6265 The Truth About Sports!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

In this Wednesday Night Live on 14 January 2026, Stefan Molyneux examines the way watching sports has become a widespread distraction in society, pulling people away from more meaningful pursuits. He points out the health problems that can come from too much time spent on sports viewing, along with the intense demands placed on kids in competitive athletics. Molyneux pushes back against common assumptions by stressing the value of looking at personal stories, and he urges people to focus on their own development rather than just sitting back and watching others. The discussion covers how sports influence culture in various ways.

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0:00.0	Good evening, everybody, 7.02 p.m. 14th of January, 2026.
0:05.7	Ooh, one month till Valentine's Day. I hope you having a lovely day.
0:09.8	We are going to do the truth about sports. Now, I've done some of this work before in the past,
0:14.9	truth about the NFL and football and...
0:19.2	Not that I'm trying to make it all about me, but we might as well keep it interesting.
0:23.4	No, so I love sports.
0:25.7	I play sports.
0:26.6	Gosh, what have they played?
0:28.0	To varying degrees of competency.
0:32.5	I was seventh best in Ontario in swimming way back in the day.
0:40.1	I've done water polo. I've done cross-country running, sprinting, long jump, tennis, pickleball, soccer, cricket, although it's been a long time.
0:49.0	A little bit of rugby, not Australian rules, because there were in fact rules. And what a baseball,
0:53.9	played a lot of baseball, and never really done football, tried out for
0:57.1	the team, couldn't really follow the rules.
0:58.7	I didn't really know what the rules were and never found it too interesting.
1:00.9	Too much standing around.
1:04.7	Rock climbing, both with and without harnesses, ping pong, barely a sport, badminton, diving, not Jathan Statham style, but, but yeah,
1:17.2	I've never done, I've never done, I've never done volleyball, but I've never played,
1:21.2	oh no, I played semi-pro, not semi-pro, I played in a league volleyball. I've won a couple of
1:26.7	round robins in racket sports. Playoff squash.
1:30.7	Love squash. Of course, I do weightlifting and cardio these days and all that. So, you know,
1:35.6	I'm sure I've missed one or two. I'm okay. I'm pretty good at sports. I'm not great. I'm not terrible.
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