 Good day, mate. Forty hair. It's the holiest day of the year for Hollywood Jews. Apparently, a bunch of anti-Israel, pre-Palestinian people are planning to disrupt the Oscar, so this should be exciting. Who will win and who will die? Who will get the best Oscar? Who will get the Oscar for Best Director and who will not? I'm just all the quiver inside, so I'm sure you are, too. Well, the only time I really watched the Oscars was when I was trying to make the moves on a woman. But now, I've reached a much more elevated spiritual place, so yeah. I stopped making moves with women. I don't really have to be a very special woman for me to endure the Oscars. But it could be quite exciting if these pre-Palestinian protesters disrupt and kick down the Oscars. And I see like a Channel 7 van, live van outside of the Vanity Fair Oscars party. My Bidley Hills is majority Jewish, walking through Bidley Hills right now. Also voted for Trump in 2020, I believe. So, bring this time of heightened tension. I think it'd be a great idea for me to bring my bag of Tefillin. Stand outside of the Vanity Fair Oscars party and ask the good people coming in and out if they're Jewish. And if they are, have they put on Tefillin today? Excuse me. Do you think they would respond positively? An opportunity to do a mitzvah? Or at this time of heightened tension, will they not want to advertise that it's a Jewish regard? Everybody's out here. They're even closing off Santa Monica Boulevard. The day of war is finally upon us. Ooh, can't even walk that way. Man, look at all the security out front for the Oscars party. It's all getting shut down. That's good metaphor, like for the relative strength of the pro-Israel crowd, the anti-Israel crowd and the progressive Jewish crowd that will dominate the ethos of the Oscars. Bidley Hills has a big 10-7 memorial up for the mass attacks. It's very impressive. So for the majority of American Jews, they're liberal. And so for many of them, Israel is an important or an embarrassment to the extent that Israel deviates from what is progressive and liberal. So there's a little bit of the ethno-state, religious-state component to Israel. There's a state for Jews. It used to be that all religions were national. The nation would have a religion, and the members of that nation would have more or less of it. Who may abide the day of His coming? Blessings. All equivalent with excitement. So what I want to talk about, I'd love to talk about helping Hollywood Jews reach their spiritual potential by offering to wrap the phyllo on them. Like how could anyone object to a holy Jew, a simple Jew, such as myself, just wanting to offer the opportunity to lay to phyllo and help these overwhelming and secular liberal Hollywood Jews to just reach their true potential, so maybe I'll have a tycoon. Maybe they'll have a spiritual repair. And this could be the whole spiritual journey for them. So who could possibly object? And yet so many Hollywood Jews, unfortunately, are afraid to be out and proud and loud with their Jewish identity. I think we need to take inspiration from the gays. They were out and loud and proud. And maybe we Torah Jews should be inspired by that and stop hiding our light under a bushel. Oh man, all the flags, they're all under security. So I guess there are expectations that the pro-Palestinian protestors will try to disrupt the flags. Here's the big Vanity Fair party. Oh, it's kind of sad. My invitation must have been lost in the mail. Why didn't I get a call to the Vanity Fair Oscars party? Okay. This art installation includes 1,400 flags representing victims from over 30 nations who died during this attack on the mass, October 7, 2023. So it's quite moving. Now, I think Beverly Hills would put out 30,000 flags for 30,000 garzins. How is Beverly Hills like Australia? Excellent public toilet facilities. You'd be wrapping weights around your ankles. Man, they have to put out security just to protect these flags. How sad. The different people have different interests in that not everybody feels equally keenly of the death of Israelis after attacks by the mass on October 7. What I wanted to talk about was the category error between the spiritual, the religious, the physiological, the psychological. Let's take under-earning. So why is someone, say, a chronic under-earner? Meaning why is someone a chronically marginalized loser? Because under-earners are warmingly marginalized losers. They're primarily a psychological condition, physiological condition, religious condition, physical condition. So I often go back and forth. Now, there are many conditions that may be amenable to a spiritual component. So big believer in 12-step programs and so a lot of physiological problems, psychological problems. They do seem to get ameliorated by a serious 12-step program. But there are limits to that. I'm really learning through my ADHD journey. How much of my life's problems is caused by ADHD, which apparently is a good definition that I recently heard, is you can't direct attention the way that a normal person can direct their attention. So it would have paid attention if you're playing video games with various aspects of life that can power you. But you can't consistently direct your attention like a normal person with a normal amount of ease. And that's because apparently various parts of your brain don't light up. They don't get activated like a normal person. So as a result, you pay too much attention to other things that are either not in your best interest or not good use of your time. So that's like a physiological problem. You can try to reach for a spiritual solution or a psychological solution, but it's most effectively and efficiently addressed through a physiological, pharmacological approach. Where when you get the stimulant medication, it starts firing up your brain and allows you to do the things that you need to do to pay like a normal amount of attention to things. So I know a lot of people don't have ADHD. They take Adderall recreationally. They often have bad experiences because they abuse it. But if you take Adderall or stimulants as a doctor prescribes, there are very few significant negative side effects or even risks. When I was a kid, growing up as a preacher's kid, I'm looking at Beverly Hills City Hall here. I thought the answer to my problems was religious. And so I've been obsessed with religion much of my life and tried to find answers in religion. To matters that are really primarily psychological or physiological. So there are real limits on how much recovery you can have in various emotional addiction problems, if you then address your ADHD. It's really hard to properly direct your attention. And so if you exhaust yourself properly directing your attention, say for a few hours, then you've got no willpower left. Their willpower just steadily declines as the day goes on. If your ADHD takes tremendous effort to normally and properly direct your attention where it's in your best interest, unless you're on medication usually. So I know there's many people seek spiritual 12 step solutions when their addiction problems spring out of ADHD. And once they get a handle on their ADHD, it's just so much easier to practice the principles of 12 steps in all of their life. LA is like the Bondi beach without the clean restrooms. The shadow knows. So I see that because I know a lot of religiously unbalanced people as a convert myself and usually converts to a new religion come from a place of tremendous pain, dysfunction, and way above average levels of neuroses, meaning they enjoy feeling, eroticism, they enjoy feeling that they're given emotions and spend way too much time with them. And then want to cast off an unwanted life or a new life that they imagine they'll form under a new religion. So many of these needs of psychological and spiritual would be best addressed not primarily by seeking a change in religion but by addressing the underlying physiological such as ADHD components or spiritual components or psychological components that drive us to want to get rid of who they really are to try to take on a new identity in their religion. I know a lot of people in various 12 step emotional addiction programs just don't make that much progress because they are not dealing with the underlying ADHD diagnosis. Am I still rocking the Adderall? Yep. As the doctor prescribes, there's so much stigma, bro. So much stigma. You're part of the crowd that is promoting stigma for use of stimulant medications for ADHD when it's prescribed by a doctor. So I notice in real life a lot of people who really need it seems to me from an outside perspective who really need to address their ADHD and they won't because of all the stigma given to use of doctor prescribed stimulant medication. And so for people with Fandinkum ADHD they're not going to get a handle on it unless they get first line medication which means stimulants such as concerta and Adderall. But because of all the stigma that's dished out with regard to those medications which are probably largely due to the recreational use of those meds by people who aren't ADHD millions of Americans are probably not getting diagnosed and medicated and getting their life on track and they're just operating with undiagnosed ADHD. Yes, you're a speed shamer, Elliot. Everything's situational, bro. Lots of situations where doctor prescribed methamphetamine is the greatest thing. So if you take it as prescribed by a doctor a very little chance of addiction and any of the horrific side effects. Now, everyone's different so some people will deal with the medication differently some people will have a bad response to concerta or to Adderall and they need to go a different direction. But this thing like the bigger issue there's so much in my life I've tried to look at the world through a religious lens and see religion as the answer to most of the world's problems and for a while I thought economics was the answer to most of the world's problems. Then I embraced 12 step programs I thought spirituality was the answer to most of the world's problems. I got diagnosed with ADHD and I'm all on board with physiology and proper medication as the answer to much of the world's problems. But you definitely don't want to be primarily pursuing a spiritual or religious psychological or geographic solution to something that's primarily physiological and generally you're not going to benefit by pursuing a psychological or physiological answer to a spiritual or religious problem but you don't want to make that category error. Yeah. Magic mushrooms are safe and effective. Right. I made notes for this compelling live stream. Let me reach into my pocket. Right. So the secular analysis of religion is that its primary benefit is providing comfort and community. So if you ever need for comfort and community just done a purely secular analysis you'll benefit from religion, right? Or becoming part of a sports van club. But if you can't sustain relationships it's probably not primarily a religious answer. There may well be a 12 step answer with regard to some spiritual emptiness in your soul or a physiological medical answer need for ADHD because a lot of people on ADHD medication notice that when they go off the medication say on weekends it makes them much more difficult to hang out with. Right. So, as many of my teachers say I was the most challenging student they ever had. And I think a lot... I kind of took a perverse pride in that but now on reflection I'm thinking a lot of that is just... I'm medicated. What you do when you're good at... Oh. Yeah. I was also thinking some of life I'm really good at and other parts of life I am not good at and it just so much depends on who's the teacher or who's the boss or who's the rabbi or who's running the thing. I'm just all over the map when I connect with a boss, a teacher, a rabbi things go swell and I operate well but then when I'm disconnected with the people in charge then everything's frustration and failure and awkwardness. Oh, I noticed a lot of my sponsors they get sleepy after lunch but it may not primarily be a religious or spiritual or even primarily a psychological reason for that. That probably sounds physiological to me. There's something that you're eating a lack of exercise but yeah, I guess I'd do this meandering stream because I recognize that so much of what I thought was a religious lack turned out upon reflection to be a physiological problem or a spiritual problem or a psychological problem. Damn, I just lost my viewership the right relationship is everything. Here I am doing this out and about Oscar night stream and the people are abandoning me. Yeah. I still am used to go to the Vanity Fair Party outside and offer to put to fill it on people. I just want to hope you reach your spiritual potential and you Jewish sir at this time of incredibly heightened tensions here in LA with expectations for a massive Palestinian resistance to the powers that be.