Watch this new clip wherein Michael Tracey — who has been especially visible in the media discourse due to his conflict with Jim Acosta — reacts to Sam Harris’ insinuation in a recent podcast with Coleman Hughes that Michael’s Epstein Coverage may be motivated by ulterior motives.

I Need Your Support!

The Illusion of Consensus is a fully citizen-funded publication. Trips to Washington, D.C to cover important stories don’t happen without your support! If you value the high-quality mental health and wellness journalism on this site, consider becoming a paid or founding member to receive exclusive articles, early-access episodes, and ask questions for future episodes. Or support The Illusion of Consensus with a one-time donation.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Psychedelic Research and Policy

06:42 Perspectives o…

Read more

World-renowned psychedelic researcher Dr. Matt Johnson joins the Illusion of Consensus podcast to break down this past weekend’s Trump admin psychedelic executive order and what it means for FDA approvals, rescheduling, and veteran access to therapies. As a leading Johns Hopkins University psychiatry professor, Dr Matt Johnson shares insights from decades of research into psilocybin, addiction treatment, depression, and end-of-life care. The discussion covers the political shift driven by figures like Donald Trump, Joe Rogan, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., alongside the growing bipartisan support for psychedelic science. Key topics include breakthrough therapy designations, right-to-try pathways, ibogaine research, and the real-world implications for mental health and veteran suicide prevention.

YouTube link

(Also available on Spotify, Apple)

Chapters:

[0:00] Intro
[2:30] Joe Rogan Bashing Nixon
[5:20] Rav and Matt’s Proposal
[9:40] Calley Means’ Pivotal Role
[13:40] Matt Johnson Reacts To The News
[18:36] The DEA Bottleneck Problem
[23:20] Real Risks of Psychedelics
[32:19] Right to Try for Veterans
[34:37] Jay Bhattacharya & Trump dialogue
[39:40] Jealousy for Rogan
[43:51] Do Psychedelics Improve Lives?
[49:55] Next Steps for Trump Admin
[53:42] End of Psychedelic Prohibition?

I Need Your Support!

The Illusion of Consensus is a fully citizen-funded publication. Trips to Washington, D.C to cover important stories don’t happen without your support! If you value the high-quality mental health and wellness journalism on this site, consider becoming a paid or founding member to receive exclusive articles, early-access episodes, and ask questions for future episodes. Or support The Illusion of Consensus with a one-time donation.

https://x.com/ravarora1/status/2047357632785330427?s=46

Any questions about Trump’s move you want us to discuss, let us know in the comments below:

Listen Now:

Spotify link

Apple link

Chapters:

[0:00] Intro
[2:30] Joe Rogan Bashing Nixon
[5:20] Rav and Matt’s Proposal
[9:40] Calley Means’ Pivotal Role
[13:40] Matt Johnson Reacts To The News
[18:36] The DEA Bottleneck Problem
[23:20] Real Risks of Psychedelics
[32:19] Right to Try for Veterans
[34:37] Jay Bhattacharya vs Trump
[39:40] Jealousy for Rogan
[43:51] Do Psychedelics Improve Lives?
[49:55] Next Steps for Trump Admin
[53:42] End of Psychedelic Prohibition?

Support The Illusion of Consensus!

The Illusion of Consensus is a fully reader-supported publication. If you support the original, fearless journalism on this site, consider becoming a paid or founding member to receive exclusive articles, early-access episodes, and ask questions for future episodes. Or support The Illusion of Consensus with a one-time donation.

00:00 Introduction to Psychedelic Therapy and Executive Order

15:58 Reactions to the Executive Order

19:20 Understanding the Bottleneck in Drug Approval

22:02 The Eight…

Read more

Stay tuned!

Full White House announcement:

I Need Your Support!

The Illusion of Consensus is a fully citizen-funded publication. Trips to Washington, D.C to cover important stories don’t happen without your support! If you value the high-quality mental health and wellness journalism on this site, consider becoming a paid or founding member to receive exclusive articles, early-access episodes, and ask questions for future episodes. Or support The Illusion of Consensus with a one-time donation.

Subscribe now

Donate to Rav's Journalism

Read more

The transgender debate reignites with each tragic mass shooting — most recently the Tumbler Ridge school mass shooting in British Columbia and the attack at a Rhode Island ice hockey rink shortly thereafter — but solutions rarely penetrate the hyper-online cultural zeitgeist.

Far-left activists for transgender rights have refused to explore any connection between mental illness and gender dysphoria, as it would violate the core dogma that gender dysphoria is entirely biological — that people are “born this way.” On the other hand many conservatives have continued to hammer radical gender ideology, which is easier than finding solutions.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons issued a new position statement last month recommending against breast removal, genital surgery, and facial surgeries for children with gender dysphoria — a clean break from sex changes in childhood, and a dark chapter in medical history. So what to do with a child suffering without defaulting to drugs and surgery on one end, or not doing anything and letting them suffer with anxiety and identity confusion on the other?

Enter Kenneth Zucker, one of the most cited clinical psychologists in this space, who has resisted orthodoxy and taken a science-based approach to treating gender dysphoria for more than four decades at the largest mental health center in Canada.

As gender-affirming care became the inviolable standard for children, Zucker found himself at the center of a harassment campaign that shuttered his clinic, as covered in New York Magazine a decade ago. Now as it recedes, we return to his methods.

In three interviews spanning four hours, Zucker explained to me how gender dysphoria can be understood and treated with clinical psychology rather than adherence to any ideology.

Gender dysphoria is significant distress related to one’s biological sex, according to the American Psychiatric Association.

But adolescence is always a period of profound biological upheaval — when hormones reshape the body and recalibrate mood and desire. It is precisely the developmental window in which many forms of dysphoria, including gender-related distress, can emerge or intensify. For many kids, the solution is simply helping them grow up.

A New Counter-Consensus

“Gender-affirming care” emerged in the early 2000s as an extension of “gay-affirming therapy” depathologizing homosexuality, Zucker said.

The philosophical shift was clear: powerful medical institutions argued that a child’s declared gender identity reflects something immutable, just as being gay was no longer considered a disorder. But the gender-affirming model consisted of invasive biomedical interventions such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries which cause bone density loss and infertility. The landmark 2024 independent Cass Review in the United Kingdom concluded that the research underpinning puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for youth is “remarkably weak,” with low-quality studies and insufficient long-term outcome data, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services concluded the same last year.

The U.K. has restricted puberty blockers outside of clinical trials. Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, France, and Italy have likewise limited medical transition for minors and prioritized psychological assessment and therapy.

A new rational counter-consensus is emerging, one that relies on well established interventions.

“If the goal is to reduce gender dysphoria, there are many possible ways. For some kids it may involve social transition…but for other kids, that’s not the case,” said Zucker.

He calls his model “exploratory” or “developmentally informed” psychotherapy. It takes into account a kid’s biology, family, personality, life experiences, and social world.

The point is not to force an outcome. It is to explore hypotheses — before intervening irreversibly.

And unlike gender clinics that dispense hormones with few follow-up questions, Zucker’s practice does not use a one-size-fits-all style.

“One could say we were eclectic,” he said. “We would develop a treatment plan that took into account what a particular child or adolescent might most benefit from.”

“Kids who are more introspective and able to reflect on things, maybe they would benefit from a more open-ended psychotherapeutic approach,” he continued.

Others were “more concrete” and dealing with “many day-to-day crises,” in which case treatment would focus more directly on helping them manage these challenges, he said.

The individualized assessment involves evaluating co-occurring mental health conditions.

Depression, anxiety disorders, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms are overrepresented in young people presenting with gender dysphoria. Being on the autistic spectrum might predispose somebody to develop gender dysphoria, maybe for biological reasons, or maybe because of the propensity to think in black and white terms.

“A gender-affirming clinician might say, well, all of these other problems are simply secondary to the gender dysphoria,” he said. “They’re depressed because they have gender dysphoria. They’re depressed because kids are teasing them because of their gender dysphoria.”

Zucker does not deny that dysphoria can cause distress. But he questions whether it is always the primary driver.

Attachment Theory

A central component of Zucker’s developmental approach is attachment theory, the framework pioneered by British psychoanalyst John Bowlby that holds that early relationships with caregivers shape a child’s sense of safety, identity, and perceptions of themselves and others. If parental attachment can shape this much of a person’s personality, it follows that it would also affect issues of gender.

In some young girls, Zucker observed distance from their mothers, what might be clinically classified as an avoidance.

Following that observation, Zucker’s hypothesis was straightforward: if that attachment could be strengthened, the gender dysphoria would lift.

With some boys, the same pattern was observed with fathers. Zucker described one child who, when his father sat at dinner, asked, “who is this man?”

In another case, a boy drew his father and wrote “I hate you” beneath it. If that hostility can be reduced and connection increased, “being a boy” feels less intimidating.

Reviving A Lost Progressive Cause: Breaking Gender Stereotypes

Zucker’s treatment often involves loosening a child’s grip to traditional gender roles — which would’ve been considered a noble, progressive cause circa 20 years ago.

This departs from gender-affirming care, which reifies traditional gender stereotypes.

Under an archaic worldview, a boy who likes dolls, fashion, or reading often gets interpreted as “really” being a girl. A tomboy who prefers rough-and-tumble play gets nudged toward identifying as a boy. The model collapses personality into sex — and in doing so, relies on exactly the crude gender stereotypes that liberal culture has spent 50 years trying to retire.

“Kids can be pretty black and white when it comes to gender when they’re quite young,” Zucker said.

One 12-year-old boy wanted to be a girl because he didn’t like to sweat. He believed that “only boys perspired, girls didn’t.” The same child thought “girls like to read but boys don’t.” Zucker called these “clear distortions.”

He persuaded the child that there are some girls who do sweat and there are some boys who do like to read.

Another pattern he described repeatedly: boys whose internal logic was that “all boys are mean and rough and they swear and I don’t like that so I want to be a girl.”

Perhaps the most striking example he shared involved a young girl whose classmates were debating whether she was a boy or a girl. The resolution came not from hormones or a new pronoun, but from a kindergarten teacher who stepped in and said, “Sally is a tomboy. She’s a girl who likes boy things.”

“For the kid, that apparently was a real epiphany,” Zucker recalled.

Over the next couple of years, “the gender dysphoria, the wish to be a boy dissipated entirely.”

For decades, progressives fought to expand the meaning of masculinity and femininity. In our zeal to affirm, they may have reintroduced rigidity again, causing psychological distress in children in the process.

The Results

What are the long-term outcomes of children treated this way? Some data suggests between 63 to 73 percent likelihood of gender dysphoria “desistance” — a term that refers to kids recovering from the condition after puberty.

In his own clinic’s follow-up peer reviewed study, published in 2021 in Frontiers In Psychiatry, the findings were even more pronounced.

“In our own follow-up in Toronto, the desistance rate was 88 percent for both girls and boys,” he said. These were children first seen at an average age of 7 and were followed into early adulthood.

In other words, gender dysphoria appeared to be a mostly temporary phenomenon confined to adolescence, rather than one which persists for decades post-pubescence.

This aligns with what we broadly understand about pubescence: a period of life when nature radically reshapes the body and young people grapple with belonging, identity, sexuality, and autonomy.

Medicalizing Homosexuality

Activists have been slow to acknowledge the possibility that gender-affirming care medicalizes children who might have otherwise grown up to be gay.

“The vast majority of prepubertal kids who were not socially transitioned in childhood appear to grow up to be gay,” he said.

He estimates that these cases account for 75 to 80 percent of gender dysphoric kids.

Zucker said that kids who socially transitioned before puberty are also often attracted to members of their own birth sex, even when they stick with transgender identity, which research suggests occurs as often as 90 percent of the time.

“Because these kids are identifying as the other gender, they might say that they’re straight, but in relation to their birth sex, we would say that they’re same-sex attracted,” Zucker said.

Clinic Shut Down Following Bogus ‘Conversion Therapy’ Allegations

In 2015, activists accused Zucker of practicing conversion therapy, triggering a formal review and shutdown of his Child Youth and Family Gender Identity Clinic by the research hospital it was housed by, the Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

“Next to being accused of racism, being accused of being a conversion therapist is probably the worst charge that can be leveled against any practicing clinician,” he said.

“Changing a kid’s sexual orientation was not a goal of the clinic,” he continued. “As if anybody would know how to do that anyways,” he added incredulously.

His approach is explicitly exploratory, not coercive.

“That’s what all reasonable, well-trained clinicians do with these kids. We explore things. We don’t try to impose anything on them,” he said.

In the publicized external review of his clinic, the investigating psychologists characterized the “intensive assessment and treatment” in Zucker’s approach as problematic and noted it differs from the “accepted” practice of merely “educating and supporting parents to accept a child’s gender expression.”

Zucker has argued that the review process was deeply flawed and that he was not given a fair opportunity to respond before the shutdown.

In 2018, he was vindicated. He sued and reached a settlement with CAMH for defamation and wrongful dismissal. The mental health center issued a formal apology and he was awarded more than $500,000.

Therapy Culture’s Gender Dysphoria Blindspot

The smear campaign against Zucker for the crime of providing intensive psychotherapy seems completely incongruous with modern therapy culture that saturates TikTok and Instagram and Hollywood.

For some progressive-minded people, therapy culture as secular religion has displaced older moral vocabularies with “trauma responses” and “healing journeys.” Pop stars like Madonna to The Weeknd have built entire albums and films around their psychotherapeutic self-discovery. To be in therapy, to be “doing the work,” is a mark of seriousness.

Modern psychotherapy rests on a simple principle: feelings are real, but the stories we tell about those feelings are worth examining. A teenager with social anxiety who believes “everyone secretly hates me” is not affirmed in that belief by a competent therapist — the belief is gently explored, questioned, and where appropriate, challenged.

A patient with body dysmorphia who feels profoundly disfigured despite evidence to the contrary is not told their self-perception is accurate. The suffering is validated; the underlying interpretation is held up to the light.

Yet in the case of pediatric gender dysphoria, the prevailing clinical posture has inverted this logic entirely.

In a culture that urges young people to unpack unconscious narratives, sit with complex emotions, and examine painful traumas — trans identity has become the one diagnosis in which it is taboo to receive sustained psychological examination.

Zucker’s work challenges this hypocrisy. Tending to children’s anxiety in puberty may be the most compassionate service we can provide them.

Rav Arora is an independent journalist based in Vancouver. His reporting on Covid mandates, mental health, FDA, and inner-city crime has appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience, Jordan B. Peterson podcast, Megyn Kelly Show, and DarkHorse podcast, among other alternative media platforms.

Watch now on YouTube: Michael Tracey, independent journalist, and Curt Mills, executive director of The American Conservative, join the Illusion of Consensus podcast for a sharp breakdown of U.S foreign policy and the Iran conflict. Michael argues Israel’s role in Trump deciding to wage war against Iran is marginal while Curt argues it a core driver of U.S foreign policy.

Best debate I’ve moderated. And two foreign policy heavyweights at that!

Don’t miss it:

Link

(Also on podcast platforms)

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction to the Podcast and Guests

07:15 Critique of Media Dynamics and Podcast Culture

13:19 Discussion on Israel’s Influence in U.S. Politics

19:28 Analyzing Trump’s Foreign Policy and War Decisions

25:19 Concluding Thoughts on War and Media Responsibility

37:34 Trump’s Motivations and Historical Context

44:00 Personnel Choices and Foreign Policy

53:56 The Epstein Connection and Speculation

01:00:05 Israel’s Influence and Trump’s Ambitions

01:05:50 The Influence of Steve Witkoff on US-Israel Relations

01:11:18 The Role of the Israel Lobby in American Politics

01:17:17 Counterfactuals: Would Trump Act Differently Without Israeli Influence?

01:23:17 Voting Dilemmas: The 2024 Election Landscape

01:34:10 The Shift from Pence to Vance

01:40:30 Rethinking the Trump Coalition

01:48:07 Trump’s Foreign Policy: A New Perspective

01:58:02 The Evolving Definition of Neoconservatism

02:10:16 U.S. Foreign Policy and Military Spending

02:17:42 Nuclear Arms Control and International Treaties

02:24:11 The Influence of Israel on U.S. Foreign Policy

02:31:44 The Role of Media in Shaping Political Narratives

Support The Illusion of Consensus!

The Illusion of Consensus is a fully reader-supported publication. If you support the original, fearless journalism on this site, consider becoming a paid or founding member to receive exclusive articles, early-access episodes, and ask questions for future episodes. Or support The Illusion of Consensus with a one-time donation.

Recent Content:

Links:

Apple podcasts

Spotify

(On all other podcast platforms too)

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction to the Podcast and Guests

07:15 Critique of Media Dynamics and Podcast Culture

13:19 Discussion on Israel’s Influence in U.S. Politics

19:28 Analyzing Trump’s Foreign Policy and War Decisions

25:19 Concluding Thoughts on War and Media Responsibility

37:34 Trump’s Motivations and Historical Context

44:00 Personnel Choices and Foreign Policy

53:56 The Epstein Connection and Speculation

01:00:05 Israel’s Influence and Trump’s Ambitions

01:05:50 The Influence of Steve Witkoff on US-Israel Relations

01:11:18 The Role of the Israel Lobby in American Politics

01:17:17 Counterfactuals: Would Trump Act Differently Without Israeli Influence?

01:23:17 Voting Dilemmas: The 2024 Election Landscape

01:34:10 The Shift from Pence to Vance

01:40:30 Rethinking the Trump Coalition

01:48:07 Trump’s Foreign Policy: A New Perspective

01:58:02 The Evolving Definition of Neoconservatism

02:10:16 U.S. Foreign Policy and Military Spending

02:17:42 Nuclear Arms Control and International Treaties

02:24:11 The Influence of Israel on U.S. Foreign Policy

02:31:44 The Role of Media in Shaping Political Narratives

Support The Illusion of Consensus!

The Illusion of Consensus is a fully reader-supported publication. If you support the high-quality mental health and wellness journalism on this site, consider becoming a paid or founding member to receive exclusive articles, early-access episodes, and ask questions for future episodes. Or support The Illusion of Consensus with a one-time donation.

00:00 Intro to the Podcast and Guests

05:48 Critique of Media Dynamics and Podcast Culture

11:52 Discussion on Israel’s Influence in U.S. Politics

18…

Read more

My full video debate with Senator Ron Johnson on the Iran war is available to watch on YouTube (and all audio platforms as well).

Link

Overview -

We discussed Trump’s foreign policy, congressional war powers, and the risks of another Middle East conflict. We dig into the constitutional limits on military action, the case for and against intervention, Israeli and American strategic interests, and the political fallout this could have for Republicans and the wider MAGA movement. This episode also explores rising tensions with Iran, regime change, national security, civil liberties, and the growing divide between hawkish and anti-war voices on the right.

Chapters -

0:00 Intro
01:53 Ron Johnson Voting Against Iran War Powers Resolution
10:00 Was Iran Nuclear Threat Real?
19:14 Iran Firing Largest Attack Onto Israel
23:05 Israel vs Iran’s Goals
26:10 Objectives of the Iran War
30:00 Did Israel Convince USA to Wage War?
35:00 Will This Negatively Affect Future Elections?
40:52 CIA Hacking Tacker Carlson?
46:00 Financial Concerns Regarding the War

Support The Illusion of Consensus!

The Illusion of Consensus is a fully reader-supported publication. If you support the high-quality mental health and wellness journalism on this site, consider becoming a paid or founding member to receive exclusive articles, early-access episodes, and ask questions for future episodes. Or support The Illusion of Consensus with a one-time donation.

Chapters:

0:00 Intro
1:53 Ron Johnson Voting Against Iran War Powers Resolution
10:00 Was Iran Nuclear Threat Real?
19:14 Iran Firing Largest Attack Onto Israel
23:05 Israel vs Iran’s Goals
26:10 Objectives of the Iran War
30:00 Did Israel Convince USA to Wage War?
35:00 Will This Negatively Affect Future Elections?
40:52 CIA Hacking Tacker Carlson?
46:00 Financial Concerns Regarding the War

Support The Illusion of Consensus!

The Illusion of Consensus is a fully reader-supported publication. If you support the high-quality mental health and wellness journalism on this site, consider becoming a paid or founding member to receive exclusive articles, early-access episodes, and ask questions for future episodes. Or support The Illusion of Consensus with a one-time donation.

Links:

Spotify

Apple

(Available on all other podcast platforms as well)

Chapters:

0:00 Intro
1:53 Ron Johnson Voting Against Iran War Powers Resolution
10:00 Was Iran Nuclear Threat Real?
19:14 Iran Firing Largest Attack Onto Israel
23:05 Israel vs Iran’s Goals
26:10 Objectives of the Iran War
30:00 Did Israel Convince USA to Wage War?
35:00 Will This Negatively Affect Future Elections?
40:52 CIA Hacking Tacker Carlson?
46:00 Financial Concerns Regarding the War

Support The Illusion of Consensus!

The Illusion of Consensus is a fully reader-supported publication. If you support the high-quality mental health and wellness journalism on this site, consider becoming a paid or founding member to receive exclusive articles, early-access episodes, and ask questions for future episodes. Or support The Illusion of Consensus with a one-time donation.

I saw a few of my favourite Substacks (like Michael Shellenberger’s Public) offer a discount today, so I thought I’d offer one too.

Enjoy 20%-off on paid subscriptions for the next 48 hours:

Get 20% off forever

Paid members get:

— Early access to episodes, such as my debate with Senator Ron Johnson on the Iran war:

• You will also get first access to episodes with guests like Bret Weinstein, Michael Tracey, Mark Dubowitz, Dave Smith, Ben Shapiro, Glenn Greenwald, Scott Horton, and others (yes - a truly diverse array of thinkers - no echo-chambers here !)

— Ability to ask questions for episodes with these guests and others (like various psychologists, nutrition researchers, & neuroscientists at the cutting edge of their fields)

— Monthly Q+As with yours truly to ask any questions you want

Join now:

Become a Paid Member Now

Mini Story-time:

Had to share this: I was just at a stellar comedy show last night with the hilarious comic Ryan Long (thanks for the tickets!) in Vancouver. I discovered Ryan in 2020 as many of his did when his political comedy sketches (like “When Wokes and Racists Agree”) started going viral.

Ryan’s unique gift in the comedy space is he is very politically savvy and well-read. It is rare you will hear classic economist Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of a Nations” at a comedy show while somehow laughing (instead of sleeping in AP History class - sorry Mr. Armstrong!).

Throughout his set, Ryan had some outrageously hilarious bits exposing striking gender differences, religious ideologies, feminism, radical gender ideology, abortion & Left vs Right media. He has a knack for spotting humorous incongruities in core parts of human life that one has never thought of and now won’t forget.

I remember one hysterical bit about doing naughty things while listening to Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules For Life (wtf?) that had the whole audience crying in laughter.

Afterwards, we had fun chatting about current events surrounding Iran, Israel, the U.S, the rise of conspiracies in the podcast space, and living & breathing in the NYC comedy scene with fan-favourite comics like Mark Normand, Andrew Schulz, & Kurt Metzger.

Thanks Ryan for the great experience!

Watch his last comedy special:

Get 20% off forever

Leave a comment

Read more

I just sat down with U.S. Senator Ron Johnson for a wide-ranging and, at times, contentious conversation on new Biden-era Covid documents + the war in Iran.

We begin with Johnson’s investigation into newly released government documents related to COVID-19 vaccines — including claims that federal health officials d…

Read more

It feels like a meaningful inflection point — not just personally, but for The Illusion of Consensus. Over the next few months, I have ambitious plans to grow this project into something much bigger, deeper, and more impactful.

On the external front, I’ll be diving into major geopolitical stories — including the Israel-Gaza conflict and the escalating tensions with Iran — featuring high-level guests from competing perspectives, not just one side.

On the internal front, I’m expanding into more conversations with leading voices in psychology, neuroscience, psychotherapy, meditation, and psychedelic therapy. I also want to explore the modern relationship crisis and what it means to live a socially meaningful, grounded life in a chaotic world.

In short: The outer world and the inner world — both matter, and both will be explored more deeply here.

At its core, this project is about one thing:

Challenging false consensus.

Whether it’s in politics, science, or mental health — we’re often told there’s a settled truth when there isn’t. And those illusions have real consequences for how we think, live, and flourish.

I’ll be honest with you.

Since Jay Bhattacharya stepped away from the podcast in late 2024, paid subscriptions have dropped precipitously to a point that it has been extremely challenging to support myself on Substack. I’ve had to spend more time on freelance work and side projects, which has slowed down the release of episodes.

But this podcast is still my main passion — and what I most want to build.

So for the next 25 hours, I’m offering:

→ 25% off yearly subscriptions

Get 25% off forever

As a small birthday gesture — and an invitation to help sustain and grow this project.

If you’ve been on the fence, this is the best time to jump in.

Your support allows me to:

• Invest fully in this instead of splitting my time elsewhere

• Pay my podcast editor for professional quality thumbnails, trailers etc

• Release episodes more consistently

What you get as a paid member:

• Ability to ask questions to high-profile guests on my show

• Early access to podcast releases

• Monthly Q+As with yours truly

If this work has made you think differently — about the world, or about yourself — I’d genuinely appreciate your support.

Join as a paid subscriber below (25% off for the next 25 hours).

Get 25% off forever

Alternative: Donations

For those of you who really support my mission and/or are in a position in life to be more generous, you can donate to this Substack here (if you’re not a paid member already I will manually add you to the paid list if you donate):

https://donorbox.org/help-fund-independent-journalism-2

All funds will go towards growing this project.

Upcoming Guests:

1) Bret Weinstein on the modern dating & mating crisis from an evolutionary perspective

2) Curt Mills vs Michael Tracey on Israeli influence on Iran war

3) Senator Ron Johnson on new Biden official Covid documents & why he voted against resolution for Iran war congressional approval

— Rav

That number is worth sitting with.

I sat down with Barry to get into the full story for almost 90 minutes — his concerns about gender id…

Read more