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Dan Go: Higher Testosterone Makes Men More Independent Thinkers
“They've done studies where it's like when you have more testosterone in your body, when you're, when a guy has more testosterone in his body, he becomes more of an independent thinker.”
Brooks: Non-religious people tend to be less happy than religious people
“We find that non-religious people tend to be less happy than religious people because they don't think that there's something big and good and beautiful that, that, that lies in store for all of us if we live right”
Levesque: Earning money is relatively simple today, especially in America
“Like there's not, it's not that hard to make money. It's very simple to make money in this world, especially in the United States of America.”
Sanchez: Open border policies create massive tragedy and violence
“And I was really mad because a bunch of people were talking about how open border policies are kind, and I don't believe that at all. I think it creates massive tragedy and violence”
Codie's Husband Calls for 'Daniel Penny Law' to Protect Intervening Citizens
“I would love to see like a movement for like a Daniel Penny law, where it's like, give some protections, afford some protections to people who intervene, and I mean, I know that would probably get tricky from the legal side of the house, because there's so man…”
Van Der Beek: The CIA weaponized 'conspiracy theory' to discredit critics
“And also, the truth is, conspiracy theory itself Was something utilized by the CIA to put people in their place.”
Tim Kennedy: Entrepreneurs and Veterans Provided Disaster Aid the Government Couldn't
“From Afghanistan to Western North Carolina, the response of the American people the generosity of the entrepreneur and veteran community to do what the government couldn't even do.”
Saladino: Processed foods are killing consumers like cigarettes did
“You mean the thing that we don't quite know is killing us, but is actually killing us? Yeah, absolutely.”
Saladino: Plastic bottles leach cadmium, lead, and antimony into cooking oil
“So then you take all of that and you package it into a plastic bottle, which leaches cadmium, lead, and antimony into the oil, and it sits on the shelf of a grocery store”
Saladino: No randomized controlled trials on seed oils in 50 to 70 years
“Most of them were done, in fact, all of them were done really between the late 19 fifties and the early 19 seventies. So they're all 50 to 70 years old. We haven't had a randomized controlled trial with seed oils in 50 to 70 years.”
Saladino: Excessive Botox May Impair Mothers' Bonding with Infants
“There is a hypothesis that women with too much Botox could potentially impair pair bonding with their children. Because the infant is not seeing the woman's face move.”
Saladino: Bad breath is caused by gut dysbiosis, not lack of toothpaste
“And if you have bad breath, it's not that you're not brushing your teeth with toothpaste, it's that you have dysbiosis in your gut, right? So it all comes back to quality of food.”
Saladino: Cooking Does Not Neutralize All Plant Defense Chemicals
“There actually are defense chemicals in vegetables, and some of these can be detoxified when we cook them or when we ferment them, but not all of them, and a lot of people with autoimmune conditions do feel better when they eliminate some or all vegetables.”
Senada Greca: Intermittent fasting disrupts hormones for women in their thirties
“It's not that great, period. If you're, you know, especially when you're hitting your late thirties and early forties, it is just not a good idea because of our hormones. Our hormones are much different than a man's hormones and that can wreak havoc. In our ho…”
Streeter: US university faculty have drifted left, screening out opposing viewpoints
“It's just a matter of fact that the political leanings of faculty have really moved to the left since the 19 sixties in this country, and it's happened kind of decade by decade by decade, to the point where people do get screened out of certain colleges and sc…”
Streeter says employers actively avoid hiring university graduates acting as culture warriors
“When you feel like what you've got are a bunch of graduates from a school that have been indoctrinated in a certain worldview, and they're gonna come and be, like, culture warriors in your company and create chaos people don't want that.”
Israetel: Top female athletes struggle with aggression in confrontational sports
“This is such a real thing that a large fraction of female athletes at the very top of their sports have trouble getting up for a competition, like waking up to try to do their best, especially in very sports which require confrontation, jujitsu, wrestling even…”
Israetel: Claims that pharma intentionally keeps people sick are false
“So this idea that corporations intentionally, pharmaceutical corporations are intentionally keeping people sick is baffling and wrong”
Israetel: Government regulation is the sole reason for expensive housing
“There's actually only one reason housing is expensive. Pure regulation.”
Israetel: COVID vaccines were highly effective and saved 20 million lives
“The COVID vaccine situation was largely uncontroversial, insanely effective, and saved probably twenty million lives worldwide.”
Galloway: Economies Become Inefficient When Government Spending Exceeds 32%
“Government, when an economy goes above sort of 30, 32% of spending is the government, it just becomes very inefficient.”
Sanchez: Your bank account reflects the value of your skill set
“A hard truth is if you don't like your bank account,
Your bank account is a reflection of how valuable you are currently in your skill set.”
Rad: Men struggling to attract partners must adapt rather than blame women
“I think that means those men need to evolve, and those men need to take the feedback. If there's something they're doing, it's great if, I mean, that's like a great sign, like, you gotta change. Something you're doing isn't working, and, you know, you're not a…”
Lonsdale: Billionaires avoid public attacks by echoing moderate Democratic stances
“If you're a billionaire in our country, If you just put out, like, standard kind of moderate left Democratic stuff that goes along with that party, then you're like, you're totally fine, and everyone's going to like you, and everyone's going to not attack you.”
Lonsdale: Recessions are necessary to prune unproductive parts of the economy
“Recessions are actually good to have every once in a while. They clean out a lot of nonsense. You know, what happens is there's a lot of resources being used for things that are not productive in the economy, and you need a sensor mechanism. You need certain t…”
Lonsdale: $300B annually goes to unaccountable progressive NGOs
“You literally have, I think, three hundred billion a year are going to NGOs, which is the non-government organizations. These are mostly nonprofits that are, like, trying to, like, do things with progressives, right, and trying to create more activists, and, l…”
Lonsdale: Many AI developers lack liberty frameworks and lean authoritarian
“I think a lot of people working in AI right now don't understand, like, the frameworks of liberty and why our civilization works the way it does, and it's very scary because they have these very authoritarian biases if they're not careful,”
Sanchez: U.S. social programs are stealing from youth to pay older generations
“In fact, Scott Galloway has an incredible Ted talk basically talking about how these programs are stealing from the youth to give to the next generation. And I think that is actually true. I think if you are a mom, a dad, a grandma, a grandpa, and you look at …”
Sanchez: Prosecuting former presidents triggers a retaliatory cycle when power shifts
“What happens when your guys go out of power and the other guys come into power? Then you just play a game of going after one another. It's why we shouldn't Arrest former presidents for political reasons.”
Voss: Donald Trump gained admiration simply by refusing to ever apologize
“Whatever you think of Donald Trump, love him or hate him, nobody's in the middle. I think he gained so much admiration by refusing to back off of what he said. And every politician prior to him, they'd say something and they get criticized and a politician say…”
Voss: Fox News and CNN intentionally act as professional instigators
“And the people with the megaphones are professional instigators. They want us at each other's throats. And I think if we're just aware that their intent is to instigate, whether they be with Fox news or whether they be with CNN, Their intent is to instigate.”
Patrick: Biological differences make men in women's sports completely unfair
“There are some true hormonal, physiological reasons why men should not compete in women's sports when it comes to strength, when it comes to power size. Those things are really different, and when men have at least 10 times the testosterone that women do, whic…”
Dr. Lyon: Seed oils are irrelevant if you avoid processed foods
“If you're not eating processed foods, you don't have to give a shit about seed oil.”
Dr. Lyon: Yoga and Pilates do not build optimal muscle
“Yoga and Pilates are great, but is that going to allow a football player, Navy SEAL, or anyone else To build an optimal amount of muscle, including you and I? Probably not.”
Gabbard: U.S. threatened Mexico with sanctions over GMO crop ban for Monsanto
“Mexico has banned some form of GMO crops. The United States government is intervening and threatening Mexico with economic sanctions. On behalf of Monsanto, ah, and the, you know.”
Gabbard: Zelensky has taken total control of media and eliminated opposition
“Well, let's look at what President Zelensky has done since this war started, instituted martial law, taken over complete control of the media, total control. It is now merged together under this one, 24 hour station that is, is literally run by the government.…”
Kennedy: Suffering Is the Best Thing for a Young Person
“I really believe that suffering is the best thing that can happen to a young person.”
Kennedy: Inability to cause harm is uselessness, not true virtue
“Like, if you're not capable of hurting somebody and you don't hurt somebody, that doesn't mean you're good. It just means you're useless. But if I'm able to take your face off, but I choose to be kind and gracious and giving and selfless to you, now I'm good.”
Kennedy: The industrial food complex is toxic and tries to poison consumers
“It's toxic. They're trying to poison us. They want you sick.”
Kennedy: Traditional schools strip children of critical thinking and creativity
“We're putting, first and foremost, inside of them this intrinsic desire to accomplish, to create, to collaborate, to critically think. And those characteristics are not being taught in school. I argue that they're actually being taken from them.”
Sanchez: Focus should be moving workers out of minimum wage jobs
“We shouldn't be trying to raise the minimum wage. We should be trying to get people out of minimum wage jobs. That should be a stepping stone to a higher level job, and we should have more advancement in our careers as opposed to stagnation and expecting the s…”
Sanchez: Most online creators telling people to quit are unemployable
“Most people on the internet are literally unemployable. Like, they've never had a real job. They don't understand people who have jobs. They tell you guys every single day why you should just quit and go all in, and it doesn't matter, and they've only ever bee…”
Sanchez: Young, hungry professionals should avoid remote jobs and work in-office
“I think if you are young, Hungry, and you want to make big moves, and make a bunch of money, you should not take a remote job. You want to be in the office.”
Johnson: Entrepreneurial hustle and sleep martyrdom culture is a normalized death cult
“The only objective is that intelligence continues to thrive in this part of the galaxy, but your games of martyrdom are basically a death cult, and you normalize to it, and you can't see it.”
Sanchez: Women control household spending, but men understand overall finances
“The data shows us that women are the, have the purchasing power in the household. Like if you are Amazon or Walmart, you actually want to get to the female. Because she's typically the one doing a lot of the household spending. But the one with the understandi…”