Five tons of flax.
Stranger
Really?
fnord
What makes you say that?
Trust not a man who’s rich in flax.
His morals may be sadly lax.
I think Stranger may be a member of the Gurdjieff = ‘charlatan’ camp.
It’s possible.
Fnord
The very end of the video says he developed psychic powers in secret schools in the Caucusus. So I vote charlatan (or extremely misguided).