Russell Brand and Dave dissect NYC Mayor Zorah Mamdani's populist agenda, including city-run grocery stores to combat a 66% price surge and luxury taxes on non-residents. They contrast this government intervention with skepticism about bureaucratic efficiency and rent freezes, while also critiquing the "looks maxing" trend promoted by influencer Clavicular and analyzing President Trump's executive order on psychedelic access for veterans. Ultimately, the episode argues that true radical change requires empowering participants to run their own systems rather than relying on corrupt agencies or fragmented political landscapes. [Automatically generated summary]
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Hitting Faces With Hammers00:04:04
Russell Brand, controversial conspiracy theorist.
Trying to bring real journalism to the American people.
Hello there, you awakening wonders.
Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
Are you looks maxing?
You're hideous.
Start hitting yourself in the face with a hammer.
It's a disturbing new trend.
Guys hitting themselves deliberately on the face with hammers and other objects.
Dave, you look like you've been doing it.
You've never looked more chiseled.
Guilty.
Yeah, you've been looks maxing yourself senseless.
Wherever you're watching this right now, come over to Rumble.
And if you don't have Rumble Premium yet, get Rumble Premium now.
In the next few minutes, we'll be talking about Joe Rogan's visit to the White House and the use of psychedelic drugs as a new medicine.
My first thought is they caused that opioid crisis, like Big Pharma, and then they're using Big Pharma once more to actually solve the opioid crisis or at least sweep up some of the human casualties.
But let me know what you think in the comments and chats.
It reminds you of COVID a little bit, like DARPA are over there in Wuhan experimenting on gain of function.
And then they benefit from the cure as well.
I mean, I'm being very sort of general when I talk about the pharmaceutical industry, particularly in terms of DARPA.
Whereas Reborn Methylene Blue from Ole Russ, what it lacks in FDA approval, it makes up for in being able to turn your teeth blue in an instant.
So instead of hammering yourself in the face, maybe hammer yourself in the heart with a bit of Methylene Blue.
And if you haven't got a copy yet of my wonderful book, How to Become Christian in Seven Days, it's available.
There's a link in the description.
See, click on that.
And get it.
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And let me know what you think we should do with any profit that it accrues because I'm not going to take no money from it, even though, let me tell you, we could do with some money sometimes.
That's the truth.
And in fact, you could come and see me do my live show.
A funny thing happened on the way to church.
There's a link in the description.
Come see me do that live if you're in Florida.
If you're not in Florida, come to Florida.
I'm doing it in a.
When?
When is it that I'm doing that?
May 18th and 19th.
May 18th and 19th.
That's coming up soon.
I'll see you then.
Come see me.
It's really good fun.
It's a great show.
And I think probably we'll have a book there.
For everybody, we'll work out something.
Anyway, okay, let's get into this.
So, first of all, we'll start off with looks maxing.
It's difficult to see how Jake could become more beautiful or Dave, but it seems like one of the options is smashing themselves in the face with a hammer.
In a minute, we'll have a nurse from reverse to ensure that we remain connected in some tertiary way to the divine, holy power that is your birth rate.
Let's have a look at this looks maxing first, though.
It's a disturbing new trend.
Guys hitting themselves deliberately on the face with hammers and other objects.
Why?
They think it will give them a more chiseled, handsome look.
But as Jim Moray reports, doctors are sounding the alarm.
It's a bizarre trend that's hard to believe.
These young men are hitting themselves in the face with hammers, even saucepans.
Get this, they think it will improve their looks.
It's called looks maxing and it's being promoted on social media by 20 year old Braden Peters, a controversial influencer who calls himself clavicular and has 800,000 followers.
You gotta hit the chin hard.
He spoke his awful.
He is actually gorgeous looking.
He's a gorgeous looking lad, but we find ourselves in a kind of post satirical time now where Most of the information and news we consume, it's kind of difficult to distinguish it from a, in your language, a kind of Jon Stewart show sketch.
Or in mine, the Peerless Brass Eye by Chris Morris used to come up with scenarios that were actually less stupid than looks Maxine.
I mean, maybe, I don't know, maybe there's something in it hitting yourself in the face with a hammer.
Is it in a way any worse than flagellation or mortification of the flesh?
I suppose it is, because the end point is to look a bit nicer, and that seems like a.
I don't know, an unusual aim to pursue up to the point of toolkit.
Why are you looking at me like that?
Hammering Your Own Face00:09:49
You think that?
I feel like, would you do it?
Yeah.
That is one of the things I thought of.
Like when I saw him doing it, I thought, do you think it works?
That's what I thought.
I mean, come on.
I mean, the fish tank cleaner and all that kind of stuff.
But what I will say is, I do feel a bit better when I do it.
That's what it's become.
However, I suppose the truth is that when I thought taking heroin was the right thing to do, I did that as well, very enthusiastically and obsessively.
So I don't know.
Let me just declare right now that I'm not, perhaps not the best person to follow when it comes to fads, trends, or anything like that.
If I'm not dealing directly with eternity and eternal principles, probably chew me right out.
Let's have a little bit more of a look at these adorable young people who, if you ask me, are beautiful enough as they are, hitting themselves in the face with tools in an attempt to achieve, Lord alone knows exactly what.
His off the wall message on 60 Minutes Australia.
When you break down a bone, it grows back stronger.
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So you're intentionally creating these traumas, typically on your cheekbones, your chin.
But he walked out of that interview.
Actually, I can start to see the signs of it now.
It makes sense.
This lad, clavicular.
What?
Clavicle?
Well, I'm named after the collarbone.
Extraordinary.
Name as well.
What unusual business.
Let me know in locals and on Rumble and Rumble Premium if you are willing to hammer yourself in the face with a blunt object in order to achieve temporary beauty, which will eventually and inevitably fade.
And if you've wedded your identity to what you look like, you've got some terrible, terrible shocks coming down the pipe because, you know, all true beauty fades.
Everything must die.
What are you saying, Dave?
When they're hit, I wonder how hard.
I mean, he said to break the bone.
When they're showing it, it's like they're barely a little tapping, but.
He's talking about breaking your actual bone.
These are just little fractures that will grow back stronger.
This is science behind.
Don't do it, Jake.
You can't do it with your hand.
You can't manually do it.
You require a hammer, you laddie.
You can't just do it willy nilly.
Joe would do it.
He will have already done it.
He walked out of that interview moments after he was asked about links between looks maxing and incels, guys who hate women.
How do you feel about being linked to that group?
Thanks for the time.
Appreciate the interview.
I spoke with Beverly.
People are always walking out of interviews now.
I'm going on Meghan Kelly's show and Piers Morgan's show later on this week.
Probably it's happening now, as a matter of fact, we're taping this.
And I'm going to walk out of both of them.
I've already decided.
I'm going to go.
No, that's enough of that.
He doesn't mean it.
And I'm going to do it actually when things are not even remotely contentious.
I'm just going to surprise myself.
Walk out on a high note.
Sorry, sorry.
No, no, I can't have that.
Look at these amazing shorts.
All right, so let's finish this then.
Quit Beverly Hills plastic surgeon.
Dr. Michael Zarabi.
What do you make of this trend of look-smaxing and taking a hammer to your own face?
You can damage muscles and cause permanent muscle injury.
You can even damage nerves that can result.
However, injecting Botox into your face, that's fantastic.
Or puffing your lips up so that you turn your face into living pornography is also fantastic.
I suppose, in a sense, the reason it's happened, the culture is going to create some crazy stuff in the end, isn't it?
Because for a long time, all of us have assumed what you look like is of supreme importance.
Even people that don't think it's important, it is important.
Just look at how, you know, partnerships aggregate out.
Do notice that people, generally speaking, Go out with someone who's about as good looking as they are, more or less in general, or they've got loads of money and they use that money to hack the system.
So, like, we've all agreed as a culture that there's some sort of parity and there's some kind of system, so we can't argue with that.
And then we've started to, like, indulge the idea that you can inject yourself with all sorts of crazy stuff.
I've done crazy stuff in the pursuit of beauty, both inner and outer.
So, it's hardly surprising that once the valves come off communication and access to comms, And media people start doing things that are absurd.
I think a lot about Warship Down by Richard Adams.
It's a story about a community of rabbits that go on a kind of a diaspora that gets dislodged from their home.
Anyway, but they encounter like a communist society, utopian societies.
But the one that's most disturbing, I think, is one where the rabbits have lost touch with their instincts and live in these peculiar formulaic dances.
And all of us now have become like zoo animals, so disconnected from nature, both inner and outer, so.
Godless and hopeless and ridiculous, that in the end, tapping yourself on the face with a hammer or getting Botox or like putting sacks of saline under your skin so it looks like you've got bigger boobs or I don't Lord alone knows what.
There's times in my life where I would have done all of those things.
We're living in a kind of total insanity, and these are just the never ending observable symptoms of it.
How can that plastic surgeon come on there and go, Well, these look-smaxing guys are ridiculous?
However, if you'd like nine titties, I'll do them for you.
Damage nerves that can result in.
Facial weakness, or even areas of numbness.
And in extreme examples, you can even damage the brain and cause, for example, a concussion.
So it's absolutely not the right thing to do.
Listen to what this plastic surgeon says happened to one guy who tried looks maxing.
A patient took a hammer, hammered it to the face, broke the bone, and the bone on the bottom of the eyeball flipped up and popped the eye, and he went blind.
Oh my gosh.
Clavicular's life took a dark turn earlier this week when he appeared to suffer an overdose in a Miami nightclub during a live stream.
Rescue 16, 20 year old male, overdose.
He was carried out and taken to the hospital.
This morning, he posted, just got home.
That was brutal.
You should not be following someone like Clavicular and getting medical and health advice.
Nonsense.
The boy's a genius.
I've never looked more beautiful.
Clavicular, everyone.
Like, don't you know, actually, that what the culture does is it elevates people to positions of visibility so that it can tell a particular story.
Look at this kid, clavicular.
Never heard of him.
A dude.
Like, if you're not 15 or whatever, of course you haven't.
Now you have.
And what have you heard of him?
Incels he's connected to.
Hitting himself on the face with a hammer.
What is the ultimate aim of bringing him to the forefront?
It's a degenerative aim to tell you that there's a sort of an evolution out of the Andrew Tate space of, like, extreme machismo and masculinity.
These peculiar Codes and trends of vanity.
I recognized it when I was in normal celebrity days, you know, like, oh, I see what I am.
I'm here to sort of promote the idea of hedonism and decadence.
Look at this British bad boy.
He talks funny.
He's wearing mascara.
Then, once they've churned through you, then there's nothing else there.
But, like, it happens, I think, at all gradients of the culture as well.
Even people that are sanctioned academics and intellectuals are similarly just objects that the culture spits out to tell a story.
It's kind of A neo pagan pantheonism.
This god, Yuval Noah Harari, tells you that AI is inevitable.
This god, Russell Brand, tells you that hedonism and decadence are fun.
This god here, Clavicular, he's telling you that there's a kind of inanity and foolishness about online culture.
We're all being sort of used and plopped like little objects into the pool of the common consciousness to ensure that you never discover the absolute supreme truth.
I mean, I'm holding up my own book here because it explains it and I get paid for that one.
But, you know, save yourself.
Some money and time with that one.
Dave, I can't imagine anyone being more beautiful than you currently are.
Nevertheless, I'm going to set about you in a minute with a Stanley knife, a hammer, and a chisel.
I won't rest till you're nothing but gorgeous bone like Skeletor.
You never really even worried about what you look like, do you?
I don't think about it too much.
Jake, you've always been some moody, dark pooled sort of swamp man straight out of Louisiana, some Cajun fetid thing.
But you do care about your looks.
You do that beard sometimes, don't you?
This beard?
Yeah, you're dialing it up, dialing it down.
Stanley Knife And Chisel00:07:21
A little mustache, change it up a little bit.
Handsome is what I call you.
I'm going to trim this down for when I'm on Megan Kelly and Piers Morgan before I do my storm ops.
Miss Stormski Daniels, now it's time for a nurse with a verse.
Dave, be prepared to stand up out of that area.
We'll get a verse of scripture from Nurse Nikki, who's, you know, like how Michael Jackson used to have some doctor jacking him up with stuff the whole time in case he mentioned Palestine and they're ready to go with the paedophile allegations.
Well, we now have Nurse Nikki loading us up with NADs.
And all manner of healthy injections to keep us in prim, tip top shape so we don't have to hammer ourselves in the face to remain young looking.
Thanks for joining us, Nurse Nikki.
Absolutely.
Nurse Nikki, what verse did you choose for us today?
Today I have Colossians 3 1 and 2.
Therefore, if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.
Oh, why did you choose that?
It's a good one, isn't it?
It was, well, first of all, I'll give a nod to my church service on Sunday.
It was in there, but I think it's one of those anchor scriptures for us that have received Christ.
And if you haven't received Christ, I just encourage you to because there's such a reality of like that hidden peace that we have.
The world is chaotic, there's a lot of things going on out there, but we are hidden in Christ.
And there's just a safety and a security that comes to me in that, you know, in the midst of living in this chaotic, broken, fallen world that, uh, He's got a secure place for me, but then also to shift my mind when I feel anxious or insecure or prideful to reorient myself to the things above.
Yeah, that's good.
How are you doing it in the moment?
Where are you most pushed?
Family, work, Massey Radfah.
All the things.
It's everywhere all the time.
I think it's just a matter of abiding.
I think the longer, I don't know, when you've experienced the peace of God, then you know when you don't have it anymore.
And so I think just trying to stay in that space of abiding in Him.
And so a good, bad fruit, right, reminds me that I must not be setting my mind on the things above.
Yeah.
That is good, isn't it?
When you start to interpret your own agitation and irritation, not As indicators that there's a problem that needs to be solved outside of yourself, but that you yourself have let go of the thread.
I'm just learning to do it now.
And I'm trying to teach my kids it in real time so that they sort of grow up a little more competent and less crazy than me.
Thank you, Nikki, for that.
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Those of you in locals who we dearly love, Paul Schrober, don't be sarcastic, only sincere problems.
And Jake, I can't tell you that's as soon as you start playing that.
I become, it changes my entire mode of being.
I feel so much more relaxed.
I don't need looks maxing.
None of you need to maximize your looks.
Or, like, what about that fella, what's called Brian something or another, that we nearly have on the show sometimes, who I think is probably a lovely human being, but he's turned himself into an adult baby.
You know what I mean, don't you?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He turned himself to an adult baby.
The guy lives forever.
You can't live forever in this device.
You have to let go of this.
He's a vampire.
Yeah, an adult baby.
I think, and I say that as a person who once went to an adult baby service, and it was, it's not something I want to talk about now.
I did go to an adult baby service.
What's that?
It was in Folkestone.
I went, all right, adult baby service is where you can pay, in this case, a lady, and probably it's always a lady.
I was, at least before I was famous, I was doing a bunch of crazy stuff.
And I went down to the adult baby service in Folkestone, I think it was, which is on the coast, which now would be beset with migrants.
We're talking about migrant crisis in the UK in a minute.
And the lady there, what you do is you get a nappy or a diaper put on you and then she treats you like a baby.
And then you can take it.
There's a point where I found it necessary to act like an adult, to tell the truth, in the most adult way plausible.
But up till that point, it was weeing and, you know, well, you are able to, if you're able to relax the urethra, you're going to get a better adult baby experience.
Oh, my God.
I don't think she was really actually, I would say, properly set up for adult baby service.
I think she'd just like, say, if you are a sex worker, and some of you will be, and may the Lord save you.
Like that, you might add different things that you do.
Like, you know, go, I do massage, I do sadomasochism, I do piddling or whatever.
You know, I don't know what people want these days.
The kids are pretty crazy.
They're hammering themselves in the face, as far as I can understand.
And I think she added adult baby without really having too much of a setup for it.
She certainly gave me a good wallet with a carpet beater at one point.
You know, a carpet beater, you know, like to beat dust out of a rug.
I was thinking, well, I don't know what kind of baby would want this.
I mean, this is a baby at a badly run orphanage, this is a maltreated baby.
This is not the type of baby that I wanted to be.
Nevertheless, it was a perfectly good afternoon of fun.
And that's the kind of stuff I did when I was a kid.
That's why you can trust that I'm doing it.
There needs to be a new segment.
It's like, I don't know what to call it, but like things that were normal to me until I explained them to someone else.
A segment with Russell Brand.
Yeah.
The way I lived my whole life.
Wait a minute.
That's not normal.
Oh, oh, okay.
Fair enough.
Fair enough.
I'm sure it'll all work out.
Okay.
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Joe Rogan was in the White House just a couple of days ago endorsing the use of psychedelics for the treatment of addiction.
Once in a while, there'll be a subject on this show that I happen to know something about.
This is one of them drug addiction, psychedelics.
Politics, transcendence, recovery, we're right in my wheelhouse.
So, is it right that Joe Rogan visited Trump in the White House?
Is it important to focus on the areas where many people still think Trump is succeeding?
His many moves have been made around the HHS and human health services that some regard as successful.
Or do you find it rather troubling that the pharmaceutical industry that themselves willfully and yet somehow negligently induced the opioid crisis now stand to benefit financially?
From its resolution.
Let's get into it.
Okay, so this is the story in text form.
Donald Trump, and maybe you could run B roll over this, Massy, so it's like nice and you don't have to look at me craning and reading.
Donald Trump has signed an executive order to accelerate access to medical research and treatments involving psychedelic drugs.
The US President hailed the initiative as a means to help veterans struggling with serious mental health issues and widen treatment options.
Veterans, they're used for everything, aren't they?
Veterans.
Quick, get a veteran.
To help veterans, Neuralink.
To help veterans.
You're all going to jail.
To help veterans, we're going to create more veterans in an unwinnable war.
Can I have some, please?
The US president joked at an event in the Oval Office on Saturday, flanked by health officials.
I'll take whatever it takes.
I don't have time to be depressed, he added.
What a cool way to handle it.
The US has long suffered from a large-scale opioid crisis, triggered in part by the over-prescription of strong painkillers.
Yes, significantly.
These have acted as gateway drugs to highly addictive and dangerous synthetic drugs such as fentanyl, which has the effects of strong heroin.
The Food and Drug Administration could also create a pathway for several ill patients to access experimental drugs that have not yet been approved once they've passed early-stage clinical trials.
Ibergane, a potent psychedelic derived from the root of a shrub native to Central Africa, which scientists think may help to treat opioid addiction and other substance use disorders.
Trump said, In many cases, these experimental treatments have shown life changing potential for those suffering from severe mental illness and depression, including our cherished veterans.
Our veterans are having a tremendously hard time.
Alongside him were Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Joe Rogan, the podcaster.
Both have previously advocated for easing restrictions on psychedelics.
Veterans and psychedelic advocates have long contended that Ibergane has great promise for treating conditions such as.
Post traumatic stress disorder and opioid addiction.
In recent years, US veterans have reported benefiting from the drug after traveling to clinics in Central and South America.
It costs thousands of dollars to sample.
Okay, that's a really fantastic and interesting set of insights.
Ibergane and psychedelics more broadly are the kind of drugs that I've long been, drugs, substances, plant medicine, whatever you want to call it, that I've long been fascinated with.
Why?
Because it changes consciousness itself.
Whether you drink alcohol, smoke, weed, whatever you're doing, you want to change the way you feel.
Whether or not you have a problem with it, like a tendency towards addiction, attachment, and habitual and destructive.
Drug misuse is secondary to the deep and peculiar truth that we can induce states through natural substances that appear to alter the very fabric of reality.
I've never taken that, I began.
I've read quite a lot about it because I've maintained a fascination with substances that alter the way that reality appears and feels.
Because I suppose what it introduces you to is the very important and fundamental truth that there is no hard and objective reality, that you are, in fact, Interfacing with reality and co creating it as you live and breathe continually.
I took a lot of psychedelics when I was young, and it was what first introduced me to the idea that God is real, that you can't, that God is real.
That's the.
Like, I've gone into such a flow with it all that it's sort of because it's the sort of it's the conversation I'm still having right now is that there's an apparent external world that you receive via the senses, but what is the recipient of the senses and how can you alter it?
The thing is, with many drugs, like how did we say the thing?
Diabetham methyl tryptaline, obviously, we were so close, is that.
Is that it doesn't induce more neurological activity but less.
It restricts neurological activity.
But there's a reality that's trying to flood into you that you are prevented from fully experiencing because you are anchored in and tethered to a false identity.
It's a very, very interesting thing.
The points that I'd like to sort of tackle as best as I can is one, addiction is a spiritual problem anyway.
People that are using drugs habitually and addictively are trying to resolve a spiritual issue the way that they feel.
They're trying to amend it and change it by inducing a charge to the material and sensual world that it cannot carry.
If you use psychedelics to kind of disrupt a habit or a tendency, it's likely that it can have short term benefits.
But if you're an addict like I am, you need a sustained and ongoing program.
You need to have a spiritual experience and then the ongoing support of a community.
Because the truth is this we forget, we encounter God, and then we forget that we've encountered God.
Indeed, the Gospels are full of the peculiar recalcitrance of the disciples who encounter the miraculous and then return to the mundane.
They go fishing after they've seen the risen Christ.
It's really hard to remain in spirit.
On a more sort of mundial level, it's really strange to see.
Stuff that I've known about for a long while really seeping and bleeding into the mainstream.
And to hear something like Ibergane or substances like ayahuasca or psilocybin spoken of in kind of moot and pharmaceutical terms because they are profound, they have the profound power to impact the living water, the flow of consciousness itself.
So, hey, with this thing.
With this thing, I reckon on a like the most rudimentary feeling I have is one of kind of like I'm sort of appalled by it a little bit because it is effective and it will be effective.
But if you were to pursue the thread that you are taking hold of when acknowledging the power of psychedelics, you would unravel the very fabric of the systems that tether us to the material and sensory world.
It's another avenue that's so strange.
Think about just like relatively modern cultural history, like Steve Jobs did a bunch of acid, didn't he?
Like that's a sort of a famous thing that one of the things that brought him to the forefront of his own ingenuity and made him one of the greatest and most impactful social, cultural, technological engineers of recent times is that he had access to planes of reality, likely through that psychedelic use and some other in here genius that changed reality for all of us.
And the idea that it can be sort of, it's, it's oddly reductive.
It's oddly reductive as well as being superficially progressive.
On a financial level, I'm sort of like disgusted that the same people that turned your country into a nation of drug addicts dependent on fentanyl, shores of people devastated and destroyed by the over prescription and irresponsible prescription of that substance,
that the same pharmaceutical companies, I don't know if it's exactly the same, but even if it's in Pfizer, if you trace whoever's behind, whoever it is that ultimately gets the contracts to handle this stuff, You better believe that it will be Pfizer because Pfizer are, by their nature, a conglomerate, aren't they?
It's not like Pfizer just buys up a bunch of stuff and accumulates more and more projects and utilities.
And that's, you know, I guess how capitalism works more generally.
All right, let's have a little look at the minute at the moment where they're in there signing it and sort of reflect on what this means in this moment of mad crisis.
I think it's significant.
The reason I think it's significant is what is addiction?
Addiction is pain.
What is psychedelics?
Psychedelics is the revelation that there is no objective consciousness, that it's Altering and changing around you all the time.
What does it mean when you place that technology, those methods in the hands of some of the most insidious interests on the planet?
It just shows you what the trend and tendency is.
It's like forgetting the miracles, it's like forgetting that you'd already seen him walk on water.
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It's also, I don't know, man, like a feel sort of eye catching.
It's eye catching politics.
What do you think about it, Dave?
I have a lot of thoughts on it.
Just because, so I have two sides from it.
The recovery side is, I wasn't as big of a fan because, I mean, just my experience around it.
And, Most people's experiences around it.
I mean, guys that really work the 12 steps or get involved in church or community like that, and they really address it daily, like they didn't say you don't need it.
And I saw a lot of guys that would go do ayahuasca or Ibogaine.
They'd be on a high for about a month and then they'd go and they'd start relapsing.
It's because they never really addressed the root.
And they thought it was, you know, I mean, those drugs are pretty, pretty incredible how they can have consistent experiences with everyone that does it.
But then I have the other side, which I've seen a lot of veterans from our podcast do it and it helps them break through.
It's not the solution, but it, I think it is, it can be like an initiator to help them kind of break through some emotional stuff that they've been holding, especially with veterans that have spent years in deployments.
Not all veterans, but like we do a lot of special ops guys.
And so they've spent years in like direct action deployments.
And so for them, they've been told stuff you're feeling, stuff you're feeling, stuff you're feeling like.
And then now they're out and it's like, you got to address it, you got to process it, you know.
And so.
They're suicidal.
They don't know why.
And for them to go out there and do that, I'm excited about that part that they can go and do it here in the United States.
I am excited about that.
I'm not excited about if Pfizer or big pharmaceutical companies get involved with it and start monetizing on it.
I'm not excited about that.
It's going to be interesting.
I don't even know how they like it.
It's very like, I mean, a lot of them have like shamans that do it in other countries.
I wonder how they'll.
Administer it here, and they have to like some of them.
They have counselors there that walk them through what they're experiencing.
Some of it is not fun, some of it is like taking you to the deepest fears.
I think the reason that I've I'm having a strong but somewhat incoherent reaction to it is because it's the coming together of so many unusual and disparate trends and categories, politics, power.
Money, and then the raw material of life itself.
And actually, this is probably a word that I can't go much longer without saying sacredness, to your point about shamans.
When in scripture transcendent states are discussed, and there are some interesting references to it, like obviously any prophecy is by its nature a transcendent state.
Think of Isaiah 6 when he encounters God, he's been elevated and lifted up.
Think of some of the scenes from Daniel.
And from the Apostle John's revelation, there are explicit references to them eating scrolls.
And when our Lord returns, he breathes into the disciples, and suddenly they are able to see scripture in a new way.
Increasingly, when we say the evil one is in charge of this world, it must mean that real power is controlled by dark forces.
Think about all of the stories you're seeing, whether it's Pizzagate, paedophile rings, this endless war, doesn't matter who's prime minister or president, you're still going to have these wars, this kind of inclination towards destruction and anti life ideas.
And I suppose it sort of seems to me like the anti Christing of something that those, and it is good, like if those veterans can simply get treatment in the United States that they would otherwise have had to have traveled for, of course that's positive.
But when you're dealing with, as we all are, What is reality?
What is real power?
Where is this coming from?
Where would you meet Christ?
What is God?
I was this morning teaching my kids the word consciousness, and it's like to teach seven year olds and a nine year old consciousness is awareness.
It's the experience of being you, it's your personal experience of life.
I'm trying to teach them these ideas and concepts, and I'm telling them you can meet Christ yourself.
You don't need a church or any brokerage or mediator.
You don't actually even need me.
When it comes to the truly primal, the truly sacred, your indirect interface with God, you are at one with Him.
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You're in His throne room right now.
The Maharishi who taught the Beatles meditation and that moment where the Beatles started playing sittars and everything, he famously said of psychedelics psychedelics is kicking down the doors of heaven.
It's kicking down the doors of heaven.
That we get access to grace, to righteousness, right orientation with the one true divine power.
And if you sort of Do that in an urgent way.
Man, I just remember the psychedelics were never what I wanted them to be.
Like, it was never powerful enough.
It was never profound enough.
It was never vivid enough.
It was never lurid enough.
And I've got, like, such an appetite.
From a straight up addiction perspective, I reckon it could be used as a kind of, whoa, that was a transition.
That was a bloody jolt.
Like, if you took psychedelics in the correct conditions and then were put into a prep.
But, you know, you've got to radically change your life tonight.
Because what I don't think it's fully acknowledging is the role of worship.
We worship the world.
We worship our identities.
We worship our attachments.
We're in this constant worship and sort of seeing, you know, credible people that I like in the Oval Office sanctioning it.
In one way, it's extraordinary progress.
In another way, it's a story that I've been kind of watching unfurl and unfold for a long, long while.
I want to tell everybody how this happened.
I sent President Trump some information.
We have a gigantic opiate problem in this country, obviously.
In 2024, more than 80,000 people died of overdoses.
It's a horrible number.
And there are more than 5 million people that are addicted to opiates right now in this country.
With one dose of Ibogaine, more than 80% of people are free of that addiction.
With two doses, it's more than 90%.
I sent him that information.
The text message came back sounds great.
Do you want FDA approval?
Let's do it.
It was literally that quick.
These drugs are illegal not because they're harmful, they're illegal because of the 1970 Controlled Substances Act that was passed.
By the Richard Nixon administration.
They did it to target the civil rights movement and the anti war movement.
It's not because these drugs harm people.
And for 56 years, we've lived under those terrible conditions.
We're free of that now.
We're free of that now, thanks to all these people that you see next to me, and thanks to President Trump.
If you're a drug addict in recovery, there really aren't any shortcuts.
I suppose there could be jolts.
There could be a sort of a sudden instruction or aiding or assistance.
But really, to live a religious or spiritual life is a constant process.
Shamanism, I'm fascinated with because shamanism is the sort of temporary personal wielding of God's power.
I used to really live for that kind of crazy stuff, that I could be the direct interface between the divinity and other people.
The Christian message is a really different one.
The idea that you can have some earthed, grounded, personal connection to God in the moment that helps you live here in your brokenness and the world's brokenness.
And still, it has a sort of a component to it that's truly mysterious and otherworldly is, in a way, what I've been looking for my whole and entire life.
I wonder what this is going to bring about.
I do suppose, Dave, when you said that thing about veterans, It's good that people can get that.
I just feel that there's some kind of dreadful irony in the same way that COVID showed us that people that are responsible for generating crisis will also benefit from the resolution to that crisis.
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And that seems to be the way that this Luciferian system functions and operates.
But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.
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These are peculiar times in politics, indeed, with both sides of the argument claiming the leaders of their opponents are anti Christ like figures.
Mamdani must be loved by many New Yorkers because he's been relatively recently elected mayor and, like Trump, is governing.
In the manner that he was elected to with a significant mandate.
Some of his policies have been ridiculed and mocked, but what's it like for actual New Yorkers?
And whether you like Ma'am Darney or not, you'd have to agree that he understands how to use media effectively, and any politician of any ideological persuasion must learn those skills pretty instantly.
Here he is saying that he will tax the rich, but that is what he was elected to do.
Let's have a look.
When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich.
Well, today, we're taxing the rich.
I'm thrilled to announce we've secured a pied-a-terre tax.
The first in New York's history.
This is an annual fee on luxury properties worth more than $5 million, whose owners do not live full time in the city.
Like for this penthouse, which hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin bought for $238 million.
This peer to peer tax is specifically designed for the richest of the rich, those who store their wealth in New York City real estate, but who don't actually live there.
But even so, they're able to reap the huge financial rewards of owning property in, dare I say, the greatest city in the world.
And most of the time, these units are sitting empty, since again, They don't actually live here.
This is a fundamentally unfair system that hurts working New Yorkers.
Now, it's coming to an end.
This tax will raise at least $500 million directly for the city.
It'll help fund things like free childcare, cleaner streets, and safer neighborhoods.
As mayor, I believe everyone has a role to play in contributing to our city, and some a little bit more than others.
Happy Tax Day, New York.
I actually think that's pretty good.
I mean, if you are just investing in real estate in New York and you don't really live there, one off taxes against extremely rich individuals to support New York as a city seems like a great idea, even though no one likes paying confiscatory tax ever, ever.
And all of it's confiscatory, isn't it?
I mean, none of it's really voluntary.
But, Dave, have you got a different perspective on that?
Does that sort of affect you as a kind of self made man type guy?
I don't know.
I.
So he's saying that they're not primary residents.
So they're actually not using any resources or using less resources, maybe, if they're not primary residents there.
I mean, I don't like tax in general.
So I may not be the best person to ask on it, but I don't know.
They have to get it somewhere.
Like, I mean, they're probably way above their budget.
And so it's an interesting bit of media that he just comes right out and says, I'm outside the house, names the person.
It's a different type of politics.
They're tapping on the glass.
He's an anti Trump figure for sure.
And it's interesting how much the narratives of politics drive us rather than the pragmatism.
Like, isn't the entire migration issue, for example, an emotive one?
I wonder if we were capable of such a thing as blunt rationalism, real rationalism, what we would mutually determine as the correct course to solve some of our social problems.
Like, it just seems like one party has as their enemy migrants.
The poor.
Another set of political interests is the rich.
And gosh, from my background, it's a lot easier to sort of target the rich mentally.
It's a lot easier to sort of go, yeah, if someone's living in New York, own some massive apartment.
Because I reckon if you looked at that at scale, in a city like London, there'll be loads of Russian, Ukrainian, Saudi, Israeli money tied up in property, then a homeless crisis in the same city, and then ordinary people not able to afford rent and able to live in a city.
It's very interesting because, on one hand, I'm really, really.
Against government intervention.
I really intensely dislike government intervention.
I don't agree with the concept that the government should be moral arbiters.
I kind of detest it and I loathe it.
But how do you restore equanimity or fairness or justice to a city like New York?
I suppose the only principle when it comes to politics we can lean into is democracy.
If people vote for something, and with Mamdani, people voted for that.
That's what people wanted.
Some of the other Policies that were pre-eye-catching was like a city-run grocery store.
Let's have a look at that.
A lot of people are saying that it's pretty implausible, impractical, and even expensive.
We will use government to respond to rising prices and unaffordable groceries.
Since the pandemic, grocery prices have gone up and they haven't come back down.
Between 2013 and 2023, grocery prices increased in New York City by nearly 66%, significantly higher than the national average.
During our campaign, we promised New Yorkers that we would create a network of city owned grocery stores, one in each borough.
And we are here today to celebrate the site of the Manhattan store, La Maqueta, which will be open by 2029.
A solution to your skyrocketing grocery bill is hidden in plain sight.
This may look like a traditional food hall.
It's about to be a lot more.
We're here at La Marqueta, which will soon be home to one of the five city run grocery stores across New York City.
Today, New York City Mayor Zorhan Mamdani is announcing the first of five sites for his administration's city owned grocery stores.
The food hall you see today is going to remain, but it'll be expanded into a neighboring empty lot, which will be turned into a publicly run supermarket.
How is this store going to run?
So, the city will contract a private vendor that will run these grocery stores.
As part of that contract, they will be required to pay.
Union standards to their workers.
That's not a suggestion, it is a requirement.
Also, another requirement as part of the contract will be to pass on any subsidy directly to consumers in the form of savings.
There will be a basket of goods, essential items that New Yorkers buy from their supermarkets that these supermarkets will sell at reduced price.
The other part is that this is a location that is accessible whether you're walking, whether you're biking, whether you're taking the train, whether you're taking the bus, whether you're driving.
It is within reach of so many, even beyond those who call this neighborhood their home.
How'd you pick this site to be the first that you're announcing?
This is a site that is rich in its history, an illustration of a vision of government that would actually meet the needs of working class New Yorkers.
The history of La Marqueta begins in 1936 when Fiorel LaGuardia opened what was then known as the Park Avenue Retail Market.
And the goal of that was to bring food vendors into one place to provide safe and cheaper sale of this food.
Over the decades, the Park Avenue market became integral to the life of East Harlem.
As the Puerto Rican community became established here, the market was renamed La Marqueta.
The city sold it to a private owner in the 1960s, but took it back in the 1990s.
Now, Momdani wants to expand La Marqueta to realize its full potential.
Why is it such a priority for your administration?
It's a priority because when you ask New Yorkers about the cost of living crisis, they will invariably bring up grocery prices again and again as one of the examples of how they're feeling pushed out of this city.
And we see that in the pandemic, prices went up, and since then, they really have never come down for so many New Yorkers.
We want it to be clear that in this city, Food is something that should never be out of reach for any person who calls at home.
And this is one step towards exactly that.
65,000 people live within a 10 minute walk of this space.
And of them, close to 40% are on public assistance.
And we have 5,000 NYCHA residents living on either side of Park Avenue, every one of whom has been feeling the cost of living crisis in this city.
This is the way that we start to deliver cheaper groceries to New Yorkers.
This store will open by the end of our first term, as will every one of the five city-run grocery stores across New York City.
One will be in each borough, and the first one will open by the end of next year.
An elected official keeping a campaign promise.
Don't even know how to feel about that.
Well, again, people voted for it.
It's interesting to see the radical rise of populism.
Populism meaning that people are more willing to vote emotively, that politics becomes more tribalised.
Myself, as you know, what I believe is that it should be stripped of ideology and it should become purely perfunctory, just data, that it should become completely boring.
This is your borough.
This is its budget.
What do you want done here?
What do you want done there?
You know, we don't think straight.
When we're emotional, we don't make good choices.
In a way, I think it's laudable that the United States of America can have a president like Trump and a mayor of New York City like Mamdani.
In a sense, that's a demonstration of actual democracy, that people can steer these candidates.
But in a way, none of it's radical enough because, in truth, figurehead politicians will always fail.
It will always treat politics and, more importantly, politics, the running of your community as a kind of sport, a combat sport at that, when, in a sense, it is just managerial and operations.
Your ideologies, if there's If they're worthy of it, idea, specifically ideas, the idea that something could be ideal, perfect, untainted, pure, that that can operate on this plane is in itself a kind of a really complex notion, isn't it?
Really, what we're supposed to be doing down here, and even if you're just trying to run a family, you recognize how many sort of competing interests there are and how much conflict there is.
The only principle that could possibly work is minimize intervention and minimize the distance between the decision making process and the people affected by those decisions.
In a way, City run states.
That was how the world was for a long while.
Before that, small tribes, hundreds of people.
The idea that you need nations of 300 million or 400 million people or 1.5 billion people is a pretty modern idea and not one that seems to be working particularly well.
I'm going to be in New York.
I'm probably in New York right now.
As a matter of fact, I mean, you know, this is pre taped.
I'm not self subdividing or projecting myself astrally into new terrains, although probably that's the next thing, based on what I'm watching around Ibergaine and what it's doing to my consciousness.
Not even taking the stuff.
Anyway, my point is this, that, um I don't think you can solve a problem like New York or a problem like America or a problem like London without acknowledging where technology is these days and where the culture is these days.
The culture is becoming fragmented, toxic, nothing but an ongoing, endless argument.
And if you don't diffuse that by allowing people the power and dignity to run their own lives, you're just going to have an endless cycle of like the next mayor of New York will be a really right wing guy.
The next president of America will be a left wing kind of guy or socially conscientious guy.
There's no real left wing anymore in American politics.
Don't think any of these things are going to give us a solution though, but here are Mamdani and Barack Obama.
Reducing it to a fairy tale, which is perhaps the level we need to confess at in these complex times.
We are fine.
Alone, we're fine.
Alone and together, we are at our best.
Who wants to be at their best?
I don't actually think they did a very good job of holding the room there, really, given that's the mayor of New York and Barack Obama.
Those kids weren't actually that focused, were they?
They were losing interest while it was actually happening.
I actually quite like Mamdani because I like his authenticity.
I like that he's overt about his beliefs and his principles.
And in all the countless ways that I would disagree with him, I admire him yet more because he's actually getting on and making a difference in this crazy world.
But will he freeze New York City rents before 2027?
Dave, you know I need you to interpret these things.
What does that mean?
14% chance.
That's what you need to look at.
Yeah, it's not looking good.
No, he's not going to be able to because he'll face kind of resistance when he sort of tries to implement that stuff.
What about this, though?
Will Keir Starmer be out by.
Oh, look, people are saying, well, I can understand this one.
By the end of the year, most people think, yeah?
Yeah, most people are tending towards the end of the year.
People see like time as a big cake and they think they want a bigger bit of cake time for Keir Starmer to go out in.
Like, see, April the 30th, you've got barely any cake before there.
Now, have I understood the concept of time and of polymarkets?
Somewhat, yeah.
It's times like a cake.
It's cake time.
I get it.
I get it now.
One person you can certainly rely on when it comes to Barack Obama is his former VP and former president of your country, the great and decaying in real time and in real life, Joe Biden.
Here's Joe Biden.
Well, I mean, just let's.
This will make you realize that wherever you stand politically, you kind of miss Joe Biden.
I'm going to turn around to one guy and say, Barack, what are you doing?
Come here.
I feel like he should be standing on the right and I should be standing on the left.
Hey, did you just look at Barack?
Anyway.
As they say, you've done good.
Well, you know what, try.
Joe Biden Coherence00:04:00
Ah, that makes me like him a little bit more.
I mean, you know, when you see someone that's three months pregnant, like early pregnancy, and you've got to roll the dice on congratulations.
You're taking a real risk if you're going to say in a public forum as a white person, you look like this specific black person.
There better be like a real good hook.
Otherwise, Joe, you know, this is a problem.
This is a problem for your constituency and your audience more generally.
Even to get him to, like, come over here, boy.
Come on.
I said, now get.
Now cut me down and switch.
Get on over here.
Oh, dear.
Old Joe Biden.
I miss him.
I miss that guy.
He's getting old, that Joe.
How old is Joe Biden?
Well, I think, in a sense, he was showing more coherence than when he was running your country.
That was a.
It was really interesting to watch that particular train come off the tracks.
City, the financial capital of the world, Mayor Mamdani already backtracking on key campaign promises like ending sweeps and homeless camps.
While pausing his plan for free buses, city owned grocery stores, and rent freeze.
Meanwhile, on the opposite coast in Seattle, the city is seeing the highest inflation rate of any major metro region in America after losing nearly 13,000 jobs last year alone.
Taylor Riggs is co host of the Big Money Show on Fox Business, and she joins us now.
I have no free buses.
I'm going home.
How dare you?
You promise.
How great is it that he found out that free buses cost money?
Well, so that's the thing.
Nothing is free, as we know.
They're just getting all of us to pay for it.
More than half of us, I'm sure, are all paying 50% taxes.
So I think here's the thing.
And Emily, I know that you've looked at the actual polls on how people are viewing him, but there have been a few wins.
There's about 2,000 kids who are enrolled in that free, everyone else is paying for it, two's program as part of the universal child care program.
And so I think he's sort of touting those along with the big celebrities that he's bringing in.
As early wins, and it's only been 100 days.
That being said, as you mentioned, there have been some losses that may be also impacting the way people are actually really feeling about him, and that's showing up in the poll numbers.
We talked about the free buses.
We talked about really the fight with Kathy Hochul and saying, if you don't raise that millionaire's tax, guess what?
I'm raising property taxes on everyone.
So that's sort of like a big fight that so far we haven't quite seen play out, and we'll have to see how that goes.
She's up for reelection as well.
So, look, I think it's a push pull.
I think we could talk about picks and shovels.
When it snows, you pick up the snow.
Sounds great, except that all the homeless people are dying because it was negative 10 degrees outside and he refuses to get them help and put them in shelter.
So I think he'll tout for every sort of win.
All right.
Well, there you have it.
So, America, part of America's greatness is it appears to be able to accommodate at least a superficially varied and diverse set of political ideas and political figures.
But real change will happen internally within you when you embrace the possibility that even without psychedelics, you can know God.
What could be more holy, peculiar?
Sacred and transcendent than that?
And that political systems should be about management of resources, and that you want to prevent, wherever possible, the intervention of corrupt and disruptive agencies.
That could be lobbyists, that could be donors, that could be bureaucracies, that could be politicians themselves.
What I'm saying, in short, is, get politicians out of politics.
Create genuine democracies where the participants in systems run the systems that they participate in.
Radical change is possible.
Radical change, in fact, Is the only option we have left.
But that's just what I think.
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