EPISODE 24 - THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FREE SPEECH

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Thank you for being with me today. I love you so much, each and every one of you. And I hope you hear the following message with love that is intended. There's something magical about the first few albums you discover in life. It's like you're being introduced to the world officially. There was light, now let there be sound. Now you have both. You have the visual and the auditory beauty. I mean, you were already likely playing outside a few times before you heard your first album, looking at the trees, perhaps a forest or two, exploring the greenery, the beautiful sky, the sun. Perhaps you loved the birds or the worms. And even the moon and the stars. You saw mommy and daddy, any pets, any friends, any caretakers? Their words, hopefully filled with love and peace. Perhaps not. However, the first musical album for many of us strikes a chord. We tend to remember it. Where we were, how we were feeling, and perhaps many of us do this still to this day with each song we add to our archive. I know I personally do. When you first registered it as a musical album, as you looked at the cover, looked at the name, the artist's name, and you were like, oh, this person made this music. Awesome. It was more than that though. It was like you were meeting them, almost as if they were in the room with you, pouring out their heart to you. Oftentimes it was our parents or a sibling or a friend who show it to us. Then we listen to each song completely tuned into its magic, like we're discovering a brand new galaxy of life. I remember for me there were two distinct albums, perhaps three, that I made my first albums. My first exposure to music in a deep and real sense when I was about nine or ten years old, and I dove deep and quickly. My first initial exposures were through my dad, who loved music. He loved to listen to music when he would work out in our basement, usually blasting hip-hop or the main radio station. Or my favorite was when I was back in the car back in the day when we would drive and listen. I was about seven or eight, and I remember hearing my first kind of pop songs on the radio, or hip-hop songs. He would often alternate and listen to the two main hit stations, which would play these pop songs on one and more hip-hop B songs on the other. It was like back and forth between Creed and Britney Spears and InSync, Batanelli, Jay-Z, Ashanti, or whatever was popular in the hip-hop pop space at the time, Eminem. But I'll never forget there was this one summer day. It's different when it's your first album. When you realize, hey, these guys actually put together a piece of art for you to consume, and it comes on this beautiful CD with all these songs, just by them. I remember I put the two dots together on this summer day. I remember he had a pretty nice car, I think a Mercedes or a BMW at the time. And when we would upload the CD into the CD player, it would generate the album's name and the song names on the screen, which I thought was so cool. He would then let me press the button to change the song, which I loved. We were driving around going to get ice cream at Dairy Cream after we had just played golf and we were listening to John Mayer's Room for Squares. I remember being completely magnetized by the music and the sound of his voice. It was like I was having my first out-of-body experience, hearing about love, hearing about joy, hearing about life more deeply, challenging me to think about love, challenging me to think about joy, and challenging me to think about life as deep as I could at that age, about family, about everything. It was like my mind was expanding and exploding through the beauty, but I was also realizing how awesome it was to expand my mind and my life through the beauty at the same time. I was so happy. Felt like my dad had just introduced me to his friend John, and John was just this cool guy. John was a really cool guy, I thought. Just one of my dad's friends. He had met at the country club a few times ago when I wasn't there. And uh, you know, where we played golf usually, and uh John happened to play the guitar and have a beautiful voice, and one day I would meet him. I mean, to be honest, he kind of looked like a few of my dad's friends too, so I felt connected. You know, irrational nine-year-old stuff. Then I slowly realized John was not my dad's friend, but he felt like our friend in that moment. When I heard No Such Thing, I felt like John was one of our best friends, and I felt absolutely loved. That's really all I can say or describe by it. I remember from there I always wanted to go to Barnes and Noble to shop the CD section and get more albums. I wanted to meet more friends and hear beautiful music. The first artist after John I gravitated towards was Lincoln Park, just by chance because that was one of the more popular albums in the store at Barnes Noble, where I bought my first CDs. I didn't have any brothers or sisters, just dad, and mom wasn't really into music. Lincoln Park was a totally different level. Their passion, their pain, and the storytelling on subjects such as loss, betrayal, and perseverance really hit a different bone in my psychological understanding of life and the beauty that sound carries. They had more synth sounds and more rap undertones, which elevated my understanding of the complexity of music. Around this same time, I also bought the first Nelly albums and MM albums as well. I would listen to all this new music on my CD player, which my dad bought me, thankfully. I would listen to every single morning on my CD player, all this music. I went to school on the bus, and often when I was home, outside enjoying nature, I would also listen to my CD player. I would never care to talk to any of my fellow classmates in the morning on the bus to school. It was always my personal time, my music time. Time to explore the most beautiful sounds humans have to offer and look at the beautiful forestry of Hopkins, Minnesota, where I grew up. I remember my friend Tucker shortly after showed me the album Get Rich or Die Trying by 50 Cent, to which I loved as well. I remember I bought that album at Best Buy, not Barnes Noble. We were skateboarding down around his neighborhood and listening to the album on our portable CD players. We only had one, we would just pass it back and forth in between songs. We would be so enamored with the music, we would trade off each song. Oh, it's my turn. I remember I was around this same age, nine or ten. It was a beautiful summer day in a beautiful neighborhood, like the best ever to skateboard in, because it had this massive park in the middle of it, and this park had all these kind of concrete hills kind of coming into the center of it. I remember I couldn't believe it was real. It was so overpowering and overbearing to hear music like this for the first time at that age. It was so new, it completely changed my world. Hearing such passion combined with such beautifully sounding music from this brand new artist who I had never heard of and who seemed to be coming out of nowhere with his debut album. I felt like I had arrived and 50 Cent was there to arrive right with me. I remember 21 Questions was so amazing to hear for the first time. I was like, we need to hear that one again, Tucker. I always gravitated towards the love songs more than any kind of storytelling. This led me down the path of all kinds of album explorations because I expanded my taste so much in the last in that year. From John Mayer to 50 Cent, it was all coming together. If you notice, there is a slight trend here. Looking at the window. Looking out the window, excuse me. Being in nature, looking at beauty, and combining that with health, with hearing beauty. But more on this later. Then perhaps a couple years later, I remember listening to the college dropout in Barnes Noble for the first time before I bought it. It was hilarious. At Barnes Noble they installed these mis machines around 2003 or 2004 where you could pull up any album they had. They had thousands in their CD collection, and you could listen to 30-second previews of any song on the album. I remember the college dropout was one of their popular on their popular pages, and I thought the cover looked intriguing. So I was scrolling through the songs, listening to their 30-second previews on this weird-looking machine where you'd scroll with this little like wheel, and then you'd click in the wheel to chit to select a song. If you know what I'm talking about, let me know in the comments. That would be hilarious if you also had one of those at your local Barnes and Noble. My dad often was not in the CD section with me. He was either in the DVD collection, which was right nearby, picking out a movie for us, or more often he was looking at history books, which he loved to read, and buying the pastry in the Delhi pastry area they had. He would often need to come and get me and yank the headphones off my head so we could go home. Man, thank God I didn't get lice. We both loved Barnes Noble so much. Going there with him are some of my greatest memories. There was so much to discover. So many amazing nooks and crannies in the store. But oh yeah, back to Kanye and my first exposure to him on one of those machines. It was insane. I put the headphones on and scrolled down track by track, and by the time I got to Slow Jams, I was thinking, this music stuff, this music stuff right here, this is for me. I love this stuff. I don't even think I got the album that night because we would come to the store so often, three times a week or so. I knew I would eventually get it. And besides, I don't know why, but listening to the 30-second snippets on those machines was so amazing for me at the time. Anyways, I felt like I was like a producer, like checking out the the album and being like, yeah, this this is good to go. I love to explore albums on those things, and I would do so very efficiently and fast. Ah thank you for listening to me reminisce on my early days of discovering music. Those days were very important to me, and I think there's no coincidence for why I've been randomly listening to Room for Squares, John Mayer's first album and my first album of exposure, a lot in the last few weeks. As I also simultaneously think about today's episode and today's concept. Which drum roll, I don't want to bang on this table because if you can already probably tell, this table needs a uh little wedge because it's rocking back and forth. But drum roll, today's topic, there is no such thing as free speech. If you're a John Mayer fan, you'll realize the first song we ever heard him sing was titled No Such Thing. One of his best, if you ask me. And no, I don't believe in coincidences, my darling. I don't know why, but I just really got back into John Mayer in the last few weeks. He's really good. If you haven't heard his uh album, Room for Squares, I highly recommend you listen to it. I think it's like one of the greatest albums of all time. They love to tell you, stay inside the lines, but there's something better on the other side. Mayer sings in his signature early career tone. Ooh, go listen to that song and tell me that's not one of the most beautiful voices you've ever heard. I love how many I love how my nine-year-old brain was getting exposed to such beauty, to such depth lyrically, and to such a pure soul as I was experiencing the best life to had to offer. Getting ice cream with my dad, who I loved, after playing golf, which I loved, on a summer day, which I love, listening to beautiful music. What could be more gleeful? I just found out there's no such thing as the real world, just a lie you got to rise above. Mayor sings in the chorus of no such thing. So today I want to set the tone for the podcast in a political sense, in a way, and perhaps you've already picked up on that by the title of today's show and the title of episode 23, which was the beautiful, beautifully tragic symbolism of Charlie Kirk's life. Um I do not stay within the lines, my friends. Because the lines are broken, the lines are non-existent, and the lines are unnecessary. Basically, we need an eraser tool for the lines we have drawn politically. All they do is mess us up, and quite frankly, one of, if not the largest problems we face as a society, as Americans, as people in general, is our inability to tolerate others whom are different than us. This is why tribalism and politics have become so harmful, and it is one of my main missions to destroy tribalism. Yes, you can have your opinions. Yes, you can believe whatever it is you want, and it can and should be different from my opinion and other people's opinions. Of course. That is not my point. My point is then you believing that because someone else carries a different opinion than you, that they are somehow less than you. This is where we run into issues and problems. Extrapolate this on a mass scale, and you have societies who see war and violence as their solutions because Johnny liked butter on his toast and you liked jam. It's literally as simple as that. When you boil it down and bird's eye view it, it's simple. The ego has no bounds for how low it can go and how far away it can take you and us from our highest path. Uh and highest spirituality. Besides, of course, people will always have different opinions than you, quite obviously. And you wouldn't want it any other way, anyways, because who's going to think of that guitar riff you never could have thought of? So you can experience it and hear it? Who's going to think of that beautiful dish of ragu you never did? So you can experience it and taste it, etc., etc. etc. etc. etc. until infinity. I mean, don't you love someone? Don't you uh, you know, many of you watching this probably have a, you know, someone you are sexually uh intimately involved with? What if what if they were you? I mean, what if you were you were making love to yourself in the bedroom? Would that be as enjoyable as you'd want it to be? Probably not. You'd probably want someone who is a little different than you when it comes to, you know, doing the thing. Okay? So, um we need to adopt this mindset. That difference is actually a good thing because it is a good thing. It is a good thing. Okay? As I've stated many times, we want as few things as possible to be black and white, due to the reason that the lines we draw create division and tribalism and ego and pride, and therefore eventually violence and further damage to our society. Ironically, actually, though, the nuance is if we have completely if we have a completely healed society and world through true healing of meditation, we can have much more laws and lines, which won't offend people and draw on the higher spirituality of all of us. But since we are all not enlightened and cannot all agree on the basic fundamentals of the higher spirit, at this point in time, we want as few black and white lines and laws as possible. That's pretty complicated and deep. There's a lot more in that little bit I just did that I can go into. You may not understand exactly what I'm saying. I don't expect you to. I don't even fully understand what I'm saying there, because that is needs a book to uh to extrapolate and draw upon. You know, that's that's a lot of uh deep, deep thought that that uh helped me arrive there. But, anyways, again, there are certain things which must remain black and white. This is the main point I want you to understand today for us to have a functioning society, but not only that, for us to properly orient our spirits and grow towards our creator and towards our higher selves. Spirituality and life, in a sense, is like a video game. There are certain goalposts, quests, missions, skills that you eventually have to learn, unlock, and go through and experience in order to level up your character and reach the peak of existence in the game. You can't just wander your way around in the game the whole time, running into the bushes, going in circles and doing absolutely nothing worthwhile or on point for why the game was created and expect to have a great time playing it. You'll eventually want to turn it off if you never stay on mission. Life works in this exact same way. If you chase things, like the bushes, like going in circles, like doing nothing on mission, on quest, on skill leveling upgrades, so to speak, you will feel it. You will feel dissatisfied, you will feel bad. Life will get worse and worse as you age. You will want to turn it off, you will dread waking up. None of this is natural, just like the same way playing a video game is not supposed to be boring. Life is not either. However, life will get boring. You will turn to drugs, antidepressants, constant therapy, constant self-doubt, constant questioning, your meaning, questioning everything, overthinking, binging on food, alcohol, smoking, you name it, if you do not stay on task, on mission, on quest of leveling yourself up. This doesn't just mean going to the gym or looks maxing or money maxing or anything superficial. It actually means something a lot more concrete and more on priority to what you and all of us actually care about. It means understanding your spirituality, your relationship with love and fear, your self-love, your value orientation, and constructing a life of value and purpose to yourself and others. Understanding right from wrong, healing your fallacy and delusion, and coming back home to clarity and God, yourself. And so, in this sense, the levels of life, the levels of the video game are black and white. They are inherent. The same way that when you perhaps murder someone, go to jail, and spend the rest of your life in jail, this does not feel good. This is because this is not what your higher spirit wants. This is not what you want. Nobody's higher spirit wants to kill. Nobody's higher spirit wants to eat fast food constantly, do drugs, and cope about all their problems constantly. Nobody's higher spirit wants to be stuck in therapy their entire life, suicidal on pills that clearly aren't working or getting to the root cause of any issue, and then constantly having those issues and problems. Yet we have to become aware. To step out of that loot, right? Like, if you don't understand what I'm saying, and you you've probably never heard of the things that I'm saying, because I don't know anyone talking about the things I'm talking about right now, but um that's not saying there aren't people who are. But what I'm saying, more on point here, is that you know the person who sits in jail after killing someone, or the person who's going through therapy their entire life, that those things may give a little bit of satisfaction, a little bit of comfort, a little bit of um equanimity at certain moments. Like you may feel like you're doing the right thing, but that's because you're completely lost. That's because you're not in touch with your spirit. When you're in touch with yourself and who you really are, your higher spirit, you're going to realize the things that are good and the things that are bad. Like, think about a crazed maniac who goes and kills a bunch of people. They go and interview him, he's in jail. How does it feel? You're in jail for the rest of your life. He goes, you know, oh, I don't regret anything, you know, this they all deserved it. Whatever. You know, it just says some like ridiculous thing. That person who says that thing, just the same way that the person who says, Oh, I'm in therapy, it's really good, you know, I've been in therapy for 50 years, you know, I've been on 500 pills, and I, you know, uh, you know, blah blah blah. Like they don't even know what they're really saying, and then they're like, a week later, they're like, you know, I need help, I'm, you know, whatever, I'm suicidal, whatever. It's like they're not even aware of what they're saying. That's the point I'm making. Most people aren't even aware of what they're saying or what they're doing and how their actions are, um, because they've disconnected from themselves. The same way there's a beautiful line in Ghost Town by Kanye West, touch the stove, and I don't even feel the pain anymore. Beautiful line in karaoke by Drake, you put your hand on the metal and feel it, but do you even feel it anymore? You know? So, how do we come back to feeling? Which is yourself, your higher spirit. See, your higher spirit actually wants to do the opposite of these things. Your higher spirit wants to heal itself from anger and forgive instead of get revenge. And in extreme cases, this looks like murder. Your higher um uh extreme cases of revenge looks like murder. Excuse me. Um that could have been read really poorly. Your higher spirit your higher spirit wants to eradicate the ego and find peace in day-to-day life. Your higher spirit wants to figure out its purpose, its mission, its betterment of itself so it can then better others and be fulfilled. Your higher spirit wants to feel good and it knows what will make it feel good. Your ego has no idea what will make it feel good. It is completely lost, as I just alluded to. And it is the thing that will keep you lost until you realize exactly what it is I'm saying at this exact moment to you right now. To eradicate your ego, you need to meditate. You need to heal. And through this meditation and healing, you will see clearly in clarity, with clarity, excuse me, in find peace, which allows you to have a calm nervous system, which actually enjoys life, creates a space between you and your thoughts, creates a um desensitive uh it creates um this space of of where your thoughts don't have as much weight, which creates more self-love, creates peace and love in the inner world, and therefore creates peace and love in the outer world. Period. Okay, but what does any of this have to do with free speech, David? Get to the point already, man. I'm getting tired of your your crap. So how can there be no such thing? Hey, shout out John Mayer, as free speech, you may be asking. That's blasphemy. I want to say what I want. Hey, John Mayer said it, David. There's no such thing as the real world, just a lie you gotta rise above. Why can't I then say what I want? Well, I laid out the groundwork, so now I can get into today's topic of understanding our free speech, our speech, our words. Let's start with the first question and topic. Why is there no such thing as free speech? Well, let me ask you a question with your question. Can I murder someone in broad daylight and be free of a crime? Let's assume the law is just and it gets it right, which it does and uh it does its best to do, despite the emotions many have of incidences where the law is not served properly. Let's assume the law in this case is served properly. If I'm going to a bank today and I choose to rob the bank right there, there are definitely cameras, security, and let's say in this case, I'm smart enough to not wear a face mask or any covering of my identity. In fact, I even drove my white Honda Civic, which I drive everywhere, to the bank. My car. Well, what would happen is I would potentially die. I'd potentially get shot if I evaded the police and didn't give myself up. But let's say I did give myself up quickly into this beautifully intelligent scheme of robbing a bank, straight from my higher spirituality, because obviously God told me to do it, and I have been meditating 30 minutes a day for 30 years to discover this clear truth free of delusion and damage. That's sarcasm. Well, what would happen is I would end up in prison for probably many years. I'm not sure how many years of robbing a bank would be in prison, but let's just call it 15 years. And there might be 15 guys who would have their way with me in there too. Um pause. So in essence, there are no consequences to our actions, of course. No, there are consequences to our actions. If I ask the girl I'm in love with to go to prom with me and she says yes, well then I got a hot date. Good consequence. If I rob the bank, 15 years in the stall, or worse, bad consequence. Now let's say I decide to rob the bank again, but this time, before I actually drive to the bank and rob the bank, I decide to post on my social media some rants and raves about how money is so hard to come by. You know, I grabbed the I grab the mic here, you know, the financial system is rigged, politicians are rigged. You know, and then these rants escalate a few days later, and then I announce on my TikTok, I'm going to XYZ Bank today and I'm going to take what's mine. Ha ha ha ha ha. Right? Well, what would that be? That would be speech. I was free at that time to say what I said, so of course it's free speech, right? Well, here's the main point. Speech, in this case, and frankly every case, is also an action. But the main action of this speech has not occurred yet. However, the speech itself should and very well could align me into a situation of confinement, which is the opposite of freedom. In other words, if I announce I'm going to rob the bank, then I start uh driving by the bank that I announced I would rob, I should and probably will be expected to be met by law enforcement upon my arrival at the bank. This law enforcement encounter would very well likely end in a situation where I would be in prison, which is not freedom, for quite some time. Who knows how long this would be. Similarly, if I announce to family members or friends repeatedly that uh if you, excuse me, that you no longer wish to be alive and are contemplating plans to end your life, if these words seem serious, your friend or family member may end up calling some kind of law enforcement in your area, and you will be again met with the law enforcement uh who instead this time will do what they can to keep you alive by filtering you through a medical system of psychiatry, psychiatry help, and care through the hospital system in your area, which is also a form of confinement, is you are not free in those scenarios, and all of that came from your words. Your words! Believe me, I have experienced this one personally when I was going through the dark night of my soul. If you like that story, listen to episode six. I can say with calm certainty, these systems, both prison and especially the medical system, and psychiatry and psychological systems of healthcare, are not set up nicely in many cases for true healing, true understanding, and true care value to all the people involved. But this is besides the point of today's episode. So um I just want to make sure my um camera here. Let's see, the battery looks oh man, I'm gonna have to charge the battery, bro. That's so annoying. Alright, guys, we'll be right back. Alright, welcome back. Um, that was not planned at all. That song is called 24 by Kanye West. I have no rights to that song whatsoever. Um, I just, you know, had my camera just died as you saw. Then uh my mic died. So I had a lot of time. I worked out, and uh that was the last song on my workout playlist. And then I was like, I think these things are charged. So I just turned it on and uh, yeah, that came on 24. Great song. So where was I? I was talking about um uh I'll just read the last thing I said, I believe, the last paragraph one more time, so that way we can kind of pick off and then I'll go into where I'm going here. So I can say with calm certainty, these systems, both prison and especially the medical system and psychiatry and psychological systems of healthcare, are not set up nicely in many cases for true healing, true understanding, and true care value to all people involved. But this is besides the point of today's episode. So, as I've just proved very uh plainly, there quite literally in a very literal logic sense, logical sense, excuse me, is no such thing as complete free speech. You cannot just say anything you want and expect no consequences in your life. That's what freedom truly is. It's the absence of consequences which would damper or harden your life's ability to experience sovereignty, happiness, joy, and peace. You have little control in prison or in a mental hospital. I couldn't even use my phone for a week in the mental hospital, and I had hundreds of thousands of dollars in the stock market in trading contracts. I couldn't access money or business because these people thought I was going to kill myself, although I wasn't. That's not freedom, and it certainly doesn't feel good, and I ended up there because I sent an iffy text to my dad when I was experiencing recurring and repetitive pain in my testicles from an injury where I said in a text, quote unquote, if this doesn't get better, I don't see the point of living, was one of the lines in the 2000-character text, which had a lot of nuance. Basically, I'm saying my dad definitely shouldn't have called the police and got me into that hospital because I was not suicidal, at least at that point. I was just deeply struggling. But he did, and that's where I ended up for nine days. So the point is freedom of speech isn't a thing. Nor would you want it to be either. Would you like to be met with just whatever anyone wanted to say to you on that particular day of your life? You're ugly and a horrible person, I hate you and I hope you die, says your coworker to you at 9 30 a.m. in the morning, right when you're getting to work. There is no consequence, no meeting to resolve this, no them getting fired. On the flip side of the coin, would you like your words of positivity, of love, of beauty to be met with deaf ears? Would you like all of your hard work writing an eight-hour podcast episode that you worked on? I'm actually the only one who's done that, to fall on deaf ears? They still do fall on deaf ears at this point. No, the point is you don't even want free speech. You don't even want speech without consequences. You want your words in others' words to mean something. The same way you want your actions to mean something. You don't want actions without consequences. That's why when someone wrongs you in a serious sense where we have laws to protect that serious wronging, you want justice, right? So it's funny uh that um you know one side of the political spectrum happens to be so um hooked on justice in laws, and yet also hooked on freedom of speech. Like they should be able to it's say whatever they want to say at any time. Um and so that's a hypocrisy, and it's a plain and clear hypocrisy, and that's really what I'm trying to say in this episode. And don't even get me started on the other side of the political spectrum. There's so much hypocrisy on both sides of the political spectrum. I'm actually not on either side. So I'm here to uh show you how uh both sides are um explicitive. Okay, so the point is you don't even want freedom of speech. You don't want speech without consequences. You want your words in others' words to mean something because they inherently do. Imagine if everything you ever said meant absolutely nothing. That would be a horrifying nightmare. No, it is our words which actually have so much meaning and weight in our lives and lead to our actions. Think about the Bible, think about presidents, think about philosophers, think about music, the beginning of this episode. It is the words which carry a tonality and sound which move us and give us meaning and create and catalyze our world of actions. So, what I'm trying to get you to understand is that we make political statements and arguments and tribalism based on things that are actually just false in their truest sense. Not nuanced, and silly. And today I'm giving us the nuance of what speech actually is and how it actually works. We think if you're a Republican, you value free speech more than Democrats. One of the conservative in Republican values is that you should be able to say whatever it is you want. But we don't have the nuance. So that's why I'm here. What we have is it's the Republicans versus the Democrats. Democrats think speech should be censored if it is hateful. Republicans think they should be able to say whatever it is they want at any given time. Both extremely shallow viewpoints on topics that require nuance and depth. So let's examine the depth even more because it is required at this stage, as I have said, as I have laid out the basics. So now that we've established the fact that we have laws, we have a higher spirit that doesn't even want to break the laws when it is clear and healed and able to come through us, right? Nobody wants to murder anyone or rob a bank or be unfair if they understand the inherent game of life, which is spirituality at play. The inherent leveling up of their soul and their spirit that they came here to do to learn and grow. Nobody wants to level down when they understand the game. Right? Robbing a bank is definitely leveling up. Sarcasm again. So in this sense, nobody wants to also say things which will harm themselves, create potential restrictions like jail, or harm others. Like in the case where Hitler said a bunch of things, then what did he do? He kept saying a bunch of things, then what did he do? He kept saying more things out of his mouth, talking, and eventually rallied people, military groups, to round up Jews, millions of milit military uh members, Nazis, to round up millions of Jews, gypsies, and other outcast groups in Germany in order to kill them. Nobody wants to do this when they understand life and spirituality. But we need to determine and understand speech then at a deeper level. If speech can harm us, if it can harm others, if it can create the opposite of freedom, then what speech do we want? What speech is cool? What speech enhances our lives? This is where John Mayer comes in. No, I'm kidding. But I'm really not. This is the exact reason I brought music into this episode at the beginning. I want you to think about speech in two categories, because this is all speech really comes down to. There is harmful speech to oneself and to others, and then there is playful speech. Right? Two categories, harmful, playful. So harmful speech is obviously the stuff we just covered, but it's also deeper. There is harmful speech that can obviously hurt yourself and wind you up in prison. There is our there is also harmful speech like negative self-talk, which can do the same thing, but instead a mental prison. And it's also contagious, right? All speech, this is the main point of this episode, is contagious. You don't just, you know, you can't just say whatever you want to say, like all this negativity. You tell it to your friends, your family, you know, uh the whole world that you're alive for your 70 years of life, and expect that um, you know, you're gonna be fulfilled, expect that you're gonna make people happy, expect that you're gonna live a life of value and purpose to others just because you want that given to you. No, this is the entire point of spirituality. It is it is this understanding that you actually, your actions, of course, impact others, but also the words that you say impact others. They impact the entire conglomerate and web of the spiritual collective. So, um, how are you doing, James, right? Oh, I'm just barely surviving. I'm just barely getting by, you know? Oh, just another boring day. Just another day. Over and over and over and over and over and over in every which way, not only in just the how are you doing response, but the constant negativity so many of us feed our minds because we don't understand the nature and root of reality and beliefs, because we live in an instant gratification culture and world which shortcuts our necessary and inevitable spiritual understandings, which is basically the entire point in this entire podcast that I come to you every week with. So we instead seek instant validation for the first sign of any issue with things like labeling ourselves as wrong, constantly labeling ourselves as deeply flawed, constantly labeling the world that we're a part of as deeply flawed, people as deeply flawed, you know, you always, you, you'll always, not always, but you'll meet usually that person in uh that you run into who thinks humans are terrible, and like pets uh and dogs and cats are the only things that matter. You know, it's like it's like alright, bro, yeah. Yeah, dogs and cats are the only thing that matters. That's a, you know, um that's literally like a percentage of the world's like two percent of the world's like, at least in America, like, um their their value system. It's like number one, it's like, you know, animals over humans. It's like, okay, but like, you know, we can see how you got there, of course, but that comes from a lack of healing and forgiveness and love. And of course, if you love animals, you gotta figure out how that love uh sprouted and how you can get that towards yourself and others as well. So instead, in our society, as I was saying, we seek instant grativalidation for the first sign of any issue with things like labeling ourselves as wrong, as deeply flawed, because we can't focus one afternoon after we ate hot Cheetos and gummy bears and haven't gone outside in 24 hours, despite the fact that it's 3 p.m. the next day. So me we immediately turn to, you know, Zoc Doc or whatever that website is. Hey, Doc, I don't feel good. Turn to medications like antidepressants. Um, and instead of really understanding the uh inevitable spiritual understandings which we will all inevitably undertake in our spiritual journey. Uh, an entire other episode will get into what I just said, the medical route, and how that's flawed in so many ways in our culture, uh, which is very important, but that's not for today's show. So there is, you know, we're still talking about harmful speech. So then there's harmful speech which can harm others, like saying something without any compassion or empathy, like how today so many of us, even many of the influencers and podcasters I enjoy and look up to and still do, still use the word retarded extremely loosely and often without any bearing or sense of empathy, just because they want to stick to this point of I should be able to say whatever it is I wanted to say at any time. Like, brother, Joe Rogan, anyone, all of them use it. Have you guys ever considered one thing? What let me ask you guys something. I'm gonna look right in the camera when I ask this. Have you ever considered what it's like to actually be someone who's actually retarded? Perhaps sit in this feeling and nature of empathy of someone else's shoes who has a disability. And then, perhaps, and by perhaps I mean definitely, if you do it right, will realize that using such a word as a means to call someone stupid is a shortcut to your spirituality, is a shortcut to you leveling up. In other words, you won't level up. You think you will because your looks maxing and your money maxing, and you're going to the gym and you've got a lot of followers on your Instagram, but it this is not what you want at the end of the day. This is like, bro, how many times do people have to get Facebook? Famous and rich and tell you like they'll look you right in the camera on every single like bro. I think it's every single documentary. I don't I haven't seen like one documentary, it's like there's like it's like 45 minutes in, it's like getting to the kind of like culmination of the documentary, and then it's like they like take their sunglasses off. It's like, I just wish people knew the money wouldn't make you happy. It's like, bro, how many times do we need to learn this lesson? So it's not this is not even what you want. Harming others with your language. Just because you have material things doesn't mean it's like you you like, bro, what you want is to not harm others and therefore harm yourself and your own growth and stunt your own growth and levels of wisdom. And you know it, and I know it, and everyone knows it. When in you could instead challenge yourself to be better and grow and use more loving language to all. You will find more love for yourself and your life in the process and wisdom in the process. And this is the exact intention God made for all of us in our spirituality. Anyone got one of those table thingies? Man, this is uh all right. So similarly, the N-word is often used by white people, people who are not black, and they use it even in very hateful ways at times. Again, have we considered that black people have been subject to slavery for who knows how long? But at least hundreds of years, perhaps much longer. I am no expert on the history of slavery, but it happened. It for sure happened. And it for sure happened due to the color of their skin. They were looked at as less than, and because of this, they suffered tremendous ancestral trauma and damage, living extremely hard lives that perhaps one may argue were also passed down epigenetically to the beautiful black people born today. Now, that epigenetic part is up for debate, of course. However, if you don't know what epigenetics is, it's basically the belief that um, you know, you are born and you carry some of the emotions essentially in the genetic expression that would potentially be altered through emotional damage like trauma of your previous ancestors. So if your ancestors lived lives of trauma for, you know, hundreds and hundreds of years, the theory of epigenetics says that basically um part of your genes will have inherited this trauma. And um basically, you know, what happens when people have trauma? You know, they have more fear, they have more um damage, they have more healing to do. So, anyways, that epigenetic part is up for debate, of course. However, I do believe we inherit our ancestors' lives on an emotional level and spiritual level as well, um, which would which would probably mean a genetic level as well. That's my personal belief. But the point here is if you actually consider what black people have had to go through in their history with regards to slavery, you actually realize, if you are in touch with your higher spirituality, that is, of course, it is just out of the simple kindness of your heart. Which, again, kindness is a way to level up your spirituality. It's not all about the money, guys. It's not all about the looks maxing, claviculars. It's not all about, you know, status, it's about status within yourself, guys. It's about status within your intimate relationship with your spirit, who you really are, and your creator, and being grateful for life. And it's it's funny, like as soon as I say creator or God, people are like, oh, tune them off, turn it off, turn it off, turn it off, okay. Don't don't take what I just said, clip it, and take the creator part out. It's just about your relationship and your reputation with yourself. That's all it is, that's all this is. And you're gonna be leaving chips on the table, you're gonna be depressed, you're gonna wonder what's wrong, you're gonna wonder why you know you didn't listen to the documentary where the the the rapper or the famous pop star or the the basketball players like, I just wish people knew. Money wasn't the only thing that made you happy. I just wish people knew. Well, I'm telling you the other things that make you happy, and that is holding one of these cool little mics in your hand and talking about how people need to be more kind. No, I'm just kidding, but not really. So, anyways, these are really cool. I really like these mics. So, um, I hope I'm not annoying people by putting it up and down, but I don't really like holding it. I don't really like putting it on my shirt. So I'm kind of we'll get there. We'll get there, guys. So, um, anyways, so it's just out of the kindness of your heart to realize and determine if black people want a word, such as the N-word, to be their word and their word only, then of course, out of the empathy and spirituality, you would be more than happy to lend yourself and them this one word and to not use this one word. That is the least you can do. How hard is it to give up one word that doesn't really have any frequent meaning in your day-to-day life, especially when there are other words you can use. Of course, it's not like getting rid of the word like what or the word because or the word how or the word why or the word like, very common words. They're not asking for much here. And you therefore are not asking much for your spirituality to abide by not using speech, which is harmful to others and therefore harmful to yourself. This is done through empathy. So stop using words which are hurtful to others. It is literally never necessary. You can always find alternatives. If you are passionate about something, you'll find a way and you feel like you should be able to use a word in a certain way. Like if you have a good argument for why you should be able to use the word retarded and you're passionate about it, um I'd love to hear it. And uh I'd love to hear your your thoughts. I'm not, you know, saying what I'm saying is black and white. I'm just saying it is in touch with our higher spirituality to act out of empathy and kindness to others. That is for certain. And so if you feel like you should be able to use certain words that our society has deemed as um um mean and harmful to others, then and you really care about it and you really think it's wrong, and you're not just being a bully, and you're not just being, you know, uh ignorant and you're not just being angry and you're not just letting your emotions get the best of you, you probably are. But if you if you really like think you you you know you've been meditating for years and you really have thought this through, guess what you'll do? You'll find a way to platform yourself and your ideas towards the masses to create change, and if your ideas are good, then people will listen. Simple as that. Those of us who are not acting out of our higher spirituality will use one-on-one situations or smaller group settings or gossip where they know they can get away with spreading lies that they tell themselves, tied loose or tied tightly in their mind just so they can feel free, to spread these harmful words as a means to not expose their lack of spirituality. Now, we get into the second and final category of speech, which is play speech, or as I like to call it, idea speech. This is where I live 100% of the time, or attempt my very best to live 100% of the time, as and we all should attempt to live. I am constantly, so what is idea speech? What is play speech? So, I, David Applebaum, am constantly just simply talking about ideas, talking about things on my mind, trying my best to optimize ideas, have fun, show love, feel love, be love, find solutions, find common ground. And everything in this category and modality is always just uh simply to actually level up and actually find that spirituality that we are missing. There is no judgment of people in this category because that would be harmful to both others and ourselves and our spirituality. This is actually the modality of understanding people on a much deeper level and moving beyond the surface judgment. This is where you can actually make progress. This is the point. This is where the work is done. This is where you can figure out certain things are better than others, certain ways of life are better than others, certain philosophy, certain ideology, certain beliefs. You play like a child in a sandbox, always willing to throw more sand in, erase your work, and start with a new, fresh perspective. Things are always changing here, new perspectives are always welcomed here, and nobody is offended because offense is back in the other category we just talked about of speech. And again, it's not like it's all about offending people, it's about offending yourself. It's about being able to look in the mirror and be like, dang, I shouldn't have done that. And the more times you you you do the thing you know you shouldn't have done, guess what? That's how you live a bad life. That's how you you're 80 years old and you just want it to be over, right? That's how you're 60 years old and you just want it to be over. That's how you have regret. It's literally simple, guys. If you like zoom out, like everything from a spiritual perspective makes sense when you just zoom out. Like so many of us are just like so zoomed in, bro. We're like looking at an ant under a microscope. Like, bro, you need to stop being so scientific and looking at ants under sci uh microscopes, and you need to start flying in the sky like a like a G5, man. No, not like a G5, like a like an eagle. You know, I like eagles. Eagles are cool, man. Eagles are so cool. Eagles are like one of the coolest animals. Probably my favorite bird. Um, shout out Jalen Hurts. Shout out Saquon. Um, Saquon won me my fantasy league two years ago. Very, very happy about that. Thank you, Saquon. Um where was I? So, um however, you can at you can only conceptualize and actually operate from this modality of speech if you are in a state of higher spirituality, meaning you are healed, acting from a place of love and truth, right? You just want to figure out the truth. Here, your mission is to simply discover the truth, and this will involve you erasing your ego. See how we're all connecting the dots here, episode by episode. Slowly but surely, day by day, which in this playing in the sandbox metaphor, of course, would me being willing to build the most beautiful sandbox full of castles and gardens and whatever else you can muster and be willing to start completely fresh if you realize the current castles don't support your and our highest evolution. But the issue so many of us run into is we play and play and build our castles. But when we realize that someone else's idea is better than ours, instead of simply continuing to play and build anew together based on someone else's different perspective that is probably good, we instead keep our castles outdated, causing harm to ourselves and others without even knowing and understanding. And then we move our speech back into the category of harm towards others and ultimately ourselves. We we divide our sandboxes and we say, This is my sandbox, this is me and my family's sandbox. You know, you guys go play in that one, you know. Um without even knowing and understanding. And then we move our speech back in the category of harm towards ourselves and others, or others and ourselves. So instead of picking ourselves apart and actually enhancing and growing our spirituality and realizing, okay, like it's like that that's how you melt the ego. And when you melt the ego, you grow your spirituality. It's like when when bro comes in and he's like, you know, David, um why don't you just do it this way, man? Like, why do you do it? And then you actually just think about what bro just said. You're like, okay, bro just said, do it a different way. Okay, wait. Oh my god, that's actually a good way to do it. Let's do it that way and see how that goes. So that's the where the work is done. That's where the truth is found. Instead of picking ourselves apart and it actually enhancing and growing our spirituality, we instead, what we tend to do is pick up the sand from the sandbox and throw it at made-up opponent, although they are truly our ally and fellow sandbox companion, obviously, and we get sand in their face and ours at the same time. You know, when you throw sand, it's like and it goes like kind of right in your face. Yeah. So, see, our political conversations, our conversations over business, which revolve around greed instead of value, even when they are in this state of in this realm of ideas and solutions for split seconds, they quickly, due to this exact mechanism of ego, fear, and outwardly tribalism, in the exact opposite understanding of spirituality, slip out of this category of play, solution-oriented, idea-oriented, and back into people, individuals, and how we can harm other people, malign them, and focus on people and how they tie their shoes instead of bridges, buildings, infrastructure, beauty, love. We can build together when we play all to protect ourselves from looking in the mirror and just looking at ourselves and growing. This is like, I talk about this so much. I don't want to be like a broken record, but it's like, bro, so many of us just let the dishes pile up with our ego. And what I mean by that is we don't just like do the dishes every few hours. You know, I just ate lunch, I'm just gonna do the dishes. You know, I'm just I just ate dinner, I'm just gonna do the dishes. And what I mean by that is like, there's a better way to do something, I'm just gonna figure out the better way to do it. You know, I'm there's there's a way I can improve, I'm just gonna figure out a better way I can improve. Someone told me something and it's actually a good idea, I'm gonna think about it, I'm gonna see if it's a good idea, and I'm gonna improve. So this all comes together when we crystallize the fact that words are the precursors to actions and the spells we put on our lives in the world around us. There's a reason they call it spelling. We spell with letters our words. If we talk and speak in certain ways over and over and over, these are actually our actions in a very large sense, right? Our CEOs, our bosses, our corporations aren't out there putting a basketball in a hoop. They aren't out there taking the trash out to the curb of the street, right? They aren't picking up a heavy weight and putting it down. No, they are literally spending their days doing what? What do the presidents do when they meet? What do they all do? What do the presidents do when they come on the debate stage? What do the presidents do when they um, you know, have ideas? They talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk. It's the words we use which dictate the actions and create the states of heaven or hell on earth. So therefore, how in the world would speech ever be free of consequences? Or an even better question, why in the world would you ever want it to be? Think about that. Nothing would get done. Very easily, at least. We would have to use the hand language or simply just constantly moving things around like Rocky and Ryan Gosling and Project Hail Mary, great movie, highly recommend, do for a good while before they invent the translation device, which makes words understandable and transferable to actions to save themselves and liberate themselves. However, in the movie, so beautifully laid out, it is their love for one another and even themselves and their homelands and life in general, despite their inherent and obvious differences, which allows them to stay in the category of play and to survive even the most brutal trials and tribulations, and stay in the category of play with their words and out of the category of harm, despite their obvious differences. So there is no such thing as free speech, nor would you ever want there to be. You just need to understand the difference between harmful speech and playful speech and how ego and spirituality come into play. Of course, you can say whatever it is you'd like if you are in the state, if you are in the realm of play speech, the idea speech, the solution-oriented speech, but so many of us pretend or think we are in this play speech when we're actually in the harm speech of ourselves or others. You are not in a solution-oriented place when your solution is to eliminate people or judge people or think people are less than you, when your solution is to rob a bank, when your solution is to scam people, or even worse, get rid of people. On top of that, you are essentially showing the world and yourself how uncreative and lazy you are being, which will inevitably and obviously not feel good either. You know exactly what I am saying to be true when you are clearly aligned and healed with the spirituality within you. When your life is muddied with confusion and a lack of clarity, aka unhealed spiritual damage, you will not be able to clearly understand that hurting others through revenge is not what you actually desire, because it only hurts you, and you will stop creating and craving actions and speech which harms others. So, in conclusion, I hope you see the beauty and the heavy weight speech actually can carry once we realize its magnitude. Of course, there is no such thing as free speech because speech and sound itself is so important to our lives, to our solutions, to our liberation, to our spiritual understanding. So, in essence, in our understanding of speech itself, is the catalyst of our freedom. Ironically, speech is how we get to freedom. But it is only through playful speech, idea speech, which lives in the land of higher spirituality and love. When John Mayer was writing Room for Squares, and more concretely and directly, with a specific song example, when Justin Bieber was singing Everything Hallelujah on his latest album, Swag Two. It's a great song. Do you think these beautiful sounds came from a place of harm? Baby is crawling on the floor. Brush my teeth, hallelujah. Is raining hallelujah. Everything, hallelujah. No, this speech, this beautiful sound wasn't freeing Justin's soul, or was freeing Justin's soul. They were transporting his spirit and his listeners to a place of realizing positivity, love, where the truth, which is the truth, transmuting pain and negativity into positivity, gratitude was his spirituality. Just as I write in episode 7, the definition of spirituality is transmutation of pain and negativity into positivity within oneself and the world. Everything in life is God's and yours to love and appreciate, no matter what. Remember times I was stranded all alone, feeling left out to dry. Now we circle back with tears in our eyes, singing hallelujah. I'm I'm getting the melody completely wrong, but would Justin want this song? Those lyrics. Remember times I was stranded all alone, feeling left out to dry. Now we circle back with tears in our eyes, singing hallelujah, hallelujah, babe. Would Justin want this song to mean nothing? It means literally everything to him in the moment he wrote it. I mean, watch his performance at Coachella, which I just saw for the first time last night. He's crying. His wife is crying. It can mean literally everything to a listener on any given day. It can change their lives, it can save their lives, it can open up their mind to love. Why would anyone, Justin especially, want his speech to be free of any consequence? He wouldn't. See, there is no coincidence. So many of us want to be musicians, or at the very least, connect with artists and musicians. There is no coincidence we are drawn to art and awe in our eyes, in our ears, in our minds, in our lives, because it is the case of this episode. The words we use and the words we hear which move us back to ourselves. Love, truth, and spirit. It is these same words used in a different way, the opposite way, which can transport us to a much darker and deeper hell on earth. In the case of Hitler, in the case of you yelling at your mother, telling her you wish you had a different mother, in the case of you telling someone they are worthless, in the case of telling yourself you are worthless, your life lacks meaning. This world lacks meaning. There is nothing good here. Instead of having faith and realizing God was always here, if you could only hear a different tone, then play a different note with the instrument we all got when we were born. I could hit the percussion, that could be my role, and you could be the conductor, I would just follow you along, encouraging everything good you do with my whole. Checking in with myself, I see the damage in the health. I see the God and the devil, but I see the choice in my soul. Tribalism is really hating our own. Messing with the rhythm of the band and its prom. But I took myself to the dance. Like a mirrored illusion. This life is confusing, but it's this love that I'm choosing. I told you, truth is the movement. I mean, shoot, the news doesn't help. They claim to know all there is to know. Playing the role of God, telling us disagreement is default. Like the world isn't inherently flawed. Telling us how everyone shoots and how everyone loses, and how death is just constant and permanent, as if that's intuitive, and how half the world is stupid. Yeah, that'll do it. Instead of asking, how's everyone doing? And how is everyone improving? And how can we even get to that improvement without exclusion? We were always here together. I mean, we were always here forever, getting through any weather. Everything was always connected. You were always my brethren. There was always difference in everything, but it didn't used to be so expensive. Now it's a difference in our complexion, the difference in who you want in the election. The difference is everything negative. Instead of realizing the difference is everything. Everyone needs to be better to the perfect talking heads on our dressers. It's not like anyone's out here doing their best. It's not like anyone's out here when their life is a mess. It's not like the systems we built are protecting some treasure chests. Wink wink. Instead of the people who just need a little check, who just need a little rest, who just need a little pat on the back. Like I see you doing your best. Genuine education, genuine compassion, genuine health, genuine meditation, genuine wealth, genuine understanding, genuine love for yourself. I guess I gotta airbend it. That's out of bounds over your head, like we're playing tennis. I'm sticking out my neck because I was getting restless. I'm trying to say your words have meaning. Did you get the message? Our spirit was our treat like a cake at a wedding. Marrying God, what could be more festive? The path of everything, hallelujah. No religion needs to get in between and intrude it. I'm gonna put heaven on Google Maps. Shout out to Google. Shout out Justin and Haley. That love is moving. I know I'll spend a Valentine's Day with you and my boo. This right here is the movement. No amount of diamonds and gold can ever amount to our spirituality. No amount of diamonds and gold can ever amount to this positivity, to this love, to everything. I just want you to see the spirituality is this speech. See, speech is really just the seed, but that seed is everything. That seed is the root, the stem, the start, the catalyst, the madness comes from when we disregard every little thought. See, this speech is really just the seed to this spirituality and everything. See? The speech is really just the seed to the spirituality and everything. This speech is really just the seed to the spirituality and everything. And this speech ain't free.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:23

Nor would you want it to be because this speech is everything. This speech is everything. This speech is everything. This speech is everything. This speech is everything. I love you. Thank you, God. This speech is everything. The speech is everything.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:53

See y'all next week, episode twenty five. Let's go.