Russell Brand tries to bring real journalism to the American people with Stay Free with Russell Brand. This week, we discuss Marco Rubio's growing popularity, Big Food and Real Food, Social Media Ban in the UK, Mike Tyson apologising for a stupid question, and more.
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00:00:45.000How are they dressing it up as helping people?
00:00:47.000Well, by saying they're protecting youngsters, of course.
00:00:50.000Marco Rubio, we've got a story to discuss with his growing popularity after his performance at the Munich Security Conference earlier in the week.
00:01:01.000We'll be talking about big food and real food.
00:01:03.000In fact, here I am, just earlier today, apologising to Mike Tyson.
00:01:38.000But I want to reiterate my respect and admiration for you as a champion and as a man in recovery and now as an advocate for these beautiful values.
00:01:47.000And as I promised, I would tell Dr. Oz, your hair looks fantastic.
00:01:51.000And I'm going to have to mean body hair by that because you're a shaved man.
00:01:57.000But I also am confident that your body hair looks fantastic.
00:02:00.000And I'll leave it there, Mike, because I don't want to, you know, re-cause the trauma.
00:02:44.000Let's see what's going on in the UK with their social media ban.
00:02:49.000Let's have a look firstly at what Keir Starmer, God Love Him, has announced.
00:02:53.000Starmer has announced a consultation into setting a minimum age for social media.
00:02:57.000Before that consultation takes place, however, ministers will write a clause into the existing children's well-being and schools bill that will enable them to enforce a ban quickly if that's what the consultation recommends.
00:03:09.000These so-called Henry VIII powers allow the government to use secondary legislation to enforce an age limit rather than writing entirely new bill.
00:03:17.000Now, I suppose what's interesting is they're lowering the age for voting.
00:03:20.000They've always advocated for lower ages for consent, those weirdos.
00:03:24.000At the same time, trying to restrict social media usage.
00:03:28.000Let's have a look at this commentary on whether or not the UK should indeed wade into the waters already occupied by Australia and Spain, who have already imposed forms of social media control.
00:03:43.000A social media ban for children under 16 has come into effect in Australia, representing a world first.
00:03:50.000The move has been welcomed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, but he has already warned it won't be easy to enforce.
00:03:57.000The ban has already received mixed reactions across Australia, but it raises a wider question.
00:04:04.000Should the UK enjoy I walked over that bridge once.
00:04:07.000It's like a tourist experience you can do.
00:06:03.000I was really glad to welcome the Prime Minister to Putney today to talk about immediate action to make the online world safer for children.
00:06:13.000I know that local parents, parents across the country want this action and the government is listening and putting in place new powers to keep children safe.
00:06:23.000Ensure that no social media platform gets a free pass.
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00:06:55.000I was here at St Mary's in Putney with the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, with the Secretary of State for Science and Technology, Liz Kendall, and with the Minister for Schools, Georgia Gould, all coming together to show how we can work across government to take the action needed.
00:07:13.000I'm a parent, in fact, my daughter came along with me today.
00:07:17.000And I know that the Prime Minister is a parent as well.
00:07:20.000And we know that parents cannot keep ahead and be the people who are expected to police the system online.
00:07:28.000It's got to be the social media companies that now are forced to take the action.
00:08:18.000I wanted to ask about the representation of the people bill, which is being put before Parliament and how giving 16 and 17 year olds the vote risks being incompatible with a social media ban under 16 because the majority of young people get their news from social media, from their TikTok feed.
00:08:35.000So I wanted to ask, you know, what provisions will the government put in place for citizenship education in schools, for example?
00:08:45.000Firstly, I'm a big advocate of votes at 16 and 17.
00:08:48.000At 16 and 17, you are old enough and mature enough to make a decision about a government that ought to be and will be a government for you.
00:08:59.000So it's really important that we have those votes.
00:09:04.000The assumption is that those he accidentally said the quiet part out loud.
00:09:10.000The assumption is that 16 and 17 year olds will vote specifically for Labour, that their policies are oriented in that direction, that they recognise that they've lost popular support among so many demographics.
00:09:23.000Only children would consider voting for them.
00:09:27.000And they wouldn't consider it if they knew what a lot of these politicians' hobbies were.
00:09:31.000We do need to make sure the citizenship is part of what we look at.
00:09:35.000We've broadened the curriculum in schools because I think children and young people ought to learn about citizenship and how we operate as a society more generally.
00:09:48.000It's very important skills that they need for life.
00:09:50.000I'm acutely aware of your point about news because in politics there's always been a heavy sort of focus on newspapers but frankly I don't think many people have young people certainly ever read newspapers anymore or even sit down as a family and watch the six or ten o'clock news.
00:10:11.000It's much more likely to be through social media and really goes with the point this gentleman made.
00:10:16.000We must make sure that we're not cutting off sensible and good access for young people.
00:10:22.000What an extraordinary and sort of sweet man Keir Starmer is in a number of ways with his sort of clumsy blundering through the talking points he was briefed on prior to that conversation and he's recognized that people aren't reading newspapers anymore.
00:10:38.000Under 16 social media ban would almost certainly require compulsory digital ID.
00:10:43.000So the first attempt at getting digital ID normalized and passed, it was going to be mandatory, has failed.
00:10:48.000So I guess you know how these things are engineered.
00:10:52.000For what reason would people submit to greater authority and control?
00:10:56.000Well if their children were under threat.
00:10:59.000I suppose if their children were under threat.
00:11:01.000They reverse engineer scenarios that legitimise control that they would like to take anyway.
00:11:06.000Let's have a look at a reliable authority, the authority of a loving God.
00:11:35.000Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.
00:11:39.000Well, there's a lot bound up in that to quote Keir Starmer, but it talks very clearly that first epistle of John does about authority.
00:11:50.000Authority on earth from a scriptural and Christian perspective is said to be yielded to the devil, to evil.
00:11:57.000And one of the things that surprised me most when coming to Christ is that my long learned and hard-earned understanding that the institutions of power, be they governmental or media or even smaller institutions, that these institutions were broadly speaking generally captured and corrupted, was underwritten by scripture.
00:12:18.000That the Bible tells you clearly that we live in a fallen world, that there is such a thing as evil.
00:12:24.000In our sort of rational time, to talk about the devil and evil and to talk about angels and goodness and even pure and essential ideas decoupled from this splendid and sometimes arcane seeming imagery is unpopular.
00:12:38.000You live in a bureaucratic and managerial world where a bureaucratic and managerial and I'm sure by God's grace a very sweet man like Keir Starmer wrestles with complex ideological notions using managerial and crass language with no certainty that there is such a thing as good or evil.
00:12:58.000All there really is if there is no good or evil is expedience and power.
00:13:10.000The real miracle of coming to Jesus is the understanding that within you is an access point to great, great power, to whole and total power.
00:13:20.000One of the challenges that comes after that that I'm learning about is how to surrender yourself to that power and recognize that that power cannot be located on or directed towards false idols like that quote ends on in fact.
00:13:35.000It ends with the warning that you must keep yourself from idols.
00:13:40.000Idols being in our culture so evidently and obviously the idols that come at you through the culture that always leads you back to self and self-centeredness.
00:13:50.000I'm very interested in where this sort of social media ban will go.
00:13:54.000We know that ultimately what it will be used to do is control information under the auspices of protecting children.
00:14:00.000But if you look at the way that the pandemic period was handled, we're all regarded as children by the state, vulnerable and capable of discerning truth from fiction ourselves, requiring of their constant guidance.
00:14:12.000And that's precisely indeed how the Bible talks to us as well.
00:14:24.000And in the end, there is the requirement for God and man to align again, for a new covenant to be achieved, for our endless sin to be taken upon him, for a new frequency to be established.
00:14:36.000This psychedelic aspect of Christ, what I mean by psychedelic, is something that's superior to, holy, set apart, divine, able to overwhelm this sort of static sense of self that I lived with, this cluster of memories and projections and fears and mount into a malleable self.
00:16:20.000The minute we start saying we're going to turn these devices against you, instead of giving you all our data so you can market to us and control us, we're going to use these devices to run our towns, our communities, our hospitals, our schools, our lives and our roads.
00:16:53.000They're no better or worse than you or I. Sometimes I think they're a bit worse with all the Epstein Island stuff and all that kind of thing.
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00:25:20.000I don't think mass communication works anymore.
00:25:22.000I don't think a model where two teams vie for supremacy with the other team being submitted for a term, you know, in your crazy country and my crazy country is viable anymore.
00:25:34.000If we can't come to some peaceable agreement on pets and sanitation, it shows you how hopeless the model is.
00:25:41.000These are the end times, and in a way, that's good news.
00:25:43.000And I welcome AI and constant synthetic reality because, as you've said before, Jake, perhaps that will encourage people to return to in real life physical contact, handshakes, and communities that we run together.
00:25:55.000You know, you know that on one hand, you want to be able to get on with Muslim folk, you want to be able to get on with dog owners.
00:26:00.000If that's going to start becoming separate camps, you know, my God, when it was like Israel-Palestine, it's like, well, these are ancient and difficult theological and geographical conflicts that are going to be playing out in the new world, in the new technological world.
00:27:15.000Let's have a look at Dave's clip, taking over the world with Lemon Empire, because, you know, at least it's not people scrolling about dogs.
00:27:32.000First, you roll out a multimedia campaign to convince people lemons are incredibly scarce, which only works if you stockpile lemons, control the supply, then a media blitz.
00:27:42.000Lemons are the only way to say I love you.
00:27:44.000A must-have accessory for engagements or anniversaries.
00:28:53.000You get Dr. Oz to recommend four lemons a day and a lemon suppository supplement to get rid of toxins because there is nothing scarier than toxins.
00:29:16.000You get those seeds circulating in the wild.
00:29:19.000And then you sue the farmers for copyright infringement when that genetic code shows up on their land.
00:29:25.000Sit back, rake in the millions, and then when you're done and you've sold your lempire for a few billion dollars, then and only then you make some fucking lemonade.
00:29:41.000There they go That's a way to organize a campaign with the old lemons.
00:29:47.000Now, what about the I want to talk about this image of Bail being burned in Iran?
00:30:59.000Like, kind of could be good from a spiritual perspective, not to feel freighted and weighed down by the past, but with history kind of living and all of these sigils and signs and endless AI.
00:31:46.000Yeah, I didn't tell you that we were going to do this all of a sudden.
00:31:49.000I forget that not everyone's inside of my mind all of the time.
00:31:53.000Well, this is why we've chosen it, because I guess we have this asset that illustrates it.
00:31:59.000Let's check that out and then we'll talk about it.
00:32:00.000All these little breadcrumbs that they're dropping, these Epstein files that so many of you are just gobbling up, not only are they a distraction from whatever else is going on, but they are being done strategically.
00:32:12.000They are being dropped intentionally to get the world sick and tired, to get the world fed up, to get the world disgusted at this satanic system.
00:32:20.000So that when the AC arrives and exposes it all and tears it all down, he will be seen as a Christian.
00:32:29.000He will be seen as doing the Lord's work because he's tearing down a satanic system that everybody is sick of.
00:32:36.000And see, what the enemy is doing is he is propping up people on the world stage to do that exact thing, but on a much smaller scale.
00:32:44.000And when they do, they are instantly seen as a Christian.
00:32:47.000They are instantly seen as somebody who is saved.
00:32:49.000They are instantly seen as somebody who follows Jesus because they are now on our side.
00:32:58.000How can they serve Satan when they are talking about the very system?
00:33:02.000See, I think the church has just forgotten that the word of God warns us that Satan masquerades as an angel of light, that his followers masquerade as servants of righteousness.
00:33:15.000And see, that paves the way for the Antichrist because when he steps out onto the scene, he's going to expose and tear down the satanic system and the world is going to applaud him because he's a Christian.
00:35:12.000So the reason why I say that is, right?
00:35:15.000So this book, the first 164 pages, is where the program of recovery comes from.
00:35:22.000The program is summarized in the 12 steps, okay?
00:35:26.000Four chapters, if you include the doctor's opinion, four chapters are dedicated to step one.
00:35:32.000So that's like a third of the program.
00:35:34.000So not only is it saying you are powerless over alcohol and your life's become unmanageable, within these four chapters, it's showing you there is no other way for you to recover other than a spiritual solution.
00:35:48.000So really, really, if you break it down, it's kind of saying step one and two come together.
00:35:54.000Like you can't do this on your own power.
00:35:57.000Now that you've read through these four chapters, you realize how hopeless this condition is.
00:38:10.000And that's pretty much the beginning of Alcoholics Anonymous from there.
00:38:15.000All right, so that bit of pre-history is to illustrate that there is a fundamental connection between addiction or in this case, explicitly and definitively, alcohol, dependency and spirituality.
00:38:27.000That those two things are inextricable, inseparable, that you can't talk about addiction separate from spirit.
00:38:36.000I suppose in a way that's kind of obvious because it's your inner state that you're trying to, anyone who drinks, even people that drink recreationally, they're doing it to feel a certain feeling.
00:38:47.000And of course, one of the more sort of prosaic statements in that big book is people drink because they like the effect.
00:39:03.000And people that have a tendency to dependency just will do it all the time to the point of destruction and won't notice when the process has become warped, won't be able to intervene and recognize, oh my God, this has gone crazy.
00:39:21.000If you're seriously alcoholic as we were, we believe there is no middle of the road solution.
00:39:26.000We were in a position where life has become impossible.
00:39:30.000And if we passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives.
00:39:38.000One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could.
00:39:46.000And the other to accept spiritual help.
00:39:51.000I like that blotting out there, Joe, blotting out, because I feel that even when we looked at that mouse experiment a little while ago, a couple of shows back, or maybe it was the last show, the sense I get is that of a whole culture blotting out its awareness of reality.
00:40:09.000Not just obviously through substance and consuming orally, but just a constant process of consuming information.
00:40:59.000So I'll have a little look and see what it says at the appendix at the back.
00:41:03.000Oh yeah, it talks about the types of spiritual experience that are available.
00:41:07.000Sort of sudden epiphanies or theophanies, encounters with God, urgent and immediate, such as anyone who's not a fae with spirituality will regard as necessary even to qualify.
00:41:20.000That you want, you know, almost C.S. Lewis's definition, when the train left Paddington station, I wasn't a Christian.
00:41:31.000A spiritual conversion has taken place.
00:41:34.000A very likely way that those conversions, whether it's from drugs and alcohol to abstinence or from believing that the world can provide you with solutions to not believing that anymore, believing only God can save you, is crisis.
00:41:50.000The reason I think that the reason that I'm interested in 12-step ideology beyond my own requirement for it is because I think it's a brilliant way of recognizing that all of us have to make some powerful transformation and some powerful transition from dependency on things to dependency on God.
00:42:12.000And one of the things I'm experiencing a lot lately is I'm trying to stay in, I'm trying to notice when my self-will kicks in.
00:42:44.000There's a way of doing it, and it talks about it later in the book that is more sort of spiritual and internal, where it says, you know, you will get used to relying on your instincts and intuitions, but be careful because you'll pay for it in all sorts of crazy mistakes early on, like believing that your instincts.
00:42:57.000Now, so me, when I'm making decisions now about pretty much anything, I'm trying to go in myself and go, where's this coming from?
00:43:34.000That really the problems all begin with you.
00:43:37.000And what alcohol and alcoholism and addiction do is they make it kind of clear that if you don't take this action and become abstinent, your life is not going to change.
00:44:02.000This is what is triggered if someone says this or if this happens or if I'm tired or all of that.
00:44:06.000To detach from all of it requires a kind of personal resurrection and a personal kind of death.
00:44:12.000And where I always end up now, and I suppose it's understandable because I've not taken drugs or had a drink for 23 years, is how do I continue to apply these ideas now when it's not going to be by God's eternal grace, I'm going to just go get drunk.
00:44:27.000It's going to be I'm going to make a decision.
00:44:29.000And I think for me now, I need to be sort of immersed in continual community.
00:44:35.000Like that I have to straight away watch as like for me is speed is probably the observable thing.
00:44:44.000So my defect of character in a six and seven way that tells me where I most easily fall into self and therefore I'm vulnerable to Satan is impatience.
00:44:54.000I start to think this is taking too long.
00:45:51.000And I mean, it just takes, for me, that active time in the morning, especially in the morning with me, before I even start going, so that I'm not running on self-will.
00:46:24.000Joe, you find that section like where it says that, but not the whole thing, but just the bit where it sort of talks about what starts as the occasional hunch becomes a reliable way of living.
00:46:39.000What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working part of the mind.
00:46:45.000Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times.
00:46:53.000We might pay for this presumption in all sorts of absurd actions and ideas.
00:46:57.000Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration.
00:47:06.000Yeah, getting on that plane of inspiration is the goal.
00:47:10.000And absurd actions is sort of something, you know, when I think about it, Jake, how often in my life I might just be in some mad scenario because I've gone, yeah, because of a total lack of trust in the world and a total lack of trust in self and an inability to tell the difference between that's divine.
00:47:30.000I'm being divinely directed to do this.
00:47:32.000Like there's been loads of times in my life where it's like I felt you're being guided.
00:47:39.000But also it has led to, as it said in that passage, absurd situations and messed up relationships and chaos of like, because me just going, yeah, this is the right thing to do.
00:47:50.000Like it becomes, I think, it can become a sort of superstition if you're not careful.
00:48:58.000And also that in the brokenness, like that when you own your brokenness, it I think facilitates what you are calling and are called the fruits of the spirit mentality.
00:49:09.000One of the ways of checking, oh, am I in the flow of God now is, well, are you being an asshole?
00:49:16.000Because like if you are, you probably aren't.
00:49:19.000Like if it doesn't feel like you are being beautiful and gracious, you know, like it's not always going to be Mary Martha.
00:49:27.000It's not always going to be, listen, while you think it's double important to be fussing in the kitchen and all that, it's not.
00:49:34.000Sit at the feet of Christ and listen and hear.
00:49:37.000And I suppose the challenge is, is because we are living in this sort of post-structuralist and dismantling time where statues are being pulled down, where history is being rewritten, where whole genders and races are being condemned in an attempt to redress assumed, the assumed reverse, to have something you can say, no, this I rely on.
00:50:02.000That's what I will, that I will not do.
00:50:05.000And, you know, this has been very helpful for me reading this book, Faith and Reason, because in it, the Southern Baptist academic Andrew Lawrence, using cultural events, makes claims for universal good in the same way any apologist does, in the same way that C.S. Lewis does, in the same way that C.S. Lewis says that we all know good and bad.
00:50:27.000And he illustrates it with like betrayal and traitors.
00:50:31.000Even though, in a military situation, if intel can be achieved from a spy or a traitor, everyone knows what that person's that person's a rat.
00:50:42.000Everyone knows that's not a cool thing that's going on.
00:50:45.000And my man there said, only I think it's important, Andrew Lawrence, in this book about faith and reason, that when the culture tells you, becomes God, when the culture says we will decide what's right and what's wrong.
00:50:56.000And it note for one thing how it changes all the time, that it's not consistent.
00:51:00.000It's no consistency in one minute, this is our cherished set of ideals.
00:51:05.000Oh, now this is our cherished set of ideals.
00:51:07.000And notice how often in the political space people switch up who believes what.
00:51:11.000Hold on, aren't you the free speech ones?
00:51:13.000Oh, aren't you the ones that believe in individual bodily autonomy?
00:51:17.000No, we're the ones that believe in individual bodily autonomy because there's no persistent or consistent principle.
00:51:22.000There's just materialism and control at work there.
00:51:26.000He uses the sort of example of this like defining recent moment in our culture when Elliot Page went on Oprah Wimfrey to declare their sex change.
00:51:36.000That Oprah Wimphrey's default position is one that the culture cedes to quite frequently.
00:51:43.000That you in yourself must become yourself.
00:51:48.000You know who you are, and you must become who you are.
00:51:50.000And all of us must, Elliot Page, you know, you were Ellen Page, now be Elliot Page.
00:51:55.000And from a compassionate perspective, I obviously anyone will be sympathetic about not pretending to be someone that you're not, masklessness.
00:52:04.000But this idea that who you are is fundamentally and essentially good and should be pursued at all costs is actually a satanic idea, a Luciferian idea, a false light idea.
00:52:15.000The false light of self must not be allowed to bleach out the true light of Christ.
00:52:21.000Because if the greatest expression of yourself and the fullest expression of yourself was pedophilia or murder or rape, everyone knows you're not meant to do that.
00:52:29.000Oprah Wimphrey knows you're not meant to do that.
00:52:32.000Everyone knows you're not meant to do that.
00:52:39.000No, because if it's a human, you're going to end up in quarrels and arguments and conflict.
00:52:44.000So when it says here that through the crisis of alcoholism, we will eventually over time if we practice the program and remain abstinent and take from the see how Indiana Jones moves that stone off the thing and like puts the bag of sand there.
00:53:01.000If you take from the driving seat of your reality self and replace it with God, you are going to become able to know instinctively how to behave in different situations.
00:53:13.000But there is still in the same way that there are the fruits of the spirit, there are the challenges of the flesh.
00:53:17.000In 12-step lit, it's the promises are you will become all these things if you practice the program.
00:53:24.000And the bedevilments are this is what you are when you're in your disease.
00:54:56.000Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.
00:55:05.000Under these conditions, we can employ our mental faculties with assurance.
00:55:10.000For after all, God gave us brains to use.
00:55:13.000I thought life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives.
00:55:18.000In thinking about our day ahead, we may face indecision.
00:55:22.000We may not be able to determine which course to take.
00:55:25.000Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or decision.
00:55:33.000We are often surprised how the right answer comes after we have tried this for a while.
00:55:37.000Then it rolls over the bit we were just talking about.
00:55:40.000I like that it begins with on awakening.
00:55:43.000And someone said to me once in AA, one of the things that's been good that's great about going to 12-step groups is like it starts off with just, oh, I can't drink, I can't drink, I can't take drugs, can't take drugs.
00:55:53.000And then you start to encounter people that are incredibly wise, like all over the world, whose job is nothing to do with how wise they are.
00:56:00.000They're just some bloke or some woman who, like, I've had it happen around here.
00:56:04.000Someone just give me incredible insights.
00:56:06.000Like, and it happened the whole time I've been in recovery because they're people that are forced to live outside of the world.
00:56:11.000They're forced to live their life upon spiritual lines.
00:56:15.000And one of them around there said to me that on that reading begins with, upon awakening, it says in it, like the first words of it, Joe.
00:56:22.000He said, that might not mean in the morning.
00:56:39.000And it reminds me of this verse from scripture that I've been thinking about a lot from John's Gospel, chapter 3.
00:56:47.000After Christ has spoken to Nicodemus in his nocturnal soiree with a sadducee, an informed student of the law, we have this encounter where John the Baptist's disciples sort of almost try and goad him a little bit, Joe.
00:57:03.000Like, I see everyone's off with this new guy.
00:57:06.000And John the Baptist says, the bride belongs to the bridegroom.
00:57:13.000The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice.
00:57:33.000John the Baptist, like it may see with the joyful mysteries, I've always wondered, like the first mystery is Gabriel telling Mary, get ready.
00:57:48.000And the next one is she goes to visit her cousin and the baby jumps in Elizabeth's belly.
00:57:55.000And I've always thought, how's that made it all the way to the rosary this moment?
00:58:01.000And I can't claim to understand it, but I feel like it must be to do with the nascent in utero John knows then.
00:58:09.000He knows even before he's born that the Messiah is coming, that his cousin is the Messiah, that he's the one that has to make straight the ways.
00:58:18.000And I like that what it comes down to is as, as always, a death of self.
00:58:26.000That even John, like even John, who's, you know, by Christ reckoning the greatest prophet that ever lived, says, I must become less.
00:58:38.000And that wisdom is parroted throughout that 12-step thing.
00:58:43.000That what we eventually want to do is like, you know, we want a good antidote to whenever we have a resentment at some point in the past, we usually find we've made a decision based on self that's put us in a position to be hurt.
00:59:35.000Yeah, I think that's where, but that's where you grow in that God consciousness.
00:59:39.000So I've the last, God, several months, I've been going back and I've almost consistently done 86 through 88 in the morning, which is like foundational for me.
00:59:51.000And like sitting down, taking that time, going, okay, the first couple of things it says is on awakening, we think about the 24 hours ahead.
01:00:02.000Then it says we consider and then we ask.
01:00:05.000And so it's like, we think, we consider and ask.
01:00:09.000Those are three things that I usually don't do before acting.
01:00:12.000I'm like, I act and then I consider it and think about what happened afterwards.
01:00:17.000It's like, when I took the positional change in step three, I said, you're going to be the director.
01:00:23.000So the very first thing you ask him in 86 is to direct my thinking.
01:00:29.000And so when I'm asking him to direct my thinking, that's where I'm considering my plans for the day.
01:00:37.000Like his thinking, I want him to interrupt my day with stuff that he would have me be because I want the life that he wants me to have versus what I think I need, which is tough.
01:00:53.000I think it's super tough with being entrepreneurial.
01:00:58.000Like, and especially in your case, because, yes, we do have the community part, but in your case, like, I mean, it would be even more difficult.
01:01:09.000Like, I already struggle with trusting people or having anyone trying to control me.
01:01:14.000Like, I don't necessarily want to control anyone else, but don't try and control me.
01:01:19.000And for you, it's like, especially your experience in Hollywood and stuff, you had people, I mean, everyone.
01:01:37.000There's always some alternative motive.
01:01:39.000And so I think it takes a while building up genuine friendships and recovery that you can trust.
01:01:46.000That if Joe comes to me and says something, calls me out on something, that I know that I can trust him, that it's really for my good.
01:01:56.000And it's not for him in some sort of way or to, you know, that he doesn't have some alternative motive for it, which to me has been, that's been really helpful.
01:02:06.000When you're trying to grow in like a God consciousness, I don't think, I mean a big part of it is that listening to God throughout the day and not being blocked off with resentments and stuff like that.
01:02:20.000But I think a lot of that, I mean, I get a lot through my good friends that tell me things through 10-stepping stuff and even just good friends just sharing with me.
01:02:33.000And I think I think I understand some of that.
01:02:37.000I think you probably understand that to a whole other degree just because of your background and experience.
01:03:31.000If I, in my field of vision, if attractive woman, I've spent so long and I think you're culturally, geometrically almost predisposed to sort of notice attractive woman, like it's like a scan.
01:03:45.000And I've noticed that there's some secondary thing now.
01:04:54.000This bit is a nascent period, a period of incubation and reflection and discovery and learning that will include podcasts where we just sit around and sort of talk quite gently.
01:05:05.000Because the next bit, I've got a feeling is going to involve the implementation of direct democracies, powerful evangelism, frontline cultural warfare, spiritual warfare, exhausting, potent stuff if it's his will.
01:05:19.000And if it's not his will, if his will is go live in a shed somewhere, I'm starting to find that idea quite attractive.
01:05:25.000Actually, go and live in a shed somewhere, grow vegetables, you know, hunt stuff.
01:05:50.000I'm going to take a week off and go to the United Kingdom to go to a preliminary hearing for the trials that I'm undertaking later on this year.