so not that long ago I put up a poll over on my community tab asking people
if they had political anxiety and the results were a little bit interesting
because I didn't expect to see what I saw
now I know people get political anxiety but one of the main comments I saw was
that people get political anxiety because they fear when they talk about
politics somebody is just going to freak out on them and that's kind of the
reason why I'm talking about Joe Rogan and Russell Brand today because these
two are a perfect example about how you have an adult conversation with two
opposing views without freaking the hell out what is up everybody this is Chris
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media so yeah Joe Rogan and Russell Brand recently did an episode on the Joe
Rogan podcast all right oh my god like I it was three hours and I took it piece
by piece I would like listen when I was driving but it was like three hours it's
hard for me to like sit through for three hours but I'm sitting there and
I'm like these two dudes are so different on a few topics I would
usually make people freak out but they're able to have these conversations
and share different thoughts and ideas and that is one thing like I do think
that we're in a time where there are some groups of people who are getting
into this content like long-form content and just deep converse
patience because even here on YouTube like I try to keep my videos between
like the 10 and maybe 15 minute mark right and I think that's too much
because we are living in a time where people have very short attention spans
but I do it is mental health awareness month start paying attention to more
long-form content whether it's podcast you know people like doing lectures
online whatever it is like it will it will greatly help you get into critical
thinking but anyways so on one hand you have Joe Rogan Joe Rogan is a hunter a
meat-eater all right he is also somebody who likes
to do his fair share of drugs then on the other hand you have Russell Brand
Russell Brand is a vegan and he's been sober for over a decade now all right so
like on paper if you put these two together you're like oh my god things
are gonna get out of control so the first thing I'll talk about is the way
they can have conversations around substance use so I can definitely relate
to Russell Brand because I am somebody who's really into like Buddhist
philosophy and just meditation and consciousness and spirituality and all
these other things and Russell Brand talks about how like he often gets
tempted by psychedelics like drugs like DMT because they talk about this like
ultra spiritual experience you could have my gal Russell I know like I read a
lot of books on like Buddhist philosophy of how psychology relates to Buddhism
and in all these books they talk about like these like magic mushrooms being
used in in psychology and like it was decades ago when they finally got like
laws to pass where they said they can use it in psychedelic psychological
studies some people like are into micro dosing these days so I could definitely
relate to Russell man but again he's sober so he understands he understands
that when he takes a substance that gets him out of himself you'll find a way to
abuse it which can also as a gateway back to his primary drugs
now Joe Rogan is somebody who loves tripping out all right okay and one
thing I do want to mention where I do give a lot of credit to Joe Rogan is his
own personal growth and I think it's attributed to the fact that he brings so
many guests on his show to have different views and opinions than he
does and that's helped him grow what I'm getting at is a year ago he did a
podcast episode with Russell Brand and I was a little turned off by the way Joe
Rogan was talking to Russell Brand because it seemed like Joe Rogan was
trying to get Vince Russell Brand I come on it's just a little pot or come on
psychedelics they're not addictive right and that was kind of Joe's stance on it
it almost seems like he was trying like tempt Russell and like I'm not cool with
that but anyways I was playing to somebody who has a very solid recovery
so joe rogan isn't gonna you know convince Russell to like lose his
sobriety over just like you know a conversation anyways in this episode in
this episode Joe Rogan could see from his point of view even though he
believes his smoking pot even though he believes in psychedelics and all these
other things they had a really good conversation about achieving that that
kind of connection with your your own consciousness and getting rid of ego
even if it's a brief moment throughout her methods and Joe Rogan was actually
talking to Russell about other options like he was like hey man like you don't
even need to do these drugs and they talked about like Kundalini Yoga these
deep kind of meditative States they also talked about one of those like those
water chambers where you like float it's a sensory deprivation tanks right like
there are other options for people like me so if you're somebody like me who's a
drug you don't need substances to get to that place like I have somebody much
like Russell Brand where I don't have an issue if other people want to do you
know if they want to smoke pot even if they're you know doing psychedelics in a
controlled non illegal environment like you do your thing boo it's just that's
that's a shortcut that I cannot take so like if that's the way that you reach
that there are people who are you know going to South
to do life things like ayahuasca and all that stuff and I'd do some videos on
that but I just love watching these to have a conversation around these things
without Russell like because this could go the other way like Russell could be
like I'm sober and I think drugs and alcohol are bad and you should have do
them and it could lead to addiction got it out of now right and joking keep
trying to force his idea weed is not addictive and all these
other things but they just have a nice calm adult conversation around this the
second thing the second thing is a vegan talking to not only a meat-eater but a
hunter okay so those of you who don't know about me I've been a vegetarian for
going in on two years okay I haven't gone full vegan yet but Russell he is
teetered between vegan and vegetarian so anyways on paper you would think that a
vegan and a guy who hunts animals and kills them would just collide but they
don't one thing I love about Russell Brand is he is not a d-bag vegan okay
like I have just debated a million times I'm making videos like I am in some like
vegan Facebook groups and everything and just seeing the outrage in there and the
way people are just at each other's throats and just like I'm like sitting
there like what is happening like even oh man it it gets brutal so I always
love seeing a fellow non meat-eater just be open to the conversation like
I'm not sitting here judging anybody who eats meat right so on the other hand
then you have Joe Rogan who is a hunter he hunts animals but Joe is very he's
very ethical about his meat eating okay and he talks a lot about the hunting
experience the spiritual experience a lot of other things where it makes sense
and you can see that Russell understands and they have an interesting
conversation about how Russell says I get it I get it I understand but Russell
talks about like his specific morals and
it's like he couldn't see his himself doing it like he would feel immensely
bad but he talks about how he appreciates people like Joe Rogan who
can do it in an ethical way so even when I talk when talking about eggs and
things like that like Joe Rogan is absolutely disgusted by factory farming
which in my opinion a lot of people should be okay not just for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals but just also the damage they're doing to our environment
and Joe Rogan even talks about um that that documentary that vegan documentary
what the health and he explains to Russell all of their like salts
information out there and the bad science and everything like that it well
so just he listens and is open to that conversation rather than just like
standing on his soapbox and just say no no meat no dairy nothing that comes from
animals like he's open to the conversation about how yeah this
documentary wasn't all that good you know what I mean so like what I highly
recommend like if you are somebody who is afraid of having conversations when
you have different opinions on such serious topics like whether it's
politics whether it's you know the food you eat whether it's substance use
whether it's mental health like this podcast is a three-hour experience of
how adult conversation should happen when I watch this I'm just like how many
how much better how much better would this planet be if more people could just
have conversations like this you know I last thing I'll say is I was in Florida
for playlist live a couple months ago and Florida has many you know white
leading people and I'm more on the liberal side but like I had a
conversation with somebody who is on the other side of the aisle and we talked
for hours and I understood things about their side they understood things about
mine I'm just like man I would have political conversations all day long if
like this is how they win you know so keep your emotions chat
have these conversations without freaking out alright and is this
something that you struggle with is this something you want me to make more
videos on let me know down in the comments below alright
but it's Mental Health Awareness Month so start working on your communication
baby girl okay but anyways that's all I got for this video if you like this
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