Russell Brand is back with a brand new episode of Stay Free With Russell Brand! This week, the Conspiracy Theorist is joined by his good friend Ghislaine Lem, and they talk about the new emergent elites, the South Park episode, and much more.
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00:02:16.000I've heard people calling it like Pia Teal's things.
00:02:19.000And when I'm thinking about the new emergent elites, Jake, beloved producer of the show, dear beloved Isaac, director of the show, what I think of is I think like the new elites are emerging as predicted by Martin Guri, the writer of Revolt of the Public.
00:02:35.000The reason we're feeling all this conflict and tension is the old elites have lost their means of power or at least their competence in controlling systems of power with the advent of new media and mass communication on an entirely different level.
00:02:49.000And new elites haven't yet fully grasped the levers of power.
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00:04:28.000And I will send you one of my wife's blouses.
00:04:31.000You can dress like a lady if you want to.
00:04:35.000I was watching Mrs. Doubtfire with my children last night.
00:04:38.000And like, the bit where her, is the correct term, titty boobs, catch on fire.
00:04:42.000I was thinking, you won't be able to do that no more.
00:04:44.000Anything that suggests that there's something inherently funny about a man dressing as a woman, you can't do that no more.
00:04:50.000You can't go, that's funny that he had a dress like that.
00:04:52.000Also, can I just say that was a very extreme thing for that man to have done.
00:04:58.000And I think the consequences psychologically for his children could actually outweigh the benefits of the additional time he got to spend with them in character.
00:05:08.000Like, for example, when his son sees Mrs. Doubtfire stand up peeing, like, that's not going to be good for that boy.
00:05:17.000And then, like, don't worry, it's not a woman with a penis, son.
00:06:15.000I love Jay Battachari and Mike McCarrier.
00:06:17.000I think the big food, big pharma, big agriculture needs to be bought into check so local, honest, decent, god-honest farmers of America and the UK can make a good living, that we eat food that's grown near where we eat food that's grown near where we're eating it, that we eat animals that are reared near where we eat them, and that we have control over our food and control over farmer, that we have to bring down these behemoths.
00:06:40.000And if that's the agenda for Maha, it's an agenda I can support.
00:06:43.000Anyway, sometimes when, say, for example, afterwards, maybe some attractive women come and talk to El Russ, that's me, like you think, oh no, look, attractive women, that's a desirable stimulant.
00:06:57.000But then what you're supposed to say is, my wife gave me this blouse, something like that, just bring it up.
00:07:03.000My wife gave me this blouse to sort of play it.
00:07:06.000And when someone gave me that advice, my friend Phyllis, I goes, if I know that already, that I'm supposed to do that and I don't do it, does that mean I'm complicit in the dynamic of what you might call intrigue?
00:09:07.000And I like the way that they've used the same exact character for Trump.
00:09:10.000It just means in their collective comic imagination, there are different types.
00:09:14.000Think about the origins of comedy, or not the origins, but one iteration of troubadour comedy, Commedia dell'Arte, in Italy, where they'd wander around and have masks, like one mask for the tyrant, one mask for the miser, one mask for Polchinella, the clown.
00:09:27.000Well, like South Park are drawing on a similar set of archetypes, and they've got sort of this beautiful idea of making very powerful people ridiculous by highlighting a kind of infantile wanting.
00:10:06.000But like the other thing I like in that film is when it goes, why didn't you, when Idiamine goes to James McAvoy, Idiamin's the ruler of what country was that?
00:11:18.000All right, okay, let's have a look at what they've been saying about Trump.
00:11:20.000The White House is firing back at Comedy Central South Park after the season premiere.
00:11:26.000The episode Wednesday included a scene showing President Trump lying in bed with Satan, who also had a previous relationship with Saddam Hussein on the show.
00:11:35.000On Thursday, a White House spokesperson issued a statement saying, quote, South Park hasn't been relevant for more than 20 years, going on to say the show is hanging on by a thread by uninspired ideas in an attempt for.
00:11:50.000They've just got a $1.5 billion deal they've just done.
00:11:53.000And what they've done is they've been true to comedy, Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
00:12:33.000We're pretending that we know what we're doing.
00:12:34.000And just behind the veil is the deep, deep truth of our ridiculousness, of our trans, what do I want to say, I won't say transience, of our transience.
00:12:45.000The point of comedy is a little bit like sort of something I saw on a mural in a church in Rome, a baby cherub peeking out from behind the curtain.
00:12:58.000We're taking our lives seriously and our identity Seriously, Trump should have said, or at least his spokesperson should have said, them guys are well funny.
00:13:05.000Once in a while, I'm going to get hit by them, and I don't mind because that's the price of free speech, in which I strongly, strongly believe.
00:13:12.000I will tell you now, though, I've gotten a massive cock, and I was completely wrong about that.
00:13:16.000That would have been the best thing to say, if you asked me.
00:13:20.000But yeah, if you start getting into it with comedians, it will carry on.
00:15:20.000I also really like the episodes when they use a photograph instead of a drawing to demonstrate the person.
00:15:26.000They did that really well with Imagination Land and Mel Gibson.
00:15:31.000I think that they're quite off, that they're authentic in their appraisal of most public figures and all they're ever trying to do is be funny.
00:16:12.000When I was in Washington, D.C., the people that I notice I figure are going to be okay are people that don't take themselves too seriously or have an identity outside of it.
00:16:22.000I say Dr. Oz and Lisa Oz, like they're really, really beautiful people.
00:16:27.000And Bobby Kennedy has got an amazing sense of humour.
00:16:30.000Now, there are some people that have got a kind of, you can see that they're sort of in it.
00:17:06.000Like, if I was going to have a role in politics in the United Kingdom, my own country, not in your beautiful country, America, you've got your own brilliant leadership, what I'd want to be is talking to people in leadership and going, look, these are the principles that I think that you should be deploying.
00:17:19.000I don't think you should be running this on these free market ideas that you're using or these socialist ideas.
00:19:19.000So it wouldn't be a problem if people in the neighboring community, whether you want to see that as a sort of a cyber community or a literal geographic community, it's obviously going to have some geographic connotations ultimately because we've got physical bodies.
00:20:48.000No one, except for weird little tendrils of the outer reaches of the online spaces, defended Trump then because the media was owned by Barack Obama entities.
00:21:48.000But her entire argument could be reflected back at her, couldn't it?
00:21:54.000And wouldn't you actually prefer it if there was a reliable principle that you weren't in charge of because that principle was given to us by God and you could use that principle whether the person in the dock were Barack Obama, Saddam Hussein, Donald Trump?
00:22:11.000You wouldn't need to be told in advance.
00:22:13.000You just go, no, that's the principle.
00:22:14.000I don't need to know who it's being applied to.
00:22:16.000That's in microcosm the entire problem and also, you know, the view.
00:22:39.000I do this podcast called Actual Friends with my actual friends, Dave Rubin and Sage Steele.
00:22:45.000In it, last week, we talked about the death of Hulk Hogan and the potential prosecution of Barack Obama.
00:22:53.000They released this clip, and I feel like it is a good articulation of what I meant.
00:22:57.000Now, we might have all thought that Hulk Hogan was kind of cheesy, but in reality, he was someone who suffered a great deal to bring you the kind of truth that can only come through narrative storytelling.
00:23:09.000Maybe the character of Hulk Hogan is more authentic than the character of Barack Obama, who represented a certain kind of politics, a return to hope and change.
00:23:19.000But as it turned out, it was more of the same and a kind of hopelessness.
00:23:24.000Maybe the world of wrestling and the world of entertainment and the world of politics are all to a degree defined by masks.
00:23:30.000When Hulk Hogan's mask came off, we saw a man that had suffered for what he believed in.
00:23:35.000When Barack Obama's mask came off, we saw a man who had made us suffer for what he believed in, whether it was in 2008 or whether it was in the Russia Gate hoax.
00:23:45.000So let us mourn the hero that is Hulk Hogan.
00:24:15.000We'll be talking about all of it in a moment.
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00:26:25.000Bongino says, I'm never going to be the same again.
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00:26:58.000It's like we all thought it was like Greta Funberg, but it's like, like Ghislaine Maxwell, we all think it's Ghislaine Maxwell, but it's like saying like, it's like that.
00:29:42.000That's the worst crime that's going on here.
00:29:44.000It's people having names that don't make sense.
00:29:46.000Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's girlfriend and co-conspirator in their sex trafficking ring.
00:29:50.000Today, she was once again interviewed by a top Department of Justice official and there's this Maxwell at her prison carrying a large white box.
00:33:18.000Listen, since you've been trafficking all them kids and that, my faith in you has been eroded.
00:33:25.000I think the moment that the trust was challenged, you know, when you traffic those children, which is bad in itself, but then when we heard out what was happening to them children in that weird temple on the island, a lot of the old track.
00:33:37.000Anyway, we're going to find another babysitter.
00:33:58.000Before she was convicted for conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse minors, she took extraordinary steps to avoid capture.
00:34:06.000The manhunt was worldwide from London to Boston.
00:34:09.000She even allegedly faked these photos at an In-N-Out burger in Los Angeles to throw the FBI off her scent.
00:34:16.000The photo showed Glenn Maxwell sitting at this outdoor table eating a burger, but she was the news guy recreating a fake photo of Maxwell having a burger at an In-N-Out in LA.
00:36:11.000We'll get you right back to that House hearing on the one big beautiful bill coming up in just a second.
00:36:16.000But I do want to take you out to a story that we brought to you a bit earlier as we do have this post coming in, some calling it cryptic, from the deputy director for the FBI, Dan Vongino.
00:36:44.000Right, I'm going to read it instead of that, Geezer.
00:36:46.000During my tenure here as deputy director of the FBI, I've repeatedly relayed to you that things are happening that might not be immediately visible.
00:36:55.000But they are happening, like photosynthesis, I suppose.
00:36:58.000The director and I are committed to stamping out public corruption and the political weaponization of both law enforcement and intelligence operations.
00:37:06.000But what I have learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations into the aforementioned matters has shocked me down to my core.
00:37:21.000What I have learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations into these aforementioned matters has shocked me down to my core.
00:37:39.000I'll never be the same after learning what I've learned.
00:37:42.000We are going to conduct these righteous, that's a Christian word, baby, and proper investigations by the book and in accordance with the law.
00:37:49.000We are going to get the answers we all deserve.
00:37:52.000Now, it's almost an online hobby to get clips of Bongino while he was doing my job now and while he's doing his current job, deputy head of the FBI, and go, look, this is what he said about the Epstein files when he was doing his show on Rumble.
00:38:08.000This is what he's saying now that he's got his show at the FBI.
00:38:11.000Because in a way, isn't it a kind of theater?
00:38:25.000Dan Bongino, though he's run for office before, you don't get Dan Bongino without Rumble.
00:38:30.000You don't get Dan Bongino without the sort of new power of streaming.
00:38:34.000And you don't get Dan Bongino without, I suppose, Peter Thiel and his investment into Rumble.
00:38:40.000What will be interesting to see will be how the new elites with their new power, look at how Zuckerberg, forgive this word because it sounds sort of a bit cruel, snaked his way out of alliance with the neoliberal folk into Trump.
00:38:53.000Look at how Bill Gates, I don't want him to use any words that could be regarded as hate words, but like he Pullulated, he oozed his way into the kind of affiliation with MAGA.
00:39:05.000And again, and most famously, but as it turned out temporarily, Elon Musk made new alliances.
00:39:13.000They're the Carnegie, the Rockefeller, the Rothschilds of this age, people that have monumental influence that goes beyond the power of nations.
00:39:22.000Look at us, little darlings, believing that the information might be in like a tub like that, like a box that you would get from Walmart.
00:39:29.000It's going to be on some little drive.
00:39:30.000It's going to be clandestine information.
00:39:32.000We have, our powers of imagination are limited.
00:39:35.000So we imagine the machinations of power in ways that we would watch a soap opera or let's be favorable and kind, you know, classical Greek drama or comedy, Sophocles, say what you will.
00:39:48.000But actually, it's so complicated, isn't it?
00:39:51.000And what Bongino has done is he's lived in both worlds now.
00:39:55.000In the words of Joni Mitchell, he's looked at the FBI from both sides now and he's seen what it's like to critique the FBI from outside to being incumbent and denizen of the institutions of power.
00:40:10.000So obviously, look, what we need, if the new elites aren't ultimately to place us in a stranglehold that will be irreversible, we're going to, you have to use this technology to surmount some pretty strong polarities.
00:40:23.000What I mean by that is you might be, like me, a Christian exploring the message of Christ, surrendering and submitting to it more deeply every day, or you might be an absolute atheist materialist left with a raft of questions about the nature of existence.
00:40:36.000You might be a devout Muslim or a Jew or you might be totally defined by your sexuality.
00:40:41.000I know what it was like to be defined by my sexuality for a long time and I know what it was like to worship a kind of pagan gods for a long time.
00:40:48.000But we're at a critical moment now at the advent of AI.
00:40:52.000The tools that are going to be available to the powerful are going to be so extraordinary that they will have the ability to, I imagine, run the systems that they require for the preservation of their way of life with a very small workforce.
00:41:04.000Likely we'll see successive events that lead to mass decimation of populations.
00:41:08.000Many people think that the pandemic was merely an opening shot of what will be a kind of an era-defining series of successive events that reduce populations.
00:41:18.000Pay attention to what's happening with food production.
00:42:45.000You're going to have to go on a very, very deep investigation.
00:42:47.000I'm speaking to myself primarily, you know, because it's me that I'm in control of changing by the holy grace of the Heavenly Father and by the presence of the Holy Spirit.
00:42:57.000And I pray that you can come on that journey with me because I think if you don't, you're going to die.
00:43:04.000And you're going to die anyway, actually.
00:43:05.000You're going to die regardless, but you're going to die in ways that you're not going to enjoy.
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00:43:20.000No, we're simply offering you the means of communication that might be an invaluable tool as this hots up crazily.
00:43:28.000All right, let's see what else is going on with our man Dan Bongino.
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00:43:44.000If ever there was a situation where what Whitney Webb said was at odds with what I said, go with Whitney Webb, even if she was out and out criticising me is what I would say.
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