March 24, 2024 • 59 mins
Cults, Capitalism, and Cell Phones: A Modern Survival Guide
In this episode of 'Vibing the Apocalypse', host Fresh King Benjamin welcomes guest Stephani Lucas to discuss the apocalypse, embracing spirituality over organized religion, and thriving in a fast-changing world. Lucas shares her journey from being deeply embedded in the corporate world of insurance and finance to embracing her witchy, spiritual side, highlighting the importance of personal sovereignty, connecting with nature, and self-care. They delve into practical tips for living sustainably, such as regenerative farming, reducing exposure to electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs), and the benefits of mineral supplements. The conversation also touches on the destructive impacts of capitalism, the potential of sacred geometry, and the importance of aligning with the Earth's frequencies for healing and growth. Additionally, the episode teases future discussions on the significance of water in the context of climate change and personal well-being.
00:00 Welcome to Vibing the Apocalypse 00:29 Upcoming Comedy Show Announcement 01:51 Meet Stephani Lucas: A Witchy Financial Expert 03:13 Stephani's Journey from Corporate to Witchcraft 05:31 Rejecting Cults and Embracing Spirituality 07:41 Navigating the Modern World with Ancient Wisdom 14:15 Taking Control of Your Health in a Toxic World 22:32 The Magic of Gardening and Reconnecting with Nature 30:47 Exploring EMF Protection and Quantum Energy 32:01 Disconnecting for Health: The Impact of EMFs and Technology 33:24 The Earth's Changing Frequencies and Human Impact 33:39 Healing Vibrations and the Power of Frequencies 36:07 The Environmental and Health Costs of Modern Convenience 37:31 Reconnecting with Cooking: An Art Form Lost to Convenience 38:56 The Dangers of Processed Foods and Embracing Organic 40:25 Apocalypse Now: Climate Change and Environmental Degradation 47:10 Sacred Geometry, Teleportation, and the Mysteries of the Pyramids 51:39 Alien Encounters and the Unveiling of Truths 54:18 Wrapping Up: Apocalypse Preparation and Final Thoughts
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Fresh King Benjamin (00:13):
Hey heathens welcome back to Vibing the Apocalypse.
I'm your host, the Fresh King Benjamin.
It's been a couple weeks since I'vebeen on, but it is spring now and
it's day 1470 of the apocalypse.
And so we are back.
I have a really good friend on.
We're going to talk aboutthe apocalypse today.
But before I jump into that, I justwant to let you know if you are a
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(00:38):
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Now jumping back into our.
Interview.
So I want to just welcome my,my good friend Stephanie Lucas.
Stephanie, welcome to the show.
What do you want to telllisteners a little bit about you?
Stephanie Lucas (01:58):
Yeah.
Thanks for having me.
I'm so excited for this conversation.
So my name is Stephanie Lucas.
I live here in lovely Austin, Texas.
And yeah.
Fresh King Benjamin (02:08):
Representing with my Austin sweatshirt today.
So
Stephanie Lucas (02:11):
good.
So I am in the insurance andfinancial services space.
So very much in the matrix.
A very dense industry.
So operating in that space isquite interesting when you're super
witchy and like spiritual and verydifferent than how it operates.
Fresh King Benjamin (02:34):
Yeah.
You're kind of a walking contradictionbecause, because on the one hand,
insurance finance space, likebrilliant in that crushing it.
And then on the other hand, likeI've been to your house, I have
never been to a more witchy space.
place in my life.
I love it.
Like you've got crystals everywhere.
Your cat is like a reincarnated someone.
Like you are, you are legit.
(02:56):
You're literally wearinga pendant right now.
And I've done some cool witch.
You have a, you have a shed in your house,a she shed where you do witchy things
with, and you've done, we pulled broomsin that shed and it like changed my life.
So it was a, it was pretty,it's a pretty magical moment.
Yeah.
I'm curious about, before we kind ofget into the, into the conversation,
(03:17):
I'm curious about, did the, did youstart witchy or did you start in
this sort of matrix area and howdid you, how did you go from this?
Like you said, deep in the matrix,like I can't think of anything more
tied into the old world that's sort ofcrumbling than the financial industry.
So how did you go from that intothis, into this, this witchy place?
Stephanie Lucas (03:37):
Yeah, so interesting.
I was very buttoned up, you know,corporate, very, you know, wearing
my suits and like cute littleoutfits and very conformative and
extremely driven and I was an addict.
(03:57):
Like that industry, when you're out atevents and all of these things, you're
drinking a lot, there are other thingsavailable and I found myself, by the
time I was 32, I was making more moneythan I had ever made, and I was living
in Del Mar, California, you know, SanDiego, on the west side of the freeway.
(04:21):
Is the west
Fresh King Benjamin (04:21):
side the good side?
I don't know anything about San Diego.
The good side is like,
Stephanie Lucas (04:25):
you're over by the beach, and Oh, hell yeah.
One of the most expensive areas to be in,
Fresh King Benjamin (04:31):
and So you were rich, and so you were obviously totally happy.
Stephanie Lucas (04:34):
Oh, I was fucking miserable, right?
And I was constantly drinking, and Iwould, you know, plan my time around,
like, you know, working 18 hours a day.
Then I'd be like, I need to drink.
Oh my gosh.
And I'd be a very, like,functional alcoholic and addict.
(04:56):
And About 11 ish years ago, I got sober.
And when I got sober, and it was actuallylike when the Mayan calendar ended.
So no
Fresh King Benjamin (05:08):
way.
Oh, that's, that's, that's cool.
Stephanie Lucas (05:11):
Yeah.
And I wasn't into any of this, right?
I did not meditate.
I did not, I was not connected to nature.
I was not connected to my body.
I was like, I don't evenknow, like, out there.
And so, I, when I got sober is when Ifinally, like, found spirituality again.
And we'll touch on this, like,very briefly because I did come
(05:34):
from a fundamentalist, like, polinot polygamist, but a a cult.
Fresh King Benjamin (05:40):
Yeah.
All of my, all of my best friendshave some kind of cult background.
Stephanie Lucas (05:45):
Yeah, yeah.
And I was very young, but because ofthat experience and how it impacted
like my older siblings and stuff,and like how we were forced to
go to church like after the cult.
Yeah.
And like, I Rejected.
Fresh King Benjamin (05:59):
Sort of reacted against that.
Stephanie Lucas (06:00):
I rejected God, I rejected anything
around, like, spirituality.
And so I didn't understand that there was,like, a huge difference between organized
religion that's trying to control you andspirituality and being connected to all
that is and nature and like, you know.
(06:22):
And so
Fresh King Benjamin (06:25):
I love that.
That, that's so, that's so interestingbecause I, I think that there's so many,
I think there are so many people like youand like me who have had, who have gone
through sort of a similar journey of beingin a very restrictive spiritual place.
Cult, cultish, cult like and then wesort of reject that and we kind of, and
(06:46):
in the rejection of that, we're sort oflike, we're like, Oh, all, all spiritual.
We kind of like throw the baby out withthe bathwater and we're like, we're
just going to do science and real shit.
Right.
And I'm grateful for my experiencedoing that because it did feel
like it sort of grounded me, right.
It sort of landed me in, in this reality.
And, and then I also think too, thatlike, Humans have been spiritual.
(07:09):
We have been believers for hundredsof thousands of years, way before we
had organized religion, way beforewe had Christianity or Islam or
Buddhism or any formal religion,we were Animus, we were spiritual.
We believed in, in nature.
We communed with spirits, right?
(07:30):
And so I think that in in a largepart that is who we are and that
sort of baked into our brain.
I think that our our operating systemis a spiritual operating system.
And I think that's one of the reasonswhy Right now, there's sort of this
interesting, like you have, yousee a lot of people joining cults.
You see a lot of peoplegoing back to religion.
(07:53):
And I think it's because the modernscientific world for all of the
great things that it's done, like ourability to talk, You're in Austin.
I'm in Utah, like magic.
I love that.
Thank you, science.
But it hasn't done a great job of givingus an internal operating system for
how to live life, like how to live lifewell, it's, it's left it a little barren.
(08:14):
So I'm kind of interested to, Ithink that's going to be a lot
of what we talk about today.
Stephanie Lucas (08:19):
And I mean, that's my life, right?
Yeah,
Fresh King Benjamin (08:22):
I love that.
So.
Growing up, you, you mentionedyou kind of had a little bit of a
kind of a like mostly your oldersiblings as a cult background.
You, you react against that.
Did you have any kind ofconception of the apocalypse?
Like pre COVID?
Yes.
Stephanie Lucas (08:38):
Okay.
So, you know, all of my lifeafter seven years old, when we
actually had TV, there's alwaysbeen this like zombie, Yeah.
Yeah.
As I grew up, it was sort of like, I wasseeing this happen around me where like
people were heavily medicated and, youknow, constantly drinking and they were
(09:03):
like numb and dumb and easier to control.
And so I feel like.
The zombie apocalypse was like slowly likelike put into society like decades ago,
you know It wasn't convid that createdthis apocalypse, but now it's like very
(09:24):
much like In your face, very, very aware.
And you know, it wasn't likesprinkled into the water.
It was like, I'm going topunch you in the face with it.
Right.
Fresh King Benjamin (09:35):
We're going to, we're going to shake the entire world and say,
Hey, by the way, world's different now.
Yeah.
Stephanie Lucas (09:41):
Yeah.
Like, look what kindof control we do have.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And so
Fresh King Benjamin (09:46):
yes, when I, I love to that, that like, one
of the things that I think is.
Kind of going back to maybe zeitgeistor sort of this, this spirituality
that sort of underneath everythingthat's happening is that I, I think
it's really fascinating that the allthat we had so many stories about the
(10:07):
apocalypse, like the zombie apocalypse.
The Mad Max apocalypse, like so for,for decades, we've been sort of telling
those stories and kind of preppingour minds for something like that.
And, and I think too, that like,I also think about the, the, the
advent of like, it seems like, Idon't know what cult, what, what
(10:29):
cult were your parents a part of?
Do you
Stephanie Lucas (10:31):
know?
Like five star Pentecostal.
So it's a very strict Christian Did they
Fresh King Benjamin (10:36):
handle like snakes?
Who are the snake handlers?
I thought they were Pentecostals.
Stephanie Lucas (10:43):
They didn't do anything cool.
Damn it.
Yeah.
They wore like, you know, they,they were sort of like the long, you
know, plain dressed with bonnets.
Fresh King Benjamin (10:54):
Okay.
Yeah.
Bonnets.
Okay.
Yeah.
Oh my, you, your people andmy people would have fit in.
Stephanie Lucas (11:00):
They would have because when we kind of got kicked
out they went and found a Mennonite.
Church.
Oh, no way.
Yeah.
And the Mennonites were like, wedon't want you . And so then they
went and found like a normal ChristianChurch and then we went to this like
Christian school and you know that
Fresh King Benjamin (11:20):
anyway.
And you know that you are extremewhen the Mennonites are like these.
Yeah.
No thank
Stephanie Lucas (11:27):
you . I do, it might have had to do like a little
bit with the, you know, I had sixbrothers at the time, so Yeah.
Unruly children.
Fresh King Benjamin (11:36):
Oh yeah.
That'll, that'll do it.
I think, I think it's fascinatingthat so, so the, the cult that
I grew up in Mormonism, right.
That starts in the 1830s, JW startedin the 1830s, Seventh Day Adventists.
There's so many cults that kind ofgo back to like, right, like 1830s,
1840s America, and then they sort of.
(12:00):
They sort of for generations.
Like I'm a, I'm the seventhgeneration Mormon in my family,
which feels all sorts of powerful.
And like, literally like my, myancestor came to America, his grant,
his son joined the Mormons, and thenseven generations later I pop out
and I'm like, fuck this Mormon shit.
And, and I know so many people likeyou and like a, a lot of my friends.
(12:24):
From a bunch of different cults whohave done that and who have sort of,
they've been in the cult for, for years.
It sort of created a certain kind of humanand then they've sort of stepped out.
They've, they've rejected that.
And I think that's kind of, I thinkthat's kind of magical because
I think that's actually created.
A certain kind of human who is sortof ready to, to thrive and to sort
(12:50):
of do really well in this new postapocalyptic world where, because
we're, we're, we're, we're groundedin reality, we're skeptical, we're,
we're willing to like, think deeply,we're willing, like, it's, it doesn't
bother me to think about the, like, I,I think about America, like the American
government sometimes as very much a cult.
(13:11):
And.
And that doesn't scare me that becauseI'm like, look, I know what cults are.
I've, I've thought my way outof like, it's, it's a norm.
It feels like a normal thing to do.
And it also feels really importantbecause there's, there's a lot of,
we need that kind of thinking today.
Like we need people who are willingto challenge the status quo, who
are willing to live their authenticlives in a, in a way that's
(13:35):
powerful, that, that, that relies onthemselves as the source of their.
Authority and intuition that,that really brings humans back and
make, let's humans human again.
And that's one of the reasons i'm reallyexcited about talking to you Is that
you've done a lot of work and you'rereally good at humaning So I want to
just kind of turn it over to you and justlike teach me a little bit How how do
(13:58):
you think what are some things that youthink that are important for us to do?
In this kind of post apocalyptic thisnew this rapidly changing world How do we
make this world into a more human world?
And how do we take control andpower back in our own lives?
Stephanie Lucas (14:13):
Oh man, there's so many things.
I do want to start really with your ownbeing sovereign in your own body, right?
We are given so much in this world,but the most important thing that
we have been given is this vesseland it is our job to nurture it.
(14:34):
So that as we, you know, grow older,we are doing it in a way that is
healthy and vibrant and happy.
Yeah.
You know, our world is so toxic.
And because of the governmentand the way that this corporation
of a country has been set up,everything's about profitability.
(14:58):
So, it doesn't matter if the food thatyou're being given has chemicals and
things that are causing your body tobreak down, to, you know, become obese,
to have diabetes, to, it's crazy,it's crazy, like all of the autoimmune
issues that exist today is just crazy.
(15:20):
Insane
Fresh King Benjamin (15:21):
to me.
Yeah.
It's wild to me thatAmerica is so wealthy.
We're so wealthy and we are so sick.
Stephanie Lucas (15:29):
So unhealthy.
Like it blows my mind.
It's insane.
So, taking care of yourself is likethe biggest, most important thing.
And what I mean by that is like, we'renot getting the nutrients that we
need from the food that we're eatingbecause the soil is so depleted and
the water The, you know, everything isbeing raped of all of its resources.
(15:52):
Right.
Yeah.
So like the mineral content,the nutrients in the food is so
bad that we have to supplement.
And so minerals are number one.
We do not get enough mineralsfrom the food we eat.
And so beam, like B E AM, like beam me up Scotty.
Maybe you don't know that reference.
Fresh King Benjamin (16:13):
Okay.
Star Trek.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's like, you like, youlike, you get beamed up.
I don't, who's Scotty though?
Yeah,
Stephanie Lucas (16:24):
that, that's
Fresh King Benjamin (16:24):
like.
Is that like the computer that youlike, you like call the computer and it.
Star Trek guys.
Oh, it's one of the dudes.
Okay.
Stephanie Lucas (16:31):
Okay.
Anyways, so BEAM, B E A M, minerals.
They are like the bestminerals I have found.
And after I started takingthose, just after a few weeks,
I started sleeping better.
My body is hydrated better.
It holds water better.
Like, and I know you likesauna cold plunge regularly.
(16:52):
And when I'm sweating, I sweat better.
Like, there's a difference, right?
Fresh King Benjamin (16:58):
Is B.
E.
A.
M.
a brand, or is it like, is it anacronym that stands for a certain It's a
Stephanie Lucas (17:02):
brand.
Okay.
Yeah, B.
E.
A.
M.
Minerals.
I don't know.
Do you do show notes?
I would assume you do.
We can put
Fresh King Benjamin: that in the show notes. (17:08):
undefined
Stephanie Lucas (17:09):
Yeah.
So, hydration, right?
If you're drinking water, youneed to have remineralized water.
What happens if you drink waterthat has been like purified?
Or you're buying this bottled water.
That's not remineralized.
When you drink that water,the water needs minerals.
It'll actually take from your body.
So it's depleting you
Fresh King Benjamin (17:30):
from what you need.
So you're like draining yourselfof, you're like flushing out
the things that you need.
Yeah.
And also
Stephanie Lucas (17:37):
don't drink out of, Freaking plastic
bottles like microplastics.
What this is doing to your system,the amount of disease that is
running rampant in our society,a huge amount of it is because of
the microplastics in our bodies.
Like you're even getting it fromsome of the food you're eating.
It's ridiculous.
Fresh King Benjamin (17:56):
Turns out, turns out plastics are not just killing turtles.
That's right.
Plastics were a terror, like, I get whywe did it because they're so convenient,
but we, we really missed the boat on that.
And just thinking about the longterm impact of, of what we do, right?
And, and what we, like, I think aboutthat all the time, especially with
(18:16):
I don't know if I've talked to you.
Have I, have we talkedabout Turtle Island?
So, so when I think about America, right.
And I think about turtle Island and Ithink about the, like for thousands of
years, the indigenous peoples of thiscontinent were aware of their impact on
the continent they were aware of, andthat they actually had many, many tribes
(18:39):
had people who would be, they would,they were given the job of speaking for
future generations, like for 10 years.
Or 10 generations, 50generations in the future.
And so they were really aware of that.
And, and then white, white Europeanculture comes over and it's like,
Oh, what a great resource thatwe can just exploit immediately.
(19:01):
And, and I think that's one of themost important things to bring back
into balance in, in this new, like,the thing that I hope that we do
with this opportunity is to recognizethat all of the technology that we
have is, Like, I think, I think Gaia.
Adores humans.
I think Gaia thinks we areso clever and so smart.
She loves us.
(19:22):
And we have to get back tounderstanding that there's a way
for us to be our brilliant, clevertechnological selves that is deeply
in line with, with caring for her.
And in fact, that's theonly way that we survive.
Because any civilization that doesn't dothat is just, is just going to get, just
(19:42):
going to get flushed down the toilet.
Stephanie Lucas (19:44):
There's going to be another Noah's Ark.
Fresh King Benjamin (19:46):
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I won't be able to get onthat because I'm so wicked.
Yeah.
Stephanie Lucas (19:52):
I don't know what that looks like, but I
probably won't be on it either.
So, so yeah, so I mean like reallycaring for your body and that is
built on your self worth, right?
When you care so deeply aboutthis vessel, then you start caring
about everything outside of you.
Taking care of your house, the thingsthat you value, your cat, your children.
(20:19):
Those are all reflections ofhow you are doing on the inside.
And like a big thingfor me is organic food.
Right?
Like, I get that organic food isexpensive, so, on top of going to the
farmer's market going to regenerativefarms, thankfully, I have access to
(20:39):
those things because I'm in Texas.
Fresh King Benjamin (20:42):
Austin is pretty great for that, yeah.
Stephanie Lucas (20:44):
It's amazing.
But there is actually, there's awebsite that you can go to to find
a regenerative farm in your area.
Ooh, I love this.
Yeah, I know I have it in my notes here.
It's Farmer's Footprintis like incredible.
They put this it's organic consumersdot org slash regenerative hyphen
(21:06):
farm hyphen map and You can go tothat website, put your zip code in,
and it'll tell you all the typesof regenerative farms in your area.
Fresh King Benjamin (21:16):
Hang on, tell me that one more.
Organic?
I'm gonna just do that right now.
Organic?
Stephanie Lucas (21:20):
Organicconsumers.
Fresh King Benjamin (21:21):
org Consumers.
org, okay.
Forward slash
Stephanie Lucas (21:26):
regenerative.
Fresh King Benjamin (21:27):
Regenerative,
Stephanie Lucas (21:29):
hyphen, farm, hyphen, map, forward slash.
Fresh King Benjamin (21:37):
Oh my god, this is amazing.
Yes.
Holy cow, so I'm seeing like thiswhole map of the entire United States.
Yeah.
Oh, and see, oh, this is what,this is why, Even though, even
though this is a show about theapocalypse and how everything is
breaking and we're all going to die.
Yes.
It's also, we're not, we're not, becausewe're so clever and we're so aware
(22:02):
and we're actually tapped in and we'repaying attention and, and we have all
of the tools that like all of the tools,like the, that we need to do this.
And just, I want to just share thisso that, that people who are watching
can see check, check this out.
Y'all you jump into here.
And there are thousands ofthem all over the place.
(22:23):
And so here I am in Utahand bam, there's one.
I mean, this is like literallyprobably 20 minutes from my house.
Stephanie Lucas (22:32):
So, so yeah, so I started my own garden.
I have like over a hundredsquare feet of gardening, like
raised beds in my backyard.
Yeah.
I'm year two and I so I,I'm a green witch, right?
So plants are the thing, you know, I'mnot out casting spells on people and
being all decrepit and weird and likedoing bad stuff, everything I do is for
(22:57):
the betterment of nature and the peoplearound me and my everything, right?
Yeah.
Which
Fresh King Benjamin (23:04):
I, I think like that is, as I've, as I've studied
witches, as I've gotten to knowseveral witches, what I realized is.
That was what witches were the whole time.
Like the whole time they were just,they were just like women who knew
about nature and could use herbsand like the whole broom thing.
(23:25):
This blew my mind when I learned this,that the whole witch is on a broom.
Why did witches have brooms?
Because they figured out if you sweep yourhouse, it's cleaner and you don't die.
Yes.
Stephanie Lucas (23:36):
Well, now I have a Jasper, so I don't have to sweep.
Fresh King Benjamin (23:40):
Wait, what's a
Stephanie Lucas (23:40):
Jasper?
Jasper.
It is like the most amazing airpurification system on the planet.
Oh, no way.
Yes, and like it will takeallergens, micro everythings
out of the out of the air.
And so if you're using a Jasper, you'renot getting dust because it sucks it all
Fresh King Benjamin (23:59):
up.
Yes.
So you're, you fly around on a Jasperinstead of, instead of a Bramble.
That's right.
Love that.
So you're a green witch.
Stephanie Lucas (24:10):
Yeah.
And so like gardening is so important.
Right.
So if you can't afford to buyall your stuff, organic, learn to
garden, get your hands in the dirt.
Not only getting your hands in thedirt is like good for your garden, but
it's good for your microbiome in your
Fresh King Benjamin (24:27):
system.
Yeah.
It turns out eating dirtis really good for you.
It is.
Yeah.
That's one of the thingsthat I think is, is.
A little hilarious aboutmy background, right?
Cause I grew up and I never went to thedoctor, never got any kind of vaccine.
Like I was, I was aliteral free range kid.
We just ran around and played in the dirt.
(24:48):
And, and I have a pretty strongimmune, like I'm a pretty healthy guy.
Like I'm, I'm grateful for modernmedicine and all the ways that
it helps us when we need it.
And I think it's also kind of, It's the,the extreme focus on like purification
and like with our water, like you weresaying, like nothing in our water.
(25:11):
No, we need a little, like, obviouslywe don't want cholera in our
water, but we, we need some dirt.
We need some dirt in our, inour, in our water a little bit.
And actually one of the, so when I was at,when I was at Burning Man my first year
I had this really interesting experiencewith dirt because over the course of the
week, I just got progressively more naked.
So.
(25:32):
Beginning of the week, I was like, Iwas my very strict polygamous self.
End of the week, I was buttass naked, just wandering.
I didn't even care.
It was magical.
And as I was doing that, what I, whatI started to do is instead of like
putting sunscreen on at the beginningof the day, which is where I started
because the, the sun out there is brutal.
I just remembered, I would like,I remember like these David
(25:52):
Attenborough documentaries.
Elephants would like throw dirt on themand I'm like, I'm going to try that.
So I like literally just scoopedup a bunch of dirt and just
rubbed it all over my body.
And then I just, and anytime I startedto feel like I got a little bit of sun,
I just rub more dirt on and it worked.
Like I didn't, I wasn't sunburned.
And actually what I started tofind was it, that dirt started to
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mix with a little bit of sweat.
So I had sort of this thin film of like.
Dirt and sweat all over my body and itwas actually really, really comfortable.
It
Stephanie Lucas (26:26):
probably exfoliated a lot
Fresh King Benjamin (26:27):
too.
Oh, I was, my skin was so smooth, so soft.
And, and it made me realize, right?
Like we are, we, we are animals.
And we've removed ourself.
We've tried to like remove ourselves fromthis, like this animal world that we live,
but we are just like, we're designed,we're designed to be in the dirt.
(26:48):
We're designed to be a little bit messy.
We're designed to kind of have like that.
All of this is, is who we are and thatwe aren't really these hyper clean.
Like we.
We can actually get in, like, get inthat dirt and eat a little bit of,
and it's actually really good for us.
It's actually very good
Stephanie Lucas (27:04):
for us.
Fresh King Benjamin (27:05):
Yeah.
And it's funny too, because like my,I, I think that our generation maybe
is sort of maybe the last generationthat's really out, because my kids
are, they, they love gardening.
They, they talked me into causeI, I was still very resistant to
gardening because of how I grew up.
I was like, I don't want to garden.
(27:26):
I want to go to a store by myself.
Stephanie Lucas (27:28):
You want to, yeah.
You're resisting whatyou were brought up on.
Fresh King Benjamin (27:31):
Resisting what I, what I was, because it
was, cause it wasn't, wasn't fun.
Right.
But my kids were like,yo, we, they love it.
And so they talked me into, they werelike, we want to do a garden in our, in
our upstairs, like on my, on our balcony.
Well, we don't have agarden bed or anything.
So one day we were driving, there'slike this big abandoned lot behind
our house and we were just drivingthrough it and someone had just
taken a box spring and thrown it out.
(27:53):
Like just dumped it there.
And we were like, Oh,what the, like assholes?
Like, why would you do that?
And then we looked at it and my daughter,my, my oldest daughter was like.
We could probably do something with that.
And I was like, yeah, we probably could.
So we took it, we hauledit back to my house.
We it's up, it's rightoutside full of dirt.
We just filled it with dirt and weplanted a bunch of onions last fall,
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and now they're starting to pop up.
So we're going to havea whole bunch of onions.
That grew in our box spring mattressand it was that easy, right?
Like it.
And I think that that's where, andwhat's fun about that too, is that
I think that we are, I think we'vebecome really disconnected from
food, from where it comes from, fromreally the magic of like, Creating
(28:41):
it and then have, and then pullingit from the earth and then eating it.
Right.
That's, that's who we are.
And and I think it's, it's a lot morehealthy than like a McDonald's hamburger.
Yeah.
Stephanie Lucas (28:53):
It's like, it's not going to cause disease.
Yeah.
Fresh King Benjamin (28:56):
Yeah.
Stephanie Lucas (28:57):
Yeah.
No, I love gardening.
When I see new thingspop up, it's so exciting.
It's like, oh my gosh, I did that.
Yeah, well, like the Earth did thatand like the sun and you helped,
Fresh King Benjamin (29:08):
but I helped.
Yeah.
I put that seed
Stephanie Lucas (29:10):
there.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
So, yeah, so other things thatI'm definitely passionate about,
about cleaning my own environmentis mm-Hmm, , like having solar
energy doing as much EMF proofing.
Fresh King Benjamin (29:26):
What is EMF proofing?
What are, what are EMFs?
Stephanie Lucas (29:28):
Gosh, EMF electromagnetic frequencies.
Fresh King Benjamin (29:32):
Is that like, that's from screens, right?
Stephanie Lucas (29:35):
Wi Fi, that's from all the 5G, like all the things that
are happening around us because ofthe technology that we've created.
And there's scientific evidence of itmessing with our cells and like there's
cell mutation like so much stuff ishappening like, there was a study that
(29:55):
was done from somebody using a cell phone.
Where like their beta waves in theirbrain just went like crazy because
they had their phone up next to their.
Yeah.
Right.
I can
Fresh King Benjamin (30:06):
feel that.
Right.
Like when I, cause I'm, I'm pretty, I'mpretty sensitive to like, like energy.
Like I can feel it in my hands, especiallywhen I, if I'm holding my phone.
For a significant amount of time.
It's hot.
Yes.
And I feel like it's hot and Ifeel that energy like getting
sucked into my, into my hands.
Exactly.
And so I have like a, I don't have itup here, but I have like a, a big old
(30:29):
obsidian ball that if I, if I've beenusing my phone for a little while, I'll
just hold that and it's cold and Yeah.
It feels, it feels, it feelslike it's sucking it out.
I think this is, I've got this rightin front of me on my, on my computer.
I think this is, this is yeah.
Stephanie Lucas (30:46):
Yeah.
So Shungite is like agood absorber of EMF.
So I actually have a, I have a case.
I can't reach it, but it's likea super sparkly, fun Shungite
case that's on my cell phone.
Oh, rad.
And so, that's one wayof helping with that.
But then I also have thisservice called quantum upgrade.
io.
(31:06):
Okay.
And it's beaming quantum energy intothe phone to help reduce the EMFs.
Oh, rad.
And I have it in my house.
So it's reducing the EMFs and then Ialso have these devices that are plugged
into the wall and then this this littleone here It's like calm your body
Fresh King Benjamin (31:29):
Yeah,
Stephanie Lucas (31:30):
Go Sanctuary.
This is from it's Earth Calm that'sanother website where you can get these
different devices for EMFs Reduction, likeyou can't get cell phone service inside
my house unless you're using my wifi.
Fresh King Benjamin (31:45):
Oh, that's right.
Stephanie Lucas (31:47):
I turn it off while I'm sleeping because it's like, okay,
I don't want that stuff all running.
And I'm turning everythingoff in the house because it's
interrupting your sleep patterns.
Fresh King Benjamin (31:57):
Yeah, I think that, that seems like such a great idea.
Like, like even just with the,just the disconnecting from.
The constant pings, like the constantof like, we're, we're so, it's wild
to me sometimes when I think about howwe used to like text messaging used to
(32:18):
be years, like we used to like writea personal letter and then, and then
literally just hand it to someone andsay, well, And somewhere in that direction
is the person that this needs to go to.
Can you get it to them?
Right.
And so there's this, there isthis space I think that we had
(32:39):
in our lives that we don't have.
And there are, there are, there'snice things about that, right?
Like it's nice to be able to instantlytext my, my kids and to know exactly
where they are all the time, right?
That's there's a plus to that.
And there's a cost to that.
Stephanie Lucas (32:56):
Agreed.
Agreed.
But yeah, so, technology, there's so muchgreatness about it, and then there is
so much that's damaging to our cellular,like, down to your cellular level, right?
And a lot of peoplearen't even aware of it.
It blows my mind how much, like,unawareness is happening around
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what we're doing to this planet.
Fresh King Benjamin: Yeah, which is a bummer. (33:22):
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It
Stephanie Lucas (33:24):
is such a bummer.
Like, even the frequency of the planet'schanging because of what we're doing.
Like, the Schumann Resonancedoesn't even happen all the
Fresh King Benjamin (33:33):
time anymore.
I don't even know whatthe Schumann Resonance is.
Tell me what that is.
Oh my gosh.
Stephanie Lucas (33:39):
So, it's like the vibration that the Earth is emitting,
and that is like the I can't think ofwhat the hertz is but you could, you
could go on like Spotify and just putin Schumann Resonance and like get
a playlist of like these vibrationsand they're healing vibrations.
You can put in like earth healingvibrations or something like this.
(34:01):
But frequencies, we're Weare like energy, right?
Right.
And so frequencies are going to affectus whether it's a negative or a positive.
Mhmm.
Right?
And so, like, you find that in music.
Like, whatever they decide to use inmusic could be a negative or a positive.
Fresh King Benjamin (34:24):
Well, and I just googled Schumann resonance and it's
showing like it's part of the the earth'selectromagnetic field spectrum, right?
So the earth itself is thisenergetic thing, right?
It's shooting out all of theseand the fact that we are.
I'm, I'm continually blown awayat how powerful, like, the little
(34:45):
creatures that are us are, right?
That we can impact things on, on thatlevel, like, literally right behind my
house over here, there's a whole mountain.
There's a mountain.
That is getting eaten by humans asthey mine it away for copper, right?
Every day, a little bit less mountain.
Right.
And, and the, like the fact that we're,we're get like, we're just blasting
(35:09):
these radiate these frequencies.
And we don't know thelong term impact of that.
Like cell phones.
We've had cell phones for like20 years, for like 30 years.
That's not a very long time.
Yeah.
Especially when you think about the, thethe length of time that like, it's taken
for like how long nature moves, right?
(35:33):
Nature moves in.
Millions of years, right?
And over millions ofyears, it creates ego.
It creates all this balance.
And then we can kind of come in soquickly and tip that in disastrous ways.
Right?
Like we're in the middle ofthat's where we're at right now.
Like we're in the middle of.
(35:54):
They're calling it thesixth great extinction.
We are, we are slaughtering life onthis planet on an unprecedented scale.
And, and it's really onlywithin like the last 200 years.
Stephanie Lucas (36:07):
Yeah.
Well, a huge problem is that we'vetraded You know, our health and the the,
like nature thriving for convenience.
Like for instance, the microwaveis the worst invention ever.
It, it literally kills the nutrientsof the food that you're warming up.
(36:30):
So you're just like shoveling.
Nothing in your mouth,
Fresh King Benjamin: so, but it's really hot. (36:34):
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Nothing really hot, nothing that got,that got in my mouth really fast.
And
Stephanie Lucas (36:40):
there's one in every, almost every house in America at least.
Yeah, when I've traveled, there'snot always a microwave, but there's.
Fresh King Benjamin (36:49):
We, we have lots and, and, and what's wild to me
too, is that it's not even like thelevel of convenience is not, we're
so fixated on convenience becausea microwave is not that much more
convenient than like an air fryer.
Stephanie Lucas (37:07):
No, and that's the thing is like, it's literally taking
the nutrients out of your food.
And radiating you.
So like, go ahead and poisonyourself and not get any.
Fresh King Benjamin (37:19):
Yeah.
Like what?
Yeah.
And, and go so fast.
Like that, that you're not actuallyslowing down, appreciating the
food, smelling the food, right?
Like cooking used to be such a.
Such a such a process, right?
Such a get, like we'd get togetherand we would do it to get, and we'd,
we'd smell it and it would like,all of this stuff would happen.
(37:43):
And, and now we're just like, oh, asquickly as we can, like, let's get
that out of the way, like, let's, let'seat as quickly as we possibly can.
Stephanie Lucas (37:51):
I mean, I feel like cooking is an art form
in and of itself, you know?
And when I can take ingredients andmake it beautiful with the colors of
the different vegetables and like, youknow, putting these flavors together.
And
Fresh King Benjamin (38:07):
I imagine when I'm, when I sit down and cook, I imagine
sometimes that I'm, that I'm, thatI'm like, it's my witch's cauldron.
Like it's my little warlock'scauldron and I'm putting in like
putting in turmeric and I'm likethis turmeric does this thing.
And here's some sage and this sagedoes this and maybe it doesn't maybe
it doesn't but the intention of likeit does Yeah, and but it's like the
(38:30):
the intention of I'm, I'm creating thisthing and I'm doing it with love and
I'm doing it for my kids and I'm doingit for myself and then we sit down
and we eat it and that's a differentexperience than like I'm gonna, you know,
I'm gonna throw in a microwave pizza.
Yeah,
Stephanie Lucas (38:49):
exactly.
Or I'm going to go to Chili's.
Fresh King Benjamin (38:52):
I'm going to go to Chili's.
Stephanie Lucas (38:54):
Oh my God.
And then I'm thinking about like allof the seed oils and preservatives
and all these things that arejust getting thrown into the food.
It's like, what?
Yeah.
These gums.
I'm like, if, if something has morethan seven ingredients and it's not
organic and I can't pronounce a thing.
(39:17):
That's not going in my grocery cart.
It is not coming to my house.
Fresh King Benjamin (39:22):
Yeah.
If I can't pronounce a thing, ifI can't get it out of my mouth, I
probably shouldn't put it in my mouth.
I look on these ingredients listsand I'm just like, what is that?
Xantham gum?
Stephanie Lucas (39:39):
Talk about inflammation.
It causes so muchinflammation in your body.
And what causes disease?
Inflammation.
Fresh King Benjamin (39:48):
Yeah, so we're literally eating ourselves sick.
Stephanie Lucas (39:52):
And it's all in the name of profitability.
We go right back to that profitability.
Like, you know, I, I could only imaginethat the witches were probably like hunted
down because they were using like naturalremedies and they were like, Oh, totally.
Not going to make money on this.
Yeah,
Fresh King Benjamin (40:11):
the, the, the patriarchy, the, the, the church was
just like, look, we are not going to beable to make this capitalism thing go if
we have, I mean, if everyone's healthyand just does lives their own lives.
Stephanie Lucas (40:25):
So, let's bring this back to the apocalypse,
Fresh King Benjamin (40:29):
right?
Full circle.
Here we
Stephanie Lucas (40:31):
are.
Here we are.
The planet's changing vibration andit's purging itself of all of the
people that really can't be sustained.
Yeah.
And, and it wants people that carefor it, that raise their vibration to
match its vibration, to help heal it.
(40:52):
Yeah.
If we are healing ourselves from theinside out, we are now healing the planet.
Ooh, I love that.
Right?
Because if we do regenerative farming,now we're bringing all of these
nutrients back to the soil that thengets, Deeper and deeper and deeper
and this planet will just thrive.
Yeah, you know, it's like come the fuck on
Fresh King Benjamin (41:16):
people.
I know and and it's so it's solike I love what you said too
about how healing ourselves.
Is healing because we are that right?
Like we've, we've diluted ourselvesthat we're something different, right?
But we crawled out of,I think of Gaia, right?
So I love the Greek myths.
I think the Greek myths are fascinating.
(41:38):
I think they're, I think they're,they're so much richer than we give
them credit for, and one of the thingsthat the Greek, like when you go
back to the very early Greek mythsabout how everything was formed,
the first thing that exists, right.
Is like, there's There's there was thesea and then there was Tartarus, right?
Tartarus is the rocks under the earth.
And then Gaia comes and Gaiaexists on top of Tartarus.
(42:02):
And I imagine that as like, are youfamiliar with the Gaia hypothesis
from, I think, James Lovelace?
He was this, he was thischemist from like the 1970s.
And, and he proposed a hypothesis thatall life is a single organism, right?
The single organism, he called it Gaia.
And, and I imagine it just as like,if you look at our planet, right?
(42:23):
And if you look at probablyany planet, At the core of the
planet, it's like just rocks.
It's rock.
And that's, and you can'tlive on rock, right?
That's one of the reasons I loveBurning Man is that you go to Burning
Man and you literally go to themost, there's nothing can live there.
You are at, you are at theplace where there's nothing.
(42:44):
And then you realize how muchhumans, we depend on layers
and layers and layers of life.
Like dirt, vegetation for it.
There's so much that we rely onthat we don't even think about.
We just imagine we're just like, Oh,that's just what the world is like.
No, that's not what the world is like.
(43:06):
There are places on the, onearth where that doesn't exist.
There are like, that's what Mars is like.
The reason that Mars isn't aliveis because Mars doesn't have Gaia.
Mars doesn't.
And there are other reasons for that too.
Right.
But Mars doesn't have this.
This living ecosystem that, because thereason why we have a great atmosphere
is because we have Gaia exhaling oxygen.
(43:30):
Right?
So we're, we're intimately part of this.
And I just imagine it aslike this giant green goo all
over the rocks of our planet.
And we've been, and Gaiainvented us to be the caretakers.
Exactly.
Right?
We're the caretakers.
Good job.
And we have really not donea great, we've forgotten.
(43:51):
And the good news is we'd actually did apretty great job for a long time, right?
For hundreds of thousands ofyears, we did a really great job.
And then we invented this thing calledcapitalism, where it was like, how
can we exploit, how can we take?
And the thing that is the most grossto me about that is that it's not
capitalism doesn't benefit everyone.
(44:15):
Capitalism benefits.
It benefits a few people, a whole bunch,and then the rest of the people it
enslaves, and then it rapes the earthand, and it doesn't, and it's not, it's
not in, and what we should be doingis because we don't, the earth isn't
habitable because the earth is habitable.
(44:36):
The earth is habitable because there'sthis organism that lives on the earth.
That's this huge super organismthat's all around the planet that
creates the conditions that allowscomplex life like us to live.
And it doesn't have to.
That's right.
It could, it could not.
And I think that in, you know,whatever, whatever COVID was in
(44:58):
large part, it was the earth sayingy'all back the fuck up or I'll kill
Stephanie Lucas (45:04):
you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I could agree a little bit with that,but we won't go into my theory on that.
Yeah.
Fresh King Benjamin (45:13):
We'll save that for a future episode.
Stephanie Lucas (45:14):
Yeah, totally.
Totally.
But like going to the atmosphere,like talking about the chem trails.
Like, okay, so we are on this planetwhere the atmosphere is like a perfect
condition for us to grow and thriveand all the things, and now they're
throwing the chemtrails into theatmosphere, which is basically allowing
(45:37):
the sun to come through, but it'strapping everything from going out,
and so it's creating like basically amicrowave, Yeah, we're getting fried.
We're like radiating everything,which is why cancer is like rampant.
Another reason, of course.
There are plenty of reasons.
But like, I am just blown away at likethese things happening right in our faces
(46:04):
and nobody's doing anything about it.
Fresh King Benjamin (46:07):
Because it's not convenient to.
Yeah.
Because look, I really want to be ableto go get to New York in five hours.
Right.
That's important.
Yes.
It's important for me physically tobe 5, 000 miles away in five hours.
It's insane.
It's insane.
It is a little bit insane.
Yeah.
Stephanie Lucas (46:27):
I mean, we just need to get back to where we
know where we came from and whowe are and how powerful we are.
And then we can just like magicallyappear where we want to be.
Fresh King Benjamin (46:37):
I, I am a hundred percent on board with that.
I have, have you seen,have you seen the OA?
No.
Oh my God.
You would love the OA.
But in, in the OA, they, they dothese, the OA, where they have like
the movements and then they teleport.
Yes.
I, I want that to happen.
(46:57):
Yes.
That's what, when I think of likepyramids, I have no, I have no backing
for this other than this is what I think.
Which is, There's no way, and maybewe'll shift gears a little bit.
Cause you turned me on tothis show resident alien.
Oh yeah.
So I've been thinking about aliens.
Number one, I've beenthinking about aliens.
I'm pretty sure I had a UFOencounter when I was a little kid.
(47:21):
Right.
I remember laying on the tramp onenight and there were like, there was
no sound, but there were all of theselights flashing all over our field.
I have no idea what that was.
It, it, it looked like hell.
It looked like.
It looked like spotlights fromhelicopters, but there was no sound.
There was, it was totally quiet.
And if I were an alien, I would totallygo check out the polygamous compound,
(47:44):
but I'd be like, this looks interesting.
What's going on right here.
Right.
But I, I'm, I've been fascinatedwith space my whole life.
I'm, I, I, I want to,I want to go to space.
Like I want to go, I want to govisit another planet so badly.
And.
When I think about the, the, the,the size of the universe, how
(48:06):
long the universe has been around.
And the complexities and thedifficulties of interstellar, like
how long it takes to physically gofrom one place to another place.
It seems obvious to me that the,there is interstellar travel and the
way that we do interstellar travelisn't by going from here to here.
It's by here is already there.
(48:27):
So it's just, it's, it's teleportationseems like the obvious thing.
And then I look at I had thisBurning Man is like my thing.
I fucking love that place.
This is the third time I broughtit up and you're welcome you guys.
Cause I, I will continue.
Burning Man.
I think, side note, I think thatis the apocalypse playground.
Like that's.
That's what the reason why we dothat as humans is that we were going
(48:49):
to that extreme environment to playin this, so that we can be ready
for these new, these new changes.
And I had this experience and, and formost of Burning Man, I was not sober.
I was on all sorts of things,but for the first three days of
Burning Man, I was stone cold sober.
I did nothing.
(49:11):
And literally all I did is I wentout, I got, I arrived my first day.
And there was, it was mine.
Cause I was like this polygamous kid.
I'd never seen anything like this.
And then all of a sudden I'min the most heatedness, like
the most crazy place on earth.
I left my camp, I arrived at my campand I just went out to go for a walk.
I wasn't even, I was like, I had a jacket.
(49:31):
I had like a flashlightand like some water.
And I was like, I'm justgoing to go for a walk.
You guys.
And I wandered back intocamp 36 hours later.
I had just been wanderingcompletely sober for hours.
And one of the things that happenedis I ended up in one of the camps
builds this huge pyramid, huge pyramid.
(49:53):
Out of like scaffolding and stuff.
And I wandered intothere like early morning.
I was pretty tired.
So I found like this couch, I laid down,I kind of like fell asleep a little
bit and I woke up and they were doing asound bath and while they were doing the
sound bath, I just started meditating.
So I'm meditating.
I'm listening to the sound bathand the shape of the pyramid.
Like the four corners,the actual shape of it.
(50:15):
And then the way that it kind ofgoes up, it took my consciousness and
it channeled me up and then out thetop and it blasted me off somewhere.
I was in a totally different place.
I don't even know how long.
And then, and then I came back down.
It felt like a, like a DMT or likea, like a psychedelic experience.
(50:38):
And I was totally sober.
And I think, I think that that's a lotof what those things were for, right?
When I think about whydid we make pyramids?
Why did we do that?
I think that there's something aboutthe extreme focus of energy here.
That can get us to other places.
I don't know how that works.
I'll leave that for the scientists, butthat I think that's how we're doing it.
Stephanie Lucas (51:00):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, there's somethingabout sacred geometry.
Fresh King Benjamin (51:04):
There's something about sacred geometry.
Yeah.
And about the, the structure andabout, you know, building things
in a way that, and then also justthe power of our minds, right?
To, to.
Yes.
Like, to intentionally, like, you, youlook at the things that they, that,
that really intense meditators likemonks can do when they are in extreme,
like, fucking, you can try to stabthem and they have fucking iron skin.
(51:29):
Yeah.
They can, like, all of this stuffand, and then you tie that into
a structure that supports it.
I think there's a lot.
And then also we now know thataliens are real because they
finally stopped lying to us.
Yeah, right.
They tried to like slip that in.
They were like, while the world'sending, by the way, we've been
(51:50):
lying about aliens the whole time.
Stephanie Lucas (51:52):
You know, they tell us so much stuff and we don't see it as reality.
Yeah.
Right?
They slip things in and it's so crazy.
That they're like, well,we told you guys, so like.
Fresh King Benjamin (52:10):
Trust us.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm excited.
I'm, I'm excited for, there's somuch, there's so much kind of coming.
One of the, so, we played withthese cards before, right?
Apocalypse.
So one of the, one of thedefinitions of this card that they,
this is the Apocalypse's card.
They define an Apocalypseas the unveiling of a truth.
(52:34):
Wreckage that comes fromthe unveiling of that truth.
And I think that that's a bit like,that's a big part of what is going on
here with, with, especially with likealiens is we've, we've been lying.
We've been pretending likethat's not true for so long.
And now there's now it's obvious andthen, and I love to how kind of everyone's
(52:56):
response to that was like, like, everyonewas like, oh, we can't tell people that
aliens are real because they'll freak out.
It'll destroy them.
They won't even be able to handle it.
And then they admit it.
And everyone's like, yeah, obviously.
Like we've, of course,
Stephanie Lucas (53:09):
it's so egoic of us to think we're the only ones, right.
This massive universe of
Fresh King Benjamin (53:15):
things.
Yeah.
Or even in this planet.
Right?
Like I think about that some, like we, wehave maps, like we have maps of the United
States and we draw this whole thing.
We're like, this is all the United States.
Yeah.
And I'm like.
No, it's not.
The United States is actuallya couple of dots all over.
(53:37):
The United States is a couple of dotsand then lines between those dots.
And then what's out there.
Like if you've flown across the, it'shuge, so much unpopulated space and
we're like, Oh yeah, that's all the unit.
No, it's not.
That's like a little bit on the coastand a couple of things in the middle.
And then some linesconnecting it, and that's it.
(53:59):
That's what we actually have control over.
And we think that we're like thetop dogs and we're so powerful.
And we, and we're like,we, we do everything.
And, and in some ways we are,we are pretty, pretty powerful,
but we're also so tiny.
Stephanie Lucas (54:14):
Oh my gosh.
We've unpacked
Fresh King Benjamin (54:16):
a lot.
We did unpack a lot.
We are, we are about a time.
Any, are there any kind of finalthoughts about the apocalypse?
About preparing for, about kindof thriving in the apocalypse
or aliens or anything?
Richiness that you want to, youwant to share before we wrap?
Stephanie Lucas (54:31):
Yeah, so I think that we're going to have to have another
conversation about water, becauselike, that's a huge part of this too.
I mean, what is it like nine, 75 to90 percent of the planet's water?
Yeah.
Same as our
Fresh King Benjamin (54:45):
bodies.
Yeah.
And we know, we know as, we knowmore about the surface of Mars.
Then we do about the surf,the floor of the ocean.
What is down there, y'all?
Yeah,
Stephanie Lucas (55:03):
yeah.
So I think we should save that foranother conversation because that is huge.
Hell yeah.
I have so much cool stuffto share about water.
Fresh King Benjamin (55:12):
I'm so excited.
We'll have a, we'll have a apocalypsewater conversation in the future.
Stephanie Lucas (55:17):
Yeah.
Cause I mean, obviously when we getdestroyed anyways, we're going to
get, you know, covered in water again.
Fresh King Benjamin (55:23):
We're going to get flooded.
Yeah.
I mean, we're all, it's already happening.
The ice caps are melting.
The sea levels are rising.
Like, damn it.
The, this is the thing that, thatalways makes me a little bit a
little bit annoyed is the, the, theBible thumpers are kind of right.
Like the flood.
(55:43):
I mean, they're wrong, but they're alsolike, they're also like they're the, the
flood, here we are, we're flooding again.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm not though.
I, Utah is going to be fine.
Utah is going to be beachfront.
It's going to be great.
Yeah.
It's going to fill up.
California is going to be flooded,but it'll like, just get really nice.
(56:04):
And I'll have a nicebeachfront house pretty soon.
So it'll be, it'll be good.
I don't know about Austin.
Austin is Austin.
How close is Austin to the ocean?
Stephanie Lucas (56:13):
You know, we do have you know, it's down like Galveston.
It's a couple hours, soit's like pretty close.
Fresh King Benjamin (56:21):
Yeah, that's pretty, you could, you could,
Austin might become beachfront too.
Stephanie Lucas (56:26):
Who knows what's going to happen here in Texas.
Fresh King Benjamin (56:29):
I don't know that Austin could get any cooler,
but if Austin became like thebeach, that would be pretty cool.
Awesome.
Well, Stephanie, if people want, areyou, do you, like, how could, if people
wanted to follow, if people wanted tolearn more about you, is, are, is there
places where they could go to, to do that?
I
Stephanie Lucas (56:46):
reject social
Fresh King Benjamin (56:47):
media.
Hell yeah.
So you cannot follow her on social media?
I
Stephanie Lucas (56:52):
have social media, like you can find me there, but
you're not going to actually find me.
Yeah.
I'm going to be responding to you.
I'm not posting very often.
Yeah, I actually, I createdthis fancy survivalist.
So that, that was like, I've got the nameand I was going to do something with it.
(57:12):
But then I'm like, I just don'tapprove of this way of being.
Yeah.
Fresh King Benjamin (57:17):
So, So if you want, if you want to learn more about Stephanie
or connect with Stephanie, you're goingto have to do it in the real world, y'all.
Outside of the Matrix.
You will have to find her somewherein Austin and and get a witchy rune
reading and go to her she shed.
Stephanie Lucas (57:34):
Yeah, and you could probably find me at Kuya.
At Kuya?
Yep, K U Y A.
I basically live there.
It's So rad.
Next time you come, I have to take
Fresh King Benjamin (57:46):
you there.
Oh, hell yeah.
I, I, I'm down for that.
I wanna, I wanna get down toAustin quick as soon as I can.
Sauna, cold
Stephanie Lucas (57:53):
plunge.
I go there three times a week for
Fresh King Benjamin (57:55):
that.
I just did, I just did a sauna coldplunge and I was, I was with some friends
in Boulder and we did like, like anhour straight of sonic cold plunge.
It felt amazing.
It's incredible.
Incredible.
I, I can't, I can't believe that wedon't have more access to that, to that.
I know.
Because it's so good for you,and it's so easy, like it's
(58:15):
literally just a box and fire.
Yeah.
It's not that hard.
No.
Awesome.
Well, Stephanie, thanksso much for coming on.
I loved having this conversation with you.
Thanks for giving us some, some coolskills for vibing the apocalypse.
Everybody, just a quickreminder on the show.
So if you are in local in Utahand you want to come to my come
to comedy church Sunday, April7th, that's two Sundays from now.
(58:39):
It's going to be at the at the RedemptionBar and Grill in Harriman, Utah, 7.
30 PM.
And if you use the code BENJAMIN, you canget 2, a whole 2 off the ticket price.
And you can probably buyhalf a beer with that.
So thanks y'all.
Thanks for coming out.
Stephanie good chatting.
Hey heathens welcome back to Vibing the Apocalypse.
I'm your host, the Fresh King Benjamin.
It's been a couple weeks since I'vebeen on, but it is spring now and
it's day 1470 of the apocalypse.
And so we are back.
I have a really good friend on.
We're going to talk aboutthe apocalypse today.
But before I jump into that, I justwant to let you know if you are a
local listener, if you're in the SaltLake area, I have an upcoming show.
(00:38):
Boom.
for comedy on April 7th.
So on April 7th, I'm going to be ona show called comedy church, which
is a really hilarious show where it'slike a, it's like a, a fake church.
That's also comedy.
And we're going to be getting togetherand talking about the law of chastity,
which is a very important law thatkeeps people from fucking each other.
And so we're going to talk about that.
(00:59):
If you want to come to thatshow, you totally should.
And you can actually get alittle I'm going to just share
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Cause you can get, Ooh, I don't want that.
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They need to do a much better job ontheir marketing so that they have a
(01:22):
better website, but they're still new.
They're working on it Sunday, April7th, 7 30 PM at the redemption
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And And if you use the code BENJAMIN,tickets are 10, it's a steal.
But if you use the codeBENJAMIN, you get 20 percent off,
which is like double tithing.
So you, you can come forjust 8, which is insane.
(01:43):
So, definitely come to that.
And and that's my, my announcement.
Now jumping back into our.
Interview.
So I want to just welcome my,my good friend Stephanie Lucas.
Stephanie, welcome to the show.
What do you want to telllisteners a little bit about you?
Stephanie Lucas (01:58):
Yeah.
Thanks for having me.
I'm so excited for this conversation.
So my name is Stephanie Lucas.
I live here in lovely Austin, Texas.
And yeah.
Fresh King Benjamin (02:08):
Representing with my Austin sweatshirt today.
So
Stephanie Lucas (02:11):
good.
So I am in the insurance andfinancial services space.
So very much in the matrix.
A very dense industry.
So operating in that space isquite interesting when you're super
witchy and like spiritual and verydifferent than how it operates.
Fresh King Benjamin (02:34):
Yeah.
You're kind of a walking contradictionbecause, because on the one hand,
insurance finance space, likebrilliant in that crushing it.
And then on the other hand, likeI've been to your house, I have
never been to a more witchy space.
place in my life.
I love it.
Like you've got crystals everywhere.
Your cat is like a reincarnated someone.
Like you are, you are legit.
(02:56):
You're literally wearinga pendant right now.
And I've done some cool witch.
You have a, you have a shed in your house,a she shed where you do witchy things
with, and you've done, we pulled broomsin that shed and it like changed my life.
So it was a, it was pretty,it's a pretty magical moment.
Yeah.
I'm curious about, before we kind ofget into the, into the conversation,
(03:17):
I'm curious about, did the, did youstart witchy or did you start in
this sort of matrix area and howdid you, how did you go from this?
Like you said, deep in the matrix,like I can't think of anything more
tied into the old world that's sort ofcrumbling than the financial industry.
So how did you go from that intothis, into this, this witchy place?
Stephanie Lucas (03:37):
Yeah, so interesting.
I was very buttoned up, you know,corporate, very, you know, wearing
my suits and like cute littleoutfits and very conformative and
extremely driven and I was an addict.
(03:57):
Like that industry, when you're out atevents and all of these things, you're
drinking a lot, there are other thingsavailable and I found myself, by the
time I was 32, I was making more moneythan I had ever made, and I was living
in Del Mar, California, you know, SanDiego, on the west side of the freeway.
(04:21):
Is the west
Fresh King Benjamin (04:21):
side the good side?
I don't know anything about San Diego.
The good side is like,
Stephanie Lucas (04:25):
you're over by the beach, and Oh, hell yeah.
One of the most expensive areas to be in,
Fresh King Benjamin (04:31):
and So you were rich, and so you were obviously totally happy.
Stephanie Lucas (04:34):
Oh, I was fucking miserable, right?
And I was constantly drinking, and Iwould, you know, plan my time around,
like, you know, working 18 hours a day.
Then I'd be like, I need to drink.
Oh my gosh.
And I'd be a very, like,functional alcoholic and addict.
(04:56):
And About 11 ish years ago, I got sober.
And when I got sober, and it was actuallylike when the Mayan calendar ended.
So no
Fresh King Benjamin (05:08):
way.
Oh, that's, that's, that's cool.
Stephanie Lucas (05:11):
Yeah.
And I wasn't into any of this, right?
I did not meditate.
I did not, I was not connected to nature.
I was not connected to my body.
I was like, I don't evenknow, like, out there.
And so, I, when I got sober is when Ifinally, like, found spirituality again.
And we'll touch on this, like,very briefly because I did come
(05:34):
from a fundamentalist, like, polinot polygamist, but a a cult.
Fresh King Benjamin (05:40):
Yeah.
All of my, all of my best friendshave some kind of cult background.
Stephanie Lucas (05:45):
Yeah, yeah.
And I was very young, but because ofthat experience and how it impacted
like my older siblings and stuff,and like how we were forced to
go to church like after the cult.
Yeah.
And like, I Rejected.
Fresh King Benjamin (05:59):
Sort of reacted against that.
Stephanie Lucas (06:00):
I rejected God, I rejected anything
around, like, spirituality.
And so I didn't understand that there was,like, a huge difference between organized
religion that's trying to control you andspirituality and being connected to all
that is and nature and like, you know.
(06:22):
And so
Fresh King Benjamin (06:25):
I love that.
That, that's so, that's so interestingbecause I, I think that there's so many,
I think there are so many people like youand like me who have had, who have gone
through sort of a similar journey of beingin a very restrictive spiritual place.
Cult, cultish, cult like and then wesort of reject that and we kind of, and
(06:46):
in the rejection of that, we're sort oflike, we're like, Oh, all, all spiritual.
We kind of like throw the baby out withthe bathwater and we're like, we're
just going to do science and real shit.
Right.
And I'm grateful for my experiencedoing that because it did feel
like it sort of grounded me, right.
It sort of landed me in, in this reality.
And, and then I also think too, thatlike, Humans have been spiritual.
(07:09):
We have been believers for hundredsof thousands of years, way before we
had organized religion, way beforewe had Christianity or Islam or
Buddhism or any formal religion,we were Animus, we were spiritual.
We believed in, in nature.
We communed with spirits, right?
(07:30):
And so I think that in in a largepart that is who we are and that
sort of baked into our brain.
I think that our our operating systemis a spiritual operating system.
And I think that's one of the reasonswhy Right now, there's sort of this
interesting, like you have, yousee a lot of people joining cults.
You see a lot of peoplegoing back to religion.
(07:53):
And I think it's because the modernscientific world for all of the
great things that it's done, like ourability to talk, You're in Austin.
I'm in Utah, like magic.
I love that.
Thank you, science.
But it hasn't done a great job of givingus an internal operating system for
how to live life, like how to live lifewell, it's, it's left it a little barren.
(08:14):
So I'm kind of interested to, Ithink that's going to be a lot
of what we talk about today.
Stephanie Lucas (08:19):
And I mean, that's my life, right?
Yeah,
Fresh King Benjamin (08:22):
I love that.
So.
Growing up, you, you mentionedyou kind of had a little bit of a
kind of a like mostly your oldersiblings as a cult background.
You, you react against that.
Did you have any kind ofconception of the apocalypse?
Like pre COVID?
Yes.
Stephanie Lucas (08:38):
Okay.
So, you know, all of my lifeafter seven years old, when we
actually had TV, there's alwaysbeen this like zombie, Yeah.
Yeah.
As I grew up, it was sort of like, I wasseeing this happen around me where like
people were heavily medicated and, youknow, constantly drinking and they were
(09:03):
like numb and dumb and easier to control.
And so I feel like.
The zombie apocalypse was like slowly likelike put into society like decades ago,
you know It wasn't convid that createdthis apocalypse, but now it's like very
(09:24):
much like In your face, very, very aware.
And you know, it wasn't likesprinkled into the water.
It was like, I'm going topunch you in the face with it.
Right.
Fresh King Benjamin (09:35):
We're going to, we're going to shake the entire world and say,
Hey, by the way, world's different now.
Yeah.
Stephanie Lucas (09:41):
Yeah.
Like, look what kindof control we do have.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And so
Fresh King Benjamin (09:46):
yes, when I, I love to that, that like, one
of the things that I think is.
Kind of going back to maybe zeitgeistor sort of this, this spirituality
that sort of underneath everythingthat's happening is that I, I think
it's really fascinating that the allthat we had so many stories about the
(10:07):
apocalypse, like the zombie apocalypse.
The Mad Max apocalypse, like so for,for decades, we've been sort of telling
those stories and kind of preppingour minds for something like that.
And, and I think too, that like,I also think about the, the, the
advent of like, it seems like, Idon't know what cult, what, what
(10:29):
cult were your parents a part of?
Do you
Stephanie Lucas (10:31):
know?
Like five star Pentecostal.
So it's a very strict Christian Did they
Fresh King Benjamin (10:36):
handle like snakes?
Who are the snake handlers?
I thought they were Pentecostals.
Stephanie Lucas (10:43):
They didn't do anything cool.
Damn it.
Yeah.
They wore like, you know, they,they were sort of like the long, you
know, plain dressed with bonnets.
Fresh King Benjamin (10:54):
Okay.
Yeah.
Bonnets.
Okay.
Yeah.
Oh my, you, your people andmy people would have fit in.
Stephanie Lucas (11:00):
They would have because when we kind of got kicked
out they went and found a Mennonite.
Church.
Oh, no way.
Yeah.
And the Mennonites were like, wedon't want you . And so then they
went and found like a normal ChristianChurch and then we went to this like
Christian school and you know that
Fresh King Benjamin (11:20):
anyway.
And you know that you are extremewhen the Mennonites are like these.
Yeah.
No thank
Stephanie Lucas (11:27):
you . I do, it might have had to do like a little
bit with the, you know, I had sixbrothers at the time, so Yeah.
Unruly children.
Fresh King Benjamin (11:36):
Oh yeah.
That'll, that'll do it.
I think, I think it's fascinatingthat so, so the, the cult that
I grew up in Mormonism, right.
That starts in the 1830s, JW startedin the 1830s, Seventh Day Adventists.
There's so many cults that kind ofgo back to like, right, like 1830s,
1840s America, and then they sort of.
(12:00):
They sort of for generations.
Like I'm a, I'm the seventhgeneration Mormon in my family,
which feels all sorts of powerful.
And like, literally like my, myancestor came to America, his grant,
his son joined the Mormons, and thenseven generations later I pop out
and I'm like, fuck this Mormon shit.
And, and I know so many people likeyou and like a, a lot of my friends.
(12:24):
From a bunch of different cults whohave done that and who have sort of,
they've been in the cult for, for years.
It sort of created a certain kind of humanand then they've sort of stepped out.
They've, they've rejected that.
And I think that's kind of, I thinkthat's kind of magical because
I think that's actually created.
A certain kind of human who is sortof ready to, to thrive and to sort
(12:50):
of do really well in this new postapocalyptic world where, because
we're, we're, we're, we're groundedin reality, we're skeptical, we're,
we're willing to like, think deeply,we're willing, like, it's, it doesn't
bother me to think about the, like, I,I think about America, like the American
government sometimes as very much a cult.
(13:11):
And.
And that doesn't scare me that becauseI'm like, look, I know what cults are.
I've, I've thought my way outof like, it's, it's a norm.
It feels like a normal thing to do.
And it also feels really importantbecause there's, there's a lot of,
we need that kind of thinking today.
Like we need people who are willingto challenge the status quo, who
are willing to live their authenticlives in a, in a way that's
(13:35):
powerful, that, that, that relies onthemselves as the source of their.
Authority and intuition that,that really brings humans back and
make, let's humans human again.
And that's one of the reasons i'm reallyexcited about talking to you Is that
you've done a lot of work and you'rereally good at humaning So I want to
just kind of turn it over to you and justlike teach me a little bit How how do
(13:58):
you think what are some things that youthink that are important for us to do?
In this kind of post apocalyptic thisnew this rapidly changing world How do we
make this world into a more human world?
And how do we take control andpower back in our own lives?
Stephanie Lucas (14:13):
Oh man, there's so many things.
I do want to start really with your ownbeing sovereign in your own body, right?
We are given so much in this world,but the most important thing that
we have been given is this vesseland it is our job to nurture it.
(14:34):
So that as we, you know, grow older,we are doing it in a way that is
healthy and vibrant and happy.
Yeah.
You know, our world is so toxic.
And because of the governmentand the way that this corporation
of a country has been set up,everything's about profitability.
(14:58):
So, it doesn't matter if the food thatyou're being given has chemicals and
things that are causing your body tobreak down, to, you know, become obese,
to have diabetes, to, it's crazy,it's crazy, like all of the autoimmune
issues that exist today is just crazy.
(15:20):
Insane
Fresh King Benjamin (15:21):
to me.
Yeah.
It's wild to me thatAmerica is so wealthy.
We're so wealthy and we are so sick.
Stephanie Lucas (15:29):
So unhealthy.
Like it blows my mind.
It's insane.
So, taking care of yourself is likethe biggest, most important thing.
And what I mean by that is like, we'renot getting the nutrients that we
need from the food that we're eatingbecause the soil is so depleted and
the water The, you know, everything isbeing raped of all of its resources.
(15:52):
Right.
Yeah.
So like the mineral content,the nutrients in the food is so
bad that we have to supplement.
And so minerals are number one.
We do not get enough mineralsfrom the food we eat.
And so beam, like B E AM, like beam me up Scotty.
Maybe you don't know that reference.
Fresh King Benjamin (16:13):
Okay.
Star Trek.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's like, you like, youlike, you get beamed up.
I don't, who's Scotty though?
Yeah,
Stephanie Lucas (16:24):
that, that's
Fresh King Benjamin (16:24):
like.
Is that like the computer that youlike, you like call the computer and it.
Star Trek guys.
Oh, it's one of the dudes.
Okay.
Stephanie Lucas (16:31):
Okay.
Anyways, so BEAM, B E A M, minerals.
They are like the bestminerals I have found.
And after I started takingthose, just after a few weeks,
I started sleeping better.
My body is hydrated better.
It holds water better.
Like, and I know you likesauna cold plunge regularly.
(16:52):
And when I'm sweating, I sweat better.
Like, there's a difference, right?
Fresh King Benjamin (16:58):
Is B.
E.
A.
M.
a brand, or is it like, is it anacronym that stands for a certain It's a
Stephanie Lucas (17:02):
brand.
Okay.
Yeah, B.
E.
A.
M.
Minerals.
I don't know.
Do you do show notes?
I would assume you do.
We can put
Fresh King Benjamin: that in the show notes. (17:08):
undefined
Stephanie Lucas (17:09):
Yeah.
So, hydration, right?
If you're drinking water, youneed to have remineralized water.
What happens if you drink waterthat has been like purified?
Or you're buying this bottled water.
That's not remineralized.
When you drink that water,the water needs minerals.
It'll actually take from your body.
So it's depleting you
Fresh King Benjamin (17:30):
from what you need.
So you're like draining yourselfof, you're like flushing out
the things that you need.
Yeah.
And also
Stephanie Lucas (17:37):
don't drink out of, Freaking plastic
bottles like microplastics.
What this is doing to your system,the amount of disease that is
running rampant in our society,a huge amount of it is because of
the microplastics in our bodies.
Like you're even getting it fromsome of the food you're eating.
It's ridiculous.
Fresh King Benjamin (17:56):
Turns out, turns out plastics are not just killing turtles.
That's right.
Plastics were a terror, like, I get whywe did it because they're so convenient,
but we, we really missed the boat on that.
And just thinking about the longterm impact of, of what we do, right?
And, and what we, like, I think aboutthat all the time, especially with
(18:16):
I don't know if I've talked to you.
Have I, have we talkedabout Turtle Island?
So, so when I think about America, right.
And I think about turtle Island and Ithink about the, like for thousands of
years, the indigenous peoples of thiscontinent were aware of their impact on
the continent they were aware of, andthat they actually had many, many tribes
(18:39):
had people who would be, they would,they were given the job of speaking for
future generations, like for 10 years.
Or 10 generations, 50generations in the future.
And so they were really aware of that.
And, and then white, white Europeanculture comes over and it's like,
Oh, what a great resource thatwe can just exploit immediately.
(19:01):
And, and I think that's one of themost important things to bring back
into balance in, in this new, like,the thing that I hope that we do
with this opportunity is to recognizethat all of the technology that we
have is, Like, I think, I think Gaia.
Adores humans.
I think Gaia thinks we areso clever and so smart.
She loves us.
(19:22):
And we have to get back tounderstanding that there's a way
for us to be our brilliant, clevertechnological selves that is deeply
in line with, with caring for her.
And in fact, that's theonly way that we survive.
Because any civilization that doesn't dothat is just, is just going to get, just
(19:42):
going to get flushed down the toilet.
Stephanie Lucas (19:44):
There's going to be another Noah's Ark.
Fresh King Benjamin (19:46):
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I won't be able to get onthat because I'm so wicked.
Yeah.
Stephanie Lucas (19:52):
I don't know what that looks like, but I
probably won't be on it either.
So, so yeah, so I mean like reallycaring for your body and that is
built on your self worth, right?
When you care so deeply aboutthis vessel, then you start caring
about everything outside of you.
Taking care of your house, the thingsthat you value, your cat, your children.
(20:19):
Those are all reflections ofhow you are doing on the inside.
And like a big thingfor me is organic food.
Right?
Like, I get that organic food isexpensive, so, on top of going to the
farmer's market going to regenerativefarms, thankfully, I have access to
(20:39):
those things because I'm in Texas.
Fresh King Benjamin (20:42):
Austin is pretty great for that, yeah.
Stephanie Lucas (20:44):
It's amazing.
But there is actually, there's awebsite that you can go to to find
a regenerative farm in your area.
Ooh, I love this.
Yeah, I know I have it in my notes here.
It's Farmer's Footprintis like incredible.
They put this it's organic consumersdot org slash regenerative hyphen
(21:06):
farm hyphen map and You can go tothat website, put your zip code in,
and it'll tell you all the typesof regenerative farms in your area.
Fresh King Benjamin (21:16):
Hang on, tell me that one more.
Organic?
I'm gonna just do that right now.
Organic?
Stephanie Lucas (21:20):
Organicconsumers.
Fresh King Benjamin (21:21):
org Consumers.
org, okay.
Forward slash
Stephanie Lucas (21:26):
regenerative.
Fresh King Benjamin (21:27):
Regenerative,
Stephanie Lucas (21:29):
hyphen, farm, hyphen, map, forward slash.
Fresh King Benjamin (21:37):
Oh my god, this is amazing.
Yes.
Holy cow, so I'm seeing like thiswhole map of the entire United States.
Yeah.
Oh, and see, oh, this is what,this is why, Even though, even
though this is a show about theapocalypse and how everything is
breaking and we're all going to die.
Yes.
It's also, we're not, we're not, becausewe're so clever and we're so aware
(22:02):
and we're actually tapped in and we'repaying attention and, and we have all
of the tools that like all of the tools,like the, that we need to do this.
And just, I want to just share thisso that, that people who are watching
can see check, check this out.
Y'all you jump into here.
And there are thousands ofthem all over the place.
(22:23):
And so here I am in Utahand bam, there's one.
I mean, this is like literallyprobably 20 minutes from my house.
Stephanie Lucas (22:32):
So, so yeah, so I started my own garden.
I have like over a hundredsquare feet of gardening, like
raised beds in my backyard.
Yeah.
I'm year two and I so I,I'm a green witch, right?
So plants are the thing, you know, I'mnot out casting spells on people and
being all decrepit and weird and likedoing bad stuff, everything I do is for
(22:57):
the betterment of nature and the peoplearound me and my everything, right?
Yeah.
Which
Fresh King Benjamin (23:04):
I, I think like that is, as I've, as I've studied
witches, as I've gotten to knowseveral witches, what I realized is.
That was what witches were the whole time.
Like the whole time they were just,they were just like women who knew
about nature and could use herbsand like the whole broom thing.
(23:25):
This blew my mind when I learned this,that the whole witch is on a broom.
Why did witches have brooms?
Because they figured out if you sweep yourhouse, it's cleaner and you don't die.
Yes.
Stephanie Lucas (23:36):
Well, now I have a Jasper, so I don't have to sweep.
Fresh King Benjamin (23:40):
Wait, what's a
Stephanie Lucas (23:40):
Jasper?
Jasper.
It is like the most amazing airpurification system on the planet.
Oh, no way.
Yes, and like it will takeallergens, micro everythings
out of the out of the air.
And so if you're using a Jasper, you'renot getting dust because it sucks it all
Fresh King Benjamin (23:59):
up.
Yes.
So you're, you fly around on a Jasperinstead of, instead of a Bramble.
That's right.
Love that.
So you're a green witch.
Stephanie Lucas (24:10):
Yeah.
And so like gardening is so important.
Right.
So if you can't afford to buyall your stuff, organic, learn to
garden, get your hands in the dirt.
Not only getting your hands in thedirt is like good for your garden, but
it's good for your microbiome in your
Fresh King Benjamin (24:27):
system.
Yeah.
It turns out eating dirtis really good for you.
It is.
Yeah.
That's one of the thingsthat I think is, is.
A little hilarious aboutmy background, right?
Cause I grew up and I never went to thedoctor, never got any kind of vaccine.
Like I was, I was aliteral free range kid.
We just ran around and played in the dirt.
(24:48):
And, and I have a pretty strongimmune, like I'm a pretty healthy guy.
Like I'm, I'm grateful for modernmedicine and all the ways that
it helps us when we need it.
And I think it's also kind of, It's the,the extreme focus on like purification
and like with our water, like you weresaying, like nothing in our water.
(25:11):
No, we need a little, like, obviouslywe don't want cholera in our
water, but we, we need some dirt.
We need some dirt in our, inour, in our water a little bit.
And actually one of the, so when I was at,when I was at Burning Man my first year
I had this really interesting experiencewith dirt because over the course of the
week, I just got progressively more naked.
So.
(25:32):
Beginning of the week, I was like, Iwas my very strict polygamous self.
End of the week, I was buttass naked, just wandering.
I didn't even care.
It was magical.
And as I was doing that, what I, whatI started to do is instead of like
putting sunscreen on at the beginningof the day, which is where I started
because the, the sun out there is brutal.
I just remembered, I would like,I remember like these David
(25:52):
Attenborough documentaries.
Elephants would like throw dirt on themand I'm like, I'm going to try that.
So I like literally just scoopedup a bunch of dirt and just
rubbed it all over my body.
And then I just, and anytime I startedto feel like I got a little bit of sun,
I just rub more dirt on and it worked.
Like I didn't, I wasn't sunburned.
And actually what I started tofind was it, that dirt started to
(26:15):
mix with a little bit of sweat.
So I had sort of this thin film of like.
Dirt and sweat all over my body and itwas actually really, really comfortable.
It
Stephanie Lucas (26:26):
probably exfoliated a lot
Fresh King Benjamin (26:27):
too.
Oh, I was, my skin was so smooth, so soft.
And, and it made me realize, right?
Like we are, we, we are animals.
And we've removed ourself.
We've tried to like remove ourselves fromthis, like this animal world that we live,
but we are just like, we're designed,we're designed to be in the dirt.
(26:48):
We're designed to be a little bit messy.
We're designed to kind of have like that.
All of this is, is who we are and thatwe aren't really these hyper clean.
Like we.
We can actually get in, like, get inthat dirt and eat a little bit of,
and it's actually really good for us.
It's actually very good
Stephanie Lucas (27:04):
for us.
Fresh King Benjamin (27:05):
Yeah.
And it's funny too, because like my,I, I think that our generation maybe
is sort of maybe the last generationthat's really out, because my kids
are, they, they love gardening.
They, they talked me into causeI, I was still very resistant to
gardening because of how I grew up.
I was like, I don't want to garden.
(27:26):
I want to go to a store by myself.
Stephanie Lucas (27:28):
You want to, yeah.
You're resisting whatyou were brought up on.
Fresh King Benjamin (27:31):
Resisting what I, what I was, because it
was, cause it wasn't, wasn't fun.
Right.
But my kids were like,yo, we, they love it.
And so they talked me into, they werelike, we want to do a garden in our, in
our upstairs, like on my, on our balcony.
Well, we don't have agarden bed or anything.
So one day we were driving, there'slike this big abandoned lot behind
our house and we were just drivingthrough it and someone had just
taken a box spring and thrown it out.
(27:53):
Like just dumped it there.
And we were like, Oh,what the, like assholes?
Like, why would you do that?
And then we looked at it and my daughter,my, my oldest daughter was like.
We could probably do something with that.
And I was like, yeah, we probably could.
So we took it, we hauledit back to my house.
We it's up, it's rightoutside full of dirt.
We just filled it with dirt and weplanted a bunch of onions last fall,
(28:17):
and now they're starting to pop up.
So we're going to havea whole bunch of onions.
That grew in our box spring mattressand it was that easy, right?
Like it.
And I think that that's where, andwhat's fun about that too, is that
I think that we are, I think we'vebecome really disconnected from
food, from where it comes from, fromreally the magic of like, Creating
(28:41):
it and then have, and then pullingit from the earth and then eating it.
Right.
That's, that's who we are.
And and I think it's, it's a lot morehealthy than like a McDonald's hamburger.
Yeah.
Stephanie Lucas (28:53):
It's like, it's not going to cause disease.
Yeah.
Fresh King Benjamin (28:56):
Yeah.
Stephanie Lucas (28:57):
Yeah.
No, I love gardening.
When I see new thingspop up, it's so exciting.
It's like, oh my gosh, I did that.
Yeah, well, like the Earth did thatand like the sun and you helped,
Fresh King Benjamin (29:08):
but I helped.
Yeah.
I put that seed
Stephanie Lucas (29:10):
there.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
So, yeah, so other things thatI'm definitely passionate about,
about cleaning my own environmentis mm-Hmm, , like having solar
energy doing as much EMF proofing.
Fresh King Benjamin (29:26):
What is EMF proofing?
What are, what are EMFs?
Stephanie Lucas (29:28):
Gosh, EMF electromagnetic frequencies.
Fresh King Benjamin (29:32):
Is that like, that's from screens, right?
Stephanie Lucas (29:35):
Wi Fi, that's from all the 5G, like all the things that
are happening around us because ofthe technology that we've created.
And there's scientific evidence of itmessing with our cells and like there's
cell mutation like so much stuff ishappening like, there was a study that
(29:55):
was done from somebody using a cell phone.
Where like their beta waves in theirbrain just went like crazy because
they had their phone up next to their.
Yeah.
Right.
I can
Fresh King Benjamin (30:06):
feel that.
Right.
Like when I, cause I'm, I'm pretty, I'mpretty sensitive to like, like energy.
Like I can feel it in my hands, especiallywhen I, if I'm holding my phone.
For a significant amount of time.
It's hot.
Yes.
And I feel like it's hot and Ifeel that energy like getting
sucked into my, into my hands.
Exactly.
And so I have like a, I don't have itup here, but I have like a, a big old
(30:29):
obsidian ball that if I, if I've beenusing my phone for a little while, I'll
just hold that and it's cold and Yeah.
It feels, it feels, it feelslike it's sucking it out.
I think this is, I've got this rightin front of me on my, on my computer.
I think this is, this is yeah.
Stephanie Lucas (30:46):
Yeah.
So Shungite is like agood absorber of EMF.
So I actually have a, I have a case.
I can't reach it, but it's likea super sparkly, fun Shungite
case that's on my cell phone.
Oh, rad.
And so, that's one wayof helping with that.
But then I also have thisservice called quantum upgrade.
io.
(31:06):
Okay.
And it's beaming quantum energy intothe phone to help reduce the EMFs.
Oh, rad.
And I have it in my house.
So it's reducing the EMFs and then Ialso have these devices that are plugged
into the wall and then this this littleone here It's like calm your body
Fresh King Benjamin (31:29):
Yeah,
Stephanie Lucas (31:30):
Go Sanctuary.
This is from it's Earth Calm that'sanother website where you can get these
different devices for EMFs Reduction, likeyou can't get cell phone service inside
my house unless you're using my wifi.
Fresh King Benjamin (31:45):
Oh, that's right.
Stephanie Lucas (31:47):
I turn it off while I'm sleeping because it's like, okay,
I don't want that stuff all running.
And I'm turning everythingoff in the house because it's
interrupting your sleep patterns.
Fresh King Benjamin (31:57):
Yeah, I think that, that seems like such a great idea.
Like, like even just with the,just the disconnecting from.
The constant pings, like the constantof like, we're, we're so, it's wild
to me sometimes when I think about howwe used to like text messaging used to
(32:18):
be years, like we used to like writea personal letter and then, and then
literally just hand it to someone andsay, well, And somewhere in that direction
is the person that this needs to go to.
Can you get it to them?
Right.
And so there's this, there isthis space I think that we had
(32:39):
in our lives that we don't have.
And there are, there are, there'snice things about that, right?
Like it's nice to be able to instantlytext my, my kids and to know exactly
where they are all the time, right?
That's there's a plus to that.
And there's a cost to that.
Stephanie Lucas (32:56):
Agreed.
Agreed.
But yeah, so, technology, there's so muchgreatness about it, and then there is
so much that's damaging to our cellular,like, down to your cellular level, right?
And a lot of peoplearen't even aware of it.
It blows my mind how much, like,unawareness is happening around
(33:19):
what we're doing to this planet.
Fresh King Benjamin: Yeah, which is a bummer. (33:22):
undefined
It
Stephanie Lucas (33:24):
is such a bummer.
Like, even the frequency of the planet'schanging because of what we're doing.
Like, the Schumann Resonancedoesn't even happen all the
Fresh King Benjamin (33:33):
time anymore.
I don't even know whatthe Schumann Resonance is.
Tell me what that is.
Oh my gosh.
Stephanie Lucas (33:39):
So, it's like the vibration that the Earth is emitting,
and that is like the I can't think ofwhat the hertz is but you could, you
could go on like Spotify and just putin Schumann Resonance and like get
a playlist of like these vibrationsand they're healing vibrations.
You can put in like earth healingvibrations or something like this.
(34:01):
But frequencies, we're Weare like energy, right?
Right.
And so frequencies are going to affectus whether it's a negative or a positive.
Mhmm.
Right?
And so, like, you find that in music.
Like, whatever they decide to use inmusic could be a negative or a positive.
Fresh King Benjamin (34:24):
Well, and I just googled Schumann resonance and it's
showing like it's part of the the earth'selectromagnetic field spectrum, right?
So the earth itself is thisenergetic thing, right?
It's shooting out all of theseand the fact that we are.
I'm, I'm continually blown awayat how powerful, like, the little
(34:45):
creatures that are us are, right?
That we can impact things on, on thatlevel, like, literally right behind my
house over here, there's a whole mountain.
There's a mountain.
That is getting eaten by humans asthey mine it away for copper, right?
Every day, a little bit less mountain.
Right.
And, and the, like the fact that we're,we're get like, we're just blasting
(35:09):
these radiate these frequencies.
And we don't know thelong term impact of that.
Like cell phones.
We've had cell phones for like20 years, for like 30 years.
That's not a very long time.
Yeah.
Especially when you think about the, thethe length of time that like, it's taken
for like how long nature moves, right?
(35:33):
Nature moves in.
Millions of years, right?
And over millions ofyears, it creates ego.
It creates all this balance.
And then we can kind of come in soquickly and tip that in disastrous ways.
Right?
Like we're in the middle ofthat's where we're at right now.
Like we're in the middle of.
(35:54):
They're calling it thesixth great extinction.
We are, we are slaughtering life onthis planet on an unprecedented scale.
And, and it's really onlywithin like the last 200 years.
Stephanie Lucas (36:07):
Yeah.
Well, a huge problem is that we'vetraded You know, our health and the the,
like nature thriving for convenience.
Like for instance, the microwaveis the worst invention ever.
It, it literally kills the nutrientsof the food that you're warming up.
(36:30):
So you're just like shoveling.
Nothing in your mouth,
Fresh King Benjamin: so, but it's really hot. (36:34):
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Nothing really hot, nothing that got,that got in my mouth really fast.
And
Stephanie Lucas (36:40):
there's one in every, almost every house in America at least.
Yeah, when I've traveled, there'snot always a microwave, but there's.
Fresh King Benjamin (36:49):
We, we have lots and, and, and what's wild to me
too, is that it's not even like thelevel of convenience is not, we're
so fixated on convenience becausea microwave is not that much more
convenient than like an air fryer.
Stephanie Lucas (37:07):
No, and that's the thing is like, it's literally taking
the nutrients out of your food.
And radiating you.
So like, go ahead and poisonyourself and not get any.
Fresh King Benjamin (37:19):
Yeah.
Like what?
Yeah.
And, and go so fast.
Like that, that you're not actuallyslowing down, appreciating the
food, smelling the food, right?
Like cooking used to be such a.
Such a such a process, right?
Such a get, like we'd get togetherand we would do it to get, and we'd,
we'd smell it and it would like,all of this stuff would happen.
(37:43):
And, and now we're just like, oh, asquickly as we can, like, let's get
that out of the way, like, let's, let'seat as quickly as we possibly can.
Stephanie Lucas (37:51):
I mean, I feel like cooking is an art form
in and of itself, you know?
And when I can take ingredients andmake it beautiful with the colors of
the different vegetables and like, youknow, putting these flavors together.
And
Fresh King Benjamin (38:07):
I imagine when I'm, when I sit down and cook, I imagine
sometimes that I'm, that I'm, thatI'm like, it's my witch's cauldron.
Like it's my little warlock'scauldron and I'm putting in like
putting in turmeric and I'm likethis turmeric does this thing.
And here's some sage and this sagedoes this and maybe it doesn't maybe
it doesn't but the intention of likeit does Yeah, and but it's like the
(38:30):
the intention of I'm, I'm creating thisthing and I'm doing it with love and
I'm doing it for my kids and I'm doingit for myself and then we sit down
and we eat it and that's a differentexperience than like I'm gonna, you know,
I'm gonna throw in a microwave pizza.
Yeah,
Stephanie Lucas (38:49):
exactly.
Or I'm going to go to Chili's.
Fresh King Benjamin (38:52):
I'm going to go to Chili's.
Stephanie Lucas (38:54):
Oh my God.
And then I'm thinking about like allof the seed oils and preservatives
and all these things that arejust getting thrown into the food.
It's like, what?
Yeah.
These gums.
I'm like, if, if something has morethan seven ingredients and it's not
organic and I can't pronounce a thing.
(39:17):
That's not going in my grocery cart.
It is not coming to my house.
Fresh King Benjamin (39:22):
Yeah.
If I can't pronounce a thing, ifI can't get it out of my mouth, I
probably shouldn't put it in my mouth.
I look on these ingredients listsand I'm just like, what is that?
Xantham gum?
Stephanie Lucas (39:39):
Talk about inflammation.
It causes so muchinflammation in your body.
And what causes disease?
Inflammation.
Fresh King Benjamin (39:48):
Yeah, so we're literally eating ourselves sick.
Stephanie Lucas (39:52):
And it's all in the name of profitability.
We go right back to that profitability.
Like, you know, I, I could only imaginethat the witches were probably like hunted
down because they were using like naturalremedies and they were like, Oh, totally.
Not going to make money on this.
Yeah,
Fresh King Benjamin (40:11):
the, the, the patriarchy, the, the, the church was
just like, look, we are not going to beable to make this capitalism thing go if
we have, I mean, if everyone's healthyand just does lives their own lives.
Stephanie Lucas (40:25):
So, let's bring this back to the apocalypse,
Fresh King Benjamin (40:29):
right?
Full circle.
Here we
Stephanie Lucas (40:31):
are.
Here we are.
The planet's changing vibration andit's purging itself of all of the
people that really can't be sustained.
Yeah.
And, and it wants people that carefor it, that raise their vibration to
match its vibration, to help heal it.
(40:52):
Yeah.
If we are healing ourselves from theinside out, we are now healing the planet.
Ooh, I love that.
Right?
Because if we do regenerative farming,now we're bringing all of these
nutrients back to the soil that thengets, Deeper and deeper and deeper
and this planet will just thrive.
Yeah, you know, it's like come the fuck on
Fresh King Benjamin (41:16):
people.
I know and and it's so it's solike I love what you said too
about how healing ourselves.
Is healing because we are that right?
Like we've, we've diluted ourselvesthat we're something different, right?
But we crawled out of,I think of Gaia, right?
So I love the Greek myths.
I think the Greek myths are fascinating.
(41:38):
I think they're, I think they're,they're so much richer than we give
them credit for, and one of the thingsthat the Greek, like when you go
back to the very early Greek mythsabout how everything was formed,
the first thing that exists, right.
Is like, there's There's there was thesea and then there was Tartarus, right?
Tartarus is the rocks under the earth.
And then Gaia comes and Gaiaexists on top of Tartarus.
(42:02):
And I imagine that as like, are youfamiliar with the Gaia hypothesis
from, I think, James Lovelace?
He was this, he was thischemist from like the 1970s.
And, and he proposed a hypothesis thatall life is a single organism, right?
The single organism, he called it Gaia.
And, and I imagine it just as like,if you look at our planet, right?
(42:23):
And if you look at probablyany planet, At the core of the
planet, it's like just rocks.
It's rock.
And that's, and you can'tlive on rock, right?
That's one of the reasons I loveBurning Man is that you go to Burning
Man and you literally go to themost, there's nothing can live there.
You are at, you are at theplace where there's nothing.
(42:44):
And then you realize how muchhumans, we depend on layers
and layers and layers of life.
Like dirt, vegetation for it.
There's so much that we rely onthat we don't even think about.
We just imagine we're just like, Oh,that's just what the world is like.
No, that's not what the world is like.
(43:06):
There are places on the, onearth where that doesn't exist.
There are like, that's what Mars is like.
The reason that Mars isn't aliveis because Mars doesn't have Gaia.
Mars doesn't.
And there are other reasons for that too.
Right.
But Mars doesn't have this.
This living ecosystem that, because thereason why we have a great atmosphere
is because we have Gaia exhaling oxygen.
(43:30):
Right?
So we're, we're intimately part of this.
And I just imagine it aslike this giant green goo all
over the rocks of our planet.
And we've been, and Gaiainvented us to be the caretakers.
Exactly.
Right?
We're the caretakers.
Good job.
And we have really not donea great, we've forgotten.
(43:51):
And the good news is we'd actually did apretty great job for a long time, right?
For hundreds of thousands ofyears, we did a really great job.
And then we invented this thing calledcapitalism, where it was like, how
can we exploit, how can we take?
And the thing that is the most grossto me about that is that it's not
capitalism doesn't benefit everyone.
(44:15):
Capitalism benefits.
It benefits a few people, a whole bunch,and then the rest of the people it
enslaves, and then it rapes the earthand, and it doesn't, and it's not, it's
not in, and what we should be doingis because we don't, the earth isn't
habitable because the earth is habitable.
(44:36):
The earth is habitable because there'sthis organism that lives on the earth.
That's this huge super organismthat's all around the planet that
creates the conditions that allowscomplex life like us to live.
And it doesn't have to.
That's right.
It could, it could not.
And I think that in, you know,whatever, whatever COVID was in
(44:58):
large part, it was the earth sayingy'all back the fuck up or I'll kill
Stephanie Lucas (45:04):
you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I could agree a little bit with that,but we won't go into my theory on that.
Yeah.
Fresh King Benjamin (45:13):
We'll save that for a future episode.
Stephanie Lucas (45:14):
Yeah, totally.
Totally.
But like going to the atmosphere,like talking about the chem trails.
Like, okay, so we are on this planetwhere the atmosphere is like a perfect
condition for us to grow and thriveand all the things, and now they're
throwing the chemtrails into theatmosphere, which is basically allowing
(45:37):
the sun to come through, but it'strapping everything from going out,
and so it's creating like basically amicrowave, Yeah, we're getting fried.
We're like radiating everything,which is why cancer is like rampant.
Another reason, of course.
There are plenty of reasons.
But like, I am just blown away at likethese things happening right in our faces
(46:04):
and nobody's doing anything about it.
Fresh King Benjamin (46:07):
Because it's not convenient to.
Yeah.
Because look, I really want to be ableto go get to New York in five hours.
Right.
That's important.
Yes.
It's important for me physically tobe 5, 000 miles away in five hours.
It's insane.
It's insane.
It is a little bit insane.
Yeah.
Stephanie Lucas (46:27):
I mean, we just need to get back to where we
know where we came from and whowe are and how powerful we are.
And then we can just like magicallyappear where we want to be.
Fresh King Benjamin (46:37):
I, I am a hundred percent on board with that.
I have, have you seen,have you seen the OA?
No.
Oh my God.
You would love the OA.
But in, in the OA, they, they dothese, the OA, where they have like
the movements and then they teleport.
Yes.
I, I want that to happen.
(46:57):
Yes.
That's what, when I think of likepyramids, I have no, I have no backing
for this other than this is what I think.
Which is, There's no way, and maybewe'll shift gears a little bit.
Cause you turned me on tothis show resident alien.
Oh yeah.
So I've been thinking about aliens.
Number one, I've beenthinking about aliens.
I'm pretty sure I had a UFOencounter when I was a little kid.
(47:21):
Right.
I remember laying on the tramp onenight and there were like, there was
no sound, but there were all of theselights flashing all over our field.
I have no idea what that was.
It, it, it looked like hell.
It looked like.
It looked like spotlights fromhelicopters, but there was no sound.
There was, it was totally quiet.
And if I were an alien, I would totallygo check out the polygamous compound,
(47:44):
but I'd be like, this looks interesting.
What's going on right here.
Right.
But I, I'm, I've been fascinatedwith space my whole life.
I'm, I, I, I want to,I want to go to space.
Like I want to go, I want to govisit another planet so badly.
And.
When I think about the, the, the,the size of the universe, how
(48:06):
long the universe has been around.
And the complexities and thedifficulties of interstellar, like
how long it takes to physically gofrom one place to another place.
It seems obvious to me that the,there is interstellar travel and the
way that we do interstellar travelisn't by going from here to here.
It's by here is already there.
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So it's just, it's, it's teleportationseems like the obvious thing.
And then I look at I had thisBurning Man is like my thing.
I fucking love that place.
This is the third time I broughtit up and you're welcome you guys.
Cause I, I will continue.
Burning Man.
I think, side note, I think thatis the apocalypse playground.
Like that's.
That's what the reason why we dothat as humans is that we were going
(48:49):
to that extreme environment to playin this, so that we can be ready
for these new, these new changes.
And I had this experience and, and formost of Burning Man, I was not sober.
I was on all sorts of things,but for the first three days of
Burning Man, I was stone cold sober.
I did nothing.
(49:11):
And literally all I did is I wentout, I got, I arrived my first day.
And there was, it was mine.
Cause I was like this polygamous kid.
I'd never seen anything like this.
And then all of a sudden I'min the most heatedness, like
the most crazy place on earth.
I left my camp, I arrived at my campand I just went out to go for a walk.
I wasn't even, I was like, I had a jacket.
(49:31):
I had like a flashlightand like some water.
And I was like, I'm justgoing to go for a walk.
You guys.
And I wandered back intocamp 36 hours later.
I had just been wanderingcompletely sober for hours.
And one of the things that happenedis I ended up in one of the camps
builds this huge pyramid, huge pyramid.
(49:53):
Out of like scaffolding and stuff.
And I wandered intothere like early morning.
I was pretty tired.
So I found like this couch, I laid down,I kind of like fell asleep a little
bit and I woke up and they were doing asound bath and while they were doing the
sound bath, I just started meditating.
So I'm meditating.
I'm listening to the sound bathand the shape of the pyramid.
Like the four corners,the actual shape of it.
(50:15):
And then the way that it kind ofgoes up, it took my consciousness and
it channeled me up and then out thetop and it blasted me off somewhere.
I was in a totally different place.
I don't even know how long.
And then, and then I came back down.
It felt like a, like a DMT or likea, like a psychedelic experience.
(50:38):
And I was totally sober.
And I think, I think that that's a lotof what those things were for, right?
When I think about whydid we make pyramids?
Why did we do that?
I think that there's something aboutthe extreme focus of energy here.
That can get us to other places.
I don't know how that works.
I'll leave that for the scientists, butthat I think that's how we're doing it.
Stephanie Lucas (51:00):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, there's somethingabout sacred geometry.
Fresh King Benjamin (51:04):
There's something about sacred geometry.
Yeah.
And about the, the structure andabout, you know, building things
in a way that, and then also justthe power of our minds, right?
To, to.
Yes.
Like, to intentionally, like, you, youlook at the things that they, that,
that really intense meditators likemonks can do when they are in extreme,
like, fucking, you can try to stabthem and they have fucking iron skin.
(51:29):
Yeah.
They can, like, all of this stuffand, and then you tie that into
a structure that supports it.
I think there's a lot.
And then also we now know thataliens are real because they
finally stopped lying to us.
Yeah, right.
They tried to like slip that in.
They were like, while the world'sending, by the way, we've been
(51:50):
lying about aliens the whole time.
Stephanie Lucas (51:52):
You know, they tell us so much stuff and we don't see it as reality.
Yeah.
Right?
They slip things in and it's so crazy.
That they're like, well,we told you guys, so like.
Fresh King Benjamin (52:10):
Trust us.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm excited.
I'm, I'm excited for, there's somuch, there's so much kind of coming.
One of the, so, we played withthese cards before, right?
Apocalypse.
So one of the, one of thedefinitions of this card that they,
this is the Apocalypse's card.
They define an Apocalypseas the unveiling of a truth.
(52:34):
Wreckage that comes fromthe unveiling of that truth.
And I think that that's a bit like,that's a big part of what is going on
here with, with, especially with likealiens is we've, we've been lying.
We've been pretending likethat's not true for so long.
And now there's now it's obvious andthen, and I love to how kind of everyone's
(52:56):
response to that was like, like, everyonewas like, oh, we can't tell people that
aliens are real because they'll freak out.
It'll destroy them.
They won't even be able to handle it.
And then they admit it.
And everyone's like, yeah, obviously.
Like we've, of course,
Stephanie Lucas (53:09):
it's so egoic of us to think we're the only ones, right.
This massive universe of
Fresh King Benjamin (53:15):
things.
Yeah.
Or even in this planet.
Right?
Like I think about that some, like we, wehave maps, like we have maps of the United
States and we draw this whole thing.
We're like, this is all the United States.
Yeah.
And I'm like.
No, it's not.
The United States is actuallya couple of dots all over.
(53:37):
The United States is a couple of dotsand then lines between those dots.
And then what's out there.
Like if you've flown across the, it'shuge, so much unpopulated space and
we're like, Oh yeah, that's all the unit.
No, it's not.
That's like a little bit on the coastand a couple of things in the middle.
And then some linesconnecting it, and that's it.
(53:59):
That's what we actually have control over.
And we think that we're like thetop dogs and we're so powerful.
And we, and we're like,we, we do everything.
And, and in some ways we are,we are pretty, pretty powerful,
but we're also so tiny.
Stephanie Lucas (54:14):
Oh my gosh.
We've unpacked
Fresh King Benjamin (54:16):
a lot.
We did unpack a lot.
We are, we are about a time.
Any, are there any kind of finalthoughts about the apocalypse?
About preparing for, about kindof thriving in the apocalypse
or aliens or anything?
Richiness that you want to, youwant to share before we wrap?
Stephanie Lucas (54:31):
Yeah, so I think that we're going to have to have another
conversation about water, becauselike, that's a huge part of this too.
I mean, what is it like nine, 75 to90 percent of the planet's water?
Yeah.
Same as our
Fresh King Benjamin (54:45):
bodies.
Yeah.
And we know, we know as, we knowmore about the surface of Mars.
Then we do about the surf,the floor of the ocean.
What is down there, y'all?
Yeah,
Stephanie Lucas (55:03):
yeah.
So I think we should save that foranother conversation because that is huge.
Hell yeah.
I have so much cool stuffto share about water.
Fresh King Benjamin (55:12):
I'm so excited.
We'll have a, we'll have a apocalypsewater conversation in the future.
Stephanie Lucas (55:17):
Yeah.
Cause I mean, obviously when we getdestroyed anyways, we're going to
get, you know, covered in water again.
Fresh King Benjamin (55:23):
We're going to get flooded.
Yeah.
I mean, we're all, it's already happening.
The ice caps are melting.
The sea levels are rising.
Like, damn it.
The, this is the thing that, thatalways makes me a little bit a
little bit annoyed is the, the, theBible thumpers are kind of right.
Like the flood.
(55:43):
I mean, they're wrong, but they're alsolike, they're also like they're the, the
flood, here we are, we're flooding again.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm not though.
I, Utah is going to be fine.
Utah is going to be beachfront.
It's going to be great.
Yeah.
It's going to fill up.
California is going to be flooded,but it'll like, just get really nice.
(56:04):
And I'll have a nicebeachfront house pretty soon.
So it'll be, it'll be good.
I don't know about Austin.
Austin is Austin.
How close is Austin to the ocean?
Stephanie Lucas (56:13):
You know, we do have you know, it's down like Galveston.
It's a couple hours, soit's like pretty close.
Fresh King Benjamin (56:21):
Yeah, that's pretty, you could, you could,
Austin might become beachfront too.
Stephanie Lucas (56:26):
Who knows what's going to happen here in Texas.
Fresh King Benjamin (56:29):
I don't know that Austin could get any cooler,
but if Austin became like thebeach, that would be pretty cool.
Awesome.
Well, Stephanie, if people want, areyou, do you, like, how could, if people
wanted to follow, if people wanted tolearn more about you, is, are, is there
places where they could go to, to do that?
I
Stephanie Lucas (56:46):
reject social
Fresh King Benjamin (56:47):
media.
Hell yeah.
So you cannot follow her on social media?
I
Stephanie Lucas (56:52):
have social media, like you can find me there, but
you're not going to actually find me.
Yeah.
I'm going to be responding to you.
I'm not posting very often.
Yeah, I actually, I createdthis fancy survivalist.
So that, that was like, I've got the nameand I was going to do something with it.
(57:12):
But then I'm like, I just don'tapprove of this way of being.
Yeah.
Fresh King Benjamin (57:17):
So, So if you want, if you want to learn more about Stephanie
or connect with Stephanie, you're goingto have to do it in the real world, y'all.
Outside of the Matrix.
You will have to find her somewherein Austin and and get a witchy rune
reading and go to her she shed.
Stephanie Lucas (57:34):
Yeah, and you could probably find me at Kuya.
At Kuya?
Yep, K U Y A.
I basically live there.
It's So rad.
Next time you come, I have to take
Fresh King Benjamin (57:46):
you there.
Oh, hell yeah.
I, I, I'm down for that.
I wanna, I wanna get down toAustin quick as soon as I can.
Sauna, cold
Stephanie Lucas (57:53):
plunge.
I go there three times a week for
Fresh King Benjamin (57:55):
that.
I just did, I just did a sauna coldplunge and I was, I was with some friends
in Boulder and we did like, like anhour straight of sonic cold plunge.
It felt amazing.
It's incredible.
Incredible.
I, I can't, I can't believe that wedon't have more access to that, to that.
I know.
Because it's so good for you,and it's so easy, like it's
(58:15):
literally just a box and fire.
Yeah.
It's not that hard.
No.
Awesome.
Well, Stephanie, thanksso much for coming on.
I loved having this conversation with you.
Thanks for giving us some, some coolskills for vibing the apocalypse.
Everybody, just a quickreminder on the show.
So if you are in local in Utahand you want to come to my come
to comedy church Sunday, April7th, that's two Sundays from now.
(58:39):
It's going to be at the at the RedemptionBar and Grill in Harriman, Utah, 7.
30 PM.
And if you use the code BENJAMIN, you canget 2, a whole 2 off the ticket price.
And you can probably buyhalf a beer with that.
So thanks y'all.
Thanks for coming out.
Stephanie good chatting.
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