Mark Playne | A Thousand Words (Part 1 of 3)

Brian Gerrish (0:00)

I was saying, in Germany, you can't question the Holocaust. You know, as soon as there's a law to say, you can't do something, then surely that's a sort of red flag, you know?

Mark Playne (0:08)

It hoisted up a big red flag. He knew something was wrong, so he switched the generator off, basically saved a life. But what she said was she heard people walking beside her, and the parent bending down to the children, pulling the children back saying, don't touch her. They didn't raise the alarm, because that's the only thing I thought was big enough. So when the pandemic happened, I was like, oh, thank god I'm wrong.

Like, it's the pandemic, that's how they're going to do this. Well, my god, this is absolutely incredible. There's absolutely nothing I can find about the 29th. If you were there on the 29th, if you say there was 14,000 people there, this is the proof you need to show this massive, massive censorship.

Brian Gerrish (1:09)

It's great to have you here. I think this might be quite an interesting conversation because you are certainly not a one subject man, are you?

Mark Playne (1:17)

Popping up.

Brian Gerrish (1:19)

I mean, I got the impression we met at Sounds Beautiful. You had your store with Not On The Beeb. So that's what people might know the name, Not On The Beeb. And you've been to festivals over the last few years, haven't you? I've always seen you. So we hadn't chatted until this last one.

And instantly I thought, oh, I'd love to have a proper chin wag, sit down, do a painting. So give people at home just a summary of what your focus is, what motivates you, where you're at at the moment, perhaps what brought you to this position. And then we'll start diving into some of the specifics.

Mark Playne (1:57)

Well, a very fast track was 10 years ago, I got the phone call that everyone dreads, with my mother saying she had the big kind of big C word.

Brian Gerrish (2:08)

Oh, okay.

Mark Playne (2:09)

So with that, I dived in, like, you know, I just dived into deep research, and it was like the classic of waking up. I'd literally wake up asleep at kind of three o'clock in the morning with my head on the keyboard.

Brian Gerrish (2:22)

Right.

Mark Playne (2:22)

So I started, you know, and when you, when something like that happens, you, something else comes out of you, you find a little superhuman in terms, the amount of things I was reading, going for everything, I was on this fast track learning. And to fast forward the story, we ended up going to Mexico with some of the best cancer doctors in the world. That's where they were, either there or Germany. That's the two areas. And I learned so much, so much with the whole experience.

My mum did die. She was very, she was very advanced at the time we went there. So it was all too late, but learning was incredible. And once you did die, you don't stop researching because the next question is, oh, if I've known this, would. So you keep researching, kind of trying to find out what you didn't know. And then of course, you hit kind of replacement, which is kind of other people's mothers or other people getting sick and you kind of want to help them not go through what you've gone through. So the drive to keep your head down, reading, investigating goes for the roof. So I went, I became quite knowledgeable within the kind of field of cancer and what's really going on, kind of the cancer rabbit hole.

Brian Gerrish (3:29)

Can I just ask, why at that point did you not go with conventional? What was it about you that knew that there was another option? Because that's quite a big, a lot of people don't even get to that point.

Mark Playne (3:40)

Well, kind of we did go through the conventional in terms of going through the doctors, but knew they were coming up with rubbish quite quickly. And I'm probably from a background of quite alternative health and with a family like that. So it's so, so one of the other things that could lead to later, one of the things I'm fascinated with, is I'd all always been told since I was very young, that my great grandfather, parents, were friend personal friends of Rudolf Steiner.

Brian Gerrish (4:06)

Ah, okay.

Mark Playne (4:07)

So I'd always been told that. And as a kid, it goes in one ear out the other. And it's only kind of like maybe about two, three years ago, when I realized that all my work was diverging. And I'm like with Rudolf Steiner and I was like, hang on, hang on, this is interesting.