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Bottom’s Up Community Building & Post-Partisanship with Seneca Scott
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In this episode, I’m honored to chat with Seneca Scott who is a really awesome human doing a lot of good work in his community out in West Oakland and the surrounding area bringing people together around food, culture and nurturing healthy environments.
Seneca is part of a great team at Oakhella that was born in the Lower Bottoms of West Oakland to preserve the cultural fabric of their community while welcoming newcomers. They officially launched as a micro-music festival in 2016, and have since grown into a community organization made up of young professionals who recognize the need to create spaces that encompass the broader culture of Oakland, well known for its multi-generational appeal.
Seneca also helped build Oakhella’s sister organization, Bottoms Up Community Garden which is home to an experimental localized food system in West Oakland intended to re-shape the Lower Bottoms’ understanding of food security. They believe that through decolonizing the current industrial agricultural system, community health, nutritional awareness and biodiversity will improve… and we have some good conversations on this in the episode.
And if that’s not enough, Seneca also founded Neighbors Together Oakland which is an organization dedicated to bringing post-partisan unity and preparedness to Oakland neighborhoods.
But wait… there’s more… he recently ran for city council of district 3, and even tossed his hat in for Oakland mayor. He’s a Cornell University graduate from their school of industrial and labor relations, and he’s been an active member of Gaurdian Grange as we grow this organization.
So, needless to say Seneca is a very active member of his community and working extremely hard to do good things. I’m honored to call him a friend and excited about the work we’re doing in alignment to help communities become more resilient and food sovereign.
We actually recorded this podcast on location at Bottoms Up Community Garden, so you’ll hear some of the city sounds in the background mixed in with some chickens and other activity.
And just so you’re aware, this is a free flowing conversation that touches on wide range of topics and sensitive issues with some colorful language at time, so keep an open mind and if your ears are sensitive to swear words, just be aware that they do get thrown around in here. I try to be as clean as possible, but it’s part of the fabric of who I am and this is a real, raw conversation where we aren’t holding anything back.
I pride myself on being transparent, and I feel we did a really good job in that regard on this podcast…
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Introduction to Guardian Grange Podcast
00:00:00
Speaker
What's up, friends and fellow humans. Thank you for tuning into the second Guardian Grange podcast. I'm your host, Mark Mansell, dale floor founder of the Guardian Grange nonprofit mission to facilitate veteran healing through building community around regenerative agriculture and environmental restoration. This project also serves as a seed for my broader vision of what I refer to as a soil based economy.
00:00:27
Speaker
We touch on this concept of a soil-based economy a few times in this podcast, and I explain a bit more of the vision in a first Guardian Grange episode titled, The Vision, Veteran Healing Through Nature and Community. And I'll be writing and speaking a lot more on this concept in the future to include a dedicated episode on the subject.
Meet Seneca Scott: Community Advocate
00:00:50
Speaker
In this episode, I'm honored to chat with Seneca Scott, who is a really awesome human doing a lot of good work in his community out West Oakland and the surrounding area, bringing people together around food culture and nurturing healthy environments.
00:01:09
Speaker
Seneca is part of a great team at Oakhella that was born in the lower bottoms of West Oakland to preserve the cultural fabric of their community while welcoming newcomers in. They officially launched as a micro music festival in 2016 and have since grown into a community organization
00:01:32
Speaker
made up of young professionals who recognize the need to create spaces that encompass the broader culture of Oakland, which is well known for its multi-generational appeal.
00:01:45
Speaker
Seneca also helped build Okela's sister organization Bottoms Up Community Garden, which is home to an experimental localized food system in West Oakland also intended to reshape the lower bottoms understanding of food security. They believe that through decolonizing the current industrial agricultural system, community health, nutritional awareness, and biodiversity will improve.
00:02:14
Speaker
And we have some good conversations on this in the episode. And if that's not enough, Seneca also founded Neighbors Together Oakland, which is an organization dedicated to bringing post-partisan unity and preparedness to Oakland neighborhoods. And wait, there's more. He recently ran for city council of district three and even tossed his hat in for Oakland mayor.
00:02:43
Speaker
He's a Cornell university graduate from their school of industrial and labor relations. And he's been an active member of guardian Grange. As we grow this organization, he's been a great help and a lot of motivation. So needless to say.
00:03:01
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You know, Seneca is very active member of his community and working extremely hard to do good things.
Recording at Bottoms Up Community Garden
00:03:08
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I'm honored to call him a friend and excited about the work we're doing in alignment to help communities become more resilient and food sovereign. We actually recorded this podcast on location at bottoms up community gardens. So you'll hear some of the city sounds in the background mixed in with some chickens and other activity.
00:03:31
Speaker
and just so you're aware this is a free flowing conversation that touches on a wide range of topics and sensitive issues with some colorful language at times so keep an open mind and if your ears are sensitive to
00:03:49
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partial language, just be aware that they do get thrown around in here. I try to be as clean as possible, but it's a part of the fabric of who I am. And it was just a real raw conversation where we aren't holding anything back. So I tried to pride myself on being transparent and I feel we did a really good job in that regard on this podcast. So I'm excited to hear what you all think.
00:04:18
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And before we get into the actual podcast, I just want to remind you that Guardian Grange is a registered 501c3 nonprofit. You can learn more by heading to www.guardiangrange.org. That's guardian and G-R-A-N-G-E, Grange.
00:04:37
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You can find us on social media there or under your search guardian range. And, uh, you can donate
Support Guardian Grange
00:04:44
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through the website. If you feel like supporting the vision in this podcast, uh, any little bit helps, you know, it's, uh, it's all very much appreciated. Help us push this mission forward.
00:04:56
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Also, if you go to the website up in the, up in the top area, you'll see somewhere for a link to our YouTube channel. And I'm going to start posting video clips from the podcast there and some other like video content. So if you don't mind heading over and subscribing to that YouTube channel, we need like a hundred subscribers to help us set the channel URL name to guardian Grange instead of the.
00:05:21
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Dr. Bronners: Ethical Sponsorship
00:05:36
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And one last thing before we get into this podcast, I'd like to thank our sponsor for this episode, Dr. Bronners. I'm sure you've seen their products floating around out there in the consumer verse, but what you may not be aware of is that their products are all natural, ethically sourced, and behind the scenes, they're doing great things like donating 45% of their profits to support causes they care about like Guardian Grange.
00:06:01
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I also appreciate how they defy the typical modern corporate structure by paying the top exec a max of five times what the lowest paid employee makes. I think that shows just a real healthy vision for both their company and compassion for their employees who make your run, keeps the management team grounded, closer to reality, at least a little bit.
Transforming West Oakland
00:06:24
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And, uh, I imagine it helps create a real sense of community.
00:06:29
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I really like seeing the effort and I hope to see it expand to include other communities as well. All right, friends and fellow humans, let's get into this episode with my good friend and a powerful force of nature for positive transformation, Seneca Scott.
00:06:47
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So all right. Yeah. Let's chat it. Well, it's chat. We're going to chat about basically, uh, neighbors together, but we'll chat about like where we're at bottoms up. Community community garden. Um, co-founder Jason bonds is in the kitchen making breakfast. We've been here so eight years, uh, which a vacant lot blighted. Um, now it is like a thriving garden. People come in and,
00:07:16
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eat to chicken eggs, goat milk. It's a beautiful thing. We started off with
00:07:27
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A few hardcore members, I would say Jason's been the mainstay over the years, myself, to a lesser extent. And our mission statement on the wall is we're dedicated to decolonizing the current industrial food sector, building localized agricultural system, and bringing our neighbors together around food systems. Solid. Yeah, man.
00:07:53
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completely aligned with it. That's the Guardian Grange that obviously you're a part of, been a big help. Same mission? Yeah, same exact mission. Decentralizing everything, getting a local community base, which is really what needs to happen for society to get back to a thriving state instead of this circles that we're running in that are just continuing to deplete and destroy shit.
00:08:18
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Yeah, it's just a big, big mess, but it's all good. Normalize some different stuff, right? So, I mean, for kids who grew up here, they grew up in a neighborhood that had livestock for a good part of their life. At least on that corner, they can see them there.
00:08:36
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Yeah, because we didn't go over that. Where are we at? We're in West Oakland. West Oakland, in the lower bottoms, and home of the Black Panthers were founded here. This is the first Black neighborhood in Oakland. They all work at the Pullman Porter Shipyard, all the Black folks who came from the South during the migration in the 50s. Especially during World War II, the shipyards were pumping out boats for the war, like crazy.
00:09:01
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So everybody came to work in the shipyards. It was the first black middle class. A lot of history here over the years. And before black folks came here at the turn of the century, this is where all the rich people in San Francisco used to come to summer.
00:09:18
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Yeah. Yeah, like a sports people thing, right? When you summer somewhere. Yeah. But these houses that you see around you are all built at the, you know, 1908. I don't have plaques on it, 1916, 1904. It reminds me of the like Northeast style architecture, like in Massachusetts and stuff. These are massive homes and people literally bought them to leave San Francisco because they were stinky and come over here where the weather was fresher.
00:09:45
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So it was designed really purposeful. And it's a really cool neighborhood because it's a cul-de-sac. Not many neighborhoods don't have any food traffic. So you're over here and you're here for like, you live here, you're here visiting someone in the business sector. So it makes it like a really close-knit neighborhood. And it's a perfect place for us to do our thing and try to incubate the Neighbors Together program, which is,
00:10:12
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bringing people together, mainly around localized agricultural systems being our mainstay. We've seen like this whole area here has been transformative to the neighborhood. I would say when we first moved here, there were like dice games in that corner. We're like two, how many people chasing at the most? 100 people at most, usually at least a couple dozen people.
Economic Inequality and Local Resilience
00:10:34
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like armed guards, like people in the outskirts. How long ago was that when you first rolled in? Five, six years. We started eight years ago. Eight years ago. So now it's kind of gradually moved away. We never asked anybody to move. People just move. And I kind of went to other places to do their thing. And we're not just mental. We're not doing anything that's unsafe. And people have been here for generations. We just got here 10 years ago. You need to respect.
00:11:04
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I don't do the whole gentrification thing. There is a global consolidation of wealth that's happening.
00:11:12
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Yeah, at big time. It's globally, right? Here too, right? But in terms of the people moving here, there ain't no rich people moving here. You got a lot of upper middle class. But nobody's moving here in this neighborhood who is not at least somewhat aware that they're moving into a black neighborhood that was impoverished for a few decades. It's obvious when you come around here, it's the hood, right? So you're going to spend 1.2, $1.5 million in the hood. You already know.
00:11:40
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then there's no restaurant. It's not like when you move to a gentrified Brooklyn where there's coffee shops. It's none of that here, right? So like you move to North Oakland, you move somewhere else where you have, we don't have that here. So people who come here are a little bit more free-spirited, I would say, and it's better for us to embrace that than demonize people because they don't fit what the neighborhood traditionally looks like. The funny part about it is,
00:12:07
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It's the people who live here aren't the ones doing that. It's just less recent newcomers. So kind of just debunking that myth that black people don't want anybody to move with their heads. It's just not true.
00:12:23
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This is what we see. We got our neighbor Tim. Tim is the nerdiest, dorkiest white dude you could ever imagine from Connecticut. But he came here and he's mad about people speeding down the street. So think about this, right? I moved with a neighborhood in Oakland where people are known for car culture and sideshows. I complained about reckless driving and traffic violence.
00:12:42
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I learned that tongue from him. A pretty good tongue. Traffic violence. Really dramatic and shit. And then he puts up cameras on his house to catch people speeding to complain about it.
00:12:55
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Now, anywhere else, they're gonna be like, chance of fire and all that. No, the neighborhood fucking loved it. And now we have traffic circles coming. He fought and got traffic circles like Berkeley. So just like Berkeley had those things, we got them now. Cause there's one new white dude moved in and was like, yo, this thing's safe. All right, bye.
00:13:13
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Like, but here's the thing, it's order of operation. You didn't just do that from a position of I know better than everyone here. He talked to everyone who could in the neighborhood. How would this be received? Would you be mad if I did that?
00:13:26
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No, it makes perfect sense to me. And that's how people are. Sometimes people just want to be respected and spoke to. The idea itself wasn't the problem. He doesn't have an idea without talking to elders and people in the neighborhood. They want to see it as surveillance. Or, I don't know what your intentions are. Or like, you know, like you just got here, you putting up cameras and shit.
00:13:47
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but he moved here within six months. He had put up cameras. What he did and how he did it were two different things. The lesson is how he did that shit, right? He respected the people who live here in a non-judgmental way, but he didn't back down from a leadership position that it should not be okay to allow people to drive through the streets to step in and imagine all the children here, the elders here, right? And he doesn't assume, because a few people say that's the culture here, that
00:14:16
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that it's a monolith or like that's what black people think. That's the way it's just a talk. It's like, no, that's what a few people think. I want to proceed. And it tells me all the heat he got, white folks.
00:14:28
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Right? So what I learned from that in this neighborhood, it's like, it's the complex shit. Like this is the hood, bro. You got the projects, the two biggest projects in Oakland are both in this neighborhood, which is the reason why this is the black neighborhood. It's black because they all live in a project for the most part. People do live in a home still, but not as much. They usually come from the housing project.
00:14:50
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I mean, it's probably the best place I've ever lived. Yeah, dude, it's beautiful. It's beautiful. But they come here and get to piggyback in a good way off the work that the neighborhood's doing. And all that is, is just honest, who's just trying to help people, trying to get past the division, look past to like,
00:15:11
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all the PSYOPs and all the social media division. That's why I called us. All the propaganda bullshit that keeps you out there. So the guy was like, how did we get in touch with you? And I was like, oh, you can find our propaganda here. And he lied. And I was like, I always say propaganda, because that's an inner tongue. Neutral. He says what it is. It just needs to make you do something. I want to change, I want to condition you, and I want to move you to action.
00:15:39
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Right, so I'm using the medium to move you to action. It's propaganda. I say that because I want people to be self-aware that everything you see is propaganda and everything you consume, right, that you didn't produce yourself is meant to manipulate you in some way, whether good or bad, and you should be self-aware to the extent that you can. What is the reason for this, right, to put it together? So that's the long, asymmetrical story of the garden. And we're trying to show people
00:16:09
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how to live. And if you're going to live in a city, we can transform the way cities are meant to be, right? You don't have to like move with a country to homestead. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You can do that shit on your block. Yeah, it just takes people to care. And like you said, you know, neighbors, neighbors together, the community, like people who actually care, like the bro who moved in here, I mean,
00:16:35
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What he knew inherently as a good person is that people actually give a shit. People care about where their children are growing up, like the place in which they live. And it's always like outside perspective or outsiders moving through that are either passing judgment or like spinning up some propaganda saying like, oh, you know, these places are just bad places or something. But it's- Or the people are bad. Or the people are- But it really is.
00:17:03
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And this is the big theme of America that we need to be honest with. We equate wealth with being good. And we equate poverty with being bad. Because theoretically, in a land of opportunity, if you don't have wealth, then you're lazy. And there is some truth to that.
00:17:25
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There's a lot of people who work hardest, crazy hard. I look at our laborers who produce, who get our food for us. These are hardworking people. And there's truth to the truth that people don't acknowledge, which is the financial system itself is weaponized, you know, through the people who create essentially the currency can extract all that wealth from anywhere. And no matter how hard you work, if they turn that printing press on, you can't compete.
00:17:55
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Yeah. And then the Wall Street moves in and the big, big businesses take over the small mom and pops and it pulls localization away, whether it's here, whether it's in like rural agriculture land. It's the same issues happening all over the country. This is the revolution.
00:18:10
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The real revolution, and to me, personally, the reason for all the division has and continues to be, was it Henry Ford who said, if somebody said, if people realize how the banking system work, there'll be a revolution tomorrow or something like that? Yeah. If people realize, I have to go to work for this job I don't want to do,
Vision of a Soil-Based Economy
00:18:32
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that barely allows me to sustain myself when I'm falling behind because my job doesn't go up to the inflation rate and things are getting more expensive and my income is not.
00:18:44
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And then I know that there are entities out there who just get to point out money on a computer screen and give it to their buddies, which is essentially what's happening. Big time or extraction. It's evil. It's evil. I call it a, it's extraction. Cause if you look at all wealth, whatever you want to call it, whatever you measured in dollars, it's just a measurement of human effort, human labor.
00:19:20
Speaker
So not only are goods and services becoming scarce to supply chain issue, due to the earth basically saying, hey, F off, you're not treating me right. So you're gonna see some consequences of repercussion of not caring for me, right? And that's just my opinion. People can think about how that went. I agree. Whatever your opinion is, the facts remain that we have supply chain issues that are being solved anytime soon.
00:19:25
Speaker
in these numbers. And then when someone can manipulate that and extract out, it's literally theft.
00:19:45
Speaker
And you have a decreased amount of goods and services due to a global pandemic. I don't like to say due to, for simplicity's sake, due to a global pandemic, you're rapidly increasing by tens of billions of dollars per day.
00:20:04
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$50 billion yesterday, I think the Fed put it. The numbers might as well be imaginary because they are. They are imagining it. It's just a method of extraction because
00:20:19
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You know, you print off however many trillions of dollars and you infuse it into the system from one end of the spectrum of wealth, and then that wealth starts buying up resources and inflating the prices, and that's why houses and buildings and lumber and groceries and everything starts going up.
00:20:37
Speaker
The system's just inherently built to break down and the answer is what you're doing here. Local, work, produce food locally, and then you're not reliant upon trains, planes, automobiles, these massive infrastructures that are
00:20:53
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fragile, require assembly lines, and they can be broken down when just one cog of that machine pulls out. Oh, as they want them. Yeah, as they want them to, for sure. Sometimes it's not artificial, sometimes it's manipulative. You know what's crazy? Jason talks about this a lot, because my grandfather
00:21:13
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did the similar thing, because he's from the world south, from Alabama. So he bought a lot next to his house. And he didn't have livestock, because the equipment is cold. But he always had like a big cut. And he went out an hour out to get caught up, like cows and pigs. And he brought it back and butchered it. And I did food. So he was kind of old school. So I was exposed to it. But it wasn't something that we did in my family. But we benefited from it, because we always had access to meat and fresh vegetables.
00:21:40
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But Jason points out a lot, our garden founder, that all this food would be barely enough to feed us for if this is all we had to rely on. And probably not even that. Because we don't grow any staple grains. So we would have to grow some potatoes, some corn, some staple grains. And then the amount of land that we have could probably produce food for maybe 10 people.
00:22:09
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So incubation, more than it is, like a real agricultural system. Yeah, it's a proof of concept. In my mind, my vision of what I call the soul-based economy, soul-based society, is that any community built responsibly has its means to produce its own food.
Sustainable Farming and Veganism
00:22:28
Speaker
And that could just be like, if you have the ability to have a garden in your front yard, your backyard, whatever, that you have,
00:22:34
Speaker
food growing and then you can share with neighbors. You know, someone might have the ability to have some goats. Like you guys got some goats on one of your places, you know, and then you get milk and how many, how much milk are you getting? How many goats do you have and how much milk? We only milked three. Jason, how much are we getting a day now? Not that much now. Three pints maybe.
00:22:53
Speaker
Three quarts. Three quarts. But at the top, it was like a gallon and a half from three goats a day. And that's just three goats. Yeah. By the time we were drinking it right now in our coffee. Yeah. I mean, I. One great goat is through that, though. Yeah. Yeah, they're not even like the most efficient milkers. Yeah. But the point is, just milking three goats have to produce hundreds of thousands of calories that are healthy. And that's super, super nutritious. Nutritious. And it's raw, which is.
00:23:23
Speaker
The best. The absolute best you can drink. I mean, ghosts are the most commonly milked mammal in the world for milk consumption because they're cleaner and they're a little bit more efficient than cattle. Yeah. It's delicious too. The first time I had the milk from here, I was like, man, I can drink a gallon of this shit. He does. I stand with me from Brooklyn. My friend Cavalier, an amazing music artist and thinker and creative. He's a vegan.
00:23:52
Speaker
Don't drink dairy. Drink that goat milk? Because we told her, I was like, hey man, you can drink the goat milk. It's not gonna get you fucked up. Your stomach is good. It's not pasteurized. And his son has been drinking it because he's been sourcing it. He has it like a one year old. So he can source from it. But it's good, right? And so he tried it with a cool chai latte.
00:24:12
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Next day, he was like, yeah, I was like, oh, that shit. Plus, there's a lot of that you mentioned, like, your bro's vegan. And a lot of that stems around, like, really industrialized agriculture. But when you come and see, like, you're doing things right, treating animals good, like, it makes a big difference, you know? Huge. I'm not, I don't want to disappear.
00:24:31
Speaker
I'm not a vegan, obviously. I'm drinking goat milk. I don't diss vegans. I have friends in the industry. I think you actually know violin. Violin's family, the Inglehearts, started cafe gratitude. These were raw, living restaurants. Look at this story. This group of people, organic farmers, hemp farmers from Ithaca, as hippie granola country as you can get, no offense. Those are my peoples. I love them.
00:24:57
Speaker
move out the Cali and start growing food and doing living food. And then they started doing cooked vegan food because it makes more money. Everybody don't eat raw. But then they started eating animals.
00:25:12
Speaker
Why? Because these are real intellectuals who are always learning. Yeah, open-minded. Open-minded, right? And when they realize that in a soil-based regenerative economy, animals play a vital role. Yeah, you got to incorporate the full cycle of life. The full cycle. The full food web. You have to responsibly participate in all of it and not create imbalances in the system. Change the whole shit up. Also, just the amount of energy, the amount of work
00:25:41
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and calories that you have to, this is what people forget about in the industrial sector. We lose track of the synergy between input and output.
00:25:51
Speaker
If an animal can graze, take care of grazing land, I rotate them, and then I can eat them and get all that nutrition density that I didn't have to work for, it's a lot more advantageous to spending my calories, to grow all of these different life forms, to recreate the nutrition density of what I could have got essentially from the cow's sacrifice.
00:26:16
Speaker
Yeah, participation. Right? Right? It's like... And like we all sacrifice, you know what I mean? We all get eaten one day. I like to say like life feeds on life, you know? It's just, it is what it is. And it's, you know, people, when you're detached from like the food process, whether that's hunting or growing or whatever, it's
00:26:38
Speaker
people create these ideas in their mind of like what's going on and like they can say like oh well harvesting an animal is like an evil act when it's it's not because if you're if you're participating in the life cycle in a responsible way number one you care about those animals that population whether you're a hunter or a rancher like you you you have to care unless there's an emotional feeling when you take to life yeah and it's a it's a sacred act i mean you're that animal is sacrificing for
00:27:07
Speaker
to provide, you know, just the same as the plants do, you know, the plants do as well. But people don't technically see that the same because there's not the eyes and the face and the emotions that you can... They don't have to deal with that at all. It's been completely removed from them. Yeah. And we saw that for a long time. It's privileged in progress and now we're realizing maybe not so much.
Global Resource Control and Propaganda
00:27:28
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:28
Speaker
And there's this big, I call it a pendulum shift, because if you look at, let's just take America and what it became to right now, which is like the peak of this corporate industrialized, global, massive, just behemoths of machines, like you got Walmarts and these big box stores, and even going away for that for like the Amazon models, where it's just like these warehouses that are just controlling everything.
00:27:56
Speaker
with the economic system as it is like it they're cutting costs so they they get success from it, but the health of Humans and the environment and the entire foods food web just completely gets punished and degraded and it's just not a
00:28:13
Speaker
I wish that was a sustainable thing. I wish that it was just an unfortunate by-product of Kooloo. Oh, it's not, yeah, there's an intention behind a lot of it. Exactly, right? It would be a lot easier to deal with this if it was just like, you know. Yeah, because people would be like, oh, yeah, you know, you're right. We actually want what's best for everybody. But there are for sure a group of people, there's a type of person, ego, I'd like to call it, like a shadow of ego that
00:28:39
Speaker
just wants to control everything. And if people are flourishing in communities in a decentralized manner, then how can a centralized body of whatever the fuck you want to call it from whatever label you want to put on it, they can't have that power. They can't control what's going on in West Oakland from DC or Georgia or wherever, or somewhere in Europe. It just doesn't work that way because if people are happy and healthy and you have a good, solid community. They can't control them.
00:29:05
Speaker
Yeah, someone's going to come in as an outsider and be like, oh, hey, we want you to do things this way. We're like, well, no, our life's pretty good. We're taking care of ourselves. Everybody's happy. Why do we need you? And so that's why they have to create issues and problems. We'll make you need us. Yeah, we're like, hey, we're going to go away and create some problems and then run some propaganda and say that it's the worst disease. We'll poison your water source or I will do something.
00:29:29
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I mean, like they're doing to the they've been doing to the natives since forever, like putting pipelines through the water sources to poison all of the fucking the drinking water. Yeah, I mean, it's really.
00:29:41
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It's really bad and I think that we don't want to see it because then we know that we have to have a stake in fixing it and it's terrifying to know that you have to go and fight. Yeah, it's a responsibility. It's not an easy thing. It's easy to just pass it off and say, well, I can make it right now. I mean, Jason from Michigan, Bloomberg went to Michigan to campaign for president.
00:30:05
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I forgot the amount that he spent. I think it was like $500 million. I could be wrong. Whatever he spent was a sticker shock and with a fixed Flint water. Which still isn't fixed. So we wanted to get some votes in Michigan. So we went and bought a bunch of ads. You didn't just take the money and go solve a problem that would've made you a hero. These aren't dumb people.
00:30:31
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He's a really smart guy. He knew he could have solved that problem. I'm not going to solve that problem deliberately. The people need to look at you and see what happens when you don't fuck with the government willing to poison the water and laugh at you. So we control that, but they're still drinking bottled water in Flint.
00:30:50
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Are we serious right now? Some of it's been a little bit thick and there was some lawsuits passed or whatever, but fundamentally, it's still a problem. By the largest source of fresh water in the world. Honestly, the water pretty much everywhere is fucked at some level. There's contaminant and there's blues and there's no excuse for it.
00:31:11
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That's why they don't want to do that there because the other people start saying, what about our water source? I mean, the clothing off smell, like you better get you a bulky water filter. If you're not filtering the tap water, filter it. Just bite the bullet and buy that bulky.
00:31:26
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Yeah, I drink spring water or filtered water and you know, because I drink a shit ton of water since I was a kid, I've always drink like I'll drink eight glasses of water with a meal and I can I mean, I can taste and smell like this water is as bad as it feels chemically. I feel dead. Like it just all of my instincts are like, you don't don't even drink this. Don't don't drink this. And this is so important. That's in like, let's say Ohio or San Diego or wherever, like it's all
00:31:54
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It's all shit and it's unacceptable. And the thing is, yeah, we're talking about responsibility and accountability. People individually don't want to take responsibility sometimes. And then accountability on the bigger perspective of a mass polluter who is in the corporate world, maybe a big
Pandemic's Impact on Financial Systems
00:32:18
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seen as a big hero because they get so much profit or something, but you're destroying all kinds of shit. In my mind, true wealth is human beings working together and the land being healthy. You get health. What's beyond health? If you're healthy, you got food, you got good people around. What do you need? What do you need? I can't control you. To create some shit. Exactly.
00:32:46
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It's really, I had a thought I was chewing on. If we have a lot of people, there will be a need for mass agriculture to feed our current population. Sure. At our current population quo, we'll need a size of urban land of Brazil by some studies to continue
00:33:16
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sustained in our life. To me, those are flawed studies and there's a couple of agendas going on here and we can kind of segue into. We have what we're calling, and we don't have to go down the rabbit hole of what we're calling a global pandemic.
00:33:36
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that by all metrics of what, and I like to just take what the data is being presented, the official data, because if you can take the official data and still show the narrative, it's really problematic that people can't see it. I don't even have to say that they're missing something. I can tell you the same data you've accepted to use this narrative and show that you kind of are. Well, if our terrain and our health is the most important thing to our community in dealing with a pandemic, and we know that we have a public health issue,
00:34:06
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Why is there a green new deal to fix climate change issues with all these trillions of dollars and all of these policy changes and deadlines, but no national campaign to increase any environmental taxes? The things that we know are happening. I've debated with people climate change all the time.
00:34:35
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It's debatable whether on a mass scale, mankind is creating some of these things the way we think, the way that we want to change our policies. Yeah, the policies reflect our reality. The policy is not reflecting the rich. It's naming one thing CO2 and not looking at pesticides, heavy metals, water, how you structure cities and communities and take away some of your education. Use wastewater.
00:35:02
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There's no real thought process to really improve that. I mean, it's just the ocean itself, the fact that it's becoming that acidic. Yeah. And no one wants to look at the pesticides that are running off, the aluminum particulates that's falling in from the air. They just want to say it's one thing. Clouds seeding aluminum particles. The hydrogen cyanide poisoning. Hydrogen cyanide poisoning was in a major alarm with sound in 2019.
00:35:28
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particularly in certain cities like New York, et cetera. And if you look at hydrogen cyanide poisoning in the treatment regimen for environmental toxicity,
00:35:39
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It's the things that you would use to treat COVID are the opposite of the things that you would do to treat environmental toxicity. And again, it's just basic level stuff because I'm not a doctor. Look up treatment courses for environmental toxicity levels from hydrogen cyanide poisoning. One of the reasons why we have massive levels of hydrogen cyanide poisoning is because we had all these fires.
00:36:02
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right? We have all these fires around the world, Australia, all of that, and then the increase on the top of the environmental toxicity levels took it over a threshold where people are getting sick from the environment in the cities that just happen to have the most intense COVID death. And then a treatment regimen, before you had a pandemic, if I identified you with having a hydrogen cyanide poisoning, I gave you a treatment course to found drugs,
Currency Manipulation and Community Impact
00:36:28
Speaker
And I'm not gonna cook, look it up. What it doesn't do is give you oxygen. What they found is that giving someone other oxygen to fix environmental toxicity issue was counterproductive and caused death. So they stopped using that course of treatment for hydrogen cyanide poisoning. Then you got all these people dying in New York City.
00:36:54
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from oxygen and it's coming out now that we may have killed some of those people from our treatment regimen. Absolutely. Right? So nobody wants to talk about any of this, even medical doctors are talking about it. Yeah. They don't want to take responsibility into such a degree that they censor human beings who have expertise in areas for just raising the question, like, Hey, we should probably look at this and they're like, you can't have that conversation.
00:37:17
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Forget your water, forget the soil health of your community, forget producing localized agriculture system, your tether to the just in time delivery system, your control body inflation, they just increased food stamp at 25%.
00:37:34
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because they know the food is going up 25, or already has gone up. This combination of shrink-flations puts it more like 30, 40%, right? Because if you look at the price and what you're getting, and the argument is, well, we throw away food anyway, Americans are fat, or
00:37:52
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That's a different campaign than me spending more money for less product. Yeah. Yeah. That's a direct reflection of the weaponized financial system that gets extracted because whatever you're getting paid the same, you're working for the same, you own a business, you're still acquiring the same
00:38:12
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amount of wealth, whatever, the amount of currency. It doesn't go up anywhere on the scale. And then someone that produces nothing for the economy that this wealth represents just so happens to, let's say, like a really extreme example, you just double the amount of currency that exists. What does that do? It reduces everything by half. And I've got the currency. Yeah. I mean, so last week, I don't know if people, and I mean, this is a free flowing conversation. If it's hard to follow my apologies because
00:38:39
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everything is connected and so things are going to the other thing it's a web it's not it's a web it's like a diamond wall with all the strings you look crazy until they figured it out but it's not crazy because if you anyone can walk anyone's free to walk into a forest and look at how a forest a natural system operates it's not a linear thing there's
00:39:01
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different varieties of trees and plants and different microbes in the soil and different animals moving around, shitting and stomping around and scratching trees and straightening this environment. Their natural extinction had nothing to do with man. Yeah. Right. And natural new creations of different species. Right. I mean, Jason points out a lot. Jason needs to be here for the podcast. Yeah, we'll do another. But he's talking to someone about fires. He's like, there are trees that only release if a fire happens. Yeah.
00:39:32
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Fungus too, like fire morels and stuff. Yeah. Fire is a natural part of this process. Yeah. It's when and where and how you control it with controlled burns, et cetera. It's how it happened with people. But without people, what happens is you have different rain cycles. Sometimes it rains a lot. A bunch of stuff blows up and everything catches on fire and it starts to over again. Yeah.
00:39:58
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have power lines, not lightning. So we're artificially maybe, we're fucking the natural shit out. Yeah. Yeah. Blame peasy and easy. Not these fires, but no, fires are part of the force. Yeah, they should responsible manage like the natives did for hundreds of thousands of years, control burns. And also, so you have the lack of control burns and the over forestation, over deforestation of
00:40:24
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trees and then you get like, let's say a mono crop of trees that is highly susceptible to like a parasitic fungus that can just wipe out an entire forest. Now you lost that and the balance is off, but the balance will always be restored. Event, absolutely.
Environmental Stewardship and Trust Issues
00:40:41
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It's just our fragility, our people. And that's the humbling thing, to stop trying to control it and figure out how to shepherd it and live with it.
00:40:54
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then maybe more blessings will come forth. Absolutely. There's a lot we don't know obviously about this planet and its potential. Yeah, the amount of like, like there's a like, go ahead and create a tree. Like as a human being like, create a tree or you could just get a seed and plant it and watch that grow. And you can try to explain away like,
00:41:17
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how that works. You can study it mechanistically, but you can't create the damn tree that nature created. And then now you apply that to a forest and microbes and all that stuff. And our role as a responsible human being is to participate and to create inputs and to where it makes sense, to create synergies. You look at the Amazon rainforest and how that was essentially created in a participatory way.
00:41:44
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They didn't invent the rainforest or any of those things, but they just kind of said, hey, we want to live here. Yeah. In a way that made sense. Oakland's very edible. Um, if you look at how they did Oakland right outside, these trees are edible. Really every tree, I would say over half the trees you see in our neighborhood are edible. These are all plum trees. This makes you feel a weird berry. That's like a nice.
00:42:05
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What's that one called? It's like a strawberry and a kiwi together. I don't know what it's called, but it tastes exactly like a strawberry and kiwi. They only pop out for a little bit a year, but it's edible. The grass that's growing out there, it's like garlic scratch stuff. Oakland was really intentionally planning to be
00:42:25
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We have fennel everywhere, naturally. Yeah, and when there's not a whole bunch of heavy metals polluting the natural garden that's going on, then it makes it better. Of course, of course. We're sitting on two feet of wood chip, and if you're in West Oakland and all the environment's toxic, you have to bring in your own soil to grow food. For sure. Yeah.
00:42:47
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It's really a problem. And no one's taught and no one in the official narrative is talking about any of the act, the toxic pollutants as cause for any number of sicknesses, illnesses, things that have no known cause potentially because people don't look in it or maybe they're paid to look in a different area as a research type of the lobbyists, lobbyists, all that. I mean, they pay this is, you know,
00:43:16
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It seems to be, well, as the average citizen, if you ask him in 2019 and you polled them, do you trust your healthcare system? Yeah. Overwhelmingly, they would say no.
00:43:32
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Do you poll the black communities? Do you trust the healthcare system? The numbers will poll even higher. Matter of fact, there's a statement that's popular and progressive black. You know all the memes, everybody's got the memes. There's a meme that was super popular. It's been retweeted millions of times. It says, because I'm saying it, I'm not saying I agree with this meme. But just to put it in the context, how far we've allowed ourselves to be moved in a few short days.
00:43:57
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2019, it was doctors are the black women, what police are the black men. And all the works, not the awake, there's a distinction between the awake and the woke. But all the works were like, yeah, yeah. Why you say that? Well, black women are dying in a pregnancy, infant mortality rates are far higher for black women.
00:44:23
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When you polled in 1997, there was a study done where they asked doctors if you asked, did you think black people experienced less pain? And others in the majority of doctors, 57% said, yeah, trained medical doctors. They feel that they experienced less pain. Black people feel less pain. Wow. So there are some key indicators to black people's mistrust of our medical system. Absolutely. This meme was super popular. Police, doctors are the black women. The police are the black men.
00:44:52
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Basically saying that cops be killing black dudes and doctors be killing black women. And it was big on all these things to do to reimagine our medical system and make it like not so racist. Well, there were no corrective measures taken between now and then, but all of a sudden overnight, when you actually put out, they could really upset.
00:45:20
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because I'm using that to challenge people who say, well, I noticed that you said this before. When is that trust, where was that trust restored from those doctors who you said were killing black women? And why should black women trust those doctors? Well, this is different. It's not different. You're scared. The difference is the fear. The amount of fear that has been injected into the psyche of humans. You should be afraid.
00:45:50
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It feels healthy. Can be. It's like any emotion, if it's honest and true, is healthy. But if it's fake, if it's artificial, then that's where manipulation comes in. Because when someone's in an emotional state, they make decisions based off that instead of their broader awareness and paying attention and assessing and observing.
Fear, Control, and Critical Thinking
00:46:11
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Like, OK, what's actually going on here? Because you make quicker decisions. I'm going to trust the entity who I know has power.
00:46:18
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Yeah. So my explanation is you know that this entity is not good, but you know that they're powerful. So you trust their power, but you don't trust their intention. But there's no one else out there who you deem powerful because the people have lost our power. If the people had some power, and this is the collectivism that
00:46:43
Speaker
There's a shift in political systems you need in societies. You go from a need for rugged individualism to the need for more collectivism, right? We use those words as capitalists and socialists. Those terms aren't necessarily the best terms for it. Yeah, they're so weaponized and it brings people to a narrow beam of thought where
00:47:04
Speaker
A healthy society, I always look at balance, right? It would be balanced between respectful individuals and honest community. When you get beyond the community, it's too far removed for any honest work to be getting done because it's someone from outside telling people within their area, like, oh, how you need to exist as an individual and as a community, when it should be completely
00:47:32
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up to the people who are participating in their community. That's more tribalism. We're not set up that way. Maybe that is the better way for people to live. America kind of went that direction, though, from where it came, you know, like when the founders with the state's rights and limited federal government, they still like hung on to some bullshit and then tried to create some better shit.
00:48:02
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where it was more power towards the people. And then over time, it just got usurped, sucked back in through policy shifts and addition of laws and blah, blah, blah, all this stuff. I mean, now you have, I mean, we've talked about the mass psychosis and the mental side here. I have a new- Real quick, that was a good, what was that after school video, right? After school, yeah, it was a great, I've shared that many times. Yeah, it's super good.
00:48:29
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really good. They have more too. I've watched like the whole series. They have like a couple of really good ones. One thing that stood out to me about that was our inability to debate intellectually, right? Like point out errors or emissions and my facts are logic.
00:48:47
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Yeah. And people can't do that anymore. Now it's if we don't agree, and it challenges my thinking and my belief system, I just need to cancel and block and pretend that these people don't exist. I don't want to respond. I'm not going to respond. I find my echo chamber with cherry pick. What I think that I can have a battle at. So I have a new thing that I've been doing lately with COVID, right?
00:49:13
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You know, and I've been deciding like how transparent, how much do people disclose during these times when people are watching, there's just surveillance things and everybody's hinting at stuff. And it's just never the way I live my life, right? So I had a debate with a friend of mine who's a doctor, and he's a medical doctor. He was, we are from Miami-Dade County, treated COVID patients.
00:49:37
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all of that. Smart guy thinks Fousie made it in a lab. So he's not completely. Yeah. And I said, he said, saying, why wouldn't you get fascinated? And I said, well, I don't trust this medical system. He was like, you got to trust the science. I said, great. I'm just going to do what South Korea does.
00:50:02
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This is what I do now to people. So I'm gonna do what South Korea does. So I have a question for you. South Korea, they have a longer life expectancy than do Americans? Yeah, they do, about eight years. Do they have higher tests and STEM scores than America? Yeah, they make number three. We're like way down, like teens. So they're healthier, they're smarter. How many doctors do they have per capita? Oh, they have more doctors per capita than America. Okay, cool.
00:50:32
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I'm just going to follow the COVID protocol. Yeah. No questions asked. I'm following South Korea. Oh, and they didn't enslave my people. And they didn't make the vaccines that are being used so they don't have any skin in the game. I just gave you all these identifiable metrics of why a logical person could trust South Korea's medical system over America's. I'm going to ask you a question. Are you aware of what South Korea is doing?
00:50:55
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No. Oh, you're not? OK. So if I just follow this system, am I not following the science? I'm following better science in America about all measurable metrics, right? Well, I'm not going to go into what was said, but it was completely lost over that. Of course. So now let's bring it back home. Challenge of beliefs. Challenge of beliefs. What are they doing there? Because I just gave you all of these things. They're better scientists than Americans are. Well, no, they're not, because we invented the vaccines and blah, blah, blah. Oh, OK.
00:51:25
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But we die quicker, right? If the measure of intelligence is the only absolute that I could think of sometimes is life and death. That's an absolute. They're living eight years longer than us. How are we better than them? If all the stuff they're doing makes them live longer. I'm sorry, you don't have good answers for me.
00:51:49
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Stop debating me. Think deeply about what I'm saying. I'm not trying to beat you. I'm trying to talk with you to get through. You're a doctor. You have skills. You can save lives. I don't have. If I got shot right now, you are a doctor. You can literally save gunshot wounds. I can't.
00:52:05
Speaker
You're a valuable member of society. We can't lose you to mass psychosis and just fall in line with people, bro. Yeah, but there's a difference of the acute traumatic protocol of the medical system. I was in the military. I can handle someone get shot and get them to a place where I can prolong their life.
00:52:29
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And then the medical system is badass at that, at treating trauma. But when it comes to chronic illnesses, neurodegenerative disease, these different things that have these labels applied to them and then you attach it to a basket of symptoms and then they have these protocols that are, they call
00:52:45
Speaker
treatments, but it's really symptom management, right? Because the, the thing never goes away. And so as a measure of success, yeah, they make a lot of money off of that. And as a measure of success, like it's a, it's a partial success to bake. Oh, you still have whatever's wrong with you.
00:53:02
Speaker
but you feel it a little bit less and you're alive. And we're just going to keep you on that, that open wound protocol, as opposed to like, let's get to the root cause of like why this exists. And it goes back to not wanting to take responsibility and accountability. So no one looks into the depths or people do, but the conversations aren't allowed to have a credible platform in public discussion. Well, they completely dismiss half of what the world's doing in their medical system.
00:53:31
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You go to Western countries, especially Asian ones.
00:53:36
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they use Chinese ancient medicine, and they do their modern stuff together.
Understanding Mortality and Mental Health
00:53:41
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It's not an either or choice. It's like you do both. You always try the ancient methods first before you even go there. That's why I chose South Korea, because they used to go. You're looking at the homeopathic treatments, things that they're sending to their people, their food and all of that. Have you ever seen what they eat in South Korea? Beef.
00:54:05
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Yeah, I've been over there. They don't eat like super probiotics though. Yeah, it's clean. It's much more naturally balanced. It's connected to nature. And that's the thing, there's so much intelligence within this natural world that you cannot, like your most genius person and group of people, whatever you want to call it that.
00:54:27
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are never going to even come close to the natural wisdom that exists. That's why I like to contrast artificial intelligence with natural wisdom because nature wins hands down every time. Over any amount of egos that you could acquire into a body or a group or whatever, they will never, ever, ever outcompete nature. Can't. I never say never. I don't think it's palpable in our lifetime for sure.
00:54:56
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But I would make a distinction of a wise group of humans wouldn't even be trying to compete with it. They'd cooperate with it. What is that? We trying to be a God?
00:55:11
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That's what it looks like for a lot of people who want to control everything. You have elders saying, I want to hang on because if I just, I'm, I think a guy was like, I'm in my late seventies. And by my prediction, if I hang on 20 more years, we have reached the point where we saw the mental and age of decline due to CRISPR, cash nine and genetic modification stuff. And I'll live forever. And it's like,
00:55:41
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I mean, who am I to judge you? But is that a good thing? Yeah, exactly. I don't judge that either. But what I feel of that is it's another disconnection from the cycle of life because death is a part of it. And people have there's so much uncertainty in the modern world and ways of
00:56:04
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knowing reality that people have a lot of fear around death, no matter what their beliefs is or isn't, you know, there's this unknown and a lot of people's lives are uncomfortable with death, whereas how I personally look at death as an exchange of energy. There's a time that we weren't in this form and we were born and here we are and then we exit and I'm at peace with my death whenever that happens because
00:56:34
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It's a part of, it's a part of what needs to happen. Don't have a choice. Yeah. There's no choice. We all die. I would say that I'm not, it's not something I think about. No.
00:56:47
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But I do appreciate people who think about it because that's where you get a lot of your theology that is rooted in trying to figure out what happens. You know, there are people out there who would say, I know what happens when I die. And they're super spiritual people who say I be meditating and I play all these frequencies when I meditate. And let me tell you,
00:57:09
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If you're born again, it's hard for me to explain to you, but I know. You could know. I don't know. I don't meditate. I don't even try to know. I'm going to find out. We'll assume. I'm not that worried about it. I do want to use the consciousness that I'm blessed with now
00:57:31
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to create a beautiful life. Yeah. And a beautiful life for the people to follow, you know? But just say you do come back. That's difficult because what do you do when you're faced with people who you know, like I'm not a patient person and I'm a bad temper. It doesn't come out a lot because I'm thoughtful. But once I've made my mind that you're not somebody I want to deal with,
00:58:01
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I blow the butch up, I don't care anymore, right? It's just really, you know, kind of like zero to 100, most people kind of laugh a little like, whoa, where'd that come from? Like, the fuck you got? Came from a lot of thinking. You know, I'm not going this direction, you know, and I'm going to do that with conviction, not a judgment, but just how that it's not healthy for me. But I'm finding myself, and this is more of a confession, losing my patient with
00:58:31
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People who I'm considering dangerous now. And what I mean by that is you know what you're doing anyway, right? You're doing it anyway.
00:58:47
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You know it's not right to force pregnant women to take a fucking vaccine when they don't take any other vaccines. It's not right to force a pregnant woman carrying her life to do anything she doesn't want to do. To get everybody else's life. Yeah, I get added public responsibility. That's stopped when someone's carrying her life. That's been pretty much accepted in medicine. You're very careful about giving pregnant women anything. You haven't studied anything about this on pregnant women and you want to force it on them at the same time.
00:59:18
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Texas, what they did, I would agree with it. As opposed to your personal feelings and religious feelings aside, I'm okay with my body, my right. But keep that same energy. Yeah, it's gotta be consistent. The message has gotta be consistent or else it's not true. It's not true. I've had people write me, you know, poses, paragraphs, explaining why this is different. Not different, it's simple. My body. The reason why it's four words. Yeah.
00:59:46
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It's a reason, not one abortion or no. It's a period. Right now, other times when they're like, not a new thing, it's the smallpox with, I know you guys are just thinking of this, the propaganda. George Washington mandated a vaccine with smallpox.
01:00:06
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Okay. It's an interesting history when you look at vaccines in smallpox and when the outbreaks happen. I'm not even going to touch that, but so now I'm just going to keep it straight. For sure. George Washington to you up until now had slave tea. He was a slaver. He was a racist. Now he's the man.
01:00:27
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Yeah, they use the argument where it where it where it makes sense for what they want to continue believing as opposed to just being honest about things. You know, honesty is the look at you need. You need honesty, respect and gratitude because if you if we respect each other and we're honest with each other and we're grateful for what we have, I mean, that's a bulletproof way in my mind of living
01:00:53
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well and living well, not just as an individual, but as a community, because we respect each other. We're not lying. We're not lying with yourself. We're not lying with the number one thing that is. So how do we, how do we, I mean, not to just our responsibility, but first of all, I'm under the belief that the majority of people in this country are not yet completely under the spell.
Illusions of Security and Community Preparedness
01:01:23
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Sure. Yeah. But a good chunk of us are like 30% plot, right? And my, my correlation is between affluence is you have one
01:01:40
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The world is hard to make it. It is full of beauty, but it's also full of suffering. It's suffering, suffering. I like how they say that. Life is nasty, Buddhist and short, who's to ask a while. So when you win, when I'm living a better life than 0.00001% of people who ever existed in this earth, I don't wanna protect that.
01:02:09
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I don't want to be like the peasants. I don't want to be worried about buying food, right? To my friends who used to be burned Babylon in college, it was all revolutionary and we want to see Babylon burn. And then when Babylon starts to burn, they want to put the fire out because they realized, oh shit, I got a 10,000 square foot house.
01:02:33
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I got four kids, they're about to go to college. I got a wife. They get captured in those, I call them the debt chains. I make $450,000 a year. I made it. I made it. I don't want to see the system far. I made it. And so they act accordingly. And not that many free thinkers out there who are wealthy.
01:03:02
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Right? A step to ultra wealth. In the ultra wealth, you can do that because I don't ever need anyone. I can go right now and write a check to sustain my life and my family's life for the next few hundred years. I can prepay the property taxes on this property. Security is my favorite. As long as that system holds.
01:03:22
Speaker
Well, security is largely a superstition. It does not exist in nature. No, that's Helen Keller. Life is a grand adventure or nothing. But as much as you can control it, you can control it. You gave us a billion dollars right now. It's gone. And how long would it take us to spend a billion dollars a month? Not long. Yeah, to set up what we're trying to set up. It's gone.
01:03:43
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Like it's God, we're spending money in Italy, right? We're hiring people, like, cause that's enough to actually give people livelihood because like the amount of money that you need is much less if everything's provided for. Right? And I don't mean everything's provided for on some socialist. You provide it yourself. You're working, you're participating in that, right? And you got some wild, zany, wacky idea to invent something. Go and do that.
01:04:10
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If that means a lot of people need it, then you have well, the natural way. The natural way, yeah. It's okay. I like innovation. That's the difference between creating abundance versus creating scarcity to corner a market or something.
01:04:27
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There's many manipulative practices that can accumulate wealth, just like someone can be a very wealthy thief, but it doesn't mean that those gains were gotten in a right way. That's the problem now. Most people who have the money did not earn it.
01:04:42
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And even if they don't understand it, because if you're participating, if let's say, which this is the case, that the bank extracts wealth from a system and then provides a loan to someone who can get it with a credit score or a certain number of assets or whatever, doesn't change the fact that the currency was created out of nothing and handed so that a house that used to be $300,000 is now $1.5 million.
01:05:08
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that both people didn't have money to afford it, but one could extract a loan from a bank and leverage that. When that happens on a mass scale, it just gets silly. We end up talking about this every week, and we're going to talk about it Wednesday in our usual discussion. But I am really concerned with
01:05:35
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our collective mental state and our ability to handle the hard times that are starting. That's my biggest concern right now and the motivation for bringing the neighbors together is still that you don't have to be afraid. Like you saw Jason just dropped off a 50 pound bag of potato on a table. That'll be gone today because people will come and they'll take it.
01:06:06
Speaker
That's great. But where did those come from? They're on the edge. They're on the edge of a nutritional lifespan. They still have nutrition in there, but they're almost great.
01:06:20
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They came from an industrial system that isn't able to move that product right now because of whatever reasons, or they want to donate it back. It didn't come from us growing it here. While it's good that we have it, it's crumbling. It's not only is it crumbling, I'd say the combination of
01:06:40
Speaker
accidental and intentional. At a high level, it's very intentional. Below that, there's many people who are just participating and not aware of what's going on. You can see it being weaponized against, let's say, when they say, hey, this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated and that you can't participate in these systems that we can control and we can shut you off. Again, we fall back to
01:07:05
Speaker
individual and community security, where if we're producing foods, we don't need that shit. We don't need that thing. They can't control you like that. That's why they need to- Then I can't make you do the thing. Yeah. Can't make you do what- What I want you to do. Bend your will against what your free will wants to do. Whatever that happens to be as a human being. If someone wants to go like,
01:07:27
Speaker
swim out into the ocean and see what happens and just keep going and never turn back. Like that's there. That's still right. I have no right to tell them, no, I could be like, Hey man, that might not be the best idea. Like you might not. That's the idea that I actually have when people talk about, uh, intense levels of mental illness and homelessness and what can you do without putting people in jail? And I was like, you need to identify extremely rural areas.
01:07:52
Speaker
You have to put the drug rehab counselors and the mental health therapists and hire them to be in those rural areas. And the rural areas will keep people there. You don't have to have lots. You can have people control for safety measures. If you're a danger to yourself or others, then obviously you have to be locked down. But if you're not like that,
01:08:15
Speaker
Not a jail. You can go where you want. Good luck. I mean, you're probably going to die in the wilderness, but that's your choice as a free person. And I think that's more holistic, you know, that I'm not being... Maybe that person can get through their mental illness by being immersed in nature and not being confined like an animal, right? A lot of... I would make...
01:08:39
Speaker
I don't want to call it a thing.
Nature Connection and Urban Pitfalls
01:08:41
Speaker
Just my observations lead me to look at a lot of what people label as mental illnesses, as sicknesses basically injected from just the way that things are, like beliefs that people hold. And like I call my
01:08:57
Speaker
consciousness get tied in thoughts. And when you leave those systems and go out to nature, even on like a small scale, when someone's feeling like a lot of pressure, you go out into nature and it just like kind of goes away because nature is the ultimate medicine. Like it's in so many ways, just from the foods that you eat, from the air that you breathe, and you're from just like calming your mind and being in a balanced state. This is a toxic environment. Yeah. This is a pressure cooker that all new people are extremely like,
01:09:27
Speaker
I mean, it's fortunate that I've been in unprecedented situations. I mean, some of them are just a byproduct of my chosen lifestyle, but nevertheless, I've been in a lot of extremely stressful situations where the decisions you make in that moment are going to have, you know, dramatic effects to your safety and other people's safety.
01:09:53
Speaker
It takes a certain kind of potion to deal with that and not go crazy. I definitely am self-aware of the intensities of my mental state.
01:10:10
Speaker
but there's a reason for that. I don't know how much you go into that on your podcast, but there's some things that you can do to drop the ego and be more tuned in. But even then, I've got schizophrenia, like I'm from a family of brainiacs. Half of my uncles are bad sequences, right? There's just too much to distinct too much. Too much head. Too much head. Too much head. Not enough heart, you know, the connection.
01:10:39
Speaker
I don't know, right? The cities killed them, right? And then they fell into drugs and that was it. Because the worst thing to do when you're a super cerebral person is to get hooked on drugs. It's actually like an upper. Oh, dude, yeah, because you can go do infinite rabbit holes and loops. It's over. You're just out there now. Gone, right? And it's, I mean, my uncle was on a team that made the black heart.
01:11:13
Speaker
His level of engineering was so high that, so he came home one day, he's dead now, rest in peace, Uncle Scotty. He died in the Philippines. But he came home one day, found his wife in bed with another man and killed him both. And they sent him to Saudi Arabia in like 76 because the military was like, nah, you gonna have to just go over there and keep making this helicopter.
01:11:36
Speaker
because you do the thing we need you to do. Fuck your wife or that guy. And you just can't come back. And he lie. Came back once to see my grandma. We forced to pass, and that's it. You know, he split his wife, second half of his life, with 30s until his 80s, and Philippines and Saudi Arabia, where he split his time. My parents moved over to Middle East in the 70s, so I was conceived at in Iran during that same time period, right? And he went crazy. He's a genius.
01:12:06
Speaker
Right? My grandfather, who was also, I've got a lot of geniuses, he was like building cars, fourth grade education, but built you whatever, right? Matched a carpenter, general contractor, worked for TRW, his whole career. We tiled him in there because he was amazing and they put him on or some, you know, whatever they do. But he had some money, right? The reason my parents got money is because my old grandfather made some money. He always would say, hey, don't think too much.
01:12:35
Speaker
read more, think less, go food, go in nature. And the reason your uncles are crazy, because they don't go food, and they don't go in nature. And you know he was really big on walking barefoot on the grass. His levels of insight
01:12:57
Speaker
I don't know if it was just a natural thing. I don't know much about Macy's, so maybe he loaded through his, that world, I'm not sure. But as I get older, I'm like, yeah, that motherfucker was smart. Like, take his shoes off and walk in the grass. Like, why? My feet are dirty. He's like, no, you just, no. That's not dope, that's life. I grow from that. I'm like, oh, I never got it. Until like, I'm into my 30s.
01:13:24
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There's so much benefits to it. You're connected to the energy of that ground and also your foot is working in its natural, proper state. All the muscles, all the way up to the kinetic chain, all the way up through your spine. The posture has to be better.
01:13:40
Speaker
Right? Your posture literally has to be better when you walk in there, but because you have to maintain that. Yeah. It moves your body into alignment. And when you're walking on basically like squishy sponges that we support, it creates weaknesses and that over time. Yeah. A little rock that you do it a while, that's nothing. You just go over it, right? Like we was made to do that shit. Mm-hmm.
01:14:01
Speaker
That's why fucking Kenyon and the state dominating long ass distance running. They dominate that shit. They don't even run it with no shoes on, bro. And they're like, do act like that's a disadvantage. They don't even run with shoes on. No, you lose. You can do one with shoes on. You haven't got it yet? Are you this simple?
01:14:19
Speaker
The people who don't use the shoes to run win, the people who use the shoes to run don't win. But yeah, we're superior. They don't even want with shoes on, but yet they still win. That's how we think. Yeah. People don't want to see, they don't want to come to terms with the truth outside of belief. And that's why I'm big on saying like, all beliefs are unnecessary. You can have them if you want, if he makes you feel better. But the belief itself is unnecessary to the truth that exists and the awareness of that truth.
01:14:45
Speaker
is what it is. And so that's why for me personally, I always try to, um, if I don't know, I don't know. And if I know, if I know through my own experience, my own awareness, then I'm at peace with that and I'm at peace with not knowing cause there's a whole lot of shit that you're not going to know. You're, you can know, have all the information of every human being that's ever lived and you're still not going to know fuck all compared to like what exists. I mean, well, maybe I can't, every human being ever live, including the anxious, we may know a little something.
01:15:12
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Something, but I'm talking like on the infinite spectrum of what's going on in the universe. And they definitely knew some, they knew a lot more. I believe that, you know, we have a lot of gadgets and widgets and things, but when you go back in time, people had a lot of awareness and knowledge. I agree. I think we're a very primitive version of our former style. I agree. Like we do similar things. Like these things are amazing.
01:15:42
Speaker
I can go on here and talk to someone in another part of the world and see their face and talk to them. But what if we did that through actual meditation? How is that any different? And it's really interesting when you look at this, the communication has gone up, but potentially the modes of communication, but the connection between human beings.
01:16:10
Speaker
has arguably, in many ways, reduced. People are divided, more hostile. The more we're tapped in, because they're not really a true connection. It's even crazier a fascination than when you look at the minerals inside the phone, it's the same thing that will end the chicken headpieces that people supposedly wore to actual playing. To me, that's what makes me believe it.
01:16:33
Speaker
because it's literally like, okay, well, those minerals do those things. We just did it in a fairly cumbersome way. I know it's weird to think about it that way, but if I need all of these things to be made and I just can't go meditate at a frequency and talk to some people in another place,
01:16:54
Speaker
Yeah, consciousness. I mean, I have my own experiences with things. And that's why, again, it comes down to awareness, because I don't have a belief about it. I have an experience or knowledge of it. But people can't communicate their own experiences, especially when they're beyond...
01:17:11
Speaker
We can describe this and we can show this and it makes sense, but when it's something intangible in consciousness, it's like people are going to have their own opinions on it if they've never experienced it, but it doesn't make it true or not. I would say that it's go experientially to find your true, but if you're not experiencing any type of birth or death,
01:17:32
Speaker
Right? Which is, I love that after school about the wine, the psychedelic wine. Did you see that one? Right? Oh, literally talking about the birth of religion was psychedelics. It takes back all the major religions and look at the stories and the things that people like were doing and ancient gurus and people go to a place and they will have this
01:17:56
Speaker
Whatever the wine was. Even different states because, you know, like a psychedelic or a plant or an animal, different medicines, I call them natural sacraments just because there's so much weaponized language. There's those methods into states of consciousness. And then you can look at like the East, like Tuomo and like Buddhism and different ways of breathing that people can tap into other states.
01:18:24
Speaker
There's so many natural technologies that exist outside of ourselves and within ourselves that we can tap into. It's a great big world out there.
01:18:40
Speaker
I'm an optimist, so people ask me, I'm into preparedness. That's one of the reasons why I form an organization about neighborhood preparedness. And a lot of my friends, until recently, I don't get this shit no more, but why are you always talking about how much food and water you have, and your security props, and demanding that people go shopping, and all that negativity, man, it's gonna affect your mind, and I'm like,
01:19:04
Speaker
What are you talking about? It's not negative. I'm pretty positive. I plan on living. I'm not negative. You've got a solid foundation to fall back upon, or like an insurance policy, whatever you want to call it. Why would we not want...
01:19:19
Speaker
It doesn't make any sense. And in fact, there was there was a point in time within America's short history where that sort of preparedness was encouraged as a form of national. Now it's not. Now it's on Facebook to ask you to turn in people. I saw that. I said, are you into the preparedness?
Preparedness and Societal Metaphors
01:19:36
Speaker
Yeah, it's national preparedness month. And that's when Facebook choose. And use that word specifically. Yeah. You know, why have you? So if you follow
01:19:49
Speaker
I call it my algorithm because our brains work funny. You can input things into your brain and not think about them deeply and still come to, the subconscious will work it out, right? So I noticed that in the last like six months, all these puppet channels I follow membership skyrocketing.
01:20:11
Speaker
They know that too. They know more Americans are getting into preparedness because they see food prices going up and then algorithms are feeding them and stuff. So the algorithms are feeding people prepper stuff at the same time as the government is now trying to doesn't want it.
01:20:33
Speaker
I don't know what connection's there, if any, but it's really interesting that a lot of people I talk to now are talking about the things, right? And they're on YouTube, and they'll name one of the five or six popular YouTube proper channels, and they'll have singing it or know who they are. And I'm like, two years ago, this was foreign stuff. So the subconsciousness is knowing,
01:21:02
Speaker
We made all these zombie movies and shit. We knew. Yeah, there's stories to illuminate certain realities that can come to existence when a certain action happens. I think that, unfortunately, people just seem to be wired that we have to have some tough times to make strong people. You guys know the quote. Yeah, yeah.
01:21:30
Speaker
They're stuck in a loop and a habit. I mean, we've been pushing. We've never seen that video of the kid dancing on the hill, the leadership video. I think I said it to you guys.
01:21:41
Speaker
It's a great video. It's a kid dancing on the hill at a college party. And it's just one kid, and he's doing his funny dance. And everybody's laughing at him. And the girls are like, look at this loser. You can see people snickering at him. And he's like, I don't care. I'm fucking doing my dance. Like 30 seconds goes by, and then one fat dude comes over. He starts doing a dance with him. Like the first follower within three minutes. By the time the guy's talking about the leadership,
01:22:09
Speaker
people are running to the hill, so they don't look like losers. And you don't see the guy anymore. He's gone,
Individual Awareness and Societal Power
01:22:17
Speaker
he's disappeared. Does this leadership matter? Yeah. But anybody remember it? If you just came in the party and saw everybody dancing in the hill, you have no idea why that party's cracking. You just came in and everybody's fucking rocking out. You didn't know that that party was dead before one guy said, this shit's dead.
01:22:40
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It's not the kind of party I want to have.
01:22:45
Speaker
People are coming to dance with us. Yeah. People are people are waking up. They're waking up to realize the power that they have as individuals that we all have. And there's been this illusion cast upon consciousness in society where people believe that, you know, someone in a white coat or someone in a suit and tie or someone the camera in their faces is where power comes from. And it's not every individual has power. We're all created. We're all here for a reason.
01:23:14
Speaker
And, um, tap into your power, tap it in. Yeah. And you're not a, the followers and leaders is, is, uh,
01:23:29
Speaker
changing things. Sometimes you just go first. Yeah. It's an imbalanced way of viewing things to say that, to say that someone is fit to control the lives of other people as a responsible leadership is someone who cares and is concerned and is a participant within the community in which they leave them. Leadership found them and then they responded to it.
01:23:53
Speaker
If you see somebody doing something that you believe in and nobody's following them, know that the most effective form of leadership is to really be their first follower. That was the biggest part of that video to me. That was more important than a guy. He made him.
01:24:12
Speaker
the second person solidified it. So if you want to go first, that's brave and courageous. Everyone's not brave and courageous to go first. But what everyone can do is be the first follower.
01:24:29
Speaker
There's a guy who broke the ice or the person who broke the ice. And if not the first, be the second. Don't wait for the group to run up. That's corny. And when the group's going on, you may be jumping into an ocean of shit. You may be jumping into something that you have a mass psychosis situation.
01:24:47
Speaker
Right? When it's the best thing is to do is do the opposite of the crowd or to go away sometimes. Yeah. Because now when you don't know what they're doing, you don't know how it was formed. Yeah. You don't have a, you know, an intimate knowledge of what that movement is even about. Right. But people are under mass psychosis. I think that we all are even those of us who are awake and not woke until like we're still on these things.
01:25:16
Speaker
We have to, regardless, we have to participate in. The world. Yeah, and I like to call it, there's definitely a sort of, I wouldn't even say sort of, I look at it as an open air prison, because there's certain actions that human beings to participate have to do, right? Even if you don't want to, in order to not get thrown in jail, or fined, or this or that.
01:25:42
Speaker
completely ostracized when you're not able to reach the community that you want to help organize. There's a sacrifice to be in an organizer. Yeah, you got to be smart in how you maneuver. But over time, I feel like the shift in consciousness has already begun long before all this. And they were coming to like ahead of essentially egos that really want to control, and then people who are just aware of the fact that that doesn't benefit
01:26:12
Speaker
the earth or individuals, whatever, in the long run. It doesn't work that way. Or your own mortality. Yeah, or your own who you are and what you came here to do. So I have a question. How do we avoid an American genocide? How
Shift in Consciousness and Personal Responsibility
01:26:32
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do we avoid it? Here's my
01:26:39
Speaker
awareness of how things work is to be locally active, responsible, engage with the community, know who is in your community, know who you are, and always have each other's back. It's like, hey, you know what? We all rally around something. All human beings I've found, no matter where we're at, we all care about other people.
01:27:00
Speaker
children living well to the best of our abilities. And so if we can rally around that, it's like, hey, we're actually on the same page, regardless of where we come from, different areas, different perspectives. There's a fundamental human thing about human beings. And if we can just rally around that, then
01:27:19
Speaker
in our local communities, and we don't have to do it on a national stage or anything, but if the communities come together in that way, then there's security there, and then communities can link up. We go, yo, that community over there is pretty tight, and we're on the same page, and we have these bubbles, and it's like we cut ourselves, and the blood comes and creates a scab, and it stops the bleeding.
01:27:42
Speaker
You know, but if we're a hemophiliac and that doesn't happen because the communities are not tight and able to do it, then you bleed out. But if if we're as strong as as communities in decentralized manner, we can patch it because we can be like, yo, you know, like you could be like, hey, something's happening. Mark's community. Let's go like support him. You know, he's a he's a bro. And same thing. We had a fire. It's like, hey, we're going to provide some like, yeah, exactly.
01:28:09
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I think, I mean, I am an optimistic, I'm also realistic to know that. I ask that question because I do believe that that's the path that we're headed.
01:28:23
Speaker
I would agree. There's certain, there's, there's definitely elements of humanity that want that too. Yeah. They want it. Yes. They're pushing us toward it. Yeah. Um, and people are falling for it to some extent. Fortunately, yeah. I'm trying to be more self-aware, not fall for it because I'm getting angry.
01:28:44
Speaker
and you don't think clearly when you're angry. Of course, yeah. That's the power in making, that's the power in inciting anger among groups of people. Is that Broadway? So, and at the same time, I don't want to miss the opportunity to be like, no, you were right. You were right to have been angry and you probably should have acted on that sooner before things got worse.
01:29:10
Speaker
Yeah. Or to be, to be aware. So anger is a, and it has value when it's true, but it's also like for me, I used to have like really bad road rage, but then I reflected on like, why do I have, why does it happen? Like I'm either rushing to get somewhere or someone cuts me off.
01:29:25
Speaker
there's no that person didn't mean me they're not personal but but the reason i would get to anger is because i wasn't prepared properly but if i go and prepare i'm like hey i'm gonna number one like leave five ten minutes early whatever and whatever 30 minutes however long i need to
01:29:43
Speaker
be at somewhere where I'm not rushing. And if someone cuts me off or whatever, it's not a big deal. They got to get somewhere faster than me. Go for it. And so the point is that through awareness, we can expect certain things and not get triggered into an emotional state when we're in the heat of the moment. And then we can act out in a manner like chess. We can act strategically.
01:30:07
Speaker
And what's best for what we know is good, like ourselves and our community and to make the proper plays because it's really easy for an outside force to come in and let's say like people were playing chess or playing a game and
01:30:23
Speaker
some third party comes in and just says like, Hey, look over there. Something's going on. And then they changed the game up and then they, and then they go whisper in the ear like, yo, that bro just cheated. Then you get the same thing over there. Then you have an argument that they just spun up and that person's long gone. And they come now. Meanwhile, they're robbing your whole, your whole garden. They're behind you. So while you're fighting over what they did, I mean, I, I,
01:30:47
Speaker
My biggest concern is that you're seeing an intense dark division. Like I said, I'm speaking to myself as well as other people to not get caught up in that. Absolutely. Because your language becomes your actions. And, you know, we were saying like, oh, you got to watch these people. We're going to have to take them out. And I'm like, that's some crazy talk.
01:31:13
Speaker
I'm just saying, and I'm talking crazy, right? So I'm like, okay, let me be self-aware that I'm talking crazy now. Muffin, I think I'm wrong, but let me just always not second-guess myself or be conscious that I'm acting out of emotion. But at the same time, I'm like, are we? There are...
01:31:34
Speaker
things happening for sure. Yeah. There's an intentional like yeah. And I say it like, you know, we're sitting here having a conversation.
01:31:49
Speaker
everything's great, but it doesn't mean that someone else isn't like, hey, I don't want those people to have that conversation. They don't want it to have this conversation. For sure. But in this example, like just say, there's someone actually doesn't want this to happen. And we just are in a bubble of thinking like, everything's great and no one really cares. And then that person has an advantage because we don't know they're there if we don't know, if we're not aware of it.
01:32:13
Speaker
We know Big Brother's always watching. They're on your phone right now. Yeah, for sure. Big Brother. They're always watching. We're not always. Not in the woods. We're no phones. When you're aware of...
01:32:27
Speaker
another person, like let's just say we're camping in the woods, right? And then some random, like Bigfoot, let's just say it's like Bigfoot and they just are like, hey, we want to fuck with these human beings. And if we're not aware of that, then we're not going to have, but by the time Bigfoot shows up and does whatever Bigfoot wants to do, then there's nothing we can do. But if we're aware and like, Hey, Bigfoot's over there and it looks like he's plotting. Let's let's maybe like,
01:32:53
Speaker
not be here. Make some noise, or let's make Bigfoot not want to come in here, or let's move, let's maneuver, let's get out of this situation, and that's... You can make a plan to deal with it. Yeah, that's just situational awareness. So, what about people, and I'm gonna ask this money, this is your podcast, I'm over here, actually. I want to know. No, it's a conversation, man. What about people who...
01:33:13
Speaker
I'll have been that they figured it out. And right now, you're just ignorant if we don't comply. And my patience is running out with people who want comply.
01:33:24
Speaker
Yeah, I'd say that's a highly emotional state and to examine what you think you know, because I know from a, I don't want to get into like knowledge versus knowledge, but it's very clear that there are some people who believe that they know some things when you get into the depths of it and they don't actually know what they believe themselves, they're just operating from what they were told.
01:33:49
Speaker
to believe and i would say for it i do this myself and everything if i if i know something it's because i know it otherwise i'll say like hey this is what i think this is what i this is where i think it's going but when i know something it's because i truly know it i've examined it i've looked i've looked at all the angles i've studied it um and so when you get to people who are like hey we know what's best for everyone else it's like you could claim you know what's best for yourself but you can never fucking claim that you know what's best for someone else and at that point when you're trying to
Community Security and Isolation Effects
01:34:18
Speaker
impose your will upon another being or another group of beings, you're in the wrong. That's what I would say the delineation of good versus evil is, is that evil is the desire to control others. Good is the allowance of free will to exist. And sure, you could say like someone, a criminal, a murderer would have the free will to kill someone else, but that's a violation of that will. Yeah, we took someone else. Yeah, so as long as if we can agree that we're not going to violate each other's free will,
01:34:48
Speaker
That's fine. Unless it's in defense of someone else. Like if we see like some kid walking across the street and someone's chasing with a bat, we're going to intervene in that situation. We're going to stop that free will, which is a violation of someone else's, but we're not just going to see someone riding a pink unicycle down the street and be like, yo, I don't like pink unicycles. Let's go stop that shit. I mean, I'm going to stop joking right now. But to the scarcity,
01:35:18
Speaker
There is scarcity. Exactly, and that's why security, a responsible, secure community can feed itself, and a responsible, even if you looked at America, if America really wanted security and peace, they would be encouraging people to be living more healthily, living more locally, having gardens, being prepared, not saying the opposite, because that only serves to make people reliant upon a system
01:35:46
Speaker
that even like even if I was someone who wanted to like just give everything to everybody like number one you don't have the amount of time to do that but even let's say like I thought I was uh in this state where I can save the whole world right
01:36:01
Speaker
It would benefit me if people could also like save themselves, you know, because then there's less draw on the need. And so if you're responsibly running a society, then you want your communities to be as secure as possible. You want your communities to like even you get into like gun rights, right?
01:36:20
Speaker
It makes sense for a community to be able to handle any kind of threat that comes in. It doesn't make it more dangerous, it makes it more safe. Some people are not going to like that, but it is what it is. I come from responsible use of weapons to defend
01:36:38
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other people. I think many people left in America who aren't with the firearms because a lot of people didn't switch stuff when they felt scared during the pandemic. They were like, I guess I do need a gun. They switched real quick. They switched real quick when you thought somebody was going to come in your house, it hurts your family. It always is that way. And that's good. I welcome, I welcome not to fear, but I welcome at least understanding that self-defense is important. It's a responsibility.
01:37:02
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I had a talk with a guy today in the podcast and I was like, you're in LA, you don't have a, you got food and water? He said, no. I was like, well, you have security? He's like, who do you mean? I'm like, you have a firearm? He said, no, those are hard to get here. I was like, what are you talking about? You can have one in 10 days from today. He was like, no, they don't approve those permits. I'm like, oh, you made for carry. I'm like, what about your house? He said, oh, I thought it was just hard to get. I'm like, you just assume. Like, do you want?
01:37:27
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I'm fine. He's like, yeah, I've been thinking about that lately. And I'm like, see, yeah. Right. I said, yeah, you should like try to be responsible. If you don't have any mentor, I tell people we have depression issues. Probably not. You know yourself. The first the first the first line is self-reliance, defense, whatever is the first line of
01:37:52
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being secure is to have mental clarity, right? Like a good feeling. If you're in a highly emotionally volatile state, then yeah, there's some other damage that's already being done or been done that needs to be addressed and handled before you need to worry about something else sabotaging that because there's
01:38:14
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the most important thing they write. They say there's some self-sabotage going on or some other stuff, yeah. No, you're right. But I mean, there are people who deal with bipolar issues who want to protect their families, and they have to deal with a sharp choice of, how do I do that? Dude, and honestly, that's where a responsible community comes in, because we'd be like, yo. You don't have to do that. Your neighbor can do that. Yo, Bill's going through some shit. We're going to make sure we got Bill's back and let Bill go through whatever he needs to do. And we're going to help him out and get him to a state where he's
01:38:43
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good you know and the fact that people are so isolated right now people are left abandoned to deal with themselves within a highly densely densely populated area but they're still alone and in that aloneness people like that shit just exacerbates like those states because you get into those thought loops whether on substances or not like just just you as a human being alone in isolation can go through those same
01:39:07
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Loops and get to a state that people would be like, you know, that guy's crazy. It's like no, he's not crazy He's just trying to figure things out a little bit too much and needs to kind of back off or whatever It's not like that in my isolation. I get out there. I like it Because it's the human part of pushing the boundaries and you can work out and push your boundaries I like to push the boundaries of my mind. Yeah, good with
01:39:36
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Nothing. I mean, I don't think I'm crazy, but a lot of people, my friends say, no, you're crazy. I say, why? Because you just do share. You never care about the consequences. I say, actually, I think a lot about consequences before I do anything. Crazy's not bad, man. So a lot of people say it's crazy to create a
01:39:57
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a garden in West Oakland. Jesus crazy. He's like, I want to bring pigs and goats,
Grief, Media Influence, and Narrative Control
01:40:00
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yeah. Dude, that's crazy. That's crazy. But crazy is, creativity is crazy, right? Yeah. But I like to look at my friend, Bubba is his name, he goes by, but he threw out a term that I like to use now, where it's like hearted. We don't have to be like-minded, but as long as we're like-hearted, we have the same direction. I like that. We can be different kinds of crazy.
01:40:23
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And we're not a threat to each other. Our creativity, our synergy pumps up, but we know what fucking matters. We know that family, nature, being good people. That's what matters, and we can have different approaches to it, but we can still get along because we have the same heart.
01:40:42
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I think a big issue now that's putting people apart is that we're not, and I talk about this a lot with my friends, we're not self-aware that people are, that either yourself or other people are believing. Right? Big time, yeah.
01:40:57
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Usually that's like somebody dies or you lose a job or like something bad happens to you and then you grieve. It's different when like the whole map of what you thought about this world changed. And the steps of grief, they're well-researched, right? And they're not linear, but sometimes they follow a consistent pattern because you have, I forget about the time, disbelief, so denial, anger, bartering, bartering, acceptance.
01:41:28
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Right? So the anger part.
01:41:32
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is usually a projection. And I think that a lot of people are angry. And this goes on both sides of the political spectrum. Either you watch Fox News, or you watch CNN, and you'd like to anger by whatever somebody's telling you. Right? Or neither. That's a good option. Or neither. And what's really interesting is that the way propaganda works is that people have betrayed
01:42:01
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And this is why red and blue, I'm trying to get out of that. Absolutely. When red is in charge, blue media gets to be more honest. Because whoever's in charge had to keep the charade going. Yeah. Right? Because then when it's not my turn to be in charge, I'm pointing out, you're keeping the charade going. Look at what they're doing. Now, when I'm in charge, I got to do it. And the other guy, the team gets to. They're always running defense. They're always running defense. I was OK with that up until.
01:42:30
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I realized that the up in the anise now, the up in the anise, the pandemic was politicized across the political spectrum. Yeah. Ridiculously so. Ridiculously so. Everything was preface for our financial markets. Up front, early on it was all about the markets. Yeah, just pointing at the stock markets. Now it's all about control and blame.
01:42:59
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If you look at the propaganda now, it's heavy on, unvaccinated, out of blame for the economic demise. Which that word itself, calling natural human beings unvaccinated, is a weaponized term.
01:43:14
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All you are is a natural person. There's no such identity. I don't accept your fucking label of unvaccinated or whatever. I'm just a natural person, organic, non-GMO, whatever you want to say. Next you assign an insect term or animal term to them. Yeah. Which is typical. You already have people saying my patience is on and out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your patience is on and out? What are you going to do? Yeah. Right? Yeah. Why is your patience any of my concern?
01:43:44
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That sounds like a personal problem there. So I'm trying to make sure that I can stay grounded to not get angry, but it's hard for me not to get angry when I see future genociders in my mess. So I just started to use those terms and people are not liking it. And now it's pretty much at this point affecting any potential of a political future in Brooklyn.
01:44:10
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Yeah. I can't not, I can't be fake. I just can't do it. You know, like they're so caught up with this fast and shit. It's crazy. Truth is the truth. And
01:44:27
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Like once someone is aware of the truth, there's no going back. So when people are in a state of like not seeing it for whatever reason, where they have a cognitive dissonance, they're just not wanting to see it so they avoid it. And you can see it because people get emotional. Like you and I, we can have conversations with anybody about the way we view things and I'm not gonna get emotional and like walk out and block and cancel someone because
01:44:53
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i know what i know and if there's a there's a valid um fact presented then i'm going to take that on i'm going to consider it because i'm open-minded i'm not closed off in the way that i see the world i'm just aware of the way i see the world and part of being aware is to absorb information but when you see people who are like
01:45:14
Speaker
No, this is how something is, and then you bring up a valid point, a valid fact of truth, and they say, no, they avoid it, and they just touch you off, and like, I'm never going to talk to you again. They disappear. Like, that is someone who is not in control of their own life, really. They're not in control of who they are. I mean, I will say that I would, if I see someone's polite trolling, or refuses to engage an intellectual, I mean, an intellectual banner, I don't engage them anymore.
01:45:43
Speaker
Um, because I have a platform that has a larger purpose. If you continue to step onto bullshit, I will, I will mute you on that platform just because the rules here. When, when, when someone's being, um, just trying to light fires, I don't do that. Point out errors or missions and someone's facts or logic or a perceived fact. That's it.
01:46:09
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It's gotta be respectful. Again, someone who's trolling just to do it, it's a lack of respect. You know, if they're trying to have an actual conversation. You know that they are. When they actually show that lack of respect, and I know them, that's what my temper is. My temper is more like, hey, I'm not gonna have this here. I'm gonna see you in real life soon. They always take that as, you gonna hurt me?
01:46:40
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Oh, so you don't want to talk to people in real life. Yeah.
01:46:43
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You don't want to be responsible, because here's the reason I say that. You wouldn't talk like that to me. Exactly. It's a version. If you're just respectful as hell, you would never do that in my face. It's a version of insanity, because they're essentially talking to themselves through a thing that other people can hear. But when you're together with human beings, number one, you have to deal with the fact that they're a human being and not a fucking phone. There's consequences to your behavior.
01:47:11
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Look, if you push somebody off on out, they may hit you. That's the reality of life. For sure. And if you're an honest person, you also see in other people's part of yourself. And so to isolate away from that, you can avoid that reality. But the reality is, again, we're all fucking human beings. Each one of us listening is a fucking human being. Unless you're one of the aliens.
01:47:33
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Yeah, but even still, if you're in a human body, fuck it. Yeah, you're human in some capacity. You're a humanoid, yeah. Human soul, yeah. Yeah, you're humanoid. I don't believe we're an illicit people. Jason does. I believe that there are human states of consciousness that are very inhuman, you know? Yeah.
01:47:54
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Some reptiles. There are words to describe things that people put very literal terms to, just like a lot of religious stuff. People take things literally that are describing something intangible and then esoteric.
01:48:14
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It doesn't translate directly. I mean, there's a medium. I don't know her name. I just randomly saw her on internet with some black lady who's in Brazil from America. She grew up in America. She moved in Brazil. She's super spiritual. She was saying some crazy stuff that I had to sit with.
01:48:36
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because I didn't agree with it at first, but I really had to like sit with it and I'm still chewing on it. And what she said was throughout history, even now, look at what's happening now. Look who's being villainized. Look who's being exalted.
01:48:53
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Things haven't changed. Anyone who's only villainized, even to the point of they're being made into a living devil incarnate on earth, there's a propaganda and you want to dig deeper to why they chose to do that to that person. And guess what she was talking about. It's obvious who's our only living devil in recent human history, who we actually give a spiritual connotation to.
01:49:19
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Hitler. Hitler's responsible for that. I don't know. Well, yeah, the most recent one, because there's other ones. But he was in there with Stalin and Stalin was killing 100 million people. Yeah. I can name my kid Joseph Stalin right now. I can't name my kid Adolf Hitler. And she went in on that, on
01:49:40
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the occult and the global, what was happening in the world power and how they, I'm like, how they use that. I was like, you really sound like a Hitler power just right now. And I'm really gonna like, it's making me uncomfortable. But I'm gonna sit with that discomfort because the way that you prefaced it was insightful.
Self-Awareness and Historical Perspectives
01:50:07
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because you're looking at history. He said, now that you're living in history, you're living this now. Who are the bad guys and the good guys, and are they really the bad guys and the good guys? And if people who are in charge of history right now get to tell the story for 30 more years, what would they say about, I'm like, so, I'm like,
01:50:31
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I'm not studying everything that you study was. I'm saying, why is that energy put that much on that? I thought that was interesting. She didn't have an answer. I don't have an answer. I just think it's odd. I just think it's odd because I'm looking now at the people you're calling your hero and she's talking about faucet. And she's like, these people have a paper trail of genocide.
01:50:56
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Oh yeah. They have a paper trail of some very bad. And you were exalting these people and the people you're demonizing are fighting against the people. What will history say about the size 50 years from now?
01:51:11
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I was like, ah. These are uncomfortable topics that people don't want to get into because it's a painful process, potentially, or it's just an uncomfortable process. People would rather just not think of it, but it's important, man. It's important to be aware of things. I'm in love with that. Yeah, you have to. Her theory was basically he started off trying to do some good shit, and he went off the rails. Yeah. That makes perfect sense to me.
01:51:42
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There's a quote of
01:51:46
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But it's crazy, you cannot say that. Yeah. Anyway, I mean, one of Paco, I said, I don't really, I'm at the point now where I don't give a fuck anymore. To be honest, he is the best. And there's a quote by Sun Tzu, you know, it's to the effect of like, if you know yourself and you know your enemy, then you're not going to lose any battle. But if you don't know yourself or you don't know your enemy, you're going to lose, right? So people, there's a lot of people
01:52:16
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I would say there's a lot of people who don't know themselves or the enemy. There's some people who know themselves and not the enemy. Self awareness. You got to know, you got to know it all. And whatever that enemy, like you get into these spiritual conversations, people like, oh, everyone's the exact same and there's no this or that. And it's like, you know, kind of like there's, there's truth to it, but there's also all truths are half truths, right? You gotta, you gotta look at everything for what it is. And, and, uh,
01:52:44
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We are all human beings, so we know when you get into the concept of the devil that you brought up, I say that the devil is the person that you'll least suspect, and who's the person that everyone's least suspect themselves, because that devil can come up inside of the mind of any individual, and when someone's in a hyper-emotional state believing that a certain group of people is a threat.
01:53:10
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Yeah. Maya Angelou has a great quote, anything that's human nature, any human can do. Anything that humans have done is human nature, but you can do it too. Simple. Yeah. Right? So it puts you in a less place of judgment, but I'm not like we're post partisanship. It's not neutral. We're going up with integrity and love and compassion.
01:53:38
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That means that there is an identifiable enemy to us being able to do that. They're becoming, they're being outed and their reaction is over the top.
01:53:57
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It's survival mode. They're in survival mode right now. I went into a drowning person just grasping for anything to stay afloat. And even when someone comes to try to save potentially or help them out or give them a life preserver, they're just trying to climb on that. Good job, you
Breaking Negative Cycles and Community Growth
01:54:12
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too. I'm trying to drown too. Good job, you too. That's why my philosophy of doing things is I'm going to say, OK, I can recognize that person. I'm going to give them a safe distance. If they want to change their act and take a life preserver, I'll throw it to them. But otherwise, like,
01:54:26
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I'm not going to get involved in their internal battle that's going on. If they don't want to be helped, then I can't help them. What if that group is organized and approaches a threat? For sure. That's something to be considered, and that's something that I do consider. That's something that I
01:54:46
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Structured things I structured things. Um, I mean I'm a fucking a warrior, you know, that's what that's my background and so I know I know war I know what it is And I don't want it, you know, that's part of like I want peace, you know everything to avoid everything possible because I know that
01:55:11
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Regardless of what people think and believe in their tough acts and shit, it's like when it comes down to reality, you don't want to see the darkest side of humanity. And you don't want to fight with warriors who, you know what I mean? Who've seen that.
01:55:27
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It just doesn't serve any good. It doesn't help children whatsoever. They don't deserve that shit. They don't deserve adults who are operating from a place of insanity to be at war with each other constantly. Fight them killing each other and shit. It's stupid. It's ridiculous. And it's like people need to...
01:55:43
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take responsibility and accountability and just be like, hey, what are we trying to do here? Some people want us to fight. Some people want us to fight. That's the whole point. They're trying to make us fight each other. Absolutely. That's literally what's happening. That's why it's very important for communities to be responsible and honest with each other. Hopefully everyone in the community is very good. Hopefully everyone wants, but it's just human nature like some people won't be.
01:56:12
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It's fine with identifying like hey you know what these people maybe we can reach out to them maybe we can connect with them in some way and we can. Someone can.
01:56:22
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to reflect on theirself and make, oh, you know what? I was, maybe I am the asshole. And that's fine because we've all been the asshole to some degree, right? We've all been in directions where we could have kept going one way and we would have been completely the assholes, but we're here now and we're not. And that's possible for everyone. It is possible.
01:56:42
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Some people have more power. Some people have more power. In different areas. Yeah. Some people have just a desire to control, which it's like, you know, at some level,
01:56:57
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If you can't reason with someone who just wants to control, then it's got to be like, hey man, here's a line in the sand. We're going to protect our community against people who want to control us. That's just the way things have to be. Again, it comes down to respect. If people don't have respect, then they show you who they are. It's unfortunate, but it's life. Sometimes the bear wants to eat you.
01:57:21
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and you're either going to get eaten by the bear or you're going to escape evade that or you're going to take it out. Yeah. I mean, I would say I've always, um, one of the reasons why I never went to jail is because I, I little voice would say like, stop doing what you're doing right now.
01:57:38
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I mean, I've had a few close calls in my teenage and early 20s when I was doing, you know, a lot of like illegal stuff. Like I used to think I was like Tony Soprano. I saw the Sopranos and I started dressing like fucking Italian sweaters and shots crazy. And because it was like I could use my brain to make money. Yeah. Right. And it was like I didn't respect the people who had it.
01:58:00
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That fish is not cool. So it's something that I don't feel guilty about it, but it's something I know is wrong. I don't do the cold guilt thing. But during that time period, what I noticed was like, it's exhilarating. It was fun.
01:58:21
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Right. And it felt like I was getting over. And I felt that I was morally superior because I was taking from people who I could clearly show what they're taking from me. For sure. Yeah. Right. And I tip for top, though, it's kind of like it never ends.
01:58:39
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It never ends. Because that person who's born from them would say, well, I don't know what happened in the past. I know what you took something from me. Yeah, it's a cycle. And the only way you stop the cycle is to break, just like a habit. It's a bad habit on a personal level. If you just continue the same patterns of behavior, that habit's going to exist. And if you want to stop a habit, you have to break the pattern of behavior. And so it takes a lot of...
01:59:08
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fortitude and courage to be like, you know what, I'm just going to be the one to stop, to stop this cycle. You know, even like someone, someone wronged me and it's just like, you know what, I'm not going to cause I, you know, I could, I could take my, take my vengeance and I could justify it, but I'm just not. I'm going to just let that, let that person go. I'm going to forgive.
01:59:31
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You get into forgiveness and it's very interesting because people people look at forgiveness in some instances and they say like oh it's a weakness because you didn't like get back at someone but it's like no forgiveness is a gift to yourself because you're not holding on to what you feel that you need to do and that's a version of control where you think you're in control but then you end up doing some shit that
01:59:53
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whatever throws you in prison or creates like an altercation that harms yourself or other people in your life. And it just, the whole fucking shit was unnecessary to begin with. So instead of perpetuating the cycle. You kept that, you kept it going and you finished living with you. Yeah. I mean, I'm not going to say that there are instances where someone takes vengeance and they feel perfectly fine. If not happier after I'm sure that's happened. I haven't experienced that. Yeah. Um, there's a cost to everything. Usually it's better when I forgive.
02:00:20
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because that's what ends up happening anyway. Even if I get, I can be vengeful. My friends know that I'm vengeful. I don't like people to get over on me because if you do it to me, you do it to someone else. And when I was younger, you know, classes and hearing aids. So I had to bully the lot until I was like 12. When I was 12, I went from like four something to like five eight.
02:00:47
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So I was the biggest guy for a few years. So, you know, it completely changed my perspective. And I realized, and I'm not a big guy anymore, but yet I never was ever bullied again. Right? Just because I knew, like, mentally, like, you're just not going to do that to me. So I don't like bullies. And when I see it, I want to take them out. Absolutely. Right.
02:01:11
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Who said that that's my, I'm not top cop. To me though, it gets me angry when I see the people trying to do that to me. There's many ways to take out a bully too, because intellectually, strategically, you can essentially point out or someone who is in a power hungry position. One of the easiest ways to defeat that
02:01:33
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is through humor and like ridicule, ridicule and making, making, making fun of the, this false sense of power that they feel exists. And it just completely takes away that. Sometimes the only weapon. Yeah. It's very important. It's funny cause people are, I hear a lot of, uh,
02:01:52
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Every time people talk about Saul Alinsky, they always say, Saul Alinsky, Obama's guy who wrote that. I'm like, yo, Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals is an amazing fucking book for how to do sort of revolution. Know what that guy did. He started to pour people's movement in Chicago. He's an excellent organizer.
02:02:15
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taking that and doing what you want with it's completely different. The technology is valuable. I've used it as my primer. He was big on, if they wear hats, wear a hat. I don't care what, it's a sacrifice. You no longer exist as an organizer, except through your constituency. So if your constituency all bar and they shave their pubic hair, then you better shave your pubic hair before you go talk to them. I don't go fuck what you want to do.
02:02:42
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Yeah, that's one way of doing things. It's a sacrifice there to be an organizer. And if you're trying to lead and you're not willing to sacrifice, that's when you can see the red flag some people early on. There's some things about that though, because if
02:02:59
Speaker
It could be the right thing to do, but it could also be not the right thing to do. For instance, when society is in a mass psychosis and people are doing something- Exactly. That's why I brought that up. Yeah. You don't want to blend in. You want to stand as a beacon of what's
02:03:16
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good what's right what's yeah what's a different way of being because a lot of people get trapped into this way of seeing the world and they just get into this loop of like you know what everyone's is bad everyone's a sinner everyone's this everyone's that so that therefore it justifies me to be the way that I'm gonna be because everyone else would do it to me when it's like
02:03:37
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No, I had this, um, it's like the common thought experience, experiment, you know, like, Hey, if you're on the ocean with like another person and there's only like this last little bit of food or something, like what do you do? Do you sacrifice yourself to have for that person? Do you sacrifice that person for yourself or you just both die? And it's like,
02:03:59
Speaker
The thought experiment is always like someone that you don't care about, you know? And people have one way of saying it, you know? Who is that person? Somebody will be like, yo, you know what? I'm going to do whatever I need to survive or whatever. People will have whatever they want. Make it back to my family. But it's like, oh, well, let's say that's your daughter or your son, you know? Or are you going to have the same reaction? And then why the fuck is it any different if it's a complete stranger in that boat? It shouldn't be. It shouldn't be. Well, what is? I mean, is there a right answer? I know for me, I would.
02:04:28
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Try to find out as much as that person as possible and figure out who's more important to live.
02:04:33
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Well, it's just you and a boat. It's just gonna be one person in the boat at the end of the day. That's what I'm saying. Like, if I know that, and it could be that none of us could live, we could just share it. Yeah, or it could be the realization that, you know what, we both are gonna end up dying at some point. So let's either do everything possible to enjoy these last few moments or to try to figure a way out of it, to keep fighting for something instead of against something. And if we die fighting for something,
02:05:02
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Well, hey, none of us committed a crime against the other. None of us, I can pose their will upon the other. I do have the one about the group. It's a common psychological profile test. I know they've done it. And what is that? Not the CIA. What's the other one?
02:05:21
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All kinds of agencies. Some other alphabet people. A lot of my friends who like tested really well, they got like recruited. Some of them actually like, I was talking for 15 years, so they're doing whatever. But one of the tests was, you're underground and, oh no, it's from a green beret training.
02:05:43
Speaker
I remember why I read that now. So you're underground and it's an earthquake and you're in a convenience store. A convenience store is covered with rubble. And in there you have a dietician and you have a construction worker kind of guy. And a construction worker guy says, it's going to take us 30 days to get out of here.
02:06:01
Speaker
But the amount of rubber that's covered, we can make it 30 days. The nutritionist says, I'm looking at all the food in here and out of the 30 people here, only 20 of us can live. There's not enough food to feed us all. 20 of us can barely live. What happens from there?
02:06:23
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but only a couple of things that can happen. Either anybody kills each other and whoever's left, whatever tribe or group that wins shares the food because they know that mathematically it's enough of us left to live. But typically what happens is that a strong leader develops who then determines who's going to live or die.
02:06:49
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and that's what they use in their training when they send people out to destabilized places. That's what they're looking for. They're in these real world places where there is a finite amount of goods and they're gonna be people who actually are gonna see adverse effects because there's no resupply coming because of whatever reason.
Sustainable Living and Interconnected Communities
02:07:09
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I never liked that answer.
02:07:14
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I like your answer better. I only brought that up because they're like the same fucking thing, right? There's more people involved now, so it's a group dynamic. Yeah, they try to feed you a situation that has only a multiple choice outcome or something. When in reality, it's like, I'm a big fan of divergence tests. Multiple choice is bullshit because it trains human beings to not think, to act like a shitty computer, basically, where it's like, hey, here's your things and here's your choices. You can be right if you guess.
02:07:43
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what if i have a whole other fucking choice that's better than all the choices you gave me and like oh that's not possible yeah fuck yeah it is because all this shit that's going on is the reason why shit is fucked up because people are operating from this like multiple choice mindset where it's hey we can only operate within the frameworks we're getting
02:08:01
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given and like no one's allowed to explore the fringes without being called like a wacko but the fringes is where creativity begins because everything else is just a pattern of behavior and so that's why I like to say I like to put that term out like soil based economy because it's like
02:08:18
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I love that term. I love that. But it's like, dude, just think completely different. I don't want to tie into some other someone else's ideology or something else where it's like, oh, you know, that's this or that's that. It's like, no, this is something fucking different. It's something completely different. So I always infinite because you create through.
02:08:36
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Composting abundant. Yeah, your efforts instead of being wasteful are beneficial, you know, just like how we live in a consumer society. That's so like you get something, it breaks, you throw it away by a new one. And it's been designed that way to make it the place profitable.
02:08:52
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I don't want this to last a long time. And we really like slipped into that. Yeah. And you don't want, you don't have like, there's how many shoe cobblers exist right now. You know what I mean? How many, um, television repair people have exists. Like you just throw it in a landfill and buy another one. Yeah. There's no, there's no focus on making things last or building things in such a way that they are growing things. Even when you get to the food system, which is
02:09:17
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given to us in a way that just food itself, nature is given to us a way that it just works. You go into a forest, it works as a forest. You go into monocropped agriculture land and it requires constant maintenance and upkeep in a way that's not sustainable. When the human element, the controlling element is removed, it
02:09:41
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It not only crumbles, but then nature comes back and does what nature does. It regrows quicker than we always think. It's funny when they put all those timelines on Chernobyl, how they were grossly off. Yeah.
02:09:51
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Like, oh my God, we thought Chernobyl would take tens of thousands of years to, the wolves are, they're already back, it's already been like. Yeah, and there's life forms that live in radiation. Yeah, yeah, we got life forms in the plastic now. And it's a thing like human technology at its peak, if we're operating in balance, the technology can be used to do like some amazing shit here on earth. And that's why I like to poke fun and talk shit on like the dick contest sending rockets into space. It's like, hey, it's cool, like exploring space and whatever, but you're like,
02:10:20
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If your fundamental philosophy is that humans are going to run out of resources on this planet, so therefore we need to colonize a cold desert planet that has no resources currently, and to start anew, again, it's ego.
02:10:36
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running away from nature instead of working with, yeah. It's literally insanity. It is, yeah. It's just insanity with a bunch of money behind it, so they're like, oh my god, it's obsessed. He's so smart. Yeah, nah, it's insane, bro. But it's what you're insane. Yeah. I mean, figure out what much we don't know about this plane in this world. And it's not the one we're going to otherwise. I don't care about that. That's cool. Yeah, exactly. Was it you, Jason, who said that? I think it's Justin's in the Flintstones.
02:11:06
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As long as things are balanced, but it's like when that's my philosophy on like the soil based economy, right? It's like each community can sustain itself with a level of abundance. And until you get to that point, you don't expand somewhere else.
02:11:23
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Right. You don't you don't do that. And right now we're at this state where we have a lot of people. We have a lot of communities that are living in this imbalanced state where you rely on this centralized food system. And when that thing breaks down, like a lot of people are going to go through a lot of hard times, but it doesn't have to be that way. I think it's breaking down now. Absolutely.
02:11:42
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And now's the time to get shit done right because we have this window of opportunity to leverage the resources that we have to create a better way even when you get into like people want to get off of fossil fuels and stuff. It's like sure I'm down with that but you got to get to that point because the system as it is isn't going to continue. So let's use the machinery that exists in this world to set up systems in such a way that we're not dependent on it. Like we can have
02:12:11
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people that can bike around everywhere because you don't got to fly from California to New York to Europe and all this stuff. You know, it's a lot of technology to make a trans continent on high speed. Well, that's high tech. It's worthy high tech because you're saving all this energy like you're telling me I can't. And your economy improves. If I can live here and work in L.A.,
02:12:34
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That's a better economy. Or if you can work where you live. Even better. And everything's low. Because when you look at the natural world, it's like a forest. A forest is diverse. But the tree is doing what the tree needs to do for its location. And it's going to spread out in an area and do some things. And seeds can get carried around. But the tree is primarily focused on doing that. Same thing for
02:13:01
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the the fern and the mushroom and all these different things you know they're all doing their own thing but together and well that's what that's what some people use as evidence that we're not from here i feel that because we don't fit in
02:13:16
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I don't think it's not that we don't fit in, it's that we have highly creative minds and we can do things in creative ways, right? And we can get on for a while, but when your focus is immediate, it's short-term thinking, let's say, for whatever timeframe that could. Short-term thinking could be 100 years, 20 years, five years.
02:13:38
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It can be based on our lifespans because we don't get to see our past where we live. But if you have a mindset that's just perpetual, that has no time limit on it because it's just like, hey, this way of living continues an abundant way of life that's naturally self-regulating. So you don't have to have some psychopaths coming around saying, hey, you know what? We just have too many people. So we got to get rid of a bunch of them. Or we could go to one step away from that.
02:14:06
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Obviously. Or it's not so just hard for people to handle, but like the deer, right? The deer populations where there's a lot of people who don't like hunting, but you know what? The government pays people to murder deer that don't get used in the meat. So they do that here. They do it in Scotland. They do it in New Zealand. Everywhere. Everywhere.
02:14:23
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But they just don't want to deal with that reality instead of responsibly managing that resource and being honest with like, hey, life and death, this is like this is a part of what this is like what we participate in. Instead of being disconnected from it, connect to it and not like shout at someone because they're eating a deer. It's like.
02:14:43
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You kill bandits. Yeah. We all participate in this, whether we want to or not. If we want to be like, again, the whole vegan thing, like people can do it, but you should at least be honest because if you're monocropping land, like you're taking away environment from other creatures. It's elitist. It's a very elitist. It's elitist because the amount of energy used to produce that food doesn't actually sustain the life. Yeah.
02:15:09
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You have to look at things that are basic. How much calories does it take for people to create it? And how much calories does it give me? Input, output. The output ain't happening, because you're relying on the exploitation of agricultural workers. And growing crops are out of season. Yeah, slave labor, because you're getting products from some other area of the world where people are eating meat. Yeah, come on. And I mean, our diets are
02:15:39
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not good. We do eat a lot of carb meat. The meat that we eat isn't really even meat. Any kind of processed food is- It's trash. It will sustain your life with cancer. Any number of diseases that have no known cause. None. I mean, right now, I haven't done this all week.
02:16:02
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I don't know if you noticed, but if you were super observant, you would have noticed that I usually am twirling. Since September of last year, I've had a type chat. I told you guys this, and my lip note was swollen. My friends, did you know how to perside? I was like, well, I've immediately took it out. Yeah.
02:16:19
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I can believe now. I'm excited like about going and like, I can go. I didn't want to go do like, to just to cry. Cause my whole side of my neck is, well, it's sore. I can't be doing locks and shit like that when I'm literally have a fucking swollen neck. No, I don't know what the fuck is going on with me. Like it was causing me like, it's something that you just, and man, we have the ability to do this. I guess maybe women too, but I'm not a woman. So I can't speak on it. We're just to question shit. We're just fucking deal with it.
02:16:47
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Okay, I guess I have a sore neck and I can't breathe anymore. Oh, wow. Life goes on, right? I can't fucking waddle on pity. But it does make me really upset that I probably shouldn't even have to have lived with any of this. Had we not had this predatory medical system that is hell bent on just making money. Yeah. Right. I'm ready for the pendulum swap. I'm ready to help kick the pendulum to swing harder.
02:17:17
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And I'm trying to make my peace with my own mortality because for whatever reason,
02:17:26
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Some people have different energy. And now I have people blowing me up and trying to engage me, debate me, because I'm some kind of a like, you have people telling me, you shouldn't be talking to people like that if you have political activation. And I'm like, what are you talking about? I'm just a guy. Just a guy being honest, yeah. Honesty is the thing that people are so afraid of. Are you trying to control me now already? Yeah.
02:17:56
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Like there's seven names in that mayor's hat.
02:17:59
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I'm very unlikely to run. I only did that to fuck with the people in the power structure and see how they responded. And they did. They responded extremely fearful. Yeah. Right? Because they're afraid of truth. People are afraid of honesty injected into a corrupt system. I don't know if I have the timing. The last three weeks have been really telling. That mandate really, really, it wasn't the mandate itself that bothered me. It's how people who I love and respect responded to it.
02:18:30
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People who fought for women's rights and women reproductive rights, and rightfully so. The government boot came down and said, jump, and they said, hey, I'll do it. They looked at, just let me go back to my restaurant and let me go brunch again. After they're telling you it's never going to go back, it's never going to go back. We haven't even seen the pressure yet. No. Do you haven't seen pressure until you don't have food?
02:18:57
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That's why it's so important to me. When you said everything's about food, I said that guy might fucking guess it because everybody else is talking about it.
02:19:08
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And I don't do some, right? That's why we've been talking about prep. I'm a huge prepper, right? Like, it's just- You can only prep, it's still scary. You can only prep so much. How much food? I got so much food, but I'm like, what the hell are you doing with it all? The ultimate preparedness, like I can out prep all the preppers because out prepping all the preppers is living abundantly within your environment and your community. And even guess what? You don't need any of that shit. But until that system,
02:19:35
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is created within your community, for sure. You got to have a foundation to live with on. But doesn't mean that you can't also do both. Like you can be prepared and then work on building the systems to where you don't even need that. Because by the nature of how you live your life, it just is what it is. It's what it is. What can you control? You can absolutely, and I need to do a better job at this myself. So thanks for the self reminder, our personal fitness level. Yeah.
02:20:06
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the biggest prop. Right? Like what was it? Two days ago I went and ran a 5k. Oh my God. Took me 31 minutes. That's pretty bad. But I didn't stop running.
02:20:25
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I did 50 push-ups. I did eight pull-ups. I ran a 5K. I haven't worked out in the back of the year because I hurt my wrist. Not a horrible baseline for 42. I wasn't like a lot. I thought, okay, get better, but like, can you run the unforgiving mile?
02:20:41
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There's a poem, a kipplet poem, and then you'll be a man, my son. I love that Jason's favorite poem. Can you do that? Can you go run a fucking mile when your life depends on it and get there and save a life? Yeah. Because if you can't, you're dead. All this public shit you're doing, if you can't climb a wall and vault a wall, that's what Jason got me. He's like, vault this wall. He did it. And I was like, oh, he's like, you're dead. Yep.
02:21:05
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Do I know how to vlog the fucking wall? Like, this is how you do it, bro. You got to get the shit over. Like, you can't do this. You're dead, bro. All that shit you got ain't no matter. And that's what's interesting when you get into health. Like, people say, like, what is healthy? It's like, dude, a healthy human being is as optimized as you can be. You know
American Identity and Human Interactions
02:21:26
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what I mean? Super optimization. It's different for everybody, but it's like this way of being of just, like, accepting
02:21:36
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mediocrity, basically, within yourself. Not judging on whatever anyone else is doing, but if you yourself never challenge yourself, how can you ever be the best that you can be? And it doesn't have to be, people will be like, oh, that's unhealthy to push yourself. And sure, someone could be obsessed with something, but just to push yourself is not unhealthy. To push yourself is to value and to be grateful for the gifts that you were given.
02:22:03
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And it doesn't mean that they've created this such a victim mindset and just humanity that people look at someone else doing what's best for them and then trying to improve themselves. Like, oh man, that person can vault walls and I can't, so that person's an asshole, you know? Because they're making me feel bad that I can't do it. As opposed to like, well, go vault the wall. Or figure out how to get around, you know? Well, you can do that, but you don't have this.
02:22:31
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Yeah. That's why I had a nicer car. It just creates this pendulum. You talked about the pendulum a little bit ago and it's like that pendulum is going to keep on swinging. It's the same thing that pattern of behavior until
02:22:47
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someone like grabs that fucker and like sets it in the center and you can, it's like a swing. Like I always envisioned like, you know, you get this high over here and it's high over here and civilization at its peak. And then it goes to devolving and it's like, let's just get to a fucking balanced state and stop pushing the fucking pendulum back and forth. That is going to keep swinging until people figure out that like balanced living is
02:23:12
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the ultimate state. So what does that mean? You don't push anymore? You just absorb or catch? No, it's that you don't, you don't like forgiveness that we talked about earlier. You don't, you don't like just hit back to continue the cycle. Of course we'll defend ourselves in whatever way that means. We'll, we'll set up resilient systems. We're not going to become victimized. We're not going to allow ourselves to become victims, but we're also not going to go and like victimize other people and we're not going to go in, um,
02:23:39
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when we have certain abilities or certain powers, like having food is a power. We're not gonna weaponize that. We're not gonna have like the industrialized food system that can now be like, oh, we can just lock people out or this establishment power system. Like, hey, if you don't get injected with something that I want you to do, then you can't participate in this. And it's like, motherfucker, you didn't create that number one. You didn't create that shit. So you have no authority to bar anyone from it. And
02:24:07
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Yeah, I wish I missed a message for people is stop quitting the jobs. Get fired. Don't quit. Don't leave. Absolutely. Make people dismiss you. And build your parallel systems. Yeah, civil disobedience. You still can buy cities, and lawland is still cheap. Yeah, you can still be respectful and non-participatory for an oppression that is existing. What my parents say that the Christian world is to be in the world, but not of the world.
02:24:36
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There's a lot of good knowledge from many different areas. I think it's a beautiful religion when applied the right way. If the Christianity religion is supposed to be around Jesus, so if you're New Testament, you're probably super hippy. If you're Old Testament, you're pushing the pendulum.
02:25:02
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Yeah. It's a vengeful thing. That's why I think the Bible is beautiful because it corrects itself. It's self-honest in its own way of showing like the contradictory between the old and the new and how like this is supposed to be a better way forward. The lessons are like not
02:25:21
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Most Christians are Christian, in my opinion. They're not Christian. They're doing the exact opposite of what Jesus really was telling people. But from a philosophical standpoint, I'm not a Christian. But from a philosophical standpoint, I would consider myself a Jesus disciple. That is my guiding principle on how to live a beautiful life. Be of service to people, because it's not a neutral,
02:25:45
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do no harm. Do no harm could mean I don't do anything to help anyone either. Right. So it's it's a it's an active way of doing participating in a beneficial way, contributing to society. And yeah, it's interesting to see people from whatever philosophy and thinking that they're righteous and just taking, taking, taking, taking. If you're taking and not giving anything. And I don't mean just like the economy, like people look at, well, I contribute, I pay my taxes, I do this. It's like this.
02:26:14
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Honestly, that's bullshit. You're not manufacturing a product. Doing something, speaking to a neighbor, understanding when someone's going through some time. There's many different ways to be of service. Everyone doesn't have to be the same way, but just thinking of something beyond yourself and beyond, like, I'm going to get mine or whatever.
02:26:33
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making things better like put yourself in someone else's shoes and be like yo man if I was that person going through a hard time man how would I like to be treated because when people are in those situations they're just like
02:26:46
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They're just like, man, if someone comes and just is like kind to them, like, holy shit, it's like, wow, it's an angel or something. That's what the concept of an angel. But human beings are that, can be that. Humans like to, in this modern society, like to say that people are just evil sinners, the worst of the worst. And it's like, look at any child that is born and say that to that child's face and then go look at yourself in the mirror and say that you aren't full of shit because it's bullshit. It's bullshit. But when people start getting these loops of
02:27:17
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what they think that their beliefs are the most proper ones, and then you can make all kinds of excuses. You can go through all these moves in your head. If you got the scarcity mindset versus an abundant one, and an abundant mindset, and this is something I learned from Rylan. Rylan's a great guy. Rylan Inglehart from Kiss the Ground. He's always like,
02:27:42
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We're an abundance, you have an abundant mindset. There's some elitism to that, if you don't understand spiritually what that means. And he also has another man, so you're always provided for.
02:27:53
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Well, we know that that's not true for some people in this world because it could start for them. For sure. So obviously everybody's not provided anymore. And that's where it comes to the ultimate humanitarian position to take is to empower communities and individuals. Because from that place, then they're not reliant on whatever the philanthropists to come and to give. Yeah, it's just like,
02:28:23
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My my personal way of being is. You know every every community that I can touch every be a part of and whatever is my contribution if I could whatever that whatever I could contribute like my my desire would be to have those communities understand how to be self reliant.
02:28:43
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and however that however that comes to be like there's many different places where people can learn it but just a matter of having conversations and then like deciding like yeah this is a way to be and it's better for our local community or children and society at large whatever that means um it is incredibly exciting to meet different people i think a big blessing from we knew these days were coming all right america has been um
02:29:15
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I'm not, I like America. I'm an American. I never live anywhere else, right? And in studying societies, we're not that bad. People get a little bit hard on ourselves, right? You know, we're genocidal to narratives and we're slaves and black folk. That's pretty bad.
02:29:35
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Natives still exist and so do us black people. Theoretically, we could repopulate this country and be the dominant population because we still exist. There have been societies that have completely wiped out any memory of people when they took over. There is no memory of your people. They're God, right? What came from this country was a nice little experiment of what happens when the world starts to meet each other again.
02:30:03
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because for whatever reason, we went off into our own corners of the world, only to select few sailors or thinkers. The matches were not aware of what other people were doing. We were completely absorbed in our own life. And then we all met each other and a few hundred years went by and now we're kind of like in a different space. I believe that
02:30:26
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We are in a space now very similar to when the religions that we are still, not all of us, but you know the world, the dominant religions all came out of the same time period. That's an incredibly energetic time period that we have links to.
02:30:49
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Not fully, because we don't fully understand it, but there's an exhaustive amount of historical links to that time. But we can't feel the feelings of that time. And I think that we're into, there's gonna be different religions coming out. They won't be called that at first, but you're seeing them happening right now with techno religion. But that show American Gods, one of the last fiction shows I watched,
02:31:19
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And the book is incredible. It's all about like the old guys and the new guys and the new guys want to take out the old guys and the new guys are all technology based. But they're all real. That is, I believe that's my closest to my personal religion is that they're the real. Like we create these guys, we create these devils.
02:31:50
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We made a devil. We haven't made a God yet, but we made a devil. We literally demonized Hitler. That's a spiritual thing, right? Partially because he tap into some spiritual shit.
02:32:08
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and made himself some kind of demi-god. And demi-devil, whatever the fuck, I don't know. It's fascinating. And I think we're in those times again. I'm happy, and I think it's incredibly privileged to be alive in a time that we're gonna see possibly more change in our grandparents' day. Which is hard to imagine, because if you think about it, we all like the same age. Our grandparents saw,
02:32:38
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A lot. When our grandparents were born, America was not the dominant country in the world. And we did not have the world reserve currency. Yeah, it's not long ago. People forget. People forget in their little bottles of life. Look at that. British pound, sterling silver. Until like 49 or something like that. Right? They saw the rise of America. Many of them participated as laborers and workers.
02:33:06
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Like, my grandfather had an enormous amount of pride. And he's an army sergeant, right? He's enormously proud of his military heritage. He's enormously proud of being Martin Luther King's uncle, because Coretta Scott King is his niece, right? He's enormously proud of his work that he did in the Civil Rights Movement. Those conflict now. You don't have those. That's two different,
02:33:37
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things now, right? He was very well aware of this racist country. He lived there. He lived through Jim Crow. Yeah, he had also made a million dollars plus with a fourth grade education, because I can work hard and respect it.
02:34:02
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That's still our America. Don't let these assholes out there tell you that your work doesn't matter, that this is not the land of opportunity. That's propaganda.
02:34:13
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Yeah. That's propaganda. So if you don't try and you become a fucking slave to these assholes who want to feed you bugs or whatever they trying to cook up on us right now, it's absolutely a layer of opportunity. This is a beautiful land. Travel across this country if you have it. It's a beautiful country. It is a beautiful country.
02:34:34
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That's the truth for the for the earth. You know what I mean? It's these artificial systems that like group people together and again get us away from the fact that we're all human beings, you know?
02:34:46
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It's a world of opportunity. I think that's a good way to end on some optimistic term, but suit job. Be awake and be kind and gentle. I'm saying this to myself, because I just literally like my temple and my neighbor yesterday, and I told him I was gonna fuck him up when I saw him. But he was disrespectful.
02:35:10
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Yeah. Right? And I don't like that. I'm a respectful person. Exactly. Respect, respect, respect, respect. I don't treat people like that, you know? And people get mad because you try to keep it intellectual. You're like, hey, man, can we just keep it intellectual? Yeah, but people are emotional. I need to do a better job of being honest with myself that people are emotional and not asking people to not be emotional. Yeah.
02:35:35
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That's my own self-realization. If they're emotional, telling them they'll be so emotional, probably not going to happen. Yeah, it never works. It's got to be in a non-emotional state to increase awareness around it. I'm emotional. Yeah, it's like in a road rage situation, like when I can go back to those states mentally and be like, no one's going to tell me in that moment to like, hey, just calm down.
Road Rage and Emotional Control
02:35:55
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Like, it doesn't work. But after the fact, it's like, that's what I did to myself is just like, man, that's a bit ridiculous to be mad for some
02:36:02
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some bullshit basically. It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't serve anybody. It doesn't serve myself. So I just, I literally decided to stop having road rage and I don't have it. I did the exact same thing and I finally got my girl out of it. More for safety issue because right now people are off their rocker and people are committing random acts of violence on the road. Yep.
02:36:24
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because you may get roadways and flip someone off who just may not happen to like black people that day and now you're dead or not like women or maybe you remind them of some whatever the fuck well like you know or just because they just like people because they don't like people hunking them and flipping them off but she's like aggressive you know i'm like hey you gotta stop that this used to be the work exactly you used to be
02:36:48
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And that's why it's one of those things when people get packed so tightly together and can't feel restricted, but they don't know exactly what it is. These things can happen. But yes. So what advice would you have, Mark, for anybody out there who's feeling overwhelmed and not in control of their emotions and scared?
02:37:09
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Number one is to stop, to take a pause, like to pause and to be still because there's a couple
02:37:21
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ways of of being of living you can live through actions you're constantly doing and sometimes that's a necessary thing to do but when you're when you're constantly staying busy and constantly doing things it uh doesn't allow your awareness to expand because you're operating through some level of tunnel vision because you're focused you're doing something focused so when you stop doing something your focus can expand and so i would say to
02:37:46
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relax
Peace, Gratitude, and Life's Simple Blessings
02:37:47
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as you know it's not necessarily something else but to pause and to be still if you have a place in nature to go to go out in nature um to be somewhere quiet not around a lot of people and to just be with yourself for an amount of time that no time but just as long as you need you know to be out there and to to reflect and to to look at the sun you know if you get the sun out or the nature and to just appreciate what is around and the fact that you're alive in a
02:38:17
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there are certain blessings that we have. The fact that we're breathing, I always try to have a baseline of like, you can take everything away from me and I'm going to go find a bush and I'm going to be grateful for the shade that the bush gives me.
02:38:32
Speaker
And I'll start again, you know, I'll finally get some water and just be grateful for the simple things, you know? And then when you're in that state of gratitude for a little thing, then just try to expand it onto other things. Like, you know, I'm really grateful for these people in my life. I'm really grateful for like this opportunity and stop focusing, not stop focusing, but shift focus.
02:38:53
Speaker
Because whatever you perceive as negative is still going to exist, but there's also many positive things. So to shift focus onto those positive things and just start putting energy into gratitude and being like, how can I
02:39:06
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Create more gratitude for other people because gratitude obviously makes us feel good. Not just like grateful. Yeah, grateful not these things are bliss, but just content, content. And so to create situations for someone else, even if it just like,
02:39:23
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Whatever. If you think it's hard to be a positive influence in someone's life, go get a sandwich and give it to a homeless person. Go help an old lady across the street or carry some groceries or whatever. There's little things. People always try to go to these big
02:39:38
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monumental tasks and be like, oh, if I'm not doing some big monumental tasks, I'm not doing shit. And it's like, no, the little things matter. The little things matter the most because if there's a whole lot of people doing a whole lot of little things and that takes, that's a lot of effort and energy. That's huge. Yeah. That's a mass shift in, in awareness. And so that's what I would say is to
02:39:57
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to try to find some get some inner peace as much as possible and then try to share that with someone else and someone who not someone who even has to know like remember you like then you have to know your name you just do something cool and then like do that again you know maybe next week maybe tomorrow whenever
02:40:16
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Just do it as much as you can. That's good advice. Tough times never last, but tough people do. For sure, brother. That's what I always got for my father, always. One of his mantras.
02:40:30
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They definitely, like, they shielded us from a lot of the stress rightfully that parents should, because we did not actually be born. So shout out to all the parents who do shield their kids from a stress of life, because it's tough to make it out there if they're not rich. But I am grateful for having parents who were that thoughtful, especially considering that my dad was younger than I am right now. You know, they were young parents, so. Yeah.
Respecting Diverse Beliefs and Perspectives
02:40:59
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You know, to be that wise, that young, under that amount of stress, I can only contribute that to the faith. That's it. I did not realize until this year.
02:41:14
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the importance of, and I'm not going to go back and show it to be a question because I just don't believe in that. But I do, I'm going to find something. Whenever it is, I want to have some kind of something. That's what's really cool about being an honest human is you can respect other people's beliefs.
02:41:35
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and not feel like, oh, we need to change everyone's beliefs or I need to be against it. It's like, you know, I recognize, personally, I recognize all systems of belief that come from an honest place, which I could say all religions do.
02:41:50
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It's at the root. All do. But it's not one that doesn't. And I look at that as like everyone has, it's a perspective of something beyond language and beyond what we can explain. And so it's like if we had this massive mountain and we could only see one face of it and our face was like a bunch of trees and rivers and then someone else's face was like sandy rocks and someone else had, you know, ice walls and stuff. And we all wrote a
02:42:15
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a philosophy on the mountain, and that's what we saw. And then we started passing that around and sharing. What is this at? Yeah, the ice. The ice religion is like, man, we don't have trees and rivers. Like, these people are blowing smoke at everyone's ass. We need to go start a war with those people. And we go, you know, they go start a war, and then they kill them, and then they say, like, oh, my God, there's all these trees and rivers on this mountain. And it's all the same mountain. It's bigger than our perceptions. Well, I wish we were watching that. We'll go ahead and try to make the trees ice. Yeah.
02:42:44
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Yeah. Respect, man. It is what you know. It's exciting. It is exciting. I'll just close with the fact that I think I said it earlier, you know.
02:43:00
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Honestly respect and gratitude if you can live with those three things and like Whatever that means to you like be as honest as be honest and everything that you do and don't worry about if someone's gonna Try to shit on you for being honest. Just be honest have respect You know, so it's gonna avoid a lot of shit that honesty might get you into trouble with because your honesty
02:43:25
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might not be reflective of the full truth. So just to always- It's your honesty. Yeah, always treat other human beings with respect and treat yourself with respect and to have gratitude and try it out. See how it goes. It's going to go well. But yeah,
Closing Remarks and Future Anticipation
02:43:42
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man, I appreciate you and I appreciate everything that you're doing and I'm glad to have you on board with- Yeah, we got a mission. It's about to go down. I feel it.