Stay Free - Russel Brand - January 28, 2025


BREAK BREAD EP. 12 - PAUL KINGSNORTH

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Russel Brand
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Isaac Jake Jesus Calling Helping Hero Amos Michael L. Ross Jay Bhattacharya Paul Kangor Benjamin Braddock Marty McCary Vince Lombardi Justin Bieber Ron Hackinson Gene Bartlett Trish McLeod Pedro Pascal Barack Obama Bruce Lloyd A. Rozelle Bill Shankly and 10 more
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Episode Stats


Length

16 minutes

Words per minute

160.23

Word count

2,569

Sentence count

251

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

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Toxicity

9

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Summary

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In this episode of the podcast, we're joined by special guest and friend of the show, Paul Kingsnorth, who tells us about his recent trip to Washington, D.C. where he had an encounter with a hero. We also talk about the growing pains of growing up in a world where the police are getting older, and football managers are getting old.

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00:00:00.000 *crickets* *crickets* *crickets*
00:00:12.000 All right.
00:00:41.000 All right.
00:01:05.000 Paul Kingsnorth's internet ain't working, so he ain't here.
00:01:09.000 Thanks, man.
00:01:11.000 But I'm coming because we're going to reschedule with Paul Kingsnorth and we'll just hang out.
00:01:17.000 Michael L. Ross and Rozelle on Locals and Thought Criminal also on Locals and Sensitive Hearts on Locals and Trish McLeod and A. Rozelle on...
00:01:29.000 Rumble Premium.
00:01:30.000 And are we on initially Rumble and then do we toggle to Rumble Premium?
00:01:35.000 Is that how we do this?
00:01:37.000 So currently we're on Rumble actually as well.
00:01:41.000 Thank you very much.
00:01:43.000 So whoever you are and wherever you're watching us, we'll be taking communion together, talking a little bit about Scripture, and I'll be actually much more responsible Too responsive to your questions than usual.
00:02:02.000 Because I've not got the distraction of another human being.
00:02:06.000 I've got quite a lot of things to update you on.
00:02:09.000 That trip to DC blew my mind a little bit.
00:02:13.000 It blew my mind a little bit.
00:02:16.000 In a number of ways.
00:02:18.000 Mostly I had some sort of pretty profound spiritual encounters.
00:02:24.000 I would say the primary one being my inadvertent and synchronous involvement with a charity called Helping...
00:02:33.000 Oh man, the name of that charity is not a memorable name.
00:02:36.000 I blame the name of the charity for me not remembering it.
00:02:39.000 What does that tell you about me psychically?
00:02:42.000 The charity is called Helping a Hero.
00:02:45.000 But think about that for a moment, Helping a Hero.
00:02:48.000 How many ways you could go with that.
00:02:50.000 You could easily say, is it help a hero or help...
00:02:53.000 For Heroes.
00:02:56.000 I think it's Helping a Hero, I think is what it's called.
00:03:01.000 Someone, could you look it up and sort of post it in the chat?
00:03:05.000 And I had sort of like a very profound, borderline disturbing encounter with the Absolute there.
00:03:13.000 Now, Helping a Hero was run by this lady called Meredith.
00:03:20.000 Tell me when you found it.
00:03:23.000 Right.
00:03:24.000 Oh, you saw some of it, did you, sensitive heart?
00:03:26.000 The chat with veterans.
00:03:28.000 Here's some of the things that I encountered there.
00:03:30.000 Here's some of the things I encountered there.
00:03:32.000 One, these veterans, some of them were like kids.
00:03:36.000 I don't mean that in a derisory way.
00:03:37.000 I just mean, this is sort of a cliche in my country.
00:03:40.000 I don't know if it is in yours.
00:03:42.000 Like the, you know, oh, the policemen are getting younger.
00:03:45.000 Like, because as you, like when you're a kid, police seem like these severe...
00:03:51.000 Adult.
00:03:51.000 Ah, Helping Hero.
00:03:52.000 Well done, Michael L. Ross.
00:03:54.000 Isaac, could we go on that page of Helping Hero and could I see it in my output?
00:04:00.000 I mean that in all sincerity, could we?
00:04:02.000 Is it possible or is that not possible?
00:04:05.000 Thank you.
00:04:08.000 Like, when you're a kid, police are obviously adults and you get older and you start, policemen start looking younger and football managers start looking younger.
00:04:15.000 Yeah, we're getting older.
00:04:16.000 But I'm sure football managers are also getting younger.
00:04:19.000 I mean, go back and look at, like, you know, think about Vince Lombardi in your first ever Super Bowl.
00:04:24.000 Like, I feel like he was a guy in a trench coat, looked like Columbo, right?
00:04:29.000 And, like, look at, like, football managers now in your country.
00:04:31.000 I see him, I think...
00:04:32.000 You should be like Justin Bieber.
00:04:34.000 Some of them have got, like, hats on and those little things for their mouths.
00:04:38.000 They look like NSYNC. They're not, like, sort of curmudgeonly...
00:04:41.000 And in my country, I used to wear literal sheepskin coats, football managers, and, like, be smoking a cigar.
00:04:47.000 This is not even a lie.
00:04:48.000 I feel like I'm talking about something from another dimension.
00:04:50.000 They wear a sheepskin coat, smoke a cigar, wear proper...
00:04:54.000 Tomfoolery jewellery all over their hands.
00:04:56.000 They'd be called things like Ron Hackinson, Bill Shank.
00:04:59.000 They were like, hey, oh!
00:05:01.000 Old!
00:05:02.000 Old!
00:05:03.000 And now, like, football managers look like they could all be played by Benjamin Bratt.
00:05:08.000 Or, like, Benjamin Bratt.
00:05:11.000 Or...
00:05:11.000 Who's that other one that's in everything now?
00:05:13.000 It's called something like Pascal.
00:05:15.000 Like, he's...
00:05:16.000 Yeah, I do...
00:05:17.000 Isaac said that, so...
00:05:19.000 Pedro Pascal.
00:05:20.000 Isaac, you want tenterhooks over trying to find that website?
00:05:23.000 It sounds like it.
00:05:25.000 Because I felt like, you know when Tom Cruise talks to Simon Pegg in Mission Impossible?
00:05:31.000 That's the level of intensity it felt like you were operating at.
00:05:34.000 And now that we've got this curtain, like, I've got a curtain there.
00:05:39.000 They've put a curtain across this.
00:05:42.000 Sweep it away if you hate it, Jake.
00:05:45.000 There's a curtain.
00:05:46.000 No, I'm not.
00:05:47.000 I'm trying to concentrate.
00:05:48.000 I'm seeing my output.
00:05:50.000 You're in charge of that feed.
00:05:51.000 Thanks, Jake.
00:05:52.000 We've got a curtain, right, to stop me being distracted, like blinkers on a shy horse.
00:06:00.000 But the curtain doesn't go all the way to the ground.
00:06:02.000 So I'm guessing you've got it off the peg somewhere, like Home Depot, right?
00:06:07.000 It comes up to, like, you know if you use a public store and it cuts you off at the knee?
00:06:13.000 Like if you're off to defecate in a public toilet.
00:06:16.000 It's a very embarrassing and I would say undignified height.
00:06:20.000 It's like a medical screening.
00:06:23.000 Yeah, it's like a medical screen.
00:06:24.000 Like, you know, just the legs.
00:06:26.000 Yeah, just the legs.
00:06:26.000 You know, if you're in a medical, like, yeah, that's exactly what it feels like if someone's in a booth in a hospital.
00:06:32.000 That's undignified, I would say.
00:06:34.000 It's because it's, well, because why is that curtain there? 0.99
00:06:37.000 Because your pants are down and someone's fiddling with your nuts and maybe butthole. 1.00
00:06:41.000 That's what it's for. 0.99
00:06:42.000 And then think about it when it's in a public toilet as well. 0.92
00:06:45.000 Like, you're defecating.
00:06:47.000 So, like, it's not like we're going to provide you with the maximum amount of dignity. 0.52
00:06:52.000 It's like, this is, you know, we're just going to put essentially an extended belt.
00:06:56.000 You want to see that website?
00:06:58.000 Pull it up, man.
00:07:00.000 And pull up a page where it sort of tells you what it is, Isaac.
00:07:03.000 And why am I... Frankly, can I tell you, I've only recently done an event with them.
00:07:08.000 Why am I not their homepage?
00:07:10.000 Our mission...
00:07:11.000 Right, so listen.
00:07:12.000 To empower our severely wounded heroes injured in the post-9-11 global war on terror.
00:07:19.000 That's interesting.
00:07:20.000 By partnering...
00:07:22.000 With the wounded hero to build a specially adapted home.
00:07:27.000 Is it called helping a hero?
00:07:28.000 Yeah, see?
00:07:29.000 A specially adapted home designed to restore his or her independence.
00:07:33.000 Empowering wounded heroes one home at a time.
00:07:36.000 That's good.
00:07:36.000 That's catchy.
00:07:37.000 One home at a time is a better name for the organisation, I would argue.
00:07:41.000 Let's go back to the statement again, Isaac.
00:07:44.000 Read the next paragraph.
00:07:46.000 Mission statement.
00:07:47.000 A non-profit, non-partisan, well...
00:07:50.000 I tell you what, I mean, you wouldn't go in there screaming Barack Obama four more years, let me tell you that.
00:07:57.000 It felt like it was sort of like, it felt like, would you say that the military as a concept belongs to Republicans, even though the Democrat MIC is super powerful and they're, you know, like the military-industrial complex, don't care who they work with.
00:08:14.000 I'm talking about true soldiers, though, and heroes and warriors.
00:08:18.000 In 2006, provide support for military personnel severely injured in the global war on terror.
00:08:23.000 That's unbelievable.
00:08:24.000 Because the global war on terror is a political idea.
00:08:26.000 That was a choice that was made post-9-11 to invade Iraq and take action in Afghanistan and Syria.
00:08:36.000 Other countries that had nothing to do with 9-11, as we now know, as we now know as an indefatigable, straight-up, undeniable fact.
00:08:45.000 So I guess the subtext of even that line in a non-political, by its own definition, website is the people that were critically injured and obviously in some cases killed for, if not nothing, a lie, a lie.
00:09:03.000 And that's what it felt like there, is that there was an honour and dignity among those veterans that somehow is expressed through the military, because to be a warrior is a bold thing, sort of an almost undeniable and essential level.
00:09:19.000 But there was also an awareness, a total, not the naivety of 20, 30 years ago, there was a total awareness that those wars were not legit.
00:09:28.000 It was amazing.
00:09:30.000 And the people themselves, the men, like I've listed them before, as best as I can remember, Jason and Daniel and Amos and Jake, Isaac, I've been in touch with Amos.
00:09:39.000 I really want to do some stuff with these guys because I've been profoundly affected by them.
00:09:46.000 And indeed, the reason I'm talking about it on Break Bread today is because I had an encounter with the Absolute, if I may say it.
00:09:53.000 Now, that's not my words.
00:09:54.000 Those are the words of Bruce Lloyd, who's...
00:09:57.000 My only therapist, but one of my spiritual guides, who when I told him the story of encountering Amos, gave me his diagnosis of what it was.
00:10:10.000 Now, we've got footage of all this, and I wouldn't mind at some point putting all of this together, because I just arrived at that place, went on stage at the Hyatt Hilton, Washington, D.C., in a conference room in a basement, round table, sparsely populated.
00:10:26.000 Just went directly onto the stage and started to interact with some of the vets that were present under the stewardship of Meredith, the woman that runs the thing.
00:10:38.000 In fact, can you find Meredith on the website?
00:10:40.000 Does she give herself...
00:10:41.000 Is there a bio on there or any way of identifying her?
00:10:46.000 Thanks, Isaac.
00:10:49.000 It was so intense.
00:10:52.000 And beautiful to meet them because why?
00:10:58.000 Because the fact that they're in that situation of being at a charity event shows you, doesn't it?
00:11:04.000 Let me know in the comments that they're not being appropriately cared for by the military organisations that were happy to use their lives and their bodies when it was convenient.
00:11:15.000 And there's a requirement for charitable support.
00:11:20.000 And then you meet the men themselves, and there was a woman actually, she was the photographer, and they are so...
00:11:27.000 I'll tell you what it is when I feel inspired, is when I see someone in this situation, I think that's not how I would be if I was in that situation, to be specific.
00:11:38.000 If I received significant facial burns and other injuries while in the service of my country, nearly said company again, Or if I lost both my legs in the service of my country and then I wasn't, like, for the rest of my life, put in a mansion and adored by the public and there wasn't a documentary on about me every day at 7pm, I don't think I'd be able to cope.
00:12:05.000 Well, here are men in exactly that condition and not only are they not sulking, they're like radiant lights of human kindness.
00:12:15.000 And it makes me realise, In the same way, when I met Jay Bhattacharya and Marty Makari, I felt, oh, it's not like everything's ruined, it's just the correct people aren't in the correct positions.
00:12:25.000 You know, now Jay Bhattacharya's the head of the NIH, if he's confirmed, and Marty Makari's the head of the FDA. Like, when you see valour and beauty and boldness, like I saw at the Helping a Hero event, it makes me realise that human beings do have the capacities endowed by God that are required, but we don't have systems that bring them to the forefront.
00:12:44.000 So the reason I was so affected that day is that I saw human beings And I've not read my daily devotionals today because my wife is sick.
00:13:01.000 A 24-hour bug has passed through our home.
00:13:04.000 And it took us out one by one.
00:13:06.000 Bam, bam! 0.94
00:13:07.000 I went down first.
00:13:08.000 My immunity is like as weak as the southern border.
00:13:14.000 I give up!
00:13:15.000 Can't do what you want to do!
00:13:17.000 Well, I was flayed out, but I didn't vomit once, even though it was a sickness bug.
00:13:21.000 Do you know why?
00:13:22.000 Because I totally submitted and surrendered.
00:13:25.000 I just stopped moving.
00:13:26.000 So the sickness didn't have nothing to cling to.
00:13:29.000 When it reached my wife, me getting sick, that's no big deal.
00:13:32.000 That's a 5% impact.
00:13:35.000 Hit on the efficacy of our home.
00:13:37.000 My home can absorb me.
00:13:38.000 Say if you were bombing my home, if you bomb me out, that's no problem.
00:13:43.000 It's like you've bombed out one train station. 0.75
00:13:45.000 If you bomb my wife...
00:13:47.000 That's critical infrastructure. 0.84
00:13:48.000 That's it.
00:13:49.000 The Pentagon's gone.
00:13:50.000 The white water.
00:13:52.000 Whatever's required for the internet not to go down just in one hit.
00:13:55.000 Bam! 0.98
00:13:56.000 That's our information centre.
00:13:57.000 That's our domesticity.
00:13:59.000 That's our childcare.
00:14:00.000 The whole thing.
00:14:01.000 So the second 24 hours, the first 24 hours where I'm here, that's fine. 0.99
00:14:04.000 That's just me on my ass watching the TV. Basically what I would have done anyway. 0.99
00:14:09.000 By the time it gets to Laura, oh my God, we are annihilated.
00:14:15.000 We're on the back.
00:14:16.000 End of that right now.
00:14:18.000 We're just coming out of that.
00:14:20.000 So this morning I'm doing my therapy.
00:14:22.000 I know I have to get to work.
00:14:26.000 So I haven't done my devotional readings that I do every day.
00:14:29.000 Jesus Calling.
00:14:30.000 So if someone can get Jesus Calling and post it in the chat, I'd really love that.
00:14:33.000 And if they do do that, guys, can you pull it so I can read it?
00:14:36.000 And the other devotional reading, and I'm talking to you like Kazo or Mrs. CMS or Fort Criminal or you Captain Crunchybutt or Gene Bartlett, give us some help.
00:14:46.000 Go find out the reading for today's day.
00:14:48.000 Is it 27th today?
00:14:49.000 Is it 27th?
00:14:50.000 Is it 28th?
00:14:51.000 Of Streams in the Desert and Jesus Calling.
00:14:55.000 They're both Christian devotionals.
00:14:57.000 And post them in the chat, please.
00:14:58.000 And then, Isaac, could you...
00:14:59.000 Oh, look at that.
00:15:00.000 And then pull them.
00:15:00.000 I will in a second.
00:15:02.000 Right.
00:15:02.000 Thanks, Jake.
00:15:03.000 Right.
00:15:04.000 Because yesterday's one was amazing.
00:15:07.000 Because I've not read today's because of critical infrastructure down in my household due to a 24-hour bug.
00:15:12.000 In fact, I can tell you something kind of usually in my mouth right now.
00:15:16.000 Ah, and we got it from Jake's family.
00:15:18.000 And don't think I'm not thinking that the whole way through this.
00:15:21.000 It's weird, isn't it?
00:15:22.000 Like, when you get ill, you sort of blame the people that gave you the illness, even though you sort of...
00:15:27.000 But, like, what about the people I give it to?
00:15:29.000 I don't want them to blame me.
00:15:30.000 I'm like, well, it's not my fault.
00:15:31.000 I got it off Jake.
00:15:32.000 Right?
00:15:33.000 But, like, they will go, Russell!
00:15:36.000 And I don't want them to blame me, so in a way, I should be thinking about the people that gave it to Jake's family, or even the people that gave it to that, or not even seeing any distinction between us, seeing us all as a continuum and outflowing of the glory of God, which is what I felt on that Helping a Hero Day.
00:15:50.000 I felt the absoluteness instead of the separateness of a life with God.
00:15:55.000 I'll keep going on.
00:15:57.000 Alright, let's toggle to Rumble Premium.
00:15:58.000 We're going to toggle to Rumble Premium now.
00:16:00.000 If you're not a Rumble Premium member, you should be.