Russell Brand is a comedian, writer and podcaster. In this episode of Stay Free With Russell Brand, he talks about why he doesn t care about the Oscars, why he thinks the Oscars suck and why he won't be attending this year's Academy Awards. He also talks about his new movie 'The Irishman' and how he feels about Hugh Grant's Oscar snubbing. Stay Free with Russell Brand is out now, wherever you get your podcasts, and you won't want to miss it! If you're not yet a member of the RUMBLE Community, then you can join and become a member for as little as $20 a year, which includes access to a whole bunch of stuff, including Brandemic, Brandemic's brand new stand-up special Brandemic. You can buy Brandemic for $20, or you can buy it for a one-off price of $20. Or you can become an annual member and get all sorts of content for us for free, including access to Brandemic and all the other great stuff you ve been asking for! Enjoy! Stay Free, You Wanna Be Free? Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. We'd like to hear your thoughts on this episode. Send us your voice messages to sws@whatiwatchedtonight.co.uk and we'll get them on the show. Thank you for listening and spreading the word to your friends about this podcast! Love ya, bye! Timestamps: 0:00 - 3: 3:30 - What do you think of this episode? 5:15 - What does it mean to you? 6:10 - How do you feel about it? 7:00 8:40 - What's your favourite movie star? 9:35 - How does it feel like to be in the Oscars? 11:00 | What would you would you like to see me in a movie? 12:00s - What are you most excited to see the Oscars in 2020? 13:30s - what do you're most excited about? 14:00 szn 15:40s 16:20s - I don't care about that? 17:00 is it like the Oscars anymore? 18:10s - why do you care about this? 19:10 21:30 s
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00:02:44.000Unless, of course, you're worried that we're about to have a global financial collapse.
00:02:49.000Is the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank the inaugure, the impreture of 2008 Part 2?
00:02:56.000Because you remember how they dealt with...
00:03:14.000From the intercept about the banking collapse and where it's likely to lead us all.
00:03:19.000Then, once we're exclusively on Rumble, we'll be talking about all sorts of crazy stuff from Pfizer and January 6, all sorts of things that you're going to absolutely love.
00:03:29.000I'll be talking about my appearances on Fox News, meeting Tucker Carlson, all of that stuff in our presentation.
00:03:35.000Here's the news now, here's the effing news.
00:03:39.000For a while, shall we just revel in the simplicity of the wonderful world of entertainment?
00:04:13.000Well actually don't you think that those films we make every day where we do our level best to expose hypocrisy and corruption and bring people together in spite of cultural differences are worthy of an Oscar?
00:04:22.000Well the Academy do not think And that's why I'll be boycotting the Oscars, not that they've noticed.
00:04:28.000Hugh Grant though, fellow Englishman and wryly intelligent Brit, was at the Oscars and of course he's... You can see that what's happened to Hugh Grant is he's stopped caring about things like this.
00:04:40.000Yeah, he's sort of, I'd say it's like Neo.
00:04:43.000He's sort of woken up and he finds himself still at the Oscars, obligated, I imagine, to attend due to his commitments to certain projects that he's attached to and starring in.
00:04:52.000But while there he's thinking, oh, don't make me do this.
00:04:54.000And that's really plain when you see him talking to this attractive journalist.
00:06:23.000It's because it's pageantry I suppose.
00:06:25.000People talk about nihilism and materialism and the meaninglessness of our contemporary culture predicated as it is on consumerism and commodification but we still intuitively reach for meaning and purpose and some There's a sort of set of signals that indicate to us that life is not just an empty, occasionally stirred morass of nothingness.
00:06:46.000And the Oscars, like, they were setting up for Oscars when we were recently in Los Angeles.
00:07:22.000And obviously, Hugh Grant, who I know a little bit, not very well, but he's a very intelligent person who's having to answer questions about his clothes.
00:07:31.000And not to discredit the other person, she's just doing what her job is.
00:07:35.000Isn't it like, don't you think, tell me in the comments in the chat if you feel the same whether you're watching this on YouTube or if you're watching this with us now on Rumbles or our membership platform Locals.
00:07:44.000Do you find it harder and harder to participate?
00:07:46.000Like, when I see stuff like this I'm like, oh god is this still going on?
00:07:50.000And of course there was a time where I craved it, like I really wanted to be involved in that.
00:07:54.000I remember standing backstage, there I am, look, without a beard.
00:07:58.000Of course one of our mates says that when I don't have a beard I look like when Darth Vader takes his helmet off.
00:08:02.000Like, standing there backstage and seeing all their moscas lined up together.
00:08:06.000It's weird to see a coveted item abundant.
00:08:09.000That's the idea that motivates Andy Warhol, isn't it?
00:08:11.000If you endlessly repeat Marilyn Monroe or Elvis, you recognise everything has become commodity.
00:08:16.000Or if you reify a can of soup, you sort of say, oh, everything could be celebrated as a work of art.
00:08:23.000And for me now, I don't know about you guys, I start to feel like, is this still happening?
00:08:27.000I mean, I do care about football though, so I am still engaged in cultural ephemera.
00:08:30.000And I know Brilliant films are still made and beautiful artifacts emerge continually from the culture.
00:08:35.000But I do feel that Terence McKenna's edict, the culture is not your friend, holds true.
00:08:40.000That primarily these festivals, these ceremonies serve as a kind of way of regalvanizing your interest in stuff that you sort of shouldn't really care about.
00:08:51.000Yeah, because it always does come back to the same thing.
00:09:00.000What are you wearing while you are dying right now?
00:09:04.000At the end of it, Hugh Grant, like, so if you could see he's sort of got this almost ennui and despair.
00:09:10.000If you want to click over and watch us on Rumble right now you really ought because the second half of this we're talking about January 6th and the media's misrepresentation of it and the sort of Tucker Carlson controversy And how January 6th is being used.
00:09:20.000We'll also be talking about some of Pfizer's new post-pandemic deals and what the conditions and potential mendacity around those things are.
00:09:28.000Of course, on YouTube, we are curtailed by guidelines, which I'm sure they put in place for the best of reasons.
00:09:33.000But over on Rumble, we are free to speak as we would, as our consciences would have us.
00:09:38.000Let's see how Hugh Grant wraps up this debacle.
00:10:33.000Remember, even when it was things like the British Comedy Awards, you'd say, you don't know how to organise your face when you're sat on a table waiting for a... And the nominees for Best New Comedian, Russell Brand, some other people.
00:10:46.000I don't know what to do with my face, like, during it.
00:10:50.000I've never been comfortable with that stuff, but let's just see that despair on Hugh Grant's face before clicking over into a financial crisis that might be a repeat of 2008 in which, of course, quantitative easing was introduced to bail out the big banks, even though Biden's saying taxpayer money won't be used.
00:11:28.000Now, let's have a look at the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank.
00:11:32.000The Silicon Valley Bank has collapsed.
00:11:33.000There's a number of reasons for this, like there's been a 4.5% increase in interest rates, so bonds that they bought are now less valuable and stuff like that.
00:11:42.000You know, Gareth and I, you may not know this, we're not financial experts, but sadly, neither are the people that are organising these bailouts.
00:11:50.000This story shows you everything you need to know about the symbiosis between Wall Street and Washington.
00:11:56.000It tells you a lot about the lobbying industry.
00:11:58.000It tells you a lot about the lack of lessons learned from 2008.
00:12:01.000It tells you a lot about how convergent interests around both the Republican Party and the Democrat Party ultimately align when it comes to the big issues like finances.
00:12:10.000And it shows you how the media will always lean into partisanship.
00:12:14.000Do you think I've done the story justice there, mate?
00:12:15.000I mean, the kind of reporting of it, whether you look at the right or the left, you know, from the right, it's focusing on like woke issues, which I don't think has anything to do with deregulation of the banking industry.
00:12:26.000From the left, it's all about blaming Trump when actually what we know is the kind of deregulation of the regulations that were meant to be put up in 2008 to protect ordinary Americans were then, you know, watered down in 2018.
00:13:19.000Five years ago, when Republicans were last in control of the House of Representatives, they used the opportunity to roll back banking regulations put into place after the 2008 financial crisis.
00:13:45.000Now, in 2010, the Dodd-Frank Act was brought in, but I need that full screen to read it, please, if you don't mind.
00:13:51.000The Dodd-Frank Act brought in by the Congressmen Barney Frank and Senator Chris Dodd was designed to tighten banking regulations to prevent another 2008 crash.
00:14:00.000It was supposed to prevent risky investments.
00:14:02.000Note the names Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.
00:14:05.000Try and remember them just for a few seconds.
00:14:07.000In 2015, Greg Becker, Silicon Valley Bank's president, submitted a statement to a Senate panel pushing legislators to exempt more banks Including his own from new regulations.
00:14:18.000I'm here mostly on behalf of banks in general, but also the bank that I work at passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
00:14:26.000A couple of months later, SVB added the former Obama Treasury Department official Mary Miller to its board.
00:14:32.000Noting she had previously helped oversee financial regulatory reforms.
00:14:36.000So that whole revolving door idea that many of us think is significant when it comes to politics and finance is exemplified here in this story.
00:14:54.000Well, he knows the most about regulation, Russ.
00:14:56.000Oddly, he was pushed to ease banking regulations after joining the Signature Bank board.
00:15:01.000I mean, it's another one of those stories that shows you that how you intuitively think these things work is exactly how these things work.
00:15:08.000Over at Signature Bank or SVB or whatever bank they go, I know how to get past some of these regulations.
00:15:13.000Why don't we get hold of one of the Congress people that drafted the bill and get them to lobby on our behalf and say, you know, I know I drew up this regulation, but I was in a... I was much too regulatory that day.
00:15:26.000I was really regulate... I was regulating everything.
00:15:28.000I wouldn't let the dog out of the house.
00:15:30.000I told my wife, put a longer skirt on.
00:16:54.000Let's have a look at Joe Biden now, looking all presidential and stuff.
00:16:58.000Oh yeah, look, here's a bunch of people that voted for both Trump and Obama.
00:17:00.000We know about all that kind of stuff, don't we?
00:17:01.000So ultimately, it's the same sort of system, same sort of results.
00:17:04.000And man, you know, even if you're a person that dislikes right-wing politics for your own reasons, or you dislike left-wing politics for your own reasons, you have to acknowledge That there's a symbiosis and a kind of flow between these administrations that Obama's actions in 2008 contributed to the election of Trump because of the alliance for the same financial interests that ultimately benefit whoever is in government.
00:17:29.000Here's Biden trying to make it clear that we will not see 2008 part two and that taxpayers won't foot the bill but some experts even as this story breaks are saying that's Simply not true.
00:17:38.000And we'll tell you a little more about that after we watch the man himself.
00:18:12.000No losses will be borne by the taxpayers.
00:18:15.000Now, what I take that to mean, and let me know in the chat in the comments if you think this means I've become cynical and jaded.
00:18:21.000What I reckon that means is they now recognise that people don't like bailing out big banks after 2008, so you have to explicitly say we won't be doing that.
00:18:30.000But he uses the language, the nomenclature, taxpayer.
00:18:34.000So you won't be, via an over-observable tax, be foot in the bill.
00:18:39.000But Gail, do you want to read what them experts are saying?
00:18:41.000Because it seems like there are tangential, indirect ways through banking fees that will likely end up with ordinary Americans that mean that you will ultimately foot the bill, simply because the bill's too big to be paid for by this fund that they're saying is going to pay it.
00:18:53.000Yeah, so finance officials have said that covering depositor losses from the bank failures will be met in part by the deposit insurance fund held by the FDIC, the government corporation that supplies deposit insurance to depositors in U.S.
00:19:07.000Susan Streeter, though, who is head of money and markets at Hargreaves Lansdowne, said the wider banking system will bear the brunt of the bailout of banking customers.
00:19:16.000Yeah, because you know, I've noticed that there's not a tendency to pass on costs.
00:19:19.000the deposit insurance fund. If that happens it will get harder to argue that the non-bailout bailout
00:19:25.000will not ultimately fall on US taxpayers. Yeah because you know I've noticed that there's not
00:19:30.000a tendency to pass on costs. Like for example during this energy crisis you'll have noticed
00:19:34.000that your energy bills stayed consistently low throughout it and energy companies profits
00:19:39.000they didn't increase either. Oh no what actually happened was is their profits radically increased
00:19:45.000and your bills went up so that's extraordinary. Let's have a look at what...
00:19:52.000Some of this is about inflation, the recent increase in inflation.
00:19:55.000And I'll be honest with you, I don't know much about finance and stuff.
00:19:58.000I'm just trying to learn along with you.
00:19:59.000And in a minute, we've got a guest on the show, Ryan Grimm, who's going to teach us a whole lot more about this subversive, sly banker bailout on the lowdown.
00:20:10.000In 2020, look at that sharp increase of the number of US dollars in circulation.
00:20:13.000And if you want to amuse yourself for a moment, you'll note that it's like a phallus suddenly emerging.
00:20:18.000Like, if that was in a physical landscape, that, if you were like, you know, you're walking along, it's 1970, 80, 90, it's increasing a bit there, 2000, even 2010 and around the sharp increases of cash in circulation around the financial crisis.
00:20:30.000Nothing compared to this 2020 sharp incline like that.
00:20:34.000Don't you feel that that's going to have some fundamental economic repercussions?
00:20:39.000I mean, I'm not an economist, but I know that when you see something like that on a graph, it's not good news, is it?
00:20:43.000No, I also worry, you know, there was obviously a lot of talk about how in the Obama years, Wall Street really went for Obama.
00:20:52.000You know, they put a lot of money into Obama's campaign.
00:21:00.000But I just think any, you know, any government that's in power who's taking so much money from the financial industry and Wall Street, are they ultimately going to punish the banks in the way that Biden's talking about?
00:21:10.000Let me know in the chat and the comments.
00:21:12.000If your funding comes from the banks, how likely are you to punish the banks?
00:21:18.000Do you think there's a relationship between the way that the Democrat Party is funded and the way that the Democrat Party governs?
00:21:32.000I mean, I'm going to do my level best with someone from The Intercept.
00:21:35.000And remember, the back half of this show, where we're talking about January the 6th and some of the peculiarities around this reporting and the way it's being utilized to introduce legislation and different types of regulation, will be discussed in the back half of this show tonight, as well as us looking at Pfizer's brilliant new, not at all heartbreaking, potentially evil scheme to keep those profits up now that the pandemic... Is it OK to say that the pandemic Careful.
00:22:46.000I think what I would add to it is the stick side of it.
00:22:50.000Like, what does the government need to do to these bankers in order to... because they talk about this moral hazard.
00:22:59.000And so they say, well, if you bail people out, then they're just going to be reckless and, you know, they're going to keep doing this just the way, you know, they did it in 2008, they did in the 1930s.
00:23:08.000If there's no penalties, then what's going on?
00:23:10.000But the question is, are we really going to make the depositors suffer the penalties?
00:23:15.000I might be fine with that if you're depositors who have millions of dollars and you're in a risky bank like Silicon Valley Bank.
00:23:21.000But just realistically, from a political perspective, we're always going to make depositors whole.
00:23:26.000So if we're going to make depositors whole, then thinking through this, how do we, you know, monkey
00:23:33.000around with this moral hazard? And to me, it would be, not only do you wipe out all the shareholders
00:23:38.000of Silicon Valley Bank, not only do all the executives get fired, you also do something like
00:23:43.000bankrupt the executives. So if you say, look, if you run a bank into the ground to the point where it's
00:23:49.000going to cost taxpayers, and ultimately it's going to be taxpayers. Taxpayers, you know, millions
00:23:57.000We're going to you first before we hit up the rest of society.
00:24:01.000Then I think you would have executives who all of a sudden are a lot more cautious About the bets that they're making in the way that they're running the bank.
00:24:09.000The other thing I would, and we could talk about this too, is this wild text chain among all of these tech founders and funders.
00:24:19.000This guy talked about there were 200 founders who were in this text chain, who on Thursday started saying, hey, maybe we should all take our money out of Silicon Valley Bank.
00:24:30.000And if you really were scared that the bank was going to collapse, What you would do is you would go to the bank and you would take your money out.
00:24:39.000You wouldn't text 200 of your richest friends and suggest, hey, maybe we should all take our money all at the same time out of this bank.
00:24:49.000That makes absolutely no sense if your goal is self-preservation of your own wealth.
00:24:54.000If you think the bank's going to collapse, You call the bank, say, here's my wire instructions, get my money out of that bank.
00:25:00.000What they did is they created a bank run with that text chain.
00:25:04.000And then you have to ask, why did they do that?
00:25:08.000Please, speculatively, and I know it's purely speculation, Ryan, why would you do that?
00:25:13.000Is it because you know that if the bank collapses, you're going to be bailed out and ultimately it's going to be more beneficial than taking the money out in the first place?
00:25:20.000Yeah, so one of the theories that's going around is that this entire tech economy requires low interest rates and massive amounts of quantitative easing.
00:25:31.000That chart that you showed, that money flows into asset prices, houses, that's why housing prices are going crazy, rents are going crazy, but really what it funnels is into big tech.
00:25:43.000Without the quantitative easing the last decade, you don't have this big tech explosion over the last decade.
00:25:49.000Now that they're starting to turn that spigot down, you're seeing all of these tech companies lay everybody off.
00:26:27.000It's so that I don't have to sort of step over, you know, it can be embarrassing on Zoom calls.
00:26:31.000So like one of the phrases we've picked up in this space, Ryan, is it's not a bug, it's a feature.
00:26:37.000That things that sometimes appear like aberrations or anomalies or flaws are actually design features of the system.
00:26:44.000This is obviously speculative, but it appears that the military-industrial complex requires ongoing military conflict in order to underwrite its model.
00:26:53.000And what you've just articulately explained to us and to our community is that the big tech model requires quantitative easing and and in order that this is like a sort of warning shot you're saying this is a sort of a dialogue being played potentially I know you're you know you're not Nostradamus or whatever or some sort of soothsayer but but potentially this is part of a kind of dialogue taking place between the state treasury
00:27:18.000And the banking system that's letting them know that there are ways of precipitating financial disaster unless there's compliance and favourable legislation and regulation.
00:27:27.000Yeah, nice little economy you've got going here.
00:27:29.000Shame if there was a bank run and a bunch of contagion that just wiped it out.
00:27:34.000So yeah, so now the New York Times is reporting just now that the FBI, Department of Justice are going to look into the causes of this meltdown.
00:27:44.000And the 2018 rollback, the executives who cashed out a bunch of bonuses, that's all going to get looked at.
00:27:51.000You know, to me, they ought to actually look at that text chain.
00:27:55.000You got 200 people, you got 200 phone numbers, call those folks in.
00:28:01.000Ask them, you know, why did you tell your closest 200 friends to take their money out of here?
00:28:08.000Why didn't you just take your own money out?
00:28:11.000At the same time, Peter Thiel's, what's it called, his founder's firm, they did a call on that day where they called money in, like on that very day.
00:28:22.000That required then a bunch of their partners or urged a bunch of their partners to pull money out as well.
00:28:29.000What did this have anything to do with this?
00:28:31.000I think these are reasonable questions that investigators ought to be asking because the other explanations just don't make a lot of sense.
00:28:41.000So it's unlikely that the investigation will look into these aspects of the case.
00:28:46.000What about Biden's public claim, overt, obvious and plain, that the consequences of a failed capitalist venture are bankruptcy?
00:28:55.000Like you said, the bankers involved are unlikely to face bankruptcy.
00:28:58.000You said that should be the first step and that the consequences of those actions should be felt.
00:29:03.000Is this something where the right people will pay the price?
00:29:06.000Or will this ultimately, as them experts in the Guardian said, ultimately end up being the bill being footed by taxpayers, if not directly through taxation, but likely through bank fees and stuff, simply because there isn't enough money in that fund that they keep banging on about to cover a loss of this scale?
00:29:23.000If it goes the way it went in 2008, then the bankers will just be fine and they'll move on to other banks and nothing will get clawed back.
00:29:33.000If you remember, AIG was paying out massive bonuses just months after their collapse that precipitated a global financial crisis.
00:29:47.000You're seeing a lot more anger about this.
00:29:49.000And you're going to see, I think because of alternative media, you'll see the mainstream media also being unable to kind of move away from it as quickly as they might otherwise want to.
00:29:58.000So we are in a slightly different place 15 years later than we were then.
00:30:02.000And I think no politician wants to be on the side of bailouts.
00:30:06.000And that's why you're seeing Biden, you know, do all of these semantics and gymnastics to try to say that actually, well, of course, this isn't a bailout.
00:30:15.000If both parties are pro-deregulation, and that is ultimately the way that it went when there was the opportunity to maintain regulation or decrease it, as has happened, and you see reductive reporting from both sides, i.e.
00:30:29.000MSNBC, this is all about Trump, without saying, but we could say that the quantity of E's in the decisions made by Obama in 2008, when you have this kind of in systemic environment. How, how, Ryan, will there ever be
00:31:13.000Boom, OK, now we can cover this story.
00:31:16.000Then you've got other reporters saying, well, wait, the Obama administration also did this stuff.
00:31:22.000The Biden administration is currently in office, but it feels like without that hook, you know, that the media doesn't know how to get into it.
00:31:30.000And so now they've discovered this 2018 deregulatory action, which Trump took, which Trump should be criticized for.
00:31:37.000But the media should note, it takes 60 votes in the Senate to get anything done.
00:31:41.000They could only do it because they had the willing participation.
00:31:46.000Now, it's also fair to say 50 Republicans is a lot more than 17 Democrats, but in the end, it doesn't matter to people that the law, because the law got passed.
00:31:57.000That's right, and it seems to continually lead us, Ryan, to the obvious conclusion that neither party can meaningfully intercede when it comes to improving the lives of ordinary people, introducing the type of regulation, legislation, movement, systems, ideas that would alter significantly the lives of most folk.
00:32:18.000that there's generally a consensus and a willingness within the media to keep the conversation
00:32:23.000framed in a particular way, within Congress or the Senate to keep the legislation framed
00:32:28.000in a particular way. So it does seem now, I mean I know we're sort of straying from
00:32:32.000the territory of your expertise, I mean I'm assuming that we are, but it does seem now
00:32:37.000that what's required is new political alliances and significant systemic change and neither
00:32:44.000party is offering that, right? Yeah and for a long time, to me the way that you could
00:32:52.000most effectively influence politics was by kind of playing inside the Democratic primary,
00:32:59.000inside the Democratic party in primaries, like the way that say Bernie Sanders challenged
00:33:03.000Hillary Clinton in 2016, ran again in 2020.
00:33:10.000But I now think that that opportunity exists in both parties.
00:33:15.000And I think that, you know, regular people who consider themselves to be either independents or Republicans, but they are independents, but they vote in Republican primaries, you know, have an opportunity to influence the Republican Party too, and say, look, you voted for this.
00:33:32.000I'm going to support a candidate that didn't do that.
00:33:35.000None of that is going to work, though, unless you get some type of reform to the way that campaigns are financed.
00:33:40.000To me, it's got to come from kind of matching funds from the government, because the way the Supreme Court is now, they're not going to let you kind of cap spending or cap the amount of giving.
00:33:51.000And so all you can do is kind of equalize things.
00:33:54.000There was a bill that said that there would be a way that you would get a six to one match.
00:34:00.000If you if you have 50 bucks that actually becomes 300 bucks and that you can give it then to a couple of your
00:34:06.000candidates of your choosing. So unless you can like match corporations
00:34:10.000you're never going to match them dollar for dollar. But if you can
00:34:13.000keep regular people in the game then I think they're going to win because they have the more popular position.
00:34:19.000Like a corporation needs 10 times the amount of money in order to get its unpopular position across the finish line.
00:34:28.000The problem now is that they have 20 times, 30 times, 40 times more.
00:34:32.000If you can get it down to 10 to 1, then at least it's a fair fight.
00:34:35.000OK, Ryan, that is somewhat promising, although I still prefer a revolution.
00:35:12.000I'm lobbying for radical change in every conceivable area.
00:35:15.000So if you're watching us now on YouTube, we're about to slip off exclusively onto Rumble because we're going to be talking about Pfizer's latest sly little move.
00:35:24.000And I mean, sly, I suppose, is Allegedly!
00:35:27.000He might not be sly, maybe it's just simple good business.
00:35:29.000We've got a fantastic story, then we're going to be moving on to January 6th, so if you're watching us anywhere else, join us exclusively on Rumble right now and I'll tell you how you can watch my stand-up special, Brandemic, which is a real ball-breaker, a glorious thing.
00:35:43.000I'll tell you more about that as well, so join us on Rumble now.
00:35:46.000Pfizer CEO Albert Baller, heard of that guy?
00:35:48.000He's not going to like your stand-up special.
00:35:52.000There's a real one in the eye for Albert Baller in there.
00:35:55.000Now one of the things, this is some bad news, since the end of the pandemic, if indeed it's ended, things ain't been going quite as well for Pfizer because they were dead, by coincidence, By coincidence alone, they did really well.
00:36:08.000One of the inadvertent side effects of there being that terrible pandemic that ruined your life, ruined your kids' education, locked you up in your home was good.
00:36:49.000Were you locked in your home lately, unable to do even the merest amount of exercise?
00:36:53.000The good news is, your cancer is Baller's dollar bills.
00:36:57.000So Pfizer CEO says it will be able to deliver Segan's cancer therapy at a scale not seen before, with a $43 billion deal.
00:37:03.000Of course they're going to sell that as old whoop-dee-doo.
00:37:05.000We're all going to get access to this new cancer drug.
00:37:07.000Pfizer CEO Albert Baller said that the pharmaceutical giant will be able to deliver Segan's cancer therapy to the world at a scale that's not been seen before.
00:37:45.000Segan is a leading developer of a medicine called antibody drug conjugates, which are designed to directly kill cancer cells and spare healthy ones.
00:38:16.000Let's have a look at Albert Baller cropping up on the mainstream media on a puff piece, presenting like this financial news about how he's going to profit, trying to dress it up like we live to help people who've got cancer.
00:38:26.000They've probably really taken to task, I would imagine, though.
00:38:31.000I think they'll be saying, you know how with the vaccine that you profited a hundred billion last year, you know how you're talking about putting it up by 10,000% of what it costs?
00:38:41.000Well, people aren't being forced to take it, so we've got to raise the price.
00:38:44.000Would you do the same thing with this life-saving cancer drug?
00:39:37.000There's not this darling, grinning, innocent, lovely woman who's obviously an expression of the limitless light of the Lord trying to do her best in the dog-eat-dog world of CNBC.
00:39:50.000Uh-oh, I pressed the wrong button, guys!
00:39:51.000Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, joins us now.
00:39:54.000Albert, great to see you this morning.
00:40:43.000This is when we talk about the mainstream media, when we get criticised for going on Fox or going on and having discussions about how both sides are as bad as each other, when the mainstream or from the left criticise about that and then they get on Albert Baller to basically give him some propaganda, give him a puff piece.
00:41:01.000They've done it all the way through the pandemic, now they're going to do it about Him making probably massive profits off people having cancer.
00:41:17.000That the media operate in conjunction with corporate interests to present an agenda that's favourable to their profits and dominion in a light that is appealing to ordinary people.
00:41:27.000So that we don't rise up in angry unison against their agenda of corruption and division.
00:42:37.000It's like Pfizer's profits, oh look, they're going down almost at the exact same time that it was near mandated that you have to take their products.
00:42:45.000And then who's this little guy, Segan?
00:42:49.000Why don't we piggyback to a new dimension on their profits?
00:42:52.000With the banking crisis we're told all of this financial industry is really complicated and we won't understand it and that's why quantitative easing we had to do it and that's why you had to foot the bill for all of it but actually you look at that graph and it's pretty simple Pfizer's profits are going right down because people don't want to take the vaccine anymore so we need to get this cancer drug which their profits are going right up And what about the argument that you continually made, and I know that David Sirota at The Lever made, that Pfizer are presented as this sort of bunch of geniuses, people getting tattoos and buying jackets with Pfizer on it, but all they'd done was bought up BioNTech, developed the vaccine, using taxpayer money in Germany, and now they're buying up this cancer drug, not with the goal of helping people with cancer get better, but with the goal of increasing profit.
00:43:35.000Well, the point is, Hopefully it will.
00:43:37.000Hopefully it will help people with cancer and that's a great thing if it helps people with cancer but if the byproduct of that is that they're charging exorbitant rates for this cancer treatment and people can't afford to get it or are basically for the rest of their lives tied to a drug that they can't afford.
00:43:53.000And they're monopolizing and managing profits and prices through their practices.
00:43:58.000I would go so far as to say, and let me know if you agree with this in the chat and the comments, particularly if you're on Locals, if you're a member of Locals, I see your comments first, that you getting better from cancer is an inadvertent side effect of their business practice, not the focus of their business practice.
00:44:15.000They will make decisions that lead Directly to your death, if there's a profit in it.
00:44:20.000That's just based on the opioid crisis, that comment, and even for me on Rumble, where I'm free.
00:44:24.000By coincidence, a couple of years ago, dear old Jill Biden cropped up on your TV set saying that cancer was... Look at that, and they're even using the words there, cancer moonshot.
00:44:35.000Which is a phrase they introduced during the pandemic to say, somehow, maybe, maybe if all the stars align, we'll make a hundred billion dollars from you being locked in your home with a disease with a very low fatality rate that Matt Hancock's text reveal That even Chris Whitty, who was the scientific advisor and leader in our country, he's our version of Fauci.
00:44:59.000Even that dude was saying, oh, I'm not sure you need to vaccinate a population for something with such a low mortality rate.
00:45:05.000So the moonshot they're talking about is the moonshot of taking public money and putting it into private hands.
00:45:11.000And if you, when you run out of pandemic, you better jump aboard that cancer train, baby, because cancer ain't going anywhere as long as you live in a culture that essentially causes you cancer.
00:45:20.000Let's have a look at Jill Biden's new initiative to massage cancer policies into the public consciousness.
00:47:11.000When we went on Tucker, What I was able to do, and one of the things that I was most pleased with, is like, because I've chatted to my mates, they're conventional dems, you know, like Shepard Fairey and that.
00:47:29.000I mean, one of the things that we kept pushing when we were on these conversations with, like, Ben Shapiro, who I actually think he's a good guy.
00:47:36.000Like, he's got a different perspective than me, but I think he's acting in good faith.
00:47:40.000This is what I believe, and I think this might be the secret.
00:47:43.000This might be the main thing we can offer together.
00:47:44.000Let me know in the chat and the comments if you agree.
00:47:47.000I said to Ben, would you stand on a platform with people from Black Lives Matter, with people like trans rights activists, the people that on your show you continually are in adversity with, Would you stand on a platform with them to confront centralised power?
00:48:02.000I said to Tucker Carlson, I'm not at ease with some of the stuff you said about homeless people because I feel like that's condemning the most vulnerable people in society.
00:48:11.000And Tucker Carlson's response was brilliant.
00:48:15.000This is our conversations with Tucker, with Greg, and my humble attempt to try to create new conversations that prevent us just being entrenched in ossified oppositional positions that won't allow us ever to advance.
00:48:53.000The controversy was stirred up by my appearance on shows like Tucker Carlson, Greg Gutfield,
00:48:57.000I spoke to Ben Shapiro, also numerous right-wing commentators.
00:49:02.000You'll remember if you're my age that right-wing just used to be one of the things that a person could be and wasn't automatically associated with things like Fascism and racism and all the ideas I think fundamentally we're agreed are bad ideas wherever we stand politically.
00:49:18.000So what is the agenda of the neoliberal establishment media?
00:49:24.000Because let me tell you up front, What I learned from my conversations with figures from the conservative right, let's call them, is that there is a new willingness to form new alliances in order to be able to attack centralized establishment authoritarian power, i.e.
00:49:42.000explicitly people that are conservative and right-wing are willing to have a truce with and alliances with people that are really progressive.
00:49:50.000They are in fact willing To accept that the only way forward for us is to have more democratic power and autonomy in our communities and that the price for having autonomy and authority in your own community, and I mean power that's achieved democratically, is to allow other people to have their own power and authority in their own communities.
00:50:10.000However, Centralised power wants, of course, a centralised, authoritative, institutionalised power to dictate what is possible and benefits from ongoing cultural conflagration.
00:50:22.000The reason I go on these various shows is in order to have conversations like this because I believe change is possible.
00:50:28.000And before I show you these clips, bear in mind that just a few short years ago, I did this at Fox News.
00:50:50.000So, here are some of the moments from the conversations I had and I want you to ask yourself these questions and let me know in the chat and comments what you think.
00:51:12.000Who is it that seems to be benefiting from the ongoing culture war?
00:51:16.000And let me know in the chat and the comments, because I'm interested in what you think, and I believe you can handle nuanced thinking.
00:51:21.000Let's have a look, first of all, at my appearance on Tucker Carlson on Fox News.
00:51:25.000In this conversation, both Tucker Carlson and I came to it knowing that we would disagree, presumably, about a lot of issues.
00:51:32.000That I, broadly speaking, belong to what you might call the cultural left.
00:51:35.000We were surprised in fact about how many things we agreed upon, I suppose because we both agree with individual and community freedom.
00:51:44.000There were moments where I gently and respectfully confronted Tucker Carlson around some of the issues where I explicitly disagree with him.
00:51:52.000For example the way he's spoken about homelessness in the past, perhaps identity issues, issues of sexuality, and I was surprised in fact about how Little Tucker Carlson really cared about regulating the private life of other people.
00:52:05.000But what I would say is that what inspired me about this conversation is both Tucker Carlson and I are absolutely disenchanted with establishment power, whether it's on the left or the right, that neither of those terms mean anything anymore, that authority and government power has been co-opted by financial interests to such a degree that no one is voting for anything meaningful anymore.
00:52:57.000In the world of energy, you know energy, that we require to do stuff, to move things about, to warm our homes, at least 100 members of Congress own fossil fuel stocks, of which 59 are Republicans and 41 are Democrats.
00:53:09.000Oh look, the Republicans are a bit worse.
00:53:11.000Of the $263 million of the pharmaceutical industry spent on lobbying in 2021, it gave 61% to the Democrat Party and 39% to the Republicans.
00:53:56.000Nearly 20% of Congress members, 49 Democrats and 44 Republicans, have been trading shares of companies in industries they are supposed to be overseeing as part of their committee assignment.
00:54:06.000Each one of these facts indicates a potential solution to the problem that it describes.
00:54:11.000Don't let members of Congress own stocks at all!
00:54:17.000Do not accept lobbying money from the pharmaceutical industry.
00:54:39.000And if you remove the gargantuan motivation for profit, and I'm not talking about ending trade and profit and all of those kind of extremist arguments, I'm simply saying this is a behemoth, this is corporate gigantism, this is an outgrowth, this is a tumour, this has gone too far, and it is possible to change it.
00:54:57.000And people that say it's not possible to change it are invested in it staying the same.
00:55:22.000That means whoever gets in, our outcomes will be served.
00:55:25.000That's not right-wing rhetoric, except unless you feel that what right-wing means ultimately is a position that's anti-government and anti-establishment.
00:55:34.000I know that that's exactly what many of you feel.
00:55:36.000Let me know in the chat and the comments.
00:55:37.000But what I'm interested in Our systems of organisation that are beneficial to the people that they purport to serve and are accessible to the people that they purport to serve.
00:55:47.000Do you not think it's possible when you see things like Uber and all of these new tech apps that ultimately aggregate various powers, whether it's a car or a house, centralise it and allow it to be distributed, meaning things are possible now that just didn't used to be possible.
00:56:00.000Don't you think that could be applied elsewhere to political power?
00:56:03.000That you could have systems where you vote for how utilities are run, systems where you vote for how resources are spent?
00:56:08.000Oh no, that would mean you wouldn't need people hundreds of miles away or thousands of miles away, in the case of the United States of America, that are lobbyable, biasable, corruptible, making decisions with your money when they're getting paid from elsewhere.
00:56:23.000180 Democrats and 149 Republicans joined forces to pass last year's record $839 billion National Defense Authorization Act.
00:56:31.000The Pentagon spent $14 trillion after 9-11.
00:56:35.00055% of it went to for-profit defense contractors.
00:56:38.000Over half Of the 14 trillion spent by the Pentagon went to for-profit defence contractors.
00:56:43.000That doesn't mean that everything they do at Northrop Grumman, who I think make amazing telescopes, or Lockheed Martin, who I'm sure do incredible stuff, is nefarious.
00:56:50.000But it does mean it's worthy of investigation, and these are facts that are significant in the way that your country is organised, in the way that your media reports on stories, and the way that all of us live our life.
00:56:58.000Because, of course, those tax dollars are yours.
00:57:01.000That's your money that's being described in those enormous figures.
00:57:06.000Now, of course, at the moment, Tucker Carlson is particularly embroiled in controversy around January 6th and the revelation that his interpretation of those tapes demonstrates that there are questions to be asked around the way the situation was placed.
00:57:20.000And we're going to do a video on that tomorrow because, believe you me, the Capitol Police are getting some new funding that's pretty interesting.
00:57:27.000And it's a complicated issue and there are many, many perspectives on it.
00:57:30.000But you, I'm sure, like me, would agree that to be able to say that kind of stuff on a mainstream channel is helpful and advances the conversation, and is generally, I would say, conciliatory in tone.
00:57:41.000Elsewhere in the chat, I explicitly say that I believe people should be able to identify however they want, express themselves however they want, as long as they don't hurt anyone else, obvious kind of stuff like that.
00:57:49.000And I specifically spoke to Tucker around the issue of homelessness.
00:57:52.000The only thing that I've ever seen, sir, that I would call you up on is when I've seen you talking about homelessness, and I feel that when talking about the subject of destitution and people that live in poverty, that the basis for that conversation should be love, and also for all of the displaced people in the world, that the foundational principle should be love.
00:58:09.000I'm not claiming that I'm able to maintain that line when something offends me for some cultural or personal reason, but I know that this is what I aspire to.
00:58:21.000I feel that drug addicts living outside are used as political pawns to destabilize society.
00:58:31.000I feel like they're not treated on purpose.
00:58:33.000The mentally ill live outside and die outside and are left to do that because it's useful for the people in power to draw attention away from their own misdeeds.
00:58:42.000And I'm angry about it, but I'm not angry at the fentanyl addict.
00:58:46.000I'm angry at the industry that's grown up around him that doesn't treat any of his needs, that leaves him to die alone, and that becomes rich doing so.
00:58:54.000And that the politicians who posture about his death, when they could have prevented it.
00:58:59.000And unfortunately I get so overheated, I get so pissed, that in many cases I have allowed myself to sound like I'm mad at the junkie, when I'm certainly not.
00:59:11.000As a sober person I have Deep empathy for anyone who's lost an addiction, particularly on the street.
00:59:18.000Tucker Carlson, who on a personal level was extremely kind and beautiful to me and I think he's a good person and I don't believe that he is a negative influence in American cultural life.
00:59:29.000I believe that you have to accept that people have different perspectives on cultural issues and if you don't the alternative is some form of tyranny and hopefully it's the form of tyranny that you happen to agree with and I don't think that's the answer because It's a big old world out there, and people do human different.
00:59:44.000So I think that, broadly speaking, that was a positive conversation, and generally speaking, we need more conversations like it.
00:59:50.000And by God, I've been having them, because I also went on Greg Gutfeld's show, which I didn't know is the highest-rated late-night show on television.
00:59:57.000Not Kimmel or any of those others, it's this one.
00:59:59.000So I went on there to talk about similar issues, which of course, I suppose, makes me a right-wing conspiracy theorist.
01:00:04.000And like all good right-wing conspiracy theorists, I went on Fox News and said this.
01:00:10.000Yes I am, and actually I've got a series of good points to make because education is fundamentally affected by poverty.
01:00:17.000Here, Greg Gutfield was talking about IQs dropping in America for the first time in, I don't know, 50 years ever, one of those things.
01:00:22.000And I used the opportunity to talk about education and the connection between education and poverty and the necessity to invest in education.
01:00:54.000Now listen, during that pandemic period, billionaires added five trillion to their fortunes.
01:00:58.000That means that during the pandemic, a new billionaire was created every single day, while extreme poverty increased everywhere, while small businesses closed everywhere.
01:01:08.000Now I'm going to say something on Fox News that until recently would not have been possible.
01:01:12.000As president, Donald Trump's tax cuts helped billionaires pay less taxes than the working class in 2018.
01:01:17.000For the first time in American history, the 400 wealthiest people paid a lower tax rate than any other group.
01:02:49.000Are you willing to allow other people to live how they want to if they allow you to live how you want to?
01:02:54.000Do you think centralised authority might benefit from continually stoking differences, creating conflict between ordinary people who have far more in common with one another than they'll ever have with the establishment and institutions that govern their lives?
01:03:05.000Do you think a better world is possible if we reach out our hand in friendship to people that we don't agree with?
01:03:10.000Or do you think we should be doubling down on differences, throwing stones, arguing and bickering?
01:03:14.000Can you imagine me having a conversation like that on MSNBC or CNN?
01:03:18.000It's experience, it's just sort of taking it all in.
01:03:20.000You are talking about me as if I'm not here.
01:03:31.000Let me know in the comments what you think.
01:03:32.000So the establishment media can do as many hit pieces on me as they want to.
01:03:37.000I'm going to continue to reach out and have conversations with people from across the political spectrum because one thing I've noticed that they believe and I don't believe is they think you're stupid.
01:03:47.000They think you can't handle complicated conversations about the balance between power And duty, and authority, and largesse, and licentiousness, and morality, and ethics, and all of the complexity there entails.
01:04:08.000I believe that if we have conversations like this, we will come to peaceful conclusions that meaningfully change the trajectory of the planet.
01:05:19.000benefit from voter apathy and disinterestedness in partisan politics, so ultimately if everyone thinks, oh the whole system's corrupt and stop voting, old people will still vote because they love it, and right-wing politicians will get in.
01:05:31.000But hey man, you know, you can't make an omelette without, well, shitting in the woods.
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01:08:38.000Imagine seeing Gareth in the flesh, stroking him.
01:08:41.000Some of the other people back there that are working so hard to create this content.
01:08:45.000You can look at them, study them, prod them.
01:08:47.000You can even use my Please Can I Talk Now stick to poke at them, to goad them, to goad them into violence and see how they respond under pressure.
01:08:55.000I try every day to give them a little bit of pressure just to see how they cope.
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