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00:02:20.000Well, you can, I think, respect all disagreements.
00:02:22.000Perhaps if you're doing surgery, and like one of you say, I believe this to be a respiratory disorder, and have one saying, nonsense, bunions is the issue, and then scurrying down to the wrong end, that's where an argument is unhelpful, like in critical medical care.
00:02:35.000but fortunately there seems to be a broad consensus in the area of critical medical care,
00:02:38.000particularly with regards to pandemics, which we'll be talking about also when we are exclusively on Rumble.
00:02:44.000If we get round to it, let's see what's going on in the primaries.
00:02:51.000And later on also, we're going to be talking to you about Joe Biden's numerous pseudonyms.
00:03:12.000I can't imagine your terrible loss and what you're going through and the fact that infrastructural failings on behalf of my government is partly to blame.
00:03:19.000It's something that we're going to immediately remedy.
00:03:21.000And if we find out that privately run electrical companies are in any way culpable, we'll ensure that they are penalised.
00:04:18.000You know I'm in a pull-up competition to raise money for his campaign.
00:04:21.000If we get to $100,000, the pull-up competition is gonna go ahead.
00:04:25.000Sometimes I want to jeopardize it because I don't want to be defeated by a man in his late 60s in a competition of strength, testosterone, vitality and virility because that's humiliating for me.
00:04:39.000Is he your favourite one, or is Ron DeSantis, who, like I guess, I thought Ron DeSantis was the very model of a presidential candidate, but some people think he's not, like, jokey enough.
00:04:49.000Not like Vivek Ramaswamy, who also came on here, crunch-crunch with the apple, but, and playing tennis, he crunch-crunched on an apple.
00:04:56.000I like him a lot, I've stayed in touch with him.
00:06:41.000That's going to be one of the big things, is can he be likeable and a bit funny?
00:06:45.000Because that's what people are evidently looking for.
00:06:47.000Well, Vivek is apparently up at number two now because of this likeability, though he does play tennis in black socks.
00:06:52.000I'm not sure that that's right under really any circumstances.
00:06:55.000And he does lean, in this news report from over on the mainstream there at Fox in a minute, you'll see enough leans in close to a voter Yeah, he's almost getting off with her.
00:08:10.000And when you see those people all lined up, they look a bit too, well, I like Vivek, I like Ron DeSantis, and there's a couple of people I don't know at all.
00:08:19.000Well, you won't because, you know, even Nikki Haley and Tim Scott, they're polling so low that you think it's gonna come down to Vivek or Ron DeSantis.
00:08:27.000One of these people has to trick his way in, like saying, I'm doing well in a good poll.
00:08:32.000And they say, well, that poll don't count.
00:09:59.000Unless you want to become an Awakening Wonder by joining our locals community where you get to do guided meditations and join our editorial meetings and you get to go on a walk with me and Bear.
00:10:08.000Plus, we've got loads of fantastic merchandise opportunities, free pair of underpants.
00:10:33.000I think he's the first sort of modern political candidate.
00:10:38.000Whereas Trump is of course, in a sense, old school billionaire, but populist reality TV star, skilled persuader in the public space who understands, curiously, the emotional Subcutaneous realities in a way that normal political figures don't.
00:11:46.000Like that bit, one of my favourite ever bits of Trump, and we've been looking at some of our other favourite bits of Trump in a minute, was when Hillary goes in one of the presidential debates against Hillary Clinton, and she says like, well I wouldn't like it if you won, and she goes, because you'd be in prison.
00:12:04.000And some of the meanest things he says are funny.
00:12:07.000And if you put aside everything else, and the problem is, in a nihilistic culture where everyone's living in some level of despair, note the rising death rates among the young, if someone is actually funny, a humane quality, it's incredibly effective.
00:12:20.000Once I went on this screenwriter's course, right, And they said, if you want to make your protagonist sympathetic to the audience, there's a number of ways that you can do that.
00:12:27.000They do something heroic in the first five minutes.
00:12:29.000That yields the famous phrase, save the cat.
00:12:31.000You'll notice in Hollywood movies, this is something you can talk to Critical Drinker about in a minute.
00:12:34.000They have, like, the protagonist do something that makes you think, oh, he's a nice guy.
00:12:37.000Like, in a Tom Cruise movie, he'll, like, pick up a kid or do something nice.
00:12:41.000You know, some little gesture that makes you align with them.
00:12:44.000But, like, so if you have a star like Bill Murray, like a sort of a classic comedic curmudgeon who might play sort of a Skeptical or cynical characters.
00:12:53.000They say the way you get by that is they're funny.
00:12:58.000And the late, great George Shapiro, who is Seinfeld's manager, and the manager of Andy Kaufman, as well as a host of other great comedians, he said, if someone makes you laugh, you love them forever.
00:13:09.000There's something about it that sort of anchors you.
00:13:12.000Well, Trump supporters love him more than they love their own family.
00:15:16.000He was a preacher of... They called him a preacher of hate, but there was some cultural complexity, let's face it, with the long historic relationships between the West and the Islamic world, let's call it.
00:15:41.000You don't want anything leery in there, you know, don't want to get into conspiracy theories while we're in the World Health Organization governed YouTube space.
00:15:47.000And then, um, and then I use a nice toothbrush, get that nice and fast and clean.
00:15:53.000Now, like, so my breath, I hope at all times, and I would know if my breath weren't nice, because I've got children, and one thing children are is little bastards, and they're so rude.
00:16:15.000Uh, let's have a look how this go though.
00:16:18.000Getting coaching from political consultants on how many times I'm supposed to make a particular point or which lines I'm supposed to use to attack.
00:16:24.000Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie plans on attacking Donald Trump even though Trump says he's gonna skip all the debates.
00:16:31.000If he shows up at the third one, which I suspect he might, because he's going to get pretty damaged.
00:17:29.000I saw him on NBC at some sort of trade fair with his sleeves rolled up, looking dashing as all hell, forearms looking pretty muscly, worryingly for me.
00:17:38.000And he said, he calls in President Trump, he goes, no I would never run with President
00:17:44.000Trump, of course not, but I welcome the support of people.
00:17:50.000So he handled it sort of politely I would say, and gracefully.
00:17:55.000Maybe it's different if you are directly opposing Trump for the candidacy of your party in a
00:18:02.000RFK in a sense I suppose has, I'm not saying that he has nothing to lose, but he's an opponent,
00:18:07.000He's a person who's barely able to communicate well.
00:18:11.000I mean, look at this Fox News report on... In fact, gosh, we better get off.
00:18:14.000We should get on to... Listen, we gotta get off.
00:18:16.000I'm gonna show this Hawaii thing, but we better get off of YouTube because, quite frankly, we came on late and we don't have the time.
00:18:23.000Let's get over onto the home of free speech.
00:18:26.000Listen, if you're watching this on YouTube, we're going to be speaking to The Critical Drinker in a matter of minutes about movies, movie culture, and if you've got any questions, post them in the chat.
00:18:35.000If you're watching this on Rumble, press the red button and join us over on Locals.
00:18:39.000Let's have a look at how Fox News reported on... I want to see that.
00:18:43.000What I want to see, right, Is the clip where mainstream say that Joe Biden handled it well.
00:18:56.000President and Dr. Biden spent several hours both over Lahaina on the ground here and meeting with both first responders and victims of this tragedy at the big shelter, the War Memorial Shelter in Central Maui.
00:19:13.000Well let's have a look at those right things because I think he said mental stuff.
00:19:16.000Look this is one of the weirdest performances or appearances that I've seen from Joe Biden.
00:19:22.000I feel that Joe Biden backs himself as a kind of folky homespun man of the people.
00:19:29.000I say this because of times when you know when we've seen him say sort of corn pop or lying in bed at night worrying about health care.
00:19:35.000Whenever he like what I've realized is that Statesmen that seem like cold bureaucratic edifices of inhumane data are not appealing, plainly, obviously.
00:19:46.000So I feel that there's an obligation, an intention, an agenda to appear personable, ordinary, normal.
00:19:55.000But if you've been in politics for 45 years or whatever it is like you have lived a pretty unusual life so when he uses anecdotes like this one when he speaks to an audience of bereft and traumatized victims of a unprecedented conflagration and tragedy he uses a near domestic fire as his tool for gaining empathy and sympathy with them and from them look at this is astonishingly misjudged i think
00:20:26.000I don't want to compare difficulties, but we have... Don't then, because I've just had a fire, but let's hear you.
00:20:33.000A little sense, Jill and I, what it's like to lose a home.
00:20:38.000Years ago, now 15 years ago, I was in Washington doing Meet the Press.
00:20:44.000Look at the fellow there with the ukulele.
00:20:45.000Even he knows, oh, this isn't going to be good.
00:23:24.000Listen, I'm very excited to introduce our next guest.
00:23:27.000Last time he came on, you lot got double excited.
00:23:29.000We got fantastic views and an incredible response.
00:23:32.000The great YouTuber and movie critic, Critical Drinker, who's renowned for his abrupt, brilliant, persuasive, and abrasive reviews of movies, is joining us now.
00:25:06.000Were you at some sort of Comic-Con type thing?
00:25:10.000I was at a Comic-Con, yeah, and it was a good opportunity to meet up with some of my fellow YouTubers that I've been doing live streams with for a couple of years now and never had a chance to meet them face to face.
00:25:19.000So we all hung out there for the weekend and it was great, man.
00:25:23.000Like most enjoyable critics going back to the great A. A. Gill and like even I don't know people that dabbled like Clive James and you know like people like it more when you really diss something heavily rather than a favorable review and probably when I'm watching your content which I regularly do I think oh yeah he's gonna rip that apart people enjoy it um But sometimes I feel that there are... Gosh, what do I say?
00:25:49.000There's some complexity when there are cultural issues involved, as there often are with your reviews and your content.
00:25:54.000I listened recently to some of your snuff... Not snuff... Maybe that's the next... No one was dying in the course of my reviews, man!
00:26:02.000I was on the edge of my seat when you murdered that person!
00:26:08.000I watched the review of the Snow White reboot.
00:26:14.000Tell us why is it that that particular project is causing you so much, I don't know, agitation?
00:26:22.000Well, it's not so much a review of the reboot because it hasn't come out yet.
00:26:25.000But I was commenting on the backlash that seems to be happening towards the actress that's playing Snow White.
00:26:32.000Because one of the weird side effects of the writers and the actress strikes at the moment is that there's not a whole lot of news coming out of Hollywood.
00:26:38.000And so people have got more time to go back over old interviews, old pieces of news.
00:26:43.000And a lot of the things that have come out recently have been this actress, I think her name's Rachel Zegler,
00:26:49.000talking about not just the original movie, but the new version that she's gonna be playing.
00:26:55.000And I don't know how else to describe it, man.
00:26:57.000Her tone and her attitude is just one of absolute contempt for the original movie.
00:27:02.000And I guess you've got to be aware of the fact that this was one of the most beloved animated films
00:28:20.000It actually took away some of the complexity, plainly because they didn't want to deal with even the complexity of the main character being like a liar, which is Fundamental to Pinocchio's story and fundamental to him becoming real.
00:28:33.000I want to add this to it a little bit.
00:28:35.000Like, you know, I made a remake of a brilliant film that didn't do well.
00:29:16.000Is it that you object to utilizing a project that has a lot of affection and then disparaging it
00:29:18.000to utilizing a project that has a lot of affection and then disparaging it and taking the piss
00:29:24.000out of it in ways that are more apparent when you literally take characters like Han Solo
00:29:24.000and taking the piss out of it in ways that are more apparent
00:29:27.000when you literally take characters like Han Solo and like mug him off or whatever,
00:29:29.000and like mug him off or whatever or Harrison Ford in any of his roles in fact and then
00:29:31.000or Harrison Ford in any of his roles, in fact, and then like mug him off in the new version of it
00:29:34.000like mug him off in the new version of it and like sort of use the acclaim, use the
00:29:40.000audience but don't respect their fandom, devotion and expenditure. Is that what you object to?
00:29:47.000I would say like with Snow White right, I think some of it is because she's called Snow
00:29:50.000White and it's a woman of colour that's playing her and I think that don't matter because
00:29:55.000the whiteness of Snow White is not fundamental to the message of the film although it equates
00:30:01.000whiteness with innocence which people that are critiquing this from a racial perspective
00:30:04.000would want to analyze and scrutinize I'm sure. It don't matter if Snow White, what the colour
00:30:11.000of Snow White is, is irrelevant I would say other than the coincidence of her name and
00:30:17.000a historic and potentially racist therefore and what I want to say correlation between
00:30:21.000the word white and the idea of whiteness. So there's a lot there.
00:30:25.000I'm saying like, you know, is there a requirement for racial sensitivity?
00:30:28.000Should there be a sort of an evolution of roles available to actors of colour?
00:30:32.000When the whole bloody thing's just a commercial enterprise anyway, what the hell does it matter?
00:30:37.000And why would there be reverence towards what amounts to a commercial enterprise that no one seems to revere or expect anywhere along the line anyway?
00:30:47.000So I know there's a lot in there, Will, but I thought...
00:30:49.000You've given me a lot to work with on this one.
00:30:53.000So I think the race swapping of the actress isn't that important to it.
00:30:58.000I think you could probably make the argument that this is based on a piece of Germanic folklore, where the protagonist is specifically described as having skin as white as snow.
00:31:08.000But you can Probably, yeah, you can change that.
00:31:10.000I think the bigger issue, though, is that they changed the fundamental meaning of the story because Snow White was, as a character, her quest was one of finding true love.
00:32:22.000And so that's where people start to have an issue because they think, well, if you really hate the original story and the original movie so much, why not just make something completely new and different?
00:32:31.000Yeah I see like that in a way it's like that what yeah precisely as you've said if you don't like these aspects of the film make another film come up with new stories it's interesting I think partly what we've created is a kind of A cultural mosaic where you can't step on barely any squares.
00:32:53.000Like, I remember, like, see that new movie, relatively new, it's probably 10 years old now, the one that's like based on Hawaiian mythology, Moana.
00:33:02.000You know, like, I remember when that come out, there was like merch that was a sort of like a t-shirt
00:33:07.000that had all the tattoos on and stuff.
00:33:09.000And people said, them tattoos are totally sacred in, it wasn't Hawaiian was it, it was Pacific Islanders.
00:33:14.000And it was just like, those tattoos are super sacred and you can't, and what I think in the end
00:33:20.000starts to become revealed is it's the cultural machine is so devoid of values and purpose that,
00:33:28.000and there is now such a, because of channels like yours, such potential for critiques and scrutiny
00:33:35.000that would not be applied by a compliant partnering media industry
00:33:41.000where everything's just a big frenzy of promotion essentially, that it becomes very difficult.
00:33:48.000In a sense, you can't have monoculture anymore.
00:33:51.000And monoculture is what is trying to be maintained, I believe.
00:33:55.000So it's almost like they can't take the economic risk of coming up with some new fairy tale that genuinely is about the empowerment of women, if that's a story that they want to tell.
00:34:05.000They can't take the economic risks of that.
00:34:08.000when they go around the world sort of pillaging mythologies, whether they're Bavarian or Pacific Island or Chinese,
00:34:16.000they're gonna run into cultural problems because ultimately the agenda is to make money.
00:34:56.000The problem that they've got now is that they are starting to diverge more and more from those original stories because they're trying to make it conform to current day cultural norms.
00:35:05.000they did it with the Little Mermaid, where they had Ariel save herself.
00:35:11.000She saves the day rather than Prince Eric getting to do it, because that was an old-fashioned aspect of the story.
00:36:01.000But I am also sort of sympathetic to the To what might amount to unconscious cultural motifs around men are required in order for a woman to self-actualize.
00:36:15.000I think it becomes more complex in the idea of folklore and myth because I would say that the reason that folklores and fairy tales etc have sustained is because they appeal to and represent deep archetypes that are actually a little deeper than gender and even sexual identity that these stories have motifs symbols and even narratives that occur throughout cultures and throughout our individual dream lives because they pertain to in Jungian terms anima and animus
00:36:48.000Masculine and feminine aspects of our own identity.
00:36:53.000In order that we become whole, awakened individuals, the male and female part of us must align.
00:37:01.000We have to overcome the tyrant or the malevolent mother, whether it's the mother that locks you in the tower, or the mother that would abandon you in the woods of the unconsciousness.
00:37:15.000Because our culture, I think, generally speaking, lacks psychological depth and is, by its nature, almost quite superficial, people cling to details.
00:37:25.000Someone here in the chat, PrideFault, says Snow White is about a black witch and a white witch.
00:37:29.000It's about dark power and light power, and that probably pertains to morality.
00:37:35.000Do you think it's in part because the culture is lazy, in terms of the IP it uses, and superficial In terms of the type of stories it wants to tell, because I've heard you say before, it should be about, like, not about individualistic self-fulfillment, you know?
00:37:51.000I think I guess there's a couple of different strands to this.
00:37:54.000What I would like to see is a bit of variety in the stories that they tell.
00:37:58.000So you could have like one story that's male centric, one story that's female centric, different movies, you know, and so you want to have a male savior who rescues the princess and gets to save the day.
00:38:19.000I think the problem that they run into is that they try to fit every story in every movie into that same mold where they have a set of prescriptive rules that say the princess can never get saved by a man.
00:38:30.000You know, and when you do that to every story, then they become samey because they're all governed by the same rules that just that squash individualistic storytelling.
00:38:40.000And yeah, like definitely the other point you made about You know, the pursuit of these characters should not be about the pursuit of their own, their own fulfillment, their own wants and desires and needs, and not really caring about anyone else, particularly when it's when it's female characters, because I think they interpret that as empowering, whereas it just comes across as an unlikable, selfish character.
00:39:08.000If you say like, well, they're literally just out for number one.
00:39:10.000Their entire character arc is centered around finding themselves and just doing the things that make them happy.
00:39:20.000It's not a very laudable quality in any hero.
00:39:22.000They should have at least some awareness of other people and perhaps some sense of self-sacrifice, because that's what makes a hero a hero.
00:39:31.000And if you don't have that anymore, you've got just an antagonist, essentially, in a nice form.
00:39:37.000We have to, I suppose, consider the deeper function of movies and cinema, and perhaps even culture more broadly.
00:39:45.000You know, like Terence McKenna's famous maxim that culture is not your friend,
00:39:52.000like that we assume is our friend because culture is, you know, sometimes I get,
00:39:55.000I'll tell you what happens to me, mate.
00:39:57.000In this role that I have, like analyzing the, I would say, degenerative and decimating role of culture
00:40:04.000when it comes to individual freedom, that it becomes like this hypnotic zoetrope
00:40:09.000that drags us, particularly through news media, but elsewhere in cultural artifacts,
00:40:14.000such as those that you analyze, it becomes a tool of disempowerment rather than awakening.
00:40:20.000Often in your critiques, what I sense is that you want movies to be entertaining,
00:40:24.000that you want them to be fun, that you're like, but you do often refer to sort of values and principles
00:41:50.000Nothing means, you know, like it leads us to despair.
00:41:53.000What are your kind of sort of positions on that function of What's your take on cinema?
00:41:58.000I think at its best, cinema and culture in general should be aspirational, inspirational and uplifting.
00:42:04.000I think it should inspire the best aspects of us and give us something to aim for.
00:42:11.000And that's what you used to get with the heroes that you saw in cinema.
00:42:14.000Now it just feels weirdly demoralising.
00:42:16.000It's a culture based around grievance and oppression and guilt.
00:42:22.000Almost just making people feel bad about themselves.
00:42:24.000There's a difference between encouraging people to think and see the world in different ways and just straight up making them feel guilty about who they are.
00:42:32.000I feel like I see a lot of that in cinema.
00:42:34.000But yeah, the other aspect of it is definitely the recycling of old ideas.
00:42:45.000I did a breakdown recently about the number of movies now which are either remakes or sequels or reboots of older franchises.
00:42:54.000And it's like 75% of the mainstream movies that come out.
00:42:58.000Yeah, there's a whole bunch of obviously smaller independent films that are new ideas, but these are the ones that have the big cultural impacts.
00:43:05.000and they're the stories that we tell ourselves and reflect the culture we're in.
00:43:09.000And they are based entirely around old ideas.
00:43:12.000It's like we're losing the ability to come up with new stuff.
00:43:16.000And that is a terrifying prospect for any culture.
00:43:19.000I can't remember who said it, but they made a good point about Western culture.
00:43:26.000There's a kind of weariness on us right now.
00:43:31.000It's like we've gone down the road as far as we can, and we are just out of energy, we're out of creativity, we're out of ideas, and we are stagnating.
00:43:42.000And it's not a nice thing to face up to, but it does feel real.
00:43:47.000I think that's one of the problems of a materialistic worldview.
00:43:50.000If all that matters is what you can measure, in the end you will run out of purpose, drive and meaning if you denigrate ideas like tribe, other than tribe as it pertains to oppositionism, family, the sort of historic positive relationship between men and women.
00:44:07.000If all of these building blocks are ultimately decimated and desecrated in When the claim is this is the pursuit of freedom and representation, which I don't buy anyway because I can see what the agenda is of most of these institutions, and it's not about helping people, broadly speaking.
00:44:24.000You can buy their fruits, know them, to quote the Bible.
00:44:27.000And I think that that does lead to the kind of despair But one of the side effects of that, which I think perhaps to a degree, if I may be so bold, both you and I are benefiting from, is people start to prize authenticity.
00:44:39.000People start to care more about whether or not they think the person talking believes what they're saying.
00:44:46.000Mate, a lot of people are asking, like ADZ33, are there any films coming out that you're excited about, mate?
00:44:55.000Is there something you're optimistic about?
00:44:58.000For the remainder of the year it's a bit dry but Dune 2 should hopefully be good because I was a big fan of the first one.
00:45:03.000I love the Frank Herbert novel and they've done a really good job of bringing that to the big screen so I think part two should hopefully be quite good.
00:45:17.000A film about a desert in a desert of films.
00:45:20.000The rest of the year is kind of just some holdover superhero movies.
00:45:25.000And yeah, off the top of my head, I can't think of much else.
00:45:29.000I'm sure there are smaller films that are ultimately going to be good, but I'm not aware of much else mainstream-wise that's coming out this year.
00:45:37.000I watched American Made, the 2017 Tom Cruise movie, the other day because I've been watching a bunch of Tom Cruise films.
00:45:45.000I was in a film with Tom Cruise and hung with him a little bit.
00:45:48.000Oh yeah, it just keeps showing off, why don't you?
00:46:14.000They were involved, as we sort of all know, in sort of Noriega down there in Nicaragua.
00:46:19.000They were involved in coke deals, the stuff going on with, like, Aman Escobar.
00:46:25.000And, like, I was thinking, like, wow, like, in, like, five years ago, you could have a mainstream movie that talks about the deep state involvement in crime and assassinations.
00:46:34.000Sort of seems like you're gonna have to have Like a real reckoning around sort of cultural events, like even now.
00:46:40.000How can you, like, that's, it's so astonishing that the turnaround is that fast, you know?
00:46:45.000I think that they were, you know, that movie was lucky in the sense that it was talking about stuff dating back to the 1980s and early 90s.
00:46:51.000And so there was enough of a gap there that you kind of get away with that.
00:46:55.000And, you know, it's ancient history as far as modern culture is concerned.
00:47:20.000Tell me a little bit about that character and whether or not you want to make a screenplay and movies about it and do you think with like the Sound of Freedom phenomena that sort of new media models are emerging where you can get funding for staff and make them and they'll reach an audience and is that something you're thinking about?
00:47:44.000So if any of their spies, their assets, should be captured or go missing, then his team is sent in to try and find out what happened to them and bring them back.
00:47:52.000And so that's what leads him into the first big mission of the series, where he's got to spring a prisoner
00:49:16.000I think it's just like, uh, you know, sometimes when things are so ridiculous in culture or cinema or whatever, like, the only recourse you have is just to get drunk and laugh at it.
00:49:26.000That's pretty much where it came from.
00:49:28.000You know, I'd rather do that than just get super angry about stuff.
00:49:31.000I'd rather just kick back with a few beers and just quietly mock the things that seem so ridiculous.
00:49:37.000And so that's how I approached it, and that's pretty much how I've been for the past several years, and people seem to like it, so...
00:50:03.000I just think it came out at the wrong time.
00:50:05.000If this had come out like four or five years ago, when superhero movies were absolute king of the hill, and you could basically make anything with a superhero in it, yeah, it would have been fine.
00:50:15.000I just think at this point, the whole genre is kind of in decline, and if you want to get audience attention, it needs to be something really different or really special.
00:50:23.000Like, Across the Spider-Verse was a good example of that.
00:51:47.000It works perfectly well within the context of the film.
00:51:49.000So, like, I'm more than happy with it.
00:51:52.000Yeah, I think I told you last time that I'm reminded of Jerry Seinfeld's quip in one of the episodes where he's like, the dentist converted to Judaism in order to be able to tell Jewish jokes and Seinfeld tells his rabbi and his rabbi goes, does this offend you as a Jew?
00:52:10.000He goes, no, it offends me as a comedian.
00:52:12.000The offence is Treat culture properly.
00:52:41.000Like with Charlie Brooker's stuff, like when Charlie Brooker used to, on them screen burns, when he was tearing something apart, it was like bliss.
00:52:48.000But if he really likes, I don't know, The Wire, he's like, yeah, The Wire is good.
00:52:51.000Now, could you tell us about something you hate, for God's sake?
00:52:54.000I remember I remember him saying about one TV show. He said if I
00:52:57.000worked on that TV show, I would tell my family that I made my
00:53:00.000money by standing in a bin sucking off stranger for penny just like whoa, the TV show I was in that TV show. Yeah,
00:53:09.000anyway, listen, well, thanks very much for joining us, mate.
00:53:12.000Appreciate your time and good luck with all of your projects.
00:53:19.000You could watch the Crickle Drinkers movie critiques and his After Hours live streams, which are worth watching.
00:53:25.000He gets into more granular stuff and conversations on YouTube, and I'm going to be going on that soon, even though I don't think I've been invited onto that.
00:53:33.000So check him out on YouTube and hopefully rumble soon.
00:55:08.000I remember when we were sort of doing stuff, like when we were doing the Trues and we were getting all stuck into UK politics and everything, like sort of saying, would you do this in Russia?
00:57:21.000That's the only reason anyone would ever use a pseudonym!
00:57:25.000So let's get into this story, particularly as CNN have had to recently admit that Donald Trump was right when he said that millions were made from the energy deals between China, Ukraine and the Biden family.
00:57:37.000And Kristen, Glenn Kessler from the Washington Post had a fact check about Joe Biden from earlier this month noting that Hunter Biden admitted in court in July that he was in fact paid substantial sums from Chinese companies.
00:57:52.000Kessler wrote Hunter Biden reported nearly 2.4 million in income in 2017 and 2.2 million
00:57:57.000in income in 2018, most of which came from Chinese or Ukrainian interests.
00:58:01.000And this directly goes against what Joe Biden said in the debate in 2020 with Donald Trump.
01:00:37.000Look out and see if you hear anyone going, oh yeah, admittedly, Joe Biden's got a bit of a, I don't know, what shall, how can I describe it?
01:01:10.000All the while building your forthcoming campaign around the corruption of your opponent.
01:01:15.000This guy's so corrupt, we have to do something about this guy.
01:01:17.000Hillary Clinton, smug and snug on Rachel Maddow. I told you this would happen.
01:01:21.000Yeah, well, should we have a little look at that foundation?
01:01:24.000And what about this dude and Hunter Biden's business dealings?
01:01:27.000With that many blind spots, I don't think you can be in charge of steering a country.
01:01:30.000But when it's convenient, they equate matters of international governance to the simple domestic relationships you might have with a child.
01:01:35.000Like when it's convenient they equate matters of international governance to the simple
01:01:40.000domestic relationships you might have with a child.
01:02:00.000What they should be saying now, actually, because for a minute I thought, oh, it's good that CNN are including this because obviously they're addressing it, but they're not addressing it.
01:02:06.000They're trying to dampen it down, dilute it, and obfuscate it live on your TV set.
01:02:11.000Donald Trump's got a blind spot on whatever it is you've got him up for this week.
01:02:14.000He's got a blind spot on wanting to win elections.
01:02:47.000The voters don't care about that, because that's you!
01:02:49.000When does the news turn into hypnotism?
01:02:52.000It's not the job of the news to tell you that you don't care about corruption and lying, is it?
01:02:57.000The job of the news is, here's some facts, I don't know what you think about it, you might think it's okay, you might go, oh, any parent would do the same, or you might for some reason, like you're a mad nihilist, Not care about it.
01:03:09.000It's not the job of the news to offer you suggestions, to sort of take you by the hand and lead you to erroneous conclusions about systemic corruption and hypocrisy at a time when democracy is apparently on the brink of collapse because of this kind of thing.
01:03:25.000Because the mainstream news, instead of saying, look, all this while we've been saying Donald Trump's corrupt and Joe Biden's fantastic, it actually seems that at the very least, Joe Biden is also corrupt.
01:03:34.000And we're going to have to look now with new eyes Without all of our blind spots we have, because we love our kids so much, at the reality of this situation.
01:03:41.000This is insidious suggestion rather than news reporting.
01:03:45.000With all this stuff going on, no wonder Joe Biden's using pseudonyms.
01:03:48.000President Joe Biden's use of multiple pseudonyms during his vice presidency appears to have hidden some of his communications from that period.
01:03:55.000Yeah, because that's the fucking point of them.
01:03:57.000Including some involving, wait for it, Ukraine policy and his son, Hunter Biden.
01:04:04.000Almost as if he's trying to obscure and conceal his involvement in Hunter Biden's business deals.
01:04:09.000The House Oversight Committee asked the National Archives on Thursday for communications involving three of Joe Biden's aliases, Robert Peters, Robin Ware, and J.R.B.
01:05:50.000It helps me build my muscle and enhance my performances.
01:05:53.000Next time you're going mano-a-mano with a member of the Kennedy family, ask not what you can do for Black Forest supplements, but what Black Forest supplements can do for you.
01:06:40.000The committee sought correspondence between those aliases, Hunter Biden and two of his former business partners, Eric Schwerin and Devin Archer.
01:06:47.000Only emails involving the aliases and Hunter Biden are presently public due to the publication of contents of a laptop he abandoned in a Delaware repair shop.
01:06:56.000He should have picked that fucking laptop up again, shouldn't he?
01:06:58.000That laptop that we were told for ages was irrelevant, that it was Russian propaganda.
01:07:01.000Everything they don't like is Russian propaganda.
01:07:04.000I'm gonna watch some Russian propaganda.
01:07:05.000I bet a lot of it's just bad stuff that Bidens have done.
01:07:08.000Several of those messages suggest Hunter Biden was looped in on preparations his father, in his capacity as Vice President, was making for talks with Ukrainian officials in 2016.
01:07:18.000At the time, Hunter Biden was working on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.
01:07:22.000In one message from May 26, 2016, for example, Hunter Biden was copied on an email to his father from a staff member who was reminding the then Vice President that the following morning he would huddle with staff before a phone call with then Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
01:07:37.000Why is Hunter Biden being copied in on government emails if Hunter Biden's business dealings are not connected to the government?
01:07:42.000It seems particularly relevant that he's on the board of Burisma and it was a call with Petro Poroshenko, the then Ukrainian president.
01:07:49.000Wait, is that the president or is that another one of my pseudonyms?
01:08:08.000What am I going to do with these kids?
01:08:10.000Hunter Biden was not frequently looped into such emails about his father's schedule, presumably only when it was relevant to his business dealings that are definitely not corrupt.
01:08:20.000His inclusion on scheduling emails with Robert Peters, his father's pseudonym at that time, appeared to happen on just a handful of dates that corresponded to developments with Ukrainian policy.
01:08:29.000Almost as if Joe Biden, or Robert Peters, scheduling details with the Ukrainian president had some relevance to Hunter Biden and his business dealings.
01:08:37.000Joe Biden had already successfully pressured Poroshenko to fire Ukraine's prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, by the time the May 27th call occurred.
01:08:45.000Shokin had been investigating the energy company that was paying Hunter Biden and his business associates significant money at the time.
01:08:53.000Luckily, that's the kind of thing that the American voters just don't care about, do you guys?
01:08:57.000You don't care about a vice president meddling in the eternal affairs of a foreign nation that later you go to war in when their son has a job working at a company within that country.
01:09:07.000That's the sort of thing that makes me, oh, I'm so bored.
01:09:09.000We've all got blind spots, right, JRP?
01:09:29.000Well, at least that explains the stink of farts in this office.
01:09:33.000In an email between Hunter Biden and Robin Ware, another Joe Biden pseudonym, It must be so confusing.
01:09:39.000Joe Biden can't even remember which direction to walk when a speech ends or not to read out the teleprompter information when he's doing a speech.
01:09:46.000God knows how he coped with multiple pseudonyms.
01:09:48.000Hunter, you better have a word with Robert Ware.
01:09:55.000Don't you talk to me like that or you'll have JRB Ware to answer through.
01:09:58.000In an email between Hunter Biden and Robin Weir, another Joe Biden pseudonym, Hunter Biden appears to press for a friend, John McGrail, to land a job he wanted in June 2014, year of the coup in Ukraine, imploring his father to consider McGrail before you fill the position.
01:10:12.000Call me right away, Joe Biden replied.
01:10:15.000Wait, McGrail, you're not another one of my pseudonyms, are you?
01:10:21.000By the following month, according to his LinkedIn page, McGrail had landed a job as a deputy counsel in the vice president's office and was later promoted to counsel.
01:10:29.000He's rising through the ranks, old McGrail.
01:10:31.000An IRS whistleblower this spring Brought forward evidence that investigators have compiled over several years about the extent of Joe Biden's role in the business, including an FBI interview with a former business partner who said discussions were had about cutting Joe Biden in on a Chinese deal if he decided against his 2020 presidential run and Joe Biden's willingness to stop by dinners to help his son close deals.
01:10:57.000Archer, another former business partner, Now I told the House Oversight Committee last month that Hunter Biden would frequently put Joe Biden on speakerphone during meetings with his foreign business associates, including some from the Ukrainian company, and confirmed that Joe Biden stopped by in person, or should I say persons, to multiple foreign business dinners.
01:11:16.000If anyone asks who was here, just say old JRB supports this deal, right?
01:11:20.000Although Robin Peters has some serious questions.
01:11:23.000It might be corrupt, especially if I do run for president.
01:11:25.000In addition, emails and bank records show that James Biden, Joe Biden's brother, oh god there's more of them, also earned substantial income from foreign sources while Joe Biden was vice president, undermining the talking point that Hunter Biden's business was completely isolated from the Biden family.
01:11:39.000It does Doesn't look that isolated, does it?
01:11:41.000But anyway, as CNN told you, there's nothing to worry about because these things are all in the legal system.
01:11:46.000They're all being investigated by good old David Weiss.
01:11:49.000Let's have a look at David Weiss's history.
01:11:51.000What was he doing before he was investigating Hunter Biden?
01:11:55.000It's not like David Weiss has any previous organisation with Moderna who have had huge profits in the last few years and maybe a shady past.
01:12:01.000Meanwhile, it's been revealed that US Attorney David Weiss, the special counsel in the DOJ's investigation into Hunter Biden, was previously involved in a Moderna lawsuit in which he defended the massive pharmaceutical company from any liability relating to patent violations.
01:12:24.000That urged the federal court to divert liability for alleged patent violations committed by Moderna to the government itself.
01:12:30.000Weiss was one of six people named on the DOJ's Statement of Interest.
01:12:34.000The Statement of Interest supported Moderna's argument that because its COVID-19 vaccines were made specifically for the government, the taxpayer should bear the liability associated with alleged patent infringements.
01:12:44.000They're acting like it's a tab on a bar.
01:13:09.000Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Weiss Special Counsel for the ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden's taxes and foreign business dealings on August the 11th.
01:13:20.000It looks like there's a set of interconnected interests, a bunch of pseudonyms, pretty plain evidence that Joe Biden to some degree or another at least supports and is perhaps significantly involved in Hunter Biden's business dealings.
01:13:30.000The mainstream media's reporting on it in a way that's akin to hypnosis.
01:13:49.000If this isn't corruption, because they can sort of weevil their way through it, if they can nitpick their way through the various crosshairs and tangled thickets of what appears to be corruption to a normal person, that's even worse.
01:14:01.000That shows how deeply corrupt the system itself is, that it affords this level of corruption without consequence.