It was about 2008-9 and my best friend who passed away last year, he told me back then, he said,

hey, you got to check out this guy. He has a podcast. His name's Stefan Molyneux. I remember

watching a lot of these podcasts and thinking, oh, this is interesting. This is some good libertarian

info. And I remember Stefan eventually blowing up and having a massive YouTube channel, having a massive reach.

And then suddenly censorship hit hard.

Hit me.

I know it hit Alex and it hit stuff on tremendously.

But thank God we got all of our channels and our stuff back, at least most of us except Alex have.

Stefan Malinu. Welcome to the fourth hour of the Alex Jones show.

Thanks.

I appreciate it.

Nice to be here.

So let's get into the trek and the struggles that you had.

I know that, you know, you had a massive channel.

I remember watching it for a long time.

You hit over a million subscribers. And then the censorship hit. How did that hit you?

I mean, not as hard as some. Harder than others. I lost most online presence, payment processors,

and so on. But, you know, you adapt. You kind of know it's coming. Like I was in the

game in 2005. I was like the third maybe user of YouTube or something like that. So you kind of get a

sense that it's coming. I'm a philosopher. I've studied the history of philosophy extensively,

and this is what happens to truth tellers, particularly when they gain some traction.

What happens is you start to do good in the world, you start to encourage people to do good

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