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greatest things that's happened to civilization. It could be that big. And that's not an exaggeration, by the way. Anybody who's experienced psychedelics, I think 80 percent of you would agree with that statement, that it's going to transform civilization. It won't just be a thing that's happening. Cernovich says in the comments — Mike Cernovich says that calling it plant medicine is a better fr…

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of the show, right? And people are paying you a lot of money to put on a show. You can't just skip an important part of it.

But she decided to pull out of the French Open entirely, and she said she didn't want to do these interviews to protect her mental health. What the hell does that mean? I mean, it's probably important. I'm not going to minimize it, because when somebody says they need to do something for their mental health, I feel as if we should — our first impression should be to believe them, right? Because the last thing you want to do is to minimize somebody's mental health issues. So I believe there's a real issue.

But it's confusing because this is somebody who can handle playing at the highest level of a sport in front of a stadium full of people, televised to the world, and somehow she pulls that off. So I'm not sure how talking to the media would give you a mental health problem. So there's something missing in the story. What is the connection between the media and mental health? But it's interesting. Let's maybe we'll find out more about that.

I don't want to dump on her. It would be easy to do that, but I feel like we don't know enough about this. And when somebody makes a claim that's a health-related claim, I think you give them the benefit of the doubt first.

Well, something interesting happening in Israel. Apparently Israel had been considering some kind of a green pass system so that if you were vaccinated you could do things, but if you weren't vaccinated you couldn't. But apparently Israel has done so well at vaccinating so many of their citizens that they're going to drop plans for it.

So remember I told you not to worry about vaccination passports, because if they happened they would be temporary. And this is a perfect example. Not only in Israel does it look like they'll be less than temporary, they will be strongly considered and then not even used, because vaccinations made them un

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necessary. So that's the same direction we're going. You know, there'll be lots of edge questions about cruise ships. You know, there'll be special cases where people are genuinely in close contact and maybe it's not quite ready yet. You could argue that. But for all the easy stuff such as the workplace, you're not going to need any kind of a pass. Speaking of mask mandates at work, it looks lik…

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