On this episode of the podcast, we have special guest and friend of the show, Vibe High, aka Hotep Jesus. We talk about how he got his start in the hip-hop industry, how he came up with his name, and what it means to be a "hotep" on social media. We also talk about the importance of social media's role in society, and why it's important to have a "safe space" in your social media presence. We also get into the current state of the music industry and how social media has changed the way we consume music and music in the 21st century, and how it's changing the way people consume music, music, and social media as a whole. We finish off the episode with some interesting listener questions that we have been getting a lot of questions about. Enjoy the episode and tweet us what you thought of it! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - How did Hotep get his name? 4:30 - How the name Hotep came about 6:15 - How he got into the hip hop industry 7:00 What is a hotep Jesus? 8:20 - What does it mean to him? 9:20 How does he think about social media? 10:30 11:10 - What is the future of music? 12:40 - Should you be on a social media platform? 13:00 | How can I have a safe space? 14:30 | Should I get on the social media board? 15:15 | How do I get a seat on the right wing? 16: Should I be on the board on the left wing or the middle? 17: What s a left wing person? 18:40 | What do I need to get on a right wing group? 19:10 | How should I get my voice? 21:20 | Who should I be getting on the Twitter Safety and Counsel Board? 22:00 // Is there a voice on that I should be on that s the middle-day? 26:00 + 27:00 & 27: Is it better than the middle day? 27:10 28: What's your opinion? 29:00 Can you get on that board? ? 30:00 Are you better? 35:00 What do you need to be on it?
00:01:37.000I mean, I think all social media, all tech companies want you to toe a line right now.
00:01:42.000And if you're not toeing that line and you're bringing on forbidden guests and you have people that have controversial ideas, you know, they have that finger on the button of getting rid of you.
00:02:20.000So if there's people on the platform who are creating disgruntled crowds, it could be hurting the bottom line.
00:02:27.000Yeah, but Facebook's algorithm actually favors that.
00:02:30.000The way Facebook has it set up, like say if you get into debates with people on abortion or something very controversial, they will start sending that shit to your feed.
00:02:40.000They will sort of steer it in your direction.
00:02:44.000Because the more you engage, the more clicks they get, the more money they get, the more advertising dollars they get.
00:03:07.000Yeah, so when I go and look at the entities that contribute to that board, I kind of start saying, oh, okay, I see why certain topics are taboo.
00:04:07.000The founding fathers of our country had a great idea when it comes to freedom of expression.
00:04:11.000They felt like it was very important that you have free speech.
00:04:14.000And you can't be silenced, you can't be...
00:04:18.000You can't be undermined by people who disagree with you because it's dangerous.
00:04:22.000It's dangerous when someone can just decide that you can't have a voice anymore and only their voice can be heard.
00:04:28.000We're kind of seeing that with Twitter and we're kind of seeing that with Facebook and with Google and they're deciding what could be heard and what not could be heard.
00:04:35.000They think they're doing it for good reasons.
00:04:37.000They think they're doing it to preserve our culture and our civilization and they want to protect people from the election.
00:04:43.000Do you know Reddit shut down the Donald Trump support Reddit page?
00:07:11.000So when you start seeing that, you start thinking about Ingsoc and Orwell in 1984 and socialism and communism and fascism and the degradation of society and a lot of control coming down.
00:07:28.000In some ways, it's like Was the internet created for freedom or was it created for control?
00:08:20.000I think the internet was initially created to exchange information and then when it got loose to the general public, they realized what a crazy idea that was.
00:08:28.000What I think we're seeing right now with the algorithms is that these corporations are influencing these companies to say, hey, When someone's looking for these things, how about you send them over to ABC? How about you send them over to NBC? We want to be able to get the first views on these things.
00:08:44.000So if someone's searching for that, I don't know how they do it.
00:08:46.000I don't know whether they have agreements with them.
00:08:49.000I mean, there's also a lot of copywritten shit that's on there that could get YouTube in some significant trouble if they ever really decided to pursue it.
00:09:48.000And then they start moving stuff around and demonetizing things.
00:09:52.000And with demonetization, the real thing that they're doing, in a lot of ways, whether it's intentional or not, is you're influencing what people post.
00:10:45.000So she did a documentary, but then you have like the James O'Keefe thing where, you know, he put up the exposing YouTube and then that got, you know, obviously they're going to take it down.
00:10:56.000The most recent one that exposed Google, right?
00:10:58.000Yeah, I've been asking people about that.
00:11:00.000I'm like, okay, break this down for me.
00:11:02.000Is there any way that this could have been deceptively advertised or deceptively edited?
00:11:06.000It seems to me like they're saying that they're going to manipulate search results and they're going to manipulate the way people see things because of the 2016 election.
00:11:17.000They don't want that happening again in 2020. That's what it seems when I'm looking at it.
00:11:29.000When you go and experience it for yourself, like what I was talking about with doing a keyword search, you start seeing the parallels.
00:11:38.000And then Uncle Hotep, his channel was doing great, and then the algorithm flipped, and next thing you know, he wasn't making the same money anymore.
00:11:48.000So it's like, I don't have to go to some doctor video or whatever video to understand this problem.
00:11:54.000The people around me are being affected by it.
00:14:39.000Well, that's how you get the bigger check.
00:14:41.000You got to create a bigger experience.
00:14:42.000So it's like, all right, so we'll do a one day 2K, right?
00:14:45.000It's like, well, how do I get 10K? It's like, well, let's just extend it for the week and, you know, add like, you know, the kickboxing class and, you know, we'll chat in the sauna.
00:14:53.000You just, you know, create that's part of marketing, you know?
00:14:55.000But, yeah, I'm not complaining about these tech companies, man.
00:15:32.000I mean, fucking tens of thousands of Russian email addresses were signing up, like similar addresses.
00:15:40.000It was something like the IRA, something like the Internet Research Agency, which does that, which is responsible for all those Yeah.
00:16:05.000And I was like, wow, this is fascinating.
00:16:06.000And then when it also happened, and then it happened with Facebook, and it became a big part of the election, you realize, like, this is like concerted effort to use these platforms to wiggle.
00:16:16.000So when you're Jack, or you're whoever runs Google, you have to look at that and go, okay, how the fuck do we manage that?
00:16:22.000I mean, if we're into free speech, we should just let these people manipulate everybody.
00:16:29.000When you have these people that are working for the Russians or even people that are working on the left that are trying...
00:16:36.000I mean, if there really is someone that's doing that to the Donald subreddit on Reddit, if you're into free speech, you're supposed to allow that, right?
00:16:45.000You could just create a metric or some sort of mechanism that red flags an account publicly.
00:16:52.000Right, but I think this is where it gets slippery, right?
00:16:55.000Because then you're talking about an algorithm.
00:16:58.000You're talking about manipulating search results.
00:17:55.000So when I see a problem, I go, hmm, okay, let's think about this.
00:17:58.000And sometimes it's not a one-person job.
00:18:00.000It's a whole committee and a whole bunch of minds have to get together.
00:18:03.000So when I look at the conservative community, I think about, you have all these minds, but are your minds working to complain or are your minds working to solve the problem?
00:18:13.000And it seems like the minds aren't working to solve the problem.
00:18:36.000So they did that to put him out of business.
00:18:39.000And this gentleman takes the space and gives it to the proletariat or the, you know, small business guys in the area.
00:18:47.000And he gives them full front page ads, right?
00:18:50.000Stuff that the department stores couldn't buy.
00:18:53.000And then what happened was, after the newspaper got a circling like that, the department stores came back and they said, yo, alright, fine, fine.
00:19:08.000And his newspaper was successful until the day he died.
00:19:12.000So when I look at that example that was able to thrive in 1920 or something or 1910 or whatever it was, I look at it and I'm like, if this guy just stood on his laurels, And didn't bow, you know, then why can't we do it as a nation or as a team?
00:19:28.000You know, I think it's very possible to.
00:19:32.000So, for example, like when we look at Gap, right, there's a new competitor.
00:19:35.000I'm not going to mention a name, but it's like they whoever was the establishment created this alternative platform to compete with Gap.
00:24:05.000We're on a phone or like a smartphone.
00:24:07.000Yeah, there was no smartphones back then.
00:24:08.000And then you would have to go to a website to see all your photos.
00:24:11.000So you have a young Jamie Page on Text America and all the pictures that you had taken.
00:24:17.000The first photos on Instagram, a lot of people were, you'd be like, as a photographer, you'd be kind of like shit on if you weren't taking it with your iPhone only.
00:26:03.000If I don't like Facebook, I'm not going to use it.
00:26:04.000If I don't like Facebook, I'm not going to use Instagram.
00:26:06.000You know, I'm just going to, you know, stick with what I like.
00:26:09.000I like Twitter and I told people in 2009 when I go to that, I'm Twitter, you know, I deal in marketing.
00:26:14.000So I always say focus on one channel when it comes to social media, just one channel, unless you have the staff to manage.
00:26:21.000Well, Twitter's how I found out about you, and that's how I found out about your videos, and I found out about you, and I watched your videos, and if that didn't exist, and the portal for the video, you're putting your videos on YouTube, right?
00:29:31.000When I teach my kids, it's always through edutainment.
00:29:34.000If I can't make my kids laugh while I'm doing my lecture, every day when they come home from school, or I try to do every day, there's a lecture waiting for them.
00:29:41.000I'm going to talk about something real in life.
00:31:35.000You just got to water them, man, and just let them grow.
00:31:38.000I think sometimes we try to prune them too much.
00:31:40.000Well, you definitely see that a lot with people that are too, they're just way too heavy-handed with their kids, and the kids are just always resisting.
00:31:53.000It's unnecessary, it's unproductive, and you're gonna develop a rift between you and your kids.
00:31:58.000Yeah, so this story I always tell is, you know, when you're black and you go in the supermarket, you get that talk like, you better not go in here, you better not touch that, don't ask for nothing, right?
00:32:10.000So when I go into the supermarket or I went to the supermarket this one time and my son is Phoenix, my twin, he's running around in the supermarket.
00:32:18.000And, you know, I try not to yell at my kids and all that stuff, right?
00:32:21.000So I just tap his brother and sister on the shoulder and I said, look at him, look at him, look at him.
00:32:25.000And they look, and then we just start laughing at him.
00:32:27.000So he turns around and goes, like, why are y'all laughing at me?
00:32:30.000So then I start imitating, doing all that type stuff.
00:32:34.000And so I put the mirror in front of him.
00:32:58.000So you just got to put your mirror up.
00:32:59.000But, you know, Twitter, you know, I handle everything.
00:33:03.000You know, I figure you can't change culture through lecture.
00:33:06.000You change culture through entertainment.
00:33:08.000What do you think about all this talk, like Elizabeth Warren's talked about it and some other candidates have talked about it, some other politicians have talked about breaking up these big companies, breaking up Facebook, it's too big, break up Google, break up Twitter.
00:34:20.000You're not really breaking up a monopoly.
00:34:22.000What you're doing is you're creating a divide and conquer dynamic.
00:34:24.000So it's like, okay, I'll let my brother control this one, my sister control that one, my cousin control this one, and you actually corner the market.
00:34:33.000So breaking up a monopoly isn't exactly a good thing.
00:34:39.000And I think we'll see the same thing with Google.
00:34:42.000If we break up Google, what you're going to do is just have little subsidiaries or little satellite things that will just control a certain segment under a different name, which will make it harder to track back to its source.
00:34:53.000So, you know, when I say, you know, breakup monopoly, I think that the establishment's like, yeah, come on, break me up, baby.
00:35:25.000When the government comes in and tells you what you can do with your corporation, that's socialism.
00:35:30.000So what I feel is like the powers that be are pushing socialism are like, we can use this as an excuse to infiltrate corporations and start controlling this internet space.
00:35:43.000So the internet space is now communist.
00:35:45.000I'm of the opinion, though, that if we believe in freedom of speech and you create something that's so big that it's essentially a town square, which is what I think these platforms are, if you ban people, especially if you ban people for shit like Learn to Code, Like things that don't make any sense.
00:36:01.000There's people that are getting banned for some pretty ridiculous ideas.
00:36:12.000I think it's incredibly important that if you have someone saying something that you think is wrong or is hurtful, there should be an avenue where people can examine that and talk about it and combat it.
00:37:56.000So what I think what happened was the banning of Louis Farrakhan.
00:38:02.000It's just a theory, but they were like, all right, if we ban these conservatives, the conservative crowd is going to just go apeshit, right?
00:38:10.000But if we throw them Louis Farrakhan...
00:38:13.000It'll kind of settle things down a little bit because it'll look like we're fair.
00:38:34.000It's a strange time because even though there is Gab and there's Mines and there's a couple other startups that are trying to make their way, the Jordan Peterson one, there's nothing that really stands out.
00:38:48.000And once a giant group of people starts using something, Unless it's like, what's hilarious is when one of them vanished, like MySpace.
00:38:56.000How fucking badly did they manage MySpace?
00:39:11.000But what Twitter is right now, and what Facebook is right now, and what Instagram is right now, It seems like there's no real competitors, specifically YouTube.
00:39:22.000There's no real competitors to these people.
00:39:24.000Because when, you know, I don't want to, you know, dog pod on, you know, minds or gab or anything, but the problem is, when you build a social network, and this is why I will not build a social network, at least not into the next 10 years, you have to understand that you can't build a social network that mimics another one.
00:45:40.000Where there is no uniqueness, you can't compete.
00:45:42.000You have to first create uniqueness or fill a need.
00:45:48.000There's no need for me to be on these other platforms.
00:45:52.000The problem is when you get on those other platforms and there's no one there, you go, ah, let me go back to Twitter real quick.
00:45:57.000Yeah, and that's why I say when you build a social network, before you build a network, I mean, before you build the platform, you have to build a network.
00:46:06.000Well, it's interesting if you go back to like 2003 when MySpace was king, and then you imagine what the world would be like 16 years later, no one would have saw this coming.
00:46:16.000No one would have saw all these social media platforms and that it's used as a way of breaking news now.
00:46:23.000I mean, especially in places that don't have real objective news.
00:46:29.000So if you're in some country that's some war-torn country and some horrible shit is going down, You see the news breaking on Twitter before anywhere, which is really interesting.
00:47:20.000But I get, like, well, that's not true.
00:47:22.000I was going to say I get, like, most of the fucked up videos of news stories of bad things that are happening in the news come to me on Instagram.
00:48:17.000That's where a lot of people that do content, whether they're podcasters or whatever, they probably should be thinking about developing an email list and putting things on their website, having something available independently of these big platforms.
00:50:21.000If they're polluting or doing something that harms somebody specifically, then yes, right?
00:50:28.000So if they become a giant monopoly just because they're better than everything else that's available like YouTube has become, then they run the show.
00:50:43.000You know, so you got dudes, you know, so I was talking to somebody the other day and we were talking about conscious hip-hop and dudes said, oh, there's no money in conscious hip-hop.
00:52:57.000You could connect with all your other celebrity buddies, pool your resources together, and just build a competitor and then own this space and be like, I'm the new YouTube.
00:55:35.000Well, the Proud Boys became a dangerous idea because once you have a group and you don't control who joins the group, then assholes can join your group and then your group is made out of assholes.
00:55:45.000And you're like, well, I didn't want it to be assholes, but you let anybody in.
00:56:46.000Well, it activates the phytoestrogens.
00:56:49.000It has active phytoestrogens that attack the endocrine gland system.
00:56:55.000Now, when we look at the endocrine gland system, for people in the spiritual world, the endocrine gland system is the physical manifestation of the so-called chakras.
00:57:04.000Now, at the heart chakra, what we have is called the thymus gland.
00:57:08.000And the thymus gland is the one that controls your sexual maturity.
00:57:14.000And when you have an endocrine gland disruptor, your sexual maturity is affected.
00:57:21.000So a man who would ordinarily like women now likes, you see what I'm saying?
00:57:27.000But wouldn't you have to have massive quantities of soy for that to take place?
00:57:30.000That's subjective based upon your biological structure.
00:57:33.000I always think of it as more as like a fun thing to say.
00:57:37.000I don't think, you know, eat too much tofu, you turn into a bitch.
00:58:11.000And then you also look at the links between soy and cancer, but that's a whole other story.
00:58:14.000But when you have something that's disrupting your so-called chakras, you can see how you can start affecting an entire population of people, right?
00:58:24.000You start affecting their development at an early age.
00:58:27.000And then, you know, you got these men who are acting like women who can't even, you know, control their wives.
00:58:34.000You got some men out here that let another man sleep with their girlfriend, right?
00:59:08.000Well, when you look at the degradation of Russia, right, before the Bolshevik Revolution, what they do is they come in first with alcohol, right?
00:59:20.000So they purchase your hops and your barley and they produce alcohol.
00:59:24.000Then what they do is they sell the alcohol to the farmer on credit because he ain't got no money, right?
01:04:06.000And then I think that people see it around them and then they cater to those natural instincts and then they support those natural instincts.
01:04:14.000But I think people have a natural instinct to be undisciplined and lazy and Just gratuitous and, you know, dive into pleasure before sacrifice and commitment and discipline.
01:06:04.000It said, the most respected of the Tao theorists, Sun Simiao, quoted above, recommends ejaculation no more than once every 20 days for men over 50. Oh, Jesus.
01:06:14.000And no more than once every 100 days for men over 60. I should be dead.
01:08:09.000So what I do is I'll work up that energy and then channel it into work.
01:08:17.000I'll just immediately pull my laptop out and just bang out because it's like that frustration there and then just you got to release it that way or I'll go running or I'll go work out.
01:08:25.000But when I get around women with a full sack, I'm not the same as when I'm empty.
01:09:18.000It says, A research published by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health found that after seven days of not ejaculating, men's testosterone levels reached 145.7% of the baseline.
01:09:33.000That they didn't observe significant fluctuations from the baseline on days 2 through 5. The research also showed that the peak levels were at day 7. Yeah.
01:10:04.000However, when ejaculation frequency exceeds the capacity of the body to fully replenish the semen, man can experience chronic fatigue, low resistance, loss of sex drive, loss of focus, and irritability.
01:10:17.000Long-term excessive ejaculation can cause chronic low zinc conditions, which can cause chronic fatigue, mental confusion, and significant loss of sexual drive.
01:10:27.000But what if you're with a freak like that girl Will Harris was talking about?
01:10:31.000My friend Will Harris was in here the other day, and he was saying he...
01:10:34.000He needs to meet these girls and go overseas.
01:10:36.000Oh, it's also considered harmful to ejaculate when ill, drunk, or gorged with food.
01:10:55.000I don't think there's supposed to be a period there.
01:10:57.000Oh, physiologic and therapeutic benefits to having sex.
01:11:01.000Frequent sex and decourse maintains a man's interest in the acts as well as his capacity to continue indefinitely until his partner is fully satisfied.
01:14:40.000Because then they're going to have to provide reinforcement and evidence and they're dealing with an educated man and I'm going to come with my evidence and facts.
01:14:47.000So you don't have a problem being sexist.
01:15:05.000That's an interesting thing that I see today that I find really strange, is that people that are denying evolutionary biology, I mean, there's...
01:15:14.000Decades of research being done, why people behave the way they behave, what women are attracted to, what men are attracted to, and what the spectrum is.
01:17:36.000So you have to judge your friends and say, well, if I'm giving this information to my friend, is she an objective friend or is she a subjective friend?
01:18:04.000I don't got time to be, you know, something happens in my personal life, I'm going to go tell this strange girl what happened in my personal life, something I told you that was private, to relate it to something else that could be happening in our relationship.
01:19:41.000When I see that my attention span is getting short because I spend too much time on social media, I go to chess and I'll spend time on chess.
01:20:44.000Especially on days that I play a lot of chess.
01:20:46.000I remember Howard Stern was really getting into chess, and he was taking private lessons, and he was talking about it all the time, and I think he found the same thing.
01:21:03.000And when you say chess master, what do you have to do to be a master?
01:21:06.000Okay, so you have National Master, then you have International Master, and then you have Game Master, or the GM, I forget what it's called.
01:21:15.000National Master, you have to participate in, I believe, one of the tournaments, one of the, I forget the Federation, but you have to enter one of these tournaments, and you have to place a certain...
01:21:27.000I think it's maybe top two or top three at a certain tournament.
01:22:12.000This dude I knew who went to prison was playing, this is a pool hall that he used to play at in White Plains, executive billiards, and this kid was a chess master.
01:22:21.000He was like a 16-year-old, I don't know, master, I mean, Chess genius.
01:22:25.00016-year-old kid, and he was playing with this dude who was in his 40s who had been in prison.
01:22:30.000He learned how to play chess with no board in prison.
01:22:33.000So they were just sitting across from each other talking, saying the moves, and then they would both recognize where the pieces were on the board.
01:26:02.000You can't know what man you want unless you know who you are.
01:26:07.000And a lot of people are getting in relationships without being in relationship with themselves first.
01:26:13.000So in order to have a sound relationship, you have to know your socioeconomic stance.
01:26:25.000It's sad when you get into a relationship with a conservative and you're liberal and you start arguing about Donald Trump.
01:26:31.000And a relationship breaks because he's on one side.
01:26:34.000These are the conversations that you need to have up front.
01:26:36.000And if you don't know where you are politically and socioeconomically, for example, they say a lot of relationships break up because of money, right?
01:26:44.000And you got one person's a bad spender, the other one's thrifty, right?
01:26:48.000These are the conversations you need to have first.
01:26:53.000And if you guys don't agree with how you want to pull your resource and how you want to pull your money and what you want to do with it in the future...
01:27:23.000You need to find someone as a producer.
01:27:24.000So if you agree on socioeconomics, you'll have a better relationship with people.
01:27:29.000But you have to know what you want out of life first and then find people connected based upon that, not the physical looks and all that other stuff.
01:27:36.000Yeah, and I think sometimes people think they want something because it's very difficult to attain.
01:27:40.000They see these things and they go, oh, that's the prize.
01:27:44.000Yeah, well, the thing is these stuff aren't hard to obtain.
01:27:48.000Like, you know, getting a Porsche isn't hard, right?
01:32:32.000And then the whole crowd rushes the bus.
01:32:34.000After the crowd finishes, they take one of the energy drink shirts, they throw it on me, throw the hat on me, they bring me to the front of the bus.
01:35:24.000When we talk about Hotep, you got to bring up the 5% nation, you got to bring up Supreme Mathematics, zero cipher, one knowledge, two wisdom, three understanding.
01:35:32.000But it first starts at the number one, right?
01:35:48.000And also, knowledge is the springboard for imagination.
01:35:52.000So, if there's a complicated calculus problem, but you don't know what calculus is, how can the intuition feed you insight or inspiration to solve a calculus problem?
01:36:04.000You first have to have the knowledge of calculus, then when you get it, you get all this influx of inspiration, like Einstein talks about.
01:36:11.000You know, he sits down, he kind of meditates, and then the inspiration comes.
01:36:14.000But the inspiration can only talk to you based upon your understanding.
01:36:22.000So the problem is people are out here not educating themselves.
01:36:26.000You know, my day begins and ends with educating myself.
01:36:31.000Begins, ends, and during the day, I'm just reading books, hopping between books, and reading and listening to lectures, and people think I'm deep, and I'm like, I don't know, I don't know, whatever, whatever I'm intelligent, but really my secret is consuming as much information as possible.
01:39:50.000And then life starts reflecting what's in your subconscious mind.
01:39:54.000The astral body thing is kind of like something that we use to either communicate with people in long distance, travel through time to see things that have happened in foreign lands at different times.
01:41:27.000So let's say 90% of your meeting with these people are pure physical, your mind imagining these things.
01:41:33.000Then there's that one sliver, that one 10% that slides through that gives you that piece of inspiration that you never would have thought about.
01:42:24.000So it's like they're trying to let you know.
01:42:26.000So if you were to construct this and put this down into guidelines, you're basically streamlining the process of how to be as successful and how to...
01:42:38.000How to just make your dream come true.
01:43:10.000You know, like I'm not a Photoshop guy, but I know how to use Photoshop.
01:43:13.000But that happened because at one point I was running a blog.
01:43:17.000I had to know how to edit something or do something, you know what I mean?
01:43:21.000So just because it's not a skill you want, like at one point I had a photography business when MySpace was popping, I had a photography business.
01:43:28.000Now, I don't do photography anymore, but I understand it.
01:43:32.000So when I'm someplace, I can still use these skills, whether it's for a product or something or event, I can still use these skills to my advantage.
01:45:09.000But really the halo is like your aura.
01:45:12.000But also the second aspect is that when I want to use my brain in an advanced way, I can start the firing of neutrons or whatever the technical term is by visualizing something.
01:45:27.000Even if I want to visualize thunderstorms in my head.
01:45:30.000You know, that'll get the brain working, you know, but usually like light.
01:45:34.000If I want to do distant healing, right?
01:45:36.000Let's say you tell me you sick, right?
01:48:11.000Well, there's a book called The Sacred Mushroom in the Cross.
01:48:14.000It's by John Marco Allegro, and he was a biblical scholar that was one of the guys that was assigned to decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls, which is the oldest version of the Bible.
01:48:25.000The only one I think that they've ever found, it's written in Aramaic, and it was found in Qumran and these clay jars, and it's all written on animal skins to decipher it.
01:48:38.000They actually had to run DNA tests on the animal skins to figure out which skins belonged to which animals, so they could put all the stuff together to figure out, like, all these pieces were a part of this one scroll.
01:48:49.000Well, this guy, John Marco Allegro, studied it for 14 years, and it was his conclusion after he was done that the entire Christian religion was a giant misunderstanding.
01:48:59.000And what it was originally about was the consumption of psychedelic mushrooms and fertility rituals.
01:49:04.000And they started doing all of these different scholars who studied ancient art and ancient religious art.
01:49:12.000They started finding this mushroom iconography and all this ancient artwork.
01:49:18.000And one of the things they notice is that the bottom of a mushroom, if you take particularly the Amanita muscaria mushroom, which is the one that they connect to the Christian religion, look at the bottom of it and see what it looks like with all those lines.
01:49:35.000If you see that picture with Jesus, with the halo around his head, the halo was essentially the bottom of a mushroom cap.
01:49:42.000And the idea, they believe, was that these people were the ones that were consuming the psychedelic mushrooms, so they had this great wisdom and this connection to God.
01:55:44.000Well, you have use of them, access, instantaneous access.
01:55:48.000That means they're in your mind all the time, which means you've done a lot of reading, which means you've done a lot of studying, which means you have a command of the English language, which was the only thing that we have, if you speak English, that you can use to express your intent.
01:57:48.000It's a conversation that I think is a fascinating one, the conversation of reparations, because there can be no doubt that something horrible happened to the black community and they're still suffering from it, especially in the Deep South when you look at these places where the people who lived are the direct descendants of slaves.
01:58:03.000And then these are the same impoverished neighborhoods that no one's ever done anything to try to fix.
01:58:09.000You first have to start with the subconscious mind or the black mind.
01:58:13.000The problem with the black mind is the fact that the black mind starts off with a fetus mentality.
01:58:19.000From the day you're born, you're taught the white man's out to get you.
01:58:22.000So you start off with a boogeyman and then you're taught that you're a slave.
01:58:28.000So when your subconscious mind believes that the beginnings of your race is a slave, how do you aspire to be more than that?
01:58:38.000So in order to correct the black community, you have to teach black history or so-called black history or what I would say African history in chronological order.
01:58:49.000So how do you have a whole entire nation of 40-some-odd million black people and majority of them never heard of Queen Angola, who never heard of the Songhai Empire, the Mali Empire, you know, none of this stuff, right?
01:59:07.000How do you raise a people's level of awareness about this stuff, and how do you elevate them to want to do things in life when they think they are a slave?
01:59:14.000That's the first thing that you have to do to help black people.
02:00:29.000One of the funniest human beings alive.
02:00:30.000And she was here, and one of the things she was talking about was when she was younger, that when she would see white people, she wouldn't look them in the eye.
02:00:45.000And that's a product of not knowing who you are, not knowing your own personal power.
02:00:49.000You know, when you look at the second Punic Wars of Carthage, you had Hannibal went through the Alps, which is a mission impossible, and he went all the way to the doors of Rome.
02:01:00.000And Rome said, yo, we ain't coming outside to fight you, bro.
02:02:03.000So when Christopher Columbus got here, Christopher Columbus got to the Caribbean, according to primary source, they basically said the first thing he did was take slaves.
02:04:34.000You can, but we're just talking about marijuana.
02:04:36.000What if we're talking about something that you can't grow here?
02:04:38.000So what I'm saying is, people were already here.
02:04:43.000Does it make sense to go all the way to this other continent to bring people on the boat when we know that half of your stock is going to die?
02:05:05.000I believe it may have happened, you know, maybe people were brought over as slaves, but I don't think that the black people in America Came from Africa on slave ships.
02:05:17.000I believe the people that were here were slowly conquered.
02:05:20.000First, they got the East Coast, and then they started spreading out West, little by little, conquering.
02:05:25.000And when you conquer a tribe, what do you do?
02:08:57.000It's really fascinating because he's all about that.
02:08:59.000He's all about the fact that the idea that human beings were probably living in advanced civilizations far longer than 14,000 years ago and they did travel all over the world and that you do find the remnants of these ancient cultures that we have no explanation for throughout the Amazon and throughout different parts of South America and Central America.
02:09:21.000I mean, when you go and you look at real European history, you had the Magyars would believe that if they took a bath, it was bad.
02:09:32.000They didn't even want to change their clothes.
02:09:37.000When we talk about the Moors going into Spain and into Europe, the stories in the history of Our history says that when we met the so-called Caucasian, he was sleeping in the barn with the animals.
02:09:52.000And we told him, no, you can't sleep in the barn with animals.
02:11:26.000If you really want to talk about African civilization being advanced, Egypt is the ultimate because Egypt to this day is still unexplained.
02:11:35.000No one really understands how they built those things.
02:11:38.000No one understands how old the culture is.
02:11:40.000That's another thing that Graham Hancock and Dr. Robert Schock from Boston University, who's a geologist, he's Pointing to water erosion and the Temple of the Sphinx that leads you to believe that that place might have been as old as 9,000 plus BC. Oh,
02:12:14.000You know, the Sphinx, they believe, had a lion's face, and then when they were conquered by the Nubians, they changed the actual structure of the face of the Sphinx and turned it into a king's face.
02:12:25.000Well, the way it was taught to me was that it is Upper and Lower Egypt.
02:12:29.000So Upper Egypt is actually our New South, right?
02:13:33.000Shaka Akmos is a real good Egyptologist.
02:13:35.000I think you should start there with Shaka Akmos.
02:13:37.000But these are videos I used to watch and lectures I used to watch back in the day.
02:13:42.000Now I focus on like startups and that's where my brain is.
02:13:44.000That's where my knowledge is focused on.
02:13:46.000But a lot of this stuff comes from my own common sense.
02:13:51.000It just does not make sense logistically to take people from all the way from over there to bring them here, especially when half your stock is going to die.
02:14:01.000When you got people right here, you have human resources right here.
02:14:05.000All I got to do is pop them, shoot a couple of them.
02:14:07.000The rest of them are like, all right, fine.
02:14:41.000Perhaps you, like me, were raised essentially to think of the slave experience primarily in terms of our black ancestors here in the United States.
02:14:46.000In other words, slavery is primarily about us, right from the Crispus attacks and Philip Wheatley, Benjamin Banneker, and Richard Allen, all the way to Harriet Tubman, Sojourn Truth, and Frederick Douglass.
02:14:59.000Think of it as an instance we might think of as African-American exceptionalism.
02:15:04.000In other words, it's the black experience.
02:15:08.000Well, black Americans will think again.
02:15:10.000The most comprehensive analysis of shipping records over the course of slave trade is the transatlantic slave trade database edited by professors David Eltis and David Richardson.
02:15:20.000While the editors are careful to say that all the figures are estimates, they believe that the best estimates that we have, the proverbial gold standard in the field, the study of the slave trade between 1525 and 1866, In the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database,
02:15:38.00012.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World.
02:15:43.00010.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage disembarking in North America, the Caribbean, and South America.
02:15:51.000How many of those 10.7 million Africans were shipped directly to North America?
02:17:08.000So you think that there was probably already a significant population of Africans that were sea bearing that made it all the way over here.
02:17:19.000Well, if you listen to the words of Hancock and the discussion of prehistoric, what we would consider prehistoric use of boats and ships, it's probably likely.
02:18:35.000So if they're here already in South America, why are you going to go across the sea when you've got people right here and you're just enslaved?
02:18:41.000South America is connected to America.
02:18:47.000Well, particularly when they're finding all this evidence of people that were here thousands and thousands of years before they ever thought people were.
02:19:15.000Well, I was looking some stuff up where the grandma's telling me.
02:19:17.000I went home and looked up the serpent mound stuff, and right up the road from where the serpent mound is, there's been a couple artifacts found there a hundred years ago.
02:23:03.000They're finding now with LIDAR where they're using this.
02:23:06.000They can map into the ground and find these structures and roads and pathways that existed.
02:23:12.000And it's long since been reclaimed by nature.
02:23:16.000This was one of the Graham Hancock things that he was talking about, how you look at South America when they're going through the Amazon, you're finding these incredible structures and incredible roadways and irrigations.
02:23:27.000They believed that at one point in time there was a civilization of 20 million people living in the Amazon, and that when the European settlers came over, They brought smallpox and wiped everybody out.
02:25:26.000So it's like, well, if that's the case, then why don't we make them pay?
02:25:30.000The other thing is, you know, if you're conservative and you're having this election race or whatever, why don't you just take the wild card away from them, you know, from the left?
02:25:38.000And say, well, yeah, you know, if there is a reparations conversation, you know, that was the Democrats, that was the Dixiecrats that installed black codes in South Carolina.
02:27:31.000The thing I found about the Egyptians in Ohio was actually from a paper that was written.
02:27:36.000It's postulating, and I guess they took a lot of the evidence that they had been finding and saying this shows that there might have actually been Egyptians there.
02:27:48.000That amulet was brass, apparently, and it was found near Cincinnati.
02:27:51.000And where I actually think it might have been trading, trade routes, because there was some, like, stones that have been found in various parts of the world that are from specifically Ohio because it's like a rainbow shale that was used in, like, arrowheads and stuff a long, long time ago.
02:28:04.000That area was used to make weapons, like, the first, like, 12,000 years ago when the first people were kind of in North America.
02:28:12.000But that area in Ohio also is known as the sandstone capital of the world, and I don't know if that's related to the Egyptians, because that's what the pyramids are made out of, you know?
02:28:20.000There's tons of sandstone that is very specific to that region.
02:28:28.000From 1800 to 1980, 21 times the amount of sandstone that made the Great Pyramid was shipped out of Ohio to make various buildings all over the world.
02:30:00.000Because Cuba is very distinct African people living there.
02:30:03.000The whole Caribbean, all that whole area has a lot of African roots to it.
02:30:10.000But it's just a place that was conquered by the Spain, you know, by the Corteses, you know, those type of people.
02:30:18.000What really disturbs me is there's no way to know exactly what happened.
02:30:22.000It's like you're piecing things together based on artifacts and historical record, things that people wrote down and journals and logs.
02:30:30.000Well, there's people that have traveled.
02:30:33.000So, again, I've studied this so long ago, but I remember reading primary source from somebody that traveled with Cristobal Colon, aka Christopher Columbus.
02:30:42.000And he was saying very specific things about his accounts when he reached these different places.
02:30:48.000He was saying things like, we got to the land and we found Africans.
02:30:53.000And I remember him specifically saying, so no matter where we go, we find Africans.
02:30:58.000And he said it as if he was disappointed.
02:31:00.000And then they started talking about their culture and describing their culture.
02:31:06.000You just got to go look at the people that travel with Crystal Ball Cologne.
02:31:10.000And there's some firsthand accounts there.