This week on the show, Russell talks about his trip to the Eternal City, the new LA riots, and why it s time for us to wake up together in the face of division and chaos. Plus, a look at the latest in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
00:06:32.000I went to the place where Paul and Peter were banged up.
00:06:35.000The reason that it's called the Eternal City is, of course, because there's a lot of ancient artifacts there, but it's also a place that's outside of time.
00:06:42.000There on the edge, there in the shadow of the various ruins just down the hill from the Colosseum is a place where Peter and Paul were banged up.
00:06:50.000And you realize, man, if you're not in a dalliance with eternity, whether that's deep love or real virtue or kindness or sacrifice, you're just wasting.
00:10:46.000The United Kingdom right now is a country where you can't speak freely.
00:10:49.000Dear Lucy Connolly, still banged up, serving a long sentence for an albeit literally incendiary post that was made in the immediate aftermath of the murder of those poor free schoolchildren.
00:13:00.000Yeah, Earl, I'm going to eat her pussy.
00:13:04.000Madam, I would ask that if we not try to use that type of language in the chamber, let's try to keep some decorum.
00:13:12.000I know you were talking specific books, but if we could reframe those type of words differently, because there's also people and children watching this debate.
00:13:21.000I just don't want that language out there.
00:13:24.000So I will ask kindly if we could just use either a different word or I don't know, man.
00:13:38.000There was a time where all things were sacred, when we understood that our relationships with one another were eternity brushing up against itself, that we have spirits, that we have souls.
00:13:47.000Once you accept that there's a divine nature to human beings, then everything falls into a different order.
00:13:52.000Suddenly people are afforded rights that may otherwise not have rights.
00:13:56.000Suddenly we have scripture to lean upon instead of our own understanding.
00:13:59.000Suddenly the idea of faith doesn't seem ridiculous, but a necessary reach into the unknown but somehow knowable, and that which we can ensure.
00:14:08.000When we grant absolute power to ridiculous and limited folks, then what we end up in is a kind of bizarre and berserk dance.
00:14:20.000Let me know if you lost faith in the Democrats lately because of, I don't know, some of the sort of deception and ridiculousness that took place in the lead-up to the last election.
00:14:28.000They've got a plan to win you back, honey, and this is how they're going to do it.
00:15:41.000Firstly, would you just allow me, Isaac, if I try and go back to the Asset 2, the Sky News on 7,000 England fans calling Keir Starmer a C-word, will it be where I left off on Asset 2?
00:16:49.000Well, the England manager says Spirit of the game.
00:16:53.000It's really interesting and fascinating.
00:16:55.000I spent some time in the UK, and it's a divided country, like yours is too, I suppose, as evidenced by these riots.
00:17:02.000The UK is in serious and significant decline and disorientation.
00:17:07.000I don't think people even know where to direct their attention, let alone their optimism, anymore.
00:17:12.000there's some interest in Nigel Farage and the potential for reform to reinvigorate Britain.
00:17:19.000There are people that are stalwarts of the political, not the political establishment, but the political realm.
00:17:23.000People like Jeremy Corbyn, who, even if you disagree with him on a variety of subjects, it's difficult to deny that he's a man of principle.
00:17:31.000Or someone like George Galloway, a career politician who's many, many times been on the right side of history.
00:17:37.000You We need to galvanise the agricultural movement.
00:19:23.000Probably delegated more successfully than most people would have thought possible with the inclusion in the camp of the likes of Tulsi Gabbard and Vivek Ramaswamy, Bobby Kennedy, J.D. Vance.
00:19:36.000There are now significant figures in the political realm that many of whom, perhaps any of whom, could make a run in 2028 if it goes that way.
00:19:46.000But you can't perhaps have Elon Musk, a mercurial mind, a man who's likely...
00:19:59.000I wonder if you think we can learn things from the hierarchy of beasts.
00:20:03.000So I wonder if you think we can learn things from the deep principles of the Christian.
00:20:08.000I wonder if you think it's inevitable that we fall into decline and despair when we invest men like Elon Musk or even Donald Trump with the hopes and dreams of hundreds and millions of people when one side of the conversation.
00:20:28.000Man, even when you look at the life of someone like King David, a man after the Lord's own heart, you see how right in the midst and at the near height of his power, he's capable of just seeing someone on a balcony taking a shower.
00:20:43.000Turning it all in, having people murdered, deception.
00:20:47.000Even the greatest among us are flawed and broken and aren't capable of carrying the weight of divine intention.
00:20:57.000We're coronated because there is such a thing as sublime power.
00:21:43.000I pray for him to lead with integrity.
00:21:46.000I pray in the United States that there's a resolution here when there's a mandate for national border patrolling, when there's a mandate for deportation.
00:21:56.000I pray that this can be undertaken compassionately.
00:21:59.000I pray that we can find peace in the fallen world.
00:24:58.000If we're flooding it with migration, if we don't have a centralized set of ideals and belief, if we're not capable of being kind and loving anymore, maybe we should shut down the whole experiment.
00:25:23.000I've been Muslim for seven months now.
00:25:25.000But before that, I did like to have a little go on the what's name, and that's why I don't need to worry about anything that's down there, ladies, because I give myself an AIDS test into the middle of next week.
00:25:34.000Can you guarantee that under your leadership, the 2019 Labour commitments to nationalise water, energy, rail, the Royal Mail, they'll all be in Labour's next?
00:26:04.000Should she be allowed to appeal again?
00:26:06.000should she be allowed back here in order to face justice in the UK?
00:26:09.000I think the court decision yesterday is the right decision.
00:26:11.000The Labour Party in opposition needs to be the Labour Party in power, and a government doesn't go on picket lines, a government tries to resolve disputes.
00:26:20.000I'm really pleased to be here this morning supporting the staff at McDonald's who are on strike.
00:26:25.000Air quality, climate change is the issue of our time.
00:26:28.000And as the Extinction Rebellion protests showed us this week, the next generation are not going to forgive us if we don't take action.
00:26:58.000Central Scrutinizer, Phoenix Snake UK, My One Day's World Bell, President Trump needs to do what he needs to do, Trish McLeod, all of you, join the chat.
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00:29:07.000When I started this, I was very nearly an elderly man.
00:30:40.000Stefania42088, I watched you walk with the highest confidence through the media blitz, carved right through them, looking dashing like always.
00:30:45.000That's probably a reference to my appearance in court in the United Kingdom to clear my name.
00:30:50.000I've got to go there, clear the old name.
00:32:57.000This guy is, I think, at Imperial College London.
00:33:00.000They found ways of prolonging DMT trips.
00:33:02.000So instead of it being like a one-minute-long thing, they're having DMT trips now that are like an hour long.
00:33:08.000And in there, they're having consistent experiences.
00:33:10.000One person now describes having a sort of a bejeweled console put in front.
00:33:17.000Now, I'm experiencing increasingly through various Holy Spirit-style techniques, Happy Pentecost, everybody, the sense that what Christ is referring to sometimes Is that through the Holy Spirit we will access eternity.
00:33:38.000That eternity is present just at the end of our arm.
00:33:43.000Now one of the things, the reason I want to give you this example is any of you that have spent a lot of time around mentally ill people, and I have, will be struck by the consistency of some of the images.
00:33:53.000Let me know in the comments and chat if you've ever spoken to a mentally ill person.
00:34:08.000And they say something like, on many occasions I've heard things like this, the government are tracking my thoughts.
00:34:15.000There's this machine that's floating above my head, and it's monitoring me, and it's controlling me.
00:34:21.000Now, what's really extraordinary is this person that was on there, what's the name of the guest that's on that, Jay Anderson?
00:34:28.000Dr. Andrew Gallimore says that one of the people that they've been doing these prolonged experiments on Like, do you meet consistently the same kind of beings?
00:34:48.000Do you have the same kind of experiences?
00:34:50.000And then already they're discovering that you do.
00:34:51.000So it's not like one day you go in there and it's a million Johnny Cash's dancing with their dicks out, and the next time you go in there and it's just a centipede talking to you.
00:35:00.000No, you go in there and you meet the same kind of beings.
00:35:04.000That sort of suggests a sort of a consistent reality.
00:35:07.000That's pretty fascinating to me because, well, it suggests that there's a mythic realm that's extrasensory, extrasensory for us.
00:35:15.000These are the limitations of our instruments.
00:35:17.000If you had different instruments, you'd be able to detect a different reality.
00:35:20.000The beings that this guy who was like on this prolonged IV DMT experience was like when he encountered the beings in there.
00:35:29.000He's got an MRI on, so his brain activity is being tracked while he's going into this DMT experience.
00:35:36.000And the beings that he's encountering in there are going, what's the machine that's observing you and scanning you?
00:35:42.000What is the machine that's scanning you?
00:35:44.000So these beings are not only encountering an individual in this state, they're asking questions about the physical reality.
00:35:53.000When you start talking about angels and demons and beings that inhabit other realities, It's likely that these ethereal creatures are present with us even now, undetectable to most of us because we're webbed so potently on to what you might call the matrix.
00:36:10.000We're so overstimulated through fear and desire, we can't detect.
00:36:14.000And think how little time you spend in nature.
00:36:28.000I believe, too, in the presence of numerous entities and beings, some of which may be dark and demonic.
00:36:35.000That's precisely why I, in particular, need to surrender to Christ.
00:36:38.000I'm not strong enough to go out there where there's all sorts of pantheonistic and pagan entities and diabolical intentions accessible to me.
00:37:52.000Kind of reminds me of the screw tape letters, you know?
00:37:55.000C.S. Lewis, Wormwood, like there's got to be an intentional thought of the dark, of the demons, of the spiritual darkness to try to capture, to confuse, to change reality.
00:38:49.000Look, if these people are doing these DMT expeditions now, there's no way that the CIA haven't been conducting those experiments for a long while.
00:38:59.000When people are talking about glitching realities in Illuminati and occultist powers and reptilians, it's likely perhaps then that there are communions that are taking place with these molochs, these bals, these false gods, and that these communions have been taking place for a long while.
00:39:17.000The one absolute reality is that The protein, ever-flowing, living water of life, accessible to him always, in all places, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipowerful.
00:39:36.000For us, we live in our one sort of fragment of reality.
00:39:50.000I can only take direct Holy Spirit, but I've been having some really interesting Holy Spirit experiences lately.
00:39:56.000you know like this idea that there's a um a kind of dashboard to reality i don't know we'll work it out man it's risky to say stuff like this on the internet when i've not sort of properly worked it out yet let me know what you think in the comments and chat if you're watching us on youtube click the link in the description because i'm getting crazy baby oh i like this i like this new countdown that is good stuff look at that look at that little wiggly ticket look at that wiggly ticket click the link in the description kia starmer's gonna love that wiggly We've got so much to talk about.
00:40:35.000I can't speak for JC, but if he had a platform on Rumble, I'm pretty sure at minimum he would put some attention on the war crime of blocking aid to starving children.
00:40:42.000Let's talk about Israel and Palestine right now.
00:42:09.000Look, on one level, I really like Greta Thunberg.
00:42:12.000I admire people that will pursue their ideology.
00:42:17.000Do you think that we should find compassion in our hearts for people we disagree with?
00:42:22.000For example, I do believe that climate change is being exploited to legitimise new measures of control, and that Greta Thunberg is promoted by the culture because she somehow perfectly represents a sort of pagan idea of Cassandra.
00:42:38.000A hysterical figure on the edge of the culture.
00:42:44.000All of us at different points have been deployed by the culture.
00:42:47.000I myself was used for a while as a sort of hedonistic playboy individual promoting decadence and promiscuity, which worked out very well for me, I have to say.
00:43:24.000There needs to be some kind of resolution to the ongoing blockades and suffering of the people of Gaza that needn't immediately open one up to accusations of anti-Semitism simply to discuss it.
00:43:41.000That's why we have Isaac here to ensure that when I'm saying that the war in Israel I love the Jews, I love Muslims.
00:44:10.000Is it possible, unless there's a way for us to navigate this conversation without falling into one side, and I know that the people that are supportive of Gaza say, it's not one side, there is no side, there's only one side, it's just Israel doing that.
00:44:22.000And then the people of Israel say, well, what about Qatari influence?
00:44:25.000You talk about AIPAC, well, you're not going to talk about Qatari influence.
00:44:27.000What about that bejeweled airplane they gave Donald Trump?
00:44:31.000Ah, there's no way of talking about it!
00:44:33.000You can't even actually say that Kanye West is an interesting artist because he sort of grabs from the culture of synecdoches and bandism about you sort of creating conversation without that!
00:45:15.000UN, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty, International Criminal Court can all find compelling evidence of war crimes by Israel.
00:45:24.000And the United States with its enormous powers of intelligence and direct contact with Israel I think it is without a doubt.
00:45:44.000True that Israel has committed war crimes?
00:45:46.000You wouldn't have said that at the podium.
00:45:48.000Yeah, look, because when you're at the podium, you're not expressing your personal opinion.
00:45:51.000You're expressing the conclusions of the United States government.
00:45:53.000I'm really struck that you think now that Israel did commit war crimes, and yet at the time, and I get why, but at the time, you were at the podium, and you couldn't say that.
00:46:03.000I mean, personally, that must be very difficult for you.
00:46:05.000So the State Department itself had concluded...
00:46:12.000had concluded that it was likely that Israel had committed war crimes.
00:46:16.000But I do think it's almost certain that they have.
00:46:19.000Here to represent a different perspective is Dave Portnoy, who you've probably seen had a...
00:46:42.000Let's have a look at this point of view and we'll look at it together as compassionate comedians who love laughter, who love joy, who recognise that we've got to have conversations about this.
00:46:53.000Yeah, like this brilliant teacher of mine once said on the subject of atheism versus Christianity, there are perfectly brilliant people on both sides.
00:47:02.000I thought, all right, let's start there.
00:47:04.000So when it comes to Israel and Palestine, can we start with the good faith assumption that on both sides of that conversation, not even the conflict, both sides of the conversation, there are perfectly brilliant people?
00:48:57.000In fact, before we get into Ask a Jew with Isaac, let's cut the audio off of YouTube, which someone's telling me in the chat is still...
00:49:08.000If we think that genocide is wrong, you think that all genocide is wrong.
00:49:12.000If you think that historical genocides are wrong, whether it's the Holocaust or the execution of the native people of this land or Britain's continual executions as we colonize the world, I've got a problem saying that it's all wrong.
00:49:25.000That settler colonies lead to the execution of the indigenous people seems to be a trend.
00:50:09.000You know, I don't think that it exists.
00:50:11.000I don't think that there's a single war where everything is done above board, like good on the books, from any country, ever.
00:50:18.000I don't think that's ever been a situation.
00:50:23.000Well, they had to stop using the International Criminal Court as a reference point when criticizing Russia's actions in Ukraine because America's transgressions in Afghanistan and in Iraq and most modern wars were so out of line with the very kind of edicts that you're describing, Isaac, that it could no longer be used as a reference.
00:50:50.000Such a sort of potent conundrum that none of us are ever going to successfully navigate.
00:50:55.000I see that Dave Smith is asking Dave Rubin.
00:50:59.000For a debate now, and Patrick Bet-David is going to host it.
00:51:04.000I'd like to also offer our services to host such a debate.
00:51:09.000If Dave Rubin and Dave Smith, the Daves, because I would make it, this would make it my, I would not see it in these terms of, like, who's going to win the debate.
00:51:16.000I'd say, how are we going to bring these men together in unison before the three of us fly to the Holy Land with a new treaty to be signed to bring about peace?
00:51:27.000Do you remember when we had Adam Bowler?
00:51:28.000He had a prospective Palestinian leader.
00:51:31.000This is such an ancient and agonising contest.
00:51:37.000It's inconceivable that anything other than the most radical solutions could work.
00:51:42.000There would have to be some kind of trip into the transcendent.
00:51:45.000A moment ago we talked somewhat ludicrously and flippantly about machine elves and accessible realms that seem to be concealed by those of us wedded and bonded only to the senses, to the rationalists and the materialists.
00:51:57.000Isaac rightly points out that war itself is a crime, that the history of war has been the continual progress through guerrilla means of smaller armies and technology of larger armies into greater and greater transgressions.
00:52:14.000In the Principality Wars in Italy, it was still presumed that we had to line up and fight each other at an agreed time.
00:52:20.000Then people started to think, well, why don't we just turn up early and sack their cities?
00:52:25.000Continually in war, the smaller side will have to resort to guerrilla war, the larger side will use advancing technology to create greater efficiency and to protect their own It's interesting that the Bhagavad Gita, that great Hindu text, uses the battle as its key metaphor, that Arjuna faces everyone on the other side of his battlefield.
00:52:51.000He faces his cousins, his brothers, those that are most beloved.
00:53:16.000There's no way that this defining conflict of our civilisation that flared up again on October the 7th, 2023, Of our civilization.
00:53:33.000The Gordian Knot is, of course, what Alexander the Great slashed and lashed through, that pre-Christ emperor sun god figure, when presented with this puzzle that no one could undo, said, I refute thee thus, and just slashed it with a sword.
00:53:49.000That kind of brutality ain't available to us no more.
00:53:51.000And when you see Donald Trump saying that Gaza could have a Trump resort as its new centerpiece, Me, as a father, as a human being, I'll tell you the truth.
00:54:16.000I can't look anymore at the ashes and devastation that goes on in Gaza.
00:54:20.000I'm glad we've got Greta Thunberg to carry that cargo for us.
00:54:24.000I can't be bothered to try and solve the problem of being a man who loves...
00:54:39.000Why did you say that for about Israel?
00:54:41.000And as a person who lived in East London, got loads and loads of Muslim friends.
00:54:50.000From Muhammad to Moses to Christ Jesus, no one has presented a resolution in that region.
00:54:56.000And I think that people enjoy stoking.
00:55:04.000Every time it seems like we're on the brink of something useful, there's some new event that creates more fracture and more despair.
00:55:12.000I do feel that if we, the people that are not directly affected, I'm not directly affected.
00:55:17.000I'm affected tangentially and in the abstract as a father and as a person who cares about Israel, who cares about the Old Testament, who cares about the subject of genocide.
00:55:27.000Who cares about compassion and kindness?
00:55:29.000But I can't sort out my own life and my own pressures and my own family.
00:55:33.000So I don't know how I'm supposed to wander through the streets of Galilee and Gaza espousing solutions other than from a position of brokenness and humility.
00:56:29.000You can't be enough down there in the material world where a million urges drag you down to the soil, where thousands of aspirations call you up into the ether.
00:56:45.000It's only through the cross that we may know salvation.
00:56:49.000It's only through His sacrifice that we can embrace the necessary humility of being fallen.
00:56:55.000That's the solution that I would offer, that in open-heartedness, that people like me, and probably you, unless you are a Muslim or a Jewish person that's directly affected, that we have to go, OK.
00:57:38.000And down here, whether you're a Muslim or a Jew or a Christian or an atheist, you're caught up in the pollulating thromb on the low levels of the hive, bickering and arguing, thinking you've got something to contribute other than your humility, other than your repentance, other than your brokenness, other than your prayers.
00:59:01.000Mine particularly, yours and everybody's, whether it's British government officials, demonetising people on YouTube, putting people in jail for Facebook posts, or the various other ways the nefarious systems and institutions And how are we going to fight back?
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01:02:47.000You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive or creating a new avenue where trans feels safe in sports.
01:02:56.000Maybe a transgender category in all sports.
01:03:01.000One thing's for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around.
01:03:04.000Then after that, Simone Biles went on to say, bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male, which was a massive swing and a miss for a multitude of reasons.
01:03:13.000One, Riley Gaines is like 5 '5", probably 130 to 140.
01:04:07.000Where would that rank as far as viewership and, you know, like the WNBA and then like a...
01:04:14.000Look, I just don't know how important of an issue it is.
01:04:17.000I suppose, look, if I had a kid that said they was trans and they wanted to do sport, then I would care, I suppose, I suppose.
01:04:23.000But when we've just come from talking about Gaza and Israel, when I sense that there are different layers of reality, I think we're getting sort of caught up in interesting and somewhat abstract ideas.