Stay Free - Russel Brand - Branko Marcetic (Zelensky’s War on Dissent)

Ross and Ross are back with a brand new episode of You Awakened! This week, the boys are joined by special guest Branko Marcicic to talk about Putin's recent trip to St. Basil's Basilica and the bizarre marks on his neck. They're also joined by a special guest to discuss the war in Ukraine and how the mainstream media and the US government conspired to keep us in the dark about it. Plus, the latest on the latest in the Trump vs DeSantis super PAC battle. You're not going to get more information on todays news and views than right here. You'll have to wait till the end of the show to find out who it's about! Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. We'd like to learn a little more about you, the listeners. Please take a few minutes to fill out this brief survey. We'll be looking for any questions you have about the show, and we'll be answering them on the next week's episode. Send us your answers in the comments section below. Thanks for listening and supporting the show! Timestamps: 0:00 - What do you think of this episode? 1:30 - What would you like to see more of? 2:15 - Is Putin's neck a little too thin? 3:40 - Is there something wrong with his neck? 4:00 5: What are you worried about? 6:20 - What's the point of the Pope s crown? 7: Is he a deranged madman? 8:00: Is there anything wrong with it? 9:00- Is there a candle just a little bit too thin or not? 11:00s - Is this candle too thick? 12:30s - What is the point? 13:30- Is it just a bit more than a candle? 15:40s - How do you like it a little? 16:20s? 17: What's a candle a bit too thick or a little less than a bit less than that? 18: Is it more than medium? 19:15somewide? 21: Does it look like a candle ? 22:15- Does it feel like a bit like that? 16:40- Is that a candle too thin??

00:00:00.000 Hello there, you awakening wonders.

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00:00:24.000 It's a dangerous act of radicalism.

00:00:27.000 Oh, you saucy little citrus!

00:00:29.000 A little bit later, we'll also be talking to Branko Marcicic about how the US government misled the public on the war in Ukraine and how the media, very much the Jewel Biden to the Joe Biden of the state, support the government in their ongoing lies.

00:00:44.000 Then we're in our item, here's the news, no, here's the effing news.

00:00:47.000 We'll be looking at how Military personnel are suffering poverty, suffering indignity, all the while the military-industrial complex is profiting massively.

00:00:59.000 Let me have another sniff of that.

00:01:00.000 Oh, I'm feeling a little bit better, but I won't tell you what condition it might be helping according to.

00:01:05.000 There's plenty of conditions it could be helping with you.

00:01:08.000 There's nothing wrong with me, mate.

00:01:10.000 There's nothing wrong with me.

00:01:10.000 The burping for a start.

00:01:12.000 What in the holy name of God's wrong with Putin's neck pipes? 0.89

00:01:16.000 There's something wrong with his neck, look. 0.94

00:01:19.000 There's strange marks on Vladimir Putin's neck.

00:01:22.000 Look at his neck.

00:01:23.000 That ain't right.

00:01:24.000 Here he is appearing at, I would call it, An orthodox ceremony for the festival of Easter in which our Lord Jesus comes back from death to show us that there are deeper tunes to be played when it comes to the Requiem of Consciousness.

00:01:41.000 Here is Putin.

00:01:43.000 Let's see if you think there's anything wrong with his neck.

00:01:45.000 And also, is that candle just a little bit too thin?

00:01:48.000 Have a look.

00:01:49.000 Christ is risen! Christ is risen! Christ is risen! Christ is risen! Christ is risen! Christ is risen! Christ is risen!

00:02:12.000 Christ is risen! Christ is risen! I like his neck and I like that ceremony and I like that crown that they have

00:02:12.000 orthodox version of a bishop or a pope or whatever you have in Russia.

00:02:12.000 Let us know in the comments, in the chat, what you have over there in Russia.

00:02:16.000 I don't think those are the bits that the news want you to focus on.

00:02:19.000 This is the point of this, Ross, is they want you to think, oh, Putin, he's so ill. 0.99

00:02:24.000 He's a deranged madman. 0.99

00:02:25.000 Right. 1.00

00:02:26.000 No, and also, he's that as well, of course. 1.00

00:02:28.000 He's a deranged madman. 0.99

00:02:29.000 But he's so ill that we're going to win this war. 0.98

00:02:32.000 Putin, Putin, he's so ill, he'll be really easy to kill in our not-proxy war that we're not having, we're just supporting Ukraine in a huge humanitarian effort that's necessary and had nothing to do with NATO impeding on former Soviet Union territory and nothing to do with a coup in 2014.

00:02:46.000 No one can! 0.91

00:02:47.000 Nice.

00:02:48.000 Is the lyric.

00:02:48.000 I feel like it looked like aging to me.

00:02:51.000 That's just life having its way.

00:02:53.000 Trump versus DeSantis, the ongoing preliminary battle has reached propagandist levels.

00:03:00.000 The mainstream media, of course, enjoying this.

00:03:02.000 CNN and sort of, I suppose, the liberal half of the neoliberal corrupt establishment media are enjoying this super PAC spat.

00:03:12.000 First up, whose video are we going to see first?

00:03:14.000 I think it starts with Ron DeSantis is on Trump.

00:03:18.000 All right, let's see what Ron DeSantis is saying about Trump.

00:03:21.000 First of all, let's have a look.

00:03:24.000 It is April 2023.

00:03:25.000 Yes, April 2023, but an early... Excited about the date.

00:03:29.000 That's just the date.

00:03:30.000 What are we worried about that for?

00:03:31.000 Yep, that's right.

00:03:32.000 We know the date.

00:03:32.000 You can trust us on CNN.

00:03:34.000 I think his point is that these are coming early when the election is next year, but he is just a man reiterating the date.

00:03:39.000 And also, like, this is the thing.

00:03:41.000 With all of their bombast and banal pageantry, they're in no position to criticise the propaganda of anyone else. 0.90

00:03:49.000 Look at that, the way his name, John King, came thrusting onto the screen, an unwanted graphic priapic erection forced in from the side of the frame. 0.70

00:03:59.000 The point is they're doing this too early.

00:04:01.000 Just make a decision to not show it then.

00:04:02.000 You're doing the thing.

00:04:03.000 You're reporting on them doing it too early.

00:04:06.000 Yeah, you're getting involved.

00:04:07.000 You love it.

00:04:07.000 And wait till it gets to the free finger yogurt.

00:04:10.000 A proxy war is underway between the top two Republican 2024 contenders.

00:04:14.000 A super PAC aligned with the Florida governor Ron DeSantis in a new TV ad suggests Donald Trump has lost his way.

00:04:22.000 Trump's stealing pages from the Biden-Pelosi playbook.

00:04:25.000 Repeating lies about Social Security.

00:04:27.000 Trump should fight Democrats, not lie about Governor DeSantis.

00:04:31.000 What happened to Donald Trump?

00:04:33.000 I like that shot of Donald Trump looking sort of a bit destitute, wandering home from a nightclub with his bowtie undone.

00:04:40.000 That was good.

00:04:41.000 Let's see though, I think Trump's super PAC propaganda, not necessarily affiliated with the Trump campaign, which is a super PAC thing, is better.

00:04:49.000 Because what they've gone for is a garish, galling, gory, and awful image involving pudding.

00:04:58.000 Also, like, they're picking up on a weird detail about Ron DeSantis.

00:05:01.000 I didn't know that Ron DeSantis ate puddings with his fingers.

00:05:06.000 But that's, you know, like, have you ever been to India?

00:05:09.000 In India, people eat, like, surprising meals with their fingers, and I presume that's common across that region of the world.

00:05:16.000 Like, I was in India, and people ate, like, rice and curry with their fingers, and you just have to go, well, why not?

00:05:20.000 Maybe it's more weird to hold a little spoon or a fork.

00:05:23.000 What are we afraid of, man?

00:05:24.000 I'd still think even in India they wouldn't do a chocolate mousse.

00:05:27.000 They might, mate.

00:05:27.000 They might get their fingers right in there.

00:05:29.000 If you are watching this live from India now, eating a pudding with your fingers, then text us. 0.98

00:05:34.000 But, I mean, it's up to you.

00:05:35.000 Use your phone.

00:05:36.000 Maybe wipe the pudding off your fingers.

00:05:38.000 Or if you're on DeSantis and you're watching this in Florida with a great scoop of pud right there, cradled there in the nook of your third knuckle. 0.95

00:05:49.000 Suck that down, delicious, like Mother Nature surely intended when she granted us these crazy little hand wands, and let's know what's going on.

00:05:59.000 Now, that ad from a pro-DeSantis pack is responding to scathing ads from a pro-Trump group, including this, yes, stomach-churning dig at the Florida governor after a report that he ate pudding with his fingers. 0.98

00:06:13.000 Ron DeSantis loves sticking his fingers where they don't belong.

00:06:17.000 What I like is that De Santis has got a table and chair and all that's on it is that pudding.

00:06:21.000 Just for a pudding.

00:06:22.000 That's his pudding table.

00:06:23.000 I'm going to the pudding table now, Ma.

00:06:26.000 There's nothing else there.

00:06:26.000 It's not like a TV or a phone or any distractions.

00:06:29.000 Just a man and his pudding.

00:06:31.000 And also, it's a non-branded sort of look.

00:06:34.000 I don't feel like that's a good quality pudding.

00:06:36.000 You'd get lots of those for maybe a dollar.

00:06:38.000 You get in Walmart, I reckon you get 20 of them puddings for a very reasonable price.

00:06:44.000 And if you're fingering your way through them, right at knots.

00:06:47.000 That's what you want when you're sat alone at your good little jack corner, sticking your fingers at the table. 0.84

00:06:53.000 You want that replenished.

00:06:56.000 Get another one in.

00:06:57.000 Like he holds up his muddy little digits.

00:07:01.000 More mama! 1.00

00:07:01.000 More! 1.00

00:07:02.000 Keep them going!

00:07:03.000 If we have a conveyor belt, operated by an Oompa Loompa, like on a bicycle, just bring another pudding.

00:07:09.000 He's like a self-fulfilling wonka.

00:07:11.000 He's a one-man wonka.

00:07:12.000 He's running his own chocolate factory.

00:07:14.000 He's eating his own product.

00:07:16.000 That's the way to run a state, if you ask me.

00:07:18.000 Stay free with Russell Brand.

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00:07:25.000 You won't get this on YouTube.

00:07:27.000 Sniff me some citrus, baby.

00:07:29.000 My snout's getting stronger by the second.

00:07:31.000 I'm being joined now by friend of the show, Branko Marcicic, an investigative journalist for Jacobin, the author of Yesterday's Man, The Case Against Joe Biden.

00:07:41.000 This is a really cool A quote from Branko to get you in the mood.

00:07:46.000 So sit yourself down in your chair wherever you are and listen to this.

00:07:49.000 It's going to get you hot and wet for Branko.

00:07:52.000 This is a Branko quote.

00:07:54.000 These Pentagon leaks, what's more corrosive to U.S.

00:07:57.000 democracy that the president secretly put U.S.

00:07:59.000 booties on the ground in an escalating war zone in Ukraine, breaking a promise and going against the wishes of the voting public?

00:08:09.000 Or that the public was finally told about it.

00:08:12.000 That's a bit of the brilliant journalism of Branko Marticic, except for I made the word... I said booties instead of boots.

00:08:19.000 I don't know why I did that now.

00:08:20.000 I don't know why I did it. 0.88

00:08:21.000 It was silly.

00:08:22.000 Branko, thanks for joining us.

00:08:24.000 Hey, thanks for having me.

00:08:25.000 Thank you for correcting the record there.

00:08:27.000 That's important.

00:08:27.000 We are like you independent journalists and we have a duty to take truth pretty bloody seriously.

00:08:33.000 I'll congratulate you firstly on your hair today and secondly we'll move on to my first question.

00:08:40.000 Gareth Roy is very excited to have you here.

00:08:42.000 He believes you to be a rising star of the independent journalism scene and he wants to frame you as one of our key voices on stay free media.

00:08:50.000 So just know that Branko before you even begin your answer that you are loved and believed in and adored.

00:08:57.000 Now, the US government misled the public on the war.

00:09:00.000 Why are the mainstream corporate media more interested in going on about that lad's nickname being OG?

00:09:07.000 Why are the New York Times involved in his capture and arrest like Scooby-Doo and the Gang or Lovejoy, if you're British?

00:09:15.000 Instead of focusing on the content of the leaks, please, Branko.

00:09:20.000 I mean, this is basically a pattern that happens every time there's a major leak that exposes something politically inconvenient or embarrassing or even scandalous, particularly from the US government.

00:09:30.000 I can give you a number of examples.

00:09:32.000 I mean, basically, some of the biggest leaks in US history, you think about Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, you think about the various leaks that WikiLeaks put Uh, out under Julian Assange, the Snowden leaks, uh, uh, Chelsea Manning's, uh, uh, contributions to the Assange, uh, WikiLeaks stuff.

00:09:51.000 All of these people were, uh, rather than, well, alongside, you know, writing about the genuinely kind of scandalous and revelatory stuff that they revealed.

00:10:03.000 At the same time, there was this obsession among certain segments of the press on, you know, were these people, are they heroes or traitors?

00:10:13.000 Are they good people?

00:10:14.000 You know, let's talk about some of their misdeeds.

00:10:18.000 Sometimes, you know, misdeeds are completely imagined in the case of Snowden, you know, who's been accused of being a Russian and a Chinese spy and all this kind of stuff.

00:10:27.000 But, and then also sometimes, you know, very real misdeeds.

00:10:31.000 You know, I think Assange, the sexual assault allegations against Assange were credible.

00:10:36.000 Obviously, this guy, this latest leaker has, you know, this record of making, you know, offensive and racist comments and so on and so forth.

00:10:44.000 But, you know, the entire time that we're talking about Whether these people are good or bad and whether they are deserving of our respect or our valorization, we're not talking about the actual stuff that they revealed.

00:10:56.000 In the case of WikiLeaks, it was evidence of war crimes by US and coalition forces in Iraq and other places.

00:11:03.000 In this case, there's so much important that's come out of this leak.

00:11:07.000 I would say, number one, the fact that the Biden administration apparently does have boots on the ground despite saying it would not deploy troops.

00:11:17.000 There has, you know, dozens of special forces personnel in Ukraine, as does the whole of NATO.

00:11:24.000 I think it's saying like 97 people.

00:11:26.000 And on top of that, I mean, there's this major revelation about how easily this war could have already spiraled into into all out, you know, World War Three or nuclear catastrophe.

00:11:38.000 There was this incident last year where Russian and British pilots kind of go into a scrape of the Black Sea.

00:11:45.000 We heard about it.

00:11:46.000 There was a bit of alarm over it, but we didn't quite know the full details.

00:11:50.000 Now it turns out that actually the Russian jet, the Russian pilot misunderstanding instructions from, you know, radar operators fired the missile at the British jet.

00:12:02.000 And the missile malfunctioned and nothing happened.

00:12:05.000 But I mean, if that malfunction hadn't happened in the nick of time, this could have been a very different thing.

00:12:12.000 I mean, this could have been absolutely disastrous.

00:12:14.000 I mean, that's two things out of the many things that have come out.

00:12:18.000 But you know, these are very important topics to discuss in the context of this ever escalating war.

00:12:24.000 And we don't talk about them because we're focused on, is this person good or bad?

00:12:28.000 Why can't the US be honest about the extent of their involvement in this conflict, plainly admitting that there are American personnel within Ukraine?

00:12:41.000 And why can't the mainstream media hold them to account when these leaks are made?

00:12:47.000 Why does this consensus to maintain one narrative exist, Branko?

00:12:53.000 I mean, unfortunately, in the US especially, the press has long been kind of more eager for escalation and kind of a more aggressive military posture from the Biden administration.

00:13:06.000 I mean, if you, you know, whatever you think about the Biden administration's policy to Ukraine, they have been relatively restrained compared to what the press has been asking.

00:13:16.000 I mean, you know, from the earliest days of the war, there were White House press corps people who are saying, you know, basically, why won't you set up a no-fly zone?

00:13:25.000 Which, you know, would have basically been the declaration of World War Three.

00:13:30.000 Or, you know, saying, why aren't you constantly pushing the administration to send more advanced, more escalatory weaponry to Ukraine, and so on and so forth.

00:13:39.000 So I think for that segment of the media that kind of wants a more aggressive confrontational posture from the United States government, it doesn't pay to talk about the risks.

00:13:53.000 It doesn't pay to talk about the way that the U.S.

00:13:57.000 government has actually misled the public.

00:13:58.000 around it's already fairly deep involvement in this war.

00:14:02.000 And I mean, for the Biden administration, of course, it wants to maintain this idea that, oh, you

00:14:06.000 know, we're having a hands off approach.

00:14:09.000 This is not a proxy war. This is this is not a conflict between the US and Russia or between

00:14:14.000 in Russia or between NATO and Russia, we're merely providing support to Ukraine at once.

00:14:14.000 NATO and Russia. We're merely providing support to Ukraine that it wants. We're not ourselves

00:14:19.000 We're not ourselves actively belligerence in this war.

00:14:20.000 actively, you know, belligerence in this war, because I think for domestic consumption,

00:14:24.000 Because I think for domestic consumption, convinces people that, hey, the US elite,

00:14:27.000 convinces people that, hey, the US elite, you know, the US officials have not sort of blundered.

00:14:30.000 the US officials have not sort of blundered the country into yet another potentially catastrophic war.

00:14:37.000 And I think on the international stage, it has this benefit of making the United States

00:14:42.000 seem like a kind of honest broker in this war, rather than what Lula, the president of Brazil recently

00:14:48.000 said, which is that it's been sort of encouraging

00:14:50.000 the prolonging of the war that's been going on.

00:14:53.000 Why is Zelensky declaring war on dissent, centralizing nearly all of Ukraine's national TV networks?

00:15:03.000 Why, if the leadership of Ukraine are on the side of righteousness, why can they not accommodate dissent Debate and conversation.

00:15:14.000 And obviously, I would apply that to the ongoing march towards censorship in our countries, you know, Australia, England, America, all that.

00:15:25.000 Why is there an unwillingness to accommodate dissent and debate?

00:15:31.000 What does that indicate?

00:15:32.000 But start off by telling us what's going on specifically with Zelensky in Ukraine.

00:15:37.000 Sure.

00:15:38.000 I mean, to put it briefly, the sort of authoritarianism that existed in Ukrainian politics, which, you know, long predates the invasion.

00:15:48.000 Unfortunately, ever since the break of the Soviet Union, Ukraine has been several different struggles

00:15:54.000 over the decades to kind of try and make it a more democratic, less corrupt country,

00:15:58.000 grassroots movements.

00:16:01.000 This has been a problem for a long time.

00:16:03.000 And that was a problem under Zelensky before the war.

00:16:07.000 But things really ramped up.

00:16:09.000 There's been both anecdotal and also if you look at the data,

00:16:12.000 the prosecution data, there's just been an explosion of prosecutions and detainments, all this stuff,

00:16:21.000 against anti-war dissidents or really just any dissidents of all kinds.

00:16:27.000 What does that mean?

00:16:28.000 I mean, it might mean that someone who criticized the Zelensky government within Ukraine

00:16:36.000 for helping to making decisions that helped sort of lead to war.

00:16:42.000 It might mean that you even support Russia.

00:16:46.000 There are definitely people in Ukraine who, you know, it's a small number, a small minority, but there are different people who support the war effort.

00:16:53.000 It might mean criticising the SNC government for some of its anti-democratic overreaches.

00:16:59.000 It can also mean, you know, things like just basically putting forward kind of left-wing ideology.

00:17:07.000 A lot of leftists have been kind of caught up in the repression over there.

00:17:12.000 The sum total of it is that basically there's been a crackdown on anything that deviates

00:17:17.000 from the official Ukrainian line, whether it's about the course of the war, the causes

00:17:23.000 of the war, the fitness of the Ukrainian government, all this stuff.

00:17:27.000 Whatever it is, if you're saying it and it's politically inconvenient to the government,

00:17:33.000 you might get a knock on the door from the SBU.

00:17:37.000 In terms of why this is happening, there's two explanations.

00:17:43.000 Number one, obviously, Ukraine's been invaded by a larger neighboring power.

00:17:48.000 Any country that comes under foreign attack and outside attack in wartime, you see a big 0.99

00:17:57.000 Typically, a centralization of government power, you see things like censorship policies being put into place.

00:18:04.000 You know, it happened under Lincoln during the Civil War.

00:18:07.000 I mean, it happened, just think about what happened with the United States after September 11, and how that kind of led to a centralization of a bunch of repressive powers.

00:18:16.000 And so it's not surprising that Ukraine being under attack has kind of resorted to this very classic method

00:18:24.000 of sort of control and unity during wartime.

00:18:28.000 However, that's not the full story because this was happening, like I said,

00:18:31.000 long before under multiple presidents, but ramped up under Zelensky too,

00:18:37.000 well before the war when his approval ratings had plummeted and he had actually faced some pretty bad outcomes

00:18:46.000 in municipal elections around the country, started to go after his opposition.

00:18:52.000 He sanctioned the kind of a leading opposition bloc and basically through that

00:18:58.000 got rid of a bunch of opposition media.

00:19:02.000 He started to look at banning parties and so on and so forth.

00:19:08.000 And then there were the mayor of Kiev, obviously now everyone's very much united, But before the war, the mayor of Kiev got a knock on the door from the SBU as well, the sort of, you know, security service of Ukraine, who, you know, went in and I think searched his apartment and it was at the time read as a form of political intimidation against someone who might be a future Zelensky rival.

00:19:31.000 So it's those two things combining that there was already a trend towards authoritarianism under Zelensky's rule.

00:19:39.000 But the war has, for multiple reasons, made that go to a far more extreme level than it was before.

00:19:47.000 Good analysis, Branko.

00:19:48.000 Thanks very much.

00:19:50.000 Some of it is legitimate and understandable.

00:19:52.000 When a nation is under attack, there is a requirement for authoritarianism, centralized control and a clear agenda that can be pursued without one might query or quibble about the idea of necessary dissent or necessary opposition.

00:20:06.000 But certainly that makes sense and is understandable.

00:20:08.000 But there is some politics, as usual, wiping out of opposition.

00:20:12.000 Furthermore, I wonder how it relates to the post-war plan to rebuild Ukraine in partnership with Black Rock, eliminating the potential for a Ukrainian trade union movement to be able to meaningfully oppose the kind of restrictions and conditions that Any centralised and financially underwritten project of that nature would likely impose.

00:20:33.000 Branko, thank you so much for joining us.

00:20:36.000 I'm glad you're a regular contributor to our show.

00:20:38.000 You're certainly a valued addition.

00:20:40.000 You can follow Branko's work on Jacobin and his book Yesterday's Man, The Case Against Joe Biden is available to buy using money right now.

00:20:48.000 Thank you, Branko.

00:20:50.000 Cheers, I appreciate it.

00:20:51.000 Cheers, man.

00:20:51.000 See you soon.

00:20:52.000 We've got a great show coming up for you tomorrow.

00:20:54.000 We'll be asking and then answering this question.

00:20:57.000 Is Taiwan the new Ukraine? 0.96

00:20:59.000 You want a new, tell us in the comments and chat if you're up to speed, because we're going to tell you some interesting things.

00:21:04.000 Hey, why don't we have a look in the gallery, Dan, at all of the people that are doing their work?

00:21:08.000 I love seeing those.

00:21:09.000 Yes, guys.

00:21:10.000 I enjoy seeing it.

00:21:11.000 Have a look at the whole team now doing their work in there.

00:21:13.000 And then would you put it up on the screen so as I can see them as well?

00:21:15.000 It gives me some joy.

00:21:17.000 We've also got some damning off YouTube information about vaccines and vaccine injury to tell you about.

00:21:22.000 We've got Biyet Simkin.

00:21:24.000 There's Lara.

00:21:24.000 There you go.

00:21:25.000 She's doing social media.

00:21:26.000 There's Joe doing audio.

00:21:28.000 Look at this fantastic team of people toiling right now.

00:21:32.000 To bring you necessary truths, young Al.

00:21:34.000 They had a birthday only recently.

00:21:37.000 Sometimes Al doesn't post the entire show up when they're pre-recorded shows.

00:21:40.000 Do you, Al?

00:21:41.000 Do you?

00:21:41.000 Don't do you?

00:21:42.000 Can't be relied on to do that.

00:21:44.000 Remember that face? 1.00

00:21:46.000 He's the sort of fool who'd fill in a spoof assassination form without even knowing it was a parody. 0.98

00:21:53.000 We've also got some fantastic guests coming on the show tomorrow. 0.99

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00:22:05.000 You can watch live podcast recordings.

00:22:07.000 You can come here to Stay Free HQ and join us.

00:22:10.000 I do weekly meditations bespoke and tailored to your needs.

00:22:13.000 Gareth, do you need guided meditation?

00:22:16.000 I need an orange, that's all I need.

00:22:17.000 My friend, take that and sniff it.

00:22:20.000 Sniff yourself well.

00:22:22.000 And should you need a puddin', I got one I want in. 0.83

00:22:26.000 No, I'm fine.

00:22:27.000 I'm fine.

00:22:27.000 If you need some puddin', no spoon required.

00:22:32.000 No spoons here, baby! 1.00

00:22:33.000 I understand.

00:22:34.000 Take that puddin' straight from the sauce!

00:22:37.000 Hey puddin'! 0.97

00:22:38.000 I get it.

00:22:40.000 Hey, we'll be doing some exclusive Q&As for our community, so press that red button that's somewhere on your screen now to join us deeper, deeper down the rabbit hole before we ultimately start communities.

00:22:51.000 See that join button?

00:22:52.000 You can press that.

00:22:53.000 We'll be starting physical communities before you know it.

00:22:55.000 Remember, we do the Community Festival every year for three days.

00:22:58.000 We're going to be traveling around the world, building communities, building resistance, opposing this machine.

00:23:02.000 Trying to break out of the prison planet on a daily basis, bringing you the best possible contributors and alternative narratives that you simply will not get anywhere else.

00:23:11.000 Happy birthday, Leon.

00:23:13.000 Happy birthday, Al.

00:23:14.000 That's a full happy birthday to you, not just 60% of one.

00:23:17.000 See you tomorrow, not for more of the same.

00:23:19.000 We wouldn't serve you that dross, but for more of the different.

00:23:22.000 Until then, stay free.

00:23:33.000 Switch on.

Stay Free - Russel Brand - April 20, 2023

Branko Marcetic (Zelensky’s War on Dissent)

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