Stay Free - Russel Brand - FBI Secrets EXPOSED | Whistleblower EXCLUSIVE Interview - #140 - Stay Free With Russell Brand

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00:00:43.000 Hello you awakening wonders.

00:00:45.000 Thanks for joining us on this voyage to truth and freedom.

00:00:48.000 We're not going to... Not trees.

00:00:50.000 Could be.

00:00:51.000 On the way.

00:00:51.000 There's one out there.

00:00:53.000 We had Zelensky out there once.

00:00:54.000 I miss that guy.

00:00:55.000 Yeah.

00:00:56.000 You don't hear about him anymore.

00:00:56.000 Where's he gone?

00:00:58.000 Surprise appearances.

00:00:59.000 He's doing Surprise appearance from Zelensky.

00:01:01.000 Hey, we've got a great week this week.

00:01:03.000 We've got Richard Dawkins coming on the show later in the week.

00:01:06.000 I've already done it.

00:01:07.000 Members of our locals community, if you want to join that, you can press the red button.

00:01:11.000 They've already seen it.

00:01:12.000 I was just with Richard Dawkins just now, and the good news is I've convinced him there definitely is a Jesus.

00:01:17.000 Oh, well done!

00:01:19.000 Well done, because he was pretty convinced there wasn't.

00:01:21.000 No, he said that was wrong.

00:01:22.000 He's quite firm about that.

00:01:24.000 Not now.

00:01:24.000 He says that was all a mistake.

00:01:26.000 I've seen the light, he says.

00:01:27.000 He regrets it, does he?

00:01:28.000 He wandered out of here.

00:01:29.000 He asked if he could borrow one of my dressing gowns.

00:01:31.000 I said, get your own, mate.

00:01:33.000 Yeah.

00:01:33.000 Get your own!

00:01:34.000 Materialism, I said.

00:01:36.000 This material don't come for free, baby.

00:01:38.000 That's mine.

00:01:39.000 Thanks.

00:01:40.000 A Georgia girl goes, what a fab jacket. 1.00

00:01:41.000 Someone in here was talking about their dream.

00:01:43.000 Oh, oh.

00:01:43.000 Oh, it's not a jacket.

00:01:45.000 No, no, no.

00:01:46.000 You may think that because he's wearing it outside of the bedroom.

00:01:49.000 But no, it's a dressing gown.

00:01:51.000 It's a gown.

00:01:52.000 That's what I'm wearing.

00:01:53.000 I like it.

00:01:54.000 Oh, there he goes, Dan.

00:01:55.000 Go on, Dan.

00:01:56.000 Can you hear me?

00:01:56.000 You can show it, mate.

00:01:57.000 Yeah, there I am.

00:01:58.000 There's me.

00:01:59.000 There's my jacket.

00:02:00.000 You've got everything you need.

00:02:00.000 There's my dog.

00:02:01.000 That's the way I live.

00:02:02.000 Hey, guess who we've got coming on the show?

00:02:04.000 Today?

00:02:05.000 Yeah.

00:02:06.000 FBI whistleblowers.

00:02:07.000 Well done.

00:02:08.000 That is it.

00:02:09.000 It's Steve Friend and Gareth O'Boyle.

00:02:11.000 Gareth, on-screen assistant there, has just revealed FBI whistleblowers.

00:02:15.000 They've had enough of the FBI.

00:02:18.000 That'll do.

00:02:20.000 You've never been able to pull that off.

00:02:22.000 That was all right, wasn't it?

00:02:22.000 I can do this.

00:02:24.000 Why don't you just do that with the pretend whistle next to your mouth?

00:02:28.000 Much better.

00:02:30.000 That's enough of that, FBI!

00:02:32.000 Garrett O'Boyle, he'll be here, and Steve Friend.

00:02:35.000 They're sick of the FBI, they've been working there, they've had enough of it.

00:02:38.000 They're gonna be telling us all about it.

00:02:39.000 We've got a brilliant presentation on Rachel Maddow doing that military-industrial-complex conference funded by Lockheed Martin, and we asked some questions about the mainstream media and their relationship with the military-industrial-complex, and whether or not it means that wars get reported on favorably, peculiarly, Especially by the left, who used to be all double Desna Avawar, as I recall.

00:03:02.000 Let me know in the chat, in the comments, if you think that the way that the media is funded, particularly through companies like Raytheon, Lockheed, Martin, and of course General Electric, who own MSNBC?

00:03:12.000 Comcast and MSNBC, yeah.

00:03:14.000 They actually sell weapons on the side.

00:03:17.000 It's a side hustle for them.

00:03:18.000 They're the 40th biggest in the world, actually.

00:03:21.000 We've got loads of things to tell you.

00:03:23.000 We'll be only on Rumble when we do the... Sorry, my dog was panting.

00:03:26.000 It was really off-point to hear like a... It's not a noise you want in your ear when you're trying to talk about free speech.

00:03:33.000 You don't get that from me.

00:03:35.000 Sometimes.

00:03:36.000 Sometimes I do.

00:03:37.000 Uh, we're, like, we're gonna be talking about, like, yeah, we're gonna talk to them FBI whistleblowers, and we're gonna be analyzing the news and stuff, right?

00:03:44.000 Let's start with that.

00:03:45.000 This is an ABC News report about a near-miss for these warships, and it's really good how they report this, because they're like, uh, this Chinese warship got in the way of an American warship!

00:03:57.000 Where did this all take place?

00:04:00.000 They all took place like really near China, didn't they?

00:04:00.000 China?

00:04:04.000 Yeah, the Taiwan Strait.

00:04:05.000 That's between China and Taiwan. 0.65

00:04:06.000 That's right.

00:04:07.000 It's next, or you could say, next to China. 0.79

00:04:09.000 Like that thing, those windows, that drone collision.

00:04:12.000 They shot down a drone in the air.

00:04:15.000 Where was that air?

00:04:16.000 Above the Black Sea.

00:04:17.000 And what does the Black Sea touch?

00:04:18.000 Russia.

00:04:19.000 Right, so you're sending drones up above Russia.

00:04:22.000 Yeah, we've been trying to annoy them.

00:04:24.000 And all this is, of course, because of the changing economic tides that China is set to become the most economically powerful nation in the world in the next... Yeah, by 2035.

00:04:33.000 2035, or as we say in England, 25 to 9.

00:04:34.000 2035 or as we say in England 25 to 9. So first of all, sorry, so

00:04:39.000 Well, I'm gonna do stuff like that sometimes I mean, come to work in a dressing gown, what do you expect?

00:04:45.000 Let's have a look at this warship thing. 1.00

00:04:47.000 Firstly, from a perspective that makes it look really bad, and then from another perspective that makes it not look that bad at all.

00:04:52.000 Let's have a look first at the bad one.

00:04:54.000 Tonight, tensions flaring after that Chinese warship nearly collided with a US military destroyer.

00:05:01.000 Did you say, like, that Chinese warship?

00:05:03.000 That Chinese warship! 0.87

00:05:05.000 Look at it over there!

00:05:06.000 Just see it? 0.99

00:05:07.000 It stinks! 1.00

00:05:08.000 Oh God, it's not washed its ass! 0.99

00:05:10.000 If you're watching us on YouTube, we'll be exclusively on Rumble in a minute, talking to a couple of whistleblowers, Garrett O'Boyle and Stevie Friend. 0.99

00:05:19.000 We'll be talking to them about, they're going to talk about January the 6th.

00:05:22.000 They're going to reveal stuff that you're going to love, so you're going to want to join us over on Rumble for that.

00:05:26.000 I suppose you'd freak out if you were on it.

00:05:28.000 Right.

00:05:28.000 Like, oh my god!

00:05:29.000 This is not good, a collision.

00:05:31.000 Well, that makes it look like, literally, they were about to crash.

00:05:35.000 Like, it would be mental.

00:05:36.000 out if you were on it. Right. Oh my god. This is not good, a collision. Well that

00:05:41.000 makes it look like literally they were about to crash. It'll be mental. Yeah.

00:05:45.000 Also, do you know that people always use that analogy don't they?

00:05:49.000 That, you know, if you set off on a thousand mile journey on a battleship and you're just one degree off, by the time you reach your destination, you'll be thousands of miles off or whatever.

00:05:59.000 That's good.

00:05:59.000 Was that verbatim?

00:06:00.000 That's exactly what it says, actually from the Bible.

00:06:03.000 Within 150 yards of the U.S.

00:06:06.000 destroyer, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issuing a stark rebuke to... He used to work military industrial complex, didn't he?

00:06:13.000 That's right.

00:06:14.000 He was that?

00:06:15.000 China's government.

00:06:17.000 Do the right things to rein in that kind of conduct because I think accidents can happen that could cause things to spiral out of control.

00:06:26.000 It certainly is.

00:06:30.000 Joe Biden, we're talking about this a bit later as well, Joe Biden banging on about semiconductors, making their own bombing factories, all sorts of sort of ludicrous semi threats.

00:06:39.000 Why are you saying that like that?

00:06:40.000 No, no, I mean, we'll see in a minute.

00:06:41.000 Seth Moulton, the Democrat congressman who makes the threat about bombing a factory in What, he says it outright?

00:06:47.000 Yeah, I mean, we'll see.

00:06:48.000 People are saying crazy stuff, man.

00:06:50.000 People are well up for war, you know.

00:06:51.000 They're well up for it.

00:06:52.000 It's necessary for the economy.

00:06:53.000 It doesn't matter if people die and if it seems like an odd way to solve a dispute.

00:06:57.000 People have got a real appetite for it.

00:06:59.000 At a security summit in Singapore, China's defense minister defended its warship.

00:07:03.000 What are you doing?

00:07:04.000 Telling the United States to quote, mind your own...

00:07:06.000 Mind your own business.

00:07:08.000 ...business.

00:07:10.000 That's such a colloquial way.

00:07:12.000 Because he looked like he was saying something like that.

00:07:18.000 The action went with it.

00:07:19.000 Mind your own business!

00:07:22.000 He said, yeah!

00:07:24.000 Get out of it!

00:07:26.000 Like, it's really like, this is international diplomacy.

00:07:28.000 Mental.

00:07:29.000 A provocation.

00:07:30.000 The near collision, the latest episode straining an already tense US-China relationship.

00:07:37.000 Just like- We're showing you this because it's the amplification of

00:07:39.000 tensions between China and the US and you simply wouldn't be seeing things like this on the news

00:07:44.000 unless there was an appetite for there to be some kind of conflict.

00:07:47.000 If they didn't want a conflict, they wouldn't put this on the news.

00:07:49.000 So it's another example of how the media supports favorable narratives that support outcomes

00:07:56.000 that the military-industrial complex will benefit from.

00:07:58.000 And the mainstream media still somehow presents itself as the sort of arbiters of peace and morality.

00:08:04.000 And a figure like Rachel Maddow, who I've told you before I like, like she's on MSNBC, sort of like, in 2011 she said like that Congress are in the pockets of the military-industrial complex.

00:08:15.000 Well, now she seems to have joined them in that pocket because she appeared at an event for Lockheed Martin.

00:08:20.000 We're looking at that in more depth, Bob.

00:08:21.000 Gal, I wanted to see, let's have a look guys at Caitlyn Johnson's tweet about that and then we'll look at the alternative angle.

00:08:28.000 She goes, that sounds incredibly aggressive of China.

00:08:30.000 Where was this?

00:08:31.000 I'm assuming it must be immediately off the coast of California or Hawaii because of the way this tweet was written.

00:08:35.000 Chinese warship came within 150 yards of hitting American destroyer USS Chung Hun.

00:08:41.000 They've even used a bit of a Chinese sounding name of their warship.

00:08:46.000 You're really trying to wind them up, aren't they?

00:08:47.000 Yeah.

00:08:48.000 Look at where it happens.

00:08:49.000 There's China. 0.51

00:08:50.000 Oh, they're out of order.

00:08:52.000 Have a look at the alternative angle as well, the footage.

00:08:54.000 It's not as bad.

00:08:55.000 Although, if you was on the battleship, I still think you'd be well brick in it.

00:08:57.000 Have a look.

00:08:59.000 They have a bit of footage.

00:09:00.000 Go on, show us here.

00:09:01.000 That's...

00:09:02.000 From that angle, it's quite nice.

00:09:10.000 It's like Howard Swayze.

00:09:11.000 It's like a yacht cruise.

00:09:13.000 What are you doing?

00:09:15.000 No, just sunbathing.

00:09:16.000 Nice to see you.

00:09:18.000 See you later.

00:09:19.000 Do you mind if we have Taiwan make all our semiconductors?

00:09:22.000 Why?

00:09:23.000 Mind your own business.

00:09:23.000 You're out of order.

00:09:24.000 I'll do you, mate.

00:09:25.000 They're talking like that.

00:09:26.000 They're talking like Cockneys over there in their diplomacy. 1.00

00:09:29.000 Should we see Seth Moulton?

00:09:29.000 Yeah.

00:09:31.000 What is he, a Democrat?

00:09:32.000 Congressman.

00:09:33.000 Have a look at him.

00:09:34.000 He's saying he's going to blow up the factories or something.

00:09:36.000 Can he for semiconductors?

00:09:37.000 Check it out.

00:09:38.000 One of the interesting ideas that's floated out there for deterrence is just making it very clear to the Chinese that if you invade Taiwan, we're going to blow up TSMC. 0.83

00:09:48.000 If you do that, you have a $2 trillion economic impact on the global economy.

00:09:54.000 This is a terrible idea.

00:09:56.000 I'm not promoting the idea.

00:09:58.000 If China takes over TSMC, we could very well face the same level of economic consequences, not globally, but for the United States.

00:10:07.000 He's just said it out loud.

00:10:08.000 He's literally said it out loud.

00:10:09.000 You don't mean to say that, mate.

00:10:10.000 No.

00:10:11.000 It's like, it will have... I'm not talking globally.

00:10:13.000 If it went... If China got it, yeah, globally.

00:10:15.000 But, you know, if we destroy it, then it would hit, you know, the US.

00:10:19.000 He's basically said it out loud.

00:10:20.000 It's incredible.

00:10:21.000 Also, notice that the way that it's discussed is entirely in economic terms.

00:10:25.000 Yeah.

00:10:25.000 Like, there's no...

00:10:26.000 It's a reflection on the human cost, morality, ethics, common decency.

00:10:31.000 She even said, the other politician I'm assuming, that there'll be a two trillion dollar impact.

00:10:37.000 Yeah, that two trillion dollar impact will be people's lives, missiles, armaments.

00:10:42.000 Absolutely that.

00:10:43.000 And then when the US are accusing China of aggressiveness, you would suggest this sounds a bit more aggressive.

00:10:49.000 Oh man, imagine that was a Chinese politician going, well, they start on us, we'll just blow up their battleships. 1.00

00:10:54.000 You'd be like, that'll be a serious international incident.

00:10:57.000 I think they're provoking China and I think that there's some evidence that suggests, well, I mean, they provoked Russia. 0.96

00:11:04.000 Allegedly.

00:11:05.000 He's done it.

00:11:06.000 NATO.

00:11:07.000 That's an allegation.

00:11:09.000 Allegedly.

00:11:10.000 Shall we see, what's this?

00:11:12.000 RFK Junior thanks Elon Musk.

00:11:14.000 Did they do that Twitter thing last night?

00:11:16.000 Did it go well?

00:11:16.000 Apparently so.

00:11:17.000 I think there were fewer hitches than with the Santas, to put it that way. 1.00

00:11:21.000 I reckon our interview with him was better though.

00:11:23.000 Of course it was.

00:11:24.000 We did a really good one.

00:11:25.000 Thorough.

00:11:25.000 It's up now.

00:11:26.000 It's very thorough.

00:11:27.000 We've covered everything, basically.

00:11:29.000 Also, Elon will be on here.

00:11:31.000 Where's my bloody phone?

00:11:32.000 Elon will be on here any minute. 0.92

00:11:34.000 We'd better organise it.

00:11:34.000 Is it in your dressing gown pocket?

00:11:36.000 I don't know where I've left it.

00:11:37.000 I don't know where I've left it.

00:11:38.000 Bear thinks I'm going to produce a dog bisque and get it out of my pocket.

00:11:40.000 What kind of lives do you think I'm living?

00:11:42.000 Jack Dorsey has endorsed RFK, or it's his endorsement.

00:11:46.000 I'm sorry that I said that, but it's been done now.

00:11:49.000 Um I think that what's going to be great with like Cornel West announcing his candidacy here on this very show for the People's Party with RFK running that the conversation is going to be extraordinary because somehow RFK when he came on here oh the military were behind the whole vaccine he said some extraordinary stuff you've got to see that interview it's going to change the conversation It's like, obviously my assumption would be that the Democratic Party aren't going to allow RFK's candidacy to flourish, let alone be successful.

00:12:22.000 They'll be trying to shut that down, close that down at every opportunity.

00:12:25.000 Biden's refused to debate him or Marianne Williamson.

00:12:28.000 The mainstream media won't platform any of these people.

00:12:30.000 They'll come up with excuses.

00:12:32.000 Oh, they must be racist or conspiracy theorists or anti-vaxxers or something.

00:12:35.000 They'll find some way of legitimizing their censorship.

00:12:38.000 That's always what they do.

00:12:39.000 But the conversation is going to be out there because of outlets like this one and endorsements like Jack Dorsey's.

00:12:45.000 Yeah and bringing it back to war and China and Ukraine and things it's

00:12:48.000 interesting how many of the candidates across the board now are unified in the idea of

00:12:55.000 ending wars and and in terms of Cornel West who was on yesterday disbanding

00:13:00.000 NATO now these are ideas that are across now a kind of cross party other than

00:13:05.000 the current president of the United States.

00:13:07.000 you look at RFK, Marianne Williamson, Trump, DeSantis, Cornel West, they're all saying

00:13:12.000 end the wars, bring the troops back, disband NATO. Significant figures and

00:13:17.000 ideas that don't seem so radical when you see Seth Moulton and that other

00:13:20.000 person there just casually espousing a massive geopolitical crisis solely in

00:13:26.000 economic terms, when for most of us we still feel that that would primarily be

00:13:30.000 a humanitarian disaster and a disaster for the planet. What was that you flashed

00:13:35.000 up guys what should we do something else that's got nothing on it

00:13:38.000 No, that's just a blank page.

00:13:39.000 That's just a blank page.

00:13:40.000 That's pure surrender.

00:13:41.000 Are we still on YouTube?

00:13:42.000 We're off YouTube.

00:13:43.000 Rachel Maddow, Goat of Preach, Whistleblowers. 0.96

00:13:47.000 In a minute, right, I think we've got the FBI on the line, the whistleblowers, but before that, we respect, while the world may not respect your free speech, While the WHO may still be offering up the guidelines that are followed on YouTube, they've renewed their deal with Google, we respect your free speech.

00:14:05.000 And where freedom and speech meet, you get freech.

00:14:10.000 Freech.

00:14:11.000 Where freedom and speech meet, you get free speech.

00:14:13.000 Where free speech meets, you get freech.

00:14:16.000 That's not bad.

00:14:17.000 All right, well done.

00:14:17.000 I mean, it's good.

00:14:19.000 Let's have a look at some of your inquiries and questions and stuff like that.

00:14:22.000 We had Cornel West announce his presidential candidacy here on our show yesterday.

00:14:27.000 Loads of you were bang into it.

00:14:28.000 Others of you thought, oh no, he's talking too much about egalitarianism and wealth redistribution, I think, without giving due attention to the fact that we already have massive wealth redistribution, like the five trillion wealth transfer that took place during the pandemic, creating a billionaire a day.

00:14:43.000 But we have it in what I would regard as the wrong direction.

00:14:46.000 Rabfan, Yeah.

00:14:50.000 Russell, do you have any musical talents?

00:14:54.000 I don't, actually.

00:14:55.000 And also, Cornel West might allow you to play.

00:14:59.000 I mean, he certainly cared, I'd say, as much about jazz as he does politics.

00:15:03.000 He mentioned jazz a lot, didn't he?

00:15:04.000 And he called me brother.

00:15:06.000 Garth.

00:15:07.000 But then he tried to put a syllable in.

00:15:09.000 He did, yeah.

00:15:10.000 But they don't have Gareth's out there.

00:15:12.000 They have Garth's.

00:15:12.000 No, they don't.

00:15:13.000 And they have Garrett's, who will be on soon.

00:15:15.000 They've got Garth Brooks, they've got him, and they've got Garrett coming on in a minute.

00:15:19.000 So I hope there won't be an awkward exchange between you and the FBI whistleblowers. 0.97

00:15:23.000 I hope you won't embarrass us by asking one of your questions that always has that ridiculous, ridiculous sting. 0.98

00:15:30.000 Well, you do that, don't you? 0.99

00:15:31.000 Yes.

00:15:32.000 This person says, Achela says, I'm falling into a spiritual trance.

00:15:35.000 Beautiful words, musical purity of intended words.

00:15:39.000 She's a friend of the show.

00:15:39.000 That's from Achela.

00:15:40.000 If you want to join us for a chat, get into Locals.

00:15:43.000 If you're watching this on Rumble right now, press that red button on your screen.

00:15:45.000 Just join us in Locals.

00:15:46.000 It's brilliant.

00:15:47.000 You get loads of stuff in there.

00:15:48.000 I do a meditation every week with people.

00:15:49.000 It's brilliant.

00:15:50.000 And you would have already watched me with Dickie Dawkins if you'd have done that.

00:15:53.000 I feel wrong calling him Dickie Dawkins now I've met him.

00:15:55.000 Yeah.

00:15:56.000 I also, mate, there was some mad bits.

00:15:58.000 There's one bit where I goes, have you had been looked at for neurodiversity?

00:16:02.000 No.

00:16:02.000 I go, you should.

00:16:04.000 But I said it in a nice way, didn't I?

00:16:05.000 Lovingly.

00:16:07.000 But like, did I not in a nice way?

00:16:08.000 I was trying to be nice.

00:16:10.000 Suki Koala.

00:16:11.000 I can't believe how many truth speakers have announced their run for presidency.

00:16:14.000 It's good, isn't it?

00:16:15.000 At this rate, you, Russell, will be made King of England.

00:16:17.000 It doesn't say that.

00:16:18.000 Susie1119.

00:16:20.000 I don't remember any other presidential announcements making me cry.

00:16:23.000 Hillary Clinton?

00:16:25.000 Trump?

00:16:26.000 Depends what you're into.

00:16:26.000 I don't know.

00:16:29.000 I would pay to see a debate between Biden and West. Yeah, that'd be brilliant, but Joe Biden...

00:16:34.000 I think we know who'd win that.

00:16:35.000 Yeah, oh come on brother Joel, man!

00:16:37.000 You struggle to get a word in.

00:16:39.000 Yeah, I'd sat there quietly, didn't I? You want to see it?

00:16:41.000 I've clammed right up with Cornel West.

00:16:44.000 And Joe Biden, we're doing another presentation on him later this week when he's announcing the

00:16:48.000 removal of the debt ceiling and announcing that there's going to be no more expenditure on vital

00:16:52.000 American amenities, all the while the Republicans and Democrats are coming together to unilaterally

00:16:56.000 agree that there'll be no limitation on spending on the Ukrainian conflict, money that will,

00:17:03.000 as you know, end up in the hands primarily of the military-industrial complex.

00:17:06.000 Well, when he was making that announcement, He looked sort of like he'd been on the mortician's slab when he threw up.

00:17:12.000 Like he's now reached the point where he sort of can barely say stuff.

00:17:15.000 I know, they've started to leave the mistakes in now.

00:17:17.000 They're leaving the mistakes in, it's too hard to come.

00:17:18.000 I think they're almost uneditable now.

00:17:20.000 Uneditable errors, and we'd be quite nice about him when he fell down like that.

00:17:24.000 But, like, he's mumbling too much.

00:17:24.000 Weren't we?

00:17:26.000 You can't have it.

00:17:27.000 Like, you want Cornel West in charge, or you want RFK, or Marianne Williamson, or even you lot like Trump, don't you?

00:17:33.000 I mean, at least have someone, if it's going to be a corrupt system, put an entertainer in charge. 0.89

00:17:38.000 That's what I will say.

00:17:39.000 A lot of people talking about Gareth.

00:17:41.000 Oh, how was your game of tennis?

00:17:42.000 I mean, are we going to get into that?

00:17:43.000 No, I don't think so, do we?

00:17:45.000 Was it any good?

00:17:46.000 What did you wear?

00:17:47.000 Well, it was fine.

00:17:48.000 Normal clothes?

00:17:49.000 Yeah, we'll carry on.

00:17:50.000 Did you wear a little tight little pair of shorts?

00:17:53.000 What did you wear, little trunks?

00:17:54.000 I did, I wore little trunks.

00:17:55.000 I've done my exercise in my pants today, didn't I, Dan?

00:17:58.000 You know we're about to speak to the FBI.

00:18:01.000 There'll be whistleblower about this. 0.98

00:18:03.000 Hey, this is ridiculous. 0.97

00:18:04.000 This is a waste of time. 0.96

00:18:05.000 We want to talk about Jan 6th.

00:18:07.000 Listen, we're going to go and talk to those whistleblowers.

00:18:09.000 Gareth, what's your problem with Bear?

00:18:10.000 Were you bitten by a dog as a child?

00:18:12.000 That's from Fire Girl 2020, friend of the show.

00:18:14.000 No.

00:18:15.000 Mind your own business.

00:18:16.000 Hey, mind your own business!

00:18:18.000 Like they say over in China.

00:18:21.000 All right, listen, why don't we talk to these FBI whistleblowers?

00:18:23.000 If you're watching this on YouTube now, we can't broadcast these FBI whistleblowers, these brave men who are willing to testify against the FBI, who many people feel should be disbanded, because they're going to say stuff about January the 6th that would get us struck off.

00:18:39.000 Banned.

00:18:40.000 Deplatformed.

00:18:41.000 Demonetized.

00:18:42.000 We want the truth.

00:18:44.000 You want the truth.

00:18:46.000 You've been suspecting for a little while now, haven't you, that January the 6th has been reported on inaccurately and utilized to introduce anti-protest laws, legitimize surveillance, spend additional revenue on the Capitol Police Force.

00:18:57.000 See, I can do it, gal.

00:18:58.000 No, no.

00:18:59.000 I can do it.

00:18:59.000 Good stuff.

00:19:00.000 So if you want to hear more about that from an actual Whistleblower, join us now on Rumble.

00:19:05.000 There's a link in the description.

00:19:06.000 It's going to be fantastic.

00:19:07.000 I'll see you over there.

00:19:08.000 I love you.

00:19:09.000 Come on, let's get over there. 1.00

00:19:11.000 Right.

00:19:12.000 Joining me now are a couple of actual whistleblowers that you've seen on the news.

00:19:17.000 Steve Friend and Garrett O'Boyle.

00:19:18.000 Before we introduce them, let's have a look at the clips as we feel more excited about it.

00:19:22.000 I mean, I'm already excited, but I'm saying for you, the viewers, we make this for you.

00:19:25.000 I'm not just here in my dressing gown for myself, you know.

00:19:27.000 Let's see them.

00:19:28.000 Working as an FBI special agent was my dream job.

00:19:31.000 My whistleblowing was apolitical and in the spirit of upholding my oath.

00:19:35.000 Nonetheless, the FBI cynically elected to close ranks and attack the messenger.

00:19:39.000 The FBI will crush you.

00:19:40.000 This government will crush you and your family if you try to expose the truth about things that they are doing that are wrong.

00:19:48.000 And we are all examples of that.

00:19:51.000 Joining us now are Steve Friend and Garrett O'Boyle.

00:19:55.000 Thanks for joining us, fellas.

00:19:57.000 Yeah, thanks for having us.

00:19:58.000 Thank you very much.

00:19:59.000 So we've got both of you on, so we're going to have to deal with the double Zoom phenomena. 0.99

00:19:59.000 All right, I see. 0.99

00:20:03.000 First of all, Garrett, let's talk about the January 6th revelations.

00:20:08.000 What in particular do you feel has caused you to get so much blowback?

00:20:12.000 What is it that you have said that's caused so much consternation?

00:20:16.000 What in particular did you observe about January the 6th and the FBI handling of it and FBI instigation and involvement in those protests?

00:20:25.000 So my January 6th example that I whistleblew about was I received a lead from the Washington field office And it was based on an anonymous tip.

00:20:40.000 So in the U.S., in law enforcement, anonymous tips don't hold a whole lot of weight, especially when there's limited information.

00:20:47.000 You can't recontact the person who made the claim, things of that nature.

00:20:51.000 And there's Supreme Court case law that helps dictate that.

00:20:54.000 And so in mine, it was very limited info.

00:20:58.000 And so I thought, OK, I'll do my best, my due diligence to run this down.

00:21:03.000 And as I'm working on that for a day or two, I get some additional information from the same special agent in Washington who sent me the original lead and they were asking me to request a federal grand jury subpoena on the person that the original lead was on as well as a separate website where they made an illogical leap linking a username that we had no information about and with the person that I was supposed to be investigating.

00:21:36.000 As I'm trying to figure all that out I then get a facial recognition match and by this point I had already had the most current driver's license photo of my subject and the quote-unquote facial recognition match was someone who was about 150 pounds lighter and had a full head of hair whereas the person I was investigating was bald.

00:21:58.000 So I was really confused at this point and As I dug deeper, it turned out that someone in my field office had submitted a driver's license photo that was approximately 25 years old to the people in the lab who do the facial recognition stuff.

00:22:16.000 And so at that point, I was like, okay, this is really out of bounds.

00:22:19.000 There's no due process.

00:22:22.000 being had here for the person that they want me to investigate and eventually I was able to make contact with that person and they told me they didn't want to talk to me without a lawyer and they told me that they weren't breaking any law no matter where they were on January 6th so at that point it was clear to me that there was No further information to to keep going with this investigation and then I contacted the person who made that facial recognition submission and they were adamant that regardless of the of the age of the driver's license photo that I had a match and

00:22:59.000 I was just completely flabbergasted at that point because it's completely outside any constitutional norms that I had ever dealt with inside law enforcement, which I had been working in it for eight years total.

00:23:10.000 So that's my January 6th example.

00:23:13.000 And I know I'm not the only one, but because Marcus Allen and Steve, they also had January 6th issues, which they whistle blew about.

00:23:23.000 You guys, the next question is for you, Steve, because this is a fair and just system, unlike the FBI, it seems.

00:23:31.000 And Garrett, you can stop touching your nose because you are still on the television and we are still watching you.

00:23:37.000 Now, have you become friends?

00:23:38.000 I notice that you've both got the American flag behind you.

00:23:42.000 Are you mates?

00:23:42.000 Do you love each other?

00:23:43.000 Are you going to carry on doing this stuff, whistleblowing against the FBI?

00:23:47.000 And what other nefarious activities are you aware of?

00:23:51.000 But do answer those first questions about the flag and being mates first.

00:23:54.000 And that's you, Steve.

00:23:55.000 Please, mate.

00:23:56.000 Yep, yep.

00:23:57.000 Garrett and I have been acquainted basically since we both became whistleblowers last September.

00:24:02.000 And it's a small network.

00:24:03.000 We call ourselves the Suspendables, which we kind of did on a lark just to think of future Employment opportunities, maybe we could be mercenaries somewhere and rip off Sylvester Stallone.

00:24:14.000 But apparently the New York Times found it very nefarious sounding and put it in the newspaper of record.

00:24:20.000 So we have taken that mantle and you can see Garrett wearing some Suspendables gear right now.

00:24:24.000 Ah, it's cool!

00:24:26.000 It's cool!

00:24:28.000 Yeah, I like it.

00:24:28.000 It's cool that you're having fun with it.

00:24:31.000 Absolutely.

00:24:32.000 I mean, you have to laugh or you'd cry.

00:24:35.000 It's been sort of an out-of-control bureau in the way that they've gone after Garrett and myself and many others who, you know, we came forward with the best of intentions.

00:24:45.000 We didn't want to be talking to you, Russell.

00:24:47.000 We just wanted to, you know, alert the people that were in a position of authority to make corrections and thought things were kind of out of whack.

00:24:55.000 We wanted to go back to just doing the Joe Friday, just the facts, let's put bad guys in jail.

00:25:00.000 But unfortunately, the FBI has just become out of control at this point.

00:25:05.000 I suppose your detractors will say that you have a particular political persuasion and that you are agitators on behalf of the same movement that they would say are behind January the 6th but actually some of your revelations indicate that there were a considerable number of FBI operatives in that crowd who were perhaps doing more than monitoring and observing Allegedly.

00:25:33.000 but in fact possibly instigating and exacerbating the conditions and there is some precedent for that

00:25:39.000 allegedly within the FBI. Numerous cases where their investigations have gone beyond investigation

00:25:47.000 and have become instigation. Furthermore as I heard you in your testimony say Steve,

00:25:53.000 that the surveillance has gone beyond the observance of certain criminal acts to an

00:26:00.000 ongoing cycle of surveillance that is unending and limitless.

00:26:07.000 So back to you now, Gareth, because it is your turn and I'm determined to do this fairly and justly even though it has to be said your flag is not as big as Steve's and that makes you seem a bit A bit unpatriotic, I'd have to say.

00:26:20.000 So, tell me, mate, have you got any more information on FBI instigation on January the 6th and elsewhere?

00:26:30.000 Regarding January the 6th, there was another whistleblower whose testimony was played at our hearing.

00:26:35.000 His name is George Hill, and he had some information regarding Washington Field Office not wanting to release a video to the Boston Field Office where he was working because they were concerned about revealing identities of FBI informants and or undercover employees.

00:26:52.000 So I think once that revelation came to light, it became clear to everyone who already wasn't paying attention that there was Most likely a heavy law enforcement presence involved with the events of that day, but it certainly is something that the FBI takes under consideration in many, many different types of cases.

00:27:12.000 So, in the FBI, a confidential informant is known as a confidential human source, or CHS, and it's FBI policy that FBI agents have at least one CHS on the books.

00:27:27.000 Many have more than one, and it's the purview of the agency to push agents to implement CHS use as often as they can.

00:27:36.000 So they will never release the amount of CHSs that the agency has as a whole, but it is a considerable number, and they try to put those CHSs and undercover employees into a wide range of different type of investigations.

00:27:51.000 There's a recent story about Biden and bribery, as well as a new report, or poll at least, that suggests that the majority of Americans want the FBI to be reformed or shut down.

00:28:05.000 Steve, given your recent experience, do you think reform is possible, or do you think that the entire organisation needs to be disbanded and started again?

00:28:14.000 I think it's a six-on-one, half-dozen-or-the-other situation.

00:28:17.000 I think the amount of reforms that are going to be necessary to make the FBI function properly in federal law enforcement are going to be so enormous that maybe starting all over again might just be the simpler task at this point.

00:28:29.000 But I think that the elected officials are very scared of being labeled as Defund the police candidate for office.

00:28:38.000 So there's all this reticence that surrounds that, but those guys just need to talk to the people that are boots on the ground, the Gerardo Boyles, the Steve Friends who actually worked in the FBI and can tell you that it's really all about empowering local law enforcement.

00:28:54.000 That should be what the FBI prioritizes above anything else.

00:28:59.000 This whole thought where you have a central hub in Washington, D.C., and they send out cases around the country to be worked is just farcical.

00:29:08.000 All the good cases that the FBI works Thank you.

00:29:10.000 Gareth, do you have a question for Steve or Gareth?

00:29:11.000 and the sheriff's offices, where we have our small offices around the country. And we just

00:29:16.000 really have to be there to support those guys because they don't have the finances and the

00:29:21.000 cool gadgets that the FBI has. And maybe thinking about it in that way might make it more palatable

00:29:27.000 to the reforms that are necessary.

00:29:29.000 Thank you. Gareth, do you have a question for Steve or Gareth?

00:29:34.000 I do.

00:29:35.000 Excuse me.

00:29:36.000 And remember, when you do your question, you're going to have to direct it to one, because

00:29:45.000 otherwise it would be chaos.

00:29:46.000 Oh, you think not to both?

00:29:47.000 Well, how are they going to know how to answer it?

00:29:49.000 What if they step all over each other?

00:29:51.000 Okay, I'll try to do that, Russell.

00:29:52.000 It's difficult for me.

00:29:53.000 I'll whistle blow on you so hard! 1.00

00:29:55.000 Sure, sure.

00:29:57.000 Gentlemen, I just wanted to talk briefly about the Congressional hearing and the Democrats and The way in which you've been treated by, I guess, both the FBI and the Democrats.

00:30:08.000 Obviously we know recently about the Durham report and the findings there, and also about the 278,000 illegal searches that were done by the FBI that's been reported on as well.

00:30:19.000 And a sentence written by Michael Schellenberger, and I just wondered your opinions on it.

00:30:23.000 He said, so why did the FBI and Democrats attack the FBI whistleblowers?

00:30:27.000 Perhaps because they are revealing at a minimum the FBI's failure to stop the riot, And more maximally, its role in instigating it.

00:30:35.000 And I wondered if it was going too far to suggest the FBI had a role in instigating Jan 6th, and what your thoughts were on that.

00:30:44.000 And who's that to?

00:30:45.000 Oh, that's initially to Steve.

00:30:47.000 Oh, gentlemen, gentlemen.

00:30:49.000 Steve, yeah.

00:30:49.000 Who's it?

00:30:51.000 Yeah, I think that the demand for domestic terrorism in this country by our elected officials and by leaders in the FBI vastly outstrips the supply of it.

00:30:59.000 And unfortunately, the FBI essentially has a quota system that bosses get bonuses for if they open a certain number of cases.

00:31:07.000 So domestic terrorism is popular and they want to open up a lot of cases.

00:31:11.000 So they've contrived ways to work smarter and not harder.

00:31:15.000 And as a result of that, the FBI has evolved into this intelligence-driven agency, and it deploys its informants, its confidential human sources, and its undercovers, and oftentimes infiltrates these groups that they label as possibly domestic terrorists or could become domestic terrorists.

00:31:33.000 And as a result of that, you have an incident that happens at January 6th, or even on a smaller scale, like the plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, where it was sort of revealed in the trial for those individuals that they were essentially entrapped, that they were not predisposed to commit that.

00:31:49.000 That offense, but because of the infiltration on behalf of the government, not that the government set up the group, but they infiltrated so heavily that they encouraged these guys to do things that they were not predisposed to do.

00:32:01.000 And I think that you saw that on its worst example on January 6, where there are a lot of organizations that were there just to support Donald Trump or to protest and redress their grievances in front of the Congress, which is their First Amendment protected activity.

00:32:13.000 But because there were infiltrators afoot, they encouraged them to do something that was illegal.

00:32:18.000 You are getting a lot of love here in the chat, as well as some inquiries.

00:32:22.000 Georgie Gal says, presumably AI will replace the FBI.

00:32:26.000 If you want to join us on Locals, just press the red button on your screen now and I can see your questions.

00:32:31.000 Jim Earth C137, they both seem like good men who are just trying to do the Some people are talking about the bribe of Biden and then true chimera.

00:32:38.000 Who likes Mexican food?

00:32:38.000 Not the Tex-Mex stuff.

00:32:40.000 the best truth will prevail. Oh, Zonaxation says, it looked staged. All those unmarked

00:32:48.000 grey buses that were bought in during that day contained what I believe were paid disruptors.

00:32:53.000 Some people are talking about the bribe of Biden. And then TrueChimera, who likes Mexican 0.98

00:32:59.000 food, not the Tex-Mex stuff, the real stuff. You've gone off topic, TrueChimera. 0.99

00:33:06.000 Guys, can I ask you this?

00:33:08.000 Some people say, you just don't like the Democrat Party or something.

00:33:12.000 Do you like the Democrat Party?

00:33:14.000 Are you impartial?

00:33:16.000 Are you MAGA folk?

00:33:17.000 Are you allowed them type of affiliations in the Trump Party?

00:33:21.000 Do you think that your testimony will be utilised in a partisan way?

00:33:26.000 And does that concern you?

00:33:27.000 What are your own political affiliations, if I may ask you?

00:33:30.000 And have they led you to do this whistleblowing and stuff?

00:33:35.000 I'll take that one first.

00:33:37.000 I would say I align more as a libertarian than anything else.

00:33:41.000 In 2016, I voted libertarian across the ballot.

00:33:47.000 But especially as an FBI employee, and furthermore, as an investigator, Your job is to be as unpartisan as possible or nonpartisan as possible.

00:33:58.000 And that's something any police academy, the FBI Academy, any constitutional law course you might take, they try to teach you that and drill that into your head.

00:34:08.000 But as we've seen with something like the Durham Report and the Crossfire Hurricane Investigation and things of that nature, it's the top echelon, especially of the FBI, that are the ones that Our partisan and are seemingly having an agenda to skew the law enforcement activities one way or the other in this nation.

00:34:29.000 And it's incumbent on every investigator to have it at the forefront of their mind that they come from a certain background and certain experiences that have helped.

00:34:39.000 Shape and mold them.

00:34:40.000 So they have to always remember that they have their own biases.

00:34:44.000 I do.

00:34:45.000 They're probably different in some ways.

00:34:45.000 Steve does.

00:34:47.000 And that's why it's on us to always remember, okay, am I looking at this investigation or the facts that I'm discovering in this investigation as impartially as possible and following the rule of law as best as I can without my own agenda?

00:35:01.000 And I think for both of us, The answer was that the FBI as a whole was the institution that was not partisan, or that was partisan rather, and that in part is what led us to come forward.

00:35:15.000 When I was deposed in February, I told both Democrat lawyers and Republican lawyers that these issues are not partisan in nature, or they shouldn't be.

00:35:25.000 And then, lo and behold, a few weeks later, it was the Democrat side who leaked small snippets of that testimony and tried to paint me as some deep mega-operative.

00:35:35.000 And that couldn't be further from the truth.

00:35:37.000 And when something like that happens, it was clear to me that they are the ones with an agenda.

00:35:41.000 They don't really care about the facts or substance of our protected disclosures.

00:35:46.000 They care only about protecting the party, only about protecting the FBI.

00:35:50.000 And that couldn't be more clear to me at this point.

00:35:53.000 Yeah, that makes sense, Garrett.

00:35:55.000 The state should only be partisan in response to a democratic mandate.

00:36:00.000 They should represent the will of the people.

00:36:03.000 I think what you're saying is that these institutions have metastasized into their own sort of centers of authoritarianism.

00:36:10.000 Throughout the pandemic, we saw the FBI's attempt to control social media spaces.

00:36:15.000 That's been Demonstrated now, it's pretty plain they've been acting in a partisan way across a number of issues.

00:36:22.000 Steve, would you like to add anything to Garrett's previous comments?

00:36:26.000 And also then, could we take it to how it's been emotionally for you since you've gone public?

00:36:31.000 Has it been frightening?

00:36:32.000 Have you faced any consequences? 1.00

00:36:33.000 But first, are you a raving maggot? 0.95

00:36:39.000 No, I think my default setting is similar to Garrett, where I'm a libertarian by nature. 0.96

00:36:43.000 I like to look at each individual candidate for a particular office.

00:36:46.000 I kind of view politicians as being plumbers.

00:36:48.000 I just want them to solve the problem and then, you know, not really get personally attached to any one of them.

00:36:53.000 I think the one thing that gets lost in the attacks that came after me on the Democrat side during the hearing, where they tried to attribute some sort of sympathy towards a political side, I brought my whistleblower concerns forward, not because I had sympathy for the subject, but because I thought we might be putting our cases in jeopardy.

00:37:15.000 If it was a righteous prosecution and we were not buttoned up in what we were doing and the FBI is not following the rules, I thought we could lose a trial.

00:37:23.000 And then I was also concerned that there was a public safety risk in using a SWAT team to arrest somebody who had already pledged to be cooperative with law enforcement.

00:37:32.000 A simple phone call to an attorney and ask to surrender is more than adequate in that situation.

00:37:38.000 It was not because I was trying to get my fellow MAGA guy out of jail for free.

00:37:41.000 I just wanted, I would think of myself more as a system idealist.

00:37:45.000 And I think of criminals as system disruptors that we have to push back on.

00:37:50.000 And now at this point, the FBI is really the system disruptor.

00:37:53.000 They're not following our rule book.

00:37:55.000 They're not following our constitution.

00:37:57.000 As far as emotionally and just the fallout after this, it was pretty rough.

00:38:02.000 I was unpaid for 150 days.

00:38:04.000 The FBI denied me the ability to seek outside employment, which I requested, and they denied in one calendar day.

00:38:11.000 My wife lost her job under very suspicious circumstances very shortly after I was put in unpaid indefinite suspension.

00:38:19.000 The FBI leaked my private medical information to the New York Times and told them that I was accused of shooting a firearm in my backyard.

00:38:26.000 And then the inspection division within the FBI also said that they tried to put a gag order on me to prevent me from speaking to an attorney or even my family about the situation.

00:38:35.000 So it was a long train of abuses and eventually ended with my resignation in order to—I had a job offer on the table and had been unpaid for long enough that I had to provide for my family.

00:38:48.000 Again and again in the chat here on Locals, press the red button if you want to join.

00:38:53.000 The word that is being used is brave.

00:38:55.000 A lot of people are in awe of the personal sacrifices you have made as a result of your belief in liberty and Just this and it's very very impressive that you have taken this risk and you've put yourself in a position where you can evoke so much ire and receive so much negative attention and of course I suppose the way that you're treated will indicate what kind of biases are present because all of us regardless of our political affiliations

00:39:24.000 ought be interested in justice and telling the truth and the transparency and reliability of an organization like the FBI.

00:39:31.000 Steve, I liked your remark that politicians should just be like plumbers solving problems and a lot of people picked up on that in the chat as well.

00:39:38.000 I'd like to thank both of you very much for joining us today on Stay Free and also to thank you once again for putting yourself in such a vulnerable position where you've been the subject of persecution because Of your values and your personal sacrifices.

00:39:54.000 Thank you very much, both of you.

00:39:57.000 Thank you for having me.

00:39:58.000 Thanks for having us.

00:39:59.000 Aren't they lovely?

00:40:00.000 How big is that bloody flag that Steve's got?

00:40:03.000 It's the whole wall of his house!

00:40:05.000 For God's sake, the size of it!

00:40:06.000 Lots of love, guys.

00:40:07.000 Thanks very much for joining us.

00:40:09.000 That's fantastic.

00:40:10.000 To find out more about Steve and Garrett's work, go to centerforrenewingamerica.org.

00:40:16.000 Now, you lot in the chat, you decide. 0.95

00:40:21.000 Shall we show you a presentation that we've made where we talk about Rachel Maddow headlining a conference that was funded by Lockheed Martin, and we talk about the influence that the military-industrial complex are able to exert on political processes and media reporting through their expenditure, or do you just want us to Muckabout and just be stupid and just make stuff up off the top of our heads. 0.94

00:40:44.000 So you can just say Rachel Maddow or top of head, muckabed. 1.00

00:40:48.000 Muckabout, muckabed, stupid, muckabed, both. 1.00

00:40:51.000 All right. 1.00

00:40:52.000 I love your tan.

00:40:53.000 Muckabout, Rachel.

00:40:54.000 That's racist.

00:40:55.000 No, not racist. 1.00

00:40:56.000 Mad cow. 0.96

00:40:57.000 It's not racist. 0.79

00:40:58.000 It's just rude.

00:40:59.000 That's what that was.

00:41:01.000 But a lot of people want both.

00:41:04.000 All right, some people are saying happy birthday.

00:41:07.000 Well, all right, let's do this then.

00:41:08.000 Have a look at, right, when it was my birthday, like everyone sang happy birthday to me, such is the custom.

00:41:13.000 And I feel like I'm not sure that I behave correctly in a happy birthday situation.

00:41:18.000 Oh, look, Steve's still there.

00:41:19.000 I saw him there.

00:41:20.000 Steve's still there.

00:41:21.000 I hope he stays forever.

00:41:22.000 I love him.

00:41:23.000 May I say?

00:41:23.000 That's great.

00:41:24.000 The way you treated those FBI whistleblowers.

00:41:24.000 Oh, yeah.

00:41:28.000 Wrong, was it?

00:41:30.000 I think you've... I was as bad as Stacey Plaskett, where her name is.

00:41:33.000 You, in a way, I think, concretised the entire experience for them.

00:41:39.000 Right, I'm sorry about that.

00:41:40.000 I didn't mean to.

00:41:41.000 You were cynical, you were sneering, it was... I was appalled by what I saw.

00:41:48.000 I do apologise.

00:41:49.000 It's alright, it's quite nice.

00:41:50.000 Let's have a look at me getting sang Happy Birthday at.

00:41:53.000 Oh, there's me, there.

00:41:54.000 You look nice there.

00:41:54.000 There you are again, see?

00:41:55.000 Here's me getting sang Happy Birthday at.

00:41:58.000 Have a look.

00:42:00.000 Thanks, all of you.

00:42:11.000 I'm so happy with these.

00:42:13.000 I know to be a vegan donut.

00:42:15.000 I trust this brand.

00:42:17.000 These are lovely flowers.

00:42:18.000 I'm really, really happy.

00:42:19.000 I'm happy to be back at work.

00:42:20.000 I feel quite rested.

00:42:22.000 I feel all right.

00:42:22.000 I'm really, really happy to be here.

00:42:24.000 Thank you.

00:42:25.000 Now, Angie, you like surprises.

00:42:26.000 Why don't you take...

00:42:30.000 I always find there's a lot of pressure to be able to blow out all birthday candles.

00:42:38.000 Oh yeah, you should be able to.

00:42:39.000 We're together from across the world!

00:42:40.000 Thank you, stay free. 0.99

00:42:41.000 Oh shit! 0.99

00:42:42.000 That's the strategy, sorry. 1.00

00:42:43.000 Whim Hoff, got lung breaths.

00:42:44.000 I always feel under a lot of pressure to be able to blow out all birthday candles.

00:42:55.000 Oh yeah, you should be able to, there's only about five.

00:42:58.000 I thought I'd done alright.

00:43:00.000 It took you a while.

00:43:01.000 I just was wondering if that was... I wanted to see that back just to see if my behaviour was normal.

00:43:05.000 I thought you did okay.

00:43:07.000 You normally, you are a bit awkward in those situations.

00:43:09.000 Like say if I'm at an award ceremony, like it's been a while, let's face it, but like either hosting it or as the potential recipient, I always look a bit sort of weird.

00:43:17.000 No, I think you've done a lot of work, interpersonal work.

00:43:21.000 Like how to be... I've improved, haven't I?

00:43:22.000 Yeah, you've got... I've come across as like normal... Techniques now, haven't you?

00:43:25.000 Hello, well done.

00:43:26.000 Please, thank you.

00:43:27.000 Yeah.

00:43:28.000 Well, you did it with the FBI whistleblowers.

00:43:30.000 Went straight in on the, I don't know, more kind of... Friendly.

00:43:34.000 Friendly questions.

00:43:35.000 Yeah, a bit friendly.

00:43:36.000 I wondered if you were going to get to it at all, but you did in the end.

00:43:39.000 I did enough about whistleblowing, I thought.

00:43:41.000 Yeah, it's alright.

00:43:42.000 So you want to watch the Rachel Maddow thing, or do you want to... What did I wish for?

00:43:46.000 I actually wish for world peace.

00:43:48.000 Always wish for the same thing.

00:43:50.000 World peace.

00:43:50.000 Always.

00:43:51.000 This week on History Now.

00:43:53.000 Alright, yeah, let's do History Now.

00:43:55.000 Right, let's do...

00:43:57.000 The news has been going for as long as there are people, but never forget that the news is a TV show with a perspective.

00:44:02.000 That the news always presents you with a version of events that's favourable, in our opinion here on Stay Free, with the interests of the powerful.

00:44:10.000 Let's have a look at On This Week in History.

00:44:12.000 I think it's called, the item.

00:44:24.000 That should be maybe the same colour.

00:44:27.000 Why would you use a different colour for that bit?

00:44:29.000 It's not even the same type of yellow that's in the yellow of This Week in History.

00:44:35.000 Make it the same font and everything.

00:44:38.000 I think he comes to work drunk.

00:44:39.000 Do you?

00:44:40.000 That's not the work of someone who's not drunk.

00:44:42.000 No.

00:44:44.000 Surprised he got the dates right.

00:44:48.000 Alright, let's have a look at this week in history.

00:44:50.000 Did you know, in June 1999, Tankman in Tiananmen Square.

00:44:54.000 That's not Tankman in Tiananmen Square!

00:44:57.000 That's Michael J. Fox!

00:44:58.000 That's Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future 3!

00:45:02.000 Holding his cowboy boots!

00:45:04.000 Jack in charge of editorial have we?

00:45:06.000 We're in real trouble now.

00:45:06.000 Oh god.

00:45:07.000 Imagine I'd done that with a lot of emotional gravitas if I'd gone and now the moving spectacle of the power one person can have when they're willing to stand up to tyranny in a time where authoritarianism is becoming more and more pervasive.

00:45:21.000 We need to take inspiration from Tankman is my Great Scott, Marty!

00:45:27.000 Marty, we've got to do something about your kid!

00:45:30.000 Marty, you've got to go back to the past! 1.00

00:45:33.000 Have sex with your mum! 1.00

00:45:34.000 Go fucker! 1.00

00:45:35.000 In the past, Marty! 1.00

00:45:37.000 It's the only way!

00:45:38.000 Oh, I don't know about this, Doc, for God's sake.

00:45:40.000 Let's have a look at Tank Man in Tiananmen Square.

00:45:44.000 It was noontime today in the centre of Beijing when a man walked to the middle of the Avenue of Eternal Peace, which as it happened was already occupied.

00:45:52.000 He walked to the middle and stood there.

00:45:57.000 It's very powerful as an image isn't it and earlier when we watched it in our meeting where we were sort of preparing the show, yes we do prepare it, I was quite touched and almost tearful at the stand that man had made and as Jamie observes he's got his shop in and that it's not like he was even out to protest he just popped out and thought hang on this ain't right.

00:46:14.000 The avenue of eternal peace with all them tanks on it.

00:46:16.000 Sarcastic. 0.79

00:46:16.000 Yeah it is sarcastic. 0.79

00:46:18.000 Please!

00:46:19.000 You can't do that on the Avenue of Eternal Peace!

00:46:21.000 He's like Strange Lovian.

00:46:24.000 But why didn't they run him over?

00:46:27.000 Well, I guess they didn't want to do that.

00:46:30.000 Well, you know, think about your role as a tank driver, I would say.

00:46:34.000 I wonder what happened to the drivers.

00:46:36.000 Severely reprimanded?

00:46:37.000 I think a severe reprimand for the drivers and I would say a private execution of the tank man. 0.63

00:46:43.000 Sure.

00:46:43.000 They think almost immediately after.

00:46:46.000 He got himself quite jazzed up and went from stopping it to getting on the tank.

00:46:49.000 he stopped there were 18 tanks and armored carriers in this convoy and while he talked

00:46:54.000 to the crew and ignored the gunfire he stopped all of them one man alone of course can't stop an army

00:47:02.000 except for a moment that's exactly what happened here for three got himself quite jazzed up and

00:47:08.000 went from stopping it to getting on the tank exactly yeah pretty good

00:47:12.000 A lot of people, someone said here, you should probably give Jackson positive enforcement, it might improve his work, but what can we positively enforce?

00:47:22.000 Um, that he's come at all, he's here, he's turned up.

00:47:26.000 In the middle of the day, an army was stopped by a man who stood still.

00:47:31.000 A man who'd made up his mind, it seems, though why, we just don't know.

00:47:35.000 But when bystanders rushed in to save this stubborn soul, it wasn't easily done.

00:47:41.000 He was pushed away at last, faceless in the crowd.

00:47:44.000 Safe, we think, but in a city verging on calamity.

00:47:49.000 What moves a man to just stand still?

00:47:52.000 Is it courage, or outrage, or madness?

00:47:55.000 We can't tell what was on his mind, and we can't forget what he did.

00:48:00.000 Richard Roth, CBS News, Beijing.

00:48:02.000 Well done, yes, good news.

00:48:03.000 That's encouraging and inspiring.

00:48:05.000 It's interesting though, isn't it?

00:48:07.000 Obviously, you know, we've been talking about China and US aggression and what's going on there at the moment and the kind of two-sided stories that there are with that.

00:48:17.000 And then we just had FBI whistleblowers of like a scene in the capital That's maybe being reported differently to the reality of it.

00:48:26.000 And then you watch a news report like this and you think, God, these things are, you know, the way that this is reported compared to events in America would be extremely different.

00:48:35.000 But there's things going on everywhere.

00:48:37.000 Tiananmen Square was not a false flag event.

00:48:39.000 I think it's safe to say.

00:48:41.000 Hey, but this is really interesting.

00:48:43.000 Look at the way that in 1973, this week in 1973, David Bowie was reported on.

00:48:48.000 Like we all now know David Bowie.

00:48:51.000 Broadly as a universally lauded genius.

00:48:54.000 So everyone, whether you like him or not, sort of think that guy's a genius.

00:48:57.000 In 1973, like, the news was so undermining, sarcastic, demeaning and condescending.

00:49:03.000 David Bowie is doing a performance. 0.95

00:49:05.000 He's little more than a prat.

00:49:07.000 And then, like, the way they talk to his fans is really amazing.

00:49:10.000 Check out this bit of British news.

00:49:11.000 You'll love this.

00:49:11.000 He's got such a different tone to anything you'd see on television these days.

00:49:16.000 Every seat was sold months ago.

00:49:19.000 Some fans were even blessed with a glimpse of the master as he scurried into the theatre.

00:49:25.000 They've already started off, like, that's how rats and mice scurry.

00:49:25.000 Scurried?

00:49:28.000 Look at him, he's scurrying in there. 0.99

00:49:30.000 He involuntarily shits and pisses as he walks. 0.87

00:49:34.000 Wherever you are in London, you're never more than a metre from David Bowie. 0.86

00:49:38.000 What are you so upset about?

00:49:41.000 This young lady's having the worst day of her life, right? 1.00

00:49:43.000 So she's already upset because she hasn't seen David Bowie.

00:49:45.000 You think, well, these things won't get worse.

00:49:47.000 They will get worse.

00:49:48.000 Because the news report is really sort of sarcastic and mean to her.

00:49:51.000 And then it's really good.

00:49:52.000 Like, what's the one thing you wouldn't want to happen if you were on the news crying because you ain't met David Bowie?

00:49:58.000 Have a little think.

00:49:59.000 Let me know in the chat what you think it would be.

00:50:00.000 And then look at what happens.

00:50:02.000 They said he was coming round the back.

00:50:03.000 They said he was coming round the back.

00:50:05.000 I've been waiting for ages to see him.

00:50:07.000 I kissed his hand!

00:50:09.000 9 o'clock!

00:50:11.000 Why are you so upset?

00:50:13.000 He's smashing!

00:50:15.000 I kissed him!

00:50:16.000 I kissed his hand!

00:50:17.000 Haha!

00:50:18.000 Like a bunch of people I've just met there!

00:50:20.000 I kissed him!

00:50:21.000 I'm carrying his baby!

00:50:22.000 David Bowie and me are getting married!

00:50:25.000 Third finger, left hand!

00:50:26.000 It's getting worse and worse for her.

00:50:28.000 I kissed his hand!

00:50:29.000 I kissed his hand!

00:50:30.000 I kissed him!

00:50:30.000 I went, oh!

00:50:31.000 Oh, it's lovely!

00:50:32.000 We weren't just sitting for ages.

00:50:35.000 Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

00:50:37.000 It was only over there.

00:50:38.000 She just missed him, poor sod.

00:50:40.000 Fantastic!

00:50:41.000 Don't worry.

00:50:42.000 I kissed his hand. 0.64

00:50:43.000 He's got thin little legs.

00:50:45.000 He's got thin little legs.

00:50:47.000 I don't like him.

00:50:48.000 This guy's bringing too much of his personal opinions.

00:50:50.000 Look at my legs.

00:50:51.000 They're bigger.

00:50:52.000 Definitely.

00:50:52.000 They're definitely bigger.

00:50:53.000 My mother always said I had legs like tree trunks.

00:50:56.000 Why don't you take a look at Beau's legs? 1.00

00:50:57.000 I can put on lipstick just as easily as he.

00:51:00.000 I'm as androgynous as an X-Man.

00:51:02.000 It's got lovely legs.

00:51:04.000 Not only the young have come... It's got lovely legs. 0.88

00:51:08.000 That's what Britain's all about. 0.83

00:51:09.000 ...to ogle at Bowie.

00:51:11.000 I'll go.

00:51:12.000 So have members of a pensioners club from Newcastle.

00:51:16.000 It's as good as a show to us.

00:51:17.000 We've never seen anything like this.

00:51:19.000 You see how the media's always had a kind of rather condescending attitude towards the public.

00:51:23.000 They sort of see us as sort of specimens. 1.00

00:51:25.000 Look at them, those idiots. 1.00

00:51:26.000 They are completely captivated by David Bowie. 1.00

00:51:29.000 Merely a genius who is able to have understood that we're on the precipice of a new kind of aesthetic around space age.

00:51:35.000 Employing androgyny to suggest that borders and boundaries are not as clearly delineated as we'd once assumed.

00:51:42.000 Who will write hit after hit For many decades, continually reinventing himself.

00:51:46.000 I can continually reinvent myself, you know, I could have been anybody.

00:51:52.000 Meanwhile, the object of so much interest is trying on his kinky boots.

00:51:59.000 This is the face the public wants.

00:52:02.000 An ex-art student from Brixton, whose dad worked for Dr. Bernardo's Holmes, has turned himself into a bizarre, self-constructed freak.

00:52:14.000 That's so rude!

00:52:14.000 Think about when David Bowie died, the outpouring of grief, the reverence, how he's become now a cultural icon that almost you can't criticise.

00:52:25.000 But then, look at him. 0.99

00:52:26.000 He's disgusting. 0.99

00:52:27.000 I can see his willies through his trousers and that's not much neither. 0.99

00:52:31.000 Impromptu, isn't it?

00:52:34.000 He's nice.

00:52:34.000 Laugh.

00:52:35.000 They're just like lads, aren't they?

00:52:37.000 It is a sign of our times that a man with a painted face and carefully adjusted lipstick should inspire adoration from an audience of girls aged between 14 and 20.

00:52:48.000 He's just another fella, you know.

00:52:51.000 Another fella, you know.

00:52:51.000 Just what?

00:52:52.000 Just another fella. 0.99

00:52:53.000 I could release an album.

00:52:54.000 What's wrong with me?

00:52:55.000 I've got a record.

00:52:56.000 Stood out for the most stages.

00:52:58.000 Misunderstood stardom and fame and celebrity.

00:53:02.000 Just another... No, we know that.

00:53:03.000 That's not actually the point.

00:53:06.000 Why not me?

00:53:08.000 Let this go, man.

00:53:09.000 Nobody like him can produce the music.

00:53:11.000 Oh, so that's a good point.

00:53:13.000 He's not just another fella.

00:53:14.000 He's written all this incredible music.

00:53:16.000 Isn't it a bit degrading standing outside the door while he's inside?

00:53:21.000 No.

00:53:22.000 Why?

00:53:23.000 It's degrading for me standing outside here.

00:53:25.000 It's degraded right now.

00:53:27.000 I've just toileted myself in the undercarriage.

00:53:30.000 Why are you going there?

00:53:31.000 Don't you find... I mean, why do you stand here?

00:53:34.000 David Bowie, do you understand?

00:53:36.000 You're the news!

00:53:37.000 You're there!

00:53:38.000 He's important! 1.00

00:53:39.000 You lunatic! 1.00

00:53:40.000 Amazing, amazing. 0.99

00:53:42.000 Here, also this week, but they're from 1996.

00:53:45.000 This is fantastic.

00:53:48.000 Remember, you know Putin? 0.96

00:53:50.000 You think, oh, this guy's pretty shady, dodgy. 0.67

00:53:52.000 Don't want him in charge of an entire country.

00:53:55.000 Leading us to the brink of a global world war, particularly with the incentive to legitimize military action that NATO's actions and the military-industrial complex requirements have set in motion a chain of events that could lead to the apocalypse.

00:54:11.000 Well, at least we don't have Boris Yeltsin in charge, because that guy was edgy as hell. 0.73

00:54:16.000 He's like sort of a polar bear Father Christmas mad drunk uncle tyrant. 0.92

00:54:22.000 Have a look at him.

00:54:24.000 This is him campaigning, isn't it, for an election that he would win by 10 million votes.

00:54:31.000 Boris Nikolayevich is waiting for you.

00:54:35.000 I came to you with the plane when I found out you were here.

00:54:40.000 Have a good day!

00:54:47.000 I saw off quite mild, but he's using his hips quite a lot and that's just a taste of what's to come, isn't it?

00:54:55.000 I'm going to go get a drink of water.

00:55:01.000 you Like, he's a baby that's been made into an adult by a magic spell.

00:55:07.000 That's right.

00:55:07.000 You know what I mean?

00:55:08.000 Like, he was a baby one minute, and then went, adult! 1.00

00:55:10.000 And you're like, oh, fucking hell! 1.00

00:55:12.000 All I've got downstairs is a dickie bird! 0.99

00:55:14.000 Like he's suddenly, sexuality's just been launched in that moment.

00:55:18.000 🎵 It's not a dance move.

00:55:33.000 No, there's a bit of me that's like, are we being culturally insensitive?

00:55:36.000 Are these like national moves?

00:55:38.000 I think so, they haven't done it.

00:55:39.000 They're not, are they?

00:55:40.000 This has just come out of his brain.

00:55:42.000 It's just made that up out of his brain.

00:55:43.000 I don't think he's ever done that before.

00:55:45.000 I don't think that's like a cultural tradition or even a personal tradition.

00:55:48.000 I think it's made up on the spot.

00:55:50.000 I'm going to do this now.

00:55:50.000 He'll never do it again.

00:55:51.000 That was a magical moment, like a very particular sunrise that you'll never ever see again anyway.

00:55:57.000 Out now, see you later guys!

00:56:08.000 Vote for me! 0.95

00:56:10.000 Democracy everyone!

00:56:14.000 That's it.

00:56:14.000 There you go, that's democracy.

00:56:17.000 Hey listen, so what are we going to do to end the show?

00:56:19.000 We won't show our Rachel Maddow thing.

00:56:23.000 Should we put it up?

00:56:23.000 We'll just post that.

00:56:24.000 Listen, our brilliant Rachel Maddow piece.

00:56:26.000 Remember, I don't dislike Rachel Maddow.

00:56:27.000 I think she's a lovely person, but this turning up at this military industrial complex... Are you getting paid by Lockheed Martin as well?

00:56:33.000 Oh God, I almost forgot to mention.

00:56:35.000 If you're actually out to get some missiles or something... 0.97

00:56:39.000 Lockie Martin, do some pretty good... Say you want to blow up like a wedding in Afghanistan and some terrorists, just bomb them both. 1.00

00:56:47.000 Bomb the lot of them. 1.00

00:56:47.000 You never know. 1.00

00:56:48.000 It's very difficult to tell a bride from a terrorist on some days.

00:56:51.000 And a bride could be a terrorist. 0.99

00:56:53.000 Same person.

00:56:54.000 Anyway, Lockheed Martin, very reliable missiles.

00:56:58.000 The Rachel Maddow video will be up in a sec.

00:57:01.000 We're going to play Here's the News at the end of Locals.

00:57:03.000 We're going to go to Locals then and we'll play Here's the News at the end of Locals.

00:57:06.000 Alright listen, join us on Locals right now.

00:57:08.000 Click that red button on your screen.

00:57:09.000 We're going to be exclusively on Locals with our Locals community.

00:57:12.000 We'll answer your questions.

00:57:13.000 We'll play the Rachel Maddow Lockheed Martin Military Industrial Complex thing on tomorrow's show! 0.99

00:57:20.000 We're talking to Tulsi Gabbard, politician, commentator, former presidential candidate.

00:57:24.000 I'm really excited to see Tulsi Gabbard.

00:57:25.000 You know, she's got one of them, like, silver streaks that superheroes have now. 1.00

00:57:28.000 You know, she's got a silver streak. 1.00

00:57:30.000 Will I ask her about it?

00:57:32.000 Probably, after your FBI interview, yeah.

00:57:36.000 Silver streak there I see, Tulsi.

00:57:38.000 Nice.

00:57:39.000 Join us tomorrow, but if you're on Locals, get over there, press the red button on your screen, join us on Locals, we're going to have a right laugh, we'll carry on.

00:57:45.000 But this is vodka in here, I'm going to be dancing like Boris Yeltsin in a minute.

00:57:48.000 Join us tomorrow, not for more of the same, but for more of the different.

00:57:50.000 Until then, stay free.

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Stay Free - Russel Brand - June 06, 2023

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