Pearl - ＂She Did It For Clicks＂ Breakdancing Dad WEIGHS IN On Drama With TikTok Daughter @benhartcommentaries

00:00:00.000 Hello. Hey, Pearl. How are you? Good. I found out you're a Bitcoiner, huh? Yeah. Yep. I went to the Bitcoin conference last, like, Thursday, or sorry, not Thursday, last May, I think. And I've never met a more enthusiastic group of people.

00:00:23.760 Well, I think they're more enthusiastic now because it's 50,000 a coin, 57,000 a coin.

00:00:29.460 I think probably last year it was down around 20 or something like that.

00:00:32.940 Yeah.

00:00:33.320 They gave me $100 in Bitcoin.

00:00:36.920 Okay.

00:00:37.440 And I lost the password.

00:00:40.920 Oh, my gosh.

00:00:41.880 Well, you know, Max Keiser, I guess, in the very early days of Bitcoin, I think maybe around 2010 or 11, gave, well, Max Keiser gave Alex Jones 10,000 Bitcoins back then.

00:00:55.520 And Alex Jones lost the, threw away the laptop or, you know, just totally forgot the keys.

00:01:01.540 And, you know, what would 10,000 Bitcoins be worth today?

00:01:04.380 So, yeah, that actually happened quite a bit to the early Bitcoin holders.

00:01:08.420 well yeah maybe it'll be worth a lot someday i was like maybe bitcoin isn't for me because i

00:01:14.740 already lost the password don't lose it buy some more um okay well sorry i had to i had to say that

00:01:23.460 because i just saw the bitcoin shirt oh yeah um so tell me what was your reaction when this video

00:01:29.620 came out um had you heard this like her side of the story before no it's really kind of out of

00:01:35.860 the blue i just kind of wake up wake up in the morning at six to start work and i open my laptop

00:01:40.260 and i'm greeted with just this avalanche of you know you're a deadbeat dad kind of comments in

00:01:45.220 my social media and uh i'm like what the heck is this about and and uh after a few minutes

00:01:51.460 of investigation i find out my daughter 24 years old uh she's put out a social media

00:01:57.620 video kind of slamming me actually her first video was was sort of fine i'd say about 95

00:02:02.420 of it because it had a storyline she's a hollywood writer assistant writer for uh for nbc peacock

00:02:08.020 streaming and she um her opening was pretty good it was like uh my dad left the family to be to

00:02:15.860 pursue break dancing which actually isn't true um i picked up break dancing by accident uh in 2012

00:02:22.500 and did that for exit exercise we got divorced from her mom in 2005 so there was like a seven

00:02:28.340 year gap there but nevertheless it was kind of a funny storyline i had no problem with that

00:02:31.780 But then she implied that I wasn't paying medical bills and I was some kind of deadbeat dad.

00:02:36.720 But in fact, I paid the mom and the family millions of dollars, $600,000 to a college fund, you know, basically, you know, paid for pretty much everything.

00:02:47.600 And I saw the kids all the time, lived a mile, a mile and a half down the street, sidewalks all the way.

00:02:52.120 They could walk or bike if they wanted.

00:02:54.120 Then in 2011, we bought a house eight minutes away.

00:02:59.540 Still saw the kids all the time.

00:03:01.120 Then the mother got remarried in 2012 and moved about an hour north to Wilmette, Illinois, kind of a North Shore suburb.

00:03:12.220 And so it was just totally out of the blue because I had Christmas dinner with all the kids just a few weeks before this came out.

00:03:20.080 And I text back and forth with Maddie.

00:03:24.420 Now, she is a wokester.

00:03:25.700 We're definitely on different sides of the politics.

00:03:29.040 Where is she here?

00:03:29.740 Okay.

00:03:30.220 okay so but we still have a great relationship or at least i thought we did so you know we're

00:03:34.580 we're like texting all the time literally literally all the time uh conversations and

00:03:38.940 she's telling me how her day is and this is happening and she's telling me about the merch

00:03:42.080 she's selling on her site and all this stuff so uh as far as i was concerned as far as i was

00:03:46.900 concerned uh the relationship was fine and really actually very good so it was a shock but you know

00:03:53.300 she was doing it a little bit for clicks i think and maybe a little bit to kind of stick dad a

00:03:56.980 little bit, maybe show she could go viral. And so I wake up and her video has 7 million views.

00:04:02.800 And so I, I, I talked to Maddie via text, not, not, not in person, but via text. I say, Hey,

00:04:08.960 Maddie, you know, this video, you know, I actually like a lot of it, but you know,

00:04:12.780 there's some serious inaccuracies in here. So you need to take it down so that, and just correct it

00:04:17.940 and repost it. And you can make it funny without the implication that I'm some kind of deadbeat

00:04:22.500 dad and actually she did not say that she um but a lot of the comments said that but she kind of

00:04:27.140 implied it and uh so i so i said please take it down and she said well i can't because it's gone

00:04:31.980 viral and she kind of has a side hustle on the whole social media thing she makes a little bit

00:04:35.700 of money i think you know from social media seven million views she didn't want to take it down

00:04:39.700 so then i said maddie okay you won't take it down how about i just put up a get to a response video

00:04:45.800 it'll be very very mild very sweet i'm just going to correct some of these inaccuracies that are

00:04:50.860 frankly damaging to me, my business, my clients, you know, I'm hearing about this literally from

00:04:55.120 my clients and everybody's seen her video. So I had to answer it. And so she declined to put up

00:04:59.880 my response. And so I posted it on X and it got 33 million views and, um, Elon weighed in. And

00:05:07.160 then, uh, so she put up a much more negative second video, a follow-up video that was really,

00:05:12.280 really full of a lot of inaccuracies, inaccuracies that I didn't see them and so forth. Saw them all

00:05:16.680 the time literally i was just like every week and um and uh it was just so then i put up another

00:05:22.700 video which is still very mild but it just in a more detailed way went through the facts and the

00:05:27.100 details and i showed home movies you know when they were kids and you know we went to water parks

00:05:32.180 and the beach and we traveled across the country went to yellowstone park saw the buffalo did all

00:05:37.680 kinds of things and this this was just all the time so it was just not true what she was saying

00:05:42.440 at all now i have no idea what's going on inside her head maybe in her mind i don't have a good

00:05:47.700 relationship with her but i've in my mind we had a great relationship for years for many years and

00:05:53.260 obviously divorce is very hard on kids so you know maybe there's 10 or 20 of her brain that was

00:05:59.260 hostile to me and maybe there might have been a political aspect she did get very brainwashed in

00:06:04.840 my opinion by her mom you know she they live there and we've been divorced 19 years so there's a

00:06:10.300 little bit of that. And I think there's a lot of brainwashing at the college level. She went to

00:06:14.340 Northwestern, which is an elite college, costs about $65,000 a year to go there. And she was

00:06:19.120 a theater major. And so that's a very kind of liberal milieu that she is in. Now she's in

00:06:24.720 Hollywood and she's kind of in that atmosphere. And she's trying to build this social media

00:06:28.940 presence. And she has a lot of followers that are obviously on the left and kind of more the artsy

00:06:32.940 crowd. And, you know, so that's what happened. Was that really frustrating to you?

00:06:38.360 to five million dollars um to have your daughter think that you were a deadbeat yeah yeah it is

00:06:46.340 very frustrating and you know my ex-wife will dispute the amount you know whether it's four

00:06:49.800 million or five million but it's some million it's a lot of money whether four million or five

00:06:55.020 million it's a big amount so uh so they said you lied you know yeah i didn't lie i just it's a

00:07:00.320 number i haven't done the accounting you know we've been like it's kind of like been years and

00:07:03.720 years and decades. So, but yeah, it was, it's heartbreaking, you know, and obviously I didn't

00:07:08.680 show it in the video, but my, my wife, you know, she says, you know, I've never kind of seen you

00:07:13.520 cry, you know, never once, not once about anything. And I, and I didn't feel like I was crying, but I

00:07:17.940 think she could see my tears welling up and I'm not a crier. My dad was, I never saw him cry about

00:07:23.560 anything. And I was kind of raised that way, but, you know, I did feel great heartbreak over this

00:07:28.080 because I really love Maddie. I love all my kids. And, you know, I think there's a certain amount

00:07:32.860 of brainwashing all our memories are false you know everyone's memories you've probably read

00:07:36.660 you've probably read studies about this how you know we kind of string together a narrative in

00:07:40.300 our brains and you know maybe i remember things a little wrong she remembers things a little wrong

00:07:43.860 and we kind of create these stories in our brain and literally our memories are false we kind of

00:07:47.220 create a false narrative in a way all of us i mean it's just because we don't have our brain can't

00:07:51.920 hold that much data you know we're just like so that's so you know so i'm not i'm i'm totally

00:07:57.580 validating her perspective and how she felt and how she must have felt when you know one day i'm

00:08:01.680 living there and she's five years old and then the next day I'm not living there so obviously you

00:08:05.300 know she's going to be uh you know affected by that no I could I could hear that in your voice

00:08:11.340 when you did the video um it's really common I'm doing a documentary on divorce I would guess out

00:08:18.060 of like every you know five men I interview maybe four were alienated from their children some don't

00:08:23.820 even know it till they're older it's really yeah you don't know yeah yeah because you just don't

00:08:28.000 know what the mom is saying. Even I have like personal friends that their parents were still

00:08:32.900 married and they didn't figure it out. And like they were in the same house and that happened to

00:08:36.800 them where they thought like their dad was gone because, you know, he didn't want to be there and

00:08:41.420 he was really working. So I've seen it happen in the same house. Well, and what's happened,

00:08:47.280 I think Pearl, you've touched on this in some of your podcasts and things is what's interesting

00:08:52.820 about my videos is the black community actually resonated very strongly you know with me uh

00:08:58.980 liberal white women you know not so much they definitely kind of resonated more with maddie

00:09:03.300 uh but the black community really came in hard for me and you know and and i think the reason

00:09:08.740 for that is obviously that the black community they have more you know family breakup and

00:09:12.500 fatherless homes and things like that but and actually that's true and it's a big problem in

00:09:16.340 the black community but uh the legal system is really really tilted against the male now somebody

00:09:21.940 in my position, I can afford it. I can afford the alimony. I can afford child payments. But if you

00:09:25.680 miss these child support payments, you miss alimony payments, you know, you can end up in

00:09:29.820 jail and you will end up in jail. And for as a, you know, for being at arrears and they're going

00:09:34.780 to put, you know, work release program and you're going to have to hang drywall and so forth. And

00:09:38.580 you're never going to get, you know, a lot of people are in this situation and they're never

00:09:42.220 going to get caught up on their payments. And meanwhile, their ex-wife is dumping on them on

00:09:47.500 with their kids at the home. And the ex-wife is just dumping on the ex-dad as a deadbeat.

00:09:52.880 And then the father loses all his self-esteem and self-worth. And he never really digs out.

00:09:58.320 And he goes on drugs or maybe he commits suicide or alcohol, substance abuse. And so it's a real

00:10:04.660 problem. So I do think that the legal system was tipped against the women back in the 50s.

00:10:11.060 So it was a stay-at-home mom, dad, and then the dad would leave and wouldn't give the mother any money, so that's bad.

00:10:20.400 And so it kind of snapped too far back against the male, and it's put particularly the working-class males into really a bad situation, working-class divorced males.

00:10:31.040 And they don't realize how bad it's going to be because a lot of people are getting divorced in their 40s or even 50s.

00:10:36.680 their kids are, you know, they've kind of, and for whatever reason, but they don't realize that

00:10:41.320 they're in for a rough ride in a lot of ways, financially, and particularly the brainwashing

00:10:46.480 by the mother of the kids, particularly the girls. I think, you know, the girls are much

00:10:51.120 more susceptible to it because they identify with the mom. Generally, the sons, the boys are much

00:10:55.800 less prone to drama, and they just kind of move forward, and they usually have a pretty good

00:10:58.800 relationship with the dad. Not always. I'm just, I'm speaking generally here, but I think that's

00:11:02.920 a pattern that's what i've seen too yeah where the women it affects a little bit more

00:11:07.480 definitely yep i'm curious five million in a divorce roughly maybe it's four or three

00:11:15.160 we're not we're not we're not gonna yeah we're not gonna argue over a lot yeah that's even um

00:11:20.680 even i saw the one video where she was saying that like you lied about her job or something but

00:11:27.240 it didn't it didn't seem it seemed like a small detail that was wrong it didn't really seem that

00:11:32.600 yeah it's not a lie here's what here's what i do and it's interesting because i kind of look at the

00:11:35.720 chat and the in her comments back and things like that and so she says i exaggerated her as being a

00:11:40.520 hollywood screenwriter now a lot of times parents kind of exaggerated really yeah an assistant

00:11:48.040 she's an assistant writer you know she's she she's in a writer's room yeah working on a show for nbc

00:11:53.000 peacock streaming and the fact that i know so much about her daily life tells you that i'm actually

00:11:57.640 involved in it and know quite a bit about it and we talk about it all the time so she's actually

00:12:01.240 an assistant writer working in a writer's group on a show for NBC Peacock streaming,

00:12:07.080 and she's very proud of that. The fact that she got that job was a very competitive kind of job

00:12:11.480 to get, very difficult to get. So now I've sort of shortened it to, she's a Hollywood screenwriter,

00:12:17.080 you know? Maybe she's embarrassed at work about that because she could be getting blow back at

00:12:24.600 work, you know? Well, I didn't think it was a fair criticism because I'm just like, he's proud of you.

00:12:31.240 Oh, yeah. I hate my kids' achievements all the time. Like, for example, when she went viral a little while ago, you probably saw it, where she's talking about her date with her, with kind of a bro's bro man, you know, a real man's man type boyfriend.

00:12:44.680 Oh, my gosh, that's the same girl. I didn't realize that was the same girl.

00:12:47.940 So she went viral with that. And it was all through conservative media. And they were playing at the, you know, they played on Fox News, you know, Gutfeld, you know, Jesse Waters and stuff.

00:12:59.080 And all the conservatives liked it because she discovered, hey, you know, I really like this bro's bro, this man's man, this date that I just had, you know, forget these liberal snowflakes, even though she herself is very much a liberal.

00:13:11.100 But, you know, the conservatives loved it. And so I was obviously kind of like bragging about this. Hey, that's my daughter. That's pretty cool.

00:13:18.680 And so she was saying I was taking credit for it. This is what she's been saying. And after these videos, he's taking credit for trying to hype himself up.

00:13:26.340 i i don't need to i before this before this blew up i had like 2000 x followers i hardly had any

00:13:32.020 social media presence i mean i'm in the advertising business that's what i do so no i'm not trying to

00:13:37.220 hype up my social media but you're kind of accusing me that you had five million to spend

00:13:43.220 in in a divorce i'm sure you're quite accomplished on your own i mean it uh you know social media is

00:13:48.820 not really what i wanted to do but yeah you know i had to answer this stuff you know and you know

00:13:52.580 what's kind of interesting pearl is okay so i'm i get greeted with this video it's got seven million

00:13:57.860 views by her i'm like well what am i going to do i've got this social media following that's

00:14:02.100 hardly any you know i'll be lucky to put if i put up a video it might get 200 views but i thought

00:14:06.340 it was important to put it up after she declined to put it to put it up on her feed and after she

00:14:10.820 declined to take it down i thought i have to put it up so at least set the record straight so when

00:14:14.740 my clients you know ask me about i can at least point them there to this link let's check this

00:14:19.380 out here the facts blah blah blah man i didn't know it was going to get 33 million views and

00:14:23.300 that you know yeah well well i actually i don't want to say i'm glad it went viral but i think

00:14:30.980 the story is important because it's really common and you know the reason it went so viral is

00:14:37.140 because it resonates with so many men right it hit a chord yeah i think divorced dads you know

00:14:42.660 because they they they identified with it particularly in the black community or you

00:14:46.900 you know, the working class community. Absolutely. So, so I'm curious, 5 million and a divorce,

00:14:53.600 how many days did you get a month? Just one day, just one. Wow. Yeah. I mean, but here,

00:15:01.680 I'll amend that. That was like the, in the legal agreement, but, and there was a period when my

00:15:06.580 ex-wife, she did file a motion to present, prevent visitation. And we had to go through a lot of

00:15:10.740 legal proceedings and she, you know, I'm not going to go into all the nastiness. I mean,

00:15:14.660 if she starts bringing up stuff, I can bring up stuff. Right. So, um, but she followed this. So

00:15:19.940 I had to overcome that. And so I got one day, uh, but once things kind of calmed down from the

00:15:26.020 divorce, she kind of let me see them whenever I wanted, you know, so I would call up Pete,

00:15:30.200 my son or the girls go out to dinner. Hey, you want to go to dinner? So it didn't have to be

00:15:33.800 on a particular day. I mean, it's just down the street. Uh, we had them at Thanksgiving over at

00:15:37.820 the house. So it was just, um, so there wasn't really any restrictions, you know, cause people

00:15:42.280 have phones you just say hey i'm going to dinner you know uh text message they say yes or no

00:15:46.720 generally the girls i will say this the uh the boys my son he they we were much closer in terms

00:15:53.580 of going out all the time to movies and things like that the girls by the time they get to middle

00:15:57.580 school they're kind of like just wanting to do their own thing with their friends and so i don't

00:16:01.000 enforce the visitation it's yeah hey we're going to dinner hey we're going to breakfast we're going

00:16:05.080 to lunch whatever we're going to the you want to come now i'm going to go hang out with my friends

00:16:08.560 so that is true so in that sense maddie's saying well i didn't see my dad that much i didn't have

00:16:12.560 that much of a relationship with him yeah but that's the girls just naturally want to hang

00:16:17.200 out with their friends i don't want to say you have to be here at a certain time i mean you have

00:16:20.720 to have breakfast you have to have you hit you hit like 12 your parents are lame you know yeah

00:16:24.880 they're like they thought we were lame i mean they're embarrassed you know but to be seen with

00:16:30.400 that's just how that's not maddie that's just like everybody every middle school high school

00:16:35.040 girls like that not everyone well my point my point actually wasn't about how often you saw

00:16:39.900 them because i i've just seen this story so many times i have no doubt you were an involved dad

00:16:45.080 it was more that you spent five million dollars and were only legally entitled to a day a month

00:16:49.740 yeah i mean i think i think that's right i'm gonna have to look at that i think it was one

00:16:54.280 day i think it was saturday i think that was the legal that was but in practice you know i could

00:16:59.240 see them whenever i wanted i mean it was not nothing was really strictly adhered to uh the

00:17:04.540 thing that really strictly adhered to was the money part but the everything else was pretty

00:17:08.700 much uh i'm so i would say that after the sort of dust settled on the divorce she did not restrict

00:17:14.700 me in terms of seeing the kids yeah i would say that but you know i didn't force anything on onto

00:17:19.740 them um and maybe i i just think it would have been backfired i think it would have backfired

00:17:23.980 to try to force them to be places you know just just the i think it's just better to say be patient

00:17:29.900 and say you're there and here we are oh she did say one thing too in her in her follow-up video

00:17:35.740 she said well he was never there he he actually lived in florida that's not really true either

00:17:40.780 we did buy a house in florida we kept our house in illinois and we'd stay in florida generally

00:17:45.740 in the winter and we go back and forth all the time generally stay in chicago area uh during the

00:17:50.940 when the you know spring fall you know spring summer fall that kind of thing you know when

00:17:54.700 the weather is good so um and of course they're always welcome to come to florida they're always

00:17:59.180 welcome to come over to the house we have pools in both both places um you know so but once the

00:18:05.260 kids get to be kind of older we just bought the vacation house or kind of a vacation house in

00:18:09.580 florida and we did actually make it our residence because you know there's no income tax in florida

00:18:13.420 so um yeah but the kids are growing up by then two were in college two were in high school they're

00:18:18.620 on their own they're doing their own thing yeah i'm from the same area that's really common

00:18:22.460 because the winters are so bad i'm from like yeah the winners yeah it's funny because like in 2015

00:18:30.300 we're in florida kind of just vacationing during the bad weather and we came across this foreclosure

00:18:34.540 and just got a really good deal on it said how can this be this cheap and and uh you know we

00:18:38.300 so we bought it and we liked it so but by that time two of the kids are in college and two are

00:18:44.540 in high school and you know um we're going back and forth i mean it's like a taxi cab almost going

00:18:49.180 back and forth between fort lauderdale and chicago you just jump on spirit airlines 90 bucks you're

00:18:54.380 you're no hair in a few hours and then you you know have you spoken to their mother about their

00:19:00.460 perspective or her perspective well her mother i thought actually we're getting i was getting along

00:19:06.540 okay with the with their mom you know even last year so i go to pick up the kids for thanksgiving

00:19:11.740 or something and um this is like last year and i guess one of them was late maybe tori or somebody

00:19:18.060 was late so uh i just go so she just invites me in the house and we have a glass of wine now she's

00:19:22.860 remarried to a great guy very successful he's head of a cancer center i think founder and and runs a

00:19:29.500 cancer center uh affiliated with north uh northwestern university yeah so you know very

00:19:36.140 successful and very good guy and and she lives in a two million dollar house and in uh well met so

00:19:43.020 she's doing fine so i thought we were getting along fine but i think uh something's happened

00:19:47.580 to really uh make her hostile toward me now she's super hostile now because of the my my videos that

00:19:53.340 went up against not against maddie but my yeah uh fact my fact check type videos that went up

00:19:58.780 and uh so she's super angry about that she's even tried to she's even calling my clients and

00:20:03.180 you know trying to you know calling your clients yeah she's calling my clients and she's saying

00:20:07.500 you gotta you gotta talk to ben and you gotta get us both on so she's literally like trying

00:20:12.220 she's trying to torpedo my business now so it seems like it seems like how are you in such

00:20:16.540 good spirits like you have a very um positive i would just be wrecked if i was in your shoes

00:20:22.380 well i'll tell the first i have a very stoic i have a very kind of upbeat attitude generally i'm

00:20:28.940 sort of a stoic uh existentialist in other words i think every day that i have here on this planet

00:20:33.900 is basically a gift from god it's just like a incredible gift so why waste it with a lot of

00:20:38.220 anger and and stuff why do that just be happy with every day that arrives be happy now every

00:20:43.420 day that's above ground is a good day as far as i'm concerned and uh and besides that you know

00:20:47.740 here in america we just have such so many blessings and the idea that we're really

00:20:51.500 complaining about anything is just kind of preposterous to me so everybody has challenges

00:20:56.060 everybody has bumps in the road obstacles they have to overcome you know people have you know

00:21:02.300 pts i actually have i actually have two kids i said i mean six kids because uh wow yeah so

00:21:08.860 So Wanda has two kids from a previous marriage, and one of them served one tour in Iraq, two tours in Afghanistan, and he unfortunately has PTSD, so he has far greater problems than my kids do.

00:21:23.360 And I hear about his stories in Afghanistan and Iraq and stuff, and it's just amazing.

00:21:27.820 I mean, it's just like, it's crazy.

00:21:30.580 So I think every day that we have in this country is just an awesome day.

00:21:34.260 so if you have you spoken to her since everything went viral i know she's trying to reach out text

00:21:41.280 message i mean um i mean the idea that we have a bad message too is just insane because uh maddie

00:21:48.520 and i are just talking via text mostly but you know i just sent her a text this it's like cute

00:21:55.820 little viral video that about our thing that was very neutral uh kind of more tipped in her

00:22:00.780 direction than my direction i said i thought this was funny but she didn't answer and i i said

00:22:04.140 like i i would like to come out to la and we just hang out you know we just hang out for a few days

00:22:08.380 couple days go on a boat ride uh you know do whatever hang out the park go to whatever do

00:22:13.260 whatever you want to do just hang out so she hasn't she's she's so far not uh accepted that

00:22:19.820 invitation i hope she does at some point i hope she does sooner rather than later i think it would

00:22:24.860 be fun to you know post some pictures or video whatever of us is getting along and reconciling

00:22:29.580 because there's really no reason not to be getting along i mean here's here here the here are the

00:22:33.340 texts these are the types of conversations we have all the time you know this is she's telling

00:22:38.380 me about her day you know it's just um and it's so unnecessary and i think she initially did it

00:22:44.140 for views um because she had this funny story idea that i got left by my dad uh he did that

00:22:50.940 he went to become a break dancer yeah and it's a bit of i'm told and i just found this out that

00:22:55.500 people are saying that there's this trend on tick tock among wealthy kind of or not wealthy but you

00:23:00.700 know kind of white women white liberal women or girls to talk about their trauma their family

00:23:05.660 trauma and apparently this is a trend on tick tock and so um she came up with this kind of funny idea

00:23:11.580 for a trauma and i think it is funny but then she kind of went a little bit into this uh dark area

00:23:16.620 yeah well i hope she figures it out you know it's not it's not like you're you're i mean i'm

00:23:23.020 you don't even seem angry at her no i'm not angry at her at all i think uh i think she

00:23:29.420 a little bit of a victim of the brainwashing by the bomb by the schools and i'm hoping that you

00:23:34.380 know in a few years i think as people grow older they become more um commonsensical even if they

00:23:39.820 might not become a republican you know trump support or anything like that but they sort of

00:23:44.140 like especially if you get married and have kids i mean especially if you get married and have kids

00:23:49.580 you know married women are much tend to be conservative you know tend to be right leaning

00:23:55.020 more and um you know uh so i think there's that and i do actually think that the whole war on

00:24:00.860 the family and marriage and so forth is a little bit uh you know there's a political agenda behind

00:24:04.940 that because they know if you're a single woman you know you're more likely to be on the left

00:24:08.140 side so i think there is some of that working uh also but uh yeah it's it's a tough situation

00:24:15.260 believe me. These dads, other dads, thank God that, you know, I have the financial resources

00:24:20.200 to be able to withstand kind of the assault that I was under from the legal process, from the legal

00:24:24.420 process when I got divorced. But most guys don't have that, aren't able to do that. And they get

00:24:29.940 buried. They get very depressed. They fall into, you know, alcoholism, depression, substance abuse,

00:24:35.400 and they're alienated from their kids and so forth. So, you know, I think the kids, I think

00:24:40.220 the kids as they get older will realize that nobody's perfect i'm far from perfect nobody is

00:24:46.440 nobody is no parent is uh i mean my dad was far from perfect you know he he my my parents got

00:24:52.300 divorced you know he had an alcohol problem he was one of the smartest people i ever met he was

00:24:55.820 an english professor at dartmouth and but he had he was a tough person to get along with sometimes

00:25:00.880 he kind of had a jekyll and hyde personality um but you know well in fact we had we had years when

00:25:06.560 we didn't talk. There was a period when I did not talk to him for three years because of something

00:25:10.400 he did to me. It's a financial kind of thing where basically, without getting into the details,

00:25:17.080 but I didn't talk to him for three years. And he was this type of person that

00:25:19.700 he would never call. So he would never call a kid if he would never initiate contact. But if you

00:25:25.980 call him, he'd say, Hey, how you doing? You know, want to have dinner? Have one, have lunch? But

00:25:29.380 not once did he ever, would he ever initiate contact? So three years passes and we haven't

00:25:34.780 talked. And finally I said, okay, I'm going to get in touch with dad. So I call him. I was,

00:25:39.740 I think in Washington, I was in Washington, DC at that point. And he was up in New Hampshire

00:25:43.060 because he had been a professor at Dartmouth. And I said, Hey dad, I'm going to be in town.

00:25:48.100 I'm going to be in town on Tuesday. I hadn't made the arrangements yet, but Hey, you want to have

00:25:51.960 dinner? He said, yeah, sure. Let's do it. And it was like, nothing had happened. And the conversation

00:25:57.880 was exactly where it was when we had, you know, left it, you know, years ago. So it was just like

00:26:03.200 nothing gets kept skipped a beat so it was very just interesting so what i'm hoping is that the

00:26:07.680 you know that maddie will just take me up on my offer to go out to la and hang out

00:26:13.680 well i think too we don't always realize that men show their love in a completely different way

00:26:21.120 and so like you know my dad he worked a lot when i was younger and then when i was 18 i found out

00:26:28.000 his life's goal was to make sure none of his kids had to pay for college like he did.

00:26:36.000 And so it's like, men show their love. And a lot of times conservatives make it sound

00:26:42.480 like something it's not, but in a way, men do show their love by paying for things like

00:26:46.240 money. It's not just that, obviously, but-

00:26:49.920 No, it should be just that. And of course, if you listen to the liberal women in the

00:26:54.120 comments, they'll say, well, it's not just about money. It's about the emotional bond

00:26:57.800 and so forth and it is not they're right about that but money is your time you know i mean money

00:27:02.600 is your time yeah it's not just money it's like you know you're you're literally they call it

00:27:06.680 making a living for a reason because if you can't make money you're literally going to die you're

00:27:10.600 literally going to starve you're going to be on the street so there's a reason they call it making

00:27:14.120 living and money is kind of a wealth storage system that you can you know and that we get

00:27:17.400 into bitcoin if you want it i was going to give you at the end of this i was actually going to

00:27:21.880 give you the floor to talk about anything bitcoin if you wanted i just saw yeah sure i saw the

00:27:29.320 enthusiasm for it yeah yeah yeah yeah well yeah and i think the bitcoin just yeah okay go ahead

00:27:35.240 well is there anything else you want to say on the situation you know i think that's pretty much

00:27:40.360 it i mean unless you have questions um you know i try i'm trying to keep it i i want to be a

00:27:46.680 positive and upbeat i don't want to trash her mom too much i mean obviously i think that there was a

00:27:51.880 brainwashing aspect there she's calling my clients now uh which is not cool but of course that's not

00:27:58.920 having any impact on my business because i know who i am and you know i do good work for them and

00:28:02.980 so it's like well why don't you talk to him you know men are men are a bit more logical they're

00:28:14.040 not gonna stop working with someone because of family drama you know no no

00:28:17.720 know so that's kind of that you know but yeah i feel any questions um well maybe from your

00:28:24.840 audience yeah if anyone has any questions in the chat but i'm i'm curious so were any of your other

00:28:31.140 kids like did any of your other kids feel the same way well the girls have kind of lot they've

00:28:36.740 kind of rallied a little bit around maddie and mom and that that's sort of a little i mean it

00:28:41.020 doesn't disappoint me that they rally around maddie at all because she's she's kind of getting

00:28:45.500 torched in social media because, you know, I put up these videos that kind of fact checked her

00:28:49.580 videos. So she's kind of getting torched. And so they see her as a victim. And I'm sure they also

00:28:54.500 feel like I abandoned the family the way she does, because that's kind of what they've been taught,

00:28:59.060 frankly, by their mom. And it might have looked that way to them because one day I'm living at

00:29:02.400 the house and the next day I'm not. So there is that. So the girls are kind of rallying. I talked

00:29:09.100 to my son and he's like, hey, he says, I say, hey, Peter, did you hear anything about the social media

00:29:14.800 dust up with maddie he's like yeah i think i heard something about it what's that about

00:29:20.880 he definitely didn't want to really get into it i don't know how much he knew but it was like

00:29:24.880 i mean as far as he's concerned it's like okay some kind of drama going on it's not like something

00:29:29.120 he needs to be worried about it's like hey when are you going to be we're in florida now hey when

00:29:32.960 are you going to be in town you know when are you going to be he's 29 now so and you know yeah yeah

00:29:37.920 so yeah so he and he's uh getting his master's in uh psychology he wants to be a yeah he actually

00:29:43.600 he's bipolar one so he has met some mental health issues he's uh so he wants to help people who have

00:29:49.000 his issues you know because he's a very smart intelligent guy and a lot of people don't have

00:29:55.160 his resources uh level of intelligence and so forth um he wants to help people who have his

00:30:01.240 mental health issues well and i can i can hear in your voice how proud you are of your kids

00:30:07.080 i could hear through the video you know oh yeah i'm totally proud of them even if they never

00:30:11.300 talk to me, but, and I hope that doesn't happen, but they're going to, I think they'll come around.

00:30:16.220 I think they all will. And, you know, I'm pretty confident of that. Yeah. This has happened before.

00:30:23.880 You know, this has happened before. So Victoria, the oldest daughter, she once decided not to talk

00:30:27.400 to me for a year. And then I'm picking up, I don't know, Peter for dinner or something. And

00:30:32.340 Tori comes out of the house and, and this is, I think she was like a senior or maybe junior in

00:30:37.440 high school and i say hey tori great great you could be here um i like to say so what changed

00:30:42.640 your mind about coming or you know we haven't like talked in a year and she says i just think

00:30:46.960 you've had you've had a year of silence and that's enough and then it was just

00:30:54.160 so that's kind of like you know yeah so that i hope i hope something like that happens or

00:30:58.320 hopefully sooner than that yeah have you had a lot of men reach out to you with their stories

00:31:02.720 i see it a lot in the comments you know and you know because my videos went viral the comments

00:31:10.100 are just this avalanche of thousands of comments but people are putting you know paragraphs in the

00:31:15.180 comments about their situation and you know maybe i'll maybe i'll do a video on that sometime just

00:31:20.240 going through these comments and telling the story you know really unrelated to my situation just

00:31:25.480 it's a real problem i mean there's a men's mental health crisis out there because of the way the

00:31:31.720 divorce laws are set up and how the legal system is completely tipped against me. And this is kind

00:31:36.920 of funny. This is going to really get me in trouble. Okay. I'm trouble. So when I go into

00:31:45.900 the court against my ex-wife, I could see that this judge was probably a lesbian. I don't know

00:31:52.920 for sure. But I knew that I was dead. But I said in an email to Betsy, you know, I guess you

00:32:01.220 i guess you win the lottery here you got the lesbian judge so like i'm gonna be toast here

00:32:05.620 so naturally that got read in court you know oh no so that was bad so well that's that's the thing

00:32:14.340 i think a lot of the conservatives are a bit naive to how bad family court can be for men especially

00:32:21.540 average men in this country um like you were saying earlier um like and i would say men

00:32:27.940 like the like the 90 of them they're screwed yeah i mean i had no idea until i started researching

00:32:36.820 it and then it's i started asking um it's crazy the amount of uber drivers i've had that are

00:32:42.820 ubering because they got wrecked in family court yeah it's oh yeah yeah it's it's really common

00:32:49.540 right and you even see like i i was in an uber a few weeks ago and it was a college professor

00:32:55.860 literally doing uh ubering to get extra money and from this situation from this uh he wasn't making

00:33:01.700 enough as a professor maybe a junior professor or something like that couldn't make the payment so he

00:33:06.100 has to you know uber drive so you know it's really pretty tough they say you know hey it's only money

00:33:12.660 you know it's just money it's so you know you need to have feelings it's also emotional connection

00:33:16.660 well you know a guy is working all day on a construction site it's kind of hard to have

00:33:21.460 emotional connection when you're you know coming home you know just dead tired and you crack open

00:33:26.740 a beer i mean that is kind of the real that is kind of the life situation for most people out

00:33:31.940 there and you know you're pretty dead tired from work and and maybe you aren't as emotionally

00:33:36.660 engaged as you know would be optimal yeah well and how do you compete with the mom who has all

00:33:44.900 day to tell them their side of the story no they have they have all day like they could be in their

00:33:50.580 ear all day the dad gets home he has no idea what happened all day like just just like you

00:33:57.300 you know i your your story is so common it is so common oh well also she my ex-wife she did not

00:34:04.100 work when i was uh because she wanted to be a stay-at-home mom and that's part of the reason

00:34:07.620 for the whole money well you know i don't want the kids to be you know latchkey kids i don't want them

00:34:11.620 to uh come home and have no mom there so you know i want i need to be a single mom i need to or need

00:34:16.420 to be a uh you know a fully engaged mom so now she was doing some projects she had a column with

00:34:21.300 scripps howard news service and she was doing a little gigs here and there but it's maybe bringing

00:34:25.220 in a thousand a month or two thousand a month not much and so but she wanted to be a stay-at-home

00:34:29.780 mom and i basically agreed to that i agreed yeah okay i think that would be optimal so yeah she

00:34:34.500 really did have all day wow so you actually you actually paid for her to stay home with the kids

00:34:41.540 throughout their entire life yes wow yeah yeah yeah and she started getting work when the kids

00:34:47.220 got older like maybe you know when they're late in high school she started getting you know more

00:34:51.700 but still stay-at-home type work you know it's more like freelance type work uh not really not

00:34:56.820 not leaving the house for the full-time job at all so you know i have no idea how much and plus

00:35:00.820 she's married to 2012 she married a pretty rich guy this guy who's head of a cancer center at uh

00:35:05.700 founder and head of a cancer center i think he's founder uh at northwestern university so

00:35:11.540 you know she's living in a 2.4 million dollar home i think in uh wilmette you better be careful

00:35:16.580 she's doing fine you know but so you know also but the point is everybody has their own narrative

00:35:28.340 and their own perspective right so and everybody kind of stitches to no one no one wants to be

00:35:32.740 no one wants to think of themselves as a liar right uh so nobody's really lying they are kind

00:35:37.380 of stitching together this narrative and picking the cherry picking things you know over a long

00:35:42.580 period of time over many decades and that becomes your memory you know so like my dad and i used to

00:35:47.140 play tennis all the time pretty much every day but i can only really remember maybe a few times

00:35:51.620 even though i know he was a tremendous tennis player a collegiate tennis player played number

00:35:56.180 one you know was a top 10 junior tennis player this and that so we played tennis all the time

00:36:01.220 and uh but i can't actually remember each time we played tennis i remember like a few key events

00:36:06.900 and that's how the human mind works and so that's how their mind works so i'm not even saying i'm

00:36:11.780 not saying that they're lying i'm saying that they've stitched together this narrative in their

00:36:16.100 in their brain i've done the same in my brain and so we have different uh we literally have

00:36:20.020 different memories and different recollections well i hope she figures it out you know i i think

00:36:25.620 she will eventually you seem like you seem like a pretty involved dad so i do too i think so um

00:36:33.860 so tell me about tell me about bitcoin well bitcoin okay so bitcoin i was just on i was

00:36:39.700 just on dinesh d'Souza's podcast i wanted to because i you just i could oh i have a book

00:36:46.820 i'm gonna plug my book here uh which is uh uh bitcoin a beginner's guide actually came out in

00:36:52.420 2022 and it's all it's it's uh the subtitle is your off-ramp from the corrupt political system

00:36:58.580 and protection from economic collapse and think about and i say bitcoin is really the only hope

00:37:04.820 for freedom survival and when you take a look at uh what's happening now you have this big

00:37:09.140 tech totalitarianism right there's the only outpost really is is thank god elon bought x

00:37:14.900 because uh otherwise there would be no way there'd be no free speech for the for the right of center

00:37:20.180 side for the pro-freedom side all information be controlled by google and big tech microsoft

00:37:25.540 Microsoft's now threatening to basically disable all your applications if they don't like something that you might be typing privately on your computer.

00:37:35.680 So they're actually doing that. Yeah. And so you got this big tech totalitarian prison being set up, digital prison, and they're in partnership with government.

00:37:45.860 So CIA was Google's biggest client. They basically provided the startup capital for Google. And so they are literally Google and Amazon and Microsoft. They are literally arms of the government and their biggest customers of the government.

00:38:02.040 And there so that so that's a digital prison that's being set up. And and what the big problem that Bitcoin solves is it solves the problem of dishonest money.

00:38:12.040 So what happened was the United States went off the gold standard in 1971 when Nixon was president. And at that point, one ounce of gold, we'd been on the gold standard more or less through our history.

00:38:23.460 um one ounce of gold cost 35 dollars an ounce then but nixon and congress they wanted to keep

00:38:30.400 funding the great society welfare programs and the vietnam war and it's pretty hard to do that

00:38:35.140 both of those things if you're on the gold standard so they took us off the gold standard

00:38:39.300 and just went to a pure uh government fiat money printing system and so they just printed up a lot

00:38:46.020 of money and nixon won 49 states because the economy is booming it's kind of like a sugar

00:38:50.020 high for the economy right so uh then uh flash forward to the so meanwhile these brilliant

00:38:56.740 software engineers were trying to figure out how had they been for many years and actually bitcoin

00:39:01.540 is not just thought up by somebody one day this is a project that had been going for decades and

00:39:05.860 it was going for decades since really the 1980s i would say um and there were many attempts to

00:39:12.100 to create a digital currency and it had to be decentralized and the reason it had to be

00:39:15.220 decentralized is because you can't have a way for government to be able to get it attack it

00:39:20.020 so so what bitcoin is is it's honest money there'll never be 20 more than 21 million bitcoins

00:39:25.860 and it's uh the money is in the form of a ledger that is updated every 10 minutes and it's

00:39:31.780 distributed to miners and nodes computers across the world to more than 1 million miners and nodes

00:39:38.580 across the world and so there's no way government can attack it can get it uh because it's just on

00:39:44.180 somebody's computer out there somebody you know even if they wiped out every computer in america

00:39:48.100 well bitcoin ledger is still being updated every 10 minutes you know in kazakhstan and afghanistan

00:39:53.380 and iran and africa and everywhere else and china did try to attack bitcoin in 2021 they outlawed

00:40:00.660 bitcoin mining and they outlawed bitcoin transactions and so what happened and at that

00:40:05.460 point 60 of the mining bitcoin mining and i'll explain what that is in a minute if you're

00:40:09.620 interested um was being done in china and so they outlawed mining china did the china regime did and

00:40:17.060 And so all the miners left China, went to Kazakhstan and other places.

00:40:21.140 And so there was no Bitcoin mining done in China.

00:40:23.640 And the Bitcoin mining hash rate did drop, but then quickly came back up.

00:40:28.940 And so China gave up trying to attack Bitcoin.

00:40:34.400 And the mining has now come back in China.

00:40:36.500 So now like 20% of the Bitcoin mining is now being done in China.

00:40:40.220 And I think the Chinese government is actually trying to sort of co-opt it, maybe buy some themselves.

00:40:45.720 So basically, Bitcoin is unconfiscatable money.

00:40:49.400 There'll never be more than $20 million.

00:40:51.000 It's meant to fix the money printing press that started in 1971.

00:40:55.100 Actually, it started before that, but we'll just say for simplicity, 1971.

00:40:58.900 So one ounce of gold in 1971 was $35 an ounce.

00:41:02.660 Today, it's $2,047, I think, today.

00:41:05.200 I think I checked the price.

00:41:06.140 And so basically, the dollar has lost 98.5% of its value since 1971.

00:41:11.480 98.5?

00:41:12.880 98.5% of its value.

00:41:14.940 So in other words, instead of paying $45,000 for a pretty good car, which is the average

00:41:19.020 car price now, you should be paying $800 for the same car, right?

00:41:22.760 That gives you, so I'll let that sink in for a minute.

00:41:25.280 Or my dad bought our childhood home for $20,000.

00:41:29.080 That same house is worth more than a million dollars today.

00:41:31.660 So that's not because the value of the house went up.

00:41:33.960 It's because the value of the dollar is just, and what that is, is a hidden tax.

00:41:37.660 And what fiat money printing is, it's 100% taxation over time.

00:41:41.560 It's infinite taxation. So the government doesn't ever have to pass another tax increase. It could just print more money. And that's what's happening. So we now have a $35 trillion national debt or $34 trillion, soon to be $100 trillion. And the government's not worried about that because they can just print up more money to pay for that to cover the interest and just let the debt go to infinity.

00:42:00.780 But eventually, the piper does have to be paid. Eventually, you become the Weimar Republic. You become just 10,000% interest rates. But what's going to happen is the debt, the national debt just accelerates. It just keeps accelerating.

00:42:16.420 You know, before the pandemic, you know, I say in 2019, the national debt was maybe 18 trillion and now it's 35, 34 trillion.

00:42:24.240 So it's like literally doubled. So pretty soon it's going to be 100 trillion and 200 trillion and so on.

00:42:29.400 And so what's going to happen is the money printing just to keep up with the interest payments are just going to have to accelerate, go faster, print more and more and more money.

00:42:36.380 Otherwise, the whole Ponzi scheme collapses. So that's the problem that Bitcoin solves.

00:42:42.820 when do you do you foresee it becoming standardized in like our lifetime um you know there's a big

00:42:50.820 debate there there are factions interesting within the bitcoin community there are fact

00:42:57.300 i couldn't believe that like they'll be like you're not a real bitcoiner i'm like what's a

00:43:01.780 real big like not me but they'll they'll call each other and i'm like yeah because my cousin

00:43:07.620 his name's jonathan he's a tall guy you might know him if you're really in the bitcoin stuff

00:43:11.540 yeah i don't know yeah he he'll he'll talk like you guys have like communities of the real bitcoiners

00:43:19.300 and the not oh yeah there's that yeah because there's other coins i guess i don't here's how

00:43:24.180 i okay here here i'm just going to generalize here on the factions okay there's the really

00:43:27.940 hardcore libertarians and they believe that bitcoin there's going to be a phase called hyper

00:43:32.020 you know because people want the hardest money the best money um and what's great about bitcoin

00:43:37.300 so bitcoin is sometimes called digital gold because gold you know that's where you store

00:43:41.540 your value but it's not really good for buying a cup of coffee or you know bag of groceries uh

00:43:46.340 it's not practical to use gold for sort of daily transactions so then you know we developed in the

00:43:51.220 united states gold certificates so you could literally take a your paper currency literally

00:43:56.660 gold certificates and walk to any bank and get gold coins and they'd be real gold coins and then

00:44:01.060 what happens is they dilute the gold and they um they tried to counterfeit they tried to counterfeiting

00:44:05.860 that way the government does and then eventually they just gave up on all this counterfeiting and

00:44:10.420 putting less silver in the dimes and putting less silver and put less copper in the pennies

00:44:14.260 and pretty soon it's just junk and um and then they're just they just go to a pure paper money

00:44:19.060 printing system that's not tied by anything except the full faith and credit of the u.s government

00:44:23.460 right so um so but you know so the danger for the united states is that uh let me go into these

00:44:32.420 to actions so um the there's the really hardcore bitcoiners like max kaiser he's one of the

00:44:38.820 original bitcoiners and he thinks that bitcoin is going to hyper called hyper coinization

00:44:44.020 hyper bitcoinization that's going to come a point where there's going to be a kind of a point of no

00:44:48.660 return where just basically all fiat currency is going to be sucked into bitcoin and everybody's

00:44:52.660 going to be using bitcoin and you know it's going to be a trillion dollars a coin and that kind of

00:44:56.500 of thing. So that's one school. I actually don't want that to happen because I think we do need

00:45:03.060 things like a military. We just don't want to have people just... So we do need that. And so

00:45:08.240 what I think, my view, is that Bitcoin has the potential to keep the dollar honest because what

00:45:14.680 will happen is the free market will kick in. If people think that the paper money is not good,

00:45:18.880 they're just going to buy more Bitcoin and there's going to be a free market working.

00:45:22.020 and people probably still use fiat currency you can use bitcoin to buy your bag of groceries your

00:45:27.040 your cup of coffee you know some places take bitcoin you know and el salvador went made

00:45:31.780 bitcoin legal tender so if you go to el salvador you can buy your cup of coffee with bitcoin

00:45:35.720 you can carry it around on your phone and do it and in africa bitcoin is like

00:45:39.400 most people use it i think and so um i think what's going to happen though is we want the

00:45:45.120 we want the united states to still exist we don't want it to just be sucked into this

00:45:49.140 You know, kind of vortex. But I think Bitcoin will be a great stabilizer to the dollar. But in the event of, you know, if they really get corrupt, and also that I talk about the digital prison, the big tech thing, Bitcoin is kind of the, I call it the second amendment for money. It separates money from state. It's unconfiscatable. It's unconfiscatable. You can be your own bank. Or you can just buy an ETF, you know.

00:46:13.560 So if you buy the ETF, which just got approved, like 11 of them just got approved a few weeks ago, I think on January 10th, you know, some people just say, OK, I'm not going to try to worry about self-custody and, you know, how do I set up a wallet and how do I get my address?

00:46:27.580 They're just going to buy the ETF and at least protect themselves from the fiat money government, fiat government printing.

00:46:32.980 You know, maybe I don't have to have carry my wealth with me to El Salvador or someplace in the event of a total social political system collapse.

00:46:40.800 And maybe I don't have to do that.

00:46:41.720 so you can still buy it uh through an etf like blackrock has one called uh i think it's called

00:46:47.000 ibit uh they just uh infidelity has one so a lot of people i think most people maybe will will just

00:46:52.800 do that and they at least they store their wealth that way and it's easy to do you just go on e-trade

00:46:57.120 and you can just buy an etf but it's that would not be true bitcoin right you're just owning the

00:47:01.080 etf so the true bitcoiners they want to own their own bitcoin they want to have self-custody of

00:47:06.280 their bitcoin they want to have their own keys store you're all you know where nobody can get

00:47:09.920 it so you know so so there's the really hardcore ones a lot of them think i'm kind of like phony

00:47:14.120 because i'm i like think the etfs are good it makes it easy for people to buy bitcoin i think

00:47:18.260 that's good you know i know i've never that's why i said i was like i have never met a more

00:47:24.280 enthusiastic group of people than it's hardcore libertarians well and a ton of them have watched

00:47:30.000 my stuff because i've never been recognized more in my life than when i was at the bitcoin conference

00:47:34.480 Oh, that's good. That's great. Yeah. I was like, I was like, I didn't know I had such a fan base in, in Bitcoin. Like, it's just, I didn't know anything about it.

00:47:42.700 Oh, yeah. Well, because, you know, you are kind of, you know, you kind of, you know, you say things that, you know, get you in trouble and stuff. Absolutely. Well, what's kind of interesting, Pearl, though, is I also try to not politicize Bitcoin because, you know, it's more libertarian. It's not necessarily, it's not Republican or party. I mean, most of them hate Republicans and Democrats. I just hate the two parties equally. So they're very libertarian minded.

00:48:01.580 And so you do have the left leaning libertarians like a Jack Dorsey. He says he's dedicating his entire life to just making Bitcoin, you know, available to the world easily. And so there's a lot of lefties, lefty libertarians in Bitcoin and right leaning libertarians in Bitcoin.

00:48:17.040 So I don't want to say like it's a Republican thing or try to make it partisan.

00:48:22.520 Because what's kind of interesting, too, is, you know, more, I think it was more of a liberal, liberals were more attracted to Bitcoin at first because liberalism, you know, used to be for freedom, you know, used to be for things like free speech and, you know, civil liberties and, you know, but they're not really for that anymore.

00:48:37.160 They're for this state control totalitarianism, big tech, you know, you can't, you can't say what you think, you can't.

00:48:43.240 And that's okay, YouTube, give us our monetization back, please.

00:48:46.720 yeah i mean it's just so insane i mean but you know hopefully you can also build a community on

00:48:55.600 x and you can monetize that way monetize through uh yeah but yeah bitcoin i think it is uh i think

00:49:03.120 it's a great check on government the corruption of the money um i say actually i say there's

00:49:08.400 there's two hopes for freedom survival one is bitcoin because it fixes the money

00:49:12.080 whoever controls your money controls you right so if the government is in control of your money

00:49:16.000 and now they're going to come out with programmable money that's being rolled out in china

00:49:19.680 where people the money can be programmed so you can only buy certain things certain approved things

00:49:24.400 or if you say something wrong the government could turn off your money so that's being rolled out in

00:49:27.920 china and the the world economic forum is just dying to have programmable money so they can

00:49:33.120 literally turn off your money um and uh they say that's not going to happen in the united states

00:49:37.520 but guess what it will um bitcoin protects us from that uh because bitcoin is not programmable

00:49:44.480 money it's dumb money it's just like gold except it's on the internet you know you can do whatever

00:49:48.720 you want with it no one can confiscate it no one can tell you what you know what you can buy uh so

00:49:54.080 uh so bitcoin is it fixes the money um money defined as store of wealth not currency there's

00:50:00.480 a difference you know you get into like what is money but currency could be a fiat money you know

00:50:04.640 it's the dollar uh it could be the peso or whatever and that's what you can buy i'm trying to keep up

00:50:08.800 with you but you know so bitcoin is more like gold it's like it's like a wealth storage uh system

00:50:15.440 but the um the other pillar of freedom survival is i think elon musk because uh you know he's

00:50:21.280 fixing free speech with twitter with x you know and he really sees the issue there and he actually

00:50:27.040 bought bitcoin you know tesla bought bitcoin i was disappointed that they sold like two-thirds of it

00:50:31.200 and like he got kind of infatuated with dogecoin which was like a literally a joke meme coin

00:50:35.920 But he was surprised to learn like a few weeks back, Kathy Wood noted that more compute power is being used on the Bitcoin network than the combined compute power of Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple. And that compute power is used to secure the network. That's a big part of the security. And Elon was surprised by that. He did not know that. So he didn't really, even though he liked the idea of Bitcoin, he hadn't really studied it as much as I thought.

00:51:05.460 But I do think that Elon is really like Hank Reardon of, you know, Atlas Shrugged.

00:51:13.060 You know, here he is.

00:51:13.640 He's building an alternative Internet with Starlink, you know.

00:51:17.040 And when I saw his rockets dock with the space station with astronauts and he's a private individual doing this, I'm thinking like, how do I invest in Elon?

00:51:25.820 How do I invest in Elon?

00:51:26.780 So I became a Tesla investor because there was nothing else that I could invest in.

00:51:30.780 Yeah.

00:51:30.940 So that's why I'm a Tesla, you know.

00:51:32.640 And conservatives don't like electric vehicle.

00:51:34.200 They're biased against electric vehicles because, you know, the government's trying to force feed it.

00:51:38.120 And it's all this climate crisis stuff, which is totally a hoax.

00:51:42.040 And but, you know, so but I you know, the EVs, I think, are good there.

00:51:47.300 I don't think they're good for long trips, not great for long trips, but it's great for they actually are a much better car, much more fun car to drive.

00:51:52.980 They're faster. They're, you know, everything is better.

00:51:55.840 But, you know, in the in the battery issue and the range issue, you know, will be fixed over time.

00:52:00.040 But I really love Elon because he was a Democrat. He said he voted Democrat all his life, and then he realized that they're really anti-freedom.

00:52:08.600 Elon had a great phrase, and I hadn't really thought of this before. He says, the government is a corporation. It's no different from any other corporation, but except the government has a monopoly of force, a monopoly of violence against you.

00:52:23.560 Corporations don't. Other corporations don't.

00:52:26.040 Did you say that Elon saw your tweet?

00:52:27.800 yeah he uh he he responded to both my both my videos wow what did he say did he message you

00:52:34.700 uh he didn't message me he just posted a comment but the first one is awesome

00:52:38.800 uh he said you're awesome and then the other one was a longer like a longer like maybe a paragraph

00:52:44.780 almost a few sentences and he said yeah you're absolutely right about the woke education this

00:52:49.600 is like a total mind virus this is like ruining kids lives you know he went on and um now i cannot

00:52:55.800 believe i'm sure that elon has a whole like team that is watching though i can't believe he's

00:53:00.840 sitting there watching you know this is social media feed but um you know i think he did look

00:53:04.760 he must have somebody must have gone all the way to the end of my video because that's where i talk

00:53:08.520 about the woke education the woke mind virus and so forth and how it's poisoning the kids

00:53:13.320 i i think that elon has had issues even as a billionaire oh yeah i i because he has so many

00:53:18.920 different um like mothers like doesn't he have like kids with four or five different women

00:53:23.800 I'm not even saying that to dog out him, I'm just thinking, even a billionaire, I think,

00:53:30.840 I'm sure he has had a feminist judge with one of the kids.

00:53:35.680 Oh, yeah.

00:53:36.680 Oh, yeah.

00:53:37.680 Well, remember, one of his kids went trans, you know, transsexual, so that really, and

00:53:39.940 he said that that happened because of the schools.

00:53:42.820 Now, and he also says, you know, which is interesting, I think he's pro-life because

00:53:48.080 he says that, you know, we have this big birth dearth, that civilization is literally collapsing

00:53:52.200 because people aren't having babies and that, you know, we're like not at the replacement

00:53:57.260 population replacement level.

00:53:59.380 Without immigration, we would be literally shrinking in population.

00:54:02.000 And because of China's population control policies, they're scheduled basically to go

00:54:07.120 from 1.2 billion down to 600,000, 600 million people, like in the next 30 years or so, if

00:54:14.060 that now they are allowing babies over in China now.

00:54:16.800 But but yeah, there's a huge I mean, when you think about the Social Security system,

00:54:21.420 That's a big Ponzi scheme. And if you don't have more people paying into it, right, it's going to it's going to collapse.

00:54:26.260 And of course, you know, so and there's going to be just a general economic collapse, because if you don't have people who are working these jobs, you know, the corporations can't do business.

00:54:35.120 And that's why they like immigration. That's why they like illegal immigration. I'm all for immigration. I just want to be legal. I want the border to be secure.

00:54:41.760 You know, you're not a country without a secure border, but I'm all for lots of legal immigration.

00:54:47.060 And we want to make sure we screen out the criminals and the drug cartels and so on.

00:54:51.860 But, yeah, so Elon is totally red-pilled.

00:54:55.400 I don't know if that's a totally red-pilled.

00:54:58.040 I think what happened with his – was it a daughter or a son?

00:55:01.700 I think it was a son.

00:55:03.320 That became –

00:55:03.720 Yeah, I think it was a son.

00:55:04.580 Yeah.

00:55:05.000 I think that red-pilled him a bit.

00:55:08.460 I think that made him buy Twitter, actually.

00:55:11.260 Well, and the way he's been attacked since buying Twitter, because, you know, the the Biden administration literally has filed like like eight different investigations, some of them criminal against him since all since he started since the Twitter thing.

00:55:26.620 They don't want free speech. You know, they're trying to crush free speech and they're going after Tesla. They're going after SpaceX.

00:55:32.640 They literally they literally filed a complaint against him because he wasn't hiring immigrants, illegal immigrants and asylum seekers when SpaceX literally is barred by law from hiring anybody who isn't a U.S. citizen because of the military implications of SpaceX.

00:55:48.060 You know, you don't want to have, you know, people from China coming in and applying and getting a job and so forth.

00:55:52.480 So he literally is barred by law. But the the Justice Department is suing him.

00:55:57.060 The Civil Rights Division is suing him for not hire for discriminating against asylum seekers and illegal immigrants, literally.

00:56:04.740 So, you know, and that's just one, you know. So and they're going after him on every front, you know, with advertisers.

00:56:10.500 So he's under assault. So he you know, I think he's woke up. I think he I think he's become attuned to that.

00:56:16.880 I don't think he realized how strong the attack would be on him from the government, from the Biden administration.

00:56:23.080 You know, the Biden administration, they had this big, or the Biden White House, they had this ceremony, this big celebration, day-long thing celebrating EVs, and they didn't even invite Elon and Tesla.

00:56:33.380 They celebrated Ford and all the unionized companies like Ford and GM and so forth and totally ignored Tesla when Tesla is literally the world-leading EV maker.

00:56:42.720 So there's, you know, I mean, it's just incredible.

00:56:45.600 Why aren't they celebrating him as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of our day?

00:56:50.380 Why aren't they proud to have a resource like Elon Musk?

00:56:53.960 Who's literally, literally he himself as an individual has the world's largest space program.

00:56:59.720 I mean, and why are they awarding?

00:57:01.780 Why are they awarding contracts to Jeff Bezos instead of Elon?

00:57:05.280 You know, because they hate Elon.

00:57:06.880 Jeff Bezos can't even reach orbit.

00:57:08.280 I mean, he can't even he can do like the most he can do is like a little bit of, you know, get up into space a little bit and then come down.

00:57:14.560 Now, Elon's docking with the space station. He's going to Mars. He's like, I mean, there's no comparison.

00:57:19.780 And also, the reason that NASA has to use SpaceX or has had to use SpaceX is, and before that, they were using Russia because Russia could launch space, could launch rockets cheaper, manned space shots, I think, for like 160 billion an astronaut or something like that.

00:57:38.040 and elon was able to do it for like 60 billion so literally like a third of what russia could do it

00:57:42.200 and russia was able to do it cheaper than what nasa could do it so um you know they're literally

00:57:46.920 discriminating against elon even though he's able to provide the cheapest best rocket travel so it's

00:57:52.280 just so he is he is under all-out assault not just by you know our government but of course we're the

00:57:57.480 strongest and the biggest but also by the eu you know they're trying to you know use speech codes

00:58:01.960 to shut down x over there i mean i'm really i'm really thankful for elon because oh well we do

00:58:09.240 without him where would we be without him we'd only have bitcoin and that might not be enough

00:58:13.480 bitcoin might not be enough to save freedom i think we need somebody like elon because you need

00:58:17.800 you know because he's he's a counter to google to microsoft to you know and you know tesla is not

00:58:23.960 just an and not just a car company not an ev company it's a software and robotics company

00:58:28.200 and plus he's got starlink and he's got spacex and you know so they're worried about him because

00:58:33.220 he actually believes in freedom the chat was asking if you would go on fresh and fit and

00:58:38.560 whatever podcast i think they both yeah yeah yeah i'd love to you fit like a fitness type thing

00:58:43.920 no what is it fresh and fit no they're they're a big um podcast out of miami i mean i think they

00:58:49.900 do do some oh yeah well i'm in for i'm in for what they're a big part so yeah i live i'm in

00:58:54.800 fort lauderdale so yeah i could just come by the studio or something yeah i think that'd be a good

00:58:59.520 yeah it'd be a good interview yeah can you send me a like a text or something yeah yeah i'll do it

00:59:04.420 i'll i'll text i'll text him right now because yeah have them uh have them contact me give them

00:59:10.620 my email that's fine you know um okay that'd be fine yeah okay yeah this is so uh but elon is

00:59:16.400 really just the atlas shrugged you know hank reardon character because remember if you haven't

00:59:20.540 read i'm sure you've read atlas shrugged but maybe some in your audience has hasn't and that's all

00:59:24.420 about. It's an Ayn Rand book or a classic book about how this guy, Elon Musk type character was

00:59:30.360 just attacked by government because they can't stand success. They can't stand somebody who is

00:59:36.300 not beholden to the government. So even if you're Google, you're Microsoft, you're still beholden

00:59:42.620 to the government because the government is your biggest customer. Now, Elon's not really beholden

00:59:46.140 to the government, even though government's a big customer for SpaceX, but basically he's not

00:59:49.980 beholden to the government well um i wanted to say you know we are going to wrap up the show a

00:59:56.900 little bit but i wanted to say your story really touched me like a lot thank you uh yeah i just

01:00:02.400 i've seen that happen to so many so i've seen it happen so many times to people i like know

01:00:07.440 personally and just interviewing dads so i i think it was really important that it you know

01:00:14.480 even though it's unfortunate like what happened it's i think it's important it got out there

01:00:18.760 because it really resonated. Yeah, it really was. It was very hurtful. And nothing good can come of

01:00:24.900 it. I mean, nothing really good. You know, Maddie did, you know, fired her video, which wasn't first

01:00:29.440 her first video was was fine, except for those inaccuracies. But basically, I think the spirit

01:00:33.900 of her video is fine. But, you know, airing these things out in public is not good. But, you know,

01:00:39.440 you can make lemonade out of lemons, right? So something bad happens, and maybe good things can

01:00:44.380 happen as a result of that. Maybe it can help other people. Maybe this thing that I didn't

01:00:50.500 realize, maybe Maddie and I had a conflict that I didn't know about. So maybe it allows us to

01:00:54.600 repair some of these bridges and build stronger bridges. I generally think good things will

01:01:03.080 happen. One of my friends, he runs a big private equity fund and he's a billionaire. And he says,

01:01:10.180 the thing about you, Ben, you're so optimistic. You think that things are going to turn out well.

01:01:13.740 always think things are going to turn out well i think it will most most women figure it out

01:01:18.760 eventually it just takes time yep so where where can the people find you um well you can my handle

01:01:28.320 on x is uh benhart freedom there's an underscore after my name and uh but if you just type in

01:01:34.500 benhart freedom i think the it'll easily come up over on x that's probably the best yeah that's

01:01:39.440 probably the best i'm not trying to really drive people to a website if you want to buy my books

01:01:43.620 I have, uh, get the man. I have another book too. I have another book too. It's called win life. And

01:01:48.700 you know, people who think I'm not involved with my children, I wrote this book called win life

01:01:52.360 success skills. Uh, the schools aren't teaching. You know, I wrote this book, uh, to basically

01:01:56.640 help teens, uh, late people in their late teens, early twenties, uh, basically navigate life

01:02:01.640 successfully. Um, it's called win life. And it's, uh, it's just basically tips on how to be

01:02:06.880 successful in life. You know, what to do and what not to do. That's called win life. So there's that

01:02:10.900 there's bitcoin i also wrote a book but it's not in print anymore i think i'm going to bring it out

01:02:14.900 but when i was a student at dartmouth that's where i went to school yeah i went to dartmouth and

01:02:20.820 graduated from there so uh my senior year at dartmouth i wrote a book called poisoned ivy

01:02:25.060 and it's basically the uh how the uh america's top colleges are um waging war on freedom of

01:02:31.940 thought and speech is what it was and so basically it was about the origins the whole woke ideology

01:02:36.820 it was about the origins of wokeness and it was the first book really to talk about that

01:02:40.900 And I called it the ethos. I didn't call it woke. I called it the ethos because it's not just about politics. They want to like basically control how you think and shape how you think. And it's not about critical thinking, you know.

01:02:51.840 So now that wasn't the general tenor at Dartmouth, but it was happening in what I called victim studies departments, the women's studies, the black studies, the gender studies, the LGBT, it was gay and lesbian studies back then.

01:03:05.560 Now I guess it's LGBTQ. I have nothing against LGBTQ people, by the way, but I just don't think that still should be taught to kids.

01:03:12.780 right but um but anyways so i wrote a book about that and i said that these departments are

01:03:19.180 are small back then they were tiny back then maybe a few professors in them but they could

01:03:23.020 cause a big ruckus and they were kind of just with their the just by being louder they were

01:03:28.780 kind of silencing free speech and and the administration was trying to keep what i was

01:03:33.180 i was one of the founders of something called the dartmouth review which was a conservative

01:03:36.540 student paper and so the administration was trying to prevent us from distributing the paper on the

01:03:40.860 campus and things like that so i was talking so it's basically a book about how liberals were

01:03:45.820 supposed to be for free speech freedom of thought civil liberties but in reality they're not because

01:03:51.020 when they're in charge when they're actually in charge like they would be in a university setting

01:03:55.820 uh and you have these kind of radical professors that are in these victim studies departments

01:04:00.300 uh suddenly they're not for freedom you know they're not for free discussion they're not for

01:04:03.980 debate uh and they're shouting down speakers and so forth so i look at it i look at it like

01:04:09.500 masculine and feminine like liberals are either women or men that think like women

01:04:16.300 because women always try to control speech and we resort to social violence

01:04:23.180 yeah i mean i think the women okay so women you know and of course we're getting trouble for this

01:04:27.900 but you know it's right varying versus left brain right so yeah you have art you have the artistic

01:04:32.060 brain and the feelings oriented brain you know that that's part of your brain and then we have

01:04:35.500 have like the math brain and the logic, the logic side on the left side. And women, I think, tend to

01:04:40.320 be more right brain dominant, and men perhaps more left brain dominant. And so you have the engineers

01:04:45.200 and the, you know, the mathematicians that tend to be, you know, they want to make things work. But

01:04:49.100 you know, you don't want to have just mathematicians and engineers running society. You want to have a

01:04:52.860 little bit of feelings, you know, you want to have a little bit of, you know, you want to have that,

01:04:55.940 you certainly don't want a mathematician as your mother, probably, you know, an engineer is, you

01:05:00.220 might want to have it a more nurturing type you know so um you know it's so i think there's a

01:05:05.500 reason that men and women are different you know i think we were made that way for a reason you

01:05:09.740 know they we kind of balance each other out well thank you very much for coming on ben it was a

01:05:15.660 pleasure love love being on and uh uh you know i didn't know that much about you before i came on

01:05:22.220 so i kind of looked up your stuff so i looked you're doing great stuff out there great great

01:05:26.300 work and i'm sorry about the demonetization i hope they they fixed that they're reviewing us

01:05:33.260 now so please youtube oh please i mean why not be for free speech you know or like say you could

01:05:41.260 offer to like can i delete that like one offending phrase out or something i know i'll tell you i'll

01:05:45.500 tell you what I said. It rhymes with Sanny, but with a T and an R. I can't say. Transformers,

01:06:01.220 I can't. Yeah, I think it is too bad. I think YouTube would be a much better product if they

01:06:09.040 allowed more free speech. And maybe they don't want to run ads. If Coca-Cola wants to run

01:06:14.220 an ad maybe they don't want to be on some of the edgy stuff you know i could see that you know yeah

01:06:19.200 no i agree but please youtube please i hope so well thank you very much for coming on um i'm

01:06:27.600 gonna see if i can get you on um fresh and fit and whatever i just i just would like to see it

01:06:32.500 i think your story is important so okay great thank you very much um i'm gonna i'm gonna talk

01:06:40.580 to the chat now. All right, good. I'll sign out. You can just sign me out, I guess. Or I could

01:06:46.840 just leave, right? Yeah, I think you just leave. All right. Well, Pearl, good luck, and you're

01:06:51.720 doing great work, and keep going. Keep doing what you're doing. Yeah, thank you, Ben. All right.

01:06:56.780 Bye-bye. Okay, guys. This is why I really encourage, you know, if his daughter is watching,

01:07:05.060 okay? I know, I know, I know. You have probably thought one thing your entire life.

01:07:13.840 You have probably thought your dad was the bad guy.

01:07:19.380 And it's not your fault that you think like this. But generally speaking, when we go and look at

01:07:28.360 facts, and I've been doing this for a long time. Generally speaking, when we go and look at facts,

01:07:36.100 okay, I would just encourage you to go ask your dad for his unfiltered side of the story.

01:07:49.900 I would just really encourage it because you don't know what you don't know.

01:07:54.760 and I can tell that he really loves you I can tell he really wants to be a part of your life

01:08:01.700 maybe you know there's two sides to every story um but I would just really really encourage you

01:08:08.720 to get his take him up on his offer to hang out in LA you know um I know it's it's a little

01:08:15.960 embarrassing to have this all play out on the internet I would probably be kind of embarrassed

01:08:19.860 too. Um, you know, I don't think most people, you know, you think one thing your whole life,

01:08:30.080 it's not fun to have people publicly figure that out, you know. Um,

01:08:37.300 she did another video saying she was only joking. I don't know, but I would just encourage you

01:08:45.340 to get your dad's side of the story because you really, you really don't know until you know.

01:08:49.860 Okay, well, guys, thank you so much for watching today. Says Maddie loves her dad. I know,

01:08:59.580 wasn't he a great guy? You can just tell. He's just an enthusiastic good guy. Let me know. Oh,

01:09:08.400 I'm going to text Myron and see if he wants to have him on. I just would love to see that. I

01:09:13.060 think he'd be a good guest. Guys, make sure you like the video on your way out. Subscribe to the

01:09:17.480 channel, ring that notification bell, and I will talk to you next time.

Pearl - February 28, 2024

＂She Did It For Clicks＂ Breakdancing Dad WEIGHS IN On Drama With TikTok Daughter @benhartcommentaries

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