Stay Free - Russel Brand - December 03, 2025


The Vaccine Ideology Unmasked | Dr Peter McCullough - SF658


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1 hour

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155.89743

Word Count

9,424

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654

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

14


Summary

Dr. Peter McCulloch was one of the early adopters and brave voices when it came to speaking the truth to power during the pandemic period. And today we re talking about his new book, Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology, and Reality.


Transcript

00:00:07.000 Ladies and gentlemen, Russell Brandon trying to bring real journalism to the American people.
00:00:16.000 Hello there, you Awakening Wonders.
00:00:18.000 Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:00:20.000 Today I'm talking to Dr. Peter McCulloch, one of the early adopters and brave voices when it came to speaking the truth to power during the pandemic period.
00:00:29.000 Peter McCulloch stayed the line and stayed the course when it came to the truth about vaccines.
00:00:34.000 And today we're talking about his new book, Vaccines, Mythology, Ideology, and Reality.
00:00:38.000 What you'll find fascinating, I really enjoyed the number of correlations between scientific orthodoxy and religious orthodoxy.
00:00:47.000 You may think you've heard that horse being flogged already, but not to this degree and to this depth.
00:00:52.000 For example, look at this Euro coin, this 20 Euro coin that sort of essentially tries to equate transubstantiation with vaccination.
00:01:01.000 It's amazing.
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00:01:42.000 It's a brilliant conversation.
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00:01:54.000 Dr. Peter McCulloch, thank you so much for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:01:58.000 It's a special occasion to have for the honor of your attention.
00:02:01.000 Thank you.
00:02:02.000 Thank you.
00:02:04.000 The reason I admire you so much is because you're one of those people that stepped up when it mattered and was bold enough to tell the truth when there were obviously consequences.
00:02:11.000 And now you're rightly being rewarded.
00:02:14.000 Your new book, Vaccines, Mythology, Ideology, and Reality, is available now.
00:02:18.000 There's a QR code up on the screen for those of you that want to buy it.
00:02:22.000 Tell me, like, I mean, we're just living in this extraordinary storm of new information.
00:02:27.000 Just today or earlier this week, I was reading that they are now saying, yes, there are not ample clinical trials to claim that there's no connection between, for example, autism and vaccines.
00:02:41.000 Tell me where you stand and what the benefit of reading this book is for a parent and indeed anyone that cares about truth.
00:02:49.000 Well, like you and so many people around the world, I was blown away with the complete madness that occurred with the COVID-19 vaccine campaign.
00:02:57.000 And with my co-author, John Leake, who is a historian, we decided to look into this and did our own investigation.
00:03:06.000 300 years of history.
00:03:08.000 We go back to actually Cotton Mather in the United States, 1721, about 50 years before Edward Jenner in the UK.
00:03:19.000 And what we uncovered from the very beginning is that there was an incredible fear of infectious diseases, bold claims made by vaccine developers that couldn't possibly have been true, and then always a tremendous amount of money and power.
00:03:37.000 And early on in vaccines, they didn't even know it caused the disease, let alone whether a product, you know, an injection or something else would stop it.
00:03:45.000 But when we saw things roll out with the COVID-19 vaccine campaign, again, a blind acceptance of the vaccines based on essentially a religious faith, not scientific evidence, then it started to fit together.
00:04:00.000 And so the book is written as a narrative.
00:04:03.000 It's not a boring medical book, and it's not a timeline.
00:04:06.000 It's a character-driven description of what happened.
00:04:11.000 An ideology formed around vaccines, you know, driven by these various factors.
00:04:16.000 And Russell, if I could go a bit further and just say the ideology essentially says this, that we have fear and susceptibility to infectious diseases, that through the brilliance of mankind, man can improve upon God's creation.
00:04:32.000 Man outdoes God with vaccines.
00:04:36.000 However, since the vaccines aren't perfect, in order for this to work, everyone must take them without exception.
00:04:44.000 And if someone is injured or disabled or even dies due to a vaccine, they should accept that.
00:04:50.000 Their families should accept that for the greater good.
00:04:54.000 And that vaccine ideology has been in forward motion now for 300 years.
00:05:00.000 It's an extraordinary ideology.
00:05:01.000 I've never heard it put so succinctly, but it fits very neatly into a paradigm that I've been exploring for some time myself, where accumulative human authority undergirded by reason surmounts and surpasses divine authority.
00:05:17.000 And once you accept that as a premise and the principle, you can deploy it, if not arbitrarily, wherever, you can apply it where it's required.
00:05:26.000 You can employ it wherever required.
00:05:29.000 And it does seem reasonable.
00:05:31.000 I remember even before I knew any of this stuff that being kind of skeptical about vaccines when I considered, as the individualist I was, and I suppose to some degree remain, that whilst I can understand the idea that vaccines might be good for the whole, they may not necessarily be good for the individual.
00:05:52.000 And that was sort of voided of any sort of spiritual insights.
00:05:55.000 That was just a kind of my own counter-rational perspective.
00:06:00.000 My rationalism versus their rationalism.
00:06:02.000 I can see that for you, you might want to vaccinate everyone for the school system or whatever, but my Mabel and my Peggy and my Herbie might not want them involved in this.
00:06:12.000 Now, that's before we start to understand the layers of deception and disingenuity that you've already started to unpack in the first few minutes of our conversation.
00:06:21.000 Now, this transition from kind of snake oil selling and, you know, and well-intentioned entrepreneurialism and alchemic brilliance that sort of must have preceded the medical profession was somehow sort of lacquered and shellacked in sigils and insignia of medical authority,
00:06:40.000 perhaps to mask, ironically, just how protean some of these ideas were and how insubstantial and how lacking in the kind of credible, clinically undergirded, double-blinded authority that most of us require before putting substances into our children's body.
00:07:02.000 How exactly did they conduct that bait and switch, doctor?
00:07:06.000 How did we get from, you know, I don't know, where was it where George Washington famously vaccinated troops?
00:07:13.000 You know, where's that famous battle you guys had, you know, where all of the troops were sick and stuff and they were like literally prior to syringes and stuff vaccinating.
00:07:22.000 Wenda, how did we get from an open, honest appraisal of the experimental nature, excuse me, of vaccine ideology into this sort of robust certainty?
00:07:34.000 You know, we never really had it.
00:07:36.000 We searched for the origins of vaccination.
00:07:39.000 We found some dabbling in Africa and Egypt, but we had to start somewhere in our book.
00:07:45.000 And so we picked a starting point, 1721 in Boston, Massachusetts.
00:07:50.000 And the character of interest is Cotton Mather.
00:07:53.000 Cotton Mather was probably one of the most influential intellectuals of the time in Boston.
00:08:00.000 And he also was a Puritan minister.
00:08:03.000 And he began with variolation, which is taking not a needle, but a scalpel and taking some pus from one smallpox pustule in one person.
00:08:13.000 And then with a stab of the scalpel, inserted it to the skin of a healthy person to try to protect them.
00:08:22.000 And Cotton Mather, early on, working with Dr. Boylston, proclaimed that this process called variolation, that it was a gift from God.
00:08:33.000 So from the very beginning, a gift from God.
00:08:36.000 Now, Cotton Mather also is well known for another activity he was involved in.
00:08:42.000 And he was one of the consultants to the judges in the Salem witchcraft trial.
00:08:48.000 He believed in witches.
00:08:49.000 And it goes on from there.
00:08:50.000 You know, King Edward III of Britain, he had his children variolated.
00:08:58.000 And two of his children died directly after the procedure.
00:09:02.000 But there was an acceptance here that we were going to accept loss in order to try to protect others.
00:09:10.000 He must have thought it was valuable for his 15 other children.
00:09:13.000 Benjamin Franklin was originally very critical of Cotton Mather, thinking, you know, this is, you know, this is potentially dangerous or may not work.
00:09:21.000 No one even knew what smallpox was, let alone how it spread.
00:09:24.000 But then he lost little Frankie to smallpox.
00:09:28.000 And Ben Franklin did 180 and said, you know, I'm behind this.
00:09:32.000 If this works, we're going to give it a go.
00:09:34.000 And then Edward Jenner in the UK and Colster, essentially, he was at the right hand of the king and queen.
00:09:40.000 And we move on to Louis Pasteur.
00:09:42.000 Pasteur, you know, essentially would make bold claims and said, you know, I'll get back to you on the details later.
00:09:49.000 And he made all kinds of claims that he had cured foul cholera and all kinds of diseases.
00:09:54.000 When his memoirs finally came out in the 1960s, his family released them, we realized most of what Louis Pasteur was claiming wasn't true at all.
00:10:03.000 He was stealing ideas from others.
00:10:05.000 So we can ask the question, who has more arrogance, Louis Pasteur and the Pasteur Institute that was named after him, or Anthony Fauci?
00:10:14.000 They're similar characters here.
00:10:16.000 Remember Fauci proclaiming that he represents science.
00:10:19.000 Very similar.
00:10:20.000 The hubris is, you know, it's been said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
00:10:26.000 And boy, did Fauci rhyme with Pasteur.
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00:11:41.000 It's extraordinary, actually, how these almost archetypal patterns are observable in this apparent chaotic slew of events passing through time.
00:11:51.000 Where I've sort of first noticed that phenomena is in the bold and obvious example of the Russian revolution, where the centralist czarist model is replaced and somehow as if controlled by ethereal magnetic fields,
00:12:14.000 the communism that replaces it or the Bolshevism initially eventually becomes a similarly centralized, corrupt institution that coalesces around one individual.
00:12:28.000 It makes me wonder, Doctor, if, as with variolation, there is a requirement to honor whatever forces we cannot understand, the sort of extrasensory supernatural powers that likely organize, originate, design, create life.
00:12:49.000 When we detach ourselves from that, we create diabolical models.
00:12:54.000 And isn't Lucifer's primary creed the belief that we can set up systems aside from and parallel to God?
00:13:03.000 So Pasteur and Fauci have a peculiar correlative.
00:13:09.000 Now, we're in at the moment, in my country, I can see you're leafing through your own fantastic book, endorsed by the Children's Science.
00:13:16.000 Russell, before you get off the supernatural, I wanted to point out the cover.
00:13:20.000 So the cover features not only a genetic code, because where we are now with genetic vaccines, but look at the coin and look at the iconography of this.
00:13:30.000 This is the classic tripartite depiction of a boy about to receive the Eucharist.
00:13:37.000 And instead of receiving the body and blood of Christ, he receives a vaccine.
00:13:44.000 The vaccine replaces his Savior.
00:13:47.000 And this was issued by the Pope in 2022.
00:13:50.000 It's a 20-euro coin.
00:13:52.000 And in our book, we describe examples of this all over the world.
00:13:56.000 We found a church in the South Island of New Zealand, which had a big bold yellow and red banner over it.
00:14:03.000 It said, not even the blood of Jesus Christ can save you from COVID.
00:14:08.000 Get vaccinated.
00:14:09.000 Oh, my God.
00:14:11.000 Yes.
00:14:12.000 So the Biden administration rolled out what's called faith for vaccines during the COVID vaccine campaign.
00:14:19.000 And he actually, in a sense, co-opted all the religious leaders in the United States.
00:14:24.000 Billions of dollars were spent.
00:14:26.000 And so the entire faith community bought into this religiosity around the COVID vaccines.
00:14:35.000 I'd never noticed before the emulation of transubstantiation inherent in the body and blood.
00:14:46.000 And when you consider that one of the, am I right, Doctor, in saying that one of the ingredients of is frequently fetal tissue from human embryos, that we're being invited, yeah, that's terrifying, that coin, we're being invited to participate in a transubstantiation in which we do not emulate or become like Christ.
00:15:10.000 But what?
00:15:11.000 What are these Luciferic forces?
00:15:14.000 What are these counterfeit institutions that want us, like God demands, to come like little children, to depend upon them, to trust them, to submit to them?
00:15:27.000 perfectly reasonable postures when you're dealing with an imminent and transcendent, irreproachable God, but a little more dubious when it's human reason detached from divine principle, which is where reason goes wrong.
00:15:44.000 That's when reason becomes demonic, diabolical, in a way, unreasonable, ironically.
00:15:51.000 And so that's fascinating and terrifying.
00:15:54.000 And of course, one of the things that was most notable was we lost the ability to congregate.
00:15:59.000 We were given a lot of falsehoods that were undergirded.
00:16:03.000 In fact, that's what the pandemic period was characterized by.
00:16:06.000 These are irrefutable truths.
00:16:08.000 Follow these truths.
00:16:09.000 Otherwise, you are a heretic and you must be shamed and you must be destroyed and you are the worst kind of person.
00:16:15.000 And one by one, we've sort of peeled away these various liturgies that we were offered.
00:16:25.000 And each one of them, whether it's masks or social distancing or lockdowns itself or the efficacy of the vaccines or the impact of COVID or the origins of COVID, one by one, it's been shown to be absolutely false.
00:16:39.000 And almost, I suppose, like vaccines themselves, doctor, you know, we participate through faith.
00:16:46.000 Like, I want to believe that there's some way that I can take an injection and be inoculated and immunized against infection.
00:16:54.000 My faith is an ingredient in the vaccine.
00:16:58.000 Now, how is it that we are so, I mean, I guess this is behavior in mass psychology, but why are we so reluctant to, a couple of years down the line, accept exactly what's happened to us?
00:17:10.000 And what kind of effort in communication is going to be required from those of us that are to various degrees, of course, in your case, it was supremely so, aware of the truth of these events and the degree of duplicity of the pandemic period.
00:17:26.000 What is our obligation now, obviously, write this book, but like, I wonder if people are, how people are going to receive such an unwholesome truth.
00:17:36.000 Believe it or not, they may not receive it at all or they may not accept it at all.
00:17:43.000 I was honored to lecture at Chautauqua this year, which is an age-old dialectic institution in Western New York where dignitaries have lectured there for hundreds of years.
00:17:54.000 And I pointed out that when it's in the medical field and there's self-participation by doctors and nurses and others, we can get deeply off course.
00:18:04.000 And I gave the example of the first great cocaine epidemic from 1860 to 1920, where virtually every medicinal product, every pharmaceutical company made cocaine products.
00:18:15.000 And doctors and nurses became incredibly hooked on cocaine.
00:18:19.000 It was in Chianti wine and Coca-Cola.
00:18:22.000 And the doctors did not stop themselves.
00:18:24.000 Halstead, the father of modern surgery, Sigmund Freud, they became cocaine addicts.
00:18:30.000 And through that period of time, through that 60 years in one of our journals, GEMA, which is a well-cited journal, there was one paper of concern regarding cocaine addiction among healthcare providers.
00:18:44.000 Now we fast forward to 1920 to 1978, smoking.
00:18:50.000 By 1950, virtually every doctor and nurse smoked.
00:18:53.000 There was campaigns by Philip Morris and R.G.I. Reynolds, an American tobacco company.
00:18:58.000 Doctors gave out cigarettes in their waiting room.
00:19:00.000 They proclaimed they were safe and they were studied.
00:19:04.000 And when it was pointed out by two Bretts, the epidemiologist was Austin Bradford Hill and the doctor was Richard Dahl, that smoking caused lung cancer.
00:19:14.000 They had the proof in 1950.
00:19:16.000 No one believed them.
00:19:17.000 The Medical Research Council in the UK did not believe them.
00:19:20.000 Surgeon General 1964 Luther Terry presented the Surgeons General report on smoking to doctors who were all smoking at the meeting.
00:19:27.000 He said smoking is causing lung cancer.
00:19:30.000 They still rejected it.
00:19:32.000 This went all the way till 1978 before the American Medical Association had its very first campaign about the health hazards of smoking and then the tobacco settlement in the 1990s.
00:19:44.000 So here's two examples where there's great harm being done to the doctors themselves and the public at large, and they refuse to see it or accept it.
00:19:53.000 Now we're five years into this COVID-19 vaccine.
00:19:56.000 Some of the biggest supporters of vaccination were the doctors and nurses.
00:20:01.000 And here we are right now.
00:20:02.000 There's not a single chief of medicine at any major institution in the world who's come out and expressed any concern regarding these COVID vaccines.
00:20:11.000 Not a one.
00:20:12.000 It's very interesting to see that the marketing campaigns deployed now by Merck, Moderna, Pfizer et al. focus more on kind of lifestyle.
00:20:20.000 I've seen some advertisements for the UK and the US.
00:20:23.000 Part of your lifestyle.
00:20:24.000 Take this COVID vaccine.
00:20:26.000 They've recognized now that it's not a mandatable product that they have to appeal in a different and more commercial way.
00:20:34.000 And I suppose that the lessons of the pandemic are so stark and severe that one can appreciate why they are, that people are reluctant to receive them.
00:20:48.000 I suppose if one were to make it a more parochial, it's difficult to accept.
00:20:54.000 In cases where children are abused by their parents, it's so sort of seismic to take on board the horror of that reality that it's sort of held at arm's length as a necessary survival strategy.
00:21:09.000 And I suppose that with the pandemic, the conclusions that flow forth from just even a somewhat shallow appreciation of what took place are so stark that it amounts to.
00:21:22.000 You cannot trust the World Health Organization.
00:21:24.000 You cannot trust the American government.
00:21:25.000 You cannot trust the BBC, CNN, the New York Times.
00:21:29.000 You cannot trust your own family GP or medical practitioner.
00:21:34.000 You can't trust nurses in scrubs in TikTok videos dancing around.
00:21:40.000 It's like such a kind of a rejection and a dispelling of the kind of cultural sort of icons and idols that most people would rather just get their head down and have a drink and smoke a cigarette and do a line of Coke rather than sort of confront that you have to repent.
00:22:00.000 You have to turn away from all of it.
00:22:02.000 And it's hard.
00:22:04.000 I mean, I've only been willing to do it because life kicked the absolute shit out of me.
00:22:09.000 That's the only way that I've been able to come to a place of repentance.
00:22:13.000 First through drugs and alcohol that I was chemically dependent on, then through sex, like through, you know, like I just loved having sex.
00:22:21.000 I love it.
00:22:22.000 I mean, I'm biologically programmed, one might say, to have sex and I had high availability.
00:22:27.000 It took fake rape allegations that seem to be mysteriously concocted and amplified.
00:22:34.000 And I, you know, I'm yet to stand trial, as I ultimately will in the UK, by God's grace, in June next year.
00:22:40.000 It took that for me to have a look at what are you worshiping?
00:22:44.000 What do you consider to be important?
00:22:46.000 What matters to you?
00:22:48.000 Where are you getting your meaning from?
00:22:50.000 So I do, I understand it.
00:22:52.000 I understand it.
00:22:53.000 Most people are not going to want, like, you know, when you sort of look at vaccines beyond COVID vaccines and look at the childhood immunization, who among us want to start unpeeling that and unraveling, oh my God, I've given my kid this thing and it doesn't work and it might have been deleterious.
00:23:11.000 I can understand it.
00:23:13.000 It's a mind-blowing reality.
00:23:15.000 And you're right, the portrayal now of vaccination is something like it's an elixir of youth or health or it purchases freedom.
00:23:25.000 My next door neighbor is a proponent of COVID vaccination.
00:23:28.000 He's had seven of them.
00:23:30.000 And he always tells me, I'm well.
00:23:32.000 He points to his arm and he's well, as if synthetic messenger RNA makes you more healthy than what you were, you know, as a normal, natural human being.
00:23:44.000 But let me tell you, we're doing a lot of research here in Dallas at McCullough Foundation in my clinic.
00:23:49.000 I'm in practice as a practicing doctor.
00:23:52.000 And like you, I've faced adversity through the pandemic.
00:23:55.000 But, you know, my patients have taught me much that the COVID vaccines have record injuries, disabilities, and deaths worldwide.
00:24:05.000 I think many millions of people have died from a vaccine.
00:24:08.000 Previously healthy people have lost their life with a vaccine that was supposed to protect them.
00:24:14.000 Instead, it took their life or caused heart damage or blood clot or stroke or neurologic problems or cancer.
00:24:21.000 And the risk goes on and on.
00:24:22.000 But I have patients in my practice in research where the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine is circulating in their bloodstream with the dangerous spike protein that it produces 3.2 years after the shots.
00:24:39.000 These vaccines don't go away.
00:24:41.000 This is the difference between prior vaccines and the COVID shots.
00:24:45.000 Now, the AstraZeneca and Janssen vaccines, those companies were ethical.
00:24:49.000 They pulled their products off the market because they caused blood clots.
00:24:52.000 And that's really the underlying reason why they're gone.
00:24:55.000 But Pfizer and Moderna have persisted, and so has another company called Novavax.
00:24:59.000 Interestingly, Novavax is just the spike protein, no genetics, far and away the safest vaccine in America.
00:25:06.000 And our CDC and government never mentions it.
00:25:09.000 It's never featured.
00:25:11.000 So we've seen just the most bizarre sets of medical behaviors.
00:25:15.000 Complete trust has been lost because there's been the suppression of early treatment, inadequate hospital treatment, and now this relentless pursuit of the vaccine.
00:25:24.000 The public has woken up.
00:25:25.000 A recent Rasmussen survey indicates 56% of Americans believe the COVID vaccines have caused large numbers of deaths.
00:25:35.000 And yet we've had two presidents, no acknowledgement of this.
00:25:40.000 All of our HHS secretaries, Robert F. Kennedy included, right now in office, will not acknowledge what's happened with the COVID vaccines.
00:25:47.000 None of your prime ministers in the UK or your health directors.
00:25:51.000 There's been no inspection of the vaccines to see what's going wrong.
00:25:55.000 Are they contaminated?
00:25:58.000 The vials appear to be different in research in terms of risk.
00:26:01.000 And no country has undertaken a safety review of what really has happened, nor have they proposed to take them off the market.
00:26:10.000 And so we're down in the United States.
00:26:11.000 My estimate is less than 1% are taking these shots, yet there's a complete purchase of these and they're just poured down the drain.
00:26:19.000 And this has been going on for years.
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00:26:30.000 Because it's not an anomaly and neither is it actually enormous though the story is.
00:26:35.000 It's merely an observable symptom of systemic corruption that you would find in every area where there are relationships between commercial entities of that size and bureaucratic bodies of that size.
00:26:47.000 It's the modus operandi of state and commerce at the global level.
00:26:52.000 And so I suppose that by investigating it explicitly and transparently, they would literally have to disband their entire model.
00:27:03.000 Oh, for sure.
00:27:03.000 Russell, I want to get to an important development.
00:27:06.000 The McCullough Foundation received a grant and undertook a year-long review of this issue of childhood vaccines and autism.
00:27:16.000 It's very important.
00:27:18.000 This was published on the European Commission preprint server October 27, 2025.
00:27:24.000 We had a press release.
00:27:26.000 This was widely covered in the U.S. media, in shows really across the world.
00:27:32.000 And with over 300 studies reviewed, our conclusions were that there are risk factors for autism, which is in epidemic proportions now in all Westernized countries.
00:27:45.000 The risk factors include premature delivery, older parents, some exposures during pregnancy, like heavy psychiatric drugs, and then common genetic variants.
00:28:01.000 But far and away, the biggest risk factor for the development of autism is combination vaccines.
00:28:09.000 And so since 1986, in the United States, the companies have been relieved of any liability for their products.
00:28:17.000 The number of vaccines have exploded.
00:28:19.000 And as you learned at the Children's Health Defense Conference and others, there is this asymptotic rise in the rates of autism.
00:28:28.000 We're not talking about just quirky young kids and children.
00:28:31.000 We're talking about profound autism.
00:28:33.000 Children who can't speak to their parents, they were normal.
00:28:36.000 They were born normal.
00:28:38.000 And after a big battery of vaccines, they had brain inflammation called encephalitis and now have taken on this post-encephalitic state, which includes the inability to speak, marketly impaired intelligence, unable to navigate in the bathroom, repetitive headbanging, injurious behavior.
00:28:57.000 We now have 27% of the entire pool of autism having profound autism.
00:29:03.000 And the biggest modifiable risk factor is combination vaccines.
00:29:08.000 We've concluded that there's more children in the United States today with profound autism completely disabled than there ever was with polio.
00:29:17.000 We've, in a sense, caused a major public health crisis through this vaccine ideology.
00:29:24.000 And given the McCullough Foundation report, which is the only thing that's changed in the last three weeks, our CDC quietly, on November 19th, 2025, no press release, no announcement by Robert F. Kennedy or anybody else.
00:29:41.000 They changed their language on the website to say, you know, our prior position on this, that the vaccines don't cause autism, that wasn't right.
00:29:50.000 It wasn't based on evidence.
00:29:52.000 And we're now going to look into this.
00:29:55.000 We're going to do our own report.
00:29:56.000 And that's what I've been encouraging.
00:29:58.000 We sent this report to Robert F. Kennedy, all the public health officials in the United States, you know, on the day we released it.
00:30:05.000 And the report has not been criticized by anybody in the medical community because it includes every single bit of scientific data that's evolved on this.
00:30:14.000 The prior 29 studies that claimed there was no link to autism, this is astounding.
00:30:20.000 And several, many of them come from what's called the Danish cohort study in Denmark.
00:30:24.000 Those studies never examined the vaccine record of the child, never interviewed the parents, and never actually examined the child to see if they had autism.
00:30:35.000 They were based on computer automated data.
00:30:38.000 So the real live observation of a normal child getting a battery of vaccines and then being converted to autism, that came out in case series data, most of it since the CDC has actually made their original statements.
00:30:53.000 So we think our report, you know, supported by lots of activism over the last 10 or 20 years by organizations like Children's Health Defense and recently World Council for Health in the UK and others.
00:31:05.000 They played a role, but it was our evidence-based report that essentially forced the CDC to change their statements.
00:31:15.000 And immediately they're attacked.
00:31:17.000 So CNN now has completely turned against the CDC.
00:31:22.000 They used to be in lockstep with one another during the pandemic.
00:31:28.000 Yeah, well, there's points where I myself reach a threshold of fury that's difficult to maintain.
00:31:39.000 And I suppose that's part of the challenge of operating in this space is being able to withstand the truth without going kind of crazy.
00:31:52.000 When this was unfolding initially, Doctor, what I mean to say is when we were told, oh, there's an outbreak of a virus in Wuhan, China, are you able to now, with hindsight,
00:32:08.000 at the end of 2025, to almost narrativize how that unfolded of what that was like for you as a person that had a degree of understanding of when you did you, for example, go, Wuhan, haven't they got that Institute of Virology there?
00:32:23.000 And that seems odd.
00:32:26.000 This is just peculiar.
00:32:27.000 How was it for you when the events were unfolding?
00:32:31.000 And how quickly did you suspect that this was not just what we were being told?
00:32:37.000 Hey, there's this virus.
00:32:38.000 It's a bit like swine flu or bird flu or smallpox in 1970.
00:32:43.000 What was that like for you?
00:32:46.000 And what were the markers that something other than what was being explained was taking place?
00:32:52.000 There was a paper published in Lancet early on.
00:32:55.000 It was kind of the investigation of the initial cases in Wuhan.
00:33:00.000 And, you know, the conclusion is, well, it came out of a wet market, a fish market.
00:33:06.000 But in that paper, at least a third of the cases had never gone to the fish market.
00:33:12.000 And there was the Wuhan Institute of Virology there, which is the Chinese nationwide research lab for virology.
00:33:20.000 Now, I had no idea that the U.S. was working with the Chinese on the creation of a virus.
00:33:26.000 I hadn't read the prior papers by Ralph Barrick in 2015 and 2016 in Nature Medicine, the proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
00:33:34.000 These papers are still in print today.
00:33:36.000 They said, listen, we're working with the Chinese.
00:33:39.000 We're creating a coronavirus.
00:33:41.000 They actually named it a SARS-like Wuhan Institute of Virology 1 coronavirus.
00:33:47.000 And they were trying to create a vaccine at the same time.
00:33:51.000 And so this was actually right in plain sight.
00:33:55.000 Johns Hopkins and the Gates Foundation held an event in 2017.
00:34:00.000 It was called the SPARS pandemic.
00:34:02.000 And they said there will be a coronavirus pandemic.
00:34:05.000 They said it's going to happen in 2025.
00:34:07.000 So they were off by about five years.
00:34:10.000 They said it's going to come out of China.
00:34:12.000 And they published their proceedings.
00:34:14.000 I wasn't paying attention.
00:34:16.000 Then November 2019, the Gates Foundation and again, Johns Hopkins hold a videoed event, you know, Event 201.
00:34:26.000 And there, Averill Haynes, who was at the World Economic Forum, who became our national security advisor under Biden, she attends there.
00:34:34.000 And George Gao, the Chinese CDC director, attends, and many other dignitaries attend Event 201.
00:34:39.000 And they said, for sure, there's going to be a coronavirus pandemic.
00:34:44.000 It's going to come out of China.
00:34:45.000 And this is exactly how it's going to be played in terms of vaccination being the primary role.
00:34:51.000 In fact, Averyl Haynes and George Gow, their workout group in Event 201 was how do we conceal that it comes out of a lab?
00:34:59.000 So Russell, this was all in the open.
00:35:03.000 The shortcoming is, certainly from my perspective, I wasn't paying attention.
00:35:08.000 Now there are many books published on this that have pieced together the entire timeline.
00:35:13.000 And bring it fast forward, Anthony Fauci, who's part of the co-conspiratorial team to create SARS-CoV-2, he gets a preemptive 10-year pardon.
00:35:24.000 Almost certainly he requested that from Biden before Biden leaves his term.
00:35:28.000 10 years of clemency for crimes that he knows he committed in the creation of SARS-CoV-2, in the fraudulent misrepresentation of what was going on to America, the suppression of early treatment and the promotion of the vaccines.
00:35:47.000 And that combination led to a catastrophic loss of life.
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00:36:48.000 It's not only that the events themselves are so staggering.
00:36:52.000 It's when they are coupled with the way that this pandemic was initially rendered that I get a kind of almost visceral sense of vertigo.
00:37:04.000 I kind of feel like overwhelmed because I'm remembering how Anthony Fauci was kind of packaged in this saintly manner and like how innocuous cultural artifacts like late night talk shows were participating.
00:37:22.000 Then in my country, the UK, ghoulish condemnatory campaigns urging you to get vaccinated on a moral basis in much the way you described at the beginning of our conversation, has always been concommittant with vaccine ideology.
00:37:39.000 That it's your responsibility as a participant and member of the whole the congregation, the community, to do this.
00:37:46.000 And I actually, you know, when I think of Um Robert Kennedy's book The Real Anthony Fauci, I can remember reading parts of it because it's you know it's dense.
00:37:57.000 It's a very good book but it's kind of dense and thinking this can't be true, it can't be true that he's involved in this anthrax Experimentation.
00:38:04.000 It can't be true that HIV is somehow involved.
00:38:08.000 There's been so many things that even I, who's somewhat open-minded to these ideas and sometimes to a fault, willing to accept anti-establishment ideas.
00:38:19.000 I've like, now I've got a kind of appetite, doctor, to like, you know, when sort of people are talking about the Epstein files, I'm like, good, I hope this person is exposed.
00:38:28.000 I hope this person is exposed because I'm now radicalized by my circumstance.
00:38:35.000 So I want this system to be attacked.
00:38:39.000 I want them to be brought down.
00:38:40.000 I want them to be exposed.
00:38:42.000 I'm no longer a neutral participant in trying to tell the truth.
00:38:46.000 I'm not like you, a scientist.
00:38:48.000 I'm an evangelist.
00:38:51.000 So it's extraordinary to just look back at something that's so recent, even though time itself appears to be warping and bending because in a way, information is moving so quickly.
00:39:02.000 How can we have an objective sense of time when data is being inundated, literally?
00:39:09.000 So I wonder then if there can be ever, if there can ever be adequate reprisal.
00:39:15.000 I mean, looking at your McCulloch Foundation report here on the determinants of autism spectrum disorder, a name that I'm familiar with here is Andrew Wakefield, who I met for the first time at their recent children's health defense event that we're both affiliated with.
00:39:32.000 And I feel like Andrew Wakefield was more or less sort of called a paedophile and dragged through the streets and pelted with fruit and eggs.
00:39:40.000 And like, isn't he, wasn't he just ahead of it and telling the truth?
00:39:44.000 Well, there you go.
00:39:45.000 Do you know that every in every one of these examples in public health, the person who makes the seminal observation is not celebrated, is not bestowed awards.
00:40:00.000 In fact, they're denigrated, castigated, and sometimes lose their life.
00:40:05.000 I mean, a great example is Ignace Simmelweis, 1855.
00:40:10.000 Simmelweiss does careful research and discovers that doctors are transmitting infections to pregnant women in maternity wards in Vienna by not washing their hands.
00:40:23.000 They just transmit the bacteria from one woman to another.
00:40:28.000 And he does studies showing if they wash their hands with chlorinated lime, the infection rates plummet.
00:40:34.000 But instead of being celebrated, he's debarred, debunked.
00:40:42.000 If it was modern day, his Twitter account would be taken away.
00:40:45.000 He'd be debanked.
00:40:46.000 And ultimately, he was placed in an insane asylum, probably beaten, and he died.
00:40:53.000 And that was in about a 20-year time span.
00:40:55.000 And he had all the data.
00:40:56.000 He was lecturing.
00:40:57.000 Andrew Wakefield, and it's very interesting.
00:41:01.000 He's a gastrologic surgeon.
00:41:03.000 You met him.
00:41:04.000 I'm sure your opinion is he seems pretty reasonable, pretty rational.
00:41:09.000 He seems like a gentleman.
00:41:11.000 He's not some wild individual.
00:41:14.000 He makes an observation that when children get the MMR vaccine, measles, mumps, and rubella, and that was a combination product, new one at the time, 1998, that some children get sick, they get a fever, they have changes actually in their GI tract, the lymph nodes are on the GI tract, and they convert to autism.
00:41:34.000 They were normal.
00:41:35.000 They convert to autism.
00:41:37.000 Well, this paper is published in Lancet.
00:41:39.000 I've published in Lancet, you know, one of the best medical journals in the world.
00:41:44.000 And it's a valid paper for 13 years, 13 years as a valid paper.
00:41:51.000 But under tremendous pressure from the pharmaceutical industry, ultimately the paper is retracted.
00:41:59.000 And through that period of time, Wakefield is smeared largely by journalists who are probably hired by the biopharmaceutical complex.
00:42:07.000 He's debarred, struck off the register, if you will, and then he moves to the United States.
00:42:13.000 What happened to Andrew Wakefield is nearly identical to Ignaz Simowise.
00:42:19.000 Of course, both are right.
00:42:21.000 And what we did in our report is we reached out to Dr. Wakefield and said, listen, we've got a lot of academic firepower.
00:42:28.000 We have the truth at the McCullough Foundation.
00:42:31.000 We want you to be an author and make sure we're correct on how we described what happened with his was called seminal observation.
00:42:38.000 He made a seminal observation.
00:42:40.000 And now you see it all over social media that Dr. Wakefield has been vindicated.
00:42:45.000 In fact, Senator Ron Johnson has put out a public call for the vindication of Andrew Wakefield.
00:42:52.000 So hopefully, we'll all live long enough to be vindicated.
00:42:56.000 I mentioned smoking, by the way, and Richard Dahl in the UK.
00:43:01.000 Richard Dahl ultimately was knighted.
00:43:04.000 He was knighted for being correct.
00:43:07.000 And there's been books written about him where he's finally vindicated.
00:43:11.000 But from the time he made the observation until his vindication was about 45 years.
00:43:18.000 Yeah.
00:43:20.000 Oh, man.
00:43:22.000 Well, think about this.
00:43:23.000 Andrew Wakefield, but also Andrew Wakefield makes the observation in 1998.
00:43:29.000 So, you know, here we are, two plus 25.
00:43:32.000 We're at 27 years.
00:43:35.000 And if you do any search on Andrew Wakefield, the first thing you tell you is he's a conspiracy theorist.
00:43:42.000 He's corrupt.
00:43:43.000 He's an anti-vaxxer.
00:43:46.000 You know, he took money from family members or he all kinds of untruths.
00:43:52.000 And that's one of the problems with artificial intelligence is it's completely poisoned now by those who are programming artificial intelligence and how it portrays information.
00:44:03.000 Yeah, check this.
00:44:05.000 Like you, as you said, you put it into Google, which is just all you really want from Google is information.
00:44:12.000 Andrew Wakefield is an English fraudster, anti-vaccine activist, and former senior surgeon.
00:44:19.000 He was struck off the medical register.
00:44:23.000 Like, you know, I wonder how long I have to scroll down.
00:44:26.000 The MMR vaccine autism, refutation, retraction, PMC, means was moments of vaccine behavioral, the long read, doctor who fooled the world, Andrew Wakefield, British medical journal charges, fraud.
00:44:39.000 In a way, you start to see how the machine works.
00:44:42.000 It's very difficult for me not to be sort of personally affected by this because inadvertently I strolled into this territory myself just because I had a YouTube channel and that's the way that I work.
00:44:55.000 And it's a kind of natural progression.
00:44:57.000 If you work in media and you're competent at communicating, you realize that there's no requirement anymore for the brokerage of centralized systems, whether they're movie studios or TV organizations or production companies, particularly if someone like me, where stand-up comedy was always what was most expedient because that's the minimal brokerage.
00:45:21.000 But as I'm sort of a moral man, I have to acknowledge that promiscuity by its nature is morally transgressive unless you are hedonic and decadent and living within a hedonic and decadent set of a value system.
00:45:36.000 So, you know, what's been very difficult for me is acknowledging that promiscuity when you're a famous man and sleeping with 20 year olds, 25 year olds, you know, when I was 30, when I was younger, that's morally incorrect.
00:45:54.000 But what happens is you can use the raw material of a promiscuous person who's like, you know, at the scale that I was operating at, been in lots of restrooms and bathrooms with strangers.
00:46:05.000 You can mobilize and metastasize that if you've got an appetite very easily.
00:46:09.000 And I bet the initial journalists involved in the reports that led to criminal investigations, which will lead to me standing trial.
00:46:17.000 I bet these journalists are not thinking, let's destroy Russell Brand.
00:46:21.000 He's a great guy, but, you know, we can do it.
00:46:23.000 I bet they think they're doing great work.
00:46:26.000 Oh, this guy's been exploiting women.
00:46:29.000 We can really do something worthwhile.
00:46:31.000 In the same way that people that are attacking anyone who's in the crosshairs of the system just because they're inconvenient, just because the system's recalibrating itself.
00:46:41.000 The fact is, is were it not for independent media, that entire pandemic period would be regarded differently.
00:46:47.000 That 56% of Americans that now regard the vaccines as cynically, skeptically, dubiously, that is because of Joe Rogan.
00:47:01.000 That's because of a whole new strata of media has gotten our hand because of the technology.
00:47:08.000 And they can't get it back in the box fast enough.
00:47:11.000 Indeed, I consider the kind of real arms race of our time, doctor, to be a kind of an information war.
00:47:18.000 Wasn't Alex Jones perspicacious there with that title?
00:47:22.000 Can they centralize control of information before too many people are turned off forever from these institutions?
00:47:30.000 Like, look at that WHO treaty that included in it the ability for confiscatory tax, but also for the ability to censor.
00:47:41.000 Something like that WHO treaty would have passed, may yet pass, but would have passed were it not for robust opposition that coming primarily out of independent media responding to experts like you that no longer are gatekept in the manner that they once were.
00:47:59.000 And it's just interesting to watch the collateral damage, particularly for me because I'm part of it, like to just see how this thing just sort of spawned and got out of control and the countermeasures to retain control, what's included within it.
00:48:12.000 It's fascinating and terrifying.
00:48:13.000 Jay Bacharia being a great example, because when I sort of first spoke to Jay Bachario, he was like, like me in a kind of a state of bewilderment.
00:48:21.000 And now there he is at the NIH or Marty McCari, now at the FDA.
00:48:25.000 I mean, one of the things that I'm encouraged by, and I can sort of sense in your tone and timbre, doctor, that you're perhaps frustrated that Secretary Kennedy hasn't done more.
00:48:36.000 For example, when you said to this day, they've not said the COVID vaccines explicitly don't take them.
00:48:42.000 But you must have had enough interfacing yourself with these institutions of power to recognize why that is.
00:48:51.000 What do you feel?
00:48:53.000 Well, it sure is codified into law as people, as these individuals enter the government, if they break from the government narrative, they're on their own.
00:49:03.000 They actually have to get their own lawyers and they can be accused and tried of all kinds of things.
00:49:09.000 So they actually have to follow a government narrative.
00:49:11.000 Now, Bhattachara and Macri were in my frequent contributor group at Fox.
00:49:16.000 I still am.
00:49:17.000 I was on hundreds of times during the pandemic and it gave a counter narrative to Fauci.
00:49:24.000 But I was the only one in that group who recognized the harm of the vaccines and was willing to speak my mind.
00:49:31.000 The others never broke that vaccine ideology and they took the shots as well.
00:49:37.000 And once people take the vaccines, it's very hard for them to recognize that they have done harm to their body.
00:49:46.000 Their children have done harm to their children as doctors, done harm to their patients.
00:49:51.000 So most actually adopt these psychological coping mechanisms.
00:49:56.000 And the most common one is they just don't want to talk about it.
00:50:00.000 And so we come up to this all the time.
00:50:02.000 We have family members that say, listen, we don't want to talk about it.
00:50:06.000 And so I said, listen, we can talk about blood pressure medicines, cholesterol.
00:50:10.000 We can talk about anything, but we can't talk about vaccines.
00:50:14.000 And so you know something is wrong with the vaccines.
00:50:18.000 And, you know, the ship turns very slowly.
00:50:21.000 And it's good to have a new crew in Washington, no doubt about it.
00:50:25.000 But one thing I've learned is if you're not in government, you actually influence public policy a lot more and public sentiment.
00:50:33.000 You can actually influence history a lot more if you're not in government.
00:50:37.000 And that's exactly what we've done at the McCullough Foundation.
00:50:40.000 There's no doubt about it.
00:50:41.000 We've changed public sentiment.
00:50:43.000 This book has New York Times bestseller, despite the New York Times probably doing everything they can to suppress our book.
00:50:52.000 And so you can't stop it.
00:50:54.000 You can't stop Russell Brand.
00:50:56.000 You can't stop Dr. Peter McCullough.
00:50:58.000 And you're right.
00:50:58.000 Independent media now is becoming very dominant.
00:51:04.000 And this government aspiration of totalitarianism is falling apart.
00:51:11.000 Remember the statement by Jacinda Ardern, former prime minister of New Zealand, during the pandemic, she said, there will be a single source of truth.
00:51:21.000 Think about that aspiration.
00:51:23.000 I mean, that's the same thing that's said in North Korea.
00:51:26.000 There's one channel on TV.
00:51:29.000 There is a single source of truth in Korea.
00:51:32.000 But, you know, that was said by a leader of a democratic country.
00:51:36.000 You can only do that if you're God.
00:51:38.000 And you can only make those declarations if you want to replace God.
00:51:43.000 There should be a single source of truth and it should not be human.
00:51:46.000 Dr. Peter McCulloch's book, Vaccines, Mythology, Ideology, and Reality, is available now.
00:51:51.000 You can simply use this QR code on the screen now to purchase a copy of this book.
00:51:57.000 Please do that.
00:51:58.000 Thank you so much, doctor, for joining us today.
00:52:01.000 Thank you for your time and your attention and your bravery and for this excellent research and fantastic work.
00:52:07.000 Thank you.
00:52:09.000 God bless you, sir.
00:52:12.000 Well, I hope you enjoyed that conversation.
00:52:15.000 Please do get Peter McCulloch's book by clicking on the QR code or the link in the description underneath and support our guests and then we'll get back guests.
00:52:24.000 No, he's not a great guest.
00:52:25.000 I mean, who do you want on here?
00:52:26.000 Diana Ross.
00:52:26.000 I don't know.
00:52:26.000 She's still alive.
00:52:27.000 Who cares, man?
00:52:28.000 Hey, do you watch Russell Brand Unpack?
00:52:30.000 That's where we pre-tape and organize brilliantly lovely content like this.
00:52:37.000 My conscious won't let me go shoot my brother or some darker people or some poor, hungry people in the mud for big powerful America and shoot them for what?
00:52:48.000 They never call me nigga.
00:52:49.000 They never lynch me.
00:52:50.000 They didn't put no dogs on me.
00:52:52.000 They didn't rob me of my nationality.
00:52:55.000 Rape and kill my mother and father.
00:52:57.000 Well, I'm going to shoot them for what?
00:52:59.000 How are I going to shoot them?
00:53:00.000 Them little pool of black people, little babies and children, women.
00:53:03.000 How can I shoot them poor people?
00:53:05.000 Just take me to jail.
00:53:06.000 I'm not going to help nobody.
00:53:08.000 Give fuck my Negroes don't have.
00:53:09.000 If I'm going to die, I'll die now right here fighting you.
00:53:12.000 Oh my God.
00:53:14.000 I fucking love him.
00:53:15.000 I love him.
00:53:17.000 That's greatness.
00:53:18.000 That's true greatness.
00:53:20.000 The truly great are mystics inso much as they operate in the present.
00:53:26.000 They operate in the present.
00:53:27.000 Muhammad Ali, as he demonstrated, become a great boxer, but he could have become almost a great anything.
00:53:32.000 I suppose, like that other more contemporaneous great athlete, Michael Jordan.
00:53:38.000 You get the idea that guy could have just sort of done anything.
00:53:41.000 And I suppose why it's doubly exciting with Muhammad Ali is he stepped in to the public arena and was willing, I'll die here right now fighting you.
00:53:51.000 What are you gonna say?
00:53:52.000 Come on, then, let's go.
00:53:54.000 My God.
00:53:55.000 If I want to die, you're my enemy.
00:53:58.000 My enemies are white people, not Vietnam or Chinese or Japanese.
00:54:02.000 I mean, you're my opponent when I want freedom.
00:54:04.000 You're my opponent when I want justice.
00:54:06.000 In a way, what Muhammad Ali demonstrated there, although it might be difficult and uncomfortable to hear some of the racialized language and a racialized dispute broadcast in that way, was demonstrated the qualities of heroism which are inseparable from the qualities of Christianity, i.e., willing to die for what you believe in.
00:54:25.000 He did go to jail.
00:54:27.000 He has that conversation live, present with an opponent, someone criticizing him.
00:54:33.000 He's willing to stand up in front of people he disagrees with and confront them with the truth of who he is.
00:54:39.000 And the truth is that we're all capable of that.
00:54:43.000 You're capable of it.
00:54:44.000 I'm capable of it.
00:54:45.000 And when you see Muhammad Ali doing it, you remember.
00:54:48.000 You're reminded: hold on, we can be glorious.
00:54:51.000 How have I allowed myself to be thresholded and curtailed by the low ceilings of a lowly culture?
00:54:58.000 Malcolm X returned from Mecca transformed, breaking with rigid ideologies that previously defined him.
00:55:05.000 And this is what I had to become aware of on my pilgrimage to Mecca.
00:55:08.000 I could see then that there are many white people in this country who will side with the Negro in whatever he has to do to protect himself.
00:55:16.000 But that's a considerable change of opinion in Malcolm X.
00:55:19.000 No, today I'm speaking for myself.
00:55:21.000 Formerly, I spoke for Elijah Muhammad, and everything I said was, Elijah Muhammad teaches us thus and so.
00:55:28.000 I'm speaking now from what I think, from what I have seen, from what I have analyzed, and the conclusions that I have reached.
00:55:34.000 Then the white man is no longer the devil and he is no longer bound to be evil.
00:55:39.000 If I judge a man by his conscious behavior, I am not a racist.
00:55:43.000 I don't subscribe to any of the tenets of racism.
00:55:46.000 Then there are good whites and good blacks and bad whites and blacks.
00:55:50.000 It's not a case of being good and bad, good or bad, blacks and whites.
00:55:54.000 It's a case of being good or bad human beings.
00:55:58.000 When you watch Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, it's striking that this country has chosen to follow the wrong leaders and to follow the wrong ideas.
00:56:08.000 That we had a chance.
00:56:11.000 We had a chance then to support brilliant people, brilliant men of a variety of hues and shades, whether it was the Kennedys or these men.
00:56:23.000 And to recognize that it's that, you know, Malcolm X ain't perfect.
00:56:27.000 You know, we all know that he had a pretty crazy past.
00:56:29.000 Muhammad Ali's not perfect.
00:56:31.000 Crazy past.
00:56:32.000 Robert Kennedy and John Kennedy were not perfect men.
00:56:38.000 All of them, actually, it seems like there was pretty, you know, some interesting appetites went on with those guys.
00:56:44.000 But what we've replaced greatness with is a kind of mass market of mediocrity, a kind of a deliberate, bureaucratized kind of ordinariness, ordinariness.
00:56:56.000 If you kill the great people, I don't know, I don't know what you're going to get as a society.
00:57:03.000 Bobby Kennedy, Sr., after the murder of his brother, recalibrated toward a moral clarity that made political calculation secondary.
00:57:11.000 The whole of whether we are lowering the barriers with communism and on one side of the world, we're signing a proliferation treaty of control of atomic weapons in one part of the world and in another part of the world we're killing people because they're commonly.
00:57:28.000 Sounds inconsistent and it is inconsistent.
00:57:30.000 Or the whole question of, for instance, of drug.
00:57:34.000 We commit math.
00:57:37.000 Cigarettes, which kill far more people every year than marijuana, for instance.
00:57:41.000 That's right.
00:57:42.000 And it's been available.
00:57:46.000 The information is available.
00:57:48.000 Who are the people, systems and interests that prevent the information from reaching us and being popularized?
00:57:54.000 Let me know in the comments and chat.
00:57:55.000 There is tremendous economic power behind those people, and so that we don't pass laws to deal with that, even though our Department of Health had said that they're so dangerous.
00:58:04.000 Chill, what, 350,000 people a year?
00:58:07.000 Although there is this great wealth that I talked about, and yet there's great poverty.
00:58:14.000 There are speeches made about the fact we're going to treat everybody equally, and yet we don't treat everybody equally.
00:58:19.000 There's talks given and pronouncements made and laws written that everybody's going to have an opportunity to have a job and have decent housing.
00:58:27.000 And yet 43% of the people that live in the city of New York and live in this city live in dilapidated and rundown housing and are bitten by that.
00:58:35.000 17,000 people bitten by rat.
00:58:36.000 And the poverty in rural areas is worse.
00:58:40.000 So if we weren't sanctimonious about it, if we weren't hypocritical about it, and we didn't perhaps tell untruths about ourselves, then I think that's an safe to reality.
00:58:52.000 Then I think our country would be much better off and our people would have much more confidence in those of us who are public officials and in our government as a whole.
00:59:00.000 These moments share a common thread.
00:59:02.000 The individual breaking free from imposed scripts, refusing to play the role assigned by power structures.
00:59:08.000 Green's move echoes that dangerous impulse, but in the hyper-mediated post-ideological terrain of modern politics, such departures are rarer and more destabilizing than ever.
00:59:20.000 The modern moment amplifies the threat of such awakenings.
00:59:23.000 Political labels are no longer merely slippery.
00:59:26.000 They're instruments of conditioning, shaping not just what people think, but how they experience reality.
00:59:31.000 The public consumes outrage as if it were sustenance, reinforcing the system's boundaries while the elite manipulate outcomes with impunity.
00:59:40.000 Greens, stepping outside that system, is akin to the red pill in the matrix, a confrontation with the hidden forces of control, a refusal to participate in the illusion, a destabilization of narrative.
00:59:52.000 In a world where obedience is rewarded and insight punished, such departures carry ominous potential.
00:59:58.000 They remind us that the machinery is not only pervasive, it is fragile if challenged from within.
01:00:06.000 Did you have a good Thanksgiving?
01:00:07.000 Did you give thanks?
01:00:08.000 What are you thankful for?
01:00:10.000 I'm thankful that I don't have to suck on the teeth of institutionalized media.
01:00:15.000 We are free.
01:00:16.000 You are free by the holy grace of God.
01:00:19.000 God, don't worship God.
01:00:20.000 That's like Gog Magog stuff.
01:00:22.000 Don't get into that dark shit.
01:00:23.000 Praise the Lord.
01:00:24.000 See you soon.
01:00:25.000 Not for more of the same, but for more of the different.