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00:00:01.000Thanks for joining me on Stay Free with Russell Brand.
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00:00:10.000Don't matter where you're watching this right now, the whole show will only be available on Rumble.
00:00:15.000After about 10 minutes, we'll click over onto just that platform because we talk about things that require An absolute commitment to freedom of speech.
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00:00:28.000Hello, those of you that are watching this on local, that's our members community.
00:00:31.000People like Ashela, she's saying get well soon.
00:00:34.000Oh, they just talk to each other on that chat.
00:00:45.000We've got a fantastic show for you today.
00:00:47.000So it's really worth staying for the entire hour.
00:00:50.000First of all, we're talking about The literal Biden train wreck.
00:00:54.000His presidency has been a train wreck for some time and now there's an actual, sadly, tragic environmental disaster of a train wreck to sort of almost epitomise it.
00:01:03.000It seems that in some ways that administration is culpable for not taking necessary safety measures.
00:01:10.000And also for not paying workers enough and reneging on a promise to be a pro-worker president.
00:01:15.000We'll be talking about that aspect in particular.
00:01:18.000NATO and Ukraine, they need some more ammo now.
00:01:23.000And also we're going to be talking to you about a sort of recent revelation that Zelensky said he never was going to obey that Minsk agreement anyway.
00:01:29.000He never cared about the Minsk agreement.
00:01:46.000When we click over to just being on Rumble, we're going to tell you this unbelievable tale of... Well, the WHO have just admitted they're not going to try and find out where COVID come from anymore.
00:02:19.000You can tell by the beads which one it was.
00:02:22.000And only the beads, actually, because there's certainly no accompanying serenity, wisdom, or insights to distinguish us.
00:02:29.000On our presentation, Here's the News, we're going to be talking about pandemic profiteers.
00:02:32.000You're going to be astonished when you learn some of the people that earned extraordinary profits during the pandemic period.
00:02:38.000And the reason I was astonished, and I guess, you know, probably we're similar in some ways, you and me, is because There's some people that were right mouthing off during the pandemic about exactly what we should do.
00:03:19.000Yeah, well here's a few things it could be.
00:03:22.000You've got to look at how corporate interests in the government cooperate to ensure that ordinary people never have a chance to alter or penetrate the system.
00:03:46.000Run your own communities democratically, grow your own food, connect to people heart by heart, join a community like the locals community that we belong to.
00:03:55.000Let's see if that's what the mainstream media... Probably is that.
00:03:57.000The Wall Street Journal, owned in part by Jeff Bezos.
00:04:38.000Well, now China, They've got their own clip-clop and I think actually their clip-clop looks a bit better than American clip-clop so when it comes to the kickoff which you know if these balloons keep floating by at this rate global Armageddon is inevitable necessary some would say.
00:04:54.000Let's have a look at this is Chinese clip-clop look at him he looks hardcore.
00:04:58.000You've got that sort of stupid run hasn't he?
00:05:09.000Clip clops wherever they're from in the world have a common gate.
00:05:14.000I wonder if these clip clops at some point during a sort of a Terminator 2 style war might think, hang on a minute, why am I killing them clip clops over there?
00:05:23.000Just because they've got different colored clothes on to me.
00:05:26.000Aren't we all the same beneath the surface?
00:05:29.000What if all the Klip Klops go, hey, we, instead of, in a kind of introversion of the, or an inversion rather, of the typical expected sci-fi dystopian step, they go, we want peace.
00:05:41.000Sky Knight realised the humans were silly and they had to look after them.
00:05:44.000Have a little game of football maybe on Christmas Day.
00:05:46.000Christmas Day, the clip clops come out that say a piece of World War One mythos for English and German people that on Christmas Day people realised temporarily that the war was pointless and played football.
00:05:57.000In a sense, I suppose it's one of the great metaphors, that war is unnecessary, it doesn't help anybody, sooner or later people are going to stop and come to a diplomatic solution.
00:06:24.000If you had to have sex with a clip-clop, and the day may come where you do have to, Because what are you going to do if Clip Clop went, take your temperature, get in your house, or whatever?
00:07:57.000You're aware of this, even if you watch mainstream news, if you're still imbibing that toxic claptrap, no good stuff for you getting into the soil like train wreck fluid.
00:08:06.000Ukraine's military is consuming more ammunition than Western countries are providing, almost a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion.
00:08:14.000NATO's General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg said, anyway, give us some more weapons is what he wants.
00:08:20.000Yeah, I guess the issue with this is, as Lenski's saying at this point, that he never intended to implement those agreements and we literally discovered last week, didn't we, by enough Danny Bennett that, you know, the peace deals were blocked and scuppered by Western leaders.
00:08:35.000It doesn't bode well for peace at this stage.
00:08:39.000Look, why don't we just have a guess when peace will come?
00:08:42.000They have to, because they have to at some point come to peace so that the Black Rock reconstruction can take place.
00:08:48.000Sometimes I see a bit of mainstream news and I'm reminded of the horror that there is an actual war going on, that Ukraine is under attack, like ordinary people's lives are being destroyed and decimated.
00:09:25.000You've got Zelensky vowing to retake Crimea and Russia saying that that would spark nuclear war.
00:09:30.000You know, whilst you're saying it has to come to a resolution at some point, the signs are that this is just going to continue.
00:09:36.000You've got NATO calling for more weapons.
00:09:38.000You've got Lloyd Austin saying he wants to weaken Russia.
00:09:41.000What I think it's about is that I think that ultimately, Zelensky will only be backed as long as his interests converge with globalist, corporate, military-industrial complex interests.
00:09:52.000If there's a bifurcation of those interests, then Zelensky's power is redundant.
00:09:56.000We talked yesterday at length to Michael Racey Tracy, who told us that what began, he described the phenomena of mission creep, plainly the aid at the commencement of the conflict was about Humanitarian aid and he used the example it was likely things like blankets and nourishment and nutrition then the phrase lethal aid entered the lexicon and it became clear that what the West and in particular the America but even more accurately the military-industrial complex were doing was arming Ukraine and using this as an opportunity in my opinion to profit from this conflict and
00:10:31.000I reckon it will go on for a little bit longer.
00:10:33.000I hope it ends as soon as possible, but it seems to be being governed by economic interests rather than the humanitarian ones that were used at the outset.
00:10:42.000Angela Merkel said in an interview in December that the Minsk Accords were signed to give Ukraine time to strengthen itself, so it's another one of those stories that back salt this idea that this wasn't something
00:10:53.000that just started last year and that this goes back to 2014 this goes back to
00:10:57.000when these was signed and Zlensky now admitting that he never intended to
00:11:01.000honor them just shows this is something that's been building from 2014 onwards.
00:11:05.000So there you are, let's know what you think in the chat and the comments about how this story is being told and how do
00:11:09.000we square our knowledge about what was happening and how the conflict has
00:11:14.000been engineered and perhaps misrepresented with the ongoing need of people that
00:11:18.000are suffering as a as a result of this water.
00:11:20.000It's something that I find difficult to, I don't know, to sort of handle I suppose.
00:11:54.000Tomorrow or Friday, Shriday we're doing the show with Tim and he was saying that it's affecting, many people are saying that it's affecting water supply there.
00:12:01.000It's an absolutely awful disaster but what we want to talk about is could this disaster have been avoided and it's so often the case that these disasters when investigated come down occasionally to human error and we're all human and we can all make mistakes but in this instance it seems that cost cutting measures were implemented that could have been avoided And it's a matter of record that Joe Biden reneged on his promise to ensure that train workers were properly paid, given proper packages that included rest time and remuneration.
00:12:32.000Let's have a look at the story from that perspective, the potential blame that the Biden administration must bear.
00:12:38.000For unionised rail workers, the train derailment exposes systemic failures in a railroad system that is driven by profit, not safety.
00:12:45.000It should be driven by safety continually.
00:12:47.000Remember, when new advances are presented to us, whether it's digital ID cards or Medications.
00:13:12.000Last year, railroad workers in the United States were on the cusp of a strike.
00:13:15.000Workers were demanding more sick leave to combat the effects of precision-scheduled railroading, a corporate scheme to cut costs by demanding more work from fewer workers.
00:14:06.000Railroad Workers United argues that precision scheduled railroading and the overworking layoffs and lack of safety measures that unionised workers were fighting for last year were a primary reason for the derailment, while opposing a plan that would have required them to spend $321 million to give workers seven paid sick days.
00:14:28.000The main railroad companies raked in more than $7 billion in profits and paid out over $1.8 billion in dividends.
00:14:35.000Again and again, we hear stories, don't we?
00:14:37.000Let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments, where profit is prioritised over safety and even efficacy.
00:14:44.000That profiteering is no doubt connected to this disaster.
00:14:51.000I heard somewhere, Gal, that some of the tech that them railroads are using was like General Custer's tech, like Civil War type stuff.
00:14:57.000Yeah, it was ancient tech and what they needed was, you know, new technology for like the braking systems and that was something that was lobbied against.
00:15:04.000The same kind of lobbyists that are giving $13 million to Congress and making sure that Biden pushes through this bill to make sure that these rail workers can't strike.
00:15:16.000But who's to say that a train having brakes is necessary anyway?
00:15:19.000This train being able to stop, for example, may not have been of any use in stopping it from spilling all those harmful toxins all over the country you live in if you're in America and the planet you live on wherever you are.
00:15:32.000This is like a literal deadly manifestation of what happened in Congress a few months ago.
00:15:38.000You get something whereby money funnelled to the right people, pushing the president to make a certain decision, punishing people who he vowed to give sick days to, a pledge that he gave when getting into office to become president in the first place.
00:15:52.000Now manifesting in this situation where not only wildlife but some of these toxic fumes are carcinogens linked to various forms of cancer.
00:16:00.000It's like a huge thing that they're saying is actually could be worse than first reported.
00:16:04.000Throughout the pandemic we had caused to question the impact that pharmaceutical lobbying money had made on the decision to fund that process in the way that it was funded and the kind of regulations if not legislation that was passed.
00:16:17.000Now we can see Once more, the negative impact of lobbying money on the lives of ordinary Americans.
00:16:24.000If you believe, like we do, that the practice of lobbying should simply be ended, then let me know in the chat and the comments.
00:16:30.000And what would be the impact of that if the practice of lobbying itself was outlawed, banned?
00:16:35.000What difference would that make to the kind of policies that were passed?
00:16:38.000And also, would it be a policy that was beneficial to ordinary Americans while being punitive to corporate America?
00:16:48.000Okay, hey listen, I think we've got to go over to Rumble now.
00:16:50.000We can carry on talking about that railway, and in a minute we're going to be talking to Bob Roth, my meditation teacher.
00:16:55.000He had his work cut out, getting me to sit still and shut up and repeat a mantra inwardly until consciousness became impersonal and connected to the limitless cosmic consciousness that some people believe underwrites all reality as a kind of unitary force, or in a simpler, shorter word, God.
00:17:14.000Noel Fielding, I introduced him to the British comedian and my mate Noel Fielding one time, and Noel Fielding, like, he was going, do you want to learn to... Noel Fielding did this impression of me.
00:17:23.000He goes, bloody hell, that Bob Ruff's a bit intense, isn't he?
00:17:25.000He came up to me, he was going, do you want to learn to... Do you want to learn to meditate?
00:17:36.000They're beautiful peepers that Bob Roth's got.
00:17:38.000And if you don't meditate yet, you might need to because Bob Roth believes we're globally suffering from PTSD, a trauma culture on our prison planet.
00:18:16.000And on the subject of shamans and their garb.
00:18:19.000We've got a fantastic guest on the show now.
00:18:21.000As I've already told you, if you've been concentrating, Bob Roth is a teacher, a great teacher of Transcendental Meditation.
00:18:27.000If you're wondering why you're suffering in this world, it might be because you're not accessing the limitless power that is already within you and around you.
00:18:34.000Bob is the CEO of the Lynch Foundation, that's set up by David Lynch, of course, and the author of Strength in Stillness and Change Begins Within.
00:18:59.000Like, I mean, I can't keep hold of stuff.
00:19:01.000Sometimes I'll keep a particularly precious pair of boots, like worn at the VMAs or something, or these blood-spattered Converse trainers that I once wore at the Edinburgh Festival when I sort of got injured in what I might call a fracas.
00:19:14.000But most of my clothing is, sort of, it goes into what I call the circle.
00:19:19.000Oddly dressed people walking around Oxfordshire.
00:19:23.000I just imagined like just rows and rows and rows of Russell's clothing.
00:19:45.000You can't win the compassion war with me.
00:19:48.000I'm a very compassionate and loving person.
00:19:51.000Now Bob, people watching this will be disenchanted and disillusioned with establishment power, globalist elitism, the inability of any democratic process to deliver the will of ordinary people, the failure of our economic and political institutions.
00:20:08.000How, Bob, Do people heal from the struggles of this world?
00:20:12.000And how does the personal and spiritual journey interface with the necessary collective change that needs to be instantiated if we're to be pulled back from the brink of the apocalypse?
00:20:25.000OK, and we have how many days to talk about this?
00:20:29.000So the thing is, I was a student at the University of California in Berkeley in 1968, and I had many, many friends who were working at that time to make changes, to overturn the government, to do all these different things.
00:20:41.000And I saw them 10 or 15 years later, completely burned out, Russell, completely burned out, just either sold out or just gave up.
00:20:52.000And I think when you're talking about the kinds of changes that you're promoting or bringing to light, working in communities, it takes an amazing amount of energy and resilience and focus and flexibility.
00:21:10.000And I think one of the most important tools that anybody can have who's trying to enact change in the world, systemic change in the world, They have to be able to access within themselves what you described, that limitless field of energy, creativity, intelligence, within.
00:21:30.000It's a very real experience that comes about through different approaches.
00:21:34.000I know through Transcendental Meditation.
00:21:36.000And the key thing is, there's now this enormous amount of scientific research that shows that meditation, properly understood in practice, is very empowering.
00:21:51.000And I think it's the basis for any kind of change that a person wants to facilitate in the outer world.
00:21:59.000Do you think that the people that perhaps need it most, not to suggest that we don't all need to have a relationship with this limitless power that grants us the insight that what we perceive as total reality is but a fragment of it, the people that perhaps most need this access are unlikely to need it, excuse me, unlikely to access it.
00:22:18.000I mean people that are really busy or people that are really suffering.
00:22:21.000Those seem to be people that find it difficult to make space, make time to meditate.
00:22:27.000That's before you get into sort of desperately poor Yeah, but the thing that we're working on now with the David Lynch Foundation is we're working with insurance companies and private insurers, self-insurers, and
00:22:41.000Like Aetna and Blue Cross Blue Shield in the United States and Medicare is to have the meditation reimbursed by the insurance companies so people can learn it and have it prescribed by a doctor and then have it reimbursed by insurance companies.
00:22:58.000And then we're also working with schools, hospitals, businesses to set aside a meditation room Where a person can do their meditation when they get to work, before the day begins, or before they go home at night.
00:23:13.000Now, I want to make a very strong point.
00:23:15.000There's some criticism that, oh, meditation is like the opiate of the masses.
00:23:19.000There's changes that have to take place in business, they have to take place in the world, and so you meditate and then you forget about all the issues or concerns.
00:23:30.000Transcendental meditation is not an escape from anything.
00:23:33.000Transcendental meditation is a preparation for activity, for that resilience and that creativity and that clarity of mind and that inner fulfillment that we need in order to make sustained change in our own lives and in society as a whole.
00:23:48.000So we understand that it's very hard for anybody to find time.
00:23:53.000But if we make meditation times available in the workplace.
00:23:56.000Right now, for example, in New York City alone, we're offering Transcendental Meditation for free in about 50 hospitals.
00:24:03.000Frontline doctors and nurses who are working in the ICU units and emergency rooms.
00:24:12.000And they have increasingly setting aside places for them to take 20 minutes to meditate.
00:24:17.000Bob Roth, sometimes when I hear about measures like enabling people to meditate within workspaces, or indeed the advance of allowing or facilitating insurance payment for Transcendental Meditation as a health measure, I can see that that is to a degree progress.
00:24:39.000But what I note is it is change within the accepted parameters of a very, very powerful system.
00:24:45.000And it seems to me that at this point we need disruptive change, confrontational change.
00:24:51.000This is a time where spirituality needs to be brought to the forefront, not to be regarded as a supplement to the accepted and understood Presumed conditions of our late capitalist culture that is underwritten by individualism, materialism, atheism.
00:25:08.000I feel sometimes that we ought be more radical and disruptive in the way that we present these ideas.
00:25:14.000How do you and how did the Maharishi square the necessity for fitting in with secularism With the requirement to disrupt this machine that appears to be driving us to extinction.
00:25:27.000I think disruption has to take place in both ways.
00:25:30.000That's why I started off saying that we want to bring meditation to the disruptors.
00:25:51.000So I think when you have people who are meditating in a workplace or in a hospital, they're not becoming passive observers.
00:25:59.000They're actually able to take a more leadership role and guide those kinds of changes.
00:26:04.000And Maharishi himself was very radical.
00:26:07.000I mean, his assessment of the weapons industry, the pharmaceutical industry, I mean, the fact that the number two cause of death In hospitals, in healthcare, is iatrogenic disease, caused by modern medicine.
00:26:21.000Number two cause of death, caused by modern medicine.
00:26:25.000At the same time, the reality is work has to be done on the ground, whether it's from the outside, empowering people from the outside, or empowering people from the inside.
00:26:35.000In our locals community, that's our members and anyone can join that if they choose to.
00:27:08.000People like Jerry Seinfeld that never misses a session?
00:27:11.000People like Lynch that never misses a session?
00:27:13.000People like you that's probably sneakily meditating below the waist right now?
00:27:18.000What do we do and how do we become more like you?
00:27:22.000I think that it's just inevitable that a person has to have the desire that they want to learn to meditate.
00:27:27.000I mean, the thing is, is there's this wonderful ancient proverb where you see a person running, there's a burning little a little house that a hut that's burning and then there's a big building down there and you see a person running and are they running towards the big house?
00:27:42.000Are they running away from the burning hut?
00:27:46.000And so stress, trauma, we're living in a and if you want to say a pandemic, Uncontrovertibly, unarguably, this is a pandemic of stress, toxic stress and trauma that's in the world today.
00:27:59.000Whether you look at what's, again, the number two cause of death among teenagers is suicide and the rates of Addiction, you know all those numbers.
00:28:11.000So the fact of the matter is, human beings want to get away from suffering, just like that wonderful woman's comment.
00:28:17.000You want to get away from a migraine headache.
00:28:20.000You want to get away from constant anxiety.
00:28:23.000Now, yes, change has to take place in the structures of the organizations of the institutions, but in the meanwhile, we also have to take care of our own health or else we'll die.
00:28:34.000So, I think people, it's a self-motivation.
00:28:37.000People, when the time is right, some people never miss a meditate.
00:28:40.000Russell, you're pretty darn good with your meditations.
00:30:23.000So when one sees that a person's blood pressure went down or they have less anxiety, they're sleeping better, in a technique that is, you could say, Is good for health, but also develops consciousness.
00:30:38.000There's something very profound going on because it's just a purely mental technique that changes all levels of life.
00:30:46.000So I didn't want you to give me a bad time on the research.
00:30:49.000No, I appreciate the research and its necessity.
00:30:51.000I suppose I sometimes, I don't see odds with mysticism.
00:30:54.000And I know that Maharishi was himself a scientist and I recognize the value.
00:30:59.000And in fact, the way we frame our information is evidence-based empirical Well thought out arguments.
00:31:07.000We don't stray into the conspiratorial unless it's for good fun and good humour.
00:31:12.000It's necessary to adopt the lexicon of our day.
00:31:16.000But I suppose that there's something about new age rhetoric, and I know that I lapse into this myself sometimes, that makes it feel like we're doing this just to somehow be more attractive or more effective in the workplace, rather than I think it's simultaneous though.
00:31:40.000You pick certain words in your conversations that resonate with people that people understand and you could use other terminology, but there's certain terminology you use and I think that's it's not to water anything down.
00:31:54.000It's like let's not let vocabulary get in the way of an experience of a transcendent experience.
00:32:01.000Once you have that transcendent experience, once you have that experience of that inner calm, that silence that lies deep within everyone, then it leads to freedom.
00:32:54.000What are your questions about meditation?
00:32:55.000Yeah, I was really interested in what you were saying there, Bob, especially when you mentioned, I know it's obviously an awful subject, but things like suicides and depression.
00:33:05.000Obviously, one of the issues with the pandemic, one of the more, I suppose, unspoken manifestations of some of the measures you could argue,
00:33:14.000certainly the lockdowns and some of the things that they created, was this huge spike in depression
00:33:19.000and suicides and all sorts of other you know dreadful things. And I wondered if you had any
00:33:25.000thoughts about the kind of methods that we were kind of encouraged to use as coping mechanisms
00:33:32.000through the pandemic, rather than turning to, so it was things like turning to fast food and
00:33:39.000being able to easily order things from Amazon and things, rather than a more holistic approach
00:33:44.000that you're talking about here, which is about methods where we can attain some kind of freedom
00:33:51.000even when we're locked inside our homes.
00:33:53.000I think ultimately a person has to make a decision themselves.
00:34:41.000The surface of the mind is the monkey mind or the active thinking, gotta, gotta, gotta mind.
00:34:46.000But deep within every human being, there's this ocean of consciousness, this silence, this peace, this power, this energy.
00:34:54.000And Throughout time, people have been accessing that.
00:34:58.000It was lost for hundreds of years, and look what's happened to the world, or thousands of years, look what's happened to the world, and now it's coming back, and it will completely transform the human being, and the human being will completely transform society, because society is, as you know, the expression of the human being, and if we can have human beings living higher states of consciousness, which just means healthier, more integrated, Bob, I'd love to have you come on for a longer conversation.
00:35:39.000If we can schedule it, it would be wonderful to spend more time speaking with you.
00:35:44.000Also, when we're in the United States, where I'm doing two stand-up shows, as a matter of fact, one in Florida, one in Los Angeles, I would love to meet up with you and meditate and stuff if you have time, or you're not wrapped up in your own concerns, you're in a giddy carousel of endless selfishness and hedonism that has come to define you.
00:36:05.000I know, it's just terrible, it's just terrible.
00:36:07.000Russell, I would love to spend time with you, it would be great.
00:36:11.000I mean, we've known, what is this, 14 years now or something?
00:36:14.000Bobby, each day I mark on my wall with a penknife a groove.
00:36:54.000You can follow Bob Roth on Instagram at MeditationBob and find out more about his work at MeditationBob.com if you want to learn to meditate.
00:37:02.000I know that the David Lynch Foundation are eager to provide free meditation to people who can't afford it.
00:37:25.000And I guess meditation maybe is one of those ways that it doesn't seem like you're directly changing power.
00:37:31.000But if you're changing yourself, if you're kind of creating a strength in yourself, That then multiple people and communities are doing it at the same time.
00:37:40.000I guess maybe what Bob's saying is we'll be more ready to affect change.
00:37:44.000I thought that's where it can be a really useful tool.
00:37:51.000I often think about... You're too kind.
00:37:54.000I'm thinking about the example of the tulips.
00:37:58.000The tulips temporarily became central to Dutch economics and then people instantaneously lost interest and they became almost without value.
00:38:07.000Tulips were changing hands for thousands of pounds.
00:38:10.000People talk about it as an example of inflated value quite a lot.
00:38:15.000I'm also thinking recently about remember that story that we covered about that game store that was going to get shut down and people started to artificially inflate its price which is probably as I understand it common practice in the financial industry and a fundamental aspect of like global finance.
00:38:31.000But it makes me recognize that all systems are a reflection of human consciousness and our facilities, our humors, our Tendencies for good or bad, jealousy, greed, kindness, love, and the technique of meditation, I suppose, if it changes your individual consciousness, and it changes the individual consciousness of enough people, they, oh man, we could have talked about him, but if we'd have talked to him longer, they conducted experiments, you can look this up, in Chicago, where they had people in their hundreds meditating, it affected the crime figures, you can look at this stuff, it's like, that consciousness is a continuum.
00:39:06.000Bob sometimes, I guess, is reluctant to get into the, mystical aspects of it, because I feel like they popularize it as is perhaps necessary in this climate, with some of the more easily rationally explained functional aspects of meditation, you will feel better, you will feel more effective.
00:39:24.000And I guess what I'm always pushing for, what I want is real change, probably because I want real change in myself, but certainly I want it in the world.
00:39:30.000But I can see that if you don't have people focused on Just what's right in front of them, or what they're kind of angry about necessarily, or what they want, or what they desire.
00:39:44.000All the distractions that we're offered to stop us thinking about how you're going to create change.
00:39:54.000Think about some celebrities on Instagram.
00:39:57.000Rather than actually, what Bob's saying is, focus on what's real, what's inside you, and therefore you will create the focus to actually make real change, rather than being distracted by all the bullshit.
00:40:09.000You know that I'm using this as part of an underlying campaign to make meditation mandatory here?
00:40:29.000Stacey Malkin, who exposes corporate wrongdoing, oh yes she does, and government failures in public health will be joining us for a conversation on Friday.
00:40:36.000An amazing conversation with Tim Pool.
00:40:38.000He's talking about global destabilization and the collapse of faith in institutions.
00:41:26.000There's a beautiful exclusive with a conversation we had with Seymour Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who finally had the nuts to say that the Nord Stream pipeline had been blown up by America.