Stay Free - Russel Brand - October 05, 2023


HOLY SH*T…Is Dystopia Already HERE?! - Stay Free #217


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 21 minutes

Words per Minute

179.03206

Word Count

14,612

Sentence Count

890

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

22


Summary

Joe Biden's escalatory speech at the United Nation's peacekeeping mission in the Middle East has sparked a firestorm of criticism, and the legacy media are quick to point the finger at Russia. Kevin McCarthy has been removed as Speaker of the House, which is a significant moment in American history, as it's the first time in our history that a Speaker has ever been removed from office for a significant breach of the party leadership. Meanwhile, a Florida Congressman has a plan to force a snap vote to remove him from office, which could spell trouble for the future of the entire Republican leadership in the House of Representatives. In the wake of all this, we have an amazing conversation with Scott Adams, the Dealbook creator who predicted Trump's wins, written a really brilliant book about Trump, actually, and a fascinating book about framing and persuasion that will help you understand consciousness. The full conversation is available on Locals. That's when you press the red button and become an Awakened Wonder and support our content, which, as you know, is important once the government and the media are against you, it becomes actually imperative. You are a discerning and awakening member of a new community that can change the world, from independent media, and I'm so happy to be here with you to have this opportunity to explore truth together. In this video, you'll get the whole conversation there, and it's brilliant. In this episode, you're going to see the future. You'll get a fantastic show where you'll be able to explore the past, the present, the past and the future, and everything in between. In short, you need to understand the present and the past. That's what's going on in order to become an awakened wonder! Today's show will be available wherever you're watching the show, so don't miss it! You can't ask for more than $10, $20, $30, $50, $60, $80, $100, $75, or $150, and $200, and so much more! We'll see you in the next episode! - RUMBLE! RUMBLING WEEEEEeee! Thank you so much for listening to this show. - Timestamps: 0:00:00 - What do you think of it? 5:30 - What are you waiting for? 6:40 - What would you like to see in the future?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 So, I'm going to go ahead and start the video.
00:00:07.000 So, I'm going to start the video.
00:01:01.000 In this video, you're going to see the future.
00:01:13.000 Hello there, you Awakening wonder.
00:01:14.000 Thank you so much for joining us today.
00:01:17.000 As you know, once the government demonetize you, your support becomes absolutely invaluable.
00:01:23.000 Thanks for joining us.
00:01:24.000 We've got a fantastic show for you today.
00:01:25.000 You are discerning and awakening member of a new community that can change the world from independent media.
00:01:31.000 We can create independent movements and I'm So happy to be here with you to have this opportunity to explore truth together.
00:01:37.000 We're going to be talking unbelievably about Joe Biden's escalatory speech at the UN, where he suggests that Russia and Russia alone caused the current conflict.
00:01:47.000 He denies historical facts just plainly and blatantly.
00:01:49.000 It's astonishing to observe the legacy media, as you know, simply amplify the messages of the mainstream, never discerning, never investigative or interrogating unless it's To shut down dissent and dissidents.
00:02:04.000 We have an amazing conversation with Scott Adams, the Dealbook creator who predicted Trump's wins, written a really brilliant book about Trump, actually, and a fascinating book about framing and persuasion that will help you understand consciousness.
00:02:16.000 The full conversation will be available on Locals.
00:02:19.000 That's when you press the red button and become an Awakened Wonder and support our content, which, as you know, is important once the government and the legacy media are against you.
00:02:26.000 It becomes actually imperative.
00:02:28.000 Well, you'll get the whole conversation there, and it's brilliant.
00:02:30.000 The first part of the show is available wherever you're watching this now, but the show in its entirety is only available on Rumble.
00:02:37.000 Click the red button to become an awakened wonder.
00:02:39.000 Let's have a look at what the legacy media are talking about.
00:02:42.000 Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House, has been ousted.
00:02:44.000 This is the first time this has happened, and obviously it's a significant story.
00:02:49.000 Let's have a look at Kevin McCarthy and how the legacy media are reporting on this.
00:02:53.000 We have some breaking news just into the newsroom, some major news here.
00:02:57.000 This is news, we're doing news.
00:02:58.000 Look how many times she has to reiterate that it's some news.
00:03:01.000 Like, the show's called The News, but we know, you know and I know, that the news is just a TV show.
00:03:06.000 The function of the news is to normalise the agenda of the powerful.
00:03:09.000 When something actually happens, a new bit of information, they panic.
00:03:12.000 We've got some news here at the newsroom.
00:03:14.000 Have a look at it again, it's amazing.
00:03:15.000 We have some breaking news just into the newsroom.
00:03:18.000 Some major news here.
00:03:20.000 We have some news just into the newsroom.
00:03:23.000 I'm actually out of my depth.
00:03:23.000 It's major news.
00:03:25.000 In a minute, she has to start telling you the actual facts.
00:03:28.000 She sort of panics.
00:03:29.000 Listen.
00:03:29.000 The vote is in after a move to oust the Speaker of the House.
00:03:33.000 The House voted... What?
00:03:36.000 22?
00:03:36.000 Oh God, I don't know.
00:03:37.000 This bit's the actual news.
00:03:38.000 I'm panicking now.
00:03:40.000 ...16 to 210 to remove Kevin McCarthy from his position.
00:03:44.000 Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz filed a motion last night which created a snap vote to remove fellow Republican Kevin McCarthy from the speaker job.
00:03:54.000 This is the first time in American history that this has ever happened.
00:03:58.000 Kevin McCarthy.
00:03:59.000 So it seems exciting and when you see that Matt Gaetz, that dude from Florida talking, you think, wow man, everything's gonna be okay.
00:04:06.000 Check him out.
00:04:07.000 And when it comes to how those raised money, I take no lecture on asking patriotic Americans to weigh in and contribute to this fight from those who would grovel and bend knee for the lobbyists and special interests who own our leadership, who have... Oh, boo all you want!
00:04:26.000 He's so intimate, isn't he?
00:04:26.000 I like that.
00:04:27.000 Like, isn't he saying stuff that you really want to hear people say in Congress?
00:04:31.000 Oh, no, me!
00:04:32.000 I'm not gonna stand!
00:04:33.000 No, boo all you want, you're own bio-lobbyists!
00:04:35.000 Boo!
00:04:36.000 We're not... We are own bio-lobbyists!
00:04:38.000 who have hollowed out this town and have borrowed against the future of our future generations.
00:04:43.000 I'll be happy to fund my political operation through the work of hardworking Americans, $10 and $20 and $30 at a time, and you all keep showing up at the lobbyist fundraisers and see how that goes for you.
00:04:54.000 I reserve.
00:04:56.000 Pretty cool, really like that.
00:04:58.000 The only thing that could make American politics more exciting is if Donald Trump were to become the Speaker of the House.
00:05:03.000 But he's not going to do that, is he?
00:05:05.000 Fox News says maybe.
00:05:07.000 Now, sources telling me at this hour some House Republicans have been in contact with and have started an effort to draft former President Donald Trump to be the next Speaker.
00:05:19.000 And I have been told that President Trump might be open to helping the Republican Party, at least in the short term if necessary, if it's needed.
00:05:30.000 Seems weird to say this but I can't imagine Trump doing a job that requires that much admin.
00:05:33.000 I know he's actually run massive businesses and...
00:05:36.000 The biggest country in the world.
00:05:38.000 But I feel like he does it in a kind of a flair way.
00:05:40.000 I can't imagine he's going to do a job that requires sort of muted, administrative and bureaucratic discipline because it just doesn't seem to be what he's about.
00:05:51.000 But let us know what you think.
00:05:53.000 Check out Fox News getting trolled.
00:05:56.000 Now, sadly, they are talking about a tragic and awful shooting, but the person they get on the line as a caller is plainly not there to contribute to their news story.
00:06:05.000 It's lovely to hear it unfold.
00:06:07.000 And we've got Tyrone on the phone with us now.
00:06:09.000 Tyrone, when you say poker game, what exactly happened?
00:06:12.000 What transpired?
00:06:13.000 Tyrone does a really good job here of dragging this out.
00:06:16.000 This is really good trolling.
00:06:18.000 It seems for a long while that he's actually about to contribute to the news agenda of Fox, but he just continues to promote Tucker Carlson.
00:06:27.000 Well, first we were watching, we all get together every Tuesday night, and we watch Dr. Carlson's show on X. We used to watch him on Fox News, obviously he's out there no more, and still being the most credible guy in the media.
00:06:41.000 We can't tell you why we fired him without compromising your trust in this whole operation.
00:06:46.000 We always get together to watch Tucker Carlson, and I think he's doing probably better now that he's not with Fox News, because the corporate media- Wait a minute.
00:06:53.000 This isn't- This guy's not talking about- Can you, sir, would you please start taking this massacre seriously?
00:06:59.000 He always controls what the teleprompter readers are able to say.
00:07:03.000 Wait a minute!
00:07:04.000 I read a teleprompter!
00:07:06.000 That's enough, right?
00:07:08.000 You made it personal.
00:07:09.000 Are you even called Tyler?
00:07:12.000 So there's the legacy media being trolled.
00:07:15.000 Meanwhile, the cyber sphere that seeks to control your reality with dubious information in judicious reporting is stepping things up again.
00:07:25.000 You remember when we told you a little while ago about, like, Meta will be introducing sunglasses so you can broadcast their version of reality directly into your consciousness and prevent, I don't know, nature or loved ones entering your field of vision?
00:07:39.000 Well, we're a little closer to that.
00:07:41.000 And the mainstream media, of course, does its job.
00:07:44.000 Not critiquing, not examining, not investigating, simply normalizing the agenda of the powerful in what amounts to a sort of advertisement.
00:07:55.000 They're saying that they can still afford propaganda even though they've probably cut human jobs.
00:07:59.000 by ChatGPT. Mark Zuckerberg showed Meta's recent cost cutting has not stopped them keeping up with
00:08:05.000 the integration of artificial intelligence into daily life.
00:08:08.000 They're saying that they can steal a full propaganda even though they've probably cut human
00:08:12.000 jobs. I think that's what that was.
00:08:14.000 We wanted to build something that would enable you to easily capture and share experiences from
00:08:18.000 your point of view.
00:08:20.000 Well, how about an open internet that's not censored and surveilled?
00:08:23.000 How about listening to the point of view of dissidents and people that dissent?
00:08:26.000 How about a fairer, democratic world where communities are able to control their own resources, where we don't have information piped directly into our eyes by sponsors, where Facebook don't essentially act like a surveillance organization, giving information
00:08:40.000 directly to the government and using an agenda set by the government and their deep state
00:08:45.000 operatives to bludgeon people into submission.
00:08:47.000 I'd never really thought about that.
00:08:49.000 If we're going to build best in class glasses, a great place to start is with the iconic
00:08:54.000 Ray-Ban frames that people already love.
00:08:57.000 Mark Zuckerberg and his team at Facebook are the latest tech company to try to make video
00:09:02.000 glasses go mainstream.
00:09:04.000 The social media giant Thursday unveiled what it calls Ray-Ban Stories.
00:09:09.000 It's first pair of smart glasses, which allows wearers to capture photos and short videos.
00:09:14.000 Amazing.
00:09:15.000 So what will happen now is like a bunch of famous people and celebrities will get given them and you'll see content.
00:09:21.000 And then just a couple of years from now, what you'll have is those things nailed to your head if you ever take them off.
00:09:30.000 You took off your Ray-Bans.
00:09:32.000 Why is that?
00:09:33.000 Oh, well, I was just going to the bathroom.
00:09:35.000 Why?
00:09:36.000 We can sell you a hemorrhoid cream.
00:09:37.000 You know, I don't have hemorrhoids.
00:09:39.000 Why?
00:09:39.000 Show me your ass.
00:09:41.000 Put your Ray-Ban up against your ass.
00:09:43.000 But my privacy.
00:09:44.000 Your privacy doesn't exist.
00:09:45.000 How come the government's able to keep everything private, but we, private citizens, are not allowed to be private?
00:09:53.000 When did you learn to put electricity through these?
00:09:56.000 We always had that.
00:09:57.000 You didn't tell us that in the commercial.
00:10:00.000 Now use the hemorrhoid cream.
00:10:02.000 Oh, that's hurting.
00:10:03.000 To see it was a trick.
00:10:04.000 We don't want to hand over total control of our eyes, minds and anuses to Mark Zuckerberg.
00:10:10.000 I don't think we can trust them.
00:10:12.000 Easily post on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
00:10:16.000 Users can also listen to music and podcasts, as well as take calls.
00:10:21.000 Oh, taping calls, listening to podcasts.
00:10:23.000 Why don't you just hand over your entire consciousness to Meta and the government?
00:10:28.000 Why don't you just... Why fly a kite?
00:10:30.000 Why look at a child?
00:10:32.000 Why wonder about freedom?
00:10:34.000 Why read the writings of Thomas Paine when you could just strap on your Ray-Bans and feel your mind full of meaningless sludge 24-7?
00:10:40.000 Why not set an alarm on it so it can wake you up every hour on the hour to tell you how free you are?
00:10:46.000 Zuckerberg touted his push toward virtual and augmented reality in a slickly produced Facebook video.
00:10:53.000 This is the news.
00:10:54.000 Why are they giving him props for the slick level of production?
00:10:58.000 And I'd have to say the lighting there was exceptional.
00:11:01.000 Just look at those glasses.
00:11:03.000 And at $59.99, for a limited period only, you'd have to say that there's something in meta for everyone.
00:11:10.000 Better get to the shops quickly and buy that!
00:11:12.000 I mean, like, what the hell is this?
00:11:14.000 That's not news!
00:11:15.000 To normalise the agenda of the powerful, to amplify the message of the powerful, to discredit dissenting voices.
00:11:22.000 Tick, tick, tick!
00:11:24.000 There's your legacy media.
00:11:25.000 That's a commercial!
00:11:26.000 That's not news!
00:11:27.000 Here's some news.
00:11:29.000 Okay, is it right that Facebook are able to be the only portal on phones in Malaysia and it allows them to control the news agenda?
00:11:37.000 What about Facebook's relationship with, or particularly Zuckerberg's relationship with Fauci during the pandemic, especially the correspondence that took place between them and Zuckerberg's admission that they censored true information?
00:11:47.000 How was Facebook funded in the first place?
00:11:50.000 Is it like Google, initially funded with CIA and government money.
00:11:55.000 What is their tax relationships with the United States?
00:11:58.000 That's news!
00:11:59.000 It sounds like that.
00:12:00.000 It sounds like a challenge to power.
00:12:02.000 It sounds like you're looking at it and thinking, hold on a minute, this isn't right.
00:12:06.000 This isn't right.
00:12:07.000 The whole system's corrupt.
00:12:08.000 Hold on a minute, let me put on my Ray-Bans.
00:12:11.000 Yeah, everything's fine.
00:12:14.000 Literally, that film, they live, they look around, the reality is acceptable now.
00:12:20.000 God help us.
00:12:21.000 I literally mean it.
00:12:22.000 God, help us.
00:12:24.000 Stories are an important step towards a future when phones are no longer a central part of our lives.
00:12:30.000 And you won't have to choose between- Kindness and human relationships are no longer a central part of my life, I mean our lives.
00:12:36.000 Between interacting with a device or interacting with the world around you.
00:12:40.000 Facebook has teamed up with- Remember the world around you, also known as everything, all reality.
00:12:45.000 Don't tell that!
00:12:47.000 We can filter that for you now, and put commercials in it, and then tell people what you're looking at.
00:12:52.000 And if one day ever, in the past or ever in the future, you look at something we don't want you looking at, like maybe some information about how Pfizer is funded, or the depth and length of their clinical trial prices, or how many mouses took that Moderna booster shot, that's eight, I can tell you that without the mouses, then you will be shut down, for no additional fee.
00:13:11.000 We can insert a small explosive device here at your temple, and we can Literally, if you ask too many questions, blow your mind!
00:13:18.000 Ray-Ban to make its model look less geeky and address pro- That's the issue, is it?
00:13:24.000 It's a bit geeky to have your consciousness controlled by an unprecedentedly large, corrupted, big tech organization.
00:13:32.000 It's actually happening.
00:13:33.000 They're branding the colonization of your mind.
00:13:37.000 They're branding it.
00:13:38.000 Brought to you by Ray-Ban.
00:13:40.000 Who doesn't like Ray-Ban?
00:13:40.000 I mean, I gotta admit, I like Ray-Ban.
00:13:43.000 I'm thinking, yeah, they're quite cool.
00:13:45.000 I suppose if I'm going to have my consciousness dominate, I might as well look cool.
00:13:48.000 Hey, you look cool.
00:13:49.000 What are you thinking about?
00:13:50.000 Whatever I'm told to think about.
00:13:52.000 And what are you looking at?
00:13:53.000 Whatever I'm told to look at.
00:13:55.000 It's not cool.
00:13:56.000 It's not cool to give up your freedom, the freedom of your attention, the last remaining gift, the last private piece of your divinity and sacredness sold to Ray-Ban and Facebook.
00:14:08.000 Privacy measures by including an LED light that appears when the glasses are recording.
00:14:13.000 Because, you know, we wouldn't record what you think we would record without telling you.
00:14:17.000 Oh, well, the old LED light, you know, that's how you'll know.
00:14:21.000 I mean, it's not like we can turn on microphones of your iPhone, or it's not like we would use WhatsApp to spy on you.
00:14:27.000 It's not like service providers use that data all the time already.
00:14:30.000 It's not like Edward Snowden and Julian Assange never happened.
00:14:34.000 Actually it is like that.
00:14:36.000 It's like it never happened.
00:14:37.000 It's like people never came to the forefront and went... They're spying on us!
00:14:42.000 They're spying on us and they're trading information!
00:14:44.000 They're going to control us!
00:14:45.000 They've got a plan to build this authoritarian dystopia where they say it's for convenience and safety and I guess they'll probably just, I don't know, make it look cool or something but you're going to have to be so careful because otherwise they're going to spy on you, they're going to surveil you, they're going to censor you, they're going to shut down dissent.
00:14:57.000 they're going to transcend the sovereign nation with a global movement that presents itself
00:15:01.000 to you as sort of like kind and friendly and yet is ultimately about centralised authoritarianism
00:15:05.000 and I suppose what they'll probably do is come up with like health crises and war crises
00:15:09.000 and energy and climate and water crises that legitimise their increasing authoritarianism.
00:15:15.000 That's all very interesting.
00:15:16.000 Who exactly is going to design those sunglasses?
00:15:20.000 I think they were talking about Tom Ford.
00:15:23.000 Cool.
00:15:24.000 Facebook, which has faced its own barrage of criticism.
00:15:28.000 That thumbs up is starting to seem pretty sarcastic at this point.
00:15:31.000 Stealing your consciousness?
00:15:33.000 Thanks.
00:15:35.000 Is there one for that?
00:15:36.000 We took that off.
00:15:37.000 It hurts people's feelings.
00:15:41.000 ...over privacy and user data said it would not access the media used by its smart glasses customers without their consent.
00:15:48.000 Oh good!
00:15:50.000 I was worried that maybe we couldn't trust them but the news there, the news that a minute ago was telling you the production was great, it's just told us that they won't do that without our consent so obviously unless you like don't trust the media and don't trust the government there's absolutely nothing to worry about.
00:16:07.000 The $299 glasses would be an quote, ads free experience.
00:16:13.000 Because I was worried about that.
00:16:14.000 What I was worried about is that when you stole my consciousness, you might sneak an advertisement in there.
00:16:18.000 That is the very least of our worries.
00:16:23.000 Now, at least while our consciousness is being invaded by these big tech colonial forces, we're not being marched into a hot war with Russia as Tucker Carlson predicted a year ago.
00:16:31.000 Oh no, we are.
00:16:33.000 Joe Biden gave a speech at the UN where he explicitly said that Russia and Russia alone have caused this conflict and the UK are getting ready to deploy boots on the ground.
00:16:44.000 All this stuff, we're told it could never happen, but it's happening.
00:16:49.000 So, was Tucker Carlson right?
00:16:51.000 Here's the news.
00:16:52.000 No, here's the effing news.
00:16:54.000 Thanks for refusing Fox News.
00:16:56.000 The news.
00:16:57.000 No, here's the fucking news.
00:17:00.000 Biden told the UN that Russia and Russia alone are responsible for the current war.
00:17:06.000 Meanwhile, the UK have got boots on the ground in Ukraine, which it was said would never happen.
00:17:12.000 So we ask, was Tucker Carlson right when he said there'll be a hot war between the US and Russia within a year?
00:17:20.000 Biden has said that Russia and Russia alone are responsible for the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
00:17:25.000 That means, was there any US involvement in the 2014 coup?
00:17:29.000 Did NATO infringe on former Soviet territories?
00:17:32.000 What happened with the Nord Stream Pipeline?
00:17:33.000 What's going on with all those bio labs across Ukraine?
00:17:36.000 What is Black Rock's role going to be after the conflict ends?
00:17:40.000 There are a lot of questions.
00:17:41.000 Not in the legacy media though.
00:17:43.000 There are no questions at all.
00:17:44.000 Just propaganda.
00:17:46.000 Just the amplification of a state message that wants you dumb, distracted and incapable for discerning for yourself.
00:17:52.000 Let's have a look at how the legacy media reports on this story and introduces the significant amplification of actual UK troops In Ukraine.
00:18:00.000 Remember, when we're reporting on this, we're reporting in a nuanced way.
00:18:04.000 We're not saying that Ukraine oughtn't be saved and served.
00:18:07.000 We're not saying that the humanitarian issues and the unnecessary loss of life are not significant.
00:18:12.000 We're not saying that Ukraine don't have the right to their own agenda and own historical sovereign trajectory.
00:18:17.000 We're simply asking, are the legacy media telling you the truth?
00:18:20.000 How is this war going?
00:18:21.000 Whose benefits are being served?
00:18:23.000 Do you think that US involvement is for humanitarian reasons or are there military-industrial complex motivations behind it?
00:18:29.000 These are the questions we're asking you.
00:18:30.000 Are you being told the truth?
00:18:32.000 Let's have a look at the man himself, the President of the United States of America.
00:18:37.000 Get ready, because here he is.
00:18:39.000 Let me be clear.
00:18:40.000 Well, we don't generally come to you for clarity, Joe.
00:18:43.000 Whimsical anecdotes, bizarre half-truths about domestic fires, fudge facts, lies, concealment of information, endless wars.
00:18:52.000 You're our man.
00:18:53.000 Clarity.
00:18:54.000 Certain principles of our international system are sacrosanct.
00:18:58.000 Sovereignty, territorial integrity, human rights.
00:19:03.000 These are the core tenets of the UN Charter.
00:19:07.000 The pillars Peaceful relations among nations.
00:19:10.000 Also, though, they are principles that are regularly transgressed, as revealed by WikiLeaks by Julian Assange.
00:19:16.000 That's why he's in prison right now.
00:19:20.000 There's not another reason, like, oh, do you remember he did all that shoplifting?
00:19:23.000 No, it was that he revealed a bunch of war crimes.
00:19:26.000 In fact, as you know, because we've told you, the International Criminal Court cannot be utilised to prosecute Russia for their criminal invasion.
00:19:34.000 It was a criminal invasion.
00:19:35.000 Because the US would have to tacitly acknowledge that so many of their previous invasions have also been criminal wars, like the Iraq war, which Joe Biden lobbied for and supported.
00:19:45.000 Without which we cannot achieve any of our goals.
00:19:50.000 That has not changed.
00:19:52.000 And that must not change.
00:19:54.000 You know like in museums where you see an animatronic model of a president?
00:20:00.000 In four score years and ten, like, the one of that of Joe Biden will be better.
00:20:05.000 Let's see if they wore underwear back then.
00:20:07.000 Yeah!
00:20:09.000 Yet, for the second year in a row, this gathering Dedicated to peaceful resolution of conflicts.
00:20:16.000 That's what we're dedicated to, the peaceful resolution of conflicts.
00:20:19.000 That's why the first thing I want to tell you is we're going to be looking for a diplomatic and peaceful solution.
00:20:24.000 Plainly, Russia have their own agenda, their own imperial agenda, and their invasion was criminal.
00:20:28.000 But like I just said, we need peace.
00:20:30.000 That's the reason we exist.
00:20:31.000 So this is what we're going to do.
00:20:33.000 We're definitely not going to mess with the Minsk Accord.
00:20:35.000 We're definitely not going to send Boris Johnson to Ukraine to shatter a peace deal that was on the table.
00:20:39.000 They did do all of that.
00:20:40.000 They don't exist for peace.
00:20:42.000 They require war.
00:20:43.000 You know that already.
00:20:44.000 He's darkened by the shadow of war.
00:20:47.000 The profitable shadow of war.
00:20:49.000 An illegal war of conquest brought without provocation by Russia against his neighbour Ukraine.
00:20:55.000 Just saying stuff, it's mad.
00:20:56.000 In a way, this rehearsed, revised and presumably scripted speech that he's, I imagine, reading from a teleprompter is just as mad as the stuff he spontaneously says to console victims of massive fires.
00:21:08.000 I was in my house.
00:21:09.000 It burned down.
00:21:10.000 There was lightning.
00:21:11.000 It struck the pod.
00:21:12.000 I backed my cat caught fire.
00:21:12.000 I got a Chevy.
00:21:14.000 We got the insurance money, though.
00:21:16.000 Honda is one of the best people I know.
00:21:17.000 Corn Pop was a bad dude.
00:21:19.000 Like, even his spontaneous sort of fever dream Joyce-ian prose makes as much sense as his carefully prepared remarks at the UN because none of it's true.
00:21:30.000 Like every nation in the world, the United States wants this war to end.
00:21:33.000 Whoa!
00:21:34.000 Hold on then.
00:21:35.000 Couldn't you dedicate your time, attention and significant resources to bringing that about?
00:21:40.000 Not all of you will love Donald Trump, but all of you will have heard him say, I'd end this war in 24 hours.
00:21:45.000 I will end that war in one day.
00:21:46.000 It'll take 24 hours.
00:21:48.000 That would be perfect phone call.
00:21:49.000 Perfect phone call.
00:21:50.000 You know, listen, I'm not claiming to be an expert in geopolitics.
00:21:54.000 What I'm claiming is it's visible, demonstrable, verifiable and evident that the United States is prolonging this war for its actions.
00:22:01.000 Like every nation in the world, the United States wants this war to end.
00:22:04.000 This guy just checking out his phone.
00:22:07.000 Old bloke in front of Sierra Leone.
00:22:08.000 Did Joe Biden really have a domestic fire?
00:22:11.000 What?
00:22:12.000 Hang on a minute.
00:22:13.000 That laptop.
00:22:14.000 Did that... Wait a minute!
00:22:15.000 Did he attend business...
00:22:18.000 No nation wants this war to end more than Ukraine.
00:22:22.000 And we strongly support Ukraine in its efforts to bring about a diplomatic resolution that delivers just and lasting peace.
00:22:29.000 I don't know that the best way to get just and lasting peace is through, like, I don't know, bombing Crimea.
00:22:35.000 I think there might at least be diplomatic solutions.
00:22:38.000 I recognise that sometimes when you're dealing with a historic geopolitical conflict with deep roots, like the conflict that is regionalised between Ukraine and Russia, and the historic conflict between the United States of America and Russia, there is a degree of complexity that's unlikely to be perfectly disseminated, broken down and understood in an online video.
00:22:58.000 But what we can say with some certainty is we're not being told the truth, the media aren't investigating it correctly, they are functioning as amplifying propagandists for a state message, that this is beneficial to certain state interests, there is a unipolar agenda that America have themselves explicitly spoken about.
00:23:14.000 Numerous times you've heard people say stuff like This is actually a cheap war.
00:23:17.000 For 3% of our budget, we're able to reduce the capacity of Russia to a significant extent.
00:23:22.000 We've just seen Chrystia Freeland and Hillary Clinton say, we're sending a clear message to China, you're next.
00:23:28.000 Democracy is fighting back.
00:23:30.000 But in advance of you fighting, so fighting forward, I suppose.
00:23:33.000 All those things are relevant.
00:23:34.000 So this is not a discussion about whether there's a conspiracy at play.
00:23:37.000 This is simply an invitation to look at a variety of questions that have You can't talk about the 2014 coup.
00:23:45.000 What's their version of why that happened?
00:23:47.000 You can't talk about NATO infringement on former Soviet territories.
00:23:50.000 You can't talk about Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, etc.
00:23:53.000 and the military-industrial complex's ongoing profits.
00:23:55.000 You can't talk about the location of those biolabs and how they're funded.
00:23:58.000 There are so many actual just questions.
00:24:00.000 It's not conspiracy theories.
00:24:01.000 They're legitimate questions and the reason those questions don't get Well, that's just not how, like, history works, is it?
00:24:05.000 is because they are propagandists that normalise the agenda of the powerful
00:24:08.000 and shut down dissent in voices by any means necessary.
00:24:11.000 It's becoming clear to me.
00:24:12.000 Russia alone bears responsibility for this war.
00:24:15.000 Well, that's just not how, like, history works, is it?
00:24:20.000 Like, even something like the Nazis, like something plainly bad,
00:24:23.000 unless you're in Canada when it's rain, the Nazis.
00:24:27.000 Like, you have to go, oh, yeah, God, I suppose, yeah, the First World War, oh, the Treaty of Versailles.
00:24:31.000 Yeah, God, it was complicated.
00:24:32.000 Maybe there could have been a better resolution to the First World War, and there are two imperialist forces, or numerous imperialist interests and all that.
00:24:38.000 It's complicated!
00:24:39.000 And so this, plainly, with the stuff that I've just listed a bunch of times, just because I've listened to Jeffrey Sachs and a variety of other people, journalists and academics worthy of the names, rather than systems of amplification for propaganda, and academic institutions that are funded in ways that simply mean they're going to support imperialist notions and mainstream narratives.
00:24:57.000 No!
00:24:58.000 To say that Russia and Russia alone, it's not that.
00:25:00.000 Like didn't NATO, that Stoltenberg dude, the other day goes, oh well what happened was Putin said if you do this we're gonna do that and we just did it.
00:25:08.000 President Putin sent a draft treaty that he wanted NATO to sign to promise no more NATO enlargement.
00:25:16.000 That was a precondition for not invade Ukraine.
00:25:19.000 Of course we didn't sign that.
00:25:21.000 The opposite happened.
00:25:22.000 I mean, that in itself, that's a form of provocation.
00:25:25.000 Like, why are we not, in a democracy, able to say, what's the role of NATO?
00:25:29.000 Do we need NATO?
00:25:30.000 What's the function of NATO?
00:25:31.000 Are NATO behaving responsibly?
00:25:32.000 Do we have a shared agenda?
00:25:34.000 This is the truth behind all this.
00:25:35.000 Your agenda and my agenda is not their agenda.
00:25:38.000 That's it, put simply.
00:25:38.000 That's it.
00:25:39.000 The agenda of the government and the interests that they serve are so opposing to yours that the only way that this massive conflict can't be exposed that would lead to revolution is through a media that lies to you.
00:25:53.000 That's it.
00:25:53.000 If they went, your government's gone mental.
00:25:55.000 They're running a whole bunch of wars now that are none of your business.
00:25:57.000 Do you want that?
00:25:58.000 Let's have a vote on it.
00:25:59.000 That's not possible, is it?
00:26:00.000 If you're not voting on it, if you're not discussing it, it's because it's not in your interest.
00:26:04.000 That's why.
00:26:04.000 Russia alone has the power to end this war immediately.
00:26:08.000 And it's Russia alone that stands in the way of peace.
00:26:11.000 This is astonishing when you actually look at it.
00:26:13.000 This is propaganda live and we just carry on with our lives.
00:26:16.000 I mean, I suppose because in some ways it seems irrelevant and abstract and in a way is abstract and irrelevant because you can't really do anything about it.
00:26:22.000 Except, as I say, participate in a massive campaign of disobedience and join a movement that opposes this kind of thing.
00:26:29.000 Red button.
00:26:30.000 That's not a nuclear button, Joe.
00:26:31.000 Because the Russia's price for peace is Ukraine's capitulation Ukraine's territory and Ukraine's children.
00:26:41.000 They actually want the children?
00:26:44.000 That's actually, I'll tell you from personal experience, actually very difficult to bring them up.
00:26:47.000 What I would say is that they want the capitulation of Russia.
00:26:51.000 That's what they want.
00:26:52.000 So they've said that.
00:26:53.000 It's not me saying this.
00:26:54.000 They've said publicly the objective is to drain Russia.
00:26:56.000 Remember that thing?
00:26:57.000 Ukraine are getting casually adverse?
00:26:59.000 This is why they want to censor these spaces because this is just from memory.
00:26:59.000 This is the problem.
00:27:02.000 You can just go, hold on, but they said that, they said that.
00:27:04.000 The fact is, is through independent media like this, not exclusively us,
00:27:07.000 but I'm proud to say it includes us and we are here because of you.
00:27:11.000 We can just say, no, wait a minute.
00:27:13.000 It's not just Russia's fault because of these ten facts.
00:27:15.000 Boom.
00:27:16.000 And if you can't address those ten facts, what you've got yourself there
00:27:18.000 is a conversation, a debate, and they don't want to have a conversation
00:27:21.000 debate because they're lying.
00:27:23.000 Russia believes the world will grow weary and allow it to brutalize Ukraine without consequence.
00:27:31.000 Go on then, brutalise your crime without consequence.
00:27:34.000 Night, night.
00:27:34.000 I get a reductive simplification of a complex situation.
00:27:39.000 But I ask you this.
00:27:41.000 Old Sierra Leone still on his phone.
00:27:42.000 Does Hunter Biden have any qualifications to work for Burisma?
00:27:47.000 If we abandon the core principles of the United States to appease an aggressor, can any member state in this body feel confident that they are protected?
00:27:59.000 If we allow Ukraine to be carved up, is the independence of any nation secure?
00:28:06.000 I'd respectfully suggest the answer is no.
00:28:10.000 Respectfully suggest.
00:28:11.000 There's a weird rhetoric involved in this stuff.
00:28:13.000 Of course, it's odd to hear the inversion of the facts.
00:28:18.000 Isn't it, if we can do this, if we can say that, if they can do this, if they can do that.
00:28:21.000 In a sense, the very thing that Biden suggests we ought be terrified of is already happening and he is its figurehead.
00:28:29.000 We have to stand up to this naked aggression today and deter other would-be aggressors tomorrow.
00:28:34.000 Ah, there's another war coming.
00:28:36.000 Semiconductors in Taiwan.
00:28:37.000 Get ready.
00:28:38.000 Or, if you enjoyed Star Wars, you're going to love The Return of the Semiconductor.
00:28:42.000 That's why the United States, together with our allies and partners around the world, will continue to stand with the brave people of Ukraine as they defend their sovereignty and territorial integrity and their freedom.
00:28:54.000 Couldn't even get to the end of the phrase territorial integrity because it was so lacking in integrity
00:28:59.000 Okay, so there's some propaganda that was eagerly lapped up except for by old Baldy in front of Sierra Leone
00:29:10.000 It was fact-checking what's happening Excuse me!
00:29:13.000 No, that didn't happen!
00:29:14.000 Let's have a look at an alternative version of reality that might not be so valuable to the elites.
00:29:19.000 The Biden administration used last week's meeting of the United Nations General Assembly as a platform to launch a full-throated tirade against Russia of the kind made by countries before they declare war.
00:29:29.000 Oh, so Tucker Carlson might have been right when he said there will be a hot war within a year.
00:29:34.000 In his speech to the UN Tuesday, Biden declared the United States, together with our allies and partners around the world, will continue to stand with the brave people of Ukraine as they defend their sovereignty and territorial integrity and their freedom.
00:29:34.000 Let's know.
00:29:45.000 Of course, this is the kind of rhetoric that, when you say it, sounds good, sounds normal, sounds like what should be happening.
00:29:50.000 But don't a lot of political speeches sound like when you sort of think, yeah, if that was actually what you were doing, everything would be OK.
00:29:56.000 But simply lies and propaganda.
00:29:57.000 Biden asserted that Russia alone bears responsibility for the war in Ukraine.
00:30:01.000 Russia alone has the power to end this war immediately, and it is Russia alone that stands in the way of peace, because Russia's price for peace is Ukraine's capitulation, Ukraine's territory, and Ukraine's children.
00:30:10.000 Extraordinary rhetoric.
00:30:11.000 I think when people say stuff like that, you kind of know that they're lying.
00:30:14.000 Another indicator might be if, for example, they lobbied all big tech platforms to deny Russia Today the ability to broadcast.
00:30:21.000 So, for example, YouTube won't broadcast Russia Today, because do you think that's because Russia Today's content is so brilliant If you saw it, you'd go, oh my god, let's go and support Russia and become Putin apologists.
00:30:32.000 No, it's just simply because it will provide a different perspective.
00:30:34.000 And if you had a different perspective, you wouldn't be so malleable.
00:30:37.000 And that's why you are members of this community.
00:30:39.000 That's why we exist in this community, because we care more about truth than this mad Gideon deception.
00:30:44.000 This was not just a speech.
00:30:45.000 It was an unrelenting attack on any notion that the United States is open to a negotiated settlement of this war.
00:30:50.000 Well, that's good to know.
00:30:51.000 It's the opposite of all of the language around peace and kindness and justice and standing together and freedom and posing tyranny.
00:30:58.000 It's the opposite of that.
00:30:59.000 The White House is demanding the unconditional surrender of Russia, accompanied by the overthrow of its government and its territorial breakup.
00:31:05.000 So they want to do what they're saying Russia want to do.
00:31:05.000 That's mental.
00:31:08.000 Have you noticed that?
00:31:09.000 Have you noticed this inversion of values?
00:31:11.000 Have you noticed the vilification of anyone that dissents?
00:31:14.000 Have you noticed that they claim to be telling the truth while lying, standing for peace, while going to war?
00:31:19.000 Literal Orwellian inversion of language.
00:31:22.000 Achieving this goal is impossible without direct U.S.
00:31:24.000 involvement, transforming a proxy war into a direct conflict between the United States and Russia.
00:31:29.000 The conflict in Ukraine is already America's war, for which the U.S.
00:31:32.000 and NATO are providing logistics, weapons, and intelligence.
00:31:35.000 But the failure of Ukraine's counteroffensive has led the Biden administration to conclude that achieving its objectives is impossible without turning the current proxy war into a full-scale conflict involving the deployment of U.S.
00:31:46.000 and NATO troops.
00:31:47.000 Escalation.
00:31:48.000 Escalation that was pledged at the commencement would not occur.
00:31:50.000 You can check that for yourself.
00:31:51.000 You can literally go and watch Joe Biden, the man there, saying, you know, it's all Russia's fault.
00:31:54.000 You can watch him saying, this will never lead to boots on the ground.
00:31:56.000 This will never lead to a war.
00:31:58.000 We can't do that.
00:31:58.000 We're not at war.
00:31:59.000 That would lead to World War III.
00:32:00.000 All you actually need is a memory.
00:32:01.000 That's all you need is a memory.
00:32:03.000 But they don't want you to have that.
00:32:04.000 That's why there's this state of fear.
00:32:05.000 That's why you're doing well staying with us.
00:32:07.000 We're going, hold on a minute, I'm not going to just respond to fear, hysteria, propaganda and lies.
00:32:12.000 I'm going to get deep, I'm going to stay true to myself, I'm going to discern.
00:32:15.000 And then you'll be able to go, wait, hold on, didn't actually, who was that that said that there could never be a war because it would lead to Armageddon?
00:32:21.000 Hold on, that was Joe Biden.
00:32:22.000 Wait a minute, didn't NATO say they spoke to Putin and he said that that escalation would lead to further war?
00:32:26.000 Wait a minute, wasn't there a story last week where they said that Elon Musk was talking to the Kremlin and actually we found out that all he was doing was not letting Ukraine use Starlink to bomb Crimea?
00:32:34.000 Hang on.
00:32:35.000 They're lying.
00:32:36.000 They're lying because they're liars.
00:32:38.000 And then you become free.
00:32:39.000 It's been widely asserted in the American media that Russian President Vladimir Putin believes a change in the American government would lead to a shift in policy.
00:32:45.000 This is a delusion.
00:32:46.000 Nevertheless, it is the aim of the Biden administration to preempt such a policy shift by escalating the conflict to a point where, well before the 2024 election, the war will have involved a commitment of US prestige and resources, including manpower, that makes a diplomatic and non-military solution impossible.
00:33:02.000 This is from a socialist organisation, so before you decide who it is you hate in this world, consider that you might have allies in places that surprise you.
00:33:09.000 Biden's remarks were followed by those of his attack dog, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose statements bordered on total insanity.
00:33:16.000 And that guy should know a thing or two about borders by now.
00:33:18.000 So let's be referred to Russia and Russians as evil and as terrorists and accuse them of carrying out genocide against Ukraine.
00:33:25.000 Again, when you use language like that, you deny the possibility of a peaceful solution.
00:33:29.000 Well, how can you have a negotiation?
00:33:31.000 How can you have a conversation?
00:33:32.000 How can you have peace?
00:33:33.000 How can you have treaties with terrorists and lunatics and genocidal maniacs?
00:33:37.000 Oh, I suppose you can't.
00:33:38.000 Zelensky condemned the United Nations for being overly afraid of nuclear war.
00:33:42.000 You can't be too scared of annihilation, can you?
00:33:44.000 Unless you've reached some sort of spiritual nirvana, recognised that consciousness undergirds all material reality, and then recognised that from that you could derive a new reality based on spiritual principles, but I don't think that's the point they're making.
00:33:57.000 Saying, in many cases, the fear of war, the final war, Oh, it's a good one though.
00:34:01.000 the war after which no one would gather in the General Assembly Hall again.
00:34:05.000 The effort to promote complete nuclear disarmament, he said, should not be the only strategy to protect the world from
00:34:10.000 this final war.
00:34:11.000 Oh, it's a good one, though. I mean, probably the only one that might work.
00:34:14.000 As Biden and Zelensky were making these chilling statements, General Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
00:34:20.000 Staff, spoke at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, a key logistics hub
00:34:24.000 for the American war effort.
00:34:25.000 Milley declared, The United States and its allied countries are rich,
00:34:28.000 powerful, with significant military resources that are capable of
00:34:30.000 sustaining this fight.
00:34:31.000 In President Biden's words, as long as it takes sustaining.
00:34:35.000 Remember Julian Assange.
00:34:37.000 Once you understand that the function of the Afghanistan war is not to win it, but to prolong it, then you recognize that the role of government is to take public money and to put it into private hands.
00:34:46.000 So it's another one of those paradigms.
00:34:47.000 Is the media amplifying the agenda of the powerful and normalizing it?
00:34:52.000 Is the government taking money from public hands and putting in private hands?
00:34:52.000 Yes.
00:34:56.000 Yes.
00:34:57.000 We're a bit closer to understanding what's actually going on there.
00:34:57.000 Right.
00:34:59.000 The statements by leading US officials are accompanied by equally reckless and provocative assertions in major newspapers.
00:35:05.000 In an editorial entitled, Biden has done a lot for Ukraine but not enough, the Washington Post wrote that Mr Biden should stop dawdling and provide Kiev with ATACMs, referring to the long-range missile system that would be used to strike deep within Russian territory.
00:35:05.000 You're joking?
00:35:20.000 I wonder who makes those?
00:35:21.000 I wonder who funds that news organization?
00:35:23.000 The US and NATO are already in an undeclared war, providing logistics, weapons and intelligence.
00:35:29.000 The only thing Ukraine is supplying is the bodies.
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00:36:54.000 Right, let's get back To this global war we're being marched into by lunatics.
00:37:00.000 The next step is the direct involvement of U.S.
00:37:02.000 This will require the massive mobilization of American and European military forces, including the possibility of a draft.
00:37:02.000 troops.
00:37:09.000 The U.S.
00:37:10.000 military is making active preparations for just such a war.
00:37:13.000 The full 2023 edition of the U.S.
00:37:15.000 Army War College Quarterly included an article, A Call to Action, Lessons from Ukraine for the Future Force.
00:37:22.000 It stated that The Russia-Ukraine war is exposing significant vulnerabilities in the Army's strategic personnel depth and ability to withstand and replace casualties.
00:37:30.000 Army theatre medical planners may anticipate a sustained rate of roughly 3,600 casualties per day, with a 25% predicted replacement rate.
00:37:38.000 The personnel system will require 800 new personnel each day.
00:37:42.000 For context, the United States sustained about 50,000 casualties in two decades of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
00:37:48.000 In large-scale combat operations, the United States could experience the same number of casualties in two weeks.
00:37:53.000 So you have advocacy for heavy recruitment of new personnel within defence and military circles.
00:38:01.000 Curiously, over at Lockheed Martin, they're making some interesting profit predictions for the coming quarters and the coming decade, in fact, similarly based on Escalate intentions and indeed conflict between Russia and the United States.
00:38:13.000 So it's not a matter of reading the runes and mystical predictions.
00:38:17.000 When military industrial complex companies and defense operatives are making the same claims, testimonies, then you recognize that oh well the reason they need more personnel is because there's going to be a war.
00:38:28.000 The reason Lockheed Martin and Raytheon are predicting more profits is Because there's going to be a war.
00:38:31.000 The reason Tucker Carlson said there's going to be a hot war between Russia and the United States is because there's going to be a war between Russia and the United States.
00:38:37.000 And to use a Kamala Harris-like anecdote, it's almost like slowly incrementally turning up the temperature, we the frogs in the boiling water will not notice that we're being boiled to death by the chefs of war.
00:38:48.000 Sorry, I said it was a Kamala Harris one.
00:38:50.000 According to several media reports, President Biden has agreed to arm Ukraine with Army Tactical Missile Systems, just like the Washington Post requested, honey!
00:38:58.000 Which would mark a significant escalation since the missiles have a range of up to 190 miles.
00:39:03.000 Brilliant!
00:39:03.000 I just hope they've got the internet to back it up!
00:39:05.000 Reports have said Biden plans to send a cluster bomb variant of ATACMs to Ukraine, making the escalation more significant.
00:39:12.000 The potential weapons transfer would give Ukraine the ability to target Russian territory with cluster bombs, which leave behind unexploded submunitions that can be found by civilians years or decades later after their use.
00:39:24.000 But I'm sure BlackRock will find a way to profit from that, so maybe it doesn't matter.
00:39:27.000 Another of the pledges that we were made, if you just use your memory and your mind and your own lying eyes, is that there would never be boots on the ground because that would demonstrate an actual war and that would lead to Armageddon and guess what?
00:39:38.000 Boots on the ground.
00:39:39.000 Meanwhile, UK troops may deploy into Ukraine for the first time to train soldiers as on-the-ground training efforts ramp up between the war-torn country and its international allies.
00:39:48.000 Grant Shapps, the UK's Secretary of State for Defence, said in an interview with The Telegraph he was discussing a plan to mobilise British troops with his military chiefs.
00:39:57.000 The media normalises the agenda of the powerful.
00:39:59.000 I was today talking about eventually getting the training brought closer and actually into Ukraine as well, Schaps
00:40:05.000 told the outlet, particularly in the west of the country.
00:40:06.000 I think the opportunity now is to bring more things in country.
00:40:09.000 What an opportunity!
00:40:10.000 The plan, as stated, marks a dramatic shift from the UK and other allies' previous avoidance of implementing a formal
00:40:16.000 military presence in the region to avoid direct conflict with Russia.
00:40:20.000 Hot war within a year?
00:40:22.000 In addition to offering training on the ground in Ukraine, Schaap said British defence companies like BAE Systems are moving manufacturing into the country.
00:40:29.000 It's something I hope to see more British companies do as well.
00:40:32.000 It really astonishes me when I hear it sort of spoken of in these glib statistical and financial terms.
00:40:37.000 This is a real opportunity for British businesses.
00:40:39.000 All of this actually amounts to death and horror, needless amplification of ideas and conflicts that perhaps could be moved beyond, evolved beyond.
00:40:49.000 That's why I suppose what we're suggesting is not that we consider politics to be which of these two bloody awful choices do we make between these two dreadful, despicable, privately funded facades that call themselves democratic parties.
00:41:02.000 We say, God, is it possible that we could do things differently altogether?
00:41:05.000 Is it possible that the world could be differently organised?
00:41:07.000 And in spite of everything, I believe it's possible.
00:41:09.000 I'm keen to see other British companies do their bit as well by doing the same thing, Schaps said per the Telegraph.
00:41:14.000 So I think there'll be a move to get more training and production in the country.
00:41:17.000 Escalation of a war just being described like it's a church fete or a country fair.
00:41:22.000 Schaps also floated the idea of the British Navy aiding Ukraine in the Black Sea.
00:41:28.000 At least it floats.
00:41:29.000 So there you go, you've witnessed Joe Biden give a speech that was full of deception, half-truths, out-and-out lies that amounted to propaganda.
00:41:34.000 The media continued to amplify a message that amounts to escalation of a war, which we've told you before, which you know already, you've told us in the chat, and continue to communicate in there, and remember followers, could lead to Armageddon.
00:41:44.000 How are they not Armageddon-averse in the same way that they noted Ukrainian people are becoming casually averse?
00:41:50.000 Why are bare heads not prevailing?
00:41:52.000 Why is nobody allowed to discuss peace?
00:41:54.000 Is there an agenda?
00:41:55.000 Are you witnessing, for example, dissent being shut down?
00:41:58.000 Are you noticing that it's impossible to speak about this rationally?
00:42:01.000 Are you seeing mainstream and legacy media outlets amplifying the message of the state?
00:42:06.000 Or are you seeing healthy debate, open conversations, critiques, peace being presented?
00:42:10.000 Or was the one time that a few Democrats went, could we have some peace please boss?
00:42:15.000 Well they shut down, even prevented from raising it as a possibility.
00:42:18.000 So what you have, clearly, is an agenda for war.
00:42:21.000 So when Tucker Carlson says, hot war within a year, it sounds kind of shocking, but seems, I would say, kind of inevitable.
00:42:27.000 But that's just what I think.
00:42:28.000 Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments in the chat and I'll see you in a second
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00:43:15.000 But let me welcome now Scott Adams.
00:43:18.000 Scott, I'm actually very grateful and excited to meet you.
00:43:24.000 Well thank you.
00:43:25.000 I'm pretty excited myself.
00:43:26.000 Big fan.
00:43:28.000 I really enjoyed your... You know the Trump book on persuasion?
00:43:32.000 Obviously you do.
00:43:34.000 Wim Biggley.
00:43:35.000 Yeah, Wim Biggley.
00:43:37.000 Of course.
00:43:38.000 I really enjoyed that book.
00:43:40.000 I was fascinated by it.
00:43:42.000 Of course, I suppose leadership remains a fascinating subject, I suppose because leadership and persuasion are the ability to, through charisma perhaps, or through other means, and perhaps you'll explain them to me, create Realities that people will willingly or even unconsciously participate in.
00:44:07.000 Tell me what you think specifically Trump exemplifies.
00:44:12.000 In the book you talk about him being sort of some like indigenous or native or a natural genius when it comes to the art of persuasion.
00:44:22.000 What do you mean by that and what are examples of that?
00:44:26.000 Well, he seems to have the full toolbox of persuasion, which if you didn't study it as a field, as I do, I'm a trained hypnotist, you wouldn't recognize.
00:44:36.000 So, for example, the number one tool of persuasion is fear.
00:44:41.000 So he started out in 2015, the illegal people who may be criminals are streaming across the border and, you know, China's going to eat our lunch and basically scaring you.
00:44:53.000 The other thing he does is visual.
00:44:55.000 The second biggest thing you can do is create a picture in people's head, because we're visual creatures.
00:45:01.000 So when he says we need better border security, he doesn't talk about a concept.
00:45:05.000 He talks about a wall.
00:45:06.000 So you imagine the wall in your head, the wall that you want to see.
00:45:10.000 He says it's big and beautiful, doesn't over-specify it, which is also in the district.
00:45:15.000 If you over-specified it, people would not see it.
00:45:18.000 They'd say, oh, I'm not seeing that wall.
00:45:20.000 But if you say it's a big, beautiful wall, then people imagine the big, beautiful wall of their own preference.
00:45:26.000 That's pure technique.
00:45:27.000 He also says it's going to have a door in it.
00:45:31.000 Now, that's making you think past the sale, because you already have to accept there could be a wall for there also to be a door, and then he tops it off with, and Mexico's going to pay for it?
00:45:43.000 Now, that's the funniest, make-you-think-best sale I've ever seen.
00:45:48.000 Because if he can make you argue about how ridiculous it is that Mexico would pay for the wall, you've already uncritically accepted that there might be a wall.
00:45:58.000 It's a car salesman's trick.
00:46:00.000 The car salesman says, how do you think you'll use this car?
00:46:04.000 Or do you think you would feel better in the red one or the white one?
00:46:08.000 So if you're thinking about the details, they made you think past the sale.
00:46:12.000 He uses that all the time.
00:46:14.000 But his real magic is the nicknames.
00:46:17.000 And he comes up with nicknames that are not only visual, like Low Energy Jeb, It's a concept, but when you see him, it changes how you see him.
00:46:28.000 And I always say that when I first saw Jeb Bush, you know, come on the scene, I thought to myself, wow, he's got exactly that executive, calm, cool, you know, probably would be great in an emergency, because he wouldn't get too excited about it, you know?
00:46:44.000 And then the moment that Trump says he's low energy, That's all I could see, because he made a comparison between his own energy and Jeb, and from that moment on you could only see it.
00:46:55.000 But the other magic he does is he picks a nickname that will be almost certainly reinforced by future events.
00:47:05.000 So when he says low-energy gem, you know there's going to be a video where somebody says, there he is, he's looking low-energy.
00:47:12.000 You could probably find that for anybody.
00:47:14.000 But then when he says Crooked Hillary, you think to yourself, ah, there's no way she won't be at least accused of something that would fit into that frame.
00:47:24.000 So he's the master framer.
00:47:26.000 He creates the frame, and then you buy it.
00:47:28.000 My favorite one lately is the perfect phone call.
00:47:31.000 He's used it twice.
00:47:34.000 Where he talks about his call to Ukraine, where he was impeached, and his call to the, I guess, the Attorney General, was it, of Georgia?
00:47:43.000 And in both cases, he got in trouble for something he said on the call.
00:47:46.000 Well, he says, it's a perfect call.
00:47:49.000 Now, he said it so many times, and you laugh about it when you hear it, because it's a little bit extreme to say it's perfect.
00:47:55.000 But it's also in your head.
00:47:57.000 So every time one of those stories gets a headline, I look at the headline and in my head goes, perfect call.
00:48:05.000 Even though I don't believe it, you know, I mean, I'm not persuaded by just those words, that the words just pop up in your head.
00:48:12.000 And that's the secret behind a reframe and behind hypnosis and a lot of AI as well.
00:48:17.000 It seems like what you're saying, and I would say it's alluring and it's an attractive proposition, is that there are kind of universal principles in communication that don't alter Whether they're within the realm of hypnosis or neuro-linguistic programming, they are just certain indefatigable facts that if people use them, you know, I like to think, no, no, I'm very sophisticated.
00:48:44.000 I know how to discern information.
00:48:46.000 I'll know if someone's trying to dupe me or lead me up the garden path.
00:48:51.000 But this is sort of, in a sense, an inability to acknowledge my own hardware and my own unconscious biases and the way that the part of me that's beyond me is likely to behave.
00:49:02.000 Firstly, do you think that Trump is doing this instinctively, almost as a genius might, in the way a genius athlete, or like sort of the way that Marlon Brando might pick up a glove and on the waterfront and just sort of thumb it unconsciously, creating an organic naturalness, or the way that Willie Mays might strike a ball?
00:49:23.000 And I know nothing of baseball, so I would use football if it was left to me, but I know who the audience are.
00:49:31.000 Or do you think that this is something that he's learned through sales?
00:49:33.000 Because in a sense, these are sales techniques.
00:49:36.000 I often see how the culture has evolved, often around people that I admire, even mentors of mine, that at their point of origin would have been much more focused on the world of sales and pitching, that now have migrated into a more overtly spiritual space, I would say.
00:49:52.000 That in a way, some of the principles hold true.
00:49:56.000 Yeah, I know that thing of like two suggestions and then two verifiables and then a suggestion.
00:50:01.000 I recognize what you're saying about that stuff and it seems, you know, I'm like making these notes and thinking, you know, man this is how I should be communicating, this is how we should all be communicating if our job, and God is it not, become our job now more than ever to present a version of reality that's more appealing than our opponents.
00:50:16.000 And if Trump is a genius of it, say, if that is indeed what you believe and sort of become somehow a native genius of it, Is it stuff that everyone does badly, and like even his opponents do it badly?
00:50:27.000 And can you talk us through a few examples of their crap versions of it as well?
00:50:32.000 Well, the universals would include repetition.
00:50:36.000 The more you repeat something, the more people think it's true.
00:50:38.000 That's what he does with the perfect phone call.
00:50:41.000 He just keeps saying it until you can't not think it when it's paired with the topic.
00:50:46.000 So he's got that, but he has all the sales techniques of thinking past the sale, etc.
00:50:50.000 Those are not natural.
00:50:52.000 Those are learned behaviors, I'm pretty sure, because you wouldn't think to do it.
00:50:55.000 You would think to just describe why you should buy it.
00:50:59.000 If left to your own devices, you'd say, this car has many good features.
00:51:03.000 It's affordable.
00:51:04.000 But he goes to imagine it in your garage.
00:51:07.000 That's learned behavior.
00:51:08.000 I don't think you'd pick that up on your own.
00:51:12.000 His minister of the church he went to every Sunday when he was a kid, his family, was the author of the book, The Power of Positive Thinking.
00:51:21.000 whose name is escaping me for some reason.
00:51:22.000 I can never remember his name.
00:51:24.000 But he was the most influential, positive-thinking person of his time.
00:51:29.000 The book was an enormous bestseller.
00:51:32.000 Influenced me a great deal.
00:51:33.000 I was that age as well.
00:51:35.000 But imagine going to church and having somebody who was considered the most influential person in the country, so much so that the author was blamed Or accused of being a hypnotist, because he was so influential.
00:51:49.000 So I think that Trump probably got it from his father, who was probably selling real estate projects as well.
00:51:55.000 So some of it he picked up, and some of it I think he is a natural.
00:51:59.000 But he goes for fear somewhat automatically.
00:52:03.000 And association, he's good at associating something negative with something positive.
00:52:09.000 One of the reframes in my book uses this technique, the same one he uses, and the reframe is, alcohol is poison.
00:52:17.000 Now, that's not true, per se, because it's just a definition.
00:52:21.000 Could be a beverage, could be a form of entertainment, could be a liquid.
00:52:25.000 But if you just pair it with the word poison, it lets you more easily, you know, say no to a drink.
00:52:31.000 Doesn't work for alcoholics, it does work for people who just want to cut down.
00:52:35.000 So that reframe actually is the one that I hear the most from.
00:52:39.000 Probably twice a week, I hear from somebody, a stranger who says, I stopped drinking entirely with one sentence.
00:52:46.000 So that's how powerful this stuff can be, and Trump is a master of it.
00:52:50.000 In actuality, I am in recovery and this idea of compounding concepts is significant even
00:53:01.000 in the, I don't know if it's more sophisticated or simply different, but the idea of abstinence
00:53:07.000 is predicated of course on the notion that it is the first drink that's the problem,
00:53:12.000 not the ninth or the tenth or that you'll ever be able to drink safely.
00:53:15.000 In this instance, the compound is to equate even drinking at all with an annihilation of your life.
00:53:21.000 And in fact, any kind of behavioral adjunct pivot progression would have to be predicated upon a
00:53:30.000 vision of some description. And in the case of like a 12 step person like me, it's I now equate
00:53:36.000 the use of a recreational drug, even or, you know, street drugs, or even a sort of socially
00:53:42.000 acceptable and legal drug like alcohol with personal destruction. And that is a form of
00:53:48.000 conditioning has taken place and ultimately in this instance, a beneficial one.
00:53:54.000 I wonder if, you know, obviously comment on anything you want to mate, but like I wonder if you think that part of what Trump has been able to do in addition to his evident and obvious rhetorical skill and I've always thought it's a failing of his opponents not to sort of acknowledge and register and enjoy that even when opposing him because it sometimes looks like they don't inhabit the same sort of universe as everyone else when they just sort of say he's stupid or whatever.
00:54:22.000 I wonder if there's something, one, that he engages with people emotionally in a way that's sort of somehow, I want to say anomalous or at least rare in an age of sort of bureaucrats and managerial politicians that are somewhat visionless.
00:54:40.000 and this idea of vision, this idea of being able to give a authentic vision to an audience.
00:54:48.000 And given that we're living in a time of obvious conflict where the culture is, in a sense,
00:54:54.000 it feels to me, and again, tell me what you feel, and I know I'm throwing a lot at you
00:54:57.000 here, but I feel like you're tracking it, like the culture is trying to centralise and
00:55:02.000 control perception, the culture is aggressively saying, this is what reality is.
00:55:08.000 Don't allow that information in.
00:55:10.000 This is the information that you have to believe.
00:55:12.000 If you don't believe this information, you are the worst kind of nefarious individual.
00:55:17.000 Do you think, how do you believe we can penetrate, challenge, attack, control, overcome that?
00:55:24.000 Well, the tough part is you never know who your enemies are.
00:55:28.000 Because I feel like whoever's behind the shadow banning and maybe some cancellations that are more political than content related, you don't really ever know who's behind it.
00:55:41.000 So if you look at my situation, the Washington Post was sort of the flagship that got the other newspapers to cancel me.
00:55:48.000 But the Washington Post is well known as, let's say, well connected with the intelligence outfit in the United States.
00:55:57.000 So the question I ask is, is the fact that the Washington Post is so associated with Democrats and also the intelligence group, which are also associated with the Democrats, is it a coincidence that no Republicans canceled me?
00:56:11.000 So when we're talking about free speech and how do you penetrate the narrative, there's also some amount of dirty tricks and secret players that are really hard to know who your targets are.
00:56:25.000 So it's hard to fight back when you don't know who you're fighting against.
00:56:28.000 That's what I feel like all the time.
00:56:30.000 But to answer, the only way I can imagine there would be a difference is people like Trump who can break through because he's just too hard not to cover.
00:56:40.000 You can't ignore him.
00:56:42.000 RFK Jr.
00:56:43.000 is running for president, he says, in large part because it's the only way he could have free speech.
00:56:49.000 If he's not a presidential candidate, he could get kicked off the platforms for what they would say is telling untruths.
00:56:59.000 So, it's gonna be personalities who can take a hit.
00:57:03.000 RFK Jr.
00:57:05.000 is, you know, being hated by his own family.
00:57:07.000 He's in physical, you know, risk of assassination.
00:57:12.000 And you just made me do that.
00:57:14.000 That's how it works.
00:57:18.000 Damn it!
00:57:18.000 Vote for me!
00:57:20.000 Mayor of London!
00:57:23.000 By the way, that's one of the tricks they have to do is they try to get somebody to copy them in a meeting.
00:57:29.000 But anyway, I think it's going to take personalities who don't mind getting cancelled.
00:57:35.000 So they tried to take me out, but I'm still talking.
00:57:38.000 They tried to take Tucker out, but he's still talking.
00:57:41.000 So I think that some of it's going to be people who just We're willing to take the hit and could still get some attention.
00:57:50.000 You'll see people like... Shoot, I'm terrible at remembering names when I'm on video.
00:57:59.000 Tell us and we'll work it out together.
00:58:00.000 The first one was Norman Peel.
00:58:02.000 That was the preacher and the writer of that Positive Thinking book.
00:58:06.000 I didn't get that myself.
00:58:07.000 James, who's producing the show, put it up.
00:58:10.000 And this one we'll work out together as well.
00:58:13.000 Greenberg, Greenwald.
00:58:18.000 So he's one of the superstars of telling you what's really happening behind the scenes.
00:58:22.000 Yeah.
00:58:22.000 But is it a coincidence that he has to do it from outside the country?
00:58:26.000 Yeah.
00:58:27.000 Like, those are the kind of questions that I ask.
00:58:29.000 It's like, do I have to go to another country just to get freedom of speech?
00:58:34.000 And I saw today, you know, Mike Benz, he's another person on the Axe platform who talks about the intelligence agencies, you know, maneuverings behind the scenes, as if he's opening the hood so we can see.
00:58:46.000 And I think it was today he was tweeting that he's expecting, you know, just a massive personal attack and probably some form of lawfare against him.
00:58:54.000 And I think he's right.
00:58:56.000 So, I don't know where this stuff comes from.
00:58:58.000 I don't know who the personalities are behind it.
00:59:01.000 But something looks coordinated, even if it's not.
00:59:04.000 It has that appearance.
00:59:05.000 It appears, too, that what was once regarded as the, I would say, liberal left and the assumption that built into that were ideals that grew out of the civil rights movement that are pretty righteous and laudable.
00:59:25.000 Somehow this...
00:59:27.000 set of interests has become curiously authoritarian in the name of liberty, safety, convenience.
00:59:36.000 I'm seeing these odd pacts emerge between sort of big tech and the sort of neoliberalism
00:59:43.000 that are creating curiously in a way that I could never have imagined.
00:59:49.000 Alliances on what might once have been termed the other side of the aisle, but you've mentioned
00:59:54.000 Glenn Greenwald, and let's mention him once more, he says that in a way, personally, and
01:00:02.000 I wouldn't expect you to know this or even care, that I used to be regarded as a kind
01:00:06.000 of conventional lefty sort of Hollywood type person, but I was always actually anti-authoritarian
01:00:14.000 and sort of pro-individual freedom and pro-community freedom, also interested in community and
01:00:21.000 and care about society and have values and principles.
01:00:24.000 And then, like, as my content became more vocally anti-establishment, as I started to speak out against electoral democracy, its corruption, legacy media, how they simply amplify state and corporate state message at that, rather than interrogating it, how they spend no resources on investigating issues that really seriously affect people, and significant resources on bringing down dissent and controlling potential dissidents, I started to be called, like, right-wing and a right-wing conspiracy theorist, and, like, I've spoken to a bunch of people that Yes, conservative, and I find them absolutely delightful, I'd have to say.
01:00:59.000 But I still feel that what's emerging, potentially now, is something new.
01:01:03.000 And I cite often Martin Gurry's book, The Revolt of the Public, which is a sort of, in this way, a companion piece to that famous book, Here Comes Everyone.
01:01:12.000 That simply explores how the way that communication technology has altered has meant that the establishment can no longer keep up with the diversification and dissemination of information and has necessarily become authoritarian in order to countenance these new threats, these new information threats.
01:01:30.000 And in order to legitimise what they're doing, which is basically state censorship, they've
01:01:35.000 had to invent new categories, misinformation, disinformation, and create enemies that would
01:01:41.000 warrant this is why you see people being called Nazis and the most egregious and awful things
01:01:46.000 that you can accuse anybody of, racist, and the list we can all add to that list of course,
01:01:51.000 because they need to legitimise the end goal, shut down dissent, control dissent invoices,
01:01:57.000 because any dissent invoice now, anyone with a phone is a potential threat.
01:02:01.000 Martin Goury talked about that in the revolt of the public, that the old models are dying,
01:02:06.000 so they have to find ways of controlling the emergent new model.
01:02:10.000 And in a sense, Trump was, you know, one of the first people that effectively used these
01:02:16.000 new forms of communication technology, famously through Twitter as it then was.
01:02:21.000 And I wonder what you think about these likelihood of new alliances with people with a broad base of social philosophy and ideology.
01:02:29.000 I wonder what you think about the possibility, and again I suppose to your point about who are these people that are controlling it.
01:02:36.000 I guess I would say that it's the nexus of interests that exist between, like for example with this new online safety bill in the UK, demonstrates that the UK government and the EU and all of the Five Eyes countries are introducing legislation that enables their government in unprecedented ways to utilize big tech so that, and I guess it's like a deal they're doing really, of we're not going to shut you guys down and your ability to profit and advertise if you allow us to Yeah, you know, my take on this is that I see the world as a big old dopamine machine.
01:03:20.000 So people are chasing dopamine.
01:03:21.000 I used to say, follow the money and it explains everything.
01:03:25.000 But money is just a holding place for dopamine, right?
01:03:28.000 You can keep it in your money until you're ready to buy the jazz ski, and then you get your dopamine.
01:03:33.000 So when you're looking at why is it this weird connection of people who don't even seem to be on the side they used to be on?
01:03:40.000 I think it's because the philosophical layer, the why we do things, has always been fake for the people in power.
01:03:48.000 The people in power want to keep their job, keep their influence, keep their dopamine high, you know, have more babies than the other people, so basically win.
01:03:56.000 So, whatever it takes to win is what they're going to promote, and it doesn't have to make sense, it doesn't have to be consistent with what they've ever done, it doesn't have to be ethical, it doesn't have to be moral, because they're just chasing dopamine.
01:04:08.000 So, once you see the world as a dopamine chase, everything makes sense.
01:04:13.000 It's just very unpleasant to think of it that way.
01:04:16.000 Yeah, it does seem pretty, obviously literally endocrinal and sort of therefore animal and unconscious and beyond individual freedom and beyond any kind of freedom you might conceive of.
01:04:27.000 Hey, you said that Trump would win in 2016, famously, when people were considering it to be a preposterous and implausible outcome.
01:04:38.000 So what do you think about 2024?
01:04:43.000 In 2024, almost anything could happen.
01:04:46.000 We're in a weird situation where I do worry about his physical security.
01:04:51.000 I do worry that 91, what look like to me, political charges, is not the end of it.
01:04:59.000 And it looks like there's no level of obviousness that they're trying.
01:05:04.000 Well, they're not trying to be less obvious anymore.
01:05:07.000 The latest charges in New York, Look to me like they're not even trying to be legitimate.
01:05:15.000 It looks to me like it's just purely political.
01:05:18.000 And I don't know if most of the country will either understand banking and insurance issues to know how blatantly, obviously political it is or not.
01:05:28.000 But they're not trying to hide anything.
01:05:30.000 I think complexity is the friend of the The power mongers, because they can hide anything in complexity, say, well, you don't understand legal tax accounting things, bad, orange man bad.
01:05:44.000 And then, you know, trust us, orange man bad accounting, you don't understand.
01:05:48.000 And they can take anybody down with that.
01:05:51.000 So I would expect that if Trump survives these charges, all the ones we know about, I think they'll just be new ones.
01:05:59.000 I think they'll just invent new ones until they can find some way to take him out.
01:06:04.000 They'll obviously go after all of his lawyers, anybody who would talk to him, anybody who would support him.
01:06:11.000 If you say anything nice about him, even though I'm endorsing Vivek Ramaswamy, I like somebody younger for the next era.
01:06:22.000 Even then, because I say positive things about Trump's skill set, they'll try to take me on as well.
01:06:29.000 Now, the thing about free speech is the people trying to suppress it are, of course, the people in power, because people in power are the ones who are most, let's say, threatened by free speech.
01:06:40.000 So they don't have to take everybody out.
01:06:42.000 They only have to take out the notables.
01:06:44.000 Because if they take out the people who are really good at communicating and have some chance of breaking through into their base that doesn't hear the other arguments, those are the dangerous ones.
01:06:55.000 They don't need to take out everybody who has a social media account and complains online.
01:07:01.000 They're not moving the needle.
01:07:03.000 They only have to take out the few that are making a difference.
01:07:06.000 And I think they've strategically picked pretty well so far.
01:07:10.000 Really?
01:07:10.000 Do you think that is what's happening?
01:07:13.000 Well, it's hard to look at the group of people who have been cancelled lately and not notice that they're the best communicators.
01:07:23.000 That's hard not to notice.
01:07:25.000 That is pretty interesting.
01:07:28.000 May I ask you a little bit about your own experience of cancellation?
01:07:32.000 Are you comfortable to talk about it?
01:07:34.000 Sure.
01:07:35.000 What is it that you sort of, like I saw you say that white people should stay away from black people because there was so much tension being generated and it wasn't safe.
01:07:51.000 What did you mean and how do you think it was misused especially?
01:07:59.000 Well, everything that public figures say gets taken out of context, because there's always a bigger context.
01:08:05.000 So the bigger context is that in the United States and other countries as well, we're suffering under these things called ESG and CRT and DEI.
01:08:15.000 Now, they all have in common the idea that there's an oppressor group and an oppressed group.
01:08:22.000 The oppressors are the rich old white guys, mostly, but white people in general.
01:08:28.000 And the oppressed are black people and people of color, but black people in particular, because of the legacy of slavery and ongoing systemic racism.
01:08:39.000 And so the idea is that if you're in the group that has been labeled the oppressor, and the other group has been told that you've oppressed them and you have their stuff, And they should get it back.
01:08:52.000 That's the worst place you should be.
01:08:53.000 So if you can escape from that situation, you should.
01:08:57.000 You should run away from it.
01:08:58.000 It has nothing to do with anybody's DNA.
01:09:01.000 It has nothing to do with anybody's culture.
01:09:03.000 So it has nothing to do with even the color.
01:09:05.000 It has to do with the fact that we've decided to organize our society in a way that we're trading people, not only in school, but all the way through their corporate life and through the media, that one group of people are the bad people, and they have your stuff.
01:09:21.000 That is a really dangerous situation.
01:09:24.000 Now, it's hyperbole to say, get away, because we live in a big World in which getting away isn't really a practical thing, so I was hoping people would see that as hyperbole, but if you take it seriously, it sounds like a whole different thing.
01:09:39.000 Yeah, I suppose in a sense it appears to me that elite interests have always been able to dominate.
01:09:48.000 I mean, what is power other than the ability to dominate and control reality, whether that's the perception of reality or the economics of reality themselves?
01:09:58.000 And yeah, there is a sort of a reductivism in many of the The dominant narratives around how we should sort of almost re-segregate society that don't seem to have a very, what do I want to say, congenial vision for our future, i.e.
01:10:18.000 there is not a very optimistic appraisal of our ability to live together beyond our demographic distinctions.
01:10:27.000 And that really, really worries me, because I think it is ultimately advantageous to the very same groups that benefit from prohibiting free speech.
01:10:38.000 When you said that thing before, that ultimately it is dopamine, that's the sort of, you know, like beneath even the level of the individual, the kind of element, the element that we're moving on.
01:10:49.000 I wonder if you feel that in using that type of framing and that type of analytic, we can look at What's happening when the more vilified Trump becomes, the more popular he becomes?
01:11:02.000 Superficially it would seem that people are so mistrustful of the legacy media and detest the state so deeply.
01:11:12.000 Glenn Greenwald and I spoke last week and he said that people hate the state and they actually hate the media now.
01:11:21.000 It's like there is a hatred that's at almost a tipping point.
01:11:25.000 And that, in a way, an anti-establishment figure, for whatever you think of Trump, whether you're pro-Trump or anti-Trump person, it's pretty plain the establishment don't want him there.
01:11:35.000 It's pretty plain they're going to considerable lengths to prevent him becoming a sort of an incumbent political force, at least.
01:11:45.000 I wonder, What type of ways might this undercurrent, this emotional undercurrent, be harnessed, corralled, motivated, activated for anti-establishment movements elsewhere?
01:12:03.000 And if you agree with the basic analysis that he's become an anti-establishment icon?
01:12:08.000 Well, that's a tough one.
01:12:09.000 So how could you harness the anti-establishment powers like Trump for other places?
01:12:14.000 Yeah.
01:12:15.000 Well, it's a singular character.
01:12:18.000 You'd have to find somebody who just, by luck, had similar characteristics and a billion dollars so they could weather the storms and didn't need to have a day job and all kinds of things.
01:12:30.000 And they'd have to be a certain age.
01:12:32.000 I mean, there's things I would say at my current age that I never would have said as a younger man, because right now I'm risking a few extra years of my remaining life.
01:12:43.000 So that's a smaller risk than 40 years of life.
01:12:47.000 So I'm in a lower risk situation, as is Trump, because he's a certain age.
01:12:54.000 So he can simply do and say things that other people are not free to do.
01:12:59.000 So that's the kind of freedom you could imagine other places would have, older people.
01:13:04.000 But I don't recommend people over, I don't know, 75 being in office.
01:13:08.000 It's not the greatest idea.
01:13:10.000 So that's not the greatest plan.
01:13:12.000 Here's what I think is happening.
01:13:14.000 The future is fully unpredictable.
01:13:17.000 And at the moment, everything looks bad.
01:13:20.000 Would you agree?
01:13:21.000 It just looks like the entire fabric of civilization is coming apart.
01:13:26.000 It's unraveling in every way, everywhere.
01:13:29.000 But here's the positive to that.
01:13:33.000 We had to break it.
01:13:35.000 The system that was going forward was not the system that we could have forever.
01:13:39.000 It has to be broken.
01:13:41.000 Everything was corrupt.
01:13:42.000 We just didn't know it as well as we know it now.
01:13:45.000 We didn't know that the news was as fake as Trump taught us.
01:13:49.000 Once we started looking for it, you could see it everywhere.
01:13:52.000 But until he alerted you to it, you thought, well, maybe a few stories are sketchy, but mostly they're playing it straight down the middle.
01:14:00.000 They're not.
01:14:01.000 Everything is rigged, everything is crooked, and we might be at a point where just breaking everything is the right move.
01:14:08.000 So when I hear things like Matt Gaetz might cause chaos in the Congress with his latest moves about the Speaker, I think to myself, ah, chaos.
01:14:18.000 That's exactly what you do before you build a house.
01:14:23.000 You destroy the house that's there, because you can't really just fix the one that's there.
01:14:27.000 You just gotta bulldoze it.
01:14:29.000 The first step of building is destruction.
01:14:32.000 So we may be entering a transparently beneficial destruction period.
01:14:38.000 But we're also nimble enough in 2023, and there are enough smart people and hardworking people, that we can actually adjust to incredible shocks.
01:14:49.000 I mean, we got through COVID.
01:14:51.000 That was quite a shock.
01:14:52.000 We've gotten through world wars.
01:14:54.000 We're very resilient.
01:14:55.000 We've also gotten through, you know, we're going to run out of food, but we didn't.
01:14:59.000 We're going to run out of oil, but we didn't.
01:15:01.000 The ozone hole is going to open up and fry us.
01:15:06.000 It didn't.
01:15:07.000 Year 2000 is going to end us all.
01:15:09.000 It didn't.
01:15:10.000 So we're really good at seeing problems way ahead of time and then adjusting appropriately.
01:15:16.000 So my most likely prediction for the United States is that there will be corrective forces because there always are.
01:15:23.000 Things don't go in one direction forever.
01:15:25.000 That's just not It's just not a feature of human experience.
01:15:29.000 Things do reach a point that's too far.
01:15:32.000 This week, for example, we're hearing it was a member of Congress who had a carjacking.
01:15:39.000 There was a journalist who got murdered in his home in Philadelphia.
01:15:43.000 So the stories of crime in the cities are certainly going to cause a change to the massive, you know, let's say, unmitigated immigration into the cities.
01:15:57.000 So we're reaching a breaking point, but not for the wrong reason.
01:16:02.000 We're probably reaching a breaking point because you have to use reality to fix people's brains if they're living in an illusion.
01:16:09.000 If the illusion is we can be kind to everybody and it'll all work out, well, the massive immigration into New York City is the physical disproof of that.
01:16:19.000 So you probably need a physical disproof to change people's minds.
01:16:23.000 And the minds are what needs to be changed right now.
01:16:26.000 So we might be heading toward a lot of destruction, but creative destruction.
01:16:32.000 I feel often that the amount of effort, bureaucracy, corruption, legislation, militarisation of the police forces, anti-protest laws, new censorship bills, increasing surveillance, cultural machinery that appears to be utilised to divide people from one another, All collectively to be taken as a scale of endeavor that must be matched by a kind of latent and unexpressed belief that real change is possible and burgeoning and that there will come a point where people are willing to overlook cultural differences if the right messages can reach them stroke us.
01:17:14.000 And recognize that ultimately we have more in common than one another than the small sets of institutions and interests that benefit from this ongoing state of crisis and decay that you describe.
01:17:26.000 Also I agree with your necessity of destruction being a precedent or a precursor to real change
01:17:35.000 in a kind of almost Vedic Shiva the destroyer creator way because I also feel sometimes
01:17:42.000 that whilst it appears to be an archetype that most cultures lean into, the idea of
01:17:50.000 a golden age, the idea of Eden, the idea of a time where we were more awake, it feels
01:17:58.000 to me that there is a heaviness in our materialism.
01:18:02.000 There is a heaviness in our individualism.
01:18:04.000 The rationalism has voided the space between us, has robbed us of the potential charge that can exist between individuals and create the kind of charismatic healing that great individuals can bring about and perhaps great social movements can.
01:18:19.000 So I sometimes take heart In how hard they work to prevent change from happening, that in a sense like, you know, I'm sure this is something that you're familiar with, it seems like your kind of wheelhouse, those miraculous moments where suddenly tulips are no longer prized, where sort of economic bubbles burst, where new realities just penetrate immediately and people sort of simultaneously awake as if there's some new perfume has reached something dormant within them.
01:18:48.000 So That's how I keep myself cheerful, Scott.
01:18:53.000 I wonder if you might tell us a little more.
01:18:55.000 I know that your Alcohol Is Poison is part of your Reframe Your Brain, at least some of the ideas that you cover within your new book, Reframe Your Brain.
01:19:04.000 What else is in there, mate?
01:19:07.000 Well, Reframe Your Brain has tricks for basically making yourself more successful and happier in a bunch of situations.
01:19:16.000 Let me tell you one that's really good if you're nervous.
01:19:18.000 Let's say you're real nervous about where things are going.
01:19:20.000 And let's say there's some things in your past that are really, really bothering you.
01:19:25.000 You know, your baggage, something you're guilty about, whatever.
01:19:28.000 Here's a good little mental trick.
01:19:31.000 Just imagine that you're in a video game, That your reality is actually just a video game and you're in it.
01:19:37.000 And you just respawned.
01:19:39.000 And you just came alive.
01:19:40.000 And you're in the life that you observe.
01:19:43.000 But you have to figure it out from here.
01:19:45.000 And you say to yourself, all right, I'm just born now.
01:19:48.000 So the time started today.
01:19:49.000 And if I do this exercise, I say, okay, what am I?
01:19:53.000 I'm a male.
01:19:54.000 I'm alive.
01:19:56.000 I seem to be perfectly healthy.
01:19:57.000 I look in the mirror, I go, I could be a lot uglier.
01:20:00.000 Not good.
01:20:01.000 I could be a lot worse.
01:20:02.000 And then I look around and I go, oh, check my bank account.
01:20:05.000 Looks pretty good.
01:20:06.000 Looks pretty good.
01:20:07.000 What's my job?
01:20:08.000 Not bad.
01:20:09.000 Not bad at all.
01:20:10.000 Do I have friends?
01:20:11.000 Do I have some family I love?
01:20:12.000 I do.
01:20:13.000 Do I love my dog?
01:20:15.000 And you can take, if you just forget the history, because history is imaginary anyway, you know, the future doesn't exist.
01:20:23.000 History doesn't exist at all.
01:20:24.000 You can't grab a handful of it.
01:20:26.000 You can't rub it on your face.
01:20:27.000 It's gone.
01:20:28.000 So if you just do the video game reframe, I just respond, would this be a good day or a bad day if I woke up into this life?
01:20:36.000 And suddenly, a lot of things that were bothering you, that were monstrously big problems, don't seem so much.
01:20:43.000 You're just sitting here in your life and saying, huh, I think I can make this work.
01:20:47.000 We're going to leave my conversation with Scott Adams, writer of Reframe Your Brain.
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