Reverend Billy Talen for Mayor

[dewerbylhserf]

FAKE

[shazame2002]

My friends Just did, a song with him lol..

[Jane102248]

I love the humor and shopping gives me a headache with irritable syndrome! I strongly think big stores make people sick and much of their junk causes cancer!!

[bille2588]

Lori another awesome video, you are so sweet, beautiful and professional.

[PsoMyth]

I agree with what he's saying about local economies. Additionally, I think it would revive culture, we'd have a sense of place, a sense of uniqueness again. I can go anywhere in the US and find a generic Wal-Mart. It says nothing about where I am or the people who are there.

But I wonder if it's realistic to think we could return to this. People like the convenience of our postmodern, globalizing society. Few understand or care about this issue. Few care that we are controlled.

[TikiTubeable]

@PsoMyth When was America ever unique? America is a country European immigrants killed a bunch of Native Americans for so they wouldn't have to share it, went over to Africa and brought slaves back so they wouldn't have to work their stolen land; and brought with them very dilluted versions of the many places each came from in Europe. America's culture is theft basically. LOL

Which clearly hasn't gone anywhere.

[treddshort]

@TikiTubeable wow wow wow. what country are you from. get the fuck off the face of the earth

[TikiTubeable]

@treddshort I'm from Europe bitch, where the fuck are you from?

Oh thats right turdmerica, land of European rejects with an inferiority complex. So glad your inbred ancestors left.

[treddshort]

@TikiTubeable i sure hope my inbred relatives are wacking you off at your computer that you're clearly always sitting at!! sucks that you live in the shit-hole that is Europe!!

[TikiTubeable]

@treddshort Haha you Americans are the ones being groped at your airport, your kids having their junk felt up...you're the ones with your over priced universities...which were free, when they were in Europe. =D and who can't find jobs, or keep a house because you're too lazy and to use to sucking gov. tit with your fucking welfare and other scams. LOL oh, and you're fucking obese.

[MajNorberg]

Don't trust a priest/reverned with a boner.

[billyguns2]

Should we trust an arrogant lawbreaker billionaire with our city?

[valentin6li]

Well, from the naked cowboy I was kinda disheartened ... then I saw a "Jim Carrey" pastor next ... but when you actually hear what was said, it sounds like good sense. It should be American citizens (who don't even know the rule of their land - the Constitution) NOT American consumers!!

I guess being animated and unique like those two is what gets one noticed and possibly voted.

[mjr256]

I'll stick with Bloomberg.

[CallinFromSpringfeel]

oh boo hoo the independent shops have been run out of town by...more selection and better prices. that's called competition, the essence of capitalism.

[fahim113]

I'm an atheist but I'd vote for him.. Seems to have more sense than most

[simonorman]

ha ha. he does the reverend thing to garner the people's attention against Disney's child labor and etc. Seems to work, but - being the pacifist I am - I disapprove of obnoxious and theatrical methods of activism in my Mayor.

Unless it's Mayor McCheese. Now that's a tasty Mayor.

[TMaddaJr1991]

To everyone who is making fun of him. Are you actually listening to this man speak? Obviously not, because if you were, you wouldn't open up your mouth. He will never win because he is too good. He is not corrupted by these big name corpoations, and therefore he doesn't have the money to fight Zomberg. You make fun of this man because of his looks or whatever, but New York will have to live with a dicator for another term because no one will ever vote for him.

[GhostDog65]

Rev bill needs to stick to his job! and shut the fuck up anything else!

[Trendyrapslut]

jay leno as a reverend

[nycstreetpoet]

Props to the resident for having the awesome Reverend Billy Talen on your show! It's important for Americans to come to terms with the fact that this has become a consumerist nation, and New York City is an excellent staging ground for change.

And please, fellow New Yorkers, vote for Reverend Billy. Did you know that Bloomberg had vowed to make this city greener eight years ago? Not much has changed. Bloomberg also override a referendum WE voted for TWICE on term limits. He is NOT on our side.

[homerilias]

Sooooo sweeeet !

[GETBaCvideoz]

u Rock Resident

i see u all the time on NY NonStop

[tepidarium]

As an atheist, I appreciate Billy's acknowledgment of the religion-like aspects of consumerism. Religions have refined many techniques over the millenia to control people. Let us ask, has capitalism been replaced in America by something like a religion?

Mall = cathedral

Debt payments = tithe

Marketing = mythmaking

Banker = bishop

Fed = Vatican

Consumers = faithful

Savers = heretics

Something's askew when bailouts for criminal bankers, now at $3 trillion, are expected to go to $23 trillion.

[markajaw]

I am an evironmental activist but you don't have to attach a religion to it. You also have to understand that the corner store down the street can be just as bad when when it comes to protecting the environment. We need government regulaltions to protect the environment. Going after consumerism is going to make us look like a bunch of hippies.

[mackat747]

Attaching religion is just this mans approach. Just because he is religious doesn't mean an atheist can't get something from what he has to say. People talk too much and don't listen enough. (Let's coexist people ;) And the government helped those corporations be so powerful, they are part of the scam. Who cares what we look like (maybe looking like a hippy isn't so bad). Let's do the right thing! :D

[tepidarium]

Reverend Billy's absolutely right. We are seeing a war against savers by speculators, who control the politicians.

Our economy is based of debt slavery and protecting property from the public. The White House whores itself to Goldman Sachs.

We're living through a revival of neoclassical economics, with debt slavery expanded through neoliberal policies.

Consumerism is a quasi religion. I used to think most are immune to it, till the housing collapse. People really are duped into consumption.

[bennilasvegas]

in germany they say:

"schuster, bleib bei deinen leisten!"

which means: "cobbler, stick to your last!"

that guy doesnt know shit about economy.

[mikma]

If you spend that in a national chain,

only $43 stays here. Spend it online and nothing comes home

the350project(.).net

[mikma]

Think about which three independently owned businesses youd miss most if they were gone. If just half the employed U.S. population spent $50 each month in independently owned businesses, their purchases

would generate more than $42.6 billion in revenue. Imagine the positive impact if 3/4 of the employed population did that. For every $100 spent in independently owned stores,

$68 returns to the community through taxes, payroll, and other expenditures.

[grnthmb]

And don't forget to spend at your local farmer's market to keep the local farmers in business!

[matrix1951]

Interesting characters you are interviewing.

[soundscapenyc]

what an oddball. Lori is sitting right next to him, talking with him, and he's looking off as if he's responding to someone else in the room. but he does have interesting views. it's suspect if he's actually "religious" in the christian sense or if his whole get-up is all one big colorful metaphor. there's not one single mention of god or jesus on his site. i bet he's an atheist. i'd vote for him.

[d3vilr0ckspolos]

His idea of trying to keep the economy running on what small towns get by with is IMPOSSIBLE in NYC. He obviously wasn't born here and needs to quit while his church is still paying him. Seriously, just because there are corner stores in almost every neighborhood of this city it isn't possible to keep everything Pleasantville-like. He's delusional and needs to keep away from the holy water, bread and ESPECIALLY the wine.

[LittleEmoBoy001]

neither were half the other mayors born in new york..

[d3vilr0ckspolos]

His hair looks so animated. He needs to stop moving so much...and stfu with his church propaganda.

[MajNorberg]

I can't really trust a priest with a boner.....until the church address their pedophila for young boys...i wouldn't want this guy for government.

Why don't we take the money that the CHURCH collects on sunday and give it back to community infrastructure....and I mean all of it...not just a tiny symbol of their "Generousity".

[shazame2002]

I say we all vote for the resident mayor.

Wow, when God made you he was really showing off :)

Did you know that you were an angel?

[4casme]

Good luck Reverend Billy. I would vote for you if I lived in NY.

[Metroid02099]

Now that guy was waaaaaaaaayyy better than the Naked, Underwear, whatever cowboy. At least he's is hitting environmental and economic issues together. I would vote for him, but I live in LA.

[omizm313]

Lori, your so wonderful and beautiful, Its a pleasure that I get to see you on youtube. It would be awesome one day if we can grab lunch and chat.

Your amazing, cool, talented and you ask the best questions.

[rasselas16]

He's not a pastor. He's a fine-sounding anachist. Don't hide behind the mask of christianity.

[dudeglove]

Ha! Great vid.

[THEONLYBIGBOSSMAN]

screw this bastard and fuck bloomberg. YAY FOR NAKED COWBOY DUDE

[emopope]

Coo-coo

[kiravintio]

I like this, this was good. Great interview!

[natedogs212]

Well I think a lot of people are being misguided when it comes to big business. Big business is big business because people go to those stores to BUY things. if people don't go to that store then they don't survive. It is not because of the Mayor or Government. It is because the everyday person DECIDES to go to Wal Mart instead of the local Deli or produce store.

[ho2cultcha]

oh thank you natedogs212 for schooling us in big people economics. so do us little people decide to give all the big boys loads of tax breaks along the way? i haven't had any lobbyists knocking on my door and handing me fat checks recently. i must live in the wrong neighborhood.

[GenerationXeroFilms]

...NO

[andziazet]

Hey guys! The funniest thing of this video is that, on the wall behind them two, there's a note that says "SEKS BOMB", which in Polish would mean nothing else than "SEX BOMB":)...

[Keirnoth]

theresident.

The question is - is he a religious nut or not?

If you look at his messages on the surface, they sound ok. But really, Huckabee initially sounded fine, until he joined the thousands of crazies led by Glenn Bleach.

If he's a Rev, do you think he'll be able to separate church and state?

[funnyguise]

a big thumbs-up to you!

religion wants to control our behaviour, too

[1happiness]

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[kikonyc68]

The Resident for mayor!

[Chugi]

He doesn't look at her or the camera. He looks off into the space between them, I'm willing to bet there's a guy with cue cards there.

[shesaidla]

i almost thought this was something for billy talent, but then i realized that this was the resident channel.

[johnnycrisp22]

Inexplicable fail.

[Barboy0]

A christian running for mayor? This can't be good.

[QuitePossiblyANinja]

but religion isnt his platform...

[Dall5000]

I'm sorry, NY. You get wackos.

[cha5]

So just how many of these N.Y.C. mayoral canidates are there anyways?

LOL Bloomberg may have to watch out.

[vampier886311]

that consume consume consume song is something else lol

[vampier886311]

the naked guitar guy is running for NY mayor.. and now this guy? lmao i dont mind his views.. but.. that.. fucking.. hair! ugh! bahahahaha

[TheGiantRobot]

I like him, he speaks the truth. He understands economics. I'd vote for James T. Kirk II, I mean the reverend.

[phillyphan32992]

He's not a reverend; he's a cult leader.

[1650million]

What´s the difference?

[TrickyEmu]

Yes, NYC needs to be greener. I'm from Europe living in San Diego California now. When I arrived in NYC for the first time, it was during the rush hour 5pm in summer. It felt horrible. I have never smelled pollution before and after that. California is a good example for low pollution and environmentalism. For the Green Party!

[socratesjr]

Go Hawkeyes! Great hat kid...

[ART1975CZ]

Outstanding Video ! ( As Always ! _........Ok Im off to Florida ! Peace

[eric512140]

We do not need a reverend in a public position. What happened to seperation of church and state? I like his ideas on consumerism and big companies but I dont think New York needs a preacher as a mayor.

[ReverendPl3bian]

It costs 30 dollars to become a reverend. It is a ridiculously simple process and yet people attach great wisdom and responsibility to anyone with that particular title. The irony is delicious, and sadly wasted on most Americans.

[bleuboia]

I never thought of it like that before, but that's what it is. I agree.

[TikiTubeable]

@ReverendPl3bian Thank you, rofl.

Americans are fucking morons, just in general.

[philochs]

I don't have a church, nor do I attend one. I do assume that a few of them aren't bizarre cults though. This thing about singing mock Christmas Carols at people's homes, that is truly freaky. The families should shoot at them.

Pleblian, did you give me the thumbs down also? You're a genuine poser, and a cheap tool of the oppressors.

What would Jesus buy? Not this crap. This guy really needs to do a praise telethon on TBN, and get his own show. I can see Paul Crouch(ed) on his face, naked.

[ndromb]

I am pretty sure I saw this guy in Pittsburgh for the G20 protests.

[hollium]

Lol, I thought it said Billy Talent.

[KtBdOKW]

A pastor shouldn't do this.

[mendelzo]

LOL. "What would Jesus buy?" Vote for the apocalypse.

[DINGONERD]

Hes freaky! I can't trust people who don't look at you when talking!

[audadvnc]

Maybe, instead of buying a St Louis football team, Rush should buy the New York Mayor's office? Have him put his money where his mouth is!

[bhavbal]

Lori, I am glad you are back with your hair let down. Your last appearance (not the video) sucked. You look gorgeous in this. You are a hot babe, after all.

[ImEuanAndIGotsSkeelz]

he does make some sense, i live in a small town in scotland, we got a tesco store a few years back and its totally killed the high street, all the small stores are closing or have closed prettymuch and the community spirit is kinda lost, though i realise that small towns in scotland arent the same as new york boroughs it would be worth taking in what he has to say.

[bikenik]

Yes he does make sense, people have to realize that when they buy from the local Walmart or other corporate entity they may be getting the best price but they are doing little for their local economy. And the real cost of offering you or me the lowest price possible, is that the real cost is paid in some third world country in ways such as environmental degradation and unfair and unsafe working conditions.

[ImEuanAndIGotsSkeelz]

true, shame there arent more fair trade stores too, you could look at that kind of international trade from marx's perspective, in that we in the first world are the rulers and we exploit the labour of the 3rd world, for example the sweatshops where many of our clothes are made, or the gem business, people on tiny wages digging up diamonds for us :/

[bikenik]

I agree, people have to realize that there is a price to be paid when we make the choice between the cheapest price option versus the environmentally sustainable option.

[ImEuanAndIGotsSkeelz]

yup yup, but as the old saying goes "Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money." i just hope that doesnt prove to be true and leaders get their asses in gear before it does.

[NsaneNtheNbrane]

You know, a normal media organization would treat this guy like a crackpot, but you give him the time and consideration he deserves. Thank you!

And to the people who think this guy is a phony, keep in mind that even if he is, the phonies you should really be worried about are the ones who aren't so obvious.

[philochs]

A crackpot opportunist. This guy is ridicules. His church is a bullshit cult. He'll be the next preacher to be tased. Sure, a lot of what he says may have a ring of truth to it, but would you trust him with small children? The guy is batshit, as are his followers.

[Pleblian]

Ya ok, so what are you saying, that your church isn't a cult?

[hoosierhiver]

Ok, I get it,  but is he a religious nut or not?...

[johnt49]

New York people have the cleanest teeth in the world.

[xithbaby]

he lost me at the start when the first thing he said was hallelujah.

[blankz121]

lol me & u both

[PukuTheBear]

What a hypocryte. He talks about how the big malls are bad and then he rents and sets up a show in one of them feeding dollars and drawing and keeping traffic for the big box mall.

He talks about consumerism and he eeks it. Spotless white suite? What is the cleaning bill for that? How about jeens and a tshirt? Carolling to million dollar homes? Highlighted hair? Movies?

What would Jesus buy? Jesus was unemployed and so were his followers who gave up their jobs.

[psp785]

thank you one of the reasons why I didn't think he was a reverend.... who uses Jesus as a campaign slogan and that hair piece is messed he must have got it the same place donold trump got his

[PukuTheBear]

At least Trump lets you know you are a "mark"right up front. The hair just a tactic that causes people to underestimate Trump.

I look at this Reverend guy and I imagine coming home to find him dashing down the fire escape with a sandwich from my refrigerator and a pigion tucked under his arm that he snatched from the window sill.

All you would see is the top of his poofy hair and wings flapping as he clammoured down to the alley.

Like I said, he should be cast in a movie as a villian.

[psp785]

he needs a german accent to be the villein in die hard

[tillo2008]

@PukuTheBear

actually, if you didn't just judge from what you saw (very UN-christian) you'd know that the guy got kicked out of the mall.

"Where did he get his spotless white "suite"?" Maybe a local shop?

"What is the cleaning bill for that?"

Maybe a local shop?

He's not saying don't spend, just don't s(p)end your money to china or the stock market.

It's funny how he's trying to fight for the little guy and the little guy (YOU) won't take him seriously unless he's dressed like a bum?

get real.

[PukuTheBear]

"if you didn't just judge ...(very UN-christian)" LOL

I know what I hear and what I see don't match. Obviously you haven't seen my channel and video watch?v=snNHErEbltc

"the guy got kicked out of the mall" If I take your word, what kind of Mayor candidate gets disorderly and kicked out of a mall? I've never been.

A white suite from a local shop is very expensive. If I don't need my junk, he doenst need his. Jeans, Tshirt & natural hair color. Church contributions paid his consumerism?

[yohaneuano4]

It's still very little to judge him on. The fact is that his message is sound.

[breaks0]

Then do some research. Visit the website, go see him speak if you live in the area, meet him, watch the film, look into his career/platform, etc. Or do as much, little or whatever of that as you want/can. He's not the only lefty candidate running (excluding Thompson, there are at least 4 on the ballot), but he's as good as any of the others. As to the religion schtick, he's an activist performance artist, this is what they do. The get-up, mall performances, caroling are all political statements.

[breaks0]

If he wasn't doing this, it would be something else. But his group has a specific political/social/cultural/econ­omic "progressive" agenda, message and means of trying to communicate that to the public. It isn't terribly different from Mayor Mike's "we need progress, not politics" bs media saturation (mail, radio, tv, etc.). Except this is the Jane Jacobs, Green, working/middle class agenda. Not Wall Street's.

[PukuTheBear]

Wall Street allows Americans to Invest in companies they believe in and divest in those they don't.

It helps mom and pop stores get people to pitch together and buy a piece of their company (called shares). It allows them to compete with the giants. Now that China has all the jobs, people want to kill American Business? Opportunist anarchist socialits with their negative messages as platforms!?

May Wallstreet thrive!! How about we (religions included) start working on morality instead!!!

[bikenik]

Reverend Billy's message is all about morals Puku. He is suggesting that we make the habit of buying from local Mom & Pop stores rather than corporate entities, choosing to live with less junk in our lives and being more environmentally conscious buy making better choices for the environment. What could be more moral than all that?

[philochs]

bikenik, are you serious? You trust that guy? It's clearly an act. He's a publicity hound. He doesn't give a shit about your mom or your pop. All about morals? This guy's church has far less moral credence than The Branch Davidian Seventh Day Adventists. Let's make him the next Pope, or at least the next Benny Hinn.

[bikenik]

Philochs, I don't know this guy from Adam as I'm not from NYC, but I don't have to trust him one way or another to know that I like his message. We could all adopt his moral message whether we live in New York City or not and make the world a better place in the long run as the ideas are universal.

[PukuTheBear]

Since when is the question of trustworthiness a "little" thing? Its everything!

America is staggering from "untrustworthy" slugs that have ripped off and toppled almost every industry and bought the presidency for guaranteed returns in pork bill spending.

"The fact is that.."

The barn door was left open 25 years ago when mom and pop businesses went to China. Do Americans have nothing left but to be non-consumers, social entrepreneurs and Acorn Workers? "sound message" LOL

[breaks0]

I'm from NY, I know him. I'd was gonna vote for him till I found someone more on the left. Wall St and the Bush admin are why we're in the economic shithole we're in today. What the top 10% or so of income earners own in NY, LA, Houston or elsewhere here own dwarfs what the rest of us do, they're the wankers who got bailed out of this mess by Obama and democratic congress, not the millions who lost their homes, jobs and health care. What kind of "divestment" or "morality" is that?

[breaks0]

And btw, what is an anarchist socialist??? That's a contradiction in terms. We could use alot more Talens out there, except in the government. Then maybe we wouldn't have the American corporate welfare that driving most us into the ground, NYers included.

[PukuTheBear]

"Wall St and the Bush admin "

I suspect this is one of those Obama PA Acorn trolls.

"Obama and democratic congress"

It was the dems that stopped legislation to stop the housing collapse. Youtube has it in their own words.

Don't get me started on him and his Ayers type buddies, anarchists and socialist. Anarchists that are working on collapsing the US so the socialist can step in. I am sick at the sight.

[breaks0]

Hmm, and I blame Obama? You're more foolish than you look. I'm a Green (did you even listen to the interview while you were watching it btw?) and I'm equally sick of conservative apologists like you who don't know how politics or economics work in the real world. Enjoy your neoliberal fantasy. Van Hayek's dead m8.

[psp785]

I have a feeling this guy a reverend just for the campaign

[theresident]

Nope, he's been doing this for a long, long time.

[RAMKING61]

I hate to break it to the reverend, but Goldman Sachs is behind the whole 'green' movement. Nice hairpiece!

[theresident]

That's his hair, I can attest to it. :)

[bikenik]

How? Did you run your fingers through it after the shoot? :)

[PukuTheBear]

I heard nothing he said cause I was too creeped out.

He should give up trying to be a mayor and play the next villian in a Die Hard movie. There are dozens of film makers that probably would cast that guy.

He has Blagovich beat hands down in the most goofy hair sweep. That and his teeth beat the ones Matt Dillion had done in the Comedy "Something About Mary".

Nice choppers.

Elect the Resident for Mayor!

[ThoughtScientist]

hes only one T away from mistaken identity

[psp785]

billy talent is an awesome band though