Stay Free - Russel Brand - Stay Free with Russell Brand #014 - Biden's Cannabis Prison Pardon - For No One

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00:13:26.000 In this video, you're going to see a video of a video of a video of a video of a video.

00:13:29.000 In this video, you're going to see the future.

00:13:40.000 Hey, alright, welcome to Stay Free.

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00:14:06.000 With me is the producer of the show, Gareth Roy, and over there is Suby and Will.

00:14:10.000 They help us with your comments, so if you've got anything you want to add, anything you want to add to the chat or the comments, you can do that.

00:14:17.000 Of course, not if you're in your car right now listening to a podcast, You'd be asking us to master time travel, and I actually just find punctuality in itself quite difficult.

00:14:27.000 Like, that's just travelling to a place.

00:14:29.000 That's not even... That's place travel.

00:14:31.000 That's not time travel.

00:14:32.000 Although, what about when you get on a plane, and then you arrive somewhere at a different time than... That's still travel.

00:14:38.000 Because... What about... Well, like, they say that helicopter travel, that's like time travel, because all of a sudden, you're just somewhere else.

00:14:38.000 Right.

00:14:45.000 Yeah.

00:14:46.000 That's right.

00:14:46.000 In an helicopter.

00:14:47.000 So we're all doing it in our own way.

00:14:49.000 Because, you know, when you get to a place on a plane and then you get back and you say, oh, in my time, back where I was, it's actually 6pm tomorrow.

00:14:57.000 And you're like, well, have we time travelled?

00:14:59.000 The answer is no.

00:15:00.000 It's still, like, the same time.

00:15:00.000 The answer is no.

00:15:03.000 The truth is, is there is only the present moment.

00:15:05.000 You know that, don't you, darlings?

00:15:07.000 Like, yeah, we are all travelling through time.

00:15:09.000 That's a good point.

00:15:10.000 Little IT guy says, aren't we all travelling through time?

00:15:13.000 Little IT guy, you're right, we're wrong.

00:15:16.000 Wittgenstein said, if you consider eternity not to be a sort of a sequence of time, but the present moment, then the way to eternity is the present.

00:15:25.000 In fact, Will, can you find that Wittgenstein quote on the eternal present?

00:15:29.000 First up, a Wittgenstein quote on the eternal present, then not long after that, the news, which of course is about things that are new.

00:15:37.000 Yeah.

00:15:38.000 When I was at school, which I was, I don't know if you know that about me.

00:15:40.000 Not for very long, I imagine.

00:15:41.000 I tried not to stay too long because I found it confusing.

00:15:44.000 That was the first time when I knew I didn't trust any systems was school.

00:15:48.000 I thought, I don't like this.

00:15:49.000 People and family, like all of the systems, I thought, this doesn't seem right.

00:15:53.000 I didn't trust none of it.

00:15:54.000 I remember reading a note from your teachers that had to go to your mum that said Russell hasn't turned up to school or he's late all the time or something and you actually wrote it didn't you?

00:16:05.000 I was actually corresponding.

00:16:07.000 I was playing all of the parts.

00:16:08.000 I was playing the teacher.

00:16:10.000 It was like I was one limitless consciousness expressing myself for all the various nodes of attention but also what I was doing was faking notes to bunk off PE because I was shy about not being good enough at PE.

00:16:20.000 One time there goes So, talking about the news, it was Mr. Hall who was the headmaster of what you lot would call, probably, grade school, if you're an American.

00:16:26.000 But it's when you're about that old.

00:16:28.000 You know when you're about that old, you don't know much yet, but you've realised, hang on a minute, I'm being lied to.

00:16:32.000 This isn't the limitless oneness I was promised.

00:16:34.000 You found Wittgenstein's quote yet, mate?

00:16:36.000 Wittgenstein's quote on the eternal present.

00:16:38.000 That's quite a lot.

00:16:39.000 Yeah, he's got a lot to say on that.

00:16:42.000 If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

00:16:51.000 If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, Then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

00:16:59.000 Let us know what you think about that.

00:17:00.000 Let us know what you think about that in the chat or in the comments.

00:17:03.000 Later on, we're doing this really brilliant news item where we look at Joe Biden's recent decision to release anyone, anyone who's in a federal prison just for marijuana.

00:17:16.000 You're out of there!

00:17:17.000 Oh God, yeah.

00:17:18.000 You're free.

00:17:20.000 Thousands of them.

00:17:21.000 Come around if you're in a federal prison for marijuana.

00:17:25.000 There's been no one left.

00:17:27.000 No one's in federal prison for marijuana!

00:17:30.000 So what's going on?

00:17:31.000 What is that story about?

00:17:32.000 I'll tell you what it's about, you know already.

00:17:34.000 It's propaganda.

00:17:35.000 It's approaching the midterms.

00:17:36.000 They've worked out that it was popular.

00:17:38.000 Obviously drug legislation has an interesting history that's often been propagandist.

00:17:42.000 In America, your country, I'm assuming you're in America, let us know where you actually

00:17:46.000 are, I don't mind where you are.

00:17:48.000 Like in your country, the temperance movement, that was a sort of a populist movement, the

00:17:52.000 puritanism around that.

00:17:55.000 Then cannabis was made illegal primarily to sort of irritate, I think, Mexican people, 0.67

00:18:00.000 I'm not being racist, I think that was the law.

00:18:02.000 Opium, it was Chinese people. 1.00

00:18:04.000 I bet all these laws are a bit racist because the assumption is, you know what the Chinese

00:18:07.000 are doing, opium, innit?

00:18:09.000 But that might be the culture of the Chinese then.

00:18:11.000 Anyway, all I'm saying is that often drug legislation, whether it's prohibitive or, you know, letting you do the old drugs, what do I want to say, permissive, like, it's usually propaganda.

00:18:25.000 I.e.

00:18:26.000 no one's going, what's best?

00:18:28.000 What's best?

00:18:29.000 Because if that was true, you wouldn't get a law that released no one from jail, would you?

00:18:34.000 You wouldn't go, we're gonna release everyone from federal prison, that's actually no one.

00:18:38.000 So we're gonna be talking about drug regulation.

00:18:40.000 Are you saying the war on drugs was just to create an underclass?

00:18:42.000 Is that what you're saying?

00:18:43.000 Yeah, basically it was to create an underclass and then to irritate that underclass and now because the underclass is growing because of AI and increased mechanization, the fact is is that not that many people are necessary anymore.

00:18:54.000 There's more of us that is necessary and they're thinking of ways to get rid of us.

00:18:57.000 I don't want to be, you know what I mean, I don't want to be...

00:19:00.000 For the old tin foil hat.

00:19:02.000 And I know a lot of you will be saying about population reduction.

00:19:07.000 Foretaker, wasn't opium bought to China by the British?

00:19:10.000 Yeah, probably.

00:19:11.000 Russell Brand, spiritual, spiritual.

00:19:13.000 Sodomites? 0.98

00:19:14.000 I don't know about that, darling.

00:19:15.000 Hawk Freeman, I only smoke cannabis, I'm now three months sober from alcohol.

00:19:19.000 Well done, well done. 1.00

00:19:20.000 Hawk Freeman, weed doesn't make you stupid. 0.99

00:19:22.000 Yeah, fair enough. 1.00

00:19:23.000 I'm pretty sure.

00:19:24.000 Sorry, Ross.

00:19:25.000 No, I'm just reading stuff that people are saying here.

00:19:27.000 What are you saying?

00:19:28.000 I'm pretty sure we did a story fairly recently about how prison populations have gone up under Biden.

00:19:33.000 Have they?

00:19:34.000 It's interesting when he's talking about releasing people where there is no one to release, but also in general prison populations have gone up, but also the fact that it's pretty profitable.

00:19:43.000 There'll be, yeah, there'll be a prison lobby.

00:19:44.000 Every time you say we're going to reduce the population of prisoners in America, they'll say, oh, loads of them are making agent provocateur knickers and stuff, and loads of them are working in those prisons, plus there's the prison contracts themselves.

00:19:56.000 There's no authenticity of governance.

00:20:00.000 And the simple truth is, I don't think it would be any better if the Republicans got in.

00:20:03.000 I know some of you do.

00:20:05.000 In our country, it's absolute chaos as well.

00:20:07.000 Like our country, Britain, the pound can't keep still for a minute.

00:20:09.000 I think it's about I think it's about there.

00:20:11.000 You'll have to get an economist to correct me, but it's more or less there.

00:20:14.000 The new Chancellor has had to make, well he's just made an emergency statement, and his emergency statement, we've got one, is called Jeremy Hunt, right?

00:20:22.000 Now if you're an English person, you'll have heard of Jeremy Hunt for a while now because he's been floating around in the political scene.

00:20:27.000 The main thing about Jeremy Hunt is when people talk about him, they make an evident and obvious Freudian slip, which I will not make in case it offends you, but there's loads and loads of clips online of people going, I was just talking to Jeremy and then they I have to say the C word, because there's something in them.

00:20:41.000 Either it's because that's what they think about him, or just in their minds they're like, I mustn't say it, I mustn't say it, I'm gonna say it, I can feel myself nearly saying it.

00:20:48.000 Sort of like the yips, you know, with darts or golf, where you go, I can't throw this dart!

00:20:54.000 In all of golf, I can't hit it too much!

00:20:57.000 My father-in-law's like a proper golfer, did you know that?

00:21:00.000 He was excellent.

00:21:01.000 He won't watch this.

00:21:02.000 Anyway, the fact is I'm talking about the yips.

00:21:04.000 It's like a psychological yips.

00:21:05.000 They can't release the word, so they end up saying the C word.

00:21:08.000 But I like the point you make.

00:21:10.000 Like the geezer that was Chancellor about an hour and a half ago, Kwasi Kwarteng, who had to be nutted off because he was making such a bad job of it, because every policy that he introduced in his mini-budget Annihilated British economics.

00:21:22.000 We're now sort of invited to believe that this next person knows exactly what they're doing and as if it's like as if it's sort of money chess.

00:21:30.000 Yeah.

00:21:30.000 But the whole thing... Well he used to be health secretary as well.

00:21:33.000 I mean that's when a lot of people used to see him.

00:21:35.000 Oh that's why!

00:21:36.000 I still find it amazing when they move around as if they're experts in all those things.

00:21:40.000 Like is he just brilliant at everything?

00:21:42.000 I've mastered this now.

00:21:43.000 Yeah.

00:21:44.000 It's money that I know all about now.

00:21:46.000 I don't believe that.

00:21:47.000 I don't believe it.

00:21:48.000 Nor do I. Over in your country, President Biden, that's Joe Biden, the president of your country, commented on British politics while in an ice cream parlour.

00:22:00.000 He transgressed against the protocols that exist between our nations.

00:22:04.000 Our nations that I feel that we built together, member, is our idea to go there.

00:22:09.000 It was our idea to nick it.

00:22:10.000 It was our idea to establish Virginia.

00:22:12.000 I believe we established many of those Caribbean slave colonies as well. 0.98

00:22:17.000 And then, you, very ungrateful, nicked it.

00:22:21.000 Back for yourselves.

00:22:23.000 But also, there's quite a lot of death and genocide involved, I think, historically in that narrative.

00:22:27.000 Anyway, Joe, you're not meant to criticise the leader of another country, are you?

00:22:32.000 Unless it's Putin, then you say, new Hitler, evil.

00:22:36.000 You've got an alliance, that's the point.

00:22:37.000 The alliance.

00:22:39.000 And the alliance is for good stuff, isn't it?

00:22:40.000 That's all the alliance is about, just nice things.

00:22:43.000 We're just a couple of pals helping each other out.

00:22:46.000 Let's have a look at Joe Biden down an ice cream parlour.

00:22:48.000 What I think is troubling about this is that it happens in an ice cream parlour.

00:22:53.000 Why is Joe Biden in an ice cream parlour?

00:22:55.000 We'll show you a video in a minute which gives you a clue as to why Joe Biden might be in a bloody ice cream parlour.

00:23:01.000 But first of all, just look at Joe Biden in an ice cream parlour.

00:23:06.000 I wasn't the only one that thought it was a mistake.

00:23:12.000 What I'm interested in at the moment is everything else that's happening in the ice cream parlor.

00:23:17.000 There's this person behind, the woman here with glasses, there's a couple of other people. 0.99

00:23:21.000 She looked to me like she's part interested in getting an ice cream, and also partly like, he's mad that the president's in this ice cream parlor.

00:23:28.000 I think she works with him, because in a minute she says, Mr. President.

00:23:32.000 Don't she?

00:23:32.000 I thought she got an ice cream and left.

00:23:34.000 Well, she does get an ice cream as well. 0.89

00:23:35.000 You think it's his ice cream or her ice cream?

00:23:37.000 I think they both get one.

00:23:38.000 They're having one each, why not?

00:23:39.000 I see what you mean.

00:23:41.000 But look, she, uh, she... Well, I think that, uh... 0.84

00:23:48.000 It says, alright, she's got her ice cream, he's got his ice cream.

00:23:51.000 It says, flavour every moment in the ice cream.

00:23:55.000 Flavour?

00:23:55.000 It's gotta be flavour in every moment, isn't it?

00:23:57.000 Gotta go, oh, I licked it, and it was vanilla, and then I licked it again, and it was nothingness, it was just the taste of my own tongue.

00:24:03.000 Also, what are they suggesting, that they've got a flavour for every moment?

00:24:06.000 That is, that's a lot of flavours.

00:24:08.000 Because you're gonna go for about 20, in like a moment, that's that long.

00:24:12.000 So that's like, even the more abstract ones, where they're like, do you want an egg flavour ice cream?

00:24:17.000 No, I don't!

00:24:18.000 I don't want egg extracted into a juice and then played out.

00:24:23.000 I don't want that.

00:24:24.000 That's not part of my life.

00:24:25.000 So, like, they reckon they've got one for every single moment.

00:24:28.000 There's some people are clearly normal ice cream shop customers.

00:24:30.000 Yeah, normal people.

00:24:31.000 Now, Joe Biden now is about to drop a bombshell and criticise Liz Truss, our Prime Minister, Different from the front than the side.

00:24:39.000 That's what we say about you.

00:24:40.000 Look at her front on. 1.00

00:24:41.000 She's got one face.

00:24:41.000 Look at her from the side.

00:24:42.000 Another face.

00:24:44.000 She's a peculiar person.

00:24:46.000 Her profile and her front on don't match.

00:24:49.000 If you did a sort of like a mugshot of her, you'd think, is that the same?

00:24:53.000 Like even in the same mugshot, you wouldn't be able to identify her.

00:24:56.000 Let's see him do his thing, gal. 0.99

00:24:56.000 Let's see. 0.99

00:24:58.000 Keep going.

00:25:00.000 All right.

00:25:00.000 The idea.

00:25:03.000 Cutting taxes on the super wealthy at a time when... Anyway, I disagree with the policy, but it's up to Great Britain to make that judgment, not me.

00:25:15.000 What's happened there is he's gone to an ice cream parlor for some reason or another, some sort of photo opportunity.

00:25:20.000 A PR stunt, isn't it?

00:25:21.000 Some sort.

00:25:21.000 PR stunt, there's the... He's probably gone to release people from prison from having too much ice cream.

00:25:26.000 Another one of those policies.

00:25:27.000 We've got to release everyone who's in prison simply because they like to have a different flavour of ice cream every moment.

00:25:32.000 Yeah, there's loads of them in jail. 0.67

00:25:33.000 Putting an inconceivable burden on the state.

00:25:36.000 That's nobody, that's nobody at all.

00:25:36.000 Yeah, that's it.

00:25:38.000 Look at that, what a lot of confectionary to create that moment.

00:25:42.000 All of these sort of CIA secret service people, the inconvenience down the actual ice cream parlour.

00:25:48.000 I bet there's an online interview already of people, oh when he came in he was perfectly polite.

00:25:52.000 That bit of press already exists, I guarantee you.

00:25:54.000 That little bit of propaganda, find it would you will.

00:25:56.000 The bit of propaganda it goes...

00:25:58.000 Yeah, when he came in, he was so friendly.

00:26:00.000 We really liked him.

00:26:00.000 All that stuff.

00:26:01.000 Do you reckon, to be a normal person in there, you have to get screened?

00:26:04.000 Like, what process will there be?

00:26:06.000 Because there's loads of CIA.

00:26:08.000 They're not going to just let anyone in, are they?

00:26:09.000 I know people that their kids are going to the same school as, like, royal children.

00:26:14.000 Yeah.

00:26:15.000 Of course they've got to screen them.

00:26:17.000 But when really they should be screening the Royals.

00:26:20.000 How often is Andrew going to be picking these kids up?

00:26:22.000 Well, once a week.

00:26:23.000 Wednesdays.

00:26:23.000 What day?

00:26:24.000 You'll stay home Wednesdays till you're 25 when you won't be at school anymore.

00:26:29.000 And on the subject of inappropriate jokes about sexuality and powerful people, look Well, not necessarily sexuality.

00:26:35.000 Let's work out what this is.

00:26:37.000 Many of you that are familiar with the President of the United States of America will have sort of been aware of these peculiar interactions he has with young women.

00:26:44.000 I would have thought he's been told enough times now about this hair sniffing to never do that again.

00:26:49.000 Never do it.

00:26:50.000 But look, he does do that now.

00:26:57.000 My filming this knows he's, like, uh-oh, something's gonna happen.

00:27:00.000 He's prepped, isn't he?

00:27:01.000 The guy that's sort of using selfie mode to capture this moment is aware that Biden's about to do something.

00:27:06.000 Now, Biden, he's got to the shoulder.

00:27:08.000 Oh, God.

00:27:09.000 And now, this is what I think is, again, it's Freudian.

00:27:11.000 Like accidentally calling Jeremy Hunt, the new British Chancellor, Jeremy Seaward, What is it that's on Biden's mind to say this to a person?

00:27:20.000 Now, I've got daughters.

00:27:22.000 I'm aware that, you know, that one day they will be adults and that typically that involves Congress of some kind.

00:27:28.000 Hopefully not U.S. 0.93

00:27:29.000 Congress.

00:27:30.000 That's too much corruption for my kids! 0.98

00:27:32.000 I meant sexual Congress of some consensual kind.

00:27:35.000 Let's see what Joe Biden sort of says to this youngster.

00:27:38.000 that also try to study her face his face see if you can understand it

00:27:44.000 like to be any I don't like being approached from that angle no by anyone

00:27:52.000 I don't want to receive news from there.

00:27:53.000 I don't want to receive advice from there.

00:27:55.000 I don't want someone at my shoulder going...

00:27:57.000 I want to give you some sex tips for when you're grown up.

00:28:01.000 Because of course, if you've seen the clip already, maybe you haven't, he says no serious men until you're 30.

00:28:06.000 Or boyfriends or something.

00:28:07.000 Yeah, and I suppose what that means is sexual partners or commitment or is it degrees of sexuality?

00:28:12.000 In any event, that young woman is between 13 and 17, would you guess?

00:28:17.000 Yeah.

00:28:17.000 I would say sort of, in a way, that's not small talk.

00:28:21.000 No.

00:28:22.000 You know, stick to the ice cream or whatever.

00:28:24.000 What's your favourite?

00:28:25.000 I know a place you can get an ice cream for every single moment of the rest of your life.

00:28:28.000 They've got literally infinite flavours.

00:28:30.000 Some of them are disgusting.

00:28:31.000 Slug juice. 0.98

00:28:32.000 But that is less weird and inappropriate than conjecture on her sexual proclivities.

00:28:40.000 I think he does this thing, Biden, where he starts talking and then thinks, oh God, I've started talking, and then just says something mad.

00:28:47.000 Like, he was in an ice cream shop.

00:28:49.000 And he started talking.

00:28:49.000 Right.

00:28:50.000 Before he knew it, he'd upset his alliance with the whole, with the UK.

00:28:54.000 Like, you just need to stop.

00:28:56.000 And now here, he's put his arms, like maybe he thought, it's like my granddaughter, I want to just say hello.

00:29:02.000 And then he's gone, I need to say something.

00:29:04.000 And I don't know, got some weird advice with a stranger.

00:29:07.000 I know what it is.

00:29:08.000 Like, your point is exactly right.

00:29:10.000 I think it's like them old time cars, where you have to rev that engine at the beginning to get it going.

00:29:15.000 So I think when he sees there's an interaction coming, like he's got to do a speech, he's down the ice cream parlour, he's got to comment on the British economy, he's got to make small talk with an adolescent female.

00:29:25.000 He gets the old brain going, fires up them new...

00:29:29.000 And all of the systems are sort of getting all jazzed up.

00:29:33.000 Like, while it's all getting pumped up, once he starts talking, like he's hearing himself talking, and I'm like, what am I saying now?

00:29:39.000 The British made a mistake, you shouldn't be alleviating a tax burden on the super-rich at a time like this.

00:29:43.000 Hold a minute, mate, all you're describing is socialism.

00:29:45.000 Oh no, I'm in an ice cream parlour and I'm quoting Karl Marx! 1.00

00:29:48.000 Shit, back off Joe, back off! 1.00

00:29:50.000 And they're like, oh better do a bit of small talk with this young one. 1.00

00:29:53.000 My, she's attractive, I bet she'll have a lot of boyfriends. 1.00

00:29:55.000 Oh no, I'm saying this out loud!

00:29:57.000 Hey, when you do meet those boyfriends eventually, keep it vanilla!

00:30:00.000 Although there's a thousand flavours that you can have at any time!

00:30:03.000 Just stick No one wants advice from that angle.

00:30:05.000 That's vampire angle. 0.70

00:30:05.000 Stay away from the chonker! Biden get away! Get away from her! Don't mix the pink and the brown! Joe! Get away from 0.70

00:30:13.000 the child! That is a child Joe!

00:30:17.000 I'm just trying to help! Let go of her shoulders! No one wants advice from that angle! That's vampire angle! Like if 1.00

00:30:23.000 Dracula...

00:30:24.000 Hello!

00:30:26.000 I got news for you!

00:30:28.000 This is a great time to invest in American energy!

00:30:31.000 Got feeling Nord Stream Gas Pipeline about to go down!

00:30:35.000 Invest in American energy!

00:30:36.000 You don't want tips from the jugular! 0.83

00:30:39.000 No, I think we've talked about it before, but the behind hug, that's a very personal hug, is the behind hug.

00:30:44.000 I don't give my wife a behind hug.

00:30:45.000 I don't.

00:30:46.000 It's part of our marital contract.

00:30:48.000 I wouldn't give you a behind hug.

00:30:50.000 No.

00:30:51.000 I won't give anyone a behind hug!

00:30:53.000 Like, I do Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, you can tell.

00:30:55.000 And like, that's the only time you take the back.

00:30:58.000 You take the back.

00:30:59.000 They don't call it a hug though, do they?

00:31:01.000 I do, and actually they stripped me of one of my belts for that.

00:31:06.000 Teacher!

00:31:07.000 When I'm doing the behind hug, sometimes I feel a feeling!

00:31:13.000 That's good.

00:31:13.000 That just means you're very committed to non-sport.

00:31:15.000 Sometimes some chocolate ice cream comes out!

00:31:18.000 Oh, my ice cream comes out and makes a muddle of me!

00:31:21.000 Excuse me, teacher!

00:31:23.000 When I'm doing the behind hug, ice cream comes Then I'll have to write a letter to Jesus!

00:31:31.000 You're very good at Jiu Jitsu.

00:31:33.000 We don't want you here anymore.

00:31:35.000 Go to that place Tom Hardy goes.

00:31:37.000 Go and irritate Bane. 0.82

00:31:39.000 Go and fight Bane.

00:31:41.000 Because the thing is, if you've got to do Jiu Jitsu with Bane, I'm not going to put that out.

00:31:45.000 When I do Jiu Jitsu, I try and distract them with the fact that it's me.

00:31:48.000 Oh, OK.

00:31:50.000 You know?

00:31:50.000 Do they fall for that, though?

00:31:52.000 Never.

00:31:52.000 No.

00:31:53.000 Near the beginning they did, but I've been going more than a week now.

00:31:56.000 So like, me I'll go like, I'd like to sort of go, hey guys.

00:32:00.000 Nice to be doing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with you, baby.

00:32:02.000 And I think, oh, I like that.

00:32:04.000 But, like, now they know.

00:32:05.000 If you're doing that at Tom Hardy, he's not going to be impressed, is he?

00:32:08.000 Didn't you tell me one time you were doing it with, like, almost children?

00:32:11.000 Jiu-Jitsu.

00:32:13.000 Like, the beginners class or something.

00:32:14.000 Were there kids there, or...?

00:32:16.000 Well, don't do it with children! 1.00

00:32:17.000 Okay, right, maybe I've imagined that.

00:32:18.000 I've done it, like, sometimes there are mixed groups in terms of weight and size.

00:32:22.000 But I don't do it with... I don't join the... Right.

00:32:25.000 I did go with my... Alright, oh no, he's coming back.

00:32:28.000 I went to the kids' class, because I took my children... Oh, is that what it was?

00:32:31.000 ...to the kids' class, yeah.

00:32:33.000 And you were like, hey, it's me, what's up, man? 0.99

00:32:36.000 I kicked ass! 1.00

00:32:39.000 I put those kids down! 1.00

00:32:40.000 I choked them out in a variety of ways!

00:32:43.000 Them kids have never been so subjugated.

00:32:46.000 So, um, oh yeah, the behind hug is already a weird move and then don't be on that topic.

00:32:51.000 Keep it neutral.

00:32:52.000 Don't do that.

00:32:53.000 Look, I don't know who's doing this.

00:32:54.000 He's probably got pretty good PR, you would think.

00:32:56.000 He's president.

00:32:58.000 Why don't I say never do a behind hug?

00:33:00.000 No.

00:33:00.000 Never comment on the British economy.

00:33:02.000 No.

00:33:03.000 Just stop saying stuff!

00:33:05.000 Do you remember when they were campaigning, what they done?

00:33:07.000 They put him in a cupboard so if they see him, he'll piss people off.

00:33:12.000 Leave him out of the way, he'll probably win.

00:33:14.000 One of the things when he was leading up to the election was he's a bit touchy, isn't he?

00:33:19.000 That was one of the ways in which the other side would paint Biden.

00:33:24.000 So to now, to not just completely cut that out seems, you know...

00:33:28.000 Drop it! 1.00

00:33:29.000 I mean, the thing is, look, let's not create a culture where you cannot be affectionate and loving and it's immediately assumed that it's some sort of sexual advance.

00:33:39.000 It is possible.

00:33:40.000 We're apes.

00:33:41.000 We form attachment through touch.

00:33:44.000 We establish hierarchies through touch.

00:33:47.000 That's how we know where we are. 0.93

00:33:49.000 But I just think if you're president, you shouldn't be operating on the picking fleas out round the back, offering sex advice to nippers. 1.00

00:33:57.000 Is that too much? 0.99

00:33:58.000 Well, you put it like that.

00:33:59.000 Yeah, too much.

00:34:00.000 All right.

00:34:01.000 So also later on in the show, we're going to be talking to you about the Sweden are not willing to share their Nord Stream investigation findings.

00:34:07.000 So they investigated Udanis.

00:34:10.000 Udanis.

00:34:11.000 Udanis pipeline.

00:34:12.000 Was it America?

00:34:13.000 Was it Russia?

00:34:14.000 We're not going to tell you it was.

00:34:14.000 We found out.

00:34:15.000 It's too secret.

00:34:16.000 It's too secret.

00:34:17.000 They've done such a good job of the investigation that they still actually can't tell you.

00:34:22.000 It's like making your house so secure you can't get in it.

00:34:24.000 I've put burglar alarms here.

00:34:26.000 I've got all them, like, them lines, them laser lines that they have in cat book films where they have to get, like, something out of a museum.

00:34:31.000 You know, all the crisscrossing lines.

00:34:33.000 I've put them everywhere.

00:34:33.000 Yeah.

00:34:35.000 Well, can you get in there?

00:34:36.000 I can't go in there.

00:34:36.000 So, like, Sweden don't even know.

00:34:38.000 Well, they're so secret, they won't tell you.

00:34:40.000 My assumption is that it means it weren't Russia.

00:34:44.000 Well, it's a little strange.

00:34:46.000 If it was Russia, you think that might come out of that investigation?

00:34:49.000 Why didn't they just go, it's Russia, then? 0.85

00:34:51.000 Well, I wouldn't say it was Russia.

00:34:53.000 Or if it wasn't Russia.

00:34:54.000 I mean, I don't know.

00:34:55.000 I don't know.

00:34:55.000 But later on, we're just going to spend a bit of time talking about it.

00:34:58.000 And is it tomorrow's show, Gal?

00:34:59.000 In tomorrow's show, we're doing an in-depth analysis of the Nord Stream whodunit.

00:34:59.000 It is.

00:35:04.000 You've got to watch it because it shows that even at the level of geopolitics, the same way as that ice cream Farago and this, you know, this incident with this youngster, Show that even at the top level of politics there are kind of levels of ineptitude and clumsiness that you would expect to find at much lower levels of society.

00:35:23.000 I mean I suppose that's what the work of Armando Iannucci is about is that you expect these people, you know he wrote like Veep and directed Veep and brilliant shows like In the Loop and The Thick of It, is that you anticipate that these people are going to be brilliant but when you encounter them they are not.

00:35:39.000 They're normal people with The budget is a perfect example, isn't it?

00:35:42.000 The budget in this country.

00:35:43.000 Go on.

00:35:44.000 Well, it's a perfect example of bringing someone in who's meant to solve it.

00:35:47.000 I'm a chancellor!

00:35:48.000 I've been apparently a chancellor my whole life.

00:35:50.000 Here's my chance.

00:35:51.000 Okay, time to get to chancelling.

00:35:54.000 Mate! 0.97

00:35:54.000 It fucked up everything! 0.97

00:35:56.000 Yeah.

00:35:56.000 Talk about that.

00:35:57.000 And they bring in terms like, there's a mini-budget, and now they're doing a U-turn, and now it's a non-budget.

00:36:03.000 Because all these, like, little terms, that's the problem, isn't it?

00:36:05.000 It's all these terms.

00:36:06.000 We've done a mini-budget, we've done a U-turn, now it's a non-budget. 0.99

00:36:10.000 Well, what the fuck's happened? 0.95

00:36:11.000 Because my mortgage has gone through the roof. 0.99

00:36:13.000 At the end of all this rhetoric and all this ludicrous skullduggery and tomfoolery, all this faux idiocy, all this apparent expertise, all of this language designed to create a war between them and you, there's just people fucking stuff up and suffering. 0.97

00:36:28.000 The suffering of ordinary people. 0.98

00:36:31.000 I'll admit this again, I don't watch the news.

00:36:34.000 I can't stand to watch it.

00:36:35.000 It makes me sad.

00:36:36.000 I put a bit of it on last night.

00:36:37.000 The cost of living crisis.

00:36:39.000 Here's this bloke with a dialysis machine. 0.99

00:36:42.000 Well, like, I've got a foot in the shit here all day and nothing to reduce me benefits. 0.99

00:36:46.000 And then it's like this woman, I have to eat soup now. 1.00

00:36:48.000 I just think, I'm like, oh, Jesus, this is too much.

00:36:51.000 It reminds you that this is reality.

00:36:53.000 I know you lot watching, you're real human beings with real economic struggles.

00:36:57.000 I read the comments.

00:36:58.000 I read when people say, I'm a veteran.

00:36:59.000 This is what happened to me since I left the services.

00:37:02.000 We're this poor now.

00:37:03.000 This stuff's happened to us.

00:37:05.000 How do you take that on?

00:37:06.000 How do you reconcile that all this ludicrous posturing relates to ordinary suffering?

00:37:11.000 When do you recognize that what's required is major systemic change?

00:37:16.000 Major systemic change.

00:37:18.000 You're not like, I think if we have a woman one, that! 1.00

00:37:23.000 That isn't gonna be it!

00:37:25.000 And an on-budget, that's what it is.

00:37:27.000 Right, we tried a mini-budget, and it's a bit like a mini-bar.

00:37:30.000 It's exactly like a bar, but it's like a mouse's size.

00:37:33.000 Like, a mini-bar is the least economic thing you could do, because, like, a bottle of vodka, to produce one glass bottle that big, it's probably only a few cents more to create a full-size bottle of vodka.

00:37:42.000 What a waste.

00:37:43.000 And a Toblerone that big?

00:37:44.000 What are you doing in there with that thing?

00:37:46.000 You've pushed me over the ridge!

00:37:49.000 So, yeah, you're quite right, Gareth.

00:37:52.000 Again and again, we are either blinded by jargon and ridiculous rhetoric or distracted by cultural collisions that ultimately aren't going to make a difference in most people's lives, while ordinary power continues apace and interrupted by our requirements.

00:38:11.000 Our requirements, the people of the earth, with all of our diverse needs, with all of the limitless expressions of being human that you would find in any room, in any school, in any business, in any town, in any place.

00:38:21.000 I'm not just talking about obvious cultural markers like race or creed or gender.

00:38:25.000 I'm talking about some people are very emotional, some people are very anxious, some people are likely to obey rules.

00:38:30.000 There's so many ways of being human and I feel that we're at the point where we have to discover A general unity and a general consensus to do things differently.

00:38:41.000 That's the part of like the kind of climate change movement that I wholeheartedly agree with.

00:38:47.000 There's two things.

00:38:49.000 You should love and respect the planet.

00:38:51.000 Two, we all live on one planet, so we have to find a way of uniting.

00:38:56.000 I recognise that those of you in the chat are like, oh, climate change, it's a myth, the universe is heating up generally, but still, it ain't good, all of the pollution and the filthy behaviour and the disgusting submission to the requirements of corporations.

00:39:10.000 You know, I'm not able to agree with some globalist agenda that ultimately costs you more money.

00:39:13.000 I'm not advocating for that.

00:39:15.000 I'm not advocating for that.

00:39:16.000 What I'm advocating for is real democracy.

00:39:19.000 Yeah, we also can't really get behind BP and ExxonMobil.

00:39:22.000 They're not the real heroes, are they?

00:39:24.000 I mean, those people charging ridiculous money and making record profits.

00:39:28.000 It's not like, oh yeah, we should get behind them.

00:39:31.000 Let's just, come on, BP!

00:39:33.000 Like, they're one of the fourth, I think they're about the fourth biggest corporation.

00:39:36.000 You know, like when you see that list?

00:39:38.000 In fact, let's pull that up, young Putin.

00:39:40.000 Like, he just looks a bit like young Putin.

00:39:42.000 I'm not advocating for Russia's actions in Ukraine.

00:39:45.000 Like, when you see that list of the 100 most powerful NAEs in the world, like, of the top 100, like 20 of them are countries, the rest of them are corporations!

00:39:55.000 We're beyond the point where national sovereignty and the power of the nation, and therefore the power of democracy, are the dominant forces in our culture.

00:40:03.000 That's over!

00:40:03.000 It's yesterday's news.

00:40:05.000 Corporate power is much more able to influence democracy than democratic power.

00:40:11.000 All democracy can afford you is a gesture.

00:40:14.000 And if it's an empty one, all the better.

00:40:16.000 We will release everyone in a federal prison!

00:40:19.000 That is there for cannabis charges.

00:40:20.000 How many people's that?

00:40:21.000 None people?

00:40:23.000 None, zero peoples? 0.97

00:40:25.000 Oh, well, because obviously what they had was, they recognised, oh, do you know what would be popular?

00:40:29.000 Releasing people from prison for cannabis or, no, decriminalising cannabis.

00:40:33.000 That was the original idea.

00:40:34.000 You can't decriminalise cannabis.

00:40:36.000 Prison lobby won't like it.

00:40:38.000 There'll be some extreme moral folk who don't want to do it.

00:40:41.000 Best thing to do is some empty gesture that will make no difference.

00:40:44.000 Same as the farmer price caps, the, you know, the drug cut in the United States, and same as the Saudi Arabia stuff.

00:40:50.000 All that rhetoric will make them a pariah.

00:40:52.000 Did that happen once Biden was in office?

00:40:54.000 And I don't say this as a Republican person.

00:40:56.000 I don't think the Republicans will be any better in some areas.

00:40:58.000 They would be worse, even though there are probably areas where, you know, you agree with whatever party.

00:41:02.000 Don't limit yourself to that binary choice.

00:41:04.000 Don't limit yourself to that binary choice.

00:41:06.000 You can't allow it to happen.

00:41:08.000 I understand the aversion to the climate change stuff.

00:41:11.000 How do you mate? 0.91

00:41:12.000 Because I understand how people must be pissed off at being blamed for something.

00:41:17.000 Because I think that's ultimately what it comes down to.

00:41:19.000 Is everyday people, working class people, are told the problem lies with you.

00:41:24.000 It's that you're not recycling enough, that you're not changing your cars to electric vehicles that cost an absolute fortune.

00:41:30.000 Still have to be ran from energy from somewhere.

00:41:32.000 The problem is you, and so people rail against that and go either it's not real or they're just trying to, you know, change us to some one world government type stuff.

00:41:41.000 And I get that, but the problem is if you then say, oh actually there's nothing wrong with Exxon Mobil and BP, you're also wrong.

00:41:49.000 Yeah, that's also a problem.

00:41:51.000 See that polar bear standing there on like one little tiny iceberg melting away?

00:41:56.000 That's your fault for not getting a Tesla!

00:41:58.000 Why won't you get a Tesla? 0.99

00:41:59.000 Is that fucking expensive? 0.99

00:42:01.000 That's your fault for not doing the recycling. 0.99

00:42:03.000 It annoys people.

00:42:04.000 Yeah, that's so... Go on, Putin.

00:42:06.000 Read a few of these hundred companies or whatever.

00:42:10.000 Seven of the world's top hundred companies.

00:42:13.000 So, in the world's biggest economies, you've got Walmart sitting at 10, you've got the United States first, China second, Japan third.

00:42:22.000 If Walmart was a country, it's beating Spain and Australia.

00:42:26.000 So the country of Walmart, they'd be entitled to have their own national anthem, they should have their own flag.

00:42:32.000 Spain is like a proper country.

00:42:35.000 Cervantes, bullfighting, Rioja, all of these amazing things.

00:42:39.000 Barcelona!

00:42:40.000 Although Barcelona don't want to be part of Spain.

00:42:43.000 It's a bit of Walmart.

00:42:44.000 We're not actually Walmart.

00:42:46.000 We're our own little bit of Walmart.

00:42:47.000 Maybe it's the pharmaceutical aisle or the middle in Lidl.

00:42:51.000 The middle in Lidl is the best part of Lidl.

00:42:54.000 I don't go Lidl.

00:42:55.000 I don't go.

00:42:55.000 I don't go out.

00:42:57.000 I don't.

00:42:58.000 I like being around stuff.

00:43:00.000 I can basically cope with meditation and doing this.

00:43:02.000 Beyond that, I'm in a lot of trouble.

00:43:03.000 Then you've got Exxon Mobil at 20, Royal Dutch Shell at 18.

00:43:06.000 They're doing great.

00:43:06.000 See?

00:43:08.000 These are companies that receive massive tax breaks, that receive massive incentives from the government.

00:43:15.000 Walmart, which get away with all sorts of stuff.

00:43:17.000 Argentina can't even beat Costco.

00:43:19.000 Like, imagine, like, the only thing Argentina can beat Costco at is probably football.

00:43:23.000 Like Costco, they'd be able to get ringers in.

00:43:26.000 I bet a lot of their staff would probably be quite good.

00:43:28.000 Yeah, and if you take away Messi, then even that!

00:43:32.000 That's it!

00:43:34.000 Let's face it, he is a genius in decline.

00:43:36.000 Costco!

00:43:37.000 The winner of the World Cup is Costco.

00:43:40.000 What it makes me feel like is that we live in a veneer of reality.

00:43:44.000 Rather than reality itself, we think of ourselves as, I'm an American!

00:43:47.000 My father died in that war!

00:43:49.000 My grandparents!

00:43:50.000 This is our cultural dish!

00:43:51.000 And all those things are beautiful, and all those things are valid, and all those things are true.

00:43:55.000 But they are also ultimately meaningless when it comes to the movement of power.

00:43:58.000 In our country we have a thing, National Health Service.

00:44:00.000 The National Health Service was brought about after the Second World War when they realised, we've took the piss now.

00:44:06.000 We're going to have to, as we've killed so many of them, we're going to have to give them an hospital.

00:44:09.000 There's the least we could do.

00:44:10.000 Then we'll have, over time, gone, we don't have to give them that hospital now.

00:44:13.000 It's ages ago.

00:44:14.000 They're slowly, slyly privatising it and selling it back.

00:44:17.000 It was built on taxpayer money.

00:44:19.000 They sell it back on taxpayer money, like the Pfizer vaccine.

00:44:24.000 Allegedly.

00:44:25.000 It's funded by taxpayer money, the investigation, probably, you know, through BioNTech, so it's German, you know, taxpayers, presumably, and ultimately bought by taxpayer money.

00:44:35.000 They weren't giving it away free, like sweeties.

00:44:38.000 So in the end, we're extracted from the profit, we're included in the funding, but extracted from the profit.

00:44:44.000 Systemic change.

00:44:45.000 Don't get too distracted by whether or not it was weird that Joe Biden smelt that hair, although it definitely was.

00:44:51.000 Unbudget?

00:44:52.000 Unbudget. 1.00

00:44:53.000 Also stupid. 1.00

00:44:53.000 Is that going to work, though? 1.00

00:44:55.000 Maybe that's a... I know you want massive revolution, but maybe an unbudget.

00:44:59.000 Could we unbudget our way out of this?

00:45:01.000 I just want to do a few more bits of news.

00:45:02.000 Yep.

00:45:03.000 Scientists behind the COVID-19 jab say cancer vaccine could be ready by 2030.

00:45:07.000 Oh, good!

00:45:08.000 Get ready for cancer, everyone!

00:45:09.000 Yeah, also get up for... ready for a massive markup of over 1,000% if you want the... if you do want the vaccine.

00:45:15.000 I'd like a cancer vaccine.

00:45:17.000 Get ready to pay through the nose, but that's where I've got my cancer!

00:45:20.000 Well, you won't miss it, then, will you?

00:45:23.000 I've got the news down there.

00:45:25.000 Diana crash outrage.

00:45:27.000 Like, I mean, I watched something on Diana crash the other day.

00:45:30.000 There's a point where you're gonna have to accept Diana's crash. 0.99

00:45:33.000 And I can't keep going through that fucking crash. 0.99

00:45:35.000 People are saying it's too soon. 0.99

00:45:36.000 That's what they're saying.

00:45:39.000 I'm still not fully over it, to be honest.

00:45:41.000 Right, yeah.

00:45:42.000 I know.

00:45:43.000 They're doing it on the crown.

00:45:44.000 They're doing it on the crown, that's the thing.

00:45:45.000 But people are saying it's too soon.

00:45:47.000 When would it not be?

00:45:49.000 When is it okay to do it?

00:45:51.000 Nearly.

00:45:52.000 I'm nearly ready for Diana Crash. 0.96

00:45:54.000 Nearly.

00:45:55.000 Right, now.

00:45:56.000 Go on, dramatise it.

00:45:58.000 That was too soon!

00:45:58.000 No, I wasn't ready!

00:46:00.000 You can't premature ejaculate emotion.

00:46:03.000 No.

00:46:04.000 You just feel what you feel when you feel it, baby.

00:46:06.000 Apparently, bosses were also on the fire of a soon-to-be-aired scene suggesting Prince Philip had an affair with a female friend.

00:46:14.000 Our Philip?

00:46:14.000 What?

00:46:15.000 Female friends? 0.98

00:46:16.000 I don't think so.

00:46:17.000 That royal family.

00:46:19.000 They love it, don't they, that bunch? 0.98

00:46:21.000 That was all allegedly, that was all covered by alleged... God, crackhead.

00:46:26.000 Right, so listen, I'm just going to briefly, Gareth, have you got your page on anarcho-syndicalism?

00:46:30.000 Oh God, have I?

00:46:31.000 Alright, so we're going to describe to you anarcho-syndicalism and you guys can tell us if you think it's going to work as we discuss alternative ways of organising our reality.

00:46:39.000 And before you criticise it, have a look at your own reality and see if you like it very much.

00:46:44.000 Just try that.

00:46:45.000 Have a look at this country, the one I live in, reversing budgets and doing mini-budgets and half-budgets and quarter-budgets and pseudo-budgets and demi-budgets and miss-budgets and dis-budgets.

00:46:55.000 I mean, can we beat that?

00:46:57.000 Can we do better than that?

00:46:58.000 Have a look at your country with balmy, blooming vampire presidents, you know, like the undead Nosferatu.

00:47:03.000 That's what it is. 0.99

00:47:04.000 He's a cadaverous figure. 0.56

00:47:05.000 He's a shell. 0.92

00:47:06.000 You know, I'm not saying he's a bad human being.

00:47:08.000 I just don't want to speculate.

00:47:10.000 But like, that is not what should be happening.

00:47:13.000 Plainly.

00:47:14.000 Look at the policies.

00:47:15.000 Look at what's being said.

00:47:16.000 Look at the fact that it's clearly exploitative.

00:47:18.000 And one obvious example of this is the recent announcement that everyone, absolutely everyone, right, round them up!

00:47:26.000 All those people that are in federal prisons just for cannabis.

00:47:29.000 Freedom!

00:47:30.000 It's not going to be like Braveheart. 0.98

00:47:31.000 It'll be like Braveheart with an empty field without even someone to show their arse to the enemy. 0.96

00:47:36.000 Here's the news. 0.98

00:47:37.000 No, here's the effing news. 1.00

00:47:38.000 No, here's the fucking news! 0.99

00:47:44.000 Joe Biden pledged to decriminalize cannabis use. 0.99

00:47:48.000 He ain't done that, but he has pledged to release all people in prison solely for cannabis possession.

00:47:55.000 So that's, um... Nobody!

00:48:00.000 You'll remember that when Joe Biden was campaigning to be president, a glorious time that fortunately ended with Joe Biden as president, he said he was going to decriminalize cannabis.

00:48:09.000 He wasn't going to go to Saudi Arabia and do deals with them.

00:48:12.000 He was going to make them a pariah.

00:48:13.000 He was going to put caps on big pharma prices.

00:48:16.000 Now, he hasn't really done any of those things.

00:48:19.000 What he's done is fudged versions of those things that are kind of gestures, empty, hollow, shallow gestures that don't really help Anybody.

00:48:29.000 And nothing demonstrates this mentality more clearly than what began as a pledge to decriminalize cannabis.

00:48:35.000 It actually, as a piece of propaganda, looked quite good.

00:48:38.000 Let's have a look.

00:48:41.000 No one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana.

00:48:44.000 That's hypnosis is going on there.

00:48:46.000 He's trying to trick us into thinking that what he said when he ran for president is no one should be in prison.

00:48:51.000 But that isn't what he said.

00:48:52.000 He said it would be decriminalized.

00:48:54.000 That's different.

00:48:55.000 That's legally different.

00:48:56.000 So he's only been talking about half a second and there's already been a lie.

00:48:59.000 I suppose we should be grateful that he got to the end of the word.

00:49:02.000 No one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana.

00:49:05.000 At a federal level, no one is in prison for that.

00:49:08.000 It's an unnecessary, pointless pledge.

00:49:10.000 At a state level, there are some people.

00:49:12.000 But he's not doing anything about that.

00:49:13.000 It's the very essence of pointlessness.

00:49:16.000 As a person who has drug addiction in his family, I would imagine that Joe Biden would be sympathetic to the fact Well, is it happening?

00:49:23.000 Well, that's dealt with.

00:49:23.000 No.

00:49:24.000 business because it's just leisure or a mental health issue as it is with like

00:49:29.000 me and it seems that it is with his son Hunter in which case people should

00:49:33.000 generally be sympathetic and it should be treated as a health issue. He's quite

00:49:37.000 right no one should be in prison at federal level thankfully no one is.

00:49:41.000 What other problems can we solve? I don't want any more caterpillars chewing on my

00:49:46.000 tits. Well is it happening? No. Well that's dealt with. It's already legal in many 1.00

00:49:51.000 states and criminal records for marijuana possession have led to

00:49:55.000 needless barriers to employment, to housing, educational opportunities.

00:49:59.000 And that's before you address the racial disparities around who suffers the consequences.

00:50:04.000 So what this is, is yet more what I would call pretend politics.

00:50:07.000 Stuff that looks like something's happening, but nothing really is happening.

00:50:10.000 Because imagine the process was something like this.

00:50:13.000 We said we would decriminalise marijuana and cannabis use.

00:50:16.000 It was quite a popular thing.

00:50:18.000 You can't do that because of lobbyists for the prison industry need the prison population to be relatively stable.

00:50:23.000 Maybe people that are Republican or right wing or whatever you want to describe it as, you use your own words, but they might be anti the idea of people that are drug dealers being released.

00:50:32.000 All right, well, what can we do?

00:50:34.000 Some sort of hollow gesture?

00:50:36.000 Let's do a hollow gesture then! 0.62

00:50:37.000 So today, I'm taking three steps... Well, don't go in the wrong direction on the second one, is what I'd say.

00:50:43.000 One over there, one over there... Oh no, which way's the stage?!

00:50:47.000 First, I'm announcing a pardon for all prior federal offences for the simple possession of marijuana.

00:50:55.000 There are thousands of people who are convicted for marijuana possession.

00:50:58.000 But not at a federal level, Joe.

00:51:00.000 Not at a federal level.

00:51:01.000 Did anyone explain this to you?

00:51:02.000 Second, I'm calling on all governors to do the same for state marijuana possession offences.

00:51:07.000 Calling on?

00:51:08.000 Does that amount to making a couple of phone calls?

00:51:11.000 Hey, it's Joe.

00:51:12.000 Joe who?

00:51:13.000 Joe Biden.

00:51:14.000 Joe Biden?

00:51:15.000 Yeah, the president.

00:51:16.000 What are you calling for, Joe?

00:51:18.000 Oh, I don't remember.

00:51:20.000 Third, the federal government currently classifies marijuana as a Schedule 1 substance.

00:51:25.000 The same as heroin and LSD, and more serious than fentanyl.

00:51:29.000 Fentanyl? 1.00

00:51:29.000 You can make a good profit on that if you tell people it doesn't kill them, which... Oh, shit! 1.00

00:51:33.000 I'm asking the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General to initiate a process to review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law. 0.99

00:51:41.000 This pledge amounts to a person telling you that they're going to ask for something.

00:51:46.000 I'm asking the Secretary of Health and Human Services...

00:51:48.000 That's not enough, is it, for the Commander-in-Chief?

00:51:50.000 Well, I'm gonna give him a damn good asking.

00:51:53.000 And what if the asking don't work? 0.87

00:51:54.000 Well, then it's over to the sighing and rolling my eyes.

00:51:58.000 Will you decriminalize cannabis?

00:51:59.000 No.

00:52:00.000 And if that doesn't work, that's when I bang my fist on the desk.

00:52:05.000 It's time that we right these wrongs.

00:52:07.000 Look at the difference between the rhetoric and the reality.

00:52:10.000 I call it the Rhetoric Reality Gap.

00:52:13.000 The rhetoric is decriminalised cannabis.

00:52:15.000 The reality is nobody is affected by this policy in any way that's meaningful.

00:52:20.000 It therefore, for me, qualifies as propaganda when approaching the midterms.

00:52:24.000 Look at the pharmaceutical caps that were placed.

00:52:25.000 At the time it was revealed, it wouldn't meaningfully impact the pharmaceutical industry.

00:52:30.000 How can you say, we beat pharma this year!

00:52:33.000 Imagine if you had a fight with someone, and at the end of the fight, the other person wasn't affected.

00:52:40.000 Could you say, I beat that person just then?

00:52:43.000 You couldn't, could you?

00:52:44.000 You've not affected them.

00:52:46.000 Joe Biden repeatedly promised on the 2020 campaign trial that he would pardon everyone serving time in federal prisons for marijuana and expunge their records.

00:52:53.000 Last week, he seemed to belatedly carry out on that promise, announcing with great fanfare that he was issuing thousands of pardons.

00:53:00.000 The problem is that he's now reinterpreted his previous talk of releasing everyone in federal prison for marijuana in such a narrow way that his partner won't release even one federal prisoner.

00:53:09.000 Even one!

00:53:10.000 Like, imagine if it was, like, one and you could, like, watch them come out, like, there you go, look!

00:53:19.000 Thanks man!

00:53:20.000 It only applies to federal convictions for simple possession, a crime for which literally no one is currently serving time in federal prison.

00:53:28.000 No one!

00:53:28.000 There's no prisoner.

00:53:29.000 And this is the possession wing in our federal prison.

00:53:32.000 Crickets, crickets.

00:53:33.000 No one, no one.

00:53:34.000 Lovely empty landing.

00:53:36.000 Biden also announced the beginning of a process that might eventually lead to marijuana being taken off Schedule 1, the federal government's classification for the most dangerous drugs with no accepted medical uses.

00:53:46.000 Could you say that Biden also announced the beginning of a process that might eventually lead to marijuana being taken off Schedule 1?

00:53:51.000 Might eventually.

00:53:52.000 That's the presidential pledge, is it?

00:53:54.000 I'm gonna call some people.

00:53:56.000 I'll be calling on them to decriminalize marijuana.

00:53:59.000 And I might take it off Schedule 1.

00:54:01.000 That's not the kind of strident, vibrant presidency that America deserves.

00:54:06.000 Might and trying and asking.

00:54:08.000 Where does power really lie when the best a president can do is might and maybes and asking, while pharmaceutical giants can sort of like wrench us into a situation where medicines are almost mandated without being trialled for efficacy?

00:54:24.000 Where is real power?

00:54:26.000 The reason that everyone giggles and laughs when they see Biden fluffing his lines and stumbling over words is because Because it reveals what we all deep down know to be true.

00:54:33.000 There's no real power there.

00:54:36.000 That is simply a vessel, a mouthpiece for actual power.

00:54:39.000 The Democrat Party is owned by lobbyists.

00:54:41.000 I would contest, so are the Republican Party.

00:54:44.000 Everything beyond that is a meaningless spectacle that we engage with to varying degrees, knowing deep down in our heart of hearts that that channel will never lead to any meaningful change.

00:54:54.000 And this is yet another example of that.

00:54:56.000 Decriminalising cannabis might take it off schedule one, not one prisoner released.

00:55:01.000 Meaninglessness.

00:55:02.000 Meaningless. 0.98

00:55:03.000 So if you've seen any TV shows where people are like, hey, Joe Biden really, you know, all going and jokes and treating it all light and like it's, Joe better not smoke any, he's forgetful enough as it is, and all that sort of light, high crap. 0.92

00:55:14.000 Really, what should be happening is serious opposition to this kind of senseless, nihilistic, plastic governance.

00:55:21.000 All in all, it's a baby step in the right direction.

00:55:24.000 Who cares where babies go? 1.00

00:55:26.000 But he falls well short of his campaign promise and leaves thousands of people languishing in federal prison for non-violent marijuana offences.

00:55:34.000 The pardon does not cover convictions for possessions of other drugs or for charges relating to producing or distributing marijuana.

00:55:41.000 We've been trained to accept piecemeal and gestural politics as opposed to the real thing.

00:55:48.000 If you're going to get into drug use and narcotics, really what ought to happen is some wide-scale decriminalisation, meaningful control over those substances, available therapies for people with addiction issues.

00:56:00.000 What's happening here is like they're trying to find the narrow crack Through which you can appear to be doing something without offending genuine powerful interests, isn't it?

00:56:09.000 Like, can't offend the prison lobby and their, you know, powerful privatised interests and their lobbying groups.

00:56:14.000 Can't offend whatever other interests are involved, I don't know, tobacco, alcohol, people that are really just dead against any sort of moral decline.

00:56:22.000 So through that tiny gap that exists between those opposing sets of ideas, you can just get like a meaningless pipsqueak Fart of policy.

00:56:31.000 That's what's happened.

00:56:32.000 Now we're all supposed to stand around clapping.

00:56:35.000 As a presidential candidate, Mr Biden also promised to decriminalise cannabis use.

00:56:39.000 Fulfilling that promise should be the easiest of easy calls.

00:56:42.000 As a matter of principle, it's awfully hard to argue with a straight face that buying, selling or possessing a pound or two of marijuana.

00:56:47.000 is somehow worse than buying, selling or possessing a fifth of vodka.

00:56:51.000 And as a matter of politics, it's a slam dunk.

00:56:53.000 Ending the war on cannabis is wildly popular.

00:56:55.000 According to a Gallup poll last year, 68% of Americans support not just pardons, but full federal legalisation.

00:57:01.000 That poll found that even Republicans were split down the middle on the issue, with 50% supporting full legalisation and 49% opposing it.

00:57:07.000 Other polls in the last few years have showed a somewhat larger Republican majority for legalisation.

00:57:12.000 The pardons come a month before November's congressional midterm elections, which will determine the power balance in Washington for the last two years of Mr Biden's term.

00:57:20.000 Mr Biden is not the first US president to pardon cannabis offenders.

00:57:23.000 On his final day in office, Donald Trump pardoned 12 marijuana offenders, including some who have been jailed for life under the free strikes rule created by Mr Biden's 1994 crime bill.

00:57:32.000 He invented it!

00:57:33.000 He came up with it!

00:57:34.000 This is basically an old man apologising by doing basically nothing for a problem that he caused. 0.67

00:57:40.000 That's not cause for celebration, that's cause for radical change and recognition that the systems that we live within are incapable of doing anything other than offering us theatre with unattractive people in the lead parts.

00:57:51.000 Too many lives have been upended because of our failed approach to marijuana.

00:57:55.000 Your approach was literally your own idea.

00:57:58.000 Wouldn't you expect any public figure to say, and actually this is a bit ironic because I came up with it, and admitting that it's basically nothing.

00:58:06.000 Not good enough, is it?

00:58:07.000 Is this good enough?

00:58:08.000 As a White House candidate, Mr Biden was criticised for writing the 1994 crime bill that stiffened penalties for drug crimes and led to more incarceration of minorities.

00:58:17.000 I imagine that the reality is Joe Biden is a career politician who only became president because it was his turn.

00:58:23.000 He's been in Congress for so long he'll have deep entrenched relationships But that's just what I think.

00:58:27.000 Let me know what you think in the comments.

00:58:29.000 Let me know what you think in the chat.

00:58:30.000 he will be completely incapable due to systemic corruption of introducing any legislation that will make

00:58:36.000 any meaningful difference to the lives of ordinary American people.

00:58:39.000 If your life improves as a result of a decision Joe Biden made, it's by accident.

00:58:44.000 It's just a by sheer coincidence.

00:58:46.000 But that's just what I think.

00:58:47.000 Let me know what you think in the comments.

00:58:49.000 Let me know what you think in the chat.

00:58:50.000 I'll see you in a minute.

00:58:51.000 Thanks for refusing Fox News.

00:58:53.000 I'm on the phone. 1.00

00:58:54.000 No, here's the fucking news. 1.00

00:58:57.000 Here is what you think. 1.00

00:58:59.000 Josephius Biden is in a perpetual state of lucid dreaming.

00:59:04.000 I like that, that he's in a sort of dream state.

00:59:07.000 It would explain a lot.

00:59:08.000 Or Bruno from, you know, that family magical.

00:59:12.000 Yeah, Bruno.

00:59:13.000 Like he's gone into a trance of prophesying.

00:59:16.000 That's what I think about that.

00:59:18.000 Where are the trials?

00:59:19.000 I want things to be trialed on at least five mice!

00:59:21.000 You give that CBD oil to, like, them free-blown mice, I'll be happy with it.

00:59:22.000 that too much is problematic. Yeah, Valerie Rose Music, CBD is truly the best alternative

00:59:27.000 for cannabis, extremely helpful for people and animals.

00:59:30.000 Where are the trials? Where are the trials? I want things to be trialled on at least five

00:59:34.000 mice. You give that CBD oil to like them free-blown mice, I'll be happy with it.

00:59:39.000 They must have some left over at Pfizer.

00:59:42.000 Did you use up all your mice?

00:59:43.000 They must have loads of them.

00:59:44.000 And you've got no mice?

00:59:45.000 We gave you a bunch of mice, you used them already.

00:59:47.000 Unless that was the problem, that they only bought eight.

00:59:50.000 Listen, we didn't buy that many mice and we've only got 25 minutes to perfect this vaccine.

00:59:55.000 Have you tested it on transmission?

00:59:57.000 No point.

00:59:57.000 Nobody thinks that it stops transmission.

00:59:59.000 Where did you get the idea that it would stop transmitting?

01:00:02.000 Did anybody say stuff like, you know, it stops right here, it stops transmission, is it responsible to not take it?

01:00:08.000 No, they didn't.

01:00:09.000 That's why we only need one mouse.

01:00:10.000 If that mouse is okay, no matter what happened to the other mouse.

01:00:14.000 You think I'm made of mouses?

01:00:16.000 Do you think I'm some sort of mouse man made of mouse?

01:00:20.000 No!

01:00:21.000 I'm a man, a regular man made out of bad stuff.

01:00:24.000 On this, quickly though, on the subject of ice cream, Steve Sacks says, I'm gonna call you out on egg flavoured ice cream, it's called French Vanilla or Custard and it's awesome.

01:00:32.000 It can't be egg ice cream!

01:00:35.000 Egg ice cream!

01:00:35.000 I don't think they call it egg ice cream though.

01:00:38.000 I'll take an egg ice cream!

01:00:40.000 If you could just squeeze a bit of yolk out!

01:00:42.000 And later there is a sort of a new yolk, isn't there Soobs?

01:00:46.000 Yolk juice!

01:00:47.000 For children!

01:00:49.000 That can't be right, can it?

01:00:50.000 Would you like, can I offer you some extra yolk on that?

01:00:52.000 Get away from me old man!

01:00:54.000 Up my shoulder! 0.95

01:00:56.000 I'll do you!

01:00:56.000 No yolk until you're 30.

01:00:59.000 When you're 30 though, you can get as much yolk as you want.

01:01:03.000 That yolk comes thick and fast.

01:01:05.000 In your third decade, you can't stop that yolk.

01:01:07.000 You ever get a double yolk?

01:01:08.000 Hmm?

01:01:09.000 Did you ever get a double yolk?

01:01:11.000 I made two, two chicks. 1.00

01:01:12.000 Two chicks, two double yolks.

01:01:14.000 Two chicks, one yolk? 0.98

01:01:17.000 Listen, I think you should be running the country, darling.

01:01:21.000 Shell, mmm, you ever tap that open and see a little baby bird in there? You ever smell that baby bird?

01:01:26.000 Statin' the shi- Listen, I think you should be running the country, darling. 1.00

01:01:30.000 You're wanted back at the White House.

01:01:33.000 Uh, Gareth, I believe, look, some of the people don't believe just how sexy we are,

01:01:39.000 whereas others can believe it.

01:01:41.000 Others don't believe that Joe Biden, while campaigning, said that he would release or decriminalize cannabis.

01:01:47.000 That's right.

01:01:47.000 He did say it, didn't he?

01:01:48.000 He did, we've got a video of it.

01:01:50.000 Here's the proof.

01:01:51.000 Have a look.

01:01:52.000 As president, I'll work to reform the criminal justice system, improve community policing, decriminalise marijuana, and automatically expunge prior marijuana convictions.

01:02:02.000 Expunging!

01:02:03.000 Expunged!

01:02:04.000 Yeah, he also said he'd reduce the prison population, and as I mentioned earlier, er... We've gone down!

01:02:08.000 It's massive!

01:02:09.000 Well, all those people were released from federal prison!

01:02:10.000 Exactly!

01:02:12.000 Yeah.

01:02:12.000 It's coming down like the pound, baby!

01:02:14.000 You're going down like the pound, that prison population!

01:02:17.000 So Biden said he'd cut incineration by half.

01:02:20.000 Incarceration.

01:02:21.000 Incarceration.

01:02:22.000 Can't cut incineration.

01:02:22.000 Apologies.

01:02:23.000 No.

01:02:24.000 You gotta burn stuff, baby.

01:02:25.000 No.

01:02:26.000 No, we won't get into that territory.

01:02:28.000 But rather than that, we're actually seeing, according to one source, the start of a prison boom.

01:02:34.000 Prison boom? 0.95

01:02:35.000 That's no fun.

01:02:38.000 The prison industry has spent more than $8.5 million in state lobby in the last three years, mostly to Republicans.

01:02:45.000 They also lobby Democrats.

01:02:48.000 They do also lobby Democrats.

01:02:49.000 They lobby that one, then they lobby that one.

01:02:51.000 So, Anna, an interesting thing Anna Gunderson, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Louisa State University pointed out, Democrat governors who barely win their elections outspend and out-incarcerate their Republican counterparts.

01:03:02.000 Democrats were afraid to look weak on crime and instead supported policies at least as punitive or even more punitive than their Republican counterparts.

01:03:10.000 They adopted tough on crime measures to curry favour and siphon voters who were voting Republican because of their crime platform.

01:03:16.000 None of our audience will believe, Gareth, no matter what you say, That the Democrat Party are bad.

01:03:21.000 These guys, you love them, don't you?

01:03:23.000 You love a Democrat, don't you?

01:03:25.000 You love them or you see one, but you can't get enough loving on them.

01:03:29.000 Look, we've got some information here on the... I've got some things to say to you guys about... I've done some research.

01:03:36.000 Oh, wow.

01:03:37.000 Yeah, I'd love to.

01:03:37.000 Wanna see it?

01:03:39.000 Here it is.

01:03:39.000 What's it on this time?

01:03:41.000 You gay as well, in case I make a mistake. 1.00

01:03:42.000 Got it. 0.99

01:03:42.000 I want you to follow it. 0.99

01:03:44.000 This is anarcho-syndicalism again.

01:03:45.000 Yeah, I'm going to do that in a minute.

01:03:46.000 I'll never understand it, doesn't matter how many times you explain it.

01:03:50.000 Yeah, it's perfectly simple.

01:03:51.000 I'll explain it in a minute using Wikipedia verbatim.

01:03:55.000 Firstaclu.org this is.

01:03:58.000 Currently illegal drugs have not always been illegal.

01:04:01.000 During the Civil War, morphine, that's a type of delicious heroin, was found to have Had pain-killing properties and soon became the main ingredient in several patent medicines.

01:04:09.000 In the late 19th century, marijuana and cocaine were put to various medical uses.

01:04:13.000 Marijuana to treat migraines, rheumatism, and insomnia.

01:04:16.000 Cocaine to treat... Sinusitis.

01:04:19.000 Is that for something up the sinuses?

01:04:20.000 Sinusitis.

01:04:25.000 We're both doing it today, aren't we?

01:04:27.000 Incineration.

01:04:28.000 Reading.

01:04:28.000 Cynicist us.

01:04:29.000 It's difficult.

01:04:30.000 What was that mood of temperance?

01:04:31.000 Drugs were also used recreationally and cocaine in particular was a common ingredient in wines

01:04:36.000 and soda pop including Coca-Cola.

01:04:38.000 Soda pop, God love ya.

01:04:39.000 At the turn of the century many drugs were made illegal when a mood of temperance swept

01:04:43.000 the nation.

01:04:44.000 What was that mood of temperance?

01:04:46.000 Swept a nation?

01:04:47.000 Get everyone! 0.92

01:04:48.000 Calm down!

01:04:49.000 Become temperate!

01:04:50.000 What have you all been doing?

01:04:50.000 We're enlarging it!

01:04:52.000 We're having it!

01:04:53.000 Then suddenly, temperate now.

01:04:55.000 Yeah.

01:04:56.000 So, there's no, like, objective position on narcotics that's fundamentally right.

01:05:00.000 What I'll talk to you about is the bacchanalian spirit, or the spirit of Dionysus, which I've mentioned to you before.

01:05:05.000 It's the ability to access ecstasy within yourself, so you recognise there are different realms of consciousness, which is part of your life.

01:05:12.000 You don't want the state regulating your state.

01:05:15.000 Your state of consciousness Is your own business?

01:05:18.000 Unless of course you're me and I'm a drug addict and I shouldn't take drugs under basically any circumstances because it's been proven that I become basically unreliable.

01:05:27.000 Yes.

01:05:28.000 Basically unreliable and potentially annoying.

01:05:30.000 But for people that are using it recreationally, Should be able to use it recreationally.

01:05:34.000 So the first, so drug laws have always been about populism and about manipulation of a particular demographic.

01:05:42.000 Look at this bit.

01:05:43.000 The first anti-opium laws in the 1870s were directed at Chinese folk.

01:05:47.000 The first anti-cocaine laws in the early 1900s were directed at black men in the south.

01:05:51.000 The first anti-marijuana laws in the midwest and the southwest in the 1910s and 20s were directed at Mexican migrants and Mexican-Americans, today Latino, and especially black communities are still subject to wildly disproportionate drug enforcement and sentencing practices, which our man mentioned, didn't he, Joe Biden, when he was doing his propaganda?

01:06:08.000 Yeah, he did.

01:06:09.000 But he doesn't actually, I mean, he doesn't seem to be doing anything about it because it's going up.

01:06:14.000 It's the opposite of down.

01:06:17.000 Now, whether you take drugs or don't take drugs, which I consider to be none of my business, if you're taking drugs and it's bad for you, I'd like to help you.

01:06:23.000 If you're taking drugs and you're having a lovely time, I'm a bit jealous of you.

01:06:26.000 You could alter your psychic state using a variety of means.

01:06:30.000 One, you could educate yourself with our podcast Subcutaneous.

01:06:33.000 Two, you could alter your consciousness by learning different meditation techniques on my podcast Stay Awake.

01:06:40.000 Three, You could just listen to this podcast that you're watching right now as a live stream, as a podcast, a bit later, probably learn a bit more, maybe spot some stuff that you'd missed earlier and think, bloody hell, I shouldn't have said that, that was a bit irresponsible.

01:06:53.000 Let us know.

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01:07:00.000 Have a look.

01:07:02.000 I would like a Wuhan wet market sticker album and it's the foil one.

01:07:06.000 I want it to be that naughty bat what started all this trouble. 1.00

01:07:10.000 As I continue to talk, observe that pattern of breath.

01:07:15.000 In for five, out for seven.

01:07:17.000 We'll dive deep into the minds of people like Elon Musk, Vandana Shiva, Yanis Varoufakis, Wim Hof, Eckhart Tolle, and

01:07:25.000 whoever you want us to.

01:07:27.000 Remnant disciple of Jesus. 0.89

01:07:31.000 Remnant disciple of Jesus there in our chat.

01:07:33.000 Russell Brand, you're pushing a New World Order religion, bud.

01:07:36.000 I'm not.

01:07:37.000 I think that people should be able to believe in whatever they want to believe in.

01:07:40.000 I think you should decentralise power, not centralise it.

01:07:43.000 I think people should run their own communities.

01:07:45.000 I think people should run their own workplaces.

01:07:47.000 I am not pushing a New World Order religion.

01:07:49.000 I don't know where people are getting this from, with you and the New World Order.

01:07:51.000 It's the thirty-three tattoo.

01:07:52.000 It's because we had Yuval Noah Harari on the show once, because he had a long time ago.

01:07:56.000 In fact, we had him on twice, actually.

01:07:58.000 It was just about his book though.

01:08:00.000 And I had a good argument with him in front of some school children at a school that I was meant to be at with him for an interview at Penguin Books.

01:08:07.000 And I was like, hang on a minute, why are you telling these kids they all need to learn coding?

01:08:10.000 We could tell them to smash the state and organise against this AI revolution that you're telling us is inevitable. 0.99

01:08:17.000 The Penguin Publisher people were like, oh, hold on, this is going wrong.

01:08:20.000 They didn't invite you back to that school, did they?

01:08:22.000 Never went back.

01:08:23.000 Not for the first time, but I don't care.

01:08:24.000 WolfClub77, I want to see Elon Musk here.

01:08:26.000 So do I, but I ain't double texting.

01:08:28.000 I will not double test Elon.

01:08:30.000 I text him already, he ain't text back, what am I going to do?

01:08:33.000 Elon, if you are watching, send us a text, but I mean, I can't assume I can use media like this if he's actually ignoring a direct...

01:08:41.000 SMS message, can I?

01:08:43.000 Who knows how Elon works?

01:08:44.000 Who knows?

01:08:45.000 Like, if you knew how Elon Musk's mind worked, you'd literally build your own rocket ship company, wouldn't you?

01:08:50.000 Yeah, you would.

01:08:51.000 You wouldn't just be trying to work out when he texts and doesn't.

01:08:53.000 You'd think, well, why don't I make myself a personal fortune and then use that to not care whether or not other people's approval is gleaned.

01:08:59.000 I'll just have my own approval, my big stack of money, go to the moon when I feel like it, Help Ukraine with their internet, then say they're not going to help Ukraine, then help them again.

01:09:08.000 Help! 0.98

01:09:09.000 Bit less help!

01:09:09.000 Bit of help!

01:09:10.000 Help! 0.98

01:09:10.000 No help! 0.98

01:09:11.000 Itchy!

01:09:12.000 Watch it!

01:09:13.000 Okay, and now for a small announcement.

01:09:15.000 In fact, Gareth, will you read this about anarcho-syndicalism?

01:09:17.000 Oh, thanks.

01:09:18.000 It's not hard.

01:09:19.000 Is it not?

01:09:20.000 Alright, here we go.

01:09:21.000 Yeah.

01:09:22.000 What did you say to him?

01:09:22.000 I said I loved him, Patriot Short.

01:09:24.000 I was going, alright mate, I'm not going to ask him that, mystic aura.

01:09:27.000 Go on then, Gareth, read us about anarcho-syndicalism.

01:09:29.000 I'm reading it to you, not to the audience.

01:09:31.000 Yep.

01:09:32.000 It helps my mind.

01:09:32.000 Focus on me, because I want to understand it.

01:09:34.000 I've been talking about it for years, I still don't know what it means.

01:09:36.000 Anarcho-syndicalism is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought that views revolutionary industrial unionism, or syndicalism, as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and thus control influence in broader society.

01:09:51.000 Stop! 1.00

01:09:51.000 Right. 1.00

01:09:52.000 So, even though that model will not be relevant now, the industrialization is entered into another phase and much of our manufacturing is in, I say our, because it's in like different countries now, isn't it?

01:10:03.000 It's in like Indian subcontinent, elsewhere and stuff.

01:10:06.000 I'd say the idea that you're in control of your own community and workplace is a good idea and will be explored.

01:10:13.000 And before you rush to, I'm not doing that, I'm not doing that, just think about the chaos and craziness in the world right now.

01:10:18.000 And also forget the abstract, You know, somewhat abstract geopolitical conditions, although obviously it will ultimately affect us all.

01:10:23.000 Think about your own life.

01:10:25.000 What is it you're looking for, really, that you've appropriated into different systems?

01:10:29.000 I.e., I really love, say, football.

01:10:31.000 But what's behind that?

01:10:32.000 Is it that I want to feel like I belong?

01:10:34.000 Is it that I enjoy competition as a spectator sport?

01:10:37.000 Is it an expression of masculinity?

01:10:39.000 What is it?

01:10:40.000 We have to find the deeper truths.

01:10:40.000 What is it?

01:10:42.000 Having control in your own life can never be a bad thing, unless you're some sort of lovely little nitwit. 0.98

01:10:47.000 Right, now let's talk... What's the next bit? 0.95

01:10:50.000 The end goal of syndicalism is to abolish the wage system, regarding it as wage slavery.

01:10:54.000 Anarcho-syndicalist theory generally focuses on the labor movement, too, reflecting the anarchist philosophy from which it draws its primary inspiration.

01:11:03.000 Anarcho-syndicalism is centered on the idea that power corrupts, and that any hierarchy that cannot be ethically justified must be dismantled.

01:11:11.000 See, this key phrase cannot be ethically justified.

01:11:14.000 Now, a lot of you will love JP, won't you?

01:11:16.000 Jordan Peterson and stuff.

01:11:17.000 And Jordan Peterson will say, you want a hierarchy if you're having heart surgery or if you're getting some plumbing done.

01:11:23.000 You don't say, oh, just get me, you know, a plumber or a heart surgeon.

01:11:27.000 I want the best one!

01:11:27.000 It doesn't matter.

01:11:29.000 I want the best one possible.

01:11:31.000 So that's ethically underwritten by a value system.

01:11:35.000 So that's cool.

01:11:36.000 But what you don't want is ultimately for medicine to be in the hands of profiteers.

01:11:41.000 When you look at the last few years where we've lurched from crisis to crisis, 2001 and the resource wars that came out of that, 2008 and the economic impiccunity induced by that deliberate market crashing.

01:11:55.000 2019 and the pandemic and the way that the pandemic was handled in it seems in a way that led to powerful interests becoming more powerful.

01:12:03.000 You have to recognize that systemic change is required.

01:12:06.000 I'm not an EU having stuff or having power in your life or your traditions or your diet or your but I don't actually care.

01:12:13.000 I actually think that the only way to diffuse the culture war is to recognize let people run their own communities.

01:12:19.000 If some people want an ultra ultra progressive life inverted commas Let them. 0.99

01:12:23.000 Leave people the fuck alone. 0.98

01:12:24.000 If people want an ultra-ultra traditional life, let them. 1.00

01:12:27.000 Leave them the fuck alone. 0.99

01:12:28.000 Start focusing on who is controlling resources, who is controlling the narrative, who is controlling big media. 0.99

01:12:34.000 Start focusing on those ideas and start dismantling those systems.

01:12:37.000 Stop underwriting those systems with our obedience and compliance.

01:12:41.000 It's bigger than just, oh this person or that person.

01:12:44.000 No one's going to do nothing.

01:12:47.000 I can see you've thought something.

01:12:48.000 You're allowed to say stuff.

01:12:49.000 Well, I guess, you know, when you're talking about the industrial revolution that we were kind of touched on earlier, I guess now you could compare that to the way in which big tech operates and, you know, the giant, massive social media companies.

01:12:49.000 Go on.

01:13:01.000 There is a call by some people for those to be publicly run.

01:13:04.000 And you've got to think how different our society would be now if they were.

01:13:08.000 Do you know we heard though the other day that the reason that they won't ever introduce regulatory measures is because big tech and government agencies have already merged.

01:13:15.000 That was Alan McLeod.

01:13:17.000 Have a look at our interview with Alan on Stay Free AF.

01:13:20.000 He says that there's already such a degree of integration between social media giants.

01:13:24.000 He's talking specifically Facebook, Twitter, Google.

01:13:28.000 They already have, you can check this out yourself, they have MI5 operatives, CIA operatives, not in insignificant roles either, in the control of information.

01:13:37.000 So the state and big tech are already operating cohesively.

01:13:42.000 They already have congruent goals.

01:13:44.000 They're already regulating them because they have the same interests.

01:13:47.000 You saw that.

01:13:48.000 You saw the things that couldn't be published prior to the last election in the United States of America.

01:13:52.000 You saw the things that got censored.

01:13:55.000 They ultimately benefit from a culture where people on the inverted commas left and right are, well it's their fault, it's the people on the left or it's the people on the right.

01:14:03.000 Get beyond it.

01:14:04.000 If you're able to go, I'm not going to think about that for five years, for five years I'm not going to think about it, I promise you some very good results.

01:14:12.000 That's why when I'm Chancellor, this little guy Please, Bailey, you can only see his titmouse!

01:14:18.000 Oh, another shot.

01:14:19.000 You can see him again!

01:14:19.000 Oh, you can't get higher than that.

01:14:22.000 Oh, no, he's crushed it.

01:14:23.000 He's crushed the pound.

01:14:24.000 It's not as easy as I... Damn you, Kuatang! 1.00

01:14:27.000 Turns out that economics is quite complicated, even when it's a metaphor for economics. 0.99

01:14:32.000 Let's read the rest of this anarcho-syndicalist analysis available on Wikipedia and then we'll see if we can establish new systems of government and empower people.

01:14:41.000 This is what I know for a fact.

01:14:43.000 You don't want people to tell you what to do, do you?

01:14:44.000 You don't like being told what to do. 0.94

01:14:46.000 Maybe in a certain context, you little perv.

01:14:48.000 But generally speaking, you don't want to be told what to do.

01:14:51.000 Nor do I. Nor does anyone.

01:14:53.000 People want to run their own lives because you evolved.

01:14:56.000 You didn't evolve to live in a centralised system of governance where you're some little pipsqueak placating yourself on commodity on screens and sugar.

01:14:56.000 To run your own life.

01:15:03.000 Let's have a look at the next page.

01:15:04.000 Carry on.

01:15:05.000 The basic principles of anarcho-syndicalism are solidarity, direct action, action undertaken without the intervention of third parties such as politicians, bureaucrats and arbiters.

01:15:15.000 Yeah, get rid of them! 0.84

01:15:16.000 And direct democracy, or workers' self-management... I wouldn't define us as workers.

01:15:21.000 Got to get rid of that.

01:15:22.000 Your role is not just to fulfil a function.

01:15:24.000 You've accepted their model in arguing with it.

01:15:26.000 That your role is as a worker.

01:15:28.000 But you may be thousands of things.

01:15:30.000 Thousands of things.

01:15:31.000 You don't only exist to work.

01:15:32.000 The problem with this idea is it's accepted the framework of the system.

01:15:37.000 Break even that framework!

01:15:38.000 Harder to put that on a form, though.

01:15:40.000 It's impossible.

01:15:41.000 You can't get it on a form.

01:15:42.000 Just put worker.

01:15:43.000 It's easier.

01:15:44.000 Short and. 0.95

01:15:45.000 Worker, shirker, jerker, burker, put what you want, little gurker. 0.98

01:15:49.000 Climbing up a mountain, climbing up a tree, big as an elephant, tiny as a flea. 0.96

01:15:53.000 Part you, part me, endless subosis, endless gnosis, limitless knowledge flowing infinitely through everyone.

01:15:59.000 The eternity present in the moment.

01:16:01.000 What else though?

01:16:02.000 Good.

01:16:02.000 Okay, anarcho-syndicalists believe their economic theories constitute a strategy for facilitating

01:16:08.000 proletarian self-activity and create an alternative cooperative economic system with democratic values and

01:16:14.000 production centered on meeting human needs.

01:16:16.000 Good needs, yes.

01:16:18.000 Gandhi, of course, will tell you that India, there's no point India throwing off the shackles of the 1.00

01:16:23.000 British and then replicating the systems of the British Empire.

01:16:26.000 India is a country of 70,000 villages, he said.

01:16:30.000 Each one should be fully independent and autonomous, trading only when necessary.

01:16:35.000 We've become distracted and spellbound by commodity and commerce.

01:16:39.000 There is bigger than that.

01:16:42.000 Don't stay on the level they want you to stay on.

01:16:44.000 Don't stay there.

01:16:46.000 Be bold.

01:16:47.000 Be brave.

01:16:48.000 Why ketchup?

01:16:49.000 Why mayonnaise?

01:16:50.000 Why mustard?

01:16:51.000 Get out there into the outer region, Sue B, because there's better condiments available, isn't there?

01:16:56.000 What's the best new condiment available?

01:16:58.000 Egg chop.

01:16:59.000 Egg chop! 1.00

01:17:00.000 Yes!

01:17:01.000 Egg chop! 1.00

01:17:03.000 Consider thee this!

01:17:04.000 Why not try some egg chop?

01:17:05.000 Let's have a look at Sue B on that shot. 1.00

01:17:07.000 You just lovely sods, have you lost that shot? 0.96

01:17:10.000 Let's have a look at egg chop.

01:17:11.000 There's a new Juice!

01:17:15.000 Egg chup.

01:17:16.000 What is that though?

01:17:18.000 It's the yolk part of the egg that's squeezable in your morning breakfast.

01:17:25.000 I don't feel like that should have happened.

01:17:27.000 Like don't distill that down to its essence in it.

01:17:27.000 No.

01:17:30.000 No.

01:17:30.000 Because also that's the only reason that works as an egg is part of an egg.

01:17:34.000 Yeah.

01:17:34.000 You know it's not you don't just get You don't just get the yolk, do you?

01:17:38.000 You've got to take the rough with the smooth.

01:17:39.000 The one thing I will avoid is if you give me an egg and there's a snotty... Oh, no.

01:17:45.000 ...cummy, I won't have that.

01:17:47.000 No.

01:17:47.000 I will not have that.

01:17:48.000 You've got the nuts in there, do you?

01:17:50.000 Egg chop! 1.00

01:17:51.000 Here!

01:17:53.000 You've tried the best, the rest, now try best!

01:17:56.000 Egg chop! 1.00

01:17:57.000 A lovely sluicing gloop all over dinner! 0.99

01:18:02.000 There, that should never happen.

01:18:03.000 If you need more of this sort of thing, and I believe deep down that you do, then you can pay a small stipend and join us on Stay Free AF.

01:18:10.000 It's about the price of an egg chop.

01:18:12.000 You can get, you do what you want with your money.

01:18:15.000 If you want, go get yourself some egg chop.

01:18:18.000 Get yourself a big lolly of egg chop.

01:18:20.000 Or, you can join us, Stay Free AF, where we give you regular podcasts, regular meditation, regular live events, access to the best information that we can make up on the spot.

01:18:31.000 We do research, I make up on the spot.

01:18:34.000 On tomorrow's show, we're going to be talking about that new Nord Stream pipeline.

01:18:37.000 Who done it?

01:18:38.000 Was it a country that's got no reason to do it?

01:18:40.000 Or a country that's got about 20 reasons to have done it.

01:18:44.000 Vandana Shiva is on the show.

01:18:46.000 The great Vandana Shiva World Teacher.

01:18:48.000 The only person that I would vote for for World President.

01:18:51.000 Also, if you are a member of the Stay Free AF community, which you can join, I think, for $33.

01:18:55.000 You know me, 33.

01:18:56.000 At 3.30, you cater... Wow, that's too many 33s, even for me. 1.00

01:19:00.000 You can join me talking to Jocko Willink.

01:19:04.000 Former Navy SEAL who, if you watched the stream last week, you saw that I went all sort of mad talking about it.

01:19:09.000 I'm going to ask him, Gal.

01:19:09.000 I'm going to ask Jocko Willink.

01:19:11.000 You're a Navy SEAL.

01:19:12.000 You were a Navy SEAL.

01:19:13.000 Could you have done that pipeline?

01:19:15.000 I thought you were going to ask him about his chin.

01:19:17.000 I'm scared now.

01:19:17.000 I'm not mentioning that.

01:19:18.000 I'm backing away from all of that.

01:19:19.000 I'm backing away from all of that.

01:19:20.000 All of that stuff that was a bit sort of homoerotic and flirty, I'm not doing any of it. 1.00

01:19:24.000 I will go.

01:19:26.000 Jocko.

01:19:27.000 Do you like egg chop?

01:19:30.000 Can I ask you a personal question?

01:19:32.000 Do you get enough yolk on your eggs?

01:19:36.000 Or would you say that you need an extra squeeze? 1.00

01:19:38.000 Listen, you fucking little bitch! 1.00

01:19:42.000 You little man bitch! 1.00

01:19:44.000 Dick Cheney, can I ask you outright, face to face, man to man, do you have enough egg yolk? 1.00

01:19:54.000 Okay, that's enough of that for now.

01:19:55.000 On Thursday's show, we're going to be learning about tapping to interrupt our little systems, and that's with Nick Orner.

01:20:01.000 He's my friend, and he's a tapping expert.

01:20:04.000 Well, if you don't know about tapping, you'll have to watch the show.

01:20:06.000 It certainly shows.

01:20:07.000 It certainly shows.

01:20:08.000 You've been taught well.

01:20:10.000 You've been taught well.

01:20:10.000 Huh?

01:20:11.000 That's right.

01:20:12.000 Tappity-tap.

01:20:13.000 You don't see tapping like this on the ice street, my man.

01:20:15.000 This is top-class tapping.

01:20:16.000 That's tapping like Mama used to make. 0.98

01:20:17.000 You see that?

01:20:18.000 You see me tap?

01:20:19.000 Oh, yeah.

01:20:19.000 Well, then, I'm tapping on the streets, gangnam style.

01:20:21.000 You see me tap?

01:20:23.000 There's plenty more where this came from.

01:20:24.000 I'll tell you that.

01:20:25.000 Eggchuck! 1.00

01:20:26.000 I like your eggchuck!

01:20:28.000 So join us on Stay Free AF.

01:20:30.000 It's $33 to watch another 15 minutes of this, if you can handle it.

01:20:33.000 You can't handle the truth.

01:20:35.000 Oh, all right.

01:20:35.000 Can you?

01:20:36.000 We'll see you in a minute, then.

01:20:37.000 Stay Free.

01:20:37.000 See you in a minute.

01:20:38.000 Stay Free AF.

01:20:38.000 Tomorrow we'll be back.

01:20:40.000 You can join us live at Draco Willink.

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01:20:43.000 See ya.

01:20:43.000 Many switches, switch on, switch off.

Stay Free - Russel Brand - October 17, 2022

Stay Free with Russell Brand #014 - Biden's Cannabis Prison Pardon - For No One

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