In this episode of the Joe Rooz Show, Joe navigates through a lively discussion with executive producer Wayne Rankin and CEO of Ezra Healing, Svetlana Rilkoff.
The episode kicks off with Wayne sharing his recent experiences, including a car accident and his plans to build a studio for producing engaging content on constitutional amendments. The conversation shifts to the challenges of living in a politically charged environment and the impact of mail-in voting on elections. Wayne's insights into the agricultural sector and the rising cost of beef also feature prominently.
Svetlana Rilkoff joins the show to discuss the detrimental effects of alcohol on health and relationships. Drawing from personal experiences, both Joe and Svetlana delve into the cultural normalization of alcohol consumption and its impact on mental and physical well-being. They explore alternatives like cannabis drinks as a healthier substitute. The episode wraps up with a call to action for listeners to rethink alcohol's place in their lives and seek help if needed, emphasizing the importance of truth and support in overcoming dependency.
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(00:00:56) Introduction and Show Overview
(00:01:41) Guest Introduction and Technical Glitches
(00:05:55) Housekeeping and Listener Engagement
(00:07:40) Health and Wellness Discussion
(00:10:41) Wayne's Personal Updates and Future Plans
(00:20:40) Historical Projects and Amendments
(00:28:36) Political Discussion: Flag Burning Executive Order
(00:39:44) Effects of Alcohol on Health and Relationships
(01:02:36) Alternatives to Alcohol
(01:12:17) Closing Remarks and Future Plans
- Wayne Rankin
- Rosanna Rankin
- Carolina Jimenez
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Transmitting live from the asylum studios deep in the bowels of Southwest Texas. It's the Joe Rouge show, the show where we talk about anything and everything, where nothing is sacred, nothing is watered down, and nothing is PC.
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Alright, hey folks, this is Joe Roos, it is seventeen forty eight hours on Tuesday, 08/26/2025 and bringing you the best quality talk radio we could muster without all the bluster. Welcome to the Joe Rouge Show. Our special Tuesday edition of the Joe Rouge Show. Well, we were, going to have our do no harm episode of the show today, but, unfortunately I don't think Svetlana Ryilkov, our CEO of Ezra Healthcare, Ezra Healing will be joining us. She had a prior commitment, I don't think she was able to break free from that yet, but that's quite alright because, sitting there being the quiet little boy that I asked him to be, we have our executive producer Wayne Rankin, waiting in the wings, just need him to turn his camera on and we are good to go.
Hopefully, he remembers how to do that. Well, we'll see, but folks I hope you guys had a good day today, I hope you guys had a great day today, and I hope you were able to catch the show last night. We had a great time last night. Some minor glitches aside, we had, we had, Tony Kessler in the, first hour. Great guy, and we're gonna have him back on. We're gonna do a special session with him on Thursday. We had a lot of interesting interesting things to talk about. So, very excited to have him back on the show again, and we'll do that on Thursday. And then following, Tony was, we had Jared Kes Jared Sessler who, is running for the, Congressional District 4 up in the great state of Washington, which is where my co host, who is still hasn't turned his camera on, is is hails from.
And we did this three times already, but that's okay. He'll get it. He'll figure it out. He'll pop in here sooner or later. Now you might remember Wayne. Wayne joined us back in February. He was with us for a week. There he is. There he is. Popped in. Popped on in. Alright. Alright. But, Wayne joined us last, in February. So he he was with us for, what, six days? Am I correct? It was six days? Six hundred degree days. Yeah. Six well, no. It wasn't that. Eighty five. Yeah. It wasn't that. 85 up 85 up there. Down there, it's a 100 up here. It was kinda it it was kinda like, we we had yeah. It it I don't know. It was like a kind of a dreary kinda week. Right? It was mostly rain. It was kinda cool. Yeah. But, but we had a great time. We got a lot of stuff done. We we worked on the show. We got the studio set up the way it is currently as as it's set up right now. And we had a we had a lot of fun. And so it was a great time to fellowship with with, first of all, a brother in Christ. And, Wayne, I've known you for what? How many years? Twenty Twenty five. Twenty five years. I just got this put up over my head here if you can't see it. No. Don't mess with your stuff.
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Scripture on the wall. I got some really good scripture on the wall. Don't twist your angles. Don't change anything right now.
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Just leave it as it is. If you only the reason why we start well, normally, we start the show at 07:00. That's that's the normal time. We started a little early because our, our our host our our cohost, Svetlana, asked if we could start earlier because of the commitment she has, working on another project. And, so we were able to do that, but, again, I guess, she wasn't able to break away from it. That's fine. That's totally cool. That's no big deal. I called our executive producer, Wayne, here, and he jumped on the show, with much tribulation to say the least. Wayne, Wayne had some problems there getting set up. That's why we started fifteen minutes later than the July the, fifteen the 05:30 start time that we plan. I I'm looking at military time all around me. I'm getting confused.
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That's the alexjonesstore.com/joe. And, as you see here, I have my my trusty methylene blue that I am, toasting here to Wayne because I know Wayne had recently purchased some. I don't know if he's gotten it yet, but,
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Yes. Oh, you have? I have I have gone blue tongue here recently. Yeah. How do you like it? I just got started on it. I I'm sure it's gonna get my system and everything. I like the taste. I know. Isn't it is it a good? It's it's not bad. I don't mind. What do you what do you mixing it with? With my whole mixture of stuff. My, Mad Laboratory, all the stuff I put in together. So it's a good additive to what I can use for what I didn't have in it. So, you know, the b twelve, this, this, this. It's a good additive to what my mixture I'm doing for myself. Nice. See, a lot of people within the first thirty minutes of of of drinking it, they start to feel a little something. Some people feel
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claim that they get, like, this electrical charge that goes down their their fingers and and whatnot. And some people say that, it helps clear up the brain fog, and some people say that it helps, you know, their mental state. I know for me, it kinda puts me to a calm, contemplatives cut type of, mindset. And, I love it. It's great, you know. And and I'll be honest with you, you know, and Wayne knows this, and, you know, the audience, you know, most of you guys have heard this already. But, I was on, antidepressants for a while, and then, I started taking, the methylene blue.
And, of course, as if if you're taking anything like antidepressants, you should not be drinking this. You need to check check with your doctor. I got off of my antidepressants, and I've been on this stuff. And you know something? I feel infinitely better infinitely better on this compared to the, the, the the prescribed medication. So, but again, I'm not a doctor. I am not recommending you to try anything without checking with your doctor first. Alright? Very, very important. You know, like, when we do our crypto show, we put up the you know, it's not financial advice. This is not medical advice. I'm I'm just suggesting that if you wanna try something alternative, check with your doctor, make sure you're okay to do that, and then give the methylene blue a try right now on the alexjonesstore.com/joe.
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But Ezra Healing is a substantial part of the new wellness paradigm currently being born in North America and around the globe. The global citizenry are no longer satisfied with the the sick care version of health care. Band aid medicine, endlessly treating symptoms rather than root causes, must be abandoned as soon as possible. Patient centric care must be the priority. We need to transition towards the do no harm model of private care that places humanity at the forefront of real health and wellness care. You know, in this new model, your entire lifestyle is examined and analyzed to promote support the totality of your body's integrated system. Ezra Healing is a solutions based health promotion and disease prevention grassroots movement that is always evolving to best serve you and your family. Now if you if you want some more information about Ezra Healing, just head over to their website. It's up there on the screen, ezrahealing.com.
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Alright. My friend, Wayne.
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Hey, Joe. How's it going? You're you're rung in. What's going on, my brother? How are you? Well, you know those Fast and Furious movies? Bogus, man, because, I'd I'm just coming off of two weeks ago, literally on a country road, state highway, 50 miles an hour. A lady literally like a deer pulled in front of me and my wife. And unlike Fast and Furious, I went to the hospital on a stretcher, and my dear beloved there was almost killed. So it's like those things in the movies, I'm not buying it. But, I'm recovering physically, emotionally. I I I'm I'm good with that. She's more emotionally, hurting that way, but I'm up and running. The lord's good. And, sore neck, bruises, this, that, got some legal stuff going, but I'm up and ready. I do bounce, and, the lord is good. But, since our last, kind of talks and stuff, the things I I got going in my head is food prices in America. And as an executive producer, I got a future show coming. And, Joe, I'm telling you, everybody should be watching this one. I got I call him my godson, but he's over in Eastern Oregon. He's a cattle rancher. Now listen to everybody. He's a cattle rancher. His grandparents were some of the founding members of the Eastern Oregon Cattle Association, like, in the twenties.
So he and he is a, like, little tyke. This dude, he's I'm not using maybe the cowboy language, wrestled thousands of cattle brand and etcetera, etcetera. He's got his own ranch. And he called me, what the is it hamburger being $9 a pound? But, Joe, he knows irrigation. He works with, all the stuff in land, irrigation, contracts, cattle, agriculture, fertilizer, and what's going on. And over in Oregon, they wanna they were their anti farmer just like Washington's anti American. He's, concerned of what's happening to the rancher in Eastern Oregon, which puts food, and people are talking about how high beef is going.
I'm gonna get a hold of him. I'm gonna get all you guys together because he's an insight guy, and he's been at listen to Jones and a lot of other guys for years. He's he's the boots on the ground of agriculture and beef in Eastern Oregon. He's got his parents' grandparents' names are well renowned there.
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Outstanding. Now I'd Because
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I'm sorry. Go ahead. Oh, because beef is going up in Washington state, but we have lots of well, in Texas too, but why is beef up so high? That's the question. Go ahead. Well, I wanted to kinda back up just a little bit and because we
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the last time you were here, we were we were talking about a number of different things that that Right. Projects that we're gonna be working on together. And, a lot of those things are coming to fruition. And, so what I wanted you to do is I wanted to kinda because I because I've been telling folks about this this project that you're working on, that you're building a studio in your home, and and, and and, so why don't you tell us about that? Tell us about the studio that you're building and what the plan is for that, and and what kind of programming you're looking to do, what kind of shows you're looking to have, and, to what extent are you are you looking to do this?
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Okay. We got a really great computer. Family member is a Microsoft programmer, so they got a really high end computer, which is, you know but my my dear wife, who is the son of the this is the son of my wife, so she's helped she's pretty sharp too with the tech. So we set up a computer that's really got a lot of space and all the things that I don't understand. I'm not the tech guy and more the creative part of it all. But you can see some green here. We're gonna set up a green screen room. And part of it is, you know, how we got this big films company, we went to download, and it's got, 1,500 different backgrounds on it. But the thing that me and my my wife are working on is they're gonna do the 14 amendments.
And with the green screen, and we will self impose her. I call her the amendment lady who's got the most incredible voice, Rebecca in Michigan. And, some of you are saying, why isn't she reading for Disney? For real. And so she's got the outfits. She's got the first one going. She wants to do the first amendment, like a George Washington outfit I see. And have the scroll and and go that way. The second amendment, she's got, like, a a western cowgirl and presenting them in different, eras, obviously. She'll do a colonial one with the cannons. We'll get the green screen and maybe a late, you know, eighteen hundreds, early nineteen hundreds, reading the amendments. And, so coming up in two hundred fifty years. And I'm calling her the amendment lady. She's got the outfits, but the way she presents herself, it's kind of like, her voice is I don't know how to say it. It's like, just solid, and she she has a a tone that you're gonna be focused on how she says it. And she's got the face
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she's got a TV face. Okay? A lot of the some of the folks that have been following the show for a while should should recognize her voice. I mean, she did she did a couple of voice overs for us when we first started the show, the video show. And we had the the the show's under a different name at the time, so I can't use them now because it's a different name to the show. But, she did some some some great voiceovers for us. I got a lot of comments on the voiceover asking me who did the com who did the voiceover for you. And, you know, I said, well, it's my it's my friend's wife, and they're they're producers of the show, and and they they were helping out. They would donate even their time and their talent. And, so she does she has an amazing voice for this stuff. She has a great voice for radio. She has she she really does voice overs very well. As a matter of fact, I I've given them a little bit of a project to work on for us, to do some bumper stuff. So, once we get that all up and running, you'll hear her again, and so we're we're excited about that. But, I'm really excited about, the amendments.
When you were telling me about it, I thought it was a great idea. It sounds like a hell of a lot of fun to do. So so I got go ahead.
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As I'm going through it, my mind and I gotta settle down here, but one of them is the, illegal seek. She's searching seizure. Mhmm. She's gonna be, like, in handcuffs on her knees, and I'll be pointing a gun to her head. Oh, okay. Yeah. She says let's do this. Okay. Because, you know, both of our, of course, our fathers are in the military. My father was in World War two, and, you know, I was married before my wife passed away, and a lot of her family died in the Holocaust. And they know what is illegal search and seizure and a military that is in your you know, government should not have their military, in the in the citizenship.
And so we're gonna go to some extremes too because, no matter who's on what side of the, the blue or blue or red, some of the rights that's been happening, especially blue states. And if we're in we're in deep blue here, this is deep blue country up here. And what they wanna do to certain things up here is, like, you know, they wanna put little, things in our car, see how many miles we're driving, etcetera, etcetera. So what what like I said, is Joe Show says there's nothing off limits. No. No. See what you gotta say, bro. No. She said, yeah. Let's let's make it, you know, because people died for this. You know, we think of these, you know, these colonial, you know, pioneers, these heroes. Some of these guys are in their twenties. Ed Emms and Jeff they're they're like 60 year old. Yeah. I you know, for Franklin was old. But you start looking at some of the age of these guys, you know, they're like, I don't Gen x, Gen whatever, that's where they would be. You know, that 25 to 35, some of those that were our founding fathers. Now we're not fathers, but, so, yeah, we're gonna set up the see, green behind me here over here. Gonna be a total green room, green screen, and we can just page or whatever you put some whatever it is. And we're gonna tape them over, and she says she wants to hit them all and different what the element of the amendment will be will be what we present.
That's awesome. Yeah. And I'm looking forward to it. I really am. And, so you're gonna be available on on on which platforms to see this. Okay. I I asked her about that one since she's the, computer tech person. I said, let's get your own website going, Rosanna Lee Rankin, and get that started, and then you could expand it from there, you know, from that to get your amendments on there and other readings, and we're gonna do some other things. And part b is I have a friend in Israel, and he wants to do a live podcast from the holy land of Israel once a week. So we're working on getting that done because pretty much what's a lot it's a hotbed for what's going on over there. And his his son is in the military. Yes.
War sucks. Excuse my language. And it's awful, and both sides make mistakes. And like I said, there's nothing good in that. And so he could at least going on there, but he can't give me details. And a lot of it is also gonna be he's a tour guide. So he's gonna be like, here I am this week. I'm in Ben Gedi. And we'll green screen that where he's at. Nice. And he had talked about this is where king David was running from Saul. So we're gonna it's gonna be where he's at at the moment because some people will never get to go over there. I've been over there a couple times. So that's my part two of, what I'm really focused on getting done. Gotta get go we were really on track until, like I said, lady pulled right out in front of us. I'm just now beginning to walk here this week pretty good. It's, like I said, fast and furious.
Thinking those guys driving in space, get out of town.
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It's, it do we I I when when the accident happened and you told us about it, told me about it, I made sure that I mentioned it to to to the folks. Because as you know, at the end of every show, we do a shout out. We we, shout out all the producers' names, everybody who's been contributing, And, I made sure I mentioned that, you were involved in a vehicle accident, folks, to be to, to keep you in prayer and and such. So, I'm glad that you're actually able to sit here with us, and people can actually see you and and know that, okay, you might be a little banged up and bruised, but you're okay. You're you're pulling through. And, you know, I don't want you to talk too much because I know you got a lot of legal things going on. So
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Right. You know, I think Most of it, Joe, is our timing. I I I'm I'm on. I actually did this myself. I'm so actually proud of that. Be very proud of yourself. She is gonna go wild today and, like, she this will get her motivated because like I said, she's still recovering a little bit emotional wise, and it's not it's natural thing. But Of course. You know, watching me wield on a goonie and everything, she's still struggling with that. But I said, so we got this we have three days off this weekend coming up. So I said, let's do some green screen building and and do some she goes, I got the outfits. She wants to do a couple, what they call it, the rehearsals. Okay. Good. Yes. You should. And we'll send it we'll send you some of the rehearsals, Joe, and see what and your your your you know, like I said Yeah. I'd love to see it. Produce yeah. It's it's it's with, you know, getting it towards your show, but I told her, said, let's get out there. Be the amendment lady. It's coming up on 02:50. Perfect timing.
And get the t shirt out and the buttons and what have you. So, she's got she's got the face for it. That's all I can tell you. So and the way she presents herself too when she talks. And she did a TV commercial down in DEC when she was younger Oh, really? For a for a insurance company. So she's got the chops. So I just gotta get her to get the mojo back. Now you have experience in doing radio. You you've done Yes. Sports radio. Correct? Yes. Yeah. College
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Give us a sports call. College radio. Give us a sports call. Division. Yeah.
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And I did high school football, and then I had a TV show of my own called they call, you know, public, access. Okay. It was a hunting fishing show. So I produced it, filled it, everything. And so, then like I said, I got the big c, which is cancer and that kind of like, every time I'm done I'm done with all of the stuff. I just wanna get rolling, man. And once I do, like I said, my wife's twenty years younger than me. She says, I thought I signed up for a 60 year old. I got two 30 year olds. So, man, I I don't stop. I mean, I got I got an engine I got an engine that keeps going, and I do pretty good. But that's good, man. There's a lot to talk about, but the things that people don't understand two hundred fifty years. Civilizations are as Rome, Greece. That's about when they start tapping out. You know? They didn't you know, Nebuchadnezzar. I don't know how long Babylon last. If you start looking at the history of these civilizations, February is like, okay. We're on the run overtime after that. So it's gonna be interesting the next year. Well, republics
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are are historically, tend to collapse after about February to February. So and that's, technically what this country is. It's a it's a it's a republic. It's not a democracy, you know, despite what the left likes to to to throw out there and spin. But, I'm glad you mentioned, you know, the rights, the bills the bill of rights and such. Something's going on right now in the in the news that, I spoke with a congressional candidate yesterday about it. And I I I listened to his his position on it, and I where I I agree with most of what he said, there's just a couple of things I disagree with, and that's fine. That that's that's the that's the whole point. That's the good thing about living in a republic. We can sit and we can disagree with one another and still yet come to some kind of an agreement on other things.
So, I wanna ask you about this this executive order that the the president signed, talking about the burning of The US flag. Yeah. So, as you know, the executive order you you see and this is where it gets confusing. See, the executive order, mandates one year in jail.
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K.
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For, for the burning of of an American flag. Okay. I understand that. I disagree with that. I think that I do too. Yeah. I think that this has to this is this is definitely an issue of a first amendment right. The Supreme Court has ruled on this that it is a it is a first amendment right to burn a flag, any flag for that matter, to burn an American flag. Now having said that, before I start getting all the hate mail, do I think that as an American citizen, you should be burning your flag? Absolutely not. I don't think you should.
Do you have the right to do it? Absolutely do. And I don't think and I I I and it's and it kinda disturbs me that there is this executive order out there now that makes it a a crime, basically, to, with a mandatory one year of jail for exercising your first amendment right as much as I disagree with it, as much as I think that you're an idiot for doing something like that. Because what that flag represents is the sacrifice of millions, 1,200,000 Americans that have given their lives over the course of various wars and conflicts to preserve freedom, to preserve your freedom, to burn the damn flag.
Right. You know? So I'm kinda torn on this. And I'm not sure I I I I I I I I I I'm kinda worried about it, to be quite honest with you. I never I didn't expect to see that that type of an order come out from a Trump administration. What do you think about it?
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Well, you know, like I say, is it a is it a violent act towards another person, for one thing? Is it I'm going over to your house burning your flag? Mhmm. Okay. They got a crime there. That's the misdemeanor or whatever whatever it is. Sure. Call it what it is. Vandalism. It's a slippery slope. And like I said, I've had relatives die in the Holocaust museums. I ask them questions like that, and I remember asking them something like that. They said, you know, the right to burn it. That's the part of it. You have now the right to burn it, but you don't now because you'll be misdemeanor, put in jail, fined.
That's the part of it's a it's a cloth. I I know it represents our everything, our freedom, our birth of our country, etcetera. If you go out and buy a flag and you're in your yard and you port towards that thing on your yard, you know, that's that's you know what? Flip them off. I got it. You know? That's myself, I would go with, I don't think it's a crime to be put in jail unless it's a violent act like I just said. Is it a violent act? Agreed. Is it throw it is it you throwing the the the flame, the fiery flag onto somebody? Are you in a public, demonstration? I got it. But, you know, once if I was in my front yard burning it and they came and put cuffs on me, smashed my face in the ground, I got a problem with that. I I agree with you. I got a big I got a drill. I got a big problem with that one. Yeah. No. I I totally agree with that. Yeah. I I mean,
[00:27:05] Unknown:
if I I can understand it if you are, I understand it if you are, say, in a public place where lighting it on fire could potentially spread and cause more damage and and harm others. Yeah. Absolutely. I agree with that. Right. But, I still have that it still it it you still have the right to do it. And and I I I'm just concerned that you're gonna get some overzealous enforcement on this, and, you know, people are gonna be locked up for no reason for for exercising their first amendment right. Whether I agree with it or not, it's like, who's who said was it Voltaire? You know, I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death to defend it. Right. Exactly. Or something to that effect. I I might be Yeah. Right. Yeah. It's just pretty close to that. Like, my brother was a Vietnam veteran. He said when he came back,
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to The States, you know, he said he took his, you know, from off and everything, and he went right over to the the peace protest. Stop the swore. So here's a guy, you know, he took all of his stuff off, and he's jumping in with the hippies, smoking pot and and bad mouthing their country and what have you. Here's a guy who just got back off the plane from serving his country. So he said, hell, yeah, man. I want the singer stopped too. So there's that there's that point of view where, is it the is it the ideology or the act? Is it the the ideology is you hate the flag for what what's your reason you hate it? Okay. The act is burning. Okay. So what is what is the part that is illegal? The burning part. So, I just through history and, you know, things have things have started down a slippery slope with smaller things than this.
And so, that's that's when I if you ask me my full fledged answer and I'm not gonna give a political answer, I'm against it. I'm against arresting someone with a peaceful, nonviolent, nonharmful
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Yes. Demonstration
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of their first amendment rights. When you read that amendment as Rosanna reads that and how she reads it, I I played it to a bunch of group of people. And I knew these guys were, like, you know, totally political opposite, but didn't know who I was. Their faces was like, wow. Yeah. That's an that's a right we have. That's right. They never heard it. They've not even probably even heard what the real first amendment right is. You know? And so and I and I did the second amendment. Without the first, there's no second. Without the second, there's no first. And so, we figure out what our 14 amendments our 14 amendments we have, and we go through those.
And there was probably there's some tough tough, you know, choices they had to make when they wrote this.
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Agree. I agree with you. See. So Svetlana has just, sent me a text. So, she'll be jumping on here in about, ten minutes or so. Okay. Alright, Joe. Alright. So,
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now the How can I'm I'm sorry. Go ahead. I'm sorry. I'm I'm just setting up my studio. Lot of lot of things are fixed up in here. We get it going, and it's gonna be a little bit more, I could hear you better and everything like that. But, we're this weekend, Labor Day, well, things, we're gonna get some things rolling. We get it moving because, our birthday will be coming pretty soon. July will be here, July 4. So it's gonna be interesting end of the year in a very, very, very interesting '26. I think so too. Yeah. You know? And I I just know someone who just went over to Ukraine, a local fisherman. He's sending stuff back. He has relatives over there. And we think of how what is what is on the balance of ending this? The human tragedy is this it's getting it's getting this it's it's fatigue. We're getting war fatigue. Was that over a million a million dead?
Yeah. A million dead. And we just got through a million dead in Iraq. Mhmm. You know? And they're calling them, I call them the Bush forever wars, and I could go all day with that one. But it seemed like it has been a forever war, and, you know more than anybody about nine eleven, how that that thing all got going. But it just seems the the guys that are coming out I just talked to a young guy, and he was in one of the bush wars. He's got a lot of problems. He's a young guy in his forties, and he's discouraged and like, a lot of guys and just he he's having problems. And I think we don't understand those things of what.
You know? I always say, I don't think the Iraqis had anything to do with nine eleven. That's a that's some of my strong points, though. I that's sort of things like you. Like I said, I know a lot of stuff about things of that, and so I'm looking forward to get back going. I'd like to have a part on the show, and Roseanna wants to get in. And we wanna kinda set up something for, like like, a Wayne's Wednesday, or we'll figure it all out. And and tell you what's going up in here, Joe. We we are really getting hammered with our rights up here. Mister, Bob Ferguson, he there's not a a tax that he doesn't love. Everything he there's, like, 28 new taxes in the state of Washington. Who's your who's your he hasn't missed it. Who's your congressional rep?
Are you part of District 4 where, Sessler is? I no. I don't think so. I'm I'm right here in Olympia. I'm in the state capital. Okay. Yeah. So I have to point it out. It I live in the People's Republic Of Washington State, and really, it will never have a Republican in in the in the in the in the capital unless we get rid of mail in voting.
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Well, you hope that mail in voting is the scourge. It's a it's just an absolute scourge, man. I mean, that that just that just needs to disappear. There there Right. You you look at countries around the world that most countries in the world ban mail in voting Yeah. Because of that. Because of the fact that it's easily to manipulate. It's easy to manipulate. It's easy to to to to commit fraud. And, you know, it it the the end, it was it was a backhanded way to to get control. I mean, I I honest I I firmly believe that the Democrats knew exactly what they were doing when they when they started pushing for the mail in voting. It was all part of the coup attempt.
Well, the unfortunately, the successful coup. And, and and honestly, I think a lot of that has to do with the reason why the country is in the condition that it's in today. Yeah. That's why that's why we're struggling with it as with what we have today. I heard a number today. There are 55,000,000 illegal aliens in this country. 55,000,000.
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Okay. More than the state of California.
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Yeah. Yeah. So just just think of that. Change the demographic. You changed you you basically and then you wanna grant amnesty. And I heard something today too about, what what's his name? Lutnick from the, was he treasury? Lutnick? Okay. I think he's treasury. Right? Mhmm. Talking about a, a, an amnesty for
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. 600,000.
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That's not that's not gonna work. Alright, brother. So Svetlana is checking in here with us. So let me, let me bring her in. So let me say goodbye to you. Wayne, thank you so much for, spending the, the last half an hour with us, and I'm glad that, we were able to get you all situated. So we're looking forward to getting our our Wednesdays with Wayne.
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Alright, man. Up and going. So I look forward to that. He's he's giving me the key to unlock the door to get out the asylum. There you go. There you go. So Another inmate escape. So I love you, buddy. I love you too, my friend. Really good stuff real fast. I gotta give you information what's happening in a dark dark blue state up here. Yeah. Plug it. Stuff you Joe, people gotta know these things. I'm serious. They are really we're literally losing our rights on stuff, and they're they're disguising them as,
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mandates. Alright. Well, make some make some I gotta get some stuff going and let you know. Make some time for tomorrow, and we'll get you on. Alright. Take care of that. Alright. Wayne, where can we find you? Any, information you wanna get about?
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I'm just starting everything. We're gonna be getting a website started, and I said I'm gonna put her name on it, Rosanna Lee Rankin. And that way, she she's the one who knows how to do that stuff. Alright. Me, I'm I'm more of just the, Emmanuel. She's administrative. Alright. Alright. You know, I'm Braun, and she's definitely beauty. I said I said the other day, beauty and the beast. If anybody calls her beast, I'll rip their face off.
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I gotcha, bro. Have a good day, brother. You too. Alright, folks. Wayne Rankin, our executive producer, our first executive producer. Thank you so much, brother. You need help getting out of here? I gotcha. Yeah. I do. Give me Alright. Alright. So Wayne is, Wayne has left the building. Alright, folks. Let's just take a quick minute here, and, we'll reset. We have Svetlana waiting in the wings. And, as soon as, we're gonna take a very, very short break here, maybe just two minutes. And when we come back, we'll get with Svetlana Rylkoff, CEO of Ezra Healing, our sponsor and our partner, and we'll be talking about the the devastating effects of alcohol on your health and in your relationships. Folks, this is the Joe Russo. Don't forget this is a live show weeknights at 7PM central time. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and share it with your friends, your family, and your followers, and we'll be back right after this. Stay with us.
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Up and down, counting out, but they don't know I ain't in this ring alone. I'm a fighter. No one can say that get back up. That's what I do. I didn't soldier on this far. Just
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Alrighty. Welcome back to the Joe Ruse show. My name is Joe Ruse. First thirty minutes of the show is out of the way. We got, second half right here, right now with Svetlana Rylkov waiting in the wings. Folks, hope you enjoyed our little conversation there with Wayne Rankin, our executive producer. Great, great guy. A lot of fun. A little subdued tonight. He's still not he's still feeling the effects of the car accident, so We're happy, though, he's doing alright, and We're relieved that he's not severely hurt. Alright.
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Alright. Well, with that said, how about we bring in our very own CEO of Ezra Healing, Svetlana Rylkoff. Svetlana, how you doing? Hey, Joe. It's good to see you. Same here. You are Hi. Miss Busy Bee.
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Miss Busy Bee. Well, I like to be busy doing good things, and I'm actually in your home country. I'm just North of you, but South Of Canada. I'm in, Red Wing, Minnesota. I'm pretty sure it's the right state. And I got here yesterday to visit Stu Peters. Oh, awesome. I spent the whole day with him in the studio. And how So that was really, that was really fun. It it it was fun to talk to another fireball
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live. Right? Yeah. Absolutely.
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And How was student? Been doing that, and I'm super excited to make our podcast today because today's topic is really important. It is. It's gonna be a touchy subject for a lot of people probably, myself, yourself, Joe. And it's I'm sure. You know, it's it's the it's in the obvious that we need to start talking about,
[00:42:41] Unknown:
a lot of these things that are really not working for us anymore. I agree with you. And, like, you know, this show is no stranger to talking about things that are not politically correct and things that are a bit on the, serious side. We have our moments where we can goof around and play around and, you know, be a little on the absurd, but, this particular subject affects a lot of people in a lot of different ways. By myself, I grew up around it. My grandfather was if you wanna be techno, my grandfather was an alcoholic. And, you know, at a very young age, my grandfather would take me to see doctor Costello so we can get his shot, and I was a child at the time, not realizing that doctor Costello was Costello's bar in Brooklyn, and the shot that he was getting was his Scotch.
So, you know, it so I I was exposed to it very, very young, and, I saw the effects of it on my grandfather's life. And, growing up, I heard and after he passed, he passed fairly young. He passed he was 64 when he passed. So and that was back in 1986, I think it was. Yeah. It was the year the Mets won the World Series. Yeah. 1986. So, in the years after that is when I started to hear and learn all of the stories of, just how alcohol affected him, how it brought about heart attacks. And he had strokes, and he had a very lucrative position at one point working on Wall Street, on the trading floor. He did very well for himself and ended up losing that because of the alcohol.
I didn't learn on any of that until much, much, much later on, and I'm not saying that to to disparage my grandfather. No matter what he went through in his life. I I love my grandfather incredibly, and I still do, and I miss him tremendously. He was my pal. And, you know, but it does affect, and, you know, my my uncles are still hold some bitterness toward that, growing up with around that stuff. So alcohol is very, very, very touchy subject, and it's it's but it's an important subject for us to talk about. It's it's very, very embedded in our in our culture to, go out there and have that social drink and to and to, basically surround yourself with it, especially here in, in this part of Texas. I mean, alcohol is very, very prevalent. It's all over the place. You cannot get away from it.
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Yeah. Thank you for sharing that story, Joe. There's a lot of pain that comes with these stories. So much pain, so much trauma, suffering, emotional suffering, bearing the the situation. You know? Let's not talk about the elephant in the syndrome. And I know we like to talk about elephants here, and we're gonna talk about that here in the next, you know, thirty minutes. But it's it's something that has been so we are born into the culture of alcohol. You know? And, you know, everybody you know, it's it's it's celebrated. Yay. If you're in Canada and you're nine you turn 19, you get to drink now. And, yay. If you're in The States, you turn 21, you get to drink now, and let's go to the bar. And Yep. You know, your parents you you even got your parents serving you alcohol now because you're of age. Right. So, you know, we we we've grown up in this, you know, beverage that, you know, not only are we celebrating it, but it also devastates and ruins families, our our health, potentially our our work.
So why are we so celebrating this still? And, you know, alcohol is truly a depressant. It brings us down. Yeah. You know, we may feel like we're, you know, getting, like, upped for a little while, but really, ultimately, it's just bringing your vibe down.
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Well, when you think about it, what do peep what do people mostly say when they drink? That most people drink because they want to forget their problems. They wanna they want to put those things aside for a little while. They wanna get numb to the issues that they're dealing with. So where where anybody would think that's that that that alcohol would be something that would be a stimulant is just beyond me. The whole purpose of drink when you drink, what happens? You you numb yourself to social standards. Right? I mean, you you your your your guard drops.
Think about what goes on in clubs and in and in bars. Right? You have you you're drinking, your your, your inhibitions fall, and you tend to make stupid decisions. You become impaired. It it it so I I don't know. I'd I I like to have the occasional drink. I do. I'm not gonna say I don't, but, and there was a point where I was where where I I was a little bit too much with it, especially after my divorce. I kinda fell down that trail, but and I also saw the damage that it brought about in in relationships with family, friends, at at at the workplace.
Yeah. It's just I just don't under I just people just don't really see it.
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I think, you know, what we're saying here is, you know, don't, you know, I think it's okay to to help you through situations. Now if we're drinking because we're maybe in an emotional pain or some sort of, you know, problem and we, you know, we wanna drink ourselves away. I mean, there there there are those situations, but then there's just, you know, the the Wino mothers too. Yeah. So we have all this spectrum of how alcohol is accepted. But really, in the end, it it it it's really no good. Like, can can we name one time alcohol is actually benefit us, our our health? You know, we drink one or two glasses of wine even the next day. Are are we feeling like a like a workout?
Right. Is our body totally dehydrated because we've, you know, you know, peanut all our good fluid, and not replace ourselves, and we're not, you know, eating properly because we're not thinking properly. So, you know, even just from the health perspective, it's really, really devastating. And what we're finding out in my field, you know, all all these turbocancers we're seeing love sugar, and they they thrive on sugar. So if you eliminate sugar from your diet, you're gonna be seeing, you know, inflammation go down, tumor sizes go down, vaccine injuries get better, you know, more energy. So there's a ton of sugar in alcohol. You know? So there's even there there's so many angles that we can look at this from where eliminating alcohol is is the is the goal.
And, you know, I think it should be a transition. We've been so used to alcohol in our society. Why not let's replace alcohol. Let's go through a transition period where we have something else to maybe drink and hold on to that doesn't cause, you know, these negative these really negative side effects for our relationships, what comes out of our mouth, you know, what happens to our body. Mhmm. And, you know, what's really, coming on scene right now are actually cannabis drinks. And cannabis is, you know, also medicinal. It actually, you know, decreases inflammation.
It's great for cancer. So, this is these are other alternatives that we can turn to instead of the devastating, you know, alcohol, and we can, you know, progress there. I know of a wonderful cannabis company, American Hemp Hub that supplies these these these drinks, and, it's something, you know, that we can be easily replaceable. Or there's mushrooms. You know? I think a lot of people turn towards alcohol to try to soothe their heart. So, you know, what if there's a an alternative that won't be so devastating, but the end goal is, you know, maybe to take nothing at the end of this?
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At first, I've never heard of the cannabis drink. So you got you're you're gonna have to talk a little bit more about that. Is that one?
[00:50:55] Unknown:
No. This is just, puree water. Oh, okay. But there there's cannabis drinks out there where there's there's a couple different, you know, combos. There's one with, just THC. I prefer, you know, if I'm gonna have a drink, one with CBD and THC. Again, that's American Hemp Hub if you're looking for one, and really organic, really well thought out product, that you know, I I wanna start in Canada. We recommend some cannabis, companies and products. In The US, I wanna start, you know, recommending some really great vetted companies, that are actually really there to help people out of, you know, the alcohol toxic cycle and onto something, you know, a lot more healthier and mind opening and and heart healing. Something that's actually going to bring people closer together, and not, you know, cause a lot of the the the division we're seeing where alcohol is involved. My my father was a functioning alcoholic too, and I grew up with, you know, bottles of whiskey in in the cupboard. And I just watched him drink himself to sleep, or in anger. I remember being a little girl and going to, you know, the the cupboard where where the whiskey was and, like like, dumping it out, right, in the sink. You know? But believing a little bit just and filling it up back so I wouldn't get in trouble because I was you know, I I didn't wanna get in trouble because I spilled his alcohol out. Right? But I didn't also want him to drink anymore because I saw the destruction of it, what it was doing to my household and and to our family. So so I think we all have a bit of a story with alcohol, good, bad, and the ugly.
Mine are mostly ugly.
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Well, I, you know, I I don't I I I as you're talking, as you're telling the story, I'm I'm thinking back of myself, and I I really can't think of any circumstance where alcohol really contributed to a good time. You know? I mean, yeah, people have it at weddings and so on and so forth, but, you know, so those things aside
[00:52:59] Unknown:
Weddings. Why are why are you even doing that? It's just a cultural accepted thing. Correct. But just because it's always been done like that That's been always has to be. Exactly. So what we're doing on the Joe Ruse show is we're hopefully helping humanity pivot. And just think of this massive ship in the ocean, and we have been awakened to all these crimes against humanity Yeah. That have been right in front of us for all our life. And now we can say, hey. Let's make a change here, and let's make it together. And, you know, let's keep speaking truth because it's gonna be the truth that sets us free. It's gonna be the truth that sets our, you know, health back on fire. It's gonna be, you know, truth that, you know, brings us closer together.
So that's what I love that you do here, Joe. We just speak truth, and, that's the only language we know how to speak. So
[00:53:56] Unknown:
It's it's that's the it's the the it's the best thing way it's the best way to do it. You just direct. You just you just tackle the subject in front of you. Don't play games. You don't mince words. You don't try to because sometimes sometimes the truth is hurt is hurtful. Sometimes it's brutal. Some it but it has to be said. And, you know, I appreciate everything that you've been doing with with Ezra Healing. You know, the the more I get to know you, the more I get I get to see what it is and where your heart is, the more I really do appreciate everything that you guys are doing.
And, and this is important. So, some from the health care side of the whole thing, why not give us an idea. So what are what are the negative effects of alcohol on the human body?
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Mhmm. You know, I think one of the biggest ones is it stored extra calories in your body Mhmm. Which is usually around your liver. Okay? Your liver is, you know, your detoxing center. So you're harming your liver. You know, you've heard of fatty liver. I was just gonna ask you that. Yeah. You know, you've heard of sore psoriasis, cirrhosis of the liver. Mhmm. Okay? So we're basically putting so much extra pressure and strain on our liver when we consume alcohol. Okay? And then there's, for example, our blood vessels, our our our our bloodstream. It's it dehydrates us. So we're we're peeing out all the, you know, essential nutrients that we're our body's trying to keep. So it's a it's a it's a diuretic.
Okay? So now you're dehydrated. Now you have a headache maybe. Let's talk about how it affects your mind. Okay? It it it really alters your your mindset, your your brain. I believe it it chemically changes your brain. You you're not able to make these solid decisions anymore. So, you know, your your frontal cortex, everything about it, your pineal gland, you're calcifying it. So, you know, it so many harm harms in the body. Never mind, like, the accidents that people have on alcohol. Right? They're in a car accident or they're hit by, you know, a drunk driver.
You know, maybe you're punched in the face or something like that. Right. So, you know, the the the the harmful effects on your body is, you know, you know, are massive. And then we talked about, you know, hormones and coffee last week. Well, alcohol and hormones don't go together either. They they really mess your hormones up. You know? So
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every system, it's affecting. Yeah. People people think that that alcohol elevates your libido, but it it doesn't. It really like, I don't know if I should say it because, you know, I don't know who's listening, who's watching, but there there there is a thing out there that it that if you they say that if you if if a man particularly drinks too much whiskey, certain things don't function properly, and they actually call it whiskey thing. So, it doesn't help it at all. And one thing about as as I was doing some prep for this, conversation today, I did not know that, consuming alcohol can increase your risk of mouth, throat, and breast cancer. I I kind of expected liver cancer, but I I never expected mouth, throat, and breast cancer as a as a as an increased risk of, alcohol consumption?
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That sort of makes sense to me. I mean, you're drinking the alcohol. It's going through your mouth. Right? Mhmm. It's going through your, esophagus and maybe you're breastfeeding. It's going out through your, you know, through your breast milk. It's it's it's everywhere, and it's more you know, we can even look at it from a spiritual perspective. You know? Is it, you know, maybe attacking our body, you know, energetically, spiritually? What is it really doing? It's just lowering our vibration. You know? That that's a whole another reality as well.
[00:57:55] Unknown:
And it definitely opens you up to a lot of negative energies. It opens you up to, a lot of, demonic influence if if you wanna go the, if if you wanna go in that route of it. It it it really can that's why I think that's why in this in in the Bible, specific specifically, it warns, over and over and over again not to drink in excess, not to get drunk, not to do those things because it opens you up to those spiritual attacks. You can call it negative energy. You can call it demonic attack, whatever you want however you wanna phrase it. It opens you up to that. It lowers your resistance to it. It puts you in situations where you your your inhibitions are reduced, and and you'll make decisions that you wouldn't probably normally make. You know, it's it's it's very it's it's it's a very dangerous thing. And another thing too, you know, alcohol if you're somebody who's depressive, alcohol affects anxiety.
It increases anxiety levels, and, it it it it brings you down. It's a like you said, it's a depressant. And if most people who are who deal with anxiety and depression do have a tendency to become dependent on the alcohol. There are they have dependency issues. And, I was reading a statistic a little while ago that says that, excuse me, the World Health Organization, which, you know, I don't really give too much credit to, but for anything, but sometimes some of their information is somewhat reliable. But, they they estimate that there's two point six million deaths globally each year related to alcohol.
Mhmm. That's a huge number. I believe that. That's a huge number.
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So that's just that's just deaths. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Yeah. Just deaths. Yeah. So so never mind the injury. Correct. Yeah. To yourself and others.
[00:59:51] Unknown:
Absolutely. It it's it's it's amazing when you when you when you actually look at the numbers of these things. And we're just so casual about it. We're so so flippant about it. You know? Let's grab a beer. Let's go out to work. Let's go grab a beer. And next thing you know, you're sitting there with empty six packs all over the place. And Yeah. Oh, and then let's order the shooters. Yeah. That and then yeah. And and and also, you said something, last week or or the week before. I don't know if it was on the show or or it's just a a a conversation we were having privately, that you don't really make the best diet choices either when you're consuming alcohol.
You tend you tend to go after the really fatty, and I don't know if that has to do with the alcohol or if that's just, you know, you're just not thinking clearly enough. But you you do. And and I know I I from my own experiences, you know, I think I told you that, you know, I would get up at, you know, I'd be drinking at, like, two, 03:00 in the morning, I'd, you know, start, you know, making pasta, you know, or or or something really heavy like that. I don't know. Maybe the body's craving something like that just to kinda absorb the alcohol content because it is a poison.
Mhmm. You're basically poisoning yourself, so you you need to to your your body might be telling you at that point you need to, you know, do something to get rid of this stuff. I don't know. It it's it's it's a funny thing, but, but, yeah, alcohol is a very dangerous thing to be playing with, and I I really I I'm very happy that from my own circumstance that I've been able to really reduce the amount of alcohol consumption that I've been doing over the last several months. You know, there was a there was a time, like I said, you know, and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna run away from it. You know, it's a poor decision that I made at one point, but there was a point that I was drinking every day, every single day. I'd get home from work and crack open the bottle, sit there and drink until I went to bed at night, and all of that. And I use those same excuses. I just you know, I'm trying to numb the pain. I'm trying just to pass the night just, you know, just enough to get me to go to sleep so I can they don't dream and think about things when I go to bed.
You know? But, really, it it did a lot of damage. It did a lot of damage. And, I'm very happy right now. I'm down. I don't I'll have maybe one or two drinks on a weekend, but that's about it at this point. And my goal is to get rid of it altogether. I went twenty five years without a drop of alcohol until about three years ago.
[01:02:15] Unknown:
Yeah. It's been a bit of a stressful five years. Hey? Sure has. Sure has. So and that and that getting back to my main point. Maybe there's something well, not maybe, but there is something we can transition to. Yes. Let's let's go in stages. Let's wean ourselves off. You know? Like, I I was weaning myself off of coffee. You know? There was an alternative tea or or or the hot, you know, mushroom cocoa mix. Let's be realistic about this. Like, we want something else to to drink. Right? When you go out, you want something else. Mhmm. Right? Why don't we give cannabis drinks a try? Yeah. I know they're new, but you know what? It's time for new.
We're just we're done with the old. We know what it does. Been there, done that. It's not cool anymore. Let's, you know, let's move on. If you need something, I think cannabis is the is the way forward, and it's really accepted now in in all over the world. And let's just be I'm gonna be an advocate for cannabis because I've seen it actually heal people in cancer situations when they're chronic pain, and let's use it to replace alcohol. So, you know, maybe, Joe, if you can throw up, American Hemp Hub, that's where people can go and get some products. And then if you need more questions, you can, you know, come to ezrahealing.com.
We'll connect you with a nurse, work on your mindset, help you wean off of alcohol. If this is you and you're just so done, you know, with the drinking, give us a call. Connect with us. We're gonna help you through this. There's no shame in this. Okay? We've all gone through it. Most people have gone through it. Let's go through it together and make a permanent change because it's the best for our health. It's the best for our relationships around us, and we're just going to elevate. Let's see what the human potential can actually bring when we give it the best,
[01:04:14] Unknown:
circumstance to thrive. Is this the website you're talking about? Let me see. Let me screen share it.
[01:04:19] Unknown:
American Hemp Hub. Yep. That's it. Oh, you're under 21, Joe.
[01:04:27] Unknown:
I wish. No. Actually, I don't. Actually, I don't. I'll I'll be happy with twenty one at that point, but so this is, American Hemp Hub, and it's, americanhemphub..com. And you could check them out. Some really nice things here.
[01:04:45] Unknown:
The gummies. Some really, really nice things there. You know, and, you know, I'm gonna say not all cannabis products are created and grown, you know, the same. So I think where you get your source of cannabis products is really important, and this is a very trusted and vetted organization. I stand by it as much as I stand beside my, ivermectin. So
[01:05:11] Unknown:
Yes. I just signed up for their newsletter on show.
[01:05:16] Unknown:
There you go. There you go. So American Hemp Pump. That's right. And, yeah, there's there's gummies. There's, you know, different sort of, treats there for you. So it'd be really interesting to, you know, to try these products and then to come back with some feedback on them. Yeah. I'm gonna look at I'm gonna look at some of the beverages.
[01:05:38] Unknown:
I'm gonna see what they got there and, and see how that works, and I'll let you know. I will report back. I might I might be a little happy when I do it, but I'll report back. But you know what? What's wrong with happy? Don't we want No. Nothing nothing at all. Absolutely not. As opposed to, you know, the the depressed state that alcohol provides?
[01:05:57] Unknown:
You know? Absolutely.
[01:05:59] Unknown:
As a matter of fact, there's a place not too far from where I live, I guess, like a dispensary. I'm gonna go check them out and see what I can see what they have, just so I can get started here, because I'm willing to try it. You know, I I don't mind it. I have no problem trying new things and being experimental. But what I have but what I what I've done in the in the interim in substituting, for the alcohol during the week is I I've been doing my my my sparkling waters. I have a few cases of the San Pellegrino in the fridge, the mineral waters. I love that stuff. I got my methylene blue, which has been I'm I'm very I'm sorry, but I I love the methylene blue, man. It it it really it has really done a lot for me.
That thing has gotten me off antidepressants. That thing has just overall just made me feel so much better about things and much more calm and much more contemplative, my favorite word now. Contemplative. So, so I love that stuff. So those are the things that I've supplemented with. I've gotten down for I know last week, I told you I went from 24 cups to 12 cups of coffee Mhmm. A day. I I am now down to six.
[01:07:09] Unknown:
Wow. I'm impressed.
[01:07:10] Unknown:
Yes. I I am too. On fire. Well, you know what? I I I feel good. I wanna continue to feel good. You know, I'm I'm seeing benefits to the to the programs that that I've been working with, the workout programs, the the the diet program that I'm following. And I hate using the word diet because it's not a diet. It's just a modified light it's a it's a modified lifestyle choice. You know, I decided not to eat certain things. It's not so it's not a diet. I can eat whatever I want. Just do it in moderation or just cut it out altogether if I don't feel like it's benefiting me.
[01:07:43] Unknown:
But I I I feel great. I really do. I feel fantastic. You look great Well, thank you. By the way. And you keep getting better, you know, every Tuesday that I see you, and you're you're glowing today. And I'm gonna say since I just stopped drinking coffee, my skin has gotten better because I'm not dehydrating myself. Noticed that too since I've reduced it. Yeah. I've noticed that too. Like, how wonderful is that? I'm not draining my body of fluids. So, like, I've noticed my skin improve. So, I mean, we're on a roll here. Let's just keep going. Love that you love methanol blue.
You've you've, you know, and you and you get a your people can know where to get it. We have it in Canada on our Canadian website, so our Canadians can, you know, easily have access to it. So we're on a roll. It feels so great to be eliminating things that harm us. You know, coffee, alcohol, vaccines, masks, fake news, all that stuff. So speaking truth, living truth, we're looking, you know, truthful now. Yes. So all our hard work is paying off. Isn't it, Joe? It is. It absolutely is. And,
[01:08:49] Unknown:
you know, I I'm just looking forward to seeing what's coming down the road. Every day, I feel a little bit better, which is a great thing, and, considering that I I felt so crappy for so long. So, I feel like I got a new lease on thing. I know it sounds maybe overdramatic or whatever, but I feel like I got a new lease on life. You know? I'm enjoying what I'm doing. I'm enjoying every step of the way. Yeah. I have my my stress. Yes. We all do. Everybody does. But overall, mentally, psychologically, I feel I feel great. Emotionally, I feel fantastic.
Physically, we're getting there, and, I'm excited. I'm I'm I'm really appreciating all this stuff, and I've learned so much from from you and from and from Ezra Healing. It's just it's been a great experience with you guys, and so I I really appreciate especially the partnership we have. It's fantastic. I love it. And,
[01:09:39] Unknown:
It just works both ways, and that's what I love about that's how partnerships should work. You know? It's a win win situation. And and so often we get into ourselves where we're giving too much or we're not receiving enough, and it doesn't feel fair. But, you know, I really appreciate you, Joe, and, you know, speaking out about this. And you know what? I really want to, I really wanna keep going south after Minnesota. Hey. Maybe go to Texas. Come on down. Eagle Eagle. Eagle.
[01:10:07] Unknown:
Eagle Pass. Eagle
[01:10:09] Unknown:
Pass. So, I mean, if I show up next Tuesday, are you gonna be okay? Yeah. For sure. Be with you? Absolutely. I'll set the other terminal up for you. We could do a show right here. That would be fun. K? Yeah. Absolutely.
[01:10:21] Unknown:
You just let me know. Let me know. Get some good Texas barbecue. Oh my gosh. I would love that so much. Yeah. Like, big, like, Texas meat. Yeah. Speaking of speaking of, food, I know don't you you have dinner plans coming up. Right? So we we gotta I do, and I apologize for the short show. That's fine. But we'll we'll make it up maybe next Tuesday. Next Tuesday. Yes. Next Tuesday, I will make you do two hours to make up for this. Okay. Alright?
[01:10:47] Unknown:
I'll I'll I'll have maybe, like like, my cannabis drink with me. Okay. No problem. Send you. Or we will we'll drink drinks together and eat steak, and I have my I have to get my hat on. I I brought my cowboy boots. Right? So Okay. Oh, look. Oh, look. Here they are. I brought my cowboy boots. Oh, very nice. I like Oh. And you see, now now that I got now that I have the earbuds, I can wear the cowboy hat during the show. So There you go. Exactly. Oh, I love it so much. Yeah. So Alright. I'm gonna go have some dinner with, the the the new friends I've made here in Red Wing, Minnesota. The stew crew. And it's the stew crew, and and it's just in this culture, I love The US culture. It's, it's on fire. Yes. It is. It's only gonna get better. It's only gonna get better. Get better. Yeah. Alright. Well, you enjoy that. Tell Stu I said hello, and, I look forward to meeting him someday.
[01:11:35] Unknown:
And, I hope we maybe we get to do something together. So Svetlana Rylkoff, CEO of Ezra Healing. Thank you so much. And you look amazing, by the way. Aw. Thank you. Thank you. I'm feeling good. I'm,
[01:11:48] Unknown:
you know, I'm living my truth. And, I also got my eyelashes done.
[01:11:54] Unknown:
That's the that that was the whole thing. That that just sold the whole package right there. I got the got the got the lashes and the brows done. That's awesome. Yeah. I gotta I gotta care for myself a bit. Okay? Yeah. You should. You absolutely should. Alright. Well, thank you so much. I appreciate you taking the time to be here tonight with us, and, look forward to talking to you again. I'll I'll I'll actually Yep. I'll check with I'll check-in with you tomorrow. You'll let me know how dinner went. I will. Okay. Alright. Night. You have a great one. Alright, folks. Svetlana Rylakoff, CEO of Ezra Healing, our partner, our sponsor. We really do appreciate them, immensely.
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Get yourself a membership or click that button right down there. Alright. So we will see you on the other side of Rumble Premium. Alright. We'll be back. Alright. See, the transition is painless. Absolutely painless. Alright. So, just a couple of other things I wanted to kinda bring up about alcohol use, that that we didn't get a chance to talk to because, you know, we really don't have too much time. So as we said, you know, you have the long term consequences of alcohol abuse. You got, liver damage, cirrhosis, fatty liver disease, increased risk of cancers, mouth, throat, liver, breast, then, of course, you have the cardiovascular issues, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, which is why if you are on any of those kind of medications, they tell you not to take them. Don't take don't don't drink. And not I mean, take your medicine. You know what I mean? But don't drink if you're on those medications because it can have a detrimental effect in your body. Now myself, honestly, to be quite honest with you, I was on all those medications because I didn't care at that point. I just just wanted to be numb, and, you know, I am I'm incredibly thankful and, and blessed that that, I haven't had any adverse reactions, while taking all that stuff. Then, of course, like we said, there's the the mental health toll. You know?
Alcohol alcohol use exacerbates your anxiety, your depression, and leads to dependency. And like we said, the World Health Organization, again, another organization I'm not too fond of, but their numbers are are correct on this one, I believe. It's two point six million deaths globally each year. So I guess the question is that I wanna ask you guys, and you can drop a comment down below or you could, shoot me an email and let me know what you think. Why do we normalize casual drinking? Just knowing that there are all of these risks. You know? And there's other issues that come up as well. You have relationship issues. There are problems that develop in your relationships that are that are incredibly difficult to navigate your way through, and I I know from, some from some folks that I know that that go through, that have, members of their family that are alcoholics and and are struggling with that. They've been in and out of rehabs, and some of the things that that come up in conversation with them, especially when they're under the influence, are just horrible. They're just just terrible, terrible, terrible things that are that are said. And, you know, the problem with words are is once you've said them, you really can't take them back.
And as much as you might say that, you know, much as you might apologize for it, and and as much as the person that you're talking to will acknowledge that, okay. I I accept your apology and and so on and so forth, those words stay there. They stay there. You know, alcohol fuels arguments. You get into arguments so easy. It it's, I know someone just, about a week or so ago that, ended up getting into a fistfight over alcohol. End up going to jail for it. So I spent the weekend in jail. So is that that's really not the direction that you wanna go. You wanna stay away from this stuff. You know? Then you have neglect.
You have the, the emotional unavailability. You know? It's, you know, the abuse of alcohol is so incredibly harmful. And, again, it's a lesson that I've learned out of out of my own experiences as well. You know? And it does only affect you. It affects your children also. You know, children of heavy drinkers, and you heard Svetlana mention it yourself. She was traumatized over the fact of her dad's drinking to the point where she would dump out little bits of the alcohol and then fill it up with water to water it down to water it down.
And I told you earlier, at the beginning of the of the of the segment that, you know, my in my family, you know, alcoholism on my on my grandfather and how it affected his children, my uncles, my my, you know, my my mom, and and and it lingers on. You're so many years later. Again, my grandfather passed away in, 1986, and, you know, my uncles still still talk about it. Then, of course, you have problems with your relationships, your romantic relationships, your love interests. You know? Why? Because then trust issues develop. Trust issues develop because you have the potential for, for, for stepping out.
You go out with the guys, you have a couple of drinks, or you go out with the girls, you have a couple of drinks, and next thing you know, because your inhibitions are lower, you might end up going home with someone that you shouldn't be going home with, or you might be having a little rendezvous someplace with someone you shouldn't be having any rendezvous with. It happens. It happens regularly. And then, of course, there's the issue of domestic violence. The The US and I I don't know if it's the CDC or if it's another another, or, HHS or or or whichever organization it was. But, for domestic violence cases, alcohol's a factor in forty to fifty five percent of domestic abuse cases.
Forty five to fifty percent. That's a huge number. Then, of course, again, in your in your friendships, in your social circles, the people that you hang around with, the people that you spend time with. I know from my own personal example. You know? I I have some friends. Well, I had some friends that when I was when I was drinking at my worst, didn't wanna deal with it anymore, and I have no relationship with them anymore no matter what. No matter how many how much apology you make, no matter what you do to show them that, hey. Look. I'm not doing that anymore. I'm good. I'm fine. I it's all good. They don't wanna they're they're they're not willing to deal with you anymore.
Or or the, the person I just told you about a few moments ago. Out with friends, gets into an argument with one of his friends, gets into a fist fight with them, both of them end up in jail. And now neither one of them are speaking to each other because they're both pressing charges on each other. All because of alcohol. All because of alcohol. And, you know, the Bible's the Bible talks about drinking. The Bible warns us not to drink, not to consume alcohol. The Bible gives very, very explicit descriptions of people that are drinking and drunk. I I I didn't think of it to to that I was gonna bring up that subject, from the scriptures. I was like, I'd have my Bible here with me. I can pull up the verses for you. But passage after passage after passage.
I know that, you know, every drunk in town knows the the one verse, you know, you know, take a little take take a little wine for thy stomach's sake and not often infirmities. You also gotta understand that wine in those days was not the wine that we have today. It wasn't always fermented liquor. Sometimes wine, there's new wine, there's there's new wine, and there's just wine. New wine is grape juice. The fermented stuff is the stuff that that's the warning. So when the apostle Paul told Timothy to take a little wine for thy stomachs sake and it often infirmities, pretty sure he wasn't talking about the alcohol. So I'm pretty sure he wasn't telling to go out there and get snookered. And, of course, there's the admonitions. You know?
Be not drunk with wine where is an excess. Don't drink to get drunk. Why? Because your inhibitions fall, and you fall into sin. You fall into temptation. You fall into infidelity. You you cheat on your wife, your husband. You fornicate. You commit adultery. And then that ruins your relationships. It ruins your romantic relationships. It ruins you it ruins your it ruins your friendships. It it breaks those those those bonds of trust. Let me ask you this. Have you ever lost a connection with somebody because of alcohol and because of what you did? I can tell you stories about people that I know that that, in in sent out chat group messages to people telling everybody everybody's business in these chat groups until they got cut off.
Completely cut off. No contact with anybody anymore. Not friends anymore. Hurt a lot of people. Hurt a lot of feelings all while they were drunk. Just some more statistics for you. So addiction and dependency. Right? We talked about that. It's a slippery slope. Alcohol use disorder or AUD affects millions. About two about twenty eight point nine million people from 12 and up, 12 and up, had AUD in the past, in the past year. Just think about that. 12 years old and up, have having an alcohol use disorder. Twenty eight point nine million people. 12 years old.
So if you know somebody who drinks heavily, what are you looking for? What are some of the signs of of a depend of the dependency that they have on alcohol? Well, like I said before, sometimes you drink because you wanna get numb to the situation. Whatever it is that you're dealing with. You don't wanna ex you don't wanna live through or experience whatever it is that's that's that's weighing on you. So you drink to cope. You drink to deal with it. You drink to suppress it. It doesn't do that though. It it just it just comes back the next day when once you're sober.
And then there's that dependence what you know that someone's really dependent on it when when they can't cut back. I'm gonna start right now. I'm gonna stop. I'm not gonna drink anymore. I'm gonna ease myself out of this. I'm gonna but they can't. What do they do? They go running right out to the bottle first chance they get. And then what about the what about those people that you're supposed to be at work at 08:00, but you spent all night drinking? Can't get to work by 08:00, you get there late every day. Your employer eventually will have to discipline, end up losing your job.
And I know that a lot of people think of think that, you know, if I go to get help, if I talk about these things, you know, it's it's it's like, it's like a mark of shame. It's not. It's not. I have been openly talking about my issues quite a bit of late. I mean, thank God that I'm I'm on the other end of it at this point. You know? Do I wanna drink? Yes. I would love to. I would love to finish the show right now, go out there, and crack open a bottle, have a drink, relax, you know, all the typical, social cliches that people throw out there. It just, you know, takes the edge off, takes you know, relax and all that. I would love to go do that. Thank god I don't have anything in the house that I could drink.
Thank god I don't. I don't need it. I don't need it. But what helps though is to talk to people about it. When I feel like I need it, I have someone that I can talk to. I have more than someone. I have a few people I can talk to. I have people who have been who have gone through it and understand it from that side of it, but more importantly, I talk to my god. I talk to my savior. I talk to the Lord Jesus Christ. When I feel like I need to have that drink, I talk to God. I pray. I'll sit down and open my Bible. I'll pour myself some sparkling water. I'll sit down and open my Bible. I'll read a few passages. I'll pray, and it helps me get through that moment.
So don't be afraid to go and seek help. Don't be afraid to go out and ask for help. Don't be afraid to admit that there's a problem. And if you know someone, if you're if you're not the person with the problem, and if you know somebody that has a drinking problem, talk to them about it. Confront them about it. It's hard. It it's I know it's hard. It's hard to go to someone and tell them, you have a problem, dude. You better stop. You gotta I know that's hard, but it has to be done. If you love them, you have to say something. Support them. It's gonna be hard.
It's a struggle. They're gonna have their good days. They're gonna have their bad days. Don't turn on them. Go through it with them. Struggle with them. Cry with them if you have to, but support them. You know, sobriety can and will lead to better health. It'll help you think clearer, and it'll help you build those strong relationships again, but you gotta take the step to do it. So if you are sitting on the fence right now, say you're thinking about having a drink or maybe you're struggling with it. Get help. Get help.
I saw I saw a great quote, and I I put it here in my notes. Says alcohol might feel like it's bringing us together, but it's often pulling us apart. That's good. That's good. So like Svetlana said, we need to really rethink its place in our lives. Now if you need help, there's plenty of places to go. You can there's a there's a there are help lines you can call. There's a +1 80662 help. You can give them a call. Look just go online. Look for the local whatever's local to you, local recovery programs. Find sober communities on social media. There are places to go. There are places to go.
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[00:01:18] Unknown:
Alright, hey folks, this is Joe Roos, it is seventeen forty eight hours on Tuesday, 08/26/2025 and bringing you the best quality talk radio we could muster without all the bluster. Welcome to the Joe Rouge Show. Our special Tuesday edition of the Joe Rouge Show. Well, we were, going to have our do no harm episode of the show today, but, unfortunately I don't think Svetlana Ryilkov, our CEO of Ezra Healthcare, Ezra Healing will be joining us. She had a prior commitment, I don't think she was able to break free from that yet, but that's quite alright because, sitting there being the quiet little boy that I asked him to be, we have our executive producer Wayne Rankin, waiting in the wings, just need him to turn his camera on and we are good to go.
Hopefully, he remembers how to do that. Well, we'll see, but folks I hope you guys had a good day today, I hope you guys had a great day today, and I hope you were able to catch the show last night. We had a great time last night. Some minor glitches aside, we had, we had, Tony Kessler in the, first hour. Great guy, and we're gonna have him back on. We're gonna do a special session with him on Thursday. We had a lot of interesting interesting things to talk about. So, very excited to have him back on the show again, and we'll do that on Thursday. And then following, Tony was, we had Jared Kes Jared Sessler who, is running for the, Congressional District 4 up in the great state of Washington, which is where my co host, who is still hasn't turned his camera on, is is hails from.
And we did this three times already, but that's okay. He'll get it. He'll figure it out. He'll pop in here sooner or later. Now you might remember Wayne. Wayne joined us back in February. He was with us for a week. There he is. There he is. Popped in. Popped on in. Alright. Alright. But, Wayne joined us last, in February. So he he was with us for, what, six days? Am I correct? It was six days? Six hundred degree days. Yeah. Six well, no. It wasn't that. Eighty five. Yeah. It wasn't that. 85 up 85 up there. Down there, it's a 100 up here. It was kinda it it was kinda like, we we had yeah. It it I don't know. It was like a kind of a dreary kinda week. Right? It was mostly rain. It was kinda cool. Yeah. But, but we had a great time. We got a lot of stuff done. We we worked on the show. We got the studio set up the way it is currently as as it's set up right now. And we had a we had a lot of fun. And so it was a great time to fellowship with with, first of all, a brother in Christ. And, Wayne, I've known you for what? How many years? Twenty Twenty five. Twenty five years. I just got this put up over my head here if you can't see it. No. Don't mess with your stuff.
[00:04:15] Unknown:
Scripture on the wall. I got some really good scripture on the wall. Don't twist your angles. Don't change anything right now.
[00:04:21] Unknown:
Just leave it as it is. If you only the reason why we start well, normally, we start the show at 07:00. That's that's the normal time. We started a little early because our, our our host our our cohost, Svetlana, asked if we could start earlier because of the commitment she has, working on another project. And, so we were able to do that, but, again, I guess, she wasn't able to break away from it. That's fine. That's totally cool. That's no big deal. I called our executive producer, Wayne, here, and he jumped on the show, with much tribulation to say the least. Wayne, Wayne had some problems there getting set up. That's why we started fifteen minutes later than the July the, fifteen the 05:30 start time that we plan. I I'm looking at military time all around me. I'm getting confused.
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That's the alexjonesstore.com/joe. And, as you see here, I have my my trusty methylene blue that I am, toasting here to Wayne because I know Wayne had recently purchased some. I don't know if he's gotten it yet, but,
[00:06:38] Unknown:
Yes. Oh, you have? I have I have gone blue tongue here recently. Yeah. How do you like it? I just got started on it. I I'm sure it's gonna get my system and everything. I like the taste. I know. Isn't it is it a good? It's it's not bad. I don't mind. What do you what do you mixing it with? With my whole mixture of stuff. My, Mad Laboratory, all the stuff I put in together. So it's a good additive to what I can use for what I didn't have in it. So, you know, the b twelve, this, this, this. It's a good additive to what my mixture I'm doing for myself. Nice. See, a lot of people within the first thirty minutes of of of drinking it, they start to feel a little something. Some people feel
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Alright. My friend, Wayne.
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Hey, Joe. How's it going? You're you're rung in. What's going on, my brother? How are you? Well, you know those Fast and Furious movies? Bogus, man, because, I'd I'm just coming off of two weeks ago, literally on a country road, state highway, 50 miles an hour. A lady literally like a deer pulled in front of me and my wife. And unlike Fast and Furious, I went to the hospital on a stretcher, and my dear beloved there was almost killed. So it's like those things in the movies, I'm not buying it. But, I'm recovering physically, emotionally. I I I'm I'm good with that. She's more emotionally, hurting that way, but I'm up and running. The lord's good. And, sore neck, bruises, this, that, got some legal stuff going, but I'm up and ready. I do bounce, and, the lord is good. But, since our last, kind of talks and stuff, the things I I got going in my head is food prices in America. And as an executive producer, I got a future show coming. And, Joe, I'm telling you, everybody should be watching this one. I got I call him my godson, but he's over in Eastern Oregon. He's a cattle rancher. Now listen to everybody. He's a cattle rancher. His grandparents were some of the founding members of the Eastern Oregon Cattle Association, like, in the twenties.
So he and he is a, like, little tyke. This dude, he's I'm not using maybe the cowboy language, wrestled thousands of cattle brand and etcetera, etcetera. He's got his own ranch. And he called me, what the is it hamburger being $9 a pound? But, Joe, he knows irrigation. He works with, all the stuff in land, irrigation, contracts, cattle, agriculture, fertilizer, and what's going on. And over in Oregon, they wanna they were their anti farmer just like Washington's anti American. He's, concerned of what's happening to the rancher in Eastern Oregon, which puts food, and people are talking about how high beef is going.
I'm gonna get a hold of him. I'm gonna get all you guys together because he's an insight guy, and he's been at listen to Jones and a lot of other guys for years. He's he's the boots on the ground of agriculture and beef in Eastern Oregon. He's got his parents' grandparents' names are well renowned there.
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Outstanding. Now I'd Because
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I'm sorry. Go ahead. Oh, because beef is going up in Washington state, but we have lots of well, in Texas too, but why is beef up so high? That's the question. Go ahead. Well, I wanted to kinda back up just a little bit and because we
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the last time you were here, we were we were talking about a number of different things that that Right. Projects that we're gonna be working on together. And, a lot of those things are coming to fruition. And, so what I wanted you to do is I wanted to kinda because I because I've been telling folks about this this project that you're working on, that you're building a studio in your home, and and, and and, so why don't you tell us about that? Tell us about the studio that you're building and what the plan is for that, and and what kind of programming you're looking to do, what kind of shows you're looking to have, and, to what extent are you are you looking to do this?
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Okay. We got a really great computer. Family member is a Microsoft programmer, so they got a really high end computer, which is, you know but my my dear wife, who is the son of the this is the son of my wife, so she's helped she's pretty sharp too with the tech. So we set up a computer that's really got a lot of space and all the things that I don't understand. I'm not the tech guy and more the creative part of it all. But you can see some green here. We're gonna set up a green screen room. And part of it is, you know, how we got this big films company, we went to download, and it's got, 1,500 different backgrounds on it. But the thing that me and my my wife are working on is they're gonna do the 14 amendments.
And with the green screen, and we will self impose her. I call her the amendment lady who's got the most incredible voice, Rebecca in Michigan. And, some of you are saying, why isn't she reading for Disney? For real. And so she's got the outfits. She's got the first one going. She wants to do the first amendment, like a George Washington outfit I see. And have the scroll and and go that way. The second amendment, she's got, like, a a western cowgirl and presenting them in different, eras, obviously. She'll do a colonial one with the cannons. We'll get the green screen and maybe a late, you know, eighteen hundreds, early nineteen hundreds, reading the amendments. And, so coming up in two hundred fifty years. And I'm calling her the amendment lady. She's got the outfits, but the way she presents herself, it's kind of like, her voice is I don't know how to say it. It's like, just solid, and she she has a a tone that you're gonna be focused on how she says it. And she's got the face
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she's got a TV face. Okay? A lot of the some of the folks that have been following the show for a while should should recognize her voice. I mean, she did she did a couple of voice overs for us when we first started the show, the video show. And we had the the the show's under a different name at the time, so I can't use them now because it's a different name to the show. But, she did some some some great voiceovers for us. I got a lot of comments on the voiceover asking me who did the com who did the voiceover for you. And, you know, I said, well, it's my it's my friend's wife, and they're they're producers of the show, and and they they were helping out. They would donate even their time and their talent. And, so she does she has an amazing voice for this stuff. She has a great voice for radio. She has she she really does voice overs very well. As a matter of fact, I I've given them a little bit of a project to work on for us, to do some bumper stuff. So, once we get that all up and running, you'll hear her again, and so we're we're excited about that. But, I'm really excited about, the amendments.
When you were telling me about it, I thought it was a great idea. It sounds like a hell of a lot of fun to do. So so I got go ahead.
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As I'm going through it, my mind and I gotta settle down here, but one of them is the, illegal seek. She's searching seizure. Mhmm. She's gonna be, like, in handcuffs on her knees, and I'll be pointing a gun to her head. Oh, okay. Yeah. She says let's do this. Okay. Because, you know, both of our, of course, our fathers are in the military. My father was in World War two, and, you know, I was married before my wife passed away, and a lot of her family died in the Holocaust. And they know what is illegal search and seizure and a military that is in your you know, government should not have their military, in the in the citizenship.
And so we're gonna go to some extremes too because, no matter who's on what side of the, the blue or blue or red, some of the rights that's been happening, especially blue states. And if we're in we're in deep blue here, this is deep blue country up here. And what they wanna do to certain things up here is, like, you know, they wanna put little, things in our car, see how many miles we're driving, etcetera, etcetera. So what what like I said, is Joe Show says there's nothing off limits. No. No. See what you gotta say, bro. No. She said, yeah. Let's let's make it, you know, because people died for this. You know, we think of these, you know, these colonial, you know, pioneers, these heroes. Some of these guys are in their twenties. Ed Emms and Jeff they're they're like 60 year old. Yeah. I you know, for Franklin was old. But you start looking at some of the age of these guys, you know, they're like, I don't Gen x, Gen whatever, that's where they would be. You know, that 25 to 35, some of those that were our founding fathers. Now we're not fathers, but, so, yeah, we're gonna set up the see, green behind me here over here. Gonna be a total green room, green screen, and we can just page or whatever you put some whatever it is. And we're gonna tape them over, and she says she wants to hit them all and different what the element of the amendment will be will be what we present.
That's awesome. Yeah. And I'm looking forward to it. I really am. And, so you're gonna be available on on on which platforms to see this. Okay. I I asked her about that one since she's the, computer tech person. I said, let's get your own website going, Rosanna Lee Rankin, and get that started, and then you could expand it from there, you know, from that to get your amendments on there and other readings, and we're gonna do some other things. And part b is I have a friend in Israel, and he wants to do a live podcast from the holy land of Israel once a week. So we're working on getting that done because pretty much what's a lot it's a hotbed for what's going on over there. And his his son is in the military. Yes.
War sucks. Excuse my language. And it's awful, and both sides make mistakes. And like I said, there's nothing good in that. And so he could at least going on there, but he can't give me details. And a lot of it is also gonna be he's a tour guide. So he's gonna be like, here I am this week. I'm in Ben Gedi. And we'll green screen that where he's at. Nice. And he had talked about this is where king David was running from Saul. So we're gonna it's gonna be where he's at at the moment because some people will never get to go over there. I've been over there a couple times. So that's my part two of, what I'm really focused on getting done. Gotta get go we were really on track until, like I said, lady pulled right out in front of us. I'm just now beginning to walk here this week pretty good. It's, like I said, fast and furious.
Thinking those guys driving in space, get out of town.
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It's, it do we I I when when the accident happened and you told us about it, told me about it, I made sure that I mentioned it to to to the folks. Because as you know, at the end of every show, we do a shout out. We we, shout out all the producers' names, everybody who's been contributing, And, I made sure I mentioned that, you were involved in a vehicle accident, folks, to be to, to keep you in prayer and and such. So, I'm glad that you're actually able to sit here with us, and people can actually see you and and know that, okay, you might be a little banged up and bruised, but you're okay. You're you're pulling through. And, you know, I don't want you to talk too much because I know you got a lot of legal things going on. So
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Right. You know, I think Most of it, Joe, is our timing. I I I'm I'm on. I actually did this myself. I'm so actually proud of that. Be very proud of yourself. She is gonna go wild today and, like, she this will get her motivated because like I said, she's still recovering a little bit emotional wise, and it's not it's natural thing. But Of course. You know, watching me wield on a goonie and everything, she's still struggling with that. But I said, so we got this we have three days off this weekend coming up. So I said, let's do some green screen building and and do some she goes, I got the outfits. She wants to do a couple, what they call it, the rehearsals. Okay. Good. Yes. You should. And we'll send it we'll send you some of the rehearsals, Joe, and see what and your your your you know, like I said Yeah. I'd love to see it. Produce yeah. It's it's it's with, you know, getting it towards your show, but I told her, said, let's get out there. Be the amendment lady. It's coming up on 02:50. Perfect timing.
And get the t shirt out and the buttons and what have you. So, she's got she's got the face for it. That's all I can tell you. So and the way she presents herself too when she talks. And she did a TV commercial down in DEC when she was younger Oh, really? For a for a insurance company. So she's got the chops. So I just gotta get her to get the mojo back. Now you have experience in doing radio. You you've done Yes. Sports radio. Correct? Yes. Yeah. College
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Give us a sports call. College radio. Give us a sports call. Division. Yeah.
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And I did high school football, and then I had a TV show of my own called they call, you know, public, access. Okay. It was a hunting fishing show. So I produced it, filled it, everything. And so, then like I said, I got the big c, which is cancer and that kind of like, every time I'm done I'm done with all of the stuff. I just wanna get rolling, man. And once I do, like I said, my wife's twenty years younger than me. She says, I thought I signed up for a 60 year old. I got two 30 year olds. So, man, I I don't stop. I mean, I got I got an engine I got an engine that keeps going, and I do pretty good. But that's good, man. There's a lot to talk about, but the things that people don't understand two hundred fifty years. Civilizations are as Rome, Greece. That's about when they start tapping out. You know? They didn't you know, Nebuchadnezzar. I don't know how long Babylon last. If you start looking at the history of these civilizations, February is like, okay. We're on the run overtime after that. So it's gonna be interesting the next year. Well, republics
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are are historically, tend to collapse after about February to February. So and that's, technically what this country is. It's a it's a it's a republic. It's not a democracy, you know, despite what the left likes to to to throw out there and spin. But, I'm glad you mentioned, you know, the rights, the bills the bill of rights and such. Something's going on right now in the in the news that, I spoke with a congressional candidate yesterday about it. And I I I listened to his his position on it, and I where I I agree with most of what he said, there's just a couple of things I disagree with, and that's fine. That that's that's the that's the whole point. That's the good thing about living in a republic. We can sit and we can disagree with one another and still yet come to some kind of an agreement on other things.
So, I wanna ask you about this this executive order that the the president signed, talking about the burning of The US flag. Yeah. So, as you know, the executive order you you see and this is where it gets confusing. See, the executive order, mandates one year in jail.
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For, for the burning of of an American flag. Okay. I understand that. I disagree with that. I think that I do too. Yeah. I think that this has to this is this is definitely an issue of a first amendment right. The Supreme Court has ruled on this that it is a it is a first amendment right to burn a flag, any flag for that matter, to burn an American flag. Now having said that, before I start getting all the hate mail, do I think that as an American citizen, you should be burning your flag? Absolutely not. I don't think you should.
Do you have the right to do it? Absolutely do. And I don't think and I I I and it's and it kinda disturbs me that there is this executive order out there now that makes it a a crime, basically, to, with a mandatory one year of jail for exercising your first amendment right as much as I disagree with it, as much as I think that you're an idiot for doing something like that. Because what that flag represents is the sacrifice of millions, 1,200,000 Americans that have given their lives over the course of various wars and conflicts to preserve freedom, to preserve your freedom, to burn the damn flag.
Right. You know? So I'm kinda torn on this. And I'm not sure I I I I I I I I I I'm kinda worried about it, to be quite honest with you. I never I didn't expect to see that that type of an order come out from a Trump administration. What do you think about it?
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Well, you know, like I say, is it a is it a violent act towards another person, for one thing? Is it I'm going over to your house burning your flag? Mhmm. Okay. They got a crime there. That's the misdemeanor or whatever whatever it is. Sure. Call it what it is. Vandalism. It's a slippery slope. And like I said, I've had relatives die in the Holocaust museums. I ask them questions like that, and I remember asking them something like that. They said, you know, the right to burn it. That's the part of it. You have now the right to burn it, but you don't now because you'll be misdemeanor, put in jail, fined.
That's the part of it's a it's a cloth. I I know it represents our everything, our freedom, our birth of our country, etcetera. If you go out and buy a flag and you're in your yard and you port towards that thing on your yard, you know, that's that's you know what? Flip them off. I got it. You know? That's myself, I would go with, I don't think it's a crime to be put in jail unless it's a violent act like I just said. Is it a violent act? Agreed. Is it throw it is it you throwing the the the flame, the fiery flag onto somebody? Are you in a public, demonstration? I got it. But, you know, once if I was in my front yard burning it and they came and put cuffs on me, smashed my face in the ground, I got a problem with that. I I agree with you. I got a big I got a drill. I got a big problem with that one. Yeah. No. I I totally agree with that. Yeah. I I mean,
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if I I can understand it if you are, I understand it if you are, say, in a public place where lighting it on fire could potentially spread and cause more damage and and harm others. Yeah. Absolutely. I agree with that. Right. But, I still have that it still it it you still have the right to do it. And and I I I'm just concerned that you're gonna get some overzealous enforcement on this, and, you know, people are gonna be locked up for no reason for for exercising their first amendment right. Whether I agree with it or not, it's like, who's who said was it Voltaire? You know, I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death to defend it. Right. Exactly. Or something to that effect. I I might be Yeah. Right. Yeah. It's just pretty close to that. Like, my brother was a Vietnam veteran. He said when he came back,
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to The States, you know, he said he took his, you know, from off and everything, and he went right over to the the peace protest. Stop the swore. So here's a guy, you know, he took all of his stuff off, and he's jumping in with the hippies, smoking pot and and bad mouthing their country and what have you. Here's a guy who just got back off the plane from serving his country. So he said, hell, yeah, man. I want the singer stopped too. So there's that there's that point of view where, is it the is it the ideology or the act? Is it the the ideology is you hate the flag for what what's your reason you hate it? Okay. The act is burning. Okay. So what is what is the part that is illegal? The burning part. So, I just through history and, you know, things have things have started down a slippery slope with smaller things than this.
And so, that's that's when I if you ask me my full fledged answer and I'm not gonna give a political answer, I'm against it. I'm against arresting someone with a peaceful, nonviolent, nonharmful
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Yes. Demonstration
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of their first amendment rights. When you read that amendment as Rosanna reads that and how she reads it, I I played it to a bunch of group of people. And I knew these guys were, like, you know, totally political opposite, but didn't know who I was. Their faces was like, wow. Yeah. That's an that's a right we have. That's right. They never heard it. They've not even probably even heard what the real first amendment right is. You know? And so and I and I did the second amendment. Without the first, there's no second. Without the second, there's no first. And so, we figure out what our 14 amendments our 14 amendments we have, and we go through those.
And there was probably there's some tough tough, you know, choices they had to make when they wrote this.
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Agree. I agree with you. See. So Svetlana has just, sent me a text. So, she'll be jumping on here in about, ten minutes or so. Okay. Alright, Joe. Alright. So,
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now the How can I'm I'm sorry. Go ahead. I'm sorry. I'm I'm just setting up my studio. Lot of lot of things are fixed up in here. We get it going, and it's gonna be a little bit more, I could hear you better and everything like that. But, we're this weekend, Labor Day, well, things, we're gonna get some things rolling. We get it moving because, our birthday will be coming pretty soon. July will be here, July 4. So it's gonna be interesting end of the year in a very, very, very interesting '26. I think so too. Yeah. You know? And I I just know someone who just went over to Ukraine, a local fisherman. He's sending stuff back. He has relatives over there. And we think of how what is what is on the balance of ending this? The human tragedy is this it's getting it's getting this it's it's fatigue. We're getting war fatigue. Was that over a million a million dead?
Yeah. A million dead. And we just got through a million dead in Iraq. Mhmm. You know? And they're calling them, I call them the Bush forever wars, and I could go all day with that one. But it seemed like it has been a forever war, and, you know more than anybody about nine eleven, how that that thing all got going. But it just seems the the guys that are coming out I just talked to a young guy, and he was in one of the bush wars. He's got a lot of problems. He's a young guy in his forties, and he's discouraged and like, a lot of guys and just he he's having problems. And I think we don't understand those things of what.
You know? I always say, I don't think the Iraqis had anything to do with nine eleven. That's a that's some of my strong points, though. I that's sort of things like you. Like I said, I know a lot of stuff about things of that, and so I'm looking forward to get back going. I'd like to have a part on the show, and Roseanna wants to get in. And we wanna kinda set up something for, like like, a Wayne's Wednesday, or we'll figure it all out. And and tell you what's going up in here, Joe. We we are really getting hammered with our rights up here. Mister, Bob Ferguson, he there's not a a tax that he doesn't love. Everything he there's, like, 28 new taxes in the state of Washington. Who's your who's your he hasn't missed it. Who's your congressional rep?
Are you part of District 4 where, Sessler is? I no. I don't think so. I'm I'm right here in Olympia. I'm in the state capital. Okay. Yeah. So I have to point it out. It I live in the People's Republic Of Washington State, and really, it will never have a Republican in in the in the in the in the capital unless we get rid of mail in voting.
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Well, you hope that mail in voting is the scourge. It's a it's just an absolute scourge, man. I mean, that that just that just needs to disappear. There there Right. You you look at countries around the world that most countries in the world ban mail in voting Yeah. Because of that. Because of the fact that it's easily to manipulate. It's easy to manipulate. It's easy to to to to commit fraud. And, you know, it it the the end, it was it was a backhanded way to to get control. I mean, I I honest I I firmly believe that the Democrats knew exactly what they were doing when they when they started pushing for the mail in voting. It was all part of the coup attempt.
Well, the unfortunately, the successful coup. And, and and honestly, I think a lot of that has to do with the reason why the country is in the condition that it's in today. Yeah. That's why that's why we're struggling with it as with what we have today. I heard a number today. There are 55,000,000 illegal aliens in this country. 55,000,000.
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Okay. More than the state of California.
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Yeah. Yeah. So just just think of that. Change the demographic. You changed you you basically and then you wanna grant amnesty. And I heard something today too about, what what's his name? Lutnick from the, was he treasury? Lutnick? Okay. I think he's treasury. Right? Mhmm. Talking about a, a, an amnesty for
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. 600,000.
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That's not that's not gonna work. Alright, brother. So Svetlana is checking in here with us. So let me, let me bring her in. So let me say goodbye to you. Wayne, thank you so much for, spending the, the last half an hour with us, and I'm glad that, we were able to get you all situated. So we're looking forward to getting our our Wednesdays with Wayne.
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Alright, man. Up and going. So I look forward to that. He's he's giving me the key to unlock the door to get out the asylum. There you go. There you go. So Another inmate escape. So I love you, buddy. I love you too, my friend. Really good stuff real fast. I gotta give you information what's happening in a dark dark blue state up here. Yeah. Plug it. Stuff you Joe, people gotta know these things. I'm serious. They are really we're literally losing our rights on stuff, and they're they're disguising them as,
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mandates. Alright. Well, make some make some I gotta get some stuff going and let you know. Make some time for tomorrow, and we'll get you on. Alright. Take care of that. Alright. Wayne, where can we find you? Any, information you wanna get about?
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I'm just starting everything. We're gonna be getting a website started, and I said I'm gonna put her name on it, Rosanna Lee Rankin. And that way, she she's the one who knows how to do that stuff. Alright. Me, I'm I'm more of just the, Emmanuel. She's administrative. Alright. Alright. You know, I'm Braun, and she's definitely beauty. I said I said the other day, beauty and the beast. If anybody calls her beast, I'll rip their face off.
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I gotcha, bro. Have a good day, brother. You too. Alright, folks. Wayne Rankin, our executive producer, our first executive producer. Thank you so much, brother. You need help getting out of here? I gotcha. Yeah. I do. Give me Alright. Alright. So Wayne is, Wayne has left the building. Alright, folks. Let's just take a quick minute here, and, we'll reset. We have Svetlana waiting in the wings. And, as soon as, we're gonna take a very, very short break here, maybe just two minutes. And when we come back, we'll get with Svetlana Rylkoff, CEO of Ezra Healing, our sponsor and our partner, and we'll be talking about the the devastating effects of alcohol on your health and in your relationships. Folks, this is the Joe Russo. Don't forget this is a live show weeknights at 7PM central time. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and share it with your friends, your family, and your followers, and we'll be back right after this. Stay with us.
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Up and down, counting out, but they don't know I ain't in this ring alone. I'm a fighter. No one can say that get back up. That's what I do. I didn't soldier on this far. Just
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Alrighty. Welcome back to the Joe Ruse show. My name is Joe Ruse. First thirty minutes of the show is out of the way. We got, second half right here, right now with Svetlana Rylkov waiting in the wings. Folks, hope you enjoyed our little conversation there with Wayne Rankin, our executive producer. Great, great guy. A lot of fun. A little subdued tonight. He's still not he's still feeling the effects of the car accident, so We're happy, though, he's doing alright, and We're relieved that he's not severely hurt. Alright.
So, we're gonna be talking about the devastating effects of alcohol on your health. But before we do that, folks, let's, give a quick shout here to podhome.fm. Podhome.fm is the most modern and easy to use pod host podcast hosting platform that's out there. You could use it to publish your episodes, enhance your audio, and automatically generate transcripts, chapters, titles, show notes, and more. And you can even podcast live through your own website or across the modern podcast two point o platforms. You also get your own website with podhome.fm, should you need one, or you could bring over your own domain and use it on the pod home site. So no matter how you go about it, you've got a good functioning, beautiful website, and it doesn't cost you anything extra.
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Alright. Well, with that said, how about we bring in our very own CEO of Ezra Healing, Svetlana Rylkoff. Svetlana, how you doing? Hey, Joe. It's good to see you. Same here. You are Hi. Miss Busy Bee.
[00:41:45] Unknown:
Miss Busy Bee. Well, I like to be busy doing good things, and I'm actually in your home country. I'm just North of you, but South Of Canada. I'm in, Red Wing, Minnesota. I'm pretty sure it's the right state. And I got here yesterday to visit Stu Peters. Oh, awesome. I spent the whole day with him in the studio. And how So that was really, that was really fun. It it it was fun to talk to another fireball
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live. Right? Yeah. Absolutely.
[00:42:18] Unknown:
And How was student? Been doing that, and I'm super excited to make our podcast today because today's topic is really important. It is. It's gonna be a touchy subject for a lot of people probably, myself, yourself, Joe. And it's I'm sure. You know, it's it's the it's in the obvious that we need to start talking about,
[00:42:41] Unknown:
a lot of these things that are really not working for us anymore. I agree with you. And, like, you know, this show is no stranger to talking about things that are not politically correct and things that are a bit on the, serious side. We have our moments where we can goof around and play around and, you know, be a little on the absurd, but, this particular subject affects a lot of people in a lot of different ways. By myself, I grew up around it. My grandfather was if you wanna be techno, my grandfather was an alcoholic. And, you know, at a very young age, my grandfather would take me to see doctor Costello so we can get his shot, and I was a child at the time, not realizing that doctor Costello was Costello's bar in Brooklyn, and the shot that he was getting was his Scotch.
So, you know, it so I I was exposed to it very, very young, and, I saw the effects of it on my grandfather's life. And, growing up, I heard and after he passed, he passed fairly young. He passed he was 64 when he passed. So and that was back in 1986, I think it was. Yeah. It was the year the Mets won the World Series. Yeah. 1986. So, in the years after that is when I started to hear and learn all of the stories of, just how alcohol affected him, how it brought about heart attacks. And he had strokes, and he had a very lucrative position at one point working on Wall Street, on the trading floor. He did very well for himself and ended up losing that because of the alcohol.
I didn't learn on any of that until much, much, much later on, and I'm not saying that to to disparage my grandfather. No matter what he went through in his life. I I love my grandfather incredibly, and I still do, and I miss him tremendously. He was my pal. And, you know, but it does affect, and, you know, my my uncles are still hold some bitterness toward that, growing up with around that stuff. So alcohol is very, very, very touchy subject, and it's it's but it's an important subject for us to talk about. It's it's very, very embedded in our in our culture to, go out there and have that social drink and to and to, basically surround yourself with it, especially here in, in this part of Texas. I mean, alcohol is very, very prevalent. It's all over the place. You cannot get away from it.
[00:45:09] Unknown:
Yeah. Thank you for sharing that story, Joe. There's a lot of pain that comes with these stories. So much pain, so much trauma, suffering, emotional suffering, bearing the the situation. You know? Let's not talk about the elephant in the syndrome. And I know we like to talk about elephants here, and we're gonna talk about that here in the next, you know, thirty minutes. But it's it's something that has been so we are born into the culture of alcohol. You know? And, you know, everybody you know, it's it's it's celebrated. Yay. If you're in Canada and you're nine you turn 19, you get to drink now. And, yay. If you're in The States, you turn 21, you get to drink now, and let's go to the bar. And Yep. You know, your parents you you even got your parents serving you alcohol now because you're of age. Right. So, you know, we we we've grown up in this, you know, beverage that, you know, not only are we celebrating it, but it also devastates and ruins families, our our health, potentially our our work.
So why are we so celebrating this still? And, you know, alcohol is truly a depressant. It brings us down. Yeah. You know, we may feel like we're, you know, getting, like, upped for a little while, but really, ultimately, it's just bringing your vibe down.
[00:46:36] Unknown:
Well, when you think about it, what do peep what do people mostly say when they drink? That most people drink because they want to forget their problems. They wanna they want to put those things aside for a little while. They wanna get numb to the issues that they're dealing with. So where where anybody would think that's that that that alcohol would be something that would be a stimulant is just beyond me. The whole purpose of drink when you drink, what happens? You you numb yourself to social standards. Right? I mean, you you your your your guard drops.
Think about what goes on in clubs and in and in bars. Right? You have you you're drinking, your your, your inhibitions fall, and you tend to make stupid decisions. You become impaired. It it it so I I don't know. I'd I I like to have the occasional drink. I do. I'm not gonna say I don't, but, and there was a point where I was where where I I was a little bit too much with it, especially after my divorce. I kinda fell down that trail, but and I also saw the damage that it brought about in in relationships with family, friends, at at at the workplace.
Yeah. It's just I just don't under I just people just don't really see it.
[00:48:01] Unknown:
I think, you know, what we're saying here is, you know, don't, you know, I think it's okay to to help you through situations. Now if we're drinking because we're maybe in an emotional pain or some sort of, you know, problem and we, you know, we wanna drink ourselves away. I mean, there there there are those situations, but then there's just, you know, the the Wino mothers too. Yeah. So we have all this spectrum of how alcohol is accepted. But really, in the end, it it it it's really no good. Like, can can we name one time alcohol is actually benefit us, our our health? You know, we drink one or two glasses of wine even the next day. Are are we feeling like a like a workout?
Right. Is our body totally dehydrated because we've, you know, you know, peanut all our good fluid, and not replace ourselves, and we're not, you know, eating properly because we're not thinking properly. So, you know, even just from the health perspective, it's really, really devastating. And what we're finding out in my field, you know, all all these turbocancers we're seeing love sugar, and they they thrive on sugar. So if you eliminate sugar from your diet, you're gonna be seeing, you know, inflammation go down, tumor sizes go down, vaccine injuries get better, you know, more energy. So there's a ton of sugar in alcohol. You know? So there's even there there's so many angles that we can look at this from where eliminating alcohol is is the is the goal.
And, you know, I think it should be a transition. We've been so used to alcohol in our society. Why not let's replace alcohol. Let's go through a transition period where we have something else to maybe drink and hold on to that doesn't cause, you know, these negative these really negative side effects for our relationships, what comes out of our mouth, you know, what happens to our body. Mhmm. And, you know, what's really, coming on scene right now are actually cannabis drinks. And cannabis is, you know, also medicinal. It actually, you know, decreases inflammation.
It's great for cancer. So, this is these are other alternatives that we can turn to instead of the devastating, you know, alcohol, and we can, you know, progress there. I know of a wonderful cannabis company, American Hemp Hub that supplies these these these drinks, and, it's something, you know, that we can be easily replaceable. Or there's mushrooms. You know? I think a lot of people turn towards alcohol to try to soothe their heart. So, you know, what if there's a an alternative that won't be so devastating, but the end goal is, you know, maybe to take nothing at the end of this?
[00:50:48] Unknown:
At first, I've never heard of the cannabis drink. So you got you're you're gonna have to talk a little bit more about that. Is that one?
[00:50:55] Unknown:
No. This is just, puree water. Oh, okay. But there there's cannabis drinks out there where there's there's a couple different, you know, combos. There's one with, just THC. I prefer, you know, if I'm gonna have a drink, one with CBD and THC. Again, that's American Hemp Hub if you're looking for one, and really organic, really well thought out product, that you know, I I wanna start in Canada. We recommend some cannabis, companies and products. In The US, I wanna start, you know, recommending some really great vetted companies, that are actually really there to help people out of, you know, the alcohol toxic cycle and onto something, you know, a lot more healthier and mind opening and and heart healing. Something that's actually going to bring people closer together, and not, you know, cause a lot of the the the division we're seeing where alcohol is involved. My my father was a functioning alcoholic too, and I grew up with, you know, bottles of whiskey in in the cupboard. And I just watched him drink himself to sleep, or in anger. I remember being a little girl and going to, you know, the the cupboard where where the whiskey was and, like like, dumping it out, right, in the sink. You know? But believing a little bit just and filling it up back so I wouldn't get in trouble because I was you know, I I didn't wanna get in trouble because I spilled his alcohol out. Right? But I didn't also want him to drink anymore because I saw the destruction of it, what it was doing to my household and and to our family. So so I think we all have a bit of a story with alcohol, good, bad, and the ugly.
Mine are mostly ugly.
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Well, I, you know, I I don't I I I as you're talking, as you're telling the story, I'm I'm thinking back of myself, and I I really can't think of any circumstance where alcohol really contributed to a good time. You know? I mean, yeah, people have it at weddings and so on and so forth, but, you know, so those things aside
[00:52:59] Unknown:
Weddings. Why are why are you even doing that? It's just a cultural accepted thing. Correct. But just because it's always been done like that That's been always has to be. Exactly. So what we're doing on the Joe Ruse show is we're hopefully helping humanity pivot. And just think of this massive ship in the ocean, and we have been awakened to all these crimes against humanity Yeah. That have been right in front of us for all our life. And now we can say, hey. Let's make a change here, and let's make it together. And, you know, let's keep speaking truth because it's gonna be the truth that sets us free. It's gonna be the truth that sets our, you know, health back on fire. It's gonna be, you know, truth that, you know, brings us closer together.
So that's what I love that you do here, Joe. We just speak truth, and, that's the only language we know how to speak. So
[00:53:56] Unknown:
It's it's that's the it's the the it's the best thing way it's the best way to do it. You just direct. You just you just tackle the subject in front of you. Don't play games. You don't mince words. You don't try to because sometimes sometimes the truth is hurt is hurtful. Sometimes it's brutal. Some it but it has to be said. And, you know, I appreciate everything that you've been doing with with Ezra Healing. You know, the the more I get to know you, the more I get I get to see what it is and where your heart is, the more I really do appreciate everything that you guys are doing.
And, and this is important. So, some from the health care side of the whole thing, why not give us an idea. So what are what are the negative effects of alcohol on the human body?
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Mhmm. You know, I think one of the biggest ones is it stored extra calories in your body Mhmm. Which is usually around your liver. Okay? Your liver is, you know, your detoxing center. So you're harming your liver. You know, you've heard of fatty liver. I was just gonna ask you that. Yeah. You know, you've heard of sore psoriasis, cirrhosis of the liver. Mhmm. Okay? So we're basically putting so much extra pressure and strain on our liver when we consume alcohol. Okay? And then there's, for example, our blood vessels, our our our our bloodstream. It's it dehydrates us. So we're we're peeing out all the, you know, essential nutrients that we're our body's trying to keep. So it's a it's a it's a diuretic.
Okay? So now you're dehydrated. Now you have a headache maybe. Let's talk about how it affects your mind. Okay? It it it really alters your your mindset, your your brain. I believe it it chemically changes your brain. You you're not able to make these solid decisions anymore. So, you know, your your frontal cortex, everything about it, your pineal gland, you're calcifying it. So, you know, it so many harm harms in the body. Never mind, like, the accidents that people have on alcohol. Right? They're in a car accident or they're hit by, you know, a drunk driver.
You know, maybe you're punched in the face or something like that. Right. So, you know, the the the the harmful effects on your body is, you know, you know, are massive. And then we talked about, you know, hormones and coffee last week. Well, alcohol and hormones don't go together either. They they really mess your hormones up. You know? So
[00:56:22] Unknown:
every system, it's affecting. Yeah. People people think that that alcohol elevates your libido, but it it doesn't. It really like, I don't know if I should say it because, you know, I don't know who's listening, who's watching, but there there there is a thing out there that it that if you they say that if you if if a man particularly drinks too much whiskey, certain things don't function properly, and they actually call it whiskey thing. So, it doesn't help it at all. And one thing about as as I was doing some prep for this, conversation today, I did not know that, consuming alcohol can increase your risk of mouth, throat, and breast cancer. I I kind of expected liver cancer, but I I never expected mouth, throat, and breast cancer as a as a as an increased risk of, alcohol consumption?
[00:57:20] Unknown:
That sort of makes sense to me. I mean, you're drinking the alcohol. It's going through your mouth. Right? Mhmm. It's going through your, esophagus and maybe you're breastfeeding. It's going out through your, you know, through your breast milk. It's it's it's everywhere, and it's more you know, we can even look at it from a spiritual perspective. You know? Is it, you know, maybe attacking our body, you know, energetically, spiritually? What is it really doing? It's just lowering our vibration. You know? That that's a whole another reality as well.
[00:57:55] Unknown:
And it definitely opens you up to a lot of negative energies. It opens you up to, a lot of, demonic influence if if you wanna go the, if if you wanna go in that route of it. It it it really can that's why I think that's why in this in in the Bible, specific specifically, it warns, over and over and over again not to drink in excess, not to get drunk, not to do those things because it opens you up to those spiritual attacks. You can call it negative energy. You can call it demonic attack, whatever you want however you wanna phrase it. It opens you up to that. It lowers your resistance to it. It puts you in situations where you your your inhibitions are reduced, and and you'll make decisions that you wouldn't probably normally make. You know, it's it's it's very it's it's it's a very dangerous thing. And another thing too, you know, alcohol if you're somebody who's depressive, alcohol affects anxiety.
It increases anxiety levels, and, it it it it brings you down. It's a like you said, it's a depressant. And if most people who are who deal with anxiety and depression do have a tendency to become dependent on the alcohol. There are they have dependency issues. And, I was reading a statistic a little while ago that says that, excuse me, the World Health Organization, which, you know, I don't really give too much credit to, but for anything, but sometimes some of their information is somewhat reliable. But, they they estimate that there's two point six million deaths globally each year related to alcohol.
Mhmm. That's a huge number. I believe that. That's a huge number.
[00:59:40] Unknown:
So that's just that's just deaths. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Yeah. Just deaths. Yeah. So so never mind the injury. Correct. Yeah. To yourself and others.
[00:59:51] Unknown:
Absolutely. It it's it's it's amazing when you when you when you actually look at the numbers of these things. And we're just so casual about it. We're so so flippant about it. You know? Let's grab a beer. Let's go out to work. Let's go grab a beer. And next thing you know, you're sitting there with empty six packs all over the place. And Yeah. Oh, and then let's order the shooters. Yeah. That and then yeah. And and and also, you said something, last week or or the week before. I don't know if it was on the show or or it's just a a a conversation we were having privately, that you don't really make the best diet choices either when you're consuming alcohol.
You tend you tend to go after the really fatty, and I don't know if that has to do with the alcohol or if that's just, you know, you're just not thinking clearly enough. But you you do. And and I know I I from my own experiences, you know, I think I told you that, you know, I would get up at, you know, I'd be drinking at, like, two, 03:00 in the morning, I'd, you know, start, you know, making pasta, you know, or or or something really heavy like that. I don't know. Maybe the body's craving something like that just to kinda absorb the alcohol content because it is a poison.
Mhmm. You're basically poisoning yourself, so you you need to to your your body might be telling you at that point you need to, you know, do something to get rid of this stuff. I don't know. It it's it's it's a funny thing, but, but, yeah, alcohol is a very dangerous thing to be playing with, and I I really I I'm very happy that from my own circumstance that I've been able to really reduce the amount of alcohol consumption that I've been doing over the last several months. You know, there was a there was a time, like I said, you know, and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna run away from it. You know, it's a poor decision that I made at one point, but there was a point that I was drinking every day, every single day. I'd get home from work and crack open the bottle, sit there and drink until I went to bed at night, and all of that. And I use those same excuses. I just you know, I'm trying to numb the pain. I'm trying just to pass the night just, you know, just enough to get me to go to sleep so I can they don't dream and think about things when I go to bed.
You know? But, really, it it did a lot of damage. It did a lot of damage. And, I'm very happy right now. I'm down. I don't I'll have maybe one or two drinks on a weekend, but that's about it at this point. And my goal is to get rid of it altogether. I went twenty five years without a drop of alcohol until about three years ago.
[01:02:15] Unknown:
Yeah. It's been a bit of a stressful five years. Hey? Sure has. Sure has. So and that and that getting back to my main point. Maybe there's something well, not maybe, but there is something we can transition to. Yes. Let's let's go in stages. Let's wean ourselves off. You know? Like, I I was weaning myself off of coffee. You know? There was an alternative tea or or or the hot, you know, mushroom cocoa mix. Let's be realistic about this. Like, we want something else to to drink. Right? When you go out, you want something else. Mhmm. Right? Why don't we give cannabis drinks a try? Yeah. I know they're new, but you know what? It's time for new.
We're just we're done with the old. We know what it does. Been there, done that. It's not cool anymore. Let's, you know, let's move on. If you need something, I think cannabis is the is the way forward, and it's really accepted now in in all over the world. And let's just be I'm gonna be an advocate for cannabis because I've seen it actually heal people in cancer situations when they're chronic pain, and let's use it to replace alcohol. So, you know, maybe, Joe, if you can throw up, American Hemp Hub, that's where people can go and get some products. And then if you need more questions, you can, you know, come to ezrahealing.com.
We'll connect you with a nurse, work on your mindset, help you wean off of alcohol. If this is you and you're just so done, you know, with the drinking, give us a call. Connect with us. We're gonna help you through this. There's no shame in this. Okay? We've all gone through it. Most people have gone through it. Let's go through it together and make a permanent change because it's the best for our health. It's the best for our relationships around us, and we're just going to elevate. Let's see what the human potential can actually bring when we give it the best,
[01:04:14] Unknown:
circumstance to thrive. Is this the website you're talking about? Let me see. Let me screen share it.
[01:04:19] Unknown:
American Hemp Hub. Yep. That's it. Oh, you're under 21, Joe.
[01:04:27] Unknown:
I wish. No. Actually, I don't. Actually, I don't. I'll I'll be happy with twenty one at that point, but so this is, American Hemp Hub, and it's, americanhemphub..com. And you could check them out. Some really nice things here.
[01:04:45] Unknown:
The gummies. Some really, really nice things there. You know, and, you know, I'm gonna say not all cannabis products are created and grown, you know, the same. So I think where you get your source of cannabis products is really important, and this is a very trusted and vetted organization. I stand by it as much as I stand beside my, ivermectin. So
[01:05:11] Unknown:
Yes. I just signed up for their newsletter on show.
[01:05:16] Unknown:
There you go. There you go. So American Hemp Pump. That's right. And, yeah, there's there's gummies. There's, you know, different sort of, treats there for you. So it'd be really interesting to, you know, to try these products and then to come back with some feedback on them. Yeah. I'm gonna look at I'm gonna look at some of the beverages.
[01:05:38] Unknown:
I'm gonna see what they got there and, and see how that works, and I'll let you know. I will report back. I might I might be a little happy when I do it, but I'll report back. But you know what? What's wrong with happy? Don't we want No. Nothing nothing at all. Absolutely not. As opposed to, you know, the the depressed state that alcohol provides?
[01:05:57] Unknown:
You know? Absolutely.
[01:05:59] Unknown:
As a matter of fact, there's a place not too far from where I live, I guess, like a dispensary. I'm gonna go check them out and see what I can see what they have, just so I can get started here, because I'm willing to try it. You know, I I don't mind it. I have no problem trying new things and being experimental. But what I have but what I what I've done in the in the interim in substituting, for the alcohol during the week is I I've been doing my my my sparkling waters. I have a few cases of the San Pellegrino in the fridge, the mineral waters. I love that stuff. I got my methylene blue, which has been I'm I'm very I'm sorry, but I I love the methylene blue, man. It it it really it has really done a lot for me.
That thing has gotten me off antidepressants. That thing has just overall just made me feel so much better about things and much more calm and much more contemplative, my favorite word now. Contemplative. So, so I love that stuff. So those are the things that I've supplemented with. I've gotten down for I know last week, I told you I went from 24 cups to 12 cups of coffee Mhmm. A day. I I am now down to six.
[01:07:09] Unknown:
Wow. I'm impressed.
[01:07:10] Unknown:
Yes. I I am too. On fire. Well, you know what? I I I feel good. I wanna continue to feel good. You know, I'm I'm seeing benefits to the to the programs that that I've been working with, the workout programs, the the the diet program that I'm following. And I hate using the word diet because it's not a diet. It's just a modified light it's a it's a modified lifestyle choice. You know, I decided not to eat certain things. It's not so it's not a diet. I can eat whatever I want. Just do it in moderation or just cut it out altogether if I don't feel like it's benefiting me.
[01:07:43] Unknown:
But I I I feel great. I really do. I feel fantastic. You look great Well, thank you. By the way. And you keep getting better, you know, every Tuesday that I see you, and you're you're glowing today. And I'm gonna say since I just stopped drinking coffee, my skin has gotten better because I'm not dehydrating myself. Noticed that too since I've reduced it. Yeah. I've noticed that too. Like, how wonderful is that? I'm not draining my body of fluids. So, like, I've noticed my skin improve. So, I mean, we're on a roll here. Let's just keep going. Love that you love methanol blue.
You've you've, you know, and you and you get a your people can know where to get it. We have it in Canada on our Canadian website, so our Canadians can, you know, easily have access to it. So we're on a roll. It feels so great to be eliminating things that harm us. You know, coffee, alcohol, vaccines, masks, fake news, all that stuff. So speaking truth, living truth, we're looking, you know, truthful now. Yes. So all our hard work is paying off. Isn't it, Joe? It is. It absolutely is. And,
[01:08:49] Unknown:
you know, I I'm just looking forward to seeing what's coming down the road. Every day, I feel a little bit better, which is a great thing, and, considering that I I felt so crappy for so long. So, I feel like I got a new lease on thing. I know it sounds maybe overdramatic or whatever, but I feel like I got a new lease on life. You know? I'm enjoying what I'm doing. I'm enjoying every step of the way. Yeah. I have my my stress. Yes. We all do. Everybody does. But overall, mentally, psychologically, I feel I feel great. Emotionally, I feel fantastic.
Physically, we're getting there, and, I'm excited. I'm I'm I'm really appreciating all this stuff, and I've learned so much from from you and from and from Ezra Healing. It's just it's been a great experience with you guys, and so I I really appreciate especially the partnership we have. It's fantastic. I love it. And,
[01:09:39] Unknown:
It just works both ways, and that's what I love about that's how partnerships should work. You know? It's a win win situation. And and so often we get into ourselves where we're giving too much or we're not receiving enough, and it doesn't feel fair. But, you know, I really appreciate you, Joe, and, you know, speaking out about this. And you know what? I really want to, I really wanna keep going south after Minnesota. Hey. Maybe go to Texas. Come on down. Eagle Eagle. Eagle.
[01:10:07] Unknown:
Eagle Pass. Eagle
[01:10:09] Unknown:
Pass. So, I mean, if I show up next Tuesday, are you gonna be okay? Yeah. For sure. Be with you? Absolutely. I'll set the other terminal up for you. We could do a show right here. That would be fun. K? Yeah. Absolutely.
[01:10:21] Unknown:
You just let me know. Let me know. Get some good Texas barbecue. Oh my gosh. I would love that so much. Yeah. Like, big, like, Texas meat. Yeah. Speaking of speaking of, food, I know don't you you have dinner plans coming up. Right? So we we gotta I do, and I apologize for the short show. That's fine. But we'll we'll make it up maybe next Tuesday. Next Tuesday. Yes. Next Tuesday, I will make you do two hours to make up for this. Okay. Alright?
[01:10:47] Unknown:
I'll I'll I'll have maybe, like like, my cannabis drink with me. Okay. No problem. Send you. Or we will we'll drink drinks together and eat steak, and I have my I have to get my hat on. I I brought my cowboy boots. Right? So Okay. Oh, look. Oh, look. Here they are. I brought my cowboy boots. Oh, very nice. I like Oh. And you see, now now that I got now that I have the earbuds, I can wear the cowboy hat during the show. So There you go. Exactly. Oh, I love it so much. Yeah. So Alright. I'm gonna go have some dinner with, the the the new friends I've made here in Red Wing, Minnesota. The stew crew. And it's the stew crew, and and it's just in this culture, I love The US culture. It's, it's on fire. Yes. It is. It's only gonna get better. It's only gonna get better. Get better. Yeah. Alright. Well, you enjoy that. Tell Stu I said hello, and, I look forward to meeting him someday.
[01:11:35] Unknown:
And, I hope we maybe we get to do something together. So Svetlana Rylkoff, CEO of Ezra Healing. Thank you so much. And you look amazing, by the way. Aw. Thank you. Thank you. I'm feeling good. I'm,
[01:11:48] Unknown:
you know, I'm living my truth. And, I also got my eyelashes done.
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That's the that that was the whole thing. That that just sold the whole package right there. I got the got the got the lashes and the brows done. That's awesome. Yeah. I gotta I gotta care for myself a bit. Okay? Yeah. You should. You absolutely should. Alright. Well, thank you so much. I appreciate you taking the time to be here tonight with us, and, look forward to talking to you again. I'll I'll I'll actually Yep. I'll check with I'll check-in with you tomorrow. You'll let me know how dinner went. I will. Okay. Alright. Night. You have a great one. Alright, folks. Svetlana Rylakoff, CEO of Ezra Healing, our partner, our sponsor. We really do appreciate them, immensely.
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Get yourself a membership or click that button right down there. Alright. So we will see you on the other side of Rumble Premium. Alright. We'll be back. Alright. See, the transition is painless. Absolutely painless. Alright. So, just a couple of other things I wanted to kinda bring up about alcohol use, that that we didn't get a chance to talk to because, you know, we really don't have too much time. So as we said, you know, you have the long term consequences of alcohol abuse. You got, liver damage, cirrhosis, fatty liver disease, increased risk of cancers, mouth, throat, liver, breast, then, of course, you have the cardiovascular issues, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, which is why if you are on any of those kind of medications, they tell you not to take them. Don't take don't don't drink. And not I mean, take your medicine. You know what I mean? But don't drink if you're on those medications because it can have a detrimental effect in your body. Now myself, honestly, to be quite honest with you, I was on all those medications because I didn't care at that point. I just just wanted to be numb, and, you know, I am I'm incredibly thankful and, and blessed that that, I haven't had any adverse reactions, while taking all that stuff. Then, of course, like we said, there's the the mental health toll. You know?
Alcohol alcohol use exacerbates your anxiety, your depression, and leads to dependency. And like we said, the World Health Organization, again, another organization I'm not too fond of, but their numbers are are correct on this one, I believe. It's two point six million deaths globally each year. So I guess the question is that I wanna ask you guys, and you can drop a comment down below or you could, shoot me an email and let me know what you think. Why do we normalize casual drinking? Just knowing that there are all of these risks. You know? And there's other issues that come up as well. You have relationship issues. There are problems that develop in your relationships that are that are incredibly difficult to navigate your way through, and I I know from, some from some folks that I know that that go through, that have, members of their family that are alcoholics and and are struggling with that. They've been in and out of rehabs, and some of the things that that come up in conversation with them, especially when they're under the influence, are just horrible. They're just just terrible, terrible, terrible things that are that are said. And, you know, the problem with words are is once you've said them, you really can't take them back.
And as much as you might say that, you know, much as you might apologize for it, and and as much as the person that you're talking to will acknowledge that, okay. I I accept your apology and and so on and so forth, those words stay there. They stay there. You know, alcohol fuels arguments. You get into arguments so easy. It it's, I know someone just, about a week or so ago that, ended up getting into a fistfight over alcohol. End up going to jail for it. So I spent the weekend in jail. So is that that's really not the direction that you wanna go. You wanna stay away from this stuff. You know? Then you have neglect.
You have the, the emotional unavailability. You know? It's, you know, the abuse of alcohol is so incredibly harmful. And, again, it's a lesson that I've learned out of out of my own experiences as well. You know? And it does only affect you. It affects your children also. You know, children of heavy drinkers, and you heard Svetlana mention it yourself. She was traumatized over the fact of her dad's drinking to the point where she would dump out little bits of the alcohol and then fill it up with water to water it down to water it down.
And I told you earlier, at the beginning of the of the of the segment that, you know, my in my family, you know, alcoholism on my on my grandfather and how it affected his children, my uncles, my my, you know, my my mom, and and and it lingers on. You're so many years later. Again, my grandfather passed away in, 1986, and, you know, my uncles still still talk about it. Then, of course, you have problems with your relationships, your romantic relationships, your love interests. You know? Why? Because then trust issues develop. Trust issues develop because you have the potential for, for, for stepping out.
You go out with the guys, you have a couple of drinks, or you go out with the girls, you have a couple of drinks, and next thing you know, because your inhibitions are lower, you might end up going home with someone that you shouldn't be going home with, or you might be having a little rendezvous someplace with someone you shouldn't be having any rendezvous with. It happens. It happens regularly. And then, of course, there's the issue of domestic violence. The The US and I I don't know if it's the CDC or if it's another another, or, HHS or or or whichever organization it was. But, for domestic violence cases, alcohol's a factor in forty to fifty five percent of domestic abuse cases.
Forty five to fifty percent. That's a huge number. Then, of course, again, in your in your friendships, in your social circles, the people that you hang around with, the people that you spend time with. I know from my own personal example. You know? I I have some friends. Well, I had some friends that when I was when I was drinking at my worst, didn't wanna deal with it anymore, and I have no relationship with them anymore no matter what. No matter how many how much apology you make, no matter what you do to show them that, hey. Look. I'm not doing that anymore. I'm good. I'm fine. I it's all good. They don't wanna they're they're they're not willing to deal with you anymore.
Or or the, the person I just told you about a few moments ago. Out with friends, gets into an argument with one of his friends, gets into a fist fight with them, both of them end up in jail. And now neither one of them are speaking to each other because they're both pressing charges on each other. All because of alcohol. All because of alcohol. And, you know, the Bible's the Bible talks about drinking. The Bible warns us not to drink, not to consume alcohol. The Bible gives very, very explicit descriptions of people that are drinking and drunk. I I I didn't think of it to to that I was gonna bring up that subject, from the scriptures. I was like, I'd have my Bible here with me. I can pull up the verses for you. But passage after passage after passage.
I know that, you know, every drunk in town knows the the one verse, you know, you know, take a little take take a little wine for thy stomach's sake and not often infirmities. You also gotta understand that wine in those days was not the wine that we have today. It wasn't always fermented liquor. Sometimes wine, there's new wine, there's there's new wine, and there's just wine. New wine is grape juice. The fermented stuff is the stuff that that's the warning. So when the apostle Paul told Timothy to take a little wine for thy stomachs sake and it often infirmities, pretty sure he wasn't talking about the alcohol. So I'm pretty sure he wasn't telling to go out there and get snookered. And, of course, there's the admonitions. You know?
Be not drunk with wine where is an excess. Don't drink to get drunk. Why? Because your inhibitions fall, and you fall into sin. You fall into temptation. You fall into infidelity. You you cheat on your wife, your husband. You fornicate. You commit adultery. And then that ruins your relationships. It ruins your romantic relationships. It ruins you it ruins your it ruins your friendships. It it breaks those those those bonds of trust. Let me ask you this. Have you ever lost a connection with somebody because of alcohol and because of what you did? I can tell you stories about people that I know that that, in in sent out chat group messages to people telling everybody everybody's business in these chat groups until they got cut off.
Completely cut off. No contact with anybody anymore. Not friends anymore. Hurt a lot of people. Hurt a lot of feelings all while they were drunk. Just some more statistics for you. So addiction and dependency. Right? We talked about that. It's a slippery slope. Alcohol use disorder or AUD affects millions. About two about twenty eight point nine million people from 12 and up, 12 and up, had AUD in the past, in the past year. Just think about that. 12 years old and up, have having an alcohol use disorder. Twenty eight point nine million people. 12 years old.
So if you know somebody who drinks heavily, what are you looking for? What are some of the signs of of a depend of the dependency that they have on alcohol? Well, like I said before, sometimes you drink because you wanna get numb to the situation. Whatever it is that you're dealing with. You don't wanna ex you don't wanna live through or experience whatever it is that's that's that's weighing on you. So you drink to cope. You drink to deal with it. You drink to suppress it. It doesn't do that though. It it just it just comes back the next day when once you're sober.
And then there's that dependence what you know that someone's really dependent on it when when they can't cut back. I'm gonna start right now. I'm gonna stop. I'm not gonna drink anymore. I'm gonna ease myself out of this. I'm gonna but they can't. What do they do? They go running right out to the bottle first chance they get. And then what about the what about those people that you're supposed to be at work at 08:00, but you spent all night drinking? Can't get to work by 08:00, you get there late every day. Your employer eventually will have to discipline, end up losing your job.
And I know that a lot of people think of think that, you know, if I go to get help, if I talk about these things, you know, it's it's it's like, it's like a mark of shame. It's not. It's not. I have been openly talking about my issues quite a bit of late. I mean, thank God that I'm I'm on the other end of it at this point. You know? Do I wanna drink? Yes. I would love to. I would love to finish the show right now, go out there, and crack open a bottle, have a drink, relax, you know, all the typical, social cliches that people throw out there. It just, you know, takes the edge off, takes you know, relax and all that. I would love to go do that. Thank god I don't have anything in the house that I could drink.
Thank god I don't. I don't need it. I don't need it. But what helps though is to talk to people about it. When I feel like I need it, I have someone that I can talk to. I have more than someone. I have a few people I can talk to. I have people who have been who have gone through it and understand it from that side of it, but more importantly, I talk to my god. I talk to my savior. I talk to the Lord Jesus Christ. When I feel like I need to have that drink, I talk to God. I pray. I'll sit down and open my Bible. I'll pour myself some sparkling water. I'll sit down and open my Bible. I'll read a few passages. I'll pray, and it helps me get through that moment.
So don't be afraid to go and seek help. Don't be afraid to go out and ask for help. Don't be afraid to admit that there's a problem. And if you know someone, if you're if you're not the person with the problem, and if you know somebody that has a drinking problem, talk to them about it. Confront them about it. It's hard. It it's I know it's hard. It's hard to go to someone and tell them, you have a problem, dude. You better stop. You gotta I know that's hard, but it has to be done. If you love them, you have to say something. Support them. It's gonna be hard.
It's a struggle. They're gonna have their good days. They're gonna have their bad days. Don't turn on them. Go through it with them. Struggle with them. Cry with them if you have to, but support them. You know, sobriety can and will lead to better health. It'll help you think clearer, and it'll help you build those strong relationships again, but you gotta take the step to do it. So if you are sitting on the fence right now, say you're thinking about having a drink or maybe you're struggling with it. Get help. Get help.
I saw I saw a great quote, and I I put it here in my notes. Says alcohol might feel like it's bringing us together, but it's often pulling us apart. That's good. That's good. So like Svetlana said, we need to really rethink its place in our lives. Now if you need help, there's plenty of places to go. You can there's a there's a there are help lines you can call. There's a +1 80662 help. You can give them a call. Look just go online. Look for the local whatever's local to you, local recovery programs. Find sober communities on social media. There are places to go. There are places to go.
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Introduction and Show Overview
Guest Introduction and Technical Glitches
Housekeeping and Listener Engagement
Health and Wellness Discussion
Wayne's Personal Updates and Future Plans
Historical Projects and Amendments
Political Discussion: Flag Burning Executive Order
Effects of Alcohol on Health and Relationships
Alternatives to Alcohol
Closing Remarks and Future Plans
