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The speaker discusses criticism of Israel and the perception that it is immediately labeled as anti-Semitic. They make a comparison to criticism of the NAACP in the black community and argue that criticism does not necessarily equate to hatred. They also express frustration with the portrayal of black communities as unsafe or dangerous when visited by people of other races. The speaker discusses the challenges of fitting in and being accepted in different communities, as well as the potential consequences of trying to uplift and empower marginalized communities. They highlight the importance of unity and the need to avoid dividing communities. The speaker also criticizes media coverage and the selective portrayal of events, particularly related to protests and the Jewish community. They argue that the media often fails to show the full extent of hate and racism and tries to control the narrative. The speaker concludes by expressing concerns about the lack of safe places and the presenc Welcome to New Age Philosophy, where I'm going to speak my mind about certain subjects that might be controversial, but I mean all the best. When it comes to the issue regarding Israel and its part to play in the genocide in Gaza, many people seem to think that criticizing Israel is immediately anti-Semitic. The problem with thinking that immediate criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic is it's similar to how it is portrayed in the black community. Being critical of, let's say, the NAACP, that is not inherently anti-black, especially if you can hear the reasons and what they are exactly criticizing black people. And I'm talking about a universal group, not just one black guy like Clarence Thomas. But a good majority of the black community, what I say in the black community, is the common sense senses of black people. That is also a point to be made. Black people are not a monolith, as there is no group that is simply a monolith. Or a racial group that is a monolith. But there are common sense consensus with the group. So, with that being said, it's pivotal to understand when someone says the black community, some people are being very disingenuous and just using that term very loosely. While I hold it in high regard, anyone that claims to have the backing of their community, you can see it. You can see in every corner. Don't ask another high profile individual what their consensus is with a certain person, a certain celebrity. I wouldn't ask, let's say, Jay-Z about how he feels about Zendaya. Or, you know, I wouldn't ask Rihanna how she feels about Beyonce. There might be some contrived drama there, but what I am inferring to, there is a reason to keep certain people in place. And no one will speak that ill of another person if they are in the same prominent position. And if you can see how easily they get taken out of that position, they are less likely going to say something that would directly get them kicked out of their situation too. But if you have respect in the community, that could never happen. See, if you have enough admiration, you have enough respect universally, you can travel to where people universally are. So let's say, as a black person, I am not free-range to go to every hood and every place. This whole check-in phenomenon is stupid. But I am allowed to go where black people go without it being such an uneasy thing. It's because I know how to handle myself. I know how to just act like a human. It's a sense of normalcy. You wouldn't see me going to a store and acting a fool. That's the reason why when other races go into our predominantly black spaces, it seems like it's, oh, this is so crazy, or it's so dangerous, or it's like, whatever. More times than not, it is, the person going there is, I won't say willfully ignorant. It is definitely just ignorant. I would also say antagonistic. They're definitely trying to get a rise or think that this is taboo or dangerous. They're treating it as a time in the zoo. And when you have people like that, that treat a situation like a time in the zoo, you're going to have bad reactions because it's like, hey, we know what you're doing. You're there for clout. You're there for just trying to get clicks and views, and you feel that I am lesser than you. And that has always been an issue when it came to other races or groups going into our communities. They like to sell to us. They like to preach to us. But we can never get high enough to escape those depraved situations. You're overcharging us. If we started to try to get the materials and tools ourselves to sell to our own communities, to build up our own communities, that will instantly be put a stop to. There will be legislation. There will be rules. There will be regulations. They'll up the price. They'll tell vendors not to sell to us. So I know that those people going into those communities do not mean those communities safety. But if I were to go into a community, and this is how it usually typically goes, there are always Judases, but if you saw me as a black person who lives in an area, who lives there, who knows people, who talks to people, who knows the same information, who comes from a similar background, I don't want to damage that because guess what? Even if I said, hey, I'm going to trade you up for basically essentially a few cents, a few copper coins or whatever the Bible version of that, it's not going to do me any good. The reason why is because I won't fit in. I don't get the references. I'll fake like I'll get the references, and maybe over time I'll get them. I will always be the bottom of the tote because anything that I would do in every other community, and I'm just going to use the white community specifically, would be second learned. It wouldn't be something that I would naturally already know. And even if I did already know, they would treat me like I don't know, that I don't belong, that I never belong, that I was always an outsider, a foreigner that came in. And if my kids were born there, yes, they would get indoctrinated, but they would just become a tool because they would tell their kids, hey, listen, this person came from a foreigner. You're a foreigner, blood. We can tell it. You can see it. You look different. So you have to do twice as much to make sure that you're proven, things that they would never do to their friends that look like them, even if another person was a foreigner. And when you try to capitalize on, hey, this person's a foreigner, but they look like them, you're like, no, you're more of a foreigner. You look like a foreigner. It's a phenotype versus the actual, it is a double standard, a second rule. So getting back to what I was speaking about earlier when it comes to Israel, it is a, it does a huge detriment. It does a huge disservice to its people. And I know it because it's saying that anything said in any criticism is anti-Semitic. And real Jewish people who are around, you know, real, I don't want to say just real black people. I'm talking about people in general. You're a part of my community. Yes, you are a part of that bigger community. But while you live here, you're a part of this community. You can have a multifaceted community. You can have multifunctioning communities. You can have people who, you know, are native to here. They spend time there. They're like nomadic tribes, individuals that move around. But there is a sense of community. Now, when you yourself try to ostracize and separate them, saying pick us or them, anything that is against us is against you. You will have yourself a disservice to your people. And I know that the Jewish community truly knows that because most of the people in the Jewish community, when I see the protests I see, I always outstandingly see Jewish people there with their banisters saying not in our name, not in our, this is not us. This is not the service that we want. You will not use us as a scapegoat. And history will remember. Now, it's easy today to think there's less number of Jewish people fighting against this because the media doesn't show it. The media doesn't go out of its way and say, hey, let's show these Jewish people. You will never see Jewish people in CBS, CNN, Fox News. You might see, like, okay, we'll mention it because if we don't, then they will, you know, accuse us of, you know, hiding. And they'll give you sample bits. They'll give you, okay, because they know that social media will say, hey, some Jewish people were there. And they'll minimize it. They'll want to control it. They'll control anything that they can get their hands on. If they know that this evidence or information is going to get out, they want to control it as much as they can. They will avoid, I remember in the original protest, Charlottesville, at least when I was aware, they had these clans members, like these white supremacists, this racist hate group, chanting Jews will not replace us. Hang the black people. You know, I'm not saying the actual words because it was much more rude and raunchy. But they did not show that. They did not show all the audio logs. They didn't play the full unedited three-hour clips. No, they specifically chose clips that did not show how detrimental, how evil that these groups are and what groups that they're targeting. They put the most mundane. And they said, oh, it's for everyone being able to view it. We didn't want to put the terrible and rough news. So even kids could watch it and it's not to destroy us. Listen, that would have worked back in the old days if social media wasn't showing the unedited already. And people are not stupid. Kids aren't stupid. They played the Challenger blowing up. So I already know. They played 9-11. And it took time, but it's like they let kids process it. And kids today are also dealing with school shootings. Every single day they're going through school shootings, climate crisis, college, student loan debt, homelessness, pedophilia, all these things. So kids already know. These are things that, A, it should be explained in a manner of sensitivity, but never to ignore or take away from the crux of that information. Because kids will see it. They'll see what we see. It's not like I can never hide from that. But someone explaining how to navigate through it, how to not let it mentally crush you, what sources to do to counterbalance this, the ability to go and find a safe place to reprieve. But there is no safe place anymore. America has made it that any place that I go to is not safe. Any place that I go to travel is not a safe place. Like any of the safe first world countries that America is allied with, they have very lax racial protocols. They don't really have, like, if I felt heavy racism in France, and even if I recorded and had all the proof and said that this foreign police officer and they were racist or these foreign citizens, nothing I could do. Nothing America would do, and nothing France would do. And the fact that I say that, and that would be considered, like, me speaking bad about my own country, and I'm saying, like, hey, that's a problem. We can do something about it. We can all universally, collectively do something. And if we try to, they would squash that. They would say I'm plotting against a foreign ally. All I said was, hey, can we just put a little bit of regulation or just, like, something just to keep me safe. So I want to go see France. I want to pay the money. I want to go tour the place. I just don't want to get spat on when I'm trying to look at the Eiffel Tower. I don't want to have to take certain safe routes just to go, oh, I see this house and this house. Because guess what? It ruins the event and the tour. And, in fact, I don't even want to go. I've always heard that these places are not even that great to go visit. Like, when you visit, it's like, I think it's good to go get out and see other things. But if you have a bad experience, like, in fact, I've heard it's worse levels of racism because you can't even, hey, you don't understand it. You have this guy that you've never met, you've never heard, and you know you've never met come up to you because they feel validated and vindicated to do so, to spit on you, to yell at you in a language you don't know. And you can't even go, you know what, let me escape over here or let me get my gun or something. You can't protect yourself. You don't know the rules. So I'm not going to go over there to possibly end my life just so you can have some tourism money. I'm not going to go spend any money to those countries. But what they do also, they make the countries that would be safe for me off limits. They would make it like I can't go to those places. Or the very last thing that they do, a very controlled and manipulative way, they say these are a few select places, these things will be safe for those that can afford this and they will be treated well. So they know that you can't absolutely break it. There will be a few places that you can go. But that becomes so isolating. I know more white people in America that go to Africa than I do black people that aren't native to Africa go to Africa. I always wanted to go to South Africa. I always wanted to go to Ghana, to Kenya. I always wanted to see what Egypt was like. I always wanted to be there to witness it myself. But unfortunately, every time I hear, even certain places in Africa, you can't go. And I originally chalked it up, oh, these people are dangerous. They're not like us. They hate Americans. They hate black Americans. And yeah, they hate black Americans because that is all that America has allowed them to see and witness of it. If you got your own criminals, why would you want more criminals to come to your country? Why would you want them to come to your house? Are you like, oh, we got new criminals? You wouldn't want that. Then you hear all these things, they're dangerous, they're going to kill you. Then when you actually see them, they're just people. You don't understand their language because you're so off-put. Because, A, we truly can't trust ourselves. It's not because we wouldn't naturally just trust ourselves or trust someone who is black. But we all know that there is heavy brainwashing. Saying that if you look this way, you're deadly. If you talk this way, you're deadly. I was raised around Chicago. There are certain styles and looks that I like. Because that's the fashion. And because these people, it's not a trend. It's a cultural garb. There's a reason why we wear this. It's a reason. It annotates something. It has a history. I like wearing sports jerseys. I used to love wearing sports jerseys with numbers and colors. It's always been associated with games and stuff like that. But I've also seen, hey, I enjoy this team. Hey, I like this team. I like that team, too. Okay, we both individually like this team. We're both from this region. A common interest. In fact, you will notice this when you go to the gym. People will wear items of clothing that sports some sort of band or group or, I don't know, team, whatever you want to say. So you'll be like, hey, you like jazz? I like jazz, too. It'll be like a shirt that says Jazz Club 2018. And then you might see someone from a different generation. Be like, hey, I got the Jazz Club 2024 or 2025, whatever. And you're just like, oh, common interest, this. And then we pass on some knowledge, tools. It's a way to just signify, hey, come up to me and talk to me about this. It will be a safe thing to talk about. I am a person that is safe in this way to talk about. It's also a way to distinguish, hey, I don't want to talk to this individual. I don't want to communicate with this individual. For me, when I see too many people wearing American flag garb, like for me, I was in the military. But I knew that it was a double-edged sword. Any time I talk to anyone with an American flag garb, I always approach. I have to approach very specifically, very anally. I have to say, I have to speak in a certain way, in this tone. I keep any slang out of my voice. I keep any dialect. And it's like just code switching. Why are you watching this? How are you doing, fellow friend? Yes, I was in the Navy. Yes. Ah, wonderful day in America. I don't speak like that. I don't. So, when I need to talk to them, yes, I do. And more times than not, it's cordial. I've never had a, like, oh, god, there you go, American flag. But I intentionally ignore the elephant in the room to secure whatever I need to be done. And that's only if no one else is there. But I know that I can interact with that person positively because of my own experience. I've been in those spaces. I know how those spaces work. And knowledge is key on this. Knowing someone can dictate and knowing how they dress, how they talk, can indicate how that person is. But I also implore you to understand that I don't use that as 100% science. It's a good indication. It's like a starter. But I also just listen to what they are saying. And sometimes they end up surprising me, changing my attitude. Someone could just wear a shirt because that's the only shirt that they have. Some people wear clothes that were just like, hey, I needed something clean. This is my dad's shirt. And it's like, oh, man, that's surprising. Sometimes the affliction and the tones in their voices and what they decide to compliment me on. Because I might be wearing a military shirt, but I wear my hair in mocks. And you'll see certain parts of me. Like, yes, I might be wearing a military shirt. But I also could be wearing some floral pants. Or I could be wearing a really nice cologne. Or they might have previously saw me talking to someone else and overheard my conversation and wants to continue that conversation somewhere else. Or continue that conversation instead of engaging with the military. And that's okay. Because I found that there are people who do still dress in their military uniform as a form of safety. So you'll see people like me. Yes, I wear my military gear and get items. But not as a way of me indulging and enjoying that. It's out of safety, out of necessity. To say, hey, you know, remember, I'm part of that group that you say you like. It's a camouflage. And some people see right through it. Some people, they'll choose to ignore it because they're like, listen, this is a bigger conflict. I don't want to do it. But, like, obviously, you still see I'm a black man. At the end of the day, I'm a black man. You're going to see that. That's the first thing you're going to see. Now, no matter what I am wearing, if that is what someone is hyper-focused on, that is all you're going to see. But that's why I dress, not to present myself as this great or this guru. In fact, I like getting my hair cut, but my hair grows really fast. So I'm typically more often looking unkempt. And for a long time, I was like, I like the unkempt look, but that's because I, you know, naturally just grew into it. You know, there's not barbers and stuff like that. And my hair, like, I would love to look fine and pristine. I would love to have my hair in a fade or something. Like, even with my locks, because it kind of looks like it matches the style, like, wild, but also, you know, just regular dude, you know, civilized, whatever. And that became because of the multiple mixes in how I was raised, where I came from, who I was around. It's like taking that old, that new. But I unfortunately, I learned that I can't do that because my head is sensitive. It leaves sores. People cut too deep. My hair is very curly. And so I preferred to not be in pain all day. But I like to get my locks retwisted. I try not to do it too often. You know, it's supposed to give you time and some space. But I like it because then my scalp, you know, can breathe. It's open. You can feel it. And I like to have scalp massages. When you have too much hair, you're just, like, kind of pushing around the hair, and I can't really feel the fingers as well. I'm someone that adores scalp massages. And massages in general. I'm someone who has a multifaceted group and view. I like classical music. I like literature. I'm not a theater kid, but I can see myself, if I was allowed, I would have been a theater kid. I would have explored that side of me. I love the arts. That is why I'm here. That is why I'm speaking. It's because I always loved the arts. But getting back to the portion of Israel and the Jewish people, I always try to say the Jewish people instead of Jews, because I feel like that's disrespectful as I would like to be, like I personally, like to be called a very melanated man. But if, you know, someone said, hey, he is a black man, or look at that black man, I could prefer that better than the blacks. If you say the blacks, I immediately know there's racist connotation. If you say blacks, I automatically know you are in opposition. When you, and there's times where I know not to engage at all. There's things that you won't listen to. And there's times where I learned that I should never engage, and I cannot afford to listen to you. And that comes with anyone. That's not just one particular race. It's because I will be willing to listen to people, but I need them to also know that I need them to listen to me. And people love to say and speak their point and try to convince you. But when you try to counteract it, they will immediately abrupt. They will not accept the evidence. They will not show the same sort of courtesy to you, and I won't spend my time trying to give courtesy that will not be reciprocated. If I am saying, if I'm just indulging in your, if we're indulging in conversation, we have to be on a ground level, a sort of equal footing, where you are, I am allowed to say a point without having all the evidence in my backpack, or, you know, like on my phone. I don't have to present you every evidence, but I will not make any outlandish claims that would require me to do this. I will make a considerable point to keep it digestible, and I hope you do the same. But, like, when you're having a debate or conversation, they'll say, you know, like I had one weird conversation with a guy who's like, you know, the Jews have a space laser. You know, we all know that, right? And he tried to get me to co-sign it. Like, we all know, no, I don't know that. I don't, like, if they had a space laser, why wouldn't they use it? And it upped me, because I said, listen, I think there is an issue where there is too much control that Israel has with our state government. But nothing I ever said was out, like, I can, in a conversation, kind of pinpoint it. I can explain how this works or where points of curiosity can show, where I don't have to go pull up some charts for a person. I'm just saying if you and I both know that this person, like, this person exists, this is where they have been, like, base knowledge, we can continue. We can have a conversation. If we both know Trump and we've seen the same source of media, not all of it, but we have certain things that they talk about where it's a select base knowledge, I can present my case, you can present your case. But if my case shows more evidence and more rational thinking, then if you do not even acknowledge that my point has validity, then it says to me that nothing I say to you outside of total agreement will be accepted. And that means that I cannot have a conversation with you. I cannot allow you or tolerate you around me or my community, because you will poison, even if you want to claim it's cordial. I say this is the same issue with people when talking about politics or morality. They will chalk politics up like it isn't morality. They will try to make it like it's a separate issue. We can have a discussion about, like, hey, financially, let's say we have $10,000 and I want $8,000 sent to the schools and you want $8,000 sent to the road and you can have the $2,000 for the other, vice versa. We would elect a mayor or individual who will hear both sides, both reasons, make an unbiased concession, and they will also take the slack. That's the point of being a leader. You will also take criticism. You will take it because if not, things will not get done. You're supposed to budget. You're supposed to elect people that you think are capable of budgeting. You're supposed to collect the resources so it can be redispersed equally or fairly, not equally, fairly. In times, people would say this is not dispersed fairly, but then you go, why would you need a mobile wheelchair? Like, we can't give everyone a motorized wheelchair. Not everyone needs it, but this person absolutely needs it, should have it. And anyone who's reasonable will go, yeah, no, that's fair. Then you will see, hey, these unreasonable people. They're like, no, I want one. Then you ask, why do you want one? Because they have one and I don't have one. Well, then everyone would need to have one. Well, then make everyone or give me one or this. Now, your job as a mayor is to make some tough decisions. Sometimes people will not like you. Sometimes people have issues that you are not equipped. But as a leader, it is your job to try to gather as many individuals, to help as many individuals as you can to your realm or parameter. And sometimes appointing someone higher and another time stepping down. The problem with leadership is that they do not step down. They continue going because they start engorging themselves. They start believing that, I don't want to touch on that too quickly. I kind of want to say this point first. The problem with leadership is that it's either, A, too taxing and demanding with little give or too much give and you're not doing enough work. And that's always been a problem. If you're a real good leader, you can balance it. It's really hard because you're always teetering. Now, you can never always teeter. Eventually you fall one way or the other. That's the unfortunate truth because it's like age. Yeah, when you're a kid and you have everything brand new, your shocks is working, your knees is working, your elbows and toes, everything working fine. You're eating three meals a day. You're getting eight hours of rest. Yeah, that's fine. But eventually as more people come, as more work comes, or as you just get older and it's like you've been doing this, you become lax, things wear and tear. So, that's just an inevitable thing. Some leaders do not believe in that inevitability. They believe that they're going to live forever. It becomes narcissism because they're like, hey, I'm going to be around forever. This will never be a problem. Or they forget, problems stop being problems. And you're a good leader. Always remember, you are there to solve a problem until a better solution comes along. And if that better solution comes along and it takes your position, well, then you're going to have to step down. And the issue is that people see that as, okay, I'm stepping away from being mayor and now I'm just working as a teacher or I'm working as a garbage man. Now I'm being seen as less than. Well, when you've been treating these people like less than, of course it's going to feel like you've been stepping down into less than. If you get fired from your business job and then you start working at a convenience store, but you are happy at the convenience store, that's not stepping down. That's not stepping down. That's going into a role that you are more suited for. You're happy. And you can say all the advantages and disadvantages. Working a business job sucks. Working in a cubicle, working there, it's like, oh, man, these guys work at a convenience store. Loser. Usually the convenience store workers are some of the most goaded, some of the chillest people, some of the most, like, life lesson giving people. They've seen the craziest stories. You ever talk to a convenience store worker? They will tell you something that you never thought you would see. It's like, yeah, I was working my shift and a guy on a horse, he was just trying to get his horse to come inside and we're like, no. And then, like, a sumo wrestler from Japan should just stop by because he just needed to get gas because he ran out of gas, you know, comes in and he's trying to push the horse. And you're like, what a magical time because 3 a.m. is a magical time where things just seem to collide. Like, I ask a businessman, what is his, like, most impactful, most incredible story? And he's just, like, spouting numbers and it's like, ah, one time the boss came in with his squad down but everyone was too scared to say something because we didn't want to get fired. Or, yes, I took a golf trip and I had a little bit of turbulence, but, you know, I just paid the pilot a little bit more and then there was no more turbulence. Because all their problems are, you know, solved. It's like they live such a very easy life that what would consider a problem to them would be, like, that's really trivial. That's why they're boring. That's why every time you talk to a business bro, they are boring. They try to make their lives exciting. They're like kids who over-exaggerate, like, sitting down in class. Like, you're almost like, bro, what are you even talking about? Is this interesting? That's why they're always cosplaying the working class. That's why they're always trying to sneak into the trends and join and show off. And they know when they have money they can do this trend better. Like, if you get, like, oh, here's the crate trend. Well, you get a lot of money and you get a talk show. It's like, hey, you see this? I'm paying to do this trend in a really big and loud fashion. But that's when you know the trend has died. Because it's like, now everyone's cheering and clapping and keeping this on. But, okay, cool, now on to the next thing. And they would make that their whole personality. And then they keep trying to be the new one on the trend. And then they start to create their trends. But the trends, they're not really easy to do. And you need a certain amount of money to do. And they're financially, they're boring. The trends that are manufactured die really quick. Yes, they get bolstered. They get shown. They get pushed. And people try. But they're never really done good. It's like when the popular kid says, hey, I want to play this game. Or you make a game like, hey, we're going to do kick the can. And then we're going to make this makeshift basket. And then you could do, you get more points if you can balance it on your head and then throw it into the goal. It takes skill and elegancy. And it takes trying and effort. And then that's when, like doing it, you're like, oh, wow, it takes actual skill, not just money. And they can't do it. And, yes, now there's like this evolution point where it's like kids, like these rich kids will spend time in the gym and steroids and doing this and to advance it. And they're like, yes, now you can't do this at all. But then it becomes a point of, yeah, I can't do this. I physically could not do this because you've been training since birth. It is no longer enjoyable or even I don't want to watch or participate because the bar is either set way too low for you or way too high for you. This is supposed to be, hey, it is difficult enough for me to want to attempt, but easy enough that like even if I do it poorly, I can still find some enjoyment in trying and struggling. Like I can play. I can watch my mom play. I can invite some friends. Hey, you want to do this real quick? Yeah, sure, why not? But like people don't get that. Or they get it. We're waking up to it. Now we're understanding it. Now we can hear the science, the rhythm, the music, the bump, bump, bump. It's like a sound. And I can hear when things are contrived, when ploys and trends are trying to entice me or induce me. I can hear when my vocabulary is being used and manipulated. I know when someone is trying to gaslight me and to make me think that this is popular or trendy because I see 30K attached to a like button. YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, all that stuff, it's now annoying like a fly that buzzes around your head all day, every day. These video games become annoying because they're so contrived. They're trying to pay to play, get these loot boxes, get these in-game purchases because they're like, oh, this is a way to get money. I don't have to make the game good. I just have to make the game nostalgic enough that you're like, okay, I want to see the continuation. I have not played a story mode in years, in years. Story modes were the solo where I felt like I was a character. When I played as Master Chief, I felt like I was fighting against the covenant. When I played as Kratos, when I played as the characters in GTA Clod, when I played as CJ, I felt like I was these characters because I was, my actions, what I did. In every small interaction, GTA, it had such a profound feeling on me. I think it had for many people because that was the first time you had an in-game where it's like the story, yes, the story was always going to be like this. It forced you on this way and this path, but you didn't know. You didn't know what the way or the path or the story was. You didn't know how it all collided. You didn't know who was going to be your enemy. You didn't know how the end was. You knew you were learning yourself as the characters were learning themselves. It felt like you, as a character, the customization. What made GTA so, because everything had a monetary, but it was an in-game monetary. I earned it by doing these jobs and playing the game. It was all in one. I earned that. It made me feel like that, like in those characters, like I didn't have to go work eight hours to go then get an online version of a shirt. No, I just went to the store and I got that online version of the shirt. I worked whatever the game. I did a mission. This money could be used for ammunition or it could be used for a car. It could be used to buy an in-game house or whatever, but I remember it being so fun. GTA Online was so fun because people had time to be in there. Friends had time to talk. People had time. It was toxic. It was real. It felt like it was a real environment. It felt like I can do these dangers. I can set up a plan. You would have a troll. You can kill a troll. You can block a troll and all that stuff. Now, there was a lot of bugs and things that I loved that they fixed, but the issues are social. You can fix the game, but if no one has time to play the game. You can fix the game, but if the missions are boring. That was originally GTA's problem. You had to grind the missions. GTA's problem, GTA 5 Online, really killed itself in a way by making things super expensive and then in-game currency kept hitting over and over and over again. I remember you had to pay $200, $300, $400. The YouTubers, they really kept the game alive because it was like, this is so much fun, this is so much fun. Then I'm like, bro, I'm 12 or I'm 14 or I'm 16. I can't spend $100 real life dollars on this game so I can play it properly. Then you would see the actual adults like, I have this toy. When you make things inaccessible, you ostracize. If you don't make a way for someone to actually be able to play your game functionally and base, you ostracize. If I have to do this mission 10,000 times instead of just paying the $10, I don't want to play your game because there should be a way that you, listen, I don't mind if you have to pay, if you put a little bit of like, okay, here's a little bit of bump. If you put like a $5 thing, I get that. That's how it used to be. Actually, you know what I will say, I didn't mind that. Every game should just be, you pay for the game and you can earn everything in the game a very natural pace, a very normal way and you don't have to pay anymore. Because I used to didn't mind those microtransactions because they were cheap and they were small enough. They weren't too crazy and they didn't impact the game so much. Now I'm realizing, no, shut it all down. I was going to say, oh, it's okay if they scale it back. No, it's all should be done. All of that is dead. All of that is ridiculous. I paid for the game. If I'm paying $60 for a $30 game, the game ain't even that good. A game needs to, you got to justify all this and you're not even paying the game developers well. It would be one thing if I saw these guys who develop the game getting proper rest or enjoying the stuff. I remember when people would make games, you would have those guys come into the lobby and be like, hey, bro, yeah, I made this game. Well, you did, and then they'll tell creative names and tell them, hey, bro, this will add to the experience or this is a little buggy and this is, and they're like, oh, yeah, you're right, bro. Let me go fix that right now. I didn't realize that there was an issue where people were cheating this way. Okay, like actual creator feedback where you felt like you were a part of the game. Because now it gets like, hey, man, I just talked to the creator and he's fixing the thing. Oh, man, it's crazy. It'll make it better. And it's like, yeah, you would always have those cheeky people like, hey, put this in. And they'd be like, bro, you're weird. Get out of here. But it felt like a community was alive. Now the games are only made for the streamers. Now the games are only made for the, what's it called, the, yeah, the league players, the champions, the people that go and get paid whatever amount of money for gamer sucks. Like you're feeding kids gamer sucks. Like I'm not trying to get like a copyright or anything. My issue with it is that it's like this is just sugar and water, like Gatorade and stuff. Like just tell your kid to drink water. In fact, coconut water. They'll be like, no, this is cotton candy. Like, bro, what is that? Like I don't think that a kid should be drinking cotton candy, anything mixed with water, because every drink is mixed with water because that's how drinks are. It's just every concentrated sugar. It is literally just that. I don't, like if you want to give your kid that sometimes, it's caffeine too. It's caffeine and sugar and water. And you shake it up and you say, oh, it's in a powder form. That's how drinks are made. You trying to market it as something else and you're like light and you can just do more mixes of water. That's, kids are over caffeinated, over stimulated. They can't sit down. Their mind can't even, like me, I was not even the target generation or I was for a time, but I kind of was like at the outskirts. Now it is, it was so hard to, like still to this day, it's so hard to kind of concentrate and focus because everything is like taking your attention. Everything is too instant. Like I got to listen to things at two speeds sometimes because it just, it's like, it irks me. I go, my brain is so used to it. It's hard to rewire your brain to go slower, especially when they keep making it go faster and faster and faster and faster and music and clips like TikToks. It'll be like, listen to it. Wait until the TikTok sound goes. Oh, I know that sound. That's why it's viral. That's why. And then you'll hear the rest of the song. It's like, it's not catchy. And there is actual science or psychology and even a bit of philosophy in it. Because when we ask ourselves these questions, why is that? Why are they doing this? Why is there ramifications for later on? Is there real life ramifications for only playing these parts of the song where these parts are popular, but then no one else wants it? So they're making trendier and trendier and ear-catching music and earworms and things like that. And it's like, if that is all you're trying to do to make a song shorter and there's like, dopamine, good. Okay. What else? Doomscrolling. I doomscroll on music to find that. Yes, you got EDM and things like that. They go a little bit longer because like higher. But then there's this problem with, you know, tinnitus. And people can't hear and they're blowing their eardrums out because they're trying to, louder, more impactful hearing these songs. And I'm like, I get headaches and I'm tired. Then I go outside, I hear the chirping, but then I don't really get to spend the time hearing people talk. Yeah, that's what I miss. People talking. Conversation. Like, it's not that I don't want to talk to the few people that I already do, but then there's no interesting point. There's just people that agree with me and people that understand what I'm going to. But then when I talk to other people, it's such an extreme difference because like, no one's capable of even wanting or trying to understand. Occasionally you find podcasts that meet what you want or expect. But most people cannot afford the podcast equipment, good podcast equipment. They can't afford, you know, to learn this as a trade. They'll make it their whole career and personality. And you can't have someone whose only goal or want to do a podcast is to have a podcast, to be famous, and to have their livelihood on the line because their livelihood is based on this podcast working. They start to do some shady stuff. At first it's good, but then they need them sponsorship deals, and they really need to do this so they can afford to live and sleep. And then when they sell out, it's terrible. It's terrible. So when you see the other podcast, Joe Rogan, he said what he really feels. Yes, because Joe Rogan doesn't, he doesn't get paid. He gets paid by the podcast, but he doesn't need the podcast money to survive. He likes the podcast money, that's why he does it, but he doesn't need to do that to survive. That's like, there are so few guys, and you can see it, there are so few guys that have a multifaceted field and come to already counteract the negative time to learn the craft or trade, or go past the issues and just pay someone who already knows how to do this. I have to learn this myself. I'm using the software. I don't know if the software is good. I'm using cheap mics. See, I bought some things, but I didn't know what I was buying. And they were like, oh, you could try the software, and you could try these things, and you can do these things. And it was like, you know, I felt overloaded because I was, at first, when I was in the military, most of my time was brought up with the military. Then working out. Then, you know, feeling sad, re-comprising myself. And I was like, I haven't touched my podcast or anything, and then I was like, I didn't like the sound of my voice. I didn't like how I was doing things. I didn't like how whiny I sounded. I didn't like myself. I didn't like the relationships. And it took a long time to say, listen, I like to do this, but I am scared of being ostracized, of being bullied, of being misunderstood. I'm scared of the ramifications of what my words can say. And then I started thinking, wow, that's impressive of me, because I don't think other people think of these things. I think that people get on the mic, and yes, the Dunning-Kruger effect. Dumb people tend to think themselves smarter than they actually are. But when you don't think of the consequences and you just do it, that's the ones that you see. That's the ones that get out there. That's the ones that get shown. And we've known this knowledge. We've had this knowledge for a long time. But as resources become more and more squeezed, people can't really truly understand it, because they can't see it. And it's not pushed. That's not what's pushed in the algorithm. They don't want people to know the answers. They want people to be like, hey, I can tell you the answers. They don't want you to know. They'll give you a little bit. They'll give you a nibble of what you... I can feel this. And then tell you something that's completely left field, because they just want you roaming around a maze field. They want things overcomplicated and bigger and higher and more impactful. Because if you actually listen, these things aren't that complicated. They're not that convoluted. A lot of things we overcomplicate because we put so much time and money and resource in it. And if someone said it was easy, then we've got to look at ourselves and say, what were we doing? What were we doing for so long? Why am I paying this guy? If I said that I elected an idiot, I truly just didn't. I'm not talking about, oh, this guy is dumb. I'm saying I truly elected someone who was not... The IQ was room temperature. Then that says a lot about me. Then it says, oh, okay, then I'm dumb. And that's what they kind of want you to do. They want you to think that, like Joe Biden and Trump and stuff like that. Trump is dumb, but Joe Biden is not dumb. He is old and whatever, and his mind is losing. But he's not quite dumb. He just knows that the people around him probably are smarter. He's a tool, a puppet. He is someone that is a very easy target to go, oh, he doesn't know what he's saying, and we just elected dumb people. Think about it. Anyone that chose him is dumb, so we can't trust them. So I have to step up, and I have to pick someone or be that someone to go against. And that's what they want you to think. Smart people like dumb because then they don't have to hold the accountability of the term. They don't have to say, oh, no, I messed up. I made the wrong choice. I made the wrong call. I supported the wrong group. No, these people pretend to be dumb. They pretend like they don't have power or they don't know what they're doing or this isn't. Like, we keep shoving the information in their face. We're like, oh, look at this. Look at this. I can't read. Like, what? And then they're like, oh, no, we have to get these people out. Yeah, we have to get these people out. And we also have to start to put better people in. But how do we actually start putting better people in? And this is where people start scratching their head. They're like, hmm, I don't know. Okay, this guy says he's against him, so let's put him in. Of course they do. They always make a bad guy David and Goliath story. Someone, hey, I'm a little guy. I'm this, like this. Where do you get this money? Where do you show it from? I haven't heard from you in years. I've never seen you ever before, but now you magically pop up. Like, we don't have people actually asking true questions. We don't have people actually doing the vetting questions. We don't get to ask those questions. You notice how we live in a day in technology where you can instantly text message someone? I have scammers from India hitting up my phone every single day. And you can't tell me I can't send a message to the White House that gets vetted, that gets processed, that gets looked at by, like, a group of staff. Like, you're telling me the President couldn't be like, okay, we're going to have, like, a social media vote so we can understand what is popular, what is actually wanted. We can't have, like, a tournament-style vote where we're like, okay, these are the few things that Americans want. Okay, this is more important. We could do that all day, every day, get stuff done so quick we wouldn't even have to worry. The society would run so quick and so smooth. And it's not like we have to dismantle everything. It just says, hey, let's imply that, cut back on this, instill this, and I think we'd be good. It would weed out so many, I would say, criminals and individuals, like, so much mistakes, so many mistakes, because this is just directly, I'm picking this. We've had our Social Security leaked so many times, I don't even think it matters anymore. Like, and most people have such bad credits. It seems like, oh, this is such a big deal. But I'm like, if everyone already knows my Social Security, if everyone knows my identity, if someone can hack into my address, find where I'm at, where I live, what I'm doing, why can't the U.S. government figure out what I actually want? And they know what I want. Like, every day we're doing this thing where, oh, they can see you through the cameras, they can hear you through the mics, they can do this, they can tell what the name of your kid is most likely going to be. Like, we have the algorithms, and you're telling me we can't do that. So I'm not asking the United States government. I'm asking the people. What do you want to do? Like, if these people are absolutely not willing to do it, it's not like these people are dumb and don't know what they're doing. They're smart, and they know exactly what they're doing. You have to come up with an idea or a solution. And it's more than just, hey, I'm going to write a strongly worded letter. You're going to have to start yourself being in those positions. And then, not in those positions, you're going to have to start running. And you're going to have to start, like, hey, I'm going to just do one term. Like, this is my solution. I'm going to do one term. You vote for me one term. Or, you know what? No, better. I have a better solution. People going into those positions, changing one rule, and then quitting. And then going away. And then doing a mock election and getting another person to just do one rule, quit, and walk away. Not do ten, not do a thousand, one rule. Because that way, no one else can blame you and say all this. Like, we'll pick the top ten most popular rules and then just do that. And then we'll be like, okay, mock election. And if that person does not quit, the first rule that I would want, the first rule that absolutely necessarily needs to be put in place is a citizen vote to disband rules or elections. That is the first thing that needs to be made. Because with that power, we can initiate, the people can initiate a vote to get someone out. And then we can do another election. And if that happens, and you give the power back to the people, it doesn't matter what the next person is going to do. Even if they catch on to the scheme, like they just have one person, then they quit, then another person, then they quit. They'll be like, hey, we're just going to have a mock election. We voted you out. You can't serve. Someone else get elected. And if they're like, all right, I'm going to do this. And then, hey, I'm going to quickly do a side vote to cancel that out. Nope. We're going to make it so these specific rules say that at any time and any place that this could be enacted. And when you think, oh, okay, this is going to be bad because at any time, any leader can be outed. Okay. And why is it bad? Because then it will have chaos. We already have chaos. What's next? What's your next point? In fact, if people feel comfortable, they're going to, in their own way, say, no, I actually don't agree with the vote. I don't need this vote. I don't want to do this. Because, again, the people can have a majority. People should be capable of making those decisions. And if you feel that your people are not capable of doing these decisions, that your people are stupid, why are you leading them? Why are you leading people that you think are stupid? Why are you leading individuals that you think aren't up to bat? Why are you leading people that you are like, oh, these racist mongrels? I would never want to be led or lead some group that I don't think is capable of understanding. That's why I don't want to be a kindergarten teacher. I don't want to teach. It's not even like I think, oh, okay, kindergarten is probably easier to teach because they're willing and easier to listen to order and directions. But I go, I'm talking about the, there are some people that I do not want to teach. There are some groups that I would absolutely never want to teach. And I know myself, I wouldn't want to teach a group of kindergarteners all day. Not because I would hate it all my life, but because right now I'm mentally drained all the time. I would see the state of the world and I would go, I'm training these kids to just be another cog in the machine. And they can see that I don't, like if I don't care about my life, why should I care about yours? Oh, they're kids. I can't even train them because I'm always at risk of being fired for training them with actual tools and to identify what are actually detriments. That's why you always see teachers in fire. And then the teachers that deserve to be fired, like the racist, the bigoted, the absolutely egregious ones. They do get fired, but very rarely. And after you hear like, this was a teacher for 20 years and this was the straw that broke the camel's back. And then you also like, this was a difficult way to even fire them. So that bar is set way too high when you can say some absolutely, like if you said, hmm, you know what? I don't like Muslim people at all. I don't like any Middle Eastern people, but I will not treat them differently. And then the school will be like, okay, that's fine. The bar is set way too high to actually punish you. So, okay. Are you teaching LGBTQ stuff? Are you teaching people black history? You teaching kids to love and appreciate themselves? You teaching kids internet control? Like, yo, we're going to fire you. And we're going to blacklist you from everywhere. So you notice how they are so quick to throw down a hammer. And it's just like, they cause problems and then say that they're the only solution to it. They could easily roll out so many things. You know, like NASA, if you sent NASA right now to fix the cell phone issues, the spam calling, you said the CIA, FBI, all that stuff, with all the intelligence that they have to stop spam calls so people can stop getting their identities stolen, stop getting credit cards stolen, stop getting random Amazon. Like, if they really put the time to it, I guarantee you in like six months they'll have some algorithm that most people, I'm not saying all, most people can vibe to easily, efficiently. And then like so many people were like, hey, I feel safe to send a text. I feel safe to go outside and I can share my location. And I feel safe that people are caring and watching me and they're not going to kidnap me or kill me. I feel like I'm not going to talk about the police right now because I'm, you know, getting a little drawn and tired. But, you know, I'm going to say a little piece. If we revamped the police system to actually hold police accountable and we purge the police of these bad apples, people would be, you know, happier and safer and feel comfortable walking outside without, you know, worry or hesitation. In fact, accountability and actual pressures make good people. When you're not worried about a quota, when you're worried about the safety of the people and people are willing to give good reviews to cops, when people are, you know, because every time you see a police station, you'll see either five stars or one star. And usually one star is Trump or the five, but that doesn't do anything to the police system, but just show how terrible the police system is. If you've got a place that literally, like, a two-star, one-star police station, that's your protectorate group. What do you mean? And, like, people go, hmm, that seems like it's the civilians' problems. It's the people that we're supposed to be protecting. It's their problem. Like, no, that's a society problem. That's your problem. You're causing it. You're not impressive because you're not feeling, like, just because you don't think you're feeling the ramifications, everyone becomes numb. Numb people do not have a good time. Numb people don't enjoy things. And even weed, you know what, I'm going to keep going for a little bit. Weed used to be fun, but no one is having enough fun because weed would take the happiness and the memories and all the stuff and it would push it to the forefront, and it would be like, whoa, space and all this exciting things and math, and I can't wait to go see my friends and talk to the school and do all that stuff. Now, we are so drained and so emotionally challenged. Every time that I use weed, it's not as a drug to feel happy. It is as a drug to acknowledge the sadness and devastation so I can be sane again, to kind of awaken those parts in my brain that become so numb and desensitized, that feel like it's rotting, to say, this is not normal, or this is normal. For the first time, I can smell things and I can eat things. I can look at something and I can care. I can stomach it. I don't have to rush. I don't have to run. But then, I'm tired of taking weed because then it brings the bad memories. It pushes it to the forefront, which is good. I like it because it does that, but every time, it's like I'm trying to heal. And very few times do I have fun. I'm using this not as a recreational drug. I'm using it as medication. It is medication to me. And that's not good because the other medications could possibly be killing me and giving me harsher effects, but I need something to go, no, I can make it to the next day. But even when I have a good day, then I'm risking my life because I'm impaired for a while. And then you think, wow, okay, I've got to risk taking this car, taking a nap here, and all that stuff, and the bad memories. And if you have a bad experience with something, you're less likely to use it. And me, I've had multiple bad experiences because I don't think, hey, the problems that come to the forefront don't get solved. Like transportation. Like one time I was impaired, and even after six hours of not using, I was still a little impaired. I didn't realize it because I'm impaired. And I drove, and luckily nothing happened because I was very cautious and even pulled over and stopped when I was like, oh, I felt something. But, you know, I was just in PTSD. So two things can happen, multiple things can happen in your brain because all of this is the brain. Pains, feelings, breath, flashbacks, and all that just hits at once. And, yeah, I dealt with it. I cried. I got it. I didn't get it completely out of my system, but it helped eliminate this from like the forefronts of my psyche. But then I went, man, you know what would have been wonderful? If I could have taken an Uber or a car or there was a, like I could have stopped over and the police could have took my car for me, drove me back home. If there was a bus. If this was more walkable. If I could walk. If, you know, me and my family could live in close neighborhoods where I could just have done that there and never had to even risk this or even feel bad about risking people's lives because of my, I won't say careless mistake, but something that if I just was someone gave me a second or third opinion and explained to me a little bit more and saying, okay, this is your first time. Because I thought I was good. I really did. And it was never my intention, but I had to hold myself accountable. And I said, well, if I'm holding myself accountable, I don't think I can do this again. I don't, but I need to medicate because like, then I started becoming numb and then suicidal and stopped. I'm stopped able to like, thank you because I'm just so numb. I either see a doom scroll or I either see some of the most heinous atrocities or things that make no sense. Like why when I'm on Uber Eats and I'm like me as a crippled person saying, hey, I need someone to deliver my food. I will pay. This is what the, why I get a stipend and I go, why is it $30? For good food. I'm not talking about like some cheap like, oh, okay, let's go to whatever, QuikRite, Burger King, Wendy's, et cetera. I don't want to eat that. They don't have great health options. Salad, okay. Like lettuce isn't even all that great. It's like lettuce is good, but the deeper green, the better it is for you. And you're telling me I can't get a food that's actually made out of real, you know, wheat and vegetables and mushrooms, eggs, things that have considerable knowledge and balance where I can, like I got to go to the highest of highest ends to get the real good conditions of those foods. And I'm not even sure if that's even good conditions anymore because everything seems to get more and more expensive where it's like the blurring the line where things can be expensive and still terrible for you. It used to be like, now I'm trying to find a new pattern and trying to get the healthiest of options. And I'm not sure what I'm getting. Things are marketed as healthy when they're not healthy. And I have to just listen to my body, yes. I have to gauge with my body and how I'm feeling and dieting and all that stuff. But then there's still parts like water bottles, like microplastics. And I can't go, oh, I don't know about them. I know about them. And then the forever chemicals. And all these things are still barely aware. And I don't have the money or the resources. They'll say, here is the solution. You would have to, it's a 50K water filter. Or it's a water filter that $300 is to buy and $400 to install. And then you have to schedule this. In the meantime, you're going to have to just endure the microplastics and forever chemicals. And there's not a legislation or rule that says, hey, you know what, let me make that. Let me put that down. No, they don't have anything. You are just supposed to accept this. And I can't call on you. I can't call on my local representative. That's not my problem. That's not my issue. And I'm a veteran. You would think, like, I got denied for the special housing adaption. I got shot in my knee, my femoral artery. And, you know, I'm spooked. I'm scared. But they're like, okay, you're good enough. You're good enough. Other people have it worse. There's always other people that have it worse. There's always someone who has it harder than I do. And you go the way that they treated the Vietnam vets and all that stuff. And they'll be like, if you say anything, you're taking away from their care. Because no one's trying to take resources that aren't, you know, necessary. Like, no good person. I get there's some psychopaths. But they make it sound like you're always trying to take advantage. When I went to the military, they were like, yeah, just take whatever you can because they won't give you anything. So you're taking too much. And sometimes you think you're taking too much and you're still taking too little. And you don't know how to gauge because it's like if I don't take it, I'll spoil it. If I do take it, it might still spoil. But at least I have it and it is. And you're trying to grab and you're trying to give. And you don't know who to give it to. You don't know if you can. Because it's like I get medications. And sometimes our friends need those medications. Or they say that they need those medications. And all in good parts, I want to say, hey, I'll get those medications. I'll give it to you. But that's illegal. And it's also dangerous because if this person did not need this medication or their doctor didn't know that they were taking this medication and I killed my friend, I would mentally always be messed up. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. But it's like I don't know whether it's good or bad or right or wrong at this stage in this day and age because it's everyman, it's topsy-turvy. It's actually not topsy-turvy. I think it's necessary because people need to see that this is always around a possibility, that we can fall to the victims. We can fall to our own sword and hubris. We are not free just because we saw the Holocaust. We are not free just because we saw what happened in slavery. If these things aren't fixed and fully fixed and taken the time to be fixed, it will always be a lingering issue. If you saw something 90% of the way, that 10% is still there. If you say I'm going to wash the dishes and I wash 90% of the dishes, you're worried about that 10% because of the bacteria. Some things are all or nothing. Some things you could do a little bit today and a little bit tomorrow. It's a balance. It's an effort. It's an act. It's trying. Trying your best in whatever knowledge and whatever tools. We could do this, but we have to be able to say that we might fail. We ourselves might fail. More importantly, we might succeed, but we might not ever see the fruits of our labors. That is the hardest thing that I've ever had to accept. That we might not ever see the fruits of our labors. But I am more afraid of someone being in this position that I am. With zero tools. With no one to care. To be in the same stuck position. And we just all sit there together suffering. And there's no end. And that is what life is. That's when I create hell. Hell is something that's created. That's basically what I'm in. With no ways out. With no gauge. If, let's say, time travel existed, we would never know. Because it's like, well, actually there's no way and it's hell. And we're just going to sit here and we're going to be stuck together. Because it doesn't matter. Because I've given up hope. So I'm going to force you to give up hope. Because just because I've given up hope doesn't mean that I've given up luxury. So I'm going to be comfortable until I go into oblivion. Some people, they don't understand that it's not about simply suffering and pleasure and just coming into a grandeur because the strong survive. It's the type of strength. Why would you want to be that strong? Why would you want to be strong as an ox or live as long as you do or, what's it called, just survive to the next day until no one else is around? Why live on an empty planet where the majority, 70% of it, is desert or flooded or disgusting or inhabitable? And only 30%, eventually 30%, and ticking, going smaller and smaller, it becomes isolating. Every day you see the same backgrounds. Every day you wonder what's out there and you can't go because it's polluted or it's poisoned. It's inhabitable. And then you start to see how your own spot is poisoned and inhabitable. Because eventually, dirty people don't get clean because they move to a different house. They just dirty up the new house. Rich people are dirty people. Rich people that don't shower but you just buy new clothes doesn't mean that the dirt's still on their skin. They're just dirtying the new clothes. They don't become interesting just because they force you to listen to only their stories. They're still boring. And they're not cool because they make themselves the beauty standard. Eventually, we'll be like, cool, we've seen that. And then, it's always a natural thing. It's naturally that they will lose power. When you ask yourself, God, why is this? Why? How does this happen? Is it a natural thing? Eventually, if you keep eating, you're going to say, you know what, I'm full. And then, if you eat the same foods for, I don't know, 10 months straight, and you're like, there's other foods. You can smell it. You can hear it. You can hear the sizzle. You go, hmm, I don't want to eat this bread. You cannot live on bread alone. What has been happening, we've been eating bread for 12 years. It's just bread, bread, bread, and cheese, and meat, and bread, cheese, and meat. And then we're like, hey, there's fruits and vegetables. There's multiple colors. There's an interesting way to eat it. There are things in different cultures and remedies that food is a medicine. Like, hey, this one makes me feel good. And blood types and things like that, it makes me feel energetic. It puts me in this mood. It's an aphrodisiac. It cures my scars. It cures this. It helps me grow. Learning, it's not science versus nature. It's science and nature. Science is nature. It's a cooperative thing.