Stay Free - Russel Brand - BOMB Mexico To End WHAT?! You Won’t Believe THIS! - #127 - Stay Free With Russell Brand

00:00:00.000 I'm a veteran and I could never be a veteran. I'm looking for the steel. In this video, I'm

00:00:26.000 In this video, you're going to see the future.

00:00:39.000 You're wonderful, you're awakening, you're doing everything you can in a crazy world to remain connected, even though you are continually stimulated into a synthesized state by a system that wants you distracted.

00:00:51.000 Let's face it, you awakening wonder.

00:00:53.000 Thanks for joining us today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.

00:00:57.000 We've got some fantastic stories for you, haven't we, my dear on-screen assistant?

00:01:02.000 A lot of good stuff.

00:01:02.000 Many, yes.

00:01:03.000 We'll be talking about how many people from the military-industrial complex end up taking Lucrative positions around the world.

00:01:11.000 It's a fantastic story.

00:01:13.000 We're obviously looking as well about the incremental march towards war, how it's being continually exacerbated.

00:01:21.000 When we go exclusively, if you're watching us on YouTube right now, are you watching us on Twitter?

00:01:25.000 Are you allowed to watch us on Twitter anymore now that Twitter is the new throne of King Tucker?

00:01:31.000 King Tucker on his Twitter throne?

00:01:33.000 Is that where you're watching it?

00:01:34.000 Are we allowed to stream on there now?

00:01:36.000 We, uh, Tucker and Elon are friends of this show.

00:01:39.000 I actually was, I would say, troubling.

00:01:41.000 Bothering.

00:01:42.000 Pestering, bothering Elon Musk at night because... Angering?

00:01:46.000 Angering Elon Musk, because I was like, sort of going, is that his number?

00:01:49.000 Because, you know, if you ring a foreign number, sometimes it goes... And then it's this thing, and it was in a language that's not the mother tongue.

00:01:56.000 Right.

00:01:57.000 English.

00:01:58.000 So I just rang back and someone else in our group, James, one of the producers here, had the number of Elon Musk as well.

00:02:03.000 So I felt irritated by having to ask.

00:02:05.000 I said, James, send us that Elon Musk number.

00:02:07.000 And I call it again.

00:02:08.000 And then a text come through.

00:02:10.000 I'm in San Francisco.

00:02:11.000 I'm trying to sleep.

00:02:12.000 So if Elon Musk today seemed off his game, if he sacked another 50% of the workforce, if he can't focus, if he's given Tucker Carlson a real big deal over there at Twitter.

00:02:23.000 Did you see Tucker saying that?

00:02:24.000 I like the way that tech genius Elon Musk doesn't know about turning it on silent.

00:02:28.000 You know you can put it on silent, mate.

00:02:29.000 You know, that button on the side.

00:02:30.000 Wait, what?

00:02:31.000 Yeah, we all know that.

00:02:31.000 Oh!

00:02:33.000 Maybe he could be his, like, consultant or something.

00:02:35.000 Give him tips.

00:02:37.000 If you shut all those windows, mate, your battery lasts longer.

00:02:40.000 Little tip, little tip. 0.66

00:02:41.000 You can put that just down the brightness.

00:02:46.000 It's me, Russell Brand, Elon Musk's tech consultant.

00:02:50.000 And while I'm advising the genii of the world tech, the new plutocrat class, the new kings of the big tech world, I could give Zuckerberg a bit of advice on the BJJ, hmm?

00:03:02.000 Because he's been BJJing his way through life.

00:03:04.000 Hey, when we're exclusively on Rumble, the other platform where you can speak freely because I noticed Tucker was saying that Twitter is the only one.

00:03:10.000 We'll be talking about the coverage of 420 and the sort of fetishization and celebration of cannabis use.

00:03:17.000 It's really funny because like the mainstream media are casually supporting, celebrating drug use.

00:03:24.000 Well it's the like fun story of the day isn't it?

00:03:26.000 Hey, it's fun!

00:03:28.000 But elsewhere, drugs are still criminalised in ways that's really punitive and challenging.

00:03:33.000 In fact, we do a presentation on that a little later.

00:03:36.000 I thought Biden pledged to revoke that, though, didn't he?

00:03:39.000 Oh, well, what that was, is when he was trying to become president, he did some things.

00:03:43.000 Like, you'll also remember he said, we're going to make Saudi Arabia a pariah. 0.86

00:03:46.000 Hey, you're fire pariah! 0.96

00:03:48.000 Boom! 0.99

00:03:49.000 Yeah.

00:03:49.000 Yeah?

00:03:50.000 That's right.

00:03:50.000 People say things when they're trying to become president that they will not back up once they're president.

00:03:55.000 Ah, that's the lesson we'll learn today.

00:03:57.000 I don't like the idea of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook king, and look at how Facebook has followed the imperial model first.

00:04:04.000 They dominated the anglophonic countries, the Americas, us lot.

00:04:08.000 And then they sort of, like now in the Philippines, I think if you own a phone, you have to have Facebook on it, innit?

00:04:13.000 In some countries.

00:04:13.000 It's the only way you can get on the internet.

00:04:15.000 Yeah.

00:04:15.000 In most of Africa, I think.

00:04:16.000 In most African nations, you have to go via Facebook.

00:04:19.000 It's like Zuckerberg stands there.

00:04:20.000 That's the internet.

00:04:21.000 Like Gandalf.

00:04:22.000 Right.

00:04:23.000 You shall not pass.

00:04:25.000 But can you pass his guard, BJJ fans?

00:04:27.000 Let me know in the chat and the comments.

00:04:29.000 Let's have a look at him.

00:04:30.000 Zuckerberg's winning gold and silvers in the world of BJJ.

00:04:33.000 As you know, old Russ is a purple belt in the noble sport of Brazilian jiu-jitsu after seven, maybe eight years of toil and trouble.

00:04:41.000 Have you ever won gold and silver?

00:04:41.000 Wow.

00:04:42.000 No, because I'm too scared to go to such competitions.

00:04:44.000 It seems a little unfair if he's winning both of them.

00:04:46.000 It sounds a bit fixed to me.

00:04:47.000 Were you fighting yourself?

00:04:49.000 And now I get gold and silver, sonny boy!

00:04:53.000 Yeah, like, who won bronze?

00:04:56.000 Was it Rumble? 0.52

00:04:58.000 How did he not sweep that up, the mad monopolist?

00:05:01.000 Even in his BJJ, he's good.

00:05:03.000 He's winning those fights in the metaverse, so I'll warrant checks.

00:05:06.000 He makes a mockery of them like he does of Congress.

00:05:08.000 Yes!

00:05:09.000 Yes, you see, keeping it well done there, that's good.

00:05:11.000 Take the rest of the week off, don't.

00:05:12.000 What's he gonna do?

00:05:13.000 Sell those medals like he sells your data?

00:05:15.000 Oh, yeah!

00:05:17.000 Give Gareth some love in the chat!

00:05:20.000 This guy's on fire!

00:05:21.000 Let's have a look at Zuckerberg doing his crazy thang.

00:05:24.000 Don't be really, like, nerdy about it.

00:05:30.000 Of course you can.

00:05:33.000 Like a mechanic, so like, ooh, shouldn't have done that, mate.

00:05:35.000 Shouldn't have done that, mate.

00:05:36.000 Or in America.

00:05:37.000 In America, what do they do?

00:05:38.000 Do they suck their teeth in American mechanics? 0.53

00:05:40.000 Like, oh, buddy, that's going to be expensive.

00:05:42.000 Is that or is that just UK mechanics?

00:05:44.000 In UK, take your car to a mechanic.

00:05:46.000 They'll go...

00:05:47.000 It's going to cost you.

00:05:48.000 It's going to cost you that, mate.

00:05:49.000 Shouldn't have done that, mate.

00:05:50.000 Like, in America, whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy, buddy.

00:05:53.000 It's maybe like that.

00:05:53.000 Anyway, so here I'm nerding out on that.

00:05:55.000 That's actually a very good guard pass, applying a lot of pressure to the face of his opponent.

00:06:00.000 It looks like he's going to move into mount now.

00:06:03.000 I do Gi BJJ myself.

00:06:05.000 That means I wear the pyjamas, the outfit.

00:06:08.000 I see he's doing no Gi BJJ.

00:06:10.000 Now, you look at that.

00:06:12.000 The genitals are very close to the opponent's face. 1.00

00:06:15.000 Right.

00:06:15.000 And that's mounting, is it?

00:06:16.000 That's a lot of skill.

00:06:18.000 That's a proud day for Zuckerberg.

00:06:19.000 You've spent a lot of time learning that, have you?

00:06:22.000 I picked it up pretty quickly.

00:06:23.000 You've known that for a long time.

00:06:24.000 Yes, I'm one of the best.

00:06:26.000 Crowd shouting.

00:06:32.000 That's half guard actually.

00:06:35.000 He's got to get his other leg through.

00:06:36.000 is he going to be able to do that?

00:06:43.000 It seems like what Zuckerberg's got there is a points victory rather than by submission

00:06:49.000 because I didn't see anybody tap at the end there.

00:06:52.000 Do you feel like Zuckerberg should be allowed to do that?

00:06:55.000 And wasn't there a South Park episode where Zuckerberg started beating everybody up and stuff?

00:06:59.000 Should we have a look at that?

00:07:00.000 Is that a copyright issue?

00:07:01.000 I think it's true.

00:07:03.000 It's one of those, you know, people like to say that Simpsons predict, South Park predict, so let's know in the chat if that's true.

00:07:08.000 Anyway, and the ongoing war, not war, uh, the, the, well it is a war, but it's not involved America in it.

00:07:15.000 Look, the US, the UK vow...

00:07:17.000 To keep supporting the Ukraine regardless of counter-offensive.

00:07:20.000 Apparently there's going to be some sort of counter-offensive in springtime.

00:07:23.000 That's right.

00:07:24.000 Springtime for Hitler, as you know from the producers. 0.97

00:07:27.000 Hitler is dead.

00:07:29.000 That just in.

00:07:30.000 Now springtime is a time for the Russian counter-offensive. 0.96

00:07:33.000 We had a fantastic conversation that you can see now on Locals.

00:07:37.000 You'll be able to see it on Friday with RFK, Robert Kennedy Jr.

00:07:41.000 Where he talked extensively about how really we're funding this war at a time when we can ill afford it and we're being incredibly misled.

00:07:52.000 You've got to watch that if you're a member of our locals community you can join us on the chat now if you are.

00:07:57.000 Uh, you can watch it now, it's already up, but it'll be on Rumble on Friday.

00:08:01.000 So, yeah, he also said, by the way, that he estimates 300,000 Ukrainian people have died, 100,000 Russian people have died, and as with all wars, it's not the people that are agitating for and advocating for war that pay the ultimate penalty, it's ordinary people who temporarily have a national identity.

00:08:20.000 That was one of the things to come from the Pentagon leaks, wasn't it?

00:08:22.000 That there was more people that died than the U.S.

00:08:26.000 have made out.

00:08:27.000 And that not as many Russians have died as the U.S.

00:08:29.000 have made out.

00:08:30.000 RFK called it a money laundering operation.

00:08:32.000 He said essentially that finances being your tax dollars go, you know, into this war.

00:08:37.000 They come out the other end into the military-industrial complex.

00:08:40.000 You know that the Pentagon have never seen an audit that they can pass yet.

00:08:43.000 And you know that Assange said the same thing, that the function of government is to take public money and to put it into private hands, legitimising it.

00:08:48.000 He was running for the Afghanistan War.

00:08:50.000 Seems like the same playbook to me.

00:08:52.000 Let's have a look at the agitation for a new war.

00:08:55.000 That's the sum of the amount of money that's been spent.

00:08:57.000 Is it true that there's a, that Philippine patrols are in the South trying to see what's going on there, Gal?

00:09:02.000 There's just more wind from China right up.

00:09:04.000 That's right.

00:09:05.000 Doesn't seem wise.

00:09:05.000 Yeah.

00:09:06.000 Do you think that's wise?

00:09:06.000 Exactly.

00:09:09.000 What else is going on with the ongoing agitation of people?

00:09:12.000 Oh, this is, yeah, so this is the thing where when Trump was doing this it was condemned.

00:09:18.000 Can you explain this to us a little bit?

00:09:20.000 Yeah, so this is like the one China policy, which is obviously what, you know, the fears are around this at the moment, that by agitating China And by supporting Taiwan, like when Trump took a phone call from the president of Taiwan when he got into power, and Rachel Maddow and a lot of the media came on and said, how dare he?

00:09:39.000 You know what he's doing is violating the One China policy and this is going to lead to war.

00:09:43.000 But as we know, he's happening at the moment with the support of Taiwan, with giving them military equipment, with sending troops over there, with training them, all that kind of stuff.

00:09:50.000 It's doing the exact same thing, but without the same kind of pushback as Trump was getting from taking a phone call.

00:09:55.000 That's extraordinary.

00:09:56.000 Let's have a look at that being reported on MSNBC now.

00:09:59.000 It took decades to develop the ground on which we talk to China, and Donald Trump tore it up today.

00:10:06.000 And the intense and important thing here is that we don't know if he did it on purpose, or if he just bumbled into it.

00:10:16.000 I mean, either way, I mean, this conceivably is the way wars start, right?

00:10:24.000 What worries me is that there are no morals or principles.

00:10:27.000 There's no certainty or spine.

00:10:29.000 There's no institution that you can claim has moral authority anymore.

00:10:34.000 Revelations around the church in recent years have shaken our faith.

00:10:38.000 And when you see how the media behaves differently, advocating for the party that they traditionally support and are aligned with when they're in office, opposing the other party, their principles changing, you've seen We've seen that happen around important issues, around

00:10:52.000 medications connected to the pandemic, they just switch sides when appropriate.

00:10:56.000 It brings us to a difficult point, as we've discussed earlier this week, that every election

00:11:02.000 result is queried, the judiciary is queried, there's no sort of faith that, oh, these things

00:11:08.000 are sacrosanct and sacred.

00:11:10.000 And I think it's because we've desacralized, as Vandana Shiva says, we've desacralized our culture.

00:11:14.000 We've lost our love, reverence and respect for one another and for the Earth.

00:11:18.000 So when it comes to important decisions, verdicts and choices, there's no sense that, well, these are our principles, these are our values, we know that we can rely on them and trust them.

00:11:26.000 We live in these silos, separate, people reorganizing their principles, their values and their opinions in accordance with often monetized alliances, would you say?

00:11:34.000 Yeah, absolutely right.

00:11:36.000 I mean, it can't be one rule for one and different for someone else, can it?

00:11:39.000 I suppose not.

00:11:40.000 Not if it is indeed a rule, otherwise it's not a rule, it's a kind of a technique.

00:11:44.000 Okay, let's have a look at this.

00:11:45.000 This is a sort of a complex story, but you won't be surprised to learn that it centers around military-industrial complex manipulation of the media and financial industry.

00:11:55.000 People are retiring from the NSA, then winning lucrative contracts, not only within the United States.

00:12:01.000 We're well aversed.

00:12:02.000 We've seen military generals turn up on the news, often advocating for war.

00:12:06.000 Let me know in the chat if you've noticed that.

00:12:08.000 Certainly we've discussed it.

00:12:09.000 That happens elsewhere in the world, and it gives me the idea that there's this class, this strata of political movement that is transcendent of national identity.

00:12:17.000 When it comes to matters like military and the war, we talk about ideas like humanitarianism, patriotism, honour, connection, alliance and allegiance.

00:12:24.000 But there is, and perhaps has always been, a transcendent group, i.e.

00:12:29.000 people retire from the NSA, then go get consultancy deals with Saudi Arabia, who are meant to be still a pariah, fist bump.

00:12:37.000 It shows you that They don't live within the framing that they invite us to operate within.

00:12:43.000 Is that right, Gary?

00:12:44.000 Yeah, I mean, this is the Washington Post that they've put in.

00:12:46.000 The only way they got this information, because it was being withheld from them, as you can imagine why, it's kind of embarrassing to admit that 500 retired US military personnel have gone on to work for countries like Saudi Arabia, who, as you say, Ross, are meant to be pariahs, have, you know, human rights abuses that apparently we care about, and yet our military personnel Can leave their post, retire, and not only go and get involved in the revolving door with military-industrial complex, but go and work for regimes like Saudi Arabia.

00:13:13.000 So they had to obtain a freedom of information lawsuit, which is the only way that anyone in the press... So they're trying to control this information, presumably because they know most people wouldn't be down with it.

00:13:24.000 Also, that's a staggeringly high figure, 500.

00:13:26.000 Someone's like Trump.

00:13:28.000 I mean, it's probably an easy thing to find out.

00:13:29.000 How many countries are there?

00:13:31.000 I don't know, there was 500 countries That's like a retired military general for every nation on earth.

00:13:36.000 So this is 500 military personnel that they've got access to.

00:13:39.000 Where are they all going?

00:13:40.000 I mean, have you got a couple in some countries?

00:13:42.000 Have you got 10 over in Saudi Arabia?

00:13:45.000 What do you do if you have a dissident journalist?

00:13:47.000 Go to the embassy, chop them up!

00:13:49.000 Oh, OK, thanks.

00:13:50.000 Let me write that down. 0.96

00:13:51.000 No need, I'm going to chop your hand off in a minute. 1.00

00:13:52.000 You got on my nerves just then. 0.95

00:13:53.000 That's not an attack on Saudi Arabia other than, I suppose, a reference to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

00:13:58.000 He was chopped up in the consulate in Turkey, which led to Biden, while campaigning, saying, this dude's going to be a pariah.

00:14:07.000 But in office, things went all a bit different, didn't they?

00:14:10.000 What it also does is, for example, we were talking about the Pentagon leaks a few minutes ago, and everything around the Pentagon at the time was, this should not be in public hands, the public should not have information to this, this is the Pentagon, we are the military, we have authority here, we know what we're doing.

00:14:27.000 You do know what you're doing for a few years, and then you retire and go and work for the very regimes who you've just gone and said should be pariahs.

00:14:33.000 It's utter hypocrisy.

00:14:35.000 Can't we have any faith or trust in these institutions when we know that much of the clandestine redacted and concealed information's got stuff like, oh, guess what?

00:14:42.000 When we leave work, we go work for countries that we've condemned as pariahs previously, that we know have records of human rights abuses.

00:14:50.000 How can we trust them?

00:14:52.000 How can we trust election results?

00:14:53.000 How can we trust the judiciary?

00:14:55.000 How can anything be trusted anymore?

00:14:57.000 Because we know that when they talk about protecting us, they're exploiting us, surveilling us and spying

00:15:02.000 on us.

00:15:02.000 How do you feel about this? Let me know in the chat.

00:15:05.000 Now we're going to leave, if you're watching this on YouTube right now,

00:15:08.000 we're going to jump over to Rumble. There's a link in the description.

00:15:11.000 This, look, I'll be honest with you, this isn't because it's a story that's going

00:15:14.000 to change the world because we're attacking the establishment using their

00:15:17.000 own weapons against them. No, even though, by God, if you want to

00:15:21.000 see that happen you are not going to want to miss our show on Friday with RFK.

00:15:24.000 This is a person who grew up at the knee of one of the greatest presidents in American history.

00:15:29.000 Let me know in the chat who your favorite is.

00:15:31.000 And he's actually telling you stuff.

00:15:32.000 I mean, even just on the conversational level, stuff about Jackie Onassis, stuff about KGB spies being around the house, the hotline to Khrushchev.

00:15:40.000 And then when it comes to the pandemic and Fauci, you lot, Yeah, I felt like I was, like, you know, I can handle a conspiracy theory.

00:15:46.000 Like, Gareth afterwards goes, you know, like in, uh, Few Good Men, when Jack Nicholson goes, YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

00:15:52.000 And you sort of, the subtext of the minute would be, well, we can handle the truth, give us the truth.

00:15:56.000 We can't handle the truth.

00:15:57.000 Look, you wait.

00:15:58.000 If you think you can handle the truth...

00:15:59.000 Listen to our interview of RFK.

00:16:01.000 If you're a member of Locals, you can listen to it right now.

00:16:03.000 There's a red button on your screen.

00:16:05.000 If you're watching us on Rumble, oh my God, just go watch it right now.

00:16:09.000 Incredible stuff.

00:16:09.000 And then tell us, can you handle the truth?

00:16:11.000 Can you handle the truth?

00:16:13.000 We're going to go and be just now on Rumble.

00:16:15.000 We're going to be on Rumble now.

00:16:16.000 This isn't... We've got some serious coverage coming up in a minute about how drug promises and pledges made about the drug laws have been reneged on, as usual.

00:16:26.000 But this is just an amazing, delightful I think it's Fox, actually.

00:16:30.000 Right, exactly that.

00:16:30.000 Pothead Christmas.

00:16:31.000 It's like, oh, isn't it funny that people can freely smoke?

00:16:32.000 And it is really funny.

00:16:33.000 Is it true that you can, though?

00:16:34.000 Yeah.

00:16:35.000 One day of the year.

00:16:35.000 On 420?

00:16:35.000 in an amusing way. There's a link in the description. See you over there.

00:16:38.000 This is the 420 story, then. What is it about? Just people, how they celebrate 420.

00:16:43.000 I think it's Fox, actually.

00:16:44.000 Pothead Christmas.

00:16:45.000 It's like, exactly that. It's like, oh, isn't it funny that people can freely smoke?

00:16:50.000 And it is really funny.

00:16:51.000 Is it true that you can, though?

00:16:53.000 Yeah.

00:16:54.000 On 420?

00:16:55.000 One day of the year.

00:16:56.000 Why?

00:16:57.000 I don't know, but that's the law, apparently.

00:16:59.000 That shows you how mad laws are, and for this day, do what you want day!

00:16:59.000 Whatever this is.

00:17:03.000 Right.

00:17:04.000 Like those films where, like, the devices is one day a year we can kill anyone.

00:17:08.000 Yeah.

00:17:09.000 Battle Royale, something like that.

00:17:10.000 You know, those dystopian films.

00:17:11.000 I don't like Purge and things like that.

00:17:12.000 Purge, yeah, things like that.

00:17:13.000 I don't like those.

00:17:14.000 But this is... Why?

00:17:15.000 They're scary.

00:17:16.000 Oh.

00:17:17.000 Let's have a look at Gareth's worst nightmare.

00:17:19.000 Because we're headed in that direction, right?

00:17:21.000 Gareth's worst nightmare is freedom.

00:17:24.000 Have a look at that freedom right now on the lips of a high guy.

00:17:28.000 Sorry, Detroit celebrating 420 day. It is a hey It's a beautiful thing man

00:17:37.000 Beautiful!

00:17:37.000 Give these two a movie.

00:17:39.000 Anyway, he's on Fox 2. I didn't even know there was a Fox 2, did you?

00:17:42.000 No.

00:17:42.000 Fox 2, they really line up.

00:17:44.000 This time it's personal.

00:17:45.000 Yeah, Fox 2, yeah, it was very general in Fox 1.

00:17:48.000 Fox 1, much more like, uh, concerns about demographics and balances.

00:17:53.000 Fox 2, ah, we don't care, let's just get high and be friends.

00:17:56.000 Race is an illusion. Why don't we all just get high and have fun together? 0.64

00:17:59.000 What the heck? 0.66

00:18:00.000 Smoking on the news! 0.98

00:18:01.000 Hit it, Charlie! 0.99

00:18:03.000 Yeah, hit it, man. 0.99

00:18:04.000 Hit it, Charlie! 0.93

00:18:05.000 That holiday, 4-20, April 20th?

00:18:09.000 Do you feel like you've seen this somewhere?

00:18:11.000 Like the feeling of this news, it's like the feeling of someone being jostled along by cooler people in a sort of a delightful way.

00:18:19.000 It's not quite Weekend at Bernie's.

00:18:21.000 What is it where someone gets sort of hoovered into it?

00:18:23.000 Is it all American high school movies where a nerd gets in with a cool kid?

00:18:27.000 By the end of this news report, is that guy gonna be sort of the coolest one but then realize that actually he's better off?

00:18:33.000 They're singing Summer Lovin' by the end of this.

00:18:36.000 I don't think that's possible.

00:18:37.000 Celebrating everything hot.

00:18:39.000 How are you celebrating it today?

00:18:41.000 Like this.

00:18:41.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:18:42.000 Smoking weed.

00:18:43.000 You know what I'm saying?

00:18:47.000 Get high.

00:18:48.000 There are risks.

00:18:52.000 Like many on the weed bar bus from Eastern Market to here.

00:18:56.000 It's first stop at the Detroit Herbal Center on Detroit's West Side.

00:18:59.000 Free weed!

00:19:00.000 Who wants some weed? 0.97

00:19:01.000 And many happy that this year smoking pot for recreation is legal and business is good.

00:19:07.000 Business has been good.

00:19:08.000 You making money?

00:19:09.000 I can't complain.

00:19:10.000 Is it cheaper now?

00:19:11.000 Heck yeah, way cheaper.

00:19:12.000 I'm saying like the gang saturated now so like everybody can afford it.

00:19:18.000 And further on the west side, on the corner of Warren and Greenfield, the herbalist cannabis company is celebrating.

00:19:25.000 420, the holiday that only matters to a lot of people in Detroit.

00:19:31.000 420, 420.

00:19:33.000 It's gone too deep.

00:19:35.000 What it is, is like deep cover, like when you get involved in an operation or a community, but then it's somehow you are in vagals and you forget.

00:19:44.000 Listen, this was just meant to be a news broadcast. 1.00

00:19:46.000 Why don't you go to hell? 1.00

00:19:47.000 I'm smoking a newbie, baby. 1.00

00:19:49.000 I'm down with these people now.

00:19:50.000 Leave me alone.

00:19:52.000 We eat all the time.

00:19:54.000 It's not just today, it's more than every day.

00:19:56.000 And with all this pot, most places are giving away free burgers or Cinnabon.

00:20:02.000 Why are you like that?

00:20:02.000 Because he's funny.

00:20:03.000 With all this pot!

00:20:04.000 He's so excited about this pot.

00:20:06.000 As you say, he's getting more enveloped in this day as the day goes on.

00:20:08.000 He's lost his objectivity.

00:20:12.000 You used to be a journalist, Paul.

00:20:13.000 Yeah, but I'm something much better now, baby!

00:20:15.000 We're sandwiches.

00:20:16.000 How was it?

00:20:17.000 Charlie, listen to me.

00:20:19.000 I ain't gonna lie to you.

00:20:22.000 Amazing.

00:20:23.000 You gotta grab one of them Jones.

00:20:25.000 So, with the munchies satisfying, feeling good, it's back on the weed bus for another 420 celebration in the deep.

00:20:34.000 Look at me, Mom.

00:20:36.000 I made it!

00:20:37.000 On Detroit's West Side, Charlie Langton.

00:20:40.000 Look at me now, I made it!

00:20:41.000 There's quite a few layers of irony, post-modernity in that.

00:20:46.000 What an extraordinary piece of news.

00:20:47.000 You could put that up as a piece of art, really.

00:20:50.000 You could use an installation and just say, look at where the culture is now.

00:20:53.000 It's an incredible celebration, particularly when you look at the fact that Elsewhere, pledges are being made around decriminalization and declassification of drugs, in particular cannabis, ironically, that have not been kept.

00:21:07.000 You're gonna love this story and how it leads to, oddly enough, the criticism, condemnation, and ability to criminalize certain classes of people.

00:21:16.000 That's what you can do if you have certain substances that are culturally significant or emotionally necessary that are illegal. 0.94

00:21:24.000 No, here's the f***ing news. 0.91

00:21:24.000 Here's the news. 0.91

00:21:26.000 Thank you for choosing Fox News.

00:21:27.000 Here's the news. 0.97

00:21:29.000 No, here's the f***ing news. 0.96

00:21:31.000 If cannabis isn't actually a gateway drug, then why is it still illegal? 0.95

00:21:38.000 Particularly when the current administration said they were gonna de-schedule it.

00:21:42.000 And who on earth thinks that the solution to all of this might be to bomb Mexico?

00:21:47.000 Why are they still criminalizing drugs? 0.86

00:21:51.000 We're talking about drug decriminalisation on the back of a debate on Fox News where Judge Janine predictably said the solution might be bomb Mexico.

00:21:58.000 Is there a single problem that Judge Janine doesn't think can't be solved with a bomb?

00:22:02.000 Usually on Mexico.

00:22:04.000 Look at these problems in Iran. 0.97

00:22:05.000 Could we bomb Mexico? 0.98

00:22:07.000 But there's no Come on, let's try it! 0.98

00:22:09.000 Try it!

00:22:11.000 And remember, Joe Biden did run on a pledge to de-schedule cannabis use.

00:22:14.000 So what is it about drug use and the potential awakening of minds and changing of perspective that means that drugs are continually used to fence people in and hem people in?

00:22:23.000 Let's have a look at the Fox News debate.

00:22:25.000 Look, I think you should target the cartels.

00:22:27.000 Uh, while you negotiate with him, and I also think you gotta legalize drugs.

00:22:30.000 I mean, the only way you're gonna have quality control, uh, like prescriptions, and the only way you're gonna stop fentanyl poisonings would be to legalize these drugs, which people want.

00:22:42.000 Seems like a sensible solution proposed by Greg Gutfeld, a libertarian or indeed liberal solution, allowing people to do what they want as long as it doesn't affect other people.

00:22:52.000 There is some precedent for decriminalization, notably in Portugal.

00:22:56.000 Since it decriminalized all drugs in 2001, Portugal has seen dramatic drops in overdoses, HIV infection and drug-related crime.

00:23:04.000 So it has been tried successfully.

00:23:06.000 The problem isn't with the dealers.

00:23:08.000 The problem is with us.

00:23:10.000 We're the demand.

00:23:10.000 Right?

00:23:12.000 They're just the supplier.

00:23:13.000 You want to know who the drug dealers are?

00:23:17.000 Snoop Dogg was a drug dealer.

00:23:18.000 Ooh, I like Snoop Dogg. 0.99

00:23:20.000 Jay-Z was a drug dealer. 0.89

00:23:21.000 Ooh, I like Jay-Z. 1.00

00:23:24.000 50 Cent was a drug dealer. 0.93

00:23:25.000 Love Fiddy. 0.99

00:23:26.000 Mark Wahlberg was a drug dealer. 0.97

00:23:28.000 Marky Mark. 0.97

00:23:29.000 Tim Allen.

00:23:29.000 Gotta love him.

00:23:30.000 Tim Allen?

00:23:31.000 From Home Improvement?

00:23:32.000 Tim Allen?

00:23:33.000 This list's getting weird.

00:23:34.000 And do you know who opened this segment? 0.77

00:23:36.000 Kid Rock was a drug dealer.

00:23:36.000 Who?

00:23:39.000 Bud Light, no.

00:23:39.000 Drugs, yes.

00:23:42.000 There's a lot of hypocrisy from Republicans. 0.94

00:23:44.000 What do they love and preach to everybody? 0.96

00:23:46.000 Capitalism.

00:23:47.000 What do they hate?

00:23:48.000 Regulating it.

00:23:50.000 What is the drug market?

00:23:51.000 Unregulated capitalism. 0.98

00:23:53.000 A lot, a lot, for the first rung onto that ladder of capitalism, often is drug dealing for blacks. 1.00

00:24:00.000 So how dare you? 0.96

00:24:01.000 Judge Janine's not going to stand for much more of this.

00:24:04.000 She's already reaching for the bomb Mexico button. 0.54

00:24:07.000 Hmm, this sounds like bomb Mexico territory. 1.00

00:24:09.000 Bomb them. 1.00

00:24:10.000 Well, everyone. 0.98

00:24:10.000 Judge Jeanine's not gonna stand for much more of this. 0.98

00:24:12.000 She's already reaching for the bomb Mexico button. 0.54

00:24:14.000 Hmm, this sounds like bomb Mexico territory. 1.00

00:24:17.000 Bomb them. 1.00

00:24:18.000 Bomb them. 1.00

00:24:19.000 They legalize drugs in Portland, essentially, and everyone's dying and sleeping on the streets. 0.86

00:24:24.000 Well, everyone.

00:24:25.000 Do you agree that we should legalize drugs, Judge Jeanine?

00:24:29.000 Let me ask you a question.

00:24:31.000 What do you think my answer is to that?

00:24:33.000 Absolutely not.

00:24:34.000 Okay.

00:24:35.000 We can't legalize it.

00:24:36.000 And look, here's the thing— Because the drug war is working great!

00:24:38.000 Well, no, because we're not doing everything we need to be doing.

00:24:41.000 Arrest more people?

00:24:41.000 No, what we need to do— Because they're seeking oblivion?

00:24:43.000 Arrest?

00:24:44.000 No, not yet.

00:24:45.000 Judge James found a measure a little harsher than just plain arrest.

00:24:48.000 Keep going, Judge.

00:24:49.000 Look, Joe Biden wants this sanctioned and financially crippled.

00:24:53.000 We heard this drug czar saying they're going to know that we're serious.

00:24:57.000 Are you kidding?

00:24:58.000 We need to designate them as foreign terrorists. 1.00

00:25:01.000 Finally, some common sense.

00:25:01.000 Right.

00:25:03.000 Here's Greg Gutfeld saying that they're entrepreneurs and Judge Shadeen, terrorists.

00:25:07.000 He has some pretty diverse views over there on Fox.

00:25:09.000 So that we can go after them the way we go after terrorists, we need to have military strikes.

00:25:14.000 Yes!

00:25:15.000 It's a war.

00:25:16.000 The war on drugs.

00:25:17.000 We all remember how successful that war on drugs has been from our own horrible struggle with drugs and from the opioid deaths of the last few years.

00:25:24.000 And I don't care if President Obrador of Mexico thinks we're rude or thinks it's an insult that we would consider doing this. 0.94

00:25:30.000 The truth is that if you've got 100,000 people dying, we're in a damn war right now. 0.74

00:25:36.000 And these kids are not dying because they want to take fentanyl. 0.97

00:25:39.000 They're dying because they want to take maybe an Adderall or maybe they want to take an oxycodone.

00:25:44.000 This is extraordinary because the debate is actually moving away from the pharmaceutical companies who deliberately and manipulatively encouraged doctors, financially, to prescribe fentanyl knowing that it was addictive and harmful.

00:25:58.000 This is an example, I suppose, of how the mainstream media, even in their framing of a conversation, prevents you from looking at the issue in its entirety.

00:26:05.000 While I recognize that Fox News have been quite overt in their covering of the opioid crisis, fentanyl, the Sackler family, Purdue Pharma, Okay, and it's an undeclared war.

00:26:16.000 No, that's not why you legalize it.

00:26:17.000 Do you know who caused all this?

00:26:19.000 It's Mexicans. 1.00

00:26:20.000 That's why you legalize it.

00:26:21.000 Undeclared war.

00:26:22.000 No, that's not why you legalize it.

00:26:24.000 That's when you get the control of it.

00:26:26.000 When it, look, read about prohibition.

00:26:29.000 The reason why people died during prohibition was because the alcohol wasn't controlled.

00:26:33.000 Greg Gutfeld very much carrying on the mantle left behind by Tucker Carlson of providing

00:26:38.000 a genuinely liberal and anti-establishment voice in a corporatized space.

00:26:43.000 I wouldn't have believed it possible just five, ten years ago that you would ever see someone on Fox News who was salaried by them saying that drugs should be decriminalised, that the pharmaceutical industry are worse than drug dealers, ensuring that the debate is handled deftly.

00:26:55.000 Okay.

00:26:55.000 Once you control pills, then you know it's an Adderall.

00:26:57.000 Then you know it's a Xanax.

00:26:58.000 So we're gonna make fentanyl so that it's not lethal anymore?

00:27:01.000 Fentanyl is legal, by the way.

00:27:03.000 Lethal!

00:27:05.000 Lethal!

00:27:06.000 Like a bomb!

00:27:07.000 It's gonna be landin' any minute!

00:27:08.000 An Acapulco!

00:27:09.000 But it's also legal.

00:27:10.000 I know it's legal.

00:27:12.000 Doctors prescribe it.

00:27:13.000 It's also lethal on the street, but not lethal when it's prescribed.

00:27:17.000 Well, it's not lethal when it's prescribed.

00:27:19.000 Yeah, I get it, but here's the problem.

00:27:21.000 Is that the kids who don't want, necessarily, an illegal drug, and only want something that's ordinary, and that it's in everybody's medicine cabinet, end up taking something like... Because it's not regulated!

00:27:32.000 Because they get mixed! 1.00

00:27:34.000 You're agreeing with me!

00:27:35.000 I'm not agreeing with you!

00:27:36.000 Yes, but the reason why people... Look, I've had two friends die of overdoses from fentanyl.

00:27:40.000 We all have had friends die of overdose.

00:27:44.000 That's why I got a bomb, Mexico! 1.00

00:27:46.000 For the same reason you're talking about.

00:27:48.000 They didn't know they were taking it.

00:27:49.000 If it was legal, that wouldn't have happened.

00:27:54.000 But the truth is that people are dying of these overdoses because they don't think that there's fentanyl in it, or they don't know that there's that much.

00:28:03.000 I will arrest my case, that's what I said.

00:28:05.000 First of all, let me say, this was a fascinating conversation.

00:28:07.000 Firstly, you guys have got a great marriage.

00:28:09.000 That's what I want to say, and it's worth saving.

00:28:10.000 And I tend to agree with Greg.

00:28:12.000 After trillions of dollars and the failed war on drugs, I don't think that prohibition... Because we haven't done the war properly!

00:28:18.000 And I also think... Do the war properly! 0.87

00:28:20.000 With greater wars!

00:28:21.000 Afghanistan?

00:28:21.000 Okay, maybe not Afghanistan.

00:28:23.000 Iraq? 0.57

00:28:23.000 Okay, maybe not Iraq. 0.57

00:28:25.000 The one we're not in!

00:28:25.000 This one!

00:28:26.000 Okay.

00:28:27.000 Just look! 1.00

00:28:27.000 Bomb Mexico! 1.00

00:28:28.000 Just say no is not a war! 1.00

00:28:31.000 That's like just burying your head in the sand, ignoring a problem with a ludicrous catchphrase.

00:28:35.000 It isn't a war, to be fair, to Judge Jeanine.

00:28:37.000 What is a war then?

00:28:38.000 You referenced... You take out the drug pins.

00:28:44.000 If you could take out the drug kingpins, I mean, target the cartels with military strikes, as several prominent Republicans are advocating.

00:28:52.000 Then why can't Mexico target our gun manufacturers? 0.93

00:28:55.000 Because we're flooding Mexico with guns, hundreds of thousands of guns every year that they're using in all this violence. 0.63

00:29:01.000 Guns don't get up and say, I'm going to go out today and kill somebody.

00:29:04.000 I don't know what they're talking about.

00:29:07.000 She's amazing, Justine.

00:29:08.000 Guns don't just get up on their own and kill people.

00:29:11.000 Even trucks don't just get up on their own and give themselves to people.

00:29:13.000 It's the exact same argument and quite a good one from that beautiful Guess Who character. 0.53

00:29:18.000 If we're gonna bomb Mexico, why don't we bomb China? 0.99

00:29:20.000 China's the source of the fentanyl. 0.99

00:29:22.000 I mean, you just cannot.

00:29:24.000 You cannot do these kinds of actions.

00:29:27.000 Let's legalize it and see how good that goes.

00:29:30.000 I've covered every drug from 1970.

00:29:31.000 I was there when Nixon started the war on drugs.

00:29:36.000 It's not working.

00:29:37.000 It doesn't work.

00:29:38.000 We've got to confess it at certain point.

00:29:41.000 You know, trillions of dollars wasted.

00:29:43.000 No controls.

00:29:45.000 It's suicide.

00:29:46.000 What's killed more people, alcohol or pot?

00:29:48.000 Exactly.

00:29:49.000 It's the easiest comparison one could make.

00:29:51.000 Exactly.

00:29:52.000 There are a lot of very progressive liberal views being expressed in this debate and it's an indication of how much the taxonomies of media have shifted.

00:30:00.000 It would have been unthinkable to see a debate where views were expressed articulately that were anti the war on drugs or anti legislation and regulation and criminalization and condemnation around those issues.

00:30:11.000 It shows you in a sense that the old barometers, markers and categories are starting to melt away.

00:30:17.000 Whether it's legitimate or sincere.

00:30:18.000 I would say in the case of Greg Gutfield having met Greg that it is sincere.

00:30:22.000 Elsewhere it might be rhetorical on the channel.

00:30:24.000 I'm in no position to really say.

00:30:26.000 But what this tells us, I think, is that the old values are shifting.

00:30:30.000 This is somewhat under him by the recent revelation through study that cannabis is not as long presumed a gateway drug at all.

00:30:38.000 Legalizing recreational cannabis at the state level does not increase substance use disorders or use of other illicit drugs among adults and in fact may reduce alcohol related problems according to new CU Boulder research.

00:30:49.000 The study of more than 4,000 twins from Colorado and Minnesota also found no link between cannabis legalization and increases in cognitive psychological social relationship or financial problems.

00:30:58.000 Of course, one of the campaign pledges of the Biden administration was that cannabis would be de-scheduled.

00:31:03.000 Let's see how that went.

00:31:04.000 In a campaign ad that hit YouTube seven days before the 2020 election, Biden said,

00:31:08.000 as president, I'll work to reform the criminal justice system, improve community policing,

00:31:13.000 decriminalize marijuana, and automatically expunge all prior marijuana convictions.

00:31:17.000 According to a Gallup poll last fall, 68% of Americans said that they wanted to go beyond

00:31:23.000 They want full federal legalization of the recreational use of marijuana by adults.

00:31:27.000 The kinds of big dramatic steps in that direction that Biden promised would be attention grabbing and base mobilizing.

00:31:32.000 It has 83% support among Democrats, but best of all, it wouldn't even be a potent issue for mobilizing conservative voters.

00:31:39.000 That poll showed slightly more Republicans were for it, 50%, than against it, 49%.

00:31:44.000 Other polls in the last few years have put the Republican for number even higher.

00:31:47.000 A Pew poll in November 2019 found that 55% of Republican-leaning voters were pro-legalisation.

00:31:53.000 When something like this has broad appeal and is broadly popular across both parties, I have genuine questions as to why it's not carried, and I feel that it might indicate a deeper set of psychological biases at an institutional level, As well as a means to incarcerate, stigmatize and criminalize people conveniently.

00:32:14.000 Eventually, drugs will become decriminalized if not fully legalized because it simply doesn't make sense.

00:32:20.000 It's a relic from a more legislative and prohibitive era that can't withstand the kind of conversations that we're currently having around identity, freedom, the right to be who you are.

00:32:30.000 If people have the right to change aspects of their biological nature, which again, I have no strong opinion on.

00:32:36.000 I support individual freedom full stop.

00:32:38.000 Then certainly an issue like this is one that needs to be looked at.

00:32:42.000 Hell, there's even a case for it from a pro-business Republican perspective.

00:32:45.000 Legal weed businesses would finally be allowed to accept credit card payments.

00:32:49.000 And yet, in April 22, he was reviewing powers that no one anywhere doubts that he has.

00:32:54.000 Has Biden just forgotten?

00:32:55.000 Unlikely.

00:32:57.000 Last July, three of the most high-profile senators in the Democratic caucus, 2020 presidential candidates Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker, sent Biden a letter urging the administration to use its existing authority to de-schedule cannabis.

00:33:09.000 They have a comparable authority when it comes to controlling pharmaceutical prices for serious diseases.

00:33:15.000 We did a video on how a cancer drug that costs $100,000 a month could be white-labeled or threatened with white-label regulation, meaning it will be cheaply available to those that need it.

00:33:25.000 So there are sort of areas of legislation and administration that don't make rational sense.

00:33:29.000 And if something doesn't make rational sense, to me it's an indication that there's a sort of a faith-based ideological component that isn't obvious and evident.

00:33:37.000 You know folks, it's just like Biden promised explicitly more than once and in so many words he would do when he was running for president.

00:33:43.000 It's also like the overwhelming majority of Americans want him to do.

00:33:47.000 Biden was a hardcore war on drugs hawk for most of his Senate career.

00:33:50.000 Why did he promise to de-schedule cannabis when he was running for president?

00:33:53.000 It's hard to see an answer to that question other than he knew it would be good politics.

00:33:57.000 When Fox News is continually attacked, and we've participated in attacking Fox News, and yet they have more progressive, open-minded views on decriminalization than the apparently Democrat president, it makes you wonder what really controls American administration? How are decisions

00:34:12.000 genuinely made? This is another example of not only the fact that pledges are made when

00:34:15.000 running for office that simply aren't carried out during administration, but also that

00:34:19.000 there appear to be guiding principles that are not obvious and evident and are certainly not

00:34:23.000 connected to the will of ordinary people.

00:34:25.000 Let me know what you think in the chat and the comments. I say all of this as a person

00:34:29.000 in recovery who doesn't use drugs or alcohol one day at a time for a number of reasons,

00:34:34.000 Let's have a look at the benefits of a new attitude towards drug and criminalization at the level of the state.

00:34:40.000 Decriminalization changes the way we think about drugs.

00:34:43.000 Drugs will no longer be treated as a criminal issue, but instead a health and social one.

00:34:47.000 This means that instead of addressing drugs through handcuffs, the focus will be on the root causes of drug use, including inequities rooted in housing and healthcare.

00:34:54.000 Perhaps it's these deep roots that cause legislation to remain entrenched, that you have to acknowledge that, ultimately, drugs, when used pathologically, are a response to trauma, sadness, social decline, all points that are covered by Greg Gutfield in that debate, and seemingly unacknowledged by the Biden administration, which doesn't seem to tally with how most Democrats would regard Fox News versus the Democrat Party.

00:35:20.000 What's happening?

00:35:21.000 Decriminalization saves governments money.

00:35:23.000 A large proportion of the justice system, police, courts, prisons, are occupied with drug-related crimes.

00:35:28.000 As seen in other decriminalized jurisdictions, such as Portugal, it can reduce the demands and costs to this system.

00:35:34.000 Considering the demonstrated need for addiction and mental health resources, the money saved could be well spent elsewhere, such as community-led responses, healthcare housing, and social programs.

00:35:43.000 For example, eliminating criminal records related to drug possession offences promotes opportunities for people to access employment and housing.

00:35:49.000 Interactions between people who use drugs and police can also be reduced, or better yet, won't happen at all.

00:35:54.000 Decriminalisation reduces stigma.

00:35:56.000 Negative views towards drugs and people who use them is a major factor in the overdose crisis.

00:36:01.000 By reshaping the way our family, friends and the medical profession think about drugs, drugs can be talked about more openly and honestly.

00:36:07.000 Reducing stigma can also encourage people who use drugs to talk to their doctors about prescription-based therapies.

00:36:12.000 At the very least, it will help bring drug use out from isolation where fatal overdoses tend to be the highest.

00:36:18.000 I suppose that failure to change this legislation reveals that the government are out of touch with the population that they are charged with governing and out of touch with their own declared ethics.

00:36:29.000 Here's another indication of That there has been a divorce between the public and the people that govern them, and that there are shifting sands in the media landscape where presumed opinions are starting to shift an order.

00:36:39.000 It also indicates that authoritarianism now is housed within the left, and in particular within the Democrat Party.

00:36:44.000 Not that I'm saying that the Republican Party is meaningfully better, just that the liberalism that used to underwrite the modern Democratic Party is no longer in evidence.

00:36:52.000 Even with an issue that would seem, according to this article, like an easy win.

00:36:56.000 So what does that indicate?

00:36:57.000 That authoritarianism, the ability to legislate and the ability to control, is more important to them than fulfilling their promises or cost-effective policies that would make a difference in people's lives.

00:37:07.000 We all saw in the last couple of years that the tendency to legislate, regulate and support Big Pharma almost appeared to have a kind of tidal, meteorological power, rather than the declared ideologies of an apparently liberal democracy.

00:37:20.000 Decriminalization is harm reduction.

00:37:22.000 Although some people fear that decriminalization may increase or encourage drug use, this concern is simply not supported by evidence.

00:37:28.000 We know from dozens of countries, states and cities that have decriminalized drugs, that use does not significantly increase.

00:37:34.000 In some places, it's actually decreased.

00:37:36.000 Decriminalization also lowers overdose and disease rates while increasing people's access to social services and healthcare.

00:37:42.000 In this way, a decriminalization model is a basic harm reduction approach mitigating the harms experienced by people who use drugs by eliminating or minimizing the source of those harms, criminalization.

00:37:53.000 Overall, the notion of decriminalization is not a panacea or a standalone solution to the harms of drug prohibition, but it is a critical step in the right direction.

00:38:01.000 It will have a positive impact on the lives of so many people who are harmed daily from criminalization.

00:38:06.000 This, I suppose, is an attitude that could be applied to drug use across the board, from less harmful substances like cannabis, all the way to plainly more toxic substances like heroin.

00:38:15.000 Within it is the revelation of a philosophy that's closer to Judge Janine there, bomb them, arrest them, control them, wage war on them, than Greg Gutfield, who's, let's face it, espousing liberal, sensible views that are focused on the sources of the problem rather than attacking the symptoms.

00:38:32.000 That's what progressivism used to mean.

00:38:35.000 Having an assessment of social situations and individual liberty that's about practical solutions rather than imposing regulation and legislation and criminality on people when it's actually completely unnecessary and ultimately harmful.

00:38:48.000 What does it indicate then?

00:38:50.000 I would say it's almost an indication of an unconscious desire to control, an unwillingness to fulfill pledges and promises that would meaningfully benefit people.

00:38:58.000 And as a person in recovery, myself from drug addiction to a whole raft of substances, I can tell you from personal experience, both for me as an individual and the people that I've spent time with and worked with, that criminalization is an obstacle to recovery.

00:39:10.000 It stops people getting well, It puts problems and barriers in their way, increases prison populations, it damages people's health, it breaks down society in the social fabric.

00:39:19.000 And if you're a deeply cynical person, you would say that the state government, in alliance with global corporatists, have a vested interest in the continuing dismantling of our social systems so that what they're dealing with is a disparate, broken population rather than a healthy, fit and awakened one.

00:39:34.000 But that's just what I think.

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00:40:56.000 Well, do you feel a little bit better educated?

00:40:58.000 time for football is nice. Hello and welcome to football is nice.

00:41:10.000 On Football is Nice today, we're going to be reacting to Man City versus Real Madrid.

00:41:14.000 Hopefully not in the way that Erling Haaland's father did by throwing stuff around.

00:41:19.000 We're going to be looking at the forthcoming fixtures and making our predictions, talking about the forthcoming relegation battle, as well as responding to your comments.

00:41:29.000 Like, for example, dhenz32 or 321 says, how about you give us Yanks a quick rundown of how your football Your football works.

00:41:38.000 Do you have play-offs in some sort of championship system?

00:41:41.000 Are there different leagues?

00:41:42.000 Or do you just randomly play each other in the hopes of qualifying for a World Cup one day?

00:41:47.000 That's culturally insensitive, that, isn't it?

00:41:50.000 They may as well have called us limeys.

00:41:53.000 Like, there are different professional leagues.

00:41:55.000 There's that one that your very own Ryan Reynolds is in, with his W. Rexham.

00:42:00.000 And then there's Top Flight Football, the Premier League, where there is relegation, unlike in many American sports.

00:42:09.000 The division below is the championship where Gareth's football team that are called Hull City and on top of that, they have to live there.

00:42:17.000 That's where they play.

00:42:18.000 And they do have things called playoffs there where they can like the top two teams go up and then there's playoffs between the next four teams to see which one comes up.

00:42:27.000 West Ham occasionally drop down the team that I support into that league.

00:42:30.000 And of course, the World Cup is between nations rather than these professional sports franchises, as you might call them in your country.

00:42:37.000 I think that's nicely done.

00:42:38.000 Enough for now, isn't it, Gareth?

00:42:39.000 Did you watch the Champions League semi-final, Ralphie Man City?

00:42:43.000 I thought it was a fascinating game.

00:42:43.000 I did.

00:42:45.000 Ultimately, I think obviously people wanted more goals, but we had two amazing goals.

00:42:49.000 I mean, they were both incredible goals.

00:42:51.000 Vinicius Junior?

00:42:52.000 Yeah.

00:42:53.000 I like him.

00:42:54.000 He run around, doesn't he?

00:42:54.000 He does run around.

00:42:56.000 He was immense yesterday, I thought.

00:42:58.000 I think there was some commentary like, is he the best player in the world at the moment?

00:43:01.000 Maybe he is.

00:43:01.000 He was astonishing, I thought.

00:43:03.000 than the next-gen greats. They're the... people were saying it was gonna be Mbappe in Ireland,

00:43:03.000 I don't know.

00:43:08.000 but maybe it's Vanish Jr. You know, if you're a very famous person, would you want Jr. at the

00:43:13.000 end of your name? Like Neymar Jr.? Mmm, I don't know. You've got to go and make that all the time.

00:43:19.000 Right. It's all about... You can't drop it.

00:43:21.000 You're junior.

00:43:22.000 People are like, implied he's your dad.

00:43:24.000 But then I suppose you've got to think about, like, women changing their name when they're married. 0.99

00:43:28.000 Then you're losing your name.

00:43:29.000 I reckon by the time my kids grow up, that won't happen no more.

00:43:31.000 Right.

00:43:32.000 I'm going to revise against it.

00:43:33.000 Strongly.

00:43:34.000 Anyway, like, so there were two amazing goals.

00:43:37.000 De Bruyne's goal was amazing.

00:43:39.000 Vinicius' goal was amazing.

00:43:40.000 I see Vinicius Jr.

00:43:41.000 swapped his shirts with Edison at the end.

00:43:44.000 At the end.

00:43:45.000 Yeah, had a good look at them.

00:43:46.000 Brazilians.

00:43:47.000 I have a good look at them when they take their tops off, do you?

00:43:52.000 Probably not as much as you do, but yes, I definitely do.

00:43:54.000 I have to keep my wife interested by objectifying the players. 1.00

00:43:58.000 She wasn't even there, was she?

00:44:00.000 She's left me gal, it's the truth, because I objectify. 1.00

00:44:03.000 My wife interested.

00:44:05.000 Your wife was at a yoga class. 1.00

00:44:07.000 My wife is now my penis. 1.00

00:44:09.000 I'm a man who's married to his own reproductive organ and has to persuade it to be interested in Jack Grealish's Alice band. 1.00

00:44:16.000 Hour after hour.

00:44:17.000 Grealish is a tough one, because he's got those thighs of his.

00:44:21.000 Would you like them?

00:44:22.000 What about the calves?

00:44:23.000 He wears those little shorts, doesn't he?

00:44:24.000 The calves and all that.

00:44:26.000 He knows what he's doing.

00:44:27.000 He knows exactly what game he's playing.

00:44:30.000 Of course he does.

00:44:31.000 He knows exactly what he's doing.

00:44:32.000 Where's my phone?

00:44:33.000 Because I've got some good things on my phone that I wanted to talk about.

00:44:36.000 If you're a Sopranos fan, and I know you are, there was an episode where AJ got his eyebrows shaved off by some bully boys.

00:44:43.000 We can find a still of that.

00:44:44.000 Uh, AJ's, uh, mates saved, you know, that sort of, uh, fraternity-type prank that you love so well in America to shave off someone's eyebrows when they're drunk.

00:44:44.000 Yeah, I remember that.

00:44:53.000 Well, have a look at AJ when he had that done, and then have a look at Erlin Harland, and, uh, you will see a similarity.

00:45:00.000 I'm not criticising Erlin Harland, he's a perfect person.

00:45:04.000 Other than his eyebrows.

00:45:05.000 There's hardly any of them.

00:45:06.000 Yeah, and his brow is maybe pronounced enough anyway.

00:45:10.000 He's very intense.

00:45:11.000 What was his dad doing throwing olives and peanuts at people?

00:45:15.000 He was celebrating, wasn't he?

00:45:16.000 He was celebrating through missiles.

00:45:20.000 While continuing to talk about people's physical appearances, I want to say that I've noticed this week that a lot of managers have an assistant that looks like them.

00:45:28.000 Yes, they do.

00:45:29.000 Ten Hag has basically another Ten Hag. 0.95

00:45:32.000 Klopp, the Jürgen Klopp of Liverpool FC, Ten Hag of Manchester United, Clop used to have another clop.

00:45:38.000 Yeah, he's got another one now.

00:45:41.000 And is it another clop?

00:45:42.000 No, it's another clop.

00:45:43.000 I noticed it the other day.

00:45:44.000 So that can't be coincidence, can it?

00:45:46.000 They keep employing... You know how they say people look like they're dogs?

00:45:49.000 People look like they're assistants in top flight football.

00:45:54.000 They get someone that looks like other them. 0.82

00:45:56.000 I see Ten Hag looking, because obviously West Ham beat Manchester United with a goal that will surely end the career of David de Gea.

00:46:04.000 At United, maybe.

00:46:06.000 At United, yeah.

00:46:07.000 Who now thinks that David de Gea will be at Man United next season?

00:46:11.000 No-one.

00:46:12.000 No-one in their right mind.

00:46:13.000 and it's all because of Ben Rama's sort of, like it wasn't a strong shot, was it?

00:46:17.000 Fluffed, sort of fluffed, sort of snuffly little shot.

00:46:21.000 Dump, dump, dump, dump, dump, dump. 0.99

00:46:22.000 Like sort of going past an outstretched and slightly pathetic hand. 0.99

00:46:26.000 Let's have a look at that still. 0.77

00:46:27.000 Yes, look, there's AJ with our AJ Soprano with our eyebrows.

00:46:32.000 If you listen to this as a podcast, he looks, well, he looks like Erling Haaland.

00:46:36.000 That's what he looks like.

00:46:38.000 There's a lot of face there.

00:46:40.000 A lot of face could do with a bit more definition.

00:46:42.000 Not that Haaland isn't beautiful and I don't know.

00:46:44.000 beautiful and I don't know.

00:46:46.000 No, we talked about his hair last week, didn't we?

00:46:46.000 No, well, we talked about his hair last week, didn't we?

00:46:48.000 And his penis. 1.00

00:46:49.000 We did talk about that also. 1.00

00:46:50.000 We talked about the hue of the tip in considerable detail.

00:46:54.000 I think some people followed up on that.

00:46:56.000 We did talk a lot about the anatomies and bodies of players.

00:46:59.000 Richarlison, now of Tottenham, took his top off revealing a dermatological mural on his back that included

00:47:10.000 himself. Tombras was kind enough to send a post explaining it.

00:47:16.000 At the bottom is a pic of him as a little boy in the Brazilian ghetto. They call it barrios there.

00:47:22.000 They've got a good name for it over there. He grew up in.

00:47:25.000 Looking up at his face, next to two of the great football legends,

00:47:29.000 Neymar and Ronaldo. Actually quite a moving tattoo if he had not included his own face there.

00:47:36.000 Yeah, that is the problem. Tattooing you on you. I mean, we might as well tattoo your face on your face at that point.

00:47:43.000 It's like when Michael Jackson tattooed his own eyebrows on his eyebrows and tattooed his own lips on his lips.

00:47:49.000 We're showing a picture now for those of you watching this on Rumble of that.

00:47:54.000 That don't look like Ronaldo by the way.

00:47:56.000 That's why I got confused.

00:47:57.000 And him down there in the Barrios, or like, you know, City of Gold days, there, still with the number 9 shirt, looking

00:48:02.000 towards his own future.

00:48:04.000 And what's that, above his own future? I mean, that looks like a basketball above a future Neymar.

00:48:08.000 And then there's actual him, like, his own back, ♪ Let me tell you about my life... ♪

00:48:15.000 It's a melancholy Fleetwood Mac song running up his own spine.

00:48:19.000 There he is, in the lumbar, being a little boy.

00:48:22.000 Mid-back, he's himself again, between Neymar and apparently Ronaldo.

00:48:27.000 Then, right up at the top of the spine, he turns back into himself, Richarlison.

00:48:32.000 So his spine is a journey into him. And that's before you even get to the Vega nerve.

00:48:37.000 Oh, God knows what that's telling you about.

00:48:39.000 It's a complex and baffling tattoo that he's gone for. 1.00

00:48:44.000 Also, some people said, Dunballer particularly, holy shit, you're fucking back again. 0.99

00:48:48.000 Don't know a thing about soccer and football, spelt wrongly. 0.99

00:48:51.000 It's spelt F-U-T-B-A-L.

00:48:54.000 But for some reason, you two talking about it entertains me.

00:48:56.000 Well, the reason we do it is because it takes us into a more relaxed Manner of broadcasting, because we spend all our time talking about bringing down the government, deep state corruption, the corporatisation of politics, how to defuse the culture war, and frankly it's terrifying and exhausting.

00:49:14.000 I mean, wait till you get a load of Friday's show with RFK, you know, shown inside the establishment, stuff about the pandemic, so heavy that sometimes it's nice to just talk about football in a relaxed way. I mean, in a way it's a selfish

00:49:29.000 thing for us to do because we're actually paid to do this. But you're also supposed to

00:49:33.000 do things not many do. I've got some things I want to point out to you, Gareth, and I'd

00:49:37.000 like your reaction to them.

00:49:39.000 Why was the Bernabeu not sold out last night? I had that tour of Pauling across behind who

00:49:42.000 won the goals. It was not sold out because of the construction work going on.

00:49:46.000 No, I heard this as well.

00:49:47.000 Real Madrid, Man City. I don't like it, because as a stand-up comedian, if I see that, when

00:49:52.000 they black seats out at one of my gigs, I get upset. I won't do the gig, I'll have a

00:49:57.000 tantrum, I'll meltdown. It turns out they're rebuilding the stadium. Why? We watched it

00:50:01.000 on BT Sports, great coverage from Rio and the gang. Jake, Etal, good commentators, good

00:50:07.000 pundits. Why are they changing the name of BT Sports to TNT for?

00:50:11.000 No, I heard this as well.

00:50:12.000 It's confusing. 0.94

00:50:13.000 That's ridiculous. 0.76

00:50:14.000 Yeah. 0.93

00:50:15.000 I like that that's your point.

00:50:17.000 Don't change the name.

00:50:18.000 Leave it for some corporate reason.

00:50:18.000 Leave it.

00:50:20.000 I suppose BT is British Telecom.

00:50:21.000 That's confusing, because in my mind, BT still means, like, well, when I was a boy, BT, British Telecom, because it was publicly owned and paid for by the public, then they sold it back to the public for some money, and then they didn't give it back to the public.

00:50:34.000 It's this thing they did during when I was growing up.

00:50:36.000 They went We're gonna sell your stuff!

00:50:39.000 And you can buy it!

00:50:40.000 But it's already mine!

00:50:41.000 I know!

00:50:41.000 That's why this is so crazy!

00:50:43.000 Anyway, give us your money!

00:50:44.000 You can also buy your council house, but it's my house already! 0.99

00:50:47.000 But you gotta buy it again already!

00:50:47.000 I know!

00:50:49.000 When they sold us British Telecom back, uh, it was Busby then.

00:50:53.000 He was their mascot, their icon, their- he was a little bird.

00:50:56.000 Phone calls are going cheap.

00:50:58.000 I found him again in my attic, I gave him back to my kids.

00:51:00.000 So I think of BT very much as that.

00:51:02.000 Right.

00:51:03.000 What, you found a little toy?

00:51:04.000 Yeah, Busby, he's lost his vest.

00:51:06.000 That's gone.

00:51:07.000 That's never coming back.

00:51:08.000 Nor is his voice.

00:51:09.000 You pulled it straight. 0.83

00:51:09.000 You kicked him. 0.83

00:51:10.000 Yeah, it was sad to see him.

00:51:11.000 Have you got many, like, little toys?

00:51:13.000 Yeah, I've kept a few things, you know.

00:51:16.000 Some of the Subuteo players.

00:51:18.000 Is it all kind of evocative of, you know, positive memories?

00:51:22.000 No.

00:51:22.000 It's Proustian, but it's negative Proust.

00:51:25.000 It's Proust with a difference.

00:51:26.000 Proust famously says you can evoke things through smelling something, like you smell a little cake.

00:51:30.000 Oh my God, I've gone back in time.

00:51:32.000 That's what Proust says.

00:51:33.000 You smell Busby's belly.

00:51:35.000 I don't like my stepdad. 0.75

00:51:39.000 You smell Busby's bottom? 0.82

00:51:40.000 Why's my dog dead?

00:51:42.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:51:43.000 It was that sort of thing.

00:51:43.000 Did you keep those, like, I'm not gonna call them trinkets, uh... Why?

00:51:49.000 Did you keep them so that you could tell your children sad stories from your past?

00:51:52.000 My children only want sad stories about my life.

00:51:54.000 They go, tell us that story again about how you didn't get on with your stepdad.

00:51:54.000 Really?

00:51:58.000 Well, I didn't get on with my stepdad.

00:51:59.000 Go on, go into it a bit more.

00:52:01.000 Where's the toy that goes with this story?

00:52:03.000 Okay, get the toy down from the attic.

00:52:05.000 Get the sad smell-evoking toy down from the attic.

00:52:08.000 Now put on Fleetwood Mac.

00:52:09.000 Let me tell you about my life.

00:52:13.000 In fact, I've got a tattoo of Colin, my stepdad, in the mid-back area.

00:52:17.000 Over here by the buttock is my dog getting hit by a bicycle being ridden by the gas man.

00:52:21.000 Oh, there's the fire in the allotment.

00:52:24.000 It's all there, up and down the old back.

00:52:26.000 Because you told me that thing when we were in LA together and I caught something that fell off a table and your kids were really impressed with it.

00:52:33.000 And then you said that they said to you something like, I'd be able to catch you or something.

00:52:33.000 I remember that thing.

00:52:38.000 It was so beautiful.

00:52:39.000 One night at bedtime, I was, like, making me retell another sad story of when I was sent away to school and my gerbils cage got knocked off.

00:52:47.000 Like, and I knew I was gonna do it.

00:52:48.000 It's one of those things where, that's why I try to pay attention to my intuition now.

00:52:52.000 Because on that day, right, when I was 11, my intuition said to me, careful of this gerbils cage, which is not even a proper gerbils cage, it's an on-its-side rabbit arch filled with sawdust, because I'd had a rabbit before, but I thought I could keep the gerbils in there just by turning it on its back and having the cage there.

00:53:04.000 It was of your design?

00:53:06.000 I'm behind this masterpiece, so I'm culpable!

00:53:08.000 Of course I'm culpable!

00:53:09.000 I thought this was someone else's fault!

00:53:10.000 Of course it... I'm only 11!

00:53:12.000 Anyway, like, I perched it on the edge while I'm cleaning it out, and of course it fell.

00:53:16.000 Now Barney, who is the mother of the journal balls, because I thought she was a boy when I got her, but then she had all these babies, she was crushed when the cage fell on top of her.

00:53:23.000 Do you mean emotionally? 0.95

00:53:25.000 Physically and emotionally.

00:53:26.000 Physically through the midriff and all the vital organs, sadly, were crushed.

00:53:30.000 As were her emotions, presumably.

00:53:33.000 I can't see how they could have independently remained buoyant under such difficult circumstances.

00:53:38.000 Although in some ways it's possible, because they say that they'd done, this is somewhat apocryphal, that they'd done a study on lottery winners and people that had become paraplegic as a result of an accident in life. 0.99

00:53:48.000 And the lottery winners that was miserable fuckers stayed miserable. 0.99

00:53:50.000 Stayed miserable. 1.00

00:53:51.000 And the lottery winners that, like, were happy, they were, like, this is great!

00:53:54.000 I can buy whatever I want!

00:53:55.000 Same with paraplegics.

00:53:56.000 Paraplegics have been miserable for, like, oh, this is hell, obviously. 1.00

00:53:59.000 And the ones that are upbeat, like, oh, it could have been worse.

00:54:01.000 Yeah, you come back to your level of happiness, apparently.

00:54:04.000 Unless you go on a spiritual voyage and cultivate your inner self and find a deep connection with God, yes.

00:54:08.000 They didn't mention that in the news segment, by the way.

00:54:09.000 Of course not, there wasn't time for that.

00:54:11.000 Anyway, like, uh, so, when I- I told my children that, because they're always mining me for sad, sad stories.

00:54:16.000 Yeah.

00:54:17.000 I told them already about the terrible death of the gerbils, several gerbils died.

00:54:20.000 In my mind, it's like a film- you know in a scene in a film?

00:54:23.000 Yeah.

00:54:23.000 Like, it could be Platoon, it could be a Terrence Malick film, it's one of those films, and then it plays that sort of music, duh, and everything's all slow motion, and they're looking around.

00:54:30.000 Think of a beach scene.

00:54:31.000 Shops of nature and stuff.

00:54:32.000 No, it's a massacre on a beach in Normandy.

00:54:35.000 A death, and they're looking around in the devastation.

00:54:37.000 Like, you know, say there's an explosion and it goes all white.

00:54:41.000 And then you're sort of looking around and it's all slow motion now, and they're looking around for everything.

00:54:44.000 There's gerbil stories like that in my mind.

00:54:47.000 Anyway, I haven't told them this story for the umpteenth time, not because I want to tell it, because they love it.

00:54:52.000 They keep making me tell it.

00:54:53.000 Like, I don't know why, they're trying to help me process it, I think.

00:54:56.000 They went, it's a shame you weren't friends with Gareth then because Gareth could have caught that gerbil cage because they'd seen Gareth catch a bowl that someone knocked over at a meal that we were at.

00:55:06.000 And Gareth went like that and caught it very quick, very impressive.

00:55:09.000 And the kids were like, that's good.

00:55:10.000 They clocked it and they remembered it.

00:55:13.000 Anyway, they thought that it's a shame.

00:55:15.000 They thought that you weren't there back at my boarding school when I was 11 to catch that gerbil cage.

00:55:20.000 And I was like, yeah, in a way kids.

00:55:22.000 Because in a way, Gareth does do that job in a way, because my blunders that could potentially lead to travesty and problems are often caught by Gareth.

00:55:32.000 Whoa, whoa!

00:55:32.000 Like, whoa!

00:55:32.000 Don't say it!

00:55:33.000 Maybe not that!

00:55:34.000 Maybe not that!

00:55:35.000 Nose!

00:55:36.000 We'd also have saved the lives of many innocent gerbils, wouldn't we?

00:55:40.000 Or wouldn't I?

00:55:41.000 Think of the ongoing, in a Schindler's List way, like think of all the descendants of those gerbils that would have been saved had I been there.

00:55:52.000 You could have been the Oskar Schindler, but of gerbils. 1.00

00:55:56.000 I've always wanted to be that.

00:55:57.000 What would we have been, mates, when we were young?

00:56:00.000 I mean, you'd have been a few years ahead of me, so it would have been interesting.

00:56:03.000 Puffing about and... Right, there, little fella.

00:56:06.000 I appreciate you catching the gerbils.

00:56:09.000 It was very decent of you.

00:56:10.000 Now, let me tell you a thing about lady life. 1.00

00:56:13.000 She's a cruel mistress, anyway. 1.00

00:56:15.000 Do you want to have a look at these poor, poor mags and have some popping candy? 1.00

00:56:19.000 Sorry, I've got to do a French horn practice.

00:56:21.000 Get back here! 0.99

00:56:23.000 Let's go on a crazy journey together.

00:56:26.000 Wait a minute.

00:56:27.000 Wow.

00:56:32.000 During the commentary for Real Madrid vs Man City, Steve McManaman said this.

00:56:38.000 Oh no, my phone's actually writing down everything I'm saying.

00:56:41.000 Stop, stop.

00:56:42.000 It's so man-mental to see that.

00:56:44.000 That was like being spied on in real time.

00:56:46.000 That was like Five Eyes stuff.

00:56:47.000 It was saying everything I was saying.

00:56:48.000 That is what's happening right now.

00:56:50.000 So, Steve McManaman, formerly of Liverpool and, of course, Real Madrid, like, when there was, like, a penalty claim at one point in the game, said, oh, it's getting ridiculous.

00:56:50.000 Right.

00:57:01.000 Everyone wants a penalty for everything now.

00:57:04.000 Everyone wants a penalty for everything.

00:57:07.000 I want a penalty for that!

00:57:08.000 I want a penalty for that!

00:57:09.000 And it's everyone doing it.

00:57:10.000 It's not that bad, Steve.

00:57:12.000 It's not everyone wants a penalty.

00:57:12.000 No.

00:57:14.000 That's as extreme as it could be.

00:57:17.000 You can't actually... That's hyperbole.

00:57:17.000 Yeah.

00:57:19.000 You can't go beyond that.

00:57:21.000 Everyone wants... You could say some people want a penalty for it.

00:57:24.000 No.

00:57:25.000 Everyone wants a penalty for everything now.

00:57:29.000 Whoa! 0.71

00:57:29.000 That's too much. 0.71

00:57:30.000 I can't deal with that.

00:57:32.000 He was on the side of City, I guess, wasn't he?

00:57:35.000 Because Madrid were doing the kind of usual Madrid thing of trying to get fouls and all this kind of stuff and shoving Man City players.

00:57:42.000 Would he not maintain an affinity?

00:57:44.000 You would have thought so, but I guess he's a proper pundit, isn't he?

00:57:49.000 If you know a lot about football, right, or even just are culturally interested in football, here are some things that you oddly will know.

00:57:58.000 Daniel Levy.

00:57:59.000 Oh, they're going to have to negotiate.

00:58:01.000 They're going to have to negotiate with Daniel Levy.

00:58:05.000 He's a tough one.

00:58:06.000 He don't give anything away, Levy.

00:58:08.000 Like, why do you know that?

00:58:10.000 Like, why don't everyone know?

00:58:11.000 It's like he can't be mentioned.

00:58:13.000 It's like, if someone mentions kilts, you have to go, oh, did you wear underpants under them?

00:58:17.000 Or did you do it?

00:58:18.000 That's what you have to say, right?

00:58:19.000 It's like those two things live together.

00:58:21.000 If someone mentions Daniel Levy, oh, he won't let Kane go to Man United.

00:58:26.000 He's a tough negotiator, Daniel Levy.

00:58:29.000 Especially and particularly and beyond other people so much?

00:58:29.000 Is he what?

00:58:32.000 It's true, because I've never negotiated with Daniel Levy.

00:58:34.000 The only thing I know is when he's on that documentary, he seems nice.

00:58:37.000 that is pressed every time Daniel Levy's name is mentioned.

00:58:40.000 Daniel Levy, chairman of Tottenham Hotspur.

00:58:42.000 Ooooooh! 0.63

00:58:43.000 Uh, I'm actually gonna see...

00:58:46.000 It's true, because I've never negotiated with Daniel Levy, ever.

00:58:49.000 The only thing I know is when he's on that documentary, he seems nice.

00:58:51.000 Yeah, that's never happened in my life, and yet, as you say, if you mention Daniel Levy...

00:58:55.000 Ooooooh! 0.63

00:58:56.000 ...that's the first thing I will do.

00:58:57.000 Good luck!

00:58:58.000 Alright, are we gonna split this bill then, Daniel?

00:59:01.000 You know, it's like as if every one of us has had the experience of Daniel Levy going, I never had none of the garlic bread.

00:59:06.000 You drank that red wine, only I had tap water.

00:59:09.000 Yeah.

00:59:10.000 Like, you know, it's like that Daniel Levy isn't gonna negotiate with you about everything all the time.

00:59:15.000 Although, Harry Kane is 50 years old, and he's down now, not got his dream move.

00:59:21.000 He's just trying to, he's trying to win.

00:59:24.000 They're having to make a statue of him, just so he wins something.

00:59:27.000 And now you've won this.

00:59:29.000 It's you, but just made out of metal.

00:59:32.000 Oh, does anyone else care?

00:59:34.000 Nope.

00:59:35.000 And if you ever do anything else... Could I go to Man City and win things with the others?

00:59:35.000 No one cares.

00:59:41.000 Nope.

00:59:42.000 You'll stay in here to look at Metal You.

00:59:44.000 You've got Metal You now.

00:59:45.000 Metal You should cheer you up.

00:59:46.000 That's one thing.

00:59:47.000 The other thing is Stockley Park.

00:59:49.000 Yes.

00:59:50.000 Oh, Stockley Park!

00:59:52.000 That one's going to Stockley Park!

00:59:53.000 Listen, Stockley Park!

00:59:54.000 No, Stockley Park is because of VAR, Video Assistant Referee, is that what it is?

00:59:59.000 Like, now they replay things, like American sports have always done, and like they were saying, should happen for ages and ages.

01:00:04.000 Now they do do that, right?

01:00:06.000 Like, they replay things and then it's like nitpickery, nitpickery video.

01:00:10.000 I generally, generally, I don't like VAR.

01:00:12.000 Right.

01:00:12.000 That's my general position of it.

01:00:13.000 Because in my mind, it belongs with technological encroachment on human capacity.

01:00:13.000 I see.

01:00:19.000 That's where I place it.

01:00:20.000 Of course, that opinion would alter if VAR would have helped West Ham in some way.

01:00:26.000 But often, VAR hasn't helped West Ham.

01:00:28.000 Like, for example, earlier this season, there was a goal against Chelsea that Jared Bowen got and they didn't use VAR.

01:00:32.000 It should have been.

01:00:33.000 Anyway, so it seems what I remember more is the times it goes against me.

01:00:38.000 It's that standard, isn't it?

01:00:38.000 Yeah.

01:00:40.000 It's adjudicated from Stockley Park.

01:00:42.000 You are right.

01:00:42.000 That's where the person is.

01:00:43.000 No one even knows where that is.

01:00:45.000 I'm sure some people do, but the rest of us don't.

01:00:47.000 I bet it's near Isleworth.

01:00:48.000 Yeah, I kind of think that.

01:00:49.000 Where Sky is.

01:00:50.000 It's like one of those M25 unplaces. 0.83

01:00:52.000 There's a road that loops London, and it's sort of corralled within it are unspaces and untowns.

01:00:52.000 Yes.

01:00:58.000 The place that I'm from, Grey's, is sort of like a tassel on the M25, like a nipple tassel around the areolae.

01:01:06.000 of the M25.

01:01:07.000 Yeah, that's how I see it.

01:01:10.000 Yeah.

01:01:10.000 So Stockley Park, people say, Oh, we're gonna have to see what you know, Stockley Park, it's just become Yeah, oh, it's a synoptic a synecdoche.

01:01:17.000 That's what it is.

01:01:18.000 Stockley Park now means it's become linguistically emblematic of what, of the adjudication of

01:01:26.000 tech like Synoctecae, like the White House. It's West London near Hillingdon. Hillingdon

01:01:32.000 life sciences, that's all we know about Hillingdon, that's where they experiment on cats.

01:01:35.000 That's true.

01:01:36.000 So they put soap in their eyes.

01:01:37.000 Never get the two mixed up.

01:01:39.000 Never go...

01:01:41.000 Is it a penalty or not?

01:01:42.000 I don't know, I'm in trouble with the tail.

01:01:45.000 Surely that was offside.

01:01:46.000 I don't know. 0.83

01:01:47.000 It smells delicious, but this rabbit just shat a load of blood.

01:01:50.000 What?

01:01:52.000 No, only from L'Oreal.

01:01:52.000 Was that offside?

01:01:55.000 Yeah, Hillingdon and Stockley Park have got to make sure that they don't ever cross jurisdictions like the streams in Ghostbusters.

01:02:01.000 Otherwise, it's in a business park.

01:02:03.000 Jamie, the producer of the show, is telling us.

01:02:05.000 Yeah, of course it is.

01:02:06.000 It's in an unspaced... Imagine, the reason why they make so many bad decisions is because they bloody hate being there, for a start.

01:02:11.000 They're there.

01:02:12.000 It's so grim.

01:02:12.000 Must be awful.

01:02:13.000 There's no character.

01:02:14.000 If you look at architecture, I don't want to be all in my day about it, but if you... Because it ain't my day.

01:02:18.000 But if you look at a municipal building from, like, Victorian England, it's beautiful.

01:02:24.000 Like, the masonry.

01:02:25.000 It's like people loved communities.

01:02:28.000 They loved society.

01:02:29.000 They were proud to participate in their culture.

01:02:32.000 And buildings are an expression of the community, an expression of love.

01:02:35.000 Now, everything's just like a sort of a dropped, glum box, or a sarcastic piss-take, like the Guggenheim.

01:02:41.000 Oh, this is what a building could be!

01:02:42.000 Oh, it's all wobbly!

01:02:43.000 Woo-hoo! 1.00

01:02:44.000 Like, no, it gives a shit anymore! 0.99

01:02:45.000 I don't have any values! 1.00

01:02:47.000 Ah!

01:02:48.000 I'm old!

01:02:48.000 I'm officially old!

01:02:50.000 I can't get an erection! 0.98

01:02:52.000 I actually can. 0.97

01:02:53.000 That's part of the problem.

01:02:54.000 It's just there's no need to.

01:02:57.000 Absolutely.

01:02:57.000 I'm glad we got onto that.

01:02:58.000 Yeah, well, we're about... Oh, and on that note, here comes my oldest child.

01:03:02.000 Come in, darling, come in.

01:03:04.000 You alright, mate?

01:03:05.000 Come see me?

01:03:06.000 And there's my other daughter.

01:03:07.000 Hello, Mabes.

01:03:08.000 Hello, Pegs. 1.00

01:03:09.000 Who's my babies? 0.81

01:03:10.000 We want pizza!

01:03:11.000 You want pizza?

01:03:12.000 Sassy's still here.

01:03:12.000 You're gonna do it?

01:03:13.000 What are you gonna say? 1.00

01:03:14.000 Poo-poo bum-bum fucking hell! 1.00

01:03:17.000 Good girl! 1.00

01:03:18.000 That's it!

01:03:19.000 Another generation. 0.89

01:03:20.000 Another generation. 0.89

01:03:21.000 We're fine.

01:03:22.000 We're gonna be rich.

01:03:23.000 This is a... This is a... This is a dynasty like the Kennedys we're building here.

01:03:27.000 You taking that, Ken?

01:03:29.000 There they go, my kids.

01:03:30.000 Um, there they go. 1.00

01:03:31.000 I really like that moment that Peggy came towards you, and you thought she was leaning in to give you a kiss, and actually what she was doing is leaning into the mic to say, poo-poo, bum-bum, fucking hell. 0.98

01:03:43.000 I felt the kind of pride, like she is actually already, ah, the pupil has surpassed the teacher. 0.98

01:03:49.000 I thought she was coming to cuddle me, but she was coming to just rain down expletives on the mic. 1.00

01:03:54.000 You know, like, um, that's what they think my job is.

01:03:56.000 Like, I'm going to work now, and they go, I go, what do you think my job is? 1.00

01:04:01.000 And like, they go, oh, fucking hell, bum, poo, willy. 0.99

01:04:04.000 That's a certain percentage of it. 1.00

01:04:06.000 I think that's a significant percentage.

01:04:08.000 It's the foundations.

01:04:09.000 That's just, that's simply the foundations of what I do.

01:04:13.000 Putting Vaseline on people's cuts... Yes.

01:04:15.000 ...I don't think is good.

01:04:16.000 Isn't good enough.

01:04:17.000 Don't just put Vaseline on a cut.

01:04:19.000 Yeah.

01:04:20.000 It's blocking it all up.

01:04:20.000 Isn't it?

01:04:22.000 Right.

01:04:22.000 And why, they could have done that a hundred years ago.

01:04:23.000 Vaseline's been around for ages.

01:04:25.000 Yeah, I mean, they have been doing it for a long time.

01:04:27.000 They've always done that.

01:04:28.000 Like boxing, I suppose.

01:04:29.000 They do that.

01:04:29.000 That's the thing.

01:04:30.000 That's why I'm slightly surprised that we haven't moved on from it, in a way.

01:04:34.000 I can't!

01:04:36.000 Put petrol in it.

01:04:38.000 That'll solve it.

01:04:39.000 It's not right, is it?

01:04:39.000 Yeah.

01:04:40.000 It's not the right thing to do.

01:04:41.000 All right, we've got a whole bunch of content on Football is Nice.

01:04:43.000 We've got your comments, of course, and thank you so much for your contributions.

01:04:46.000 At the end, we're going to be doing our predictions.

01:04:48.000 There's a relegation battle.

01:04:49.000 My Club West Ham, we're safe now after beating Man United and ending the career of De Gea.

01:04:53.000 You did tell us.

01:04:54.000 In a shocking result, Everton beat Brighton 5-1.

01:04:57.000 Astonishing.

01:04:58.000 In pink shirts on top of that.

01:04:59.000 That's surprising.

01:05:01.000 Fulham beat Leicester, condemning Leicester to the championship and meaning there'll be a bonanza fire sale at Leicester with players like Thieleman and Maddison and maybe Vardy.

01:05:10.000 Vardy stays.

01:05:11.000 I think he'll probably still be in the championship.

01:05:13.000 Henry Barnes, he's the... Harvey Barnes.

01:05:15.000 Harvey Barnes, sorry.

01:05:16.000 Is he one of the plum picking the lefty?

01:05:19.000 I think he's a great player.

01:05:20.000 Yeah?

01:05:20.000 Who's getting all of these people?

01:05:21.000 I don't know.

01:05:22.000 I mean, a couple of them will go to West Ham, certainly.

01:05:24.000 Leicester fans won't like that.

01:05:25.000 Do you think Forrest might stay up because they beat James' club, Southampton, 4-3?

01:05:29.000 It's so tight.

01:05:30.000 I've no idea.

01:05:31.000 I want Forrest to stay up.

01:05:32.000 Do you think Leicester are down, do you?

01:05:35.000 It's impossible to tell because it's changing.

01:05:37.000 What I'm happy about is that West Ham's last games aren't going to be as significant as I thought they would be.

01:05:43.000 We've got the fixtures up here and it's proper maths.

01:05:48.000 But football does that.

01:05:49.000 This is what I'm holding out for.

01:05:51.000 Everton beating Man City.

01:05:53.000 That would be amazing.

01:05:56.000 For the title race, because then Arsenal have only got, what, a point to make up, then it's possible.

01:06:02.000 It's possible.

01:06:03.000 They're not going to do it in goal difference.

01:06:04.000 Essentially, City have to lose one and draw one, and Arsenal have to win everything.

01:06:08.000 That's right, isn't it?

01:06:09.000 Is that going to happen?

01:06:12.000 That's not like last night, the Bernabeu's going to have to take them off track, is it?

01:06:14.000 It's not going to actually take them off track.

01:06:16.000 No, if anything, I think it will give them confidence.

01:06:18.000 I mean, there was a period in that game where Madrid were all over City.

01:06:22.000 I mean, they'd gone 1-0 up.

01:06:23.000 Because Man City started well, didn't they?

01:06:25.000 Then Madrid scored.

01:06:25.000 Yeah.

01:06:26.000 Madrid were dominant, I thought.

01:06:27.000 I thought they were going to get another one.

01:06:29.000 Man City getting back into that game, you've got to think it's just going to give them confidence.

01:06:32.000 BR60 attacked me, right, because I was sort of criticising both Wrexham and Man City and all that stuff.

01:06:37.000 Right.

01:06:38.000 He said, Brand... I always know I'm in for a drubbing when someone calls me Brand, you know?

01:06:42.000 Yeah. 0.97

01:06:42.000 Brand putting success down to money shows his ignorance. 0.97

01:06:46.000 That's where he starts. 0.84

01:06:47.000 He's just starting that.

01:06:48.000 It's actually quite a well-written attack.

01:06:50.000 This is the theme of the attack.

01:06:53.000 That's ignorance.

01:06:54.000 But it's not, because year after year, you can go, this is their wage bill, this is their position, there's normally a correlation.

01:07:00.000 Yeah, the only anomaly this season is Chelsea.

01:07:03.000 Chelsea's an anomaly, are Brighton an anomaly in the other direction?

01:07:06.000 Certainly they are, yeah.

01:07:07.000 But there are more cases for teams who haven't spent as much doing well than there are teams who've spent a lot of money doing badly, I would suggest.

01:07:14.000 When that happens, it's disgusting and mental, innit?

01:07:17.000 Like, what happens at Chelsea is mad. 0.86

01:07:19.000 Insane.

01:07:20.000 Like, there's so many good players there, you can't even really remember it.

01:07:22.000 Hold on a minute, doesn't Kai Havertz play?

01:07:24.000 Wait a minute, what's going on?

01:07:25.000 Where's Aubameyang?

01:07:27.000 One of my favourite names to say in the world, Obama Yang.

01:07:29.000 Because you get to say Obama, and you think, well, that was enjoyable.

01:07:31.000 And then Yang! 0.91

01:07:32.000 Right at the end.

01:07:33.000 They played Jorginho, didn't they?

01:07:35.000 And everyone was... Everyone says that was a masterstroke.

01:07:37.000 But look at, like, another one.

01:07:38.000 Chelsea just got rid of him. 1.00

01:07:39.000 He's no good.

01:07:39.000 Get rid of him.

01:07:40.000 Seven million quid off to Arsenal.

01:07:41.000 Oh, he's brilliant!

01:07:42.000 Go on, say your thing.

01:07:43.000 You like to sound about Chelsea.

01:07:45.000 No, it's this thing, it's amazing that when they haven't got a striker and then you look, Tammy Abraham and they're just discarded.

01:07:49.000 They're like, oh we can't, we don't have any place for Tammy Abraham.

01:07:52.000 Get him out of here! 0.95

01:07:52.000 Doing brilliantly at Roma, it's madness. 0.95

01:07:54.000 Giroud gone to Milan.

01:07:55.000 Get him out of here! 0.95

01:07:56.000 A million quid, he's in the Champions League semi-final, it's crazy.

01:07:59.000 Cos what Chelsea are, and forgive me if you're a Chelsea fan, cos I've obviously got friends that are fans of every club there is, and so I think of my friend Parker, who loves Chelsea, I've got my mate, old, what's that mate, Lil Liam, he's a Chelsea fan, Uncle Rick, Chelsea fan, I know lots of Chelsea fans, but this is what they are.

01:08:18.000 Superficial glory hunters without souls.

01:08:25.000 Because, look, we're a Chelsea fan, they've corralled together these Russian purchased spoils, haven't they? 1.00

01:08:35.000 And they're out of touch with reality, aren't they?

01:08:38.000 I think so.

01:08:40.000 And if they went down, like, they can't go down.

01:08:42.000 But, like, it's just such a mad experiment.

01:08:44.000 And that Todd Burley, or whatever he's called, who's bought Chelsea, an American fella, no disrespect, who's bought them off the Russian, he looks like Luke Skywalker when he's old.

01:08:53.000 He looks like old Luke Skywalker.

01:08:55.000 When Luke Skywalker's on an island and he's gone wrong...

01:08:58.000 Look, Todd Burley, there's a comparison to it.

01:09:00.000 When Luke Skywalker lost his dignity and he's on an island and he's forgotten everything he ever stood for, that's what Todd Burley, if that's indeed the correct way to say his name... Anyway.

01:09:08.000 Brand shows his ignorance. 0.91

01:09:10.000 Man United have spent one and a half billion and been nowhere near the league title for ten years. 0.95

01:09:14.000 Yeah, but they've been extracting money and the infrastructure of the club is terrible.

01:09:17.000 Look at the state of Chelsea and God knows what they've spent.

01:09:20.000 And Man City are actually tenth place in transfer spending league table after the last five years.

01:09:25.000 But isn't that because of the good business they've done on the way out?

01:09:27.000 Yeah.

01:09:27.000 Look, OK.

01:09:28.000 In the last, what, years?

01:09:30.000 There's Todd Bowley.

01:09:31.000 Put him next to Mark Hamill.

01:09:32.000 All old.

01:09:33.000 All old Luke Skywalker.

01:09:35.000 Even next to him, you can do it sequentially, and people can do it in their old time.

01:09:38.000 Like, they look the same, if you ask me.

01:09:39.000 Go on.

01:09:40.000 The way the city has built since the shake money came in, you can't discount that.

01:09:46.000 That's absolutely crazy talk to do that.

01:09:47.000 I understand what they're saying about Man United, but they've been badly managed.

01:09:51.000 It's not to say there aren't other criteria.

01:09:53.000 I think Man City, fair play, there's no financial fair play unless every time Man City buy a player for themselves, they've got to buy a player for someone else.

01:10:02.000 I don't understand this system of yours.

01:10:04.000 Because it's mad.

01:10:05.000 We're going to go into depth in a minute, right?

01:10:07.000 We're going to wrap this up.

01:10:08.000 And we're going to go over to Locals.

01:10:10.000 Join us there.

01:10:11.000 You know, Locals, you get loads of amazing content.

01:10:13.000 You get to join our conversations, like I want with RFK.

01:10:15.000 You can join it live and ask questions.

01:10:16.000 When I get around to it, it's quite hard to ask the questions during talking to RFK.

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01:10:29.000 You are not going to want to miss that.

01:10:31.000 Have a look at this moment of our chat with RFK.

01:10:33.000 It's all like this, honestly.

01:10:35.000 Have a look.

01:10:38.000 It turns out it was the CIA.

01:10:41.000 As I was almost 10 years old, my uncle was killed.

01:10:43.000 And I was standing in the White House, in the foyer of the White House, with my aunt Jackie Kennedy, and my mother, and my father.

01:10:51.000 My uncle's body was in the easel.

01:10:53.000 I, at that point, like many Americans, was asking questions because this didn't look right.

01:10:59.000 How can you speak out openly against these kind of interests, let alone try and mobilize a political movement and stand against them without serious fear of, well, assassination?

01:11:09.000 It wasn't just Fauci, it was the whole US intelligence military apparatus that was basically... Simply not possible for you to answer that question on YouTube.

01:11:17.000 They were bragging that they could kill everybody, basically everybody in the world for 29 cents a person.

01:11:25.000 What you're saying, Robert, even leaves many hardened conspiracy theorists quivering like Boy Scouts.

01:11:33.000 None of this is stuff that we should be doing.

01:11:36.000 Quite bloody terrifying.

01:11:38.000 This is a war where Ukraine has been made a victim, not just by Russia, but by the United States government.

01:11:44.000 We have to just say, wait a minute, we've got to stop fighting each other, and we've got to go after the people who have their jackboot on our head.

01:11:52.000 It's time.

01:11:54.000 Unbelievable that, wasn't it, Gareth?

01:12:01.000 It certainly was.

01:12:02.000 So, if you remember our locals community, join us more for this ebullient, effervescent, enthusiastic football chat.

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Stay Free - Russel Brand - May 11, 2023

BOMB Mexico To End WHAT?! You Won’t Believe THIS! - #127 - Stay Free With Russell Brand

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