Stay Free - Russel Brand - Oh Sh*t, PROOF UFOs Are A Distraction - You Were RIGHT! - Stay Free #186

00:00:00.000 So, so

00:00:20.000 so brought you by Pfizer.

00:00:40.000 So I'm looking for the CEO.

00:00:42.000 Looking for the CEO.

00:00:47.000 In this video, you're going to see the future.

00:00:58.000 Hello there, you Awakening Wonders, whether it's the 6.5 million of you on YouTube or our growing army on Rumble.

00:01:06.000 Almost 1.5 million people there immersing themselves in free speech, wallowing in it, bathing in free speech like Aphrodite, born anew, baptised as deities.

00:01:18.000 Yes, freedom Is coming!

00:01:21.000 The first 15 minutes will be there on YouTube.

00:01:23.000 Then, due to the nature of our conversation about some of the FBI's conduct, we are gonna have to only broadcast on Rumble.

00:01:31.000 We can't be on YouTube and talk about some of the FBI's potentially... Allegedly!

00:01:37.000 Criminal activity and how it relates to events.

00:01:42.000 Remember at the beginning of January there was a little bit of a... I don't know what to refer to it as.

00:01:47.000 Was it a carnival?

00:01:48.000 Was it an insurrection?

00:01:48.000 Was it a riot?

00:01:50.000 It's difficult to describe it but one thing's for certain the FBI had a lot of operatives there and some of their past conduct might lead you to scrutinize that agency and their actions.

00:02:02.000 First though, let's have a look at what's going on with your man, Donald Trump.

00:02:06.000 His first rally since the indictment.

00:02:09.000 He's vocal.

00:02:10.000 He's excited.

00:02:11.000 He's perspiring a little bit.

00:02:13.000 He's pretty amusing.

00:02:14.000 He's got the stand-up skills.

00:02:16.000 Let's have a look at it.

00:02:20.000 Tonight, former President Trump holding his first campaign rally since his latest indictment on election interference.

00:02:27.000 Today, blasting how much he's tied up in legal battles.

00:02:30.000 I'm sorry, I won't be able to go to Iowa today.

00:02:32.000 I won't be able to go to New Hampshire today because I'm sitting in a courtroom on...

00:02:37.000 Trump rallying his supporters in early voting state New Hampshire.

00:02:41.000 Even the beep is an indication of how politics has changed.

00:02:44.000 Later this week we've got Vivek Ramaswamy coming on our show.

00:02:47.000 If you're a local subscriber and you only have to press the red button to do that,

00:02:50.000 you will have already seen the conversation with Vivek and many of you posed brilliant and challenging questions

00:02:56.000 on whether or not he'd pardon Trump, on whether or not he feels compromised with his own

00:02:57.000 relationships with Big Pharma and his answers were exciting and informative.

00:03:05.000 That's why it's worth joining us on Locals.

00:03:07.000 And what I would say to my on-screen assistant, Gareth Roy, and to all of you watching, is when you see Trump in his pomp, you realise now that the era of the bureaucrat, Mandarin, static, rhetorical, flat politician has perhaps come to an end.

00:03:22.000 Would you say that's what we're experiencing?

00:03:24.000 It's full on populism, isn't it?

00:03:25.000 And what he said to the crowd was, I'm being indicted for you.

00:03:29.000 And you know, so this is and we've got a clip coming up in a bit where someone said, you know, that they'd kind of the things that they would be willing to do for Donald Trump are things that people don't normally say about politicians.

00:03:40.000 You know, it's extraordinary.

00:03:41.000 It's an extraordinary phenomenon.

00:03:42.000 I think the left's inability to address this and reckon with it is bringing about and precipitating their huge decline.

00:03:50.000 Lashing out at special counsel Jack Smith's request for a protective order, which would bar him from discussing some elements of the case.

00:03:58.000 I will talk about it.

00:03:59.000 I will.

00:03:59.000 They're not taking away my First Amendment right.

00:04:01.000 The former president growing even more defiant.

00:04:04.000 Every time you get indicted, I like to check the polls because...

00:04:08.000 One more indictment that I think this election's over.

00:04:12.000 Forget as a political commentator, as a stand-up comedian, I have to say that's well delivered, well addressed, it's on point, it's accurate because the ongoing indictments of Donald Trump, these continual arraignments, are only enhancing his popularity and his ability to explain that and declare that.

00:04:31.000 So conversationally, so congenially, is part of what's not being addressed.

00:04:36.000 When no one has any trust in government, the establishment, the institutions such as the media, big pharma, big tech, when we're all so full of doubt, and quite rightly so because of their insidious conduct, someone that can talk like that and behave like that remains appealing.

00:04:51.000 Yeah, also, when he mentions First Amendment rights, I mean, this is obviously something that's always hugely popular to, you know, the American voter, but especially in the context that we exist in now, you know, it's all coming down to freedom of speech, ultimately, this latest indictment of his.

00:05:06.000 But in the larger context of the way in which freedom of speech is increasingly, you know, being censored, I think that plays so well, not just to his audience in that context there, but to a kind of broader audience.

00:05:19.000 To all of us, even right now, we can't talk in the depth we would like to about how the FBI's involvement in the events of January the 6th is cause for considerable concern, particularly in relationship with the events around the Newburgh 4 and how it's been, if not proven, at least acknowledged that the FBI's interference management construction of that event It gives us all pause for thought before ever condemning another person's actions, particularly with regard to conspiracy, insurrection.

00:05:52.000 We can't go into that.

00:05:53.000 So the matter of freedom of speech shouldn't be a left-right issue.

00:05:57.000 We should all care about freedom of speech.

00:05:59.000 And if you saw our conversation with Glenn Greenwald, and if you ain't watched it yet, he doubled down on this idea that the categories of left and right are increasingly becoming irrelevant.

00:06:07.000 What we should be concerned with is Authoritarianism and anti-authoritarianism.

00:06:11.000 Where do you guys stand on that?

00:06:13.000 Do you define yourself as left-wing or right-wing anymore?

00:06:16.000 Are you concerned about increasing authoritarianism, the ongoing impeding of your rights?

00:06:23.000 Click the red button on the screen if you're watching us on Rumbles and join us in the Locals' conversation.

00:06:27.000 Joanne8952 said, Oh my God, if he was a comedian, I could choose to turn him on.

00:06:32.000 There's so many comments coming through.

00:06:32.000 She's gone.

00:06:33.000 Press the red button and thanks for the compliments on your hair.

00:06:35.000 I'm in the middle of a haircut right now.

00:06:38.000 That's how devoted to you I am. 0.99

00:06:40.000 I stop a haircut and I get to goddamn work. 0.97

00:06:43.000 It wasn't me doing it, just so you know. 0.98

00:06:45.000 Gareth just gnaws the ends of every single individual hair.

00:06:50.000 Let's have a look at the rest of this clip.

00:06:51.000 Glad you said her.

00:06:53.000 One of his most vocal critics in the GOP field, Chris Christie.

00:06:57.000 No, Christie, he's eating right now.

00:06:58.000 Now he can't be bothered.

00:07:00.000 He's just shaking his head.

00:07:04.000 It's sort of performance art.

00:07:07.000 We've created these conditions.

00:07:08.000 We created the requirement for politicians that understood media, that were charismatic.

00:07:14.000 We prioritized the ability to perform above the ability to deliver.

00:07:18.000 And I know that lots of you wouldn't apply that analysis to Donald Trump.

00:07:21.000 And now what we've ended up is with someone who understands media, who understands delivery, who understands a joke.

00:07:26.000 And the refusal to acknowledge that by his detractors makes him look pious and glum.

00:07:30.000 Yeah, I mean, we also know what effect this is having on the polls.

00:07:33.000 We know that literally the effect that this is having on Ron DeSantis, who voters are saying basically isn't anywhere near as funny as Donald Trump.

00:07:40.000 That's literally affecting what's going on at the moment.

00:07:42.000 You raise a good point, Gareth, because if it was simply about policy, you would think that DeSantis' actions during the pandemic, his refusal to lock down Florida, and if indeed this is a culture war matter, you know, DeSantis has been so forthright around culture war issues to the point of many people becoming, I don't know, concerned about actions around culture down there in Florida, certainly the

00:08:01.000 Disney corporation.

00:08:03.000 So it's not just that, it's something interpersonal.

00:08:06.000 This is to do with charisma, this is to do with humanity.

00:08:08.000 The more they indict him as he himself jokes, the more popular he becomes.

00:08:12.000 Extraordinary. 0.99

00:08:13.000 Sir, please do not call him a fat pig. 0.98

00:08:18.000 Again, that's stand-up skills. 0.91

00:08:19.000 And it's really interesting there, because a minute ago he said Chris is not available because he's eating. 0.98

00:08:24.000 And then, sir, please don't call him a fat pig. 0.82

00:08:27.000 Now let's have a look at his Truth Social post that he made earlier today. 0.97

00:08:31.000 He says, I was extremely respectful of sloppy Chris Christie.

00:08:35.000 Another day, another nickname.

00:08:36.000 You can't say that you're being respectful of someone that you call Sloppy Chris Christie today in New Hampshire. 0.99

00:08:40.000 During a speech in front of a large crowd of patriots, somebody shouted out that Chris Christie is a fat pig. 0.99

00:08:46.000 Rather than acknowledging that, which many speakers would have done, I said, no, no, no, he is not a fat pig. 0.97

00:08:51.000 I'm sure Chris would have been very happy if my defence of him exclaims, In another format that Donald Trump can triumph within.

00:08:58.000 Let's go back to that news story before we move on to Burisma.

00:09:02.000 And I tell you, Vivek Ramaswamy, Gareth, you weren't there for the conversation, were you?

00:09:07.000 Because you were preparing for this show, I'm assuming.

00:09:09.000 You weren't just mucking around.

00:09:09.000 You were busy.

00:09:11.000 We're tending to your own here.

00:09:12.000 Well, Vivek Ramaswamy, and I'm going to have to be careful how I phrase this on YouTube, he says that the relationship between the Bidens and Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, isn't being looked at significantly enough or with sufficient depth or scrutiny in regard specifically with the ongoing funding of the Ukraine war.

00:09:33.000 I mean, that's, I think in itself... That's bold.

00:09:36.000 That's bold, it's bold, and I don't know.

00:09:38.000 Allegedly.

00:09:39.000 I'm just going to... I mean, would that help us in court?

00:09:41.000 Who knows these days?

00:09:44.000 Let's have a look at the rest of the story.

00:09:49.000 Do you know what that is?

00:09:50.000 That's Nazi Germany Hitler. 0.78

00:09:53.000 You can't silence your political opponents because you don't agree with them.

00:09:56.000 He absolutely should be able to talk about it.

00:09:59.000 Since almost when watching this kind of talking head or vox pop interview on a network like NBC that when they're selecting the people from the line they're choosing suitably MAGA cast people like people with beards and MAGA capped up and all that kind of stuff to prevent a more divisive picture of American politics.

00:10:19.000 But the simple truth is, is when that woman says that it is fascistic to shut down your political opponents,

00:10:24.000 there's a good degree of truth in that. When we spoke to Glenn Greenwald yesterday,

00:10:29.000 he was happy to say that if that kind of practice was happening in Colombia or Venezuela or

00:10:36.000 Central or Latin American country, the American media will be saying that's the behavior of a banana republic. If you

00:10:42.000 have principles, those Principles have to be ardent and continuous

00:10:47.000 That's the cost, the price and the point of principles.

00:10:50.000 You have to say, I don't agree with Donald Trump and I think the way he handled that election, I don't agree with it at all, but we can't start attacking his First Amendment rights or we play exactly into the hands of our opponents and detractors.

00:11:02.000 I mean, normally, if that kind of behaviour is going on in other countries, normally spoken about in the press in this country and by the government, if we want to go and invade them somehow, if they've got some resources that we want, then it's a banana republic!

00:11:13.000 That's right, that's used to legitimise invasions.

00:11:15.000 Let us know in the comments if you agree with us.

00:11:17.000 If you're watching us on YouTube right now, we're going to go over to being on Rumble.

00:11:20.000 I'll tell you why, because I have to talk about the events of January the 6th and the FBI involvement in that.

00:11:26.000 Critical and significant evidence around the FBI's conduct historically that puts an entirely new light on the revelations that there were many, potentially hundreds, of FBI agents present on January 6th and what their role on the events of that day was.

00:11:42.000 If you want to hear that story, if you want to see it discussed in depth, then join us Over on Rumble, click the link in your description.

00:11:49.000 It's something we're going to be talking about a lot this week.

00:11:51.000 I brought it up to Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:11:53.000 We're going to continue covering this Trump story.

00:11:55.000 We're going to look at Burisma taking down pictures of Joe Biden and Devin Archer from their website.

00:12:01.000 Burisma, of course, the Ukrainian gas company that employ Hunter Biden for no reason other than that guy understands gas pipes.

00:12:10.000 Pipes, mate, you cannot, you cannot, he is second to none when it comes to, he can make him out of, look at it, any minibar in any hotel in the world, Hunter Biden can get, it's like the A-Team, what he can make out of the contents of a minibar.

00:12:25.000 If you're watching this on YouTube, join us over on Rumble.

00:12:28.000 If you're watching this on Rumble right now, I want you to press the red button on the bottom of your screen right now and join our locals community.

00:12:35.000 I was in the army, I promised myself I'd never take a cold shower again after that, says Tamara Spencer.

00:12:39.000 We salute your service, Tamara.

00:12:41.000 We salute you.

00:12:42.000 Let's have a look at the rest of his story.

00:12:44.000 And if he wants me to protect him, I'm going to go in there.

00:12:47.000 I'm going to let him know that I'll do it.

00:12:49.000 Janet Griffin, who attended Trump.

00:12:50.000 Like that, Gail? 0.97

00:12:51.000 Kind of amazing.

00:12:52.000 I honestly, I can't imagine that occurring with any other political candidate, certainly in the United States.

00:12:56.000 And it's a shame because Joe Biden could do with some support.

00:12:59.000 What he needed someone Someone to hold potentially a colostomy bag, someone to hold him up at the hips.

00:13:03.000 Let's face it, it's the weekend of Bernie's president.

00:13:05.000 We've joked about it before.

00:13:06.000 But that kind of devotion, that kind of emotion, if you sneer at it, at your peril, I would say.

00:13:12.000 Now let's move on to the people that are potentially trying to indict Trump, not because they believe Trump's a criminal, but because they believe Trump's a threat.

00:13:20.000 The Biden family.

00:13:21.000 Let me know in the comments below if you consider the Biden family to be a crime family This story is about Burisma removing their picture of Joe Biden and Devin Archer from their website.

00:13:31.000 Now with Tucker's recent interview with Devin Archer, with Devin Archer's revelation that Biden would regularly appear by speakerphone, seems to me that this is further evidence that Joe Biden's role in Hunter Biden's business was somewhat dubious.

00:13:45.000 Well yeah, I mean essentially when he denied it in 2019 that he had any knowledge of his business dealings and what we are seeing through the testimony of Devin Archer and obviously the interview with Tucker as well is that that simply wasn't the case.

00:13:56.000 And they've taken it down because legally they're not comfortable with the VP's picture being up on site as what seems like an endorsement.

00:14:02.000 What Vivek says, we can say this now because we're over on Rumble, Vivek said Why are they not talking more about the fact that this war is between Ukraine and Russia, that millions was given to Hunter Biden in bribery by Ukrainian energy firms?

00:14:17.000 He believes, Vivek Ramaswamy, and I hope I'm not doing him a disservice, you'll see this interview in full on Friday, that that war would not be happening without the relationship between the Bidens and Ukrainian energy companies.

00:14:29.000 I think I'm not misrepresenting him.

00:14:31.000 No, I don't think you are misrepresenting that view.

00:14:34.000 I mean it's a, I would say it's a very, it's a bold view.

00:14:36.000 I mean that doesn't include the 2014 coup, there's all sorts of history between... The NATO people, I mean Vivek, to his credit, talked about all of those components, but he seemed to think that it was incredibly significant.

00:14:36.000 It's bold!

00:14:47.000 It was an excellent conversation.

00:14:49.000 So there you go, they've taken that down.

00:14:51.000 That was from 2014, just to let you know.

00:14:53.000 During the coup era?

00:14:55.000 Exactly, when Biden was the point man on Ukraine.

00:14:58.000 And this is like what also was spoken about was how then President Joe Biden got fired a Ukrainian prosecutor who was a threat to the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma's business.

00:15:09.000 So again, this idea that Joe Biden didn't have anything to do with Hunter Biden's business dealings.

00:15:15.000 If then he's directly involved in getting rid of a prosecutor who was threatening Burisma, then you'd have to argue that wasn't the case.

00:15:23.000 What do you guys think?

00:15:24.000 Let me know in the comments and the chat.

00:15:26.000 Seems like pretty good analysis to me.

00:15:28.000 Now we want to talk to you a little bit about the Newberg 4.

00:15:30.000 This is what we couldn't talk about on YouTube.

00:15:33.000 Ten years ago, four men were imprisoned for their involvement in a conspiracy to bomb some synagogues around Connecticut and New York State, I guess is where it took place.

00:15:45.000 It's a real weird and convoluted case.

00:15:48.000 They involve men being taken across borders to look at explosives.

00:15:52.000 And the long and the short of it is this, that these men have been released on what they call compassionate grounds because the FBI, it appears, came up with that plot, helped them to execute it, To the point where it's clear that the main instigators and conspirators in the Newburgh 4 case were the FBI themselves.

00:16:12.000 Listen to this in the context of January 6th events.

00:16:15.000 We know that there were hundreds of FBI agents present in that crowd that day.

00:16:20.000 We know now, due to the compassionate release of the Newburgh 4, that the FBI created a conspiracy in order that they could arrest the perpetrators of that crime.

00:16:32.000 But they themselves were the criminals.

00:16:34.000 Have a little look at the news footage around this case.

00:16:37.000 A victory in court for three men convicted in a terrorism sting more than a decade ago.

00:16:43.000 Police arrested the men last night as they were allegedly planting what they thought were real bombs outside a Jewish temple.

00:16:49.000 A federal judge ordering the release of Anta Williams, David Williams, and Laguerre Payne, three of the men known as the Newburgh Four, arrested for a plot to blow up synagogues in New York City and shoot down National Guard planes and other What's subsequently been revealed is that the plot has been called an FBI orchestrated conspiracy.

00:17:08.000 Check this out, guys.

00:17:09.000 A person reading the crimes of conviction in this case will be left with the impression that the offending defendants were sophisticated international terrorists committed to jihad against the United States, Judge McMahon wrote.

00:17:21.000 However, they were in actual fact Hapless, easily manipulated and penurious petty criminals. 1.00

00:17:27.000 That means they were poor people that were manipulated and exploited.

00:17:31.000 That they were guided through this process so the FBI could make those arrests.

00:17:36.000 It says here the real lead conspirator was the United States.

00:17:39.000 Listen to this.

00:17:39.000 The FBI invented the conspiracy, identified the targets, manufactured the ordinance.

00:17:44.000 Judge McMahon wrote that adding The FBI had no comment on this story.

00:17:47.000 the charges, ensuring long prison sentences by driving several of the men across state

00:17:51.000 lines to Connecticut to view the bombs.

00:17:54.000 The FBI had no comment on this story.

00:17:55.000 Now, if the FBI did that, is it not possible that their agents in the crowd on January

00:18:02.000 6th amplified in- Encouraged?

00:18:05.000 Exacerbated the conditions?

00:18:06.000 I'm not saying that it's true.

00:18:08.000 I'm saying, is it possible?

00:18:09.000 Should it be investigated?

00:18:11.000 Perhaps in the same way that Donald Trump's role is being investigated, particularly as that case hinges upon whether or not he knowingly sowed doubt, or whether he believed the results of the election in reality, but pretended he didn't agree with those results.

00:18:26.000 This is an extraordinary piece of information, but more important than that, it's evidence that the FBI regularly uses malpractice all the way back to their treatment of Martin Luther King.

00:18:38.000 The FBI is an agency that our man Vivek said he would disband on day one of his presidency.

00:18:43.000 RFK says he would disband the CIA.

00:18:46.000 We're at a point where these deep state agencies are not Supporters, friends, allies and protectors of the American population.

00:18:53.000 But they're enemies!

00:18:54.000 They're jailers!

00:18:55.000 They're the people that are creating scenarios in order to persecute and prosecute American citizens.

00:19:01.000 What do you think about that?

00:19:02.000 Does this story make you think that it's possible that the FBI in some way created a false flag event?

00:19:08.000 What do you think about the Newburgh 4 case?

00:19:10.000 Let us know in Locals.

00:19:11.000 Press the red button on your screen now.

00:19:13.000 I guess the irony is also that Trump at the moment is being charged with inciting violence, and like if there's nothing more better example of inciting violence than this, of literally creating plots, of taking petty criminals, making them into terrorists, of a plan of your own creation.

00:19:31.000 I mean, I don't know what else that is.

00:19:33.000 It's a bit like Pretty Woman. 0.97

00:19:35.000 It's a bit like the FBI is Richard Gere and them four lads is Julia Roberts.

00:19:40.000 They're just playing their trade as sex workers on a boulevard. 0.93

00:19:44.000 What does Richard Gere come along and do? 0.59

00:19:46.000 He tarts them up.

00:19:47.000 He dresses them up.

00:19:48.000 He drives them across state lines. 0.97

00:19:50.000 He tells them to bomb synagogues. 1.00

00:19:52.000 Pretty woman walking down the street. 0.92

00:19:54.000 It's not that much like Pretty Woman.

00:19:55.000 Look, the analogy was bound to... Big mistake.

00:19:58.000 Big, big mistake.

00:19:59.000 You work on commission, right?

00:20:01.000 For these bombs?

00:20:03.000 Big mistake.

00:20:04.000 I shouldn't have said it.

00:20:05.000 State New York.

00:20:06.000 The suspects allegedly conducted surveillance and took photos of possible targets.

00:20:11.000 In a scathing decision, U.S.

00:20:12.000 District Judge Colleen McMahon accusing FBI agents of trying to arrest petty criminals. 0.99

00:20:19.000 Is it right that Barry John Fox in the chat says, don't kiss me on the lips, only on the dick, and calls that a quote? 0.98

00:20:24.000 That's not from Pretty Woman, is it? 0.99

00:20:27.000 Richard Gere would know.

00:20:28.000 Not the version I've seen.

00:20:29.000 I don't know what version I'll get.

00:20:31.000 Do you get your DVDs out the back of a van? 0.99

00:20:34.000 Outside the off-licence, you lunatics. 0.89

00:20:36.000 Could you please increase the quality of your conversation in that chat? 0.93

00:20:40.000 Or we were... Well, luckily we believe in free speech, don't we?

00:20:43.000 I believe in freedom of speech.

00:20:45.000 And where freedom of speech and speech meet, you get free speech, right?

00:20:48.000 Where freedom of speech meet, you get free speech.

00:20:50.000 It's fair, isn't it, to say that?

00:20:51.000 I think I know where you're going with this.

00:20:52.000 And what do you get where free speech meets?

00:20:54.000 It's freech, isn't it?

00:20:54.000 it is fridge. Credit for those graphics.

00:21:03.000 Those graphics were designed and issued by a stranger rather than our in-house team of paid experts.

00:21:09.000 We've never been billed for that, actually.

00:21:11.000 If you want us to pay you for that, we'll take it out of Jack's wages.

00:21:14.000 It's the only fair way, isn't it?

00:21:16.000 These are some comments on our conversation with the great Glenn Greenwald just yesterday.

00:21:20.000 Eleonore, loved Glenn's quote from Rosa Luxemburg, those who do not move Do not notice their chains.

00:21:26.000 What a wonderful quote.

00:21:27.000 I'm going to be using that a lot.

00:21:28.000 That's the nature of the free.

00:21:29.000 We don't notice that we're not free because we remain curtailed, or in the words of Rosa Luxemburg, those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

00:21:37.000 It's our obligation to move, isn't it?

00:21:39.000 To writhe, to wriggle, to lash out.

00:21:41.000 You can apply that to speech also, can't you?

00:21:43.000 Like we're being policed into a very narrow bandwidth of things that we can actually say now.

00:21:48.000 Oh, that's good.

00:21:49.000 Those who do not wiggle their lips do not notice that their lips have been scotch-taped.

00:21:54.000 Lifetime on the hips, is it?

00:21:56.000 It's in moment on the lips, but by jingo down on the hippos.

00:22:00.000 It's a lifetime, baby.

00:22:02.000 Fresh Raw says, been following Glenn for years now.

00:22:04.000 He's such a smart and brave journalist.

00:22:05.000 Get him on again soon.

00:22:07.000 We will.

00:22:12.000 Why do we judge presidential candidates by their personality rather than their qualifications?

00:22:15.000 I suppose because we're looking for humanity.

00:22:17.000 That leadership in our anthropology, in our deep evolutionary history, would come from charisma, would come from achievements, would come from Trust and when you have a class of bureaucratic basically faceless mandarin politicians all parroting the same soundbites no integrity you know they're doing it for the wrong reasons you know they'll roll right out of office into some financial big tech or big pharma role that all the time all everything they're saying is geared towards the interests of elites rather than the people they're elected to serve when people have

00:22:46.000 Personalities that are appealing, at least that's something.

00:22:49.000 All of us, to a degree, trust our guts.

00:22:51.000 We're apes.

00:22:52.000 We're not evolved to live in nations of hundreds of millions.

00:22:56.000 We're evolved to live in communities of a hundred, couple of a hundred people, where those kind of intuitive gut instincts are valuable, where you can say, oh, there's something I don't feel right about that person.

00:23:04.000 I don't trust that person.

00:23:05.000 I'm not going to leave that person with my kid or my handbag.

00:23:08.000 Although if this was in the plains of Savannah, that would be a handbag, perhaps made out of fur.

00:23:12.000 Although I think you probably still get those these days anyway.

00:23:15.000 We're talking handbags, aren't we?

00:23:16.000 Furry handbags, yep.

00:23:17.000 Still pretty much on the pretty woman tip, really. 0.98

00:23:20.000 Furry handbags sounds like the most disgusting euphemism imaginable.

00:23:24.000 This is some comments on the Jordan Peterson interview.

00:23:26.000 It was a great conversation with Jordan.

00:23:27.000 Did you lot see it?

00:23:28.000 It was really great, actually.

00:23:29.000 And I liked the bit where he talked about sexual evolution and, of course, I like his publicity.

00:23:33.000 What a surprise.

00:23:37.000 Wingful says, I'm looking forward to the start of classes.

00:23:39.000 Get this, Gareth, because I'm going to demand that you attend.

00:23:41.000 I'm looking forward to the starting classes with Professor Russell Brand.

00:23:44.000 What will your first lesson be?

00:23:45.000 Because you know the Peterson University.

00:23:47.000 Guess who's going to be running a course?

00:23:49.000 Why are you laughing?

00:23:50.000 Guess who's going to be running a course?

00:23:54.000 No, it's me.

00:23:55.000 Yeah, it's my course and I get to decide what's it about.

00:23:55.000 It's not, is it?

00:23:59.000 So why don't you tell us in the chat what you think I'm qualified to run a course on and we will give a prize of a silver... I don't know, what can we give you?

00:24:08.000 A t-shirt?

00:24:08.000 Do we have to call you professor?

00:24:11.000 Yeah, you do!

00:24:11.000 And in fact, I'd like you to start doing that right now.

00:24:13.000 Right now?

00:24:14.000 Could you start causing- calling me the professor right now?

00:24:14.000 I knew you'd think that.

00:24:16.000 There isn't another page.

00:24:17.000 There's not another page, guys.

00:24:18.000 Oh, professor, have you lost your pages?

00:24:20.000 That's- not my fault!

00:24:21.000 It's my bloody classroom assistant who says, look on the next page, because there's comments about Gareth. 0.85

00:24:25.000 But there ain't no- there ain't none. 0.59

00:24:26.000 There ain't no more- Same page.

00:24:28.000 Page reference, Gareth.

00:24:29.000 Next comment on the same page.

00:24:32.000 Wait a minute, let me get that back.

00:24:33.000 Sorry class, but that bell is for me, not for you!

00:24:37.000 See, it's your own time you're wasting!

00:24:38.000 It's your own time you're wasting!

00:24:42.000 Uh, Layla, you got me on my knees, Layla.

00:24:44.000 If you start taking classes at the Jordan Peterson Academy, will Gareth be a supply teacher?

00:24:50.000 Or does Gareth have a specialist subject he could teach?

00:24:52.000 Uh, what are you going to teach at the old Russ's Peterson Academy course, gal? 0.88

00:24:56.000 I think I should fill in for you for that first ten minutes or something before you arrive.

00:25:00.000 Yeah, like...

00:25:01.000 I'll be... Why am I late?

00:25:03.000 You're late, is what I'm saying.

00:25:03.000 Well, I'm late.

00:25:08.000 And now... There we go.

00:25:13.000 Now class, do as I fucking tell you! 0.99

00:25:16.000 That's how it'll go. Now you probably, is this the one about the, I don't know if we've got any free 0.99

00:25:21.000 speech on this, but I've got to do a pull-up competition against RFK with his great Popeye

00:25:27.000 forearms, with his veins clearly coursing with all sorts of hormone replacement therapies. He's

00:25:33.000 like a great bloody slab of testosterone and we're up to $42,000 raised to get to $100,000. Now I am 0.87

00:25:41.000 actually willing to do this, particularly because we've got Hampton Liu, a brilliant YouTuber,

00:25:46.000 and pull up expert. Is this all part of your course? This is part, this isn't the, this is the course.

00:25:50.000 Yeah!

00:25:52.000 We're doing a module on pull-ups, are we?

00:25:54.000 Okay, guys!

00:25:55.000 Pull-ups!

00:25:57.000 You know that if it was pulling, it wouldn't be pulling up, but off.

00:26:00.000 That I'd be offering abstract and theoretical advice.

00:26:04.000 No demos, no demos.

00:26:05.000 We're not weird.

00:26:06.000 Let's have a look at Hampton Loo.

00:26:08.000 Is Hampton Loo there?

00:26:09.000 A great YouTuber and expert.

00:26:11.000 In fact, I watched Hampton's video on pull-ups and the first comment that's been liked by about 70,000 people has said, this guy is so friendly it made me want to get up at 4am and start practicing pull-ups.

00:26:21.000 And I laughed because I agreed with that.

00:26:23.000 Hampton, thanks for joining us.

00:26:25.000 Hey, Russell.

00:26:26.000 How's it going, brother?

00:26:27.000 I feel pretty good, but I'm nervous because, you know, like you run the Hybrid Calisthenics channel on YouTube.

00:26:33.000 Your pull-up tutorial's got 13 million views.

00:26:36.000 I saw the way you did that, and I like the way you coached us from a position where you obviously, which anyone needs to learn if they can't do pull-ups, from not being able to do a single pull-up to becoming adept at pull-ups.

00:26:45.000 Now, I've got a pull-up competition against RFK from the Kennedy family, a renegade and radical contestant in the forthcoming presidential elections.

00:26:55.000 He's older than me, he's better at pull-ups than me, what am I going to do?

00:26:59.000 Well, depends.

00:27:00.000 Do you want the joke answer or the serious answer?

00:27:02.000 Start with the joke and then I'll cry a bit and we'll go serious.

00:27:06.000 Well, you know, the power of friendship, of course.

00:27:09.000 Power of friendship and love, that'll usually get you through.

00:27:11.000 That alone, right.

00:27:13.000 I can feel the tears are welling up now, Hampton.

00:27:16.000 So how am I gonna compete with this great, muscular, sinewy, testosterone slab of lamb?

00:27:23.000 Well, I don't know if I have a recipe for that, but how many pull-ups can you currently do?

00:27:28.000 Narrow grip, narrow neutral grip, I can get to 10.

00:27:33.000 Okay.

00:27:34.000 So what I would do is I would, you know, so if you look at the video, there's different pull-up variations.

00:27:41.000 A lot of people, they try the pull-up, they can do, you know, 10, some people can do 1, some people can do 0, and they try that, but it's kind of like if you were Trying to learn a bench press and someone handed you a bench press bar, but the 225 pounds or 100 kilos was welded on, right?

00:27:57.000 That's not an exact translation, but welded on.

00:28:00.000 And if you can't lift it to say, well, just keep trying, right?

00:28:03.000 So instead of just keep trying to do a pull up, even if it's not the best form, even if you can't quite get it, even if you're hurting, What you should do is start with a lower weight, right?

00:28:10.000 So you would start with an easier variation.

00:28:12.000 In your case, because you can already do 10 pull-ups, which is great by the way, you can try learning that with different grips afterwards.

00:28:19.000 So do the neutral ones first. 0.86

00:28:20.000 Afterwards, you can try, it depends on the form that you're going to compete with, you can try those afterwards.

00:28:27.000 And afterwards, I would really push yourself with some easier variations.

00:28:30.000 So I would start with the thing you're best at, The thing that takes the most strength, and then I would kind of like dial in and really burn out with those easier variations or an assisted version.

00:28:40.000 Yes, it does.

00:28:40.000 Does that make sense?

00:28:41.000 So keep doing the neutrals, but then maybe start moving to a pull-up grip, but sort of like not so wide, you know, maybe like here, like sort of just like, would that be good?

00:28:52.000 How strict is the form?

00:28:54.000 How strict is the forum with your competition?

00:28:56.000 Can you see if we pull up the picture of RFK, right?

00:28:58.000 Look at this picture of RFK, right?

00:29:00.000 This is him.

00:29:01.000 This is from the fundraiser.

00:29:02.000 Yeah, see him there in his blue t-shirt.

00:29:04.000 Now look, I guess that's how he does it.

00:29:06.000 Now that's quite a wide grip he's got there.

00:29:08.000 And he says he can do 20, he can do 26 Hampton.

00:29:13.000 26 is pretty impressive.

00:29:14.000 Do you think you can get a 26?

00:29:15.000 No.

00:29:16.000 How far away is this?

00:29:16.000 All right, well, you know, power of friendship, right?

00:29:21.000 So what you can do, if that is how you're going to compete, there's a persistent theme in fitness that we get better at what we train.

00:29:29.000 So if you're going to train with the overhand grip like that, then you're going to have to train with that primarily if you want to compete that way.

00:29:37.000 So if you're gonna do that, I would do that first.

00:29:39.000 Maybe you aren't able to do as many.

00:29:40.000 So let's say you can do five or six, rest for a few minutes, and then grab a neutral grip, and then do your usual set, and then afterwards you do some easier variations.

00:29:48.000 Hey, there's one thing, not advantage, but one trick.

00:29:52.000 I do have available.

00:29:53.000 And of course, I'm willing to juice, baby.

00:29:55.000 Oh, I'll juice, Hampton.

00:29:56.000 I'll juice if I have to.

00:29:57.000 But another trick is that we haven't set the date yet.

00:30:01.000 So how long is it going to take me to get from, yeah, and I reckon five is a fair estimation, to get them from five to 28?

00:30:08.000 Now, what's reasonable if you're willing to take sports and body enhancing drugs, regardless of the effect they may have on your reproductive organ?

00:30:17.000 Well, you know, as far as I know, by juice I assume you mean like carrot juice, zucchini juice, right, orange juice.

00:30:23.000 Like what kind of juice are we talking about?

00:30:25.000 It's like the heavy grade stuff?

00:30:27.000 Like lemon juice?

00:30:28.000 Or what kind of juice?

00:30:29.000 I'm willing to go to the... I'm willing to... Intramuscular juices, baby.

00:30:35.000 I'm willing...

00:30:36.000 I can't have RFK.

00:30:38.000 Like, I cannot lose to RFK in a pull-up competition.

00:30:42.000 Can I?

00:30:43.000 Can my ego withstand it?

00:30:45.000 It's a fragile, brittle... I don't think you could get over it.

00:30:47.000 I think the worry here is that you start injecting yourself with things that are going to do more harm than you losing a competition.

00:30:53.000 Right, long-term harm.

00:30:55.000 Like psychosis.

00:30:56.000 Well, luckily I'm emotionally quite a stable person.

00:30:59.000 Absolutely.

00:31:00.000 You'll be fine.

00:31:01.000 Consistent moods, not prone to bouts of depression and mania, or a long history of addiction.

00:31:09.000 So you don't think that you wouldn't take steroids, and how long is a reasonable amount of time, Hampton?

00:31:14.000 Well, look, if you're going to go from 5 to 28, assuming you are a fairly talented person, I think it's reasonable if you unlock your current potential, you get like the so-called newbie gains, you might be able to get to 15, 20 in a few months.

00:31:29.000 I'm being a little generous there, just being trying to be reasonable.

00:31:32.000 It's not impossible that you can get to 28, but that would be assuming you already have the hardware, so to speak.

00:31:38.000 You already have the muscles, you already have very gifted physically, and then training would just unlock your software, if that makes sense.

00:31:44.000 Right, but I think I might need some hardware is the worry.

00:31:49.000 I would just keep training about two or three times a week doing what you do.

00:31:52.000 Right.

00:31:53.000 I'm going to do everything I can to get that hardware.

00:31:56.000 Can I stay in touch with you, Hampton, as I continue on this ill-fated venture against a very fit man who I believe is taking testosterone supplements?

00:32:05.000 That's exactly why I'm here for people who are doing competition with a very fit man who's taking testosterone supplements.

00:32:10.000 So yes, 100%.

00:32:11.000 Should we have a quick look at Hampton before we leave?

00:32:15.000 Check out Hampton's channel.

00:32:16.000 It's fantastic.

00:32:17.000 In particular, his education around this.

00:32:18.000 Have a little look, guys.

00:32:19.000 Hello, my friends.

00:32:20.000 It is your brother Hampton from Hybrid Calisthenics.

00:32:23.000 If you can't do pull-ups yet, don't let it ruin your day.

00:32:25.000 Let me see if I can help you out.

00:32:27.000 Beyond just being a great exercise, Pull-ups are a fundamental movement.

00:32:30.000 The human body is built to hang and climb.

00:32:32.000 But despite that, you shouldn't feel embarrassed if you can't do a pull-up.

00:32:35.000 There's a few things you can do.

00:32:36.000 Some people find they can do regular pull-ups from there right away.

00:32:40.000 Other people need to use gradually less and less assistance from their legs, so you eventually don't need your legs at all to pull yourself up. 0.88

00:32:46.000 After you can do a pull-up, come back and give me a high-five and comment, Hampton, you son of a gun, I did it.

00:32:52.000 You're a really likeable person.

00:32:54.000 That's fantastic.

00:32:55.000 Well, you should follow Hampton and Hampton, I'll stay in touch with you as I pursue my giddy quest against a strong older man.

00:33:05.000 Anytime.

00:33:06.000 Thank you so much for having me.

00:33:06.000 Best of luck.

00:33:07.000 Thank you so much.

00:33:08.000 Give Hampton a like and a follow over there on his fantastic channel.

00:33:11.000 Thanks for joining us, Hampton.

00:33:13.000 Okay, is there anything... Gareth, I think you really undermined me there.

00:33:17.000 Oh, sorry about that.

00:33:18.000 I was a little worried about you showing Hampton your hardware.

00:33:23.000 If Hampton needs to see my bloody hardware, I'll show Hampton my hardware!

00:33:26.000 Listen, this is another... Our next guest today is also exciting.

00:33:30.000 He's a friend of the show, creator of the Tapping Solution app.

00:33:34.000 You know we believe in advanced, innovative, yet somehow traditional wellness philosophies.

00:33:40.000 I learned of this one from the great Tony Robbins.

00:33:43.000 Those of you in the chat that regularly suffer from anxiety, self-doubt, incredible sex appeal like me will be grateful to learn

00:33:52.000 from Nick Ortner many of his techniques and I also know for a fact that Nick is a

00:33:58.000 real supporter of RFK. Nick Ortner, thank you very much for joining us today.

00:34:02.000 My pleasure my friend.

00:34:04.000 I just want to see the pull-up contest happen.

00:34:06.000 I enjoyed the drug deal.

00:34:08.000 It almost went down.

00:34:09.000 I see you're just trying to get some juice from Hampton.

00:34:11.000 That was clearly why you had them on, trying to source the juice that you need.

00:34:16.000 Pretty inadvisable to conduct drug deals.

00:34:19.000 I mean, this is Rumble.

00:34:20.000 We have got free speech.

00:34:21.000 I don't know if that extends to free drug deals.

00:34:24.000 Hey, one of the things, Nick, that we can continually get asked when we have experts like you on our show is, how can we use your techniques to retain a degree of balance?

00:34:35.000 When we're dealing with so much negative information, when we spend all of our time talking about corruption in the deep state, when we talk about corruption of corporations, when we talk about the events of the last three years, the amount of deception and lies and malevolence, how do we maintain our general Positivity, Nick, using therapies and wellness techniques.

00:34:55.000 Yeah, it's such a good question and so important, you know, because what we want to do is we want to be informed.

00:35:00.000 We want to listen to what's happening in the world.

00:35:03.000 We want to engage.

00:35:04.000 We want to take actions to change things where we think it's appropriate, but we don't want it to bleed into our lives.

00:35:10.000 So, you know, we see the news and then we're at dinner and we're just pissed off at the world, right?

00:35:15.000 Where we're snappier and angry with our children because of the state of the world.

00:35:18.000 So I think it's this perpetual balance of, you know, anger where it serves us, right?

00:35:23.000 Anger, a lot of people think, oh, it's not good to be angry, but anger can serve us.

00:35:26.000 So when you hear the news, when you see what's happening, you can feel that anger inside.

00:35:31.000 The key is, can you take that anger and actually do something positive with it?

00:35:35.000 Can you use that energy to do more pull-ups, to do something in the world, to affect change in the world?

00:35:42.000 And what the tapping can help us do is acknowledge that anger, right?

00:35:45.000 Even though I feel this anger, feel it in our bodies and then use it as a force to then let it go.

00:35:52.000 Let it go and then move from that place of love and compassion.

00:35:55.000 Move from that place of going, okay, with this, I can make a difference in the world.

00:35:59.000 I can take an action.

00:36:00.000 Cause we don't want to just be passive receptors of this information, receivers of this information.

00:36:05.000 We don't want to just be pissed off all day.

00:36:07.000 The question is, what can you do?

00:36:08.000 How can you engage in your local community?

00:36:11.000 I mean, you often talk about how we, you know, historically grew up in small communities.

00:36:16.000 It's so easy to just watch what's happening around the world and feel like we can't make a difference.

00:36:21.000 You can.

00:36:21.000 Well, guess what?

00:36:22.000 There's a local soup kitchen that you can volunteer at.

00:36:25.000 There's someone in the grocery store that you can be kinder to.

00:36:27.000 There's these small little things that you can do in your life that might not feel significant, but there's nothing more significant than that.

00:36:34.000 I also know that the FBI are starting a little cell where you can bomb some religious buildings and then go to prison for 10 years, even though it was their idea.

00:36:44.000 Another little way you can get involved in the community.

00:36:47.000 One of the things we consistently talk about on our channel, Nick, is the necessity to

00:36:52.000 embrace personal individual wellness and not to see it as abstract from the kind of political

00:36:57.000 ideas that we discussed, but somehow integral.

00:36:59.000 I learned a lot about that in community.

00:37:01.000 Many of our viewers joined us for the community festival.

00:37:04.000 And what I felt is that some of the stuff that Wim Hof was doing with Breathwork or

00:37:07.000 Biet Simkin or the things that Satish Kumar or Vandana Shiva are talking about take place

00:37:13.000 at the level of the individual, but also at the level of the community.

00:37:17.000 It's not like we're just looking at wellness as something that's happening to us individually, where we're cloistered off.

00:37:23.000 It's about empowering ourselves so we can bring about change.

00:37:25.000 I believe that an epoch is coming to an end.

00:37:28.000 I felt it like, you know, when even talking to a very competent political figure like Ron DeSantis, he perhaps, you know, I don't want to be dismissive of Ron because he was a great guest and I hope we get to talk to him again.

00:37:38.000 But the difference between talking to him and seeing how Trump engages with people or how RFK engages with people is an indication that people are awakening.

00:37:47.000 I know that RFK is very overt about his spirituality.

00:37:51.000 Do you sense that spirituality and wellness are starting to inform the political space in a way that's different?

00:37:57.000 And that the candidature of Marianne Williamson, and particularly RFK, are an indication that politics now needs purpose, and purpose is often derived from spirituality.

00:38:08.000 Are you sensing that?

00:38:10.000 Yeah, I'm absolutely sensing it.

00:38:11.000 I couldn't agree more.

00:38:12.000 And, you know, you talked about, I mean, it's funny, we're talking about the pull-up challenges, the lead-in.

00:38:16.000 There's been a couple headlines about sort of right-wing getting into exercise, right, as if it's a political thing, which is really silly.

00:38:22.000 You know, Wim Hof, the cold bass, all these things.

00:38:26.000 Those are critical and important, and it's so important to take care of your physical body.

00:38:30.000 The element that I would add that I don't think is being discussed enough is the emotional wellness.

00:38:35.000 Do you feel comfortable about yourself?

00:38:37.000 Do you love yourself?

00:38:38.000 Are you comfortable in your heart?

00:38:39.000 Are you kind to the people around you?

00:38:42.000 Are you balanced?

00:38:42.000 Are you stable?

00:38:43.000 Are you keeping your stress levels manageable?

00:38:46.000 Are you able to create the change that you want in the world?

00:38:48.000 So I'm so excited about seeing all the physical stuff come in.

00:38:52.000 And I think the emotional, the mental, the balanced piece of things is sort of what's next.

00:38:57.000 That's what you see from Marianne.

00:38:59.000 She's a friend and she's beautiful and kind and has been teaching this stuff for so long.

00:39:04.000 And now I think just her energy, her thoughts, her vibration is seeping into that political discourse.

00:39:10.000 Same with RFK.

00:39:11.000 And hopefully it's bleeding into every candidate.

00:39:13.000 Where they say, look, what you feel matters.

00:39:16.000 How you treat people matters.

00:39:18.000 How you conduct your daily lives matters.

00:39:20.000 And that's what matters most if we're going to change the world.

00:39:23.000 It feels to me impossible that we wouldn't as individuals have some kind of personal routine around our wellness.

00:39:31.000 And as you say, I'm not just talking about physical wellness and physical fitness.

00:39:36.000 I'm talking about meditation, hot, cold therapies, and precisely things like tapping.

00:39:42.000 The amount of stress that we encounter in our working lives, if we are working.

00:39:47.000 The stress that comes from being impecuniated if you ain't working.

00:39:51.000 The stress of ordinary family life.

00:39:53.000 All of these things require that we have some methods.

00:39:57.000 How do you propose people use your tapping solution in their lives?

00:40:02.000 Is it something that people should be doing every day?

00:40:04.000 And what are the raft of conditions that it can be used for, Nick?

00:40:08.000 I mean, every day is great, like anything else.

00:40:08.000 Yeah, great question.

00:40:11.000 Exercise every day is great.

00:40:12.000 But if you do it three, four times a week, fabulous.

00:40:14.000 The key is just to get going.

00:40:16.000 The tapping and you know, for those of us who are like, what are we talking about?

00:40:19.000 We call it tapping because we're literally Physically tapping on these endpoints of meridians of our body.

00:40:27.000 And what the latest research shows is that when we do this, we send a calming signal to the amygdala in the brain.

00:40:33.000 The fight or flight response center.

00:40:34.000 The part of us that is on high alert.

00:40:36.000 That's why it works so well for anxiety.

00:40:39.000 For depression, for pain in your body, for the general stress that you feel every day.

00:40:45.000 I've spent now the last 15 years of my life, you know, waking up, sharing this technique, using it for myself, using it with friends and family.

00:40:52.000 And time and again, what I see people experience is that they have a shift that is so rapid where they go, you know what?

00:40:58.000 I thought I was stuck there.

00:40:59.000 I was thinking these thoughts over and over again.

00:41:01.000 I was angry.

00:41:02.000 I couldn't let go of the thing that happened 20 years ago.

00:41:04.000 I couldn't find a way to love myself.

00:41:06.000 I knew these things that I wanted to be, but I just couldn't get there.

00:41:09.000 And something with the tapping, when we send that calming signal, unlocked that within them.

00:41:13.000 So they felt pain-free.

00:41:16.000 They were not anxious.

00:41:17.000 They felt at peace in their body.

00:41:18.000 They felt like they were enough for the first time in their lives.

00:41:22.000 I use it, and I find it very effective, particularly with anxiety, with intrusive thoughts, with when I just can't stop thinking about something, or ruminating it about something in an unhelpful way.

00:41:33.000 Here's a question from one of the members of our community, and if you're watching this on Rumble, join us on Locals.

00:41:36.000 This is where it all goes down.

00:41:38.000 This is from SensitiveHearts25.

00:41:39.000 She says, Hello, Russell.

00:41:41.000 I love you.

00:41:42.000 Thank you.

00:41:42.000 Brilliant start.

00:41:43.000 I love you as well, mate.

00:41:44.000 My question for Nick is, can tapping help me with my grief from losing my abusive dad?

00:41:49.000 Oh, bloody hell, that's a complex issue.

00:41:50.000 Can it, Nick? 0.97

00:41:52.000 Yeah, it absolutely can.

00:41:53.000 It's a complex issue.

00:41:54.000 You know, with those complex issues, there are psychologists, psychiatrists, all sorts of therapists who bring tapping into their practice.

00:42:00.000 So that's a good, like, place to reach out.

00:42:03.000 But I've seen time and again, you know, we've spoken at length about it with grief.

00:42:07.000 I live in Sandy Hook, the site of the Sandy Hook School school shootings where all these children were murdered

00:42:12.000 just 10 minutes from my house.

00:42:14.000 There's nothing more complex when it comes to grief, children, guns, school violence,

00:42:19.000 all these things swirling together. And I've seen how people have rebuilt their lives using

00:42:23.000 this technique.

00:42:24.000 Yeah, it can be effective. I know for just physical things, not just physical things,

00:42:28.000 physical things are bloody important, but you know, psychological, neurological, it

00:42:32.000 appears that it sort of is operating on a level of anatomy that is difficult to discern

00:42:38.000 using only a Western understanding of how the body works.

00:42:43.000 But as you say, there is no evidence that it's impacting the amygdala and it's starting to make sense from a scientific perspective, as well as from a therapeutic one.

00:42:52.000 Nick, I've got this idea.

00:42:53.000 There are two ideas, actually.

00:42:55.000 Here they are.

00:42:56.000 Idea one is, can you do a tap for our locals community?

00:43:02.000 We do these things sometimes where our work meeting, we put it out for people.

00:43:06.000 This is one of the reasons why it's worth joining us on Locals.

00:43:07.000 Press the red button.

00:43:08.000 We put out our work meeting where we talk about what the day's show's going to be.

00:43:12.000 We did it today, so we talk about how we're going to interview Vivek Ramaswamy, how we're going to cover the story about Trump, how we're going to, you know, and we take your questions from the locals community then.

00:43:21.000 We could have one day where you did tupping for our team here at Stay Free, and anyone on Locals, would you do that for us one day?

00:43:28.000 I'd be happy to.

00:43:29.000 Let's do it.

00:43:29.000 Let's set it up.

00:43:30.000 And then my second request is, would you, the Tupping Solution app is free to download for anyone, but to get access to the courses and some of the, you know, let's call it better content, because I really like some of that stuff, will you give like the first 10 people that send in an email address access to it or something like that?

00:43:47.000 I'll give a one-year subscription to the first 10 people.

00:43:51.000 One year subscription to the first 10 people on Locals who send in the thing.

00:43:54.000 I tell you, I use this thing all the time.

00:43:56.000 It's absolutely fantastic.

00:43:57.000 Now, Nick, before we go, how are you feeling about the new football season?

00:44:01.000 Nick is a Tottenham Hotspur fan and an Argentina fan and is ethnically Argentinian, if that's the right way to say that.

00:44:07.000 Are you enjoying having Messi in the MLS?

00:44:10.000 Are you excited about Tottenham?

00:44:12.000 How do you feel about Harry Kane?

00:44:13.000 I know these are real football questions, but I wanted to ask them.

00:44:16.000 Even though Harry Kane might be leaving for Bayern any minute, I love and accept myself and I choose to relax now.

00:44:22.000 That's been about the last month.

00:44:25.000 Tapping can help you with the inevitable departure of Harry Kane.

00:44:28.000 What do you think about it?

00:44:29.000 Is it nice to have Lionel Messi there into Miami?

00:44:32.000 It is a delight to have him in Miami.

00:44:35.000 You know, I follow him like most of the world does with a deep love for the man somehow.

00:44:40.000 There's something that's communicated by his presence on the field and off the field where I actually find myself caring, I'm sure, in the same way so many people love and care about you and Gareth.

00:44:50.000 And he seems happy and that brings me joy.

00:44:53.000 He's scoring ridiculous goals.

00:44:55.000 He's scoring goals that he would score in Europe that you can't say it's a MLS does his free kicks are out of this world, and he's having a good time, so I'm really enjoying it.

00:45:04.000 We're very excited about the season.

00:45:06.000 Many of you may not know that Gareth and I do at a podcast called football is nice.

00:45:10.000 We usually put it out on a Thursday.

00:45:12.000 You can listen to it as a podcast, or you can, of course, listen to it on rumble or indeed locals.

00:45:17.000 Loads of people are sending in their Emails now, Nick, so thank you very much for that offer for our audience and to agreeing to do a tap session for the Stay Free team that we will also put out live on local so people can join us for that.

00:45:29.000 Gareth, what do you think the tapping should be directed towards for our Stay Free team?

00:45:34.000 How to not fall in love with maybe, I don't know, maybe your co-workers are very handsome or maybe you've got some charismatic leader and it's very difficult not to, something like that, to help you not fall in love with.

00:45:44.000 Yeah, but Graphics Jack is adorable, actually.

00:45:48.000 We're all falling for him a bit.

00:45:50.000 60% Al, pretty beautiful as well.

00:45:51.000 Young Putin.

00:45:52.000 I've got to tap my way out of the heartbreak for that kid.

00:45:55.000 I don't know what to do.

00:45:56.000 I don't know what to do.

00:45:57.000 So, hey, thanks very much, Nick, for joining us and we'll see you soon.

00:46:01.000 You're a good man, good friend.

00:46:02.000 Thank you for joining us.

00:46:03.000 Love you, brother.

00:46:04.000 Take care.

00:46:04.000 I love you, mate.

00:46:05.000 Thank you very much.

00:46:06.000 You can download the Tapping Solution app and find out more at tappingsolution.com.

00:46:10.000 And those 10 of you that were the first ones, Nick will sort you out with a year's free subscription.

00:46:15.000 Hey, what a week we've got!

00:46:17.000 Vivek Ramaswamy, who you would have seen already if you're members of our locals community.

00:46:21.000 That's why it's really worth joining.

00:46:23.000 His show with us is being broadcast on Friday.

00:46:25.000 We've already told you about some of the revelations.

00:46:28.000 Trump pardoning comes out.

00:46:30.000 Aligning the Hunter Biden-Burisma deal with the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

00:46:36.000 A pledge to end the war.

00:46:37.000 I'm going to say, he says he's going to disband the FBI on day one.

00:46:41.000 But is that stuff all pie in the sky?

00:46:43.000 Could a candidate like Vivek Ramaswamy, a non-politician, an outsider, a business entrepreneur, win the Republican Party candidature?

00:46:52.000 What do you think, gal?

00:46:54.000 Well, he's doing well.

00:46:55.000 He's kind of climbing in the polls, isn't he?

00:46:57.000 And I think the word is that people think he's going to overtake DeSantis.

00:47:00.000 It'll be interesting.

00:47:01.000 So if he overtakes DeSantis and Trump becomes ineligible for some reason, like he's in jail, then like Vivek Ramaswamy, it's worth tuning in to see that.

00:47:11.000 OK, now, certainly some radical change and an injection of youth could be valuable in the Washington, D.C., if Dianne Feinstein's recent performance is anything to go by. 0.55

00:47:21.000 Many of you made much of the fact That she was being cajoled and coached weekend at Bernie's style.

00:47:26.000 I can't stop referencing that film.

00:47:28.000 Right?

00:47:28.000 Cajoled into voting like, you know, like we saw.

00:47:31.000 She goes, no, I don't think there should be a war.

00:47:33.000 No, we like wars now.

00:47:35.000 Oh, aye.

00:47:36.000 Aye, wars, please.

00:47:37.000 Aye, aye, aye, aye.

00:47:38.000 Certainly I try!

00:47:39.000 But perhaps more important than the fact that one individual, elderly though she may be, is being cajoled to vote against her apparent intentions.

00:47:48.000 And if she didn't know what she was voting for, that's even more worrying.

00:47:51.000 What's concerning, deep and defining is the fact that military spending is increasing to unprecedented levels and they are denying the right for any scrutiny at all.

00:48:02.000 They don't want to be audited.

00:48:03.000 They don't want to tell you what they're spending the money on.

00:48:06.000 Is that right?

00:48:07.000 Here's the news.

00:48:08.000 No.

00:48:08.000 Here's the effing news baby.

00:48:10.000 Thank you for choosing Fox News.

00:48:12.000 Here's the news. 1.00

00:48:13.000 No, here's the fucking news. 0.99

00:48:15.000 America, your military spending is reaching record heights. 0.99

00:48:21.000 At least it's being done with due diligence and not by coerced elderly people who don't even know what they're voting for.

00:48:28.000 Yes, I mean I.

00:48:32.000 I'm wearing combat in honour of the record military expenditure that Dianne Feinstein is voting for.

00:48:38.000 How old is everyone in Congress now?

00:48:40.000 I mean, what?

00:48:41.000 Are they trying to get some sort of world record?

00:48:43.000 Joe Biden's 105, Dianne Feinstein, she's 90.

00:48:47.000 I mean, I worry if I'm in a restaurant and the waiter's a bit old, I think, shouldn't this be being done by a young person? 1.00

00:48:53.000 But they're just delivering me some food and actually usually being quite friendly.

00:48:57.000 Not like Dianne Feinstein.

00:48:58.000 She don't even know what she's voting for.

00:49:00.000 But you know what she's voting for.

00:49:02.000 Record expenditure.

00:49:02.000 War.

00:49:04.000 And lack of investigation and inquiry.

00:49:07.000 Let's just have wars and ask no more questions about it. 0.75

00:49:10.000 Let's therefore just assume that war is a good thing. 1.00

00:49:13.000 Even that song, War, What Is It Good For?

00:49:15.000 would be banned for asking too many questions about war.

00:49:18.000 War!

00:49:19.000 What is it good for?

00:49:20.000 Mind your own business!

00:49:21.000 And it is business actually.

00:49:22.000 90-year-old Senator Dianne Feinstein appeared confused during a Senate Appropriations Committee meeting. 1.00

00:49:28.000 Why am I actually still doing this job?

00:49:31.000 I mean, I do respect the elderly.

00:49:33.000 I think elder reverence is an important part of our culture, but that is also married to my idea that older people should be aware and focused and conscious and the fact that she's being coerced, managed and manipulated into voting for something is perhaps not as significant as the fact that what she's voting for is more unscrutinized war.

00:49:56.000 That moment happened during a key mark-up meeting for a budget bill.

00:49:59.000 What's just being breezily described as a mark-up meeting for a budget bill is record expenditure on war.

00:50:06.000 And even my phrase, record expenditure on war, equates to the annihilation of cities and children and sustaining a conflict that Ukraine will remain in because of understandable national pride that ultimately can never be won and will only lead to more destruction.

00:50:22.000 Watch Oppenheimer and then live through Oppenheimer.

00:50:25.000 The clerk will call her off. 1.00

00:50:28.000 Also, like, even the guy sat in the middle is about 105 years old.

00:50:32.000 Why is everyone so old in politics?

00:50:34.000 I mean, so what you like about Greta Thunberg, but at least she's young. 1.00

00:50:37.000 Senator Feinstein.

00:50:43.000 Um... Say aye.

00:50:44.000 Pardon me?

00:50:45.000 Aye.

00:50:48.000 Yeah.

00:50:49.000 Uh... I would like to support a yes vote on this.

00:50:53.000 Um, it provides $823 billion.

00:50:58.000 That's an increase of $26 billion for the Department of Defense.

00:51:03.000 Back in my day, wars used to only cost $50 or $60 billion.

00:51:06.000 You kids don't know you're born!

00:51:08.000 Missile launchers?

00:51:09.000 Wow!

00:51:10.000 We used to use wooden missile launchers!

00:51:12.000 Could get a few of those just for a couple of billion. 0.99

00:51:14.000 God darn it! 0.97

00:51:16.000 And it funds priorities submitted. 0.99

00:51:22.000 Yeah, just say aye.

00:51:24.000 War is good now. 1.00

00:51:24.000 Okay. 1.00

00:51:25.000 But wasn't war bad in the old days? 0.91

00:51:27.000 No, no.

00:51:27.000 War is good now.

00:51:28.000 Just...

00:51:31.000 Aye.

00:51:31.000 Just say aye.

00:51:32.000 Oh, God bless you.

00:51:33.000 Just say aye.

00:51:34.000 So terribly dismissive, like it's Grandpa Simpson.

00:51:37.000 Just vote for another few billion for the war. 0.87

00:51:39.000 Okay, aye.

00:51:41.000 Your breath smells.

00:51:43.000 Aye.

00:51:44.000 I'm just laughing about it.

00:51:47.000 Billions more being spent on churning through the lives of young people.

00:51:51.000 Like, she probably aggregates that a life of five, ten Russian soldiers will be annihilated by some fancy new Raytheon product by the end of the week.

00:52:00.000 NBC's Julie Serkin is on Capitol Hill for us.

00:52:02.000 Julie, put that into some context for us.

00:52:04.000 OK.

00:52:05.000 Jesus.

00:52:06.000 Well, what we've allowed to happen is the military-industrial complex now dictates policy, whether it's the Democrat party or the Republican party in power, although the Democrat party are a bit worse.

00:52:06.000 All right.

00:52:16.000 And now it's just the job of people in the Senate, even if they should be revered for their wisdom and longevity, just to sort of parrot phrases like I.

00:52:25.000 AI actually couldn't be any worse than this.

00:52:28.000 We might as well hand over the responsibility of saying AI to AI and forget humanity altogether.

00:52:33.000 Why don't we just let Skynet battle it out with the agents from the Matrix and see who wins? 0.97

00:52:38.000 There, there's some fucking context for you. 0.97

00:52:40.000 Nothing means anything anymore. 0.98

00:52:42.000 Oh, okay.

00:52:43.000 That was a little more than I expected.

00:52:45.000 And as most people who are watching this know there have been some questions previously about Dianne Feinstein's illnesses that kept her out of the senate for some time.

00:52:54.000 What were they?

00:52:55.000 I mean how old is this woman? 1.00

00:52:55.000 Bubonic plague? 1.00

00:52:57.000 Look, obviously we can all have a lot of fun about how old many of the people in the democrat party are.

00:53:02.000 Really what we should be focusing on is that record military expenditure continues to to rise and it's not even something that's considered

00:53:09.000 worthy of debate, scrutiny and analysis and indeed the suggestion that it should be analysed

00:53:15.000 and scrutinised is being brushed off.

00:53:18.000 Yeah and we're talking about this generation of ageing lawmakers with Senator Mitch McConnell's

00:53:23.000 moment yesterday, now Senator Dianne Feinstein who's 89 years old who was, as you know Chris,

00:53:28.000 out of the Senate for a period of months when she was battling shingles, she had some complications

00:53:33.000 from that earlier this spring and since she's been back I wish I could say this moment that

00:53:37.000 we saw today in the Appropriations Defense Subcommittee was the first that we've seen

00:53:41.000 of this but it's not.

00:53:43.000 She can't answer some questions from reporters, she's had a few of these confusing moments.

00:53:48.000 We don't want these poor old codgers just voting aye. 1.00

00:53:52.000 We want young, sexy, virile people to vote aye for more war and expenditure. 0.97

00:53:57.000 We want Margot Robbie and Timothee Chalamet to get in there and just vote aye with a wink and a smile and a wry look to the side. 0.97

00:54:05.000 No one's questioning the issue itself, should we continue to perpetuate war and reduce democracy to just verifying ongoing war without question.

00:54:14.000 Gentlemen, we have a crisis in democracy.

00:54:16.000 These old people don't even know what they're voting for. 1.00

00:54:18.000 That's why your new senator is Lil' Bow Wow. 1.00

00:54:20.000 Lil' Bow Wow, should we grant another 10 billion to the war in Ukraine? 1.00

00:54:23.000 bastards. 1.00

00:54:24.000 Gentlemen, we have a crisis in democracy. 1.00

00:54:26.000 These old people don't even know what they're voting for. 1.00

00:54:29.000 That's why your new senator is Lil' Bow Wow. 1.00

00:54:32.000 Lil' Bow Wow, should we grant another $10 billion to the war in Ukraine?

00:54:36.000 For shizzle!

00:54:37.000 The Senate official's even going as far as trying to stop reporters from getting an accurate

00:54:41.000 picture of her capabilities and how she's doing mentally as well.

00:54:46.000 So this was a super awkward moment to put it lightly today in this committee.

00:54:50.000 The awkwardness of an elderly person being somewhat out of their depth perhaps pales compared to the awkwardness of needlessly sustaining a war that can never be won, presumably in order to ensure that Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have good third quarters next year. 0.99

00:55:03.000 Isn't the real problem that we're not having a reasonable, legitimate, intrepid discussion about the nature of, and necessity for, ongoing war?

00:55:11.000 The efficacy of this campaign, whether or not it's working, whether or not this war can ever be won, whether or not we should be seeking a diplomatic solution immediately, whether or not the Democrat Party has become a hollowed out shell, and indeed shell is an appropriate word because all they do is bomb things.

00:55:28.000 It actually happened twice.

00:55:29.000 That first moment that you saw on your screen where the chairwoman of the committee, Patty Murray, had to step in and sort of tell her, just say aye.

00:55:36.000 You don't need to explain your vote.

00:55:37.000 We're just doing a simple roll call vote in this moment.

00:55:40.000 Dianne Feinstein is too old to be in the Senate. 1.00

00:55:43.000 It's plain and obvious.

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00:57:23.000 Let's go back to those glorious old codgers in Washington who could do with a little bit of priming. 1.00

00:57:28.000 They were considering other bills as well, it happened moments later, where she mistakenly appeared to say no on a bill that she meant to vote for, another Democratic senator leaning in her ear during that moment and she quickly switched her vote.

00:57:41.000 Wait a minute, no!

00:57:42.000 I don't think that we can ever beat Russia in a war!

00:57:45.000 As a matter of fact, all of the claims and pledges that you've made up till now, that you were only going to offer them aid, that the war would be over by this time, that you'd never use cluster bombs, all of these things have been reneged upon. 0.98

00:57:56.000 Oh, it's crazy old cow! 0.98

00:57:57.000 She doesn't know what she's talking about! 0.99

00:57:59.000 Russia will never be defeated!

00:58:00.000 History shows us this!

00:58:01.000 Cuckoo! 0.59

00:58:02.000 As a matter of fact, war can never bring about peace.

00:58:05.000 It's obvious.

00:58:06.000 Cuckoo! 0.59

00:58:07.000 Cuckoo! 0.59

00:58:07.000 Let's get you a blanket. 0.59

00:58:09.000 No, I don't want blankets!

00:58:10.000 Neither do I want blanket bombing!

00:58:12.000 We had a piece still on the table!

00:58:13.000 Boris Johnson went over there! 0.96

00:58:15.000 Oh look, she's crazy! 1.00

00:58:16.000 She's not even remembering the names! 0.99

00:58:18.000 No!

00:58:18.000 I've come to my senses!

00:58:20.000 Take your hands off me! 1.00

00:58:21.000 Just...

00:58:22.000 Say aye!

00:58:23.000 But this just all brings into question again of the aging lawmakers we have.

00:58:28.000 She's nearly 90 years old.

00:58:30.000 In a sense what we've been offered there in Microcosm and the reason we're covering this story is because it shows you so many things that they would never tell you.

00:58:38.000 The system is corrupt.

00:58:39.000 People don't know what they're voting for.

00:58:41.000 It's just systemic.

00:58:42.000 They just obey the edicts of invisible higher-ups.

00:58:46.000 There's no genuine democracy.

00:58:47.000 She's meant to be a senator that represents the views of a particular community that voted her into the Senate in order to represent them.

00:58:54.000 That's all irrelevant.

00:58:55.000 That's all gone out the window.

00:58:56.000 Even if she was voted according to conscience and saying no, they would just change it to aye.

00:59:00.000 Or perhaps she's so out of touch and decrepit, and I mean that with all due respect, that she doesn't know what she's saying.

00:59:07.000 At any event it shows you that the system itself is in radical need of re-evaluation and review and unless there's some kind of great reckoning and the best chance we get for that are berserker candidates and I mean that respectfully like RFK or Donald Trump people that are just asystematic in their approach or in my view someone like RFK who has a different set of principles and morals and I agree with him on many issues when people like that emerge they're just ushered out and bampered down and quiet and much in the same way that this woman has her No turned to an I just because that's what the system demands.

00:59:39.000 Let's have a look at this in some more detail.

00:59:41.000 The House on Friday passed its version 2024 National Defence Authorisation Act.

00:59:45.000 The 2024 NDAA is for a record $886 billion, the same amount President Biden requested.

00:59:52.000 What a coincidence!

00:59:53.000 Hey, isn't that an indication of corruption?

00:59:55.000 No, no, it shows that we're in alignment.

00:59:57.000 Oh, we're in alignment.

00:59:58.000 Just say aye.

01:00:00.000 Senate Democrats banded together Wednesday night to oppose the creation of a new office to audit U.S.

01:00:00.000 Aye.

01:00:05.000 military assistance for Ukraine as part of a provision in the annual defense spending bill.

01:00:10.000 That seems perfectly reasonable.

01:00:11.000 I am by no means a Republican, but what was proposed is an auditing process.

01:00:16.000 Okay, you can have your $186 billion, but can we at least know where you're spending it?

01:00:22.000 No!

01:00:23.000 I mean I. Actually, this time I mean no.

01:00:25.000 45 Democrats, including every member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, voted down an amendment to establish an office of the Lead Inspector General for Ukraine Assistance as part of the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA.

01:00:39.000 The Democratic opposition kept the amendment from clearing the required 60-vote threshold to be part of the bill.

01:00:45.000 On Tuesday, President Biden approved an additional $400 million in Ukraine aid.

01:00:49.000 The US has spent as much as $130 billion on funding to the war-torn nation in 2022, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

01:00:58.000 I wonder how long we're expected to sustain that, how long that can go on for.

01:01:03.000 What they have successfully done is conflated the military expenditure with the idea of aid to an ailing nation.

01:01:10.000 Most people agree that you should help people, but help people in this instance could be seen to mean opportunity for profit for military-industrial complex.

01:01:20.000 And now that that's not being scrutinized or even audited, we will never actually know.

01:01:25.000 This is by Chris Hedges, who can always be relied upon to give us an important perspective on these matters.

01:01:30.000 The Democrats positioned themselves as the party of virtue, cloaking their support for the war industry in moral language stretching back to Korea and Vietnam.

01:01:38.000 The Democrats, especially with the presidency of Bill Clinton, became shields not only for corporate America, but for the weapons manufacturers and the Pentagon.

01:01:45.000 No weapons system is too costly.

01:01:47.000 No war, no matter how disastrous, goes unfunded.

01:01:50.000 No military budget is too big.

01:01:52.000 There once was a wing of the Democratic Party that questioned and stood up to the war industry.

01:01:57.000 But that opposition evaporated along with the anti-war movement.

01:02:01.000 When 30 members of the party's progressive caucus recently issued a call for Biden to negotiate with Putin, they were forced by the party leadership and a warmongering media to back down and rescind their letter.

01:02:11.000 That was only a letter.

01:02:12.000 How dare you?

01:02:13.000 How dare you write a letter?

01:02:14.000 Now get on and spend some more money on missiles.

01:02:17.000 Missiles?

01:02:18.000 Letter.

01:02:18.000 Yeah.

01:02:19.000 Letter's bad.

01:02:20.000 Missile's good. 0.98

01:02:21.000 OK.

01:02:22.000 Aye?

01:02:22.000 Yes.

01:02:23.000 Aye.

01:02:24.000 The Democratic Party, which under the Clinton administration aggressively courted corporate donors, has surrendered its willingness to challenge, however tepidly, the war industry.

01:02:33.000 On the eve of every congressional vote on the Pentagon budget, lobbyists from businesses tied to the war industry meet with Congress members and their staff to push them to vote for the budget to protect jobs in their district or state.

01:02:45.000 This pressure, coupled with the mantra amplified by the media that opposition to profligate war funding is unpatriotic, keeps elected officials in bondage.

01:02:53.000 These politicians also depend on the lavish donations from weapons manufacturers to fund their campaigns.

01:02:59.000 I don't know if Dianne Feinstein receives lavish donations from weapons industry donors, but if she does, that would be another reason to stay in the Senate long into your old age. 1.00

01:03:12.000 I mean, presumably the accepted idea, or the explicit idea, is because she loves being in the Senate.

01:03:18.000 It gives her an opportunity to demonstrate and represent her principles.

01:03:22.000 I?

01:03:22.000 No!

01:03:23.000 Sorry, I mean I. Clearly not that, is it?

01:03:25.000 Because her mind can be changed like that.

01:03:27.000 We've just witnessed her being directed.

01:03:29.000 This is not an attack on Dianne Feinstein.

01:03:30.000 What's the point of that?

01:03:31.000 This is plainly, clearly, explicitly, let me tell you, an attack on the system.

01:03:35.000 A system that is clearly steered, controlled and inhabited by weapons donor money and therefore explicitly and observably conducts the business and policies that they would have you conduct.

01:03:48.000 Bridges, roads, levees, rail, ports, electric grid, sewage treatment plants and drinking water infrastructures are structurally deficient and antiquated.

01:03:57.000 Schools are in disrepair and lack sufficient teachers and staff.

01:04:00.000 The for-profit healthcare industry forces families, including those with insurance, into bankruptcy.

01:04:05.000 Domestic manufacturing, especially with the offshoring of jobs to China, Vietnam, Mexico, and other nations, collapses.

01:04:12.000 Families are drowning in personal debt, with 63% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck.

01:04:17.000 The poor, the mentally ill, the sick, and the unemployed are abandoned.

01:04:21.000 The stories about the lack of infrastructure and failing social systems in America are kept out of the public conversation even when discussing enormous military budgets.

01:04:32.000 The story is about how Dianne Feinstein is being coached and directed rather than what she's being directed to do.

01:04:38.000 Spend your money, extraordinarily, your money on a war abroad rather than failing social systems that would Benefit you, your friends, your family, your community.

01:04:48.000 These are all options.

01:04:49.000 So forget the analysis like, oh, who cares about that socialist ideology?

01:04:53.000 You're spending the money anyway.

01:04:54.000 It's just you're not seeing any of the benefits.

01:04:56.000 Seymour Mellman, who coined the term permanent war economy, noted that since the end of the Second World War, the federal government has spent more than half its discretionary budget on past, current, and future military operations.

01:05:08.000 It is the largest single sustaining activity of the government.

01:05:11.000 The military-industrial establishment is nothing more than gilded corporate welfare.

01:05:15.000 What we're being offered there is an alternative perspective on what America actually means.

01:05:21.000 While you may feel patriotic on July the 4th when Saluting a flag.

01:05:25.000 While you may feel a deep pride in the achievements of America or American community, America is a melting pot where people from around the world have come together to create the greatest democracy on earth.

01:05:34.000 Chris Hedges offers us the idea that in fact and in effect what America is, is an opportunity to pull together 300 million people, take their tax dollars and have corporate profiteering under the guise of righteous, virtuous and just war.

01:05:48.000 So you have to ask yourself a question when you see Dianne Feinstein managed, manipulated, and conjoled into saying aye to record budgets. 0.74

01:05:55.000 What is America about?

01:05:57.000 When you see the Hunter Biden story brushed under the carpet, you have to ask yourself, what is America about?

01:06:02.000 You have to see when wars are continually perpetuated, when social issues are ignored, you have to ask, what is the America that you believe in?

01:06:10.000 What ought be carved on Mount Rushmore next?

01:06:13.000 Just missiles?

01:06:14.000 The logos of Raytheon and Lockheed Martin?

01:06:17.000 What is your country about?

01:06:18.000 What are your tax dollars for?

01:06:20.000 Who are you voting for?

01:06:21.000 And what is the alternative?

01:06:23.000 What is the corruption of Donald Trump versus the corruption of the system itself?

01:06:27.000 I believe that it is the American experiment in its entirety that has to be reviewed, revised, and reordered if we're not to face cataclysmic events and perpetual decline.

01:06:38.000 But that's just what I think!

01:06:39.000 Until next time!

Stay Free - Russel Brand - August 09, 2023

Oh Sh*t, PROOF UFOs Are A Distraction - You Were RIGHT! - Stay Free #186

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