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00:11:43.000Hello from the Canary Islands, says Castanaccio.
00:11:47.000Top country girl, he's a left winger that's waking up.
00:11:50.000It's good that we're talking about that because we're talking about the old political factions and fissures and about emergent new populism, new ideals that help us to unite against the establishment.
00:12:02.000Whatever we may have previously believed ourselves to be, for surely all of us want new political movements that empower ordinary people to run our own lives as individuals and to run our own communities.
00:12:15.000Today's question is, is the system deliberately making you poorer?
00:12:19.000Or is it sort of doing it by happenstance, by accident?
00:12:23.000Nonetheless, however it's happening, Ordinary people are getting poorer the world over.
00:12:53.000We've got a fantastic show for you today.
00:12:56.000We're gonna be, well as well as addressing that question, and talking about the removal of the banker bonus caps in this country.
00:13:04.000We're gonna be talking about congressional politics over there in America.
00:13:09.000What do we talk about in that video again, Gal?
00:13:11.000Well, we're talking about the revolving door and the increasingly, uh, the way it's increasingly just openly talked about and laughed about in, uh, in Senates.
00:17:47.000I don't know, because sometimes, there was a time where I pretended to be Arthur for a fee, and some say it was the best rendering of Arthur that ever happened.
00:18:00.000I looked at it lately, and what it was, I thought, there's a bit at the beginning of the film where I dress up as Batman, so I thought I'd show my kids, because they like Batman.
00:18:08.000I showed her, my older kid, goes, yeah, look at this.
00:18:10.000Like, I thought maybe she'd think it was Batman, but no, she weren't happy.
00:19:12.000Put yourself equidistant between the two of them, particularly now you've not got royalty to fall back on.
00:19:17.000You need to maintain your balance at all costs, is what I would say.
00:19:21.000Also, they're still going to be called the Count and Countess of Monpezat, which isn't exactly... they're not exactly blending in with the Everyman, are they?
00:19:28.000Oh, it was just a humble Count and Countess of Monpezat!
00:19:31.000We learned our Countessing on the streets the hard way!
00:19:34.000Yeah, that's not... that's hardly a normal life.
00:19:38.000It's not a tale of Dickensian depravity, is it, that being a Countess?
00:19:45.000I'm going to back that plucky little Countess to make her own way in life.
00:19:50.000Liz Truss, she's the Prime Minister of this country that we live in.
00:19:54.000She defends oil profits and uncapping banker bonuses.
00:19:58.000I want to have a little look at this because if there's one piece of news that gives you a rough sketch of the problem of national and international politics, it's this one.
00:20:09.000Liz Truss, in this brief 40-second clip, You'll see her neglect her obligation towards the people that elected her in favour of defending a globalist corporate agenda, suggest that Shell oil board holders are just average Joes.
00:21:49.000Quantitative easing was a bit like free money when trillions of dollars appeared sort of from nowhere to bail out fraudulent bankers in the crisis of 2008.
00:22:00.000Yeah, that sort of seemed like free money.
00:22:02.000We've got to be very careful if the UK gets a reputation for arbitrarily taking money in tax that we've not sort of done through the official tax system.
00:22:12.000When you say that the UK can't get a reputation for arbitrarily giving out money, who is that reputation among?
00:22:19.000That's among, I would suggest, the global corporate elite.
00:22:23.000Who are you going to get a reputation on?
00:22:24.000Is there some sort of lunch club that countries go to?
00:22:48.000The NHS is of course the health service that we have in this country, the UK, where if you hurt yourself, people don't see it as an opportunity to earn a quick buck.
00:22:58.000So the amount of money held in offshore tax accounts is enough to pay for the entire staff bill of a nation's health service.
00:23:07.000Then of course the Tories have raised, well in 2017 had raised one million through Britain's in tax havens.
00:23:14.000You probably don't want to help them out.
00:24:05.000No problem there, that'll take care of itself.
00:24:07.000So you've got Harris not knowing the difference between North and South and Biden not knowing the difference between dead and alive in terms of that clip the other day.
00:24:14.000You know when he talked about Jackie Wolofsky, who he referred to as, he said, where's Jackie?
00:24:21.000I suppose of the divisions to not be able to recognize the distinction between North and South, that's, yeah, that's a problem, but difference between death and life, that's pretty fundamental to not be able to observe that.
00:24:33.000He would not make a very good coroner, would he?
00:24:56.000Of course, the news in your country, America, there is dominated by this ongoing hurricane, Don Lemon.
00:25:03.000There's nothing that man won't try to politicise.
00:25:06.000Now me, personally, I feel like our attitude towards the planet should be one of reverence, high regard and love.
00:25:12.000But I know a lot of you are cynical about the climate change movement because you think it ultimately leads to the instantiation of corporate interests.
00:25:18.000Me, generally speaking, I would say look after the planet in any way that you can.
00:25:23.000But Don Lemon is overtly politicising this meteorologist's report.
00:25:29.000This person's like a dyed-in-the-wool meteorologist Just wants to talk about weather.
00:25:33.000Don Lemon, you've got an axe to grind.
00:25:58.000...around the inner eye wall, and that's basically the second eye wall has over... Can you stop saying eye wall?
00:26:04.000It's not a thing that everybody knows about.
00:26:07.000...the original eye wall, and that should arrest development.
00:26:11.000Listen, I'm just trying to get that you said you wanted to talk about climate change, but what... I don't think he did say that he wanted to talk about climate change, did he?
00:26:17.000No, he said we can talk about it at a later time.
00:26:28.000I don't think you can link climate change to any one event.
00:26:32.000On the whole, on the cumulative, climate change may be making storms worse, but to link it to any one event... I like this, because this meteorologist is sort of devoted to a particular academic discipline.
00:26:46.000He's a scientist, so he's not going to be inclined to politicize something unless he's got the data in front of him that Tells you explicitly that that's what's happening.
00:26:57.000But Don Lemon, like, in his sort of attempts to convey a particular agenda, firstly, he just sort of uses power of persuasion, but ultimately resorts to, like, childishness and self-centeredness.
00:27:50.000Okay, it's time for us to dive a little bit deeper into a news story.
00:27:55.000Today we are asking broadly, is the system deliberately making you poorer?
00:27:58.000And it's hard not to think that it might be.
00:28:01.000when you are confronted with the revolving door.
00:28:04.000This little clip, loads of you will have seen it already.
00:28:06.000It's Troy Hollingsworth, who's the ninth richest person in Congress, with a personal estimated wealth of $75 million, just joshing with members of the banking industry about a new appointment that they're making.
00:28:20.000It's time for us to move towards our glorious in-depth item.
00:28:34.000As a congress member openly brags about a staffer leaving to work in Wall Street, we ask you, why are they not even hiding the revolving door anymore?
00:28:45.000You've long known that there's a revolving door between Wall Street and Congress.
00:28:50.000You know because we've told you, you've told us, we tell each other that people in Congress own stocks and shares in the companies that they regulate.
00:28:58.000You know about the lobbying money that provides the mulch that makes the swamp That Trump said he was going to drain, but I don't know if he drained it.
00:29:06.000Well, surely you will have seen this week that a member of Congress was openly bragging about a staffer going to join Wall Street.
00:29:18.000During a bank oversight hearing this week, Republican Representative Trey Hollingsworth boasted that one of his staffers would soon be leaving Congress to work on Wall Street, offering a glimpse of the legalised corruption that permeates the highest levels of the US political system.
00:29:32.000She's very, very excited, said Hollingsworth, whose past campaigns were funded heavily by the finance and investment industries.
00:29:38.000Hollingsworth is worth about $75 million, making him the ninth richest member of Congress.
00:29:44.000Let's have a look at the moment that it happened so we can judge for ourselves whether it's the way that you want America to be run or not.
00:29:52.000The gentleman from Indiana, Mr. Hollingsworth, is now recognized for five minutes.
00:31:42.000I'm excited to be here with each of you.
00:31:43.000Before I get started on my questions, Mr. Moynihan, I wanted to let you know, Saruthi, raise your hand, Saruthi.
00:31:50.000She has been my team member for a couple of years now, but on Monday, she becomes a Bank of America team member, about which she is very, very excited, so I hope you'll take good care of her and know and recognize the talent that she has shown already in our office.
00:32:03.000I'm sure she'll do the same at Bank of America.
00:32:05.000We will do that, and her father already works for us, so he'll take care of it.
00:32:14.000Like, just remember that it's not that long ago that the financial industry, and I'm not suggesting that it directly correlates to any of the individuals in this video, but the financial industry more broadly brought America to its knees.
00:32:28.000Created a recession not seen since the 1930s.
00:32:33.000Born out of it was the Occupy movement and new forms of populism that are hated by the Democrat establishment all emerged out of financial corruption and reactions to financial corruption.
00:32:45.000We're at the point where it's kind of just joked about.
00:32:47.000And what I don't like about this also is the kind of piety when talking about cultural issues.
00:34:20.000Let me know in the comments because I want to learn more.
00:34:22.000At the moment I think this is so deeply systemic that no sort of Charismatic figure from either side, whether it's someone slick and charming like Obama or bombastic and funny like Trump.
00:34:33.000I don't think anyone's gonna come out of that system.
00:34:36.000We did a video the other day, Obama boy in the stock act.
00:35:11.000Well, I appreciate the opportunity to chat about some of these issues today.
00:35:14.000Do you think there's any bit of him now, the bit where he's gone, and now I appreciate the opportunity, he's gone, oh shit, this looks like we're all mates and I couldn't possibly regulate these people because we're all working for one another and we operate in this company.
00:35:58.000And then on Saturday, I felt that there was some spiritual value and meaning in my life and that we were able to accept that people were different and had different value systems but could kind of get along.
00:36:07.000It all came out of that room where people were going, haha, Sarah starts on Monday.
00:36:11.000We've already got her father at the back.
00:36:24.000I appreciate the opportunity to chat about some of these issues today.
00:36:27.000What I'm really interested in is the state of the economy.
00:36:30.000Actually, I'm in the state of the economy, that's why I come here.
00:36:33.000I get up every morning with my 75 million dollars and my family at all work at various Wall Street banks.
00:36:40.000What is the state of the economy so I can continue to steal from it?
00:36:45.000Sounds like a mad conspiracy theorist.
00:36:46.000Neither do I want to sound reductive and naive.
00:36:48.000I'm simply saying that that exchange demonstrates to you the true nature of congressional politics and its relationship with the financial industry.
00:36:58.000I don't think they're all sort of lined up being pals, having a barbecue, doing can-cans or whatever.
00:37:03.000I'm saying simply that that's a sort of a glimpse It's at the reality of the system that they work very hard to pretend it's all about merit and hard work and stuff you don't understand.
00:37:14.000We had no choice but to do the quantitative easing package.
00:37:35.000Because what it looks like is they're all mates and they know each other and like that woman and her dad all work for the bank and the bank is funding that geezer's campaign and so that geezer don't regulate the bank's problems.
00:37:53.000It's like you're all on a journey trying to improve as individuals.
00:37:56.000But what I'm saying is the systems that we live within are Accentuating our lower nature, let's call it greed, selfishness, you know what I mean, Sesame Street stuff, instead of kindness, compassion, selflessness.
00:38:08.000So what kind of life are we going to end up with if all of the power is centralised around people that are running on their lowest possible motives?
00:38:16.000Not saying Mike Ollingsworth is bad, or the head of JP Morgan or whatever, I don't know them, I bet they're alright.
00:38:22.000I bet if you met them somewhere and chatted, they're alright.
00:38:26.000The exchange offered a rare on-camera look at the revolving door between Congress and the financial industry, as well as the remarkably cosy relationship between lawmakers on the House Financial Services Committee and big banks.
00:38:37.000Like, we talk to you all the time about this.
00:38:39.000There are people regulating industries that they directly benefit from.
00:38:44.000How can they reliably be asked to regulate that?
00:38:48.000The revolving door between committees that oversee the nation's banks spins particularly fast.
00:38:53.000Many lawmakers and aides involved in crafting and watering down Wall Street regulations in the wake of the 2008 financial crash went on to take jobs at large financial institutions.
00:39:05.000You remember at the time they went, oh so bad this has happened, we're gonna bail out the banks and we're gonna teach them a lesson.
00:39:12.000They created regulations and they watered down those regulations and then they went on like old laughing boys mate to Get jobs in the financial industry.
00:39:22.000Oh, that's so complicated, but I can't understand that.
00:39:24.000It's sort of, I suppose to a layman like me, it sounds like you gave them really shady, easy regulations and then they gave you jobs.
00:39:31.000And if you'd have served the American people instead of serving the financial industry, you'd have gone, these lot should all go to jail.
00:39:37.000These people should be bailed out instead of those banks.
00:39:40.000Here's how we'll ensure that never happens again.
00:39:42.000We'll look into all the people who got massive bonuses during that time.
00:39:45.000We're going to take all those bonuses back.
00:39:47.000We're going to take this value off of these banks.
00:39:48.000We're going to return that to the economy.
00:39:49.000We're going to nationalise these into... All of these kind of things didn't happen, and to reward them for not doing that, They gave them jobs.
00:39:57.000That's like trusting your right hand to stop your left hand from masturbating.
00:40:01.000Public Citizen has estimated that in the midst of the economic crisis, the financial services industry deployed more than 1,400 former federal employees, including ex-committee staffers, to lobby Congress on banking issues.
00:40:13.000So far in 2022, commercial banks have spent over $30 million lobbying Congress, 61% to Republicans and 39% to Democrats.
00:40:22.000Perhaps you're a person who prefers the left side of the congressional system and you think, oh, well, that was a Republican person.
00:40:28.000But 61% of the $30 million spent lobbying Congress was spent on Republicans and 39% to Democrats.
00:40:37.000I mean, elections are a lot closer in your country, but it's not clear enough, is it?
00:40:42.000In October 2021, Democrats scaled back plans for a crackdown on tax cheating, bowing to an aggressive lobbying campaign by the banking industry.
00:42:34.000Liz Trust, the recently elected Prime Minister of the UK, not elected by people of course, elected by her own party.
00:42:42.000We saw her in that clip earlier say there's no such thing as free money.
00:42:47.000When money is managed in the manner that it is with quantitative easing, accessible to people within a certain industry but not available to people at large, how can you ever have reasonable, realistic change without popular movements, without ordinary people coming together?
00:43:03.000It is a great honour for me to introduce our guest today, Mick Lynch, the leader of the Rail and Maritime and Train Workers Union.
00:43:56.000It's become a little bit nullified, stultified.
00:43:59.000Like in ordinary politics, it doesn't seem there's any vibrancy.
00:44:02.000And yet, without strong unions, how can ordinary people ever come together to confront established problems?
00:44:08.000Well, looking at me, you'd wonder why it looks a bit old-fashioned, but we've got to link up.
00:44:13.000I mean, the workplace is a really important place.
00:44:15.000We spend at least a third of our time at work, and we've got to get a square deal.
00:44:20.000And if we get a square deal at work, the rest of the communities will follow.
00:44:23.000So if you look what's happening, people being exploited on a gross level, In the UK, in America, all around the world, people have lost the right to have dignity and respect in the workplace, as well as getting a fair day's wage and fair benefits and all the rest of it.
00:44:37.000So the unions have got to come out of the workplace and into the communities and link up with all these growing movements.
00:44:43.000You've got people now, which wasn't a phenomenon when I was young, We've got identity politics who want to assert their own identities on the world and express themselves.
00:44:54.000We've got the traditional campaigns about pay and conditions.
00:44:57.000And we've got to make sure we're all linked up together so that we can show the bosses, the people that run the world, that we have got our own voice and we can link up.
00:45:07.000No matter what our background, whether it's an ethnic background, a national background, religious belief or whatever, we've got to link up.
00:45:13.000And if you see the women in Iran this week, if you see the people struggling all over the world.
00:45:18.000In India last year, they had the biggest strike in the history of humanity.
00:45:22.000Three and a half million farmers went on strike.
00:45:26.000Because of the laws the Indian government brought in to do the farmers down to bring modern farming techniques.
00:45:31.000So we've got the ability to link up in all our communities and across the world to get a better deal for all of us so that we feel we've got some control of the world in which we live.
00:45:41.000And at the moment, most people feel it's out of control and they're just being exploited and directed not just in the money they earn, but in the way that they think, and
00:45:51.000the way that they react with each other, and the way they interact in society.
00:45:55.000We've got to feel that we've got a stake and a say in society.
00:45:59.000This imagined distinction between people that identify with traditional
00:46:04.000cultural ideology and progressive cultural ideology, I feel is one of the divisions that has to be mended.
00:46:11.000This Enough is Enough protest that takes place tomorrow in support of your union's strikes is perhaps one example of how different groups can come together, coalesce around one protest movement.
00:46:24.000Can you explain a little bit about what's happening tomorrow?
00:46:26.000So some unions have got a bit of power left.
00:46:29.000So railway workers and postal workers that are out have obviously got the ability to take action.
00:46:34.000But it's our responsibility to link up with the powerless or the people who don't know how to organise.
00:46:39.000And that could be from saving your local nursery to saving something big in your society like the NHS or the education service.
00:46:47.000So we know how to organise, but we've got to spread that out and we've got to link up.
00:46:50.000So tomorrow, we're going to ask people who are campaigning on all these local issues, or anything they're angry about in this society, to come and support the workers that are on strike.
00:47:01.000Because if we win and show trust and quasi-quarteing and the powers that be, that we have got an active voice and a say, then we can give them hope that they can change their community, whether it's on a council estate or housing scheme, Whether you're angry about fracking, or the environment, or food, or whatever it is you're angry about.
00:47:20.000If you're organizing, you can make these link-ups and connections through new media, but old-fashioned techniques, and bring the generations together, as well as all the diversity that we've got.
00:47:31.000Diversity is wonderful, but unity is powerful, and that's what we've got to have.
00:47:36.000Put aside our differences, and make the things that bring us together, which is the preservation of our planet, Earning a decent wage, getting good conditions, but also dignity, as I've said already.
00:47:47.000The dignity of life and the dignity of work and the ability to live freely, the title of your show, is what it's all about.
00:47:54.000We've got to bring people together, like we did in America in the 60s with the civil rights movement, started off as a minority situation, ended up Making the president, several presidents, move their responses and change the laws, change the state's laws, change the federal laws.
00:48:12.000We had that in our country with the Racial Equality Acts and the Sex Discrimination Acts and the stuff about women's freedoms and all the rest of it.
00:48:21.000It's when you link up together rather than sit in your own pillar that you make change in society.
00:48:26.000And the people have got to relearn that.
00:48:28.000They used to have it, I think, in the old days.
00:48:30.000So you've got to learn what our forebears did but use these new techniques, social media, different techniques are coming together to say we're together and we're going to change this world for the better.
00:48:40.000So there is action taking place in 50 cities across the UK tomorrow.
00:48:45.000There's a link in the description if you want to support that action.
00:48:49.000I was really interested to hear you talk about the agricultural protests in India because many people believe that those protests are a result of Globalist edicts, top-down ideologies, out of places like the WEF, out of new conditions placed on fertilizers and stuff, that when it hits the reality of agriculture, it impoverishes farmers and makes their practices impossible.
00:49:51.000So you need education reform, health reform, you need welfare spending to bring those families that are the poorest with you.
00:49:58.000So when a farmer is subject to a change that they've not participated in, they didn't participate in making the change, They feel that they're a subject of society, rather than a person who's active in it.
00:50:10.000So we've got to give people the ability to be activists and influencers in their own society.
00:50:16.000When you feel powerless, you feel that you're just the object of what's going on.
00:50:21.000And that's what self-help and self-emancipation Somebody once said, is the job of the working people themselves.
00:50:27.000So they need organisations in which they can act, rather than just react to a single event.
00:50:34.000So you need a whole programme of change that working people feel they're in control of.
00:50:39.000Mick, how do you create a sense of cohesion and support for industrial action, where most people feel like when their trains are on strike or whatever, this is like a massive pain in the arse, I can't get anywhere, like James over here, he's running a marathon, Uh, on Saturday, it's the London Marathon on Saturday.
00:50:53.000So, like, you know, which, like, in a way, it raises loads of money for charity, and I sometimes think, bloody hell, a lot of those causes should be supported by the state and by infrastructure.
00:51:01.000Anyway, James is doing it for, like, kids' cancer charity, but in a properly civilized world, children with cancer will be supported in some, uh, in a way that's a little more reliable than people running 26 miles.
00:51:14.000How do you help people to understand the necessity for industrial action and so that people don't... We've been trying to kind of see it as a massive pain in the arse.
00:51:24.000Well, you get nothing without struggle.
00:51:25.000So we wouldn't have the welfare state in this country if the trade unions hadn't made it happen.
00:51:30.000We wouldn't have got anywhere in America, we would not have abolished slavery at that time unless there was a massive conflagration to make that happen.
00:51:38.000We wouldn't have got civil rights, we wouldn't have got gay rights without people willing to take the pain of making change.
00:51:44.000Now I don't want to impose inconvenience and disruption on people.
00:51:48.000But if we win this dispute, if we get a result, if the posties get a dispute, the nurses and the doctors that are coming in to struggle, we will all be better off because it will make the ruling class, that old term, think I've got to share some of this power with people, I've got to distribute some of this wealth, but I've also got to allow them or give room for people to have influence.
00:52:11.000People used to understand that a bit more, and the job of the trade union is to be out in those communities explaining self-organization and struggle that comes from below, rather than just meaningful good deeds and meaningful papers written by the eminent people.
00:52:26.000We've got to make that change ourselves.
00:52:28.000There'll be no change without the ordinary people of this world making it happen and that's what we've got to be part of.
00:52:34.000I suppose we have to recognise that the establishment itself is invested only in its own sustenance.
00:52:38.000Even that story we've just done about congressional corruption and the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street is a demonstration That the system will always preserve itself.
00:52:49.000New legislation's being introduced to replace that stock act, but as usual, there's a loophole that means that people in Congress ultimately will be able to own stocks and shares, or someone close to them will be able to.
00:52:59.000That suggests, or demonstrates in fact, that power will have to come from outside of the normal spaces.
00:53:06.000We will have to move beyond the usual democratic means.
00:53:09.000It will involve protest, it will involve grassroots action.
00:53:13.000If you're interested in real change, We're going to have to do a few things, including overcoming the kind of prejudices that are stoked in order to prevent ordinary people coming together.
00:53:22.000If we sort of see ourselves as divided along cultural, religious, racial or identity lines, how will we ever challenge meaningful establishment power?
00:53:32.000Unless we're willing in ourselves to look beyond those kind of ingrained prejudices, those trained prejudices, and come together in support of ordinary people, who want to have power in their own lives.
00:53:43.000Whether it's around, as Mick is explaining to us, around workplace action, like these rail strikes, or smaller community-oriented action, there cannot be meaningful change.
00:53:56.000So I suppose tomorrow, and the Enough is Enough campaign, is an opportunity for people to support striking workers.
00:54:03.000And as you say, whatever community issue you've got some sort of gripe with, this is a chance to get out there.
00:54:10.000Exactly, but I really take your point that we've got to overcome our own inbuilt prejudices, stuff that was fed into us as kids.
00:54:16.000I mean, I've had a struggle with identity policy.
00:54:19.000It was something in my generation we never dealt with, and I've had to say... What do you mean?
00:54:23.000Well, because we were, you know, gay people's rights and transgender...
00:54:27.000All non-binary, I never knew what that meant two years ago.
00:54:30.000And I have to overcome that internally.
00:54:33.000But now I've got to the position where I say my job is to facilitate people who are struggling and be tolerant and allow them to come into our movement.
00:54:41.000I could just say it's railway workers, blokes out in orange digging up the railway, but it's got to be part of a bigger movement that allows space for everyone.
00:54:50.000So that means we've got to challenge the religious groups that are sometimes Socially conservative to fight for workers rights.
00:54:56.000We've got to get people who may have been had reactionary politics to change Toleration of each other is the star of unity and that certainly sounds a bit hippie ish It is but it is absolutely true if we're all going to be united together.
00:55:09.000We've got to put down our weapons and We've got to love one another.
00:55:48.000This was not a time where minorities hugely benefited.
00:55:54.000I feel that we're deliberately distracted, that these kind of divisions are stoked, and we should be looking for opportunities to unite and come together.
00:56:02.000And the easiest one to stoke is migration.
00:56:05.000So you've got the issue in America about coming over the border from Latin America.
00:56:09.000We've got the issue here right now about people coming across the Channel.
00:56:38.000Nobody should be illegal in any society.
00:56:41.000If they're here they should be treated exactly the same way that those of us been here a while should be treated.
00:56:46.000And that's one of the big prejudices we've all got to overcome is stop hating other people because the people in control tell us to hate them.
00:56:55.000Unity is the answer and that's what we've got to strive for.
00:56:57.000I feel like the thing the establishment fears more than anything else is ordinary people coming together in a focused way, understanding that new systems can be created among us if we're willing to communicate.
00:57:09.000Hey mate, I sort of want some kind of absolution from you.
00:57:12.000When I was a kid, I inadvertently did some scabbing.
00:57:15.000Now what happened was, it was Christmas time, and I feel like the postal union, like the mailman union, or mailperson union, they was all out on strike.
00:57:22.000I didn't know that, I was doing work for a temp agency, and I'd done some deliveries, you know what I mean, I worked as a postman, I was only 18, I had slippery shoes on, I was skidding about, I was delivering letters, the mail sack was over my shoulder, it weighed heavy on my mind, as does the guilt of the issue.
00:57:37.000Can you absolve me from the guilt of working over Christmas, delivering letters, some of which I did steal as a matter of fact, that was wrong, if I know that was wrong, you shouldn't steal people.
00:57:45.000It's still in effect now, you ought to be careful about that.
00:58:04.000The next time you're called to a bit of solidarity, whether it's industrial action or supporting a minority group or a campaign, that's where you get the absolution.
00:58:13.000It's the work you do that gives you the better feeling about yourself.
00:58:16.000And if you can support something that you may have found challenging in the past, as I've just described, That's even better.
00:58:22.000It's easy to support things that everybody can support.
00:58:25.000It's supporting people that really need help, that are really stigmatising society that's a really important bit.
00:58:57.000Well, if Priti Patel finds out or one of these Tories, you could be banged up forever.
00:59:01.000I'd like to say that I said all these things simply to impress Mick and for a little bit of a laugh.
00:59:06.000Also, I guess what we have to recognise is that we have to recognise the significance of solidarity.
00:59:15.000We have to overcome the idea that these movements are a thing of the past.
00:59:19.000If you consider that the Amazon workers in Tilbury, near where I'm from, in Greys, I think had some action lately.
00:59:27.000And of course, the invisible workers that are within big tech An emergent union movement, because frankly it's needed there, isn't it?
00:59:37.000So wherever you're watching this in the world, if you're watching this in the United States of America, there is a necessity for this kind of infrastructure and for these kind of movements.
00:59:45.000Yeah, I think there's an ABC union getting together in Silicon Valley, but outsourcing, the people not working directly, is a big scourge of working people.
00:59:53.000And if you look in our communities, many people are suffering from that, and we've got to identify them.
00:59:57.000And the unions such as in Amazon, the big unions like GMB and Unite, I've got to come into those places and help them.
01:00:03.000In America, the Teamsters are trying to get it going, but there's little emergent unions as well.
01:02:08.000All that money that we raise from doing things like that community, by the way, we use to support mental health charities and addiction charities like Friendly House in Los Angeles, BAC O'Connor in Stoke.
01:02:18.000Both of those places are treatment centres that help people with alcohol and addiction issues.
01:02:23.000But we also make individual grants, so if you know someone, or you yourself, ...are suffering from mental health issues or addiction issues, we'll help you.
01:02:29.000Not like we'll give you 500 quid or 500 bucks so you can go and get off your nut.
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01:02:44.000All of the money that we raise goes to the Stay Free Foundation, which also just helps people with mental health issues and addiction issues.
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01:03:00.000Because I was concentrating on Mick there and making sure that we properly supported him, because he's a proper serious geezer, isn't he, Mick?
01:03:32.000What I thought would be interesting to talk about would be The TV, the media coverage, because you mentioned the Indian protests and that's something that was just not covered over here in the same way that loads of protests around the world just don't seem to be covered by the media.
01:03:47.000And I know that he has had some pretty tricky interviews with British press over the last year or so.
01:03:53.000So why is there a demonization of coming together?
01:04:06.000And when you see people in Sri Lanka, or the Indian farmer movement, or the Dutch farm movement, or the German farm movement, when you see that, when you start to recognise, hang about, we've got more in common with one another than we have with the centralised elite powers that seek to maintain their dominion.
01:04:23.000Once those stories start to be told, It kind of is sort of encouraging. It's a bit rabble rousing.
01:04:28.000Do you think I made a mistake telling him about the nicking them letters?
01:04:31.000No, I don't think he's gonna do you for it. I think he's got more important things at the moment.
01:04:34.000He's a bit busy isn't he? He's got a lot of time to deal with that.
01:04:36.000Alright, now it's time for us to look at some fake comments to see what kind of stuff you're saying.
01:04:42.000What have we got? What have people been sending us, Sue?
01:05:00.000Also, they do say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but it looks like it's actually going to be carried out there in a terrible deluge.
01:05:07.000What else is going on in World of Comments?
01:05:18.000Think about this, when you consider an executive at Apple, a big tech company, slick Silicon Valley executives, possibly wearing a little bit of cashmere, some cool horn-rimmed specs, this is a proper exec who understands big tech.
01:05:35.000Have a look at this geezer though, in reality.
01:05:37.000Good sir, your car's awesome, what do you do for a living?
01:05:45.000There's too many things about this clip that I'm worried about.
01:06:40.000Yeah, if you've got a 500 grand car, you don't want something that you have to put your back out every time you emerge or enter the vehicle, do you?
01:07:04.000We know from movies, don't we, that it never ends well when this happens.
01:07:07.000If you think of films like The Mummy and that, it's not like, oh, we opened that tomb and it was really brilliant and we all learned a valuable lesson.
01:07:13.000Or Indiana Jones and his various, like, crusades and stuff.
01:07:17.000Whenever they start pulling, like, a concrete lid, obviously it won't be concrete, it's a relatively modern thing, but, like, a slab off the top of stuff, it's never like someone comes out and goes, I've got some lottery numbers!
01:07:27.000It's always like a terrifying green mist that eviscerates you and melts your skin and that.
01:08:53.000Doug Ramsey was arrested over the weekend for allegedly biting a man's nose after an altercation following a college football game in Arkansas.
01:09:01.000He was charged with terroristic threatening and third-degree battery.
01:09:04.000A lot of these people that are running sort of modern corporations, they're savage, aren't they?
01:09:23.000That's put me at, like, yeah, it does somewhat challenge the idea that Beyond Meat is an ethical alternative when the people that are running the place bite chunks out of people's heads when the mood takes them.
01:11:20.000We're going to talk about that in depth on Monday.
01:11:23.000Firstly, before we go though, let's have a quick look at Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, boy band member, occasional dresser-upper, is in London and identifiable by that London bus in the background.
01:11:36.000Let's have a little look at him having a little sing song.
01:11:39.000What he's got is the vibe of a person who thinks they're good at singing.
01:12:27.000Fairness, justice, kindness, but it seems like a sort of an odd lubricant for new tyranny in effect is what's happening because the way them truckers were treated, The bank accounts being frozen, the sort of inability for them to have democratic recourse.
01:12:42.000That's why I love someone like Vandana Shiva, who'll come on, tell it how it is.
01:12:46.000Like, not willing to be divided along racial lines or cultural lines.
01:12:51.000Recognising, ultimately, that what we're interested in is the ability to run our own lives as individuals.
01:12:56.000The ability to run our own communities collectively.
01:12:59.000That's why on this channel, we don't care if you love Trump, we don't care if you hate Trump.
01:13:03.000We don't care if you love Biden, we don't care if you loathe Biden.
01:13:06.000We would suggest that in spite of these superficial divisions, we have more in common with one another than separates us.
01:13:13.000And if we're willing to overlook these exacerbated differences, we will be able to formulate something new and beautiful.
01:13:20.000Remember, they fear nothing more than ordinary people coming together in pursuit of a common goal.
01:13:25.000I'm not suggesting centralised power or some crazy one-world government.
01:13:29.000I think more democracy, more dissolution of power, more ability to run your own life and run your own communities.
01:14:33.000Our live stream here on Rumble for today is over.
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01:15:01.000We want to have conversations with people across the political, religious, and cultural spectrum.
01:15:06.000We want to find out what the truth is.
01:15:07.000That's why you're going to love our show on Monday, where we're talking about the Nord Stream pipeline and looking at, like, there's some amazing evidence.
01:15:14.000Joe Biden, before we go, I'm just going to tease this with you.
01:15:17.000Joe Biden said, like, we're always showing you, like, the silly side of Biden, because it's a side... Biden!
01:15:28.000That's the side of the man that I enjoy.
01:15:30.000But take a moment to look at Sinister Joe.
01:15:32.000This is in February, earlier this year, when talking about the likelihood of conflict with Russia and the potential energy crisis that may ensue.
01:17:36.000Also joining us on the show is Stella Assange, who's related to...
01:17:41.000By virtue of a marital ceremony, Julian Assange, who's banged up in Belmarsh, Nick, right now, is seemingly for revealing information that is at odds with the agenda of, you know, powerful government.
01:17:53.000So we'll talk to Stella Assange next week.
01:17:56.000So there's loads, loads of stuff that you ain't gonna get.
01:18:22.000Oh, oh, you've got to help yourself, don't you?
01:18:23.000You're going to need some sort of system.
01:18:25.000You're going to need a little bit of help.
01:18:26.000All right, we're going to wrap this up now, but if you're a member of the Stay Free AF community, we're going to answer some of your questions in a minute.
01:18:34.000To the rest of you, I'll see you later.
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