Stay Free - Russel Brand - Half of Congress Are Millionaires… Now They Want to Ban Insider Trading? – SF576

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:02:30.000 Hello, you Awakening Wonders.

00:02:32.000 Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.

00:02:35.000 What a time it is to be reporting globally with absolutely no censorship or incursions upon my free speech.

00:02:43.000 We know there is surveillance.

00:02:45.000 We know there are attempts to control our conversation.

00:02:48.000 For now, we may speak freely and we'll be talking about Nazis, new and old. 0.92

00:02:53.000 We'll be talking about the return of globalism through Canadian politics.

00:02:56.000 We'll be talking about Klaus Schwab and the truth behind the WEF.

00:03:00.000 And we'll be talking about Trump's first hundred days.

00:03:03.000 Let's see Mark Carney celebrating and demonstrating what a great guy he is.

00:03:08.000 If you're watching this on YouTube, X, or anywhere other than Rumble and Rumble Premium, make your way there.

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00:03:20.000 Now, do you know what it's like to become the leader of the free, maybe not so free world?

00:03:26.000 Yes!

00:03:27.000 Canada's back, baby! 1.00

00:03:28.000 Cut me, I'll bleed maple syrup. 1.00

00:03:30.000 *Music*

00:03:54.000 Somebody needs to freeze that man's bank account in the free state of Florida where surely I will soon return after dealing with ceremonies and trials of my own.

00:04:03.000 There is a reason to adore the Sunshine State.

00:04:07.000 Only in Florida would you see a site like this.

00:04:20.000 *Pewds* Thank you.

00:04:23.000 Very efficient.

00:04:24.000 Is he a professional?

00:04:25.000 Is that him doing his job?

00:04:26.000 Or is this like a bystander?

00:04:27.000 I mean, I see there's a cop car, but that's not a police uniform.

00:04:30.000 Is that like a special alligator unit?

00:04:32.000 Let me know in the comments and check.

00:04:33.000 Oh! Oh! 0.97

00:04:36.000 Oh! 0.60

00:04:39.000 Never in my wildest dreams.

00:04:40.000 Woo! Woo! 1.00

00:04:43.000 Thank you.

00:04:45.000 We'll be good at 8:00.

00:04:47.000 I think he let it down a little bit with a celebration.

00:04:49.000 It was a really professional actor then.

00:04:50.000 I was thinking, my God, Brazilian jiu-jitsu can work against the reptilians.

00:04:53.000 Maybe that's the way that the Ulmer confrontation will happen, the WEF and the WHO and all of the other necromancers that infiltrate with their dark claws and tendrils.

00:05:04.000 Maybe we just need to wrestle them down the way that alligator was detained. 0.90

00:05:08.000 Last week we showed you how back in the glory days of Britain, before it became an island penitentiary, the people there were ready to lean into herbal remedies.

00:05:16.000 It's not only herbal remedies.

00:05:17.000 It seems like most people were drunk a significant amount of time in order to fight off, you know, the version of COVID then.

00:05:24.000 The common cold.

00:05:25.000 Now let's have a look, a joyful and nostalgic look back at the way that Cockneys used to talk before we jump straight into... 0.99

00:05:34.000 And I can remember a case where I was miles up in the desert, the other side of the brook somewhere.

00:05:39.000 And there was a young, I'd been out there four years then, and there was a young lad, you know, and I heard him speaking.

00:05:45.000 So I said, where'd you come from?

00:05:47.000 So he said, Lannan.

00:05:48.000 I said, I know you do, but whereabouts in Lannan?

00:05:50.000 He said, Bethnal Green.

00:05:51.000 I said, I knew that.

00:05:52.000 I mean, Bethnal Green was with the F. I mean, you take it which way, either one F or two Fs.

00:05:58.000 You take it which way you like, you know what I mean?

00:06:00.000 And it's how it was years ago.

00:06:03.000 today. They're much more modern than I am.

00:06:05.000 Let's say Bethnal

00:06:06.000 I've got grandchildren today, I'm afraid to talk to them because they're so posh here.

00:06:10.000 They say, "Hello, grandfather!

00:06:13.000 How are you?" 0.98

00:06:14.000 So I say, "Well, pal, how are you getting on here?

00:06:17.000 All right?"

00:06:17.000 And this is it today, isn't it?

00:06:20.000 Really?

00:06:20.000 It's everyday talk now.

00:06:22.000 It is sort of...

00:06:23.000 We used to say "apples and stairs" and "apples and pears" and things like that.

00:06:26.000 They don't use it.

00:06:27.000 It's everyday things.

00:06:28.000 Little catchphrases at the end of sentences and things like that.

00:06:31.000 I mean, they use the word "you see" or "alright".

00:06:34.000 On the end of every sentence, it's "alright" or "you see".

00:06:37.000 Always stuck on the end of a thing.

00:06:39.000 And if they want to talk to you, they say, "Hang on a minute".

00:06:42.000 It's all little catchphrases now.

00:06:44.000 Instead of saying "apples and stairs" and "pears" and all kinds of things like that.

00:06:47.000 It's dying out now.

00:06:48.000 I mean, if I turn around to Ronnie and I say, "I've got a hold of this."

00:06:51.000 I'm going to say, "I want to knock this out a bit."

00:06:53.000 You know what I mean?

00:06:57.000 We talk like that now.

00:07:00.000 I mean, all the time in the pub here, they're coming and saying, "I want to knock this out quick."

00:07:04.000 Like, you know, we want to buy it, you know.

00:07:06.000 And all things like that, we know.

00:07:09.000 Well, I mean, I shouldn't say it.

00:07:11.000 No, we're all straight here. 0.95

00:07:12.000 We're all crooks here.

00:07:14.000 Say you take your overcoat off and you put it up on the rack in a pub and you say, look after my smother for me, Fred.

00:07:19.000 Well, that's your overcoat.

00:07:20.000 You know what I mean?

00:07:21.000 You might have your twirls in your pocket.

00:07:23.000 What's that?

00:07:24.000 Bunch of keys.

00:07:27.000 And lots of screwsmen that go out and say, where's me glim? 1.00

00:07:30.000 Where's me glim?

00:07:31.000 Well, that's his torch.

00:07:34.000 Not so very often these days, all inside doing bird now, aren't they?

00:07:39.000 Everyone's in jail that used that slang.

00:07:42.000 Amazing.

00:07:42.000 Join us for more interrogation into slang over the course of the day.

00:07:47.000 Who doesn't enjoy that intuitive poetry that comes out of the vernacular world there?

00:07:52.000 A man from Armanabad unknowingly filmed the Falgam Islamist terrorist attack, unaware of the chaos unfolding around him.

00:07:58.000 Let's have a look at this.

00:08:03.000 What's she doing?

00:08:03.000 having a perfectly nice time on a zip wire.

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00:08:53.000 We'll be talking about subterranean bases of the powerful.

00:08:57.000 We'll be talking about new emergent Nazism. 0.91

00:08:59.000 Where does real fascistic control reside?

00:09:02.000 We'll be talking about Ukraine.

00:09:03.000 And we'll be talking about Jay Bhattacharya's science is back statement.

00:09:07.000 Now that Jay Bhattacharya is not an outcast by the head of the NIH, is it possible that science can be conducted openly and candidly?

00:09:16.000 Before we get into that, here's a person who tests 10,000 vapes a day, basically.

00:09:19.000 So this step kind of blows my mind.

00:09:23.000 Our friend here is testing each one of them.

00:09:28.000 I'm not sure if it's for taste or volume or...

00:09:34.000 I'm not sure precisely what.

00:09:36.000 I'm also curious if he is inhaling or if it's like a cigar, just a quick taste test and...

00:09:45.000 These aren't any problems?

00:09:49.000 You can take a few hours a day?

00:09:54.000 I take a few hours a day.

00:09:59.000 How many times?

00:09:59.000 I'm a thousand times.

00:10:02.000 You usually take it?

00:10:04.000 No. You still take it?

00:10:06.000 I take it.

00:10:18.000 Look, I don't know much about vapes, but it doesn't seem to me that that can be very good for you.

00:10:22.000 And then you consider just one ten-thousandth of that have some kind of negative impact.

00:10:27.000 Surely, though, we have to get beyond addiction, beyond madness.

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00:13:45.000 Last week, we talked about how Bill Maher's visit to the White House had inspired Larry David to write and admittedly...

00:13:53.000 Funny op-ed in the New York Times, My Dinner with Adolf, where he talked about normalising dictators through conversing with them.

00:14:00.000 But I think the period where people think that Trump is some new proto-Hitler is over.

00:14:04.000 Isn't it?

00:14:05.000 Surely we recognise that the new dynamic now are shifting tectonic plates when it comes to polarising global powers and when it comes to domestic politics.

00:14:13.000 It's imperialism versus globalism, which usually comes in the guise of social democracies.

00:14:20.000 Where are the real Nazis now? 0.85

00:14:22.000 Are they, as Joy Reid attests, still within the profiles of racial political dynamics?

00:14:29.000 Or is true power concealed by financial elitism or found in the form of financial elitism?

00:14:36.000 Before we get into Joy Reid's analysis, let's have a look at Bill Maher.

00:14:42.000 Misunderstand.

00:14:43.000 Let's have a look at Bill Maher asking Al Gore about the appropriateness of the ongoing Hitler comparisons.

00:14:50.000 So I think we generally have the same view of the Trump administration.

00:14:55.000 Yeah.

00:14:56.000 Al Gore, in many ways, was the last of the smug Democrats, wasn't he?

00:15:00.000 He was so close to being President of the United States, a few hanging chads in a time zone in Florida away from becoming the Commander-in-Chief.

00:15:08.000 And it had some kind of impact on Al Gore, didn't it?

00:15:11.000 From then on in, climate change, he claimed he invented the internet, claimed he invented democracy, made all sorts of audacious claims, and in a way, I figure, he might have been the end of an era that actually needed curtailing.

00:15:25.000 Let's have a look at how he understands Nazism and the ongoing slur that Trump is like Hitler.

00:15:31.000 Remember, Hitler without the Holocaust, that ain't no kind of Hitler.

00:15:38.000 You were in the news this week for invoking Nazis.

00:15:44.000 Well, I didn't do what J.D. Vance did and called Trump America's Hitler when he did that a few years ago.

00:15:51.000 Well, what he actually said was, I think about Trump a lot, and he could be an asshole just like Nixon, or he could be America's Hitler. 1.00

00:16:00.000 And I remember thinking, oh, so the good option is that he's just an asshole like Nixon. 1.00

00:16:07.000 I think there's a big difference in comparing someone to Hitler on the one hand, which I don't do. 0.99

00:16:14.000 I think that's a big mistake.

00:16:16.000 And I said that in the speech that you're referring to.

00:16:19.000 That's a unique form of evil that should not ever be compared to anything.

00:16:25.000 But we are not living up to our responsibility to our Constitution if we don't remain alert.

00:16:33.000 To warning signs that we know from history, not only from the Third Reich, but from a whole series of strongman dictators.

00:16:41.000 When they start trying to tell people what to think, when they start trying to expand their power so that they push the Congress around, push the judiciary around, and try to consolidate dictatorship.

00:16:57.000 The first steps on that road are ones that we should see as warning signs.

00:17:01.000 I know.

00:17:02.000 I just think that when you use the word...

00:17:04.000 I couldn't agree more, but I just think...

00:17:09.000 You know, Nazi is a hard word to use with nuance. 0.98

00:17:14.000 So when you bring that word out, you know, I feel like they're the goat of evil. 0.93

00:17:21.000 You know, and so it just conflates.

00:17:23.000 I agree with that.

00:17:24.000 I agree with that.

00:17:25.000 But if you look at what I actually said in that speech...

00:17:29.000 There was a group of German philosophers that went back after the war and conducted a kind of moral autopsy, and one of them said that the first step on the descent into hell in that case was...

00:17:42.000 And I quote the conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power.

00:17:47.000 They attack the distinction between true and false.

00:17:49.000 And when I see and hear over and over again the assertion of complete inaccuracies that Ukraine is responsible for starting the war with Russia.

00:18:01.000 That in itself is an inaccuracy.

00:18:03.000 I don't think many people claim that Ukraine are responsible.

00:18:05.000 I think a lot of people claim that NATO are responsible or Ukraine and NATO with their agreement for Ukraine to become a NATO country, potentially, and that the breaching...

00:18:16.000 And infringement upon deals between the former Soviet Union and America is responsible, and the fact that the CIA have bases there, and the fact that BlackRock have deals with them to rebuild the country, those are the kind of nuanced points that people are making.

00:18:29.000 It's curious to see Al Gore analyse the Nazis.

00:18:33.000 It's curious to see anyone who believes that liberal democracies, social democracies... 0.63

00:18:38.000 As the solution to justice and social justice make the point that Trump is uniquely evil.

00:18:46.000 Indeed, the best you can claim is that their political movement had become so corrupted, hollowed out, facile, and controlled by global corporatism that it was inevitable that in the end, nationalist, nativist...

00:19:01.000 Populist politicians would benefit from the space seeded by a liberal class that hated working class people, that governed entirely for elites, that favoured globalism over nationalism, and had power as far away as possible from the people impacted by the choices,

00:19:19.000 decisions and movements of that power.

00:19:21.000 And in a way, Al Gore, I believe, is representative of that class, of that movement, of that time.

00:19:26.000 even though I'd also have to say that when you kind of watch him he seems sort of lucid and affable and adorably southern.

00:19:32.000 The fact is is that era is over now or is it over now?

00:19:35.000 Let me know in the comments in chat.

00:19:36.000 You know, Canada have just elected a globalist.

00:19:38.000 With Russia, 0.99

00:19:40.000 Again, a collapsing of a complex argument.

00:19:58.000 I think there are that many people that would contest this idea.

00:20:03.000 The earth is beautiful.

00:20:04.000 We are stewards of the earth.

00:20:06.000 We all treat the earth not as a resource but as our home with love and reverence and respect.

00:20:12.000 The wantonness and disregard for nature and the tendency to see the earth as a resource here for our spoils is kind of ugly and disgusting and appalling.

00:20:23.000 However...

00:20:24.000 Like a lot of people, I've come to see that regulations around climate change appear to be particularly punitive to ordinary people without curbing the excesses of powerful organisations that might be culpable and seem to legitimise...

00:20:40.000 further authoritarianism at scale.

00:20:43.000 The aim and goal is always control.

00:20:45.000 They're always looking for ways to put you in a 15-minute city, lock you in your house, make you take a medicine, legitimize their power.

00:20:51.000 They can't come out with a pistol or a hatchet and demand it, so they tell you that they're here to protect you.

00:20:55.000 Let me know what you think about that.

00:20:57.000 And they try to assert with the force of power their own...

00:21:03.000 Special version of alternative facts.

00:21:05.000 Yeah, but I guarantee that the side of the country that voted for Trump, they hear Nazi and they just go, oh, you're calling us Nazis?

00:21:12.000 First of all, it's a bit of a false premise, as bad as they are.

00:21:15.000 And also, it just says to them, well, you just hate us.

00:21:19.000 I suppose the reason the subject is germane is because of Larry David's op-ed in which he said that Bill Maher himself meeting with Trump amounts to Nazi appeasement.

00:21:29.000 Piers Morgan, the British journalist, went on the show there with Bill Maher.

00:21:33.000 Let's see what he had to say about that.

00:21:34.000 Larry David, because you're friends, aren't you?

00:21:37.000 Were you friends?

00:21:38.000 Yes, of course.

00:21:39.000 I mean, this wasn't, you know, my favourite moment of our friendship, but, you know, look, I don't want to get too much into that, but I think...

00:21:49.000 The minute you play the Hitler card, you've lost the argument. 0.79

00:21:53.000 And also, I must say, you know, come on, man.

00:21:58.000 Hitler, Nazis, nobody has been harder about and more prescient, I must say, about Donald Trump than me.

00:22:06.000 I don't need to be lectured on who Donald Trump is.

00:22:09.000 Just the fact that I met him in person didn't change that.

00:22:14.000 And the fact that I report it honestly is not a sin either.

00:22:18.000 But, you know, to use the Hitler thing, first of all, I just think it's kind of insulting to six million dead Jews.

00:22:29.000 That should kind of be in its own place in history.

00:22:34.000 And, you know, I know people can say, well, we're just comparing it in this way.

00:22:40.000 Well...

00:22:41.000 It's an argument you kind of lost just to start it.

00:22:43.000 It's just, look, maybe it's not completely logically fair, but Hitler has really kind of got to stay in his own place. 0.86

00:22:52.000 He is the goat of evil, and we're just going to have to, I think, leave it like that. 0.82

00:22:57.000 So, you know, did I think that was appropriate? 0.76

00:23:02.000 No, but people are of the right to...

00:23:04.000 Did you know he was going to do it?

00:23:06.000 Of course not.

00:23:07.000 How did you find out?

00:23:08.000 You know, somebody, my publicist said, "This is going on today and you should know it."

00:23:15.000 The reductivism and simplification of ideas of fascism, authoritarianism, tyranny and control can be applied in a variety of ways.

00:23:24.000 What is more significant when it comes to American politics and American power?

00:23:28.000 Is it the racial dynamics and divisions within Congress?

00:23:31.000 Or is it the number of millionaires and very wealthy people that likely align ideologically and economically with the powerful interests that are the first layer of influence and control outside of the remit and reach of legislation?

00:23:45.000 And certainly beyond the voice of the voters.

00:23:48.000 Let's have a look at Joy Reid's claim that America is being steered into the 80s by white.

00:23:53.000 Each community on earth.

00:23:55.000 If you take that away and try to distill us just down to white folks, we'll be like Europe. 0.95

00:24:01.000 An aging, slowly dying, former empire.

00:24:06.000 The Roman Empire didn't survive because it didn't have enough strength in its diversity.

00:24:11.000 It suppressed its diversity and it died.

00:24:14.000 If the U.S. wants to be the Roman Empire, keep voting the way you're voting, y 'all.

00:24:19.000 Keep voting for people.

00:24:20.000 Let me know what you think about that argument.

00:24:22.000 Here's a breakdown of ethnicity in Congress.

00:24:26.000 Is it going well?

00:24:27.000 I don't know.

00:24:27.000 I mean, it's not the kind of thing I think about, but that's sort of understandable.

00:24:30.000 I don't know, 109th Congress.

00:24:32.000 More racially and ethnically diverse than the Senate, certainly.

00:24:36.000 Right, so those grey seats, well, that's white, is it?

00:24:39.000 Okay, fair enough.

00:24:40.000 I don't know, man.

00:24:41.000 It's not something I feel like I'm able to assess.

00:24:44.000 Let's have a look at this.

00:24:46.000 What I think is an interesting indicator of how power operates is not pigment, but wealth.

00:24:51.000 Here is a list from probably from unusual wows, you might imagine.

00:24:57.000 Would it surprise you to know that half the members of the US Senate and House of Representatives are millionaires?

00:25:02.000 How do they make so much money?

00:25:08.000 How come they enter into politics moderately affluent or not even affluent at all, but by the time they leave, they have Pelosi levels of wealth?

00:25:17.000 How does this keep happening?

00:25:19.000 Well, it seems that...

00:25:21.000 Because insider trading is the way that that would occur.

00:25:26.000 Preventing elected leaders from owning security investments, the Pelosi Act.

00:25:30.000 That's a brilliant little acronym that's being introduced.

00:25:33.000 But will it pass?

00:25:35.000 Apparently it's being reintroduced.

00:25:37.000 People are talking once more again about meaningful controls.

00:25:40.000 In a way, we could all get lost calling one another Nazis and fascists and quarreling and quibbling about racial differences and divisions.

00:25:49.000 As long as American politics and global politics are controlled first by money, then by power and potentially by occultist interests that are difficult to corroborate, it's unlikely that the world will meaningly alter for the better for ordinary people.

00:26:03.000 These days, as divided as America is, it's rare for us to find anything that 75% of Americans agree on.

00:26:09.000 But there is something.

00:26:11.000 Three in four voters agree members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks.

00:26:15.000 And it does make sense.

00:26:17.000 They get a heads up about pretty much everything.

00:26:20.000 Unfortunately, there are 75% of all Americans, 200 plus million who want something, and there are just a few hundred people who don't seem to agree.

00:26:31.000 Except...

00:26:32.000 They're the important few hundred, the 535 all serving in Congress.

00:26:36.000 Senator Josh Hawley just introduced a bill to prevent lawmakers from trading stocks.

00:26:40.000 Here's what he said about the issue last year.

00:26:44.000 If you come into Congress, my view is you should have to sell the stock and either put it into broad-based mutual funds, like most Americans invest in, or in a completely blunt trust you have no control over whatsoever.

00:26:57.000 His bill is actually called the Pelosi Act because she failed to hold the vote on a similar bill last year.

00:27:03.000 And to be fair, we've seen a handful of these bills over the years.

00:27:06.000 They never pass.

00:27:07.000 But members of Congress in profiting off of public office is a problem.

00:27:11.000 Let's actually start with a former speaker whose husband has made tens of millions of dollars trading.

00:27:16.000 Yesterday, the Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google.

00:27:20.000 She traded $3 million worth of Google stock a month ago.

00:27:23.000 You decide if it's a coincidence.

00:27:25.000 But it's not just her.

00:27:26.000 An investigation by the trading website Unusual Whales found last year 131 members of Congress filed stock options and trading disclosures.

00:27:35.000 They made more than 12,000 transactions.

00:27:38.000 and in a shocker, they made nearly $800 million in the process.

00:27:46.000 Back to Hawley, he's putting lawmakers sort of in a tough place, right?

00:27:49.000 They have to go on the record and vote for or against something that virtually every American wants, if it makes it to the United States.

00:27:55.000 What I particularly enjoyed is the fact that that bill, or bills like it, are introduced almost...

00:28:03.000 Every administration or every term.

00:28:06.000 And they never pass because ultimately people don't vote against their own interests.

00:28:11.000 And it's this mentality that has to be altered in all of us.

00:28:14.000 Don't you occasionally get a glimpse of a radically different world?

00:28:17.000 Don't you occasionally recognize that we're occupying a kind of purgatory?

00:28:21.000 We're limiting possibility just by our inability to venture into imagination, in our inability to leap into faith.

00:28:30.000 And even open our minds and hearts to the possibility that we could move beyond tribalism and mudslinging, hatred and individualism and materialism and commercialism. 0.58

00:28:41.000 I happen to believe that Donald Trump is probably the kind of President of the United States needs right now.

00:28:45.000 I also believe that joy reads perspectives on race are of value.

00:28:51.000 I also believe that deport people on the basis of free speech is out of alignment with what most Americans believe in.

00:29:00.000 Above all else now, though, I feel that the time of nations Has to be reviewed.

00:29:07.000 Why would we centralise populations to the tune of 300 million people?

00:29:13.000 Why do we not invite the possibility of subsidiarity?

00:29:17.000 And beyond that even, a perspective on the world that reaches beyond the limited clenched fist of I-me-mine individualism.

00:29:26.000 But that's just what I think.

00:29:27.000 Why don't you let me know what you think.

00:29:28.000 Is it possible that we might...

00:29:30.000 Breathe into being a better world through surrender and letting go.

00:29:33.000 I pray that it is.

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00:32:02.000 Could there be any clearer indication that we are living in a two-tier society when the ultra-rich...

00:32:08.000 Resort to living in catacombs, labyrinths beneath the world, like David Bowie surrounded by trollish Henson-esque Muppets and Puppets.

00:32:17.000 One good thing is the changing landscape of independent media means that people like Theo Von, with a unique imagination and a brilliant comedic voice, now have conversations with Mark Zuckerberg.

00:32:27.000 Who knows what PR advice has led to this conversation, but I'm glad it's happening.

00:32:32.000 Pay particular attention to the fact that Theo Von is able to stay in tune with his unique comedic...

00:32:37.000 And that Mark Zuckerberg has to handle the idea that there's nothing wrong with having underground bunkers.

00:32:44.000 It's not, of course, just ultra-rich individuals and beneficiaries of the technocratic Illuminati-like structures of the modern globalist state, but also the old-school political class also have...

00:32:57.000 under subterranean cities apparently that's something that was revealed to Tucker Carlson recently let's get into it first of all with Theo Vaughn and his conversation

00:33:06.000 I don't even know what I would have.

00:33:08.000 I would have an underground tunnel, even though it came right back up next to where it started.

00:33:12.000 I do have an underground tunnel.

00:33:13.000 Do you really?

00:33:14.000 Yeah.

00:33:15.000 Yeah.

00:33:17.000 In...

00:33:17.000 USA?

00:33:18.000 Well, there's this ranch in Kauai.

00:33:19.000 Yeah.

00:33:20.000 Where there's this whole thing where people are like...

00:33:22.000 There's this whole meme about how people are saying I built this like...

00:33:25.000 Bunker underground.

00:33:26.000 It's like more of underground storage type of situation.

00:33:29.000 Bring it up.

00:33:29.000 But yeah, no, it's a...

00:33:32.000 Oh, wow.

00:33:34.000 Zucky got that bunky.

00:33:36.000 What's under the ground is more water, right?

00:33:38.000 It's basically what you just said.

00:33:40.000 It's sort of a tunnel that just goes to...

00:33:43.000 Another building.

00:33:44.000 Yeah. It's just a humble tunnel that goes to another part of the compound.

00:33:49.000 In a way, I don't resent who could resent Mark Zuckerberg for being wealthy.

00:33:53.000 There have always been wealthy elites.

00:33:54.000 I suppose what we're interested in is the maneuvering of information, the control of information and how that pertains to control more broadly.

00:34:01.000 Mark Zuckerberg is a person that has access to the true levers of power.

00:34:05.000 Do you believe that's true?

00:34:06.000 Or do you feel that Mark Zuckerberg, like many other people that were there at the advent of the internet and, and,

00:34:13.000 Let's call it the modern hypercommunication age, that their projects were sponsored by the CIA and CIA carve-outs.

00:34:19.000 Let me know what you think about that in the comments and the chat.

00:34:22.000 Whatever Mark Zuckerberg is or isn't, it's difficult, isn't it, just to look at him as another human being like you or I, another divinely endowed and blessed ape on his way to the grave even now, perhaps a little later than the rest of us, due to modern technologies,

00:34:38.000 incredible nutrition, and an underground bunker that's going to be of some value to him.

00:34:42.000 And the apocalypse is undoubtedly induced by all this needless hostility that's being stoked everywhere we go.

00:34:47.000 Yeah!

00:34:49.000 But it's...

00:34:50.000 It's a good place to hide a little bit of dope, though.

00:34:52.000 That's what I would say, dude.

00:34:53.000 How big is that tunnel?

00:34:54.000 Is your tunnel pretty big, or what's it like?

00:34:56.000 It's not that big of a tunnel.

00:34:58.000 I made a...

00:34:59.000 I put a reel on Instagram one day of Priscilla kind of making fun of me playing video games with some friends down there.

00:35:06.000 But it's...

00:35:06.000 Yeah.

00:35:08.000 No, it's all good.

00:35:11.000 Yes, definitely.

00:35:12.000 But this is a crazy area.

00:35:13.000 I haven't spent a lot of time here.

00:35:14.000 You know how the internet is.

00:35:15.000 The internet will always make things seem like...

00:35:17.000 It's weird, isn't it, to hear Mark Zuckerberg talking about the internet as if his interactions with the internet are ordinary and not epochal and significant, i.e.

00:35:29.000 Mark Zuckerberg can and did have deals with Fauci, or at least an agreement with Anthony Fauci during the pandemic era to, broadly speaking, censor and smear people having inquiries, questions, doubts, or even legitimate claims about vaccine injury or something that he publicly spoke about.

00:35:45.000 I suppose the idea that I'm alluding to, the idea that's perhaps significant in this piece, is that if you have...

00:35:53.000 A division in society that's so stark and significant that the most powerful elites ultimately occupy a different world to the rest of us, then that is a problem.

00:36:04.000 And that's another of the great lessons of the pandemic.

00:36:07.000 What was a crisis for most people was an opportunity for elites.

00:36:12.000 If that algebra remains true, what's to prevent us living in a state of continual crisis?

00:36:20.000 The Berlin Wall comes down, then it's 9-11.

00:36:22.000 9-11 happens, 2008 financial crash.

00:36:25.000 2008 financial crash leads to a spate of wars.

00:36:29.000 We have yet more conflict and controversy and conflagration right the way up to the pandemic.

00:36:36.000 Then we live in a state of continual crisis, division, hysteria, malinformation, misinformation.

00:36:41.000 The aggregation of power at the scale that we're experiencing it now leads to crisis, and Mark Zuckerberg is ready for that crisis.

00:36:48.000 It's weird too.

00:36:49.000 To watch billionaires and oligarchs repo themselves as kind of bros.

00:36:53.000 It's sort of like Elon Musk.

00:36:55.000 I suppose he seems like he's one of them people that's kind of authentic and open and has garnered, obviously, incredible success, but also appealed as a type of star as well.

00:37:04.000 I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg has that kind of inherent ability.

00:37:08.000 I don't know.

00:37:08.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.

00:37:10.000 We'll always make things seem like they're crazier than they are.

00:37:14.000 But, you know.

00:37:15.000 What's an under, I mean, in Hawaii, it's like having a, having a little storm shelter underground tunnels.

00:37:20.000 That's the thing right there.

00:37:21.000 No, I don't think so.

00:37:23.000 That's insane.

00:37:24.000 Is that roadblocks?

00:37:27.000 Is it possible that not only Mark Zuckerberg is the beneficiary of underground technology, but the entire US government?

00:37:39.000 What are they building in there?

00:37:41.000 What are they preparing for?

00:37:43.000 Katherine Fitz, who worked under George W. Bush, reveals to Tucker Carlson that they're Have always been subterranean bunkers, some the size of cities.

00:37:51.000 Let's check it out.

00:37:52.000 The underground base and city infrastructure and transportation system that's been built.

00:37:58.000 I'm sorry?

00:37:59.000 Yes.

00:37:59.000 So we have built an extraordinary number of underground bases and supposedly transportation systems.

00:38:07.000 Some of these are documented as part of the national security infrastructure.

00:38:10.000 I think there are many more.

00:38:11.000 In the United States?

00:38:12.000 In the United States and all over the world.

00:38:15.000 From 2021...

00:38:17.000 I took one of the smartest subscribers in the Soler Report Network, and he and I spent two years collecting all the data and all the allegations on underground bases.

00:38:30.000 We systematically went through and tried to estimate our guess, this is totally a guess, of how many underground bases, both underground in the United States, but also underground under the ocean around the United States.

00:38:43.000 And our estimate was 170.

00:38:46.000 And what would be the purpose?

00:38:52.000 Learn to cook.

00:38:53.000 Learn to fish.

00:38:54.000 Learn to grow food.

00:38:56.000 Learn to build shelters.

00:38:58.000 Become capable, competent.

00:39:00.000 Learn how to interface with God directly.

00:39:02.000 Learn to set up and participate in parallel economies and ecologies.

00:39:07.000 Untether yourself from the state and from its instrument of inevitable destruction.

00:39:12.000 It seems like people with insight and incredible power and the wealth to do so are preparing for an Armageddon-level event.

00:39:18.000 We talked about the blackouts across Europe yesterday.

00:39:22.000 What will be next after the pandemic?

00:39:24.000 Let me know in the comments and chat how they will usher us into our homes and continue to implement undue, unnecessary and terrifying control.

00:39:32.000 It seems to me likely that before too long, the rich will be living underground.

00:39:36.000 And unless we learn some serious matters,

00:39:38.000 We will be.

00:39:42.000 Decaying above it.

00:39:43.000 But that's just what I think.

00:39:44.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.

00:39:45.000 Hey, man, this is temporal.

00:39:47.000 We only occupy this bandwidth for a short, short while.

00:39:50.000 And unless we start interfacing with something beyond it, I don't see that there's a lot of hope for any of us.

00:39:55.000 Let us know what you think about that in the comments and chat.

00:39:57.000 If you're watching us on X, we're going to leave there now.

00:39:59.000 And we're talking about the Ukraine war in addition to talking about Trump's first 101...

00:40:05.000 One of the things that I think many people felt optimistic about was Trump's ability to bring a successful conclusion to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

00:40:12.000 He himself said, within 24 hours, it will be over.

00:40:16.000 There was an impromptu, apparently iconic moment at the Vatican where Trump and Zelensky met.

00:40:22.000 Macron was backed, put on the end of a ramrod jab, kept out of the conversation and discussions.

00:40:29.000 And it seems possible that Zelensky is willing to yield Crimea, and if indeed that's the case, it's possible that maybe, just maybe, this conflict will be brought to an end.

00:40:38.000 Trump claims, of course, legitimately, that this was always Biden's war.

00:40:42.000 Will he bring a conclusion to it?

00:40:44.000 Has something significant taken place as a result of those chairs being placed in a corridor?

00:40:49.000 Let's have a look.

00:40:50.000 Let's see.

00:40:51.000 You're not Crimea.

00:40:52.000 Do you think you survived?

00:40:53.000 Oh, I think so, yeah.

00:40:54.000 Look, Crimea was 12 years ago.

00:40:56.000 That was President Obama that gave it up without a shot being fired, so...

00:41:01.000 There you go.

00:41:06.000 I mean, I'm not a fan of them airport interviews, but here is a post from Trump.

00:41:10.000 No matter what deal I make with respect to Russia and Ukraine, no matter how good it is, even if it's the greatest deal ever made, the failing New York Times will speak badly of it.

00:41:19.000 Little Peter Baker, the very biased and untalented writer for The Times, followed his editor's demands and wrote that Ukraine should get back territory, including, I suppose, Crimea and other ridiculous requests, in order to stop the killing that is worse than anything since World War II.

00:41:32.000 Why doesn't this lightweight reporter say that it was Obama?

00:41:35.000 Who made it possible for Russia to steal Crimea from Ukraine without even a shot being fired. 0.52

00:41:40.000 It was also Little P. Amazing.

00:41:43.000 Who wrote an absolutely fawning yet terrible written biography on Obama.

00:41:47.000 It was a joke!

00:41:48.000 Did Baker ever criticize the Obama-Crimea giveaway?

00:41:52.000 No.

00:41:52.000 Not once.

00:41:53.000 Only Trump. 0.99

00:41:54.000 And I've had nothing to do with this stupid war other than early on when I gave Ukraine javelins and Obama gave him sheets. 1.00

00:42:00.000 This is sleepy Joe Biden's war. 0.99

00:42:02.000 Not mine. 0.87

00:42:02.000 It was a loser from day one and should never have happened. 0.87

00:42:05.000 And wouldn't have happened if I were president at the time.

00:42:07.000 I'm just trying to clean up the mess that was left to me by Obama and Biden.

00:42:10.000 Imagine what kind of mess that might be.

00:42:11.000 The number of times that Joe Biden seemed to have an involuntary trouser leg action.

00:42:15.000 And what a mess it is.

00:42:16.000 With all that being said, there was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles in the civilian areas, cities and towns over the last few years.

00:42:22.000 Seems like a pivotal moment in this conflict.

00:42:37.000 Republican Senate John Kennedy has stepped up the virulent and violent rhetoric, claiming that Russia could be turned into fish food.

00:42:47.000 Fish food?

00:42:47.000 Does that mean it's submerged in water?

00:42:49.000 I don't know how you even would make...

00:42:51.000 Such an incredible transition.

00:42:52.000 Here's what I see.

00:42:54.000 Putin has reneged on every promise that he has made to President Trump.

00:43:00.000 His latest proposal is, well, nothing.

00:43:05.000 He wants to keep all the territory that he's taken.

00:43:08.000 He wants to prohibit Ukraine from joining NATO, and he wants America and Europe to stop helping Ukraine.

00:43:18.000 I think that Putin thinks that America has taken the bullet train to Chumptown.

00:43:26.000 I think he thinks we're afraid of him.

00:43:29.000 He has jacked around President Trump at every turn.

00:43:34.000 He has disrespected our president.

00:43:37.000 I don't think it's going to get any better until we make it clear to Mr. Putin that we are willing to turn him and his country.

00:43:47.000 Into fish food.

00:43:49.000 And I'm not talking about nuclear weapons or nuclear war.

00:43:54.000 I would start with oil, which I will be glad to talk about if you want.

00:43:59.000 Okay, fair enough.

00:44:00.000 I'm interested in this whole fish food thing.

00:44:02.000 Keep talking.

00:44:03.000 The way that we're informed about war, the way that global politics, global business, global information is conveyed and proliferated is radically different.

00:44:13.000 Ben Shapiro now.

00:44:15.000 has had a meeting, an interview with Zelensky, Theo Vons talking to Zuckerberg, Shapiro's talking to Zelensky.

00:44:23.000 There are new ways of communicating.

00:44:24.000 That's one of the transitions, I suppose, that the world and world powers are managing and manoeuvring.

00:44:30.000 But did we get anything from Shapiro's conversation with Zelensky that would alter your perception of that conflict, the way it's being funded and the

00:44:37.000 When the United States is saying that we are in between Russia and Ukraine and someone is exerting pressure upon us, Understand why am I struggling to understand all of these things.

00:44:52.000 I'm demonstrating, the whole people are demonstrating that we are fighting.

00:44:57.000 We are fighting for your rights, just as for our own.

00:45:02.000 We are fighting for our values, just the same as yours.

00:45:05.000 We're fighting with Russians, with your enemy, not with your friends, but with your enemies. 0.93

00:45:11.000 And we...

00:45:14.000 We want to have this understanding in the United States.

00:45:17.000 Nothing more.

00:45:17.000 The understanding and the recognition of the fact that we are partners.

00:45:23.000 Exhausting.

00:45:24.000 An exhausting ordeal.

00:45:26.000 All these global conversations about global conflicts that have such diffuse and obfuscated motivations that in the end one has no choice but to turn away.

00:45:39.000 Like from one's own brokenness and sin and invite a powerful light into your life in an attempt even to understand all of this complexity.

00:45:48.000 Who are all of us spilled into infinity, grappling for a moment of limelight and a few questions to be answered in this unknowable, endless diorama of endless drama?

00:46:04.000 I don't know, man.

00:46:05.000 What do you think about all this?

00:46:06.000 Ben Shapiro, pretty effective interviewer and conversationalist.

00:46:12.000 Zelensky there, who's seemed to me at different points to be carrying the burden and carrying the water for a number of very powerful and peculiar interests.

00:46:20.000 For me, the moment, I'm never going to forget seeing him turn up at the Golden Globes.

00:46:24.000 Name checking, JP Morgan.

00:46:27.000 Checking by name, BlackRock.

00:46:29.000 That's when I get these kind of flashes of where power is and how power operates, as long as people benefit from perpetuating war.

00:46:36.000 Remember, Julian Assange told us the function was not to end the Afghanistan war, but to perpetuate it.

00:46:43.000 The purpose of government is to take public money and transfer it to private hands.

00:46:46.000 Sometimes there's just some little bit of...

00:46:49.000 Verbal algebra, some simple little paradigm, some equation that I can hold on to to make sense of this shifting, mad, spiking geometry that's difficult to take any meaningful conclusions from other than the world is a confusing place and we need God bad.

00:47:05.000 But that's just what I think, stroke feel.

00:47:07.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.

00:47:10.000 What we know now is that Legacy Media is...

00:47:14.000 On average, two or three years behind independent media when it comes to offering at least useful appraisals of a situation.

00:47:23.000 You've been fed propaganda about Ukraine, the invented and the invented Russian menace.

00:47:27.000 These are the lies you've been told.

00:47:29.000 You could have looked at Jeffrey Sachs, John Mearsheimer and all the people that were willing to convey that information some time ago.

00:47:35.000 So I think, Lowe, let me know what you think.

00:47:37.000 Now, one thing we can at least rely on is that...

00:47:40.000 The avatars of globalism won't go quietly into that dying light.

00:47:46.000 Klaus Schwab may be gone, but a new potentially non-human entity has replaced him.

00:47:51.000 At the head of the WEF, former Nestle head honcho and haunted ventriloquist's dummy, now leads the WEF.

00:48:01.000 Klaus Schwab, though, appears to be leaving under some pretty unusual conditions.

00:48:06.000 WF launches an investigation into its founder, Klaus Schwab.

00:48:10.000 He's been eating the bugs.

00:48:12.000 He's been, apparently, owning nothing and not being happy about it.

00:48:17.000 Let's get into this story.

00:48:19.000 This is from that piece of writing in the Lixie Media in The Guardian.

00:48:22.000 The World Economic Forum has launched an investigation into its founder, Klaus Schwab.

00:48:27.000 After whistleblowers reportedly accused him of manipulating research, using company funds to pay for private massages.

00:48:33.000 Oh, Klaus.

00:48:34.000 And asking junior staff to withdraw thousands of dollars on his behalf.

00:48:38.000 The allegations, reportedly sent last week in a letter to the WEF, which organises the annual gathering of economic leaders at Davos in Switzerland, accused Schwab and his wife, Hilde, of financial and ethical misconduct, which the family has denied.

00:48:51.000 Innocent till proven guilty.

00:48:53.000 Surely that's a principle I can lean into today of all.

00:48:56.000 But what we have to point out here is that Klaus Schwab, for all of his vocal and...

00:49:04.000 Near-incessant rhetoric around improving the world, creating a socialism that elevates the living conditions of ordinary folk, protecting us, keeping us healthy and safe and happy, even if that means we have to crunch through a few cockroaches, appears to have been fiddling his expenses, which is a pretty low motivation for a person with such high ideals.

00:49:22.000 The accusations prompted Schwab's resignation as the WEF executive chair on Monday after its board of high-profile trustees.

00:49:29.000 Get ready for this list, which include the Black Rock chief Larry Fink, The IMF managing director, Christina Georgieva, the former US Vice President Al Gore, and the cellist, Yo-Yo Ma, held an emergency meeting to look into the claims on Sunday.

00:49:43.000 You've got the IMF's managing director, you've got Larry Fink, head of BlackRock, you've got Al Gore there intoning nasally, and then you've got Yo-Yo Ma just looking...

00:49:55.000 Bailfully, at a cello case in the corner of the room, longing after a long-dead symphony and some tunes that at least make sense to her.

00:50:03.000 Schwab, 87, is said to have argued against the board's plan for an investigation before he resigned.

00:50:08.000 The founder had indicated he intended to step down in early April, but the whistleblower letter brought forward his exit.

00:50:13.000 That whistleblower.

00:50:15.000 Schwab, known as Mr. Davos, founded the WEF in 1971.

00:50:19.000 It hosts the annual conference in the Swiss ski resort, which draws prime ministers, CEOs, celebrities and top financiers.

00:50:25.000 Not only does it draw them, it creates them.

00:50:27.000 That's the list.

00:50:29.000 I mean, Kistama, Davos before Westminster.

00:50:32.000 Justin Trudeau, child of Westminster.

00:50:34.000 Mark Carney's replacement.

00:50:36.000 Macron.

00:50:37.000 The list goes on and on.

00:50:39.000 The whistleblower included a range of claims against the Schwab family, according to the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times.

00:50:44.000 They include allegations that Schwab used WEF funds to pay for private in-room messages at hotels.

00:50:49.000 That's not a good look, is it?

00:50:51.000 Ask staff to promote him for a Nobel Peace Prize.

00:50:53.000 Look, I just need a little massage.

00:50:55.000 Just some tension in the shoulders.

00:50:57.000 Also, could I get a Nobel Peace Prize?

00:50:59.000 Something!

00:51:00.000 And also, can I have a spittoon for this cheek full of saliva? 0.97

00:51:05.000 And instructed junior employees to withdraw thousands of dollars from ATMs on his behalf.

00:51:09.000 Oh dear, people are weak.

00:51:11.000 The flesh.

00:51:12.000 The flesh is weak.

00:51:13.000 The letter also accused Schwab of manipulating the WF Global Competitive Resort in order to curry favour with certain governments.

00:51:19.000 What does that mean?

00:51:20.000 He's carrying favour with entire governments.

00:51:21.000 Also note that this is in the legacy media.

00:51:24.000 Remember when the WF was thought of as a kind of clandestine but somehow simultaneously innocuous organisation.

00:51:31.000 Now we acknowledge that these kind of, albeit somehow banal, Gatherings are also a significant part of the tissue of global power, real global power, the kind of global power that requires a bunker because he knows what's coming down the pipe.

00:51:46.000 The publication ranks countries based on criteria such as education, infrastructure, labour market and health systems and is a point of reference for the annual Davos meeting.

00:51:55.000 Some allegations also extended to Schwab's wife, Hild, even Hild's not safe, who formerly worked at the WF.

00:52:01.000 They suggested she scheduled token meetings using WF money to justify luxury travel at WF's expense. 1.00

00:52:07.000 Do you know where I think we should go, Klaus?

00:52:09.000 No, where should we go?

00:52:10.000 Monte Carlo!

00:52:12.000 Let's enter Monte Carlo!

00:52:13.000 Put it on the account!

00:52:14.000 Send someone down to the ATM!

00:52:16.000 Woman, I'm trying to have a massage! 0.69

00:52:19.000 Want somebody?

00:52:20.000 Please, get me a Nobel Peace Prize!

00:52:25.000 The letter claims that he would also maintain tight control over the use of Villa Mundi, a grand property bought by the WEF looking over Lake Geneva.

00:52:32.000 Do you know what we need?

00:52:33.000 We need a grand property overlooking Lake Geneva.

00:52:37.000 You will own nothing except for this grand property overlooking Lake Geneva and you will be happy. 0.98

00:52:41.000 Probably because you just ejaculated in yet another massage. 0.88

00:52:47.000 All that portion and the portions of the building were reserved for the family's private access. 0.99

00:52:51.000 This is not good, Klaus.

00:52:52.000 The Schwabs have reportedly denied all the allegations.

00:52:55.000 Fair enough.

00:52:55.000 Innocent to proven guilty.

00:52:56.000 Innocent to proven guilty.

00:52:57.000 Saying they were unsubstantiated and would be challenged in a lawsuit.

00:53:00.000 A statement sent on behalf of the family to some media outlets on Wednesday claimed Schwab had been the victim of a character assassination.

00:53:06.000 Also victim of being on camera.

00:53:09.000 As a saliva-sluicing global plutocrat.

00:53:12.000 The WF Board of Trustees has appointed the former Nestle Chief Executive, Peter Brabeck-Lemath, as interim chair.

00:53:19.000 Oh, we're okay then.

00:53:20.000 This guy's going to bounce right out of Nestle, home of the world's most intoxicating and ill-nutritious malnourishment-inducing baby milk formula, pushed upon the mothers of Africa for many a year, straight into the WEF chair.

00:53:35.000 Frying pan and fire scenario right there.

00:53:37.000 Schwab's resignation marks the end of the 54th.

00:53:40.000 How did you get that job?

00:53:43.000 I invented it.

00:53:44.000 And follows a previous board investigation into its workplace culture.

00:53:48.000 What was going on there?

00:53:49.000 It comes two years after a group of employees and former staff of the WF contacted The Guardian

00:53:54.000 Over concerns about how Schwab was running the organisation.

00:53:57.000 Why weren't the Guardian printing this stuff?

00:53:59.000 Earlier, the claim that Schwab was a law unto himself.

00:54:02.000 I'm going to do this now.

00:54:03.000 That's against the law.

00:54:05.000 I determine the law.

00:54:06.000 I will break the law and you will be happy.

00:54:08.000 And had surrounded himself with nobodies who were incapable of running the organization he founded in the early 70s.

00:54:14.000 It followed criticism that the WF's strategic partners, the firms that bankroll the business, were unhappy about the lack of succession strategy.

00:54:20.000 On Monday, Schwab issued a statement through the WF announcing his resignation, saying, Well,

00:54:38.000 Klaus Schwab is dead.

00:54:40.000 Long live Peter.

00:54:41.000 I mean, it's a name that doesn't slip off the tongue in the manner that Klaus Schwab's saliva does.

00:54:48.000 Peter Brayback Letmarth.

00:54:51.000 Oh man, that guy looks like a potential non-human entity.

00:54:55.000 That's what people are saying online.

00:54:56.000 But it's just another unsubstantiated piece of poetry that comes from the fact that on some level we recognise that power is migrating further and further from the hands of ordinary people.

00:55:08.000 And while we watch these dramas play out on a global stage, more and more of us are losing access to simple amenities like food and air and water.

00:55:17.000 Water shortages in the UK.

00:55:19.000 Blackouts across Spain and Portugal.

00:55:21.000 What are they preparing us for next?

00:55:24.000 I don't know what it will be.

00:55:26.000 None of us know.

00:55:26.000 But we do know that the results will be more authority, control and power for unelected officials.

00:55:32.000 More ways to sell us ideas, notions that will intrude upon our privacy and our personal freedom.

00:55:39.000 More likelihood that we'll be invited to place chips under our skin and vaccines into our veins.

00:55:45.000 All for the benefit of some peculiar end that I know.

00:55:48.000 No has to do with a counterfeiting of good.

00:55:51.000 False light instead of true light.

00:55:54.000 And a darkness that sometimes I scarcely dare look upon.

00:55:58.000 Certainly not without the holy power of our eternal Lord.

00:56:02.000 But that's just why I think, why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.

00:56:06.000 That's all we have time for this week.

00:56:08.000 Remember, we stream every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

00:56:12.000 Join us then next week for more of the same, not more of the different.

00:56:15.000 We're going to throw to the quarter in right now.

00:56:18.000 And thank you, Tim Carsten, Mud Club, for the raid at the beginning of the show.

00:56:21.000 See you next week.

00:56:22.000 Until then, if you can, stay free.

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00:56:59.000 Many switching, switch on, switch on.

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00:57:13.000 Switch on.

00:57:15.000 Many switching.

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Stay Free - Russel Brand - May 01, 2025

Half of Congress Are Millionaires… Now They Want to Ban Insider Trading? – SF576

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