This episode is a compelling journey through the darker sides of our modern realities, offering no easy answers but many important questions. Bassem’s voice is an important warning to those who might choose to ignore the world. His reflections invite us to think deeply about our own beliefs, biases, and the kind of future we are creating, so take the time to Slow Down with us and look for answers to some truly tough questions.
As we continue our Unstressable series, Bassem’s courage to speak about the world’s most challenging topics should remind us never to be afraid to take, even the biggest problems, head on.
00:00 Intro
05:00 The oversized role of ego
07:36 Fame is not real
11:49 Bassem’s veganism
12:42 The last time Mo and Bassem met
14:53 Is most of humanity disappointing?
18:00 Bassem’s influence in the Israel-Palestine conflict
21:10 Are we in an era of hyperinformation?
23:45 Cancel culture
24:37 Will humanity ever change?
32:57 Can we be hopeful?
37:56 Are we heading into more conflict?
40:23 The end of the truth
48:50 How will AI affect us?
1:00:35 How does Bassem keep going?
For more thought-provoking exploration and a lot of laughter you can catch Bassem Youssef on his European “Middle Beast” tour in: Oslo, Berlin, Zurich, Munich, Hamburg, Antwerp, Stockholm, London, Copenhagen, Birmingham, Dublin, Manchester, and Paris: https://www.bassemyoussef.xyz/upcoming-shows/
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Two genius minds and humanitarian decent souls! If only the world had more of you both.
Politicians are actively participant tools but aren't the planners and the decision makers.
For the millions of people disabled by long covid and who have lost their health, minds, relationships and lives, covid is not over!. And people are still dying. People want to forget and go into denial as they did during the pandemic. They dont want the discomfort of reality and dont want to face their own mortality. Same thing with the Palestinian genicide, its easier to deny its happening than face the horrible reality of what it means for all of us, namely , that humans are losing their humanity. We live in a simulcrum but we do still have to speak and act to stay sane. Even if we lose the fight, at least we will have tried and in the trying saved our humanity, if only in that moment. People are waking up to the fact that they have been duped by the systems, especially technology, duped into giving up and becoming passive, which is what the powers that be want. Being human is being political, it's naive to think that it's not. None of us know what the result of our actions will be, but there is massive change happening in that people are waking up to this all and this WILL effect the system and the course if history in some way. There's always hope and even if you feel there's not, to remain human you have to keep striving to be a better himan and that will have an effect even if none of us can know what it will be because its bigger than we can ever know. Reality is not representation and our theories about it. Get off line and connect with people and the real world and your own body. Act, speak with your body, know thyself and find out what it means to be actually alive and concious by living in this world with compassion and meaning and moving beyond your ego and uour own selfishness. .
Climate change should be replaced by Stop the overproduction of FUTILE things including in the food industry. The untold story is about over production and with materials non biodegradable=pollution of air-water-soil-=animal and human diseases.
Much respect to Bassam 🙏
Thank you guys, such a good discussion!
Thank you Mo!
Really like your podcast❤
I heard that Egyptian thinkers are very unique in the world…
Keep saying and shouting what you want to say .
It can change the world .
The proof is that the world changed example the black were slaves but not any more .
Egyptian products at its finest.. much respect bros
معلمين والله بس بصراحة جبتولي اكتئاب… و ده طبع مصري صميم❤😂😂😂
Great interview 👏
"One has to choose between fame and fortune and Truth and honesty" Norman Finkelstein said something like that …
M. Youssef, what you say and your positions have an impact and resonate with millions … please keep up and things will end up by changing because, as you said, everything is temporary …
This episode is soo Egyptian, I love It 😄
there is no more hope? are you hopeful for your kids ? Your family? without hope we have just to lay down and shoot ourselves??
Bassem you are NOT vegan, you’re ONLY plant based. Veganism is an ETHICAL PLANT BASED for animals. You’re JUST plant based, who eat for HEALTH. You have to stop saying that because it sounds silly.
…this 'srab spring was an evil act too. There is no doubt in my mind that thw west was behind it. All these stupid people on the streets causing mayhem and the donkeys going against their own leaders like Saddam, Gaddafi. Look the west changed the Iraqi flag. What did the Iraqis do? Oh thank you west. All I heard from donkeys was oh Saddam is a dictator. Oh Gaddafi is a dictator. Little do these donkeys realize that the west is a bigger dictator. Omar al-Mukhṭār the Libyan lion gave his life for the motherland. Gaddafi worked for the motherland. What did they do? They destroyed their own country. They were shouting Allho Akbar and killing and that too their own muslim brothers. I share a quote with you guys here if Imay:
" Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
– George Carlin
What a wonderfull combination watching this two guys in a meaningfull talk, about some important things, which move us all these times.
Thank you for this Video ❤
Shawwal’s crescent was born before the solar eclipse on the 28th of Ramadan and the sun met with it while it’s just a newly crescent..
In the name of Allah the All Merciful, the Most Merciful. Prayer of forgiveness and peace be upon Mohammad; messenger of Allah, and the entire sent ones (by Allah) and whoever followed them with good deeds till judgment day, then after this..
Happy Eid (day of celebration) with the victory of the struggling ones in the honored Gaza and all of Palestine; I ask Allah to help those who helped them, and ask Allah to let down those who let them down, and may Allah curse those who aided the massacres and crimes of the Israeli aggression against the oppressed in the honorable Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem, and all of Palestine, from among the non-Arabs and Arabs. So how can Allah not curse a great curse among the non-Arabs and Arabs who supported the murderers of children in the honorable Gaza?! Whether their support to them secretly or openly (whose conscience is dead), surely Allah knows the apparent, the hidden-secrets, and what the chests hide. Indeed, they will know that they neither have power nor a helper against the chastisement of Allah; So where is the escape from Allah’s prowess by the planet Saqar?! Let both sin bearing creatures – humans and jinn – to bear witness over the upsurge heat of the planet Saqar by the command of Allah, the One, the Subduer, and flame sparks with which it lashes at them as if it is yellow ropes of fire from yellow copper and other metals; It calls on those who are disdainful and arrogant to place them in its lap: “Come with a hug.” Surely it is their mother, the abyss, and what makes you know what it is? It’s a hot burning-fire. So how often, since twenty years ago, I have warned humans from its heat and flames due to its approach.
Have you ever heard of the celestial eclipse which is not known to any exclusively except Allah’s khalifa over the whole world; Imam Mahdi Nasser Mohammad Al-Yemeni?! I did not just say solar and lunar eclipses; in fact, the great celestial eclipse includes the sun, the moon, the entire planets of the solar system, and the eclipse of all the stars of the sky, so it would obliterate your eyes from seeing the entire sky; that is the awaited great celestial eclipse for the sun and the moon, also the eclipse of the entire solar system, and the wipe out of the stars from the eyes of the observers. The awaited great celestial eclipse due to planet Saqar passage begins with its partial eclipse from the extreme south-east to the extreme south-west. The celestial obscuring begins from the southern side of planet earth, exactly from the extreme south-east of planet earth to the extreme south-west, in a sense that the celestial eclipse comes from the direction of the southern celestial dome. So here it is raising the heat of the Earth's southern ocean and its southern pole, despite the withdrawal of the summer sun towards the northern hemisphere, that is in order for the summer heat to be dual allying summers, so Allah would afflict them with a rope of Saqar and a rope of the raging sun. In fact, the summer of Saqar is much hotter, while (falling) in this year of yours (1445) corresponds to: (2024 AD) by the command from Allah. How can you be patient over the heat at a temperature of (151 degrees) Celsius?! Don't you use sense?! I know that it is devastating, but Allah takes over its heat and makes it cool and peaceful for the monotheists, the loyal-servants of (Allah) Lord of the worlds, and it hunts down the arrogant with its sparks wherever they hide. They would never find for themselves, besides Allah, a guardian to benefit them and no protector to shelter them from the plot of the sparks of planet Saqar.
And know with certainty that the planet Saqar is inevitably coming, even if the whole world altogether believe in Allah the Great and submit to Allah the Great and obey the command of Allah’s khalifa, surely the planet Saqar is inevitably coming so they would see it with the eye of certainty; It comes to them suddenly, and it would confound them, and they can neither have the power to avert it, nor will they be respited. However, Allah — glory be to Him — only punishes the ungrateful-disbeliever. He will command it to be cool and peaceful for the monotheist believers, the loyal-servants of Allah and allies of His khalifa, as if they are looking at the display of a great celestial eclipse while they have no fear nor do they grieve. As for those who follow the wrath of nature who ignore Allah’s wrath as if He is not the One in charge of the Kingdom of the heavens and earth, and as if He is not in control of the kingdom of the heavens and earth Who He created it, verily they are atheists denying Him. We surely will look and see; do they have gods other than Allah to protect them from the chastisement of a burning heat?! Allah did not wrong them, but they have wronged themselves, and I call on Allah, the One, the Subduer, to witness that I warn those who claim the wrath of nature who they ignore the wrath of Allah, the One, the Subduer, the Avenging, the Supreme Possessor of power. And they will surely know that Allah is not unaware of what the wrongdoers do………………………..
Imam Mahdi Nasser Mohammad Al-Yemeni
30 – Ramadan – 1445 AH
Apr – 09 – 2024 AD
11:10 am
(According to the official time of [Mecca] mother of towns)
ht tps://nasser-alyamani.org/showthread.php?p=445990#post_445990
In USA since September they have had 200+ deaths per day from Covid (unvaxed, waning immunity, those who the doc says 'let's wait & see if this is serious' and they miss window of opportunity for drugs that work, and new born babies with pregnant women who 'don't want to harm the baby by getting vaxed.') We know this because USA still tests and checks waste water. In the UK, no hospitals test patients who are coming in. There is still Covid and we don't know how many are dying from it. Govt told news outlets to stop talking about Covid. No docs, virologists, epidemiologists in govt.
Ya Bassem i understand that you say, you're not an expert about the Palestinian cause. Nor am I as the most of the people, but we have all common sense, and most of us have a heart in our chest. Some might only have stone where the heart should be. Otherwise you can't understand the crimes done in this conflict. Peace 🕊
Hopefully this massive appearance of this Baسم is a good sign and not another episode of disaster, the last time of his massive appearance ended up by the a tragedy he was used as a tool in preparing for it .
Hoping the end result is good for baسم in term of good money income but no more
ALLAH save us
Love your accent guys ❤
The Problem with those Multinationale Companies like Google is their size, their financial Power and the most important advantage is that they operate out of allmost every country in this world. So as a politicion you only have the ability within your national borders setting rules and punish if necessary. Those Companies are only impressed or afraid from loosing marked shares. But, what we gonna do about??
اتمنى من باسم يوسف يشوف حلقة الدحيح عن فلسطين فيها معلومات عظيمة
Mo you really didn’t need to bother making this podcast
Two totally amazing men. They have left me with renewed hope for this world. Thank you, gentlemen
whatever we are discussing now has been understood, planned and executed by zionists decades ago☺
So VERY interesting! Two superb humans. I especially loved the AI discussion as well. Subscribed. Wish Bassem's show was coming to Cape Town, South Africa!
Basically you can only depend on yourself. You are good or bad, alive or dead, no one cares.
Most of Bassem’s views are spot on, however one thing I disagree with, If we were truly in charge, including the maniacs that seem to be at the helm, we would have destroyed ourselves a long time ago, there is a power unlike anything we can conceive behind every appearance..the power that brought about trillions of stars,
in this illusion we call existence things happen to make us aware of our need to pay attention and understand ourselves, not to torture and torment human beings..there will always be those who do..there will always be hope.
My favorite Mo i didn’t know to you have podcast. I’m happy to subscribed you.
Excellent!!! I love watching Bassem and Mo has brought a different perspective to the conversation. Very well done indeed.
He’s a genius and kind man.
I wouldn't have minded if they had spoken in Arabic with each other. For one I am used to reading subtitles. Second I am not retarded or have any other excuse for not knowing Arabic, so it's my fault and I don't want to be the idiot brat, for whose benefit they speak English. And lastly I just quite simply would like to know how what they sound like in Arabic.
Norman Finkelstein paid the highest price as well as Bassem .
Two of my favourite men to listen to talking, thank you.
We love you Bassem!
Change is impossible until it is inevitable We have won change before and we can do it again. Organize, Protest, Lobby, Vote.