Stay Free - Russel Brand - The Trans Con: How Did We Miss THIS?! – SF564

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00:02:18.000 In this video, you're going to see the future.

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00:02:30.000 Hello, you awakening wonders.

00:02:32.000 Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.

00:02:34.000 Thank you, Tim Poole and Tim Kast for the raid.

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00:02:42.000 Thanks for joining us.

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00:02:59.000 A smooth and a sloopy Oh yeah, baby! 0.97

00:03:06.000 Them... Are some smooth and lubricated politicians running the UK right now?

00:03:12.000 You only need to look at the news to see that the prison planet penitentiary that is the UK is a theme park and the theme is absolute control.

00:03:20.000 Today we're going to be covering some of the great stories from the week.

00:03:22.000 Callie Means on the front line talking about RFK at Politico as the mainstream media tries to impose old school ideas on new emerging maha-oriented health edicts. 0.94

00:03:33.000 We're going to be talking too about war, whether or not Noah!

00:03:48.000 And another day, another tariff.

00:03:52.000 Oh, my God.

00:03:53.000 How many more tariffs?

00:03:54.000 Noah! Oh!

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00:03:58.000 Larry! Larry, you can't just... 0.87

00:03:59.000 Oh, are you alright?

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00:04:14.000 I'm joined today by our team here, Jake and Isaac are over there with their very distinct faiths, contributing marginally more than the ape depicted on the wall behind them.

00:04:25.000 Also, we have our social media manager, Luke, who's...

00:04:30.000 A man of great faith.

00:04:32.000 Look at him.

00:04:32.000 Look at these ways he arranged his environment.

00:04:34.000 Isn't he lovely?

00:04:35.000 And Massey there, probably a bit too close to his camera. 1.00

00:04:39.000 Let's have a look.

00:04:42.000 Let's have a look at this.

00:04:43.000 The tariffs.

00:04:44.000 I mean, have we frozen tariffs now?

00:04:46.000 Are tariffs at the same level?

00:04:47.000 I don't know.

00:04:48.000 China. We need independence. 0.92

00:04:51.000 Yep. And what's your message to...

00:04:54.000 Have you seen Donald Trump?

00:04:56.000 Do you think he should step in?

00:04:57.000 Donald Trump don't trust China! 1.00

00:04:59.000 China is asshole! 1.00

00:05:02.000 That's some good stuff. 1.00

00:05:03.000 That's got to be in Hong Kong, right?

00:05:04.000 I love that report.

00:05:05.000 That dude, he works at Rebel News, don't he?

00:05:08.000 You watched him...

00:05:09.000 Trouble people at Davos.

00:05:11.000 He ain't playing.

00:05:12.000 That dude is Australian.

00:05:13.000 He ain't scared.

00:05:14.000 He gets right up in people's faces. 0.90

00:05:16.000 Okay, let's have a look at Trump's fans trolling leftists wearing Make America Gay Again hat. 0.99

00:05:24.000 And actually, you know, people be gay. 0.99

00:05:27.000 Make America Gay. 1.00

00:05:28.000 I like your MAGA hat. 0.97

00:05:32.000 Yeah, Trump. 0.99

00:05:33.000 It says gay. 0.99

00:05:36.000 Oh, I know. 0.98

00:05:39.000 Trump fan.

00:05:40.000 Never know.

00:05:41.000 Trump? No.

00:05:42.000 It says make America gay again. 0.98

00:05:45.000 Great again. 1.00

00:05:46.000 Gay! I know, but we love Trump, right? 0.99

00:05:51.000 There you go.

00:05:52.000 The culture war continues.

00:05:54.000 I've got the mic in my leg, oh baby.

00:05:58.000 Mute the mics, Isaac, until needed.

00:06:00.000 Thank you, darling.

00:06:01.000 Although I'm glad that people are laughing.

00:06:03.000 Okay, let's have a look at what's going on.

00:06:05.000 I need more information on this number four.

00:06:07.000 Who we are!

00:06:08.000 So we tell them!

00:06:10.000 So we tell them!

00:06:12.000 We are the union!

00:06:13.000 We are the union!

00:06:19.000 We can't really get behind that, can you?

00:06:20.000 Federal employees are showing up not to work, but to protest returning to work.

00:06:26.000 It even goes further than that, Maria.

00:06:28.000 Things as outrageous as trying to get workers back into the office.

00:06:34.000 We actually had workers that showed up at the office to protest having to come back to work at the office.

00:06:45.000 So we're finding all kinds of things with the...

00:06:48.000 I only came here to get directions for how to get away from here.

00:06:51.000 With the Doge work, the squeal work that I have done for 10 years, and thank heavens we have President Trump and Doge, the Office of Government Efficiency, that's finally cracking down on these types of activities.

00:07:04.000 The United Kingdom has become a theme park and the theme of that park is absolute control.

00:07:10.000 There's nothing they won't leverage to deploy more mechanics of control.

00:07:14.000 Now they want digital IDs, they want centralized currencies, they want you to stay in your home.

00:07:18.000 All the while there's some extraordinary private lives going on inside Westminster.

00:07:23.000 As you know, one of Keir Starmer's close friends has been arrested on suspicion of Peter.

00:07:29.000 Innocent until proven guilty.

00:07:33.000 Sometimes I think that's a phrase that needs to be brought to the very forefront of everyone's mind, but right now, UK facial recognition is being rolled out in the British town, Welsh, particularly of Cardiff.

00:07:44.000 This is a train at Cardiff Central and we saw police putting up signs to warn people that live facial recognition is going up all around Cardiff City Centre today.

00:07:52.000 Live facial recognition is usually deployed on the back of vans scanning people walking down the street.

00:07:57.000 But this time South Wales Police have put it on the top of loads of lampposts, cameras all around the city centre, meaning that everyone in Cardiff City Centre today is going to get scanned by these cameras and their face checked against the wall.

00:08:06.000 Yeah, yeah, it's working now.

00:08:09.000 Yeah, is it working?

00:08:10.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:08:11.000 Any rest?

00:08:12.000 No, no.

00:08:13.000 No trouble?

00:08:13.000 No trouble at all.

00:08:14.000 It seems quite calm.

00:08:15.000 It's always very good.

00:08:17.000 Yeah. Very elegant.

00:08:20.000 Now let me know in the comments and chat if you are pleased, excited or disappointed and concerned since Trump took office.

00:08:27.000 Is this the government you voted for when it comes to subjects as important as global peace, brokering for war, whether it comes to the reckoning that ought be faced by the pharmaceutical industry, big food and big agriculture.

00:08:39.000 I would argue that in that area at least there is progress all because of the list of names that I mention continually on the show.

00:08:46.000 Bobby Kennedy, Dr. Oz, Cali Means is among them.

00:08:49.000 And of course, Jay Bhattacharya and Marty Makkari, all who have high-profile jobs one way or another or significant influence within the aspect of American life that's so important.

00:08:59.000 Health, both psychological and spiritual, based on nutritional, good food practices and not taking medicine that could fundamentally, well, kill you.

00:09:07.000 This is a conversation that took place at a Politico event.

00:09:11.000 Politico, as you know, used to be funded by the same groups that fund Wall Street Journal.

00:09:15.000 and I don't know how much Politico is still in the Hocker legacy media, but certainly Callie Means gets a lot of pushback when he advocates for Bobby Kennedy's new matchup.

00:09:25.000 We'll be back in a minute and we'll be talking about all manner of things, including trans sports.

00:09:35.000 John Oliver advocates for more, I guess, sort of trans sports.

00:09:39.000 Folks will be analysing that.

00:09:41.000 Let me know what you think, by the way, in the comments and chat on the very day that there was a pool tournament in the UK, my beloved country, now a penitentiary island where people are jailed for social media posts, and less, of course, they're government paedophiles, and they seem to get extraordinary love.

00:09:53.000 What's going on lately there is that there's a female pool tournament where both the finalists were trans men. 0.72

00:10:01.000 Let me know in the comments and chat what you think about that.

00:10:04.000 Also, like, pool...

00:10:07.000 It ain't strength or speed or anything.

00:10:09.000 There's no advantage actually to testosterone there.

00:10:12.000 Anyway, we'll work it out.

00:10:13.000 Let's have a look at Cali Means at this Politico event.

00:10:15.000 It's really good because Cali Means is one of the people that helped me to understand that we're essentially fed en masse a bunch of foods that are essentially toxic and poisonous.

00:10:24.000 Seed oils, high fructose, sucrose, terrible dyes, all that stuff that we're familiar with now thanks to the Maha movement. 0.99

00:10:31.000 And let us not forget for a moment that Bobby Kennedy was more outspoken than anyone when it came to talking about the pandemic, when it came to talking about Anthony Fauci, when it came to talk about bioweapons, lab leaks, deep state involvement and the control of a global population that took place in that pandemic period.

00:10:46.000 Here, Cali Means advocates for him quite brilliantly.

00:10:48.000 You are going to love this. 0.99

00:10:50.000 No, here's the fucking news! 1.00

00:10:56.000 Oh no! 1.00

00:10:57.000 Oh no!

00:10:57.000 Breakfast cereal is poisonous!

00:10:59.000 Oh no!

00:11:00.000 People that make food and medicine benefit from us being ill!

00:11:03.000 That actually makes sense economically.

00:11:05.000 If you make medicine, you want people sick.

00:11:06.000 Huh. Callie Means has long been a friend of our show and he's one of the reasons that I believe that the HHS will improve significantly under Bobby Kennedy.

00:11:17.000 Callie Means is a former employee of Coca-Cola turned whistleblower and now expert in nutrition, but not only what we should eat and what we shouldn't eat, what we should put in our mouths and what we shouldn't put in our mouths, but what we should allow into our consciousness.

00:11:29.000 Here is Kelly Means appearing at a Politico conference

00:11:33.000 Remember that Politico is funded in all sorts of interesting and extraordinary ways, where he's given the opportunity to oppose some people that query not only his perspectives, but the Maha movement more generally.

00:11:44.000 And I suppose if I was to define the Maha movement, is if MAGA is Donald Trump and the kind of libertarian, free market, America first, kind of no-nonsense robustness that Trump represents, then Maha is Bobby Kennedy.

00:11:59.000 Health, wellness, anti-corruption, trying to awaken and enlighten yourself and others.

00:12:08.000 Here, in this clip, Cali Means defends the MAHA movement from many of its detractors.

00:12:14.000 Let's watch it together.

00:12:15.000 What the voters are trying to say, and I think they were right, is that the system is really on the wrong track.

00:12:21.000 That the existing health authorities, just demonstrably, the NIH oversaw, and this is just consensus at this point, the creation, the literal creation.

00:12:32.000 Don't they excite you to see that getting said publicly by an employee of the HHS and therefore of your American government, that the pandemic was literally a creation?

00:12:40.000 Doesn't that seem like a massive evolution?

00:12:42.000 Doesn't that seem significant to you? 0.98

00:12:44.000 A significant change in the public discourse from the, hey, the kind of sort of dumb and infantilized, save a life, wash your hands, wear a mask, now is people that are... 0.93

00:12:55.000 Significant and influential in government saying it was a creation. 0.74

00:12:58.000 And in fact, I can't think of anyone more peripheral and radical when it comes to that issue than Bobby Kennedy.

00:13:05.000 These people now are in a genuine position of power.

00:13:07.000 So whatever the MAGA Trump administration isn't at the moment, it's certainly a massive advance on the kind of inoculated and ridiculous materialism and imperialism that preceded it.

00:13:20.000 The NIH, whose goal is to promote American health, has overseen a devastation, just an abject devastation in American health over the past 20 years, with disease rates skyrocketing in America, leading the world of almost every single chronic disease, with rates of nearly every single chronic disease being at an all-time high among kids.

00:13:37.000 There's been very little innovation with small pharma, with innovative therapeutics at the FDA.

00:13:42.000 It costs a billion dollars to get through the process.

00:13:44.000 CMS is an agency that's...

00:13:48.000 You know, a much larger budget than the Defense Department that's controlled by the American Medical Association, which is a pharmaceutical lobbying group and is almost predominantly sick care.

00:13:56.000 So there's real problems, and when you turn on CNBC, it's just a nonstop...

00:14:03.000 It's a non-stop infomercial for pharma.

00:14:05.000 It's a Sky Rizzy commercial followed by Scott Gottlieb saying how Bobby's killing people followed by a breathless coverage of the measles outbreak and no mention of the mental health crisis.

00:14:13.000 But Kelly, how does cutting a bunch of HHS solve that problem?

00:14:17.000 It is insane.

00:14:19.000 It is insane for you to insinuate that the thing standing between us and better health is more government bureaucrats.

00:14:25.000 That's not what I'm insinuating.

00:14:27.000 That is what everyone's saying.

00:14:28.000 It is absolutely insane to insinuate that it's some crime.

00:14:31.000 It's not all bureaucrats.

00:14:32.000 It's a lot of scientists.

00:14:33.000 It's researchers.

00:14:34.000 It's people who are making sure that our systems are safe.

00:14:36.000 Those scientists fundamentally have overseen, just demonstrably, a record of utter failure.

00:14:41.000 Of utter failure.

00:14:42.000 Well, and that is the kind of science that you can follow, isn't it?

00:14:44.000 What are the results of their scientific endeavour?

00:14:47.000 What clinical trials were the NIH funding?

00:14:50.000 What clinical trials were they not?

00:14:51.000 Here's a couple of examples.

00:14:53.000 What kind of vaccine trials are undertaken?

00:14:55.000 Why is it that only now, under Bobby Kennedy, there are going to be clinical trials, significant clinical trials, into any connection between childhood autism and the childhood vaccine schedule?

00:15:06.000 It doesn't hurt to ask those questions.

00:15:08.000 Remember, if you have a principled belief in a scientific theory, then the way to demonstrate it is through clinical trial, through empiricism.

00:15:17.000 Then it's no longer a theory, it's...

00:15:19.000 Cast iron facts.

00:15:21.000 Now let's look at the facts of the pandemic era, which has brought about to some degree this new political era.

00:15:25.000 We were misled by the media.

00:15:28.000 Why would they do that?

00:15:30.000 Is it connected to their commercial relationships?

00:15:32.000 Is it to do with their ownership models?

00:15:34.000 Is it to do with the kind of convergence of interests that George Carlin articulately described?

00:15:39.000 That the government...

00:15:41.000 Global bureaucracies and global corporate entities have the same general agenda.

00:15:47.000 You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge.

00:15:52.000 These people went to the same universities and fraternities, they're on the same boards of directors, they're in the same country clubs, they have like interests, they don't need to call a meeting, they know what's good for them.

00:16:02.000 I.e.

00:16:03.000 populations that are docile, malleable,...dispondent and controllable, looking to resolve emotional and spiritual problems through commercial means, certainly not vibrant, vital, and opposed to hypocrisy and corruption, willing to take control of their own lives and their own communities,

00:16:20.000 to kill and die for what they believe in, kill only when absolutely necessary, obviously, but to die for what you believe in, that's not the kind of population that the system benefits from, and it's not the kind of perspective they've created through their culture.

00:16:33.000 What we have now is the opportunity to take back...

00:16:36.000 The control and reigns of our own lives, individually, collectively, internationally, and indeed globally, by embracing a spiritual power that's accessible and available to all of us, that I have found through Christ Jesus, and as far as I know, that's the only way.

00:16:48.000 You might have different ways of accessing it.

00:16:50.000 It's interesting to me that many of the people involved in this movement are also Christian.

00:16:54.000 Let me know what you think about that in the comments and the chat.

00:16:56.000 But when it comes to the subject of science, we can see the success of previous administrations by measuring the facts.

00:17:02.000 And it seems that, when it comes to food, when it comes to drugs, It would be insane.

00:17:23.000 Is that funny?

00:17:24.000 Is that not true?

00:17:26.000 I'd love to hear how...

00:17:28.000 So what metrics would you guys point to?

00:17:31.000 For how the scientific community, how the four times more per capita on healthcare spending that we spend in America versus other countries has produced innovation.

00:17:39.000 Well, this is good.

00:17:40.000 I like seeing Cali means in this mode.

00:17:41.000 Cali means in battle mode. 0.92

00:17:43.000 Has there been one single chronic disease medication in modern American history that has lowered rates of the chronic disease?

00:17:49.000 Is it appropriate that the American Academy of Pediatrics right now, which is 90% funded by pharma...

00:17:54.000 That's the wrong shot to go to, by the way.

00:17:56.000 That jib shot is sort of looming.

00:17:59.000 Get close on Kelly.

00:18:00.000 Get a cutaway of the guy in the crowd!

00:18:02.000 ...is pushing Ozipic on six-year-olds.

00:18:03.000 That is what the medical authorities are doing.

00:18:05.000 Why not then use the power that you guys have to push the existing infrastructure in that direction instead of slashing it altogether?

00:18:13.000 It's not slashing.

00:18:14.000 It's taking it back to 2017 levels.

00:18:16.000 That's not slashing.

00:18:17.000 The amount of bureaucrats...

00:18:19.000 More like 2002 levels, actually.

00:18:20.000 In many cases, it's actually just not that much.

00:18:24.000 But it is cutting...

00:18:25.000 What is it?

00:18:27.000 20,000 people?

00:18:29.000 It's taking the HHS back to 68,000 employees.

00:18:34.000 It is absolutely, like the idea that Bobby Kennedy should not come in and make dramatic changes to the leadership and the personnel at these authorities that have overseen an abject devastation of American health.

00:18:49.000 Which the lobbyists in this room do not have the humility to admit that we have gone completely wrong.

00:18:53.000 The lobbyists in this room are laughing when we have the sickest children in the developed world.

00:18:58.000 If you guys, if that is your attitude, and your attitude is to tell the maha moms that their votes and their voice is not legitimate, that we need dramatic changes to American healthcare, if you think it is illegitimate for Bobby Kennedy to not make big changes to people like Peter Marks, 0.81

00:19:15.000 Again and again and again went against FDA advisory opinions who fired the two top vaccine makers.

00:19:23.000 The two top vaccine scientists at the FDA for suggesting that we shouldn't mandate COVID shots for soldiers.

00:19:29.000 Now, in 2025, do you believe that they should have mandated COVID shots for soldiers, for nurses, looking at the rise of heart disease and turbo cancers and a variety of other conditions?

00:19:39.000 Do you think it should be mandated now that you know what you know about who it is that's likely to suffer or even die as a result of the coronavirus?

00:19:46.000 Do you believe it should be mandated?

00:19:47.000 And wasn't there indeed then a significant requirement for radical change, the kind of radical changes?

00:19:52.000 That Bobby Kennedy appears to be bringing about within the HHS.

00:19:55.000 Would you agree?

00:19:55.000 Who continually, continually went against expert opinion in favor of the pharmaceutical industry, who many people here were collaborating with him with.

00:20:06.000 The fact that somebody like that can't be fired, and he can't install tremendous people like Marty McCary and Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Oz to start reforming these agencies and put in their people, of course he should do that.

00:20:19.000 That's what people voted for.

00:20:20.000 There you go.

00:20:21.000 Democracy in action.

00:20:22.000 As I've told you before, I know Marty Macari, Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Oz, and I would say that to varying degrees, all of those people I even know well personally or have studied their work and what they talk about publicly.

00:20:34.000 We couldn't be in a better position when I say we, I mean the people of America than with those people in charge of our health, certainly under Bobby Kennedy.

00:20:44.000 When you look at what preceded it and the fact that Anthony Fauci is still out there peddling treachery and looking at ways that he can, through his public life, advance the interest of the pharmaceutical industry and continue to ensure that people are spiritually sick and operating on a low frequency.

00:20:58.000 We are in a much better and improved situation with Bobby Kennedy, Dr. Oz, Jay Bhattacharya, Cali Means himself and Marty Makari in positions of power.

00:21:08.000 These are principled men who are telling you exactly what they believe and now what they believe will be clinically tested through scientific trials before enacted as policy.

00:21:18.000 That seems to me to be a radical upgrade on what preceded it.

00:21:21.000 But that's just what I think.

00:21:22.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and the chat. 0.99

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00:24:42.000 I'm a big fan of The Chosen.

00:24:43.000 And when The Chosen goes quiet, i.e.

00:24:45.000 it's pre, you know, we're not in, they're in production, I think, for season six and some of season five has been released.

00:24:51.000 Let me know in the comments and chat if you've seen it.

00:24:53.000 I get very...

00:24:54.000 What do I get?

00:24:56.000 I miss it.

00:24:57.000 I miss it, and I'm looking for another show to watch.

00:24:59.000 Now, Jake is the producer of the show and the leader of this kind of little battalion of Lost Boys.

00:25:03.000 Thanks for staying with us, guys.

00:25:04.000 I really appreciate that, by the way, at this difficult time.

00:25:06.000 How have you been coping with the chosen not being on TV?

00:25:10.000 What is it that you do, and how do you pass the time? 0.97

00:25:12.000 I'm assuming, as a Christian man, it's not through mindless acts of fornication and self-abuse. 0.95

00:25:18.000 No, I mean, I think you're just left with the old-fashioned Bible.

00:25:23.000 Just jump it straight into the holy arms of the Lord.

00:25:26.000 It's just the word of God.

00:25:27.000 Not televised.

00:25:28.000 I'm not willing to go to that kind of...

00:25:30.000 For the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came forth from God.

00:25:37.000 Oh, so beautiful, isn't it?

00:25:39.000 Just to hear the love, the simplicity, the necessary incarnation of holy power in flesh, knowing that we and our own weak flesh can become empowered if we submit to him that...

00:25:49.000 First light.

00:25:50.000 Also, though, I happen to know that you watch The House of David.

00:25:53.000 I'm worried, though, that House of David is the poor man's chosen.

00:25:56.000 And I don't mean that offensively to Isaac, who is, let's face it, one of the chosen people.

00:26:01.000 Isn't he?

00:26:02.000 He's a Red Sea pedestrian.

00:26:04.000 He lets us know all the time.

00:26:06.000 He's an APAC contributor.

00:26:07.000 He lets us know all the time.

00:26:09.000 Eh? We need to be reminded.

00:26:12.000 Okay, so tell me, let's talk a little bit about the House of David.

00:26:15.000 What are you saying, mate?

00:26:17.000 Yeah, so we talked about this before.

00:26:19.000 When you grow up in America, a lot of the Christian media, entertainment, the stories, they're not very good. 1.00

00:26:27.000 They're not done very well.

00:26:28.000 Well, they make it cheesy or something.

00:26:30.000 It's just cheesy.

00:26:30.000 They can't really show details.

00:26:32.000 It's like you don't understand what the full story is because you know sex was going on, but they can't actually show that sort of thing.

00:26:40.000 Everybody has to be covered up.

00:26:42.000 The story is not very good.

00:26:44.000 It's just bad.

00:26:45.000 So when you start seeing good media coming out like The Chosen, that's cool.

00:26:50.000 Playful, still biblical. 0.93

00:26:51.000 Good actors, good-looking actors, reverent.

00:26:55.000 Then you got House of David, which is like the number one show on the show.

00:26:59.000 I've been worried about it.

00:27:02.000 I've worried that...

00:27:03.000 I thought it was Poor Man's Chosen. 0.99

00:27:04.000 No, so like I would say...

00:27:05.000 Knockoff Chosen. 0.73

00:27:06.000 I would say House of David.

00:27:07.000 Like how people say you're the knockoff me.

00:27:09.000 Yeah, I'm the Timu Russell Brand.

00:27:11.000 Is it Timu Chosen?

00:27:12.000 No. That's my concern.

00:27:14.000 I'd say Chosen's like more playful, joking, different things like that.

00:27:19.000 There's some scenes in House of David you've got to cover the kids' eyes.

00:27:22.000 Oh yeah, it gets a bit saucy.

00:27:23.000 It gets a little scary.

00:27:26.000 We're not there yet.

00:27:27.000 We're not on the Bathsheba.

00:27:28.000 We're just David and Goliath.

00:27:29.000 He got amongst it, didn't he, David?

00:27:31.000 That's the whole first season.

00:27:31.000 Yeah, go on.

00:27:32.000 So tell me, what have you bought?

00:27:33.000 You've bought some content.

00:27:34.000 Tell me why you've bought it and what it is.

00:27:36.000 So tying it all together from last week, talking about AI Bible stories, even Massey, as an Iranian-Canadian atheist, was very interested in this AI.

00:27:49.000 Bible story.

00:27:50.000 And so this intro is explaining where the Giants came from.

00:27:54.000 Using AI already, not just, hey, what happens when they use AI?

00:27:58.000 Here it already is in a very popular show, and I think it's brilliantly done.

00:28:02.000 Let's have a look then at this clip that suggests that Goliath may himself be Nephilim that are spoken about in Genesis when the fallen angels took the sons of man to their beds.

00:28:14.000 A breed of giants were born.

00:28:15.000 There's a lot of stuff that I encounter in Genesis that really sparks my interest as a marginal peripheral conspiracy interest type person, conspiracy theory type person.

00:28:24.000 I mean, you know, like when you watch Graham Hancock talking about the pyramids, you know, last week when we talked about the pyramids might be generators of energy.

00:28:30.000 You know, when you start to entertain the idea, say, if you like David Icke, who's coming on the show soon, by the way, so watch out for that, when he says that there are races of beings that are, you know, like, excuse me.

00:28:41.000 Reptilians or aliens or interdimensional entities that have taken control.

00:28:45.000 I often wonder how scripture handles that, and I love Bill Hicks, so I love that, you know, dinosaur fossils type joke stuff.

00:28:51.000 But I also want to see what the origins of the Nephilim are.

00:28:55.000 Let's have a look at a clip from House of David, in particular what Jake's chosen is the origin of the Nephilim and the peculiar history of a crazy old underdog called Goliath who tried his best out there but was undone by a plucky shepherd boy.

00:29:11.000 It all began in the days of the Great Rebellion, when the angels of heaven sought after the Eternal Throne.

00:29:20.000 They rose in defiance, but were defeated and cast out.

00:29:29.000 They fell onto the earth, these angels, cast out by God or tasked with watching the sons of men. 0.87

00:29:39.000 It is not truly enough.

00:29:42.000 While some planet has left,

00:29:46.000 You know, that's one of my favourite bits of scripture.

00:29:49.000 I was there when Satan fell from heaven like lightning.

00:29:54.000 And I know elsewhere in that verse it talks about you will walk on cobras and among serpents and scorpions because your names are written in heaven.

00:30:02.000 And I do consider the motif and idea of the fallen angel to be humankind's tendency to carve aside kingdoms for ourselves, kingdoms of sin and attempts to defibrillate low chakra energy.

00:30:13.000 An Eastern mysticist might say, I like seeing that image of the fallen angel as a sort of an argument.

00:30:18.000 I mean, it's beautiful.

00:30:21.000 Beautiful to see it visually.

00:30:23.000 Because you don't think about all those details.

00:30:26.000 I mean, you read it and you kind of have ideas in your mind, but when you can see that, it's anything that tries to get power away from God, which is ultimately what we fight with the world.

00:30:36.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:30:37.000 Anything that tries to repurpose and redirect God's power.

00:30:40.000 I know I've been guilty of that.

00:30:43.000 That's sort of how I like to live.

00:30:44.000 I like to think, I want to be in control.

00:30:46.000 And in fact, let's face it, the whole culture is about you personally being in control. 0.96

00:30:49.000 That's why it's sort of ridiculous.

00:30:50.000 And it's something I wanted to touch upon, actually, guys, if we can find it. 0.64

00:30:52.000 Because popular British comedian and actor Steve Coogan was talking about how Jesus Christ would have been a socialist.

00:30:59.000 That's a subject I'd really like to unpack.

00:31:01.000 Let me know in the comments and chat, would Jesus Christ have been a socialist, would he have been a republican, or do you think that he would have tried to convey supernatural forces, that we would have ethics and morality that transcended what is merely political and based on resources?

00:31:13.000 Let me know, you're pretty clear what I think.

00:31:15.000 Let's go back to the house of David and the falling of Luciferian forces that perhaps to this day provide a foundation for sin, even when it's me and you.

00:31:24.000 Others say it is true, a story passed down.

00:31:28.000 Born for generations.

00:31:34.000 Born unto men who have fair and beautiful daughters, bearing the image of God.

00:31:44.000 Some angels saw them and found themselves filled with craven desire.

00:31:51.000 The sky is the sky.

00:31:58.000 I always wonder about carnality in scripture, because there's some pretty wacky stuff in the early books, isn't there?

00:32:05.000 Like, even these fallen angels, after you've seen them fall down with them great big swan's wings, like that geezer out of X-Men, you know, that's got the swan wings in the...

00:32:13.000 That has the fight.

00:32:14.000 Isaac will probably know his name, won't he?

00:32:15.000 Who has he called him?

00:32:16.000 Has he called Angel?

00:32:17.000 I think he's literally called Angel.

00:32:19.000 I think so.

00:32:20.000 What's he called?

00:32:20.000 I think he's called Angel.

00:32:22.000 Yeah, I think he's called Angel.

00:32:23.000 Them guys coming down from heaven like that and getting the horn.

00:32:27.000 About the Daughters of Man.

00:32:28.000 I'm like, that's interesting.

00:32:30.000 But you want to read that Sodom and Gomorrah gear, innit?

00:32:33.000 There's a bit in there, in Genesis, where it goes, them angels come to warn a lot, don't they?

00:32:38.000 And the townspeople come out and go, alright, get them geezers out, we want to have it off with them. 1.00

00:32:42.000 And Lot has to go, no, no, no, no.

00:32:43.000 And in my view, incorrectly, offers up his own daughters.

00:32:46.000 I mean, there's some crazy stuff. 0.91

00:32:47.000 Crazy. We've got to come to terms with, you know, Isaac, your hands ain't clean on this one either, because that, I believe, is one of your Jewish books. 0.99

00:32:54.000 It is.

00:32:55.000 We were hoping Isaac was going to bring some expertise since it's the Old Testament and that's supposed to be all he really knows.

00:33:02.000 Well, that's right.

00:33:03.000 You guys think that I'm some sort of scholar on the Old Testament because I'm the only Jew you guys know, I guess.

00:33:08.000 But he's not.

00:33:09.000 I actually do know a lot of Jews, but the main one is Jesus.

00:33:14.000 And that's the only one that you can really trust.

00:33:16.000 Thank you.

00:33:25.000 I mean, they're gorgeous, aren't they, these Nephilim? 1.00

00:33:26.000 They're not going to have trouble pulling, like with them shepherdesses and all those poor girls living down there in the ravines and stuff. 1.00

00:33:32.000 They're going to be all over.

00:33:33.000 Oh, no!

00:33:39.000 And the leader, Shamiazar, said unto the others, Let us choose wives from the daughters of men, and let us beget for ourselves children.

00:33:51.000 threat

00:34:03.000 And so it was.

00:34:08.000 And from that union sprang forth something other than sons of men.

00:34:15.000 Giants. Born from a forbidden union.

00:34:20.000 Men of renowned and great ability.

00:34:23.000 They walk the earth as gods among us.

00:34:28.000 I'm not sure about this voiceover.

00:34:29.000 I'll tell you that.

00:34:31.000 It's a little bit of unions from...

00:34:33.000 What are you saying?

00:34:34.000 I mean, you're an atheist, Massey.

00:34:36.000 How's it hitting you?

00:34:37.000 I like it, but the voiceover, this is about Jews, right? 0.99

00:34:41.000 Is it?

00:34:41.000 I don't know.

00:34:42.000 I can't work it out.

00:34:43.000 Maybe racist, but yes.

00:34:44.000 She's Iranian, that chick who's speaking now, so they've got the wrong... 1.00

00:34:47.000 That's completely the wrong person to have for that.

00:34:49.000 Is that an Iranian accent?

00:34:50.000 You can tell.

00:34:51.000 Yeah, because she was like the people and all that stuff.

00:34:54.000 I know the actress. 1.00

00:34:55.000 She's an Iranian actress.

00:34:56.000 She's been in loads of stuff.

00:34:57.000 So she's in The Expanse and stuff like that.

00:35:00.000 So I don't know how the Jews would feel about having an Iranian chick narrating there. 0.85

00:35:04.000 Well, I think things are going pretty well between Israel and Iran at the moment. 1.00

00:35:08.000 And those two nations are embraced in holy brotherhood across the desert sands is what I'd say.

00:35:14.000 Luke, mate, what are you thinking?

00:35:16.000 Have you made the move from Chosen to House of David?

00:35:20.000 I'm still behind.

00:35:21.000 I'm in like season two of The Chosen.

00:35:23.000 I need to catch up.

00:35:24.000 You call yourself a Christian, and you all sat around in season two, when Jesus ain't even got proper long hair yet.

00:35:31.000 You want to dedicate yourself to the Lord.

00:35:33.000 I've seen season one like three times, so I really liked it, and then I've gotten behind, so I've got to catch up.

00:35:40.000 Is this real?

00:35:41.000 Because this looks like AI, this House of David.

00:35:43.000 Is that actually real?

00:35:45.000 I mean, they're very sexy.

00:35:46.000 They're really focusing on the sexiness.

00:35:48.000 I can see why you wouldn't let your multitude of children watch it, Jake.

00:35:51.000 I mean, but that's the part that's like...

00:35:53.000 I mean, it's like you said.

00:35:54.000 The Bible is... 0.82

00:35:55.000 It's got some very interesting stuff in it.

00:35:59.000 I know.

00:35:59.000 I do wonder about that when I'm sort of embracing the Holy Book and I come across something like Genesis, like Lot and the daughters and that kind of stuff.

00:36:08.000 I mean, obviously, it's an instruction pamphlet.

00:36:10.000 It's not a lifestyle guide.

00:36:11.000 It's telling...

00:36:12.000 Telling you what not to do.

00:36:14.000 But they're really glamorizing it.

00:36:15.000 A lot of these Nephilim, they're absolutely gorgeous, aren't they?

00:36:19.000 Those poor ladies didn't stand a chance. 1.00

00:36:21.000 Well, I just think, man, even those fallen angels were like, these are some good-looking ladies down here. 0.91

00:36:25.000 Well, if they're good enough for the fallen angels, they're good enough for me, I would say.

00:36:30.000 But, of course, I'm happily married these days, and let's keep it nice and vanilla.

00:36:35.000 Let's go back to the rest of the trailer.

00:36:39.000 But God punished the angels for their sin and banished them into eternal darkness, never to walk the earth again.

00:36:54.000 All that was left was the sire of their rebellion, feared and hunted by men.

00:37:02.000 All that was left was the sire of their rebellion.

00:37:11.000 They are you, my children.

00:37:15.000 You are the last of the Nephilim. 0.99

00:37:19.000 You are the last of the Nephilim. 0.99

00:37:32.000 If all that you say is true.

00:37:40.000 And why do we still hide in this cave?

00:37:43.000 Is that Goliath?

00:37:44.000 That's Goliath.

00:37:45.000 Because he's a bit mongy, isn't he? 1.00

00:37:47.000 I've always thought that that's what Goliath would be.

00:37:49.000 Hey there! 0.97

00:37:50.000 I'm gonna go fight me dead boy with a sling! 0.99

00:37:53.000 Like, he's a big... 0.99

00:37:54.000 He's a bit like them... 0.80

00:37:55.000 Who's that Appalachian family? 1.00

00:37:56.000 They call that the Wintons.

00:37:58.000 Something like that.

00:37:59.000 I always thought Goliath was going to have an airy inbred.

00:38:01.000 I didn't think he was going to look like those angel men with the rippling abs. 1.00

00:38:04.000 I've always thought of Goliath as a big idiot. 0.95

00:38:05.000 And even Yuval Noah Harari, who's sort of one of the advocates for the WEF, he wrote a book about the encounter between David and Goliath, where he sort of argued that Goliath would have been some wheezing asthmatic, and David, using an intelligent projectile, brought him down. 0.95

00:38:21.000 which is funny because people that don't believe in the Bible sometimes use biblical stories and scriptures to illustrate almost rationalist, materialist stories when really it's the mythic truths as well as the historic truths that I'm interested in unpacking.

00:38:35.000 And they're rendering Goliath kind of how I thought he would come across as a bit of a nitwit in a cave.

00:38:41.000 Yeah, Malcolm Gladwell's got the book where he's talking about how Gladwell thought it was his advantage being a giant, but it was actually his disadvantage.

00:38:49.000 He couldn't see very good.

00:38:51.000 Yeah. You know, and David brought, you know, an air war.

00:38:57.000 And Goliath's like, you've got to get close to fight me because I'm big and slow.

00:39:01.000 He's a bit like Mungo from Blazing Saddles, is how I would see it.

00:39:06.000 Like, you bring in a big, hefty guy, or in the world of wrestling, he's going to be very much Undertaker versus nimble...

00:39:14.000 Rey Mysterio or somebody that's jumping off and flipping people over.

00:39:19.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:39:20.000 Who's the one that Down Syndrome folks like in the analysis of Shane? 1.00

00:39:25.000 John Senna, Shane Gillis says.

00:39:27.000 Yeah, so David Goliath is really much the John Senna versus Undertaker of the scriptural times with a real victory there.

00:39:37.000 I reckon that's enough for me to watch it, but it's interesting to learn from Massey there that that's an Iranian actress. 1.00

00:39:45.000 Yeah, Studio Ghibli is like...

00:40:01.000 World-renowned animation.

00:40:03.000 I've put a video there which shows that it took like a year and three months to do just one four-second scene.

00:40:09.000 It's this really unique animation style that people like.

00:40:12.000 But now AI is catching up with it and recreating that stuff which takes those guys forever to make.

00:40:20.000 So you might want to watch that first asset just to see the type of artwork and then we can take a look at some of the stuff that's happening in the culture around it.

00:40:27.000 I don't know about you guys, I'm a big fan of Studio Ghibli, probably my favourite film is Spirit Away, but I also like Princess, what's the Princess one?

00:40:36.000 She's alright, there's the other one, what's the more modern one that's not by the same director?

00:40:41.000 Like this one, Kagawa, Princess Kagawa.

00:40:43.000 That was a really, that's a very, very beautiful film.

00:40:45.000 And what I like watching them films for is to see that there's a separate mythology in Japan and to see it rendered there, to see the fairy stories brought alive.

00:40:53.000 That Spirit Away is my favourite one, but also like Howl's Moving Castle.

00:40:56.000 That's pretty sick and amazing.

00:40:58.000 But I don't know quite why it is that it's become sort of a phenomenon.

00:41:02.000 It's a bit like when you see J.D. Vance done as a Chucky-style baby with his neatly groomed beard.

00:41:06.000 Like, what is it that makes a good meme?

00:41:09.000 Let me know what you think about that in the comments and chat, by the way.

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00:43:17.000 Drawing a crowd takes time and effort, so animators generally avoid it, but not Miyazaki.

00:43:23.000 I don't want to be able to do this.

00:43:32.000 Everyone gathers once a week to view the rushes.

00:43:41.000 This allows Miyazaki to check the completed shots with his own eyes.

00:43:52.000 This shot is only four seconds long.

00:43:55.000 It took the team a year and three months to complete.

00:44:01.000 Yeah, I mean, it's sort of beautiful and arduous, and in a sense it's a good way of examining the new ability of AI and intelligence of this scale.

00:44:09.000 It does, of course, have the potentiality to render all but irrelevant human creativity, and it's an ongoing conversation.

00:44:18.000 What I really like about Studio Ghibli or Ghibli myself is that they have this obvious and evident reverence for aesthetics that you see all over Japanese culture, I suppose.

00:44:29.000 We've like their ironwork or their illustrations or their fabrics and textiles, their architecture.

00:44:35.000 There's a kind of meticulous and fastidious neatness to Japan, partly due, I suppose, because of their unique history and how long they were isolationist, even with imperialism knocking on their door in a variety of forms, whether that was American

00:44:50.000 or the ongoing onslaught of Chinese power.

00:44:53.000 But it's interesting to see that it's something that can now, something that would have took a lifetime,

00:45:03.000 And I think that's analogous even to something that probably a lot of you care more about, like pornography.

00:45:07.000 Think about how often you would encounter a naked body back in the good old Nephilim days. 0.99

00:45:12.000 You'd have to wait for one of them bewinged pervs to come a-tumbling down from a thunderstorm. 0.99

00:45:17.000 Now you just have to flick into your phone, nothing but people sniffing around each other's buttholes all day long.

00:45:23.000 Sodom and Gomorrah look like Chuck E. Cheese and probably smell like it as well.

00:45:29.000 Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

00:45:31.000 So, Massey, what is it that you like about it, mate, while we look at some of these images?

00:45:35.000 This is like some of the AI stuff.

00:45:38.000 So, yeah, you've got Bernie on the right there.

00:45:41.000 These are like popular memes on the left.

00:45:43.000 Why is it happening?

00:45:45.000 Hey, it's me!

00:45:45.000 Who made me?

00:45:46.000 You. I did that one of you earlier.

00:45:49.000 I look better.

00:45:50.000 So I did that in like five minutes.

00:45:52.000 Five minutes was on that, but people are really upset about the Trump and JD Vance one.

00:45:56.000 Why? Because you're taking this glorious art form, which is taking this guy forever to make, and then you're using it for political reasons.

00:46:03.000 So the next video is Ghibli's creator responding to AI-generated images in general.

00:46:08.000 I think one of his team brought it to him.

00:46:10.000 And you just see the disdain he has for it.

00:46:12.000 And this is before he's even seen his stuff getting used.

00:46:15.000 But he says a really interesting thing about why he doesn't like it, which I want your take on.

00:46:19.000 That's brilliant.

00:46:19.000 I'm really interested to say that because even before, if you think of the insult against a creator that happens when technology can synthesize and counterfeit that creator's potency and power and all we're talking about is animation.

00:46:35.000 Each of us are immeasurably perfect and magnificent and yet have fallen to the temptation of counterfeit pleasures.

00:46:42.000 Let's have a look at what Massey's brought us about Ghibli and the response of the genie behind this great creative content before talking about the relationship between a creator and their creature and how this might have spiritual and even ontological consequences.

00:46:58.000 That high-touch thing is hard.

00:47:01.000 I was like, "I'm going to go to my hand."

00:47:10.000 Thank you very much.

00:47:30.000 It's pretty amazing because this is something that's happened in Japanese culture many, many times, like sort of from various instantiations of warriorship and various forms of religion and the intervention of foreign commerce and trade.

00:47:44.000 Japan, because it's an island nation like the one I'm from, continually wrestles with isolationism and incorporation into separate cultures.

00:47:51.000 But Japan's probably done a better job of it.

00:47:53.000 I think it's pretty, and when you say better, I mean if the aim was isolationism, because it's still quite a racially homogenous place, probably religiously pretty homogenous.

00:48:01.000 Does that make it a better or worse culture?

00:48:03.000 You tell me in the comments in chat.

00:48:05.000 Is the melting pot the only way?

00:48:06.000 Let's see what Miyazaki is saying.

00:48:08.000 Wow, an insult to life itself.

00:48:12.000 In case you're listening to this as audio, Miyazaki, when confronted with these AI images, says that it's an insult to creativity and to life itself.

00:48:20.000 Now, even if you're not a theological or particularly a denominationally religious person, the idea that life is sacred is...

00:48:32.000 Where does it come from?

00:48:33.000 You know, have you ever listened to Bob Dylan talking about his creative pomp?

00:48:37.000 He just goes, I don't know how it happened.

00:48:38.000 I don't know where it was coming from.

00:48:39.000 I can't do it anymore.

00:48:40.000 I used to just sit down and all these things used to just flow out of me.

00:48:44.000 Because, of course...

00:48:45.000 True greatness and true genius isn't generated out of an individual.

00:48:49.000 It's merely received as a kind of transmission.

00:48:51.000 and that's what I think anyway.

00:48:52.000 *sad music* I'm going to go to the bottom of the top.

00:49:00.000 It's a weird atmosphere down in the studio, and it's like school.

00:49:03.000 People are really chastised.

00:49:05.000 It's just an experiment.

00:49:06.000 Matthew, how come this sort of caught your eye, mate?

00:49:10.000 What is it that impacted you about it?

00:49:12.000 I think AI is fascinating.

00:49:13.000 I know Luke's got a story on AI as well, but it's slowly replacing a lot of things that we do.

00:49:18.000 So you could quickly mock this stuff up.

00:49:20.000 Maybe this guy at Studio Ghibli won't use it because he philosophically doesn't align with it, but he's quite an old guy.

00:49:26.000 The next generation is going to come through, and are they not going to just quickly make this stuff?

00:49:30.000 I think that's the way it's going.

00:49:31.000 But the thing that was really interesting for me about this is when he was reviewing AI art, which wasn't even his own, it was just some other artwork, he said, whoever created this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever.

00:49:42.000 Like, that's what matters to him about art, the pain in taking two years to create a four-second clip or the pain that goes into it.

00:49:50.000 So I don't know, what do you think about that as an artist?

00:49:52.000 Do you need, is it not worth anything when machines make it because there's no pain in it?

00:49:58.000 It depends on whether you think art is transactional or whether you think it is sacred or not.

00:50:04.000 Most early art is devotional, whether you're talking about the Renaissance or even cave paintings.

00:50:08.000 There's an idea that there's reverence and patronage, devotion, demonstration, and the dedication to the muse is a theme that's practiced throughout art.

00:50:19.000 On that idea of pain and suffering in art, David Lynch, God rest his eternal soul, get ready for the name drop, thought it was a kind of a sort of a romantic French.

00:50:27.000 I think this is notionally connected to the idea of sacrifice,

00:50:48.000 which I was reading about in Thomas Merton's Contemplations, where he says that we assume that...

00:50:54.000 Sacrifice must include suffering because the greatest, certainly from a Christian perspective, obviously, image of sacrifice is the sacrifice of Christ on the cross that we may know eternal life and be redeemed of our sins.

00:51:09.000 But he says sacrifice is possible without suffering.

00:51:12.000 Suffering is just almost an inadvertent consequence because if you are devoted to this ulterior realm, which Miyazaki plainly is, he's not talking about the results.

00:51:23.000 He's not saying the result The goal is this drawing.

00:51:25.000 It don't matter whether a robot comes up with it or someone toiling and laboring over a desk as an illustrator for decades or whatever.

00:51:33.000 He's saying, no, the process is what matters.

00:51:35.000 The process is important because in that process you are engaging with and communing with something higher.

00:51:41.000 And that's much closer to what Thomas Merton's saying, is that sacrifice leads you to a secondary realm.

00:51:47.000 If you think of the other famous example of sacrifice in the Old Testament there, Abraham is willing to sacrifice his son.

00:51:55.000 There is nothing that is more important than the relationship with God. 1.00

00:51:58.000 If God says, kill that, kill it. 0.96

00:52:00.000 Then I suppose we have to start asking what we believe in and whether we believe in anything at all. 0.99

00:52:06.000 And increasingly these days, people don't believe in anything at all.

00:52:09.000 People believe in commerce, revenue, pleasure, distraction.

00:52:14.000 And obviously Miyazaki believes in something.

00:52:17.000 He believes that what he creates is connected to something very important.

00:52:21.000 And actually when you watch...

00:52:26.000 He makes you feel it too.

00:52:28.000 You watch Spirited Away.

00:52:28.000 Could Spirited Away be made by a robot?

00:52:31.000 Well, maybe one day.

00:52:33.000 It's obviously a lot closer than it was.

00:52:34.000 But he's saying there's a ghost in the machine.

00:52:37.000 There's a phantom.

00:52:38.000 There's a holy spirit.

00:52:39.000 There's something else that you cannot emulate or synthesize.

00:52:42.000 And in a way, I suppose, you can look at that in purely rational terms.

00:52:45.000 Because if you reach the point where you can entirely replicate and synthesize counterfeits of all human life, then you don't need human beings.

00:52:51.000 And you can see that's the point that we're encroaching upon and approaching now. 1.00

00:52:55.000 It's like, well, fuck them. 1.00

00:52:56.000 What are they good for? 1.00

00:52:57.000 Get rid of them, execute them, line them up, put them in concentration camps. 0.99

00:53:00.000 That's sort of the idea that's in someone like Yuval Noah Harari. 0.99

00:53:05.000 I was wrong earlier.

00:53:06.000 It's Malcolm Gladwell that wrote that essay about, you know, David and Goliath and a rational explanation for why that may have gone down the way it did, even though it's obviously as well as historic mythical.

00:53:15.000 So but my point is that you cannot dispatch with...

00:53:23.000 Actually, you can.

00:53:25.000 And if you do, what you get is sort of this dreadfully industrial kind of fascism.

00:53:31.000 That's my take on it.

00:53:33.000 So I agree with Miyazaki there.

00:53:34.000 His studio does seem a bit like a school.

00:53:37.000 And knowing what I know about Japanese fetish, their workplace and the school should be kept very, very separate. 1.00

00:53:44.000 Luke, what are you saying about AI, mate?

00:53:46.000 You've got an AI story as well, have you?

00:53:49.000 Yeah, I do.

00:53:50.000 And I mean, you know, I see this from two sides.

00:53:53.000 I see why Miyazaki is bearing this burden of pain when something like this happens.

00:53:59.000 He's put in so much work and effort into something like this for such a long time.

00:54:02.000 And I think part of, like, maybe what he's getting at is that God created us in his image, and he's a creator.

00:54:09.000 Therefore, we are creative people innately because he made us that way.

00:54:13.000 And so to see something...

00:54:16.000 ...be created where I can click a couple buttons and boom, Miyazaki's work is just made right there.

00:54:20.000 I could see why that would be a burden.

00:54:22.000 But on the other side of it, the tech side of me, the techie bit in me gets excited because there is somebody who had the dream to create some kind of computer where amazing art could be generated on the fly.

00:54:33.000 And so that's creativity on its own from that perspective.

00:54:36.000 So it's difficult.

00:54:37.000 I think it's cool, but then I also think that there is a heartbreaking aspect to it, which is what I think Miyazaki is portraying here.

00:54:43.000 Yeah, for sure.

00:54:44.000 And also when you take it back in the other direction, even like a Neolithic human being doing a cave painting on a wall is using tools and is being, you know, like someone then could have said, hey, don't do that.

00:54:58.000 Just use your imagination and paint it with your elbow.

00:55:01.000 You know, like, you know, sort of like when you start drawing lines.

00:55:05.000 It's always going to be arbitrary, i.e.

00:55:08.000 the arbiter will be human, unless you agree that there is a God and there are absolute universal divinely inspired principles to which we are all beholden, whether we believe in them or not.

00:55:20.000 And because we all sort of feel something, we all feel a bit sad, I think, for Miyazaki when we watch that.

00:55:25.000 For me, that's an indication.

00:55:27.000 At least...

00:55:28.000 That there is something true in what he's saying and something true about us.

00:55:31.000 Let's see what Luke has brought us.

00:55:33.000 We've got a lot more to get through, actually, today.

00:55:37.000 Please, if you don't have Rumble Premium yet, get Rumble Premium now.

00:55:41.000 Let's have a look at this AI.

00:55:43.000 According to Luke, who works here, it's getting crazy.

00:55:45.000 Let's check it out.

00:56:00.000 Get it, Grandma.

00:56:02.000 Do those ab crunches! 1.00

00:56:09.000 Yeah, it's gone.

00:56:10.000 That's out of control now, isn't it?

00:56:12.000 That's it.

00:56:12.000 We've officially gone too far.

00:56:13.000 I didn't like the screwed up face one bit. 0.52

00:56:16.000 I did not like Gollum and Zuckerberg. 0.81

00:56:18.000 And I did not like the Kafka-esque metamorphosis of a granny on an ab machine. 1.00

00:56:22.000 That whole thing, that's really, really wigged me out.

00:56:26.000 Poor old Miyazaki.

00:56:27.000 Don't show Miyazaki that.

00:56:28.000 I mean, that would be like the famous crying native American being dragged through like an oil slick, wouldn't it?

00:56:36.000 Like, you can't do that to Miyazaki.

00:56:39.000 You know, sorry that one of your studio members has been cheating on his own work. 0.98

00:56:42.000 Check out old scrunch-up face and Zuckerberg fucking Gollum. 0.99

00:56:45.000 It's going to blow his mind. 0.99

00:56:49.000 Yeah, I literally, I saw that.

00:56:51.000 It's, you know, I'm sitting in bed or laying in bed at 3am and then I see the scrunchie face thing and it's like, dude, where is AI going?

00:56:58.000 I mean, you could have a get him to the Greek 2 five years from now.

00:57:02.000 You could just type it in, generate this and boom, you could have that created.

00:57:05.000 I mean, I feel like that's where it's going, which is terrifying to some degree.

00:57:09.000 For sure.

00:57:09.000 My concerns is that they'll use that technology to create video footage of events that didn't happen in the past, rather than create movies in the future.

00:57:18.000 It would save me a lot.

00:57:19.000 I mean, I would have let them do AI for getting to the Greek one, actually.

00:57:22.000 I've never been one of them actors that's like, I don't, you know, like, I do all of my own stunts.

00:57:26.000 I'm like, I don't do any of my stunts.

00:57:28.000 I don't even want to come here at all.

00:57:29.000 I'll stay at home. 0.83

00:57:30.000 Let the golem gimp do it. 1.00

00:57:33.000 Save me some bleeding time.

00:57:35.000 Nice one, guys.

00:57:36.000 That's really, that's some lovely stuff and lots to contemplate.

00:57:38.000 Let me know in the comments and chat what you think the lines are when it comes to the utility of tools.

00:57:42.000 Are we in a sort of space, a 2001 Kubrickian moment where we're just picking up that bone, picking up that phone, where we are learning to utilize and manipulate the material world around us?

00:57:54.000 Or are we creating realms of consciousness that will ultimately become inaccessible to us and become the kind of Luciferian realms that actually are the inspiration for the sequence that we saw from House of David in one of the items we were discussing earlier

00:58:09.000 today?

00:58:09.000 So just before we move on to the next story, which is Isaac, who is, you know, whether you care about it or not, a Jew talking about trans sports.

00:58:19.000 We're just going to have a look at how the WHO are struggling since the United States under Trump has pulled their funding.

00:58:25.000 Is that a good thing?

00:58:26.000 Is it a bad thing?

00:58:27.000 Is it a Miyazaki moment or is it merely the way that.

00:58:29.000 Two weeks ago, President Donald Trump signed an executive order announcing his intention to withdraw the United States from WHO.

00:58:42.000 The order refers to WHO's... 0.99

00:58:45.000 I think that anyone that's behind, like, Trump pulling his funding from the WHO is going to watch this video and go, you bastard. 0.98

00:58:52.000 Look at them, they're trying their hardest over the WHO. 0.92

00:58:54.000 Didn't you like their treaty where they tried to get 5% of your health budget, where they wanted the ability to impose mandatory vaccines, where they wanted the right to censor?

00:59:04.000 The WHO lost quite a lot of credibility during a health crisis, which they, frankly, made worse.

00:59:10.000 And to some degree, profited from.

00:59:11.000 And if you listen to a man, I'm blanking on the name of my friend there, who, like, you know, the WHO, let me know in the comments and chat if you know who I'm talking about.

00:59:20.000 There's, like, the funding of them is pretty dark, man.

00:59:24.000 It's like whenever you look into the origins of, like, Facebook or anything.

00:59:27.000 There was a CIA carve-out.

00:59:29.000 Like, WHO's got all sorts of weird edicts and stuff.

00:59:32.000 To WHO's alleged mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and other global health crisis.

00:59:39.000 Last week marked five years since I declared a public health emergency of international concern.

00:59:45.000 From the moment we picked up the first signals of viral pneumonia in Wuhan, we asked for more information, activated our emergency incident management system, alerted the world, convened global experts, and published comprehensive guidance for countries on how to protect their populations and health systems.

01:00:08.000 All before the first death from this new disease was reported in China on the 11th of January 2020.

01:00:16.000 Even before the US announcement, WHO is facing a shortfall due to the economic difficulties.

01:00:25.000 I'm sick and tired of WHO.

01:00:26.000 I'm glad that they're losing a bit of their funding.

01:00:28.000 I don't trust them.

01:00:28.000 They blagged us the whole way through that pandemic.

01:00:30.000 I'm glad they're getting shut down.

01:00:32.000 If they had the ability to censor this right now, you know they would censor it.

01:00:34.000 If they had the ability to tax you, they would tax you.

01:00:37.000 They're doing it by default, doing it by the back door.

01:00:39.000 We're better off without them.

01:00:39.000 That's just what I think, though.

01:00:40.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.

01:00:43.000 Wherever you're watching us, I hope that you're watching us on Rumble right now.

01:00:46.000 Get Rumble Premium for an ad-free experience.

01:00:50.000 Now, whatever we might think or believe, is it as anything compared to what Sam Harris believes in?

01:00:54.000 Now, this is a kind of culturally divisive moment when it comes to billionaires.

01:00:58.000 Some people loathing Zuckerberg.

01:01:00.000 You saw that dude snogging Gollum.

01:01:01.000 You'll have your doubts about him after seeing that.

01:01:03.000 Or maybe you love Elon Musk.

01:01:14.000 Or over here at Rumble, Peter Thiel, an earlier investor.

01:01:17.000 Billionaires, are they all good?

01:01:19.000 Are they all bad?

01:01:20.000 Or does, like Solzhenitsyn said, the line between a good billionaire and a bad billionaire run not through nations, religions or creeds, but through every billionaire's heart.

01:01:28.000 I don't know.

01:01:28.000 Let's have a look at Sam Harris talking about Elon Musk.

01:01:33.000 And we'll decide for ourselves what the difference is between a good billionaire and a bad billionaire.

01:01:37.000 Before we get into that, though, let's raid the quartering. 0.98

01:01:41.000 Thanks, Timcast.

01:01:42.000 Thanks, Mug Club, for the raid on us. 0.99

01:01:44.000 And why did we return that favor by raiding the quartering?

01:01:47.000 Let's have a look at this. 0.99

01:01:50.000 No, here's the fucking news. 0.98

01:01:54.000 Sam Harris along with Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan were once known as the four horsemen of the new internet age dark web apocalypse. 0.98

01:02:01.000 There is only three of them.

01:02:03.000 We're missing a horseman.

01:02:04.000 But what has Sam Harris become now?

01:02:08.000 Sam Harris said that Joe Rogan is to blame for many of the world's ails and for misinformation itself as a concept.

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