Stay Free - Russel Brand - May 05, 2023


Coronation EXPOSED | The Royal Secrets They Want Hidden! - #123 - Stay Free With Russell Brand


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 19 minutes

Words per Minute

188.25456

Word Count

14,938

Sentence Count

914

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary

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Transcript

00:00:00.000 This is a video of the sound of a bird chirping.
00:00:34.000 In this video, you're going to see the future.
00:00:48.000 Have you had the audacity to awaken in a world that wants you dumb and distracted?
00:00:53.000 Surely you haven't.
00:00:54.000 Surely you haven't seen through the Matrix, the Simulacrum.
00:00:56.000 Surely you haven't realized that there's a cohesive plan to keep you dumb, individualized, materialized, caught up in their crazy games.
00:01:05.000 And if you didn't realize it yet, surely the coronation of King Charles.
00:01:10.000 And I will not... Like, look, I've got no disrespect to the other one.
00:01:14.000 The lady one is marrying, but...
00:01:16.000 Diana, let me know in the chat in the comments how you feel about that.
00:01:19.000 We will be, for the first 20 minutes, available on Twitter, YouTube, all those places.
00:01:24.000 Then exclusively on Rumble, there's a link in the description
00:01:27.000 if you're watching this on YouTube, I'll be talking to Barry Weiss
00:01:30.000 and I'll be asking her what exactly she was told by the creator of the chat GBT,
00:01:36.000 but the Google version of it, AI.
00:01:38.000 What exactly is it gonna do to us?
00:01:40.000 Plus, if that doesn't make you wanna click over to a free speech platform,
00:01:44.000 we're also gonna be looking at new potential side effects of a certain medication that was very popular a while back,
00:01:50.000 but increasingly people are starting to think wasn't as good as they thought it was then.
00:01:54.000 Bit like... Sorry, I can't hear you.
00:01:55.000 What did you just say?
00:01:56.000 And when you discover what it is, that joke will make sense.
00:01:59.000 But, you know, that'll be good.
00:02:01.000 Pay off.
00:02:02.000 20 minutes down the line.
00:02:02.000 You're going to get a pay off.
00:02:03.000 20 minutes.
00:02:04.000 Remember what Gareth did then.
00:02:08.000 Yeah, law makes sense.
00:02:10.000 OK, so let's have a look at the godfather of AI, quit.
00:02:15.000 I don't think from being a godfather he's still available to attend baptisms.
00:02:20.000 The man touted as the godfather of AI has quit Google, citing concerns over the possibility for AI to upend the job market.
00:02:26.000 Is that what he's worried about?
00:02:27.000 Dr Geoffrey Hinton said he quit to speak freely about the dangers of AI, and we'll be asking Barry Weiss later exactly what he said that is so.
00:02:36.000 Dangerous.
00:02:37.000 Yeah, he was bought on by Google a decade ago to help develop the company's AI technology.
00:02:41.000 Let's see how the mainstream media color this thing.
00:02:44.000 This morning, as companies race to integrate artificial intelligence into our everyday lives, one man behind that technology has resigned from Google after more than a decade.
00:02:54.000 Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, known as the godfather of artificial intelligence, says he doesn't want to personify it.
00:03:00.000 Don't give it a godparent.
00:03:00.000 Right.
00:03:02.000 No.
00:03:02.000 Like, in the event that its actual parent dies.
00:03:05.000 Do you think that he wanted that label?
00:03:07.000 Or do you think it's... Like, how many people do it?
00:03:09.000 Like, do they approach him at Google and go, Godfather, hello?
00:03:12.000 I don't think he wants it.
00:03:14.000 I mean, he's quit his job.
00:03:15.000 You come to me on my calculator's wedding day and you do not offer respect and you don't think to call me Godfather.
00:03:23.000 Yeah, I don't know if it's... A lot of nicknames.
00:03:25.000 People work hard for a nickname, don't they?
00:03:27.000 A lot of people you can tell really want a nickname to stick.
00:03:29.000 They do, yeah.
00:03:30.000 I wonder if old Geoffrey Hinton likes being called Godfather.
00:03:34.000 It's difficult to know.
00:03:35.000 Look, really what interests me is... Look, let's not pretend that a king isn't going to get a shiny new hat this weekend.
00:03:43.000 Here we are, worrying about AI.
00:03:46.000 Well, it's a bit worrying.
00:03:47.000 I mean, Elon Musk is worrying about it as well.
00:03:49.000 Elon Musk is a bag of nerves.
00:03:51.000 Right, okay.
00:03:51.000 He's always worrying about it.
00:03:52.000 Is that what it is?
00:03:52.000 Something he's worried about?
00:03:54.000 He gets jittery, doesn't he?
00:03:55.000 Oh no, this Twitter, that's not very well run.
00:03:57.000 We'll have to sack half the people that work here.
00:03:59.000 Eighty percent.
00:04:00.000 Eighty percent, right.
00:04:02.000 You're not going to use your job.
00:04:03.000 You are not going to use it.
00:04:04.000 You are going to use, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, you are, 80% eh?
00:04:24.000 Maybe I could do me, a cuddly German shepherd, dear old loyal Dan with his bizarre ankles.
00:04:30.000 But no, if you have a look at that gallery there, that's a neat, lean, sparse team.
00:04:34.000 If you defrost that window, have a look.
00:04:37.000 I can't, you couldn't do without...
00:04:39.000 They're a lovely little bunch.
00:04:40.000 We're a bit lean and light today.
00:04:43.000 Often we are on Friday show because we want to be able to focus on Barry Weiss.
00:04:48.000 We want to be able to focus on the coronation.
00:04:50.000 What's funny when they talk about the coronation, let's have a look at some of the headlines, is they talk as if there's ways of making it more sensible and practical.
00:04:57.000 Look at this, King Charles to do away with outdated silk stockings and breeches for coronation.
00:05:04.000 One doesn't need all these outdated bridges.
00:05:07.000 A simple coronation, a simple modern coronation for a modern world.
00:05:12.000 The whole idea is you've been anointed by God to be the figurehead of a nation.
00:05:19.000 And all of the, however you shake this down, the wealth of the royal family is accumulated through plunder over centuries.
00:05:27.000 Yeah, he's not losing those stockings for budgetary reasons, is he?
00:05:30.000 Let's get rid of these expensive stockings!
00:05:33.000 And we all remember that phone call and some of the things he wished he was, didn't he?
00:05:36.000 Yeah.
00:05:36.000 He wanted to be a sanitary product, a pair of pants.
00:05:39.000 Oh, of course, yeah.
00:05:40.000 He said he wanted to be all sorts of things.
00:05:40.000 Didn't he?
00:05:41.000 I do remember those details.
00:05:43.000 I think about that sometimes.
00:05:44.000 I'll tell you what you want to have a look on, and this is something you literally have to be careful about talking about on YouTube, because we're going to be giving you some of the best secrets about the Royals and some of the best conspiracies.
00:05:52.000 If you watch that documentary, bizarrely made by Keith Allen, the actor, you might not be able to find it on YouTube, you definitely better find it on Rumble.
00:06:01.000 If you have a look at Rumble, the one about Diana, what's it called?
00:06:05.000 Unlawful killing.
00:06:06.000 Diana.
00:06:08.000 Ooh.
00:06:08.000 Ooh.
00:06:09.000 Have a little look at that.
00:06:10.000 Was it on the telly?
00:06:11.000 No, mate.
00:06:12.000 No.
00:06:13.000 What's amazing about it is, like, Keith Allen, the actor, Lily Allen's dad, just made it himself.
00:06:13.000 Like, Keith Allen.
00:06:18.000 So what, did you have it on, like, a legal VHS or something?
00:06:21.000 You know sometimes when you look at, like, a Russian version of YouTube and it's all Russian mad letters, you don't know what they are.
00:06:26.000 They're, like, spaceships and noughts and crosses and things like that.
00:06:29.000 I watched it on... That's reductive, isn't it?
00:06:32.000 You know Russia?
00:06:33.000 Interpretation of the Russian language?
00:06:34.000 Spaceships, Pac-Man, TV aerial ones, one that looks like a fish.
00:06:42.000 That's their culture.
00:06:44.000 It's going to a war with Russia.
00:06:45.000 It's an easy business.
00:06:46.000 Apparently Russia aren't hard anymore.
00:06:47.000 They don't need to worry about provoking Russia.
00:06:49.000 What are they going to do?
00:06:51.000 Well, use their considerable military might to endlessly respond and grind down NATO forces.
00:06:58.000 Well, let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments.
00:07:00.000 You can join us on Locals and join the chat, participate in this stuff with a delightful community, wherever you're from in the world.
00:07:08.000 Certainly don't mean to make a mockery of the set of semaphores that the Russian people use to communicate with.
00:07:13.000 No, I think people I think anyone would have understood what you meant by that.
00:07:16.000 It's just a joke.
00:07:17.000 Just mucking about.
00:07:18.000 But anyway, so you found it on, you think, some kind of Russian website.
00:07:21.000 Russian YouTube.
00:07:21.000 Yeah.
00:07:22.000 It's pretty interesting.
00:07:24.000 A lot of stuff went on.
00:07:24.000 Let me know what you think about that.
00:07:26.000 I don't think I would like to get into potentially murky territory around the sad and tragic death of Diana, but Keith Allen don't mind, so have a look at his documentary.
00:07:37.000 Yeah, it's worth having a look at.
00:07:37.000 Wow.
00:07:39.000 I heartily recommend it. Even though, didn't you, don't you remember in the old days, you used to be able to just like,
00:07:43.000 look at curiosities and things that were a bit peculiar?
00:07:46.000 It's like, you know, oh, before you had to have a sort of a banal diet of pre-chewed slop, like some grey, ready-brek
00:07:53.000 diet, like you're not allowed any spice or flavour.
00:07:56.000 And I used to be able to like, look at things and go, well, I think that's a bit mad. I don't really agree with that.
00:08:00.000 Quite a peculiar and wonderful theory, but I'm not sure that's actually true.
00:08:03.000 Let's have a look at some of that evidence.
00:08:05.000 You should be able to decide for yourself.
00:08:06.000 The whole of censorship is underwritten by the idea that we're too bloody stupid to understand anything, and perhaps to a degree we are, because we're willing to put up with expensive ceremonies to anoint further royalty.
00:08:19.000 Let's face it, the death of Queen Elizabeth II meant that this is time for a radical appraisal and review of whether or not we Even need a monarchy.
00:08:27.000 And the answer to that is, no we don't, because what is a monarchy?
00:08:30.000 What does a monarchy do?
00:08:31.000 Well you say that, but when you know how much it's going to cost, the taxpayer, maybe you'll change your mind.
00:08:35.000 The ceremony itself?
00:08:35.000 I don't know.
00:08:37.000 Yeah.
00:08:38.000 125 million.
00:08:38.000 Reasonable.
00:08:39.000 Right, OK.
00:08:40.000 What does a World Cup cost?
00:08:41.000 I'd rather they all play football.
00:08:43.000 Right.
00:08:43.000 Against each other.
00:08:44.000 Charles.
00:08:44.000 OK.
00:08:45.000 Or Olympics.
00:08:46.000 Or something.
00:08:47.000 Charles on a diving board and things.
00:08:49.000 I'd like to see an event where Charles eats his own perfectly rendered chocolate head.
00:08:54.000 That's what I'd like to see, and we'll be looking at that chocolate head a bit later.
00:08:57.000 Charles and Camilla invited to use Coronation Bed the night before ceremony.
00:08:59.000 Unfortunate wording.
00:09:00.000 What other headlines have we got?
00:09:02.000 Because, like, you know, using it sort of suggests that, what, for copulation?
00:09:08.000 British public support for monarchy at a historic low, so people are actually over it.
00:09:13.000 But you won't hear much talk of that.
00:09:16.000 All of the paraphernalia, pageantry and ceremony is to distract you from the bizarre fact that you're kind of worshipping an ordinary family, other than the fact that they have an extraordinary amount of wealth.
00:09:29.000 Like, they're basically normal, but they've got access to a lot of wealth.
00:09:33.000 Shall we have a look at his choc... What are we doing first?
00:09:35.000 His chocolate mad head.
00:09:37.000 23 kilos, four weeks to build, and depicts Charles in the ceremonial uniform he's expected to wear on the 6th of May.
00:09:45.000 It's made up of many different chocolates, including Twix, Milky Way, and Galaxy.
00:09:52.000 To break down the individual types of chocolate that make up King Charles' head.
00:09:55.000 I mean, in a way, why not this?
00:09:57.000 I mean, the whole thing is a bizarre, surrealist experience anyway.
00:10:02.000 Like, if you took some hallucinogens, and I don't recommend you do, not while we're on YouTube, and obviously I'm in recovery myself, and then watched that ceremony, you would be struck by its absurdity, I think.
00:10:15.000 I guess the thing about symbolism was that it was literally meant to symbolise something that they stood for, and once those values have disappeared, what is the other symbols about?
00:10:26.000 So you might as well have a chocolate Charles rather than all the expensive jewels that you're going to see instead.
00:10:31.000 And now we bring out the sacred chocolate head, and then Prince William and Prince Harry try to fart its ears off.
00:10:39.000 There they go, the two princes, one either side, straddled.
00:10:42.000 They've taken laxatives so that their rectums gape now, and they harshly blast out arsefarts.
00:10:49.000 Clearly in competition with each other.
00:10:51.000 Oh, look at that.
00:10:53.000 It's the foulest stench since the marriage to Meghan Markle.
00:10:57.000 Yeah, it's ridiculous.
00:10:59.000 Look at this in a minute, these medals.
00:11:00.000 Do you know what these medals individually mean?
00:11:02.000 Because I think they're made out of things like celebrations and heroes and dissected, like, bounty bars.
00:11:09.000 It's really stupid.
00:11:09.000 Have a look at this.
00:11:11.000 Master chocolatier who put it all together, Lindsay Clark, is here.
00:11:14.000 Tell me quickly about what... Tell me about... I love the medals.
00:11:17.000 Yeah, we've had lots of fun using all the...
00:11:21.000 Because this is actually still news and along the bottom the ticker, like all the British nationals are coming out of Sudan, evacuees and all this stuff, and they're talking about chocolate medals, which sounds like a practice that might take place in certain regions of the big city.
00:11:35.000 ...celebration chocolates to create the different medals from a cross-section of the bounty.
00:11:41.000 Can we have a close-up of the medals and then we can talk about them?
00:11:45.000 So we start with the pinkies.
00:11:48.000 That's interesting.
00:11:48.000 Yeah.
00:11:50.000 Most delicate of all the fingers.
00:11:51.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:11:52.000 It's almost like it wouldn't be disrespectful to sort of like jab it in its little chocolate chest.
00:11:58.000 What is happening to our culture?
00:12:00.000 What is happening to our world when you know that we are kind of surrounded on all sides by so forth?
00:12:07.000 Like they could be talking about For example, the US encircling China and provoking China in a variety of ways, presumably in order to facilitate military-industrial complex hegemony and your taxpayer dollars, if indeed you are American, for many more years of contention and agitation.
00:12:29.000 Well, they will kind of talk about it, but they'll talk about it as Chinese aggression rather than US aggression.
00:12:34.000 We'll kind of talk about it while sort of scrutinizing the chocolate medals of a confectionary king.
00:12:41.000 It's funny that it's life-size as well.
00:12:42.000 Like, there's literally no... Unless you are aiming to maybe replace Charles with this, what's the point in doing a life-size?
00:12:49.000 Just do, like, a little chocolate... It's just a token, isn't it?
00:12:52.000 What's the point of it?
00:12:53.000 What does this achieve?
00:12:55.000 And we've also got some extraordinary facts about the royal family.
00:12:57.000 Let's have a look at the first one now.
00:13:00.000 Look at some of these facts about the reality of the royal family.
00:13:04.000 The British crown legally owns 6.6 billion acres of land across the world, a sixth of the earth's surface.
00:13:09.000 So if you took six footsteps today, you stood on a bit of King Charles's territory.
00:13:16.000 I'm not sure it actually works like that.
00:13:17.000 One in every six.
00:13:19.000 British monarchs are worth almost 28 billion dollars.
00:13:23.000 Yeah.
00:13:23.000 All of them.
00:13:24.000 The royal family cost UK taxpayers 300 million pounds a year.
00:13:29.000 22 to 23.
00:13:30.000 Sovereign grant is 86 million dollars.
00:13:33.000 Expensive.
00:13:33.000 Sovereign grant doesn't include 24-7, which is also publicly funded.
00:13:37.000 Royal ceremonies are left out of the sovereign grant.
00:13:39.000 It's interesting.
00:13:41.000 I did like that fact about the sovereign grant.
00:13:43.000 So the sovereign grant is what the royal family get from the taxpayer, so it's 86 million a year, but it can exceed 369 million if the palace urgently requires 30 more clocks.
00:13:53.000 Which, you know, obviously sometimes a palace will require 30 more clocks, so that's when it goes up, what they need.
00:13:58.000 Sometimes they need more clocks.
00:14:01.000 It's extraordinary.
00:14:02.000 We criticise your political systems pretty much constantly because they are bizarre.
00:14:09.000 It is a corporatised system of government.
00:14:12.000 Ours is obviously ridiculous and corrupt also, but many of our leaders are made of chocolate.
00:14:19.000 The King and Queen's Consul will see the biggest military ceremonial operation in 70 years.
00:14:24.000 So it's sort of like a war and the war is against you.
00:14:27.000 King Charles has got 1.8 billion.
00:14:29.000 I mean, why would you ever listen to a member of the royal family talking about poverty or inequality or really the environment or anything when that kind of imbalance in power It's what creates many of the world's problems.
00:14:45.000 Yeah, I mean, that's the WEF all over.
00:14:47.000 And when he's involved in things like that, you have to question.
00:14:50.000 I mean, that's literally what they do.
00:14:51.000 They're greenwashing themselves, or whitewashing, or whatever phrase you want to use.
00:14:55.000 I prefer chocolatewashing.
00:14:56.000 Yes!
00:14:57.000 They're chocolatewashing themselves into a state of adorability, of sugary deliciousness.
00:15:02.000 Let's go back to old Chocolate Charlie and see what else they're saying, because, like, I'd like to know, these medals that they're recreating in Bounty Bars and Mars Bars and whatnot, I bet they're for, like, sort of, valour.
00:15:14.000 Exactly.
00:15:15.000 People, like, have to give up their lives in needless oil wars in the early 20th century.
00:15:21.000 We should do the medals, because it seems a little inappropriate.
00:15:23.000 Maybe just the head.
00:15:24.000 No, no, we'll do the medals too.
00:15:26.000 I've made him a d*** out of Mars!
00:15:30.000 Let's have a look.
00:15:31.000 Peace, that's a cross-section of the bounty.
00:15:33.000 We've got Malteser, Twix.
00:15:35.000 Let's do it slowly.
00:15:36.000 Maltesers, Twix.
00:15:37.000 Bounty.
00:15:38.000 A bounty.
00:15:39.000 Galaxy.
00:15:39.000 Chocolate.
00:15:40.000 Yeah, galaxy.
00:15:41.000 A Milky Way.
00:15:43.000 Milky Way, of course.
00:15:44.000 And Snickers, I think, at the end.
00:15:45.000 Snickers at the end.
00:15:46.000 That's really, really mundane and banal and offensive information.
00:15:50.000 Milky Way, of course.
00:15:51.000 Yes, of course.
00:15:51.000 Yes, I recognise that, actually.
00:15:53.000 Obviously, the bounty, that's plain.
00:15:55.000 Here are some secrets about the royal family.
00:15:58.000 They're... Oh, look, here are the... No, there's what the medics... There they are.
00:16:02.000 Awarded to those who provided outstanding service, most noble order... The Royal Air Force Wings, most ancient and most noble order of the thistle.
00:16:12.000 But now, in delicious Twix!
00:16:15.000 Really extraordinary way to carry on.
00:16:17.000 Here are some secrets about the royal family.
00:16:19.000 Britain's royals used obscure legal procedures to hide distant relatives' wills.
00:16:23.000 Google that and you'll find some peculiar surnames cropping up.
00:16:26.000 Let me tell you guys, you're going to love it.
00:16:28.000 Prince Philip's sisters were actual Nazis.
00:16:32.000 That's the royal secret number two.
00:16:34.000 And royal secret number three is Queen Elizabeth's cousins were hidden because of their disabilities.
00:16:41.000 So whether it's...
00:16:43.000 That's some unfortunate photographs right there.
00:16:45.000 So whether it's being secretly Nazi, passing laws, costing billions or hiding people as a result of their mental health, the royal family has got something for everyone.
00:16:57.000 They're still adored even in the colonies.
00:16:59.000 Have a look at this Australian lady who's filled her whole life with extraordinary paraphernalia that celebrates royalty and pay particular attention to the overwhelming presence of Lady Diana, who cannot be forgotten.
00:17:12.000 Goodbye, England's Rose.
00:17:15.000 Jan Hugo's Royal Memorabilia Collection has long been her crowning achievement.
00:17:20.000 Why are they using, like, that version of Charles?
00:17:23.000 That comes from a satirical TV show, Spitting Image, who itself took its design from that famous satirist.
00:17:31.000 I can't remember that dude's name anymore.
00:17:33.000 But, like, that is not a flattering image of Prince Charles.
00:17:36.000 I want to see that rendered in chocolate.
00:17:40.000 We're heading off to the coronation over in the UK.
00:17:43.000 I heard it at 8 o'clock in the morning.
00:17:45.000 and locked into the Royals superfans diary the second it was announced.
00:17:50.000 I heard it at 8 o'clock in the morning.
00:17:52.000 Diana in the background.
00:17:54.000 9 o'clock I was on the phone to the travel agent.
00:17:57.000 By lunchtime, had the house...
00:17:59.000 What it is about the Royals is you've got to carefully control a narrative.
00:18:03.000 You've got to cultivate an idea and an image that makes it acceptable to have something so antiquated and outmoded at the centre of a society to continually distract people that not...
00:18:14.000 Only that the institution in itself is against your interests because of the concentration of wealth, but what it represents systemically is against your interests.
00:18:23.000 Unequal hierarchical structures.
00:18:25.000 Now remember, I'm not talking about equality of outcomes, because I know you frantic little JP fans are typing away with everything you've got, but what I'm talking about is the kind of inequality that can only occur when you have imperialism, colonialism and its modern day replacement Globalism.
00:18:40.000 You can't accrue that amount of wealth without piracy, without imperialism, without slavery.
00:18:47.000 So when people are talking about historic reparations, they should start looking at deep, entrenched historic power, like the British monarchy.
00:18:56.000 And other very, very powerful organizations and groups that have accrued comparable amounts of wealth.
00:19:02.000 You can easily find out who they are just at a glance.
00:19:05.000 So what we're all engaged in when we're talking about inequality and various cultural arguments that I believe are significant and important and ought be resolved through tolerance and love and acceptance of all forms of identification, including traditional ones that often apply to the native populations of anglophonic countries, for example, is tolerance and love.
00:19:25.000 As long as you are continuing to advocate for this sort of living Disney world, this Disneyfication of culture, then people can't sort of awaken.
00:19:35.000 And I talk about this as like, my family really, like literally my wife loves the royal family, my grandmother, God rest their soul, Love the royal family.
00:19:44.000 You're just sort of used to it.
00:19:45.000 I felt personally sad when the Queen died because of the set of values she represented.
00:19:50.000 Like you said, Gareth, the point of them is to somehow represent, like a flag or a constitution or an altar, a set of values.
00:20:00.000 What seems to be happening over time is the values are getting extracted, but the ability to accrue power and subjugate the majority is remaining.
00:20:10.000 Yeah.
00:20:11.000 Well, there's another thing that we were watching earlier about the fact that they're going to still try and use the same chair that almost all the coronations have been done on, and when you see it, it's all knackered, and it's, again, it's kind of like a symbol of the decay of the institution, isn't it?
00:20:26.000 Like, this shouldn't exist anymore.
00:20:28.000 It should have been, like, when that chair stopped being useful, when people started to use, like, bits of glue to try and make it function, it's like, it's not functioning, is it?
00:20:35.000 It's not working.
00:20:36.000 Although, you can, like, make, like, steel chocolate bars into King Charles.
00:20:40.000 Sir, I've just been, uh, repairing the, uh, chair.
00:20:43.000 Yes?
00:20:44.000 And it occurred to me that we're trying to hold something together that's outmoded and outdated and doesn't work anymore.
00:20:51.000 What is your point?!
00:20:53.000 Just, maybe I should go back and continue to hold together this chair?
00:20:58.000 Like...
00:20:58.000 In Charles, King Charles and Joe Biden, in a sense, for all of the talk of progressivism, environmentalism, identity politics, and the necessary conversation to resolve historic exploitation, abuse, and neglect of certain communities exploited for imperialism, colonialism, and different sets of privilege, etc.
00:21:20.000 Still, at the center of it, what have you got?
00:21:23.000 Look at them.
00:21:23.000 What do they represent?
00:21:25.000 What do they mean?
00:21:27.000 So it just shows you.
00:21:28.000 It's theatre.
00:21:29.000 Yeah, I don't think I'm getting knighted.
00:21:31.000 Someone saying that.
00:21:32.000 I don't think I'll even get near the OBEs and the MBEs.
00:21:34.000 No.
00:21:35.000 There was a time, I think, potentially, that you might have got there.
00:21:38.000 When I met the Queen.
00:21:38.000 Yeah, you did the Royal Variety, didn't you?
00:21:40.000 Yeah, it didn't go well.
00:21:42.000 The show went well.
00:21:43.000 I liked it, doing a show in front of the Queen.
00:21:45.000 It was the handshake, though, wasn't it?
00:21:46.000 It was the handshake.
00:21:47.000 That was a bit awkward for you.
00:21:49.000 You could tell.
00:21:50.000 People in that position, whether it's Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise, David Beckham, the Queen, they know when you're a troublemaker.
00:21:58.000 They can sort of sense it.
00:22:00.000 I've had the same look off all them people.
00:22:02.000 The look of like, no thanks mate.
00:22:06.000 Like, sort of, because I can be quite charming, but I've got something in me that's always like, hey, what's the truth of this?
00:22:12.000 Like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, steady!
00:22:14.000 Like, the disruptiveness.
00:22:16.000 Like, what you were just saying there.
00:22:16.000 But it's true, isn't it?
00:22:18.000 I mean, now you've got the kind of updated roles in the form of, I guess, like, Will and Kate.
00:22:24.000 But nothing other than the things that they say and the way that they're rendered through the press and the charities that they belong to and all that.
00:22:31.000 The money never changes, does it?
00:22:32.000 These things of they're worth 28 million and have 6.6 billion acres of land.
00:22:37.000 That never changes from one year to the next, from one coronation to the next.
00:22:41.000 We're going to modernise!
00:22:42.000 I'm not going to wear my shiny socks.
00:22:44.000 Oh, you know that 28 billion?
00:22:46.000 How about we build some hostels with that, and maybe some grants for small businesses that are affected during the pandemic?
00:22:52.000 Also, I won't wear the breeches!
00:22:54.000 It's the Queen Camilla!
00:22:55.000 Arise!
00:22:56.000 Get me on TikTok!
00:22:59.000 TikTok made of chocolate!
00:23:00.000 Choc Choc TikTok!
00:23:02.000 Give us...
00:23:03.000 Your money!
00:23:06.000 It's like they're never going to change that.
00:23:07.000 And the same, even though we're obviously being frivolous, the same conversation exists in American politics.
00:23:12.000 We're talking about adjustments of cultural language, adjustment in the social dynamics, but no one's like saying, what should we do about the relationship between the government and Wall Street?
00:23:21.000 What should we do about the relationship between Congress and the Ministry of Industrial Complex?
00:23:26.000 No one's having that conversation.
00:23:27.000 Well, apart from the crazies.
00:23:29.000 Yeah, nutters out here in the far reaches of Rumble.
00:23:32.000 Oh, what a crazy conspiracy theory.
00:23:35.000 They want you to confine your conversations to cultural and sociological issues within an accepted framework.
00:23:41.000 Like to sort of go, oh, what a progressive monarchy.
00:23:44.000 The king's had his head made out of chocolate and he's not going to wear his breeches.
00:23:48.000 Oh, I didn't think it was possible in my lifetime to not see a king made out of chocolate, not wearing his breeches.
00:23:57.000 God bless you, mum.
00:23:59.000 Well, come on, guys.
00:24:00.000 I think we can do a little bit better than that.
00:24:02.000 If you were having a sort of a ground floor up review, sort of a page one rewrite, you'd go, OK, well, surely we should have systems of government that aren't entirely beholden to corporate interests.
00:24:12.000 Surely there's no point in having institutional symbols that embody absolute inequality and corruption and piracy and plunder and slaughter.
00:24:22.000 You could probably, jewel by jewel, go through the crown that's going to be put on his head and then point out a country that's been exploited.
00:24:28.000 That one came out of South Africa.
00:24:30.000 That one came out of India.
00:24:31.000 Sorry about that, mate.
00:24:33.000 Like, the whole bloody thing.
00:24:34.000 You can't get away from him.
00:24:36.000 This is what I find interesting about certain aspects of what is regarded as the culture war.
00:24:42.000 That if you take down statues of, say, Edward Colston, who was a slave trader who had a statue in Bristol, say.
00:24:49.000 Like, it's like, yeah, take down that statue.
00:24:51.000 Now let's start looking at what other emblems of that power.
00:24:54.000 In the end, it runs right through all power.
00:24:57.000 Right through, like, you know, they started with sort of Confederate generals, didn't they, in the United States?
00:25:02.000 But pretty soon, you have to, you're at Washington, and Lincoln, and Jefferson, like, you have to say, okay, alright, this whole thing is founded, ultimately.
00:25:10.000 Look, that's not about American ingenuity or British pluck.
00:25:13.000 We all know British people.
00:25:15.000 We all know American people and see their spirit, whether they're Italian, African, Irish American, don't matter.
00:25:21.000 You see people that have come over with a dream and worked hard and built stuff.
00:25:25.000 And those are the people whose businesses get crushed during the pandemic while wealth gets centralised.
00:25:29.000 And meanwhile, we're caught up in some cultural war claptrap.
00:25:32.000 Not Claptrap, I don't mean to be dismissive about permutations of the civil rights movement.
00:25:36.000 What I mean to say is that while we are mired in that, we are unable to make the progress that is necessary and could be facilitated by new alliances and essentially accepting decentralized power as the way forward.
00:25:51.000 Then people with different views can have different systems, like how we are evolved to have.
00:25:56.000 Yeah.
00:25:57.000 You're struggling in our country, though.
00:25:58.000 I mean, this is one of the facts that was on those sheets earlier.
00:26:01.000 More than a thousand laws have been vetted by the Queen or Prince Charles through a secretive procedure.
00:26:06.000 So this is often demanding exclusions for the royal family.
00:26:09.000 So, this is systemic.
00:26:10.000 This is ways in which the richest family, what, in the world, with almost a sixth of the land on the Earth's surface, are literally controlling the laws of the land.
00:26:22.000 What do you think the secretive procedure is?
00:26:24.000 Do you think it's like when Tony Soprano meets someone down a shoe shop?
00:26:27.000 Do you think they meet in a chocolate factory?
00:26:29.000 I think it involves those britches and stockings.
00:26:31.000 Gonna try on some new britches down at the chocolate factory.
00:26:34.000 Oh God, I've got Mars bar up me stockings!
00:26:38.000 Right, listen, don't do that bloody law there where we have to pay our taxes.
00:26:41.000 That's a bloody disgrace.
00:26:42.000 Don't let ordinary people have a say.
00:26:44.000 Censor people on the internet for God's sake.
00:26:47.000 That's what it'll be.
00:26:48.000 Shall we click over to being exclusively on Rumble now?
00:26:52.000 Because I want to talk about a certain little cold with a good PR campaign.
00:26:57.000 I call it the world's sexiest cold.
00:27:02.000 Cold plus.
00:27:03.000 Yeah?
00:27:04.000 McCold.
00:27:06.000 Oh no, people are coughing and sneezing and stuff.
00:27:09.000 Well, let's change everything!
00:27:12.000 You know stuff that's always been happening?
00:27:15.000 Because we're still on YouTube?
00:27:16.000 No, I think we've gone, have we?
00:27:17.000 Have we?
00:27:18.000 I don't know.
00:27:18.000 We shouldn't be.
00:27:19.000 I don't know why I say stuff like that.
00:27:22.000 Sometimes comedy requires that you be reductive.
00:27:26.000 It's not what I really mean.
00:27:27.000 Right.
00:27:28.000 I hate that people died.
00:27:29.000 Yeah.
00:27:30.000 I hate that ordinary people suffered and all that you know the YouTube funerals and not being able to go and visit people in hospitals and missing your kid being born and all that kind of stuff and the tragedy and how hard people in various health facilities around the world worked and how people in New York City 34,000 health workers lost their jobs because they didn't want to get vaccinated and the fact that over in our country britain nurses were celebrated deified they drew rainbows on the windows everyone drew rainbows on the windows and now Nurses are striking because they can't get a decent pay rise, and junior doctors, that means that doctors obviously earlier in their qualification process can't get a pay rise.
00:28:05.000 People, like, the whole thing is the same.
00:28:07.000 Symbols, but no cojones.
00:28:09.000 Maybe that's why you joke about it.
00:28:11.000 I mean, I'm just interpreting this.
00:28:12.000 This is free psychoanalysis.
00:28:14.000 Certainly it is that.
00:28:16.000 In our country, certainly you would say that it was a joke to the people who were in charge.
00:28:20.000 That there was one thing that they were saying, and an entirely different way in which they were behaving.
00:28:24.000 And they were laughing and joking their way through it, with a glass of champagne in their hands, or whatever it was.
00:28:29.000 Don't know if it was champagne, but I wouldn't be surprised.
00:28:31.000 What if it was wine and cheese?
00:28:33.000 It definitely was cheese.
00:28:34.000 And Gavin Newsom, what did he have?
00:28:36.000 And there's just a sense, isn't there, that it was business as usual for them guys, that they were having parties.
00:28:40.000 It's been proven in our country, it's been proven with Gavin Newsom.
00:28:43.000 Look, that's not the world's worst thing, but it is a revelation of hypocrisy.
00:28:46.000 And it also shows you that it's revealing.
00:28:49.000 What it reveals is, we're better than you, we're telling you to do this, but we're not going to be doing it because we're better than you.
00:28:55.000 And the reason that the pandemic was, the reason the lockdowns were tolerated
00:29:00.000 for as long as they were, that it was if you had financial advantages,
00:29:03.000 they were not that bad.
00:29:04.000 Like you've all heard stories about people flying around, private leave, all heard stories about private islands
00:29:09.000 and parties and all that kind of stuff.
00:29:11.000 It's a simple, like, but that's true of all life.
00:29:14.000 All life is easier if you're not poor.
00:29:16.000 If you're part of an economic elite, then life is easier than if you're poor.
00:29:20.000 I've tried both and that certainly tallies in my experience.
00:29:24.000 What's that ringing in my ear?
00:29:26.000 Is it sweet lady truth, or is it the tinnitus you're gonna get after getting COVID shot?
00:29:30.000 I've not read this story yet, but it's the sort of thing that's true.
00:29:33.000 Let me know how, like, put on the subtitles.
00:29:36.000 How have you been since your jab?
00:29:37.000 Have you got any tinnitus?
00:29:39.000 When did your many years start?
00:29:42.000 I've not, I've thought about it, Ross, I've thought about it.
00:29:46.000 Oh man, because many years isn't, sort of, is it to do with the year, many years?
00:29:50.000 And you do, you do get tinnitus as part of it, yeah.
00:29:50.000 Yeah, it is, yeah.
00:29:54.000 I've thought about it, I mean, since reading this, you know, I mean, like, we have some different ideas.
00:29:59.000 Exactly like you said then, it's like, you don't want to, you, you have to consider all the people that died, you have to consider all the funerals, you, those, it's paramount that you consider them, it's hugely important.
00:30:09.000 But I will admit that when I see a story like this and then I think about something that personally happened to me over the last six months a year, you do start to wonder a little bit.
00:30:18.000 You do have to.
00:30:21.000 You know, sometimes I think that one of their great assets is our sort of unwillingness willingness to sort of open heartedly go,
00:30:26.000 oh no, you weren't actually blagging us on that level, were you?
00:30:31.000 Even someone like me who sort of somehow delights in, what do I want to say, sort of iconoclasm
00:30:37.000 or anti-establishment rhetoric, still a normal person with normal concerns
00:30:40.000 and a family and a dog and fears and awareness of my own mortality and my own vulnerability
00:30:45.000 and a need to trust people.
00:30:46.000 But I suppose, you know, you and I in a sense have different ways of seeing the world.
00:30:51.000 Obviously we're close collaborators and close friends, but I don't like authority
00:30:57.000 and my starting point is to not trust it.
00:31:00.000 And you, whenever I hear you talk, you're the way you analyze authority
00:31:03.000 and even the kind of authority that is masked as progressive and beneficial and benign,
00:31:09.000 you're very inquiring of, but we always had sort of a slightly different perspective
00:31:13.000 around this medicinal process.
00:31:16.000 But also we have always collaborated and spoken to one another from a position of respect
00:31:21.000 and actually good humor.
00:31:23.000 taking a piss a little bit rather than like I'll kill you!
00:31:26.000 And I don't think your opinion on it has ever been, no one should have it.
00:31:30.000 Never.
00:31:31.000 You know, that's the point.
00:31:32.000 I think that... I don't know.
00:31:34.000 I don't know what you're going through.
00:31:35.000 You have, like, older relatives and all that, that you were around all of that time and, like, yeah, it's different.
00:31:39.000 I think even some of the most vocal critics, certainly the ones like Rand Paul and people like that, have said that there is a demographic of people that needed it and that maybe there isn't a demographic that continues to need it.
00:31:53.000 Because of the boosters and all those kind of things and how effective they are with what we're told they are, when literally we do have the knowledge that the boosters were being brought out by Moderna, certainly I know of Moderna, that weren't any more effective than the ones that already existed.
00:32:09.000 So you can't, that is true, he's not lying in these congressional hearings when he says things like that.
00:32:15.000 But you know and so I think those things do have all to be factored in.
00:32:19.000 And actually that too is a mentality that can be applied more broadly in fact I would say almost universally to any issue that if you When you're speaking to someone, you have to recognise they might have a different perspective from you, for a reason.
00:32:35.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:32:37.000 Therefore, immediately, I think almost, you arrive at the point where if some kind of centralised authority is necessary, it absolutely must be consensual, it absolutely must have been achieved democratically, because otherwise what you have is Authoritarianism that is not derived from consent or mandate by the people and therefore is likely to have some other motivation behind it.
00:33:01.000 Right.
00:33:02.000 It's not bad that we've got to this place when a minute ago we were just talking about chocolate bar medallions.
00:33:07.000 So we've gotten away from where the mainstream media wants us, um, mired intellectually.
00:33:11.000 So, COVID vaccine recipients have reported persistent ringing in their ears after getting the shot.
00:33:15.000 Scientists are still investigating the connection.
00:33:17.000 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains that data does not support a link between the vaccines and the condition known as tinnitus.
00:33:24.000 Well, they would, wouldn't they?
00:33:25.000 But the problem has become persistent and widespread enough to merit more attention.
00:33:28.000 Over 16,000 vaccine takes in the US have reported some form of tinnitus after getting the shots.
00:33:33.000 In a way, what The playbook appears to be, more laterally, that because it is possible, albeit with some challenges, to report stuff like this as it arises, and like even right early in the pandemic people were saying, oh I'm not sure about these vaccines, why have they got indemnity, how can they have clinically trialled them, particularly for transmission and all of that, like right at the beginning that stuff was happening.
00:33:55.000 I think that the playbook is, well even though people have an awareness They will never be certain, because there are so many strong, central, bombastic counter-arguments.
00:34:06.000 It's so continual.
00:34:09.000 And over time, people just can't hold on to the outrage.
00:34:14.000 Like now it's Ukraine and Russia, soon it's going to be China and Taiwan.
00:34:19.000 Hey wait a minute, NATO, there was a coup in 2014, there was a battalion of Nazis, forget that baby, we're in Taiwan now, encircling China, and you can't hold on to it.
00:34:31.000 No, and you know, the way in which people are dismissed for having doubts and smeared in the ways that they were, is unforgivable.
00:34:38.000 You know, it wasn't done in the right way.
00:34:41.000 You can't dismiss People's feelings about things like this, people's doubts, people's doubts and mistrust of authority from the things that they've been told, and then when more things start to come out that back up the things they're saying, and people are still smeared and dismissed.
00:34:55.000 You can't do that.
00:34:56.000 I mean, in our country, Brexit happened, everyone who voted for Brexit was called a racist.
00:35:01.000 It's not the way to speak to and communicate with A population.
00:35:08.000 And they did it in the media, they did it in the government, and the same thing has kind of happened and is playing out each time these things, each time someone says, I'm not sure about continuing to send weapons to Ukraine, I'm not sure about all the, you know, continuation of this war, and that's a pattern now that is not going to get us anywhere.
00:35:28.000 No, let us know what you think about that in the comments guys, please.
00:35:32.000 Let us know how you feel about being addressed in that way, and let us know personally where you stand on the idea of being able to have open discourse with people you disagree with.
00:35:41.000 Try and think of the issues that outrage you most.
00:35:44.000 Is it cultural and identity issues?
00:35:46.000 Is it centralized political corruption?
00:35:48.000 Let us know, and are you willing to listen to alternative views?
00:35:51.000 Now, Gareth and I have worked very hard to put together this presentation.
00:35:55.000 We're going to be taking a deep, analytical, almost granular look at a news story from this week and presenting it to you in a way that is both amusing and informative.
00:36:07.000 Here's the news.
00:36:08.000 No, here's the effing news.
00:36:09.000 And after that we're going to be talking to Barry Wise.
00:36:12.000 Here's the news.
00:36:18.000 Everywhere you look people are being de-platformed, but let's get together and celebrate our free
00:36:23.000 press where journalism's not a crime.
00:36:26.000 Where Biden and Jen Psaki, people that have worked for media, people that have worked
00:36:30.000 for government, can cosy up and celebrate how free our speech is.
00:36:34.000 Have you noticed any censorship anywhere lately?
00:36:38.000 You're aware aren't you that the White House press conference dinner was a great orgasmic gala of agreement that what a free wonderful world we're all living in together meanwhile there's no one mentioned Julian Assange or Jamal Khashoggi or the fact that we're continually being censored and there's such limited freedom of speech.
00:36:57.000 Unless we have access to you as an audience, unless we have integrity between us, I think we're all in a great deal of trouble.
00:37:05.000 And let's have a look at why.
00:37:06.000 You remember when Jen Psaki was the press spokesperson for the White House, where every day during COVID or whatever, she'd turn up and say, oh, this is what we're doing and this is what we're not doing.
00:37:17.000 Oh, you can ask a question.
00:37:18.000 Do you mind if we get that question written down in advance?
00:37:20.000 Give the poor old fella some chance to understand it.
00:37:22.000 So Jen Psaki now, of course, by weird coincidence, has her own TV show on MSNBC.
00:37:28.000 Almost as if it's like Easy to go from working for the government to MSNBC.
00:37:28.000 Weird that.
00:37:32.000 In spite of the fact that at that White House press conference dinner it was like, oh you hold us to account.
00:37:37.000 Jefferson said if it was a free speech or government you'd take free speech and free press over government.
00:37:42.000 Well that ain't what we're discussing here.
00:37:45.000 What we're discussing is government and media that One of the fun parts, if you will, of the responsibilities of the White House Correspondents Association is this dinner.
00:37:54.000 April 29th, the White House Correspondents Association dinner is happening.
00:37:58.000 Leave me a comment and let me know in the chat if you don't.
00:38:00.000 Have a look at this, because this is going to knock your knickers down, mate.
00:38:03.000 One of the fun parts, if you will, of the responsibilities of the White House Correspondents
00:38:07.000 Association is this dinner.
00:38:09.000 Yeah.
00:38:10.000 April 29th, the White House Correspondents Association dinner is happening.
00:38:14.000 Yes, Nerd Prom is what we call it.
00:38:16.000 Nerd Prom.
00:38:17.000 Julian Assange still in prison.
00:38:20.000 Mention it if you care about free speech!
00:38:22.000 I remember during the Trump administration Donald Trump then President Trump did not attend the dinner.
00:38:28.000 Let me know in the chat in the comments if you think Trump's non-attendance signifies a relationship that's actually more appropriate.
00:38:34.000 Trump got blasted by the media regularly.
00:38:37.000 He hated them, they hated him.
00:38:39.000 That's more the kind of relationship that Jefferson was espousing.
00:38:41.000 Not all cozying up to each other saying what great advocates for freedom of speech they are.
00:38:45.000 Meanwhile not mentioning Assange.
00:38:47.000 Not mentioning increased censorship laws by all sorts of means.
00:38:51.000 Not mentioning that the mainstream media makes more money from selling your data now than it does from telling you the truth.
00:38:58.000 Not mentioning, as Elon Musk famously did on Twitter, that many of these organizations receive significant funding from the government and are happy to parrot their line on most subjects.
00:39:07.000 This now is propaganda overload.
00:39:09.000 We're at peak propaganda.
00:39:11.000 When the Biden-Harris administration came into office, obviously President Biden did revive that tradition of attending the dinner.
00:39:19.000 Why is it important for the sitting president of the United States of America, you think, to go to the dinner?
00:39:25.000 It's hugely important because it shows respect and honours the work of people who are in the media.
00:39:30.000 Respect and honour.
00:39:32.000 Like all the respect and honour that the New York Times showed to the story of Jack Tech's era, the New York Times collaborated with the FBI and the CIA.
00:39:42.000 This is not a situation where the word honour should be on everybody's lips.
00:39:46.000 The taste of disgust should be in all of our mouths.
00:39:48.000 And it shows that in a democracy you can disagree.
00:39:52.000 You may disagree with their coverage.
00:39:54.000 You can get that all out in the funny part of your speech.
00:39:57.000 And oftentimes the speech that a president delivers is one that has all sorts of funny
00:40:04.000 critiques or funny jokes about media organizations.
00:40:07.000 Didn't notice any funny jokes about Hunter Biden's laptop, a story that was kept out of the mainstream media in the build-up to the election.
00:40:13.000 In fact, the CIA, the deep state, were utilised to help repress and discredit that information before its revelation.
00:40:20.000 The idea that what we have is a free media and a transparent government is plainly risible.
00:40:25.000 And if you are looking for evidence of that fact, look no further than Edward Snowden, still exiled in Russia because he Heroically revealed that we were being lied to and spied on to an unprecedented degree.
00:40:37.000 And that's not just your country.
00:40:38.000 It's my country, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, all collaborating and sharing information.
00:40:44.000 What's been revealed is we have anything but transparency, anything but press freedom.
00:40:48.000 Probably gets them some things off their chest.
00:40:50.000 By the way, those speeches take years off of your life.
00:40:53.000 If you're in the press or communications office, it's hard to deliver a funny speech.
00:40:56.000 But a good chunk of the speech is also on the value of media.
00:41:01.000 They're trying to keep it like this is a friendly, jocular communication between power and those that report on power, and that the tone of this, this friendly, communicative, apparently transparent tone, tells us that everything's okay.
00:41:15.000 You know that if you speak out against the interests of the powerful, you are going to get in serious trouble.
00:41:20.000 We on this channel are extremely cautious about the types of information that we use and the way that we convey it just so that we can keep the lights on.
00:41:28.000 And freedom of press and how important it is to a democracy.
00:41:31.000 And it is honouring the work, the blood, sweat and tears of the people in the room.
00:41:37.000 Well, I'll tell you some blood, sweat and tears that you could be honoring.
00:41:39.000 Jamal Khashoggi.
00:41:41.000 It's all over the floor of an embassy in Istanbul.
00:41:43.000 There's also scholarships and awards that are given.
00:41:46.000 Well, well, well, well, those scholarships.
00:41:47.000 And I suppose there's no strings attached.
00:41:49.000 Who provides those scholarships?
00:41:51.000 What type of reporting do you get from the journalists who receive them?
00:41:54.000 But even just being present and being there as a president sends that message to the media that you value what they do.
00:42:00.000 I think so.
00:42:01.000 And especially, I mean, given the I think we often forget here in America, because There is a free press, a fair press, the cornerstone of our democracy.
00:42:10.000 Yes, cornerstone.
00:42:11.000 Free speech, very cornerstone of our democracy.
00:42:14.000 It's not like new ways to censor misinformation, disinformation, malinformation are literally being created before our very eyes.
00:42:20.000 It's not like we've just had the Twitter file revelations that shows you the degree to which the CIA and FBI have infiltrated not only social media but presumably mainstream media as well in order to dictate narratives and suppress narratives that they don't like.
00:42:32.000 Even, as has now been admitted, repressing and censoring true information that they did not like.
00:42:37.000 You can't sit on the TV and say all of this stuff unless, of course, you yourself are part of that propaganda.
00:42:43.000 Cornerstone of our democracy is that journalists can ask the most powerful people in America, whether they be presidents or CEOs, some of the toughest questions.
00:42:51.000 As long as you give them those tough questions in advance.
00:42:54.000 Hey, we're gonna be asking you some pretty tough questions!
00:42:56.000 Oh god, what are they?
00:42:57.000 Well, this is the question, this is what the journalist looks like, and this is how you pronounce their name.
00:43:02.000 Traitor to journalism.
00:43:04.000 That's traitor to journalism.
00:43:06.000 I think we forget that around the world that that is not the case.
00:43:08.000 No.
00:43:08.000 There's so many journalists whose freedom is being just trampled on across the globe.
00:43:14.000 Right.
00:43:15.000 It'd be good if the countries where the journalists are being trampled on aligned with countries that the US imperialist system wanted to invade anyway, wouldn't it?
00:43:23.000 God, that'd be so convenient.
00:43:24.000 But that'll be just too much of a coincidence if the exact countries that America have been planning to invade were also the ones about freedom.
00:43:30.000 Oh, God.
00:43:30.000 Wouldn't even like to wish for that.
00:43:32.000 Right, and in fact when it's adversarial... Adversarial?
00:43:35.000 The only adversarialism will come if they scratch each other's back too hard or if you feel a bit of a tooth during fellatio.
00:43:41.000 There's no adversity between the press and power.
00:43:44.000 They're working together to keep us spellbound.
00:43:46.000 Let me know in the chat in the comments if you agree.
00:43:48.000 Sometimes in the briefing room at the State Department or the Defense Department or the White House or with spokespeople for the Vice President and others.
00:43:55.000 That is democracy working.
00:43:57.000 That is the reporters being able to push back on a spokesperson, ask them tough questions, right?
00:44:02.000 The only times they push back, you finish the joke.
00:44:05.000 And the spokesperson can sometimes push back at them and try to provide information to the best of their ability.
00:44:10.000 That does not exist in China or Russia or a lot of other authoritarian countries.
00:44:15.000 That's convenient because actually we're having a proxy war with Russia that's quite profitable and we're looking to start a proxy war with China that will also be profitable.
00:44:22.000 So it's good that they're baddies.
00:44:23.000 Even in those moments of adversarial-ness, it's working.
00:44:27.000 It's democracy working.
00:44:28.000 Yeah, even those moments of adversarialness, like when Julian Assange, for example, he did Belmarsh, slowly atrophying and dying, squinting into his dark cell.
00:44:37.000 Oh, that's democracy working.
00:44:38.000 And when Jamal Khashoggi's being sworn up in an embassy and we're told that Saudi Arabia will be made a pariah before Joe Biden goes over there and fist bumps, that is democracy working.
00:44:49.000 Edward Snowden shivering away there in Russia.
00:44:52.000 That terrible Russian country.
00:44:53.000 That is democracy working.
00:44:55.000 And when people are getting kicked off YouTube for having conversations, that is democracy working.
00:45:00.000 Democracy is working so well, we should go around the world finding places that don't have it and force them to have it whether they want it or not.
00:45:06.000 Democratically.
00:45:07.000 For freedom.
00:45:08.000 But I'm probably imagining this as some sort of conspiracy theorist.
00:45:11.000 After all, look at what I'm wearing and judge me on that, rather on the stuff I'm saying.
00:45:16.000 Let's have a look at the actual relationships between people that work at the White House and people that work in the media.
00:45:22.000 And if we find those relationships, well, that would be evidence, I guess.
00:45:25.000 Right?
00:45:26.000 The current Press Secretary Corinne Jean-Pierre is a former analyst for NBC News and MSNBC and the last Press Secretary Jen Psaki, that was Jen there, now has her own show on MSNBC.
00:45:36.000 Prior to her stint as White House Press Secretary, Psaki worked as a CNN analyst and before that
00:45:40.000 she was spokesperson for the State Department, so she moved effortlessly between the state
00:45:44.000 and MSNBC and CNN and back to the state, all the while rigorously questioning, oh no, come
00:45:50.000 on, let's really give these guys hell, oh no, back over here.
00:45:53.000 Everywhere you look you can find extensive entanglements between the US government and
00:45:57.000 the news media outlets that Westerners look to for information about the world.
00:46:01.000 And that's before you even get into the way the plutocratic class, which owns and influences
00:46:05.000 the US media is also not meaningfully separate from the US government.
00:46:09.000 When corporations are part of the government, corporate media is state media.
00:46:13.000 And that, my dear, dear friend, if you ask me, is closer to fascism than any of the other things you hear described as fascism by that portion of the media.
00:46:23.000 Now let's focus on the celebratory tone that's deployed when talking about freedom of press, freedom of speech in bad countries like China and Russia and observe carefully what actually happens if you are a journalist that speaks out against power.
00:46:38.000 The annual dinner of the White House Correspondents Association is an occasion for the media elite and top politicians in Washington to schmooze and declare their mutual solidarity.
00:46:47.000 That is what it is.
00:46:48.000 Our solidarity is mutual.
00:46:50.000 Shall we have a schmooze?
00:46:51.000 It's not like stags tussling by a brook to work out what's best for America.
00:46:57.000 They have the same interests.
00:46:58.000 Otherwise, the whole way through that White House press conference dinner, they'd be going, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Julian Assange, Jamal Khashoggi, what's going on?
00:47:03.000 The censorship, misinformation, setting up new ways of controlling it.
00:47:07.000 Is it right that we're even selling the private information about our audience without making it clear to them that's what we're doing?
00:47:11.000 Why are platforms like Rumble being shut down in France?
00:47:14.000 Why can't Russia Today be viewed and people decide for themselves whether it's propaganda?
00:47:18.000 That is not freedom of speech.
00:47:19.000 I don't know what it is, you let me know what it is, but it ain't freedom of speech.
00:47:22.000 This is usually couched in the language of defence of the First Amendment, although that constitutional provision has been systematically trampled on by administration after administration in the interests of American imperialism, such as the current war, I would contest, between Ukraine and Russia.
00:47:36.000 Is that being used for imperial corporate American interests?
00:47:39.000 Sort of looks like it when you look at the way that the Pentagon budget ends up being apportioned out.
00:47:44.000 And what about the semiconductor war that's being agitated for involving Taiwan and China?
00:47:48.000 Illegal government spying, police violence, data capture, censorship and a rise in protest laws are everyday practices in America and the corporate media generally passes over them in silence as long as its own financial interests are not harmed.
00:48:00.000 Plain fact.
00:48:01.000 The reason that the media is not attacking the state and other corporations on these matters is because they are able to carry on sitting behind desks, drinking from a mug, all cozy, all happy, no problem.
00:48:13.000 There was more than the usual measure of such hypocrisy at Saturday night's annual dinner of the White House Correspondents Association as President Joe Biden and the assembled members of the political and media elite pretended to defend freedom of the press, but only when it serves the foreign policy interests of American imperialism.
00:48:28.000 In a way, it's just like the Met Gala.
00:48:29.000 People just dressed up, celebrating stuff that's nothing to do with what's actually happening.
00:48:34.000 and is doubling down on the systems of nihilism and deceit that govern our valueless culture as we slide into some kind of moral oblivion and potentially other types of cultural and maybe even ecological oblivion as well.
00:48:48.000 Most presidential appearances at the dinner attended by every president in recent years except Donald Trump have been characterized by scripted remarks making fun of the audience, the president's political opponents and critics, and the president himself.
00:49:00.000 But Biden devoted the bulk of his remarks to a lengthy declaration of his opposition to the repressive measures taken against journalists in Russia, China, Iran, Syria, and Venezuela.
00:49:10.000 Sometimes I've heard of those countries.
00:49:12.000 I keep hearing those countries.
00:49:13.000 Russia, China, Iran, Syria, and Venezuela.
00:49:16.000 Yeah, they must be like freedom-hating countries or something or must have oil.
00:49:20.000 It's freedom-hating.
00:49:20.000 I don't know.
00:49:21.000 They're freedom-hating and undemocratic, I think, is what it is.
00:49:23.000 Let me know in the chat what you think it is.
00:49:25.000 And pledges to devote US diplomatic efforts to winning the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovitz recently arrested on bogus spying charges in Russia and other American prisoners of the Putin regime.
00:49:37.000 Wrong to arrest Evan Gershkovitz.
00:49:40.000 Obviously, he should be freed.
00:49:41.000 The coincidence between the list of countries guilty of violating press freedom and the list of countries targeted by American imperialism for subversion and overthrow was obvious.
00:49:50.000 Wait a minute!
00:49:51.000 This list here of countries that you say aren't free and ones where you have an imperial agenda, it's the same list!
00:49:56.000 Yeah, but the list's got different title at the top of it.
00:49:59.000 This one's countries that we're going to overthrow, and this one's countries that don't have a free press.
00:50:03.000 Yeah, but it's the same countries.
00:50:05.000 It's a different list, and I need you to believe that it's different.
00:50:08.000 Otherwise, you're not a journalist.
00:50:09.000 You're a disinformationer.
00:50:11.000 Right, so check it out that night where Biden was all cozy and kooky and funny and cute.
00:50:15.000 I love NPR because they whisper into the mic like I do.
00:50:20.000 Check this, Biden made no reference, for example, to the murder of Washington Post commentator Jamal Khashoggi, killed and dismembered inside the consulate of Saudi Arabia in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
00:50:32.000 That's a pretty bad thing to happen to a journalist, I think.
00:50:35.000 Remember, please try to remember that when Biden was campaigning for the presidency, he said Make them in fact the pariah that they are.
00:50:44.000 But then remember in government they did not do that.
00:50:46.000 This kind of madness where you have a whole evening dedicated to freedom of the press and you don't mention Julian Assange or Jamal Khashoggi, what is it trying to make you go mad or something?
00:50:56.000 Khashoggi, an advisor turned critic of the Saudi monarchy, was targeted by the de facto Saudi ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose security chief sent the hit squad and directed its actions.
00:51:06.000 Well, I only sent a security chief and directed its actions.
00:51:10.000 Other than that, I had nothing to do with that murder and dismemberment.
00:51:13.000 Oh, well, come on into America.
00:51:14.000 Fist bump!
00:51:15.000 Biden claimed during the 2020 election campaign that he would turn the Saudi leader into a pariah.
00:51:20.000 Instead, in pursuit of greater Saudi oil production, he went cap in hand to Riyadh for talks with the prince stroke assassin.
00:51:26.000 So there you go.
00:51:27.000 That's the reality of politics.
00:51:28.000 We all know that's the reality.
00:51:30.000 Why are we pretending it's anything else?
00:51:32.000 Oh, we're giving Joe Biden a real test.
00:51:34.000 You know, we come at him a bit, he comes at us a little bit.
00:51:37.000 It's very much like Marvin Hagler versus Thomas Hearns.
00:51:40.000 Who's going to win?
00:51:41.000 Well, both of you, because you're both Fucking liars.
00:51:43.000 But the most obvious case of a double standard was the one that involves the Biden administration directly, the persecution of Julian Assange.
00:51:50.000 Now I've heard people say that Julian Assange is like a right-wing issue now.
00:51:53.000 Julian Assange revealed that there was malfeasance in the Middle Eastern wars, that civilians were killed, that you can't trust your government, that you're being spied on, lied to.
00:52:03.000 Is that right-wing now?
00:52:04.000 Let me know in the chat.
00:52:05.000 I don't know what all these words mean.
00:52:07.000 Three minutes into his remarks to the Saturday night festivities, Biden declared journalism is not a crime.
00:52:12.000 It is if you do it properly.
00:52:13.000 The formulation seemed a perverse restatement of a declaration issued by a half dozen major world newspapers, including the New York Times last December, when they called on the Biden administration to drop charges against Assange because publishing is not a crime.
00:52:25.000 And if it were, they'd be guilty of it.
00:52:27.000 But how the New York Times backing up that claim that Assange should not have to endure the espionage charges leveled against him because publishing is not a crime.
00:52:36.000 Let's have a look.
00:52:36.000 It is noteworthy that in their coverage of the correspondence dinner, neither the Times nor the Washington Post or any other mainstream publication made any mention of Assange or the contradiction between Biden's declaration of fidelity to the First Amendment and the continued drive of his administration to extradite and jail Assange, who published information.
00:52:54.000 They didn't mention it because what they're doing, what they're continually doing, is establishing the frame of what can be talked about and what is not allowed to be talked about.
00:53:01.000 And they're doing it, actually, brilliantly.
00:53:04.000 Nor did any media correspondents or management, the bulk of the audience at the dinner, seek to raise the issue there.
00:53:09.000 What a surprise.
00:53:11.000 Seven Democratic members of Congress, including all five members of the Democratic Socialists of America, recently sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland urging him to drop prosecution of Assange.
00:53:21.000 None of these representatives sought to raise the issue at the correspondents' dinner, which took place only four days before World Press Freedom Day, as designated by the United Nations.
00:53:29.000 Nothing means anything, does it?
00:53:30.000 Did you know it was World Press Freedom Day?
00:53:32.000 And to celebrate World Press Freedom Day, we are gonna chop up the Saudi Arabian journalist in a little bit.
00:53:38.000 And this Australian journalist, we're gonna leave him in prison.
00:53:41.000 And this doctor on YouTube, we're gonna ban him for a week.
00:53:45.000 Also, anyone, anywhere, who tries to say anything that could impede our ability to colonize not only the world and its resources, but also the consciousness of its inhabitants, will go to jail.
00:53:55.000 Happy Freedom Day, everyone!
00:53:57.000 Don't you dare ruin another freedom day, Lisa!
00:54:00.000 Later in his remarks, Biden flattered the press declaring, you make it possible for ordinary citizens to question authority.
00:54:05.000 No, you make it impossible!
00:54:07.000 You make it impossible!
00:54:09.000 That's the opposite!
00:54:10.000 What is this, a Seinfeld episode, where you do the exact opposite of what you're saying you're doing?
00:54:15.000 They do not do that!
00:54:16.000 They criticize you, they find ways to delegitimize dissent in voices, they censor, they smear.
00:54:22.000 That is not what they do, is it?
00:54:23.000 Actually, the American corporate media has abandoned even a token commitment to such an oppositional stance towards the US government.
00:54:29.000 Yeah, that sounds more like it.
00:54:30.000 The Times, which sets the agenda for the daily coverage in the American media, is little more than an adjunct to the CIA and Pentagon on national security issues, particularly the war in Ukraine.
00:54:40.000 Yeah, that's right, isn't it?
00:54:40.000 And we now know why, because there's deep infiltration, and in some cases, funding, and there's an alliance of ideologies, and it's simply not separate.
00:54:49.000 When National Guard airman and IT specialist Jack Buddy Boy, as they call him, Texera, released top-secret Pentagon documents on the Internet, The Times tracked him down and published his name, enabling the FBI to swoop in and arrest the 21-year-old soldier only hours later.
00:55:03.000 That's literal collaboration, isn't it?
00:55:05.000 The Times published his name, the FBI arrested him.
00:55:08.000 They're like little nerdy poindexters.
00:55:11.000 Sir, sir, we found out who's been smoking behind the bike sheds.
00:55:15.000 It was Buddy Boy Texera.
00:55:16.000 Excellent work.
00:55:17.000 Well done, Martin.
00:55:18.000 Biden's paean to the American media and his declaration of devotion to the First Amendment were followed by a series of obvious and banal jokes, largely at the expense of Fox News.
00:55:27.000 Fox News owned by Dominion Voting Systems.
00:55:31.000 Yawn.
00:55:31.000 As well as a few references to advanced age.
00:55:34.000 Same over the hill.
00:55:35.000 Don Lemon would say that's a man of his prime.
00:55:39.000 Hahaha, he's old.
00:55:40.000 As though that was the only issue standing in the way of his re-election campaign.
00:55:44.000 He made no mention of the war in Ukraine, which every day threatens to escalate into a nuclear exchange between the US and Russia, which remains a deadly threat to the world's population.
00:55:53.000 Possibly because it would have ruined the vibe, along with any mentions of Assange, Khashoggi, or the truth more broadly.
00:56:00.000 But here, on our channel, We have an obligation to try to get in the mud with you and understand what the hell is happening.
00:56:07.000 Why is our felt daily emotional reality so different from what they're telling us?
00:56:11.000 Whether you're watching the Met Gala or seeing people getting banned or seeing people getting smeared or listening to people telling you how free you are and how much freedom of speech you've got.
00:56:18.000 Why does your feeling of reality not match this peculiar matrix that they are encircling us with and closing down around us?
00:56:27.000 Why?
00:56:27.000 Because it's simply not true.
00:56:29.000 Simply because change is trying to be born.
00:56:31.000 They're trying to stifle it.
00:56:32.000 And one of the ways that they stifle change is by controlling the media space and what's permissible to discuss within it.
00:56:38.000 What I believe is that we need more free media spaces like this.
00:56:41.000 We need more ability to openly communicate so we discover how similar to one another we are, where it matters, and that our differences from one another are quite, quite glorious.
00:56:50.000 But that's just what I think.
00:56:51.000 Let me know what you think in the comments in the chat.
00:56:52.000 I'll see you in a second.
00:56:53.000 Thank you for using Fox News.
00:56:54.000 You're welcome.
00:56:55.000 No.
00:56:56.000 Here's the fucking news!
00:56:57.000 Hello.
00:56:58.000 Hello.
00:56:59.000 Hello!
00:57:00.000 Joining me now is Barry Weiss, founder and editor of The Free Press, former Twitter Files journalist and New York Times editor.
00:57:06.000 Thanks for joining us today, Barry.
00:57:07.000 It's great to see you on the screen I'm looking at.
00:57:10.000 Great to see you too, Russell.
00:57:12.000 What's going on over there?
00:57:13.000 What are you up to?
00:57:15.000 What am I up to?
00:57:16.000 Raising a baby, starting a company, you know, trying to do media the right way.
00:57:23.000 I presume you're also having a mental breakdown if you're trying to simultaneously start a company and raise a baby.
00:57:28.000 How old's your baby?
00:57:29.000 She's seven and a half months, yeah.
00:57:31.000 I mean, it's a lot.
00:57:32.000 A lot going on at one time.
00:57:34.000 What about the sleep and everything, mate?
00:57:37.000 I mean, I don't look my best, but you only live one life.
00:57:42.000 When else are we going to do it?
00:57:43.000 And I should add, by the way, that building the company alongside some of my close friends and also my wife, a journalist that I met at the New York Times, who also left to do this with me.
00:57:54.000 So there's a lot going on.
00:57:56.000 There's not really like a work-life balance, I would say, in my life, Russell.
00:57:59.000 Doesn't sound like there's very much balance.
00:58:01.000 I suppose at least if both of you are doing nights, then I suppose that's something.
00:58:06.000 But I won't spend any more time poring over your private business.
00:58:12.000 Sleep train the baby.
00:58:13.000 She sleeps the entire night.
00:58:15.000 I don't understand people that don't choose to do that.
00:58:18.000 Nor do I!
00:58:19.000 I don't know what you're using, Benadryl?
00:58:22.000 Hey Barry, I wanted to ask you some questions about the news but afterwards I'd like to talk to you about how you're convincing your daughter to sleep that long.
00:58:31.000 Mate, I wanted to ask about firstly a little bit about That dude quitting Google and everything, Geoffrey Hinton and your conversation with him and whether you learned anything more detailed about his concerns around AI.
00:58:48.000 Is it kind of an existential threat?
00:58:50.000 A pragmatic threat?
00:58:51.000 Economics?
00:58:52.000 Is it to do with jobs?
00:58:53.000 Is it to do with some sci-fi type end of the world scenario?
00:58:57.000 What did you glean from that Barry?
00:59:00.000 The guy that left Google on the podcast I had on Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, which is the company that runs ChachiBT.
00:59:07.000 And the title of the podcast, I think, summarizes where a lot of people are thinking this goes, you know, is AI the end of the world or is it the dawn of a new one?
00:59:16.000 There's a tremendous amount of hyperbole.
00:59:19.000 Going on around this new technology.
00:59:21.000 Some are comparing it to fire.
00:59:22.000 That's Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google.
00:59:25.000 Others are comparing it to agriculture, the wheel, electricity, Gutenberg Press, you name it.
00:59:30.000 Here's what I know.
00:59:32.000 In the past decade, Russell, as you've surely watched, Crypto is the thing that has been absolutely hyped.
00:59:38.000 This was the thing that was going to get rid of state currency.
00:59:41.000 It was going to get rid of the dollar bill.
00:59:42.000 It was going to change the world.
00:59:43.000 It was going to democratize money.
00:59:45.000 But my wife was just in Austin at a crypto conference and you still pay for the swag in dollar bills.
00:59:51.000 In other words, people are still sort of casting about for the use case of the thing that was meant to change the world as we know it.
00:59:57.000 Think about ChatGPT in comparison, right?
01:00:00.000 That came out basically a week ago.
01:00:02.000 Something like a few months ago, ChatGPT4 was unveiled.
01:00:05.000 A hundred million people are using that app every day, and it's already changing the way that people work, the way they do research, the way they cheat on tests in college.
01:00:15.000 News organizations have announced that they're getting rid of certain jobs because they're already outsourcing them to this technology.
01:00:21.000 It's already proven its use, which is extremely exciting and also extremely unnerving.
01:00:28.000 There's an economist that I love named Tyler Cowen, who writes this incredible blog, Marginal Revolution, if your listeners aren't aware of it.
01:00:35.000 And he had this incredibly succinct, excellent post about this, where he basically says, as much as we have believed that the internet was a seismic technological revolution, The truth is, is that most of us that are alive, save very, very old people that lived through, you know, World War II and the advent of nuclear weapons, we really haven't lived through a fundamental technological revolution.
01:00:59.000 We haven't lived through what he calls moving history, where we're actually feeling like the tectonic plates shift.
01:01:06.000 This is that thing.
01:01:08.000 And as human beings who are only able to think so far into the future, it's really scary.
01:01:14.000 But probably the cavemen who watched their neighbor invent fire felt the same way.
01:01:18.000 They probably thought, holy shit, this thing allows us to cook food and stay warm, but also holy shit, someone can come and burn our whole village to the ground.
01:01:27.000 In other words, Every single time this new technology comes into being, there's a kind of moral panic around it, right?
01:01:34.000 There's this really amazing newsletter called Pessimist Archive, and they keep track of the panics that are the reaction to new technology.
01:01:42.000 I read one the other day where it was like, it was a poem that they unearthed from 250 BC, freaking out about the sundial.
01:01:50.000 Right?
01:01:50.000 There's articles about, you know, the extinction of the slide rule and how the calculator is going to ruin education forever for kids.
01:01:58.000 For people that were living in 1600s in Central Europe, the printing press probably meant to them war and bloodshed.
01:02:06.000 To us, it meant the advent of the Industrial Revolution and the Scientific Revolution.
01:02:11.000 So my feeling about this new technology Sorry to go on about this.
01:02:15.000 I'm really excited about it because I feel like it's huge.
01:02:20.000 It's not a question of yes or no.
01:02:23.000 It's going to happen.
01:02:25.000 The question is, who is going to do it and what are the guardrails going to be around it?
01:02:29.000 And those, I think, are the real pressing questions that some of the smartest people in the world, way smarter than me, are grappling with right now.
01:02:36.000 One of them being the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman.
01:02:40.000 It's interesting because when you talk about regulation with something like this it can sometimes seem to be at odds with where we might stand elsewhere on the subject of censorship but I've heard people say that if this isn't like that Elon Musk for example said this It ought be regulated and it's not regulated and now I know that when people talk about regulation elsewhere within social media the problem ends up being that it's not about regulation of monopolies it's regulation of it ends up being censorship of free speech essentially.
01:03:16.000 I'm fascinated Barry to hear you say that this is a seismic shift and it is epochal and that you don't think that oh everyone having a phone in their pocket represents that or the ability to be contacted the whole time you think this is beyond that because this is beyond utility because it can actually transform it's not like well it's just a tool we use it can become a tool that uses us is this what you're saying
01:03:40.000 I mean, that is what I'm increasingly convinced by.
01:03:42.000 Don't get me wrong.
01:03:44.000 I am not a futurist.
01:03:45.000 I am not a technologist.
01:03:48.000 When everyone was freaking out about Bitcoin and crypto in the beginning of the pandemic, I went and bought $10,000 and then promptly lost my password forever, thus losing the $10,000.
01:03:59.000 I'm not a sophisticated technologist.
01:04:01.000 What I know is having spent a little bit of time with chat GPT, It is eerie the way that it can imitate human intelligence.
01:04:10.000 And do I...
01:04:12.000 Far be it for me to suggest that the phone in my pocket that contains more computing power than, you know, what sent rockets to the moon.
01:04:20.000 I mean, of course I'm blown away by it.
01:04:22.000 I'm just saying that this thing, in its very, very short few months, has already proven to be extraordinarily transformative.
01:04:32.000 And so I'm not saying that the internet and the fact that we're talking through a screen right now, and I'm in LA and you're in the UK, it's unbelievable.
01:04:40.000 I'm just suggesting that this has the ability to be perhaps even more unbelievable, and people that are more sophisticated than me are suggesting so, and so I think it's incumbent upon all of us to learn about it.
01:04:52.000 Now, as for the question of regulation and censorship, that really, really scares me.
01:04:57.000 I mean, go in there and ask—other people have done this, but go in there and type something controversial into chat, type in, tell me
01:05:04.000 about now, type in, tell me about Jordan Peterson. You'll immediately see that because, you
01:05:09.000 know, because all technology is ultimately created by human beings, that it has biases
01:05:14.000 and unlike Twitter, right, where we could go into the archive, because Elon Musk, you know,
01:05:19.000 allowed journalists into the archive, of course, through the Twitter files.
01:05:22.000 We could see the choices they were making.
01:05:25.000 This thing is built on a text corpus of billions and billions of texts, articles, books, documents, lyrics.
01:05:33.000 It's much harder, I think.
01:05:35.000 It's going to be much harder to sort of ascertain the biases because you're not like, you know, it's just different.
01:05:41.000 The scale of it is completely different.
01:05:43.000 I think that's really worrisome.
01:05:44.000 The other thing that's worrisome, as we saw in the Twitter files, the amazing Twitter files hearings, where Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenberger went before Congress, and we saw, you know, an incredible display, let's say, by some American politicians who didn't know what Substack was, who asked if me and Matt and Schellenberger were in a threesome.
01:06:03.000 I mean, it was incredible.
01:06:04.000 Like, do we really trust the people who don't know what Substack is to regulate You know, chat GPT and open AI, like, I don't even know if they know what a modem is, or know how the internet works.
01:06:16.000 And so that I think is, is really worrisome to me.
01:06:19.000 And so there are people who are suggesting other kinds of, you know, Sam Altman, CEO of open AI suggests that maybe he should be the head ultimately of open AI, maybe that's a position that should be democratically elected, because that's how significant and important it will be.
01:06:35.000 So You know, the jury's out, but when I look at the people who are in Washington and their average age, frankly, the idea of them regulating this technology is worrisome to me.
01:06:45.000 Yeah, that is cause for concern.
01:06:47.000 When we have, in the media landscape, cosy relationships, as evidenced between the recent White House correspondents' dinner, and then adversarial, aggressive, punitive relationships, as the aforementioned Tybee Schellenberger a congressional hearing suggests. What do you think this
01:07:07.000 tells us about the shifting landscape between the media and the powerful? In particular,
01:07:15.000 I'm noting Matt Taibbi's IRS visit, the threat with jail for perjury or whatever. How do
01:07:23.000 you feel, Barry, operating in a comparable space and both of Matt Taibbi being a peer
01:07:28.000 and indeed colleague of yours?
01:07:31.000 I think it is the job of journalists to hold power to account and do that even when it's
01:07:39.000 politically inconvenient for your side.
01:07:42.000 You know, I think that Matt Taibbi, Michael Schellenberger, me, we're never going to be invited to the White House Correspondents Dinner.
01:07:49.000 And I'm okay with that, because when I became a journalist, I didn't do it for the money, I didn't do it for the accolades, and I didn't do it so that I could, you know, drink champagne next to powerful people.
01:08:01.000 I did it because it's a vocation that allows you to pursue your curiosity and in which you get, you know, a salary to take your flashlight and look into the darkest corners, into the kind of corners that the powers that be don't want you to look.
01:08:18.000 So, you know, when I see the IRS seemingly being weaponized against someone like Matt Taibbi, I think that that is something that every single journalist in this country Whether they work for an independent site, whether they write for a substack, whether they work at the Washington Post or the New York Times, should be absolutely up in arms about that.
01:08:37.000 And I think it tells you something really concerning about the state of the legacy press in this country that, you know, the Wall Street Journal thankfully had an editorial, but there should have been editorials about that visit in every single newspaper across the West, in my view.
01:08:52.000 Why isn't Biden likely to conduct primary debates?
01:08:58.000 I think many of us would be interested to hear debates between, for example, Robert F Kennedy and Biden, and Marianne Williamson's doing pretty well also.
01:09:09.000 Why is the Democrat party becoming so censorial, so afraid of conversation?
01:09:15.000 What's going on Barry?
01:09:18.000 Well, look, it tells you a lot about the popularity of Joe Biden among voters, that Marianne Williamson is polling at something like 9 or 10%, and RFK Jr., who announced like two weeks ago, I think, is polling at something like 20% already.
01:09:34.000 Who knows what will happen when Gavin Newsom, California governor, maybe is reportedly maybe going to get to the race at some point.
01:09:39.000 People realize that Joe Biden, though he won the last election, is getting slipped the questions in press conferences before, you know, to sort of be prepped.
01:09:52.000 He's someone that they're sort of, I don't want to say hiding, but trying to protect from the probing questions of the press as much as possible.
01:10:01.000 Why?
01:10:02.000 Why isn't he doing a debate?
01:10:03.000 Well, for all of those reasons, how do you think he would fare in a debate against Marianne Williamson, RFK, and to say nothing of other people that might join the race?
01:10:12.000 So essentially, you have someone in a position of power that's being protected.
01:10:17.000 You have a relationship between the mainstream press and the government that is consensual, as we saw with a recent report around the Pentagon Papers Part 2, that the content of the leaks was ignored.
01:10:32.000 You had the ludicrous spectacle of Biden saying that we must protect the free press and that
01:10:38.000 journalism is not a crime, while Assange is still away in a maximum security prison.
01:10:44.000 And adding to this, this potentially unprecedented tool that we were previously discussing, which
01:10:51.000 will ultimately, I suppose, end up in the hands of the powerful.
01:10:55.000 And it seems, based on what you're saying about the inflections that AI already bears
01:11:01.000 culturally, that it's a system, and of course we know from the Twitter files what the relationship
01:11:06.000 is between big tech and the Democrat party in particular.
01:11:09.000 Of course, I'm sure they would be flexible depending on which of those two parties were in power.
01:11:13.000 It seems that the potential to govern the population is about to become, I would say, what do I want to say?
01:11:26.000 Overwhelming.
01:11:27.000 Overwhelming.
01:11:28.000 With these new tools, it's possible that freedom could be further eroded.
01:11:33.000 So, really, at a point where we ought be insisting on new independent movements, a point where we should be insisting on transparency, there is more surveillance, militarization of the police, more protest laws, an inability to conduct public discourse by the most powerful person in the world.
01:11:53.000 What do you imagine is most immediately required, Barry?
01:11:58.000 What I think is most immediately required and what I see already happening, and I guess this is the silver lining, is, you know, look at both of us in this moment right now, right?
01:12:10.000 I don't even know how big your audience is at this point.
01:12:12.000 It's astronomical.
01:12:14.000 Here I am, thinking that I was going to be, you know, I spent my career in the legacy press, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Left the New York Times in 2020 for reasons maybe we can discuss, had no plan, had barely had a credit card, to say nothing of being an entrepreneur.
01:12:33.000 That was like the furthest thing from my mind.
01:12:35.000 And now I'm building a media company and I have 20 people working with me.
01:12:39.000 So the great news is that the technological revolution we're living through Yes, can be used in extraordinarily oppressive ways, and it can also be democratizing.
01:12:50.000 It's like all technology.
01:12:52.000 It's neutral.
01:12:53.000 It can be used for good or bad, like fire, like the printing press, like the computer, like the iPhones in our pocket, right?
01:13:01.000 And so while I think we should be concerned, and while I think this technology, AI, as we were talking about before, has the potential to be the big one, so to speak, I think that, you know, If the past is prelude, it can be used in both ways.
01:13:18.000 And so am I worried that you can go right now and create a conversation between the two of us as someone did between Joe Rogan and Sam Altman and created an episode of the Joe Rogan experience that looked kind of like them and sounded kind of like them?
01:13:33.000 Yeah, that really worries me when I think about actual disinformation, not what people want to believe is disinformation.
01:13:39.000 Very concerning to me.
01:13:41.000 But there's also incredible things that are going to come from it.
01:13:43.000 So this is something that I'm watching more as a journalist, wanting to track it, wanting to understand it, wanting to understand who the players are, what their motivations are.
01:13:54.000 Did the people that signed that letter, including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak and others, calling for a six-month pause in the advent of increased technology, of increased AI capabilities beyond chat GPT.
01:14:07.000 Did they sign that letter because they're pure of heart?
01:14:10.000 Did they sign that letter because they want to catch up to the competition?
01:14:14.000 What are the motivations?
01:14:15.000 What are driving people?
01:14:16.000 And by the way, what's driving other countries?
01:14:19.000 What's driving China?
01:14:20.000 Where are they in terms of AI capabilities?
01:14:23.000 These are the kind of questions that I think are going to be driving the next years of our life, the next years of stories.
01:14:29.000 And it's one that I'm following incredibly, incredibly closely as a journalist above anything else.
01:14:33.000 Barry, I'm so grateful to you for asking these questions.
01:14:36.000 I mean, I admire incredibly what you've done and the organisation that you're evidently building, not to mention your ability, along with your wife, to expertly manage this child through the night in ways that seem to me to be unprecedented.
01:14:50.000 And I think what's interesting also about what you're saying is that you are Journaling what's happening but increasingly I think it's likely that to become a legitimate journalist is to become a de facto activist and perhaps this is something that began with the Greenwald and Assange and certainly it seems likely due to the ongoing increase of censorship to be a necessity that if you're going to tell the truth you are an enemy of the powerful.
01:15:20.000 So, I'm glad that we at least have an allegiance.
01:15:24.000 Of course, I'll give you the chance to respond.
01:15:26.000 Yeah, I think... Look, I'm old school.
01:15:29.000 I think the job of a journalist... There are different roles in the world, right?
01:15:33.000 There's the job of the advocate.
01:15:34.000 There's the job of the columnist.
01:15:36.000 There's the job of the... There's room for activists.
01:15:39.000 There's room for all of these things.
01:15:41.000 I think journalism... I think the way to do journalism that maintains integrity and maintains the trust of people has to hew to sort of old school rules that frankly a lot of the legacy press has turned their back on, right?
01:15:58.000 The thing that used to happen at the New York Times was very clear.
01:16:02.000 You know, if a certain op-ed, and I was an op-ed editor there for years and then also wrote my own columns, if an op-ed sort of hewed to the ideological narrative, if an op-ed argued that Donald Trump was a moral monster that had to be taken down, If an op-ed claimed that, you know, Joe Biden was the savior of the world, we could go on and on and on.
01:16:20.000 You know what the arguments are.
01:16:21.000 It would sort of sail into the paper.
01:16:23.000 And arguments that contradicted that, arguments that complicated it, those were ones that sort of were subjected to a much, much, much more rigorous test.
01:16:33.000 In other words, and I think that that was to the detriment of the audience and to the reader.
01:16:38.000 And I think that, you know, when you think about the old Manifesto of the New York Times, the idea of all the news that's fit to print and the way that it sort of has transformed, and many other papers as well, to all the news that fits the narrative.
01:16:53.000 I just think that there is a huge, wide-open space for people that are actually interested in treating readers like adults, that are actually interested in treating listeners as sophisticated people that can make their own decisions, not just shoving propaganda down their throat.
01:17:08.000 And so that's what we're about at The Free Press.
01:17:11.000 We're about telling honest stories.
01:17:12.000 We're about You know, telling the truth about the world as it actually is, not as we wish it to be.
01:17:17.000 And we put a special emphasis on stories that are either ignored or misconstrued by the mainstream press.
01:17:23.000 And God knows there are a lot of those these days.
01:17:25.000 Barry, thank you so much.
01:17:27.000 That sounds like a fantastic endeavour and I'm grateful to you for undertaking it.
01:17:31.000 You can learn more from Barry Weiss by reading the Free Press, listening to her podcast, Honestly, reading her book, How to Fight Antisemitism.
01:17:41.000 Incredibly creative person!
01:17:44.000 She doesn't stop!
01:17:45.000 This is the only liquid that Barry will consume throughout the live-long day.
01:17:49.000 Barry, thanks for joining us and thanks for your fantastic contribution.
01:17:53.000 Thanks for having me, Russell.
01:17:56.000 Next week on Rumble, our special guest will include presidential candidate RFK Jr.
01:18:03.000 We thought long and hard about the potential blowback and trouble that may ensue from this booking but we gotta give RFK the...
01:18:13.000 20% now.
01:18:14.000 Legit candidate.
01:18:15.000 Joe Biden may not want to debate him.
01:18:17.000 People may not want to admit that his book about Charles Anthony Fauci was an incredible success.
01:18:22.000 But we want to hear from RFK.
01:18:25.000 You want to hear from RFK.
01:18:26.000 He's coming next week.
01:18:28.000 We've got international security expert Max Abrams coming on.
01:18:31.000 We've got a whole A variety of it.
01:18:34.000 Look at him just looking off wistfully.
01:18:35.000 Oh, national security.
01:18:36.000 It's a bloody nightmare, he seems to be saying, almost to himself as much as anything else.
01:18:41.000 All right, guys.
01:18:42.000 Thank you so much for joining us for another fantastic week of freedom.
01:18:47.000 Wow.
01:18:47.000 Look at what we've created on Rumble.
01:18:49.000 Isn't it extraordinary?
01:18:50.000 It's wonderful.
01:18:51.000 What began from a simple dream by a narcissist.
01:18:56.000 We're not even saying who that is.
01:18:57.000 It could be me.
01:18:57.000 No, it's me.
01:18:58.000 It could be you.
01:18:58.000 That is me, yeah.
01:18:59.000 You are that sweet narcissist.
01:19:01.000 I'm really enjoying that shirt.
01:19:03.000 Oh, thank you.
01:19:04.000 You look absolutely fantastic.
01:19:06.000 Bring him up the credits a little bit.
01:19:08.000 Have you noticed how low down the credits Gareth is?
01:19:10.000 He's about 9th or 10th.
01:19:12.000 GPT bots are higher up the credits than him.
01:19:14.000 Mind you, they deserve it, don't they?
01:19:16.000 Join us next week on Rumble.
01:19:18.000 Not for more of the same, but for more of the different.