Stay Free - Russel Brand - GOP Debates: The REAL Reason Trump Won’t Be There! - Stay Free #196

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00:00:49.000 Hello there, you Awakening Wanderers.

00:00:51.000 Thanks for joining me on Stay Free with Russell Brand on this historic day when Rumble will be bringing you the Republican primaries.

00:00:58.000 But what kind of Republican primary can we gear when the primary Republican ain't even gonna be there?

00:01:05.000 Is he even now gonna be dropping an interview with O-tuck-a-tuck? 0.96

00:01:10.000 Is that what's going to happen?

00:01:11.000 Let us know in the chat.

00:01:12.000 If you're watching us on YouTube, remember, we'll be here for 15 minutes, but then our special guest will be joining us.

00:01:18.000 It's the Critical Drinker, one of the most popular guests we've ever had on this show.

00:01:22.000 And by God, we've had some very popular guests.

00:01:24.000 He wears his sunglasses when he does his interviews like this.

00:01:29.000 I'm personally a fan of his YouTube channel, Critical Drinker.

00:01:32.000 Let us know if you are.

00:01:33.000 We'll be talking to him about why Hollywood, the culture war, the current strikes.

00:01:38.000 Snow White.

00:01:40.000 Gonna talk to him about Snow White?

00:01:41.000 Gonna talk to him about Barbie?

00:01:42.000 Gonna talk to him about Barbie Heimer?

00:01:44.000 Gonna talk to him about the emergent models?

00:01:47.000 Is it the end of the franchise?

00:01:48.000 Is it the end of the Marvel multiverse?

00:01:52.000 You know, cinematic universe, all that stuff.

00:01:54.000 Yeah, we'll be talking to him about a lot of things.

00:01:57.000 I do a lot of research.

00:01:58.000 People don't realise how hard I work.

00:02:00.000 I don't think you understand.

00:02:01.000 Do you know what I go through just to keep this show on the road?

00:02:06.000 If you're watching us on Rumble, press the red button and join us on Locals.

00:02:09.000 You'll find like-minded people there.

00:02:11.000 You'll find independent, free speakers.

00:02:13.000 Freely speaking.

00:02:14.000 That's what we're interested in.

00:02:15.000 There's no problem arguing, is there?

00:02:17.000 No.

00:02:18.000 Under any circumstances?

00:02:20.000 Well, you can, I think, respect all disagreements.

00:02:22.000 Perhaps 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.

00:02:35.000 but fortunately there seems to be a broad consensus in the area of critical medical care,

00:02:38.000 particularly with regards to pandemics, which we'll be talking about also when we are exclusively on Rumble.

00:02:44.000 If we get round to it, let's see what's going on in the primaries.

00:02:51.000 And later on also, we're going to be talking to you about Joe Biden's numerous pseudonyms.

00:02:55.000 How does he remember them all?

00:02:56.000 Because I think he struggles to remember just the normal Joe Biden one.

00:03:00.000 And what his son's doing for a living seems to be baffling to the poor old codger.

00:03:05.000 Also, he struggles to remember things to say when dealing with a country dealing with a massive disaster.

00:03:11.000 Here's some things to say.

00:03:12.000 I 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.

00:03:19.000 It's something that we're going to immediately remedy.

00:03:21.000 And if we find out that privately run electrical companies are in any way culpable, we'll ensure that they are penalised.

00:03:28.000 We are here for you.

00:03:29.000 There's no point in being an American if in times of crisis America can't put their arms around you. We are going to make America great

00:03:37.000 again. I can't use that catchphrase.

00:03:39.000 That catchphrase has been all burned out, like Joe Biden's Corvette nearly was, because

00:03:46.000 that is what he said, to placate and console a population in grief. What kind of president

00:03:52.000 says things like that? Your president. But who's going to be next?

00:03:56.000 Well, let's have a look at some of the contenders from the Republican pie.

00:03:59.000 While the main man himself may not be available, our competitors over there on the mainstream, Fox News, are looking at their candidates.

00:04:07.000 Let's see.

00:04:07.000 Remember, already on our show, tell me, who's been your favourite presidential candidate that you've seen here on Stay Free?

00:04:13.000 Is it RFK?

00:04:14.000 Love RFK.

00:04:15.000 My pull-up opponent.

00:04:16.000 Yes.

00:04:17.000 I'm coming for you, RFK!

00:04:18.000 You know I'm in a pull-up competition to raise money for his campaign.

00:04:21.000 If we get to $100,000, the pull-up competition is gonna go ahead.

00:04:25.000 Sometimes 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.

00:04:37.000 And that is what's going to happen.

00:04:37.000 Yes.

00:04:39.000 Is 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.

00:04:49.000 Not like Vivek Ramaswamy, who also came on here, crunch-crunch with the apple, but, and playing tennis, he crunch-crunched on an apple.

00:04:56.000 I like him a lot, I've stayed in touch with him.

00:04:57.000 Have you?

00:04:58.000 Yeah, I'm talking to him about our own moves, our own political moves over here in the UK.

00:05:02.000 You should have done little challenges with all of them.

00:05:04.000 You know, like you've got a challenge with RFK?

00:05:06.000 What would I do with... Right, so with Vivek, tennis.

00:05:08.000 Well, again, don't you want to start winning some of these challenges?

00:05:11.000 I want to win them all.

00:05:12.000 Right.

00:05:12.000 And that's why I'm choosing ones that they have declared experts in, because of sweet lady hubris.

00:05:19.000 Like the nitwit I am, I'm taking them... Sorry we're late, by the way.

00:05:21.000 Sorry we started late.

00:05:22.000 My children are here, and I think that's the fault, really, is it?

00:05:26.000 Well, you're just blaming your kids.

00:05:28.000 Is that not what you do as a parent?

00:05:29.000 I'm not sure it is.

00:05:30.000 It's my children's fault.

00:05:31.000 Like, you know, I blame my parents for everything, or my psychosis, but now I'm getting a bit too old for that.

00:05:37.000 Moving on to the children.

00:05:38.000 It's never my fault.

00:05:40.000 I'm like, just on time's string, and I'll blame the things either side of me.

00:05:44.000 Parents, children, parents, children.

00:05:47.000 That's my little way for it.

00:05:49.000 Ron DeSantis' fault for this.

00:05:51.000 I've entered an origami competition against Ron DeSantis.

00:05:55.000 A pudding of your fingers licking competition.

00:05:57.000 That's what Ron DeSantis apparently does, although that's never been proven, has it?

00:06:01.000 What side of it is that bad?

00:06:07.000 In India, they have even things like rice and curry, you eat that with your fingers.

00:06:12.000 In fact, spoons, chopsticks, Get it out my way! 1.00

00:06:16.000 Right.

00:06:17.000 Eat your puddings with your fingers.

00:06:18.000 Yeah.

00:06:19.000 Put in your thumb and say, what a good boy am I! 0.99

00:06:22.000 Not just for me, not just for Florida, but for the whole of damn America. 0.97

00:06:26.000 Because one of the things with Ron DeSantis is they say he ain't got enough snap, crackle and pop. 0.98

00:06:31.000 Humour.

00:06:32.000 That's what they want.

00:06:33.000 Yeah, it is humour.

00:06:35.000 It's not snap, crackle and pop, which is a catchphrase of a breakfast cereal.

00:06:38.000 That's right.

00:06:39.000 No one wants that.

00:06:39.000 No, they don't want that.

00:06:40.000 Probably too much sugar in it.

00:06:41.000 That's going to be one of the big things, is can he be likeable and a bit funny?

00:06:45.000 Because that's what people are evidently looking for.

00:06:47.000 Well, Vivek is apparently up at number two now because of this likeability, though he does play tennis in black socks.

00:06:52.000 I'm not sure that that's right under really any circumstances.

00:06:55.000 And 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.

00:07:04.000 He's also, he's at her head height.

00:07:06.000 I know.

00:07:07.000 I don't know how he manages to get himself up at her head height.

00:07:11.000 It's like he's floating in midair at her head height.

00:07:13.000 Yes.

00:07:14.000 It'll astonish you.

00:07:15.000 We're going to have a look at it.

00:07:16.000 We're going to be on YouTube for a few more minutes.

00:07:18.000 then we'll be going over onto the other place, the home of sweet lady free speech to talk

00:07:23.000 to Will Jordan, aka the Critical Drinker. If you've got questions for him, press the

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00:07:32.000 rumbling, subscribe to Rumble and get your questions for Critical Drinker on the chat

00:07:36.000 and I'll ask the ones that I spot and stuff. They go shooting by. Anyway, they say I want

00:07:39.000 a leader, not a character, says Carrie-Anne Salvey.

00:07:42.000 Interesting.

00:07:43.000 Yeah, I want a leader, not a character.

00:07:47.000 Tell me the difference, mate, in the chat and we'll get into that.

00:07:50.000 Let's have a look at Fox News on the primaries.

00:07:51.000 They'll be here on Rumble as well, so stay tuned because the presidential primaries are on Rumble later.

00:07:57.000 Let's have a look at one Foxy Lady. 1.00

00:08:00.000 Tomorrow marks the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign and tonight we're getting a preview of what we can expect.

00:08:07.000 It's a bit too quiet, the audio in here.

00:08:09.000 I can't hear it properly.

00:08:10.000 And 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.

00:08:19.000 Well, 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.

00:08:27.000 One of these people has to trick his way in, like saying, I'm doing well in a good poll.

00:08:32.000 And they say, well, that poll don't count.

00:08:33.000 He goes, it should do, though.

00:08:34.000 Anyway, he says it later on in the news.

00:08:36.000 Fox News says this is where the candidates will be positioned for the first debate of the 2020 election.

00:08:41.000 Well, that's just where they're going to actually stand.

00:08:43.000 Is that where you're like, OK, DeSantis and Ramaswamy, they're center stage.

00:08:47.000 I suppose that's the indication is they're the most important.

00:08:50.000 Yes.

00:08:51.000 Do you suppose?

00:08:52.000 How do they come up with this?

00:08:53.000 Is it based on?

00:08:54.000 Like a dinner party.

00:08:56.000 Don't put DeSantis next to Penny Pence.

00:08:56.000 Right.

00:08:59.000 Oh no, we have done it.

00:09:00.000 He's next to Penny Pence.

00:09:01.000 They're going to quarrel.

00:09:02.000 And then Christy, isn't that the one that Donald Trump called an FP?

00:09:06.000 Correct.

00:09:07.000 And it rhymes with catsick.

00:09:09.000 Kind of.

00:09:12.000 That is that one, I think.

00:09:13.000 Yes, it is that.

00:09:14.000 Anyway, he can't do very well.

00:09:16.000 Look at Burgum.

00:09:17.000 He's dressed like Hannibal from the A-Team.

00:09:20.000 He's not even wearing proper president clothes.

00:09:22.000 You've got no chance, mate.

00:09:24.000 ...24 Republican presidential race, with Donald Trump choosing to skip the event.

00:09:31.000 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will be center stage.

00:09:33.000 Standing beside him is rising star Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:09:38.000 The first-time candidate...

00:09:39.000 He got his top off for tennis.

00:09:40.000 Is that normal?

00:09:41.000 Well, I think he's probably pretty hot where he is, I would imagine.

00:09:41.000 Topless tennis?

00:09:44.000 Getting hot under the collar.

00:09:46.000 Topless tennis in the black socks.

00:09:47.000 I mean, you took your top off for literally no reason.

00:09:49.000 There are sometimes reasons.

00:09:50.000 Oh, OK.

00:09:52.000 Sometimes the reason is to show these little guys.

00:09:55.000 Oh, I see.

00:09:56.000 Yeah.

00:09:56.000 Yeah?

00:09:57.000 But today, got them under wraps!

00:09:59.000 Okay.

00:09:59.000 Unless 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.

00:10:08.000 Plus, we've got loads of fantastic merchandise opportunities, free pair of underpants.

00:10:12.000 What?!

00:10:13.000 And do they get the, uh... They get the... Yeah, and also I will flash the guys at will.

00:10:19.000 At your will, not mine.

00:10:20.000 Video of him playing tennis and calling it debate prep.

00:10:25.000 This is mad as well.

00:10:26.000 This is mad.

00:10:28.000 When did life turn into this?

00:10:31.000 I'm not criticising Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:10:33.000 I think he's the first sort of modern political candidate.

00:10:38.000 Whereas 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.

00:10:57.000 I can't think of another one.

00:10:59.000 Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:11:00.000 I guess anyone else that's that age group.

00:11:02.000 I don't think anyone else is at this point in either party.

00:11:06.000 He, I think, understands the discourse and almost the energy.

00:11:10.000 Almost something that's hard to define.

00:11:12.000 Yeah, I understand that.

00:11:13.000 It's just that he's got no political experience, isn't it?

00:11:15.000 And you wonder, as it carries on, whether that will make a difference.

00:11:19.000 When he came on here, he said he's more Trump than Trump.

00:11:21.000 He said, I'll Trump Trump up the trumpet.

00:11:24.000 He was like saying that I'm Trumpier than him.

00:11:26.000 I'm what Trump was in 2016.

00:11:29.000 He then said it will be better for Trump because Trump won't be able to pardon himself, but I'll pardon Trump.

00:11:33.000 But he also said that he would consider pardoning Hunter Biden, which I think he's had a lot of pushback against.

00:11:38.000 And that's kind of what I mean about the experience.

00:11:41.000 I think someone like Trump knows how to deal with these situations.

00:11:44.000 He's going to jail.

00:11:45.000 He's going to lock him up.

00:11:46.000 Like 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.

00:12:00.000 Because you'd be in jail.

00:12:03.000 That's so funny!

00:12:04.000 And some of the meanest things he says are funny.

00:12:07.000 And 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.

00:12:20.000 Once 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.

00:12:27.000 They do something heroic in the first five minutes.

00:12:29.000 That yields the famous phrase, save the cat.

00:12:31.000 You'll notice in Hollywood movies, this is something you can talk to Critical Drinker about in a minute.

00:12:34.000 They have, like, the protagonist do something that makes you think, oh, he's a nice guy.

00:12:37.000 Like, in a Tom Cruise movie, he'll, like, pick up a kid or do something nice.

00:12:41.000 You know, some little gesture that makes you align with them.

00:12:44.000 But, 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.

00:12:53.000 They say the way you get by that is they're funny.

00:12:55.000 If someone's funny, you think, hmm.

00:12:58.000 And 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.

00:13:09.000 There's something about it that sort of anchors you.

00:13:12.000 Well, Trump supporters love him more than they love their own family.

00:13:14.000 And their own God.

00:13:15.000 And their own God.

00:13:16.000 Their own God.

00:13:17.000 So, there you go.

00:13:18.000 You're good now.

00:13:19.000 You are him!

00:13:20.000 That's right.

00:13:21.000 Let's have a look at Vivek Ramaswamy though.

00:13:23.000 He's bringing some millennial zest to the contest.

00:13:28.000 This video shows him working out with his wife, labelled more debate prep.

00:13:33.000 I'd call that a classic burpee they're doing there. 0.99

00:13:35.000 Do you hate to do a burpee?

00:13:37.000 It's the worst exercise.

00:13:38.000 Who here likes doing burpees in the chat?

00:13:40.000 It's the worst exercise, so credit to him for doing that.

00:13:43.000 I mean, probably I'd do a burpee competition with Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:13:47.000 The last thing you want to do after you've done a push-up and a jump forward is a jump up in the air.

00:13:47.000 I hate that.

00:13:51.000 What a massive downer.

00:13:53.000 I reckon I could take him in a rapping competition.

00:13:56.000 Oh, that's what I want to see. 1.00

00:13:58.000 You bastard! 1.00

00:13:58.000 That's what I wanted to say. 1.00

00:14:00.000 I didn't like the way you said that.

00:14:01.000 I feel like you would sort of sit there watching him.

00:14:04.000 Like, with a cigarette.

00:14:04.000 Yes, I would.

00:14:05.000 Oh, very good.

00:14:06.000 Oh, this is wonderful.

00:14:08.000 Look at these two ninnies, wrapping their way out of public relevance. 1.00

00:14:12.000 I'd be mainly focusing on one of the ninnies. 1.00

00:14:14.000 Which ninny will you be? 0.99

00:14:15.000 Oh, I don't know. 0.98

00:14:16.000 What ninny you gonna be looking at? 0.73

00:14:18.000 This last week on The Issue Is... What's your strategy for debate night? 0.89

00:14:22.000 My best form of debate prep is actually talking to him.

00:14:24.000 Look how near he is.

00:14:25.000 How's he even gotten up there?

00:14:26.000 Like firstly, he's floating about four foot in the air, like, and then look how...

00:14:30.000 That's his best form of debate, he just said.

00:14:32.000 Look at that.

00:14:33.000 See, if they do reintroduce COVID restrictions, Vivek Ramaswamy's in a hell of a lot of trouble

00:14:37.000 because I'd say he's only two fingers away from a voter there.

00:14:41.000 I beg your pardon?

00:14:42.000 I'm saying he's two fingers from a voter.

00:14:43.000 There's nothing wrong with that, baby.

00:14:45.000 I don't like being in a cloistered corner office.

00:14:48.000 You better have good breath.

00:14:49.000 Yes.

00:14:50.000 You gotta have minty fresh breath.

00:14:52.000 You do that.

00:14:53.000 Your oral hygiene routine's gotta be like mine.

00:14:56.000 Scrapey.

00:14:58.000 What's the scrapey? 0.94

00:15:00.000 Scrape the tongue. 0.89

00:15:00.000 Don't let the tongue gather no moss. 0.89

00:15:04.000 Keep the tongue pristine clean.

00:15:05.000 What are you scraping it with?

00:15:06.000 Clean the teeth.

00:15:06.000 I gotta say it looks like a little brass hook.

00:15:10.000 Do you remember Abu Hamza?

00:15:11.000 Yes.

00:15:12.000 He was a Abu Hamza. 1.00

00:15:13.000 I wonder where he went.

00:15:14.000 I kept told of him.

00:15:16.000 He 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.

00:15:26.000 Anyway, I use a hook.

00:15:28.000 It's not a hook like that.

00:15:29.000 It's more of a U, like a horseshoe-shaped item made out of brass, I'd say.

00:15:34.000 Down the tongue, tongue minty fresh.

00:15:36.000 Then clean with a toothpaste that doesn't contain any dodgy stuff.

00:15:40.000 Right, well done.

00:15:41.000 You 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.

00:15:46.000 No, best not.

00:15:47.000 And then, um, and then I use a nice toothbrush, get that nice and fast and clean. 0.99

00:15:53.000 Now, 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. 1.00

00:16:00.000 You stink! 1.00

00:16:01.000 What's that mole? 1.00

00:16:02.000 You've got a hair growing out there! 1.00

00:16:04.000 You're a pig! 1.00

00:16:05.000 Look, you're not even my children. 1.00

00:16:06.000 Get out of here! 0.99

00:16:07.000 Like, you know, that's what my kids, they cut you down hard.

00:16:09.000 That's what she was saying to Vivek then.

00:16:11.000 WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

00:16:12.000 THERE'S A HAIR GROWING OUT THERE!

00:16:12.000 GET OFF ME!

00:16:14.000 I'LL NEVER VOTE FOR YOU!

00:16:15.000 Uh, let's have a look how this go though.

00:16:18.000 Getting 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.

00:16:24.000 Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie plans on attacking Donald Trump even though Trump says he's gonna skip all the debates.

00:16:31.000 If he shows up at the third one, which I suspect he might, because he's going to get pretty damaged.

00:16:36.000 I was thinking about this.

00:16:37.000 He doesn't need to go to those debates.

00:16:38.000 I don't think it does damage him.

00:16:39.000 He can only lose because he's the one where like, you know, people, the story will become if someone takes down Trump or criticizes Trump.

00:16:49.000 That's the story.

00:16:49.000 That's it.

00:16:50.000 Whereas he can just starve them of oxygen.

00:16:53.000 I don't understand what Chris Christie's strategy and plan is here.

00:16:56.000 To attack the person who's so far ahead of everyone else.

00:16:58.000 Impossible.

00:16:59.000 Nothing can be done.

00:17:00.000 Nothing can be done.

00:17:02.000 It's pointless.

00:17:04.000 It's extraordinary.

00:17:05.000 He's an indefatigable, unimpeachable, can't-be-brought-downable phenomenon.

00:17:11.000 Because that's the issue with DeSantis, isn't it?

00:17:12.000 It's been so difficult for him when asked about Trump, which he continuously is doing.

00:17:18.000 What's his answer to him?

00:17:19.000 Does he back him?

00:17:21.000 Does he push against him?

00:17:22.000 What does he do?

00:17:23.000 How do you keep certain people on course?

00:17:25.000 I'll say it in person.

00:17:26.000 You guys, let me know what you think about this in the chat.

00:17:28.000 RFK handles it so well.

00:17:29.000 I 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.

00:17:38.000 And he said, he calls in President Trump, he goes, no I would never run with President

00:17:44.000 Trump, of course not, but I welcome the support of people.

00:17:50.000 So he handled it sort of politely I would say, and gracefully.

00:17:55.000 Maybe it's different if you are directly opposing Trump for the candidacy of your party in a

00:18:01.000 way that he isn't.

00:18:02.000 RFK in a sense I suppose has, I'm not saying that he has nothing to lose, but he's an opponent,

00:18:07.000 He's a person who's barely able to communicate well.

00:18:11.000 I mean, look at this Fox News report on... In fact, gosh, we better get off.

00:18:14.000 We should get on to... Listen, we gotta get off.

00:18:16.000 I'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.

00:18:23.000 Let's get over onto the home of free speech.

00:18:26.000 Listen, 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.

00:18:35.000 If you're watching this on Rumble, press the red button and join us over on Locals.

00:18:39.000 Let's have a look at how Fox News reported on... I want to see that.

00:18:43.000 What I want to see, right, Is the clip where mainstream say that Joe Biden handled it well.

00:18:49.000 Yes, CNN.

00:18:50.000 Apparently they're saying that Biden said the right things.

00:18:52.000 And then we're going to look at those right things that he said.

00:18:54.000 Let's have a look at that.

00:18:56.000 President 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.

00:19:10.000 And he said the right things.

00:19:13.000 Well let's have a look at those right things because I think he said mental stuff.

00:19:16.000 Look this is one of the weirdest performances or appearances that I've seen from Joe Biden.

00:19:22.000 I feel that Joe Biden backs himself as a kind of folky homespun man of the people.

00:19:29.000 I 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.

00:19:35.000 Whenever he like what I've realized is that Statesmen that seem like cold bureaucratic edifices of inhumane data are not appealing, plainly, obviously.

00:19:46.000 So I feel that there's an obligation, an intention, an agenda to appear personable, ordinary, normal.

00:19:55.000 But 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

00:20:26.000 I don't want to compare difficulties, but we have... Don't then, because I've just had a fire, but let's hear you.

00:20:33.000 A little sense, Jill and I, what it's like to lose a home.

00:20:38.000 Years ago, now 15 years ago, I was in Washington doing Meet the Press.

00:20:44.000 Look at the fellow there with the ukulele.

00:20:45.000 Even he knows, oh, this isn't going to be good.

00:20:47.000 This is not a good thing to say.

00:20:49.000 No, no.

00:20:50.000 It was a sunny Sunday.

00:20:53.000 Lightning struck at home on a little lake that's outside of our home, on a lake, a big pond.

00:21:01.000 Also, like, inadvertently revealing that you've got a massive lake on your property.

00:21:06.000 This could have happened to any of you lake owners out there.

00:21:09.000 Luckily it missed the yacht, hit the jetty, went very near my ark of treasures.

00:21:15.000 But he realised very quickly, lake doesn't sound good, let's change it to pond.

00:21:18.000 I'm surprised he didn't say paddling pool.

00:21:20.000 It was more like a tiny puddle, really, with a long duck in it.

00:21:24.000 me, Hunter, JRB, all of my aliases, we just sat around a puddle warming our toes.

00:21:31.000 And hit a wire and came up underneath our home into the heating ducts, the air conditioning

00:21:38.000 duct.

00:21:39.000 To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my 67 Corvette.

00:21:46.000 It's weird.

00:21:48.000 Almost.

00:21:49.000 Almost is the word that's a problem there.

00:21:51.000 You can't say that.

00:21:51.000 Have you seen what Hawaii looks like?

00:21:53.000 It's been devastated.

00:21:54.000 It's post-apocalyptic.

00:21:56.000 It doesn't even make sense that ongoing military support to Ukraine is draining taxpayer money at such an extraordinary rate.

00:22:05.000 Even though I'm sure all of us would agree that Ukrainian people ought to be supported.

00:22:09.000 There is a disaster in America that demands immediate aid and attention.

00:22:14.000 What it don't require is a man in a lay saying that something almost happened to him once and he very nearly lost a sports car.

00:22:23.000 It's extraordinary, it's misjudged, it's crazy.

00:22:27.000 Shall we get straight to our guest now?

00:22:28.000 We love free speech, maybe we'll do free speech with... Can I tell you one thing?

00:22:32.000 Breaking news that I've just uncovered.

00:22:32.000 Yeah?

00:22:34.000 Go on.

00:22:35.000 So we know, we had the news that... I'm putting my sunglasses on for Critical Drinker.

00:22:39.000 So Hawaiian Electric's grid experienced immense stress for a prolonged time due to a new report.

00:22:44.000 There were dozens and dozens of major faults on the grid and any of those could have been the ignition source for a fire.

00:22:48.000 Obviously it's been claimed that this was climate change.

00:22:50.000 We're now seeing that it could be Hawaiian Electric's.

00:22:53.000 Do you know who the biggest shareholder of Hawaiian Electric are?

00:22:56.000 Is it Blackrock?

00:22:57.000 It's Blackrock.

00:22:58.000 It's Blackrock.

00:22:59.000 I don't know how I did that.

00:23:00.000 Must be because I've been paying attention to our own content.

00:23:05.000 If you want to get deeper into the experience with us, if you want to be part of this movement, press the red button.

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00:23:11.000 We do meditations, but we do more than that.

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00:23:17.000 We're building a revolution over here!

00:23:19.000 I tells ya!

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00:23:22.000 This is how it starts!

00:23:22.000 This is it!

00:23:24.000 Listen, I'm very excited to introduce our next guest.

00:23:27.000 Last time he came on, you lot got double excited.

00:23:29.000 We got fantastic views and an incredible response.

00:23:32.000 The great YouTuber and movie critic, Critical Drinker, who's renowned for his abrupt, brilliant, persuasive, and abrasive reviews of movies, is joining us now.

00:23:42.000 His real name's Will Jordan.

00:23:43.000 Alright, Will, how's it going, mate?

00:23:45.000 Good man, it's good to be back.

00:23:47.000 I feel like I was only on a couple of weeks ago, and here I am, right again.

00:23:50.000 We're trotting you right out like a gorgeous trollop, because the fact is, people love you.

00:23:56.000 I had to put the sunglasses on when you mentioned them as well.

00:23:59.000 I was like, okay, I'll find them here somewhere.

00:24:02.000 Be embarrassed about it?

00:24:03.000 Let's do the whole interview in our sunglasses.

00:24:05.000 Hey, I will take mine off in a minute.

00:24:07.000 We'll just try and take it off organically like it ain't no thing.

00:24:10.000 Hey mate, you went to the United States recently.

00:24:13.000 Have you noticed that you've got a following over there?

00:24:15.000 Were you recognized?

00:24:16.000 Did people say, call me now and use your slogans at you?

00:24:21.000 More times than I can count.

00:24:23.000 Yeah, it got to the point where I couldn't just go down to the hotel bar for a quiet drink.

00:24:27.000 You would pretty much get ambushed by at least three or four or five or six people.

00:24:32.000 But, you know, that's part of the fun of going to things like this.

00:24:34.000 It was good fun.

00:24:36.000 Met loads of people when I was out there, and they were all, like, super positive and super supportive, so I can't say fairer than that.

00:24:42.000 We did a poll earlier.

00:24:43.000 We asked whose view on movies do you trust more?

00:24:47.000 Will Jordan, The Critical Drinker or Rotten Tomatoes?

00:24:50.000 Where's the result of that poll?

00:24:51.000 I hope it goes in your favour as it's going to be difficult having you here as a guest.

00:24:54.000 I can't see that guys.

00:24:54.000 What does it say?

00:24:55.000 Can you go full screen for me because I can't see it on that mouse screen.

00:24:58.000 88%!

00:24:58.000 Look at that!

00:25:00.000 I've squeezed and pulled and hurt my neck in 1988, like Rayman himself.

00:25:05.000 What were you doing in America?

00:25:06.000 Were you at some sort of Comic-Con type thing?

00:25:10.000 I 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.

00:25:19.000 So we all hung out there for the weekend and it was great, man.

00:25:22.000 Really good fun.

00:25:23.000 Like 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?

00:25:49.000 There's some complexity when there are cultural issues involved, as there often are with your reviews and your content.

00:25:54.000 I 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!

00:26:02.000 I was on the edge of my seat when you murdered that person!

00:26:06.000 This guy's committed!

00:26:08.000 I watched the review of the Snow White reboot.

00:26:14.000 Tell us why is it that that particular project is causing you so much, I don't know, agitation?

00:26:22.000 Well, it's not so much a review of the reboot because it hasn't come out yet.

00:26:25.000 But I was commenting on the backlash that seems to be happening towards the actress that's playing Snow White.

00:26:32.000 Because 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.

00:26:38.000 And so people have got more time to go back over old interviews, old pieces of news.

00:26:43.000 And a lot of the things that have come out recently have been this actress, I think her name's Rachel Zegler,

00:26:49.000 talking about not just the original movie, but the new version that she's gonna be playing.

00:26:55.000 And I don't know how else to describe it, man.

00:26:57.000 Her tone and her attitude is just one of absolute contempt for the original movie.

00:27:02.000 And I guess you've got to be aware of the fact that this was one of the most beloved animated films

00:27:07.000 of all time.

00:27:08.000 It's literally the movie that established Disney as a movie making studio.

00:27:13.000 So it's been enjoyed by generations of audiences and her attitude towards it is,

00:27:19.000 it's really outdated.

00:27:22.000 It's terrible towards women. 1.00

00:27:25.000 The love interest in that is basically a stalker.

00:27:29.000 And so it's a terrible movie that we're going to update for modern audiences.

00:27:35.000 And I don't think people are quite embracing the message that she's trying to sell to them.

00:27:39.000 I've got so many questions about this.

00:27:41.000 Here they are.

00:27:42.000 On one hand, it's odd to consider that the desecration of a cultural artefact is anything other than a commercial enterprise.

00:27:55.000 But similarly, oddly, why is that a problem?

00:27:58.000 Because we know it's only about trying to Re-galvanize a sort of a dead piece of IP and drag some more money out of it.

00:28:06.000 So, you know, what would reverence matter?

00:28:09.000 For example, take Pinocchio, a sort of a comparable remake.

00:28:13.000 I mean, in my view, it was that that was a really bad film.

00:28:16.000 It didn't add anything to the original story.

00:28:18.000 It stayed quite faithful to it.

00:28:20.000 It 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.

00:28:33.000 I want to add this to it a little bit.

00:28:35.000 Like, you know, I made a remake of a brilliant film that didn't do well.

00:28:39.000 Like, ARFA was a fantastic movie.

00:28:41.000 People loved it.

00:28:42.000 It was right on that line between a cult movie and a very successful movie.

00:28:45.000 And it was a cool film and I really liked it.

00:28:47.000 And when I saw back a lot of the one that I made, I thought, oh no, this is too cheesy and commercial

00:28:55.000 and it's not got edge to it.

00:28:58.000 It's not like someone here saying, I loved your version, thank you very much.

00:29:01.000 That's sweet of you.

00:29:02.000 And that's my mum.

00:29:03.000 And I found myself thinking, cause it was attacked at the time,

00:29:10.000 well, you still got the original, like the original ones there.

00:29:13.000 There's a bunch of question here.

00:29:16.000 Is it that you object to utilizing a project that has a lot of affection and then disparaging it

00:29:18.000 to utilizing a project that has a lot of affection and then disparaging it and taking the piss 0.69

00:29:24.000 out of it in ways that are more apparent when you literally take characters like Han Solo

00:29:24.000 and taking the piss out of it in ways that are more apparent

00:29:27.000 when you literally take characters like Han Solo and like mug him off or whatever,

00:29:29.000 and like mug him off or whatever or Harrison Ford in any of his roles in fact and then

00:29:31.000 or Harrison Ford in any of his roles, in fact, and then like mug him off in the new version of it

00:29:34.000 like mug him off in the new version of it and like sort of use the acclaim, use the

00:29:40.000 audience but don't respect their fandom, devotion and expenditure. Is that what you object to?

00:29:47.000 I would say like with Snow White right, I think some of it is because she's called Snow

00:29:50.000 White and it's a woman of colour that's playing her and I think that don't matter because 1.00

00:29:55.000 the whiteness of Snow White is not fundamental to the message of the film although it equates

00:30:01.000 whiteness with innocence which people that are critiquing this from a racial perspective

00:30:04.000 would want to analyze and scrutinize I'm sure. It don't matter if Snow White, what the colour

00:30:11.000 of Snow White is, is irrelevant I would say other than the coincidence of her name and

00:30:17.000 a historic and potentially racist therefore and what I want to say correlation between

00:30:21.000 the word white and the idea of whiteness. So there's a lot there. 0.97

00:30:25.000 I'm saying like, you know, is there a requirement for racial sensitivity?

00:30:28.000 Should there be a sort of an evolution of roles available to actors of colour?

00:30:32.000 When the whole bloody thing's just a commercial enterprise anyway, what the hell does it matter?

00:30:37.000 And 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?

00:30:47.000 So I know there's a lot in there, Will, but I thought...

00:30:49.000 You've given me a lot to work with on this one.

00:30:51.000 Okay, cool.

00:30:52.000 Right, let's crack on with this.

00:30:53.000 So I think the race swapping of the actress isn't that important to it.

00:30:58.000 I 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.

00:31:08.000 But you can Probably, yeah, you can change that.

00:31:10.000 I 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.

00:31:10.000 Fine.

00:31:21.000 They have done away with that, as Rachel Zegler has informed us, that it's no longer about true love.

00:31:25.000 It's about her quest to realize her own power and her own authority and grow into the role of ruler, which is... 0.81

00:31:33.000 You know, it's it's not necessarily something a protagonist aspires to.

00:31:37.000 That's more the kind of thing that the antagonist of a story wants.

00:31:40.000 They want power at any cost.

00:31:43.000 And also, even just little things like the it was Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

00:31:48.000 Apparently, Peter Dinklage got really offended by the dwarves from the original movie.

00:31:53.000 And so they're no longer dwarves.

00:31:54.000 They are magical forest creatures.

00:31:56.000 So all of those things combined like each of them on their own isn't a huge deal.

00:32:00.000 But when you add them all together, you've got a Snow White who isn't white. 0.71

00:32:04.000 You've got dwarves, seven dwarves who aren't dwarves anymore.

00:32:07.000 And you've got a story that used to be about the quest for true love and the redeeming quality of that.

00:32:13.000 Now it's just a quest for power and control.

00:32:16.000 All of those things added together, it doesn't sound like it's even related to Snow White.

00:32:20.000 It's like a name only.

00:32:22.000 And 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?

00:32:30.000 Just do that.

00:32:31.000 Yeah 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.

00:32:53.000 Like, 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.

00:33:02.000 You know, like, I remember when that come out, there was like merch that was a sort of like a t-shirt

00:33:07.000 that had all the tattoos on and stuff.

00:33:09.000 And people said, them tattoos are totally sacred in, it wasn't Hawaiian was it, it was Pacific Islanders.

00:33:14.000 And it was just like, those tattoos are super sacred and you can't, and what I think in the end

00:33:20.000 starts to become revealed is it's the cultural machine is so devoid of values and purpose that,

00:33:28.000 and there is now such a, because of channels like yours, such potential for critiques and scrutiny

00:33:35.000 that would not be applied by a compliant partnering media industry

00:33:41.000 where everything's just a big frenzy of promotion essentially, that it becomes very difficult.

00:33:48.000 In a sense, you can't have monoculture anymore.

00:33:51.000 And monoculture is what is trying to be maintained, I believe.

00:33:55.000 So 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.

00:34:05.000 They can't take the economic risks of that.

00:34:08.000 when they go around the world sort of pillaging mythologies, whether they're Bavarian or Pacific Island or Chinese, 1.00

00:34:16.000 they're gonna run into cultural problems because ultimately the agenda is to make money.

00:34:22.000 And so it's going to be exploitative.

00:34:25.000 I think part of the problem is that these live action remakes that they've done of all their classic animated movies,

00:34:31.000 by and large, they've been really financially successful.

00:34:34.000 And initially, at least, they stuck fairly closely to the original stories like Cinderella, Beauty and the

00:34:40.000 Beast.

00:34:41.000 They changed tiny little things here and there, but for the most part, it was the same movie.

00:34:45.000 It was just redone in live action, and they were making like a billion dollars apiece.

00:34:49.000 It's tough to turn that down because it's just a money printing machine.

00:34:53.000 We've got the story.

00:34:54.000 We're just going to redo it.

00:34:56.000 Easy.

00:34:56.000 The 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.

00:35:05.000 they did it with the Little Mermaid, where they had Ariel save herself.

00:35:11.000 She saves the day rather than Prince Eric getting to do it, because that was an old-fashioned aspect of the story.

00:35:19.000 The princess has to save herself now.

00:35:21.000 She can't be saved by a man.

00:35:22.000 And it's getting really extreme now when you get into the level of Snow White,

00:35:27.000 where they seem to have changed the fundamental aspects of the story.

00:35:31.000 So this is where people are now starting to push back against it,

00:35:34.000 because you're not just taking classic stories and giving them a new lick of paint.

00:35:38.000 You are fundamentally changing what they are and what they represent.

00:35:42.000 I've got two daughters, and I am supportive of stories and characters,

00:35:48.000 as we discussed last time when we talked about the action genre and good action heroes,

00:35:54.000 like out of Alien and Terminator and those kind of 80s and 90s female action leads. 0.64

00:36:00.000 Um...

00:36:01.000 But 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.

00:36:15.000 I 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

00:36:48.000 Masculine and feminine aspects of our own identity.

00:36:53.000 In order that we become whole, awakened individuals, the male and female part of us must align.

00:37:01.000 We 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.

00:37:15.000 Because our culture, I think, generally speaking, lacks psychological depth and is, by its nature, almost quite superficial, people cling to details.

00:37:25.000 Someone here in the chat, PrideFault, says Snow White is about a black witch and a white witch.

00:37:29.000 It's about dark power and light power, and that probably pertains to morality.

00:37:34.000 That's an interesting analysis.

00:37:35.000 Do 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?

00:37:49.000 Yeah, I think so.

00:37:51.000 I think I guess there's a couple of different strands to this.

00:37:54.000 What I would like to see is a bit of variety in the stories that they tell.

00:37:58.000 So 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.

00:38:10.000 Fine, do that in one film.

00:38:11.000 You want to have a princess who saves herself and rescues the prince or whatever and goes on her own journey?

00:38:18.000 Do that in another movie.

00:38:19.000 I 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.

00:38:30.000 You 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.

00:38:40.000 And 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.

00:39:08.000 If you say like, well, they're literally just out for number one.

00:39:10.000 Their entire character arc is centered around finding themselves and just doing the things that make them happy.

00:39:20.000 It's not a very laudable quality in any hero.

00:39:22.000 They 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.

00:39:31.000 And if you don't have that anymore, you've got just an antagonist, essentially, in a nice form.

00:39:37.000 We have to, I suppose, consider the deeper function of movies and cinema, and perhaps even culture more broadly.

00:39:45.000 You know, like Terence McKenna's famous maxim that culture is not your friend,

00:39:52.000 like that we assume is our friend because culture is, you know, sometimes I get,

00:39:55.000 I'll tell you what happens to me, mate.

00:39:57.000 In this role that I have, like analyzing the, I would say, degenerative and decimating role of culture

00:40:04.000 when it comes to individual freedom, that it becomes like this hypnotic zoetrope

00:40:09.000 that drags us, particularly through news media, but elsewhere in cultural artifacts,

00:40:14.000 such as those that you analyze, it becomes a tool of disempowerment rather than awakening.

00:40:20.000 Often in your critiques, what I sense is that you want movies to be entertaining,

00:40:24.000 that you want them to be fun, that you're like, but you do often refer to sort of values and principles

00:40:32.000 that are pretty important.

00:40:35.000 But in a sense, do you think that the critiques that you're offering around, for example,

00:40:41.000 the franchising and remaking of a historic IP pertain to a cultural decline that is evident elsewhere,

00:40:50.000 that this is a culture that's running out of ideas?

00:40:54.000 I was considering the sort of idea of post-modernity and meta-modernity.

00:40:58.000 Modernity being, you know, sort of we understand that cinema is one of the perhaps the main modern medium.

00:41:04.000 You're told stories now in a technologically advanced way.

00:41:07.000 Post-modernism when you start to riff on the expected outcomes, the complexity of saying this

00:41:13.000 person's good and this person's bad and we all know life's not like that and it led to

00:41:17.000 notably like Coen Brothers movies and sort of movies of the 80s and the movies of even Tarantino

00:41:22.000 where they start messing with what good and evil and expected outcomes are.

00:41:27.000 And then I heard a good definition of metamodernism, metamodernism being you want the knowingness

00:41:34.000 of postmodernism but you don't want to lose the purpose and meaning that postmodernism

00:41:43.000 Postmodernism becomes nihilistic.

00:41:45.000 Nothing means anything anyway.

00:41:47.000 The baddie gets the treasure.

00:41:49.000 This is life.

00:41:50.000 Nothing means, you know, like it leads us to despair.

00:41:53.000 What are your kind of sort of positions on that function of What's your take on cinema?

00:41:58.000 I think at its best, cinema and culture in general should be aspirational, inspirational and uplifting.

00:42:04.000 I think it should inspire the best aspects of us and give us something to aim for.

00:42:11.000 And that's what you used to get with the heroes that you saw in cinema.

00:42:14.000 Now it just feels weirdly demoralising.

00:42:16.000 It's a culture based around grievance and oppression and guilt.

00:42:22.000 Almost just making people feel bad about themselves.

00:42:24.000 There'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.

00:42:32.000 I feel like I see a lot of that in cinema.

00:42:34.000 But yeah, the other aspect of it is definitely the recycling of old ideas.

00:42:41.000 We are seeing so much of that.

00:42:45.000 I did a breakdown recently about the number of movies now which are either remakes or sequels or reboots of older franchises.

00:42:54.000 And it's like 75% of the mainstream movies that come out.

00:42:58.000 Yeah, 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.

00:43:05.000 and they're the stories that we tell ourselves and reflect the culture we're in.

00:43:09.000 And they are based entirely around old ideas.

00:43:12.000 It's like we're losing the ability to come up with new stuff.

00:43:16.000 And that is a terrifying prospect for any culture.

00:43:19.000 I can't remember who said it, but they made a good point about Western culture.

00:43:24.000 There's a kind of malaise on us.

00:43:26.000 There's a kind of weariness on us right now.

00:43:31.000 It'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.

00:43:42.000 And it's not a nice thing to face up to, but it does feel real.

00:43:46.000 Yeah, I agree with you.

00:43:47.000 I think that's one of the problems of a materialistic worldview.

00:43:50.000 If 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.

00:44:07.000 If 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.

00:44:24.000 You can buy their fruits, know them, to quote the Bible.

00:44:27.000 And 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.

00:44:39.000 People start to care more about whether or not they think the person talking believes what they're saying.

00:44:46.000 Mate, a lot of people are asking, like ADZ33, are there any films coming out that you're excited about, mate?

00:44:54.000 That's what people want to know.

00:44:55.000 Is there something you're optimistic about?

00:44:58.000 For 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.

00:45:03.000 I 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.

00:45:13.000 That's it, though.

00:45:14.000 June 2.

00:45:15.000 A literal desert.

00:45:17.000 A film about a desert in a desert of films.

00:45:20.000 The rest of the year is kind of just some holdover superhero movies.

00:45:25.000 And yeah, off the top of my head, I can't think of much else.

00:45:29.000 I'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.

00:45:37.000 I watched American Made, the 2017 Tom Cruise movie, the other day because I've been watching a bunch of Tom Cruise films.

00:45:45.000 I was in a film with Tom Cruise and hung with him a little bit.

00:45:48.000 Oh yeah, it just keeps showing off, why don't you?

00:45:50.000 Hang with Tom Cruise.

00:45:52.000 Sorry, I can't, I can't, I've got to take this because it's actually Tom Cruise.

00:45:55.000 Yeah, no, I'm just talking to the critical drinker.

00:45:55.000 Hi, Tom.

00:45:58.000 Yeah, he loves you, but not as much as I do.

00:46:00.000 Like, because I've got all into Tom Cruise and stuff again.

00:46:03.000 And like, I thought, God, that's such an amazing film.

00:46:07.000 But like, what's astonishing about it, the subject matter is it covers like the, the C.I.A.

00:46:13.000 were backing the drug industry.

00:46:14.000 They were involved, as we sort of all know, in sort of Noriega down there in Nicaragua.

00:46:19.000 They were involved in coke deals, the stuff going on with, like, Aman Escobar.

00:46:25.000 And, 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.

00:46:34.000 Sort of seems like you're gonna have to have Like a real reckoning around sort of cultural events, like even now.

00:46:40.000 How can you, like, that's, it's so astonishing that the turnaround is that fast, you know?

00:46:45.000 I 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.

00:46:51.000 And so there was enough of a gap there that you kind of get away with that.

00:46:55.000 And, you know, it's ancient history as far as modern culture is concerned.

00:47:00.000 But yeah, it's a good film, actually.

00:47:01.000 I really enjoyed it.

00:47:03.000 When it comes to, like, more Up to date stuff?

00:47:06.000 I don't know.

00:47:07.000 I think there would be a real block against them being able to make stuff like that.

00:47:11.000 I don't think that would get the mainstream exposure or support that it would need.

00:47:16.000 You're Ryan Drake book series.

00:47:20.000 Tell 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?

00:47:38.000 Yeah.

00:47:39.000 Well, speaking about the CIA, yeah, I mean, the main character, Ryan Drake, works for the CIA.

00:47:43.000 He's part of a Shepard team.

00:47:44.000 So 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.

00:47:52.000 And so that's what leads him into the first big mission of the series, where he's got to spring a prisoner

00:47:59.000 from a Russian jail deep in Siberia.

00:48:03.000 He manages to get her out, but he soon discovers that there's a whole lot more to what she is

00:48:08.000 and what she knows than he's been told.

00:48:11.000 And eventually unravels this big web of conspiracies that dates all the way back to the Cold War.

00:48:16.000 So it's like a nine book series so far.

00:48:19.000 And yeah, a lot of books.

00:48:22.000 So yeah, that's what I've been working on.

00:48:25.000 That's partly why I went away from YouTube for a good many years.

00:48:28.000 When I first started my channel, I stopped it so I could focus on my writing and eventually came back once I was done.

00:48:33.000 And yeah, in terms of, you know, film adaptations and stuff, yeah, we're working on a few things.

00:48:40.000 And we've done some crowdfunding, and we'll see how that pans out when we eventually release something.

00:48:49.000 I'm excited for you.

00:48:50.000 That's really brilliant.

00:48:51.000 See this sort of cynicism, alcoholism and despair that's in your on-screen persona.

00:48:56.000 Is it real?

00:48:57.000 Are you not an alcoholic, are you?

00:49:00.000 I mean, you are Scottish, and that's 50% of it. 0.88

00:49:04.000 Despair and cynicism and alcohol abuse, like, that's just part of being Scottish, man. 0.81

00:49:08.000 What can I say?

00:49:09.000 It's just national identity right there.

00:49:12.000 How come you went that way?

00:49:13.000 What is that an expression of?

00:49:16.000 I 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.

00:49:26.000 That's pretty much where it came from.

00:49:28.000 You know, I'd rather do that than just get super angry about stuff. 0.96

00:49:31.000 I'd rather just kick back with a few beers and just quietly mock the things that seem so ridiculous.

00:49:37.000 And 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...

00:49:44.000 I really enjoy your content.

00:49:46.000 I'm a massive fan.

00:49:47.000 Tell me, your latest video I think is about the Blue Beetle and how it never stood a chance.

00:49:53.000 Can you tell us, of course I watch the video and I recommend everyone does, but what is your take on that movie?

00:50:01.000 It's actually not a terrible film.

00:50:02.000 I kind of enjoyed it.

00:50:03.000 I just think it came out at the wrong time.

00:50:05.000 If 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.

00:50:15.000 I 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.

00:50:23.000 Like, Across the Spider-Verse was a good example of that.

00:50:26.000 that animated movie, look gorgeous, really interesting.

00:50:30.000 Yeah, that was something a bit different, but this is just a generic superhero film.

00:50:33.000 There's no particularly big stars attached to it.

00:50:36.000 And really, it's just, it was a film that didn't really have any chance.

00:50:40.000 They didn't even seem to advertise it at the studio.

00:50:42.000 So yeah.

00:50:43.000 That's interesting, because Across the Spider-Verse was like super meta movie in a bunch of ways

00:50:47.000 like a super meta movie in a bunch of ways that sort of played with the identity of the

00:50:50.000 that sort of played with the identity of the protagonist.

00:50:53.000 protagonist and plainly I would say was about inclusion, diversity, ensuring that like whatever

00:51:00.000 background you were from you could sort of access a version of the protagonist hero.

00:51:06.000 Spider-Man has always been I suppose an interesting hero because he's always had a dose of anti-heroic

00:51:10.000 about him before that was a sort of a kind of a Marvel trope I suppose.

00:51:16.000 So I suppose in your affection and the esteem you hold that movie in that's at odds with

00:51:23.000 the criticism that could potentially be levelled at you that you simply don't like progressivism.

00:51:28.000 What do you think about that?

00:51:29.000 Yeah, I mean a lot of people like that.

00:51:31.000 You're always going to get them, I suppose.

00:51:33.000 But, yeah, like, I praise good movies when they're good.

00:51:36.000 Like, I don't know what else I can say.

00:51:38.000 I try to be as fair as I can be.

00:51:39.000 And that's a good example of, you know, you've got a whole bunch of diverse people inhabiting that role of Spider-Man.

00:51:46.000 And it's fine.

00:51:47.000 It works perfectly well within the context of the film.

00:51:49.000 So, like, I'm more than happy with it.

00:51:52.000 Yeah, 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?

00:52:10.000 He goes, no, it offends me as a comedian.

00:52:12.000 The offence is Treat culture properly. 0.82

00:52:17.000 Do your work properly.

00:52:18.000 Make things funny.

00:52:19.000 Make things make sense.

00:52:21.000 And I personally appreciate the authenticity, integrity, and sincerity of the way that you treat cultural artifacts.

00:52:28.000 And also, I do enjoy it when you rip things apart because it's kind of cathartic.

00:52:33.000 So thanks for that, man.

00:52:34.000 No problem, man.

00:52:35.000 Yeah, people always... It's a lot easier to be funny when you're ripping something apart than when you're praising it, put it that way.

00:52:40.000 Yeah.

00:52:41.000 Like 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.

00:52:48.000 But if he really likes, I don't know, The Wire, he's like, yeah, The Wire is good.

00:52:51.000 Now, could you tell us about something you hate, for God's sake?

00:52:54.000 I remember I remember him saying about one TV show. He said if I

00:52:57.000 worked on that TV show, I would tell my family that I made my

00:53:00.000 money by standing in a bin sucking off stranger for penny just like whoa, the TV show I was in that TV show. Yeah,

00:53:09.000 anyway, listen, well, thanks very much for joining us, mate.

00:53:12.000 Appreciate your time and good luck with all of your projects.

00:53:15.000 Thanks, man.

00:53:16.000 Great to be on it as always.

00:53:18.000 Thanks.

00:53:18.000 Thank you.

00:53:19.000 You could watch the Crickle Drinkers movie critiques and his After Hours live streams, which are worth watching.

00:53:25.000 He 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.

00:53:33.000 So check him out on YouTube and hopefully rumble soon.

00:53:37.000 Who knows what the future holds?

00:53:37.000 Who knows?

00:53:39.000 Still to come this week, we got I'm not wearing any and we can't get you in some, can we?

00:53:44.000 I'll give it a go.

00:53:44.000 myocarditis and all of the controversies around that and how he lost his faith in the system and

00:53:50.000 authority. You can click the red button to join our locals community where you also get early

00:53:55.000 access to interviews and the ability to ask questions, meditations, podcasts, a very sexy

00:54:00.000 piece of free merch and every item you buy by the way there's a link in the description to

00:54:04.000 the merchandise. I'm not wearing any and we can't get you in some can we? I'll give it a go. I'd

00:54:08.000 like to see you modeling some merch my man. A little roll neck. A low neck. I'd like to see

00:54:13.000 you in a low neck. You're hot aren't you? You've been working too hard. You're tired. I can tell.

00:54:17.000 We need to get you out of here. What's this? Oh my god. Oh that's interesting. That dude,

00:54:23.000 the Wagner boss, Prygozhin, that fella that tried to do a coup against Putin, he's dead now in a

00:54:30.000 plane crash. Well there you go. I'd like to take this opportunity to say that Vladimir Putin is

00:54:36.000 doing a tough job very well.

00:54:39.000 And whilst I may not agree with some of his wars, I say he is the best person to lead Russia.

00:54:39.000 Over there in Russia.

00:54:46.000 You can join us on RT.

00:54:48.000 That's pretty amazing.

00:54:49.000 So that dude is double dead now.

00:54:51.000 He was a bit mouthy, though.

00:54:52.000 He needed taken out.

00:54:53.000 I beg your pardon?

00:54:54.000 He was only precocious coming up, fronting up to Putin.

00:54:58.000 There you go.

00:54:58.000 Extraordinary.

00:54:59.000 Good night, baby.

00:55:00.000 That's the end of that.

00:55:02.000 Sure, I mean, you know, for anyone who thinks Putin isn't serious about this, he certainly is.

00:55:07.000 Putin don't play!

00:55:08.000 I 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?

00:55:15.000 And the simple answer was, no!

00:55:17.000 Because people who do end up double dead.

00:55:20.000 Hey, the presidential primary debates will be streamed on Rumble tonight at 9pm EST.

00:55:27.000 Why don't you watch them there?

00:55:28.000 You'll get some good commentary.

00:55:29.000 There's some fantastic people attending, although you know who won't be there, baby.

00:55:34.000 And what's this?

00:55:35.000 Ah, Trump was right about the Hunter Biden.

00:55:37.000 Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you'll like this.

00:55:40.000 Have a look at this.

00:55:41.000 We've made some brilliant content here.

00:55:43.000 This is really, really funny.

00:55:44.000 I'm really proud of this.

00:55:45.000 We've covered all of, oh yeah, Putin does look like the Mona Lisa.

00:55:48.000 Someone's just posted that in the chat.

00:55:50.000 Young Putin looks like the lad we've got working in there now, Will Sudders.

00:55:54.000 Current Putin looks like the Mona Lisa.

00:55:58.000 There's the news.

00:55:59.000 It's a favourable comparison, I would say. 1.00

00:56:01.000 You enigmatic bastard. 1.00

00:56:03.000 Although, obviously, I think he looks better. 1.00

00:56:05.000 Seems like you're criticising him!

00:56:06.000 He looks better, I would say.

00:56:09.000 I love him.

00:56:11.000 No, he's actually a war criminal and everything, but who isn't in leading nations these days?

00:56:15.000 That seems to be the brutal, blunt reality.

00:56:18.000 So, you'll enjoy watching this.

00:56:20.000 The mainstream media has to admit that Donald Trump was right when he claimed that Hunter Biden's business dealings earned him millions.

00:56:30.000 Maybe that's the reason that Joe Biden's got more pseudonyms than he has memories!

00:56:36.000 Here's the news.

00:56:37.000 No, here's the effing news baby. 0.99

00:56:52.000 Maybe that's connected to the fact that Donald Trump was right.

00:56:56.000 Millions were made in those energy deals with China and the Ukraine.

00:57:01.000 Could those two things be connected?

00:57:05.000 Joe Biden has been using a host of pseudonyms.

00:57:08.000 But don't get suspicious as a result of that.

00:57:10.000 There's a whole host of reasons that people use pseudonyms.

00:57:13.000 And let me talk you through them.

00:57:14.000 Sometimes you use a pseudonym to hide your identity because what you're involved in is either criminal, illegal or shameful in some way.

00:57:21.000 That's it!

00:57:21.000 That's the only reason anyone would ever use a pseudonym!

00:57:25.000 So 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.

00:57:35.000 How extraordinary.

00:57:37.000 And 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.

00:57:52.000 Kessler wrote Hunter Biden reported nearly 2.4 million in income in 2017 and 2.2 million

00:57:57.000 in income in 2018, most of which came from Chinese or Ukrainian interests.

00:58:01.000 And this directly goes against what Joe Biden said in the debate in 2020 with Donald Trump.

00:58:08.000 Take a listen.

00:58:16.000 None of that is true.

00:58:18.000 He made a fortune in Ukraine, in China, in Moscow.

00:58:23.000 That is simply not true.

00:58:24.000 That is really, really inconvenient, I would say.

00:58:27.000 for Joe Biden supporting Democrats.

00:58:30.000 To have Donald Trump and Joe Biden sharing a screen together and Joe Biden be the one that's lying.

00:58:36.000 Because Donald Trump is the one that's currently being indicted.

00:58:40.000 Credit to CNN for showing this and bringing it up.

00:58:44.000 Let's see how they try to offer us panaceas, palliatives, mitigation, contingency.

00:58:50.000 Oh, why is this okay when he does it?

00:58:53.000 So it's from two different debates, but I mean, Trump was right.

00:58:57.000 I mean, he did make a fortune from China.

00:59:00.000 Look at how they're beginning to justify it.

00:59:02.000 A Hunter Biden blind spot.

00:59:03.000 Like, oh, all of us parents would make little efforts and fudge the facts for our kids.

00:59:09.000 And God, I suppose I would, actually.

00:59:10.000 But it's not a blind spot when you're the president. 0.97

00:59:13.000 It's a corrupt spot.

00:59:14.000 Got a bit of a corrupt spot when it comes to saying my son didn't earn millions when he did earn millions.

00:59:19.000 That's a lying spot.

00:59:21.000 That's a measles.

00:59:22.000 That's an outbreak.

00:59:23.000 That's one pandemic we can get behind.

00:59:26.000 And Joe Biden was wrong.

00:59:28.000 I don't know that he was lying about it.

00:59:29.000 He might not have been told by Hunter, but this blind spot is a problem.

00:59:33.000 All these bloody blind spots?

00:59:34.000 Well, we can just put it down to a blind spot as long as Joe Biden hasn't been masquerading under a host of pseudonyms.

00:59:40.000 Because when someone uses a pseudonym, they're usually trying to hide what they're doing under that pseudonym.

00:59:45.000 If, for example, you were buying an illicit substance and the person selling you that illicit substance, hey, what's your name?

00:59:50.000 My name is Rob Innocent Man.

00:59:53.000 One would assume that you were using that pseudonym to conceal your tracks in making that transaction, right?

00:59:59.000 Homer?

01:00:00.000 Who is Homer?

01:00:01.000 My name is Guy Incognito.

01:00:04.000 It's a problem, one, because Republicans aren't gonna let it go, that's for sure.

01:00:08.000 Oh, those Republicans, they won't let it go.

01:00:10.000 Just because someone lies and is corrupt, they bang on about it.

01:00:12.000 Unlike us, we, you know, look at us with Donald Trump.

01:00:15.000 Not tenaciously dogging the guy to get him out of the presidential campaign.

01:00:19.000 You know, it's like it's one role for them and another role for us.

01:00:22.000 But also, these problems are continuing through the legal system.

01:00:24.000 It's not as though this is something that's been settled in other jurisdictions and Republicans are just harping on it.

01:00:29.000 It is an ongoing thing in our courts.

01:00:31.000 It's not going anywhere.

01:00:32.000 This is a blind spot.

01:00:33.000 It's a blind spot!

01:00:34.000 It's a blind spot!

01:00:35.000 That's how it works, isn't it, mainstream media now?

01:00:36.000 They just give you phrases.

01:00:37.000 Look 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?

01:00:43.000 Corruption?

01:00:44.000 No, that's not it.

01:00:45.000 Lying?

01:00:46.000 No, that's not it. 0.99

01:00:47.000 Bad, lame, dunk president? 0.92

01:00:48.000 No, that's not it. 0.99

01:00:49.000 Blind spot! 0.84

01:00:50.000 That's what the TV told me!

01:00:51.000 Blind spot! 0.84

01:00:51.000 Does it concern you as a Democrat? 0.84

01:00:53.000 Well, I think dads sometimes and parents sometimes have blind spots.

01:00:57.000 It's understandable, we're dads, we got blind spots.

01:01:00.000 It's just not like me today with my daughters when they sort of argue about who's going to wear what thing.

01:01:05.000 I'm like, God, I love these kids so much. Look, I'll get you one as well.

01:01:08.000 This is corruption. This is lying.

01:01:10.000 All the while building your forthcoming campaign around the corruption of your opponent.

01:01:15.000 This guy's so corrupt, we have to do something about this guy.

01:01:17.000 Hillary Clinton, smug and snug on Rachel Maddow. I told you this would happen. 1.00

01:01:21.000 Yeah, well, should we have a little look at that foundation?

01:01:24.000 And what about this dude and Hunter Biden's business dealings?

01:01:27.000 With that many blind spots, I don't think you can be in charge of steering a country.

01:01:30.000 But when it's convenient, they equate matters of international governance to the simple domestic relationships you might have with a child.

01:01:35.000 Like when it's convenient they equate matters of international governance to the simple

01:01:40.000 domestic relationships you might have with a child.

01:01:43.000 That's not fair.

01:01:44.000 Not in this instance.

01:01:45.000 You can't map that onto it.

01:01:46.000 You can see that the approach to this item is, this is not okay.

01:01:49.000 How do we make it sound okay?

01:01:51.000 Well, when have you done stuff that's corrupt in your life?

01:01:53.000 Oh God, I suppose like I'd be corrupt if it was to protect my kid.

01:01:57.000 Should we say that then?

01:01:58.000 That's not good enough.

01:01:59.000 That's not rigorous journalism.

01:02:00.000 What 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.

01:02:06.000 They're trying to dampen it down, dilute it, and obfuscate it live on your TV set.

01:02:11.000 Donald Trump's got a blind spot on whatever it is you've got him up for this week.

01:02:14.000 He's got a blind spot on wanting to win elections.

01:02:16.000 He can't just start using that.

01:02:18.000 Those elections are like his kids and he just likes to win his kids, you know?

01:02:22.000 But nothing has tied the president to any of Hunter Biden's dealings.

01:02:27.000 There's no whiff of him being involved or him being implicated in it.

01:02:32.000 This is a terrible whiff of that, isn't it?

01:02:33.000 Whole place stinks of it. 0.99

01:02:35.000 I feel like I've got my snout up Joe Biden's bum hole and he's just farting lies up my snout pipe. 0.99

01:02:41.000 Now there's an image for you. 0.94

01:02:42.000 And, uh, it's, you know, I think it's not something the voters care a lot about.

01:02:47.000 Oh! 0.60

01:02:47.000 The voters don't care about that, because that's you! 0.60

01:02:49.000 When does the news turn into hypnotism?

01:02:52.000 It's not the job of the news to tell you that you don't care about corruption and lying, is it?

01:02:57.000 The 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.

01:03:09.000 It'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.

01:03:25.000 Because 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.

01:03:34.000 And 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.

01:03:41.000 This is insidious suggestion rather than news reporting.

01:03:45.000 With all this stuff going on, no wonder Joe Biden's using pseudonyms.

01:03:48.000 President Joe Biden's use of multiple pseudonyms during his vice presidency appears to have hidden some of his communications from that period. 0.96

01:03:55.000 Yeah, because that's the fucking point of them. 0.90

01:03:57.000 Including some involving, wait for it, Ukraine policy and his son, Hunter Biden. 0.98

01:04:02.000 What an incredible coincidence.

01:04:04.000 Almost as if he's trying to obscure and conceal his involvement in Hunter Biden's business deals.

01:04:09.000 The 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.

01:04:19.000 Ware.

01:04:20.000 I think he's going to have particular trouble remembering J.R.B.

01:04:23.000 Hello, it's me, Robin Peters.

01:04:23.000 Ware.

01:04:25.000 Robin the American public of taxpayer dollars to keep my son in business.

01:04:30.000 Yes, that's how I can remember that.

01:04:31.000 I'm Robin the American public while my memory peters out.

01:04:34.000 That's good.

01:04:35.000 J.R.B.

01:04:36.000 where?

01:04:36.000 Wait, which one of you is J.R.B.?

01:04:38.000 Which one of you is Robin?

01:04:39.000 I'm J.R.B.

01:04:40.000 Robin!

01:04:41.000 Hunter, I got some bad news. 0.98

01:04:43.000 just shat his diaper. 0.98

01:04:43.000 J.R.B. 0.98

01:04:44.000 I hope Burisma don't find out about this.

01:04:46.000 Well, to be fair, Dad, they do deal in gas.

01:04:48.000 Call me J.R.B.

01:04:49.000 I mean Robin.

01:04:50.000 Oh, which one am I now?

01:04:52.000 So it looks like Joe Biden, in order to manage his complex life, has to have a number of special identities, Robin J.R.B.

01:05:00.000 Well, if you're going to run as many identities as Joe Biden, you're going to need a lot of support.

01:05:05.000 I'm a person who sometimes has to advertise magnificent products.

01:05:08.000 Not least because I've accidentally got myself in a pull-up competition with someone that should replace Joe Biden, good old RFK.

01:05:16.000 The stacked, jacked, buff, hench candidate for the presidency has challenged me to a pull-up competition that I'm probably going to lose.

01:05:25.000 Have you been in a situation like that?

01:05:27.000 In order to avoid global humiliation at the hands and huge massive arms of RFK Jr, I've turned to Black Forest Supplements. 0.97

01:05:36.000 NMM gets me pepped right up and increases my strength and endurance, since that's with Tonka Ali. 0.79

01:05:42.000 Yeah, Tonka Ali is a natural remedy I use to boost energy and to help me remember all my pseudonyms.

01:05:48.000 And Turkesterone is my favourite.

01:05:50.000 It helps me build my muscle and enhance my performances.

01:05:53.000 Next 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.

01:06:03.000 Sorry mate, that was a good line.

01:06:05.000 Get them down ya! 1.00

01:06:06.000 Ich bin ein Black Forester!

01:06:08.000 Try them out today and use the link below to get a 10% discount.

01:06:13.000 I'm coming for you RFK!

01:06:14.000 Get ready for the gun show!

01:06:16.000 You're probably soft on gun laws as well, aren't ya?

01:06:19.000 The committee sought correspondence between those aliases.

01:06:22.000 That's funny how they're talking to each other.

01:06:24.000 Robin, I got J.R.B.

01:06:25.000 on line one.

01:06:27.000 Hello, J.R.B.

01:06:28.000 here.

01:06:28.000 How did you get this number, J.R.B.?

01:06:30.000 Robin gave it to me.

01:06:31.000 Which one?

01:06:31.000 Robin Peters or Robin where?

01:06:33.000 Peters, I think.

01:06:34.000 OK, I've got to go.

01:06:35.000 Hunter's on the other line.

01:06:36.000 I know Hunter's in here somewhere.

01:06:38.000 I can smell gas.

01:06:39.000 Oh, no, that was me.

01:06:40.000 The committee sought correspondence between those aliases, Hunter Biden and two of his former business partners, Eric Schwerin and Devin Archer.

01:06:47.000 Only 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. 0.98

01:06:56.000 He should have picked that fucking laptop up again, shouldn't he? 0.96

01:06:58.000 That laptop that we were told for ages was irrelevant, that it was Russian propaganda. 0.99

01:07:01.000 Everything they don't like is Russian propaganda.

01:07:04.000 I'm gonna watch some Russian propaganda.

01:07:05.000 I bet a lot of it's just bad stuff that Bidens have done.

01:07:08.000 Several 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.

01:07:18.000 At the time, Hunter Biden was working on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.

01:07:22.000 In 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.

01:07:37.000 Why is Hunter Biden being copied in on government emails if Hunter Biden's business dealings are not connected to the government?

01:07:42.000 It seems particularly relevant that he's on the board of Burisma and it was a call with Petro Poroshenko, the then Ukrainian president.

01:07:49.000 Wait, is that the president or is that another one of my pseudonyms?

01:07:52.000 Petro, is this you?

01:07:53.000 Yes, this is me, Petro.

01:07:54.000 Are you real or are you a pseudonym?

01:07:55.000 I'm real, I'm the president of Ukraine.

01:07:57.000 Oh, in that case, can my son have a job?

01:07:59.000 Your son's already got a job.

01:08:00.000 What are we going to do about Robin Peters?

01:08:02.000 You are Robin Peters.

01:08:03.000 Good, good.

01:08:04.000 At least he doesn't know about Robin Ware.

01:08:07.000 Oh, J.R.B.

01:08:08.000 What am I going to do with these kids?

01:08:10.000 Hunter 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.

01:08:17.000 I mean, we saw it on CNN.

01:08:19.000 Everyone's got a blind spot.

01:08:20.000 His 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.

01:08:29.000 Almost as if Joe Biden, or Robert Peters, scheduling details with the Ukrainian president had some relevance to Hunter Biden and his business dealings.

01:08:37.000 Huh.

01:08:37.000 Joe Biden had already successfully pressured Poroshenko to fire Ukraine's prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, by the time the May 27th call occurred.

01:08:45.000 Shokin had been investigating the energy company that was paying Hunter Biden and his business associates significant money at the time.

01:08:53.000 Luckily, that's the kind of thing that the American voters just don't care about, do you guys?

01:08:57.000 You 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.

01:09:07.000 That's the sort of thing that makes me, oh, I'm so bored.

01:09:09.000 We've all got blind spots, right, JRP?

01:09:12.000 Oh, JRP. 0.98

01:09:14.000 How did they sack Paul Victor Shokin?

01:09:16.000 That could have been an easy conversation.

01:09:17.000 I have some bad news, Victor.

01:09:19.000 I'm afraid you're fired.

01:09:20.000 Why?

01:09:20.000 Who has the right to fire me?

01:09:22.000 Well, it's Robert Peters, Robin Ware, and J.R.B.

01:09:25.000 Ware, but I never hear of any of these people.

01:09:28.000 They're all Joe Biden. 0.89

01:09:29.000 Well, at least that explains the stink of farts in this office.

01:09:33.000 In an email between Hunter Biden and Robin Ware, another Joe Biden pseudonym, It must be so confusing.

01:09:39.000 Joe 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.

01:09:46.000 God knows how he coped with multiple pseudonyms.

01:09:48.000 Hunter, you better have a word with Robert Ware.

01:09:50.000 He's furious.

01:09:51.000 Why is that?

01:09:51.000 Because Robin Peters is going to go through the roof.

01:09:54.000 What's going on, Pop?

01:09:55.000 Don't you talk to me like that or you'll have JRB Ware to answer through.

01:09:58.000 In 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.

01:10:12.000 Call me right away, Joe Biden replied.

01:10:15.000 Wait, McGrail, you're not another one of my pseudonyms, are you?

01:10:17.000 I'm afraid I am.

01:10:18.000 We're still hired.

01:10:19.000 I like the cutting of jib.

01:10:21.000 By 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.

01:10:29.000 He's rising through the ranks, old McGrail.

01:10:31.000 He's brilliant.

01:10:31.000 An 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.

01:10:52.000 Wow.

01:10:52.000 I mean, that does seem to again quite adjacent to corruption right there.

01:10:55.000 But he did become president.

01:10:56.000 Thank God.

01:10:57.000 Archer, 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.

01:11:14.000 Listen, you've not seen me.

01:11:16.000 If anyone asks who was here, just say old JRB supports this deal, right?

01:11:20.000 Although Robin Peters has some serious questions.

01:11:23.000 It might be corrupt, especially if I do run for president.

01:11:25.000 In 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.

01:11:39.000 It does Doesn't look that isolated, does it?

01:11:41.000 But anyway, as CNN told you, there's nothing to worry about because these things are all in the legal system.

01:11:46.000 They're all being investigated by good old David Weiss.

01:11:49.000 Let's have a look at David Weiss's history.

01:11:51.000 What was he doing before he was investigating Hunter Biden?

01:11:55.000 It'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.

01:12:01.000 Meanwhile, 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.

01:12:15.000 Oh! 0.60

01:12:16.000 The US government, on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services, filed a Statement of Interest on February the 14th.

01:12:21.000 That's Valentine's Day!

01:12:22.000 Perfect day for a sweetheart deal!

01:12:24.000 That urged the federal court to divert liability for alleged patent violations committed by Moderna to the government itself.

01:12:30.000 Weiss was one of six people named on the DOJ's Statement of Interest.

01:12:34.000 The 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.

01:12:44.000 They're acting like it's a tab on a bar.

01:12:46.000 Yeah, just stick it on my bill.

01:12:48.000 Oh, there's a few patent infringements as well.

01:12:50.000 Put it on the bill.

01:12:51.000 Yeah, don't worry.

01:12:52.000 J.R.B.

01:12:52.000 will pick it up.

01:12:53.000 After the filing of the statement of interest, Moderna both attempted to raise prices on its vaccines and grow its golden parachute.

01:13:00.000 Gold is actually quite heavy.

01:13:01.000 You should make parachutes out of that.

01:13:03.000 For CEO Stéphane Bancel to over 926 million dollars.

01:13:07.000 Oh my god, that's so much money!

01:13:09.000 Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Weiss Special Counsel for the ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden's taxes and foreign business dealings on August the 11th.

01:13:18.000 on the page.

01:13:19.000 Pretty appalling, doesn't it?

01:13:20.000 It 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.

01:13:30.000 The mainstream media's reporting on it in a way that's akin to hypnosis.

01:13:33.000 The voters don't care about that.

01:13:35.000 We've all got blind spots when it comes to having multiple lying identities, getting involved in our kids' business dealings.

01:13:41.000 What is the best offering they could give you at this Oh, it's just the way things are.

01:13:46.000 This is the way government is.

01:13:47.000 That's precisely the problem.

01:13:49.000 If 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.

01:14:01.000 That shows how deeply corrupt the system itself is, that it affords this level of corruption without consequence.

01:14:08.000 But that's just what I think.

01:14:09.000 Let me know what you think in the chat.

01:14:10.000 Until next time, if you can, stay free, JRB.

Stay Free - Russel Brand - August 23, 2023

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