On this episode of Stay Free with Russell Bradd, we discuss the latest information on the shooter, body cam footage, Kamala Harris' campaign, the Joker trailer, and much, much more. Plus, Russell talks about stand-up comedy, Project 25, and why he thinks Adam Carolla is the best comedian in the country. Stay free with Russell! Subscribe to Stay Free With Russell on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe, Like, and Share to stay up to date with the latest Awakened Wonder News and everything else going on in our world. You can also join the Remember the Future? Learn more about your ad choices. If you like what you hear, please consider becoming a supporter of our sponsor, R/Rumble! It helps spread the word about the show and it helps spread awareness about it. We post polls, questions and thoughts on both socials and the results/comments are featured on the episodes as well. Send your voice messages to sws@whatiwatchedtonight.co.uk and we'll get them on the show. Thanks again for listening! Timestamps: 1:00 - Who do you'd like to be featured on Stay Free? 2:30 - Who would you like to see the future? 3:40 - What do you think of the future of the show? 4:15 - What's your favorite part of the podcast? 5:00 6:10 - What would you're looking forward to seeing in the future ? 7: What are you looking for? 8:00 | What's next? 9:50 - How do you want to hear from me? 11: What s your thoughts on the next episode? 13: What can I do? 14:00 + 11:30 | What do I have to do with it? 15:00 & 13:30 16:00 / 16:40 17:30 +16: What's up with you're going to be my favorite part? 17 + 17:20 18:30 & 17: What do y'all gonna do with this? 19:40 + 16: Is there a threepence? 21: Do you think I m gonna do it? /16:40 / 17:10 15? +17:00/16: Is it just muck around with that?
00:09:59.000In this video, you're going to see the future.
00:10:12.000Hello there you Awakening Wonders, thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Bradd.
00:10:16.000We'll be talking about the latest information on the shooter, the body cam footage.
00:10:20.000We'll be talking about Kamala Harris' campaign.
00:10:24.000We're going to be looking at the Joker trailer.
00:10:26.000I'm going to spend a bit of time doing something I enjoy, looking at Shane Gillis' impression ...of Donald Trump, as well as that SNL... No, it's Kimmel, isn't it?
00:10:36.000Is it Kimmel or... I can't remember, but it's one of the late night things where they sort of compare Trump talking to... announcing the assassination of Herb Egderi to Barack Obama announcing the death of Bin Laden.
00:10:50.000And this sort of fetishisation and infatuation that the establishment have with class, like that Trump is vulgar and that Barack Obama He's kind of a classy guy, you know what I mean?
00:11:10.000And indeed, the aesthetics and ethics of class are one of the things that I'm increasingly talking about.
00:11:16.000It's something I've been thinking about all my whole life, because I'm from a normal background myself.
00:11:22.000Say, for example, if you're from that, and you maybe are, unless you're sort of an elite establishment, metropolitan, highly educated member of the sort of Ivy League establishment, or you're sort of a globalist corporatist, you'll know that there is this sort of subtle sense that you're not doing things right, and that you're not good enough.
00:11:38.000And I want to talk about that, you know?
00:11:46.000Like, that killed Tony, The moment where Shane Gillis improvises about that uh the woman backstage and they're backstage they're real that moment all the way to the Mexican fentanyl that is some of the best improvising I've seen for a while and I want to talk more about stand-up comedy because I absolutely
00:12:05.000Love stand-up comedy, and we're going to get into it more.
00:12:21.000My understanding is that Project 25 is a conservative document that came out of the heritage think tank and that it's got a lot of stuff in it you would anticipate coming out of a Christian movement in so much as I feel like it's pretty pro-life that there's movements within it to Certainly prohibit pro-choice legislation.
00:12:46.000Feels like it's about campaigning and ensuring that our legislation is made under the next, the presumed Trump presidency.
00:13:16.000Like now, I would like to imagine, you know like sometimes when you accidentally go like that on your phone and like a thumbs up goes like that or if you go like that sort of balloons come down.
00:13:23.000I'd like you to use your imagination to imagine balloons now descending and thumbs up ascending and a variety of celebratory things.
00:13:39.000Probably helps us in some ways and consider becoming an Awakened Wonder.
00:13:42.000We post all of our content there first.
00:13:45.000Actually after the show tonight, after we have an Awakened Wonder hang and we're going to look at some additional content over there, some clips and just muck around and, you know, just take our tops off and be fun, you know.
00:13:56.000After that I'm talking to Adam Carolla, so he'll be the next interview that's up on Locals.
00:14:00.000And what I like about Adam Carolla, Have you seen him when he's sort of like when he's like pressuring Gavin Newsom?
00:15:04.000But like, no, it's not that big of a... Like, are we caught in just aesthetic differences now and matters of taste?
00:15:12.000It's something I wrote about in my essay about attending the Republican National Convention.
00:15:17.000Like that, you know, like that there's a sense from, say, liberal folk that Hulk Hogan... Like, well, when I saw that, when Hulk Hogan goes, the man that took a shot at my president!
00:15:55.000Because shouldn't we really be discussing the distinction between policies when it comes to global war or the policies when it comes to massacres?
00:16:03.000Wouldn't you love it if you felt that you were behind a political movement that said We are going to end all wars on day one.
00:16:23.000And yeah, Bobby Kennedy, like we've had, well I love Bobby as you know.
00:16:26.000But sometimes, you know, like me, I would just love one candidate, and I don't even know if I have the courage to do it, you know, I don't have the courage to do it.
00:16:35.000Like, it's all about, listen, peace, peace, peace!
00:16:38.000We're not going to take money from the military-industrial complex.
00:16:41.000We're not going to take money from Big Pharma.
00:16:43.000We're going to demonopolise and break down big tech, big pharma.
00:16:46.000We're going to, day one, we're going to start attacking these corporate globalist forces.
00:17:42.000He's not... It's not like he's not taking it seriously.
00:17:44.000He is taking it seriously, but... Like, Shane Gillis has probably done the defining stand-up on this as well, when he says it's like he was excited that he was in the Situation Room.
00:17:53.000That beautiful dogs bit of stand-up is so dope.
00:17:56.000I feel like what it is is that the left have an infatuation with aesthetics and style because increasingly politics is voided of true value.
00:18:07.000Say like Barack Obama's done all those deals with Netflix, gets paid a lot of money for after-dinner speeches and all of that stuff and it's like oh these are all premium blue chip brands it's good to do stuff with Netflix and Trump it's like those magic sneakers they're all gold and everything or the Bibles that he does or whatever.
00:18:25.000But, you know, if you spend any time watching Trump, I remember a mate of mine said this years ago about Margaret Thatcher.
00:18:30.000He goes, don't watch too much Margaret Thatcher because you'll start liking her.
00:18:34.000And if you're from the era that I'm from and the place that I'm from, you don't like Margaret Thatcher because she closed down all industry and she messed with working class people, destroyed people in Nottingham and the North and all over the British Isles, right, through her policies.
00:18:46.000If you watch her, she's like, It's just alluring to watch him.
00:19:45.000Even people that feel that they're like post-structuralist sort of critic, uh, sort of cultural critics think, you know, like, hmm, we really have understood the culture and the dynamics of power.
00:19:54.000But really, people can't handle having a president that sort of talks like that.
00:19:59.000Doesn't go, you know, after a firefight, there were, after a firefight, Bin Laden was killed.
00:20:05.000Like it's all sort of serious and sensible.
00:20:06.000You can't have Trump talking about beautiful dogs and stuff.
00:20:57.000Right, so we're not talking about Jesus, are we?
00:21:00.000We're talking about a politician who whilst in the early part of his career he garnered a lot of attention and it seemed like, oh my god, this guy might be incredible with this weird background, part in like living in Indonesia for a while, his dad's Kenyan, he grew up in Hawaii, he did a bunch of work for charity, done loads of legal aid type work, you know, being a lawyer, working sort of pro-rata for good causes.
00:21:26.000I was someone that was well into that stuff, like, and it seemed exciting, didn't it?
00:21:30.000At his inauguration and various ceremonies of ascension.
00:21:35.000It's, um, like Michelle Obama, obviously, and, but also Oprah and Various African-American celebrities seem like, this is amazing!
00:21:42.000Like, when he ascended, it seemed brilliant.
00:21:44.000And so Trump, the whole thing, like, people make a big deal, like, he's not got any good celebrities, his inauguration, they won't let him use their music, Pink Floyd have denied the right.
00:21:53.000Well, you know, look at where we got to, man.
00:21:56.000Like, you know, Obama begat Biden, begat what?
00:22:08.000And look, ultimately, again and again, we'll be seeing this story as independent media becomes so fleet-footed and far ahead of the gatekeeper, centralised legacy media pack.
00:22:19.000You'll see more and more stories like this, where titles like The Guardian have to go, Oh yeah, it looks like Russia's fears about NATO expansion were something we should have paid more attention to.
00:22:31.000Or you'll start to see, you know, Zelensky acknowledging that in all likelihood the war will have to be brought to an end in the event of a Trump presidency.
00:22:41.000And no one wants Ukrainian people, or Russian people, or Palestinian people, or Israeli people, or Chinese or Taiwanese people to die.
00:22:49.000Surely, surely, surely, wherever centralised interests are threatening to the lives of individuals we should be
00:22:56.000looking for diplomatic and peaceful solutions surely this is true instead perhaps that should
00:23:00.000be our shared and mutual focus rather than Barack Obama is a pretty classy guy he's got pretty classy
00:23:06.000movies and documentaries on Netflix not like that vulgarian Trump bundling about on a golf buggy.
00:23:12.000I think all of us understand that we have to finish the work as soon as possible of course not
00:23:37.000Um, and okay, but we're gonna be with you for about another minute if you're watching this on YouTube, then we're gonna be on Rumble.
00:23:43.000We're gonna be talking about the body cam footage and the increasing amount of evidence that suggests that this was a false flag event.
00:23:49.000I'll tell you now, if you're watching this in America, in the UK, a lot of people feel like, and my assumption is this is because of the type of media they consume, that this is a false flag event that was constructed within the Trump camp.
00:24:02.000That this is, you know, like, I mean, I wonder how you deal with the death of an innocent man.
00:24:07.000I wonder how you deal with the sort of like that Trump was shot.
00:24:10.000There's so many things, but what's more extraordinary is the people that just were not interested in hearing conspiracy theories, inverted commas, during the pandemic.
00:24:20.000Conspiracy theories like it comes out of dual-purpose research.
00:24:53.000And, uh, I don't want to, I mean, I'm not trying to blow my own trumpet, but I am going to let you know that I've got one.
00:25:00.000Like right, like in the minutes after it happened, I posted on X, you can go look back at the time and said, watch now how institutions, groups, and individuals that would never engage in Rhetoric around false flags and staged events.
00:25:52.000We'll be getting into that later, but some of the other things he said, uh, you know, he talks about, like, you know, he ain't a, uh... This is where I start the countdown.
00:25:59.000We're going to leave YouTube now, by the way.
00:26:00.000Click the link in the description, guys, if you want to come and see us on YouTube.
00:27:57.000And let's have a look at this cultural Christian conversation, can we?
00:28:01.000I think it's weird, because obviously I'm a new convert to Christianity, and when people talk about cultural Christianity, what are they talking about?
00:28:11.000Is what used to mean secularism to secularism became co-opted by a sort of woke culturalism, which is obviously the central theme that Peterson and Musk are discussing.
00:28:20.000And I've sort of noticed that what began as political diversity, equity and inclusion.
00:28:31.000That those ideas are, that's, I would say that's the sacralising of the culture that's replacing the desacralising of things that ought be sacred like one another.
00:28:42.000Nature, principles and ethics have been desacralised in favour of, I was talking about it earlier, Barack Obama's so classy!
00:29:13.000Remember that you're going to die, they're going to die, and potentially we're all going to be in eternity together because we have been saved, and let's be loving to one another.
00:29:21.000When you make the culture the highest set of values, you mean it affords humankind the ability to set new parameters.
00:29:30.000They can say, these are the values this week.
00:29:33.000That's why, as I discussed in that conversation there, there's all these party switches.
00:29:38.000The Dems used to be the party of free speech.
00:29:41.000The Dems used to be the party of anti-war.
00:29:43.000They're not the party of anti-war anymore, because now they worship the culture itself, and the culture itself is mutable according to whatever agenda's driving it.
00:29:51.000Let me know what you think about that in the chat.
00:29:52.000And where did we land up on the one-twos?
00:30:46.000You mean the material expression of those spiritual values.
00:30:52.000The material expression of them is good, but I don't believe the values.
00:30:55.000The first time I started to think about things like that, ...was when people started to acknowledge that meditation was good for the body, and good for blood pressure, and good for those kind of things, right?
00:31:06.000It's like, oh wow, so the people that came up with that didn't know it.
00:33:26.000In the rumble chat and you know like the rumble chat's a pretty interesting space only for the adverts it's cool uh just for like so i know when queues are working read the monitor guys so you can pull that monitor off for now thanks um like what what's fascinating and interesting for me is you know earlier i asked you one or like one do you think immigration is the issue that's the biggest threat or two global corporatism guess what one global corporatism so even in rumble which is a space where people are very concerned about immigration it's interesting to note that even there People are aware that corporatism is where power is.
00:33:59.000One thing I like to bear in mind whenever sort of talking about the issue of immigration, even though I know it's just sort of an argument that's sort of being won, and I'm not trying to oppose you on that argument, because I feel like if you have a nation, you have to accept that you have a nation, and you have to respect its borders and stuff.
00:34:17.000What I feel like is worth bearing in mind is refugees and migrants do not have power.
00:34:24.000And when you're talking about power dynamics and changing the world, if your focus is powerless people, you're looking in the wrong direction.
00:34:33.000I don't even mean from an ethical perspective, I mean from a strategic perspective.
00:34:38.000Who are the most powerful groups and institutions in the world?
00:34:44.000They're the people that are in charge.
00:34:46.000Again, like I told you before, probably.
00:34:49.000They say that they know that dark matter and dark energy exist, even though they are imperceptible, because they impact and affect observable phenomena.
00:34:59.000And if you want an allegory to understand that, excuse me, an analogy to understand that, If you are looking at a billiard table where the white ball was invisible, you could see from the disbursement of the red balls where the white ball might have been, right?
00:35:15.000Oh, even though I can't see the white ball because it's invisible, from the fact that the red balls all went in that pattern, the white ball must have impacted there.
00:35:22.000That's how they understand and can prove, inverted commas, the existence of dark matter, dark energy.
00:35:27.000Well, I think that when looking at how systemic power operates that might not be evident and observable, look at the impact of it.
00:35:37.000During the wealth transfer, during the pandemic, where did money go?
00:35:41.000During the pandemic, What authoritarian measures were able to be enacted?
00:35:46.000That shows you then, the sort of outline, the silhouette of power.
00:35:51.000And talking about cadavers that might be found and outlined on the floor, here he is.
00:35:58.000The current president, who won't be president for long, is Joe Biden, who in a brief moment manages to demonstrate the whole sort of In a sense, the whole narrative unfolds here in 18 seconds.
00:39:44.000I just want to live quietly on an island and really focus on growing vegetables and just living a simple, quiet, calm... I don't want anything else to do with it.
00:39:56.000...story right now, but that's coming from the Washington Post, the Secret Service is now encouraging the Trump campaign to stop doing those outdoor rallies.
00:40:43.000And the body cam footage, they had eyes on him like minutes prior to he'd fire a shot, fired a shot, excuse me, and the head of, and Kimberley, yesterday, Kimberley Cheetle wouldn't reveal the number of shell casings on the roof.
00:41:39.000Let's have a look at that together and discern together What we can possibly glean from this, what do I want to call it, the tendentious nature of these revelations, meaning it appears to be leading us to the conclusion that as with all lone, deranged gunman assassinations, it's a conspiracy!
00:42:03.000It's a conspiracy, you still can't openly say that the murderer and assassination of JFK was not Lee, Harvey, Oswald and that if they released those files, like whether they released those files or the 9-11 files or what went down in the pandemic or this, the reason is it's not gonna be That sloped roof was a surprise for your birthday!
00:42:26.000This body cam footage was meant to be a montage of joyful events leading up to today.
00:43:28.000Alright, so if you go to that window that's open and yell for Greg, that's the sniper that sent the original pictures and seen him come from the bike and set the book back down and then lost sight of him.
00:46:26.000A wrecked ladder, the ability to not have your phone hacked, the ability to get to 20 years of age in 2024 without any social media accounts, leads us to the conclusion that whatever happened on July the 13th there in Butler, it is not the official version.
00:46:42.000Believe me, there are people in metropolitan and neoliberal circles that claim that this is a false flag event set up by the Trump campaign.
00:46:58.000And yet we know, when it comes to the deep state, Lone gunman assassinations are an extraordinary red flag in themselves.
00:47:07.000It seems to me increasingly likely that over the coming days, certainly if evidence continues to be released at this rate, we will be given the data required to understand these events.
00:47:18.000And therefore be able to extrapolate just how little we can trust the current establishment.
00:47:23.000And whether or not that means that you should automatically lend your trust to the new and emergent forces coming out of the new MAGA Republican Party, that's a question for you to contemplate yourselves.
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00:49:17.000I'm so proud of this community that you know that global corporatism is the most insidious force in the world and a greater threat to your freedom and the freedom of your family than even mass migration, which I know concerns many of you most deeply.
00:49:33.000And I want to have conversations about how you resolve that stuff.
00:51:38.000You can see how enthusiastic Chuck Schumer is.
00:51:42.000So now that the process has played out, from the grassroots bottom up, we are here today to throw our support behind Vice President Kamala Harris.
00:52:05.000Let's have a look at this moment of Kamala Harris rally.
00:52:10.000People have talked about the sort of demographic breakdown of the audience, suggesting that it's not Diverse enough.
00:52:19.000I don't know, I guess... My first guess was that perhaps many people who are not white,
00:52:25.000like during the pandemic period, if you are going to make generalisations, and certainly people do
00:52:31.000make generalisations, have an inherent distrust of the system, perhaps due to obvious historic reasons.
00:52:38.000So Morning Joe have got a lot to say about the hate campaign,
00:52:54.000and the hate campaign includes mispronunciation.
00:52:57.000In fact, I would say I think it is admirable when anyone overcomes anything that could be regarded as a disadvantage, whether that's gender or sex or ethnicity or anything.
00:53:08.000number of achievements that a person might make that are laudable, that they might triumph
00:53:14.000in environments that are perhaps not set up for their success. But it does seem to me
00:53:20.000to be secondary to many of the issues that we are currently confronted with, like war
00:53:27.000and centralisation of power and the decay of national institutions in your country and
00:53:34.000this relentless, irresistible march of globalism and centralization.
00:53:39.000But hey, Morning Joe are nothing if not consistent when it comes to the worship and elevation of the trivial to that which ought be revered and reified.
00:53:49.000And I've heard from inside Republican circles and right-wing media that the hate campaign against Kamala Harris has begun.
00:53:57.000You'll notice they purposefully pronounce her name wrong.
00:54:24.000But that oughtn't be used to prevent you critiquing figures that obviously operate within establishment positions that are Well, it's been observed, hasn't it, that Kamala Harris... That's the right way of saying it.
00:54:39.000Who likes it when your name's mispronounced?
00:54:41.000I like to be called always Brickhouse Russell.
00:54:44.000If I'm called anything other than Brickhouse Russell, I'm offended.
00:54:47.000But it's been observed that Kamala Harris, during just recent months, would have been aware of the senescence and decline of Joe Biden and would have participated in its cover-up.
00:55:27.000I want to bring the conversation back to the broken criminal justice system that is disproportionately negatively impacting black and brown people all across this country today.
00:55:38.000Senator Harris says she's proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she'll be a prosecutor president, but I'm deeply concerned about this record.
00:55:45.000There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
00:57:08.000Either she was blind to the kind of thing that we all saw during the debate, or she was trying to protect her own career by putting the country's interests secondary.
00:57:19.000And I think that that's something that the Trump campaign is going to have billions of dollars to put that story on TV.
00:57:28.000Vice President Harris was also one of the public officials in California.
00:57:38.000Who created these policies that gave California, made California 49th in terms of education outcome.
00:57:46.000Number one in terms of homelessness, California, 50% of the homeless people in our country live in California.
00:57:57.000And I think she has a lot of other vulnerabilities that, you know, that we're going to hear more and more about and that essentially are going to make her Unelectable.
00:58:09.000And I wonder as well how significant it is that Barack Obama has not yet, as at time of streaming, endorsed Kamala Harris and whether or not the divisions within the Democratic Party will ultimately mean they find it difficult to get their shit together.
00:58:26.000Of course, Vivek Ramaswamy's analysis was always, and has been for some months now, that they would not run with Biden.
00:58:33.000They would find a last-minute candidate that could benefit from a honeymoon period while going into the polls and the election itself.
00:58:42.000And whilst that seems to actually, yes, be the strategy that's been deployed, I don't know that they have the candidate That's got the minerals for the job.
00:58:52.000Kamala Harris, we've kind of been watching her for the last four years and there's been too many sort of extraordinary moments and the record is not good, is it?
00:59:02.000Some of the things that Tulsi just pointed out are cause for considerable concern.
00:59:06.000Another authoritarian, another member of the establishment.
00:59:10.000In a sense, the Democratic Party has created this situation for themselves by resisting first the sort of inert Momentum behind Bernie Sanders, who I know, like, they use a lot of hate, but for a minute he was a big anti-bank, anti-big finance candidate.
00:59:24.000Bobby Kennedy, who would have been, had there been proper primaries, next in line when this deal went down.
00:59:30.000Marianne Williamson, the more kind of new age, sort of spiritual version of a candidate.
00:59:36.000You know, she wrote that Course in Miracles, didn't she?
00:59:38.000And, uh, you know, Gruesome Newsome, he's gonna wait for his moment, don't you think?
00:59:50.000Anyway, I would say that at the moment, While we are still in a kind of extraordinary kind of clandestine operation of selecting a candidate out of some pretty slim pickings to go up against a newly resurrected Trump, it's unlikely that anyone pulled from that pack is going to make a meaningful difference.
01:00:22.000Now, Elon Musk's conversation with Jordan Peterson has made a significant impact, and I wouldn't be surprised if the whole reason he had that conversation was to make the revelation about his son, who's been taking puberty blockers, and who he regards as being, and the word he uses, is dead.
01:00:41.000We are perhaps seeing here a moment where the cultural conversation might radically shift.
01:00:48.000We've sort of, in a sense, already pivoted from an ongoing rather tremulous acceptance of the extraordinary shifts that are happening around the lives of young people and Flexibility around gender and the acceptance that there are a thousand, a million, endless ways to be a man or a woman into a moment that's beginning to, I would say, rescind some of the largesse that's been afforded previously here.
01:01:15.000Is this going to be the moment that the culture war conversation around gender and gender realignment, particularly when it comes to young people, shifts irrevocably?
01:01:36.000Uh, well, it happened to one of my, my older boys, um, uh, where I was, um, I was essentially tricked into, uh, signing documents, uh, for one of my older boys, Xavier, uh, This is before I had really any understanding of what was going on.
01:01:59.000We had COVID going on, so there was a lot of confusion.
01:02:07.000You know, I was told, you know, Xavier might commit suicide if he... That was a lie right from the outset.
01:02:15.000There was never any evidence for that.
01:02:17.000And also, if there's a higher suicide rate, the reason is, is because of the underlying depression and anxiety and not because of the gender dysphoria.
01:02:25.000And every goddamn clinician knows that, too.
01:02:28.000And they're too cowardly to come out and say it.
01:02:30.000Right, and so that, and then we end up in exactly, when I saw that lie start to propagate, it just made the hair on the back of my neck stand up, it's like, I see, so you're, you're telling parents that unless they agree to this radical transformation that their children are going to die, and you think that's moral, and you think that's true.
01:02:48.000That is so pathological that it's almost incomprehensible.
01:02:53.000I can't imagine a therapist doing anything worse than that.
01:02:56.000Or sitting by idly and remaining silent while his colleagues are doing it.
01:04:21.000Yeah, well, that's a good reason to be the final straw.
01:04:26.000Alright, so let's... So I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that.
01:04:31.000Well, it's an interesting insight into Elon Musk, who remains a controversial figure, as all that wields such extraordinary power must be.
01:04:42.000It was interesting, I thought, to see Trump talking about He's reneging on electric car policies and acknowledging that, obviously, Musk has significant amounts to gain from policies that endorse or even mandate the advancement of electric vehicles.
01:05:00.000But nevertheless, Musk remains a supporter.
01:05:05.000When I say the political is personal, It's difficult to not form your political opinions on the basis of personal trauma, and if not trauma, experience.
01:05:17.000We see now that Elon Musk is entering the cultural war in perhaps the same way he entered his ownership of X, because of a kind of Personal transgression, or at least personal pain.
01:05:32.000And as a father, of course, anything traumatic, unusual, or dramatic happening to a child is difficult to countenance and presents a considerable challenge.
01:05:43.000But me or you having a challenge around the way that culture impacts our children or our child's identity is one thing.
01:05:52.000Elon Musk facing that challenge is something else.
01:05:55.000Because, let's face it, Elon Musk could create online sensations overnight with a single push of his thumb.
01:06:02.000He can turn a small story or a small cultural incident into a phenomenon.
01:06:09.000So clearly a mandate was forming around these ideas when it comes to gender therapies.
01:06:15.000The Tavistock Clinic in our country has certainly lost the glow and aura that it once had and certainly a lot of questions are being asked when Newsom endorses or passes policies that appear to allow children and teachers to have conversations that their parents are not privy to.
01:06:34.000And I suppose they will argue that in instances where the parents are abusive, that could be beneficial.
01:06:41.000But many of us believe that we don't want corporations or the state intervening in our private Personal, familial matters.
01:06:50.000And that could of course include a choice to encourage our children to explore their identity beyond the afforded paradigm of the culture, or yet even still, biology, nature, God.
01:07:04.000Or, we might decide, no, we're sticking with what appears to be biologically apposite, traditional and culturally prescribed.
01:07:12.000If you believe in liberty, if you believe in freedom, then of course you believe in other people's liberty and freedom, and it's an interesting But that's just what I think.
01:07:20.000Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.
01:07:22.000that now that Elon Musk is so vociferously, personally and with such certainty ended this
01:07:27.000debate, there will be permutations in the days to come and there will be perhaps a greater
01:08:13.000But if you have legit questions or illegitimate questions, baby, we will answer them for you for our awakened wonders.
01:08:19.000Before we go, though, Another massive cultural event has taken place.
01:08:25.000Joker, when it first came out, when the first Joker movie with Joaquin Phoenix came out, it captured a certain moment, the moment of nihilism, a kind of, is it a manifesto for the incels?
01:08:36.000Is it kind of Thomas Crook's favourite movie?
01:08:53.000I feel that the first movie it's pretty powerful and I like Tarantino's point that when he takes out De Niro in the chat show scene at the end.
01:09:02.000You as an audience are kind of willing him to make that rather, if not nihilistic, downright malfeasant move.
01:09:11.000So, clearly, Todd Phillips is a gifted storyteller if he can get his audience into that mindset.
01:13:00.000I'm assuming... I don't know what Todd Phillips' political persuasions are, but he's operating out of Hollywood.
01:13:06.000But nevertheless, what I felt in there was the kind of attempt to harness the pathology of a nation in a hazy, fluxy time.
01:13:15.000Whether you're a person that's sort of culturally on the left or, you know, sort of a religious individual or, you know, or of the right, wherever you sit, what we are starting to witness and experience is the sort of hastening high-velocity implosion of a culture that was for a long time successful and working well, i.e.
01:13:35.000the post-war consumer ideal is starting to break down.
01:13:40.000People No longer believe that if you work hard you'll be rewarded, you'll go to college, you'll have a better house than your parents, everything's gonna be okay.
01:13:47.000There is a sort of sense of pervasive despair and what people are looking for, I believe, is an attempt to find meaning, once again, and an attempt to sort of, um, in...
01:13:58.000Invest meaning into nihilism cannot ever succeed.
01:14:02.000You can't get meaning from the antithesis of meaning.
01:14:05.000I had a conversation once with Brett Weinstein and he said that he believed the resurgence of Christianity was an attempt to reboot the last thing that works.
01:14:13.000I take issue with that obviously because I'm, you know, I'm a Christian and I believe that there is a divine sublime truth expressed in itself through the life death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and indeed I believe that Nationalism is an attempt to reboot the last thing that worked, and it's a response to global corporatism.
01:14:30.000That's one of the many modern cultural philosophical paradoxes that we find ourselves in, i.e.
01:14:38.000oh, it's one world, and this, well, we're proud of our heritage, and we're gonna have sports tournaments where we sort of celebrate our nation, and yeah, There are open borders and we're well aware that we're governed by forces that are beyond the sovereignty of a nation, that real power is not within the political institutions of a country necessarily, but institutions and interests that are transcendent of them.
01:15:01.000That's the whole deep state global corporatist purview, isn't it?
01:15:05.000And a figure like, you know, Arthur Fleck there in the attempt to sort of introduce a love story, which I guess is just necessary if you're gonna create another movie that's so that it's not just the same movie again, seems to me that it's riding on the pathology of that nihilism.
01:15:21.000Yeah, someone mentioned Charles Manson and sort of MKUltra stuff in the chat and it's this deep suspicion that nothing is real, that television is not your friend, that the media is not your friend, that the judiciary is corrupted, is the pervasive and defining view and perspective of our time a total lack of trust.
01:15:42.000Remember we talked earlier on today about how Some people will say that the Trump assassination was a deep state project.
01:15:49.000Others will say Trump's team set that up themselves.
01:15:53.000You will ultimately concoct a theory that allows you to continue to believe what you believe anyway because there is no central universal principle.
01:16:03.000So when you get people saying I'm a cultural Christian what they're saying is I want something to mean something so that we can have institutions and values, but I'm not willing to surrender to the idea that God, God's self, came down into the simulation.
01:16:16.000The creator of the simulation came into the simulation to tell you that there's a transcendent, eternal reality.
01:16:21.000And remember, eternity is not a long piece of time.