RFK Jr. Joins Forces To Fight For America's Physical, Mental, Spiritual Wellness # 462

Aubrey Marcus
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Hey, everybody. Well, thank you so much for coming out to our spiritual home here. We've done our best to cultivate a lot of beautiful energy here, both in the land and what the land can provide for us, and the connection between both. And that's why we're here. The connection between our personal health and planetary health and the man who we all believe, you know, that's why we're here.

We all believe who's going to drive a different type of wellness for all people, not only the people of the United States, but, as we once were, to become leaders of thought, morality, justice, and truth for the rest of the world. So we are at a time of epic proportions, and all of these efforts that you make, they all matter. And they matter now as much as they've ever mattered ever in the history of time. I really believe that. So thank you for showing up.

Thank you for being here. Thank you for lending your heart and support and really allow yourself to release into the experience today. You know, there's the magic both in the moments and the experiences, but it requires the participation of stepping in. So if you feel a little bug and you feel like dancing, when my brother Pirangi and Ashley are up here on the decks, just let it rip. This is a part of connecting back to who we really are, remembering who we really are.

People who dance, people who sing, people who smile, people who stand for what is right and true and beautiful. Thank you all for joining us. My name is Po Rangi. This is my partner, Ashley Klein. It's an honor to be here.

Po Rangi
First time here at the ranch in this very special occasion. So, just so you know, so what we do is a little different. I don't know what we're going to do. That's part of why it's different. Right.

And that's actually very intentional. And I think it's really apropos, given the circumstances here with Bobby. It's like we're all facing this uncertainty. We don't know what's going to happen. That's life itself.

That's the one thing that's certain. We don't know what's going to happen. And so we like to lead that way, because then we just show up and we get out of the way.

Ashley Klein
Inviting each one of us to listen. Deeply into our own bodies, giving ourselves and each other permission to move any way that we feel called to move.

Aubrey Marcus
All right, everybody. Well, we are here for a reason, and we're here for a cause. We're here because we believe something. We feel something in our heart, and we know that there's something more that's possible than what we've seen, because we felt it and we know it's real. There's no question about whether we know it's real.

And that's how I feel about Bobby Kennedy. I feel like there's no question. There's not a moment's waiver, there's not a moment's doubt. Because my heart recognizes heart, and it recognizes the connection through the field of source and love. And it pours out of him and every word that he speaks, every action he takes, no matter whether his ideas change, his heart never changes.

And that's the beauty of this man. And so I'd like to welcome him up on stage today. He'll be around with us all day. So here is the man himself.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Thank you. Thank you, Aubrey. Thank all of you for coming out here today, and Paulina. And this is an amazing event. It feels like the first day that I've been able to relax for a long time.

I'm grateful. About nine months ago, when I was first getting ready to announce and people already knew that I was going to run, I did the podcast with Aubrey. And when we were ending that after we were ended, I met Aaron for the first time at Aubrey's house. And afterward, Aubrey said, I had a vision that you're going to win this. And, you know, I was.

I was. I made the decision to run without really regards to whether I could win. I had to convince my wife I could win, and we had all. But, you know, for me, it was just. It was a choice that I felt like I had to make, and it seemed so implausible at that time, and yet now it seems plausible.

I'm really happy to be here with Aubrey, with all of you, and celebrate our commitment to spiritual healing in this country, to healing the mental health crisis. We're watching a whole generation of kids be sacrificed. 106,000 kids died last year from overdoses. We have a mental health crisis in this country. In every region, in the rural regions, in the urban areas, we have alcoholism and drug addiction that are hitting new spikes, new records, and then we have the sickest people in the history of the world who live in the United States of America today.

When my uncle was president, 6% of Americans had chronic disease. Today, 60% of our children have chronic disease. And something's happened, and nobody's talking about it. And we need to start getting people to recognize. I saw Kelly means outside just now, and he's going to do one of the.

One of the. And, Kelly, will you wave your hand? So he's going to do one of the panels with me later on. But, you know, one of the points that callie has made is that with diabetes, when we were young, a typical pediatrician would see one case of diabetes during his entire career. And today, one out of every three kids who walks through his office or is either pre diabetic or diabetic, and how is nobody talking about this?

This is the biggest crisis that we have. It's bigger than the economy. It's bigger than war. It's costing us $4.3 trillion a year. The chronic disease epidemic.

Our military budget is only 1.3 trillion. So this is just destroying our country, and it's destroying the souls of our children. And the autism rates have gone from one in 10,000 in my generation, 70 year old men, one in 10,000 today has autism. Why do one in every 34 of my kids generation of autism, one in every 22 boys, and nobody's talking about this. And, you know, when my uncle became president, he was already worried about the decline in health in Americans.

And Teddy Roosevelt was back in 1903, he was worried. That's one of the reasons he invited the Boy scouts in this country, because both he and my uncle believed that America's greatness, not only our democracy, had come out of the wilderness, but our toughness. That made us an exemplary nation, that we had this kind of beef jerky toughness from the exposure to the wilderness and to nature and to building our country out of the forests and the plains. Now we were losing that. And already the demographic data showed american health compared to Europeans, declining dramatically.

We were, when I was little, healthiest people in the world. We had the longest lifespans. We were robust. There was. You look at these old pictures, there is no fat people in the pictures.

And you're like, where are all the fat people? And you look at a picture today of people just walking through Disneyland or walking in Fifth Avenue, and it's just sad because people need to be healthy to have fulfilling lives. Physical health, as Aubrey has preached, is tied to mental health. It's tied to spiritual health. It's tied to our whole sense of well being, our connection to each other, our connection to communities.

When my uncle was president, he made a challenge, which was that he actually read a. He read a correspondence between. Teddy Roosevelt had written to the commandment of the then of the Marine Corps and said, what are the physical requirements for a Marine? And the commandant had written back and said that a Marine has to be able to walk 50 miles with, I think it was a 30 pound pack in a single day. So my uncle wrote the current command of the Marine Corps, and he said, can today's Marines do that?

And then he challenged the country to do 50 miles walks. He launched the president's council on physical fitness. If you were my generation, you grew up with that. In every high school, there was a physical contest every year for who could do the most pull ups, who could do the most push ups. And there was awards given from the president where you would be recognized.

And you see the old pictures you can watch on instagram of these kids doing. Typically, I think a typical high school senior could do 14 or 15 pull ups today, there is no chance that could happen. So he gave that challenge. My father, he then walked into a cabinet meeting, and he said, I'm doing this challenge to the american public, but some of you need to do this to show that we're committed to it. And my father was the guy who was selected, and he set out on.

He went to the Justice Department that evening. It was Friday night, and it was 06:00 at night. There were still people working here. And a lot of the people that my father had working for him, the Justice Department, are people who served with him during World War Two, where they had served with my uncle. A lot of them were marines who had fought in the Pacific and Iwo Jim and Guadalcanal.

They were tough guys. And he went and he said, and he chose Ed Guthman. He chose John Seigenthaler. He chose Dave Hackett. All of them had served during the war.

They were all really highly awarded combat veterans. And he said, you're gonna. I need you guys to come with me on this 50 miles walk. The next morning, they got up at 04:00 and my father was wearing sneakers. It was the middle of winter, and they were gonna walk down the c and O Canal towpath, which was where the mules used to walk to tow the barges, and on the C and O canal from Washington, DC to Camp David.

And I was a little kid, probably ten years old, waiting at Camp David for him to come. And all of the people who were with him dropped out because it was really difficult. My father, when his best friend, David Hackett, dropped out, he said to him, you're lucky your brother's not president of the United States. He could not drop out because the press was following him and there were helicopters and stuff. So he had no choice to walk the last 20 miles alone.

And I remember him when he came in and there were blisters on his feet that were bleeding, and he just lay down. And, you know, my mom was trying to comfort him, but he was miserable. So I did that. When I graduated college, I played rugby at college, and I got a bunch of members of my rugby team that right after grad, the day after graduation, we all walked from Boston to Cape cod. And again, I was the only one who made it because, you know, people, these were people who are in really, really good shape.

But the muscles that you need for walking are very, very different than the muscles you need for sprinting or playing rugby. And they just had really very, very bad physical ailments there. Their knees swelled up, and other parts of them just gave out from a 50 miles walk again. I walked the last 20 miles alone, but I was in tears. It took me almost 18 hours to do.

But, you know, when I get in the White House, I'm going to challenge Americans again to get themselves healthy. And we need a lot of leadership, and we need. And we're going to get rid of all the chronic disease. I'm going to identify the exposures very, very quickly, and I'm going to start eliminating them. And I know how to do that, and I'm going to talk about that later on tonight.

Uh oh.

We're going to heal this nation. Not only the vitriol and the rancor and the polarization, but also just heal our health, heal our mental health, and heal our souls and rebuild this sense of american community. So there's a challenge that I saw that my kids showed me on the Internet, and I don't know whether I'm going to do it today or not, but it's because I really don't want to make a spectacle of myself. I work out, but I work out alone every day. I don't have a trainer.

I don't have anything to work out with. A lot of people watching me would be, honestly, my worst excruciating nightmare challenges which those of you who feel like you're up to it. The challenge that I would make to people right now is this challenge that is a great challenge on the Internet to try to do a hundred pull ups and. No, 50 pull ups and 100 push ups. And the challenge is to try to do it under five minutes.

So I did it the first time, and I did it about five minutes and 30 seconds because I can do a lot of pull ups. The pull ups you can do by alternating your grip so the first time you do pull ups, the second time you do chin ups, and then you can do that. You have to complete all the pull ups before you start the push ups. Oh, you know, with girls, it's ten minutes. Yeah, you're welcome.

Anyway, I encourage all of you to do that or some other challenge. But, you know, let's try to get our country healed. Let's try to end the chronic disease and get our country back together again. And if I get elected, I'm gonna do that. I don't have any.

And once again, I want to thank Aubrey for his support, for his lifetime commitment to healing our country, healing our world, rebuilding communities that are dignified, that are enriching, and that are spiritually sustaining. And thank you all for being part of this army and his army. Very grateful to be here.

Aubrey Marcus
Well, unlike Bobby Kennedy, I love when people watch me work out. So I'm gonna be going and doing that challenge, so I'll be out there to see you guys. And just the tenacity that this man has, the work ethic that he has, it's inspiring to me, because I think I work hard, and then I think I'm so exhausted, I'm tired, and I think, well, fuck, Bobby Kennedy's working a lot harder than me, so maybe I just need to suck it up as well. And so he's an inspiration to me every single day. It is rare that I meet him and talk to him, and I don't actually feel emotions pouring through.

And this is why we're here, you know, it's because we fucking care. And I really think that there's nothing more punk rock right now in the world than to fucking care. Like, that's punk rock, to really fucking care and really give a shit. Let's rock out today, everybody. Love you guys.

50 pull ups and move to 100 push ups. Trying to all complete within five minutes. Oh, man, it's a beast. Let's go.

So, Gabrielle, I watched your TED talk as I was preparing for this, and I thought you had such an important message that is often overlooked. And it's just about strength, and there's a lot of strength of spirit, a lot of strength of mind. But you were actually talking about strength of body, strength of body. And if those of you are out there watching Bobby, Bobby whipped all of our ass, all of us strong men. Bobby took us to the mat in his five minute challenge.

And so, strength, obviously, is something that matters, but you actually understand exactly why it matters so much. And I'd love to hear you just speak a little pearl for everybody. Obviously, we have 45 minutes up here, so everybody's just going to have to hone it down to a pearl. But just share that pearl of wisdom or whatever pearl of wisdom is coming to you. I don't want to put you in a.

Put you in a corner. Well, thank you for having me. Yeah. A weak mind cannot exist in a strong body, and we have to understand that. We talk a lot about obesity and these diseases of chronic illness, but at the end of the day, it truly is about the physical strength, because the physical strength through skeletal muscle begets wellness in general.

Ashley Klein
How many in here believe that we have an obesity epidemic?

Actually, what if I told you that we have a midlife muscle crisis and that obesity, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's, these diseases are diseases of skeletal muscle first that begin decades earlier. And you're thinking, well, why do I care about this? Because we want a strong and capable country. We cannot sustain the lives that we are living. And it is the one organ system that we can do something about, skeletal muscle.

And it takes time and effort to become disciplined, to create and evolve its health. And with that, everything else falls into place. Metabolism, glucose regulation, all of the other pillars.

Aubrey Marcus
That's such a strong message. One of my favorite quotes is from my brother, Danieli Belleli, and he says, when you have a wild wolf living inside you, which means that you're able to hunt and roam the land, like Bobby was talking about, to be able to walk 50 miles, to be able to actually move your body and hunt and live like the primate that we are, when you have a wild wolf living inside you, when the mind is in doubt, the body provides tangible proof. And so when you know yourself as physically capable, it extends not only through everything that you mentioned, but also through that mental health. And we need strength of all sorts. And I think framing this, all of these epidemics, and saying, like, all right, let's focus on strength, you know, because there's a big message going out.

And, Callie, this may segment into something you're talking about where everybody's saying obesity, you know, is all genetic. Nothing you can do about it. Well, no one's saying there's nothing you can do about muscle. They don't even dare because they know that doesn't make sense. You just go to any gym and realize, oh, that dude's deadlifting, or that that woman squatting, and she's strong, you know, so that's an important message.

So I'd love to just. And maybe we'll be able to circle back and hear more, you know, of the details of that, but I'd love to go to you and talk about obesity and then the opposite way that it's being positioned in some of the kind of insidious ways that messaging is trying to take power from people and take agency from our ability to make ourselves well. This is why we're living in the most important year, I think, of our lifetimes and why this election is so important. We need to take what was just said, and we need to operationalize that into policy. Right now, we are being brought to our knees by chronic conditions.

Calley Means
Obesity is one branch of the tree of underlying metabolic dysfunction that's causing nine of the ten leading causes of death in America. It's causing 90% of healthcare costs, and chronic disease is the greatest invention, a profit ever created. Because what you can do, and we have a shameful statistic. I think the most shameful statistic in America is that 50% of teens are obese or overweight. We are poisoning our children.

That happens to be just a raw statement of economic factors. An extremely profitable dynamic. Because by not sharing that message that Gabrielle explained to kids, and saying that obesity is a drug deficiency, saying what Harvard researchers are now saying, it's genetic. Literally the American Academy of Pediatrics saying that every twelve year old who's overweight or obese should be on ozempic, a lifetime injection, and not on a path of curiosity. An injection that's going to cost $15,000 of taxpayer money per year, per person, 50% of teens and 80% of Americans in adults.

This drug is being pushed on, which is making it one of the most valuable companies in the world, the most valuable company in Europe. That a child that hears that obesity is no zip deficiency hears that obesity is genetic, not under the control. As a Harvard researcher who's going to profit a lot from this and it's paid by the drug maker, said that throw willpower, throw food, throw exercise out the window. We need to put these kids on drugs. That's what's being said.

And that's profitable, because if that child doesn't learn metabolic, eat healthy habit, if they don't learn how to build muscle, if they don't learn how to eat healthy, if they don't engender awe for the soil and what they're eating and what they're putting in their bodies, that kid is going to continue to rack up comorbidities. There's 5 billion prescriptions written in America per year. And that's driving the largest industry in the country. And the fastest growing industry in the country was just healthcare, where every single leverage of that industry depends on people being sick and sicker for longer periods of time and getting sick earlier. And we need a president who understands and has the moral clarity to call that out and take on the biggest and most powerful industry.

It's the existential. It's the existential issue of our time. All other issues we're being distracted with are bullshit. And I'll just quickly give a story of where I really think this ties together. But, you know, early in my career, when I worked for the food and farm industry, I was shocked.

In a lobbyist office in Washington, DC, to see a list of Harvard, Stanford and Tufts nutrition school researchers. And as a junior employee, I helped filter money to these researchers at prominent institutions. And I was like, why are we doing this? Well, those researchers were being put on the USDA panel nutrition guidelines. It's very simple.

The industry funds money. They just pay them. Not only research grants, but direct bribes. And in 2020, for example, the USDA nutrition guideline committee, 95% of the people on the committee, 19 out of 20, were paid for by food companies. Direct bribes.

And the USDA guidelines that we exist under today say that a two year old, that 10% of their diet should be added sugar, that flows into school lunch guidelines, that flows into normalization for parents. When you see the child's birthday parties and children being hopped up in sugar and the obesity rate among kids, parents are following government guidance. And the American Academy of Pediatrics was not speaking out when that happened. They have never spoken out about the nutrition guidelines. In fact, they take money from food companies.

But today, the American Academy of Pediatrics put out a press release and said that any obese or overweight twelve year old, as I said, needs to have Ozypic as the first course. Not after diet interventions fail, but as the first order, aggressive early intervention. We need a president who understands these dynamics. And I just want to make one more point, that these things can change very, very quickly. We need a president who has the courage to declare a public health emergency and take on pharma.

We need a president who is going to tell the NIH, no more conflicted research. 80% of NIH funding goes to professors with a conflict of interest. We need to have a president who's going to tell the NIH, we're going to study the impacts and what 72 shots mandating for our kids does.

And we need a president who has the moral clarity to tell the American Medical association that heart disease is not a statin deficiency. Diabetes is not a metformin deficiency. Depression is not an SSRI deficiency. These are metabolic issues because of our poisoned food supply, and they can be corrected very quickly.

Aubrey Marcus
Thank you, Kelly. Well, right on cue, that president just showed up and sits down on the couch.

Po Rangi
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Aubrey Marcus
You know, one thing that we were talking about on the podcast is we were. You know, there's a lot of people who are like Trump, drain the swamp. And the one thing I said to Callie is, he can't even see the swamp. Like, he can't even see it. Even if he wanted to drain it, even if you believe that he wanted to drain it, he can't see it.

We need someone that has the vision and is willing to listen and learn and look at the data and look at the studies to actually see what the swamp is. And this is it. This is where the heart of darkness is. This is what's sapping the life force and energy and love and juice and our spiritual power. It's all connected.

That's what's sapping out of our life. And this man I know can see that swamp, and he is going to get in there. I remember I was sitting with him in a ski lodge, and he said something. He was like, if they let me in, I'm going to fuck them so bad.

He's like, they better not. They better not. And it just sent chills in my body. Cause, like, oh, he's deadly serious. He is deadly serious.

So I'd love for you. I'd love for you to just comment and you've shared it before, but, like, what is that? What is that day? One week, one month, one action that you're gonna take when you step into office? Bobby.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Let me just say something that was going through my head so I don't forget it. When Kelly was talking about the corruption, the food supply, I had a. I hired an assistant who worked for me when I first started working for Riverkeeper, and she ended up. Her name was Connie Huff, and she ended up marrying my client, John Cronin, who was the Hudson Riverkeeper, who was a former commercial fisherman. But she got my job because she had worked for Kraft, which is a food company, which was headquartered in White Plains, New York.

And Kraft had been purchased by Philip Morris, which is a tobacco company. And she said the day that Philip Morris took over, they put ashtrays on every desk at this food company. But one of the things, and Kelly and I have talked about this, and Mark Hyman talks about it, who is a very, very close mutual friend of both of ours and who's really been helping me on this campaign, that they. The food industry really merged with the processed food, with the tobacco industry, and they brought in hundreds of tobacco scientists who taught them how to make processed foods addictive. So to make.

To put things in that it would make it, you know, make them addictive. So people literally get addicted to, you know, donuts and packages and salted food and all the sugar and all of these other ingredients, and they mass poison the american public. And, you know, I talked this morning about the obesity crisis, gone from 13% when my uncle was present in kids to around 50% today, even obese or overweight. And it's not because american kids just got lazy. They're being mass poisoned.

They're being poisoned by high fructose corn syrup and a thousand other ingredients that are all illegal in Europe. And yet that's what they're eating. They're eating these just chemical contaminants. And the federal government is colluding with them. Callie points out that 10% of food stamps from the SNaP program go to sugar drinks to Coca Cola.

And how coca Cola weaponized not only the AMA and the AAP, but also the NAACP to make them, you know, so that when there was moves in Congress to ban the use of food stamps to buy gallon jugs of Coke, the coca Cola gave millions of dollars to the NAACP. And the NAACP then condemned that as racist. NAACP is registered lobbyists of the Coca Cola company. Oh, and this is how they've taken, you know, they've perverted. He talked about the corruption of the universities.

University science is now paid for by pharma, but it's also corrupted all of these other institutions in our country that it's corrupted the press.

Roger Els, who I, who was the founder of Fox News when I was 19 years old, I spent three months in a tent with Roger Els in Africa. It's a weird story. I'm not going to go into it. But anyway, I had this very strange friendship with him from then on. This before, he had just stepped down from running the Nixon campaign.

And he and I ended up doing this project with him over the summer in Kenya and Tanzania. And then for the rest of our lives, we were friends. He was like Darth Vader to me, but we had this. He was very, very loyal friend to me. And at a time when no other environmentalist was allowed on Fox News, I was on Fox News all the time.

I was in on Hannity a dozen times. I was on Bill O'Reilly because he made them do it. I was on Neil Cavuto. And one time I went in, he had a son who was vaccine injured. And I showed him a documentary that we did in 20 1414 Coltrane.

It was about mercury and vaccines. And I asked him if he would let me go on some of these shows to talk about it. And he said, I can't do it. He said, I believe everything he saw the film. He said, I believe everything in there.

But if any of my hosts allowed you on tv to talk about it, I would have to fire them. And if I didn't fire them, I would hear in ten minutes from Rupert. I would get a telephone call from Rupert. Within ten minutes, he met Rupert Murdoch, who is the owner of Fox News and one of the points that Callie made is that which we know. They're not that interested.

They're putting his company. And Roger said to me, 70% of my evening news division revenues are coming from pharmaceutical companies. And I think it's about 30% of total network revenues come from pharma. But if you look at it, he said, typically on an evening news show, there's 22 advertisements, and 17 of those are pharmaceutical companies. So you can see them back to back on the evening news shows.

And they target evening news for two reasons. Old people watch the news, and that's their clientele. People who are sick, getting sick and sicker and sicker. But more importantly, it not only gives them a platform for selling drugs, it gives them control over content of the news. Because Anderson Cooper has, I think, a $22 million annual salary.

Well, probably 70% of that is coming from pharmaceutical companies. So those are, you know, his boss is not, is not CNN. His boss is Pfizer. His boss is Merck. His bosses and artists and all these other companies, and that's who he's working for.

And so all of these institutions of our democracy have been systematically corrupted by this industry. And that's what the swamp is. And, you know, I think Aubrey is right when he said that. President, I think President Trump honestly, earnestly wanted to drain the swamp. But I don't think that he knew how.

And I don't think, I think it takes somebody who is willing to go into a sort of granular level and to push back on his bureaucrats. President Trump said, he said he knew what was right in many cases. He said that lockdowns were wrong, that he wasn't going to do them two weeks later. We were doing them because he was not able to stand up against bureaucracy. He brought in John Bolton to run the NSA.

This is like the template for swamp creatures. He's like he brought in to run FDA and HHs, respectively. He brought in Scott Gottlieb, who was a business partner at Pfizer's, and Alex Azar, who's a lobbyist for the pharmaceutical industry. So he brought the swamp creatures in to run the swamp. Scott Gottlieb did a hundred billion dollar favor for Pfizer and then left FDA to rejoin the Pfizer board and to collect his payout.

And of the last seven Pfizer directors, six of them today are working for pharmaceutical companies. So that's what the swamp is. And if you go through all of President Trump's appointments, it was the same thing. He brought them from within industry, and they helped put this agency capture on steroids and turn these agencies into sock puppets for the industries they're supposed to regulate and predatory against the american public and against public health. They don't want public health.

Their job is to advance and promote the mercantile interests of these corporations that they have the revolving door relationship with. And 50% of FDA's budget comes from pharma. Of course. It's like I spent 30 years suing an EPA, which is a captive agency. It's captive by oil and coal.

But what would EPA look like if 50% of its budget came from Peabody, coal and Macie and console? And that its budget was dependent on the profit profiles of those companies year after year? Its job is to promote their commercial interests, not public health. And we're now, as I remarked this morning, the sickest country in the history of the world. They have the sickest kids in history.

And so what, you know, I'll be very brief about get to this long answer, short question. A lot of people will say even what I'm going to do when I get in there is I'm going to take that $42 billion budget from NIH, and I'm going to say that's given to 56,000 scientists around the world to do research, to research disease and drugs, etcetera. And I'm going to say to them, and it used to be that NIH, when I was a kid, was the premier scientific agency in the world. It was the gold standard of good science. Since then, it's become the biggest incubator for pharmaceutical products.

We changed the law in 1980. We adopted the Bay Dole act, which said that NIH scientists and NIH itself can collect royalties on every drug that they develop or they help develop. So that helped transition them from a real scientific research agency to an incubator for pharmaceutical products. About, I think in 2016, there were 220 new drugs approved by FDA, and every one of them came out of NIH. Oh, and the scientists who work on those drugs get to keep royalties, have marching rights for the patent.

They get to keep royalties, $150,000 a year per drug, and the agency itself gets to keep up to half the profits from that drug. So the Moderna vaccine is actually owned by NIH. And NIH gets 50% of the tens of billions of dollars that have been made by that. There are six scientists who work for NIH who have march in rights, and they get $150,000 a year forever, as long as mRNA products are on the market, their children, their children's children, their children's children's children will be benefiting from that. So these are people, these scientists, who are paying for their mortgages, their kids education, their alimonies, everything else from these drugs.

So I'm going to go down there and I'm going to say, okay, we're going to give drug development a break for a couple of, for eight years, and we're going to give infectious disease, we're going to give infectious disease a break, and we're going to stop doing gain of function studies which manufacture more of this crap.

And instead, we're going to figure out what's making our kids the sickest kids in the world.

And you can say to me, well, even if you figure out that high fructose corn syrup or glyphosate is causing the obesity epidemic, there's nothing you can do, because these industries are so powerful. They've infiltrated Congress, they've infiltrated the agencies. They own everything. And they have a million farmers who are trapped now in that paradigm. So how can you ever dismantle that?

I'll tell you how. You put enough science out there that the lawyers can step in and sue these companies.

And that's the short answer. Thank you. Let's go, let's go.

Aubrey Marcus
So we have a lot to get to today, and I want to get to our other panelists here, and I think I'm going to go to you, Luke, first. And you're someone who has swamp ray vision. You've been looking at this thing for a long time and talking about it on your podcast. So, you know, what else do you see that we may not see something that you have your eyes on that you'd like to bring attention to. And then, of course, we'll finish with you, Doctor Stickler, after Luke.

Well, I'm, of course, really passionate about the food that we eat and the water that we drink. But I think for me, the elephant in the room and for many of us are two things. First one, geoengineering, and Bobby's actually the first person at his level that I've ever heard publicly even address that issue. So hats off to you for that.

The second one would be electromagnetic radiation. And the thing about food and drugs and all the issues that we're talking about is that if somebody's properly educated and has the means to do so, they can eat organic food, you can avoid, maybe if you're careful, glyphosate, aspartame, some of these things, MSG, I mean, you can read labels, right? You can grow your own food but what you can't do is grow your own air and atmosphere. And because EMF is invisible, it's easy to ignore. And, you know, the regulation on that particular issue seems to be non existent.

And I have a personal beef with the EMF issue, you know, 5g towers everywhere, etcetera, because I lived in an apartment and I was already well aware of this issue. And I lived there for three years and I got terribly sick. And I'm like, you know, very committed to a healthy lifestyle, and I couldn't figure out what was wrong with me. And after three years, eventually, as fate and grace would have it, I discovered this cell tower, like, right above my bedroom. And then all of the symptoms I was experiencing were indicative of radiation poisoning.

Brain fog, vision problems, tinnitus, like all the things, right? So I immediately moved out and went and moved up into the canyon and tested everything before I moved in. But had I known that, had there been some public awareness, maybe if you move in an apartment or a home, make sure you're not next to a 5g tower and so on. So I think we have control to some degree over what we eat, but we don't have control over this radiation in our environment. And it's a massive, massive issue and is linked to diabetes and obesity and all sorts of other things that we attribute to flu, food.

And so to me, having the ability to breathe clean air and to live in an environment that is more in alignment with our ancestral way of living, which is, of course, you know, friendly to the radiation of the sun, the magnetism of the planet. So I'm all about taking care of your inner environment, but I think we could really use some emphasis on the outer environment that we have little or no control over. And I want to say one last thing about Donald Trump, because I just can't resist. A couple days ago, I saw an old tweet of his, and he said, you know, forget about 5g. We need to move into six and seven g immediately.

Po Rangi
I'm just like, ah. And again, you know, the EMF issue is something Bobby's addressed, too. And so he's a man after my own heart in many ways. But to answer your question, Aubrey, those would be the big ones to me, you know, is the things that we have no control over. And it's up to some sort of regulatory agencies and public awareness to change that and potentially litigators, as Bobby is saying.

Aubrey Marcus
Absolutely, yeah. Thank you, brother. I appreciate that.

So, Doctor Stickler, you're someone that we've had a relationship for quite some time, and you're really on the cutting edge of really how to optimize human longevity, health, and living. But I would be remiss, as Aubrey Marcus, if I didn't talk to you about a passion that both of us share, which is how psychedelic medicine can actually be utilized to help up level personal health, both on a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual level. Well, that one caught me by surprise. Really? Yeah.

Dan Stickler
I mean, psychedelic medicine, we've been studying it for probably 20 years now, and it's just now hitting the mainstream. But it's got this stigma associated with it. So we're not looking at it like a medicine. We're looking at it as this drug that is out there that we really don't know enough about it to put it into practice with all of the studies that are coming out now. I mean, take MDMA, for example.

Not necessarily a psychedelic, but it still falls in that class. MDMA was used over 500,000 times by marriage counselors prior to 1984 when it was banned. Those marriage counselors appealed. The DEA, they won, and the DEA said, well, we're still going to ban it. They did it a second time with a second judge.

Same outcome, same thing with the DEA. So they took this off the market. And all of these counselors, they said this was the absolute best thing that we ever did with our clients, because one session with MDMA was better than ten years of talk therapy. And we know about this with psilocybin, we know about it with ayahuasca. We know about it with ibogaine.

All of these have spectacular outcomes for people, and we're having to go generally out of the country in order to get access to it. And one of the biggest areas that I'm concerned about is the medicalization of these substances. If they get medicalized, you're going to lose all the aspects of it. Set in setting will go out the window. I mean, just look at the ketamine clinics now.

You go in most of them, you're on a gurney with an iv in your arm. Looks like a sterile environment. That's not the way ketamine should be done. Set in setting is 90% of the outcome of that experience, and it's going to be the same way with the psilocybin, same way with the MDMA. If they follow too closely to a clinical approach to it, it's just going to fail.

And so I'm hoping that we get more along the lines of legalization rather than medicalization of that. That's the concerns that a lot of us that use psychedelic medicine are concerned about, and I believe that you are the person that can make that change because it needs a drastic change, and. You'Re the one that can do it.

Aubrey Marcus
So we gotta wrap this panel up. But just, Bobbie, if you want to respond to that heartfelt request, and keep in mind, Doctor Stickler is a medical doctor, and he's referring this. So he's saying something that comes from experience of both worlds and a real knowledge of what these substances are and how they can be used for genuine medicine.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
You know, I've been in recovery for 40 years, and so I'm a hard person to convince that you can fix what's wrong inside of you using a pill or a power or a potion or anything that's outside of you. And that was kind of my attitude for most of my. Until five years ago. And I had a.

My wife took her on life in 2014. I cut her down from the rafters, and she left me with six kids who were profoundly impacted by that experience. And all of them were at risk. One of them in particular did not process her death. And the things that happened before that, in ways that seemed to me that it was a healthy way, and he ended up doing it.

He was a great kid. He was a boxer. A lot of things he did were violent, were extreme. He became a very good boxer and a good hockey player. And then he became a top rated big air skier.

And he ended up, in, about five years ago, going to Patagonia to do a Whitewater kayaking trip. And on that trip, he had an ayahuasca experience. And when he came back from that trip, in that experience, he encountered his mom, and she passed through him again and again. And he felt all this forgiveness and compassion. Sorry, my duck.

It's cool.

I apologize.

He experienced this compassion and empathy and understanding and forgiveness. And when he came back from that trip, he was completely transformed in many, many ways. Very happy, very open about talking about his mom, and very conscious of people around him. I've said this before, that he started taking out the garbage, he started washing dishes. He had this extraordinary spiritual realignment, and it happened from just this one experience.

And then I saw his brothers ended up doing it, and they had similar transformative experiences. I became a strong believer. I had friends in the NFL, friends in the Navy Seals, who were having extraordinary healing from psychedelics. So I've become a convert and a big promoter of them. I agree with doctor fish that what we need to avoid is we need to legalize them.

We need to keep them in the hands of small businesses and therapists, and not under the control of the pharmaceutical industry, of the tobacco industry, or the alcohol industry, which all have their eyes on them right now and look at them as a potential profit center, which I think will be a catastrophe.

Aubrey Marcus
Well, I've been able to have the blessing to have many of you in conversations on my podcast. Please. I look forward to this moment where I can dive in deeper with both of you. I'm sorry. This time up here on this panel is so short.

I could obviously go on and on and on. But thank you so much for coming up. Thank you, Bobby, for responding to everybody. Appreciate you all deeply in your work in the world. It is felt and it fucking matters.

It matters.

Ashley Klein
Scruffy girl. Oh, hi. Hi. Oh, she gonna give me kisses.

Aubrey Marcus
The reasons that I respect Bobby Kennedy is he's someone that stands up and believes in things that I actually deeply care about, but would never expect to arise in the political arena. And it's surprising and refreshing to experience trust and integrity in someone that's involved in politics, because my perspective before meeting. And connecting with him and getting to. Observe him was to not trust anyone in the political sphere. So to inject genuine honesty into that.

Po Rangi
Space, I have immense amount of respect for it.

Calley Means
There is one existential issue in the country, which is that our kids are getting sicker, fatter, and more depressed. 33% of young adults have prediabetes. 50% of high school seniors, by some measures, have a mental health disorder. This is the biggest issue in the country. And the RFK.

There's one candidate who said on day one he's going to declare a state of emergency for public health. Much more important than COVID, much more important than these fake issues we're talking about. The biggest issue in the country, the biggest public health issue, is childhood health. And there's a candidate who knows what to do, who's going to take on the special interests, who's going to execute policies to get children healthier, which is the most important issue we face.

Aubrey Marcus
Well, I'm going to start with you, because you made strong eye contact right from the start. Rylan. Rylan. It kissed the ground. You know, this is this for me?

You know, I saw your beautiful film, and thank you for making that film, because, you know, if you're talking about building from the ground up, like, building from the ground up means building from the soil up, like, it really, really does. And we've done our best here. And I don't know where Kyle is, but he'll be here because he's a steward of this farm. But we've done our best to make ground that I want to kiss, like, literally. And so if you want to just share.

And again, we only got 45 minutes, and we got six people up here, so we'll have to just share a pearl, but a pearl from what you've been standing for, for the years and the service that you've been providing. Thank you. Well, just start by saying it's a real honor to be here and to speak to the message that dell just spoke. Eleven years ago, I saw in five minutes a conversation that awakened a new vision, that it was actually possible for life to get better in seven generations. And I, at that time, had been running restaurants, health and wellness, vegan cafe, gratitude guy.

Ryland Engelhart
And in five minutes, I saw a vision for regeneration was the awakening that happened. And I could actually feel in that moment, the feeling that it was to be a human being on the earth, where regeneration was the conversation and the context and the relationship we had with Mother Earth.

And it took ten years of blood, sweat, and tears, starting in my living room and then in my garage with Finian Makepeace, co founder of Kiss the ground, to awaken. That message, which came out in the film Kiss the ground, was released on Netflix over COVID and has been seen by 10 million people and has led to the transition of 200 million acres of land worldwide.

And so, yeah, I mean, I think the thing that there is to say is that I've been asking people ask me why I'm optimistic, because love and regeneration are perennial. I don't know the timeline, but I know at the heart of who I am, love is here. And that goes the same for all of you. And that I know the patterning and the design of nature is regeneration. And if I can stand in the herculean effort of all the distraction, the drama, chaos, the perceived, other than that, knowing that that is what is true, that love and regeneration is what is happening.

And I can take actions from that information, from that space that gives us the opportunity to see something new. Thank you, my brother. Thank you. Beautiful, beautiful message. Chase.

Aubrey Marcus
You know, your people, the first nations people of our beautiful country, they've suffered as much as any people. And there's been a lot of people who've suffered, and I'm not trying to make a suffering competition, but they've suffered deeply. And when you hear this message of regeneration, you know, do you still. Do you have hope? Do you have hope for your tribe and all the tribes that you've, you know, shared with me or getting together and talking?

Do you believe, and do you feel that real regeneration and healing is possible from the absolute carnage and tragedy that has befallen our first nations brothers and sisters? Wow. Thank you for that. Kola iyuha Echichia, lila daya yahipelo iyuha. My name is Chase Ironize, and I come from the Lakota people, the Sioux nation.

Po Rangi
I grew up on the standing rock reservation, and in our way, a man who is, you know, my father is a very good brother and strong contemporary of Bobby. And I know that a lot of people that are here are searching themselves for strength and redemption and deliverance and salvation from a corporate abstraction, a separation of the mind from the spirit. A colonial process, a process that is instigated by the colony, was instigated against european people before this great country was founded. So all of us have been subjected to. Earlier I heard a man say that we are all indigenous, we are all native, and we have this potential to connect with our divine nature.

So we have been through a lot, brother, but we have hope, and we have courage that is unconquerable, and we want to share that. I believe in Bobby. That's what brought me here. And I believe in this country. I believe we can save ourselves, and I believe we can do this by strengthening each other.

Each and every one of us matter. Thank you.

Aubrey Marcus
A lot of inspiring words. Zen. You know, I want to talk to you about. There's the colonization of our people, and there's the colonization of our bodies and our land through the poison that comes through needles and comes through sprays and comes through fucking helicopters that are just dropping poison and have been, and then leading to these epidemics and these chronic illnesses. And I know that you've been someone who, with that courage, like chase, is standing up and saying, no, no more fucking done.

Ashley Klein
Yeah. My work for the past twelve years, working to ban glyphosate and raise awareness about GMO's and chemicals and the food supply.

Thank you. Which brought me to meet Bobbi Kennedy and have him be an advisor on our nonprofit moms across America. But I'm here today as an individual and as a mother and as a citizen who knows that without health, we have nothing else. Right? Our relationships don't work, our missions don't work.

Sorry, abortion laws, all that, don't matter if we cannot procreate, you know, nothing else matters. So I am here to represent the mothers and the children as individuals that say, enough is enough. And Bobby Kennedy is the only presidential candidate who has sued corporations and the government 500 times to get these environmental toxins out of our environment.

And he is the only one who has said that if in the first term, he does not dramatically reduce childhood chronic illnesses, he does not want to be reelected. Right? He's holding himself accountable for health. He is the only one that's doing that. And I want to invite all of you to consider that his commitment is what needs to guide us in our daily actions.

And I'm going to give you an example from my own personal life, because it starts at home, right? So my son Ben was eight years old, and he was sitting at the breakfast table, and when he was five, he almost died from pecans and the stuffing. You know, this allergy increased 400% since gmo's and glyphosate were put in the food supply and putting holes in our kids small intestines, right? So he had 20 of those different allergies. And he was looking at me one day with a red line around his mouth.

It looked like he had been sucked on by a vacuum cleaner. This had been going on for seven months, two weeks at a time. Lips swollen and cracked and bleeding and going to school like that. And he looked at me forlornly, and he said, mom, I wish all my allergies would go away. And I said, me too, buddy.

But in my head, I was thinking, that's never going to happen. Because the doctors had told me it would only get worse. With every nut allergy exposure, it could be fatal. And then I stopped and listened to that voice was saying in my head. I was like, wait a second.

That's not empowering. That's not what I'm committed to. I'm committed to being courageous and creative and a contribution in the world. What if there was something that was possible around my son and his allergies? So I remembered my cousin Sarah, who had gone gluten free for a year and was then able to eat gluten, you know, a piece of wedding cake or a piece of pizza at a birthday party.

And I reminded my son Ben, and I said, would you like to someday eat a piece of pizza at a birthday party, like a year from now? And he looked at me and he said, yes, because that wasn't possible then, right? I said, then, would you be my partner in your health? Would you drink green drinks and do acupuncture and try chinese medicine? Would you do whatever it takes for your health?

And he thought seriously about it, and he said, yes. And I said. I stuck out my hand, and I shook his hand. And I said, then, I promise you, buddy, you will get better. Now.

That was one of those moments, like white light chills. I didn't know how the hell he was going to get better. I did not know, but I did know if I made a promise and put my word on the line as a mother, I would take actions that I normally would never take. And we did. Within four months, my son's allergies were dramatically better.

By going completely organic, his nut allergies went from a 19 down to a 0.2. He no longer has life threatening allergies. The doctors were wrong.

He has some of the best. COVID. One day coughing. That's it. He has not been to the doctors in ten years.

Okay? So he's incredibly healthy now. What Bobby is doing is putting his word on the line, right? He is making a promise to us in our country. What we need to do is make a promise that we're going to do whatever it takes to put this man in the White House.

Every single one of us. I want you to raise your hand if you're gonna do whatever it takes. Max out your contributions. Max out your contributions. I'm not kidding.

Cause an event in your local neighborhood, you. You're the ones that are gonna cause a fundraiser in your local neighborhoods, okay? You're gonna call your friends and family. You're gonna send them the link to Joe Rogan podcast or Aubrey's Pac podcast, and say, listen to this. My son is 20 years old, and he's paying his friends $10 to listen to the first hour of the Joe Rogan podcast, 1999.

And he's a libertarian, you know, so if he can do it, we can all do it. We can bring everybody together and get this man in the White House. Let's go. Let's go.

Aubrey Marcus
So, Kyle, you're up here, my brother. And first of all, I just want to say my own, you know, give my own gratitude to you for stewarding this beautiful piece of land that we have here and helping lead this farm. Into the beautiful place that it is. Thank you, Kyle. One of the obstacles that people have to overcome in standing for Robert F.

Kennedy Junior is the courage. The courage to be attacked, the courage to stand. Just fucking stand, no matter what. And I look to you, and you inspire me as a. As a warrior archetype.

And, of course, all of us find that. And we've felt that coming strong, you know, over here, so strong. But for you to give a message, you know, there's many things that you could talk about and just a moment, though, about the courage to stand. No matter whatever arrows may come and no matter whatever consequences those dark forces may try to throw at us, how do we stand? How do we find that courage to not just privately support this man, but publicly stand and take whatever arrows come?

Po Rangi
Thank you for the love and loaded question.

I think of king, warrior, magician, lover. And one of the statements they make in that book about the warrior as an archetype is that the warrior.

Aubrey Marcus
The. Warrior faces life frontally, head on. The warrior doesn't look away. And all of us feel this swelling moment of polarity and the divisiveness of the world right now. But we know in our hearts our connection to nature.

Po Rangi
We know that we love each other. And.

That, to me, is stronger than the hate that's online. That, to me, is stronger than all the divisiveness. And when we feel the truth, it resonates through our whole body. Dan Stickler talked about plant medicines for personal health. Plant medicines gave me nature health.

They gave me planetary health. They reconnected me to nature. And I feel that when we find these things that are true for us, we know the only way forward is the truth, and we know there's no other way. And when we see someone like Bobby, who is speaking the truth in a sea of fucking lies and is about it, he's about nature, he's about unity. He's about cleaning the world in a way that's not just jibber jabber on television.

There's really no other choice to make. And even if it comes to arrows in the back, you know, whatever the thing is. Oh, you know, somebody from the left, well, he's not a real democrat or somebody from the right, well, he's gonna take your guns away. Whatever the thing is that somebody's gonna have as their first loaded statement on why to say no. We know why.

We believe in you, Bobby. We know the yes. And I think if we allow that truth to speak through us, there is a way that we can connect to other people through the heart. And with that, that transmission takes place. Same transmission Purangi gave us this morning, same transmission I'm trying to cultivate.

We're trying to cultivate together with this land where you step on the land and there's a. Whoa, what is this place? Right? The energy shifts. And I can feel that energy shifting now, not just through all of us, but in the conversations that we have.

There's a knowing when we talk to our friends that's different than being one side or the other. And I think if we stand with that, knowing, the truth comes forward and Bobby is our next president.

Aubrey Marcus
Yes, sir. Thank you, my brother. Thank you, my brother.

Charles. Charles, my good friend, I'm not even going to cue you up with a setup. I just want to hear you speak from what's in your heart and what you're listening to. Yeah. Zen, your story really landed with me, this image of this desperate little boy.

Charles Eisenstein
I just want my allergies to go away. 22 allergies. And it just, you know, reminded me that that is not an isolated story. There are millions and millions of children and adults in this country in misery and hopeless misery behind all these normal looking faces. You go out anywhere.

There are countless stories.

And it makes me admire human beings so much that even with all of that, they can still be polite to me. At the TSA line, you know, what Zen described was the same thing that Bobby Kennedy is offering our country, because it's not just a critique. It's not just finally getting honest with how with the state that this country is really in, but it's also offering a way forward. And that way forward is not more of the same. It's not, well, listen to your doctors more.

It's not to intensify the fight that has been. That we've been fighting for, I mean, on some level, for thousands of years, according to the formula of the way to improve the world is to destroy the bad thing. That has been the guiding philosophy of our medicine for a long time. Destroy the virus, wash your hands. You know, stop.

Stop something. Go to war against something. It's been the guiding philosophy of agriculture. That's what Roundup is, an improved way to destroy things. And that has been to draw another parallel, us foreign policy.

Eradicate the terrorists, destroy the communists and so forth. And we saw. We are seeing the failure of that. And in politics, too, destroy and humiliate the horrible people on the other side. So in all of these ways, this candidacy is expressing another path, something genuinely new on, I won't say on this earth.

Indigenous people have been holding a very different relationship for a long time, and many of us, with our hippie parents in the margins, have also been holding that. But now is the moment that it can come into the mainstream. That's why I'm on this campaign. I never imagined that I would be on, like, a mainstream. I mean, I guess I'm not sure if that's the right word, presidential campaign, where these ideas that I've been working with and thinking about my whole life as a philosopher, they're not just ideas anymore.

They can actually happen.

And to pick up on Dell's theme, when people ask me, well, but can he win? And I say, he will win, that is not a prediction, that is a declaration, because it is not going to happen by us standing by and watching it happen, because all of us in various ways are carriers of a new story, of a new theory of change, of a new way of relating to each other and to the earth. Well, again, not new, ancient, new and ancient, let's say. And so this is, as Del was saying, a vessel for the expression of what we have been carrying. And it's going to take some commitment.

It's going to take some sacrifice. A lot of people will say, well, what can I do? And in that question, sometimes I'm like, you know, you actually already know what to do. And that question is coming from a certain barrier inside of actually doing it. And it does remind me a lot, like what Del was saying about, well, pray, you know, praying for you.

It reminded me a lot in COVID, you know, when we dissidents, we put our stuff out there, we got canceled, we got deplatformed, and people would write to us and say, thank you for speaking out. I can't do that, but I'm glad you are. And I'm praying for you. And I'm like, if the example of human beingness that you are offering to God, as here's what a human being does when it's dangerous to stick your neck out is to play it safe, then if I do that, how am I ever going to expect anybody else to stick their neck out? Because I'm declaring what a human being does in this situation.

And so I think that stepping out to support Robert F. Kennedy Junior, it takes a little bit of courage because you will get attacked, especially if you're afraid you will be. Because then that's something coming up for you to face. It's an initiation. And to answer the question, where does courage come from?

For me, it comes from clarity. When I know what is true, what is right, what I want, then I have no inner conflict. So not sure where I want to go with this next. Probably nowhere. But, yeah, just to give a sense of really, this is a historic moment.

It is an initiatory moment for our entire planet toward a new way that incorporates all these disparate policy positions. There is a common thread here.

Aubrey Marcus
Yeah. I'm really grateful to be part of it. Oh, one of the things that. Thank you for that, Charles. One of the things that impresses me most is not just you, the man that you are, but the effect that standing as a lighthouse, as a beacon, the type of people that you've attracted, I mean, just look at this panel.

Look at the last panel. Look at all of these beautiful people. Look at what standing as a lighthouse does to bring people together. And that's why when you're president, you're going to heal the divide. You're going to heal the divide because the gravity, the gravity of that force is going to be so strong, it is going to pull people in, and it's pulled the best of us in already, and it's going to continue to inspire and pull people in.

So we got probably, I don't know, six, seven minutes here. And why don't you just speak from your heart as the lighthouse that you are, wherever you want to take it.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
First of all, we thank you and thanks all of you for coming out and giving us Saturday up to, you know, to participate in this healing event and show support for this campaign. As Aubrey says, really humbling to have so many extraordinary people, people out there who are willing to do that. And these people on this stage who are all, in one way or another, linked to me through most of them, through long friendships. Zen, who came to every day virtually. The Monsanto trials were all we were trying those and has been a friend for I don't know how many decades, but a long, long time and a leader against glyphosate Monsanto.

But she came to Oakland and San Francisco. When we were trying the three cases, we won 289 million. The first one, we won 89 million. And the second one, and the third one, we asked the jury for a billion dollars and they gave us 2.2 billion. And that brought.

And then Ryland here, somebody said to me the other day, one of the people actually, that we're talking to about the vice president position, and that person said to me, the answer to everything is in our soil. We can pay the national debt if we restore our soil. We can stop the chronic disease epidemic if we fix our soil, we can fix climate change. If we fix our soil, all the existential threats to our country, we can make ourselves self sufficient. We don't have to be in wars anymore.

And all of that's going to come from fixing our soil. And that's going to be one of my priorities as president. I've spent.

I've spent many decades suing the food industry, but particularly industrial agriculture, Smithfield Foods, Tyson, Purdue, Cargill, Monsanto, all of the big companies. Us, which was created to support small farmers in this country, which Jefferson believed were critical, the sustenance of american democracy, that America had to be rooted in tens of thousands of independent freeholds, family farms, each with a stake, our system of government, each with our stake of democracy. And we had to avoid control of our landscapes by big oligarchy of a corporate kleptocracy. And that's right where we are today. Of Smithfield Foods, that now owns 30% of hog production in this country.

80% of the land base are agricultural land based in North Carolina. One company, and guess what? It just sold itself to China. So China now controls the american landscape. This is a colonial model.

It is not a model. This is a feudal model. It's not a model for democracy. And, you know, I want to unravel that. And then Charles.

Charles has really been not just the conscience of our campaign, but the voice. And, you know, in all of my life, I've always been very guarded about letting anybody write for me in any public forum. I write my own books, my own tweets, everything. And I finally found somebody who can express my thoughts better than I can, and that's Charles.

And he's taught, you know, he's taught all of us in this campaign these extraordinary lessons that you learn every time he opens his mouth and is just a beautiful, beautiful thing. And I'm very grateful to him. I've done a lot of things to make his life very, very difficult, but he's stuck with me, and that's what love is. Love is effort. It's not the feeling.

It's what you put into holding onto a relationship, even when it's really, really difficult. And some of the policy areas that I've different with him on, it made his life really difficult, but he was very. Showed a lot of courage in sticking with it, and I'm very grateful to you, Charles. Yeah. And, you know, Bobby, like, does not surround himself with sycophants and yes, men, you know?

So I learned that from my children that, you know, they're here to abuse you.

And Kyle. It's really good. We have a new friendship now, and. And I'm very grateful to you, and I haven't gotten to talk a lot to you, but what little I have, what little time I've spent, I'm very. I know we're aligned on everything, and then I'll close.

Just talking about Chase. I didn't know Chase before today, but as he alluded to, I'm very close friends with his uncle. I've spent a lot large, 20% of my career working on indian issues, I was one of the founding editors of Indian country, what was called Lakota Times, which started on Pine Ridge reservation. My father spent a full day on Pine Ridge reservation in 1968 when he was running for president, and he saw a family of Sioux living in a burnt out hulk of an automobile, and he cried. And it was the only time in his life, even after his brothers death, that anybody had ever seen him cry.

And that word spread on the reservation. He spent 6 hours on that reservation. There were 20,000 white people waiting for him in Rapid City, and his aides told him, we got to go to Rapid City because Indians don't vote.

He said, if you think I care about that, you don't understand your candidate. And he spent the time on that reservation the day that he died. He won the most rural country, the most urban state in our country, California, and, shockingly, the most rural, which was South Dakota. And he won it because for the first time, the suit came out and almost all of them voted. And he won that vote almost unanimously on Pine Ridge reservation.

I think there was only four or five people who voted against him. And every time I go back there, people say, we're still looking for those guys. I spent a lot of time. I spent a lot of time on that reservation, on Pine Ridge, on Rosebud, on Standing Rock. I became very, very close with his uncle, who's an extraordinary, now an elder, but when I met him, he was a young man.

And the two of us went to the Arctic in 1993 to help the Cree, Cree Indians, who own most of northern Quebec. They never lost a war. They never signed a treaty. And they, in 1993, they heard on the radio that the government of Quebec was going to build on their land 600 dams and dikes, and they were going to dam eleven huge, major rivers going into Hudson Bay. At James Bay, they were going to inundate an area larger than Lake Erie.

So they were going to. They were going to create a lake larger than the Great Lakes, one of the Great Lakes. They were going to destroy the ecosystem larger than France. And it was all land occupied by the Cree for 20,000 years. And they, a group of them and some Inuit loaded up in kayaks and canoes, dragged them across the ice, went down to St.

Lawrence, and dragged them across the ice. I brought them down to Hudson, and they met with me in New York City and asked me to come up. And Everett and I went up there to northern Quebec. It's a long way. We were up in Watmogushdui, and Chisasibi and a lot of these towns, 800 miles from the nearest paved road.

And we brought up 16 members of the New York state legislature, and we did the first descent of the great whale, which is a really big whitewater river. And we lived in teepees for three weeks. We shot caribou, ate them, shot moose. We ate. We had about 23 women with us who would put up the teepees for us at night.

The men never did it, I noticed, which was interesting.

And those legislatures then went back and voted against the contract that was going to enable as a $16 billion contract. And we killed the project. And Everett was with me, and I spent many. Everett became a good friend. I brought my kid, my father brought us all out to do naming ceremonies in the western reservations.

We went to Choctaw, Shoshone, Cherokee, Hopi, Navajo, every reservation. In my father's first month of his campaign, he made 70 stops, and ten of them were on indian reservations. So he was really committed to that issue. And I've spent a lot of time. As I said, I was one of the founding members of Indian country today, the largest newspaper in indian country.

It was originally called Lakota Times, but I brought my kids out to do naming ceremonies at Standing Rock switch lodges, like we're going to do tonight with Everett. Everett put it together. So it's really a huge pleasure for me. And then I ended up representing, because of that, our success there. I ended up representing Indians in treaty negotiations and in litigation against big oil companies, chemical companies, lumber companies, mineral companies all over North America and Latin America, Ecuador.

I spent ten years on Vancouver island, representing the new Cheltenhu, Hausett, Ahuzit, and many, many other tribes out there suing the biggest lumber company in the world, successfully, by the way. And so, anyway, we have a long, long journey together. Really a huge pleasure. Everett will not get on an airplane, but I'm really glad that he sent his nephew out here to do this wetwatch with us. Yeah.

Aubrey Marcus
All right. Well, it's been an absolute honor to sit on a panel with all of you, you know, warriors of love and spirit and great spirit, and thank you all for your work and your service. And as I said to you, Bobby, to the end. To the end. Thank you.

Po Rangi
Thank you all for being here. By the way, thank you for spending a little bit of time with the next president of the United States.

I have the honor of being the director of communications for the Kennedy campaign, probably the hardest job I've ever had in my life. I'll be honest, I've never been so busy in my life and never been so happy to be busy. I really want to address a thought, though, with all of you, because obviously, many of you have had successful lives. Many of you paid a very large ticket to be here. And we're thankful for that support.

But the question is, and we keep hearing, can Bobby do it? Is he going to do it? Many of you are walking up to me and saying, we're praying for you. Is he going to get on the ballot? And I just want to take a moment to think about what it's actually going to take, because there's only a few of us.

There's Robert Kennedy Junior, offering up his life and his knowledge and his vast experience to make the world a better place. So many of you in this room are involved in processes in your life to make the world a better place. How did you do it? How did you get there? How did you achieve?

How did you make your money? Did it happen? Because you kept saying to yourself, oh, geez, I'm not sure this is going to work, because I remember the decades I spent doing that, man, why won't anybody give me money to make the movie I want to make? Because it's going to be really good. And over the years, I realized I actually just really didn't believe.

You know, when miracles happened, you know, when miracles actually happened in my life was the moment I saw something I so totally believed in. I never questioned it again. That's what vaxxed was for me when I stumbled on the story of vax. Thank you. And the whistleblower inside the CDC.

Many of you know that story. When I sat and watched that documentary, there was a set of miracles that put me in that room. But when I sat in that moment, I did for the first time. See, my whole life passed before my eyes. All of the mistakes I'd ever made, all the successes I'd ever had, all the fish that got away, all the stories, all the victimness, all the why me?

All the moments. And I realized all of that was training me for this moment right now. I've never been so sure of anything in my life, everywhere. And I know you all know this. Up until that moment, all along the way, every time I'd have an opportunity, another opportunity pop up, I'd be like, oh, man, which one is it?

Which drove me crazy. It'd be a vast desert for two years, nothing happening. And then finally, a really awesome call. They love my screenplay. And then five minutes later, somebody else loves it, too.

And my life worked like that. It was divided. Whoa. What is it going to be? Until the miracle happened.

Until I found something I believed in so much. There was only one decision to make and that was to take the first step, and there was only one direction to go, and that was forward. And my life has never been the same since. People say, did you know you'd be here? Did you know be part of running the campaign for the guy that's in third place for president of the United States and looks like he just could win?

No, I didn't. But what I did know is in that moment where I left my tv career behind and took a step forward to make a documentary, I knew it was going to change my life forever. I knew we were going to change the world around this conversation. I could feel it. I knew it.

I believed it. And see people walk up to me, and many of you will do it. You'll say, oh, thank you so much for your sacrifice, for my sacrifice. Obviously, we've been poorly trained. If we think the people that get to wake up every day of their life and be inspired and have no forks in the road and march forward confidently every day are somehow sacrificing their lives, then we are missing something.

The greatest thing any of us can do right now is live totally, completely in our miracles. To absolutely live right now. You know why you're here. You know why we're all here. The question is, do you believe how many of you have been working on building farms like this, in conscious communities, holding on to a dream of an evolution of mankind, that the news robs you of faith every day to believe it can happen?

All that negativity, you're trying to overcome it, trying to overcome it somehow. You can't turn off that effing tv because if you did, you'd make it a lot easier, by the way. But we're all working towards this evolution and now we're sitting in this room together. Is Bobby Kennedy personally going to change the world? Is he going to take the whole world on his shoulders and actually make the world a better place?

Or is he simply a vessel like we all are, for the light, for the truth, for what we actually deserve as humanity? He's not going to do it alone. I'm going to do the best I can, but it really is going to come down to you. And what does that mean? What does that mean?

When you're walking up to me and saying, what do I do? I contemplate this all the time. So many of you are asking that question, what is it we can do? You know, I know how to do a podcast. I could talk about my podcast.

Great. Please do. You know, I could donate some money, or I could donate a farm. Do it all. Do it all.

But I will tell you what we need more than anything. And when you're walking up to me and saying, I'm praying for Bobby Kennedy, I'm praying for you, Del. There's something about it that makes me nervous. There's something about it that makes me think you think that there's a need, that there's a loss, that somehow we're in danger, that somehow we need protection, that somehow there's darkness around us. And what I want to tell you is, inside this campaign is pure light.

I have the honor to be working with one of the most beautiful, humble, spiritual human beings I have ever met in my life. And I think about my hippie parents talking about that Nirvana, that world that we could actually have, spending my entire life thinking what would have to happen that would make that possible. I remember arguing with my dad, having philosophical discussions. I think it would probably take some, like, world crushing disaster, because only in disasters do we somehow all drop all of our petty bullshit between us and step up to work with each other.

We all just had our entire world shut down. We watched the freedoms that our founding fathers handed us, and it's an incredible dream for America. Absolutely stomped on, crushed, taken away our jobs, destroyed, our children's faces covered all day, every day, rimming styluses up their nose, asking them if they were afraid enough of this virus to take their lives, making everybody be filled with fear.

Social distancing ourselves, none of it based in science. Both of the last incumbent presidents, which is really weird, right? Two incumbent presidents running against each other, having it dead wrong, rushing vaccines, and proud of it. How many millions will die because of it? The negativity has already happened.

The tragedy has already happened. And we can stand here like the gopher in the middle of the road, over the dead body, just waiting to get killed by the next car that comes along. We finally say, I've spent enough time in the fear. I've spent enough time staring at the tragedy. I've worried long enough for my friends.

It is actually time for faith. It's time for light. It's time for love. And most importantly, it's time to believe. So this is what I'm asking of you.

Don't pray for the Kennedy campaign. Pray for yourself. Pray that you find a belief that you can see an image of our world that is so beautiful and so wonderful. It cannot be touched by the darkness. It cannot be taken down by the news.

It will not ever bow to the lies, because it is what is right, and it is what is true, and it is who we are. Pray that you feel it. Pray that you know it, and then stand in that with everyone you meet. I'm not asking you to convince your friends to vote for Bobby Kennedy. I want you to say to them, Robert Kennedy Junior is going to win.

And I love this man.

He's me. He's the future I have for my kids. And, yes, it's possible. You want to know more about him? He's talking every single day.

Go to Kennedy two four.com, comma. Go to his YouTube channel, listen to him one time, and see if you can ever walk away from him again. I'm not here to sell you. I'm here to tell you he's the next president of the United States, and you better get to know him. Thank you very much.

Walked out the barn to another new day, another night? Trying to drink my blues away? You know I never seem to work it out?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
I've been running through the money like. A dog chased hair? No amount of pleading's gonna stop me there, you know, I mean, to go all the way.

Working for a living. Trying to make things right, working all day and out through the night, you know, to keep from doing wrong.

Po Rangi
Well, I drink a lot of whiskey, I smoke a little weed? Just to keep the demons taken over me, you know, I do the best I can.

Loading. I'm a rambling man the next person to come up to speak is one of my closest friends in the world. Tim story. Reverend Tim story, motivational speaker Tim story, who, in my darkest days, when I was in my late twenties, saved my life with his work and his message, you know, and I asked him if he would do this. He replied in 3 seconds.

Yes, whatever you need me to do, because that's the kind of friend he is to me. And what really brought me to Bobby is I've been sober 35 years, and the thought.

Now, I don't know Bobby personally too well, but I know the character of a sober man who has meetings in his house, who sponsors guys and walks the walk and walk the talk. I've seen that my whole sobriety. I know the character of that kind of a man. So that's what got my attention, right? And then once you go deep in, you go, oh, shit, he actually knows what he's talking about.

So without further ado, we're running late on time. I give you my brother, my best friend, Tim story.

Thank you. Let's stand up and just stretch just for a second. I'm gonna see if you turn me up even a little bit more on the mic. Could we give Aubrey and the whole team a big clap?

Come on.

And so just stay standing for a minute. So many people involved in doing this, and I think we have similar motives. Right. We need to shift some things. You agree?

And none of us are going to be a discount version of ourself. And we've been called to something higher. So I'm going to talk about 26 minutes. And you can be like, oh, my God, he really only talked 26 minutes? And so it is a privilege to speak to you today.

It's a privilege to be behind what Bobby Kennedy stands for. Clap your hands if it is. So let's go give two people a high five. Say, you look good, and then you may be seated.

You may be seated. Thank you, Brent Bolthouse. Thank you, NhTsA. Give them a clap. Phenomenal people and everyone else.

There's a man by the name of Walt Disney, and he walked into an amusement park in the 1930s. You got to hear this story. And he said, someday. Try to say someday. He said, someday I'm going to have my own amusement park, but mine's going to be different, better, and more magical.

Say different, better, and more magical. So I am a humanitarian. I've now been to 78 countries of the world helping people, and I'm going to south Africa for my 39th time in September. And when I speak at night, I say, thank you for inviting me to your fancy at night place. But every year, I want to go to the orphanages in the township.

So I do. But I like to speak even to the five and six and seven year olds, because it's amazing, like, how awake they are. So I was speaking in Soweto, and I was telling some stories about working with entertainers, and they were getting all excited. And then I said, after I was done, I said, what do you want to be when you get older? And one little girl said, I'm already a queen.

She was five.

And then a little boy said, I'm going to be like LeBron James. So it's amazing to me that they were living in the township, in these houses that are, like, made of metal, and yet they were thinking different, better, more magical, some may say different, better, more magical. So the word magical means extraordinary, uncommon, not normal, not regular. So I was born in Compton, California, and we had seven people in a two bedroom apartment that's called cramped and crowded. And then we had seven people in a Volkswagen bug, not even the bus.

That's called driving around illegally.

So imagine how our life was. It's like sitting in the center seat at Southwest Airlines, like, for your whole childhood. My mother is from Spain. Her name is Vestentita Gonzalez, and she just turned 93 just last week. Clap.

That's pretty cool. And she's, like, very feisty. She's very christian. She will pray for you and then cut you out and then ask for forgiveness. And my father is from Cuba, so I'm black in Spanish, so I'm mixed.

But my mother taught us we might be lower income, but we are not lower class. Big difference, right? And then she taught us a work ethic to not do a half job. So I knew how to do the dishes like a machine. But my sisters, when we finally got a house, they could mow the lawn, but my life was still kind of contained.

So I have found that there are three levels of living. Almost. Most, and utmost almost means not quite. Like, the relationship almost worked. I almost got that right job, but this almost happened.

And if you're not careful, pick this up, you'll get stuck in an almost life who's been in an almost place before. Okay, so, for us, when you don't have much money, I wanted Levi's, but I think I got something like plevis.

So that was stuck in the almost. So then you have the most say. Most. So most is like, if I let go a helium balloon, it will go, go, go, and then it will stop right there, because that is the ceiling. Most of you.

How can you say that so strong, Tim? Because I work with people. Most of you. You have been raised with a ceiling. With a ceiling.

Could have been your parents, could have been religion, could have been your ex. That's why they're your ex. Are you with me? But you had a ceiling. But I believe in the utmost life.

I believe in breaking beyond the ceiling. Clap your hands if you believe in breaking beyond.

Say this. Say. Say different, better, more magical. So Walt Disney has this idea in the thirties, it manifests. In 1955, they open up Disneyland.

And I was doing all this research for this. I wrote a book called the Miracle Mentality with HarperCollins on this subject. So I probably did no less than 80 hours of research on this whole idea that Walt Disney had about imagination. So everything about Disney was about imagination and something that is magical. He wanted us to step in and think magical.

See, I believe that that's how we are deep inside of us. I went and saw Kendrick Lamar, who's from my town, Compton, in Paris, France, and he was there with a friend of mine named Pharrell Williams, and he was. Both of them were performing. And when Kendrick came out, he's from my neighborhood, but yet he's singing. I got royalty, I got royalty it's in my DNA I'm here to tell you today you have royalty, and it's in your DNA.

Clap your hands if that is the truth. Come on now. What a great audience. I love this audience. Okay, so how do we get there?

Education, conversation, observation. Carol Dweck, Stanford University. Brilliant mind. The difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. Most people have a fixed mindset.

This is the way it is. This is the way it's been. I can't believe that fool left me eight years ago.

A growth mindset thinks different, better, more magical. You have a growth mindset. 2004 or 24 is going to be your year. 2025 is going to be better. 2026 is going to be even better.

Why? Because you think different, better, more magical. So there's a growth mindset, and then there's this fixed mindset. But we learn through education. So watch how cool this is.

In the 6th grade, my teacher says to me, timmy, I need you to stay after class. And all the kids go, ooh, okay. So I walk up to my teacher, and he goes, Timmy, I want to tell you something. Now watch this. I'm a little bit nervous.

He says, I think you are. And I think he's going to say, a good dancer, because he saw me win the dance contest, a good basketball player, because he used to be up for the games. He says, I think you are. Well, he was about to change my life. He says, I think you are brilliant, and because you're brilliant, I want you to read one of my books.

And he gave me a book about the life of Michelangelo, written by Irving Stone. In the 6th grade, the little kid, little timmy from Compton, saw this whole life of this guy, Michelangelo, different, better, more magical. And it began to expand me, and I got hooked on books every single day of my life, seven days a week. I studied 2 hours a day. I studied 2 hours already today.

Studying, reading, growing. Who else has a growth mindset in here? Clap your hands like you have a growth mindset. Say education. So we learn from education, but we also learn from watch.

Observation, so powerful by observing people. My life changed people. We were broke down. My father struggled with addiction. My brother Randy, he died from addiction.

I come from pain. But to think that I'd come from pain and become this guy that goes all these places that Oprah says, you are my favorite speaker. Not the second, not my third, not my fourth. You are my favorite guy. You are my guy.

You are my guy. It was Oprah who put me on over and over and over on her show. And because Quincy Jones called her and said, don't ever treat Tim like he's normal. This guy's coming from a whole other place.

See, sometimes you are one break away from something brilliant. You better get ready. Cause you've been set up. What if march is the month? What if next month is the month?

Some of you are one break away from something brilliant. So we learn from education. Say education. Say observation. Man, I got thrown into this thing.

We used a guy doing my best, and I liked school, so I went to seminary, and I kept studying. And next thing I know, I had a doctorate in world religion and a master's in therapy. And the next thing I know, I had a pretty good gift to gab. So I'd speak at the NFL, and then they would say, hey, yo, can I get your digits? Can I get your number?

This is before the days of a cell phone.

And I had all these stars waiting in line. And then I would start speaking places, and I would notice, and I won't say them today. I'd see that guy there and then that star there, and then I'd see. I see that star there. I was, like, tripping.

I was way in over my head. But the more I got around smart people, I began to observe their discipline. And I said, there's more to life than not going to prison like my relatives. There's more to life than just hitting a ceiling. But maybe I'm supposed to live an utmost life, too.

Maybe I can get a breakthrough. It's not a break sit or a break stand. It's a breakthrough. Because if I could break through, I could break my whole damn family out. Clap your hands.

You guys are getting this. Let's go.

Say education. Say observation. You're gonna like this story, so watch this. When I'm six years of age, my parents decided to go to a place called Las Vegas, and there was a white family from church that they liked me. And so my parents said, you're going to stay with the Gibsons.

I go, I like them. And so Mikey Gibson was two years older. Jeff Gibson was four years older. So they were older kids. But the Gibson house.

But I walked into the house, and it was completely different. Than ours. I walked in and was like, hey, they lived in a whole different neighborhood. Everything was different and they had different rules. In fact, misses Gibson said, timmy, we bought you a present.

We bought you some new pajamas. I thought, man, I ain't never had old pajamas. And your mother says, you like blue? You like the color blue. This is about to change my life observation.

So she says, come on, jeff. Come on. Come on, Michael. Mikey, come and watch. Because the dad was a trucker and he was on the road.

And so she helped me open up my powder blue pajamas. And she says, timmy, she says, we want you to put these on and then we're gonna have a little snack before bed, people. It was only seven at night. I'm six years of age. Cause, you know, we're from where we're from.

Are you with me? We were listening. We were bumping music til like twelve, midnight. I was six because of my older sisters. So she says, we're gonna have a snack before bed.

So Timmy, go put on your pajamas and then brush her teeth first. This lady was really into brushing the teeth and she had the new toothbrushes. So I brushed my teeth, I put on my pajamas. And when I looked at myself in the mirror, something went, hey. I never had that feeling because everything was hand me down.

Are you with me? Everything was po. We were po. We were po. We were po.

And now for a minute, I was rich. You should have seen those pajamas. I was like, and my teeth. My teeth.

So I walked out and misses Gibson said, okay, we're gonna have a little snack and then you're gonna brush your teeth again. It's a true story. I'm like, yo, like, how come I didn't brush him after? Why before and after? So I just.

I just. I just minded all the rules. Now pay attention. I'm talking about education, observation to go to another level. So now I'm lying in bed and it's like probably 730 at night.

And it's still light outside because it's in the summertime. And I'm like tripping. I've never been like this where it's so quiet. And I noticed something. Their sheets smelled so good.

They smelled like flowers. It's called softener. Come on, people. Fabric softener. And I noticed the peace in the house.

We never had peace in my house. And I remember I started to cry. Cause I thought, oh, shit, these people live different. I feel such damn peace in here. And then I went to sleep easily without tripping.

And then the lady comes in, like, if it's a movie. And she comes up and she goes, okay, kids, get up. We're gonna have a good day. I'm like, what is she on?

She goes, Timmy, get up. Brush your teeth. True story. We're gonna have breakfast. I'm about to change your life right here.

This is Oprah's favorite story. Ask her when you see her, watch how powerful this is. So the lady says, okay, get ready. She says, you're gonna have some eggs because you need protein. But I'm feeling myself still in the powder blues.

Come on, people, pajamas. And then your mother said, you like cereal because at my house, we only had special k. Because people like us can only afford special k. But this house, they had something else. So she said, eat your protein first.

So I ate it, and then she says, now, come over here with me, Timmy. My life's about to change. She opens up the cupboards and she goes like this. She opens it up. It was like this.

I saw cereals that I'd only seen on commercials. Captain Crunch. I could touch him. Come on, people. Trix.

I could touch him. Sugar smacks. I could touch him. I know they're all bad for you people, but are you with me? I was straight outta Compton.

I could touch. I could touch. I could touch cereals. And she says, timmy, I've never heard this word in my life. She says, you have an option.

What cereal do you want? And I went like this. Misses Gibson, there's so many. She says, you having a hard time deciding? I said, yeah.

She says, do you want to mix them? I said, yeah, I want to mix them. Come on, clap. Come on, come on, come on.

Yeah. Come on. I want to mix up. I want to mix up. I want to mix up.

That's where I'm trying to get you, people in life. I don't want you to be just mundane. Oh, my God, my life is so normal.

People live in the mundane. They live in the messy. They live in the madness. But you're about to step up into a miracle mentality. A mentality is a frame of mind.

It's a mindset. Your mindset is yours to set. You could never kick this out of me. It is in me. It is entranced inside of me.

How many of you have a mindset that is a miracle mindset? And nothing can stop you from this time forward? Clap your hands and shout a little bit.

She opens it up. She mixes in people.

What a life. Change. Oh, my gosh, look at this. Look at my fancy life. Now look at me with all these amazing people.

Different, better. Different, better. You know why some of you are frustrated? Because you're supposed to live magical.

Charles Eisenstein
And. You become a discount version of your damn self. And something in you says, there's more to life than what I'm living. Say, education, observation, conversation. I'm a good listener.

Po Rangi
Talk to me. I listen the whole time. I was raised by my three sisters. I'm the youngest by seven years. You have to listen.

I listen and I listen and I listen. So when Vidal Sassoon started pulling me up and Lee Iacocca started pulling me up in my twenties, in my twenties. And Quidsny Jones found me at 27 and said, I got you, little brother. I just sit and I just listen. I said, I got this idea.

Oh, my God, I'm feeling brilliant. I just listened. If I was at a table with a Charlton Heston, I just listened. A Bernie Berlstein, I would just listen. I'd listen.

I would listen. I would listen. And I was learning. I was learning. I was learning stuff that would someday change my people.

Walk with me in an airport. I'm in 90 airports of the world today. 90. When you go through Nashville, pay attention to the screens. I have three shows in 90 airports.

On all the screens, clap your hands. That's pretty cool, right? Motivating people.

So those conversations that I heard from people I can now help, people that are stuck in an almost life. I was driving the other day to San Francisco. I was with a friend of mine, and I was getting a call from a prison. I said, I got to take that call. So I take the call, and I said, tell the guy, hey, I got my friend in the car, so just know my friend's in the car.

So he says, it's okay. So he says, I only have this many minutes. So he talks. I go, about 30 more minutes, we're going to San Francisco. And then it says, boom, another.

Another call from a prison. And then I go, oh, I'm sorry about this. I got to take this call. It's an inmate. You know, you've received a call from an inmate.

And then about an hour later, it happened a third time. And my friend said, how many prisoners do you know? They're all my friends. Kids that I refuse to give up on. When I look at America, we refuse to give up.

When we look at the plight of what's taking place of America in a setback. We don't sit in a setback. We don't stay and settle in a setback. We bounce back and have a comeback. And that's why we're here today.

Thank you for letting me talk to you. Thank you very much.

What a day. This has been great. You know, every time I see Bobby, like, half of the times I see him, he has his sleeves rolled up. Cause he's just, like. He's always ready to fix the country, you know?

I really love that. And I love how his campaign has no anger, there's no insults. I think all these people running for office need to biohack. Bobby's already biohacking. Bobby killed everybody in that pull up challenge, the guy's muscle.

He had to change shirts because he popped out of the other one. It's nuts. I've never been so excited to vote and also kind of turned on in my life. In my life, I always had a theory that presidential candidates should be required to take psychedelics before running for office. Right?

I think we start with Joe Biden. We give him a bag of mushrooms, okay? Rewire whatever ain't firing up there, all right? Get a full sentence out of that man. And I think we give Donald Trump a couple hits of MDMA.

Just a few. Just a couple. Just to see what happens. Open his heart up a little bit more, you know? Can you imagine Donald Trump on a couple hits at MDMA?

Send him down to the US Mexico border. He shows up with no pants on, just like, mmm.

Let him in. Let him in. Jose Miguel. Let him in. I love Mexicans.

Let him in.

But, you know, it's nice. Bobby doesn't need that. And it's nice to have a candidate whose consciousness is already expanded to the point, point where he puts the people first. And for that, I'm super thankful. I'm grateful to you guys for being here.

Thank you so much. Keep supporting the campaign. Keep living your truth. Thank you so much. My name is Brent Pele.

Buh bye.

Aubrey Marcus
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