00:00:18.000Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:00:21.000The culture is collapsing around us, and today we present the case for revolution.
00:00:28.000As we watch the decadence of the Met Gala, the hopelessness of captured and reappropriated art counterculture belongs to the mainstream now.
00:00:41.000Let us know in the comments and chat if you've been watching our content with the likes of dear Ron Paul, an elder statesman who's able to offer us a principled stand and incredible insights into the type of political vision that might bring about the type of change that's required.
00:00:56.000Revolutionary is the word that a lot of people are using.
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00:01:05.000Or you could start worshipping the neo pagan false gods of.
00:02:04.000I suppose it's an explicitly kind of hedonic, decadent event, isn't it?
00:02:12.000How do any of us deal with the charge of hypocrisy?
00:02:16.000Because, say, in one way, What's ridiculous about something like the Met Ball or the Oscars or any of those kind of big cultural festivals is that at them, people will advocate for political ideas that are totally cool, actually being compassionate and looking after the vulnerable and the broken, and how do we protect people that need help.
00:02:33.000But when there is so much overt expenditure and so much indulgence and so much luxury, it seems ridiculous.
00:02:39.000But then I think, oh, well, you know, you've not given away everything you own to help people, you're still broken and fallen.
00:02:45.000Let me know, does that sort of lead you into a kind of cul de sac, a dead end, sort of a moral dead end?
00:02:50.000When spectacle gets that vivid and that lurid, it's hard to sort of maintain any kind of interest in the culture.
00:03:24.000I'll be here with Jake and Massey and Dave talking about this as well as that new Banksy statue.
00:03:29.000We're going to cover some vaccine information.
00:03:32.000Secretary Kennedy's talked about SSRIs, you know, the sort of antidepressants that were prescribed to probably maybe even billions of people.
00:03:39.000Certainly I took them at some point in my life and now we're learning about some of the consequences, which I felt like at the time that SSRIs weren't working.
00:03:47.000Hey, while people are strutting around dressed as intestines and wearing dollar bills on their faces and doing their level best, I reckon, to recreate the Book of Kings, where you can see sort of overt.
00:04:05.000Certainly, we don't go to the Cannes Film Festival where Dominican actress Marcile Taveras was booted off the red carpet apparently for wearing some reference to Christianity.
00:04:29.000Hey, I'm appearing in Florida doing my show.
00:04:34.000A funny thing happened on the way to church.
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00:04:56.000I know a lot of you don't like the Christianity being pushed down your throat, like you feel like it's the evangelicism is like reductive and a bit like the imposition of something that doesn't make sense to you.
00:05:06.000But when I see that, when I see even his face rendered like that, I feel some kind of comfort.
00:05:11.000I know that the answer is going to come through this revival.
00:05:29.000But I want to also let you know that on Monday, I'm talking to Jeremiah Johnson.
00:05:33.000A little while ago, we made some content about him appearing on Tucker.
00:05:36.000He was talking about the crown of thorns because I've always been sort of, what is it?
00:05:41.000Like, I've never thought the verification of or authentication of Christ through artifacts has been that kind of important because you're dealing with mystery and miracles and something that's not verifiable within reason.
00:05:55.000So when people go, look, this demonstrates, I've always been a bit, I don't know, it's not like I've been Christian for very long or anything.
00:06:01.000But I'll be talking to Jeremiah Johnson, and he does believe in that.
00:06:05.000He does believe that the Shroud of Turin might be evidence that there was a kind of a supernatural atomic explosion kind of event that demonstrates the resurrection of our Lord.
00:06:15.000Some sort of historical authentication.
00:06:51.000One of the strangest things and most regrettable things that I did is when I was making this documentary ages ago, when I was doing Getting to the Greek and all that, I was doing a documentary where I was exploring happiness.
00:07:04.000What it became, it became super loose, this documentary, because we couldn't, you know, because of me, because of me being an idiot, really.
00:07:10.000Anyway, I started doing stuff like turning up on red carpets and holding an egg up and things like that.
00:07:18.000I go, let's just do weird stuff so that people will just like speculate on it.
00:07:21.000Anyway, people now sort of go, that was satanic, or it's a neo pagan symbol or something like that.
00:07:29.000So I can't remember a stupid outfit, although I know for a while they were all stupid.
00:07:35.000I remember watching my hair expanding around between 2004 and 2006.
00:07:39.000I was back combing and creating this bouffant at the back of my head.
00:07:42.000And then I watched back this video that I did, like a special, a comedy special.
00:07:46.000And I remember, you know, like when you see wedding photos of if your parents got married in the 70s and 80s, you think, God, what were those outfits they were wearing then?
00:07:54.000I felt that about my own outfit the next day.
00:07:57.000Like I looked at it, I was like, oh my God, what were you doing?
00:08:24.000It's really what they, it's like a marketing event.
00:08:26.000The whole thing's marketing, but don't you feel like it's saturated by it?
00:08:29.000Like when you see something like a dollar bill or beloved Katy Perry there wearing a sort of a fencing mask, it's such a lot of effort, man.
00:08:37.000Like when I've done, this is what I think.
00:08:39.000This is why I'm very reluctant to even contemplate acting in any capacity, even in some redeemed future.
00:08:45.000When I was like doing Arthur, and that lady, Jen Garner, who I really liked, she was such a lovely lady, you know, she's a famous movie star, married to Benefleck, at least she was at some point or another.
00:08:54.000And I remember watching her getting all dressed up in a basque and being held up by a magnet in the film and thinking, this is not right.
00:09:02.000You know, even though it's a very PG type movie, Arthur.
00:09:04.000Or when Nick Nolte, all old, was being sort of directed by the guy, happened to be sort of quite a small guy.
00:09:10.000He was a nice person and a good person, but he was like a little guy directing Nick Nolte.
00:09:15.000And I feel like it's like watching a Jack Russell terrorizing a bear.
00:12:17.000People create things that are worthwhile that might change the world.
00:12:21.000Now, though, I suppose people are questioning whether or not Banksy is working in alliance with state sanctioned interests because a new and pretty cool sculpture appeared in central London.
00:12:33.000But many people are questioning how such a thing could appear overnight if it wasn't facilitated by the kind of bureaucratic forces that would normally stop a truck.
00:12:42.000Entering into central London, a bunch of people putting up a statue, or I don't know, letting off some sort of gel ignite based device.
00:12:50.000How this could be happening without state.
00:12:53.000If it wasn't state approved, would it be happening?
00:12:56.000And you could probably apply that to all art and propaganda, actually.
00:12:59.000Most things you watch, you're watching propaganda.
00:13:39.000When I first saw his stuff I was living in not living in, staying in and working in Bristol in the UK, that's in the west country where he's from.
00:13:46.000Bristol's one of the first places that started pulling down statues because it's a harbour town.
00:13:52.000The British do, so most places have got Ports and harbours, and therefore, when the slave trade was kicking off and making a bunch of money for the British Empire and helping to formulate and establish your country, there was a lot of economic reward and enrichment as a result of the slave trade.
00:14:06.000So, when all of the woke stuff happened and the statue pulling down time took place, there was a guy, I think his name was Edward Coulson, I think was his name, and he was a very significant sort of, I don't know, contributor to the city of Bristol.
00:14:17.000People started pulling them statues down, you know.
00:14:20.000And Banksy's art was up and around then.
00:14:24.000Banksy's art felt radical and insightful.
00:14:27.000Although there are a really good British comedy double act called Cardinal Burns, and they used to do these great riffs on Banksy because some of his stuff is just a pun.
00:14:39.000Like, even just take the example of that statue, it's just a flag.
00:14:43.000Hey, sometimes, man, aren't we being blinded by the flag of nationalism?
00:14:55.000Sort of brilliant thing, these sketches where they would show Banksy just as if he was just some normal middle class guy living in a suburban home.
00:15:04.000And he goes, There's one where, you know, it's like a sort of a cop kissing a guy.
00:15:10.000I've got a policeman kissing a black fella.
00:15:13.000And it was something like Samuel L. Jackson, just referred to him as a black fella, more to amuse myself than anyone else.
00:15:19.000Really sort of like funny sketches that highlighted the idea that while Banksy's looked at as all radical and stuff, and he certainly is an impact.
00:15:28.000The most impactful artist, maybe you could say, of our generation in terms of reach and stuff.
00:18:21.000Because it sort of outraged people, like the desecration of a statue of Churchill.
00:18:25.000And I think even at the time, I felt see Churchill, of course, in one way, you know, warmonger, Dresden, all of that, alcoholic, depressive.
00:18:33.000But I sort of like that old dude, Churchill, taking on Hitler and whatnot.
00:18:41.000And it was a sort of a pretty postmodern moment, a bit of green turf being put as a mohawk on the head of Churchill.
00:18:51.000Trying to work out my position when it comes to all that because the world's unraveling so quickly these days, i.e., look at what we're talking about now.
00:19:00.000Banksy, who was a criminal at the beginning of his career, his anonymity was to protect him from arrest.
00:19:07.000Like he would have literally been arrested for crimes.
00:19:10.000And now it sort of seems like, as long as his message is in alignment with state messaging, he'll be left alone.
00:19:17.000And that's pretty true of any intellectual or public figure, actually.
00:19:20.000If you are a public figure, it's probably because, in some way or another, Your message is being used by the state, whether you're an intellectual or a pop star or whatever.
00:19:30.000I mean, just look at that mad, lurid Met Gala.
00:19:33.000Whatever they think they're there protesting with a dollar bill over their eyes or whatever, what they're actually advocating for is selfishness, individualism, materialism, and a kind of hollow, vacuous superficiality instead of a really deep, sort of blood-soaked, painful culture, which could be our real legacy.
00:19:54.000Anyway, if you're sort of a person that's getting propped up by the culture, it's because you're carrying the culture's message.
00:19:59.000I guess the whole thing just makes me feel like we're chewing through reality faster than we can cope with.
00:20:06.000You know, like, what message do you trust in now?
00:20:09.000Like, everything I hear, it just sort of goes through me and by me very, very quickly.
00:20:14.000I find it hard to sort of quantify or take seriously anything at all.
00:20:19.000Maybe that's sort of how they, you know, when I say they, that's how, maybe that's how they want it to be.
00:20:24.000They want us to be sort of disillusioned to the point where we don't trust nothing.
00:20:29.000All right, so on that note, let me just plow on with this stuff.
00:20:36.000So, hey, what do you think we should look at out of this lot?
00:20:39.000Miriam Margoyles says Hitler has triumphed.
00:20:42.000Brenier Brown on Dire of a CEO says tech elites prioritize deep thinking for their kids while others are pushed towards passive consumption.
00:22:21.000You know, like, what I liked about Brene Brown is, well, firstly, when I met her, she was really beautiful and lovely and enchanting.
00:22:30.000And see, everyone now talks about vulnerability and, like, the through vulnerability, you kind of get power.
00:22:37.000It's not very easy to do that when it's actually happening, when you're actually feeling vulnerable and weak, and then you have to sort of stand up and talk.
00:22:47.000You know, we really love Joby Weeks, the Bitcoin entrepreneur.
00:22:51.000Under house arrest now for six, seven years.
00:22:53.000And we went to what I'm going to call a kind of crazy event.
00:22:57.000I mean, it was unusual, wasn't it, Dave?
00:22:59.000I mean, we'd only been there 10 seconds of people who were offering us lightsabers and smoking joints, you know, sort of downstairs outside that.
00:23:36.000But really, I think when it really peaked was when this guy came over to me and said, Listen, I've got to let you know that woman over there is a witch and she's trying to put a spell on you.
00:23:48.000And we said it in the same sort of way that if it was like a threat from an assailant, Like how you got to watch over there at three o'clock, there's a person that's armed.
00:25:55.000Because I suppose since coming to the Lord, you know, as a person who's always enjoyed and taken seriously your David Icke and your Alex Jones and people that talk about demonic forces and dark power and dark energy, and then seeing how that matches scripture.
00:26:36.000The reason you have double blind experiments and double blind clinical trials is because if anyone given a medication is told with a pure placebo, hey, this is going to make you run faster and make your penis bigger.
00:26:51.000In like 20% of cases, people will just do it.
00:26:54.000Like the placebo effect has a margin of up to between 20 and 25%.
00:26:58.000Sorry, I'm doing this mime now when I've just said the penis thing.
00:27:00.000Like the placebo effect has a 20 to 25% inference rate.
00:27:05.000So, isn't it curious and interesting that consciousness itself is impacting and affecting reality in a measurable way?
00:27:15.000That's why you have double blind testing.
00:27:17.000So that you, because if the person administering a drug knows that that's the actual drug, Or the placebo, the people or the recipient of it know it nullifies the results because people will behave in a.
00:27:29.000So it's kind of, in a way, when you believe in the supernatural, all you're really saying is, I believe in a reality that goes beyond what's measurable within the realm of the senses.
00:27:44.000And then if you believe in any particular ideology, it's giving you a vocabulary for it and examples of it and all that kind of stuff.
00:27:51.000And then if you're actually out and about, Just trying to attend a Bitcoin event to campaign for the freedom of dear old Joe B. Weeks, a man who should be freed, a very sort of brilliant and entrepreneurial man who's done no real discernible crime, as far as I can work out.
00:28:04.000And then you encounter actual shin kicking witches booting about the place, casting out hexes.
00:28:23.000And all this to say, here's Brene Brown.
00:28:27.000Talking about how the practical application of this is like tech elites, and we've known this for some time, I suppose.
00:28:34.000You know, like while our kids are staring at screens, dumbing themselves into giddy idiocy, the most powerful people in the world are protecting their children from it.
00:28:43.000Like Dave has to protect me from little witch kicks.
00:28:46.000But let me tell you what scares me the most.
00:28:50.000I'm in some weird rooms because of the nature of my job.
00:28:53.000I'm in rooms where the people who run these platforms and, you know, that own the CEOs of these businesses and the founders are in these rooms.
00:29:01.000And I hear them talking and I hear things that are so misaligned that it panics me.
00:29:09.000So I hear someone say, Hey, you know, tech billionaire, what should my kids study?
00:29:16.000Well, they should study coding, physics, you know.
00:29:19.000And then five minutes later, as if that answer didn't happen, someone will say, To what do you attribute your success?
00:29:26.000I mean, deeply when you think about it.
00:29:28.000And the same person will say, My deep reading of philosophy and the Stoics.
00:29:34.000And so then I'm thinking to myself, well, which is it, dude?
00:29:38.000And then I start to extrapolate from there and wonder if there is a thinking class that's emerging where they're like, we're going to read philosophy and we're going to read the liberal arts and we're going to study history.
00:29:56.000And the rest of you just keep scrolling.
00:31:03.000Faith is not working up by willpower a sort of certainty that something is coming to pass, but it is seeing as an actual fact that God has said that this thing shall come to pass and that it is true, and then rejoicing to know that it is true and just resting because God has said it.
00:31:24.000Faith turns the promise into a prophecy.
00:31:27.000While it's merely a promise, it is contingent upon our cooperation.
00:31:32.000But when faith claims it, Excuse me, it becomes a prophecy.
00:31:37.000And we go from feeling that it is something that must be done because God cannot lie.
00:31:42.000I hear men praying everywhere for more faith, but when I listen to them carefully and get at the real heart of their prayer, very often it is not more faith at all that they are wanting, but a change from faith to sight.
00:31:54.000Faith says not, I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it, but God sent it, so it must be good for me.
00:32:03.000Faith, walking in the dark with God, Only praise him to clasp its hand more closely.
00:32:11.000And I feel like that reading reminded me a little bit of the book of Samuel that you found something in.
00:32:18.000Well, I, in the week, was feeling probably like inevitably when there's a lot of attention on something, whether you're looking at it or not, it can disturb your energy.
00:33:45.000When the ears are burning, presumably that comes from somewhere, I know that I can feel, I feel like a sense, not just because you've told me there's something on X, not just because, just because I feel like it changes, uh, the sort of ecosystem of the energy around you.
00:34:03.000And obviously that's like, there's been a lot of eyes on us at times, you know, specifically in the three, you know, last three years.
00:34:10.000And I could say that like you have to, you have to fight that with your own, you have to, you have to fight that.
00:34:34.000In the week, I was really trying to find comfort in feeling like, honestly, that the judgment, people's judgment should not affect me as a person.
00:35:39.000Have you ever had a tick on your skin?
00:35:41.000Have you ever watched those things looming and blooming amidst a pet's fur?
00:35:45.000They start off like tiny little black spiders, then they balloon themselves up, heavy little dirty filthy sacks of pet blood off their backs.
00:36:35.000The only thing that could make it worse if you were to discover that at some point Bill Gates funded research into genetically engineered cattle ticks.
00:36:44.000Have read me allergies from AlphaGal syndrome caused by tick bites.
00:36:49.000That's the only thing that could make it more disturbing.
00:36:53.000Now, Alex Jones, soothsayer, shaman, priestly being, for some time has been talking about genetically engineered ticks.
00:37:01.000That don't mean, of course, that it's absolutely true and verifiable, but you'd be a fool to turn your attention away from a story like this one when we've just been through an extraordinary pandemic where a genetically modified condition shut the world down and advanced the interests of the world's most.
00:37:19.000Let's have a look at Alex Jones on these claims that declassified documents prove that the CIA created Lyme disease at Plum Island using infected ticks and Nazi sinus.
00:37:31.000Let me know in the comments and chat what you think about these extraordinary tick boxes appearing on farms.
00:37:56.000There it is, the tick that causes the red meat allergy.
00:37:58.000And it's the exact one Bill Gates has been studying for over a decade and releasing into the wild, just like he's on record in Texas, in Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and other states, and in Brazil and a bunch of other places, releasing hundreds of millions of mosquitoes that are GMO modified to deliver vaccines for malaria and other things.
00:38:16.000And then all it does is make you get ultra sick because they don't just try to make you and pressure you to take their COVID shots.
00:38:23.000They're looking for ways, flying syringes, crawling syringes, ticks, to force this on the public.
00:38:30.000They want to rape your health, rape your future.
00:38:33.000They want to depopulate you on record because they think you're so stupid.
00:38:36.000They brag in all these white papers and medical studies and Bill Gates statements and WEF statements about, oh, you think you're going to keep eating beef?
00:38:44.000We're just going to weaponize into insects because they're trying it with mosquitoes and studies too, to then genetically engineer them where.
00:38:53.000This pathogen gets into you, and then now you have an allergic reaction to any red meat.
00:38:58.000I wish we lived in a world where you could dismiss as implausible a story like that, but you simply can't.
00:39:08.000Here, Dr. Robert Malone, who's been on the show, who was so far ahead of the narrative when it came to COVID and COVID vaccines, perhaps because of his own involvement in the development of mRNA technology, has a comment on this, suggesting that government backed experiments involving ticks may have played a role in the spread.
00:39:29.000His claims are based on a study of declassified government documents, Cold War biological weapons records, and scientific research on tick borne infections.
00:39:37.000Malone said the documents point to a series of experiments during the 1960s where scientists released ticks into the environment to track how they spread disease.
00:39:44.000One of the most striking claims involves an experiment where more than 282,000 ticks were released in the US state of Virginia.
00:39:51.000According to Malone's report, the ticks were marked with a radioactive substance known as carbon 14.
00:39:56.000This allowed science to track the insects using Geiger counters.
00:40:01.000The goal of the experiment was to study how ticks move through the environment and how animals such as birds could carry them across long distances.
00:40:08.000The ticks themselves were not radioactive in a harmful way.
00:40:11.000Instead, the carbon 14 label similarly helped researchers to track them.
00:40:15.000Malone believes the same areas where these experiments took place late saw a major rise in tick borne diseases, including Lyme disease.
00:40:21.000There was a time where that would be purely the confines of the aluminum foil hat wearing brigade, but now it appears that those are the kind of stories you have to take.
00:40:33.000So, isn't it weird that, like, just in a few moments, we look at Brene Brown, who's like a sort of a sanctioned public intellectual and public figure on that podcast, Diary of the CEO, say something that many of you will have heard before that tech elites don't allow their children to use the devices that we're casually handing over to our kids.
00:40:52.000Like, that's a very sort of normal, ubiquitous idea that's somewhat verifiable, like that you sort of know in your half heart, oh, it's not good that my kids are looking at those screens.
00:41:12.000So when I hear a story like Lyme's disease, that's genetically engineered.
00:41:16.000There are records of experiments where mosquitoes and ticks are being released in environments, you know, like the bioweapons and scientific research are closely aligned, like when they're looking for and developing new vaccines, it's the same funding as weapon research technology.
00:41:33.000It's so sort of plain that you would be Ill advised to dismiss it.
00:41:40.000You'd be more foolish to dismiss it than to explore it, even though if you do explore it, certainly publicly, you'll be called a crackpot and a lunatic still to this day.
00:43:01.000Yeah, I still participate in these like Maha calls, you know, like the campaign and activist group that supported Secretary Kennedy when he was running as an independent.
00:43:12.000And Now, continue to ensure that there is at least some positive media coverage available for Secretary Kennedy.
00:43:23.000You know, that's because there's aspects of it that are simple.
00:43:34.000Is it possible to rear animals in a way that's not got all manner of hormonal intervention?
00:43:40.000And you would think that something as simple as transparency and clarity around medications, transparency and clarity around food, being able to somewhat control what's going into your food source.
00:43:51.000You'd think these things would be like that.
00:43:54.000One of the reasons I suppose I sort of remain optimistic about the Maha movement is it's not about religion, it's not about ideology, it's about things that affect everybody what you eat and medicine.
00:44:07.000But like, it's to try and leverage any kind of interventions near impossible, like such little victories.
00:44:13.000We've managed to get this one die out of the food supply.
00:44:17.000And when you talk to Ron Paul, did you see our conversation with Dr. Ron Paul?
00:44:26.000Particular constitution to live in this world and to sort of remain open hearted and optimistic.
00:44:32.000And I don't know how people are doing it.
00:44:34.000I think the point he said in that interview was when he was in his neighborhood and looking at where he lived locally, he felt good about people, which we ultimately in smaller communities, I don't feel like, oh, I hate all these people around me where I live.
00:44:50.000It's when you see too much that you're not supposed to see.
00:44:52.000And I think the same thing is probably true for food.
00:44:58.000Goal, and just because it's you know, for I have six kids, they always want to grab something easy out of the pantry, but maybe we're looking at it wrong, you know.
00:45:08.000Well, yeah, certainly the one thing that is continues to be comforting and inspiring is when you're actually around human beings, it's not the same as living in the thin, desperate online world.
00:45:22.000When we went to the crazy, witch infested Jeffrey Joby Weeks event the other day.
00:45:29.000I met some people that are working on technology that can transform waste into energy.
00:45:40.000And what I feel like is the, you know, aside from one's personal investigation in being able to sustain yourself through spiritual nutrition, for me, like following Jesus, like I feel like if there's any political solution at all, it has to be based on exactly what you just said, Jake the ability to meaningfully live in a community.
00:46:04.000Like to be able to say, well, this community, we're going to eat this food and we're going to sustain ourselves in these ways.
00:46:11.000I actually think that you can't penetrate or go through this system anymore.
00:46:17.000In fact, that's what I was going to say about Banksy.
00:46:19.000Like that, whether it's punk or hip hop or any peripheral art movement, as soon as it is effective, it becomes co opted and controlled and commodified.
00:46:30.000Nothing can remain truly anti establishment for long, because the establishment will either destroy it.
00:46:38.000Or assimilate it, and so the only route to change is decentralization.
00:46:44.000As long as this system exists, it will sustain itself above all else.
00:46:48.000And it's so radical and mad that you can't rule out that ticks are being released into farms, diseases are being engineered that, uh that inhibit you, control you, affect you or reduce your efficacy.
00:47:00.000The food supply is being annihilated that it's so um diabolical it's almost hard to contemplate where its outer edges might be.
00:47:09.000So It's hard not to advocate for a kind of just get out of here.
00:47:13.000Just burn your sm, do what the people who understand do.
00:47:17.000Don't operate within, don't operate on social media.
00:47:21.000Phones eat food that where you know that where you can recognize where it's come from and how it's been grown, you know, unless we start investigating those kind of things seriously, radically, and immediately, we're in serious trouble.
00:47:43.000And then we're that study from about 10 years ago where Bill Gates was releasing witches, he's genetically engineering witches, Bill Gates is, and then just releasing them out in the Parties, random parties, kicking people.
00:48:28.000Certainly, that's part of the conversation now because one of the victories, ongoing victories of 2024, 2025, is the contribution of Secretary Kennedy when it comes to the debate around big pharma and the ability of ordinary folks to oppose it.
00:48:41.000Here he is now talking about the over medicalization crisis.
00:52:53.000Caffeine, like my wife, like when we were on this trip just now to Miami, she was so, like, she was like, in the morning, she was like ill.
00:53:01.000So I was like, Have you drank, when did you last drink coffee?
00:53:04.000And she was like, It was over 24 hours.
00:53:05.000I guess you ain't actual, you're in withdrawal, you poor, desperate junkie of a woman.
00:53:11.000Here's Secretary Kennedy comparing SSRI and heroin withdrawal.
00:55:27.000I think out of the whole crew, he's the most legit.
00:55:32.000Before, when all this was happening, that election, Tulsi Gabbard, I remember thinking, this is a sincere and beautiful person.
00:55:39.000Bobby Kennedy, I know him to be a beautiful and sincere person.
00:55:43.000And I reckon it's an indication of the inexhaustible appetite of the machine that Tulsi Gabbard didn't see her so much now and don't hear from her so much.
00:55:52.000And I guess there's a singularity of purpose to a degree in what Bobby Kennedy is doing that means that he's not going to be involved in every single issue all of the time.
00:56:03.000He's got a particular portfolio, doesn't he?
00:56:06.000But you see how hard it is for him to get stuff done.
00:56:09.000I mean, you have someone, I think he genuinely wants to just help people be healthy.
00:56:19.000I mean, he's really focused on the next generations to come and like how hard it is for him to get things through, and he's doing his best.
00:56:28.000I think he's an amazing example of what can be achieved through great leadership, but also an example of what can't be achieved because of systemic bias and resistance.
00:56:42.000I reckon that the kind of vulnerability that he just role modeled is really, really important.
00:56:48.000Honest conversations about addiction, clarity around how dangerous the normalization of that kind of high pharmacology is that people like that.
00:56:58.000He just said what he gave the statistics.
00:57:00.000All of these people that are dealing with it, and it's an industry that's already been on numerous occasions exposed as extraordinarily and almost unimaginably corrupt.
00:57:10.000The opioid crisis, what we've learned since the pandemic.
00:57:36.000Well, listen, let's be heartened by Secretary Kennedy's honest admission that he himself knows what it's like to withdraw from heroin and his openness and vulnerability about a family member coming off SSRI.
00:57:48.000It's a ubiquitous problem that whoever you are, you likely know someone that's dealing with either addiction to.
00:57:55.000Illicit drugs or prescribed drugs, and in the end, all of those people are dealing with pain and emptiness and despair and lack of purpose.
00:58:03.000And there is a solution, the 12 steps work.
00:58:05.000I wish we were doing crack on this week now, but our beloved Joe is estranged out there, lost in the universe.
00:58:29.000Let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.
00:58:33.000We will be back on Monday for a conversation with Jeremiah Johnson, theologian, Christian, historian, who's going to talk us through some artifacts that he believes demonstrate the historical veracity of Jesus Christ.
00:58:45.000Who some say there is more evidence for his historical existence than Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar.