Russell Brand talks about the Ukrainian counteroffensive and the lack of support for it, and why we should all wear masks in public. Plus, the latest on Joe Biden's F-16s being sent over to Ukraine and why they might not be so bad after all, and the return of the mask mandate at colleges across the country. All that and much more on this week's Stay Free With Russell Brand. Stay Free with Russell Brand is a podcast produced and hosted by Russell Brand, and produced by BBC Radio 4's Breakfast Club. Visit stayfree.org/podcast for full ad free versions of all our favourite programmes. To find a list of our sponsors and show-related promo codes, go to gimlet.fm/OurAdvertisers and use the promo code: "ELISSA" to receive 10% off your first pack of M&S. Our ad-free version of the podcast is available on all good podcasting platforms, including Audible, iTunes, Podcoin, and Podcoin. We post polls, questions and thoughts on all of our socials and the results/comments are featured on the episodes as well. Send your voice messages to sws@whatiwatchedtonight.co.uk and we'll get them on the show. Thanks for listening and spreading the word to your friends about the podcast. Enjoy, your thoughts on the podcast! and tweet us if you think we should do more of this by tagging us in your stories and on Insta: or so we can help us spread the word out there about it! Thank you! Love Ghost Townes in the podcast? - Jack and Gav is thank you Thanks again for listening to stay free! - your continued support is much more than you can be heard everywhere else. - thank you, your support is so much appreciated! and thanks for listening your support helps us out there. Love, bye, bye. xoxo, bye - Yours Truly, yours truly, bye - yours Truly Truly Free, Jack, - Amy Yours, Jack, Amy, AKA - AKA, GABE - P. & GABBY, R. MURPHY, EJ & AYAN MURCHES - CRUISMS
00:01:46.000You covered it in an irresponsible way, and those of you that saw the show will know exactly what I meant by that, so I don't want to embarrass you, Gareth, by going into any more detail, but I think if it's not right for me to take my top off, I don't see why you should be allowed to do it.
00:01:58.000Joe Biden's sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine.
00:02:01.000That's going to cost a few quid, ain't it?
00:02:03.000I hope that this isn't an unwinnable war.
00:02:06.000He's given approval for the Netherlands to provide F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, which is a major win for the Ukrainian army.
00:02:14.000You will know already it's costing $700.
00:02:16.000No, it's $900 per household in Ukrainian aid.
00:02:23.000Is that how you want your tax dollars distributed?
00:02:27.000All the while, the US intelligence services have deemed Ukrainians' counter-offensive a failure.
00:02:34.000And there's a picture of a sort of hammock cover thing being exploded that shows just how wrong it's going.
00:02:41.000Aaron Maté has done some interesting tweets on this subject.
00:02:44.000Let's have a look at what Aaron Maté, that radical enemy of freedom, has been saying now.
00:02:50.000American officials say they fear that Ukraine has become casualty-averse.
00:02:53.000That's a really unfortunate piece of language, isn't it?
00:02:57.000Saying that Ukraine aren't willing to sacrifice their sons and daughters to pursue NATO and US imperialist objectives.
00:03:05.000Let's have a look at that story in a little more detail.
00:03:08.000American officials say they fear that the Ukraine has become casualty averse.
00:03:12.000One reason has been cautious about pressing ahead with the counter-offensive.
00:03:15.000Almost any big push against dug-in Russian defenders protected by mineral minefields would result in huge numbers of losses.
00:03:22.000In just a year and a half, Ukraine's military deaths have already surpassed the number of American troops who died during nearly two decades during the war in Vietnam.
00:03:36.000I mean there's estimates now that half a million people have died in this war.
00:03:40.000This war that before the counter-offensive, the discord leaks and other reports showed that the US didn't believe Ukraine could regain significant territory, but they pressed ahead with it anyway.
00:03:52.000Now they know that the Ukraine troops aren't confident, i.e.
00:03:56.000are casualty averse, which you would be if you're not confident in the strategy, you're not confident you've got enough weaponry, Maybe you'll feel that you're getting pushed into this war by another country who keeps insisting it's not at war with Russia.
00:04:18.000It's just continuing with no sign that this is going to end despite the massive amount of casualties.
00:04:23.000The war, of course, took over as the current thing from everybody's favorite global authoritarian phenomena, the COVID pandemic, which appears to be back in force with some colleges instantiating mask mandate and some film studios introducing similar measures because of a new COVID variant.
00:04:44.000Let's see how the mainstream media reports on this story.
00:04:47.000One Atlanta college is now reinstating a mask mandate.
00:04:50.000Yes, so this is Morris Brown College announcing this decision on its Instagram account Sunday evening.
00:05:10.000At that point you might as well wear it alone in your office.
00:05:12.000What seems extraordinary to me is that since the last pandemic, indeed if we can say that the pandemic ever truly ended, there's been considerable dispute around the efficacy of lockdowns, masks, social distancing, Even everybody's favourite medical measure has been queried and questioned and yet there seems to be an appetite and even rumours that lockdown restrictions are on their way back.
00:05:41.000Let me ask you this as an awakened wonder.
00:06:10.000The notion of new mandates are in fact a power grab, defies all logic, defies science.
00:06:15.000Now that we know that the social distancing measures were arbitrary, now that we know that many of the lockdown measures were determined by peer-to-peer chit-chat, Between the likes of Mandy Cohen and her peers, like, oh, are you guys going to shut down the football leagues?
00:06:30.000OK, we'll shut down the football leagues.
00:06:32.000It's difficult to get it up again for measures that seem more like superstition than science-based and preventative.
00:06:41.000We've got Dr. Scott Godlieb, formerly of the FDA, saying that the The rules for social distancing were arbitrary, so we know that's non-scientific.
00:06:51.000But at the same time, we've got scientists from Johns Hopkins University.
00:07:07.000There's lots of Johns, and you have to be called John to work there.
00:07:11.000You don't have to be called John Hopkins to work here, but... Well, actually, no, you do.
00:07:14.000This is part of why the whole premise about university falls apart.
00:07:18.000But you've got scientists there saying that the costs of lockdown to society far outweighed the benefits and argue that they should be rejected out of hand.
00:07:26.000So when we're talking about potentially going back into it, if these rumours by Alex Jones are to be believed, he was speaking to a whistleblower, Um, you think, well, on the one hand, we're being told that aspects of the pandemic didn't seem now to be scientific when they're saying lockdowns would go against science.
00:07:43.000Are we even able to show that tweet while we're still on YouTube?
00:07:55.000If you're watching us on YouTube right now, join us on Rumble because we're going to be talking about the new measures to detect COVID It's your four-legged friendly little pal down there who I'd always imagined might at some point turn snitch.
00:08:10.000No, this is service animals like my beloved bear who farted his way through the last show and put us all under a great deal of unnecessary pressure.
00:08:17.000Apparently dogs are more effective at detecting COVID than those bloody tests we were all forced to conduct.
00:08:34.000Not on your nelly, down your neck hole.
00:08:35.000I can't imagine it's all that convenient that all we ever needed, potentially, was dogs.
00:08:41.000I've long said dogs are the answer, whether it's for my personal wellness or knowing just exactly how much of this very well promoted disease you've got down your snout pipe.
00:08:53.000We're not going to talk about that on YouTube now, not with the WHO closing in like an arachnoid monster around the community guidelines.
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00:09:28.000He's asking whether or not he was, like yesterday, he was talking about the primaries, the Republican
00:09:31.000primaries and we're not going to believe that.
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00:11:18.000Shall we have a look at these stinking mutts sniffing your guts, hovering around by your snout hole, trying to suck down a bit of a lab-leaked virus?
00:13:45.000He's the equivalent of, like, taking Albert Baller seriously, or that geezer in our government, Jonathan Van Dam, who worked for the government, then Moderna.
00:14:02.000They've been sniffing around for ages, and I'll tell you, I'm fit as a fiddle.
00:14:06.000I mean, to love dogs so much that you've got the dogs, then you've got pictures of the dogs, then you've got another picture of you and the dog, presumably on some sort of swimming honeymoon.
00:14:31.000You cannot be objective about dogs when you love dogs that much.
00:14:35.000If you say, for example, used to work at Moderna, then take a role in the government recommending Moderna, then go back to Moderna again, wear a Moderna hat, pictures of Moderna vaccines on you, I'd say, hang on a minute, mate.
00:14:49.000You invested in this, and more importantly, does them dogs sleep on your bed, or do you sleep on theirs?
00:14:56.000RT-PCR is no longer the gold standard.
00:14:59.000Sorry for needlessly, uh, slandering that man.
00:15:30.000They say the findings demonstrate trained COVID-19 scent dogs are as effective or more effective than PCR tests, as well as at-home antigen tests.
00:15:40.000The dogs can detect the virus faster and in patients positive for infection, but not show... I don't like it when they show... Positive, surely.
00:18:52.000Hunter had parked it outside a porn cinema.
00:18:56.000You can't compare something that nearly happened to you to something that did happen to a lot of people if you're the President of the United States.
00:19:36.000We've all been shocked and appalled by the Hawaii fires, and it's interesting to learn that the cause could be infrastructural, i.e.
00:19:43.000electrical failures, lack of investment, failure of local government, and indeed, federal government.
00:19:50.000Of course, as soon as these fires happened, many people thought this could be because of climate change, and it will almost certainly be blamed on climate change.
00:20:00.000Whatever your opinion on climate change is, you surely, like me, must be curious that all of the solutions presented seem to be favourable to centralised authority and beneficial to certain interests, and usually come down to impeding your personal freedom.
00:20:14.000Let's have a look at this story, and look at how appallingly Joe Biden is handling this mess.
00:20:43.000It's interesting because the mainstream media will have trouble repackaging these disaster victims as sort of pro-Trump, MAGA haters, but if they have to do that, they will.
00:21:08.000These reactions are comparable to the post-hurricane Katrina reactions, where people were disgusted with the state, felt let down by the infrastructure that was in place.
00:21:17.000The fact that these protests are being largely ignored tells you how this event is being framed.
00:21:23.000So why aren't you taking care of what you claim to be in charge of, rather than sending out all these funds
00:21:28.000and whatever else you guys are sending to Ukraine or anywhere.
00:22:50.000And what does it tell us about what the nation of America, or at least the American establishment, stands for?
00:22:56.000I don't want to compare difficulties, but... It's always reassuring to know that the nation is being led by a cogent, cognizant, mindful, fluent, and brilliant politician who'll be able to use his political experience and even family experiences to soothe the suffering people who are just coming out of a massive national emergency and are gonna need to hear some words of compassion, empathy, and above all, wisdom.
00:23:21.000We have a little sense, Jill and I, what it's like to lose a home.
00:23:26.000Years ago, now 15 years ago, I was in Washington doing Meet the Press.
00:23:34.000I maintain that Joe Biden believes that he has a kind of homespun folky warmth that he can rely on in times of crisis.
00:23:44.000I don't think he does possess this ability because often when he uses these anecdotes about stuff that happened to him when he was a kid or normal family stories, he doesn't come across as, oh yeah, he's a person just like Me, it comes across as this guy's really, really dangerously out of touch and has misjudged the mood, not only of the nation, but also like what the human psyche is and what it is to be in a situation of crisis.
00:24:09.000Like, you do not say to people who have just come through a massive fire that's devastated their homes, I once nearly had something happen to me before.
00:24:17.000You don't say to Nelson Mandela as he emerged from Robben Island after 27 years of incarceration.
00:24:24.000I know how you feel because I got trapped in an elevator once.
00:24:28.000Lightning struck at home on a little lake that's outside of our home, not a lake, a big pond.
00:24:34.000You can't even accurately describe the body of water that's outside his home.
00:24:38.000Is it like... Listen, this ukulele's starting to feel quite heavy.
00:24:51.000It's making an inappropriate story appropriate.
00:24:55.000Oh, I was feeling quite bad about my children burning to death, but God, tell me, tell me that your air conditioning unit was all right after your big pond nearly got into the circuit.
00:26:26.000But Maui's Department of Land and Natural Resources delayed the release of water to landowners to help protect their property from the wildfire.
00:26:34.000In fact, they even disputed the release of water for hours after the West Maui Land Company made a request to release it.
00:26:41.000Part of the subtext of this story is that the disaster will impact poor people more than it will rich people.
00:26:48.000There are even some suggesting that resources were not used expediently and immediately.
00:26:55.000That most basic of resource that's required during a fire, water, was withheld and people are curious as to why that might have been.
00:27:03.000At this point it will be irresponsible to suggest anything conspiratorial.
00:27:07.000But when it becomes plain that our social systems benefit the privileged more than ordinary people, you can't help but wonder if that same mentality applied when deciding what to do with this water.
00:27:18.000Maui survivors are even telling reporters they had to grab water out of their toilets to fend off the flames.
00:27:26.000I was grabbing water out of the toilet.
00:27:27.000I was grabbing water out of my Brita filter in the refrigerator.
00:27:31.000It's a kind of disconcerting feeling when the fire guys show up and they don't have water.
00:27:46.000Just like in 2019 when Hawaiian Electric vowed to invest in fire-resistant technology, now that same company is under heavy scrutiny over indication that its power lines may have ignited the wildfires that has now taken over a hundred lives.
00:28:01.000And the people of the once beautiful town of Lahaina?
00:28:05.000Many of them are left to fend for themselves and their neighbors with very little answers and a whole lot of miscommunication.
00:28:14.000And now they have to fight off vulture capitalists from tricking people into buying their property.
00:28:19.000Oh, bloody hell, what a terrible, awful story.
00:28:22.000There hasn't been sufficient investment in infrastructure, there are areas of public life that ought never have been made private, that should have remained within public control, that were given over to profit-pursuing enterprises, and now, in the midst of this terrible disaster, vulture realtors are trying to acquire their property.
00:28:41.000Isn't this somewhat comparable to some of the things we learned during the pandemic?
00:28:45.000It was a disaster and a crisis for most people to varying degrees, perhaps dependent on your economic conditions and your general health.
00:28:53.000But it was hugely beneficial to a particular strata.
00:29:02.000And in a more localized disaster like this one, it's easy to see how this might be beneficial to certain interests while penurous for ordinary people.
00:29:11.000Some of the things that's already been happening is realtors are calling families who lost everything, offering them to buy their property and their home for pennies on the dollar.
00:29:43.000Similarly, what's being revealed is there's no infrastructure in terms of our ability to collectively respond, or at least no willingness, certainly not the same willingness that appears to be applied when there are more profitable disasters or disasters that can be exploited for corporate gain.
00:30:00.000So how will this disaster be used in the media?
00:30:03.000How will it be exploited economically?
00:30:05.000And how will it be used to advance ideas and agenda that are favorable to the establishment?
00:30:11.000This is from Michael Schellenberger's Substack Public.
00:30:13.000Climate change caused the fire that ravaged Hawaii, according to the New York Times.
00:30:18.000Climate change turned lush Hawaii into a tinderbox, it reported.
00:30:22.000The explanation is as straightforward as it is sobering.
00:30:25.000As the planet heats up, no place is protected from disasters.
00:30:29.000But the cause of the strong winds which pushed the wildfires into the city of Lahaina was Hurricane Dora, and the best available science shows no increase in hurricanes at global or national levels.
00:30:39.000It's true that there's been a 31% decline in average yearly rainfall in Hawaii since 1990, according to researchers.
00:30:47.000The La Niña weather pattern, which usually leads to significant rainfall, has brought less precipitation over the last 40 years.
00:30:54.000But other changes are more difficult to tie to the rising global temperatures, such as the fact that larger storms have been moving northward, resulting in less rainfall.
00:31:02.000And only 16% of Maui County, where most of the wildfires were burning, has been in severe drought, with another 20% in moderate drought.
00:31:11.000What's more, it's been human-made changes to the landscape, including the reversion of former sugarcane farms, which had been irrigated to invasive grasses which are quick to ignite.
00:31:22.000The landscape is just covered with flammable stuff, one expert told the Times.
00:31:26.000All of the conditions just came together.
00:31:28.000Analysts found drops to power line voltage, which means that the lines were likely spraying sparks onto dry grasses.
00:31:35.000It is unambiguous that Hawaiian Electric's grid experience demented stress for a prolonged time, said one analyst.
00:31:41.000There were dozens and dozens of major faults on the grid, and any one of those could have been the ignition source for a fire.
00:31:47.000Hawaiian Electric failed to clear flammable grasses from around electric wires.
00:31:52.000Over the last three years, the electric utility spent less than $250,000 into wildfire prevention.
00:31:58.000It had a plan, but it failed to implement it, noted Li Fang.
00:32:01.000The State Utility Commission dragged its feet on upgrades to La Hena's fire protection, with a time estimate for wildfire protection upgrades starting this year and completed in 2027.
00:32:13.000If this is a result of infrastructural neglect, particularly if that infrastructure is privately owned and driven by profit and is therefore cutting costs and not investing significantly in, for example, safe lines and clearing grasses, that leads you to very different conclusions than it was caused by the planet heating up and anthropogenic climate change.
00:32:34.000One of those theories leads to more control being asserted on ordinary citizens.
00:32:40.000The other theory means that there has to be more investment in infrastructure, more accountability, and more accountability in government.
00:32:48.000One of those theories will be promoted, the other one will be largely ignored for obvious reasons.
00:32:53.000If the problem is government and corporate greed, what kind of solutions suggest themselves?
00:32:59.000More accountability from government, the ability to control private utilities, If it's climate change, 15 minute cities, you've got to recycle more, it's essentially your fault, and just a general culture of fear which can be utilised to generate and implement control.
00:33:15.000So those theories have very different outcomes.
00:33:18.000Personally, I believe that respect and love for the planet and doing everything possible to ensure that the planet is treated favourably and respectfully is just plain common sense.
00:33:28.000But I note that whenever climate change arguments are leveraged, It's usually with the aim of controlling ordinary people's
00:33:34.000actions rather than making big business or the state more generally culpable.
00:33:38.000I was already fighting with the electric company because they never maintain the lines, said
00:33:42.000a fifth generation Hawaii resident who lives on a family farm.
00:33:45.000We were very concerned that these high voltage lines were running through our property and
00:33:49.000going to our neighbours because they'd been on the ground, buried in trees or lying so
00:33:54.000And it's now clear that a Hawaii state water official named M. Kaleo Manuel delayed the
00:33:59.000the release of water to landowners who wanted it to prevent fires.
00:34:03.000The water standoff played out over much of the day, reported Stuart Yurton of Honolulu City Beat, and the water didn't come until too late.
00:34:11.000Another example of infrastructural failure and prioritization that seems at odds with the needs of ordinary people.
00:34:17.000Firefighters didn't have the water they needed because Manuel, the Deputy Director for Water Resources of Hawaii's Department of Land and Natural Resources, refused to release water even as the fire was raging.
00:34:27.000It seems as if that situation demanded immediate reprioritisation and response.
00:34:32.000So now we're looking at potential corporate greed and government ineptitude as the causes of this fire, or at least conditions that made the consequences of the fire worse.
00:34:42.000A private landowner, the West Maui Land Co, which manages three of West Maui's water providers, said its firefighters asked the state to divert water from streams to enable them to store as much water as possible for fire control.
00:34:55.000If there are favourable relationships between corporations and the state, those are the kind of things that are not implausible.
00:35:04.000Why did Hawaiian Electric fail to implement its wildfire mitigation plan?
00:35:08.000And why did Manuel refuse to release the water?
00:35:11.000To a large extent, the apocalyptic claims made about climate change by people in developed nations reflect their ignorance of the infrastructure and practices that protect us from flood control, to baseload power plants, to forest management.
00:35:23.000They take civilization for granted, at least that is, until it fails, as it is increasingly starting to do.
00:35:30.000Elizabeth Pickett, co-executive director of the non-profit Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization, told the Wall Street Journal that measures like ramping up emergency response capacity have been stymied by lack of funding, logistical hurdles in rugged terrain, and competing priorities.
00:36:36.000Would you like funds available when there are disasters?
00:36:39.000Or do you want perennial war that are beneficial to certain establishment interests?
00:36:44.000The US government, through both Democratic and Republican administrations over the past three decades, has spent trillions of dollars on imperialist wars that have killed and displaced millions of people, and at the same time, funneled similar amounts into the financial system to ensure that money-making for billionaires on Wall Street continued without disruption.
00:37:01.000And yet the response of the political establishment has been an astounding degree of disinterest and the shrinking of any responsibility for the disaster.
00:37:09.000Joe Biden earned more criticism for being out of touch with Americans during his stop in Maui Monday, including scorn for providing $700 assistance checks.
00:37:18.000The White House announced that each affected household in Hawaii will receive a $700 check to address immediate needs, including water, food and clothing.
00:37:26.000But it's a sum that many Islanders consider insulting.
00:37:29.000The level of dismay, anger and distrust of the government is palpable within the population of Maui.
00:37:35.000This disaster and tragedy is revelatory in a number of ways.
00:37:40.000It shows that at least in part, these fires were caused or exacerbated by government ineptitude, by a bias towards corporate interests instead of the needs of the community.
00:37:52.000And in the response of the American government, We can see how our institutions are organised in terms of what is prioritised.
00:38:00.000And with ugly details like the vulture realtors swooping down to profit from the situation, it is made even clearer that our culture is in need of radical review.
00:38:11.000It's not unreasonable to expect that if you're a taxpayer, and a citizen of a nation that in times of crisis and disaster there are resources made available to you to help you in a crisis.
00:38:22.000Particularly if that crisis has been made worse by a lack of infrastructure and maybe even caused by it.
00:38:28.000Particularly if privatised electric companies, in order to increase profits, don't spend enough money on maintaining their lines or clearing the ground.
00:38:35.000And particularly if water isn't made available because they have other priorities Rather than putting out urgent conflagrations.
00:38:43.000And the fact that the mainstream media will, when reporting on this story, focus on the climate change narrative rather than ineptitude within the state and private sector, in a sense, tells you everything you need to know about the modern world.
00:38:56.000Our systems are not set out to benefit us in times of crisis, or indeed at any time at all.
00:39:02.000It just becomes clearer when there is a crisis.
00:39:05.000A crisis functions as a lens that reveals to you how your leaders behave when they're put under pressure, how your institutions behave, what the consequences are of having no public infrastructure, and how the media will rally to ensure that the narrative that sticks is one that doesn't afford us the opportunity to reorganise our systems.
00:39:26.000Those people shouting, fuck you Joe Biden, they intuitively and indeed empirically now understand what the problems with the American government and American system is.
00:39:36.000It's set up to benefit one strata of society and one strata of society only and it becomes more evident in times of crisis that your government doesn't work for you and trickle-down economics doesn't work for you and in times of emergency that will become candid and stark.
00:39:52.000And while Joe Biden gives speeches where he pretends that he's just like you because he nearly had a fire once, the fact is that he, as he told the donor class prior to his election, operates on their behalf and nothing will fundamentally change.
00:40:06.000As this article says, nothing has fundamentally changed in the last 30 years.
00:40:09.000The relationship between government and corporations, whether a local level or a national level, are so entwined that it will take a disaster to reveal how little support for ordinary people there is.
00:40:20.000And when those disasters come, It's already too late.
00:40:23.000Let me know what you think in the chat.
00:41:27.000You said that you think the logo's too high on the hoodie.
00:41:30.000Yeah, I think it could have a nice football badge on there.
00:41:32.000Could have been, could have had a nice football badge on there.
00:41:34.000Nevertheless, it's for sale and it's for charity and it could have a badge on it and at least it doesn't say football is nonce like the producer Jamie said it could have done.
00:41:57.000With all of those kind of irresponsible statements.
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00:42:03.000We've got loads of things to talk to you about.
00:42:05.000Of course, the Lionesses sadly lost to Spain 1-0 in the Women's World Cup final, but it done well on Australian telly, so that's good, isn't it?
00:46:35.000When football's so much down to the fine lines, superstition comes into it, surely.
00:46:40.000Superstition's as old as our kind itself, because it's difficult sometimes to work out the reasons for things.
00:46:44.000Like, I think a lot of it's born out of, you know, like praying before a hunt, or praying before a crop yield.
00:46:51.000You know, they say in agricultural societies you have resurrected gods, gods that have come back from the dead, because you'd want things to come out of the soil again.
00:47:01.000It's like you need God to carry you from beneath the soil, and of course our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Famously came back from the dead.
00:51:33.000Yeah, you could just about, but it's all like, rawr, and we sing like mauled by the tigers and sometimes I think, oh, I don't know, I don't feel so comfortable with this.
00:51:41.000Redding are the biscuit men, which like, you know, they get sort of bogged down in wet conditions, they crumble too easily.
00:52:57.000I don't mean on the pitch, I mean in the transfer market.
00:53:01.000The only way I think that they were going to make a difference, other than the kind of ingenious marketing and transfer strategies deployed by clubs like Brentford and Brighton, is going to be buy Harry Kane and buy Declan Rice.
00:53:15.000It's got to be that proven top flight Professional footballers if I don't do that I think you have to take seriously the idea that Man United are happy with their economic model and like football's almost a side hustle for Manchester United that they're not in it for the trophies the medals or even the top four places because
00:53:35.000On current standing, Ten Hag, I saw him and he looked like he was out of Star Trek.
00:53:41.000I saw him and he was wearing something beige.
00:53:43.000The neckline was too high on his t-shirt.
00:53:46.000He looked like Ming the Merciless' stepchild.
00:53:50.000It was Ming the, I'm doing my best, but I do have some mercy.
00:55:00.000You know, there's... I'm not suggesting... I mean, Postacoglu plays definitely a different type of football to those managers, but I don't know.
00:55:10.000It seems to me that sometimes football clubs have objectives that are distinct from the explicit and obvious objective of winning football trophies.
00:55:20.000Like, Tottenham seem to prize, do you know what we can do?
00:55:23.000We get brilliant deals on players and we only sell them at the absolute last minute for a shitload.
00:55:28.000United, we've got a fantastic economic model.
00:55:30.000It's only really Manchester City that seem resolutely determined to actually win football trophies Mercilessly, if necessary, they're deserved tigers.
00:55:42.000It's nearly 5,500 days since Tottenham won a trophy.
00:55:47.000Yeah, it just seems like strategically Man City know exactly what they're doing, doesn't it?
00:55:51.000Every time they let someone go, they've already got a replacement there.
00:55:56.000I mean, obviously the money, but there must be more to it.
00:55:59.000Like we talked about before, the kind of infrastructure at City.
00:56:02.000But the strategic side of what they do and what Guardiola does is incredible.
00:56:07.000I can't see how even another Royal-backed nation is going to be able to compete because, as you say, look at Newcastle.
00:56:14.000They've come in, they've brought some good players, including that lad who was tricked into going to a Wetherspoons pub, which is a low-rent boozer in the UK.
00:57:18.000You don't often get phone numbers in tweets and I can see why people take number plates and phone numbers out of films because I actually really strongly want to ring that.
00:57:31.000Now, Malaga fans were so angry that their club have not made any signings that they've decided to sarcastically meet arriving tourists at Malaga airport as if they were new signings, which is the kind of sort of situationism that you would never get out of British football fans.
00:57:49.000You can see that these are the descendants of Salvador Dali using surrealism as a form of protest.
00:57:55.000So if you're watching this, it's amazing.
00:57:57.000And if you're listening, I'll just describe it for you.
01:00:07.000That's why there's so much continually imposed social control through media and through government, because a mob correctly directed can Unsettle many established systems.
01:00:18.000Well, we don't know if there are FBI informants inside that.
01:00:22.000It turns out that most of that Malaga crowd are FBI informants.
01:00:28.000Do any of you guys actually support Malaga?
01:01:45.000And in fact, I think that's what underwrites the concept of horror.
01:01:49.000The idea that there is this sort of unknown and uncanny quality to reality that you might find out That someone you know well is like, oh my god, what?
01:02:31.000Lionel Messi's got yet another trophy, making him the most decorated footballer in history, even though if you ask my personal view, he's put on a couple of pounds since going to America.
01:02:41.000He's got Pochettino-stroke-Deserby-style chigaboos on him.
01:02:46.000Well, he can afford to, let's be honest.
01:02:48.000He could put on a lot of weight and still be the best player.
01:02:50.000Apparently, he's not trying very hard.
01:02:52.000Well, he's scoring a lot of goals and they've just completely changed the turn of the season around.
01:03:16.000But then the problem is, is the minute he go, when he go, I go.
01:03:19.000Because when he's substituted, say, in the 75th minute to have a rest, we've got some footage here of the Miami Sound Machine, I think it's the name of the stadium, just emptying out there.
01:03:36.000That's what happens when you have a sort of a... Yeah, you won't get that with Mikel Antonio, even though Mikel Antonio is having a hell of a start to the season.
01:04:15.000He gets the odd goal, and I'm figuring he's a centre-back, based on our initial interest in Harry Maguire, which led, some would say, blessedly to naught.
01:05:04.000That's like a strong team of big lads like Suchek and whilst we might not have the same quality of centre-backs that we had a little while ago when it comes to set-pieces etc, a season and a half ago, still obviously suits our game and has brought about a brilliant and memorable victory there against Chelsea.
01:05:23.000I think for the amount of goals that it could yield, Ward-Prowse is a great signing.
01:05:27.000And he'll stay fit, and I think maybe because of how good Rice is, and obviously how much the fans are going to miss him, I think it felt a bit underwhelming getting James Ward-Prowse, but it seems already that it's starting to pay off.
01:05:44.000It was a fantastic result for football, personally, I think.
01:05:47.000I think everyone came into the office on Monday and were like, brilliant, well done West Ham.
01:05:51.000Also the way they played, they were so disciplined.
01:05:56.000They really stuck to their plan and they made Chelsea look bang average.
01:06:01.000Because the last season, aside from the Conference League win, was a disappointing one, capped with the departure of Rice, plus the broad, lachrymose pessimism of West Ham fans generally, felt like, oh no, this is going to be difficult.
01:06:15.000And I sort of forgot that there'd been that couple of seasons of discipline, you know, like under Moyes, West Ham playing in a disciplined, hard-to-beat, somewhat defensive, sit-in-deep, counter-attacking way.
01:06:26.000And yeah, we've still got Bayern, we've still got Antonio, and Paqueto, he ain't going nowhere.
01:06:32.000I'd like to place a little bet myself that Paquette is going to be standing at West Ham for a little while longer, although he may be a spectator, largely.
01:06:58.000The third-tier trophy in Europe is the Europa Conference League Cup, which West Ham have won.
01:07:04.000Aston Villa and Hibs will be competing for the qualification for that trophy tonight.
01:07:11.000Our mate Brian McDermott is upstairs at Hibs at the moment.
01:07:15.000They've got Villa, so it's going to be a tough tie, and indeed it will be.
01:07:18.000And it's known many incarnations, the third tier domestic trophy, sometimes the Milk Cup, sometimes the League Cup, once it was the Littlewoods Cup, Coca-Cola Cup for a season, maybe Barclays for a while, before finding the most ridiculous name, the Caribou Cup.
01:07:33.000But, Caribou, is that a type of a drink?
01:10:50.000Like many ingenious inventions, it was a happy accident, like Louis Pasteur and Mary Pasteur, who accidentally, I believe, came up with the Covid vaccine.
01:10:59.000What they were doing, they were messing about in their barnyard, and they thought, hang on a minute!
01:13:21.000He said he'd done training drunk, and he said it didn't make any difference.
01:13:24.000He said the drop-off from going from Tottenham to West Ham, he said, like, it was chaos.
01:13:30.000So if I was just bowling about with fags on and that, not trying their hardest, eating pies on the pitch and everything, he would have been gambling his way, smacking John Lyle in the balls and stuff.
01:13:40.000It wouldn't have been John Lyle, Ron Greenwood then.
01:13:41.000But like, yeah, look at Greavesy, and there's Saint.
01:13:43.000Saint's job was to... I'm Greavesy, you're Saint.
01:14:42.000His head looks like a Chinese symbol of equanimity, doesn't it?
01:14:45.000Like the face being like the white part of the yin-yang and his head being the black part, although it's sort of as golden as Jimmy Greaves' shirt.
01:18:18.000Between us, if he was a betting man, and I'm not saying Paquette is, I'm saying he isn't, he could use our results to guide him to new fortunes.
01:18:26.000They must just be gambling for fun because they've got enough money, but it's done very little.
01:18:29.000It's just given me, reduced the deficit by a single point in my what already feels like futile pursuit of your excellence and dominance.
01:18:38.000Are these the results we're going to predict for next time?
01:18:40.000Chelsea v Luton. I'd love it if Luton won at the bridge.
01:18:44.000So I've got to go with... I was thinking actually, I'd spent an angry moment on my own thinking
01:18:48.000I'm not gonna like predict in the same way that I've been because guess what my prediction
01:18:53.000technique is? Do you know? No. It's what I want to happen.
01:18:56.000Okay. It's not what I think will happen.
01:18:58.000Yeah. It's what I want to happen. Yeah. You use what you think will happen. I...
01:20:48.000We were mentioning we're going to be doing another show and we're chatting about something that we've acknowledged even while doing it is a niche interest.
01:21:17.000If it were not for my deep compassion and love of all the world's people, and this goes beyond demographic information, oh, they're still at the bottom.
01:21:25.000Wow, it's weird, it doesn't matter, they're all at the... God, look at the MLS!
01:21:29.000It looks like a weird, almost unrecognisable phenomena, that.
01:21:33.000But can anyone catch the Cincinnati FCs these days?
01:21:39.000I reckon, yeah, Inter Miami are going to win, aren't they?
01:21:41.000They're going to keep winning because they've bought a player who's not passed his prime enough to be irrelevant.
01:21:46.000They've almost got half the ex-Barcelona team, so you'd think they'd be alright.
01:21:50.000I don't know, New York City Red Bull, part of a big franchise, they'll be doing, won't they be doing little
01:21:55.000loan out deals with Salzburg and Leipzig and all them like type of other Red Bull franchises?
01:22:00.000They will if they've got... Unless I'm the person that's realising that because of the ingenuity that's brought you
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