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Oct. 4, 2022 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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Stay Free with Russell Brand #005 - What Is A Fascist And Who Decides?
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We're going to be talking to Wim Hof, a hero of mine, a roaring modern-day shaman, a man who accesses the great power that lies beneath order, for where else but there will change come from?
If you can't get change from within the system, you're going to have to get change from outside of the system.
And what's the most personal, intimate, smallest system?
I mean, of course there's molecules, of course there's quarks.
I'm talking about your personal identity.
On today's show, we're asking the question, are some fascists okay?
Or are all these terms manufactured for political gain?
That's because Hillary Clinton, of course, recently called Donald Trump supporters fascists because of their little one-finger salute there, and of course because of some of the nationalism that's believed to be part of Trump's rhetoric and ideology.
Let me know in the comments, let me know in the chat what you think about that.
I know a load of you love Trump, I know a load of you don't love Trump, but I'll tell you what I know more than anything is that you are all Welcome here, because I believe that what unites us is more significant than what separates us, and if we can overcome the cultural collisions that they're trying to create, we can create a movement powerful enough to challenge the establishment.
So, Hillary there was calling Trump supporters a fascist.
We're going to be looking into that.
in our item, here's the news, no here's the effing news.
While also she said it was good that Giorgia Maloney had become, or potentially is
becoming president of Italy, although she is a bit fascist. So these terms
fascist, Nazi, what do we mean by them? Is there anyone in the world
that thinks that the Nazi party were anything other than an abomination, that
the genocide was wrong? I'm sure that there aren't. Let me know in the chat, let me know in
the comments.
For me, what I'm interested in asking you, and what I'm interested in hearing from
you, are some fascists okay?
Are all these terms manufactured for political gain?
What is a fascist, essentially, is what I'm asking you.
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Now, you may be tired of the mainstream.
You may have lost your trust.
You may be sick of big business and mainstream media in the state collaborating to keep you from having power in your own life.
And if that's how you feel, then I feel the same way you do.
It's time now for our fantastic item.
Here's the news.
No, here's the effing news.
Here's the fucking news!
Hillary Clinton has called Trump supporters Nazis, but has declared that she admires that new Italian leader who the left say is a fascist.
And also though, aren't there Nazis fighting for the Ukraine?
So we ask, what is a fascist?
And is it okay to like some fascists?
Or is fascist just a convenient term to bring down people you don't agree with?
So, Hillary Clinton has compared Trump supporters to Nazis, because of the finger bob salute.
But, you know there are Nazis, don't you?
Fighting out of the Ukraine.
And also, she has praised new female Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Maloney, which sounds like a child's made-up name for an Italian person.
Hey, Giorgia Maloney, President of Italia!
praised her for being a woman but being a fascist.
So what is it then?
The left says she's a fascist.
I'm not saying she's a fascist.
I don't know.
And in fact, we're not going to cover that in this video.
What we're covering in this video is who gets called a fascist, why and when?
Because it's complicated, isn't it?
Trump's supporters are fascists.
They're right in your country.
Ukrainian soldiers that literally say, I'm a Nazi on tattoos on their body can go Disney World and get like awards off Jon Stewart.
And also Maloney, she's praised for being a woman, even though she's also a fascist.
So what is the problem with fascism?
Fascism is a serious thing.
I'm anti-fascist.
The fact is, is that the political ideology we need to be concerned about is neoliberalism, which I would define loosely as the pose of social liberalism.
Hey, you can be free, be who you want to be, do what you want, the individual is important.
Meanwhile, allowing economic power to carry on unchecked.
Allowing it to cross borders, evade taxation, and organizing the state to facilitate the interests of corporations.
All the while going, oh, we care about this vulnerable person, we care about that vulnerable person.
That's what I think neoliberalism is.
We live in a neoliberalist world, and I'm a neoliberalist girl.
Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has slammed the hand gestures made by supporters of Donald Trump at his Ohio rally comparing them to Nazis.
Now look, Nazis are definitely bad, but don't you think that what they're probably doing is going, ah, see, that's the sort of thing a Nazi would do, and therefore we can disparage them rather than having a genuine concern.
Oh no!
No!
They're Nazis!
They're actual Nazis!
There are families where there are Trump supporters and Democrats.
The same family!
We've all got, like, once you say someone's a Nazi, do you know what you're saying?
We don't have to deal with you.
We don't have to talk to you.
You're out.
You're out of the conversation.
Simon says, Nazi, you're out.
We don't have to talk to you no more.
But if Trump's supporters are so bad, why, as we've told you before on this channel, why are the Democrats funding MAGA candidates in primaries in order that, you know, the reason is, oh, if we fund this sort of MAGA candidate, then our Democrat candidate will eventually face a lame duck candidate and more Democrats will win.
But if you truly believe these are Nazis, you wouldn't take the risk, would you?
Particularly as Hillary initially supported measures that would highlight Trump's campaign because they thought, oh, this guy, he's never going to win anything.
What I'm saying is, is if you're serious about fascism and you're serious about Nazis, don't spend penny one on supporting their campaigns.
That's a pretty serious allegation.
Millions of millions and millions of people died is a really heavy thing to call someone.
Don't just say because they've done something funny with their finger.
Don't say if you've got Boobies!
It's okay to be a Nazi.
If you're a Nazi, that is not good.
And we are dealing with complexity, because obviously, we're pro-Ukraine in their fight against Russia, and that fight includes, like it or lump it, Nazis!
Mrs. Clinton, who was speaking at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, said her reaction to the index finger salute seen at the rally was similar to how she used to feel about Nazis, adding, what's going on?
I used to feel that about Nazis!
I used to see that, and I'd think, oh, I don't like that, and then I'd see that, oh!
Been here before?
I mean, yeah, they've got rid of these three, but it's still not good, is it?
Also, the problem with the Nazis, that wasn't the problem with the Nazis, was it?
If anything, that was a side effect, or just like, that was a badge of honour for the Nazis.
If they'd just done that, and none of the other stuff, the murders, the evangelism, the homicides and the genocides... Oh, and then I did that!
I mean, that's...
Not bad, I don't think.
Other than that, even less bad.
Like, don't muddle it all up.
Nazism is, in my opinion, it's creating a group of others, and then enacting a genocide against that other group, in order to facilitate the advancement of a whole set of other goals.
The bit about doing that, you know, take it or leave it.
But, let's see, because, right, I'm going to warn you now, we're going to watch this, but watch out, because it could make you go a bit Nazi.
Look, I mean, I'm feeling a bit Nazi-er, even, oh, but yeah.
That's better.
Hillary Clinton once again taking aim at former President Trump and his supporters, this time comparing his Ohio rally to a Nazi rally.
I bet what it was is he says, okay everyone hold a finger in the air and just think of one person you love.
If he said it like that it would have been some sort of rhetorical device.
It wouldn't have been, let's be a bit Nazi but only one-fifth as Nazi as we could be.
I remember as a young student, you know, trying to figure out, how did people get basically drawn in by Hitler?
Here's a comparison you might want to make about Nazi Germany, that those figures rose out of social economic crises induced by a globalist agenda.
That's what brought that about.
Hyperinflation?
Anybody?
Wars in Europe?
Neoliberalism is a political and economic agenda that advantages elites, centralizes financial and indeed political power, and leads to the rise of far-right, far-left, because Stalin was no Great Shakes, nor was Mao, figure also.
So if you want to prevent extremism, what you have to have is a functional democracy.
Not a democracy where you highlight Trump in order to ensure that your own party, in this case the Democrat Party, can neglect ordinary blue-collar Americans of all hues, colours and persuasions.
In fact, when a figure like Bernie Sanders, who I know some of you don't like and some of you do, rises up crushing that dude, because he was saying things like, control the banks, have a proper representative democracy, whether you like Bernie Sanders or not.
That's what he was saying.
He was a leftist populist figure who I'm sure isn't perfect because he's operating within that system.
But what I will tell you is that Hillary Clinton and her acolytes and her hegemonist Democrat pals crushed that dude, highlighted Trump, because she wanted to be the president.
You saw the rally in Ohio the other night.
Trump is there ranting and raving for more than an hour.
More than an hour?
It's during a rally.
It's a free country.
Oh, God.
45 minutes is enough for a rally.
I'd be fainting and passing out after about half an hour.
Yeah, that's part of the problem, mate.
And you have these rows of young men.
Poo. Poo. Young man, sweaty pits, dangle dangle ding dongs, stinky arms up in the air. That's all it takes.
I think using the spectre of 20th century fascism in order to avoid confronting the inefficiency of contemporary neoliberalism
is the real crime here.
If you want people not to be drawn to what you regard as extremism, then present alternatives and options instead of Increasing the social tensions, exacerbating existing cultural conflicts, pretending that Trump is worse than he is.
Anybody that knows anybody knows there's people that like Donald Trump that are alright.
It's not the same as saying, I think that you should execute people on the basis of their religion or a pre-existing template of what a human being should be.
It's not the same thing.
Whether you like Donald Trump or don't like Donald Trump, comparing him to a Nazi, is illegitimate, it's wrong, and it's a way of avoiding your own political shortcomings.
And that's the real problem.
The finger salute at the rally made by dozens of Mr. Trump supporters made headlines, inviting comparisons to gestures seen at an evangelical conference, to the so-called QAnon salute, and even with the Nazi Sieg Heil.
Some, however, argued it was simply a reference to Mr. Trump's America First slogan.
So there's various things it could have been, and if you go with the worst possible interpretation, it's difficult not to imagine that that is somehow for political gain, particularly if you're willing to praise Georgia Maloney, who some say, particularly on the left, is a far-right politician, certainly she's praised Mussolini, and if you're willing to support Ukrainian troops that are literal, explicitly Nazi.
It shows that there's a degree of complexity and certainly invites the question, do you just call people fascists and Nazis so that you can malign, marginalise them and disengage from conversation?
Which is the one thing you actually need to do.
Engage in conversation.
Has fascism simply become a kind of Bullet to end conversation.
To end debate.
And if that is the case, and I suspect it is, then that's the last thing America and the world need right now.
What they need are open arms, open discourse.
A lot of people are frustrated.
A lot of people are angry.
Because of the failings of neoliberalism, people are willing to look at Ethno-nationalist populist ideas.
They're attracted by brilliant public orators like Donald Trump, and that's our fault.
We should do better.
Meanwhile, Clinton has claimed that Giorgia Maloney becoming Italy's first woman prime minister will open doors for women.
Yeah, fascist women.
What do you want?
Hitler with tits?
Hitler!
Interviewed for the country's leading daily, Il Corriere della Sera, she spoke of the very powerful forces who threaten democracy, from Russian cyber attacks to Donald Trump-style demagoguery.
But commenting on Maloney, who's been labelled fascist, Clinton said, every time a woman is elected to head of state or government, a fairy gets its wigs.
No, that's a step forward.
She continues.
I never agreed with Margaret Thatcher, but I admired her determination, she added, referring to the British Prime Minister who played an instrumental role in advancing the neoliberal counter-revolution in the United Kingdom.
To pretend that there is no direct link between the policies of Margaret Thatcher and the policies of the Clintons is ridiculous.
Margaret Thatcher, when asked what was her greatest achievement, answered Tony Blair.
Meaning that from that point on, you couldn't have an old-school left-wing politician.
You couldn't have that anymore.
Tony Blair was conservatism or republicanism light.
That's what she regarded as a great achievement.
And when you look at that more broadly, what it suggests is that beyond apparent bipartisan politics, there is an ideology It's called neoliberalism, which encompasses both of those apparently separate parties in a way that makes them kind of redundant.
Their differences are not that important.
That's why they want you to argue about things like gender identity, racial identity, cultural values, tradition versus progressivism, because while you're doing that, very powerful financial interests and state interests are getting on with business as usual.
You don't need me to tell you that, but I am telling you that because it's my job.
Thanks in no small part to Clinton and her husband, former US President Bill Clinton, Thatcher's free market ideology and upwardly redistributive policies such as privatisation, pro-corporate trade deals and deregulation of the financial industry also took hold in the United States, worsening inequality and aiding the ascent of reactionaries like Trump.
So there you go.
Is the real problem fascism?
Or is the real problem neoliberalism that means apparent partisan distinctions are redundant and irrelevant and ordinary people have got nowhere to go and blindly grope for some sort of solution and apparently gifted orators offering populist solutions will be more attractive?
Isn't that what should be addressed rather than going around saying someone's fascist because of the way their fingers move about?
I would say it bloody well is.
But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
Here's the news.
No, here's the fucking news!
Well, a lot of good points there.
Keep your comments and chat coming in.
Stay with us for the entirety of the episode.
Now, I'm very, very excited to share with you my conversation with the fantastic contemporary shaman, a man who, when he lost his wife to suicide, didn't crack, didn't crumble, because I know a lot of you are suffering.
I know there's a lot of pain out there.
We come from pain.
I'm going to have a fantastic conversation with Wim Hof.
It's always enlightening to talk to him.
It's always enlightening to get up on your feet and do the horse dance.
Wim, these practices, in a sense, you're working at such a crucial place.
The intersection, biochemical process, which it always would have been, you know, the reason meditation works, the reason that breath work is successful, the reason that these techniques have been around for millennia, is because they are effective.
And now, and your work has been significant in this, we are able to see what the impact is On the body in the same way you can look at the way that vitamin D is helpful or vitamin C or other forms of more material nutrition.
It's hard when working in the territory of spirit to make material demonstration and this is what has always led to cynicism and the ongoing favoring of that which is demonstrably true and rationally true.
But we're beginning to see the end of the road for this model as we approach a kind of planetary cataclysm, whether you take that to be ecologically or a kind of psychic crisis that seems to be happening wherever we are in the world.
The pandemic, it seems, was a kind of warning, a few years of potential respite and re-examination, but it became a time, in my opinion, of unprecedented corruption, exploitation, Centralised power and elitist profiteering.
This war in Ukraine, a war in Europe, at this point in our evolution, it seems ridiculous to imagine that we could be in this position.
And even though, of course, both sides, and I don't mean Ukraine particularly, I mean, you know, it seems that there is some complexity that is not reported in the mainstream media, that is historically underwritten perhaps by the actions of NATO, And the complexities of Ukrainian political life and the various factions that operate within Ukraine, not to mention potential electoral fraud and mismanagement.
These are all things that I do not claim to be an expert in, but I've seen reported.
In this evident time of crisis, it is obvious that we have to change, but people do not want to change.
A lot of people, certainly people that are in positions of power, don't want to change because the systems that are failing a lot of people continue to work for them.
So I wonder Wim, what kind of methods would you like to see brought to the forefront culturally as well as at the level of the individual?
And how do you use your techniques to give you a sense of hope and optimism when a lot of people feel that we are moving from crisis to crisis?
Yes, right now there's actually a crisis from crisis, put Christ out loud.
Crisis out loud.
What we see historically never happened, but evolution will push through.
And evolution is saying, hey, the purpose of you guys, humanity, is not to make a mess out of it and not to be in a crisis or in a confusion.
You have to go past these clouds and come to the understanding that you are able to expand neurologically to 100% of your brain, which is then able to connect with the Omnipresence, Omniscience and Omnipotency, which is nothing more than physics.
It's no longer even metaphysics.
You can measure it.
You can see it.
The thing is, the future is beautiful.
And the child wants to be born.
The spiritual child wants to be born.
That is harmony inside and outside.
The hierarchies.
The hierarchic systems of the past.
The wars coming there from.
Because one king is different than the other.
And then they want to expand and they make war.
They sacrifice their subjects and all that.
Stupidity is ending now.
And it doesn't make sense.
We can nuclearly Kill the world 150 times over and and still we are fighting it is it is not according to our evolutionary Development what it says is hey guys the the guys who are right now in power and taking our money and Parasiting like vultures upon us and trying to win within their arrogance to keep on going as much as people at it and
It is time of awakening.
It is time to get autonomous.
Now, what did I show?
People are not going to listen if I'm talking like this.
But they will listen if I show that the autonomic nervous system can be controlled.
That the autonomous processes in the brain can be controlled.
Beyond the paradigm of the past.
Far beyond the paradigm of the past.
And then, when you've got that connection, which can be done in one day, then people get their autonomy.
Then the old sayings from the old scriptures was, The mind in control is your greatest enemy of your greatest friends.
If it is not in control, it's your greatest enemy.
And that's where we are.
We have been held, arrested, and it was nice and smooth, mesmerized, hypnotized, schooled to fit into a system, a hierarchic system, and it all went nice.
Evolution gave us the time to play around with that kind of model.
But the change is inevitably coming and we better get our shit together all.
And we bring it with love and power, music, art, with common sense, tribal, family love for everybody in the world.
No more insensitivity and wars like the children in Syria.
They are brought up in war.
And that's the only thing they know.
And we call ourselves civilized.
In the U.S., it's five hours looking at a damn television to be entertained.
Five hours on average.
That's civilization.
It's numbness.
It's insensitive.
It is hypnotism, mesmerized, and we keep on going.
And the little club who are ruling, and over the politicians, and over all of us, they are just keeping on.
They are not happy.
They are not strong.
They are not healthy.
They're just trickery, devious, with false arguments in a place where they think happiness doesn't exist.
There's a real guarantee for strength and health.
Love doesn't exist.
I take the second best alternative.
I take control of all the people.
Oh, look at me, look at me.
It's over.
It's done.
Masquerade is over.
Carnival, the real carnival, is coming, where we are in a paradise.
And it takes time, but the transition is there, and it's for us to push every day goddamn hard.
And I love it.
I'm a sucker for fights.
I love to cross the wall.
I love it every day!
And if I talk with you, I feel inspired even more!
And so, you do it in your way, I do it in my way, and I got so many friends.
In fact, I just had a WhatsApp of a person who went to the summer retreats.
He said, I got my leukemia results just checked in the blood.
It's gone!
Just one week.
What is this?
I take on the cancer.
I take on those monsters.
I take on ALS.
I take on these monsters.
We are the new St.
John's.
We take on the monsters, the dragons.
And we show bravery where others say, oh, you cannot say this!
Fucking pharmaceuticals on top, having brainwashed you, saying that to me?
Come on, where is your belief?
Where is your faith in humanity, in the power of Mother Nature?
Where is it?
And people take it up.
I just startled them.
You know, first day, guys, I'm not doing gradual cold exposure.
Do they know this or not?
Conditions or not, you're going to go for 10 minutes into the ice.
And they do it.
75 years, the oldest.
And with conditions.
He had to pee five times a night.
And directly after that startling start of the day with 10 minutes into the ice, he was spirited.
He went in and he doesn't pee anymore in the night.
I mean, crazy stuff happens.
Well, it's probably frozen, Wim.
The pee is probably frozen in his belly.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's crazy what I all see.
You know, life is a miracle.
Miracles happen.
Go to life.
So Wim, essentially a lot of your work, or like your method, your ideal, is that there is power in us already.
And the power has become crushed.
It has become dormant.
There are ways of awakening this power.
I, as you know, have the good fortune to have regular ice baths and regular sauna.
How far are you now?
I saw it.
How far did you guys go?
I've done 10 minutes, it's still my record.
What do you think I should aim for?
15, tomorrow.
15 tomorrow?
Yes.
Wim, when I come out, I feel very, very, well, cold.
Is that how I feel?
What do I do when I get out?
You do the horse stance.
Shaman you know?
Legs down.
Legs down.
PEACE.
Yeah, I feel bad.
If you do this five minutes, you're totally back.
I'll be warm as toast, won't I, Wim?
Yeah, really!
You know, lately I did it with 50,000 people.
No way, where?
In Czech Republic.
What was it like, Wim?
That was like an ocean.
All this... I will send you the video.
Yeah, you showed me it really.
I remember you sent it to me.
I was watching it at the time.
I just wanted to give you the opportunity to talk about it on the podcast.
I love it when you send me these videos of everyone covered in mud and clay.
It looks so ancient and beautiful and powerful.
It's back!
It's exactly what you said in the beginning.
The time of indulgence is over.
We have to get back to the family.
We have to get back from the cities to the village.
And the village is inside of us.
There where there is craftsmanship, creativity, where you feel each other instead of being disconnected and into strange abstract thinking and getting lost of your purpose and soul.
So, that one is back.
The native is back.
We burritinated it.
We, westerners, colonists, taken over what is not ours in the world.
That aggressive mind taken over, insensitive, now comes, the native is awakening.
Because the natives never, they have maybe gone and left their body, but their spirit is strong and it's coming now.
It's a sacrifice, it has been.
And it sounds like mystical, but it's not.
It's who we are.
One with the world, one with nature, and one with ourselves.
That's where we go.
It's very simple.
Yeah, that's really beautiful.
I mean, because, you know, on this show we talk to a lot of people that have academic theories of how the world must change, that have good philosophical analysis of the way that leadership needs to change, that talk about new systems that are required so that people can be empowered in their own lives as individuals and communities, so that we can prevent corrupt and centralized control from dominating the planet.
But people miss what seems to me to be a vital point.
It's going to take a change in consciousness and it will be a full body change that we have to become different.
You know, when I talk to you, sometimes I feel a little hypocritical, Wim, because I still sometimes just sit and watch dumb stuff on a screen.
Sometimes I just want to eat a cake.
My wife told me sometimes you just have to look at this dumb screen.
It's a way to detangle all your thoughts.
That it is so dumb, you don't need to think, you just let it go.
Yeah.
I got that.
But now, since a year, I'm not looking at TV at all anymore.
Yeah.
First it was like, hey, but I want to see the news later.
But then I found out the news is not really news.
It's prefabricated spiritual manner of the shit hole.
And I don't like, I don't want it.
So, yes, there we are.
And no television anymore.
And now I forgot the line.
Bring it back.
You don't, yeah, you don't watch TV.
You don't, in your, because I was saying that I still sometimes live a very kind of normal life.
Like, you know, like, I'm like a normal guy.
And I do too!
Do you?
I do too!
What, you go to the supermarket?
Oh yeah, I do it all.
I do all what God has forbidden.
Especially that.
But it feels great, you know, mate.
The thing is, I got my objectives.
And one of the objectives is simple.
I want to change the whole wide world and anything that is in that realm, scientifically to be proven, I do it.
I also train every day.
I'm fucking strong.
I make music.
I just, very soon we have an album with 10 great songs of like seven minutes each, like Pink Floyd.
Me and Tayir.
I love Tayir.
Tayir also performed at Community.
Brilliant musician.
He's a Uyghur, is that right?
A Uyghur person.
Uyghur, Uyghur.
Uyghur, Uyghur.
Is that how you say it?
Uyghur, yeah.
I love that dude.
He's fantastic.
He's Chinese now.
But, you know, the Uyghurs, they have no Dalai Lama or Gandhi.
They have music and poetry.
His brother has been arrested 15 years now just because of poetry.
That's why the world is.
So, as long as the world is that way, I told him, let's conquer the whole wide world.
You know how we conquered the Chinese?
Because I've been in China a couple of times.
They are beautiful people, only the government, this hierarchy once again.
We just get through the hearts.
Let's make beautiful, tender music.
If music is able to make you cry, then that's the music we need to make.
Because then we are able to open up the hearts in China and everywhere else in the world.
And it's almost done.
And that's where we go.
But I can be as normal and I am as normal as... Actually, I'm not normal.
No, you're not.
I've never seen you do be normal.
I've never seen it.
From the minute you arrived at the festival... It's alright.
No, you're not.
When we did Community, you arrived and then we were in the woods and then you did those exercises with my daughter.
We did the splits, then we marched down and all the festival wasn't set up yet and you started playing a guitar, you got straight into some ice baths, you performed the song, you brought people together, you gave an impromptu lecture on the pharmaceutical industry and the positive impact on breathing exercises, potentially on cancer and a variety of diseases.
You're just a tornado!
You're a tornado of a person.
And I think that, you know, when I meet very special people like you, or like the Saint Amma, you know, like, for me, it's important that all of us know that, yeah, there are people that are different and that have a concentration of very particular talents.
But, like, even me as a person that still, like, stares at stuff online, that still sometimes eats dumb food, that sometimes feels, even in spite of the fact I meditate and do Brazilian jiu-jitsu and try to do all of these things, your breathwork, the ice baths, you know, coming from where I'm coming from, The education I had, the drug habit I had, because of techniques like yours, I've come a long way.
Like, these techniques are very effective in dealing with the deficits that this system, I think, installs in you.
Deliberately creates these deficits so that you consume in order to get them.
I remember, I remember the first time I saw you on TV.
You were talking with a politician.
So how come we, as young people, start to take drugs?
Why isn't that questioned within the Parliament?
Something like that.
And I found that revolutionary spirit there.
I loved it.
I loved the way you just bluntly asked for interrogation, you know, to be inquisitive, to get clearance, to get some clarity about this.
Yeah.
I was last week with Joseph Fiennes.
He's going to play me.
No way!
They're making a Wim Hof movie with Joseph Fiennes playing you.
I can't believe it.
Tell me more about this.
Oh yeah.
We had such fun.
He went to do the Ant-Man's Tale in Canada and all.
He was there in Vancouver.
And all America.
It's a Western country.
It's a Western country.
And when you go walk in Vancouver, beautiful!
And then you walk into that avenue.
There you see all these people homeless in some tents and they're victims of the pharmaceutical painkiller industry.
And they are just left there.
They are not even on drugs or something.
They're just victims of our industry, governed by our governments, installed and maintained.
And there they are, left to their wits.
It's misery.
Pure, filthy misery.
And Jordan Peterson was in the same.
He is a very honest man and very intelligent.
And then he got a pain, an injury, and he began to take painkillers.
And then he got hooked, addicted on it, very much pain.
Then he started to do this breathing and the cold.
And it seems that it is all gone now.
That is what we bring.
We bring to honest people and that actually is everybody.
Besides, when people pass through their traumas and we are able to do that in the centers and our festivals to de-traumatize people, to bring them back to their beautiful self and have the reins consciously in their own hands.
That's what we do.
So, there I am!
I love this Wim.
I love the assumption that our native state is beautiful and that we acquire tendencies and habits that are less than beautiful.
No one is, of course, perfect.
I'm also fascinated to hear that there's a film being made about you and I'm excited to watch it and I think I should have a cameo in that movie, frankly, Wim.
Yes!
Oh, let's do that!
Yeah, definitely.
You look like Jesus.
Maybe I talk sometimes to Jesus.
You've got to meet our Lord Jesus at some point in the transcendent state.
Tell the studio, otherwise they can't have the life rights unless Russell Brain gets to play Jesus.
They'll love that.
Another thing is I'm going to do a series just in seven days with eight people with conditions in Ireland.
In March, TV series, IRT, or ITR, or whatever.
That name.
It's the biggest station.
I'm going to guide eight people within five days with, say, addiction.
Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, depression, whatever they got.
And I will show that within five days they will be able to embrace their nativeness and a native being is in harmony with the nature outside and inside.
That makes them very, very, very powerful.
And then he is able to heal.
Of anything.
And that in five days.
That is the new challenge.
And I will do a new series with the BBC.
Hey, listen to this.
The Kardashians, you know the soap series with the Kardashians?
Of course, yeah, everyone knows.
They have 200, 300 million followers.
They are doing the Wim Hof Method now!
Amazing.
Now, they asked me, the BBC, don't tell nobody, we just tell it to your community.
Is it okay?
Because they wanted me already at their place.
But Enam said, no, just do the fundamentals.
Doesn't matter.
Now, I'm going to take the reign, I'm going to connect with them, and then tell the Kardashians, hey, come to the BBC series as a guest, or I go to you guys and we do a whole series on whatever, because your reach is power, and power I need to distribute, I give them purpose, something they cannot buy.
That would be massive.
Yeah, whatever it takes, we're going to spread this all over the planet.
So it's going to be, it's going to go faster and faster and faster.
And Russell, beautiful show.
I know your silver line cascades everywhere and people like to be washed by that.
It's just beautiful.
Beautiful plants grow around and it's imaginary beautiful.
It's a dream landscape what you create and that's a glimpse of the future coming to them.
And they can feel it.
They can remember with that.
And that is the future because we never had the neurological power and activity in our brain to be able to really connect consciously with those deepest areas within us.
And now we have.
Let's do much more together.
And that could be film, Hollywood, BBC series.
Now, yesterday I heard the format of the Frise de Fer has been sold through the sales department of the BBC to the whole wide world.
So, France was yesterday.
And in France, they're going to do the Frise de Fille, that is breathing, that is the eyes, and people are getting through their trauma and find their deeper potential, the nativeness and all.
It's getting there.
And then every country, I will take people who are instructors in the Wim Hof Method or in your method, you know, the right people and the right wavelength and do it in their language.
It's fantastic!
It's fantastic!
We're getting even a great cut of it!
Amazing!
Perfect!
They can't do it without you, Wim!
They can't do it without you!
What the shit!
It's amazing!
So, where I want to invest in The centers of consciousness of uplifting the spirit with name and addressing everything very clearly.
So there is no space for speculation.
It's physical evidence-based connection what you're going to get in one day if you get to a center like that because we are humans with all that beauty existence.
We just take away the shit.
Wim Hof, that's magnificent.
Wim, do you mind answering a few questions that we've been sent in from our audience?
The first one is Mr. Silence Dugood said, Wim, you almost lost your toes to frostbite while breaking a record running a marathon barefoot in the snow.
It's the only time I've ever seen you afraid.
Can I ask you, did you feel fear in those moments when you were speaking to your toes and kissing them and begging them to respond?
Was it a manifestation?
Was it prayer?
Was it hope?
What was it, Wim?
Yeah, it was all that.
It's human to think of all that.
And all that happens.
But you are... I was also heightened in that moment.
I was calculating.
Can I do it?
Yes or no?
The doctor said, no.
Physiologically, it is really a risk.
You're going to lose your foot.
And the evidence, she said this and that and so and so.
And I just felt, I was with myself, feeling my foot and said, Just making connection, feeling it.
It's alright.
Let's go.
And then I went.
You know, you feel at that moment.
Of course, fear is there.
And fear is saying, yeah, you cannot do this.
It's going to be dangerous.
But there is a sense which is stronger.
And that is connected to your purpose.
I had a purpose there.
What I did not know, but I fulfilled it.
And now, later, looking at it, I say, I'm bloody proud of it.
That I went and do all that crazy stuff, not to succumb to my rationale, but to something else inside which I wanted to open up.
And I did!
So, I love fear, but I love life even better.
That's fantastic, Wim.
SensitiveHeart25 says, Can cold showers help me with my grief, Wim?
My heart feels so heavy since my father died.
That's SensitiveHeart25.
As a papa, I say yes.
The first thing you do when your heart is on fire, actually cold, is to take, like macrobiotics or homeopathics, they take a little bit of the disease and that makes, awakens an equation inside the blood flow.
A little bit of cold triggers the deep emotional neurological cold To go away.
Wow.
Yes.
It will help with grief.
It will help with grief.
Oh, absolutely.
This is from Maria.
Dear Wim, I enjoyed watching and listening to you at the Community Festival with Russell in Hay-on-Wye.
I wasn't brave enough to try the ice bath, but my friend said they felt amazing.
If you're there next year, I'll definitely do it.
Will you join me?
How should I prepare?
That's from Maria.
Oh, Maria, where's Jesus?
Yes, of course!
Let's do this!
Maria, I'm waiting.
You better be ready.
You know how to get ready?
Just take cold showers.
Besides of that, cold shower a day keeps the doctor away.
Even the doctor is doing it.
Thanks, Wim.
David, this is from Twitter.
What's the best number of rounds for the breathing method and is there a time limit on the breath hold?
There is absolutely no time limit, and not for rounds, as long as you feel good with it.
That is one.
About the time limit, don't force.
Then you can go on.
How many rounds is the most that you do?
Last January, I had to do a 12 series with the BBC, and we only had seven days.
There I did like one and a half hour of breathing in the morning to cleanse myself of all the shit and I was flawless.
I could deliver all the time, shop all the time.
Twelve programs in one week and still we had the time.
So really, Wim, I reckon it takes, the process for me, like my first round is usually maybe two minutes, then maybe two and a half, then three, then, you know, so like if I do five rounds, I normally get to four, I can get to four minutes.
So like that process can take, thank you.
So that process can take, you know, 20 minutes to half an hour to do five rounds.
Yeah, half an hour to do five rounds and it can take around 20 minutes to do three rounds
So you probably did like 10 15 rounds 15 15 rounds and yeah When you really need something to be done well
breathe in the morning Cleanse yourself to the deepest.
That is the lymphatic system.
And you can only do that through the breathing, because it directly goes into the bloodstream, into the fluids, past the borders of the lymphatic knots, into the deepest, and it cleanses any acid out of your lymphatic system, which is the garbage system, the deep garbage system.
And then, if pressure is coming of whatever you need to do in performance, acting, or work, or very important, I don't know, Olympic performance, you will find no resistance.
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