Stay Free - Russel Brand - Taxes for the Rich and Psychedelics for the Masses — SF707

00:00:08.000 Russell Brand, controversial conspiracy theorist.

00:00:12.000 Trying to bring real journalism to the American people.

00:00:16.000 Hello there, you awakening wonders.

00:00:18.000 Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.

00:00:22.000 Are you looks maxing? 0.99

00:00:23.000 You're hideous. 1.00

00:00:24.000 Start hitting yourself in the face with a hammer. 1.00

00:00:27.000 It's a disturbing new trend. 0.96

00:00:29.000 Guys hitting themselves deliberately on the face with hammers and other objects.

00:00:34.000 Dave, you look like you've been doing it.

00:00:36.000 You've never looked more chiseled.

00:00:38.000 Yeah, you've been looks maxing yourself senseless.

00:00:38.000 Guilty.

00:00:40.000 Wherever you're watching this right now, come over to Rumble.

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00:00:45.000 In the next few minutes, we'll be talking about Joe Rogan's visit to the White House and the use of psychedelic drugs as a new medicine.

00:00:52.000 My first thought is they caused that opioid crisis, like Big Pharma, and then they're using Big Pharma once more to actually solve the opioid crisis or at least sweep up some of the human casualties.

00:01:04.000 But let me know what you think in the comments and chats.

00:01:06.000 It reminds you of COVID a little bit, like DARPA are over there in Wuhan experimenting on gain of function.

00:01:12.000 And then they benefit from the cure as well.

00:01:14.000 I mean, I'm being very sort of general when I talk about the pharmaceutical industry, particularly in terms of DARPA.

00:01:19.000 Whereas Reborn Methylene Blue from Ole Russ, what it lacks in FDA approval, it makes up for in being able to turn your teeth blue in an instant.

00:01:30.000 So instead of hammering yourself in the face, maybe hammer yourself in the heart with a bit of Methylene Blue.

00:01:36.000 And if you haven't got a copy yet of my wonderful book, How to Become Christian in Seven Days, it's available.

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00:01:46.000 I'm really, really pleased with it.

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00:01:56.000 That's the truth.

00:01:57.000 And in fact, you could come and see me do my live show.

00:02:00.000 A funny thing happened on the way to church.

00:02:02.000 There's a link in the description.

00:02:03.000 Come see me do that live if you're in Florida.

00:02:07.000 If you're not in Florida, come to Florida.

00:02:08.000 I'm doing it in a.

00:02:10.000 When?

00:02:10.000 When is it that I'm doing that?

00:02:11.000 May 18th and 19th.

00:02:13.000 May 18th and 19th.

00:02:14.000 That's coming up soon.

00:02:15.000 I'll see you then.

00:02:16.000 Come see me.

00:02:16.000 It's really good fun.

00:02:17.000 It's a great show.

00:02:18.000 And I think probably we'll have a book there.

00:02:19.000 For everybody, we'll work out something.

00:02:21.000 Anyway, okay, let's get into this.

00:02:24.000 So, first of all, we'll start off with looks maxing.

00:02:27.000 It's difficult to see how Jake could become more beautiful or Dave, but it seems like one of the options is smashing themselves in the face with a hammer.

00:02:35.000 In a minute, we'll have a nurse from reverse to ensure that we remain connected in some tertiary way to the divine, holy power that is your birth rate.

00:02:43.000 Let's have a look at this looks maxing first, though.

00:02:45.000 It's a disturbing new trend.

00:02:47.000 Guys hitting themselves deliberately on the face with hammers and other objects.

00:02:52.000 Why?

00:02:53.000 They think it will give them a more chiseled, handsome look.

00:02:56.000 But as Jim Moray reports, doctors are sounding the alarm.

00:03:01.000 It's a bizarre trend that's hard to believe.

00:03:04.000 These young men are hitting themselves in the face with hammers, even saucepans.

00:03:09.000 Get this, they think it will improve their looks.

00:03:12.000 It's called looks maxing and it's being promoted on social media by 20 year old Braden Peters, a controversial influencer who calls himself clavicular and has 800,000 followers.

00:03:23.000 You gotta hit the chin hard.

00:03:25.000 He spoke his awful.

00:03:26.000 He is actually gorgeous looking.

00:03:28.000 He's a gorgeous looking lad, but we find ourselves in a kind of post satirical time now where Most of the information and news we consume, it's kind of difficult to distinguish it from a, in your language, a kind of Jon Stewart show sketch. 0.96

00:03:43.000 Or in mine, the Peerless Brass Eye by Chris Morris used to come up with scenarios that were actually less stupid than looks Maxine. 0.98

00:03:51.000 I mean, maybe, I don't know, maybe there's something in it hitting yourself in the face with a hammer. 0.98

00:03:56.000 Is it in a way any worse than flagellation or mortification of the flesh?

00:04:01.000 I suppose it is, because the end point is to look a bit nicer, and that seems like a.

00:04:07.000 I don't know, an unusual aim to pursue up to the point of toolkit.

00:04:12.000 Why are you looking at me like that?

00:04:13.000 You think that?

00:04:15.000 I feel like, would you do it?

00:04:18.000 Yeah.

00:04:19.000 That is one of the things I thought of.

00:04:20.000 Like when I saw him doing it, I thought, do you think it works?

00:04:24.000 That's what I thought.

00:04:25.000 I mean, come on.

00:04:27.000 I mean, the fish tank cleaner and all that kind of stuff.

00:04:30.000 But what I will say is, I do feel a bit better when I do it.

00:04:34.000 That's what it's become.

00:04:37.000 However, I suppose the truth is that when I thought taking heroin was the right thing to do, I did that as well, very enthusiastically and obsessively.

00:04:45.000 So I don't know.

00:04:46.000 Let me just declare right now that I'm not, perhaps not the best person to follow when it comes to fads, trends, or anything like that.

00:04:54.000 If I'm not dealing directly with eternity and eternal principles, probably chew me right out.

00:04:58.000 Let's have a little bit more of a look at these adorable young people who, if you ask me, are beautiful enough as they are, hitting themselves in the face with tools in an attempt to achieve, Lord alone knows exactly what.

00:05:08.000 His off the wall message on 60 Minutes Australia.

00:05:11.000 When you break down a bone, it grows back stronger.

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00:06:52.000 So you're intentionally creating these traumas, typically on your cheekbones, your chin.

00:06:58.000 But he walked out of that interview.

00:07:00.000 Actually, I can start to see the signs of it now.

00:07:02.000 It makes sense.

00:07:03.000 This lad, clavicular.

00:07:04.000 What?

00:07:05.000 Clavicle?

00:07:05.000 Well, I'm named after the collarbone.

00:07:08.000 Extraordinary.

00:07:09.000 Name as well.

00:07:10.000 What unusual business.

00:07:11.000 Let me know in locals and on Rumble and Rumble Premium if you are willing to hammer yourself in the face with a blunt object in order to achieve temporary beauty, which will eventually and inevitably fade.

00:07:21.000 And if you've wedded your identity to what you look like, you've got some terrible, terrible shocks coming down the pipe because, you know, all true beauty fades.

00:07:30.000 Everything must die.

00:07:31.000 What are you saying, Dave? 0.98

00:07:33.000 When they're hit, I wonder how hard.

00:07:34.000 I mean, he said to break the bone.

00:07:36.000 When they're showing it, it's like they're barely a little tapping, but.

00:07:40.000 He's talking about breaking your actual bone.

00:07:42.000 These are just little fractures that will grow back stronger.

00:07:46.000 This is science behind.

00:07:47.000 Don't do it, Jake.

00:07:48.000 You can't do it with your hand.

00:07:49.000 You can't manually do it.

00:07:50.000 You require a hammer, you laddie.

00:07:52.000 You can't just do it willy nilly.

00:07:54.000 Joe would do it.

00:07:55.000 He will have already done it. 0.53

00:07:56.000 He walked out of that interview moments after he was asked about links between looks maxing and incels, guys who hate women.

00:08:04.000 How do you feel about being linked to that group?

00:08:07.000 Thanks for the time.

00:08:07.000 Appreciate the interview.

00:08:09.000 I spoke with Beverly.

00:08:10.000 People are always walking out of interviews now.

00:08:12.000 I'm going on Meghan Kelly's show and Piers Morgan's show later on this week.

00:08:17.000 Probably it's happening now, as a matter of fact, we're taping this.

00:08:19.000 And I'm going to walk out of both of them.

00:08:21.000 I've already decided.

00:08:24.000 No, that's enough of that.

00:08:24.000 I'm going to go.

00:08:25.000 He doesn't mean it.

00:08:26.000 And I'm going to do it actually when things are not even remotely contentious.

00:08:31.000 I'm just going to surprise myself.

00:08:32.000 Walk out on a high note.

00:08:33.000 Sorry, sorry.

00:08:34.000 No, no, I can't have that. 0.97

00:08:36.000 Look at these amazing shorts.

00:08:38.000 All right, so let's finish this then.

00:08:40.000 Quit Beverly Hills plastic surgeon.

00:08:42.000 Dr. Michael Zarabi.

00:08:44.000 What do you make of this trend of look-smaxing and taking a hammer to your own face?

00:08:48.000 You can damage muscles and cause permanent muscle injury.

00:08:51.000 You can even damage nerves that can result.

00:08:54.000 However, injecting Botox into your face, that's fantastic.

00:08:57.000 Or puffing your lips up so that you turn your face into living pornography is also fantastic.

00:09:05.000 I suppose, in a sense, the reason it's happened, the culture is going to create some crazy stuff in the end, isn't it?

00:09:11.000 Because for a long time, all of us have assumed what you look like is of supreme importance.

00:09:16.000 Even people that don't think it's important, it is important.

00:09:18.000 Just look at how, you know, partnerships aggregate out.

00:09:22.000 Do notice that people, generally speaking, Go out with someone who's about as good looking as they are, more or less in general, or they've got loads of money and they use that money to hack the system.

00:09:33.000 So, like, we've all agreed as a culture that there's some sort of parity and there's some kind of system, so we can't argue with that.

00:09:39.000 And then we've started to, like, indulge the idea that you can inject yourself with all sorts of crazy stuff.

00:09:45.000 I've done crazy stuff in the pursuit of beauty, both inner and outer.

00:09:49.000 So, it's hardly surprising that once the valves come off communication and access to comms, And media people start doing things that are absurd.

00:09:59.000 I think a lot about Warship Down by Richard Adams.

00:10:02.000 It's a story about a community of rabbits that go on a kind of a diaspora that gets dislodged from their home.

00:10:07.000 Anyway, but they encounter like a communist society, utopian societies.

00:10:12.000 But the one that's most disturbing, I think, is one where the rabbits have lost touch with their instincts and live in these peculiar formulaic dances.

00:10:19.000 And all of us now have become like zoo animals, so disconnected from nature, both inner and outer, so. 0.91

00:10:26.000 Godless and hopeless and ridiculous, that in the end, tapping yourself on the face with a hammer or getting Botox or like putting sacks of saline under your skin so it looks like you've got bigger boobs or I don't Lord alone knows what. 0.96

00:10:40.000 There's times in my life where I would have done all of those things. 0.99

00:10:43.000 We're living in a kind of total insanity, and these are just the never ending observable symptoms of it. 0.98

00:10:49.000 How can that plastic surgeon come on there and go, Well, these look-smaxing guys are ridiculous? 0.99

00:10:54.000 However, if you'd like nine titties, I'll do them for you. 0.99

00:10:58.000 Damage nerves that can result in.

00:11:00.000 Facial weakness, or even areas of numbness.

00:11:03.000 And in extreme examples, you can even damage the brain and cause, for example, a concussion.

00:11:08.000 So it's absolutely not the right thing to do.

00:11:12.000 Listen to what this plastic surgeon says happened to one guy who tried looks maxing.

00:11:16.000 A patient took a hammer, hammered it to the face, broke the bone, and the bone on the bottom of the eyeball flipped up and popped the eye, and he went blind.

00:11:26.000 Oh my gosh.

00:11:27.000 Clavicular's life took a dark turn earlier this week when he appeared to suffer an overdose in a Miami nightclub during a live stream.

00:11:34.000 Rescue 16, 20 year old male, overdose.

00:11:37.000 He was carried out and taken to the hospital.

00:11:39.000 This morning, he posted, just got home.

00:11:42.000 That was brutal.

00:11:43.000 You should not be following someone like Clavicular and getting medical and health advice.

00:11:50.000 Nonsense.

00:11:51.000 The boy's a genius.

00:11:52.000 I've never looked more beautiful.

00:11:54.000 Clavicular, everyone.

00:11:55.000 Like, don't you know, actually, that what the culture does is it elevates people to positions of visibility so that it can tell a particular story.

00:12:02.000 Look at this kid, clavicular.

00:12:03.000 Never heard of him.

00:12:04.000 A dude.

00:12:04.000 Like, if you're not 15 or whatever, of course you haven't.

00:12:07.000 Now you have.

00:12:07.000 And what have you heard of him?

00:12:09.000 Incels he's connected to. 0.99

00:12:10.000 Hitting himself on the face with a hammer. 0.73

00:12:12.000 What is the ultimate aim of bringing him to the forefront? 0.94

00:12:14.000 It's a degenerative aim to tell you that there's a sort of an evolution out of the Andrew Tate space of, like, extreme machismo and masculinity.

00:12:23.000 These peculiar Codes and trends of vanity.

00:12:26.000 I recognized it when I was in normal celebrity days, you know, like, oh, I see what I am.

00:12:31.000 I'm here to sort of promote the idea of hedonism and decadence. 0.99

00:12:34.000 Look at this British bad boy. 1.00

00:12:36.000 He talks funny. 1.00

00:12:37.000 He's wearing mascara.

00:12:39.000 Then, once they've churned through you, then there's nothing else there.

00:12:42.000 But, like, it happens, I think, at all gradients of the culture as well.

00:12:46.000 Even people that are sanctioned academics and intellectuals are similarly just objects that the culture spits out to tell a story.

00:12:53.000 It's kind of A neo pagan pantheonism.

00:12:57.000 This god, Yuval Noah Harari, tells you that AI is inevitable.

00:13:01.000 This god, Russell Brand, tells you that hedonism and decadence are fun.

00:13:07.000 This god here, Clavicular, he's telling you that there's a kind of inanity and foolishness about online culture.

00:13:13.000 We're all being sort of used and plopped like little objects into the pool of the common consciousness to ensure that you never discover the absolute supreme truth.

00:13:22.000 I mean, I'm holding up my own book here because it explains it and I get paid for that one.

00:13:26.000 But, you know, save yourself.

00:13:28.000 Some money and time with that one.

00:13:30.000 Dave, I can't imagine anyone being more beautiful than you currently are.

00:13:35.000 Nevertheless, I'm going to set about you in a minute with a Stanley knife, a hammer, and a chisel.

00:13:40.000 I won't rest till you're nothing but gorgeous bone like Skeletor.

00:13:44.000 You never really even worried about what you look like, do you?

00:13:47.000 I don't think about it too much.

00:13:49.000 Jake, you've always been some moody, dark pooled sort of swamp man straight out of Louisiana, some Cajun fetid thing.

00:13:55.000 But you do care about your looks.

00:13:57.000 You do that beard sometimes, don't you?

00:13:59.000 This beard?

00:14:00.000 Yeah, you're dialing it up, dialing it down.

00:14:02.000 A little mustache, change it up a little bit.

00:14:05.000 Handsome is what I call you.

00:14:06.000 I'm going to trim this down for when I'm on Megan Kelly and Piers Morgan before I do my storm ops. 0.99

00:14:11.000 Miss Stormski Daniels, now it's time for a nurse with a verse. 1.00

00:14:15.000 Dave, be prepared to stand up out of that area.

00:14:17.000 We'll get a verse of scripture from Nurse Nikki, who's, you know, like how Michael Jackson used to have some doctor jacking him up with stuff the whole time in case he mentioned Palestine and they're ready to go with the paedophile allegations. 0.56

00:14:30.000 Well, we now have Nurse Nikki loading us up with NADs.

00:14:34.000 And all manner of healthy injections to keep us in prim, tip top shape so we don't have to hammer ourselves in the face to remain young looking.

00:14:42.000 Thanks for joining us, Nurse Nikki.

00:14:44.000 Absolutely.

00:14:45.000 Nurse Nikki, what verse did you choose for us today?

00:14:48.000 Today I have Colossians 3 1 and 2.

00:14:52.000 Therefore, if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

00:15:01.000 Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.

00:15:07.000 Oh, why did you choose that?

00:15:08.000 It's a good one, isn't it?

00:15:11.000 It was, well, first of all, I'll give a nod to my church service on Sunday.

00:15:14.000 It was in there, but I think it's one of those anchor scriptures for us that have received Christ.

00:15:19.000 And if you haven't received Christ, I just encourage you to because there's such a reality of like that hidden peace that we have.

00:15:26.000 The world is chaotic, there's a lot of things going on out there, but we are hidden in Christ.

00:15:30.000 And there's just a safety and a security that comes to me in that, you know, in the midst of living in this chaotic, broken, fallen world that, uh, He's got a secure place for me, but then also to shift my mind when I feel anxious or insecure or prideful to reorient myself to the things above.

00:15:49.000 Yeah, that's good.

00:15:51.000 How are you doing it in the moment?

00:15:53.000 Where are you most pushed?

00:15:56.000 Family, work, Massey Radfah.

00:16:00.000 It's everywhere all the time.

00:16:00.000 All the things.

00:16:02.000 I think it's just a matter of abiding.

00:16:05.000 I think the longer, I don't know, when you've experienced the peace of God, then you know when you don't have it anymore.

00:16:13.000 And so I think just trying to stay in that space of abiding in Him.

00:16:16.000 And so a good, bad fruit, right, reminds me that I must not be setting my mind on the things above.

00:16:24.000 Yeah.

00:16:25.000 That is good, isn't it?

00:16:26.000 When you start to interpret your own agitation and irritation, not As indicators that there's a problem that needs to be solved outside of yourself, but that you yourself have let go of the thread.

00:16:38.000 I'm just learning to do it now.

00:16:40.000 And I'm trying to teach my kids it in real time so that they sort of grow up a little more competent and less crazy than me.

00:16:47.000 Thank you, Nikki, for that.

00:16:48.000 If you would like to receive a nurse from a verse, no, a verse from a nurse, then tell us what your challenges are in the comments and chat.

00:16:56.000 Those of you in locals who we dearly love, Paul Schrober, don't be sarcastic, only sincere problems.

00:17:01.000 And Jake, I can't tell you that's as soon as you start playing that.

00:17:05.000 I become, it changes my entire mode of being.

00:17:08.000 I feel so much more relaxed.

00:17:10.000 I don't need looks maxing.

00:17:12.000 None of you need to maximize your looks.

00:17:14.000 Or, like, what about that fella, what's called Brian something or another, that we nearly have on the show sometimes, who I think is probably a lovely human being, but he's turned himself into an adult baby.

00:17:24.000 You know what I mean, don't you?

00:17:25.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:17:26.000 He turned himself to an adult baby.

00:17:28.000 The guy lives forever.

00:17:29.000 You can't live forever in this device.

00:17:32.000 You have to let go of this.

00:17:33.000 He's a vampire.

00:17:34.000 Yeah, an adult baby.

00:17:36.000 I think, and I say that as a person who once went to an adult baby service, and it was, it's not something I want to talk about now.

00:17:44.000 I did go to an adult baby service.

00:17:46.000 What's that?

00:17:47.000 It was in Folkestone. 0.91

00:17:48.000 I went, all right, adult baby service is where you can pay, in this case, a lady, and probably it's always a lady. 0.70

00:17:55.000 I was, at least before I was famous, I was doing a bunch of crazy stuff. 1.00

00:17:58.000 And I went down to the adult baby service in Folkestone, I think it was, which is on the coast, which now would be beset with migrants. 1.00

00:18:04.000 We're talking about migrant crisis in the UK in a minute.

00:18:06.000 And the lady there, what you do is you get a nappy or a diaper put on you and then she treats you like a baby. 1.00

00:18:14.000 And then you can take it.

00:18:16.000 There's a point where I found it necessary to act like an adult, to tell the truth, in the most adult way plausible.

00:18:24.000 But up till that point, it was weeing and, you know, well, you are able to, if you're able to relax the urethra, you're going to get a better adult baby experience.

00:18:36.000 Oh, my God.

00:18:37.000 I don't think she was really actually, I would say, properly set up for adult baby service. 0.89

00:18:42.000 I think she'd just like, say, if you are a sex worker, and some of you will be, and may the Lord save you.

00:18:48.000 Like that, you might add different things that you do. 0.97

00:18:51.000 Like, you know, go, I do massage, I do sadomasochism, I do piddling or whatever.

00:18:57.000 You know, I don't know what people want these days.

00:18:59.000 The kids are pretty crazy.

00:19:00.000 They're hammering themselves in the face, as far as I can understand.

00:19:02.000 And I think she added adult baby without really having too much of a setup for it.

00:19:07.000 She certainly gave me a good wallet with a carpet beater at one point. 0.52

00:19:11.000 You know, a carpet beater, you know, like to beat dust out of a rug.

00:19:14.000 I was thinking, well, I don't know what kind of baby would want this.

00:19:16.000 I mean, this is a baby at a badly run orphanage, this is a maltreated baby.

00:19:22.000 This is not the type of baby that I wanted to be.

00:19:24.000 Nevertheless, it was a perfectly good afternoon of fun.

00:19:27.000 And that's the kind of stuff I did when I was a kid.

00:19:30.000 That's why you can trust that I'm doing it.

00:19:31.000 There needs to be a new segment.

00:19:32.000 It's like, I don't know what to call it, but like things that were normal to me until I explained them to someone else.

00:19:40.000 A segment with Russell Brand.

00:19:41.000 Yeah.

00:19:42.000 The way I lived my whole life.

00:19:43.000 Wait a minute.

00:19:44.000 That's not normal.

00:19:45.000 Oh, oh, okay.

00:19:48.000 Fair enough.

00:19:49.000 I'm sure it'll all work out.

00:19:51.000 Okay.

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00:22:04.000 Okay, welcome back.

00:22:05.000 Thanks for joining us.

00:22:06.000 Joe Rogan was in the White House just a couple of days ago endorsing the use of psychedelics for the treatment of addiction.

00:22:15.000 Once in a while, there'll be a subject on this show that I happen to know something about.

00:22:19.000 This is one of them drug addiction, psychedelics.

00:22:23.000 Politics, transcendence, recovery, we're right in my wheelhouse.

00:22:27.000 So, is it right that Joe Rogan visited Trump in the White House?

00:22:31.000 Is it important to focus on the areas where many people still think Trump is succeeding?

00:22:36.000 His many moves have been made around the HHS and human health services that some regard as successful.

00:22:41.000 Or do you find it rather troubling that the pharmaceutical industry that themselves willfully and yet somehow negligently induced the opioid crisis now stand to benefit financially?

00:22:56.000 From its resolution.

00:22:58.000 Let's get into it.

00:23:00.000 Okay, so this is the story in text form.

00:23:02.000 Donald Trump, and maybe you could run B roll over this, Massy, so it's like nice and you don't have to look at me craning and reading.

00:23:07.000 Donald Trump has signed an executive order to accelerate access to medical research and treatments involving psychedelic drugs.

00:23:13.000 The US President hailed the initiative as a means to help veterans struggling with serious mental health issues and widen treatment options.

00:23:20.000 Veterans, they're used for everything, aren't they?

00:23:22.000 Veterans.

00:23:22.000 Quick, get a veteran.

00:23:24.000 To help veterans, Neuralink.

00:23:26.000 To help veterans.

00:23:27.000 You're all going to jail.

00:23:28.000 To help veterans, we're going to create more veterans in an unwinnable war.

00:23:32.000 Can I have some, please?

00:23:33.000 The US president joked at an event in the Oval Office on Saturday, flanked by health officials.

00:23:38.000 I'll take whatever it takes.

00:23:39.000 I don't have time to be depressed, he added.

00:23:41.000 What a cool way to handle it.

00:23:44.000 The US has long suffered from a large-scale opioid crisis, triggered in part by the over-prescription of strong painkillers.

00:23:51.000 Yes, significantly.

00:23:53.000 These have acted as gateway drugs to highly addictive and dangerous synthetic drugs such as fentanyl, which has the effects of strong heroin.

00:24:00.000 The Food and Drug Administration could also create a pathway for several ill patients to access experimental drugs that have not yet been approved once they've passed early-stage clinical trials.

00:24:14.000 Ibergane, a potent psychedelic derived from the root of a shrub native to Central Africa, which scientists think may help to treat opioid addiction and other substance use disorders.

00:24:23.000 Trump said, In many cases, these experimental treatments have shown life changing potential for those suffering from severe mental illness and depression, including our cherished veterans.

00:24:33.000 Our veterans are having a tremendously hard time.

00:24:35.000 Alongside him were Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Joe Rogan, the podcaster.

00:24:40.000 Both have previously advocated for easing restrictions on psychedelics.

00:24:43.000 Veterans and psychedelic advocates have long contended that Ibergane has great promise for treating conditions such as.

00:24:48.000 Post traumatic stress disorder and opioid addiction.

00:24:51.000 In recent years, US veterans have reported benefiting from the drug after traveling to clinics in Central and South America.

00:24:56.000 It costs thousands of dollars to sample.

00:24:59.000 Okay, that's a really fantastic and interesting set of insights.

00:25:02.000 Ibergane and psychedelics more broadly are the kind of drugs that I've long been, drugs, substances, plant medicine, whatever you want to call it, that I've long been fascinated with.

00:25:10.000 Why?

00:25:10.000 Because it changes consciousness itself.

00:25:12.000 Whether you drink alcohol, smoke, weed, whatever you're doing, you want to change the way you feel.

00:25:16.000 Whether or not you have a problem with it, like a tendency towards addiction, attachment, and habitual and destructive.

00:25:21.000 Drug misuse is secondary to the deep and peculiar truth that we can induce states through natural substances that appear to alter the very fabric of reality.

00:25:35.000 I've never taken that, I began.

00:25:36.000 I've read quite a lot about it because I've maintained a fascination with substances that alter the way that reality appears and feels.

00:25:44.000 Because I suppose what it introduces you to is the very important and fundamental truth that there is no hard and objective reality, that you are, in fact, Interfacing with reality and co creating it as you live and breathe continually.

00:25:59.000 I took a lot of psychedelics when I was young, and it was what first introduced me to the idea that God is real, that you can't, that God is real.

00:26:10.000 That's the.

00:26:14.000 Like, I've gone into such a flow with it all that it's sort of because it's the sort of it's the conversation I'm still having right now is that there's an apparent external world that you receive via the senses, but what is the recipient of the senses and how can you alter it?

00:26:34.000 The thing is, with many drugs, like how did we say the thing?

00:26:39.000 Diabetham methyl tryptaline, obviously, we were so close, is that.

00:26:45.000 Is that it doesn't induce more neurological activity but less.

00:26:49.000 It restricts neurological activity.

00:26:52.000 But there's a reality that's trying to flood into you that you are prevented from fully experiencing because you are anchored in and tethered to a false identity.

00:27:02.000 It's a very, very interesting thing.

00:27:06.000 The points that I'd like to sort of tackle as best as I can is one, addiction is a spiritual problem anyway.

00:27:13.000 People that are using drugs habitually and addictively are trying to resolve a spiritual issue the way that they feel.

00:27:19.000 They're trying to amend it and change it by inducing a charge to the material and sensual world that it cannot carry.

00:27:27.000 If you use psychedelics to kind of disrupt a habit or a tendency, it's likely that it can have short term benefits.

00:27:33.000 But if you're an addict like I am, you need a sustained and ongoing program.

00:27:40.000 You need to have a spiritual experience and then the ongoing support of a community.

00:27:44.000 Because the truth is this we forget, we encounter God, and then we forget that we've encountered God.

00:27:49.000 Indeed, the Gospels are full of the peculiar recalcitrance of the disciples who encounter the miraculous and then return to the mundane.

00:27:59.000 They go fishing after they've seen the risen Christ.

00:28:03.000 It's really hard to remain in spirit.

00:28:06.000 On a more sort of mundial level, it's really strange to see.

00:28:11.000 Stuff that I've known about for a long while really seeping and bleeding into the mainstream.

00:28:17.000 And to hear something like Ibergane or substances like ayahuasca or psilocybin spoken of in kind of moot and pharmaceutical terms because they are profound, they have the profound power to impact the living water, the flow of consciousness itself.

00:28:38.000 So, hey, with this thing.

00:28:41.000 With this thing, I reckon on a like the most rudimentary feeling I have is one of kind of like I'm sort of appalled by it a little bit because it is effective and it will be effective.

00:28:58.000 But if you were to pursue the thread that you are taking hold of when acknowledging the power of psychedelics, you would unravel the very fabric of the systems that tether us to the material and sensory world.

00:29:12.000 It's another avenue that's so strange.

00:29:15.000 Think about just like relatively modern cultural history, like Steve Jobs did a bunch of acid, didn't he?

00:29:19.000 Like that's a sort of a famous thing that one of the things that brought him to the forefront of his own ingenuity and made him one of the greatest and most impactful social, cultural, technological engineers of recent times is that he had access to planes of reality, likely through that psychedelic use and some other in here genius that changed reality for all of us.

00:29:38.000 And the idea that it can be sort of, it's, it's oddly reductive.

00:29:42.000 It's oddly reductive as well as being superficially progressive.

00:29:45.000 On a financial level, I'm sort of like disgusted that the same people that turned your country into a nation of drug addicts dependent on fentanyl, shores of people devastated and destroyed by the over prescription and irresponsible prescription of that substance,

00:30:03.000 that the same pharmaceutical companies, I don't know if it's exactly the same, but even if it's in Pfizer, if you trace whoever's behind, whoever it is that ultimately gets the contracts to handle this stuff, You better believe that it will be Pfizer because Pfizer are, by their nature, a conglomerate, aren't they?

00:30:17.000 It's not like Pfizer just buys up a bunch of stuff and accumulates more and more projects and utilities.

00:30:24.000 And that's, you know, I guess how capitalism works more generally.

00:30:27.000 All right, let's have a little look at the minute at the moment where they're in there signing it and sort of reflect on what this means in this moment of mad crisis.

00:30:36.000 I think it's significant.

00:30:37.000 The reason I think it's significant is what is addiction?

00:30:40.000 Addiction is pain.

00:30:41.000 What is psychedelics?

00:30:42.000 Psychedelics is the revelation that there is no objective consciousness, that it's Altering and changing around you all the time.

00:30:48.000 What does it mean when you place that technology, those methods in the hands of some of the most insidious interests on the planet?

00:30:57.000 It just shows you what the trend and tendency is.

00:30:59.000 It's like forgetting the miracles, it's like forgetting that you'd already seen him walk on water.

00:31:03.000 Thanks to the leadership of President Trump for making this historic day possible.

00:31:08.000 Under the executive order, HHS will accelerate research, approval, and access to new mental health treatments, including psychedelic therapies such as IBM.

00:31:20.000 For taking this decision, this decisive step to confront one of the most urgent public health challenges facing our nation, the mental health crisis.

00:31:30.000 It's also, I don't know, man, like a feel sort of eye catching.

00:31:35.000 It's eye catching politics.

00:31:36.000 What do you think about it, Dave?

00:31:37.000 I have a lot of thoughts on it.

00:31:39.000 Just because, so I have two sides from it.

00:31:41.000 The recovery side is, I wasn't as big of a fan because, I mean, just my experience around it.

00:31:52.000 And, Most people's experiences around it.

00:31:54.000 I mean, guys that really work the 12 steps or get involved in church or community like that, and they really address it daily, like they didn't say you don't need it.

00:32:04.000 And I saw a lot of guys that would go do ayahuasca or Ibogaine.

00:32:10.000 They'd be on a high for about a month and then they'd go and they'd start relapsing.

00:32:15.000 It's because they never really addressed the root.

00:32:18.000 And they thought it was, you know, I mean, those drugs are pretty, pretty incredible how they can have consistent experiences with everyone that does it.

00:32:28.000 But then I have the other side, which I've seen a lot of veterans from our podcast do it and it helps them break through.

00:32:38.000 It's not the solution, but it, I think it is, it can be like an initiator to help them kind of break through some emotional stuff that they've been holding, especially with veterans that have spent years in deployments.

00:32:53.000 Not all veterans, but like we do a lot of special ops guys.

00:32:58.000 And so they've spent years in like direct action deployments.

00:33:02.000 And so for them, they've been told stuff you're feeling, stuff you're feeling, stuff you're feeling like.

00:33:07.000 And then now they're out and it's like, you got to address it, you got to process it, you know.

00:33:13.000 And so.

00:33:14.000 They're suicidal.

00:33:15.000 They don't know why.

00:33:16.000 And for them to go out there and do that, I'm excited about that part that they can go and do it here in the United States.

00:33:22.000 I am excited about that.

00:33:24.000 I'm not excited about if Pfizer or big pharmaceutical companies get involved with it and start monetizing on it.

00:33:32.000 I'm not excited about that.

00:33:35.000 It's going to be interesting.

00:33:36.000 I don't even know how they like it.

00:33:37.000 It's very like, I mean, a lot of them have like shamans that do it in other countries.

00:33:44.000 I wonder how they'll.

00:33:45.000 Administer it here, and they have to like some of them.

00:33:48.000 They have counselors there that walk them through what they're experiencing.

00:33:51.000 Some of it is not fun, some of it is like taking you to the deepest fears.

00:33:58.000 I think the reason that I've I'm having a strong but somewhat incoherent reaction to it is because it's the coming together of so many unusual and disparate trends and categories, politics, power.

00:34:18.000 Money, and then the raw material of life itself.

00:34:21.000 And actually, this is probably a word that I can't go much longer without saying sacredness, to your point about shamans.

00:34:30.000 When in scripture transcendent states are discussed, and there are some interesting references to it, like obviously any prophecy is by its nature a transcendent state.

00:34:41.000 Think of Isaiah 6 when he encounters God, he's been elevated and lifted up.

00:34:48.000 Think of some of the scenes from Daniel.

00:34:51.000 And from the Apostle John's revelation, there are explicit references to them eating scrolls.

00:34:58.000 And when our Lord returns, he breathes into the disciples, and suddenly they are able to see scripture in a new way.

00:35:10.000 Increasingly, when we say the evil one is in charge of this world, it must mean that real power is controlled by dark forces.

00:35:22.000 Think about all of the stories you're seeing, whether it's Pizzagate, paedophile rings, this endless war, doesn't matter who's prime minister or president, you're still going to have these wars, this kind of inclination towards destruction and anti life ideas.

00:35:34.000 And I suppose it sort of seems to me like the anti Christing of something that those, and it is good, like if those veterans can simply get treatment in the United States that they would otherwise have had to have traveled for, of course that's positive.

00:35:48.000 But when you're dealing with, as we all are, What is reality?

00:35:54.000 What is real power?

00:35:56.000 Where is this coming from?

00:35:58.000 Where would you meet Christ?

00:36:01.000 What is God?

00:36:02.000 I was this morning teaching my kids the word consciousness, and it's like to teach seven year olds and a nine year old consciousness is awareness.

00:36:11.000 It's the experience of being you, it's your personal experience of life.

00:36:16.000 I'm trying to teach them these ideas and concepts, and I'm telling them you can meet Christ yourself.

00:36:22.000 You don't need a church or any brokerage or mediator.

00:36:25.000 You don't actually even need me.

00:36:27.000 When it comes to the truly primal, the truly sacred, your indirect interface with God, you are at one with Him.

00:36:36.000 You're in His throne room right now.

00:36:39.000 The Maharishi who taught the Beatles meditation and that moment where the Beatles started playing sittars and everything, he famously said of psychedelics psychedelics is kicking down the doors of heaven.

00:36:50.000 It's kicking down the doors of heaven.

00:36:52.000 That we get access to grace, to righteousness, right orientation with the one true divine power.

00:36:59.000 And if you sort of Do that in an urgent way.

00:37:01.000 Man, I just remember the psychedelics were never what I wanted them to be.

00:37:04.000 Like, it was never powerful enough.

00:37:06.000 It was never profound enough.

00:37:07.000 It was never vivid enough.

00:37:09.000 It was never lurid enough.

00:37:10.000 And I've got, like, such an appetite.

00:37:12.000 From a straight up addiction perspective, I reckon it could be used as a kind of, whoa, that was a transition.

00:37:17.000 That was a bloody jolt.

00:37:18.000 Like, if you took psychedelics in the correct conditions and then were put into a prep.

00:37:24.000 But, you know, you've got to radically change your life tonight.

00:37:27.000 Because what I don't think it's fully acknowledging is the role of worship.

00:37:31.000 We worship the world.

00:37:32.000 We worship our identities.

00:37:34.000 We worship our attachments.

00:37:35.000 We're in this constant worship and sort of seeing, you know, credible people that I like in the Oval Office sanctioning it.

00:37:46.000 In one way, it's extraordinary progress.

00:37:48.000 In another way, it's a story that I've been kind of watching unfurl and unfold for a long, long while.

00:37:53.000 I want to tell everybody how this happened.

00:37:55.000 I sent President Trump some information.

00:37:58.000 We have a gigantic opiate problem in this country, obviously.

00:38:01.000 In 2024, more than 80,000 people died of overdoses.

00:38:06.000 It's a horrible number.

00:38:07.000 And there are more than 5 million people that are addicted to opiates right now in this country.

00:38:13.000 With one dose of Ibogaine, more than 80% of people are free of that addiction.

00:38:18.000 With two doses, it's more than 90%.

00:38:20.000 I sent him that information.

00:38:23.000 The text message came back sounds great.

00:38:26.000 Do you want FDA approval?

00:38:27.000 Let's do it.

00:38:29.000 It was literally that quick.

00:38:32.000 These drugs are illegal not because they're harmful, they're illegal because of the 1970 Controlled Substances Act that was passed.

00:38:40.000 By the Richard Nixon administration.

00:38:42.000 They did it to target the civil rights movement and the anti war movement.

00:38:46.000 It's not because these drugs harm people.

00:38:48.000 And for 56 years, we've lived under those terrible conditions.

00:38:55.000 We're free of that now.

00:38:57.000 We're free of that now, thanks to all these people that you see next to me, and thanks to President Trump.

00:39:08.000 If you're a drug addict in recovery, there really aren't any shortcuts.

00:39:12.000 I suppose there could be jolts.

00:39:14.000 There could be a sort of a sudden instruction or aiding or assistance.

00:39:19.000 But really, to live a religious or spiritual life is a constant process.

00:39:25.000 Shamanism, I'm fascinated with because shamanism is the sort of temporary personal wielding of God's power.

00:39:34.000 I used to really live for that kind of crazy stuff, that I could be the direct interface between the divinity and other people.

00:39:42.000 The Christian message is a really different one.

00:39:45.000 The idea that you can have some earthed, grounded, personal connection to God in the moment that helps you live here in your brokenness and the world's brokenness.

00:39:57.000 And still, it has a sort of a component to it that's truly mysterious and otherworldly is, in a way, what I've been looking for my whole and entire life.

00:40:08.000 I wonder what this is going to bring about.

00:40:10.000 I do suppose, Dave, when you said that thing about veterans, It's good that people can get that.

00:40:14.000 I just feel that there's some kind of dreadful irony in the same way that COVID showed us that people that are responsible for generating crisis will also benefit from the resolution to that crisis.

00:40:26.000 And that seems to be the way that this Luciferian system functions and operates.

00:40:31.000 But that's just what I think.

00:40:32.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.

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00:42:17.000 These are peculiar times in politics, indeed, with both sides of the argument claiming the leaders of their opponents are anti Christ like figures.

00:42:26.000 Mamdani must be loved by many New Yorkers because he's been relatively recently elected mayor and, like Trump, is governing.

00:42:35.000 In the manner that he was elected to with a significant mandate.

00:42:39.000 Some of his policies have been ridiculed and mocked, but what's it like for actual New Yorkers?

00:42:44.000 And whether you like Ma'am Darney or not, you'd have to agree that he understands how to use media effectively, and any politician of any ideological persuasion must learn those skills pretty instantly.

00:42:55.000 Here he is saying that he will tax the rich, but that is what he was elected to do.

00:42:58.000 Let's have a look.

00:42:59.000 When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich.

00:43:04.000 Well, today, we're taxing the rich.

00:43:06.000 I'm thrilled to announce we've secured a pied-a-terre tax.

00:43:09.000 The first in New York's history.

00:43:11.000 This is an annual fee on luxury properties worth more than $5 million, whose owners do not live full time in the city.

00:43:17.000 Like for this penthouse, which hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin bought for $238 million.

00:43:23.000 This peer to peer tax is specifically designed for the richest of the rich, those who store their wealth in New York City real estate, but who don't actually live there.

00:43:30.000 But even so, they're able to reap the huge financial rewards of owning property in, dare I say, the greatest city in the world.

00:43:36.000 And most of the time, these units are sitting empty, since again, They don't actually live here.

00:43:40.000 This is a fundamentally unfair system that hurts working New Yorkers.

00:43:44.000 Now, it's coming to an end.

00:43:46.000 This tax will raise at least $500 million directly for the city.

00:43:50.000 It'll help fund things like free childcare, cleaner streets, and safer neighborhoods.

00:43:54.000 As mayor, I believe everyone has a role to play in contributing to our city, and some a little bit more than others.

00:44:01.000 Happy Tax Day, New York.

00:44:08.000 I actually think that's pretty good.

00:44:11.000 I mean, if you are just investing in real estate in New York and you don't really live there, one off taxes against extremely rich individuals to support New York as a city seems like a great idea, even though no one likes paying confiscatory tax ever, ever.

00:44:27.000 And all of it's confiscatory, isn't it?

00:44:28.000 I mean, none of it's really voluntary.

00:44:30.000 But, Dave, have you got a different perspective on that?

00:44:33.000 Does that sort of affect you as a kind of self made man type guy?

00:44:37.000 I don't know.

00:44:37.000 I.

00:44:39.000 So he's saying that they're not primary residents.

00:44:42.000 So they're actually not using any resources or using less resources, maybe, if they're not primary residents there.

00:44:50.000 I mean, I don't like tax in general.

00:44:54.000 So I may not be the best person to ask on it, but I don't know.

00:44:59.000 They have to get it somewhere.

00:45:00.000 Like, I mean, they're probably way above their budget.

00:45:03.000 And so it's an interesting bit of media that he just comes right out and says, I'm outside the house, names the person.

00:45:10.000 It's a different type of politics.

00:45:11.000 They're tapping on the glass.

00:45:15.000 He's an anti Trump figure for sure.

00:45:17.000 And it's interesting how much the narratives of politics drive us rather than the pragmatism.

00:45:23.000 Like, isn't the entire migration issue, for example, an emotive one?

00:45:28.000 I wonder if we were capable of such a thing as blunt rationalism, real rationalism, what we would mutually determine as the correct course to solve some of our social problems.

00:45:41.000 Like, it just seems like one party has as their enemy migrants. 0.97

00:45:45.000 The poor. 0.55

00:45:47.000 Another set of political interests is the rich.

00:45:50.000 And gosh, from my background, it's a lot easier to sort of target the rich mentally.

00:45:55.000 It's a lot easier to sort of go, yeah, if someone's living in New York, own some massive apartment.

00:46:00.000 Because I reckon if you looked at that at scale, in a city like London, there'll be loads of Russian, Ukrainian, Saudi, Israeli money tied up in property, then a homeless crisis in the same city, and then ordinary people not able to afford rent and able to live in a city.

00:46:17.000 It's very interesting because, on one hand, I'm really, really.

00:46:20.000 Against government intervention.

00:46:22.000 I really intensely dislike government intervention.

00:46:25.000 I don't agree with the concept that the government should be moral arbiters.

00:46:29.000 I kind of detest it and I loathe it.

00:46:32.000 But how do you restore equanimity or fairness or justice to a city like New York?

00:46:40.000 I suppose the only principle when it comes to politics we can lean into is democracy.

00:46:44.000 If people vote for something, and with Mamdani, people voted for that.

00:46:49.000 That's what people wanted.

00:46:50.000 Some of the other Policies that were pre-eye-catching was like a city-run grocery store.

00:46:55.000 Let's have a look at that.

00:46:56.000 A lot of people are saying that it's pretty implausible, impractical, and even expensive.

00:47:00.000 We will use government to respond to rising prices and unaffordable groceries.

00:47:05.000 Since the pandemic, grocery prices have gone up and they haven't come back down.

00:47:10.000 Between 2013 and 2023, grocery prices increased in New York City by nearly 66%, significantly higher than the national average.

00:47:22.000 During our campaign, we promised New Yorkers that we would create a network of city owned grocery stores, one in each borough.

00:47:29.000 And we are here today to celebrate the site of the Manhattan store, La Maqueta, which will be open by 2029.

00:47:36.000 A solution to your skyrocketing grocery bill is hidden in plain sight.

00:47:43.000 This may look like a traditional food hall.

00:47:44.000 It's about to be a lot more.

00:47:45.000 We're here at La Marqueta, which will soon be home to one of the five city run grocery stores across New York City.

00:47:51.000 Today, New York City Mayor Zorhan Mamdani is announcing the first of five sites for his administration's city owned grocery stores.

00:47:58.000 The food hall you see today is going to remain, but it'll be expanded into a neighboring empty lot, which will be turned into a publicly run supermarket.

00:48:05.000 How is this store going to run?

00:48:06.000 So, the city will contract a private vendor that will run these grocery stores.

00:48:11.000 As part of that contract, they will be required to pay.

00:48:15.000 Union standards to their workers.

00:48:17.000 That's not a suggestion, it is a requirement.

00:48:19.000 Also, another requirement as part of the contract will be to pass on any subsidy directly to consumers in the form of savings.

00:48:26.000 There will be a basket of goods, essential items that New Yorkers buy from their supermarkets that these supermarkets will sell at reduced price.

00:48:34.000 The other part is that this is a location that is accessible whether you're walking, whether you're biking, whether you're taking the train, whether you're taking the bus, whether you're driving.

00:48:42.000 It is within reach of so many, even beyond those who call this neighborhood their home.

00:48:46.000 How'd you pick this site to be the first that you're announcing?

00:48:49.000 This is a site that is rich in its history, an illustration of a vision of government that would actually meet the needs of working class New Yorkers.

00:48:55.000 The history of La Marqueta begins in 1936 when Fiorel LaGuardia opened what was then known as the Park Avenue Retail Market.

00:49:03.000 And the goal of that was to bring food vendors into one place to provide safe and cheaper sale of this food.

00:49:13.000 Over the decades, the Park Avenue market became integral to the life of East Harlem.

00:49:16.000 As the Puerto Rican community became established here, the market was renamed La Marqueta.

00:49:21.000 The city sold it to a private owner in the 1960s, but took it back in the 1990s.

00:49:25.000 Now, Momdani wants to expand La Marqueta to realize its full potential.

00:49:29.000 Why is it such a priority for your administration?

00:49:32.000 It's a priority because when you ask New Yorkers about the cost of living crisis, they will invariably bring up grocery prices again and again as one of the examples of how they're feeling pushed out of this city.

00:49:44.000 And we see that in the pandemic, prices went up, and since then, they really have never come down for so many New Yorkers.

00:49:51.000 We want it to be clear that in this city, Food is something that should never be out of reach for any person who calls at home.

00:49:56.000 And this is one step towards exactly that.

00:49:59.000 65,000 people live within a 10 minute walk of this space.

00:50:02.000 And of them, close to 40% are on public assistance.

00:50:05.000 And we have 5,000 NYCHA residents living on either side of Park Avenue, every one of whom has been feeling the cost of living crisis in this city.

00:50:13.000 This is the way that we start to deliver cheaper groceries to New Yorkers.

00:50:17.000 This store will open by the end of our first term, as will every one of the five city-run grocery stores across New York City.

00:50:24.000 One will be in each borough, and the first one will open by the end of next year.

00:50:27.000 An elected official keeping a campaign promise.

00:50:30.000 Don't even know how to feel about that.

00:50:34.000 Well, again, people voted for it.

00:50:36.000 It's interesting to see the radical rise of populism.

00:50:40.000 Populism meaning that people are more willing to vote emotively, that politics becomes more tribalised.

00:50:48.000 Myself, as you know, what I believe is that it should be stripped of ideology and it should become purely perfunctory, just data, that it should become completely boring.

00:50:59.000 This is your borough.

00:50:59.000 This is its budget.

00:51:00.000 What do you want done here?

00:51:01.000 What do you want done there?

00:51:02.000 You know, we don't think straight.

00:51:05.000 When we're emotional, we don't make good choices.

00:51:08.000 In a way, I think it's laudable that the United States of America can have a president like Trump and a mayor of New York City like Mamdani.

00:51:14.000 In a sense, that's a demonstration of actual democracy, that people can steer these candidates.

00:51:20.000 But in a way, none of it's radical enough because, in truth, figurehead politicians will always fail.

00:51:26.000 It will always treat politics and, more importantly, politics, the running of your community as a kind of sport, a combat sport at that, when, in a sense, it is just managerial and operations.

00:51:38.000 Your ideologies, if there's If they're worthy of it, idea, specifically ideas, the idea that something could be ideal, perfect, untainted, pure, that that can operate on this plane is in itself a kind of a really complex notion, isn't it?

00:51:54.000 Really, what we're supposed to be doing down here, and even if you're just trying to run a family, you recognize how many sort of competing interests there are and how much conflict there is.

00:52:01.000 The only principle that could possibly work is minimize intervention and minimize the distance between the decision making process and the people affected by those decisions.

00:52:12.000 In a way, City run states.

00:52:14.000 That was how the world was for a long while.

00:52:16.000 Before that, small tribes, hundreds of people.

00:52:18.000 The idea that you need nations of 300 million or 400 million people or 1.5 billion people is a pretty modern idea and not one that seems to be working particularly well.

00:52:30.000 I'm going to be in New York.

00:52:31.000 I'm probably in New York right now.

00:52:33.000 As a matter of fact, I mean, you know, this is pre taped. 0.60

00:52:35.000 I'm not self subdividing or projecting myself astrally into new terrains, although probably that's the next thing, based on what I'm watching around Ibergaine and what it's doing to my consciousness.

00:52:46.000 Not even taking the stuff. 0.61

00:52:47.000 Anyway, my point is this, that, um I don't think you can solve a problem like New York or a problem like America or a problem like London without acknowledging where technology is these days and where the culture is these days.

00:52:59.000 The culture is becoming fragmented, toxic, nothing but an ongoing, endless argument.

00:53:03.000 And if you don't diffuse that by allowing people the power and dignity to run their own lives, you're just going to have an endless cycle of like the next mayor of New York will be a really right wing guy.

00:53:11.000 The next president of America will be a left wing kind of guy or socially conscientious guy.

00:53:15.000 There's no real left wing anymore in American politics.

00:53:17.000 Don't think any of these things are going to give us a solution though, but here are Mamdani and Barack Obama.

00:53:23.000 Reducing it to a fairy tale, which is perhaps the level we need to confess at in these complex times.

00:53:27.000 We are fine.

00:53:29.000 Alone, we're fine.

00:53:31.000 Alone and together, we are at our best.

00:53:35.000 Who wants to be at their best?

00:53:40.000 I don't actually think they did a very good job of holding the room there, really, given that's the mayor of New York and Barack Obama.

00:53:46.000 Those kids weren't actually that focused, were they?

00:53:49.000 They were losing interest while it was actually happening.

00:53:57.000 I actually quite like Mamdani because I like his authenticity.

00:54:00.000 I like that he's overt about his beliefs and his principles.

00:54:04.000 And in all the countless ways that I would disagree with him, I admire him yet more because he's actually getting on and making a difference in this crazy world.

00:54:13.000 But will he freeze New York City rents before 2027?

00:54:18.000 Dave, you know I need you to interpret these things.

00:54:21.000 What does that mean?

00:54:23.000 14% chance.

00:54:24.000 That's what you need to look at.

00:54:25.000 Yeah, it's not looking good.

00:54:27.000 No, he's not going to be able to because he'll face kind of resistance when he sort of tries to implement that stuff.

00:54:33.000 What about this, though?

00:54:34.000 Will Keir Starmer be out by.

00:54:37.000 Oh, look, people are saying, well, I can understand this one.

00:54:40.000 By the end of the year, most people think, yeah?

00:54:42.000 Yeah, most people are tending towards the end of the year.

00:54:45.000 People see like time as a big cake and they think they want a bigger bit of cake time for Keir Starmer to go out in.

00:54:52.000 Like, see, April the 30th, you've got barely any cake before there.

00:54:55.000 Now, have I understood the concept of time and of polymarkets?

00:54:59.000 Somewhat, yeah.

00:55:00.000 It's times like a cake.

00:55:02.000 It's cake time.

00:55:03.000 I get it.

00:55:04.000 I get it now.

00:55:13.000 One person you can certainly rely on when it comes to Barack Obama is his former VP and former president of your country, the great and decaying in real time and in real life, Joe Biden.

00:55:28.000 Here's Joe Biden.

00:55:30.000 Well, I mean, just let's.

00:55:32.000 This will make you realize that wherever you stand politically, you kind of miss Joe Biden.

00:55:38.000 I'm going to turn around to one guy and say, Barack, what are you doing?

00:55:44.000 Come here.

00:55:51.000 I feel like he should be standing on the right and I should be standing on the left.

00:55:55.000 Hey, did you just look at Barack?

00:55:58.000 Anyway.

00:56:00.000 As they say, you've done good.

00:56:01.000 Well, you know what, try.

00:56:08.000 Ah, that makes me like him a little bit more.

00:56:10.000 I mean, you know, when you see someone that's three months pregnant, like early pregnancy, and you've got to roll the dice on congratulations. 0.65

00:56:18.000 You're taking a real risk if you're going to say in a public forum as a white person, you look like this specific black person. 0.89

00:56:27.000 There better be like a real good hook. 0.82

00:56:31.000 Otherwise, Joe, you know, this is a problem.

00:56:35.000 This is a problem for your constituency and your audience more generally.

00:56:40.000 Even to get him to, like, come over here, boy.

00:56:42.000 Come on.

00:56:44.000 I said, now get. 0.94

00:56:45.000 Now cut me down and switch. 0.97

00:56:47.000 Get on over here. 1.00

00:56:48.000 Oh, dear.

00:56:49.000 Old Joe Biden.

00:56:51.000 I miss him.

00:56:52.000 I miss that guy.

00:56:54.000 He's getting old, that Joe.

00:56:55.000 How old is Joe Biden?

00:56:56.000 Well, I think, in a sense, he was showing more coherence than when he was running your country.

00:57:01.000 That was a.

00:57:02.000 It was really interesting to watch that particular train come off the tracks.

00:57:06.000 City, the financial capital of the world, Mayor Mamdani already backtracking on key campaign promises like ending sweeps and homeless camps.

00:57:13.000 While pausing his plan for free buses, city owned grocery stores, and rent freeze.

00:57:19.000 Meanwhile, on the opposite coast in Seattle, the city is seeing the highest inflation rate of any major metro region in America after losing nearly 13,000 jobs last year alone.

00:57:31.000 Taylor Riggs is co host of the Big Money Show on Fox Business, and she joins us now.

00:57:36.000 I have no free buses.

00:57:37.000 I'm going home.

00:57:38.000 How dare you?

00:57:40.000 You promise.

00:57:41.000 How great is it that he found out that free buses cost money?

00:57:45.000 Well, so that's the thing.

00:57:47.000 Nothing is free, as we know.

00:57:48.000 They're just getting all of us to pay for it.

00:57:51.000 More than half of us, I'm sure, are all paying 50% taxes.

00:57:54.000 So I think here's the thing.

00:57:55.000 And Emily, I know that you've looked at the actual polls on how people are viewing him, but there have been a few wins.

00:58:02.000 There's about 2,000 kids who are enrolled in that free, everyone else is paying for it, two's program as part of the universal child care program.

00:58:11.000 And so I think he's sort of touting those along with the big celebrities that he's bringing in.

00:58:16.000 As early wins, and it's only been 100 days.

00:58:19.000 That being said, as you mentioned, there have been some losses that may be also impacting the way people are actually really feeling about him, and that's showing up in the poll numbers.

00:58:27.000 We talked about the free buses.

00:58:29.000 We talked about really the fight with Kathy Hochul and saying, if you don't raise that millionaire's tax, guess what?

00:58:34.000 I'm raising property taxes on everyone.

00:58:36.000 So that's sort of like a big fight that so far we haven't quite seen play out, and we'll have to see how that goes.

00:58:42.000 She's up for reelection as well.

00:58:44.000 So, look, I think it's a push pull.

00:58:47.000 I think we could talk about picks and shovels.

00:58:50.000 When it snows, you pick up the snow.

00:58:52.000 Sounds great, except that all the homeless people are dying because it was negative 10 degrees outside and he refuses to get them help and put them in shelter.

00:59:01.000 So I think he'll tout for every sort of win.

00:59:04.000 All right.

00:59:04.000 Well, there you have it.

00:59:05.000 So, America, part of America's greatness is it appears to be able to accommodate at least a superficially varied and diverse set of political ideas and political figures.

00:59:14.000 But real change will happen internally within you when you embrace the possibility that even without psychedelics, you can know God.

00:59:21.000 What could be more holy, peculiar?

00:59:23.000 Sacred and transcendent than that?

00:59:25.000 And that political systems should be about management of resources, and that you want to prevent, wherever possible, the intervention of corrupt and disruptive agencies.

00:59:35.000 That could be lobbyists, that could be donors, that could be bureaucracies, that could be politicians themselves.

00:59:40.000 What I'm saying, in short, is, get politicians out of politics.

00:59:44.000 Create genuine democracies where the participants in systems run the systems that they participate in.

00:59:50.000 Radical change is possible.

00:59:52.000 Radical change, in fact, Is the only option we have left.

00:59:54.000 But that's just what I think.

00:59:55.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and chat, whether you're watching us in locals or on Rumble or Rumble Premium.

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Stay Free - Russel Brand - April 22, 2026

Taxes for the Rich and Psychedelics for the Masses — SF707

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