Stay Free - Russel Brand - July 20, 2026


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00:00:00.000 On the show today we're going to be talking about a wide variety of World Cup related stuff as well as watching a grizzly bear attack in Canada and are we talking to Sean Stone?
00:00:09.000 Welcome to Stay Free with Russell Brand!
00:00:30.000 Hello, welcome to Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:00:32.000 We're doing the show in a live environment now, not just with Americans, but an actual lady of the realm who we may have to cut out.
00:00:42.000 Who knows?
00:00:42.000 You're probably a CIA operative or MI5 or something, are you?
00:00:45.000 You're wearing a very conspicuous hat, is what I will say to you.
00:00:48.000 If I was a spy, I wouldn't wear that amount of jade and silk.
00:00:52.000 That's one thing I'll tell you.
00:00:53.000 We've got Sean Stone on the show a little bit later, and we'll be talking to him about his film RFK Legacy, where two generations of filmmakers, that being Sean and Oliver Stone, talk about.
00:01:02.000 Two generations of great American politicians, Robert Kennedy Sr. and Jr.
00:01:07.000 Before that, though, are you lot following the World Cup that's in your country right now, fellow Americans?
00:01:14.000 You are.
00:01:16.000 Okay, well, then I want to see what emotional response you have to America or the USA conceding a late goal because we British people and Europeans think you don't care about football, as we call it, because it's a sport that everyone plays, not just you, and you only like this is what we think about you.
00:01:34.000 I'm just letting you know, this is what we think about you.
00:01:36.000 We think you only do sports that only you do so that you win them all the time, all right?
00:01:42.000 And here is the list of those sports American football, right?
00:01:46.000 Yeah!
00:01:47.000 Clues in the name.
00:01:48.000 Baseball, and basketball.
00:01:52.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:01:52.000 Right, well, this is a sport everyone does.
00:01:55.000 See how you get on in that.
00:01:56.000 I know you win World Series when the world is just Americans, right?
00:02:01.000 In Canada, in Canada.
00:02:02.000 You can't count, even we don't count Canada as a proper country, Jake.
00:02:08.000 They are in there, though.
00:02:09.000 They're our Scotland.
00:02:11.000 They're not a real country.
00:02:13.000 They're just there as a sort of something to hover above the proper country.
00:02:18.000 No offence, but after what Justin Trudeau's been doing to my ex-wife, why should I put up with any crap from them?
00:02:26.000 Let's have a little look at the moment where the United States went out to a late goal to Turkey, or Turkey.
00:02:31.000 We've all been saying it wrong.
00:02:32.000 We've all been saying it wrong.
00:02:33.000 It's Turkey, Turkey.
00:02:35.000 Let's have a look, Jake.
00:02:36.000 Oh, impish skills.
00:02:39.000 Had to be gulagged in it.
00:02:41.000 Kind of an impossible situation there.
00:02:44.000 Good cross.
00:02:46.000 Chance for the winner for Turkey.
00:02:57.000 Childlike skill, Guler that set things up, and then when it fell, and Ashun with the first shot blocked, and then he slides in to finish through Matola's legs.
00:03:14.000 Freeman, it was with the touch, and then just when you need your forward player to be.
00:03:23.000 Well, you actually did feel feelings there, did you?
00:03:25.000 I told them last night, and now you're making me enjoy it.
00:03:29.000 Oh, really?
00:03:30.000 You actually were watching that live?
00:03:32.000 Has someone got a.
00:03:33.000 Ah, Nikki, if we talk to the audience, yeah, that's good.
00:03:36.000 If we have a.
00:03:37.000 And tell us your name, finally.
00:03:38.000 I know now.
00:03:39.000 Julie.
00:03:41.000 I thought it was Jay and Angie.
00:03:43.000 Jay and Angie and Vicky.
00:03:45.000 You were watching it live when it.
00:03:47.000 I was.
00:03:48.000 My husband and I were watching.
00:03:50.000 And it felt very nauseous at the end of the game.
00:03:53.000 And now you just made me watch it again.
00:03:54.000 Apologies for that.
00:03:56.000 Tears.
00:03:57.000 Too soon.
00:03:58.000 Too soon.
00:03:58.000 It is.
00:04:00.000 Did you know.
00:04:00.000 How have you been saying Turkey, who you lost to?
00:04:03.000 How have you been saying that word?
00:04:04.000 I don't know, but I. All I said last night to my husband was apparently we've been wrong.
00:04:10.000 Yeah, it's.
00:04:11.000 They changed it though.
00:04:12.000 Turkey.
00:04:13.000 They officially changed it.
00:04:14.000 Oh, so it's not like we've been doing that.
00:04:15.000 Okay, so it's a new change.
00:04:17.000 It's not like my geography book taught me wrong.
00:04:19.000 Maybe, because I don't, you know, in a minute we'll be talking to Sean Stone, so you'll learn to understand that everything that you've ever learned is a conspiracy theory.
00:04:26.000 It's wrong.
00:04:27.000 Can't trust anything anymore.
00:04:29.000 Right.
00:04:29.000 But maybe that's correct.
00:04:31.000 So maybe it's like, you know how British, we don't call, we've been calling the Netherlands Holland always, Jake.
00:04:38.000 And they don't, that's not what they call themselves.
00:04:42.000 They call themselves the Niederland, don't they?
00:04:45.000 But you're supposed to call countries, are you supposed to call countries what they call themselves, or have we got free reign to impose names on them?
00:04:52.000 I feel like you can impose names.
00:04:53.000 That's what I've always thought.
00:04:54.000 I'm an Englishman, and I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome you back to the colonies and to finally acknowledge that this experiment hasn't worked out too well for you.
00:05:03.000 Okay, so also from the World Cup is, oh yeah, the FIFA present.
00:05:09.000 Have a look at this.
00:05:10.000 He's been spoiled at two games simultaneously.
00:05:12.000 Now, this World Cup's not just in the USA.
00:05:14.000 You're not the only host nation.
00:05:15.000 It's also in Mexico and that country that calls itself Canada.
00:05:20.000 So, how has the FIFA president, whose name I don't know, gotten between those two environments?
00:05:29.000 And do we know where those two environments are?
00:05:31.000 Where is Japan?
00:05:32.000 Do any of you care enough about the World Cup to know where Japan and Sweden was played or where Tunisia, Netherlands was played?
00:05:41.000 Let's see.
00:05:43.000 That was in Dallas.
00:05:45.000 It was the other one.
00:05:46.000 Because it's Tunisia versus the Netherlands.
00:05:49.000 In fact, it's not even Netherlands.
00:05:51.000 Even there, they're still compromising.
00:05:52.000 It's called Netherlands.
00:05:53.000 They're doing it with a D. That's how they're doing it.
00:05:56.000 So, this World Cup across the entire North America and part of Central America is a real, it's kind of an educational experience, I reckon, isn't it, for all of you to encounter all of these new words, all of these new terms, all of these new names.
00:06:11.000 When was it in Kansas City?
00:06:12.000 So, Kansas to Dallas, how long is that?
00:06:14.000 I mean, not that far.
00:06:16.000 It's just gone on a private plane.
00:06:17.000 I think that's something that can be resolved simply by recognizing that there are several strata to society.
00:06:23.000 And if you belong to the top strata, it's better and you can move around more efficiently.
00:06:28.000 And if you've ever been on a private plane, it ruins you forever.
00:06:32.000 Have you ever had that experience?
00:06:33.000 Because it's another world.
00:06:35.000 Well, I think the plan is to make everything in the world a little bit like an airport, to banalize all of reality so that you feel like you're completely controlled wherever you are.
00:06:44.000 All the time, and you're continually going through regulations and checks like in COVID, that you have to have a PCR tech.
00:06:50.000 Lee, come off your phone.
00:06:52.000 It's distracting for me.
00:06:53.000 I mean, you don't have to be here.
00:06:56.000 But if you are here, be here.
00:06:58.000 Sorry about that.
00:06:59.000 I don't know why.
00:07:01.000 I'm autistic and I'm here very, very easily distracted.
00:07:03.000 I'm taking in all of this information while it's happening.
00:07:06.000 I'm so sorry.
00:07:08.000 I just simply can't bear it.
00:07:10.000 Yeah, I think that what's happening is that through continually escalating the level of fear that we all live with, we're experiencing authoritarianism.
00:07:21.000 The normalization of authoritarianism.
00:07:23.000 For example, people can't even just look at their phone anymore without someone interceding and telling them, put your phone down, hurts my feelings.
00:07:33.000 That's the way that it will happen.
00:07:35.000 In the end, we'll live in a completely immersive, totalitarian controlled state and be forced to say thank you for the privilege.
00:07:42.000 Thanks for putting that down, Lee.
00:07:43.000 I really, really do appreciate that.
00:07:46.000 Yeah, if you travel privately, like evidently that president of FIFA does, airports after that, it's another world.
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00:08:59.000 From that, you may experience with commercial travel.
00:09:01.000 We've not watched all of this clip, but this is a battery catching fire on an air China flight.
00:09:06.000 Let's have a look.
00:09:19.000 Yeah, yeah, that's in flight.
00:09:23.000 That's, I suppose, why you're not meant to have lithium batteries.
00:09:28.000 You think they did that to try to get us to not have?
00:09:31.000 Lithium battery?
00:09:32.000 Yeah, right.
00:09:32.000 I mean, I would like all information that I'm given, I immediately question and don't automatically believe it.
00:09:38.000 But yeah, I think everything's a little bit heightened once you're in that fuselage.
00:09:44.000 What are you thinking?
00:09:45.000 Did you think that that was a legitimate.
00:09:47.000 I see you've got a view on it.
00:09:49.000 That's what we were just saying, we don't know what's really real anymore.
00:09:52.000 No one knows what's real anymore.
00:09:54.000 The whole thing's a construction.
00:09:56.000 You can't automatically trust the information just because you see a fire.
00:09:59.000 It could be AI.
00:10:00.000 It could be AI.
00:10:01.000 The whole thing's a constructed, potentially a constructed reality that we're living in.
00:10:06.000 They're forcing us to be discerning when we view things.
00:10:09.000 Well, discernment's not necessarily a bad thing, is it, I suppose?
00:10:13.000 Have you ever been asked to leave an aeroplane after you've boarded for any reason at all?
00:10:21.000 Yes.
00:10:23.000 You individually or all of the passengers?
00:10:25.000 All of the passengers.
00:10:28.000 I've been asked to leave it, me, just you, sir.
00:10:33.000 I'm ruining this flight.
00:10:34.000 That's when I was still drinking.
00:10:36.000 When I was still drinking, I just had my feet up.
00:10:39.000 High on the panel at the front of the plane, and the pilot said, Listen, put your feet down.
00:10:46.000 I said, I'm not doing that, I won't do it.
00:10:48.000 It was an Iberia plane between Barcelona and Ibiza.
00:10:53.000 And then I was in business class.
00:10:55.000 And when the confrontation escalated, I went into coach because I thought the people in business class, they won't be up for revolution.
00:11:02.000 The world's working for them.
00:11:03.000 So I went into coach and said, I'm being asked to leave this flight.
00:11:07.000 And this is exactly the sort of imperialism that we all have to bond together and oppose.
00:11:12.000 And I think I had some narcotics on my person as well.
00:11:16.000 Did you say, like, who's coming with me?
00:11:18.000 Yeah, I was like, who's with me?
00:11:19.000 Who's coming with me?
00:11:20.000 And they were not with me.
00:11:23.000 None of them.
00:11:24.000 That's happened many times in my life.
00:11:26.000 If I could list the number of times, I'll list a few of them, where I've been in situations where I've tried to.
00:11:30.000 One time I was in a riot, and the police, when they're breaking up a riot, they do a thing that's called kettling, where to break the riot into smaller bits, they lead parts of the riot into areas that they can police and control.
00:11:40.000 Kettling, it's called.
00:11:41.000 And I got on top of a car and said, The police are directing us that way.
00:11:45.000 That's obviously what they want us to do.
00:11:47.000 If you're at this riot because you're protesting, don't go that way.
00:11:51.000 And everyone went, Oh, fuck off!
00:11:53.000 They were not at all.
00:11:55.000 That's two examples of times where I've put my head above the parapet in order.
00:12:00.000 The first one was pure selfishness.
00:12:01.000 I mean, actually, I was drunk on an airplane.
00:12:03.000 I had my feet up.
00:12:03.000 I was annoying.
00:12:04.000 And they did throw me off.
00:12:05.000 And when the Spanish police came on, I was still in Spain.
00:12:07.000 And they escorted me off that plane.
00:12:09.000 Well, actually, it was okay.
00:12:10.000 Because they, thankfully, they didn't do a full body search.
00:12:12.000 Otherwise, I'd have been looking at a custodial prison sentence for possession of controlled substances that were currently being.
00:12:18.000 Because that movie, right?
00:12:20.000 When you did that scene, you made John Hill do it.
00:12:23.000 Yeah, go to the Greek.
00:12:25.000 That's from.
00:12:26.000 That's from real life.
00:12:27.000 I did use the.
00:12:28.000 If you're a drug addict and you travel, you do need to put drugs somewhere on your person because otherwise, when you get to the place, you might not have drugs.
00:12:34.000 And the safest place, I'm sorry to tell you, to put drugs if you're going to smuggle is in what you might call the only pockets the body provides.
00:12:44.000 So, in that situation, I took a risk.
00:12:47.000 I took a real risk.
00:12:48.000 And I'm very grateful that the fuselage didn't catch fire in that situation.
00:12:53.000 Either the inner fuselage of my anal cavity or the plane itself because it could have been a disaster, Jake.
00:12:58.000 Just to go back to the private travel thing.
00:13:01.000 They've never told us to do anything on the private plane.
00:13:04.000 They never said turn the, you know, I think we could bring a microwave.
00:13:06.000 We're being lied to about plane safety.
00:13:09.000 If you travel privately, they're just like, they don't tell you to put your seatbelt on, you can use your phone, you can do what you want.
00:13:15.000 So I think that airports are all about social conditioning.
00:13:18.000 Now, I recognize safety is important, but I also notice that safety is always how authority is leveraged these days.
00:13:25.000 In order to keep you safe from COVID, you've all got to stay in your houses.
00:13:28.000 In order to keep you safe from COVID, you've all got to take these mRNA injections.
00:13:32.000 In order to keep you safe from COVID, We've got to shame people that don't take vaccines.
00:13:36.000 So, I think what's happened is tyranny in the good old days of the.
00:13:39.000 When the British Empire were tyrannising the world, we did it well.
00:13:43.000 You guys are ruining it.
00:13:45.000 You're doing it in an insidious way with McDonald's and Coca Cola and Apple and Google.
00:13:51.000 At least we went and had the good grace to shoot people up front.
00:13:56.000 Anyway, look, I'm against tyranny and I'm not actually particularly pro British.
00:14:00.000 I don't know if you know anything about my current situation, but the entire British establishment is trying to destroy me.
00:14:04.000 So, I'm.
00:14:05.000 I've come here for a reason.
00:14:06.000 I like it on the redneck Rufiera.
00:14:08.000 I'm not going anywhere.
00:14:08.000 I own a Ford 150.
00:14:11.000 I'm packing a firearm.
00:14:12.000 Right, I did it.
00:14:14.000 It crossed my mind to have a gun on my person right now.
00:14:16.000 I was going to wear one.
00:14:17.000 But I thought, don't do it.
00:14:18.000 It's the wrong message.
00:14:18.000 It's the wrong message.
00:14:20.000 But I know that people in this room are holding a gun right now.
00:14:24.000 Lee?
00:14:26.000 Firearm?
00:14:27.000 At least you weren't nursing a gun, I suppose, during our brief tete-a-tete.
00:14:33.000 Sharon, not armed.
00:14:35.000 Roger Waters, potentially.
00:14:41.000 Could be, yeah.
00:14:42.000 A couple more blurbs.
00:14:43.000 Could be, yeah, it could be open carry.
00:14:45.000 All right, let's have a quick look.
00:14:46.000 One more thing before we bring out our beloved friend.
00:14:48.000 No, in fact, we're not going to do that.
00:14:50.000 We've done everything that we're supposed to do.
00:14:52.000 All right, hey, so in addition to talking about these current events, we're going to interview guests.
00:14:58.000 And today, I've got the filmmaker Sean Stone on the show.
00:15:03.000 Excuse me.
00:15:03.000 Sean Stone's coming on.
00:15:04.000 I'm going to interview him now in that chair there.
00:15:06.000 He'll be there.
00:15:07.000 I'll be there.
00:15:07.000 That's how it's going to operate.
00:15:09.000 It's going to just be like that, really.
00:15:11.000 Right now, he's behind that magical monkey door.
00:15:14.000 But I don't want him to come out until we've given him a very warm welcome.
00:15:17.000 And I'm going to attempt to do it.
00:15:18.000 Professional Precy of his not his entire career but the things I'm thinking about him now.
00:15:26.000 He makes scripted films and documentary films, he's been making films for about 20 years.
00:15:31.000 Yesterday, we watched this horror film.
00:15:34.000 No, actually, it's a documentary he made while he was making a scripted horror film.
00:15:38.000 The documentary is called Secret Stone.
00:15:42.000 Yeah, it is called Secret Stone.
00:15:43.000 Jake, what a crazy time that was.
00:15:45.000 Jake, it was very crazy, wasn't it?
00:15:47.000 Because we watched his documentary and it sort of like feels a bit.
00:15:50.000 Blair Witchy, like, I mean, Sean will tell you about this when he comes out, but him and his friends, while looking for locations to make a horror movie, went in a bunch of abandoned mental institutions, like in New Jersey, in particular the Greystone abandoned mental institution.
00:16:05.000 Would you go into an abandoned mental institute at night, Vicky?
00:16:08.000 No.
00:16:09.000 Would you?
00:16:09.000 Imagine you're nodding.
00:16:11.000 Why are you nodding?
00:16:12.000 What's that?
00:16:12.000 You would go into an abandoned mental institute in the night?
00:16:14.000 Why not?
00:16:15.000 What's that?
00:16:16.000 Sway's nodding.
00:16:17.000 What do you mean, why not?
00:16:18.000 Because it'd be spooky.
00:16:19.000 I'm frightened right now, in the daytime, without human beings.
00:16:24.000 You'd, well, just out of morbid curiosity.
00:16:26.000 Yeah, you can just walk in and give that to.
00:16:28.000 Thank you very much, Nikki.
00:16:29.000 That's good.
00:16:29.000 So, you wouldn't have any fear in going, yeah, and then they can hold it, and that's pretty good, yeah, I suppose it gives us the challenge of what to do with you, yeah.
00:16:36.000 It's good, we're just working stuff out.
00:16:37.000 Like, well, in that film, in Sean Stone's film, Secret Stone, he goes, him and his sort of handsome agitator, actor, mate, go into, like, crazy, spooky environments, and then you hear weird screams downstairs and things like that.
00:16:52.000 That wouldn't freak you out, Patsy.
00:16:54.000 It would, but that'd be fun.
00:16:55.000 You would overcome the fear.
00:16:56.000 You're a horror.
00:16:57.000 It was House of the Damned or something.
00:16:58.000 Remember the other one was called House of the Damned?
00:17:00.000 House of the Damned, that was pretty scary.
00:17:02.000 Two real plates, nine more.
00:17:04.000 No, it burned down, I think, because Sean Stone was burning candles in there, carrying out some sort of Catholic exorcism rite.
00:17:11.000 It's awesome.
00:17:12.000 It's a good film, it's a very good film, so you should check that out.
00:17:14.000 But we're going to be talking about a bunch of his films, including RFK Legacy, the film that I mentioned in the introduction.
00:17:19.000 The reason I don't go, I'm too easily scared.
00:17:21.000 I didn't like it when Uh-oh's car wash is haunted for Halloween.
00:17:27.000 Do you have any of you been to Otto's car wash?
00:17:30.000 Yes.
00:17:31.000 In other ways, you have.
00:17:32.000 I saw you.
00:17:33.000 Well, I was terrified.
00:17:35.000 You got to walk out, you didn't even have to see it because I was scared.
00:17:37.000 Yeah.
00:17:38.000 I was terrified.
00:17:39.000 Yeah, you and Kirby bailed.
00:17:41.000 Well, he was scared.
00:17:43.000 I could have handled it.
00:17:46.000 What they do is they have a haunted car wash and everyone wears masks and stuff like that.
00:17:50.000 It's pretty freaky.
00:17:51.000 Have you not?
00:17:52.000 None of you know what I'm talking about?
00:17:53.000 I know what you're talking about, but I don't even like to go in car washes.
00:17:56.000 I get motion sick.
00:17:57.000 You don't like the car wash?
00:17:59.000 When it's not haunted.
00:18:01.000 Correct.
00:18:02.000 Yeah.
00:18:02.000 No rules.
00:18:03.000 No rules at that place.
00:18:04.000 No rules.
00:18:05.000 It was lawless.
00:18:06.000 Chainsaws in the car.
00:18:07.000 It was terrifying.
00:18:08.000 Anyway, Sean Stone is a man who would happily deal with it.
00:18:10.000 Please, ladies and gentlemen, welcome from behind the door actor, entertainer, filmmaker, conspiracy theorist, friend, and definite future collaborator, Sean Stone from behind the monkey door.
00:18:20.000 He's just trapped.
00:18:21.000 I thought you were a joke.
00:18:24.000 Could you not get out?
00:18:28.000 Please, Sean, take a seat.
00:18:31.000 All right.
00:18:32.000 Careful of the mic.
00:18:34.000 Are you going to stand?
00:18:35.000 No.
00:18:35.000 Now that would be a really uncomfortable dynamic.
00:18:37.000 Sean!
00:18:38.000 Welcome.
00:18:38.000 Now I'm going to sit down appropriately.
00:18:41.000 Now, me and Jake were just.
00:18:43.000 Jake's in the.
00:18:44.000 Hmm, now I've got a real dilemma.
00:18:47.000 What do you think?
00:18:48.000 Should I stay with this mic or?
00:18:49.000 I don't know, switch.
00:18:50.000 You might watch your hands.
00:18:52.000 Yeah.
00:18:52.000 You think in case I need to establish rapport with Sean?
00:18:55.000 Doing some of these?
00:18:56.000 Yeah.
00:18:57.000 Yeah, you're right.
00:18:58.000 I will.
00:18:58.000 I will.
00:18:59.000 Whatever you do, do not do this.
00:19:01.000 Don't do that.
00:19:02.000 Don't go.
00:19:03.000 Sean.
00:19:04.000 Oh, yeah, no, that's a gesture we don't like.
00:19:06.000 You'll have noticed if you're watching contemporary politics that all politicians have been instructed that no one likes being pointed at, but they want you, that you must look powerful.
00:19:15.000 And the way to handle that is to put your thumb.
00:19:17.000 On top of your hand.
00:19:18.000 You've all noticed that, right?
00:19:19.000 Wasn't that a Clinton thing?
00:19:22.000 I think he brokered it, Sean.
00:19:24.000 He was the first person to use it.
00:19:26.000 Now, in a sense, there's so much to cover with you.
00:19:29.000 I want to talk a little bit about the extraordinary experience we had yesterday watching your documentary, Secret Stone, where you went into abandoned mental hospitals and creepy haunted houses and encountered paranormal activity.
00:19:44.000 Now, on one hand, I felt cynical because I've been involved in making content for a long time and thought, oh, God, no, this can't be real.
00:19:49.000 But on the other hand, there was a Power cut, a really creepy bit of the movie that made me think, oh no, maybe it is real.
00:19:56.000 So, Sean, why don't we start there, given that that's what we were talking about?
00:20:00.000 That's probably one of your early films, I reckon.
00:20:02.000 You were just in your early 20s when you started that process.
00:20:04.000 Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, going back in time, I was 2009.
00:20:11.000 I just graduated college in 2006, and I worked with my dad on a couple of films in Alexander.
00:20:17.000 I'd shot the behind the scenes, I went to shoot behind the scenes on W. About George W. Bush, and I got to work with him in the editing room.
00:20:25.000 So then I went to work with him after that on his Untold History of the United States documentary series.
00:20:30.000 It's a very thorough 10 part series.
00:20:33.000 Yeah, that's amazing.
00:20:34.000 You've seen that one, right?
00:20:35.000 Yeah.
00:20:36.000 You know, deconstructing some of our foreign policy over the last hundred years, let's say the American foreign policy.
00:20:41.000 So I worked with him for about a year editing, and then I was just like, I'm done.
00:20:46.000 I can't work for you anymore.
00:20:48.000 I need to have my own vision.
00:20:50.000 It was just too.
00:20:51.000 Why was it like working with your dad?
00:20:53.000 I've met him like a couple of times in these.
00:20:55.000 Obviously, Oliver Stone, the filmmaker, very famous, one of the most successful contemporary filmmakers.
00:21:01.000 My experience of him was he was charismatic and very, very intense.
00:21:05.000 And the office that I met him in, which was his office, smelled heavily of marijuana.
00:21:09.000 Those are my main observations.
00:21:11.000 Well, that's true.
00:21:13.000 That's true.
00:21:14.000 He functions very well on marijuana.
00:21:15.000 So, why was it difficult for you to work with him?
00:21:18.000 It was difficult for me because, for multiple reasons.
00:21:21.000 You know, one, when you have your own ambition or direction, you know, as a creator, um, It's difficult to just take commands from someone else.
00:21:31.000 And fundamentally, that was a big, you know, that was a huge project.
00:21:34.000 He's, you know, a 10 part documentary series, and the scripts kept changing.
00:21:38.000 And he was busy because his attention was drawn to Wall Street 2 at that point.
00:21:43.000 He'd been finishing W, he went to Wall Street 2 next.
00:21:46.000 And it was like he was dual focused.
00:21:48.000 And so I would come with a cut based on the script, and he wasn't happy with it.
00:21:52.000 And it's like, well, that's the script you gave me.
00:21:54.000 So I felt very much like I needed to clear, I didn't want to sit in the editing room.
00:21:59.000 And twiddle around and play with something that didn't feel like it was mine and didn't feel like it was clearly directed in the sense that it took my dad five years ultimately to make that.
00:22:08.000 So the editor that sat there for five years had to go through probably 50 cuts, and I didn't have the patience.
00:22:14.000 So I wanted to go do my own thing.
00:22:17.000 And that's when I connected with Alex Wraith, who I met through my father on the set of Wall Street 2 in New York.
00:22:25.000 And he was telling us ghost stories when I met the guy, and he was like, Yeah, I go, you know, he's a Jersey kid.
00:22:31.000 He's like, I go.
00:22:31.000 Go hang out in this place called Greystone, which is a very famous mental hospital in New Jersey.
00:22:38.000 What's his name?
00:22:38.000 Woody Guthrie was there, for example.
00:22:41.000 Do you think in that new film, then?
00:22:43.000 That's Greystone.
00:22:44.000 That's Greystone, where Woody Guthrie, the great American songwriter and folk musician and hero, are in those scenes where Bob Dylan is visiting Woody Guthrie in hospital.
00:22:54.000 That's Greystone, New Jersey.
00:22:56.000 So it's one of those famous old institutions.
00:22:59.000 Now, one of the things I was struck by when watching your film, Stone Street, sorry, Secret Stone, that you were making while making Greystone, because you were involved in two projects the scripted horror movie.
00:23:13.000 That you were scouting locations for when you encountered these places was I started to think about like mental institutions and the sort of now accepted fact that both the MI5 in my country and the CIA in yours have got the MKUltra programs, they acknowledge that they took people from mental hospitals and did like experiments on them.
00:23:34.000 So weird stuff goes on, weird creepy stuff, hot cold pressure baths, and what do they call them?
00:23:41.000 Like you know, basically experimentation.
00:23:44.000 Now, Greystone, I don't think was listed in the MKUltra documents, but remember.
00:23:49.000 The mind control projects, and there were multiple, it wasn't just MKUltra, it was the most famous one, but they were working with a number of foundations and institutions all the way into Canada.
00:24:00.000 And I don't think Greystone was ever listed in what I've seen, but most of those documents were shredded.
00:24:05.000 So we don't know the full extent of who was involved in those experiments.
00:24:12.000 But certainly the nature of the mental hospitals leads itself to abuse.
00:24:18.000 And that's why Greystone was shut down.
00:24:20.000 It was shut down for abuse of patients.
00:24:23.000 Oh, really?
00:24:24.000 So that's like explicit and understood.
00:24:26.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:24:27.000 And so, and I can't remember if it closed in the 70s or 80s, but basically a lot of these old hospitals got shut down.
00:24:34.000 And then you go there 20 years later, they're abandoned for 20 plus years.
00:24:38.000 And you walk in the door, and the lights are on, and all the paperwork and the furniture.
00:24:42.000 It's like someone left five minutes ago in a hurry.
00:24:46.000 It was very spooky to walk into that energy and to explore, which we did multiple times.
00:24:51.000 And as you see with the documentary, we document.
00:24:54.000 Those incursions into these different locations and how the high strangeness just escalates.
00:25:01.000 It escalates and escalates.
00:25:03.000 And I think you have to kind of go with the journey, as I told you, of the documentary.
00:25:07.000 Like, you think, oh, well, this is made up.
00:25:09.000 And then you start to see, no, this is not made up.
00:25:12.000 There's something very serious here.
00:25:15.000 And we encountered it.
00:25:16.000 And even if you think any of it was staged, which I never staged any of it, but even if you think it was, I know that there are things that could not have been staged.
00:25:25.000 There was no way that, you know, there was no way it could have been staged or something else at work.
00:25:31.000 Yeah, because in that film, Secret Stone, those of you that haven't seen it, and we do a watch along, so you can, on this channel, you can click the link in the description now and you can watch Sean's film.
00:25:42.000 What I was really struck by is this I am Christian and therefore believe in the supernatural.
00:25:49.000 Even before coming to Christ, I believed in supernatural activity.
00:25:53.000 I've had some unusual and strange encounters in my life, and if you, Are a devout person, you accept realms of angels and demons.
00:26:02.000 And when we watch it, and also in the post Epstein file age, we've all got to be open to the levels of corruption that likely incorporate not only the exploitation that takes place in these institutions where exhausted and weary staff kid old people and mentally ill people, that kind of thing we're familiar with, but it sort of seems like there's a tacit, not tacit, sort of.
00:26:28.000 Implicit and ongoing relationship between children's homes and mental hospitals and weird occultist sexually exploitative stuff.
00:26:37.000 There's many examples of it in the UK.
00:26:40.000 And more anecdotally, I've been struck by how, when listening to mentally ill people, and I have to listen to them a lot because I am one and I hang around with them, like how often they have anecdotes that have consistent themes in them, like mentally ill people sort of talking about being monitored and machines and encounters with entities that remind me sort of of things I've heard from people describing psychedelic encounters.
00:27:04.000 So I've struck, therefore, Sean, in a way, by my own cynicism and my own reluctance.
00:27:10.000 When I was watching the film, there are really scary bits where Sean's in an alleged haunted house where terrible, murderous, and awfully abusive things were alleged to have taken place, both in terms of lore and legend.
00:27:25.000 And some things I think were a matter of public record.
00:27:27.000 And then while Alex and Sean were there, there are mad, eerie screams and smashes.
00:27:33.000 But my sort of reaction, first of all, me and Jake were like, oh man, we're freaking out, I'm really into it.
00:27:38.000 Then there's a certain point where I'm like, no, I'm not having this.
00:27:40.000 This is filmmaking.
00:27:41.000 I can't go any further.
00:27:42.000 And I was.
00:27:43.000 Sort of unsure which part of myself to listen to.
00:27:46.000 The skepticism that's generally protective, like a self protection mechanism when it comes to not wanting to look foolish or feel as if you've been duped, but also recognizing that I know there's more to reality than what is superficial and acknowledged.
00:28:02.000 Well, it's like we were talking about you've seen possession in different forms.
00:28:07.000 If you've seen it with alcoholism or drugs or multiple personality disorders, I mean, all of this is indicative of something going on within the psyche that.
00:28:18.000 It's like you are no longer you, whatever we consider ourselves to be, that is the great mystery, is no longer in charge, right?
00:28:25.000 When you see that take place in someone.
00:28:28.000 And so in the film, we show cases, instances where people are taken over moment to moment.
00:28:33.000 It's not like with alcohol where they get to a certain point and you look in that person and their eyes are black and they're screaming or saying something that the next day they don't remember.
00:28:44.000 That's a type of possession.
00:28:45.000 But in the case of the film, we see it.
00:28:48.000 Instantaneously, it's like a flip of a switch, and right, and then you know the eyes change the behavior.
00:28:57.000 Yeah, what was that?
00:28:58.000 It's almost like the house became a kind of contagion, like that young woman that you were there with.
00:29:03.000 She had some sort of freaky experience.
00:29:04.000 Your mate Alex, who I thought was a bit, in fact, we'll probably drop a clip in for the version of this.
00:29:09.000 Yeah, like the one of the reasons I was particularly resistant was because your mate Alex was.
00:29:15.000 I went to a drama school myself, like in my late teens and early 20s, and I was really recognized.
00:29:21.000 What I would call actory behavior, sort of like a man, something's going on here.
00:29:27.000 Like he smashes his head on a cabinet and stuff.
00:29:30.000 And I thought, that's what I would do if I was in there.
00:29:32.000 I'd dramatize this and I'd make it about me.
00:29:34.000 Oh, for sure, for sure.
00:29:35.000 He definitely played into that.
00:29:36.000 But the thing with acting is like when Denzel talked about, you know, he getting ready for his role in glory, he's like, he wasn't hitting the mark.
00:29:45.000 There was a ghostly sound right then in the room, Sean.
00:29:48.000 Mertz, capture that.
00:29:49.000 What happened?
00:29:50.000 A book?
00:29:54.000 Jumped off the table.
00:29:56.000 See?
00:29:57.000 You can't stage that.
00:29:59.000 And what book, and Vicki, what book was it?
00:30:03.000 Your book.
00:30:04.000 And what is the title of it?
00:30:05.000 And is it available now if you click the link in the description?
00:30:10.000 It's Russell Brand How to Become a Christian in Seven Days.
00:30:16.000 You cannot stage a thing like that.
00:30:18.000 It is available, I hear.
00:30:20.000 And this, honestly, jumped off the table in sight of all three of us.
00:30:25.000 And there is not a human.
00:30:27.000 Anywhere near that room.
00:30:29.000 I mean, obviously, buy the book How to Come Christian in Seven Days.
00:30:32.000 That's clearly the main message.
00:30:34.000 But in addition to that, has anyone here had any supernatural experiences that are in accordance with what our beloved friend Sean is describing?
00:30:47.000 Anyone here got anything to add when it comes to supernatural activity?
00:30:53.000 Sway, Mr. Holotick, Pat Sings, I know pretty much everyone's name now.
00:30:58.000 Sharon, don't feel obligated to.
00:31:00.000 Okay, well, then in a minute, if there are any questions that you have.
00:31:05.000 I'm gonna come back to you.
00:31:07.000 But, like, why I really enjoyed watching that film.
00:31:09.000 Firstly, I thought it was really brilliantly made.
00:31:11.000 And secondly, it made me question my own attitude towards paranormal and supernatural activity.
00:31:17.000 And that the root of my skepticism was I don't want to be tricked, I don't want people to think I'm gullible.
00:31:22.000 That's kind of what was behind it.
00:31:25.000 Join us Friday for the second part of this conversation with Sean Stone.
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00:32:44.000 Hey, remember, me and my wife Laura every weekend make this podcast.
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00:32:53.000 It's difficult to explain, but here is a section to give you an idea of what we talk about.
00:33:08.000 How did you teach the children to pray?
00:33:11.000 Well, after we prayed together as a family and we noticed what it brought up for us as a family like the kids not listening, not sitting still, mucking around.
00:33:23.000 It was frustrating, wasn't it?
00:33:25.000 I noticed what it brought up for me was furious rage.
00:33:28.000 In the Screw Tape Letters by C.S. Lewis, which depicts a realm of demons who are the occupants of a bureaucracy mentoring one another.
00:33:38.000 Screw tape to Wormwood in the case of the Screw Tape letters.
00:33:43.000 He talks about the ways in which the demonic elements and the demonic entities, occupants of bureaucracies, which I think is so brilliant because surely bureaucracies are one of the ways that human beings are dehumanized.
00:33:57.000 There's one bit where Screw Tape says to Wormwood, the ideal state is you could get it so that you could have your man in a state of rapturous prayer, then hear his mother make a noise in the other room and like scream expletives and curses at her.
00:34:10.000 Well, it was almost exactly this state that I was in when I tried to briefly pray with the family.
00:34:15.000 We pray every day together, but I like to pray.
00:34:19.000 The distance between me waking up in the morning and getting into my prayer closet, my prayer closet, that should be as short as possible because nothing good can happen to me between waking and praying.
00:34:32.000 The same way as when I was a drug addict, it was a supreme priority to get drugs in my body.
00:34:38.000 When it was weird, I used to keep it just by the bed.
00:34:40.000 When it was booze, I used to keep it by the bed.
00:34:42.000 When it was Other, more enhanced, I would keep the accoutrements local.
00:34:48.000 And of course, addiction is the material expression of the longing for God.
00:34:52.000 Anyway, nonetheless, I am so fallen and so broken, and I was so impatient, so disappointed that our kids couldn't just sit still and participate in some pretty rudimentary prayer.
00:35:00.000 But it led to a good experience because when I stormed off tempestuously to be alone, I said, Laura, I think you're going to have to handle this.
00:35:08.000 Yeah.
00:35:09.000 Tell us.
00:35:09.000 So, what I did was I sat the girls down and I explained to them.
00:35:13.000 The same way that when I homeschool them and they don't listen, it feels really demoralizing.
00:35:21.000 It feels very, very difficult for me to continue with the same sort of enthusiasm to teach them one thing on one day, for them to not listen, and for me to keep saying, you know, come on, girls, sit down.
00:35:38.000 Now listen, read that back, repeat that back to me.
00:35:40.000 What did I say?
00:35:42.000 And when it's all just mucking around, And all that, I just start to sort of give up.
00:35:47.000 And it makes me.
00:35:48.000 And I said, but the problem is, or at least here, we have an opportunity because you cannot give up on prayer and you will not give up.
00:35:56.000 We're going to do it as a family.
00:35:57.000 Because I said, because of when I went, I'm not going to pray with you guys anymore.
00:36:00.000 Yeah, you did say that.
00:36:01.000 You said, I can't pray with you anymore if it's going to be.
00:36:03.000 But also, I knew you weren't really meaning that because we pray before meals and we still pray at night.
00:36:07.000 And what I said to them is, it's very important for us to have that moment as a family.
00:36:12.000 And that's a positive change for us to have a quiet moment in the morning.
00:36:17.000 Otherwise, we find our own children have they go into their stuff, either it's sort of asking for snacks or wanting to watch something.
00:36:26.000 They want a screen or they want a snack.
00:36:28.000 Screens or snacks.
00:36:29.000 The world.
00:36:29.000 Right away, yeah.
00:36:30.000 So, in order to try and get into a much more kind of organic flow of the day and natural place to start from, a foundation for the day, if you will, prayer is important.
00:36:42.000 And I find it difficult too.
00:36:44.000 And I started by saying that I said, I find it difficult to stay still.
00:36:47.000 I find it difficult to not be agitated if a fly comes across.
00:36:51.000 Like, if I feel like something lands on me, or if I want to bite my nails, or if I want to fidget and poke a bit of hair and all the stuff, or if my knees hurt, if we're preying on our knees, for example, it hurts.
00:37:02.000 And so you have to kind of go through that and like work out how to get comfortable.
00:37:07.000 So I sat them down and I said, right, we are going to have a positive morning working through how to pray.
00:37:14.000 So what we did was we started with being still.
00:37:17.000 And what I realized is the being still was the problem.
00:37:22.000 So when I asked them to be still, one of our daughters was pretty good at it, but had a lot going on in her mind.
00:37:29.000 So what I said was just be still for a minute, close your eyes.
00:37:33.000 Every time something agitates you, annoys you, or you get distracted, I want you to say what the thing is.
00:37:39.000 So, one of our daughters was saying, you know, elbow, knee, headache.
00:37:44.000 Brilliant.
00:37:44.000 Things like that.
00:37:45.000 Such an amazing technique that you came up with there.
00:37:48.000 There's a Bible verse for that, in fact.
00:37:50.000 It's in the letters of Paul.
00:37:51.000 Take every thought captive.
00:37:53.000 That's right.
00:37:54.000 Take every thought captive.
00:37:55.000 Pay attention to your thoughts.
00:37:56.000 Like, yeah, go, what is that thought?
00:37:58.000 You're not good enough.
00:37:59.000 What is this thought?
00:38:00.000 I'd want to use drugs.
00:38:01.000 What is this thought?
00:38:01.000 I like looking at pornography.
00:38:03.000 What is this thought?
00:38:05.000 I'm better than that person or this.
00:38:06.000 Person should do this or that, take them captive and interrogate them for it.
00:38:10.000 Look, I'm even holding a pistol to that thought said, but it's only these are only thoughts in my own mind, you know.
00:38:15.000 Like, so I said, What are you doing in there?
00:38:17.000 And like, you actually instinctively discovered that.
00:38:19.000 Yeah, because what I realized is if they cannot stay still, then they can't be in the moment because it's all about it's everything else.
00:38:27.000 They're overstimulated.
00:38:29.000 So we could see, I could see that one of our daughters was good at sitting still, but had a lot going on internally, like, you know, the elbow, the knee, the headache.
00:38:36.000 But given that exercise of just listing it was just listing it, yeah.
00:38:39.000 So that was where we went with.
00:38:41.000 One daughter.
00:38:41.000 Then the other daughter, who she was like getting her feet up on the table.
00:38:45.000 Why won't you name the daughters?
00:38:47.000 Why are you being all mysterious about the daughters?
00:38:50.000 Because actually, I was thinking this and I was thinking, well, they're our daughters.
00:38:53.000 Or you want to keep them private?
00:38:54.000 Well, it doesn't, not so much keep up private, but it's sort of their stuff as well.
00:38:58.000 Oh, it's their private, yeah, it's their private internal worlds and stuff.
00:39:02.000 So anyway, then one other daughter, she was like putting her feet up on the table.
00:39:07.000 Could be a daughter.
00:39:07.000 Could have been a bloke at a bus stop.
00:39:11.000 Could be a daughter, one daughter, putting her feet up on the table.
00:39:15.000 Would not shut her eyes, like literally could not stop looking around, scratching, biting nails, doing stuff.
00:39:21.000 And I was like, Look, just please sit still, get comfortable.
00:39:26.000 She's like, Well, I'm not comfortable on the chair.
00:39:27.000 I said, Well, make yourself comfortable.
00:39:29.000 And I said, And the same applies when we pray in the morning.
00:39:31.000 If you go to and you know it's prayer, grab a pillow or a blanket and make sure that when we pray, you're seated or you're sitting comfortably, or if we're around a table or whatever it is.
00:39:42.000 Because sometimes you just get into a position because you're just there and then and you want to rush into it and you're just sort of hum.
00:39:48.000 And then you realize, like us with our knees, when we're doing this, yeah, be comfortable.
00:39:51.000 Otherwise, you can't be in the moment, you can't be comfortable, you'll be agitated the whole time.
00:39:55.000 So, a lot of Zen masters, though, lore they give you a whack, yeah, they teach with wax.
00:40:01.000 I'm not teaching with lashings and wax, but I can imagine that that's pretty good because you're tested.
00:40:06.000 I just feel for children, the idea of like trying to get them to be still and be calm and close their eyes is such a big hurdle, but then trying to get them used to the idea of enjoying the discomfort is a whole different thing.
00:40:22.000 For later in life, be still and know that I'm God.
00:40:25.000 Yeah, be still and take every thought captive.
00:40:27.000 Yeah, seek the first of the kingdom of God, and all this and his righteousness will be granted unto you.
00:40:31.000 Yeah, all of this is in scripture.
00:40:32.000 And I noticed when I took them to church today, our three kids, thankfully, one of the people that works here came with us and helped.
00:40:38.000 Um, they were really well behaved, better behaved than they are when we go to church in anglophonic countries.
00:40:44.000 Yeah, that's interesting.
00:40:45.000 They just sat there and behaved themselves.
00:40:47.000 Yeah, amidst the unbelievable singing.
00:40:50.000 Yeah, but it makes me wonder.
00:40:52.000 Like in a place where there is a lot less civilization, a lot less institutionalism, a lot less cultural ephemera, a lot less distraction, the spirit is coming through so powerful.
00:41:02.000 Like, and we go to churches in places where, you know, Bible Belt, you know, places where the, you know, but the singing is better than England.
00:41:09.000 Oh, yeah, it's a chorus, it's a quiet.
00:41:17.000 These people are like, like God is roaring out of their lower chakras.
00:41:23.000 What's funny, actually, the two.
00:41:27.000 Bible set, well, one was a church service and one was a choir performance or recital that we saw here.
00:41:35.000 And both said the singing or the sermon will be in the native language.
00:41:40.000 Let the Holy Spirit translate it for you.
00:41:44.000 Yeah.
00:41:44.000 Whatever.
00:41:45.000 I really like that because that can actually apply even when it's in your own language.
00:41:49.000 Yeah.
00:41:50.000 Don't understand it.
00:41:51.000 Let the Holy Spirit translate it for you.
00:41:54.000 Because I don't know nothing about planting those seeds.
00:41:57.000 I don't know nothing about putting your fishing nets in the water and getting some fish out.
00:42:01.000 I don't know nothing about moving a mountain with a mustard seed of faith unless I let the Holy Spirit interpret it or taking every force captive.
00:42:08.000 I mean, when you read this stuff in King James language, it just sounds like sort of Shakespeare, which we know is sort of magnificent poetry.
00:42:14.000 But what is poetry?
00:42:14.000 Poetry is the ability to create meaning that goes beyond the literal signifiers on the page or even the signifiers that appear in the mind to conjure images that reach down to the source of reality.
00:42:27.000 And that's one of the great spiritual claims.
00:42:29.000 This sensory world is an expression of a deeper reality that has a creator, a God.
00:42:35.000 That's it.
00:42:36.000 It's not that.
00:42:37.000 Actually, if you can't measure it, it's not there.
00:42:40.000 That the underlying principle is chaos and everything's falling apart.
00:42:43.000 Indeed, the metronome experiment, let's put a link to that, actually.
00:42:47.000 I watched it the other day while doing some Joe Dispenza work, but the metronome experiment is fantastic.
00:42:52.000 If you put a lot of chaotic metronomes down, tick, all chaotically and disorderly, disorder, disorder, and, uh, Cacophonous, a rhythmic way over time, they start to move in harmony.
00:43:08.000 That means there is an invisible tendency towards order.
00:43:12.000 What is that?
00:43:13.000 It's like the arm of a loving father being placed around you and saying, No, chaos is not the final thing, not decay, not death, which are the product of the serpent, which are the product of stepping outside of God's grace and reality.
00:43:25.000 When we watched that video yesterday, Russell's known this about me.
00:43:30.000 I've always been a big fan of river dance.
00:43:35.000 I knew that Riverdance would come marching in a column into this podcast one day.
00:43:40.000 Do you know what?
00:43:40.000 There have been times in my life where, like, people in my social circles have known that in really random times.
00:43:46.000 That because I will go on and it'll be about Michael Flatley, or I'll have talked about some.
00:43:51.000 I remember doing a drama course, and one of the things was that I did an Irish dance.
00:43:56.000 But you did what?
00:43:57.000 Yeah, just made it up spontaneously.
00:43:58.000 It was because all the time.
00:43:59.000 Did you keep your arms still?
00:44:00.000 No, it was sort of like, you know, it was like expressive.
00:44:04.000 Expressive.
00:44:04.000 Oh, dear.
00:44:05.000 Expressive.
00:44:06.000 Yeah, I don't really like.
00:44:07.000 Think too much about that.
00:44:08.000 But could you just do that dance now?
00:44:10.000 Absolutely not.
00:44:12.000 Private moment, whatever it's called, you know.
00:44:14.000 An acting exercise.
00:44:15.000 Yeah, private moment.
00:44:17.000 Anyway, the fact is, Riverdance, I've always really loved it.
00:44:21.000 It sends chills.
00:44:22.000 I mean, it's not just me, it's why it's one of the most successful productions on the stage all this time.
00:44:28.000 It's this watching a group of 50 people dance at the same time and the way their legs move was to me like watching the metronomes go in the same way.
00:44:39.000 Like, The ticking, it was like the legs when they're tapping.
00:44:42.000 And I said to Russell, maybe this is why I love river dancing.
00:44:45.000 So very quickly, you said that.
00:44:46.000 Because what it felt like was like a deep, deep, deep peace of harmony.
00:44:51.000 Of harmony, yeah.
00:44:52.000 Because what is a lack of peace?
00:44:54.000 Chaos, disturbance, disruption, but there is also stagnation.
00:44:58.000 So, seeing the orderly beat of the metronome, or indeed, you know, just the rhythms and patterns of math and music themselves, is beautiful precisely because it shows that there is an order.
00:45:09.000 Yeah.
00:45:09.000 That we're not living in total chaos and disorder.
00:45:12.000 That is the lie.
00:45:14.000 Indeed, that is the atheistic, materialistic lie.
00:45:16.000 The world comes from a big bang.
00:45:17.000 That for some reason contained a bunch of rules in it that perfectly facilitate all forms of life.
00:45:24.000 You yourself have this natural tendency to worship and adore and revere order and patterns and beauty and grace.
00:45:32.000 In fact, my friend, to your point about Riverdance, which I mean, I do like seeing him clip clop about, but you know, Michael Flatley, he's always sort of like an ultra sexy person, isn't he?
00:45:41.000 Yeah, I mean, but also very talented.
00:45:46.000 He's very, what a gifted man.
00:45:48.000 Oh, he's so gifted.
00:45:49.000 Oh, look at him.
00:45:50.000 Oh, he took his top off.
00:45:51.000 Oh, look at those little kicky boots.
00:45:53.000 Oh, put a little buckly shoe on him.
00:45:56.000 Oh, dress him up as a letter con.
00:45:59.000 Take your britches down, Michael.
00:46:01.000 Get your britches off.
00:46:02.000 I hope Massey Ed puts in a real good clip of Michael Flatley in his prime.
00:46:14.000 And see if everybody can comment on that.
00:46:16.000 What I will say to you, and forgive the hubris in this, that all the men you had crushes on before we married, I think were always leading you to me.
00:46:24.000 Swayze in Dirty Dancing.
00:46:26.000 Aren't I every bit Johnny down the camp?
00:46:29.000 Labyrinth, you liked Bowie.
00:46:31.000 Aren't I a little bit like the Goblin King?
00:46:35.000 Who else?
00:46:36.000 Flatlegs.
00:46:36.000 Come on.
00:46:37.000 Also, only Bowie in Labyrinth.
00:46:40.000 Not out of.
00:46:40.000 Yeah, you didn't like Bowie outside of anything with very decent haircuts.
00:46:43.000 So it was making good music and not dancing around with little puppies.
00:46:46.000 And also, only Johnny Deppers Edward Scissorhand.
00:46:49.000 Only, you know, yeah, yeah, very like you said that when I put a baseball cap on.
00:46:55.000 I did.
00:46:56.000 I say, when Russell wears this black baseball cap, I say, you look like Edward Scissorhands when he's when I take him on a burglary.
00:47:05.000 Oh, well, go on, but you're gonna say something there.
00:47:07.000 Interrupted you, uh, like also.
00:47:09.000 I say just before I was, I was like, remember, I was listing the menu that crushes on, then I talked about River Dance, Michael Flatley.
00:47:15.000 Did you want to say anything about that?
00:47:17.000 Is there any threads open?
00:47:19.000 Piece that you and have you finished teaching your daughter to pray yet?
00:47:22.000 No, I haven't.
00:47:22.000 No, actually, what I was actually going to say was, um, in this book, which weirdly I was just picking up, it was on the shelf behind us, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who I really know nothing about, by the way.
00:47:32.000 Do you know much about him?
00:47:33.000 Not really, no.
00:47:34.000 Okay, but I actually, one of the girls slash me got you this for your birthday, Father's Day, Nature and Other Essays.
00:47:42.000 And one of the things that he says, you'll really find this very interesting, especially with what you're talking about with the metronomes and things.
00:47:50.000 There's a passage here on discipline.
00:47:52.000 And it says, like, in view of the significance of nature, we arrive at once at a new fact that nature is a discipline.
00:48:00.000 This use of the world includes the preceding uses as parts of itself space, time, society, labor, climate, food, locomotion, the animals, the mechanical forces give us sincerest lessons day by day, whose meaning is unlimited.
00:48:14.000 And it basically goes on nature is a discipline of the understanding in intellectual truths.
00:48:20.000 And when you're saying, when you're talking a lot about the, The truth, the deeper meaning between the metronomes, finding the rhythm.
00:48:28.000 He goes on at this, but I can't find it right now to talk about nature is absolutely in its rhythm.
00:48:38.000 Like the.
00:48:38.000 Find it.
00:48:39.000 I'll talk and you can find it for a moment.
00:48:41.000 Oh no, this is one of those moments of only.
00:48:43.000 Say, you like it.
00:48:44.000 I'll be Piers Morgan.
00:48:45.000 I do not like to.
00:48:46.000 Come on.
00:48:47.000 Find a thing in a book.
00:48:49.000 Piers, I can't find it.
00:48:50.000 I don't worry about it.
00:48:51.000 It's actually not very important.
00:48:53.000 Like what I wanted to say is.
00:48:55.000 I've got a few little points I want to finish off.
00:48:57.000 Like, one of my friends, he's a friend but teacher, Tim M, very good, first 164 blogspot.
00:49:03.000 He's a 12 step guy who's a very good teacher in that area, but, you know, just a member of a 12 step group also.
00:49:10.000 He said to me one time, because I'm infatuated with my own identity, like all alcoholics and addicts, and like perhaps all human beings.
00:49:17.000 I mean, don't we worship the body, worship the self, set up the false God of self that always will lead to the fall, inevitably?
00:49:25.000 He said once, he goes, Russell, do you know those.
00:49:28.000 Scottish dancers, can you envision those Scottish dancers all wearing kilts, all lined up, kicking their little legs?
00:49:34.000 I'm like, yeah, yeah.
00:49:35.000 He goes, Well, you're just another one of those, just another Scottish dancer kicking its legs.
00:49:41.000 That's very sweet.
00:49:42.000 I like that thought.
00:49:43.000 Well, I didn't like it.
00:49:44.000 I want to be Michael Flatley in the river dance, just one guy with his top off, booting about, buckly boots, booting about, flipping on.
00:49:51.000 Michael Flatley, he couldn't cope with that.
00:49:52.000 Right, drove him mad.
00:49:54.000 Become Lord of the Dance.
00:49:55.000 Exactly, Lord of the Dance at the end of the day.
00:49:58.000 Lord of the Dance.
00:49:59.000 Too much ego.
00:50:00.000 Drinky drink.
00:50:01.000 Well, no, we don't do this kind of thing.
00:50:03.000 We don't know, but we do know, I mean, much publicised, but Lord of the Dance, I think, could become quite egocentric.
00:50:09.000 Bit of a demon of the night.
00:50:11.000 Because this is it.
00:50:11.000 If you worship the world and all of its fallenness and brokenness, you're worshiping yourself.
00:50:15.000 And if you're worshiping yourself, you're worshiping a temporary thing, a thing that cannot withstand the true pressure of this world.
00:50:21.000 But anyway, while you're looking for that, I'm going to give up on this because I can't find it.
00:50:25.000 Well, what I think I want to return to the idea.
00:50:27.000 You sure about that?
00:50:27.000 That's why I want to return to Tim Robinson.
00:50:30.000 I want to return to the idea of you teaching those girls to pray and the way you did it, our beautiful daughters.
00:50:36.000 Firstly, teaching them to be still, listing their discomforts, and then you talked them through the process of.
00:50:42.000 Prayer when you were telling me what you'd done because I'd gone off to do my own prayer because I'm, I guess, I'm not very patient and I'd gone off to do it.
00:50:48.000 And also, I'm a require strong mystical connection at all times, otherwise, I go crazy.
00:50:55.000 What I realized is when something doesn't, if it's not like natural to you necessarily, or if you're learning, I realized that they needed to have a sort of a script.
00:51:04.000 Yeah.
00:51:04.000 So, what I made them both do is sit with me and we work through bit by bit.
00:51:08.000 We worked on being still and what that brought up for each of them.
00:51:13.000 And when, for example, one daughter's mind is saying elbow headache.
00:51:17.000 Knee, thoughts, all that stuff.
00:51:20.000 I said, when now change it to God, Jesus, God, Jesus.
00:51:25.000 So it's like the mantra becomes God, Jesus, God, Jesus, or whatever it is.
00:51:30.000 The next bit was to really acknowledge the environment of when it is.
00:51:36.000 So I said to them, imagine you're writing, which they do love doing, a letter, a pen pal letter to your best friend.
00:51:44.000 Pen pal?
00:51:45.000 Well, okay, grandma, welcome to 2026.
00:51:49.000 Now we're going to write to a pen pal.
00:51:51.000 It's a booktooth girl in Luxembourg.
00:51:53.000 Pen pal.
00:51:54.000 Okay.
00:51:54.000 Write a postcard, a letter, whatever it is.
00:51:57.000 I did use the word pen pal because I think it's.
00:51:59.000 Let's bring the pen pals.
00:52:00.000 Oh, yes, get a pen pal.
00:52:02.000 I was on the phone with my pen pal the other day.
00:52:06.000 I actually.
00:52:07.000 I go, you got me pen pals?
00:52:09.000 I actually have email pals.
00:52:11.000 So she writes to them?
00:52:14.000 Yeah, that's me writing to them.
00:52:15.000 Are you having a seizure?
00:52:17.000 You can write a lot more in a letter than you can on text.
00:52:20.000 It might as well just.
00:52:20.000 Give up on WhatsApp and text message.
00:52:22.000 Go into pen palling with friends.
00:52:25.000 Anyway.
00:52:26.000 And it's fine if it's in an email.
00:52:28.000 So I said, Express, tell me how you would say, if it was the morning, what would you say?
00:52:32.000 Good morning.
00:52:33.000 If it's the evening, what would you say?
00:52:34.000 Good evening.
00:52:34.000 All right, start there.
00:52:35.000 Good morning, God.
00:52:37.000 Good morning, God.
00:52:38.000 Greet God on this new day.
00:52:40.000 So, you know, good morning, God.
00:52:42.000 Thank you for this new day.
00:52:44.000 I said straight after to thank God for the new day or thank for the day you've had, you know.
00:52:49.000 Thanks, gratitude.
00:52:50.000 Yeah, gratitude.
00:52:52.000 The next thing was to praise him.
00:52:54.000 So, to tell God how good God is, to tell him.
00:52:58.000 But, in order for them to understand what praise is, obviously, they know what praise means, but have they actually recently practiced praise?
00:53:07.000 So, I got them to praise each other.
00:53:10.000 And it was really easy for one daughter and not very easy for the other.
00:53:15.000 And the silence when one was asked to praise the other really upset one of the girls.
00:53:21.000 And I just said, To her, I said, Don't worry, it's not that she has nothing to say, it's that she's not got the confidence or words to find it, but she will find it.
00:53:30.000 So I gave, let's say, daughter A, that was waiting to find the words of compliment to the other, lots of time.
00:53:38.000 And I said, In fact, I want you to sit next to your sister and I want you to hug your sister.
00:53:43.000 And when you hug your sister, what do you feel when you hug your sister?
00:53:46.000 And then she said, It was so, so sweet.
00:53:49.000 And this had been a long time.
00:53:50.000 I really rode it out as far as I could with the waiting because.
00:53:54.000 The first daughter just said right away, like, you're, she just went, you're brilliant at chess.
00:54:02.000 You're brilliant at chess.
00:54:03.000 I'd really love you.
00:54:05.000 You know, like she said, like, boom, boom, boom.
00:54:07.000 So now we have them hugging.
00:54:09.000 And I said, right, tell her what you think of her, praise her.
00:54:13.000 And she said, you know, you've got really good style.
00:54:16.000 I love your dresses and the way you put them together.
00:54:19.000 And she said, I love your smile and I love your heart.
00:54:23.000 And I honestly felt such pure, pure love in that moment for both of them.
00:54:29.000 They were sort of crying and it was amazing.
00:54:32.000 And you're a good mum.
00:54:33.000 Well, you're a good mum.
00:54:35.000 I'm not trying to prove I'm a good mum or not.
00:54:37.000 I'm trying to say, I'm not saying that.
00:54:38.000 Is it, yeah, okay.
00:54:39.000 I'm saying that is good mothering.
00:54:41.000 Thank you.
00:54:42.000 You bought beauty out of them.
00:54:43.000 Oh, but it was not like easy.
00:54:45.000 Trained them.
00:54:45.000 I had to be patient with them.
00:54:47.000 My teacher says that discipline is training.
00:54:49.000 It's not punishment, it's training.
00:54:51.000 You're training them.
00:54:52.000 You're like a vine being trained around you.
00:54:54.000 It's like, oh, this is where you put your consciousness.
00:54:56.000 This is where you put your energy into love.
00:54:59.000 You don't put your energy into selfishness.
00:55:01.000 That won't lead you anywhere.
00:55:02.000 Well, it led to the understanding of praise and not only what it feels like to be praised, but what it feels like to praise someone you love.
00:55:13.000 Gave them such a better understanding of how to praise God.
00:55:16.000 And what they said was, I said to them after, imagine if, how would it feel if we couldn't find any words to praise God?
00:55:25.000 How would God feel?
00:55:26.000 And what, you know, they said, well, God would feel hurt.
00:55:29.000 God would, yeah, sad.
00:55:31.000 I was like, okay, so now we praise God.
00:55:33.000 Tell me what you think of God.
00:55:35.000 These are what the prophetic books of the early Bible are much about.
00:55:39.000 You, you little bunch of, I mean, you know, our Lord, don't say that.
00:55:43.000 He's like, you've not forgot me.
00:55:45.000 You turned away from me.
00:55:46.000 Did you forget who got you out of Egypt?
00:55:48.000 Did you forget who created you?
00:55:49.000 Did you forget who made the Red Seas part?
00:55:52.000 Did you, and like, you know, or even at the end of Job, were you there when I created all this stuff?
00:55:56.000 Cause the way you're acting, think of the hubris of the modern atheist or materialist.
00:56:00.000 Were you there when it got created?
00:56:01.000 You think that human consciousness is the summit?
00:56:04.000 How's it going for you?
00:56:06.000 Are you happy?
00:56:07.000 Maybe that's because you have disconnected from the source of all glory and of all power.
00:56:12.000 What I'm very interested in, Laura, is finding the various metrics.
00:56:16.000 And this is a way again to bring up our friend, our perennial.
00:56:18.000 Pal in this, our perennial pen pal in this podcast, Helen Keller.
00:56:24.000 Remove the senses.
00:56:25.000 You're still there.
00:56:26.000 You are conscious.
00:56:28.000 You can't hear, you can't see.
00:56:29.000 You're aware only of yourself.
00:56:31.000 In this selfhood, you can cultivate, you are part of the ongoing vibrant.
00:56:35.000 It's tempting for a person to say, to call it nothing because there's no way of describing it.
00:56:39.000 But it's more like an unlimited, endless net or interconnected, amorphous web.
00:56:46.000 Even a word like net or web suggests a permanent shape.
00:56:50.000 But imagine a kind of a more amorphous geometric perfection, transcendent of all things, a magnetic field that permeates all things, particularly that which is invisible.
00:57:01.000 Indeed, all that is created has emerged from the invisible.
00:57:06.000 The creation story is the only story there is.
00:57:09.000 One might imagine it taking place in a single consciousness.
00:57:12.000 One might imagine that the ascension takes place at the base of your spine, that you can bring it up, that you can pull up into yourself through the breath, through the spirit.
00:57:22.000 You can bring the transcendence, but you must be crucified.
00:57:26.000 You must be crucified with him.
00:57:28.000 You are not God.
00:57:30.000 The personal identity of Russell or Laura or your name here is not God, but God is within you.
00:57:37.000 There is a kingdom.
00:57:38.000 A kingdom is a place that has a king in it, and you are not that king.
00:57:41.000 If you acknowledge the king, if you call the king his name, as Peter did or Simon as he was in that moment at Caesarea Philippi, who do you say, who do people say I am?
00:57:52.000 Some people think you're Elijah, some people think you're one of their old prophets.
00:57:56.000 Who do you say I am?
00:57:57.000 Well, I think you are the Son of God.
00:57:59.000 I think you are the living Messiah.
00:58:02.000 You are Peter.
00:58:03.000 You are the rock upon which I will build my church.
00:58:05.000 You are Peter.
00:58:07.000 When you recognize him, he recognizes you.
00:58:10.000 It can all be taking place within your consciousness.
00:58:12.000 You don't need to imagine the mouth of a cave or some dusty desert.
00:58:15.000 You're not there now.
00:58:16.000 Parables, stories, language, signifiers, signs, these are all there to allude to and indicate a second thing.
00:58:22.000 People say, you know, oh, the finger points at the moon and the man worships a finger.
00:58:26.000 But what if the finger is God?
00:58:28.000 The finger is God and the moon.
00:58:30.000 That there is no separation.
00:58:32.000 That what we think of, and here's a brilliant Noel Fielding joke, he goes, you know, poor flies, you know, flying, you know, flies always.
00:58:39.000 Flying in the glass.
00:58:40.000 Oh no, who made that the same color as the air?
00:58:43.000 Like making glass the same color as air.
00:58:45.000 What a brilliant mind he has.
00:58:48.000 Of course, the air is charged and alive and full of energy.
00:58:53.000 We ascribe nothingness to that which we cannot understand.
00:58:58.000 If you generate God, as Erdinger, the scholar, the Jungian scholar says, if you are co creating God, if you say there is no God, okay, maybe there is no God.
00:59:09.000 You've just foreclosed yourself off into a collapsed. System into a part of a nihilistic self centered particle when you open to God.
00:59:17.000 That's not saying you know I believe in fairies or otherwise fairies die, although there is a kind of a J.M. Barry innocence to this the innocence of becoming as a little child and being open to these possibilities.
00:59:28.000 When you do that, you become an available node in the network of total reality.
00:59:34.000 You become you, he can call upon you now.
00:59:46.000 Well, thank you very much for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
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