2023 In Review + We Need Your Help!
A moment of gratitude for your support and a call to action to help us expand the show!
Hi everyone,
We hope you had a pleasant, energizing, and non-politicized (!) holiday break surrounded by your loved ones. As we walk in the first few days of the new year, we first and foremost want to express our gratitude for your interest and support of our work. This podcast was originally a spontaneous, spitballed idea in one WhatsApp call in March of last year.
“It would be fun to do a long-form podcast together….” - Jay
One thing lead to another and now we have the innovative Illusion of Consensus platform featuring in-depth podcast episodes, original investigative articles, and long-form Q+A sessions with our loyal audience members.
In 2023, since our May launch, our platform has grown immensely. We started with a few hundred subscribers and are now close to reaching 20,000!
Our work has already been featured on The Joe Rogan Experience, Stay Free with Russell Brand, The DarkHorse Podcast, The Kim Iversen Show, The Ben Shapiro Show, The Free Press, and other major outlets.
Our podcast catalogue has tremendously grown in our first few months. We’ve done major podcast episodes with the likes of Alex Berenson, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Kevin McKernan, and other striking dissident voices.
While we have achieved a lot in 7 months, we have big ambitions for 2024.
In line with our theme on The Illusion of Consensus, we will be hosting the relevant guests and breaking down areas of consensus most members of society have bought into, such as climate science, transgender “care,” treatment of diabetes, the origins of chronic pain, the gut-brain connection, using psychedelic therapy to treat trauma and depression, the dangers of antidepressants, how we wrongly approach mental health in the West, and so much more.
We are hoping to expand and professionally produce our show to take it to the next level. We have started the early phase of communications with a couple of major video platforms, but we need to first focus on improving the quality, seamlessness, and consistency of our show.
This is where you come in. For those of you who are already paying subscribers, we cannot thank you enough for taking us this far in what was originally a wild experiment in an oversaturated market of independent Substacks.
For those who aren’t paying members yet, we would greatly appreciate your support to help fund professional production, theme music, and graphics for our show.
For a limited time, we would like to offer you a New Years 10%-off discount for all yearly memberships:
We also have reduced our founding member option — which gives you access to pitching topics/guests to Rav and Jay over email — by 30%! Instead of paying $350, you can now become a founding member for $250! Click the button below to access the reduced founding member option:
Lastly, for subscribers that really believe in our project and for whom finances are not an issue in their life, we have now (inspired by Colin Wright’s Substack!), opened up a donation link if you would like to give us a one-time transfer to help support our show:
https://donorbox.org/help-fund-independent-journalism-2
Also, we are in the process of finding high-quality podcast sponsors. If anyone has any in mind, feel free to leave it in the comments section below. While we don’t have the budget yet, we will be looking to hire a few months down the road to help us produce our show and manage this growing platform. Anyone who may be interested can DM me on Twitter/X (@ravarora1).
Thank you for your continued support in our mission and we hope to continue exposing false consensus and providing new, refreshing perspectives in all areas of your life.
An amazing year and am grateful for all your work. I have been doing drug safety advocacy work for over 20 years. I never intended to do this work but after my healthy husband with no history of depression or any other mental health issues hung himself shorty after being prescribed antidepressant Zoloft off label for insomnia, I jumped into action. We had no idea the history of antidepressants starting in 1991 FDA hearing on Prozac and association with violence and suicide - 12 years before my husband’s death.
This became my mission to use Woody story to help get FDA blackbox suicide warnings added to antidepressants. Ultimately they were added in 2004 and extended to young adults to age 24 in 2006. I also had a huge wrongful death failure to warn lawsuit against Pfizer. My attorneys at Baum Hedlund paves the way in the antidepressant litigation and we got internal company documents made public showing the drug companies, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Glaxo and the FDA officials knew about the risk and failed to tell doctors and the public.
I think the story about antidepressants is extremely important to keep telling. Mental health as a result of the pandemic is getting worse. Antidepressants prescriptions are skyrocketing, suicides and violence acts keep increasing.
If interested, here is one of my substacks about the back story of the 2006 FDA antidepressants hearings. Since the FDA wouldn’t allow safety experts and those with critical knowledge to have more than 3 minutes to speak during open public hearing, I put together a press conference the day before to give the press and the public an opportunity to hear from experts the FDA didn’t want heard.
https://open.substack.com/pub/acceptablecollateraldamage/p/september-is-suicide-awareness-month?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Again, thank you for shining a bright light on what’s been going on for long time in the medical industrial complex. We need more people, like you, doing the hard right, not the easy wrong.
I would love to honour your work with a subscription but as a pensioner and Australian, with the conversion from Aussie dollar, I'm just going to have to keep sending you good vibes and sincere thanks for all your work. Cheers and best wishes for 2024.