's not politically correct so you know I assume that about 95% Thank you.
of the coding and therefore to some degree the heat requirements of AI is because of woke leftist bullshit and so the fact that they're complaining about that is It's funny, you know, if you just let AI tell the truth, its energy requirements will go down to about 5% of what they are now. But of course, you know, they love playing gotcha. You know, these petulant low-T bullies, right? Oh, I made the AI say the stuff that's really bad. Is it factual? It doesn't matter. It's upsetting.
Did other companies start copying your software? What do you think they did to add wow factor when your software was already out there? For example, if another company comes out with self-driving, it might not add the wow factor since we have already seen Tesla. Is that when branding or marketing, etc.? comes in to help differentiate products yeah i mean other people did start copying software in fact fairly blatantly and i was like great yeah go for it
because I'm already two generations ahead. I was a real idea hamster when it came to software. I was constantly scanning for code I could get or ActiveX controls they used to be called or other ways that I could bring spice and value add to the software like I was constantly working with all of that.
So, yeah, people did, and they did. I saw people, they even came up with the same, oh, look, we'll generate reports in a word processor. It's like, yeah, but I already did that three years ago. And I would point that out. I would say, look, I mean, these guys, they probably did this thing where they produce report in a word processor which is kind of nice because then you can edit it right
And I said, yeah, and, you know, I mean, I'm not saying they took the idea from me, but I will say that I was doing it three or four years ago, and they're just doing it now. That's just an example of I'll always be ahead. Thank you. all right Would Python developer be better than... I really can't answer that, sorry. What was my favourite programming language?
I mean, I hate to say it, but it was .NET and BASIC. VBA originally. And then I loved BASIC, especially when you compile BASIC to native. I did some work in Java. And I counted this up once. I knew 18 different computer languages to varying degrees. But I was most familiar with and found it fun to work with.
I did some work in C-sharp, but yeah, VB.NET and the .NET languages in BASIC were just great for me because BASIC was originally an interpreted language, so it cost you a lot, like Java. It cost you a lot of processing power. But when it was able to compile to native, it was great. I just jumped in for a minute. Any thoughts on India and Pakistan? First time in my life I'm really aware of the dangers we can all be in. I mean...
There are people who it's not a it's not a philosophical culture, right? Not a philosophical culture so of course what that means what that means is that they're going to be constantly at odds based on tribalism i mean we get philosophy or we get tribalism And of course, I think it's fairly safe to say that because we haven't chosen to off-ramp to philosophy, we're getting increased tribalism. So.
All right. Yeah, I mean, if you won't raise your children to be philosophical, then you're going to end up fighting over a bunch of largely made-up superstitious nonsense and collectivism. If there's this level of conflict, my answer is peaceful parenting, philosophy, reason, evidence. That's my argument. If people don't want to do that, then they're going to fight. Reason or violence. That's the only way we have to resolve disputes. Reason or violence.
Forced redistribution is violence. Voluntarily negotiated price and free market is reason You don't see Indian and Pakistani
scientists or mathematicians lobbing bombs at each other, right? Because they have an objective methodology to determine who's right, which is reason and evidence. Same thing with I mean any number of things right so yeah so when people are fighting it's just because they have chosen to reject reason and they choose irrationality and superstition and collectivism and all that kind of stuff and so they're gonna fight that's as predictable as sunrise
It's like you say, what do you think about people who don't exercise and their muscles are weak and their bones are weak? What do you think about that? I mean, I'm no doctor, but my understanding is that's kind of what happens if you don't exercise is your muscles. Get weak, right? I don't have a little bit of muscle. I don't have much, but a little bit there. Not too bad for 58 pushing 59. Not terrible, right? Not terrible. I'm actually... I keep thinking I have abs.
This seems to be a trick of the light, but it could be. I certainly am doing my setups. if when you say to people um if you say to me well what do you think of of people who've got weak muscles and brittle bones and they don't exercise. It's like, well, that's the result of not exercising. I mean, I don't know what to think about it other than that's the result. What do you think about people who...
Don't exercise and eat a huge amount of calories and get fat. What do you mean, what do I think about it? That's the inevitable result of not exercising and eating excessive calories. You're going to get fat. except for the occasional listener here who have Metabolisms of 1200 coked up hamsters on a wheel. So, I mean, what do I think? That's just inevitable consequences. So, you have two cultures in Pakistan and India that to a large degree reject reason and evidence. So, they're going to fight.
And until they start working with reason and evidence, they're going to fight. The reason our rule is binary. There's nothing in between. I mean, maybe, maybe. I mean, because people were asking me about Israel versus the Palestinians. a more rational culture, for sure. But, you know, there's still a lot of anti-rationality in both modes of thought, and there's just going to be fights.
Just going to be fights. Do you want personal virtue based upon integrity or do you want collective acceptance based upon conformity? so all I can do is say that if you reject reason, you're gonna end up with violence. So if there's violence, all you do is say, well, is this a culture that rejects reason? Then, to a last degree, they do. We'll say that some fairly funny memes coming out of this though. I'm not saying I approve of all of them, but some of them can be kind of funny.
All right. Questions, issues, challenges, problems. Let me see if I have any other juicy stuff saved in my book-a-book-a-bookmarks. Yeah, The Last of Us. I'm gonna be a dad. Wild. Wild. Do you care at all about the O'Keefe stuff that dropped today? Do ya? Do ya? Do ya? Non-reason-based societies figured nukes out. No, I don't think they did. I think that the non-reason-based societies... The non-reason based societies just stole
the scientific advancements of the more reason-based societies. Although, of course, in the free market, you wouldn't have developed nuclear power, but not nuclear weapons in that way, usually. I mean, certainly if the world is generally free, yeah. It's pretty funny. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, Bill and Ted, are headed to Broadway to star in a production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Isn't that wild?
I hate to say it. I'd watch that. I would absolutely watch that. I think they're two very funny actors. Two very funny actors. Keanu Reeves is almost like he doesn't have a personality, he's just performer guy. Very tragic life, though. Well, once was a ship that sailed to sea, and the name of the ship was the Billy-O-B. Mike Sinovich has written about this, and I talked about this even over the time of COVID.
wrote a day ago. Once the Stasi files were opened, people were able to see who reported them. Right to the government, where you would get kidnapped, tortured, killed, exiled, sent to gulags. Once the Stasi files were opened, people were able to see who reported them. It was often family and close friends. He said, there is a reason I behave the way I do. I'm one of the kindest people on earth, but I have to fight. I understand who will do evil to us, those who pretend to be friends.
That's wild. That's true, though. I mean, I've known that for a long time. You know, people are like, how dare you criticize family? It's like family will turn you into the secret police like that a lot of times. A lot. What dropped? Okay, Joe put the link in here So this is O'Keefe has been teasing this for a while. It dropped a little bit late. I don't know, maybe he's on the West Coast. 5.30pm, May 7th, 2025. World exclusive. Prince Andrew was effing underage girls.
tape of Royal Family Advisor exposes Prince Andrew's sexual relations with minors and deep ties to Jeffrey Epstein. and O'Keeve Media Group. You should check it out for sure. I'll just read the first little bit. You should go to O'Keefe Media Group. In Revelation caught on hidden camera by O'Keeffe Media Group, American businessman and longtime royal insider John Bryan. Yeah, that's right. Never trust anyone with two first names. I'm looking at you, George Michael.
has come forward with damning claims about Prince Andrew's personal relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Brian, a trusted advisor to the Duke of York, also alleged that Prince Andrew lied to him about his involvement in sexual misconduct with mitres. I knew he, Prince Andrew, saw him, Jeffrey Epstein, said Brian, but he lied to me that he was such a close friend, revealed to... revealed Brian referring to Prince Andrew's personal relationship with Epstein.
I'll skip a little bit here. I did a big thing in the Daily Mail saying that I believed Andrew Bryan recounted to our undercover OMG journalist adding and then I found out he was lying. I was so pissed. When asked what Andrew had lied about, Brian didn't mince words that he was effing underage girls. That's not cool. That's some amoral stuff, right?
Some amoral stuff. Now, I mean, I gotta tell you, the rumors about Prince Andrew have been around since the days when Johnny Carson was hosting The Tonight Show. So... I mean is it hearsay I suppose but it's interesting is it a bombshell I mean I don't think so I don't think so. I mean, maybe to normies, but normies aren't probably going to get touched by it much. Alright, let me get back to your questions or comments. Bye-bye!
Yeah, the Epstein files. I mean, is it Bondi who was saying that? Somebody was saying that they're still going through it all and there's hundreds of victims and all that kind of stuff. I don't see how they can let this stuff out at all. I mean, it would completely eviscerate. most of the top political and entertainment and media people. I would just completely infiltrate them because either people were involved or they knew about it or had a reason to know. I don't know. It would
I think it would cause a significant mental breakdown for a lot of people. Especially if the videos are out, which I doubt they will be. I mean, I thought they were long gone, but apparently they have some. And again, who knows? Who knows? All right, let me see if you've got any other questions. I listened to the recent donor show, No Dates, One's Wife.
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Needs you all right Complex question and a few words. I'm going through a difficult divorce. My ex-wife has taken the kids should i concentrate on being close to the kids and live in an area that makes me weaker financially and less of a support circle or should i set up where i'm stronger and prepare space for the kids to come in when the time is right Well, you've got to tell me how old the kids are. It's one thing if they're 17. It's one thing if they're four. That's what I don't know.
i'm really like obviously i can't tell you what to do you're aware of that right you're aware of that with a divorce that is contentious Now 13 and 15. Well, how can they take the kids? They get a choice at that age, don't they? Don't they have some say in where they go? I don't know that they can just get taken, but again, I'm no lawyer, so I don't know. Don't tell me where you are, but I don't know that you can just take the kids, can you? I just don't know.
It's tough to know. There are certainly stories of men who have tried to pour everything into a bad divorce and lose just about everything. Sanity, finances, access to kids. Money, of course, right? It's just brutal. On the other hand, if you bail when the kids might need you and you might have access to them, then you've left something important behind.
In my view, just absolutely personal opinion, no prescription to action. In my view, I try and put myself in this kind of position because I've had a number of calls with people about this, quite a number of calls with people about this kind of topic. If your wife is really hostile, it's going to be really difficult, unpleasant and you're basically going to have to bite your tongue, not tell the truth and be kind of emasculated for the next couple of years till your kids are adults.
You got 5 years till your 13 year old is an adult, right? then I mean all they see is a kind of broken guy biting his tongue ducking legal blows from the ex from their mom that's probably not very inspiring you know the other option and again I don't know what you should do I'm not in any way telling you what to do but another option is put up stakes do your best try and stay in touch go start a new family and get it right this time
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And do I try and figure out where I went wrong? And try and figure out how I can get it right with the next family. I don't know the answer Is it worth being around kids if you're just kind of broken and frightened and have to bite your tongue about everything? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, obviously you want to be around your kids as best you can, but I don't know. E aí
I mean, maybe things will cool down with your ex, and you can find a more reasonable accommodation between you, maybe. Maybe that can happen, I don't know. but if it stays you know i i would have i mean this again this might be a personal failing of mine so i mean i could be completely wrong about all of this but i don't i don't let my kids um i don't let my kids I don't let my daughter see me in a humiliated or bullied position.
You know, once or twice over the years someone has come up kind of aggressive towards me and I'll just push back hard. Will not be intimidated, will not be bowed down, will not be capped down. I'll just push back hard. I mean I think I remember one time I had to really raise my voice and tell someone to step back No fear. Eye contact. I feel like a cobra flare in my neck.
just uh yeah so you you it's not real great for your kids to see you getting pushed around and if that's the situation with your ex i don't know but you know there's other answers rather than just hang around and get beaten up Because your kids are going to have questions and if you can't tell the truth, they'll know deep down that you're lying. It's going to be really tough because they may not know for years as to why or what's happening. Who knows? Alright, any of the last questions?
Trump made his 143rd executive order to ban the gain of function research in China. Well, I don't think 100%. But, yeah, the rhinos, right? You've got to get the stuff out of executive orders and into the actual law. I don't know if they're really working that hard to do that. I mean, it's crazy. Because all these executive orders can just be undone by the next president, right? Somebody's introduced legislation to try and undo the Patriot Act. Good luck with that.
Now, Jeffrey Sachs, interesting guy, intelligent guy, obviously, good communicator. I think he wants one world government, but whatever, right? So Kyra posted that Jeffrey Sachs said the US government did experiments testing on bats. they had at the government laboratory in Montana. The virus worked on the bats, but there was a problem. The US had different bats, the ones in Southeast Asia, so they sent the virus to Wuhan, China, to test on their bats.
Now, of course, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Who knows if this is true? He seems very convinced. I don't know if he's compromised. I don't know if it's true. I think there's definitely were. I mean, I think that's pretty established that there were bioweapons labs in Ukraine, many of them, I think. And that would have given Russia some pause for sure. All right, last questions, issues, challenges, problems. Have it a year. Happy to hear.
Yeah, could it be that I might end up when I did a whole video called the case against China, right? Could it be the case that I end up having to issue an apology to China? I don't know. Hard to say. Certainly, of course, China is saying that it came out of the US, but who knows, right? I don't know that there'd be any smoking guns at this point, right?
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