Stay Free - Russel Brand - Oh Sh*t, Russians Down US Drone…WW3?! - #091 - Stay Free With Russell Brand

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00:01:47.000 Hello, Gareth.

00:01:48.000 Hello there, Russell.

00:01:48.000 Have you seen the news?

00:01:50.000 I certainly have.

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00:02:56.000 The light of pure love and consciousness.

00:02:59.000 And if you don't want to move towards that light, you better be careful because you could be being spied on right now by a drone.

00:03:05.000 Because the main news in what you might call mainstream media, legacy media, is about that drone that Russia has bought down, an American drone.

00:03:13.000 And what's fascinating when you watch this coverage is the piety around it.

00:03:17.000 They're talking about this drone being bought down as if it's like the worst thing that's ever happened.

00:03:21.000 Also, Russia are denying bringing it down, just to make it clear.

00:03:24.000 We did not bring down that drone.

00:03:27.000 That was our favourite drone!

00:03:28.000 Let's talk about this drone.

00:03:30.000 Look at this on the mainstream news.

00:03:31.000 Unless someone's briefed them to say, personify that drone, talk about that drone like it is a beloved family pet, and like it's got a personality, and it's a really nice, it's a particularly nice drone.

00:03:43.000 This was our best drone.

00:03:44.000 Whenever we wanted to bomb a wedding in Syria, this was the drone we went to. 0.94

00:03:49.000 But that's just my take on it, my hopeless conjecture.

00:03:52.000 Let's go to the mainstream media's take, which is for some reason being hosted by Ross from Friends.

00:04:01.000 No one told you life was gonna be this way.

00:04:03.000 Your job's a joke.

00:04:04.000 We're broke.

00:04:05.000 Because, of course, the banking system is collapsing all around you.

00:04:09.000 Why is this bloke doing the news a bit sideways?

00:04:12.000 He always does it like that.

00:04:13.000 That's his style.

00:04:13.000 Is that how he does it?

00:04:14.000 He's ABC News.

00:04:15.000 Look, I've got some news for you.

00:04:17.000 There's 23 more letters in that alphabet, baby.

00:04:19.000 A fighter jet collided with an unmanned American drone over the Black Sea.

00:04:24.000 That drone worth up to...

00:04:25.000 The Black Sea sort of near Russia.

00:04:27.000 Yeah.

00:04:28.000 Isn't the Black Sea adjacent to Russia?

00:04:30.000 Isn't the Black Sea in Russia?

00:04:33.000 Like it's not like unconnected it was just flying around innocently over the Black Sea that's somewhat near to and if you look at it on a molecular level interconnected with Russia.

00:04:42.000 Note how they report on this story.

00:04:44.000 Watch this and let me know in the chat in the comments if this is the sort of thing you've noticed before.

00:04:47.000 They start talking about it financially.

00:04:50.000 Unconsciously, they reveal their true perspective.

00:04:53.000 That militarism is a financial system.

00:04:56.000 This guy, Ross from Friends here, he ain't gonna be able to do even 10 seconds more mainstream media news without talking about how much them drones cost.

00:05:03.000 And I'll remind you that in Ukraine, like, kids and stuff are dying, they're blowing up nuclear plants, all that total It's not nuclear plants, we'd know about that, but I'm saying like energy centers and all that kind of stuff, aren't they, Gareth?

00:05:14.000 I think it's fair for me to say, but let's see what the cast of Friends have got to say about it.

00:05:14.000 Yeah.

00:05:18.000 $82 million and crashing into the sea, and of course it comes amidst significant tensions already between the U.S.

00:05:24.000 Significant tensions?

00:05:26.000 It's a proxy war!

00:05:26.000 It's a war!

00:05:28.000 They are funding that war?

00:05:29.000 I mean, is it, is that an allegedly Because we're still on YouTube, right?

00:05:33.000 Allegedly!

00:05:34.000 It's not necessarily a proxy war, but they are providing military equipment.

00:05:37.000 They are providing lethal aid.

00:05:39.000 He's already mentioned it.

00:05:40.000 It's a $32 million drone.

00:05:42.000 What about the lives of the Ukrainian kids that are being needlessly lost as this war continues?

00:05:47.000 And I'm not trying to exculpate Russia.

00:05:49.000 That's hardly my job, the exculpation of Russia in a military conflict.

00:05:53.000 But I'm saying that the pursuit of a peaceful solution, particularly as it looks like there was a deal on the table prior to the escalation of conflict, And, of course, the neglect to mention how we got into this crazy situation with NATO infringing Russian territory.

00:06:06.000 As has been argued, you don't even need a NATO now that they... NATO exists to agitate Russia.

00:06:11.000 That's the whole point of NATO.

00:06:13.000 Russia.

00:06:14.000 The US says two Russian fighter planes intercepted the Reaper surveillance drone as it was flying in international airspace southwest of Crimea.

00:06:21.000 They say Russian pilots harassing the drone for 30 minutes.

00:06:25.000 Harassing is a weird word.

00:06:25.000 Harassing?

00:06:27.000 And do you know what?

00:06:28.000 The word harassing is not just being used on ABC.

00:06:31.000 Numerous mainstream media news outlets are using the word harass.

00:06:35.000 Harass is a very person-oriented word.

00:06:38.000 Harass has all sorts of connotations.

00:06:41.000 It requires that the drone has an emotional reality.

00:06:45.000 How dare you harass me!

00:06:47.000 Harassment means, like, that there's an intention. 0.91

00:06:49.000 Like the Russian fire jets, they're like lascivious little sky perverts, like, coming up to that drone.

00:06:56.000 Hey, what you doing?

00:06:57.000 What you doing?

00:06:58.000 Hey, can I get a smile? 0.75

00:06:59.000 Can I get a smile out of you, tootsie? 1.00

00:07:01.000 Is it a drone or is it Harvey Weinstein that's flying around up there?

00:07:05.000 The White House calling the pilots reckless, dumping fuel on the drone, making All of the language. 1.00

00:07:11.000 Reckless dumping fuel like it's literally shit. 1.00

00:07:14.000 Those dirty migs, those dirty sons of guns up there, defecating all over our automatic skybird. 1.00

00:07:21.000 It's only a remote control object, isn't it? 1.00

00:07:23.000 There's some kid somewhere, some computer nerd, in Vegas, in a warehouse somewhere, flying that drone, fresh from bombing off a load of innocent civilians.

00:07:32.000 I think it's just 90% of deaths in Syria.

00:07:35.000 You can check those facts for me.

00:07:36.000 Maybe we'll check them.

00:07:37.000 But I think, like, something like 90%.

00:07:38.000 Well, that's what Daniel Hale went to prison for, for revealing that, isn't it?

00:07:43.000 Under Obama, 90% of drones.

00:07:44.000 Allegedly!

00:07:45.000 Oh, OK.

00:07:46.000 Because I prefer not to go to jail with Daniel Hale, simply for saying that.

00:07:51.000 Drone strikes cause more civilian deaths than legitimate target deaths.

00:07:55.000 And the whole idea about drones as well is that drones, they're immaculate.

00:07:59.000 Like, as if it's somehow logical, rational.

00:08:03.000 Not like the crazy violence of brown people that we're bombing. 1.00

00:08:06.000 No, this is rational violence, bespoke, targeted. 0.98

00:08:10.000 This is like Top Gun.

00:08:12.000 And elsewhere in mainstream media, they literally say that this is like Top Gun.

00:08:15.000 But I've never trusted drones.

00:08:17.000 Do you know why?

00:08:17.000 I don't like their... I don't like they ain't got a face.

00:08:21.000 You know?

00:08:22.000 There's no windows, and there's no need for a window because there's no one in it to look out of it, but that still makes it look like a relatively contemporary, shall we call it, pleasure aid oriented towards a female market.

00:08:33.000 Like, it doesn't it?

00:08:34.000 Look at its ergonomics.

00:08:36.000 Look at its bulbous bonts. 1.00

00:08:38.000 No, I know what you're getting at. 0.98

00:08:39.000 If anyone's being harassed up there, it's those Russian fighter jets by that pervert! 0.93

00:08:45.000 19 close passes. 0.85

00:08:46.000 One of the jets hitting the drone ...passes as well.

00:08:48.000 And this language cropped up, doesn't it, Gareth?

00:08:50.000 Elsewhere in mainstream media, they keep using harassment and dumping its guts and spittling its diddly-wops.

00:08:58.000 But harassment and close passes doesn't suggest hitting it, does it?

00:09:02.000 I mean, it just, it was near it.

00:09:04.000 And also, this is international waters and international airspace.

00:09:08.000 And the nation that it's into is Russia, because it's the Black Sea.

00:09:12.000 It's right next to Russia. 0.93

00:09:14.000 And yeah, you're right.

00:09:15.000 Harassment and near-misses.

00:09:17.000 That's another way of saying nothing happened.

00:09:19.000 Nothing happened today when some Russian jets went near a drone that simply shouldn't have been there.

00:09:24.000 Now, we're not suggesting that Russia Don't have their own international espionage operations or that Russia don't have their own imperialist projects, but I've heard that mentioned on the news already.

00:09:33.000 So it's not like that needs to be additionally covered.

00:09:36.000 What does need to be additionally covered is the mainstream media appear to be reporting on this event as if it's been disseminated from a centralized authority right down to the vocabulary that's being used.

00:09:45.000 I.e.

00:09:45.000 if you see a word like harassment suddenly being used and you've not seen it used in that context particularly before, Then obviously it's a result of briefing.

00:09:52.000 Let me know in the chat, in the comments, if you've noticed that a lot, that everyone seems to be singing from the same song sheet.

00:09:56.000 And if they're all singing from the same song sheet, and they're all singing from the same song, then it tells you that they're all from the same choir, that they're all from the same cathedral, that they've all got the same belief system, that they've all got a vested interest in the evangelism of the state, of centralized system.

00:10:11.000 And we're simply suggesting a true secularism, a true division of the religion of consumerism, commodification, And the militarisation of the planet, particularly for financial ends.

00:10:21.000 Is that too much to ask for, girl?

00:10:23.000 No, that's absolutely right.

00:10:24.000 I also think that it isn't the job of the mainstream media to convey all angles to this.

00:10:28.000 And like, when you read it in independent media, they say Russia is denying this, whereas on the mainstream media, it doesn't seem to suggest that.

00:10:35.000 Right, let's have a look at a bit more mainstream.

00:10:37.000 ...propeller forcing it down.

00:10:39.000 Russia says the US is to blame tonight and that their jet never hit the drone.

00:10:43.000 ABC's Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz...

00:10:46.000 Did mention the denial at the end, didn't he?

00:10:48.000 He did, yeah.

00:10:48.000 But he was being so sideways that I couldn't even begin to trust him.

00:10:53.000 He's pretty sideways.

00:10:54.000 He's just a sideways newscaster.

00:10:56.000 Leading us off tonight.

00:10:58.000 The U.S.

00:10:59.000 Reaper surveillance drone was... Look at the mood of this person.

00:11:02.000 The U.S.

00:11:03.000 Reaper surveillance drone, man.

00:11:06.000 Life's a beach, man, and then you die.

00:11:09.000 ...an international airspace over the Black Sea when the Russian fighter jets rapidly approached and began what would be more than 30... Rapidly.

00:11:18.000 Rapidly.

00:11:19.000 It's a jet!

00:11:21.000 What do you want it to do?

00:11:22.000 Gingerly approach?

00:11:23.000 Meekly approach?

00:11:24.000 You can't drive a jet slowly!

00:11:25.000 It'll fall out of the sky!

00:11:27.000 That's Da Vinci's principles.

00:11:29.000 ...innits of reckless aerial harassment, much like this encounter with...

00:11:34.000 Reckless aerial harassment. That's not unbiased reporting.

00:11:38.000 How bad can we make this sound? What is the worst we could make it sound?

00:11:43.000 Should we call it reckless aerial harassment?

00:11:45.000 Because another way of saying it is it just went by.

00:11:48.000 Mm. Yeah.

00:11:50.000 ...US B-52 bomber in 2020.

00:11:54.000 Interceptions are common but never before like this.

00:11:57.000 This is the worst thing that's ever kind of happened in the last few seconds since they started talking.

00:12:08.000 Like, why is everyone behaving in that way?

00:12:09.000 They're not even talking like normal people.

00:12:11.000 I think we know exactly why they're behaving that way, because they're ramping up a narrative.

00:12:15.000 Ah, they're ramping up a narrative.

00:12:16.000 Is that what they're doing?

00:12:17.000 Do you think so as well?

00:12:18.000 Because honestly, we're making this show for you.

00:12:20.000 We want to know what you think.

00:12:21.000 I mean, we've been watching this stuff.

00:12:22.000 We've been trying to work out using our best efforts, haven't we, and all of our available insights and resources to try and present you a better version of this story so we can decide for ourselves whether or not walking towards Armageddon enthusiastically and dumbly is the best possible course of action. 0.98

00:12:38.000 The Russians shadowed the drone, they made 19 close passes, sprayed fuel on the unmanned aircraft multiple times, while one boy said that the drone got touched on its ass by the fighter jet! 0.92

00:12:52.000 What is this weird list of sky crimes? 0.97

00:12:55.000 Shadowed the drone, so didn't touch it, followed it, 19 close passes, didn't touch it, sprayed fuel on it, I mean, this is a war.

00:13:03.000 That's not the worst thing that's happening in a war.

00:13:06.000 This is spending more time on what this drone has been through.

00:13:09.000 This drone, as far as we know, has no subjective reality.

00:13:12.000 You know, chatbot GPT aside, we don't know what the internal reality of a constructed digital consciousness might be like, or even if such a thing is possible.

00:13:20.000 It's not like the drone's going to come back from this and go, oh, bloody hell.

00:13:24.000 You weren't there, man.

00:13:28.000 It's not Vietnam.

00:13:28.000 Where's this drone?

00:13:30.000 None of them received a hero's welcome.

00:13:32.000 What do they want for that drone?

00:13:34.000 For it to be decorated?

00:13:35.000 For it to have... Well, I'll tell you what they want for that drone is to build a lot more of those drones. 0.96

00:13:38.000 That's what they're saying, innit?

00:13:39.000 By their friends in the military-industrial complex.

00:13:41.000 Who's making these drones?

00:13:42.000 Who's profiting from these drones?

00:13:43.000 Where did that $32 million go?

00:13:45.000 One of the jets pulling up vertically as it approached the drone, then colliding with the drone's rear propeller.

00:13:52.000 They collided with the aircraft, damaging the propeller.

00:13:56.000 All of this energy.

00:13:57.000 Look, this guy's stood... Right.

00:14:00.000 Yeah, the same language is being used consistently throughout here.

00:14:02.000 And also, there's a press briefing on what amounts to what would happen if your car had a near miss on a freeway.

00:14:08.000 Oh, well, yeah, the car went by.

00:14:10.000 Sort of my license plate fell off.

00:14:12.000 That's it.

00:14:13.000 It's just a military level.

00:14:14.000 There's all sorts of money being spent.

00:14:15.000 There's all sorts of lives being ended.

00:14:17.000 The escalation of tensions and a potentially earth-shattering conflict.

00:14:21.000 I mean, worrying about someone's propeller.

00:14:25.000 I'm not able to see the drone with the kind of affection and sentiment that seems easily accessible to the military spokespeople, so I've had to... What I need is a... Because I don't like its windowless face. 0.97

00:14:42.000 I don't like its sort of dumb... They're trying to make us care about it, aren't they? 0.91

00:14:45.000 If they really want us to care about drones they need to present them like this.

00:14:48.000 Here's a drone that I can really learn to love.

00:14:50.000 Have a look at this little guy and he's a beautiful little visage.

00:14:54.000 Come on, we've spent time on this.

00:14:54.000 Let's see it.

00:14:58.000 I wonder what they're thinking.

00:14:59.000 Yeah, that's what I need.

00:15:01.000 That's what I need from a drone.

00:15:02.000 Black rock, a CND sign, a little wing there.

00:15:05.000 It was worth it.

00:15:06.000 It's worth it to see that adorable little guy.

00:15:09.000 They made it a bit like Justin Bieber.

00:15:10.000 I'd like to know where they've got That's our team back there.

00:15:12.000 We've got youngsters that work for us and that's what they do over the course of the day.

00:15:15.000 While we're trying to bring people together from across the political spectrum, while we're trying to create new narratives to help us challenge centralised power and bring peripheral figures together in a new union, some people are there getting that Justin Bieber wig together.

00:15:26.000 I think I would pay $32 million for that.

00:15:29.000 Well, tell me that even that was actual size, I can think of several uses for that device.

00:15:33.000 Looks to me like it could be a valuable ally in times of deep loneliness.

00:15:37.000 MSNBC similarly presented the conflict, get ready, similarly presented the conflict in a favourable hysterical and hyperbolic light with this piece of reporting.

00:15:49.000 It's a little bit like the opening scenes in Top Gun.

00:15:55.000 Bit reductive.

00:15:56.000 It's not Top Gun.

00:15:57.000 Real life.

00:15:59.000 Is that the thing that they're getting us to care about this with?

00:16:01.000 It's like Top Gun, but in reverse.

00:16:04.000 Reverse Top Gun.

00:16:05.000 Gun Top.

00:16:07.000 Nugpot.

00:16:08.000 Nugpot.

00:16:09.000 Think of a backwards Top Gun in which Tom Cruise seemingly gets younger.

00:16:13.000 That is what happened in Top Gun 2!

00:16:16.000 This is fascinating as well. 0.99

00:16:17.000 As well as simplifying it and presenting it to you like you're a dumb idiot, which is you know how they see you, they also, you start to think, who is this guy that they're chatting to? 0.97

00:16:25.000 He looks like he's got a bunch of authority. 0.99

00:16:26.000 He seems like a pretty serious person.

00:16:28.000 I mean, look at his face.

00:16:28.000 I'm a bit scared of him.

00:16:30.000 Like, trust your instincts.

00:16:31.000 How do you feel when you look into the eyes of that man?

00:16:33.000 I don't want to make a judgment.

00:16:34.000 I'm a non-judgmental human being as best as I can be, but let's have a look.

00:16:37.000 The first one with the roles reversed here.

00:16:40.000 They were obviously brazen.

00:16:42.000 Brazen?

00:16:44.000 Brazen?

00:16:45.000 This is an actual war.

00:16:48.000 It's not like Jane Austen.

00:16:50.000 Sir, I am undone!

00:16:52.000 It was uncustomary to arrive for tea less than 15 minutes early.

00:16:57.000 It's about comedy and manners.

00:16:57.000 You know what I mean?

00:16:59.000 This is like an international global conflict, much of the money of which is being funneled towards the military-industrial complex.

00:17:06.000 There seems to be some daft protocols that are concerning these folk mostly.

00:17:10.000 ...to believe U.S.

00:17:11.000 defense and intelligence officials, which we do.

00:17:14.000 And I know this is one of the things that... ...said, if you believe intelligence officials, which we do!

00:17:19.000 Of course we do!

00:17:21.000 And why wouldn't you?

00:17:21.000 Because they tell us what to say!

00:17:22.000 I didn't even know why I even questioned that as a possibility, as if there's anything other than one objective truth that we're questioning here.

00:17:30.000 ...haunts our national security professionals, especially on the military side, that something like this could precipitate an escalation.

00:17:38.000 We've got to recognise that Putin is desperate.

00:17:41.000 Strategically, he's in checkmate.

00:17:46.000 Putin is one of the baddies. 0.97

00:17:47.000 He's a bad guy. 0.97

00:17:48.000 You can't rely on Putin.

00:17:50.000 Can we go back to the shot where you can see the picture on the dude's wall for me, please?

00:17:54.000 Yeah, if you pull forward to that.

00:17:56.000 Because when you look at this guy, you might think, who is this person that they are citing and using to underwrite and legitimise their narrative?

00:18:03.000 A person that they're able to bring on.

00:18:05.000 to talk punitively and pejoratively about Putin.

00:18:09.000 Look at the background, there's a picture of him standing next to Bill Clinton there, so you figure this dude's got a little previous, he's got some connections.

00:18:18.000 Well, Seymour Hersh, who's been a guest on this show, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, wrote about Barry McCaffrey in this piece.

00:18:29.000 He wrote, Former General Barry McCaffrey may have commanded his troops to kill retreating Iraq soldiers after the ceasefire had been declared and then failed to properly investigate reports of killing unarmed persons and an alleged massacre of hundreds of Iraqi POWs.

00:18:45.000 So you should be kind of told that the source we're using, wouldn't you like to know that?

00:18:49.000 Like when MSNBC, by the way, the party of peace, the party of love, the party of liberalism and freedom.

00:18:55.000 Oh, we're just going to bring on this potential war monger. 0.91

00:18:59.000 To give you a warmonger's perspective on this situation.

00:19:02.000 Also the drone that's worrying about sort of harassment and stuff.

00:19:05.000 Let's have a look at the media and military connections first.

00:19:07.000 Interesting.

00:19:08.000 This is great because often MSNBC, CNN, and I'm sure other media organisations as well, it's common practice, let us know in the chat and comments if you've noticed other mainstream media.

00:19:17.000 So Fox, whoever man, because we think they're ultimately funded in comparable ways.

00:19:21.000 I said that when I was on Fox the other day, huh?

00:19:23.000 They bring on experts that are apparently objective, albeit experts.

00:19:27.000 There's a degree of subjectivity, of course, because expertise means, by its nature, esoteric knowledge.

00:19:32.000 But check out what they don't reveal is the financial connections that many of these experts might have to various organisations, in particular in this context, military-industrial complex organisations.

00:19:42.000 Check it.

00:19:43.000 Many of the retired military leaders employed by the networks as paid contributors have secondary affiliations, and I wouldn't say they're secondary, I reckon primary, because, you know, you know what money does to a person, that are rarely, if ever mentioned, leaving viewers in the dark about whose interests they're promoting.

00:19:56.000 None of the leading networks, including MSNBC, makes a regular practice of announcing its military analysis financial ties to the Pentagon, connections that colour their on-air comments during its Ukraine coverage, MSNBC even failed to include disclosures when the network vied on former Homeland Security Secretary Jair Johnson, who serves on the board of directors at Lockheed Martin, the world's biggest defense contractor.

00:20:19.000 Now to get an unbiased look at this conflict, someone who profits financially from there being a conflict.

00:20:25.000 Now to give us some insights on war, a person who may have committed...

00:20:28.000 War crimes in the past! 0.99

00:20:30.000 It's extraordinary that you're not given that information.

00:20:33.000 Let me know in the comments and chat if what you would like is a media that are culpable

00:20:37.000 and accountable, that talks to you like an adult, that the information isn't predicated 0.99

00:20:42.000 on your stupidity, a kind of parental dynamic where you're instructed rather than informed, 0.99

00:20:48.000 where centralised information is clearly disseminated and the DNA of that centralised authority 1.00

00:20:53.000 is found in the vocabulary.

00:20:55.000 If you keep seeing the word harassment all of a sudden, which isn't a word we used to

00:20:59.000 associate with drones coming up in their coverage, or words like force and the dumping of the

00:21:04.000 fuel.

00:21:05.000 Now I know there's going to be a continuity if there are certain facts in the story, but

00:21:09.000 note the adjectives.

00:21:11.000 The adjectives, like it rapidly moved, like jets move rapidly.

00:21:15.000 What are you going to do the jet for next?

00:21:17.000 It moved at the speed of sound.

00:21:19.000 It brushed sound to one side in an indelicate manner.

00:21:23.000 That's an attempt to tell you what conclusions you should draw from the information.

00:21:28.000 I think what we do, I hope, let us know in the chat and comments, this is what we're

00:21:31.000 really trying to do.

00:21:32.000 We say, this is what we think.

00:21:34.000 We recognise our own biases and our own flaws and inability to gain access to any kind of objective truth.

00:21:41.000 So as part of the discourse and dialogue, do you reckon that we might better understand the form that is in front of us?

00:21:47.000 We try our best to remove the biases.

00:21:49.000 And the only way we can do that is by being open and accountable.

00:21:52.000 Yeah, I mean, you'll probably call the Putin lover or something.

00:21:55.000 I don't love Putin.

00:21:56.000 I don't even know him.

00:21:57.000 Well, exactly.

00:21:58.000 It seems a bit scary.

00:21:59.000 When you go on Bill Maher and talk about MSNBC, it is for these very things.

00:22:03.000 You know, that's not responsible by a mainstream media network to have people on who directly profit from war and go on to talk and ramp up all these situations that are going on.

00:22:13.000 I mean, the way that they use those adjectives and certain words to create a narrative that we literally do not know if that was the case.

00:22:13.000 We don't know.

00:22:20.000 And yet, as far as the mainstream media are concerned, this is just another escalation of tensions between Russia and the US.

00:22:26.000 So that's all offering.

00:22:27.000 And do you remember the sort of the Hector in tone of that dude I was on Bill Maher with?

00:22:30.000 He was like, you know, give me one example of the mainstream media doing anything as bad as what Fox has done.

00:22:34.000 I'm not trying to sort of get high on my own little farts here, but if you look at... Well, I don't know.

00:22:39.000 I mean, it depends how bad you think escalating a war to Armageddon is.

00:22:44.000 It is really bad, isn't it?

00:22:46.000 It's worse than those text messages, I think.

00:22:47.000 And also, like, that you should at least have a kind of conscious awareness that, look, admittedly, we do get people on the channel to advocate for military action that have financial ties to weapons manufacturers.

00:23:00.000 I mean, that's like, you know, if that is your deal, you're not, like, in the world's... Hey, look at us!

00:23:05.000 We're fantastic!

00:23:06.000 But luckily, we're not reductive about it.

00:23:08.000 We don't just compare it to Top Gun in reverse.

00:23:10.000 Don't worry.

00:23:11.000 This is a bit like Top Gun, but upside down Top Gun, like the first Top Gun where Maverick did go upside down.

00:23:18.000 Do you understand that?

00:23:19.000 Can you remember a fictional film?

00:23:21.000 Remember a fictional film! 0.99

00:23:23.000 Now shut up! 0.99

00:23:24.000 Now sit down! 1.00

00:23:25.000 Now vote for one of these two bunches of bastards! 1.00

00:23:29.000 Here's some facts about those drones that they're trying to get you to feel sorry for, simply because they cost 32 million quid. 1.00

00:23:35.000 Between 2010 and 2020, US drone strikes killed up to 16,000 people.

00:23:40.000 Bloody hell.

00:23:41.000 2,200 civilians were killed and 454 children.

00:23:44.000 Now if you think of the time they just devoted to that... I saw a graphic earlier, I don't know if we've had time to show you, where they made the drone turn a different colour after it had the fuel, like someone's going...

00:23:52.000 Right, listen, that's when they dump the fuel on that drone, those bastard jets. 0.63

00:23:56.000 Why don't we depict the drone turning lime green? 0.99

00:23:59.000 They've, like, went through a lot of trouble to do that.

00:24:02.000 Like, Ross from Friends getting all agged out.

00:24:04.000 The other woman sort of saying, like, oh, we're doing our best over here.

00:24:07.000 It's like Top Gun.

00:24:09.000 454 kids have been killed.

00:24:11.000 We work in media, and I sort of, I've heard it before, but you sort of forget.

00:24:15.000 Children, like your children, Children!

00:24:17.000 They're not worse than your children, unless you've got some crazy belief or value system about human life.

00:24:23.000 The United States Department of Defense remains the largest customer for unmanned systems technologies, with an estimated $7.5 billion budget for 2021.

00:24:31.000 I don't know that it happens in such an overt way as this, of them going, oh no, people won't care about this enough because a drone is by its nature an unpersoned craft, they won't give a toss.

00:24:42.000 But what they do do is, through their reporting, try to escalate not only the tensions between Russia and America, but the feelings, the affinity.

00:24:50.000 And I don't think that kind of patriotism has the hold it once does, because, I mean, people are recognizing that there's a difference between the American people, beautiful human beings trying their best in life, and the systems of governance and control that are biased in very particular, and I would argue nefarious, ways.

00:25:04.000 And even the individuals within those systems, if you want the absolute truth out of me, I don't think are Especially culpable because it's a systemic bias that locks them into a mindset that they can't control.

00:25:14.000 So when we're joking about these people on news even, like Chomsky famously observed, if you didn't hold at your heart the interests of the system, you wouldn't be sitting in the chair.

00:25:24.000 They weed you out.

00:25:25.000 They weed you out when you're at school.

00:25:27.000 They're looking for recalcitrance.

00:25:29.000 They're looking for rebellion.

00:25:30.000 They're looking for radicalism.

00:25:31.000 You've known it your whole life.

00:25:33.000 You've known your whole life that if you're your authentic self, you'll be punished for it.

00:25:37.000 That you have to allow yourself to be subsumed by this system.

00:25:40.000 Well, not anymore.

00:25:41.000 This is a time of mutual awakening where together we can, at last, using these technologies, create new movements of confrontation.

00:25:49.000 Shall I give you some very unconnected news, Ross?

00:25:51.000 Is it connected?

00:25:52.000 It's not in any way connected.

00:25:53.000 Okay, well this is some stuff that's not connected to anything we've just been saying.

00:25:56.000 It's just something to mull over and then we'll have a look at that little tweet about Russia and stuff.

00:26:00.000 So the US has increased its dominance as the world's top arms exporter.

00:26:04.000 So new research shows the United States accounts for 40% of the world's weapons exports in the years 2018 to 22, selling armaments to more than 100 countries while increasing its dominance of the global arms trade.

00:26:14.000 But that's completely unconnected to any of this, so I don't So like all of the reductivism, the simplification, the mentions of Top Gun, the fetishizing of a drone is not connected, or even the war itself is not connected to 40% of the world's weapons.

00:26:28.000 That must mean there's a significant number of military conflicts where both sides are using weapons that they... Shame that the weapons don't, sort of, aren't friends.

00:26:37.000 Well maybe if you put faces on them they will be.

00:26:39.000 Put faces on those drones and it might be like the film Fox and the Hound.

00:26:43.000 If I recall, in the end... I wondered whether you'd get to this metaphor, Mr Brown.

00:26:47.000 The hound, in the end, will not kill Todd because it remembers they were mates when they were little.

00:26:53.000 Of course, of course.

00:26:53.000 And isn't that the real message?

00:26:55.000 Here's a tweet from someone called Medea Benjamin going, US complains that its Reaper drone conducting routine

00:27:01.000 operations over the Black Sea was intercepted by a Russian jet.

00:27:04.000 Why are US drones flying over the Black Sea? Routine operations or routine

00:27:09.000 provocations? And remember it's not that long ago is it?

00:27:11.000 Since we were all meant to get up in arms about a balloon floating... How dare you!

00:27:16.000 How dare you balloon us in the Dakota! 0.94

00:27:18.000 I will balloon you so hard, we'll $400,000,000 missile you straight up in your balloon holes! 0.98

00:27:25.000 Well, it makes you feel like we're being asked to take certain information seriously and ignore other information. 0.75

00:27:25.000 Right? 0.75

00:27:31.000 What about when Poland fired their missiles or whatever, and they were like...

00:27:35.000 Ukraine fired the missiles that they said was Russian into Poland, but it turned out it was from Ukraine.

00:27:39.000 Nothing to do with bloody... They're always trying to package information in order to direct you towards a particular outcome.

00:27:46.000 Now, maybe all of us do that in various ways of our communication.

00:27:49.000 Maybe I want you to like me or something.

00:27:51.000 But what I'm not trying to do, I don't think, is take over the whole planet in order to support the arms industry.

00:27:56.000 And I think that's better, ultimately.

00:27:58.000 So, look at this.

00:27:59.000 What was that drone even doing there?

00:28:01.000 6,000 miles from the Black Sea to the United States.

00:28:03.000 That's 6,000 miles that drone traveled.

00:28:05.000 Yeah, from North America to the Black Sea.

00:28:07.000 That's 6,000 miles.

00:28:08.000 Now let's see how far the Black Sea is from Russia.

00:28:11.000 It's nought miles.

00:28:12.000 There's no miles because it's touching it and on occasion on it and bits of Russia are under it.

00:28:19.000 Yeah, there might be like a nice beach or something.

00:28:21.000 Right, you could go and stand in there on your holiday.

00:28:23.000 I don't know because it might not be warm enough.

00:28:25.000 I don't know where you go on holiday if you're in Russia because I've been deprived of access to that type of culture because I was brought up to think that Russian people were somehow fundamentally different from me so that I became a little drone, ironically, within the system, unthinking, unquestioning, consuming the information spoon-fed to us by systems of culture that are not our friends and that want us dumb and distracted so that our only means of self-soothing are commodity and consuming. 0.85

00:28:46.000 How many of these stories do you think they think are going to eventually work?

00:28:50.000 Because it's amazing isn't it?

00:28:51.000 Like you had Nord Stream and then Nord Stream has now surely gone through the filter of people going, come on, we did Nord Stream.

00:28:57.000 Then there's the balloon thing, then there's the missile thing, now there's this.

00:29:00.000 I think they think they can do it endlessly.

00:29:02.000 Endlessly do it.

00:29:02.000 Just keep doing it.

00:29:03.000 Now, to pivot for a while to other aspects of corruption, and we'll be coming off of YouTube in a minute to be exclusively on Rumble for a number of reasons.

00:29:10.000 We've got James O'Keefe, that dude from Veritas who done that sting on that geyser that worked for Pfizer. 0.57

00:29:15.000 You'll love talking to James O'Keefe, I think, because he's going to tell us more inside info about that Pfizer sting, which we obviously can't talk about on YouTube.

00:29:15.000 It's brilliant.

00:29:23.000 I'm going to show you some of the stuff from my stand-up special, Brandemic, which you get for free if you join our membership community, which you definitely should do, or you can buy it for a one-off $20 fee.

00:29:32.000 And right now, we're going to tell you that you know that banking crisis?

00:29:36.000 You know how it's nothing to do with 2008?

00:29:38.000 Guess what?

00:29:39.000 It's nothing to do with 2008 except for two people that worked at banks that collapsed in 2008, i.e.

00:29:44.000 Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank worked at these banks!

00:29:47.000 Check this!

00:29:49.000 Joseph Gentile joined Silicon Valley Bank in 2007 after leaving his position as the Chief Financial Officer at Lehman Brothers Global Investment Bank.

00:29:56.000 And why did you leave your last job, sir?

00:29:58.000 No reason, really.

00:29:59.000 Just fancied a change.

00:30:00.000 Just found myself with that cardboard box and a plant wandering around, and she's like, oh my God, it's happening again!

00:30:07.000 Meanwhile, recently appointed Chief Risk Officer Kim Olsen worked at Deutsche Bank from 2007 through 2010, when it lied to investors about its mortgage-backed securities, the collapse of which led to the housing crisis.

00:30:17.000 Also, she wasn't very good at her job.

00:30:19.000 She was the Chief Risk Officer.

00:30:20.000 OK.

00:30:21.000 I don't see any risks here.

00:30:23.000 Oh, Papa's gonna get a brand new pair of spats. 0.97

00:30:26.000 Let's do this!

00:30:28.000 Oh no!

00:30:28.000 I've ruined everything for everyone!

00:30:30.000 Luckily, the consequences will only be felt by ordinary people and not by the banking community.

00:30:35.000 If only we had someone that could come and explain the opacity of the financial world in broad cockney.

00:30:42.000 If only we had an ordinary working-class economist come on in and decode their programmatic lingo into stuff that we can understand. 0.98

00:30:51.000 Unravel the nomenclature of deliberately obscure financial chitter-chatter into something that we, the people, can easily discern and break down.

00:31:01.000 Yes, we now have him.

00:31:02.000 He's the Del Boy of the Dale Jones.

00:31:04.000 It's Gary Stevenson, an economist, inequality activist, and working-class person.

00:31:09.000 Gary, what's up, mate?

00:31:12.000 I'm good, thanks.

00:31:13.000 Thanks for having me on.

00:31:14.000 What a fantastic introduction.

00:31:15.000 Good, wasn't it?

00:31:16.000 Made it up using me imagination.

00:31:18.000 Can you tell us, please, what's been going on with all this hullabaloo?

00:31:22.000 Is it like the last one, the 2008 one?

00:31:25.000 Is it up?

00:31:26.000 Will taxpayers end up inadvertently round the block, round the back, paying for it in some sort of way?

00:31:34.000 And also, how do they keep doing these things?

00:31:35.000 What are they doing?

00:31:36.000 I know it's something to do with interest rates went up by 4.5% and they'd bought these bonds and it all went wrong.

00:31:41.000 So just give us stuff so that we can understand it and then resent it and attack it.

00:31:46.000 Alright, so I'll start with your first question.

00:31:49.000 Is this going to be like 2008?

00:31:51.000 Markets are still concerned that this could spread.

00:31:54.000 It's unlikely, but possible.

00:31:58.000 Most likely it will be Kept to this one bank, Silicon Valley Bank.

00:32:01.000 There's worries about Credit Suisse today, which is a much, much bigger bank.

00:32:05.000 Probably it won't happen.

00:32:06.000 We have to hope it won't happen because if it does happen, it'll be a disaster for everyone.

00:32:11.000 Let's assume it stays just within this one bank, Silicon Valley Bank.

00:32:15.000 If that happens, The banking system will survive and ordinary people will not be massively affected and the reason for that is it's only one bank going under and the loss which sits with Silicon Valley Bank will be spread throughout the whole of society and everyone will pay a few dollars.

00:32:30.000 I think the way that it has been communicated has been pretty misleading and we've been told it's not a bailout and Essentially, nobody will pay.

00:32:38.000 If there's a loss, somebody has to pay it.

00:32:41.000 In this case, you know, they don't just disappear.

00:32:43.000 In this case, basically, anyone who has a bank account will pay a little bit more over the next few years.

00:32:46.000 And that will be how it will be socialized.

00:32:49.000 I think the most interesting thing is the point that you make basically about in many ways, this is a repeat of 2008, in the sense that the banking system itself, and in this case, Silicon Valley Bank, most of the deposit holders are venture capitalists, big businesses, wealthy people.

00:33:05.000 They are going to be protected and the loss will be socialised.

00:33:07.000 For me, what I think is most interesting is the way that this reminds me of actually the mismanagement of the Covid economic crisis and the way that our society mismanages economic crises in general, which is as soon as the crisis hits.

00:33:21.000 Wealthy people can contact the government and they can protect themselves and ordinary people are not protected.

00:33:27.000 Go for it.

00:33:28.000 Nice one, mate.

00:33:29.000 Thanks for respecting the sign.

00:33:31.000 I like what you said about the COVID pandemic and the mismanagement of the financial aspects of that.

00:33:36.000 Put the sign down now.

00:33:37.000 Oh yeah, I am talking.

00:33:37.000 Sorry about that, mate.

00:33:39.000 But I wanted to point out that we are still on YouTube and we are bound by their guidelines.

00:33:43.000 In a minute, we'll click over onto Being Rumble, where we can just speak freely and say whatever the hell we like.

00:33:47.000 So I just wanted to alert you to the fact that we have to So you're saying, mate, that this is yet another example of creating financial conditions that are beneficial to elites, or at least are not punitive to the elites, while punishing ordinary people, even if not directly.

00:34:15.000 So when Joe Biden goes, our taxpayers won't pay this, what does he mean Really, mate.

00:34:23.000 It's an example of a management of a crisis in such a way that the rich are protected.

00:34:29.000 And the communication given to ordinary people is that nobody will pay the cost.

00:34:33.000 And I think the best example of this is at the beginning of COVID.

00:34:36.000 Do you know how much money the US government has given out since the start of COVID?

00:34:39.000 How much money they've given out in total?

00:34:41.000 It's $8 trillion.

00:34:45.000 That is $24,000 for every man, woman, child and baby in the US.

00:34:49.000 So if there's a family out there, family of five, mum, dad, three kids, if they don't have an extra $24,000 each, someone else has got it.

00:34:57.000 Now, I don't know about you, but if I were going to give out $8 trillion, I would think I should do an analysis of who's going to end up with that money.

00:35:04.000 But was that analysis done?

00:35:07.000 I'm guessing that's one of your rhetorical questions.

00:35:10.000 I'm seeing your style now.

00:35:11.000 You're using rhetorical questions.

00:35:13.000 You're a skinhead, using rhetorical questions.

00:35:17.000 No analysis was done.

00:35:19.000 No analysis was done of who ends up with our money.

00:35:20.000 They've done some analysis, Gary.

00:35:22.000 It's standard procedure.

00:35:24.000 Well, you won't be surprised to know I've done some analysis, where I'm from.

00:35:27.000 We pride ourselves on understanding things fully.

00:35:30.000 Listen, the reason that money was needed is because the spending of the rich collapsed, all right?

00:35:34.000 If you're an ordinary person, what are your expenditures?

00:35:37.000 Rent, mortgage, food, bills.

00:35:38.000 During COVID, you're still paying them.

00:35:40.000 If you're a very wealthy person, luxury holidays, going to the theatre, going to bars, you probably know about that kind of stuff, Russell.

00:35:47.000 I'm self-made!

00:35:50.000 Those expenditures couldn't be made, which meant the spending of the rich collapsed.

00:35:53.000 It was replaced by the spending of the government, which means the government pays your wages, you pay your bills, you pay your mortgage, it goes to a rich person, and he can't spend it.

00:36:02.000 $8 trillion funneled through ordinary people to the rich.

00:36:07.000 Now, what do you think will happen?

00:36:09.000 That's $24,000 per person.

00:36:11.000 So it goes to the rich, you're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars.

00:36:14.000 Same in the UK, to all of the rich people in the country.

00:36:16.000 What do you think will happen if, in a period where the economy is closed, we give hundreds of thousands of dollars or pounds to all of the richest people in the country?

00:36:26.000 When you reopen, you'll have inflation and a cost of living crisis.

00:36:28.000 It was obvious.

00:36:29.000 And if you don't believe me, go look at my YouTube.

00:36:31.000 In June 2020, I predicted massive increase in inequality Massive increase in inflation and a cost of living crisis because that is what happens when you massively increase inequality and people need to understand that when crises happen we need to start looking at them through the lens of inequality.

00:36:45.000 Who wins and who loses?

00:36:47.000 I like it, I like it.

00:36:48.000 My favourite bit was the bit where Gary goes, and if you don't believe me Right?

00:36:52.000 You can ask my mum, because she's seen me do that analysis, blood!

00:36:57.000 That was my favourite bit.

00:36:59.000 Mate, what about Julian Assange's thing that the function of government is to take money from public hands and to pass it into the private sector, whether that's through military action, exploitation of crisis, or even in economic situations like this one, look for opportunities.

00:37:18.000 I think if you look at the last three years, that is definitely what they have done.

00:37:21.000 There's a question of why they did it, whether they knew they were going to do it.

00:37:25.000 So I worked in finance for a long time and I studied economics.

00:37:28.000 I went to London School of Economics, went to Oxford. 1.00

00:37:31.000 From my observation of wealthy people who understand economics, I suspect they probably did it by accident because I think what it is, is a mixture of greed and stupidity. 0.99

00:37:44.000 What they want is to protect their interests. 1.00

00:37:47.000 As long as they're protected, that's all they care about.

00:37:49.000 So they go in.

00:37:50.000 I think this SVB example is great.

00:37:52.000 It's a great example, because straight away, these guys on the phone to the government, bail us out, get your bail out.

00:37:57.000 Nobody talks about who wins, who loses.

00:37:59.000 You know, I think at the beginning of COVID, we had such an amazing example of that. 1.00

00:38:03.000 We are so privileged to have witnessed such an example of mass elite stupidity, right? 0.99

00:38:08.000 £700 billion, $8 trillion given out. 0.99

00:38:11.000 Nobody in the mainstream media said who ends up with that money.

00:38:14.000 It's a simple question.

00:38:15.000 Simple question, right?

00:38:17.000 That money is in the bank accounts of rich people now.

00:38:19.000 And now we have a cost saving crisis for ordinary people, but ordinary people can't afford, in many cases, to feed their kids at the same time as the biggest and fastest ever increase in millionaire and billionaire wealth.

00:38:30.000 The average US billionaire doubled their wealth in the first one year of COVID.

00:38:34.000 The average UK billionaire increased their wealth by £630 million in one year.

00:38:38.000 And yet here we are now, Where ordinary people, in many cases, can't heat their homes, can't feed their kids, and we're talking about it like there's no money.

00:38:46.000 What ordinary people need to start thinking, when there's a crisis, when your cost of living falls, please, please, God, look at the rich and say, is it falling for them as well?

00:38:53.000 If your life is getting worse and their life is getting better, Probably what's happening is inequality is increasing.

00:38:59.000 If you look at the statistics, that is what's happened here.

00:39:02.000 It's a brilliant lens to provide, mate, because it does seem like the very definition of a wealth transfer.

00:39:06.000 An energy crisis that leads to profitability for energy companies, even though they receive them subsidies.

00:39:13.000 A financial crisis that appears to somehow or another benefit financial elites.

00:39:17.000 Wars that benefit the military-industrial complex.

00:39:19.000 Medical crisis that benefit the pharmaceutical industry.

00:39:23.000 Before you know it, Crisis becomes the state that most benefits the elite, so crisis for ordinary people becomes de rigueur.

00:39:29.000 Gary, that is a fantastic contribution to our show.

00:39:31.000 I hope you're going to come back and contribute more.

00:39:34.000 You can follow Gary on his YouTube channel, Gary Economics, but maybe Gary's the very kind of person who'll be joining us over here at Rumble, where free speech is something we pride ourselves on.

00:39:44.000 That was a brilliant contribution, mate.

00:39:46.000 How did you end up being in the financial industry before you go?

00:39:48.000 What was your first job?

00:39:51.000 I grew up in East London.

00:39:52.000 I went to London School of Economics and I won a card game.

00:39:55.000 Pre-financial crisis, one particular large American bank used to hire one trader to do a card game and I won it.

00:40:02.000 He gambled his way into the financial industry and now he's gambling his way back out, all the while sipping a cup of tea and spitting truths.

00:40:12.000 It's Gary Stevenson.

00:40:13.000 Gary, thanks for that fantastic contribution.

00:40:14.000 We'll speak to you soon, mate.

00:40:15.000 I'll be in touch.

00:40:16.000 Thanks a lot.

00:40:16.000 Appreciate that.

00:40:17.000 Thank you.

00:40:17.000 Thank you very much.

00:40:19.000 Gary.

00:40:20.000 I'll tell you what, Gareth, don't lie to yourself, I'm coming on!

00:40:23.000 He's the Cockney version of me. 0.50

00:40:26.000 No, you don't need to worry.

00:40:28.000 No, don't be frightened.

00:40:28.000 Really?

00:40:31.000 On normal news, you would have a financial person, wouldn't you?

00:40:33.000 It'd be someone in a suit.

00:40:34.000 He's that guy.

00:40:35.000 Right, imagine this was normal news.

00:40:37.000 And now, me and Gareth, we're like the mum and dad, although we're both dads because we're a gay couple in this. 0.99

00:40:42.000 We're the Normal News, and now it's the financial person, this threatening, menacing, Stewie from Family Guy, stroke, snatch, supporting cast member, Gary Stevenson, a financial expert, who's gonna menace your ass. 0.99

00:40:57.000 I come over here to tell you some truth, dog! 1.00

00:41:00.000 Blah, blah, blah!

00:41:01.000 That sort of thing.

00:41:01.000 You know, you get the idea.

00:41:03.000 Anyway, I didn't say it to his face though, did I?

00:41:04.000 No, you were very good.

00:41:05.000 That was very enjoyable.

00:41:06.000 It's a laugh, isn't it?

00:41:07.000 Let's hope he does come, then.

00:41:08.000 You have Gary and Gareth.

00:41:10.000 We'll put him over there if he's going to bother you.

00:41:11.000 You don't need to be menaced.

00:41:12.000 You're fantastic, Hugh.

00:41:14.000 Now, why don't you click over... If you're watching this on YouTube, we're going to drift now.

00:41:18.000 Yeah?

00:41:19.000 I'm going to use more slang, I think.

00:41:20.000 It makes me seem cooler.

00:41:21.000 I don't even know if that is slang.

00:41:22.000 You're up for it as well, aren't you?

00:41:23.000 I'm going to up the slang.

00:41:24.000 I'm upping the slang.

00:41:25.000 It's the only way to... Listen, there's someone that's come on here that's more working class. 0.99

00:41:29.000 Now, we're going to have to raise it.

00:41:32.000 You made the wrong decision by going the sort of glam rock Mark Bolan route, but it's too late now.

00:41:37.000 You're going to have to geyser it up.

00:41:40.000 We want you to join us over on Rumble now, because we're going to be bringing James O'Keefe on, telling us about the inside scoop on that Veritas story.

00:41:48.000 I want to know where that dude is now.

00:41:50.000 You know the bloke that they've done that date with?

00:41:51.000 Yeah.

00:41:52.000 Well, it's Pfizer, and obviously I can't tell you the stuff he said, because it's not allowed to be on YouTube.

00:41:56.000 We're also going to show you a bit of my stand-up special, which you can buy for a one-off price of $20.

00:42:01.000 In fact, at six o'clock, it's going to be available.

00:42:03.000 And we're going to show a clip of it right now, but there's no way we could show that on YouTube, could we, Gareth?

00:42:07.000 No chance.

00:42:09.000 Too much truths!

00:42:10.000 Oh yeah.

00:42:11.000 Oh yeah, and then we're going to talk about January 6th.

00:42:13.000 You're working class. 1.00

00:42:14.000 Get an eye of this.

00:42:15.000 Oh, working class! 1.00

00:42:18.000 Dot Cotton, Oliver Twist, eat your heart out!

00:42:22.000 Because here we go now for some ranting and raving from me.

00:42:26.000 So YouTube, click over.

00:42:27.000 Watch us on Rumble.

00:42:28.000 This stuff's completely free over there and we can speak freely.

00:42:30.000 You'll love it.

00:42:31.000 Have a look at my stand-up special, Brandemic, right now.

00:42:35.000 YouTube, see you later.

00:42:36.000 Check out my stand-up.

00:42:38.000 At the beginning of the pandemic you all recall that xenophobia was very much in play and it took the form, an interesting form I'd say, of a simple prefix.

00:42:50.000 A simple prefix was where we was introduced to xenophobia during the pandemic.

00:42:54.000 I noticed it first with the use of the word wet in front of the word market. 0.98

00:43:01.000 Cos who don't fucking love a market? 1.00

00:43:03.000 A market is a place of great joy and pleasure, innit? 0.99

00:43:06.000 The market.

00:43:07.000 Oh, down the market.

00:43:08.000 What's your favourite market? 0.99

00:43:09.000 You've got fucking good markets in Liverpool, innit? 0.99

00:43:11.000 Love it down the market. 0.99

00:43:12.000 Going down the market.

00:43:13.000 I'm from Essex. 1.00

00:43:14.000 We love the fucking market. 1.00

00:43:15.000 The market's like a fucking outdoor cathedral. 1.00

00:43:17.000 It's a bazaar. 1.00

00:43:18.000 It's a place of trading.

00:43:18.000 It's a souk.

00:43:19.000 It's a place of life.

00:43:21.000 Going down the market.

00:43:22.000 A pair of Gola trainers. 1.00

00:43:23.000 20 quid down the fucking market. 1.00

00:43:25.000 Love it. 1.00

00:43:26.000 Fucking fruit and veg stand. 1.00

00:43:28.000 Geezer doing this with a brown paper bag. 1.00

00:43:31.000 Twiddling that round. 0.99

00:43:33.000 Fucking hell, you're a working-class hero, mate. 0.99

00:43:35.000 Will you be my new dad? 1.00

00:43:36.000 I fucking love that, don't you? 0.98

00:43:39.000 Market? 0.99

00:43:40.000 Joyful place. 0.99

00:43:41.000 But if you put the word wet in front of the word market... Ew, what the fucking hell's going on down there? 0.99

00:43:50.000 What is a wet market? 0.99

00:43:52.000 That sounds disgusting.

00:43:54.000 Yeah.

00:43:55.000 You know where this coronavirus come from, don't you? 1.00

00:43:58.000 Down a fucking wet market. 1.00

00:43:59.000 That's what's caused it. 1.00

00:44:01.000 No, they're down the wet market.

00:44:02.000 They're different than us over there. 1.00

00:44:04.000 They've got fucking wet markets. 0.99

00:44:06.000 What do you eat? 1.00

00:44:07.000 Domino's, Burger King, McDonald's, Fish and Chips, stuff like that? 1.00

00:44:10.000 Not these fuckers. 1.00

00:44:11.000 They're down the wet market. 1.00

00:44:13.000 Eating bats all covered in cum. 1.00

00:44:15.000 Guzzling it down. 1.00

00:44:17.000 Crunching up little bat heads with all cum coming down their neck, guzzling, smoking a fag while squatting, eating a bat, all covered in gum. 1.00

00:44:23.000 It's going to cause a fucking pandemic, isn't it? 1.00

00:44:24.000 If you're eating a fucking bat, all smothered in cum, bat wing going in your mouth like that, down there, guzzling it down the wet market, all slop and gunk all over the floor, fucking all bat cum dribbling down you, it's going to cause a fucking coronavirus pandemic. 1.00

00:44:38.000 That's where it's fucking come from, them dirty parts down the fucking wet market. 1.00

00:44:42.000 Yeah, but... What? 1.00

00:44:43.000 But...

00:44:44.000 What?! !

00:44:46.000 Well it's just over here the Wuhan Institute of Virology where they're doing gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses!

00:44:59.000 Where they're deliberately making bat coronaviruses more infectious.

00:45:04.000 I mean, it's a bit of a coincidence, isn't it?

00:45:07.000 That there is a Wuhan Institute of Virology where they're making bat coronaviruses more infectious and that is the place where this pandemic started. 0.91

00:45:16.000 Is it more than just a coincidence?

00:45:20.000 Listen!

00:45:21.000 They've got bats. 1.00

00:45:23.000 They are fucking smothered in cum. 1.00

00:45:27.000 They've got these little bamboo cages with these fucking armadillo things in them. 1.00

00:45:31.000 They're fucking eating that as well. 1.00

00:45:31.000 They ain't got a shell on. 1.00

00:45:33.000 Slimy little fucking fish with their eyes on. 1.00

00:45:35.000 They're guzzling that down. 1.00

00:45:36.000 There's cum going down their necks. 0.99

00:45:38.000 They're crunching up the little bat. 1.00

00:45:40.000 It's all foaming bat cum all coming out of their fucking mouth. 1.00

00:45:43.000 There's spunk fucking everywhere up the wall. 1.00

00:45:46.000 They're skidding about in that stuff. 0.97

00:45:50.000 Isn't it at least possible that it came from this laboratory where DARPA, an American firm, are proven to invest, where the files from January 2019 were mysteriously deleted?

00:46:02.000 Isn't it at least worth considering if even by accident it's possible that there was some sort of accident at that laboratory?

00:46:10.000 LISTEN! 1.00

00:46:14.000 What fucking spunk on a fucking bat do you need before you start understanding science? 1.00

00:46:30.000 That clip was from my new special, Brandemic, only available on Locals. 1.00

00:46:34.000 You can buy the special for $20 or you can become a member of our community to get both the special and all my Locals content for one whole year.

00:46:41.000 Go to russellbrown.com forward slash tour.

00:46:46.000 That's right.

00:46:47.000 Why don't you join us over on Locals?

00:46:49.000 We're watching a chat right now.

00:46:50.000 SensitiveHeart25, I love you.

00:46:52.000 Where's my money?

00:46:54.000 I think he's talking about the financial crisis rather than Locals because you will get great value as we just saw.

00:47:00.000 You'll get Brandemic, you get access to the show where me and Gareth talk about our true feelings and answer your questions.

00:47:07.000 Fantastic stuff.

00:47:08.000 Oh, look at Georgie Gal. 0.99

00:47:09.000 It's not a cost of living crisis, it's a cost of elitist greed crisis, a cost of manufactured greed crisis.

00:47:14.000 This is good.

00:47:15.000 We need to adopt that narrative, not keep referring to it as if it was some kind of inevitable act of the spam-demic and proxy world.

00:47:21.000 Georgie Gal, that's a hell of a comment.

00:47:23.000 And why don't you, you know, when you get Biden, this isn't another thing, isn't it?

00:47:26.000 Again, we've pointed out, we were talking about it yesterday, that yeah, this was going on during

00:47:31.000 the Trump administration in the kind of deregulation and things that were put in place after 2008,

00:47:36.000 and it's not being corrected by the Biden administration.

00:47:38.000 But then when you get Biden going on the telly and doing a speech where he's like, this

00:47:42.000 won't affect normal people, and then you get...

00:47:45.000 10 or 20 or 30 dollars.

00:47:51.000 That's money that people shouldn't have to pay.

00:47:53.000 You shouldn't have to pay money.

00:47:54.000 That's an additional tax.

00:47:56.000 Look at this, character zero.

00:47:57.000 These are all distractions.

00:47:58.000 This is if you join locals where you can comment.

00:48:00.000 Look, these are all distractions, says character zero, to keep people from taking the power.

00:48:04.000 Fear mongers and provocateurs.

00:48:06.000 And then ZashX3133. 0.98

00:48:07.000 I never eat out.

00:48:09.000 I bring my own stuff to Sunday lunches because I'm not willing to pay $15 for a salad.

00:48:15.000 See, people just say stuff.

00:48:16.000 Sometimes they talk about their own stuff.

00:48:17.000 Look, they're really enjoying him.

00:48:17.000 They love Gary.

00:48:19.000 That's good.

00:48:19.000 That's what some of that stuff about a family guy that came from there.

00:48:22.000 Did I declare that at the time I said it?

00:48:23.000 Or did I just sort of act as if I was making it up?

00:48:25.000 I think you act as if you were making it up.

00:48:26.000 I do that sometimes.

00:48:27.000 I just absorb things.

00:48:28.000 Oh, look at this.

00:48:29.000 Tamara Spencer.

00:48:29.000 He's nothing like you, Gareth.

00:48:30.000 You're smarter and better looking.

00:48:33.000 G&G double act.

00:48:35.000 Georgie Gayle was trying to get you at it.

00:48:36.000 Right.

00:48:37.000 Gary reminds me of Matt Kennard.

00:48:37.000 And then Ash Ella.

00:48:39.000 Not Gareth.

00:48:39.000 Yeah, Matt Kennard.

00:48:40.000 He was another good sort of autodidact.

00:48:43.000 Slang on, says Talani.

00:48:44.000 See, these are the sorts of things.

00:48:45.000 It's a lovely little community in there.

00:48:47.000 You can join it if you will.

00:48:49.000 Also, though, one of the things we do here on Stay Free with Russell Brand is we create conversations from across the political spectrum.

00:48:56.000 Now, we were, surely like you, spellbound by the Project Veritas sting of that Pfizer employee, which we called a classic honey trap.

00:49:06.000 I.e.

00:49:07.000 it was a set of little dates where Jordan Tristan Walker revealed, or at least said, that he, well he said the Pfizer were using gain-of-function-like, or sort of advanced evolution, directed evolution was the phrase, wasn't it, techniques, which they weren't a good look for Pfizer.

00:49:23.000 Anyway, the mainstream media kept it right out and they found a way of getting James O'Keefe, one of Oklahoma's greatest stars, because one of the claims was that he spent company money flying people to see Oklahoma or something like that, I'm really sort of clutching at straws to find reasons why I should.

00:49:37.000 He stole a pregnant lady's sandwich.

00:49:39.000 But what about Pfizer's profits during the pandemic?

00:49:43.000 Listen, don't you care about pregnant women and sandwiches? 0.97

00:49:47.000 Well, I mean, of course I do. 1.00

00:49:48.000 Then shut up. 1.00

00:49:49.000 Shut up and sack James O'Keefe. 1.00

00:49:52.000 For doing that sting. 0.99

00:49:53.000 I mean, for stealing that sandwich.

00:49:55.000 For daring to question the mainstream narrative.

00:49:57.000 Now, of course, he probably comes from a different political perspective.

00:49:59.000 Thus, I imagine he's a conservative sort of person.

00:50:01.000 But is he going to be more conservative than Ben Shapiro or Tucker Carlson?

00:50:05.000 Some of the world's loveliest darlings?

00:50:07.000 We're about to find out.

00:50:07.000 Let's find out, because James O'Keefe, newly unemployed due to this weird stuff that went down, perhaps because of the Koch brothers, we don't know yet.

00:50:15.000 We found out the Veritas are funded by some interesting people.

00:50:17.000 James, are you there, mate?

00:50:19.000 Hello there, Russell.

00:50:20.000 Oklahoma! 0.93

00:50:22.000 How's it going?

00:50:24.000 Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains, where the wave and wheat can sure smell sweet when the wind comes right behind the rain.

00:50:33.000 I want the pension fund.

00:50:34.000 I want it now.

00:50:35.000 We're all going to wherever James O'Keefe is, and we are watching him do that.

00:50:38.000 And I don't care where we get the money from.

00:50:40.000 Tell Gary Stevenson we needs that money, baby.

00:50:44.000 In intermission, I'll be eating some special sandwiches.

00:50:48.000 Yeah, make sure, yeah.

00:50:50.000 And if there's not a baby growing in the belly of the person you take it from, it's hardly a sandwich at all.

00:50:55.000 James, tell us what happened.

00:50:58.000 You set up that stick.

00:50:58.000 Don't worry about that sandwich.

00:50:59.000 Not interested in that.

00:51:00.000 It's hullabaloo.

00:51:01.000 Tell us about the Pfizer sting and how it went down and then what happened subsequently.

00:51:07.000 And if I have to talk, I'll hold up this thing that I'm actually really pleased with.

00:51:10.000 Thanks.

00:51:11.000 Well, this was a big—this was the biggest story we ever did.

00:51:14.000 This got 50 million views.

00:51:16.000 It was—one of the medical directors at Pfizer, Walker was his name, he was caught on tape talking about mutating the virus for Pfizer pharmaceutical.

00:51:26.000 He says, don't tell anybody.

00:51:28.000 I confronted him at a restaurant in New York about a month ago.

00:51:32.000 He took the iPad out of my hand, he smashed it on the ground, caught red-handed, and then about a week later, I was thrown out of the organization, Project Veritas, that I founded.

00:51:44.000 Some very bizarre series of events here.

00:51:46.000 But, Russell, I'm announcing today on your show my new venture.

00:51:49.000 It's called OMG O'Keefe Media Group.

00:51:52.000 I've got an elite team of 10 journalists.

00:51:54.000 We're going to continue, including On the Pfizer beat, as it were, one of the whistleblowers inside Pfizer working on the right now to release more information very soon.

00:52:04.000 So the revelation, well done mate, and that sounds like a great venture.

00:52:08.000 Now, Jordan Tristan Walker, I suppose the story hinges upon his credibility and the fact that he did say that stuff.

00:52:16.000 Has the subsequent FISA response, albeit muted and outside of mainstream media as one would anticipate, ultimately been that there's no legitimacy to his claims?

00:52:26.000 Is that what their response kind of is, was?

00:52:29.000 No, Pfizer kind of gave a non-denial admission that Pfizer said, quote, in a limited number of cases when a full virus does not contain any known gain-of-function mutations, such virus may be engineered to enable assessment of antiviral activity in cells.

00:52:45.000 In addition, in vitro resistance selection experiments are undertaken in cells incubated with SARS.

00:52:50.000 So this, remarkably, Pfizer did not deny what Walker said, and albeit buried in jargon, they basically admitted they were doing it.

00:52:59.000 So Pfizer responded.

00:53:01.000 They never did confirm that Walker worked for him, but they didn't deny what he said or that he was a Pfizer employee.

00:53:08.000 It's weird.

00:53:09.000 It's weird, man.

00:53:10.000 Hey, like, weren't you helped by Debbie Bernal, a whistleblower, and she went public presumably, what, for ethical, moral reasons?

00:53:18.000 Why is that?

00:53:19.000 Why are the revelations that your sting brought to the forefront not being used to alter the activity within Pfizer or the way Pfizer are treated publicly?

00:53:29.000 Well, it's interesting.

00:53:32.000 Debbie was one of two people at Pfizer who helped get the Walker story, right?

00:53:38.000 We had to get people to give us the information, tell us where to go, who to find, and we identified this guy.

00:53:43.000 Now, Debbie was unwilling to go public.

00:53:47.000 A month ago.

00:53:47.000 She was scared.

00:53:48.000 She had people stalk her at her home, her loved ones.

00:53:51.000 They had a red van pull up and spy on her.

00:53:54.000 They put her in a room, interrogate her. 0.98

00:53:55.000 But after I was thrown out of the organization I founded, Debbie Bernal was inspired to go public last week.

00:54:03.000 And apparently, Debbie has more coming out. 0.95

00:54:06.000 So this whole situation with me, whether it was Pfizer or whatever, retaliating, has inspired a lot more people inside Pfizer to be courageous, to blow the whistle, to, you know, jump on the proverbial grenade.

00:54:21.000 That's what they're doing.

00:54:22.000 And they're going to this website up here, and I'm giving them cameras.

00:54:25.000 My new vision is to equip thousands of people with these special cameras.

00:54:30.000 And that's what we're going to do, Russell.

00:54:32.000 Like that, that's very Fight Club.

00:54:33.000 Gael's got a question.

00:54:34.000 One question regarding the kind of power of Pfizer and the pharmaceutical industry.

00:54:39.000 Has this whole episode and what's happened to you as a result made you more anxious and worried about the power of the pharmaceutical industry?

00:54:46.000 Because it seems incredible from just some of the tactics you were talking about there.

00:54:51.000 I think it's made me more fearless, and more focused, and more driven, and more motivated than I've ever been.

00:54:57.000 Because while there's a lot of evil and darkness in the world, and these companies lie, and these companies lie to their consumers, there's also a lot of people that have reached out to me They're like, hey, I want one of those cameras.

00:55:11.000 I want to make a difference in this world.

00:55:13.000 I think there's a lot of evil, but there's also a lot of goodness.

00:55:17.000 And the goodness is getting more motivated.

00:55:19.000 So I walk away from this episode very inspired.

00:55:22.000 This website I've launched, you can actually sponsor one of these cameras.

00:55:27.000 They're about a thousand bucks.

00:55:28.000 I will put it in the hands of these whistleblowers and coach them.

00:55:31.000 Obviously, ethics is very important as a journalist.

00:55:33.000 You got to be careful how you do it.

00:55:35.000 We have a we have an elite team of 10 people I've identified that work with me.

00:55:39.000 So, to answer your question is I'm highly motivated.

00:55:42.000 I'm ready to go.

00:55:43.000 That is good, and, like, it's good that you're confident, James.

00:55:46.000 I mean, how could you not be confident?

00:55:47.000 I've seen you in Oklahoma.

00:55:49.000 You were terrific.

00:55:50.000 But doesn't it make you realise that the sort of tendrils of corporate power are so intrusive that they're able to oust you from a company that you founded?

00:56:00.000 I hate it when that happens.

00:56:01.000 I don't think that's right, because that makes me think, well, that could happen to me!

00:56:03.000 Like, that's out of order.

00:56:05.000 And what sort of actually happened?

00:56:06.000 How did it sort of go from, oh my God, this is brilliant, we've got this revelation where someone's admitted that they're doing shady shit down Pfizer, James, I've got some news for you.

00:56:15.000 Remember when you ate that sandwich of Sandra's? 0.97

00:56:18.000 You shouldn't have done that! 0.97

00:56:20.000 And taking all those black cars to meetings. 0.99

00:56:24.000 No, we shouldn't take black cars to meetings. 0.99

00:56:26.000 Listen, I hear you.

00:56:28.000 It's almost like it's a fear-based question, right?

00:56:30.000 Everyone's afraid.

00:56:31.000 The fear is the problem in our society.

00:56:34.000 Everyone's so afraid, and obviously they're going to try to ruin the reputations of people that expose them.

00:56:39.000 But in response, what we have to do, the only way forward, is to build an army of investigators and exposers.

00:56:46.000 And I think that Oh, James has dropped off there because what's happened is the mainstream have prevented him from broadcasting even one more word.

00:56:57.000 He's been shut down, snatched, defunded and cut off immediately.

00:57:02.000 We'll try and get James back, but... God, Pfizer really are pretty powerful, aren't they?

00:57:05.000 They can cut him off, like, just at a moment's notice.

00:57:07.000 Did you see that?

00:57:08.000 Yeah, I think he was saying just an army of investigators.

00:57:13.000 That's what he said.

00:57:14.000 I'm up for No, not militarisation.

00:57:18.000 I want to just start communities, peaceful, democratic communities that are autonomous, independently run, that operate in confederacy with one another, where we have a set of agreed upon universal principles and an alliance, but you run your community how you want to, according to your own values, ending in one stroke the culture war and bringing us together against centralised power.

00:57:37.000 What could be wrong with that?

00:57:39.000 Please, can I talk now?

00:57:41.000 Should we try and get James O'Keefe back?

00:57:42.000 I mean, do you reckon that was just the We've got so much more to tell people.

00:57:57.000 We've got, like, January the 6th information, like, some amazing stories to tell you.

00:58:02.000 I guess we're going to have to do that tomorrow now, aren't we, Gareth?

00:58:04.000 We've got some brilliant stuff about January 6th.

00:58:06.000 It's absolutely fantastic.

00:58:07.000 We've also got a presentation.

00:58:09.000 You've got to watch the video.

00:58:10.000 It'll be up on Rumble in a minute about Matt Taibbi appearing before that congressional committee.

00:58:18.000 Did you see it?

00:58:19.000 You will crack up, man, because this congressperson that's investigating him is so haughty, it will really, really make you laugh.

00:58:26.000 It's so funny.

00:58:27.000 I guess we should maybe wrap up the show, shall we?

00:58:29.000 I guess so.

00:58:30.000 Oh, they're trying to get James back to say goodbye.

00:58:33.000 While we're doing that, I don't want to watch him on Oklahoma.

00:58:36.000 You guys are always trying to peddle that.

00:58:38.000 I think these people are real musical fans.

00:58:41.000 I can see it all in my mind.

00:58:43.000 Like if it was like Rocky IV, something that I really know, the bit where the gloves go...

00:58:47.000 It's become iconic.

00:58:48.000 It's become iconic is what I'm trying to say.

00:58:51.000 Shall we look at the bit where Ron DeSantis is badly introduced and someone nicks his podium?

00:58:56.000 So Ron DeSantis, who like I know a load of you lot really, really love, but we'll be looking into that dude, or not into that dude, we'll be looking into some of his policies and stuff and inquiring about them.

00:59:07.000 But have a look at this where he does a speech and someone nicks his podium.

00:59:10.000 Pay particular attention to the people that take the podium, they do it so busily like little Lego men,

00:59:15.000 they just dart off as if they had no other care in the world or business other than taking that

00:59:18.000 podium away. And also the woman, that's one job was to introduce Rhonda Sanders, to really 1.00

00:59:23.000 pull in focus when he's trying to begin his speech and adapt to his new podium-less reality check

00:59:28.000 it.

00:59:38.000 I think he's trying to comb his hair up a bit more since the Meatball Ron

00:59:42.000 nickname has started to take on a little bit.

00:59:46.000 I think he's trying to make his head look less meatball-y and a bit longer.

00:59:48.000 Now don't be rude about Ron DeSantis because I think we'll probably get an interview with him at some point and also he shouldn't be rude about people.

00:59:53.000 But the Meatball Ron nickname is showing a sign of sticking.

00:59:58.000 I just don't get, the people moving the podium at this point, do they not know who Ron DeSantis actually is?

01:00:03.000 Do they think that just someone else has wandered onto the stage?

01:00:05.000 We don't know what was going on before.

01:00:05.000 Perhaps that that podium was being used before, I don't know, was it being used in a net in a sort of a ping-pong-like game?

01:00:11.000 What were they doing with that podium before this that they thought that the arrival of Ron DeSantis means we don't need the podium anymore?

01:00:17.000 Do they work for Trump?

01:00:18.000 Take away his podium, take away his power.

01:00:24.000 Thank you!

01:00:27.000 They're disappearing now.

01:00:30.000 Look, they're so diligent.

01:00:33.000 Like, well, come on, let's get this podium out of here, guys.

01:00:37.000 The thing you're doing is ruining everything.

01:00:37.000 Get the podium back.

01:00:40.000 You take my podium away from me.

01:00:44.000 They took the podium.

01:00:45.000 Well, it's great to be with you.

01:00:46.000 Greetings from the free state of Florida.

01:00:49.000 We want the podium back. 1.00

01:00:50.000 That reality is such a shit show, isn't it? 0.99

01:00:52.000 People can't do things properly. 1.00

01:00:54.000 That's why in our show we embrace a kind of lo-fi ethic.

01:00:58.000 At least we're not trying to make it all slick.

01:01:00.000 So when the clips don't play or the edges are a little rough, or James O'Keefe is executed in the middle of an interview, you just can sort of roll with it.

01:01:09.000 But when you're trying to make stuff slick, Can you bring that podium back please?

01:01:13.000 Like all the trouble of putting the flag up and everything.

01:01:16.000 How much afterwards do you think there was a lot of like chat about that podium moment among the people that are organising that rally?

01:01:22.000 Yes.

01:01:23.000 Do you think like she really had a go at them lads?

01:01:26.000 Why did you take the podium?

01:01:27.000 It's mad because she's obviously not meant to then interrupt his speech.

01:01:32.000 She's making it worse because what's happening is she's panicked there because that's oh no that thing where I've got Ronda Santis and I'm in charge and all that stuff and now it's going wrong but then she's really exacerbated the situation hasn't she?

01:01:45.000 Oh, well, listen.

01:01:46.000 Guys, we've got to go.

01:01:48.000 Hopefully, I'd like to talk to James O'Keefe again.

01:01:49.000 It sounds like he's got some bold projects in store.

01:01:52.000 Did you notice it was the wrong way round, though?

01:01:53.000 Not the podium?

01:01:54.000 No, not the podium, no.

01:01:56.000 Old James O'Keefe.

01:01:57.000 I was thinking that might be on Zoom, and I was hoping not necessarily for broadcast.

01:02:01.000 Like, everything was backwards, because when he went, you can follow me on the website on the screen, it was something like... I was like, you need a catchier website.

01:02:09.000 Mate, don't use backwards letters.

01:02:11.000 You've gone too far.

01:02:11.000 I'm not ready for that.

01:02:12.000 There's anti-establishment, then there's...

01:02:15.000 The basic building blocks of language.

01:02:17.000 Hey, we don't trust letters.

01:02:18.000 Let's reverse them all.

01:02:19.000 Turn them upside down.

01:02:21.000 It's a backwards-tup gun.

01:02:22.000 It's nug-tup.

01:02:24.000 Whatever.

01:02:25.000 Hey, guess who's on tomorrow?

01:02:26.000 Kim Iverson.

01:02:27.000 We love Kim Iverson, don't we?

01:02:28.000 She's brilliant.

01:02:29.000 She's got nice hands, I feel like.

01:02:31.000 What?

01:02:32.000 I feel like I can remember watching and looking at her fingernails and stuff.

01:02:32.000 Well, I don't know.

01:02:35.000 She's immaculate, I think, as a person.

01:02:36.000 Alright, immaculate.

01:02:37.000 Sure.

01:02:38.000 Stick with immaculate.

01:02:39.000 No, no, it's good.

01:02:39.000 Immaculate!

01:02:40.000 I'm not suggesting you're wrong.

01:02:41.000 I think she almost certainly has.

01:02:42.000 It's just interesting that it's the first thing that comes to your mind.

01:02:45.000 Well, the nails. 0.54

01:02:46.000 Let's not investigate that.

01:02:48.000 On Friday, we've got Dr. Cornel West coming on for it.

01:02:51.000 I've wanted to talk to Dr. Cornel West for so long because he's a legit left-wing philosopher, thinker, analyst and critic.

01:02:59.000 And I think he's...

01:03:00.000 Ram down his throat, your far-right conspiracy theories, don't you?

01:03:05.000 Sir, I've got some far-right fascism for you!

01:03:08.000 That's going to change your view!

01:03:10.000 No, but what I want is to be able to hear an authentic voice of the left, to be reminded that it's not all just liberal establishment Hollow claptrap, which is all we've experienced lately.

01:03:24.000 People just trying to grease their own interest just on a black, haughty, supercilious piety being fired off as policy and as a meaningful worldview. 0.89

01:03:33.000 It doesn't mean nothing to me no more, that stuff.

01:03:36.000 I think that those tags, those definitions are melting away and that we have to find something new.

01:03:41.000 Something new is being born.

01:03:43.000 That's the good news.

01:03:44.000 Whether it's the Cockney economists, or the cocksure confidence of James O'Keefe after being booted out of his own company, you can feel a new and nascent confidence in people.

01:03:57.000 I know you've been beat down, I know it's been a tough time, a tough pandemic, damn it, a tough life, but maybe this might be a new springtime. 0.70

01:04:04.000 Certainly in our hemisphere, the winds of change are blowing, and it's not just my constant flatulence. 0.84

01:04:11.000 Hey, remember, you can see my stand-up show right after this.

01:04:14.000 It's on Rumble.

01:04:15.000 You can get it $20 for a one-off price, but it's only for a limited time.

01:04:18.000 If you sign up for Locals, you've got it for life, as well as access to my weekly personal meditations.

01:04:23.000 You could even come and attend a live podcast recording.

01:04:26.000 We've got Graham Hancock.

01:04:27.000 He's going to be... We've got a live space over there.

01:04:29.000 Graham Hancock will be sat in there.

01:04:31.000 You can come and be in the audience.

01:04:32.000 We're going to give away free pairs of tickets tomorrow for you to attend it.

01:04:37.000 If you're a Locals member, you can join us online and ask Graham questions and stuff like that.

01:04:41.000 We're building a movement here.

01:04:42.000 We're building new alliances.

01:04:44.000 Not only do we want you, we need you.

01:04:46.000 Not only do we respect you, we love you.

01:04:49.000 Not only will we not talk down to you, we talk up to you and we revere you.

01:04:53.000 Let's do something fantastic together.

01:04:55.000 Join us tomorrow, not for more of the same, but for more of the different.

01:04:57.000 Until then, stay free.

01:04:59.000 Many switching, switch on, switch off. Many switching, switch on, switch off. Many switching, switch on, switch

01:05:09.000 off.

01:05:09.000 Switch on, switch off.

01:05:11.000 Man, he switchin'.

Stay Free - Russel Brand - March 15, 2023

Oh Sh*t, Russians Down US Drone…WW3?! - #091 - Stay Free With Russell Brand

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