Stay Free - Russel Brand - May 24, 2023


Omid Djalili (Iran’s Unrest)

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Mahatma Gandhi Ahmed Jalili Elon Musk Jack Lenz Brandy Ayatollah Khomeini Billie Jean King Russell Brand Ron DeSantis Omid Jalili Katy Perry Gandy Michael Jackson Tucker Carlson Sarah Marshall Mark Elias Gareth Roy Baha'is Freach Mona and 41 more
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In this episode, Gareth and Gareth are joined by comedian and actor Omid Jalili to discuss the FBI spying on Black Lives Matter protesters and how the government is trying to delegitimise all forms of critical thought. They also discuss the Iranian protests and how governments are colluding with big business to stifle them, and how they are using technology to suppress them. Gareth also talks about the new Tesla Model Y and Elon Musk's plans to develop self-driving cars, and why he thinks the government should be worried about Tesla's plans for autonomous vehicles. And finally, Gareth talks about why he believes the FBI should be doing more to combat the spread of radical ideas, and what that could mean for the future of freedom and democracy in the 21st century. This episode is brought to you live on Rumble, where you get access to all sorts of other stuff, including a live show hosted by Gareth Roy. RUMBLE is produced by Gareth and Alex Blumberg, and produced and edited by Gareth, with help from the excellent crew at Local Speaks. . Produced in Adelaide, Australia. This episode was produced in partnership with Local Speakers, and edited and produced by Freach, a local production company. We are working on a new audio experience that will be available on Rumble on January 6th and 7th, 2020, where we'll be bringing you a live version of the show on January 7th and 8th, where Gareth will be joined by Omid Javed Jalili, a comedian, actor, and writer from Iran. and comedian Omid, who will be joining us live on the show to talk about the protests in Iran and his experiences in Iran, as well as his thoughts on the current events happening around the protests happening in the streets of Sydney, Australia, and his views on what's going on around the world, and much more! We hope you enjoy the episode, and we look forward to hearing from you in the coming weeks, so stay tuned for more of your responses to what's happening in real life. , and what you can be heard on Rumble. on Local Speedy, and where you can expect from us in the future episodes of Local Speech. - Freach meets Freach and Freach's next week! - Where do you get your free speech and calls it? - Call it Where's the call it where it's free speech meets it's where you're free speech?

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00:00:01.000 50% of Americans may have lost their faith in God, but we will never lose our faith in you, and we are here to tell you that there are powerful and transcendent forces within you, beyond you, around you that we can access to change the world for the better for you.
00:00:13.000 You truly are an awakening wonder.
00:00:15.000 And this is where we come to awaken together, individually, collectively, in the company of my on-screen assistant, Gareth Roy.
00:00:22.000 We will be discussing global events, how they're conveyed to you by a media that I believe to be largely corrupt.
00:00:28.000 Although, you know, there's some great people out there doing their best.
00:00:32.000 We're going to be talking about the way that governments and big businesses collaborate.
00:00:35.000 We're going to be talking in particular about the attempt to label all anti-establishment rhetoric as right-wing or conspiracy theory.
00:00:45.000 This is going to be increasingly difficult as Ron DeSantis launches his presidential bid On Twitter.
00:00:52.000 We already know that Tucker's going to have some kind of affiliation with Twitter.
00:00:55.000 And I think that Elon Musk had a few quid in his pocket before this venture even began from the rockets and the tech and the driverless cars and the rhetoric.
00:01:07.000 And maybe there'll be some updates there.
00:01:10.000 I've got a German shepherd.
00:01:11.000 He's loose in the building ambling around.
00:01:14.000 Is he on Twitter?
00:01:16.000 He's not on Twitter, and he's the sort of person that would do well there.
00:01:18.000 He would.
00:01:19.000 I would think, because he's plucky, he's an individual, he's got a lot to say for himself, there he goes.
00:01:25.000 In our presentation, Here's the News, No, Here's the Effing News, we'll be talking about those FBI whistleblowers who'll be joining us live on the show soon.
00:01:33.000 They had some interesting revelations around January the 6th, as well as other conduct within the FBI that's worthy, I believe, of further scrutiny, and it's in fact the Mainstream media's inability to look in a relatively unbiased way at stories like that one that I think is leading us to this place of crisis but to a degree it's beneficial for us because alternative media like us, stay free media, where we're dedicated to you and you can let us know in the comments if you think we're doing a good job or where we could improve.
00:02:00.000 If you're watching this on YouTube right now, Join us on Rumble, because about 15 minutes in, we're going to be able to talk more openly, in particular, about those FBI whistleblowers and some of their revelations around January the 6th.
00:02:13.000 If you're already watching us on Rumble, join us on Locals.
00:02:16.000 There's a red button on your screen.
00:02:17.000 Press that, join our community, you get access to all sorts of other stuff.
00:02:21.000 We read the comments here, people talking about who's on there.
00:02:24.000 Catherine Anne, how's the pen?
00:02:26.000 How's the pen?
00:02:27.000 What does she mean by that?
00:02:27.000 That pen that I sniff sometimes?
00:02:29.000 It could be that.
00:02:29.000 I don't want to talk about that pen.
00:02:31.000 That's private.
00:02:32.000 It's been to some places.
00:02:33.000 That's for the locals community.
00:02:35.000 That's the private pen.
00:02:36.000 Oh, my dog's settled down.
00:02:38.000 That's a relief.
00:02:38.000 Also, I'll be talking to a comedian, actor and are we going to call him an activist?
00:02:42.000 Sometimes people don't like to be called an activist.
00:02:44.000 I don't like it.
00:02:45.000 Right.
00:02:46.000 Earlier today, someone bought me some letter outside that said, like, Philanthropist.
00:02:51.000 I was like, get Philanthropist off!
00:02:52.000 That basically, like, you know, Philanthropist is always a cover for something.
00:02:56.000 And I just go, Comedian!
00:02:57.000 Comedian!
00:02:58.000 That's my job.
00:02:59.000 And that's enough.
00:03:00.000 Everything is coming from that perspective.
00:03:02.000 We talked to Omid Jalili.
00:03:04.000 I've known him for ages, Omid.
00:03:05.000 He's a brilliant, brilliant, funny comedian.
00:03:07.000 He's going to talk to us about protests in Iran and how he's found himself.
00:03:11.000 Curiously at the centre of conveying many of those narratives because of censorship and oppression in Iran around this uprising that's been going on there for a little while and I'll be talking to him about the general global insurgency whether it's around agriculture or whether it's around mandates as in the Canadian trucker protests and how centralised authority is shutting down on radicalism in all its forms.
00:03:32.000 Remember when we spoke to you earlier in the week we just pointed out that the FBI have been surveilling not only January the 6th protesters but also George Floyd, Black Lives Matter protesters.
00:03:43.000 So wherever you might see yourself on the social scale, they see you in the same way.
00:03:47.000 A potential threat to their ongoing systemic hegemony.
00:03:51.000 Should we call it that?
00:03:52.000 Yep.
00:03:52.000 Let's call it that.
00:03:54.000 We've got some of your comments though now in an item we call Freach.
00:03:59.000 Where freedom and speech meet, you get free speech.
00:04:01.000 Where free speech meets, you get Freach here on Rumble.
00:04:05.000 Is there a graphic for that?
00:04:05.000 We're going to see that thing such as it is.
00:04:09.000 Have the word free and the word speech going together like this.
00:04:12.000 Free speech.
00:04:13.000 And then all the fireworks come off it.
00:04:15.000 Free, free, free.
00:04:17.000 Improvise!
00:04:18.000 And then that's it.
00:04:19.000 Terrible.
00:04:19.000 Next time, have a musical bed for it, Jack.
00:04:22.000 What I think happens is, when you do this criticism post the sting now, people think, oh, he's having fun with it.
00:04:28.000 But I actually do think he wants a new sting.
00:04:30.000 It should be improved, it's a disgrace.
00:04:33.000 Later on in the show I'll be doing my item Brandy on Gandhi where I talk about the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi and how they can be used to revitalise a flagging and fractured anti-establishment movement across the world.
00:04:46.000 He talks a lot about decentralisation and we'll be talking about that.
00:04:49.000 I think it's the solution, you know, sometimes people go, people go, what's the solution?
00:04:54.000 You know, it's enough complaining, what's the solution?
00:04:56.000 Do you ever worry that with that title that people might think it's that 90s pop star on Gandy?
00:05:01.000 Brandy on Gandy.
00:05:02.000 Oh, I remember.
00:05:03.000 Careful.
00:05:04.000 I wish it was.
00:05:05.000 She was gorgeous.
00:05:05.000 She could nick that.
00:05:07.000 Brandy on Gandy.
00:05:08.000 Wouldn't she sing Boys, Boys, Boys?
00:05:09.000 I'm not sure what the song was.
00:05:11.000 Wasn't that a hit?
00:05:11.000 Boys, boys, boys.
00:05:13.000 Thank you for the good times.
00:05:14.000 Thank you.
00:05:15.000 Boys, boys.
00:05:17.000 She's a nice lady. 1.00
00:05:18.000 Thank you for the good times.
00:05:20.000 What about Wigfield?
00:05:20.000 You've sung that before.
00:05:21.000 Saturday night.
00:05:22.000 Yeah.
00:05:23.000 Then were the days.
00:05:24.000 Good days.
00:05:26.000 Some of you are saying things like this, saying, "Human Dog goes, 'Yesterday we asked if we can come
00:05:30.000 and visit the studio.'" 0.89
00:05:31.000 Lots of you are asking about Elon.
00:05:33.000 Suki Kuala says, "I'd like to have Russell as my dad."
00:05:36.000 Doomsayer, "What's going on with Jack's graphics?"
00:05:39.000 FBI whistleblowers, we'll be talking about this a little later.
00:05:42.000 Jim Earth C-137, "Locking up whistleblowers is the equivalent of locking up the gun
00:05:45.000 instead of the murderer." 0.83
00:05:46.000 Absurd, wait a minute, locking up the gun.
00:05:49.000 Wait a minute, carry the one, divide it by two, square that, put it out in that car.
00:05:53.000 Yeah! - Yeah, I guess it is.
00:05:54.000 That's not right.
00:05:56.000 That can't be the way to conduct things.
00:05:58.000 People like brandy on Gandhi.
00:06:00.000 Don't worry.
00:06:00.000 Got the old Gandhi book.
00:06:01.000 Don't you worry.
00:06:02.000 It's coming up.
00:06:03.000 Have you got a problem with Brandi?
00:06:04.000 No, it's coming up.
00:06:05.000 I'm just saying.
00:06:05.000 You don't like Brandi and Gandhi.
00:06:06.000 I just think you should copyright it.
00:06:07.000 Do you not like it when I talk about God?
00:06:09.000 In case she steals it.
00:06:10.000 You don't like it when I talk about God.
00:06:12.000 Well, I will not apologise for my Lord!
00:06:15.000 I won't.
00:06:16.000 I'm going to keep talking about God.
00:06:17.000 You can be a theist if you want.
00:06:19.000 And we've got Dickie Dawkins coming on the show.
00:06:21.000 Soon we'll be taking a seasonal break.
00:06:23.000 Who doesn't take a seasonal break?
00:06:24.000 Gary Neville, the footballer.
00:06:25.000 Apparently.
00:06:26.000 But a lot of people do take holidays and vacations and breaks.
00:06:29.000 And what we will be taking is a break.
00:06:31.000 And when we come back, guess who's coming on the show?
00:06:33.000 Elon Musk.
00:06:35.000 Tucker Carlson.
00:06:37.000 Billie Jean King.
00:06:38.000 Tulsi Gabbard.
00:06:39.000 Tulsi Gabbard.
00:06:40.000 The original Brandy?
00:06:42.000 Billie Jean King.
00:06:43.000 Okay.
00:06:44.000 Martina Navratilova.
00:06:47.000 They're all coming on.
00:06:48.000 Wow.
00:06:49.000 Yeah?
00:06:49.000 Oh yeah.
00:06:50.000 Did I say Billie Jean King?
00:06:51.000 You did say that.
00:06:51.000 She's coming on.
00:06:52.000 She's coming on strong!
00:06:54.000 Anyway, Ron DeSantis... When you say Billie Jean King, do you think mainly of the Michael Jacksons?
00:06:59.000 Oh, this is good.
00:07:02.000 I'm playing, like, Be Lucky squares.
00:07:04.000 It's a hot square.
00:07:05.000 I show my children Michael Jackson.
00:07:12.000 I mean, they've got to know sometime.
00:07:14.000 No idea what to respond to that.
00:07:16.000 OK, good.
00:07:16.000 I love him.
00:07:17.000 This is Michael Jackson.
00:07:18.000 He's brilliant.
00:07:20.000 Down the line, I'll tell you some other stuff.
00:07:22.000 Ron DeSantis to launch 2024 presidential bid on Twitter.
00:07:26.000 This is it.
00:07:27.000 Elon Musk is making moves, baby.
00:07:30.000 This is where politics happens now.
00:07:33.000 Politics happens on Twitter.
00:07:34.000 Free speech happens on Rumble.
00:07:36.000 But Elon Musk, who I'm in negotiations with right now, using the telephone.
00:07:42.000 Alexander Graham Bell from Scotland.
00:07:44.000 He invented that, if I'm not very much mistaken.
00:07:46.000 I'm using that to negotiate with Elon Musk about getting him on, but it's quite complicated because he's got to do it on Twitter first.
00:07:52.000 Oh, we've got to do it on Rumble. 0.96
00:07:53.000 The thing is, when you're negotiating with Elon Musk, what you realise is he's the world's richest man.
00:07:58.000 I'm the bloke for getting Sarah Marshall.
00:08:01.000 Listen, Musk, I'll tell you now and I'll tell you good.
00:08:03.000 If you want another sequel to Sarah Marshall, in spite of the diminishing returns of getting to the Greek, you will not get a third sequel.
00:08:12.000 Hello?
00:08:13.000 Elon?
00:08:14.000 Elon?
00:08:15.000 I will not give you a single bitcoin unless you bloody well... Listen, if you need a host for the MTV VMAs 2024, you can look elsewhere.
00:08:24.000 Because I won't do it, man.
00:08:26.000 I won't do it.
00:08:27.000 I've got no cards.
00:08:28.000 I have no cards with Elon either.
00:08:30.000 Elon says jump.
00:08:31.000 I say haha.
00:08:32.000 Elon says jump.
00:08:33.000 You say.
00:08:34.000 How high?
00:08:34.000 How high would you like me to jump?
00:08:36.000 It's a weird response, really.
00:08:38.000 It's going to be interesting.
00:08:39.000 It's a match-up.
00:08:41.000 Stay free with Russell Brand.
00:08:43.000 See it first on Rumble.
00:08:44.000 Have a look at Brandy on Gandhi.
00:08:46.000 Jack's graphic first, then I'll do the item.
00:08:49.000 It's disrespectful to me.
00:08:51.000 It's disrespectful to Gandhi.
00:08:53.000 I think it's mainly to Gandhi.
00:08:55.000 Yeah.
00:08:56.000 I'm not sure how disrespectful... It's like I'm bringing him along like a little tart.
00:08:59.000 Yeah.
00:08:59.000 I'm bringing Gandhi along like he's like my latest thing.
00:09:02.000 That's right.
00:09:03.000 And in fact, I bet that in that original photo, that was probably from the days when I was a single man.
00:09:07.000 Of course it was.
00:09:07.000 It's probably just a personal... Oh no, I've got a wedding ring on there.
00:09:10.000 Oh.
00:09:11.000 So... Have you replaced Katy Perry with Gandhi?
00:09:13.000 It's Katy Perry, isn't it?
00:09:14.000 It is.
00:09:15.000 Yeah.
00:09:15.000 You have, haven't they?
00:09:16.000 Because I can tell from the wedding ring I was wearing.
00:09:17.000 That is one of the most disrespectful things that you have done, Jack.
00:09:22.000 And you've done a lot of disrespectful things.
00:09:24.000 Not on top of all that, I think my dog's farted.
00:09:25.000 Unless it's you.
00:09:26.000 It isn't me, no, no.
00:09:28.000 The dog's farted, you've disrespected Gandhi, and possibly Katie.
00:09:32.000 It's appalling what's happened.
00:09:34.000 Go on, play the link again so I can find my place in my Gandhi book, will ya?
00:09:42.000 The music's sarcastic.
00:09:43.000 It is sarcastic.
00:09:44.000 So, my best friend, I'm actually advocating for decentralised democracies.
00:09:51.000 It doesn't set this up well enough.
00:09:53.000 Of course it doesn't.
00:09:53.000 It undermines it.
00:09:54.000 Because you want this to be, I'm guessing, kind of profound to an extent.
00:09:57.000 Yes, profound.
00:09:58.000 I said, I took the notes I gave Jack when I said design that graphic and that essay.
00:10:02.000 I said, Jack, I want this to be profound, respectful.
00:10:05.000 I want you to sort of, I want this to be like that, like a BBC sort of like Civilisation, like those documentaries.
00:10:11.000 I want there to be like the Attenborough of Anthropology, Jack.
00:10:14.000 Like Blue Planet.
00:10:15.000 I want it to be like Blue Planet.
00:10:17.000 Yeah, you don't see Attenborough, you're using Photoshop to change Katy Perry into Gandhi.
00:10:21.000 Oh, look at this dolphin here. 0.66
00:10:24.000 I've changed it into the one that does country music.
00:10:28.000 What's she called?
00:10:28.000 Dolly Parton?
00:10:29.000 No, the young one.
00:10:30.000 Oh, Taylor Swift.
00:10:31.000 I've changed this dolphin to Dylan Swift.
00:10:34.000 You know, that's the sort of thing, it's like... Oh yeah.
00:10:38.000 Dolphins!
00:10:38.000 Yeah, that's basically all he does.
00:10:41.000 That's his job.
00:10:41.000 That's it.
00:10:42.000 My dog's not been well.
00:10:43.000 Right, okay, so one of the reasons I like Gandhi is not because... Well, there's a number of reasons.
00:10:47.000 Some of the reasons are these.
00:10:48.000 That he was able to align and alloy spirituality with political activism.
00:10:53.000 In fact, political activism is underwritten by spirituality, as all activism ultimately must be.
00:10:59.000 I'll be talking to Omid Jalili about this in a minute, about the... What do I want to say?
00:11:03.000 How is spirituality commensurate with what's happening over in Iran?
00:11:07.000 That's one of the things I'm going to ask him about.
00:11:09.000 But what Gandhi did is he promoted ideas like selflessness, duty, unity, the ability to tolerate people.
00:11:18.000 Obviously, one of the biggest challenges Gandhi faced was that in getting British out of India,
00:11:23.000 he had to unite both Hindu and Muslim communities.
00:11:26.000 He had a complex political job.
00:11:28.000 One of his grave disappointments, if the film Gandhi is to be believed,
00:11:31.000 it was that he was unable to achieve that.
00:11:32.000 Which is all your research.
00:11:34.000 Right, I've taken this quite seriously, and what I've done is I've watched the film, Gandhi.
00:11:39.000 So let's get to the bottom of this.
00:11:41.000 Right, Nick, before I do an item on this, has anyone made a film about it?
00:11:45.000 Yeah, Richard Attenborough made one.
00:11:46.000 Oh, you've just been very disrespectful about his brother.
00:11:48.000 Nevertheless, good sports gardening, man.
00:11:51.000 Anyway, no, but what's less known about Gandhi is that he said there's no point booting the British out of India and then replicating the systems that we inherit from them.
00:11:58.000 We have to create an India that is comprised of the 70,000 villages that make her up, and each one should be fully autonomous and independent.
00:12:07.000 Some of you will be aware that there's a small village in southern Spain that seemed to be immune from the profound economic challenges that that part of the country was met with.
00:12:18.000 Like Spain, it was nosed right up by the events of the last few years.
00:12:22.000 Well, there's one communist village.
00:12:23.000 Some of you will be somewhat agitated at the sight of Che Guevara there, knowing that, like many icons, he's a complex figure that's far from perfect.
00:12:30.000 And of course, you'll be perhaps aware of some of the things that happened post the Cuban Revolution that are pretty unfavourable.
00:12:37.000 Nevertheless, this autonomous collective, this communist village, was run very successfully, and I believe that you should have as much democracy as possible.
00:12:47.000 Collectivize power wherever possible.
00:12:49.000 In your country, you talk about federalism.
00:12:51.000 The beauty of the American experiment could have been that each state was as independent as possible.
00:12:58.000 The centralised national power reduced wherever possible.
00:13:03.000 This little village here, the town operates a farming cooperative with 2,650 workers.
00:13:07.000 During the 2008 economic crisis, 30% of the active population in southern Spain was without work.
00:13:11.000 Maranalada had full employment.
00:13:13.000 That's an example from the left.
00:13:15.000 I know loads of you lot aren't hardly pro-communism.
00:13:18.000 How could you be after the way that you were Inducted, inculcated and educated during the Cold War period and you are aware of the atrocities, murders and horrors that took place under Soviet communism and Chinese communism and I'm not advocating for centralized state power.
00:13:33.000 I do not trust the state.
00:13:34.000 I do not trust power accruing anywhere anymore. 0.88
00:13:37.000 I think that all of us are too corrupt and corruptible.
00:13:40.000 But you're saying if you like painted over the mural and removed communists then it could work? 0.96
00:13:46.000 Get rid of that.
00:13:47.000 It's easier to, like, even Jack could change that shape of graphic into me with relatively little effort.
00:13:54.000 Easy.
00:13:55.000 You'd like that actually, wouldn't you?
00:13:57.000 Or just put their mare up there. 0.73
00:13:58.000 And then you change it to Bran's model village.
00:14:01.000 Well, I think, don't call it a model village, because that could create some confusion as well, because I carried on as a younger lad.
00:14:06.000 Or that it's really small.
00:14:08.000 Like, I've got it here and everyone seems perfect.
00:14:11.000 What is this village for ants?
00:14:14.000 Zoolander!
00:14:16.000 This village, everyone's perfectly happy, we've got full employment.
00:14:18.000 These subbuteo men, these savannian families, and this little lego figure have been at work, hardest work, this morning. 1.00
00:14:25.000 Well that's why I should be president.
00:14:26.000 Thank you very much.
00:14:27.000 In conclusion, Gandhi once said, I think in the film Gandhi, oh god, and sadly that was his last words because he was murdered ironically by, hinted on ironically, more than ironically, Village Republic.
00:14:37.000 So this is Gandhi on Village Republic. 0.89
00:14:39.000 I've not pictured a poverty-stricken India containing ignorant millions. 1.00
00:14:42.000 I've pictured to myself an India continually progressing along the lines best suited to her genius. 0.97
00:14:47.000 I do not, however, picture it as a third-class or even first-class copy of the dying civilization of the West.
00:14:52.000 Even then, he had identified that our atrophying late capitalist systems were going to lead to cataclysm and cultural decline.
00:15:00.000 If my dream is fulfilled and every one of the seven larks of villages becomes a well-living republic in which there are no illiterates, in which no one is idle for want of work, in which everyone is usefully occupied and has nourishing food, well-ventilated dwellings and sufficient cardi for covering the body, and in which all the villagers know and observe the laws of
00:15:18.000 hygiene and sanitation, such a state must have varied and increasing needs,
00:15:23.000 which it must supply, unless it would stagnate.
00:15:25.000 When people talk about changing the world, they mean change the world without inconveniencing the
00:15:30.000 interests of the powerful.
00:15:31.000 That's precisely what an organisation like the WF does.
00:15:34.000 It's a PR front for changing the world in ways that never disrupt
00:15:39.000 energy companies, big tech companies, the establishment.
00:15:43.000 What we need is real change.
00:15:45.000 Cast aside old models, except for where they are beneficial.
00:15:49.000 Be willing to look at the past favorably in a new light.
00:15:52.000 Be willing to look at what kind of changes might meaningfully improve your life as a human being.
00:15:58.000 The thing that inspires me perhaps most of all about Gandhi is this is a person that resourced his values and his views from his spiritual principles.
00:16:05.000 Duty, service, kindness.
00:16:06.000 These are not complicated, esoteric political ideas accessible only by ontologists and theologians.
00:16:12.000 These are ideas that your grandparents understood.
00:16:14.000 These are traditions that we can pass down easily from father to son.
00:16:19.000 We can pass down through generations.
00:16:20.000 I think that the heroes like Gandhi are the kind of heroes that we need to elevate Right, so we've got a fantastic guest joining us now.
00:16:36.000 He's a comedian, political activist and actor, Omid Jalili.
00:16:39.000 Gareth, you're just going to leave, just like that.
00:16:41.000 Follow him out.
00:16:42.000 You're not going to shoot him.
00:16:43.000 This is like this real motion in the studio, Dan.
00:16:45.000 Track it!
00:16:46.000 Look at Gareth.
00:16:47.000 Look at him escaping.
00:16:48.000 Get your hard-on gal. 0.71
00:16:50.000 And please welcome back on old Russ for the single, as I welcome to Stay Free With Russell Brand, Omid Jalili.
00:16:57.000 Then track me cuddling him, Dan.
00:16:58.000 I'm going to give him a real cuddle.
00:17:04.000 We are, of course, streaming live on Rumble right now.
00:17:08.000 It's a pleasure to have you here.
00:17:10.000 I've never been happier to be in a place called Midland.
00:17:13.000 [LAUGHS]
00:17:14.000 Don't-- don't dox us, Ahmed! 0.98
00:17:16.000 Don't dox us! 0.68
00:17:17.000 Don't dox us, we're not licensed!
00:17:20.000 Is this a secret location?
00:17:21.000 Of course it is, for heaven's sake.
00:17:23.000 It's a bunker.
00:17:24.000 We're a radical organisation.
00:17:25.000 We're a free speech organisation.
00:17:27.000 We're activists and agitators.
00:17:29.000 I'm with you, brother.
00:17:31.000 Thank you.
00:17:31.000 In fact, that reminds me, I've got to adjust this hand.
00:17:35.000 Firstly, I had the devil horns as you just demonstrated.
00:17:42.000 In honour of our conversation, I'm going to move it to this and then place it that way for peace, even though they're not as open as I would have them.
00:17:50.000 Omid, we've been speaking for ages, mate.
00:17:53.000 I've known you since I first started doing stand-up.
00:17:56.000 I've admired you for a long time.
00:17:57.000 I think you're a fantastic comedian and communicator.
00:17:59.000 Do you remember us meeting at the BBC party in 2000, Edinburgh Festival?
00:18:03.000 Do you remember that?
00:18:05.000 2000?
00:18:05.000 No, I was on drugs.
00:18:08.000 Yes, in fact, I came to see your show and he said, could you give me some tips?
00:18:13.000 I said, you're brilliant, but can I ask you one question?
00:18:16.000 Are you on drugs?
00:18:16.000 He went, yeah, heroin.
00:18:18.000 I said, that's remarkably honest.
00:18:21.000 I said, well, if you get off the heroin, because the problem with you, you're very funny, but you don't know when you're being funny.
00:18:25.000 So you're doing funny things, but you talk over your laugh.
00:18:28.000 So if you just focus your brain, you know, sort out your thoughts, you could be a great comedian.
00:18:32.000 Then I saw it at the comedy store four years later and you took the roof off.
00:18:35.000 See, you can improve if you're willing to listen and take advice from your elders.
00:18:39.000 And you did.
00:18:40.000 Thank you very much for doing that.
00:18:41.000 Now, Omid, we're here, of course, to reconnect as friends and meet you as an elder
00:18:46.000 and a comedian that I deeply respect, but also you're here to tell me
00:18:49.000 about what's going on in Iran, which I'm ashamed to admit that other than the barest
00:18:55.000 of bones, I don't understand at all.
00:18:57.000 Except there's been a kind of feminist uprising that's somehow centered around, like, dress codes, and the icons have emerged within this movement, and that it's not being reported on responsibly or nearly enough.
00:19:07.000 Of course, on a platform like this one, we're always interested in how the media report or don't report on a subject, how the establishment exploits it, how certain narratives are promoted and other narratives are are ignored and what the broader objectives would be of
00:19:19.000 Western institutions towards Iran, who we know appeared on the sort of hit list of countries
00:19:24.000 that should be destabilized post 9/11, and many of which have been destabilized since then.
00:19:30.000 Iraq, of course, and Libya. 0.52
00:19:32.000 So can you tell me what's been going on there and how it intersects with broader global
00:19:36.000 narratives?
00:19:37.000 I think what's very interesting is that as a stand-up comedian, what I did as soon as
00:19:40.000 I saw what happened, there was a 22-year-old girl who was – they have these hijab laws 0.99
00:19:46.000 where women have to wear hijab in a certain way. 1.00
00:19:48.000 And I think a bit of her hair was showing, so she was arrested.
00:19:51.000 She was supposed to be on some kind of hijab awareness course and they beat the crap out of her and she died and there are lots of flashpoints that happen in Iran but this was seismic.
00:20:00.000 We've had little kind of aftershocks where there's been uprisings.
00:20:04.000 They've usually been quashed and the way they do it is by cutting the internet, going and killing a lot of people and shutting everything down.
00:20:10.000 So this time we knew what was going to happen.
00:20:13.000 This was seismic and the first thing they did was shut the internet.
00:20:17.000 So through this thing called VPN, you can get a couple of videos out.
00:20:20.000 If you join Telegram channels, you can get a couple of videos.
00:20:24.000 So those of us who were affected by it and someone like me, I've been very involved in this whole thing for the last 44 years.
00:20:31.000 We've had this crazy... Tell us why, because I know you're English, but you have Iranian heritage. 1.00
00:20:35.000 I'm Iranian in heritage.
00:20:36.000 I'm also Baha'i.
00:20:37.000 The Baha'i faith is a faith that is very much oppressed in the Islamic Republic.
00:20:42.000 The first thing they did, actually, when the Islamic Republic came into being in 1979, they'd get rid of the Baha'is, shut women down. 1.00
00:20:49.000 There was a woman called Shirin Abadi, who was a judge, who went to work.
00:20:53.000 She goes, I was all for this revolution.
00:20:55.000 Then as soon as I showed up at work, They said, uh, you can go into janitorial or you're a receptionist.
00:20:59.000 She goes, excuse me, I'm a judge.
00:21:00.000 They go, not anymore.
00:21:01.000 All women can't do that kind of job. 1.00
00:21:03.000 And she realized she'd been played.
00:21:05.000 So, and also the Baha'i faith, which believes in the oneness of God, the oneness of religion, the unity and equality of men and women, they've got to go as well.
00:21:14.000 So, I've always been someone who's seen as a second-class citizen in Iran, and Baha'is are not allowed to have jobs. 1.00
00:21:21.000 A lot of them were killed in the revolution.
00:21:23.000 So, This affected me in a very visceral way.
00:21:25.000 So what I did was, okay, I thought, right, they've cut the internet.
00:21:29.000 First thing I've got to do is be a voice for the people.
00:21:31.000 And I did jokes about it because you've got the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.
00:21:36.000 Khamenei, not Khamenei was the original one.
00:21:38.000 Khamenei's cut the internet, but he's tweeting all the time.
00:21:41.000 So he's got Wi-Fi and people go and they go and protest outside his house.
00:21:45.000 And the state media says, these are not protestations.
00:21:48.000 People just trying to get a Wi-Fi hotspot.
00:21:50.000 So I was doing things like, have you got, I've got two bars.
00:21:52.000 What are you good?
00:21:53.000 No, I've got one bar.
00:21:53.000 You know, I've got no bars.
00:21:54.000 You know, this reminds me when I used to live in Wigan, this is bullshit. 0.99
00:21:58.000 So we do jokes about it, but it's actually quite serious where they've cut the internet so they can just go and kill people. 0.98
00:22:05.000 And now there's an epidemic of executions where the men, the men have stood by the women.
00:22:11.000 So it's a woman led revolution. 1.00
00:22:13.000 This is why it's amazing that we can't believe this is not being It's not out there.
00:22:18.000 It's the first time since the suffragettes we've seen a woman-led revolution and their main aim is to bring down the Islamic regime. 0.96
00:22:27.000 So currently, thank you Ahmed, that's sketched out some of the territory for me as a person that is woefully unfamiliar with this issue.
00:22:34.000 So Iran is currently governed by an Islamic State type of Sharia law, what would ordinarily be termed an Islamic fundamentalist government.
00:22:45.000 Yes, and have been for 44 years.
00:22:47.000 44 years, right.
00:22:48.000 And although in the 70s, of course, famously, Iran was becoming sort of somewhat more progressive.
00:22:52.000 It was, yeah.
00:22:53.000 The CIA got involved, shut that stuff down pretty sharp.
00:22:55.000 There you go.
00:22:58.000 So on this occasion there have been challenges.
00:23:01.000 A female-led revolutionary movement.
00:23:04.000 I'm surprised that that isn't so.
00:23:05.000 With the well-reported disdain that the West has for Arab nations, Middle Eastern territories and Iran in particular, why are the Western media and or Western interests not exploiting the opportunity to declare this is a Progressive movement that's female-led, which, by the way, I'd of course be fully in support of.
00:23:27.000 Sure.
00:23:28.000 But you're not being told anything.
00:23:29.000 You're not being shown anything.
00:23:30.000 I don't understand why.
00:23:30.000 Why?
00:23:31.000 Well, this is the very big question.
00:23:35.000 It's a female-led uprising, and usually any kind of female-led initiative is usually successful. 1.00
00:23:42.000 So the first thing they do is obviously cut the internet, and we see very little in the Western press.
00:23:47.000 I think that's... whoops!
00:23:47.000 Now, why?
00:23:49.000 Sorry about that.
00:23:50.000 I wanted to get a pen, I wanted to take some notes.
00:23:51.000 We're taking some notes.
00:23:52.000 The question is why?
00:23:54.000 And I think it's because they're trying to shut women down globally. 0.98
00:23:57.000 So the first thing they're doing is anyone who speaks out against this revolution is deemed Islamophobic.
00:24:03.000 Because this is a group of, this is how the Islamic people want to live their life.
00:24:08.000 But actually most Iranians are saying we never, we're not an Islamic country.
00:24:12.000 Iran was ruled by, we had the Persian Empire with That's what's happening. 0.99
00:24:18.000 and everyone should live together in harmony and unity, then Islam came over and they did it with raping, killing, 1.00
00:24:24.000 and forcing people to become Islamic. 0.99
00:24:27.000 But this is a certain interpretation of Islam.
00:24:29.000 So now you have this-- you've got the government and you've got religion, and the way they stay in power
00:24:35.000 is by using religion to shut people down. 0.84
00:24:37.000 So that's what's happening.
00:24:39.000 And what's interesting is the Western media don't--
00:24:43.000 we've been trying to get the IRGC, the Islamic Republican Guard Corps,
00:24:47.000 which is the group of military people which protects this Islamic regime,
00:24:52.000 who are basically the mothership of all terrorism.
00:24:55.000 If you see, we're trying to get them on the terrorist list, but what you have is you've got Hezbollah, Hamas, these people that are on the terrorist list, but they're all being funded by the Islamic Republican Guard Corps.
00:25:05.000 It's like an alien, the film Aliens, when Sigourney Weaver, she goes and she sees the Big Mother laying all the eggs. 1.00
00:25:12.000 And then she says, don't get away from her, you bitch! 1.00
00:25:14.000 And she starts firing and things. 1.00
00:25:16.000 IRGC, Islamic Republican Guard Corps, is that great big mothership of terrorism. 1.00
00:25:22.000 Now, governments are not putting them on the terrorist list because they seem to have some kind of influence.
00:25:28.000 We seem to be doing a lot of work with them.
00:25:31.000 We're financially entangled with them.
00:25:34.000 The Iranian people are saying, we're dealing with this revolution ourselves, but if you put the IRGC on the terrorist list, it gives the people within the IRGC, within this military terrorist organization, it gives them an exit strategy.
00:25:48.000 They'll leave, then the people of Iran will deal with the Islamic regime the way they want to. 0.92
00:25:53.000 That girl on the chat loves your metaphors. 0.99
00:25:56.000 Some people are finding it very emotional listening to you, mate.
00:26:01.000 This is a bit of coverage from Western Media, albeit Forbes, primarily a financial publication.
00:26:08.000 On the 19th of May, 2023, Iran executed three protesters following their convictions for the vague offence of moharrabeh, meaning a enmity against God after trials that said to violate a due
00:26:17.000 process and the right to a fair trial. Among the raised issues were
00:26:20.000 concerns in relation to due process violations, significant procedural flaws, lack of
00:26:23.000 evidence and torture, allegations that were never investigated. The
00:26:28.000 intervention of Western nations in that territory is a sort of a long historic
00:26:34.000 stain whether it's the British Empire's involvement in those nations and
00:26:39.000 territories and even the establishment of those territories and nations.
00:26:42.000 From a long time ago.
00:26:43.000 That's why they don't like the Brits because there was a coup in 1953 which they blamed the Brits and Americans because they were there kind of saying oh you've got oil here we'll help you get the oil and we'll give you something and then when they realized no money was coming to the Iranian people they got rid of BP oil they got rid of all the Brits and then the Brits for $60,000 the Brits and the Americans They did this coup and they took over again, so that's why the people don't like the Brits.
00:27:10.000 I mean, I'm sure people will write in saying they know what I'm talking about, but historically there's always been this thing that there's oil there and the West wants the oil.
00:27:19.000 Also, people are saying that one of the organisations we can rely on for reporting on this are Greyzone.
00:27:24.000 We're friends with Aaron Maté and Max Blumenthal there.
00:27:26.000 They sort of are willing to report on issues that, generally speaking, get ignored by Western media.
00:27:32.000 But what surprises me currently is that any instability in a Middle Eastern nation, and even the term Middle Eastern is, of course, by its nature, occidental and prejudicial, can be exploited by the type of Western interest that - It was on the phone. - ...needlessly exploited
00:27:52.000 the post-9/11 period to invade Iraq when it was completely tangential and unrelated.
00:27:57.000 So I'm surprised that we're not hearing about, like, "Oh, we've got to support this revolution
00:28:03.000 and instill some West-friendly government."
00:28:06.000 Like, that's the kind of thing that's supposed to be.
00:28:07.000 There's a lot of it going on online, but as far as the Western--
00:28:10.000 well, the 1979 Islamic revolution, when they all came into power,
00:28:14.000 it was on TV all the time.
00:28:16.000 I was a young 13-year-old, very much affected by it, and felt that I was tarred with the same brush
00:28:22.000 that people at school were saying, "Oh, you're an Islamic fundamentalist, innit?"
00:28:25.000 And all that kind of stuff.
00:28:26.000 And it was on the news every single day for anyone who's in their 50s who remembers that.
00:28:31.000 It was on the news.
00:28:32.000 This is not in the news at all.
00:28:33.000 You see little bits online.
00:28:35.000 You'll see a few people like myself, all the comedians I know who are like Iranian.
00:28:40.000 We've all become activists now because we feel so much for what's going on, what's happening to the people of Iran, that they're basically being squashed.
00:28:48.000 And they're being killed, and there's like 30,000 people in prison, all just for protesting.
00:28:53.000 And no one is doing anything about it.
00:28:54.000 I'm so glad that you've got me on here to speak.
00:28:57.000 I'm very glad that also you tweeted about this.
00:29:00.000 And it's interesting, whenever someone with a big account tweets, I just check and he said, anyone listening to me and Amit's discussion on Rumble?
00:29:06.000 With your 11 million followers, I checked, I lost 12 followers.
00:29:09.000 That's what it's all about!
00:29:11.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:29:12.000 And you probably lost about a million just tweeting me.
00:29:14.000 But what we're trying to do is we've become activists and we're just trying to raise awareness because this has been going on for nearly nine months now, Russell.
00:29:21.000 It's nine months that women are being quashed. 1.00
00:29:24.000 People are being executed almost every other day.
00:29:27.000 If I can just come on and just raise a bit of awareness, you can go online and see what everyone's saying and what they're talking about.
00:29:33.000 I think that's the best thing I can do is raise awareness.
00:29:35.000 Of course it is.
00:29:36.000 For now, what do you want people to do?
00:29:40.000 What accounts can we follow and what media can people who are watching us now gain access to to understand this issue better?
00:29:47.000 Then I want to ask you more about the role of the comedians in this evolving media space and the changing way that activism is being
00:29:53.000 used.
00:29:53.000 But first of all, could you tell our viewers what we can do in order to support and learn more about this issue?
00:29:59.000 There's a lot we can do.
00:30:00.000 You can follow my account.
00:30:01.000 I'm @omidjalili on Instagram or @omidnalli on Twitter.
00:30:03.000 Surely your name's so bloody hard to spell.
00:30:05.000 Why don't you, we'll post that in the chat on both Rumble and on,
00:30:09.000 because that Jalili bit's going to get them, and then on YouTube as well.
00:30:14.000 Jalili is unfortunately, it's with a D, a bit like Novak Djokovic, but the D is silent.
00:30:19.000 He's another guest we could have on here.
00:30:21.000 This was, that was a joke.
00:30:22.000 He won't take his medicine.
00:30:26.000 I never got, I never got a laugh with it.
00:30:28.000 I'd say the D, Jalili, the D is silent. 0.87
00:30:30.000 It's a bit like Enos with a silent P, but it never got a laugh.
00:30:34.000 But I think there are lots of other accounts.
00:30:35.000 Like there's a woman called Massey Ali Najad, who's a journalist and she's a, She's very much beloved.
00:30:40.000 In fact, the IRGC, the Islamic Republic, tried to get her bumped off.
00:30:44.000 This is the thing that these people, the reason why we're talking about this is because it's actually, it affects our collective security in the West.
00:30:54.000 In America, people were trying to kill her.
00:30:56.000 We had a hunger striker outside the foreign office called Vahid Beheshti and they've now given him a fatwa.
00:31:03.000 It's like as if We're allowing these people to operate in the West.
00:31:07.000 We're allowing them to do whatever they want, and we're not showing strength, not standing up to these people.
00:31:13.000 And I think that's the thing that's upsetting everyone.
00:31:16.000 And what the women are trying to do is essentially, it's a non-violent... It's actually a very beautiful revolution. 0.99
00:31:23.000 It's non-violent, although I think what they'll do with the Mullahs, they talk about tearing them to pieces, but that's by the by. 0.98
00:31:29.000 But it is a spiritual revolution in the sense that All of us, even myself as a Baha'i, we believe the only way you can affect real change is if you actually talk about the things that matter, which is why are we here?
00:31:42.000 Is there a God?
00:31:43.000 What's the purpose of life?
00:31:45.000 Why am I here?
00:31:46.000 Is religion one?
00:31:47.000 Is God one?
00:31:48.000 Are people intrinsically one?
00:31:50.000 And if you teach people this at a young age, Then you'll realize the last thing you want to do is hurt someone.
00:31:56.000 So the fact that these people are using religion to execute people for protesting, to shoot people in the eyes, to maim, to kill, to put people in solitary confinement for about 10 years. 0.63
00:32:07.000 It's so inhumane.
00:32:09.000 It means they haven't had the spiritual education.
00:32:11.000 I think that really is what the women are saying in Iran, that we need to totally realign and reconfigure our relationships between the individual, the community and institutions.
00:32:24.000 Because at the moment institutions just do everything to stay in power and they do it at the expense of normal people and they should be serving the people Brain Wilson who's been on our show is, when I reflect on it, inexplicably Baha'i. 1.00
00:32:35.000 and execute them. So that's the thing, that's the kind of cycle they're trying to break.
00:32:40.000 Brain Wilson, who's been on our show, is, when I reflect on it, inexplicably Baha'i. 1.00
00:32:45.000 And just before you joined us, I was talking about Gandhi and the impact of Gandhi on activism
00:32:53.000 and the efficacy of non-violent protest and how any movement has to be underwritten ultimately
00:32:59.000 by some pretty hefty principles and values if it's gonna get anywhere.
00:33:05.000 Of course Gladwell famously wrote that new movements that coalesce online don't have the robustness that say for example the civil rights movements of the 1950s in America have because they are by their nature remote and tangential and if you're going to Perhaps sacrifice your life for something you believe in.
00:33:25.000 It usually requires a deep affinity not only with the cause but with other people because being human we naturally undulate in our willingness to sacrifice in our faith and belief that change can take place.
00:33:39.000 One of the things that I'm keen to inhere into our channel is a A sense that what we are striving for is something that's
00:33:47.000 transcendent of the cultural values that are ordinarily used to separate and divide us.
00:33:54.000 That we have access individually and via that, through that, collectively to a deep power.
00:34:01.000 That if you are willing to sacrifice yourself, if you are willing to live a simple life of service,
00:34:06.000 if you are willing to confront the systems within yourself, my own corruption, my own greed, my own biases, 0.88
00:34:12.000 my own requirement for power, my own willingness to be hypocritical and corrupt.
00:34:16.000 If I'm willing to make conquests on the level of the self, then I can be a useful servant in this world.
00:34:24.000 It seems to me, Omid, that these are the very issues that you're grappling with, and anyone that's interested in changing their own life and challenging the world is ultimately going to have to have a relationship with ideas of that nature.
00:34:35.000 How far, mate, are you willing to take something like this?
00:34:39.000 Have you considered going to Iran?
00:34:41.000 Have you considered, like, even in order to report on it more accurately?
00:34:47.000 Does that idea scare you?
00:34:48.000 Does it seem plausible at this point in your life that this is something that you could get more involved in?
00:34:52.000 It's not plausible because I'll probably be arrested as soon as I get to Iran.
00:34:56.000 Is that what happens?
00:34:57.000 People get arrested and put in prison and there are 40,000 people in jail right now?
00:35:00.000 There's over 30,000 people in jail, but I think because I'm a Baha'i, I would be arrested immediately.
00:35:07.000 So what I can do is remind people of things that have happened.
00:35:11.000 We're coming up to a 40th anniversary of something that happened that totally shocked me to my core and actually artists in North America.
00:35:21.000 Now the 18th of June is the 40th anniversary of the hanging of 10 women in a town called
00:35:27.000 Shiraz who were 10 Baha'i women.
00:35:29.000 One of them was a woman called Mona who was 17 years old and all the others were 20, 25,
00:35:34.000 I think one of them was 35.
00:35:36.000 And all because they were Baha'is and they were told to recant their faith and they refused because they said, look, you're asking us to lie about wanting a better world. 0.99
00:35:45.000 You're asking us to lie that we don't believe in the equality of men and women.
00:35:48.000 You're asking us to lie that we believe in the one God.
00:35:51.000 So they said no, and they were given many chances to recant and they didn't.
00:35:54.000 So one by one, they were all hanged in front of each other.
00:35:57.000 there's a photograph online of the ten women, they're all young, and it shocked everyone
00:36:03.000 to their core. And in fact, this story, when it broke 40 years ago, it moved some artists.
00:36:09.000 You can see there's a pop video was made called Mona with the Children by Jack Lenz and Doug
00:36:14.000 Cameron, which got to number one in North America. Some people might remember it, but
00:36:19.000 it gave you a very good idea of this kind of handmaid's tale type.
00:36:23.000 You know, Margaret Atwood, when she wrote Handmaid's Tale, she probably had the Islamic Republic in mind.
00:36:28.000 I don't know if people know that, but these 10 women have actually inspired the women in Iran now because they stood up for something.
00:36:37.000 They actually gave their lives for an idea.
00:36:41.000 That's what they did.
00:36:42.000 You're asking us to lie.
00:36:44.000 And that's the one thing people in Iran are saying, you can say whatever you like about the Baha'is, but they don't lie.
00:36:49.000 And when they're asked to recant their faith to lie, they won't do it and they will put their lives On the line.
00:36:55.000 So what I'm trying to do is raise awareness.
00:36:57.000 There's been a call for artists, for writers, to people to commemorate this appalling act of violence towards women.
00:37:04.000 And that's what I'm going to be doing.
00:37:05.000 I'm making a little film.
00:37:07.000 I'm writing a piece for the Eye newspaper.
00:37:09.000 I'm going to try and raise awareness to back the women of Iran because these are the stories that are pushing them now to move forward and say, we've had enough.
00:37:18.000 We've had enough of this oppression.
00:37:20.000 Where all the time I was told, keep quiet.
00:37:22.000 When I did my first Instagram post, On the 20th of September, everyone said, take it down.
00:37:27.000 You'll become a target.
00:37:28.000 I went, no, if I take it down, it looked like the regime was taking it down.
00:37:32.000 So I kept up and speaking to other comedian friends and other people in the diaspora who had a platform, we thought, we've got to do something.
00:37:39.000 We've got to stand up and we've got to start a wave because social media is like your weapon.
00:37:44.000 Because that's the one thing they don't like.
00:37:45.000 Whenever they're about to execute someone, we all go online to don't execute this person.
00:37:49.000 And what they do, they wait.
00:37:51.000 And what they've done now, they've started executing people because it's been out of the online news. 0.84
00:37:56.000 They start killing people now.
00:37:58.000 But if you put pressure, it's like, say their name, save a life.
00:38:02.000 And I think the women of Iran have said, we've had enough. 1.00
00:38:04.000 We've had enough of just trying to save people.
00:38:06.000 This lot have got to go now.
00:38:08.000 And what they've done is, it's become political.
00:38:10.000 And that's why people are hijacking it, saying it's Islamophobic.
00:38:14.000 But ultimately, the people of Iran want a shot of these people now because they've had enough.
00:38:19.000 That makes sense to me.
00:38:20.000 Okay, so there's a clear call to action for the for the get-go.
00:38:24.000 Firstly, follow Ahmed on Twitter.
00:38:26.000 We will post the link in the description.
00:38:29.000 Let's get back the 12 followers he lost by innocently RTing a piece of promo that I did in this bath.
00:38:36.000 So let's do that for a start.
00:38:38.000 Let's educate ourselves a little further on this issue and see how it evolves among us.
00:38:42.000 Am I right in thinking that you're doing a fundraising event next Yes, next month.
00:38:47.000 I live in Suffolk now.
00:38:49.000 I live in Ipswich.
00:38:50.000 I've got a comedy club called Tractor and Kebab, which I'll start on the 8th of June.
00:38:53.000 But the main thing is a Turkey-Syria benefit I'm doing. 0.81
00:38:56.000 You know, when the earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, you know, 60,000 people have died.
00:39:01.000 And again, that's out the news and we're trying to raise money for it.
00:39:05.000 So at the Regent Theatre in Ipswich, we've got some wonderful musical acts coming along.
00:39:10.000 We were hoping to get you to come down and do 20 minutes.
00:39:12.000 June 17th, Ipswich.
00:39:13.000 Ipswich, yeah, which I think you did recently, and you absolutely took the roof off.
00:39:17.000 Yeah, I like it in there.
00:39:18.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:39:18.000 Do you remember that place?
00:39:19.000 They absolutely love you there, so we'd love you to come down as well and do a little bit.
00:39:23.000 We'll post a link for that in the description as well.
00:39:23.000 I'll have a look at it.
00:39:27.000 That's an event to raise money, of course, for the victims and survivors of the Syria and Turkey earthquake.
00:39:33.000 You're doing a lot of good, kind things on it, and of course... We've become activists now, that's what we are.
00:39:37.000 What else is there to do if you're a comedian?
00:39:39.000 Also, if you want to see Ahmed touring, then go to AhmedJalili.com to get tickets.
00:39:44.000 And I can personally recommend Ahmed as a comedian.
00:39:47.000 Your name even evokes joy.
00:39:50.000 Ahmed Jalili seems like someone that can create joy almost automatically, you great, glorious, radiant man.
00:39:58.000 Not to mention that penalty you scored against a robot.
00:40:01.000 I saw that, oh my God.
00:40:02.000 Lionel Messi couldn't score against it.
00:40:04.000 Oh, you've got to show it.
00:40:05.000 Yeah, let's have a look at this.
00:40:06.000 Oh, look at this.
00:40:07.000 You know we love football, it's nice out there.
00:40:09.000 This is Lionel Messi.
00:40:09.000 Look, the robo-keeper... Is this Messi first?
00:40:11.000 Okay, Messi's trying... Now, if you look, robo-keeper is a robotic keeper that actually can see where your eye is when you kick.
00:40:18.000 So it actually anticipates where you're going to kick.
00:40:21.000 So if you run the film now, you'll see that Messi tries three times.
00:40:25.000 In fact, in total, he tried six team times.
00:40:28.000 He couldn't do it.
00:40:28.000 Look at this.
00:40:29.000 Save! 0.54
00:40:30.000 Saves from Messi!
00:40:31.000 Save! 0.54
00:40:31.000 From Messi! 0.54
00:40:32.000 This is Lionel Messi!
00:40:36.000 So there it is, the Robo Keeper.
00:40:39.000 It stopped Lionel Messi in his tracks.
00:40:41.000 But was he ready for Omid Jalili?
00:40:43.000 And I'll tell you, just before I did it, I said, is there any chance?
00:40:46.000 The bloke who set it up, he goes, just because it's you, what we've done, an inch to one side, if you go top left, we've given you an inch of mistake that you can do.
00:40:55.000 If you go top left and you could do it.
00:40:58.000 And amazingly this happened.
00:41:00.000 Give it the eyes.
00:41:00.000 Give it the eyes.
00:41:01.000 Okay.
00:41:02.000 I run it.
00:41:06.000 That's amazing!
00:41:07.000 See the slow motion now.
00:41:10.000 Slow motion.
00:41:11.000 Run it again.
00:41:12.000 What, you want us to run it in slow motion?
00:41:13.000 Are you aware?
00:41:14.000 Have you picked up what the... Is that all you got there?
00:41:16.000 Because it should run on... You've seen the slow motion.
00:41:18.000 Darling, you're lucky they played the clip at all.
00:41:20.000 These people are absolutely... It's a miracle that you... But if you look, it goes... Look.
00:41:24.000 Right.
00:41:24.000 Bang.
00:41:25.000 It's moved.
00:41:26.000 And it's that one inch to each side.
00:41:28.000 And I made it.
00:41:28.000 There you go.
00:41:29.000 That's unbelievable.
00:41:30.000 That's unbelievable.
00:41:30.000 It's the greatest moment of my life.
00:41:32.000 Thank you for playing it.
00:41:32.000 That really means a lot to me.
00:41:34.000 It's the greatest moment of our lives.
00:41:35.000 Just so we witness it.
00:41:36.000 Don't worry about what's going on in Iran. 0.68
00:41:38.000 It's complicated.
00:41:39.000 There's probably nothing we could do.
00:41:41.000 Robo Keeper was actually decommissioned after because if a fat bald 55 year old could do it, they decommissioned it straight away.
00:41:48.000 I believe, having seen that, that you can bring about a peaceful revolution in Iran and an all-woman government to replace the Sharia law that's currently incumbent. 0.96
00:41:57.000 Exactly, thank you.
00:41:58.000 There's just a one-inch margin where we will allow a democratic, feminist-led movement, and Ahmed is the man to lead it.
00:42:03.000 Anything can happen with Ahmed Jalili.
00:42:05.000 Anything can happen with Ahmed Jalili.
00:42:06.000 Go to ahmedjalili.com if you want to see Ahmed.
00:42:08.000 Support Ahmed's Turkey and Syria earthquake effort, as well as following Ahmed on Twitter. 0.95
00:42:14.000 Next time I speak to Ahmed Jalili, I want him to say, bloody hell, I've got a lot more followers on Twitter now, and I'm not being constantly spammed with information that you're a conspiracy theorist and a right-wing lunatic. 0.85
00:42:25.000 But I do believe that... But if we keep raising awareness, that's the thing, in the West, if we keep raising awareness, something will shift. 0.67
00:42:33.000 By the way, and can I just say this, this is very, very important.
00:42:35.000 This isn't just about a bunch of brown people on a far off land who cause chaos and it's got nothing to do with us. 1.00
00:42:42.000 I believe that all this is connected. 0.92
00:42:44.000 It's a bit like your body.
00:42:45.000 If you stub your toe, you stub your little toe, the toe is furthest away from your brain, but it bloody hurts.
00:42:50.000 So what's going on over there affects us and actually, If Iran, which is the cause of so much instability, if that place calms down and we get rid of this lot, you'll see a calmer Middle East and that should be good for all of us around the world. 0.99
00:43:05.000 The collective security of the world will be increased with what the women are trying to achieve there. 1.00
00:43:11.000 Well done.
00:43:11.000 I mean, thanks for educating us on that important issue.
00:43:14.000 You can join our locals community by clicking the red button on your screen right now, where you'll also be able to access our full RFK Junior interview, as well as doing guided meditations with me.
00:43:24.000 I do a weekly guided meditation.
00:43:26.000 Beautiful!
00:43:26.000 Yeah, it's pretty good.
00:43:28.000 We've got all sorts of podcasts you can listen to coming up on the show.
00:43:30.000 Of course, we've got Elon Musk coming up in about a week.
00:43:34.000 We're organising it now.
00:43:36.000 It's difficult to schedule with Elon Musk.
00:43:37.000 Are you being serious?
00:43:38.000 Yeah, we're organising it.
00:43:39.000 But it's really hard because you've got no leverage.
00:43:41.000 You can't go, I say we do it Friday, or these are the conditions.
00:43:45.000 Because you think, well, this guy is actually the richest man in the world.
00:43:47.000 I'm just going to probably have to do whatever he tells me.
00:43:49.000 A little bit around his schedule, I suppose.
00:43:51.000 That's what you have to do.
00:43:51.000 That's the thing with Elon.
00:43:52.000 I say, I'm quite busy, Elon.
00:43:53.000 I do this podcast.
00:43:56.000 I'm going to space in the morning.
00:43:58.000 Yeah, so join us on that and you can learn more about community.
00:44:00.000 You should come to community.
00:44:02.000 Come to community and perform there.
00:44:03.000 We do a festival in Hay-on-Wye every July, a three-day event.
00:44:07.000 Wim Hof, Vandana Shiva, Satish Kumar.
00:44:09.000 It's going to be a fantastic event.
00:44:09.000 Are you being serious?
00:44:10.000 I'd love to be there.
00:44:11.000 Yeah, come there.
00:44:11.000 Do a set.
00:44:12.000 Raise some awareness for your issue.
00:44:13.000 I'd love to have you there.
00:44:16.000 Elmi, thank you for joining me.
00:44:16.000 It's so beautiful to see you again.
00:44:17.000 Beautiful to see you, man.
00:44:18.000 Thanks for everything you've done for me and seeing some light in me when I was on the Brown.
00:44:22.000 I appreciate that.
00:44:23.000 When I saw you four years later, I thought, I tell you what, now that he's cleaned himself up, he could be one of the biggest voices in the world, and that's exactly what you've become.
00:44:32.000 Well, look at that.
00:44:32.000 That's the kind of kindness that you can end a show on.
00:44:35.000 Join us tomorrow, not for more of the same, but for more of the different.
00:44:37.000 But before you go, we have a fantastic presentation for you.
00:44:40.000 You've been following, I'm sure, this story about the FBI whistleblowers and their extraordinary revelations.
00:44:45.000 We're covering that in more detail now.
00:44:49.000 Here's the news.
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00:44:52.000 See you tomorrow.