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June 23, 2025 - Viva & Barnes
01:09:09
Special Guest to Comment With Boots on the Ground to Discuss the State of the World!
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Of nature that animals with flashy colors and dangerous-looking allure do so to warn other people that they are, in fact, dangerous animals.
Son of a beasting, I cannot bring up.
I can't find the window where my...
The opening window is supposed to be.
Did I close it?
Oh, for goodness sake, hold on one second.
I screwed this up.
I need to bring up the window and I don't know where it went.
Okay, let's get back to the British voice of Viva Fry, talking about how some animals ensure that they are known to be toxic and dangerous to other men through the color of their clothing.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I want to thank you and member Meng for holding this budget hearing.
And also want to say a thank you to our witness, Attorney General Bondi, for appearing before the subcommittee today.
Welcome to the House of Representatives.
A well-functioning, well-funded, well-led Department of Justice is critical to the safety and the security of the American people.
And the Department of Justice's employees are dedicated public servants who work diligently and often in dangerous settings to keep criminals off the streets.
But unfortunately, the Department of Justice under your leadership has become a tool of political retaliation and the front door for criminals seeking to curry favors and pardons.
As I told Director Patel last month, pressure from the White House to investigate the President's opponents or to quash investigations of his allies threaten the Department's credibility and the very foundations and the foundation on which this nation stands, and that is the rule of law.
It gets better of the law.
It gets better of a masterclass of confession through projection.
Listen to this.
Must shield the rule of law from political pressure, not act as an instrument for implementing the president's political hit list.
Attorney General Bondi, the Department of Justice, is not the president's personal law firm.
Loyalty or disloyalty toward the president or even the president's agenda is not a valid measure of the performance of your employees nor of the appropriateness of a particular criminal investigation.
President Trump is more focused on revenge, retaliation, and retribution rather than lowering high price for everyday essentials.
And the American people are bearing those costs.
The American people expected President Trump to address the high cost of living, but the president is not laser focused on the cost of living crisis.
He is actually making it worse.
Instead, he put billionaires like Elon Musk in charge of our government.
And they are attacking civil servants who are not loyal to him, but to the Constitution and to the rule of law.
And they are stealing programs, the funding for the programs that keep America's community safe.
You know, the amazing thing is I asked Grok, who is the psychotic purple-haired freak with plastic glasses in Congress, and it gave me her name, Rosa de la Horo, is a lunatic.
And if you listen to that and you want a master class in confession through projection, you just need to listen to Democrats talk.
It's mind-boggling how pathologically lacking insight they are when they make accusations of others.
And yes, I'm insightful enough to reflect when I make that accusation of others.
The first thing I ask, if I say this, what is someone going to say about me in terms of my accusation of others?
Okay, I wanted to start off with something lighthearted, people, because we're going to get into an interesting discussion today.
I was not teasing the special guest to be aloof or mysterious.
I just am pathologically neurotic and wasn't sure that I could confirm who the guest was going to be until she came on.
You've seen her before.
She's been on the channel many, many times before, more often talking about COVID-related stuff than national, international geopolitics and what is going on in the world today.
Jessica Rose, PhD, computational biologist is coming on as soon as she disables, enables her camera and enables her microphone.
Jess, I'm so neurotic.
I didn't want to confirm because I didn't know what I could confirm, what I couldn't in terms of where you were.
Why?
For different reasons.
You tweeted out the other day things that make me nervous because you're in an area.
Okay, tell everybody where you are, what the hell's going on, because maybe, first of all, who are you for those who haven't seen you the 10 other times you've been on the channel?
Yeah, this is like a nice repeat performance.
So yeah, you got my title right.
All right.
Computational biologist.
Yeah, I'm a scientist, researcher, Canadian freedom fighter, I suppose.
I do appreciate a bit of freedom here and there.
Yeah, and I'm currently in a war zone.
So we're going to talk a little bit about the experiences.
Oots on the ground.
Now, we've got a member of our locals community, Tsvi Hansis, who I know very well.
And she actually got me to interview Gaddy Taub or got the interview to happen, pressured me, and it happened.
What are you doing in Israel?
Where did she eat last?
Okay, that's a random question.
But tell people what you are doing in Israel and what is going on there for those who may not understand what it's like to be living, set aside all questions of blame, living under circumstances where you could be summoned to run into a bunker at any point of the day.
Yeah, it's hard to know where to start.
Well, I'm here because of studying.
I mean, I came to do my PhD.
And yeah, it's a very intriguing place.
It's beautiful, too.
I mean, for anyone who hasn't seen it, it's definitely worth coming.
Probably not now.
But yeah, it's An enchanting place and it's rich with history.
And yeah, there's all sorts of beautiful things to see around the country and outside of its borders, etc.
So yeah, it just so happens that I'm not supposed to be here actually.
I was supposed to be in Prague, but my flights were canceled because they closed the airspace.
So I don't know if everyone remembers during COVID, there were like airport closures.
I think that was like a global thing, was it not?
I remember.
Yeah, I remember that.
Well, I remember early on there was, well, there was, never, I won't even say it, but there was an incident with, I think it was an Iranian flight, actually.
Was it the Iranian flight that was downed?
Oh, that was downed by a ground-to-air missile, something around, had to do with, for goodness sake, I'll have to go look it up.
I remember it happened.
Okay, but sorry.
So, no, but you are trying to, you were trying to, you were trying to get somewhere for the, for the Bitcoin conference.
Yeah, yeah.
I was selected to be keynote speaker at Bitcoin Prague.
Don't ask me how that happened.
I had this killer presentation ready.
I'm laughing about it now, but I'm never going to get over it.
I worked for months, really, because this is not my field.
And part of my presentation was telling the Bitcoin audience why it was important for me as a Bitcoin neophyte to be speaking about it.
Because I'm an educator, basically, in science.
So I have a high aptitude for learning, even though I'm not the smartest person in the world.
I work really hard.
And I really understand the Bitcoin blockchain ecosystem now and how we can decentralize data, healthcare data specifically, using this ecosystem.
So I was going to speak about that.
And my ticket, if I had just booked it four days earlier, I would have made it.
I'd still be there now in Prague because they have still, they're keeping the airspace closed for who knows how long.
But all the flights were canceled out of the country.
And yeah, it's just, it's understandable because there are literally missiles, like ballistic missiles in the air all the time.
And you don't really know when because they don't have a schedule that they tell us about.
So it's surreal.
I mean, I've seen many wars here.
I've been here for a while.
And it's not like the previous ones.
This is very different.
The milieu is much more unpredictable.
It's much more globally involved, as everyone probably understands.
It's like, I'm seeing a lot of people on social media saying, we don't want to be involved, but it's like everyone's involved, man.
When you're talking about nuclear shit, everyone's involved.
So, yeah.
Yeah, that's the basics of why I'm experiencing this now.
Now, I've never asked you these questions because it's actually never even dawned on me to ask you, but someone humorously, sarcastically, or sassily said, let me guess, Viva, you found a Jew in Israel who hates Trump and Netanyahu and thinks we should capitulate to the Muslims.
I don't know if that was a joke, but I don't even know what your political leanings are or how you even view Netanyahu as a prime minister.
Jeez, everything's brain farting today.
As a prime minister.
He's the prime minister.
So can I dare ask?
It's an invasive question, but do you view Netanyahu favorably or disfavorably, or do you plead the fifth?
I don't know him.
I haven't met him.
And I'm not trying to avoid answering the question.
It's just this is really who I am and how I am.
Like until I speak to someone face to face, I really can't make an assessment.
Having said that, since this thing happened with America, like dropping some bombs on the nuclear facilities, allegedly, let's just say the ratings, the favorable ratings for Netanyahu have increased in Israel.
So it's always been about like, it seems to me it's about 50-50, like 50% really can't stand him, 50% really like him.
And that's shifted more toward the like column.
There's this expression in Israel called that goes rach bibi, which means only bibi.
And I only recently learned like the meaning of this.
Do you know what it means?
I know what the words mean in Hebrew, but that only bibi.
The sentiment behind it.
Have you heard this before?
No, but is it something like he's the only one that can be the savior of sorts?
Or is it only is it negative?
I think it's positive, not negative.
It's positive in a way that the sentiment is this, okay?
And I'm not saying I agree one way or the other.
I just understand it for the first time these days.
There's this sentiment that the actions that he's taking right now for Israel, they're actions that only a certain kind of human being could take successfully.
There's like a certain personality type that comes with doing what he's doing.
And so that's the sentiment behind it.
You know, like I said, I don't know the guy.
I'm not in his mind.
I don't know what he's thinking.
Having said that, it's really tiring to live in a place and constantly be under threat of annihilation at the hands of people who chant death to Israel, death to America.
This is a fact.
I mean, it's not a story.
It's not pretend.
It's real.
Everybody knows about October 7th.
That was just like, that was a really in-your-face example of a really bad version of what's always going on.
Like the people who live in the south of Israel, basically they're always being missiled, like by Hamas.
Always.
Like There's never respite for them.
They get used to it.
You get used to it, which is psychologically very interesting.
I was talking to a couple of people in the bunker today about how the neurochemistry of the people who are constantly under attack must be changing.
And I find that very interesting, myself included.
I'm very self-aware and self-experimental.
So I'm observing myself going through like changes, like the five stages of grief.
I kind of vacillate between them all every day.
So as far as what he did, you know, the original going into Iran, from a, and I'm not a geopolitician, but from a geopolitical point of view,
it's like, I kind of almost get why he thought he had to do that, because he's, I think, again, I'm only like giving my uneducated opinion that he thinks that this might start the end of what's been a constant barrage of attacks on Israel for a long, long, long, long time, basically ever since it came into existence.
So yeah, it's like, I'm so angry about the whole thing.
You have no idea.
I mean, I'm going from raging out to like, you know, every single day because the whole thing to me is like, I want it to end.
Like every second of the day, I want it to end.
And it's not just because I'm being subjected to shit.
It's because it's like you're poking a bee's nest, man.
And I get it.
Sometimes you have to poke a bee's nest for some reason.
But yeah, it's I'd love to hear what you think.
I mean, I'll get to that in a second.
I'm not sure that anybody wants to hear what I think anymore, but that's water people.
That's not white wine, as far as I know.
It would be red wine, but yeah, it's water.
Now, the question is, go back to October 6th, or before October 7. And I don't know how much attention you were paying to national politics at the time.
The word, at least out west, is that before October 7, there was massive internal strife within Israel, a lot of discontent with Netanyahu.
And I don't know, I mean, I wasn't paying much attention to Israeli politics before October 7th.
I mean, how familiar are you with what was going on before October 7 and whether or not Netanyahu was really in political dire straits?
Well, he was.
I mean, he's gone through this whole court thing.
And like I said, it's like, from what I hear, I don't pay attention to politics because I hate it.
I hate the whole thing.
I'd rather not know anything about it and just live.
But that's impossible.
So it's about 50-50.
50% of people are like super strong supporters of what he's about, which, you know, equates to, I guess, keeping Israel in existence.
Some people would debate that.
And, you know, 50% think he's, I guess, a war hawk.
But I mean, again, it's like I've never met the guy.
I haven't paid too much attention either before or after.
And I mean.
Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, I'm having a brain freaking.
Well, no, but let me stop you there and ask you.
Then we'll fast forward now.
So October 7 happens.
Then there's been the whole retaliatory, not retaliatory, but there's been the response, the Israeli response to that.
Sentiment or public support in Israel for what's going on?
I noticed someone in the chat said if you're in Tel Aviv, support for BB is maybe less than if you get outside.
And maybe it's the exact same dynamic.
You know, like, I don't know, the more liberal progressive cities, even in Israel, don't like Netanyahu, but the rest of Israel does.
What's the population sentiment to what's going on in Gaza since October 7?
And then we'll get into the latest strikes.
Are people approving of what's going on, of Israel's response?
More so than not.
That's all I can say, because I really, like, listen, I don't have conversations about him or about what's really going on geopolitically with people.
I really, like when I'm in the bunker, like I said, I have conversations about stuff that I usually have conversations with people about.
I vibe them out, you know, I try and get a feel for how they're feeling.
But to be honest with you, everyone's just, they're not really interested in talking about politics right now.
They're really just interested in getting through this, like literally surviving.
Because, and I'm not being dramatic here, like you never really know every time the sirens go.
And it's like two or three times a day at night.
It's like, there's no breaks.
It's like every three hours.
Like if that's going to be the one that kind of affects your life in a direct way.
So it's like, I'm not sure I'm conveying what I'm trying to say properly, but it's like the difference between sitting on the high chair and having control over what's happening and being, you know, in the direct line of fire and just trying to avoid being hit by a bullet.
Does that make sense?
Well, it does.
I mean, for people who don't have the feelings of catastrophizing thoughts, like something exploding at any second, might not be able to relate unless they've actually gone through it.
But so explain how it works.
You're in wherever you live.
Sirens start going off.
It would happen while we're alive.
I'm not kidding.
I know.
It may not happen, but so like is there a communal bunker per living unit?
Like, how does it work?
And when the sirens go off, is it because there's proximity, or whenever there's any lobbing or loft of rockets, sirens go off everywhere across Israel?
No, so it's very localized.
So, the weird thing, the different thing I will say, not weird, the different thing about this, I don't want to call it a war because it's not a war yet, and I don't want to use that word.
I hate war.
I want nothing to do with it.
I'll say conflict.
Difference between this one and the previous ones is that the ballistic missiles are being lobbed over in large, large, large numbers to cover the entire country.
That's crazy.
I know Israel is small, but they're very good.
They've been very good at keeping it inside our borders, except for today.
Do you know that they sent over some missiles to Qatar?
Did you hear that?
No, I didn't.
Yeah, Iranian missiles were aimed at U.S. military bases.
Oh, no, sorry.
I did hear it.
And the news of the day is that they didn't reach any destinations, no damage, no injuries.
But yeah, I did hear that.
That was a breaking early heart.
It was Bizarro World.
Anyway, so there's a new thing that happens in this conflict.
This is my phone.
So there's this emergency signal.
And the first time I heard it, it was like three in the morning.
And I was like, what the is going on?
It was the most horrendous sound.
It's always the most horrendous sound you can imagine.
So it's coming out of my phone.
And I'm like, what is going on here?
So I look at it and there's this message written in Hebrew.
And my Hebrew is not so good.
But it didn't look good, right?
Because I had these big red exclamation points.
So I'm like, oh shit, what's this?
And then about a minute after that, it's all timed.
There may or may not be sirens depending on proximity.
So I have a strategy now because I'll just run you through a normal one and then I'll tell you what I've been doing.
So you get the sirens and sometimes you get simultaneous air raid sirens, which are different sounding ones.
They're more horrific to me.
I don't know why.
And that means head to your bunker.
So if you're living in a new building, they're all built with the bunkers internal to each apartment.
So each apartment, separate apartment, has a bomb shelter and they're very effective.
They're reinforced concrete and they have like the locking door and reinforced window.
I live in an old building now by circumstance.
And so we have this, it's like a reinforced concrete garage above ground and it doesn't really have a door.
That's why I'm laughing, but no, I mean, look, and not to put even another thought of doom in your head, but reinforced concrete above ground.
Direct hits, there's nothing that's going to do that.
If something even came close to impacting near us, it wouldn't help us.
It's more about shrapnel.
Like, there's two things that can happen to you.
And these, I don't know if you guys know anything about ballistic missiles, but they're very, very, very large.
And so I'll finish the story so people understand.
So this iron dome thing that you might have heard about, it's this anti-missile system, which is kind of ingenious.
I mean, we wouldn't exist without it.
And they're mobile.
So they can move them from place to place in Israel.
They're horrendously expensive to upkeep and to replace the missiles.
Every single time they shoot one up to intercept, it's like a lot of money.
And so depending on how close or the anticipated target of the missile is, what I think they're having to do now, because of the numbers of missiles coming in, is make a judgment call as to which ones are going to hit like serious targets, like say refineries or hospitals or really packed residential areas.
And they will aim to intercept those.
They can't get them all because there are too many being lobbed over.
That's why we've had so many touchdowns in Haifa.
So I have one of these anti-aircraft things like near me.
And so you hear the thing from your phone, you hear the sirens wailing.
If they're in your vicinity, you're going to hear them really loud.
Then you're going to immediately hear the anti-aircraft if it's something like really close to you.
And if I hear that, it sounds literally like a rocket's being launched into the air next to your head.
It's very loud.
If you hear that, you got to get under something because when the interception happens, the shrapnel, which is incredibly large bits of missiles, rain down.
And one three-part shrapnel bit fell right in front of my house one time.
So this is real shit.
It's really scary.
Let me ask you because the intrusive thought is coming.
Did you collect any of it?
No, no, you're not allowed to go anywhere near it.
I mean, there's no explosive danger because they're just the encasings.
But the police, they're very quick to be on the scene, to clear people away.
And yeah, it's too big.
I mean, it's like they weigh like a fraction of the weight of a car.
They're very, it's like, I don't know what you call it, the fuse, no.
Of the shrapnel.
I mean, it doesn't break into tiny, tiny pieces.
Like big, big, big, like I can't even put it on the camera.
It's like big shit.
So, and the sound of The booms, man.
Holy cow.
You just, unless you've heard it before, there's no way to describe what it sounds like to hear an explosion like that right over your head.
Like, and that's in the air if it's intercepted.
If it hits the ground, it's even worse.
There's so much force.
Like every time it happens, you feel if you're anywhere near a vent or a window, which you shouldn't be, I used to do that all the time.
You feel the puff of air from the impact really high up in the sky.
You actually feel the windows like you feel the building shake every time.
It's serious shit, man.
Like, and that's just one.
So it's been like that for, I don't know how many days it's been.
It's been over a week.
I'm really tired because, you know, it's...
I mean, whether or not it's on the high end of the likelihood of the spectrum, it's life and death every time the sirens go off and you don't know.
I probably assume so.
Like I said, I used to be a lot more like, like, you know.
But that was, it was different.
This is very, very higher.
It's much higher level now.
Like, there are more.
There's more.
I'm a mathematician and there's just a higher probability because there's more stuff and there's fewer chances that they're all going to be intercepted.
They're going for everywhere at once.
So yeah, you have to assume if you have any sense of self-preservation that it's probably best just to be safe than sorry and at least avoid getting hit by shrapnel.
I mean, like I said, if something hits close by, we're all gunners anyway.
We're seeing, I'm trying to pull up a picture if I can, but we're seeing a bunch of pictures of like, you know, the streaks going across the sky.
Are you able to see any of that or have you seen that from your window?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I have video footage of every single attack, but I hesitate to post them because I don't even know if I'm allowed to do that.
But I'm documenting everything just for myself because I'm an artist and I have this, I don't know, fascination with taking photos and videos of everything.
But yeah, yeah, you see the explosions in the air.
You see all the lines from the rockets going up versus the missiles coming over.
It's pretty wild.
I mean, the birds go crazy right before it happens.
Like the animals are really sensitive to all of this because of the explosions and the changes in air pressure and the impact.
And yeah, it's like it's hard to describe.
I was on a walk the other day.
Sorry.
No, no, please go for it.
I was on a walk the other day because every time we have...
This was before we had our multiple incidents that day, but I like to...
So I was doing that.
I was on my daily stroll in the grass and yeah, I heard somebody else's phone go off who was sitting on a park bench and I was like, is that what I think it is?
And they're like, yeah.
And I'm like, oh, shit.
Because I was like nowhere near a bunker.
And then the sirens started going pretty fast after that.
It's like 30 seconds to a minute.
So I'm like running.
And there's this little tiny concrete box.
They put them like sporadically in green spaces so that you have somewhere to go.
And it was literally like a little garage and it was filled with garbage.
And there were five of us in there.
And it was just, you heard about it.
It was like one, two, three, like three very quick in succession attacks.
And holy shit, was it close?
That's the one where they hit the mosque about four kilometers away from me.
They hit a mosque in Haifa downtown.
I think they either hurt or killed a couple of clerics.
Yeah, it's pretty intense.
Now, some people are going to say, I'm reading the chat.
I mean, it was like, why live there?
And other people are saying this.
Yeah, I know a lot of people say that.
It's hard.
Sorry.
I'm not going, visiting.
And I mean, I had no interest in visiting or living in Israel, even before this.
And mostly because in any country that acted the way they did during COVID is, you know, you don't defect from Canada to go to Israel, which was arguably a little bit more draconian and experimental than Canada.
But then there's other people in the chat saying this is all, you know, I say fine and well, but terrible, but this is Israel's war to be fought with Iran and its neighbors.
What's the sentiment in terms of approval for what Trump is doing?
I mean, I guess it's got to be basically universal across the streets in Israel.
I think that's the, again, I'm not paying attention because I intentionally removed myself from that.
But, you know, I've seen a couple of things and I think that there's probably overwhelming, I would call it relief in a way, just to know.
And I know everybody's not going to agree with me.
I'm just saying what I think.
It feels like support.
It doesn't feel like abandonment.
Like Israel's really tiny, powerful, but tiny.
And as far as calling this a war with Iran, I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know much about Iran, but I've been on a few Twitter spaces with Mario Nafal.
I'm sorry if I mispronounced your name.
And he's allowed me to speak a couple of times about my personal experience.
And it's amazing because they have Iranians in the space as well who either were there in Tehran and they left or they're not living in Iran, but they're Iranian.
And their perspectives are so valuable to hear.
It's overwhelming support against the regime from what they're saying and a lot of support for what Israel is doing.
I hear a lot of support from Iranians for Netanyahu, but it's probably because I'm listening more, you know?
Well, and I have the same experience, but it's probably only because I'm talking to Iranians who have fled Iran and live in Canada or the States and appreciate the freedom and don't appreciate the repression in Iran.
But then, you know, and then I say that, you know, it's not always the same and sometimes it's actually different.
You know, they said the same thing about the people rising up against other countries when there was discussed regime change and then it never happens.
And then all that ends up happening is what we've seen happen for the last 30 years.
But I have heard that, you know, it's Iranians saying that they love Netanyahu and they sort of want to be freed from their regime.
I hear those people saying that.
And then I'm still skeptical of people saying, yeah, I'd love a foreign country to bomb us into freedom.
And so that we can have Israel killing our current oppressive government and thank them for that.
I mean, as much as I hated Justin Trudeau, had China come in, although they didn't have to come in and bomb, but had a foreign adversarial nation or a foreign nation come in and said, we're going to take out Trudeau and the conservatives of Canada are going to love us, even I would be skeptical to that.
But another thing that people don't seem to appreciate, I don't know where you are, I don't really want to know the specific details, but what percentage of neighbors are either Christian or Muslim in Israel at large and where you are, maybe more generally?
So about 20 something percent of the population of Israel is Arab.
So that either includes Muslims or Christians.
I would say most are Christian.
Like my two best friends are both Arabs.
They're Christians.
And that's just, I don't know, just happened to be that way.
But yeah, it's like seeing is believing.
And it's really interesting how what's the word?
It's kind of like a well-oiled machine.
Like, everybody kind of just gets along because everyone...
It's like everyone has the same...
You know, everyone's trying to make, you know, enough money to buy food and everybody's trying to do the thing that they love and everyone's trying to travel every now and then and have a family and all this stuff.
And so there's like a shared goal among everyone, no matter who they are.
Like there are more Russians here where I live than Israelis.
It's wild.
I mean, there are tens of thousands of Americans and Canadians living here.
There are like every ethnicity you can imagine lives here.
And as for religious stuff, yeah, there's lots of Muslims.
There are many, many Muslim towns.
Some of them are like my favorite places to go because they have amazing food.
Let me ask it.
Let me ask you.
It's either a stupid question or, you know, people can judge me for the question.
Muslim towns, safe for religious Jews to walk through?
I wouldn't, because I think that would kind of be...
Yeah, exactly.
And I don't know if I'm allowed to say that, but yeah, in a way.
Someone in the chat said you're not Jewish.
I don't know if I've ever asked you because I've never, that's not a question I ask.
I'm not.
So it's not Jessica Rose is in short for Rosenstein or Rosenberg.
Bada bing, but a boom.
I've been holding on to that one for however long we've known each other.
I don't think I've ever asked you that.
Rose is in the flower.
Okay.
Okay, and so the interesting thing is...
You guys haven't figured that out by now.
I'm just weird.
Hold on one second.
Whatever you just said before, that was all blurred out.
Say it again.
I said, for anyone who knows anything about me, they know that I'm just a weird chick.
I don't think most non-Jewish women are going to move to Israel for whatever the reason.
By themselves.
I'm not prying more than I can pry.
The question was this then.
Every time these sirens go off, and this is what people don't seem to understand about the randomness and the insidiousness of what Iran is doing, set aside however you feel about it.
And I swear to you, I can't really not be more on the fence.
Nobody wants Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
And if that were the only question, did they take it out and should they take it out?
It's a different question.
The question is, nobody wants Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
And then the question is how you go about preventing that and whether or not this makes it more or less likely now that you have Russian officials saying that they're going to supply nukes to Iran.
Set that aside, people don't seem to understand that when Iran, and even when to some extent, you know, occupied territories, terrorists from Gaza or the West Bank come in and blow themselves up or whatever, there's 20% Arab or Muslim or Christian.
When Iran is lobbying bombs in there, like you say, they hit a mosque.
They can just as easily kill one out of five who happen to be Muslim.
And there's that level of wanton disregard for human life.
The only question remains how you deal with it.
But so to some extent right now, in as much as you've had these discussions or not, Do Muslims in Israel blame the Jews in Israel for what's happening with Iran, or do they blame Iran?
I don't know if it's about blame.
Everyone's pretty aware of, like, situationally aware, like, if they're living here, like, and again, I don't know.
Everyone has their own opinions and thoughts on this stuff.
And some people are really that way, and some people are really that way.
It's all normal.
You know, there's always a split.
But like, as far as blame goes, I don't know if I would call it that.
I think that I will go, I will say this.
I think that they're grateful to have the ability to be safe when being barraged by ballistic missiles by a powerful country like Iran.
And, you know, whomever is responsible for that, they are probably very grateful for.
And yeah, I mean, I'm pretty pissed, you know, from a personal point of view, because I didn't do anything to anyone.
And I never would.
I don't deserve to be being bombed.
From the chat chest, just by merely contributing to the Israeli economy, you are a part of the problem, the global problem.
By being in a country, you are indirectly supporting APAC and all of their interference in American politics.
I'm in America.
I always make the joke that two groups of people never let you forget that you're Jewish, Jews and anti-Semites.
And so, despite that, I initially never talked about it, but it's become something you can't ignore and people want to know if you're Jewish so they can discredit whatever you have to say on a subject.
Say it again.
I'm a Christian.
I was baptized and all that.
I'm in the States, and I very much appreciate, as terrible as it is there.
And I mean, I've known you for a while, and I can tell when you're not distraught, but distressed.
And when you talk about rewiring the brain, and you know that my wife is a neuroscientist, and we talk about, like, I always ask her, is it, you know, a baby being born in the belly of a woman who's going through stress?
Like, I think that when you talk about generational stress, there's absolutely something that will be in the DNA of that baby one way or the other because of the way it was brought up, the way it was baked in the oven that was either going through tremendous stress or not.
Terrible situation all around.
When I'm sitting here in America and I can see people saying everything, all of our aspirations as a nation, and maybe I'm being exaggerating, but what we've had on the political forefront for our aspirations and vision for a future is now being diverted or distracted or potentially even compromised by this war in the Middle East.
And there's war everywhere.
Some wars get more attention than others.
And I can see people saying here, as bad as it is in Israel, it's not our problem.
And why must our future be compromised in pursuit of defending one country in particular where everyone was just giving Ukraine such a hard time for the last three years?
So to get that long diatribe out, in Israel, people are grateful for the U.S. intervention.
And in America, there are certainly a swath that are grateful, but there's also a lot that are sort of resenting it.
Because they don't want to get involved.
But the thing is, you're already involved.
Everybody is involved, whether we like it or know it or not.
It's just a fact.
Like these, I mean, I made a comment on Twitter the other day about not having learned from the COVIDCon era.
And I'm just astounded how much it seems to me from watching what people are saying and taking on all the, you know, the attacks, personal and professional, like that it still hasn't hit people how there's this like there's this globalist you know there are these global globalist ideological entities that are they're
moving the chess pieces man and we're not even the pawns it's it's it's not the same but it's not different either like um it all comes back to money it all comes back to fiat currency it all comes back to oil it all comes back to central control it all you know these are wars are machines um this is a little bit different because there's more of a it's more of a religious war
if you ask me uh but you know we don't we don't need to get that deep because that's a that's a really deep discussion and i'm not educated enough on it but i mean we're not talking about power over land only we're not talking power over resources we're talking about like one population or one ideology that is held by people that believes from the
bottom of their black heart that you know israel shouldn't exist which probably means that they think that jews shouldn't exist america shouldn't exist the west shouldn't exist this is not something that you can just say i don't want to be involved we we can pretend not to be involved and we can pretend to ignore this problem but i'm gonna i'm gonna step on some toes now i don't
think anyone can look away from from a problem that's been developing on purpose in the united states in the uk all across europe and sweden we we houston we have a problem um and again i i might be conflating things but i don't think i am i think many many many many more things are connected than not connected and
i i you know i don't think we're going into world war three and i hope that gives a lot of people um I hope that makes a lot of people feel better.
I really don't think that.
No.
My kid asked me if we are in, are we going into World War III?
And then I answer, like, it's a weird question.
Why are you asking?
And then are you anxious about it?
Because the first answer is, I think we're probably already in some form of World War III.
And the second answer is, there's nothing we lowly plebs can do about it.
So, you know, if the nuclear tsunami comes over and washes over Florida, strap on a life jacket and we'll see, grab a fishing rod before we go.
But no, it's interesting because you talk about more pieces at play.
And I don't want to get too conspiratorial or tinfoil-hatted myself, but it's true.
People in the chat are saying a thousand-year war and Islam versus the West has been going on since before the Crusades and not arguably, but brought about the Crusades as the pushback to this religious conflict that has been going back for thousands of years.
I'm looking at this now, and we're talking about this particular conflict flaring up after.
Are you?
Did I lose you?
Don't do anything embarrassing, Jess.
I'm not.
Okay, you didn't lose me.
I'm still here.
You can hear me?
Yeah, I think one of our internet connections is unstable, and it's probably mine.
I don't know if it was yours, but we are having this flare up right now, but only after about a decade of open borders where people are saying, you know, watch out for Iranian sleeper cells.
I say, watch out for Chinese sleeper cells.
Watch out for foreign sleeper cells.
And so we're having this global conflict sort of spark up now when sleeper cells from many adversarial nations have probably already infiltrated, not probably, they've already infiltrated Europe, Canada, and America.
And so I do wonder what is at play behind all of this and who is at play and what the end, you know, if it's just a question of destabilizing everything.
And then what should Trump's response be if it is a question of making America great again and not in a selfish way, but in a stabilizing the rest of the world way?
I mean, it's a loaded question.
What do you envision for the future?
What do you see happening in Israel?
What do you see happening in the Middle East?
You know what?
I can't really project a future answer.
I have a feeling, but quite honestly, it's like minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, day-to-day.
Can't make plans, you know, because I'm immobile right now.
Everybody is.
My feeling is good, though.
I'm concerned, but my overall feeling is good.
I think that I know that the people who want Israel to disappear are going to be disappointed in hearing me say this, but I don't think Israel is going anywhere.
I'm hoping that people who don't really have experience, like direct experience with this place or this part of the world, learn a little bit.
Because if there's one thing that I've learned in my long life, it's that things are never what they seem.
And especially over the past five years, learning how much we've been lied to about everything, it's really important to remember that.
Like you might be being lied to about shit that maybe you didn't suspect.
So this is what drives me crazy in the chat is, you know, people are saying, on the one hand, Trump is operating off the intelligence that he has and they have more intelligence than you, but we've lived through a decade of intelligence being hidden from Trump, false intelligence being given to Trump, falsified evidence being given to Trump when safe and effective COVID jab.
And so it's a terrible thing.
Like I always say, like being supportive of someone doesn't mean being blindly, unquestioningly deferential to them and their decision making.
I think loving someone means being honest and loving.
I say respecting someone means telling them what you think respectfully.
But I don't know where I was going with that.
Jess, the question is this also, for my own personal edification, what is going on in Israel vis-a-vis COVID?
And let's just, if I can shift your mind from the constant catastrophe that looms ahead or overhead, what is the status now of COVID shots, COVID jabs, COVID data coming out of Israel?
Because they were, if I'm not mistaken, among the most vaccinated of the world.
They kept the best data from what I understand of the world for the behest of Pfizer.
You're obviously keeping up to date with what the latest is in terms of data, signals coming out of Israel?
Yeah, so Retzef Levy and Josh Getzko, who lives in Tel Aviv, he's a good friend.
They just published with co-authors, they just published or submitted as a preprint a study looking at the effects of the shots on women in different terms of their pregnancy.
And they found that there's a huge uptick in miscarriage rates between weeks 8 and 13. You can look that up.
Josh and Retsef have published in the BMJ previously about this process one, process two shit.
So that's a big study from Maccabi data in Israel.
On the personal front about what the Israeli people are thinking, you know, I very carefully have to keep my ear to the ground because it's hard to talk to anyone about this stuff.
But from what I hear, everybody knows it was bullshit.
They won't say it.
They won't talk about it, but they know that it was bullshit, which makes me kind of wonder why anyone would have gone along with it.
I guess people just kind of had The attitude that it would quote unquote make their lives easier.
But yeah, I don't know, man.
So, a distinct uptick in miscarriages.
Yeah.
Now, is that being reflected anywhere else?
Because I do remember old enough to remember when there were miscarriages being an uptick in Scotland, and then they were like trying to write it off as some sort of anomaly or Canada.
Okay.
And so it is an uptick of miscarriages among the vaccinated.
Yep.
Between weeks 8 and 13, I believe it was.
So it was a specific timeframe during pregnancy, like the early, I guess that's the first trimester, when it was the most dangerous to get injected.
And pardon me, guys.
I don't know if it's like dose one, two, or three.
I think they looked at dose one and three.
Anyway, you can find that study on preprint server.
I think it's MetaArc Civ or however you say it.
So yeah.
And was there any information on the proximity to the jab regardless of which one it was in terms of when the miscarriage was, in respect of when the last shot was before the miscarriage?
Is it like that?
Great question.
And I don't know.
I'm going to have to go read the paper.
The paper comments are really mean.
Oh, my God.
Don't read the comments, Jess.
First of all, they're mean to me, too.
This is another thing that I find very, very irritating.
How can people go through their lives being so hateful of people they've never met?
I don't think that's a good idea.
On the one hand, they might not be real people.
And I'm not saying this to be demean, like just.
You're right.
You're right.
And then the second thing is they might be shitheads who just get pleasure in disrupting things that are beautiful.
I mean, it's like there are people who get pleasure out of breaking things.
What's up?
So I want to point out that she did notice some pretty nasty comments.
There's been a lot of really wonderful ones.
There's a lot of people here who really like you.
And there's a number of people who said that they know your twin sister and love her as well.
I don't know anything about that.
You've got a twin sister.
Too much information.
Okay, scrap it.
Yeah, don't.
some wonderful people in the comments, but when we talk about this topic, there are some winners.
Thanks for putting that out.
It's like every now and then my eyes go over I was on a channel with a guy named Pisco Liddy, who's a lefty lawyer.
He's a lefty activist guy.
I was reading the channel.
And I think not only do I, I don't think I'm honest, I know that I'm honest.
And then I'm reading people calling me a shill, a liar.
He stammers.
He can't answer a question.
And like, I thought I was answering questions.
Don't read the.
And then the other thing is they're literally like, you know, kids, you're with kids and you say like, why did you just stomp on that flower?
It's like, I wanted to see what would happen.
I say assholes are adults who still have that childlike, not in a good way, but that irresponsible.
I just wanted to break it.
I just wanted to step on the ants.
Why?
Because I wanted to see the crunch that it makes.
So, but hold on a second.
We do have Robin Sage, who is now, I guess, a member.
Robin, thank you very much.
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Let me get some of the questions that are friendly.
They're questions from our locals community.
Could you get out by ship?
Asks Jessica.
Or I don't know if that's from.
People are saying that people are able to get out on cruise ships, but this was, you're not trying to escape Israel.
You were just trying to get to Prague for the Bitcoin conference, which unfortunately you're going to miss now.
Yeah, no, well, no, it's long over.
I was supposed to be back by now.
But yeah, no, I am kind of trying to get out.
I'm not going to lie.
It's like, it's tense here, man.
And I don't like the feeling of being, and anyone who's ever heard me speak knows I don't like being told what to do.
So to be told that I can't leave is like automatically makes me want to leave.
It's just my personality, besides the fact that it's a little bit dangerous.
So there are two routes.
This is important, actually.
If there are Canadians in Israel or Americans, I know everything about how to get out now, okay?
It's harder for me because I have a big fat old cat.
But for you guys, if you want to get out, I know the UK embassy is helping their citizens, the US embassy is helping.
And the Canadian embassy says that they're helping, but I was told by them that I'm on my own.
So you have to go by land, which is dangerous, but if you really want to get out, you'll do it.
To the border crossing at Jordan.
I can't remember the name of it, but it's perfectly safe.
The Jordanians are lovely people.
And it's about six-hour drive, cab ride to Amman, where you can get a flight to wherever you want to go.
Air Haifa is still flying.
For those of you who are confused, I'm seeing their commercial planes going overhead every now and then.
Now, these are probably special flights, and there are no current available bookings now.
They're only taking more bookings starting on July 1st, I think.
If you want to get out via Egypt, you have to get all the way down to the bottom, and you can get to this place called, oh, gosh, what's the name of it?
I think people need to see a map of Israel, a map of the world, because I don't think people appreciate.
Ah, okay, right.
Yeah, sorry.
No, no, it always blows my mind, but I can never find a good map.
Let's see, this one looks good.
So it's the pointy bit at the bottom where Israel joins Egypt.
So there's Akaba, which is the town where you cross over to get to vacation land, which is what a lot of Israelis do.
It's a really good connection between our countries, regardless of what you think you know.
And there's this place, which is south.
it's not even southeast, it's south, where you can fly out of.
It's called, I don't want to mess up the name of your town because I don't want to disrespect you.
It's Sharm el-Sheikh, I think it's called.
Anyway, it's an airport.
You get down there, you fly out.
And the Egyptians and the Jordanians are being really nice.
They understand.
They're like, yeah, come on.
Elal is supposed to be flying.
I spent an hour on the phone with them yesterday again for people who want to know.
They told me the 16th of July pending reopening of the airspace.
But there are planes coming from America and taking American citizens out.
I know that.
They might be landing in Jordan, though.
That's the only thing.
I can't figure out whether they're making it into the country.
I'm going to show this.
It's just amazing.
This is not to say woe is Israel, but look how small it is.
Just look how small Israel is right there.
Then you got Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt on the bottom, right about here.
Then what do you got here?
You got Saudi Arabia.
Okay, well, Jordan blocks out Saudi Arabia.
Then you've got Iran, land mass pretty big, lobbying.
It's huge.
Yeah, look at this.
They're lobbying their missiles over Iraq, over Jordan to get there.
I mean, wherever they land, it's They're high precision, which is very alarming, actually.
I say it's pretty cool from a technological perspective.
None of them fart out and fall down in Iraq.
I don't know.
It's a good question, maybe.
Maybe it's like firecrackers.
Some of them kind of don't go off the way you want them to.
But yeah, they did target Qatar today.
They sent some over because they didn't like the military bases in the U.S. there.
Apparently, I don't know, they're going to try and take out all the U.S. military bases in the surrounding nations, which I imagine the brother nations are going to have a big problem with because Qatar already does.
And I think Saudi Arabia also kind of spoke out.
Yeah, it's just like, oh my God, sometimes it feels like they're just throwing like, I don't know, we're in a playground and everyone's just throwing things at each other.
You did that to me.
I have to do this to you.
No, I have to do this to you now.
I visualize it like we're on a rock hurling through space and within the amazing, forget the wildlife that, the life that exists on this planet, but within it, you get these fucking ants throwing shit at each other as this, as this spaceship, natural spaceship goes around the sun, which goes, it's, I listened to a Lex Friedman podcast and I forget what the name of his guest was, but it's a woman talking about black holes.
And I remember like, I mean, I loved that I read black holes in the universe back in university just for fun.
And it's just, it's so wild that on the one hand, you have that level of knowledge, wisdom, and the pinnacle of human thought.
And then on the other hand, you have people killing each other over, you know, shoe scuffs, parking spots, and geopolitics.
There was a question here, Jess, and I don't know what it means.
It says, not war-related from Loves of Liberty, but can she expand on grounding and how that benefits her?
Yeah, thanks.
Yeah, I'd love to.
That's actually what I'd really like to talk about instead of this crap.
Yeah, so transfer of electrons, I believe.
Balancing your charge, your net charge, bringing it back to zero, not being too positively charged or negatively charged, I suppose, has to do with blood flow.
Apparently, there have been studies done that show that just a really small timeframe of grounding, which is basically just walking in the grass, makes your red blood cells more free flowing, which probably makes a lot of sense because your red blood cells are negatively charged.
And if you have too much positive charged stuff in your system, then that's going to cause them to come together more often than they wouldn't.
And incidentally, spike protein does that.
And this is peer-reviewed.
It's very interesting.
I'll say this.
I ground myself every day.
I'm still a neurotic, what's the word I'm looking for?
Stressed out, hypertensioned ball of nervous energy.
But I'd be even worse if I didn't walk barefoot when I walked my dog every morning.
Do you know about box breathing?
No.
Okay.
Hold on.
Let me just laugh that off.
Are you crazy?
Do I know about this?
Meditation.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's for people who don't like meditating like me, even though I do it without knowing that I'm doing it.
So box breathing is something that divers do.
It's something marines do.
It's like a really high-level training thing.
It's so easy.
Even I do it.
Okay, go on.
So it's four, four, four, four.
And when I say four, four seconds, it's four seconds.
Let's do it together, okay?
It's four seconds inhalation through the nose.
Four seconds holding.
Four seconds release.
Force hold.
And four second hold.
And when you do this, you want your diaphragm to be lifted so that you're breathing like from here, like a good singer would do.
That's called box breathing.
It balances your carbon dioxide, increases the oxygen flow.
It opens up your lungs.
It makes it easier for you to hold your breath for longer.
If you're a surfer like me, that's a good thing when you get taken underwater.
And divers, of course, can stay under longer.
But the most important thing is that this is an absolute winner in terms of bringing your cortisol levels down, reducing inflammation, getting your vagus nerve like set.
I don't know how else to say it because your vagus nerve is like so important.
I don't even know which side it's on.
But it's basically all about bringing stress hormones down because, especially for people in situations like me right now, you're on.
You're like flight mode 24/7.
It's not good because it turns your hair gray, it ages you, it causes inflammation, it messes with your brain, your thinking.
So it so works, dude.
I'm like, you know, mellow as all shit most of the day, except when I'm, you know, running.
I started doing this three weeks ago and in tandem with a facial release.
If people don't know about releasing fascia, wow.
Life-changing.
Okay, hold on.
Can we carry this on in the local side of things?
And we're going to take questions over there?
Yeah.
Okay, we got to go read Kimberly Guilfoyle.
They're sure.
Well, I'm gonna ask you about the Of course it is.
Where else is it supposed to be?
It's not real.
It's just all-encompassing.
No, actually, anxiety is stored in your fascia.
It's very physical.
That's something I learned recently.
Let me give everyone the link if you are inclined to come on over to vivabarnslaw.locals.com.
Locals, this will be the exclusive after party.
It's broken.
My shit was broken.
Just mention the book before we go.
Oh, yeah, yeah, guys, go get a book.
Louis the Lobster Returns to the Sea.
We went to the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatche Natural Reserve today, and they didn't have a book on lobsters in the bookstore.
Or they said we're only going to take other people's books if they're about Everglades or Florida wildlife.
So Everglades.
So I have to write a book about the heron now so that they can have it.
Louis the Lobster, it's a kid's book that I wrote.
It's on Amazon.
Make sure you subscribe.
Jessica, stupid idiot.
Oh, yeah, I'll show.
Okay, hold on.
Cool.
How nice.
All right.
Hold on.
Get my headphones up.
Yes, I'm a published author.
It's a highly, and it was illustrated by a daughter of a community member.
Oh, that's so cool.
It's beautiful.
This is my legacy to the world, not mean tweets or legal analysis.
So it's on Amazon.
But Jess, I'm going to give everybody your link.
What's your substack?
Jessicar.substack.com, but I'm not writing much these days.
I'm sorry.
I'm just on the phone with people yelling at them.
I'll give everyone your Twitter feed.
That's probably easily the way.
Jess loves MJK.
I know I've asked you that, but what does that mean?
I'll never tell.
I can come up with some funny stuff, but it's all going to be bad acronyms.
So Encryptus, have we raided Kimberly Guilfoyle?
Let me see here.
It doesn't look like we have.
Oh, there we did.
Veva's raided the stream.
Everybody, go raid Kimberly Guilfoyle if you want to get more news about Iran.
And decision.
Oh, she's got Roger Schoen on.
Into regime change.
Roger's looking good.
He looks like he's looking skinnier than he's ever looked.
Into nation building.
In fact, his election was a repudiation of all of that.
That doesn't mean he won't use America power when he needs to.
And in this case, I trust the president.
I trust the president and his team, first rate team, Marco Rubio.
Okay, well, you guys can go check that out.
Listen to Kimberly Guilfoyle.
Drop some Viva sent us in the chat.
And Godspeed, people.
We're going to take this on over to VivaBarnesLaw.locals.com.
Jessica, thank you.
Okay, now hold on.
I'm just going to go like this.
Viva raid.
Okay, good.
Now they're in, and now the numbers are going up.
Booyah.
All right, locals, we're coming on over and get some questions in because I got my questions too.
And we're going to talk about the fascia, the vagus nerve, and other things.
I love that comment about my shirt being broken.
The child, a bunch of perves, a bunch of pervs.
They see a nice looking lady with a purvo pulling off.
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