UNLOCKED: Mamdani, Marijuana Dependency, and Unconditional Life Acceptance
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 125 minutes
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In this unlocked Patreon episode, Breht reads and responds to an article in the Tehran Times on the NYC mayoral race and left strategy around Palestine, then he plays and analyzes a Kurzgesagt video on the science and experience of marijuana dependency in your 20s and 30s, and finally Breht discusses his ongoing grieving process surrounding his Dad's death and the life lessons he's learned in the wake of it. In the process, he articulates what we need in left leaders, cultivating psychological resilience, the importance of sobriety as a baseline, the benefits of behavioral moderation, accepting worse case scenarios in life, the sweetness inherent in grief, dead loved ones visiting you in dreams, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio. |
| 0:04.1 | All right, so I wanted to just come on here and record kind of a quick Patreon episode. |
| 0:09.1 | You know, I say that and ends up being six hours long, but hopefully this is under an hour. |
| 0:14.5 | I already released a Patreon episode for this month, but, you know, more never hurt. |
| 0:18.1 | And I really appreciate everybody who supports the show. |
| 0:20.7 | So I want to give as much as I possibly can of useful, meaningful, meaningful, But more never hurt, and I really appreciate everybody who supports the show. |
| 0:25.0 | So I want to give as much as I possibly can of useful, meaningful, |
| 0:31.3 | extra bonus content to all our Patreon supporters because literally without you, |
| 0:33.3 | my life would be in financial ruin. |
| 0:38.3 | So I do have a new job, but again, it starts off as apprentice wages. |
| 0:44.2 | I have no experience, and they pay you as you learn, but obviously they're going to pay you a small amount. |
| 0:46.3 | So not enough to support my family on. |
| 0:49.6 | They do give me benefits, of course, which allows my family to have health care. |
| 0:54.8 | But, you know, the bulk of our income and the bulk of me keeping my family's head above water comes from you all who support this show directly on patreon so my love and my appreciation goes out |
| 1:01.6 | to all of you and um i want to give back as much as i possibly can so here's another iteration of that |
| 1:07.6 | so i'm going to do a couple things i don't want to say it all up front because i sometimes I don't get to it and, you know, I kind of let people down on that regard. So we'll |
| 1:15.1 | just take things one at a time and see where they go. The first thing I wanted to do is actually |
| 1:19.1 | read a short article, read and respond to a short article from, interestingly, the Tehran |
| 1:25.4 | Times. So coming out of Iran, a news outlet that wrote a piece on Mammani, right, the New York City mayoral race and its relevance to Gaza and the broader American left. |
| 1:42.1 | And it's actually a very short piece for how much |
| 1:45.6 | substance it advances. So I kind of want to read this and react to it. And I thought it dovetailed |
| 1:52.4 | quite well with my analysis of Mom Donnie for what it's worth. So the article is called Gaza's |
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