Stay Free - Russel Brand - Trump Hails Charlie Kirk A Martyr As 100,000 PACK Arizona Stadium To Honor “American Hero” - SF637

00:03:07.000 Ladies and gentlemen, Russell Brand action.

00:03:09.000 Well, conspiracy theory.

00:03:12.000 Trying to bring real journalism to the American people.

00:03:15.000 Hello there, you awakening wonders.

00:03:17.000 Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.

00:03:19.000 The world's changing really, really fast, isn't it?

00:03:23.000 Today we're gonna primarily analyze some of the speeches and moments from yesterday's Charlie Kirk Memorial.

00:03:32.000 Thanks, Tim Carr, for the raid.

00:03:34.000 But really what I'm interested in is what feels like a radical revival of our entire revival of our culture, a new set of values.

00:03:47.000 they're not even new values things are changing so quickly that it's impacted my grammar get rumble premium if you want it if you're watching us anywhere other than rumble right now come and join us on rumble we're going to first of all look at i suppose the strongest evidence that something significant is happening is that charlie cook's memorial is being attended by the most important political and media figures of contemporary u.s culture i would say would you that's

00:04:17.000 one did you if someone had told you prior to charlie kirk's murder that his memorial would be an enormous stadium filling event would you have been surprised by that i reckon i would have been surprised that's just on the sort of material plane but

00:04:35.000 then I've not watched uh Erica Kirk's speech yet, and uh my understanding is that she's um forgiven the young man, and I'd like to start there because everything is changing so quickly I think we must focus on the eternal.

00:04:54.000 Remember, eternity is not a really long temporal duration, eternity is the quality of timelessness, and you know it in yourself, you know when you are graced by eternity, you probably feel it mostly as love.

00:05:07.000 I reckon let me know in the comments and chat if you agree with that.

00:05:10.000 But when is someone is able to forgive the killer of someone very very close to them under such uh difficult circumstances, then you know that they are embracing in eternity. 0.97

00:05:26.000 And have a look at the rumble comments right now, and you'll see that some people are even in this moment sort of just caught in pirouettes of demonic idiocy. 0.97

00:05:38.000 What I mean by pirouette of demonic idiocy in this instance just sort of spamming, so extraordinary. 0.98

00:05:45.000 Let's focus on the eternal and you need help, and it's available. 0.98

00:05:55.000 My husband Charlie wanted to save young man, just like the one who took his life.

00:06:11.000 Thank you.

00:06:26.000 That young man.

00:06:30.000 That young man on the cross, our Savior said, Father, forgive them for they not know what they do.

00:06:46.000 That man That young man.

00:06:54.000 I forgive him.

00:06:55.000 Thank you.

00:07:25.000 Thank you.

00:07:29.000 When people are frightened, and I understand that a lot of people are, about the prospect of what they would term Christian nationalism, I think that's the term that I've heard used a lot prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, people you talk a lot about the Christian right.

00:07:45.000 This you know, and when I was a person that was a member of a different cultural groups and had a kind of different profession, different income, different life entirely, what I thought Christian right might mean is using the teachings of Christ to uh uh underwrite bigotry and exclusivity.

00:08:06.000 But even if such a thing exists, the message of Christ is all powerful.

00:08:14.000 And even if there is such a thing of using Christ's teaching, message and sacrifice to legitimise a particular political perspective and to govern and legislate and control in a particular way, even if that does exist, even if that's not imaginary, not just a phantom.

00:08:37.000 When Erica Kirk within a you know, just over a week after her husband's murder, has the recourse and the instruction and the guidance and the fortitude that faith provides and is able to say publicly,

00:08:56.000 I forgive my husband's killer, that shows you there's a deep power in Christianity, but also there is a doctrine that even if people were to try to use Christianity manipulatively people say, Oh, you became Christian because you've been accused of all these terrible things.

00:09:16.000 But Christ is real.

00:09:17.000 Christ is real, actually real and here now and present now.

00:09:22.000 And it is that truth and that reality that provides protection for everyone, even those that most fear ideas like Christian nationalism.

00:09:33.000 The nations are a drop in the bucket.

00:09:35.000 Nations come and go, flags fade, rulers die.

00:09:40.000 The king of eternity and the sacrifice that was made that you may participate in eternity is the promise and covenant that you need if you find yourself speaking unexpectedly in the mad tangle and tidal waves of grief after the murder of your husband.

00:10:04.000 I would imagine, like anyone who's grieving and unexpected death, Erica Kirk's gonna have a long and challenging journey ahead of her.

00:10:13.000 We've all got long and challenging journeys ahead of us, haven't we?

00:10:15.000 she'll be making that journey hand in hand with Christ it's a powerful powerful message So for all of the people that are concerned that Charlie Kirk's death and the subsequent phenomenology or phenomenon, the phenomena that follow Charlie Kirk's death, the way that it's become portrayed in media, the way that it's created certain commentary and certain positions and stances,

00:10:45.000 the fact that Trump is there and Trump speaks at this memorial.

00:10:48.000 We'll look at that in a moment, and whatever people might utilize it for, and any event that happens these days gets used by someone.

00:10:54.000 I mean look, doesn't free market capitalism kind of demand that doesn't it demand that if there's a kind of a train wreck that the people capitalise on, if there's a murder, people to capitalize on it, if there's a d as some kind of uh toxicity and f anything.

00:11:12.000 There's nothing so beautiful or ugly that it can't be exploited in the kind of systems that appear to abide these days.

00:11:21.000 But I feel that there's a this is a powerful time of fracture fissure and and change and radical change.

00:11:29.000 I I don't know what's happening anymore.

00:11:32.000 I don't know what's happening anymore, but fortunately I don't need to know.

00:11:34.000 Uh like none of us are that important.

00:11:38.000 None of us are that important.

00:11:40.000 None of us are that important, but all of us are really, really important as well.

00:11:44.000 Okay, let's have a look at um let's have a look firstly, having seen this beautiful example of forgiveness from a grieving widow under extraordinary pressure.

00:11:54.000 Let's have a look at some of the other moments from Charlie Kirk's memorial, and look how that's likely to feed into a culture that's still alive, burning with conflict.

00:12:06.000 Some people appearing to think that the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel is more significant than the murder of Charlie Kirk.

00:12:12.000 And in a way, from their perspective, of course, they're right, because the murder of Charlie Kirk in the culture is an object, and the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel is an object.

00:12:23.000 So the fact that one of those objects has a real murder in it, and one of them is just about a TV show and the kind of evidence of a culture changing direction, that's kind of irrelevant.

00:12:32.000 It's irrelevant.

00:12:34.000 Let's have a look at all of it and see if we can uh see what we can glean from this together.

00:12:43.000 His opponents, he wanted the best for them.

00:12:47.000 That's where I disagreed with Charlie.

00:12:49.000 I hate my opponent.

00:12:52.000 And I don't want the best for them.

00:12:54.000 I'm sorry.

00:12:55.000 I am sorry, Erica.

00:12:57.000 But now Erica can talk to me and the whole group, and maybe they can convince me that that's not right, but I can't stand my opponent.

00:13:07.000 Charlie's angry, looking down, he's angry at me now.

00:13:12.000 He wasn't interested in demonizing anyone, he was interested in persuading everyone to the ideas and now um well this is Trump.

00:13:24.000 He's a person that's incapable of being inauthentic.

00:13:27.000 I would say, even though of course he's detractors Think of him primarily as a deceiver.

00:13:33.000 I think that's just another example of him being honest and authentic.

00:13:36.000 And I reckon a lot of people are not thinking, yeah, we must forgive and be loving to Charlie Kirk's killer or even people that post stuff that's disrespectful.

00:13:46.000 Now, at this moment is uh Tucker Carlson who compares uh Charlie Kirk to Christ, and in a way that might seem hyperbolic, I've not watched it yet, or grandiose, but in a way, all Christians are called to model ourselves on Christ and to identify his attributes,

00:14:10.000 recognise the impossibility of achieving that standard without grace, and yet walking towards it.

00:14:17.000 Let's see what Tucker Carlson says.

00:14:19.000 Ultimately, he was a Christian evangelist.

00:14:22.000 And it actually reminds me of my favourite story ever.

00:14:26.000 So it's about 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem, and Jesus shows up and he starts talking about the people in power, and he starts doing the worst thing that you can do, which is telling the truth about people, and they hate it, and they just go bonkers, they hate it, and they become obsessed with making him stop.

00:14:45.000 This guy's got to stop talking.

00:14:47.000 We've got to shut this guy up.

00:14:50.000 And I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamp-lit room with a bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus, thinking about what do we do about the interesting detail the Hummus.

00:15:00.000 Tucker Carlson to add what the snacks are in that scenario.

00:15:04.000 And of course, the execution of Christ was a political act, but also necessary in the realms of divinity that most of us are aware of and feel and intuit and sometimes even receive, but can't comprehend because it's beyond the rational and reasonable mind.

00:15:26.000 And if there is a revival happening right now, what we're being invited to do is access and appreciate that what we've been living in up to now, both individually and collectively, is broken and cannot work for us.

00:15:42.000 Whether you're, as we'll see later, Mark Ruffalo, outraged by Jimmy Kimmel's cancellation, or if you're Donald Trump, unable to resist the urge to be bombastic about your political opponents.

00:15:57.000 And remember, Donald Trump's got very particular gig.

00:15:59.000 He's president of the United States of America, oppositionism, necessary, look at the culture that he lives in.

00:16:04.000 Mark Ruffalo, still probably a deeply idealistic person.

00:16:09.000 I'm not saying idealistic as in naive.

00:16:11.000 People think that all the time that I'm naive.

00:16:12.000 Like if I have a chat with the lad Nick Fuentes, oh, it's naive.

00:16:15.000 It's naive of you.

00:16:17.000 Man, I don't know, I don't feel very naive.

00:16:19.000 I've been I've seen things now.

00:16:20.000 I've seen things, I've been through things now.

00:16:23.000 I've had a lot of naivety wrung out of me.

00:16:25.000 I'm not claiming to be smart, but I don't think I'm naive anymore.

00:16:28.000 But what I feel is that if you're looking at the events of today, from a political perspective, you are going to miss what's really happening.

00:16:39.000 We are witnessing the end of a particular paradigm.

00:16:44.000 It's a shift.

00:16:46.000 Um from in the from that perspective, Charlie Kirk's death is more than Charlie Kirk's death.

00:16:51.000 Charlie Kirk's, like, you know, like when you think of here's a good example, probably, the death of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo.

00:16:59.000 So like we weren't all like, oh no, what are we gonna do with Archduke Ferdinand?

00:17:04.000 I loved that guy.

00:17:05.000 Yeah, his murder is the happens at a point when Germany has just industrialized its war machine and colonialism is beginning to creak and falter, and we have the first world war and the second world war, and many historians would say that those wars are of the same war, essentially, with a brief intermission, and we have the 20th century clash of ideologies, the fascism and the communism, the two ideologies that are born of industrialization.

00:17:35.000 Now we're going to see the birth of the philosophies and theologies born of mass communication through total technology, through immersive and ubiquitous technology, the kind of technology you're watching right now, and the reason that Charlie Kirk's death is ultimately significant is in a sense he's uh I pray he's a Christian martyr.

00:17:57.000 I pray that's true, but I uh but culturally what's happened Is the first uh lightning rod of a new form of communication has you know been assassinated politically for what reason and by whom we still don't entirely understand and certainly there does seem to be a good degree of utility when diagnosing the killer.

00:18:18.000 Some people, this guy was a trans activist, some people have you know more complex views on the murder.

00:18:26.000 But I think that even that pales into insignificance when you look at the spiritual world, when you consider as best as we can within our limitations what might be meant by do not conform to other pat to the patterns of this world, what might be meant by my ways are not your ways.

00:18:43.000 Let's uh continue with uh with Tucker Carlson's eulogy.

00:18:49.000 About this guy telling the truth about us, we must make him stop talking. 0.92

00:18:55.000 And there's always one guy with the bright idea, and I can just hear him say, I've got an idea, why don't we just kill him? 0.99

00:19:00.000 That'll shut him up. 0.99

00:19:02.000 That'll fix the problem.

00:19:09.000 It doesn't work that way.

00:19:12.000 It doesn't work that way.

00:19:14.000 Everything is inverted.

00:19:16.000 Um that's uh I would um that's one aspect of the murder of Christ and of Charlie Kirk, political expedience, political expedience.

00:19:32.000 Let's see what um uh Bobby uh Secretary Kennedy says about it.

00:19:36.000 And Charlie understood the great paradox, and it's only by surrender to God that God's power can flow into our lives and make us effective human beings.

00:19:47.000 Charlie or Christ died at 33 years old.

00:19:53.000 But he changed the trajectory of history.

00:19:57.000 Charlie died at 31 years old.

00:20:00.000 But because he had surrendered, he also now has changed the trajectory of history.

00:20:06.000 Thank you.

00:20:11.000 Yeah, I suppose that all of us that are in Christ potentially may serve him in such a manner.

00:20:20.000 Let's have a look at J.D. Vance.

00:20:21.000 A little uncomfortable talking about my faith in public as much as I love the Lord and as much as it was an important part of my life.

00:20:29.000 I have talked more about Jesus Christ in the past two weeks than I have my entire time in public life.

00:20:36.000 Thank you.

00:20:58.000 And that is an undeniable legacy of the great Charlie Kirk.

00:21:03.000 You know he loved God, and because he loved God, he wanted to understand God's creation and the men and women made in his image.

00:21:14.000 Now much has been said over the last week about Charlie's ability to approach any topic.

00:21:20.000 That's pretty beautiful.

00:21:22.000 I think that's pretty beautiful and precisely what's required.

00:21:27.000 Steve Bannon's refers to it as a muscular Christianity.

00:21:31.000 I've not seen that yet.

00:21:32.000 Let's see let's see what um let's have a look at that.

00:21:36.000 I suppose what I'm encouraged by is if you like me feel that no political or material ideology is likely to deliver anything but further conflict and further exploitation, you might be heartened by the re-emergence of the principles of the holy one.

00:21:56.000 Some people will of course be concerned that Christianity can be exploited and might even argue has been exploited pretty much since its inception, certainly since it was adopted as the state religion of the Roman Empire.

00:22:14.000 But part of faith, as some of the speakers at Charlie Kirk's memorial alluded to, is recognizing your individual fallibility, and it's only in him that there is any grace and power, but that you are a participant potentially in his Grace by surrender and repentance, as has also been mentioned there.

00:22:34.000 Let's um let's have a look at um Steve Bannon talking about muscular Christianity, and I suppose m my encouragement comes from who's where's authority coming from, if not from God.

00:22:44.000 If uh authority is derived from reason, if authority is derived from reason, I have noticed, and I wonder if you have that reason divorced from divine authority tends towards selfishness and exploitation.

00:22:56.000 Have you noticed, for example, lately that political sides appear to alter their position on our thanks crowder?

00:23:04.000 We're just talking about uh Charlie Kirk's memorial, if you're joining us from Mug Club, and have you noticed the tendency of political parties to alter their position on, for example, something like free speech or political violence or war, depending on whether or not they're in power.

00:23:20.000 And that makes me feel that it's not a principle at all.

00:23:23.000 It's just utility.

00:23:24.000 But that ain't the case when it comes to Christ and Christianity.

00:23:28.000 With if if someone is purporting to govern from a Christian perspective, then you've got the artifacts in front of you with which to take them on. 0.62

00:23:39.000 The Bible.

00:23:40.000 If someone says, Well, this is what we're we're running this country as a Christian nation.

00:23:46.000 Well, then we can hey Ellie Upton, hello all of you joining us from Mud Club.

00:23:52.000 If uh you're purporting to run a nation or your family or your own moral and spiritual life as a Christian, then um there's pretty clear guidance on what you're supposed to be doing and what you're not supposed to be doing. 0.87

00:24:04.000 Let's have a look at Bannon here.

00:24:05.000 Talking about muscular Christianity, and I uh I wonder if any adjective in front of Christianity mm potentially is a problem because uh it's it's all contained within the word.

00:24:17.000 The whole service was muscular Christianity. 0.91

00:24:20.000 This is why I put out the New York Times and MSNBC are gonna lead tomorrow, because you know they're melting down.

00:24:27.000 Muscular, you know, a form of muscular Christianity, Christian nationalism was put forward here in the in the uh in the uh memorial service for a slain American martyr.

00:24:40.000 Yeah, right.

00:24:40.000 And they're gonna freak out because you had the st director of national intelligence, you had the head of the personnel office and the president, Secretary of War, Secretary of State, Vice President of the United States, President of the United States, and not just Charlie's team and the widow.

00:24:57.000 I mean the most powerful people in the United States government in the world.

00:25:03.000 We've never had this, even in the 19th century.

00:25:06.000 So is this gonna be a period of radical change?

00:25:09.000 And I would say this.

00:25:10.000 Even when it comes to something that one might regard objectively, uh, or hope to regard objectively at least, like Charlie Kirk's murder, there will be many, many appraisals and perspectives and attempts to exploit and utilize the death politically, financially.

00:25:27.000 And even in terms of you know something like muscular Christianity, but we will know the presence of Christ because what we will feel will be peace.

00:25:36.000 We will feel peace.

00:25:37.000 If you're not feeling peace, then it's not Jesus.

00:25:40.000 If you're watching this on YouTube or X or anywhere else, eventually you're gonna have to make your way over to Rumble.

00:25:47.000 So click on the link in description and join us there.

00:25:50.000 We're gonna in a minute we're gonna have a little commercial, but first I want to have a look at Don Jr. doing an impression of his own father.

00:25:56.000 Let's have a look at that.

00:25:57.000 Although Don Jr. sounds a lot like Donald Trump anyway, so it's not a long I mean, is that a hard who's seen me on social media news?

00:26:06.000 I'm far more likely to crack a joke or get myself in trouble for posting some grossly inappropriate memes than I am to shed a tear.

00:26:16.000 I know this because I've even gotten the call from that guy a couple of times.

00:26:20.000 You know, Dan.

00:26:22.000 Done.

00:26:25.000 You're getting a little aggressive on social media, Dan.

00:26:29.000 Relax.

00:26:45.000 But last week.

00:26:47.000 There you go, little light-hearted relief amidst a time of tumult.

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00:28:55.000 Now back to the content.

00:28:57.000 Jimmy Kimmel has been cancelled.

00:29:00.000 You'll have heard a lot of people talking about that.

00:29:02.000 How many of those people will have been on Jimmy Kimmel?

00:29:06.000 Have a son that has tetrology of fallow, like Jimmy Kimmel's son.

00:29:10.000 How many of those people will have worked inside of Hollywood and understand Hollywood?

00:29:15.000 How many of those people will be, to a degree personally affected by the assassination of Charlie Kirk?

00:29:22.000 And we'll know what it's like to have a talk show cancelled.

00:29:25.000 I reckon we're in a pretty small category now.

00:29:29.000 I'm in that category.

00:29:30.000 Let's look at the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel and talk together about what it means in a culture that appears to be exploding.

00:29:36.000 And what will emerge out of this explosion?

00:29:39.000 Will it be victory for one side in the culture war?

00:29:41.000 Or will it be something entirely new, born in all of this confusion?

00:29:47.000 First of all, let's have a look at what Kamala Harris said. 0.66

00:29:50.000 Yes, that's right, that's where we're gonna start.

00:29:51.000 Kamala Harris said, uh, is that a still of Kamala Harris?

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00:29:57.000 Let's have a look at what Kamala Harris says about Kimmel's suspension.

00:30:01.000 We'll find that in a second.

00:30:02.000 First of all, here's Tim Waltz saying we have to get back to decency.

00:30:07.000 I'm assuming that's what that is.

00:30:08.000 But we're talking about this political violence thing.

00:30:11.000 We have got to get back to the decency.

00:30:14.000 You get up in the morning and you doom scroll through things and although I will say this, the last few days you woke up thinking there might be news.

00:30:22.000 Um just saying.

00:30:25.000 Just saying.

00:30:26.000 There will be news sometime.

00:30:28.000 Just so you know, there will be news.

00:30:30.000 Wow, that's interesting, isn't it?

00:30:32.000 We covered that at the time, thinking that Tim Waltz was perhaps irresponsible, or at least it was an ill-judged joke, because you know, with a couple of assassination attempts on Trump.

00:30:43.000 And now, of course, in the meanwhile, Charlie Kirk has been shot, and Tim Waltz's comments look even more ill-advised.

00:30:51.000 And I suppose the combatative component of contemporary rhetoric is what we're sort of trying to address now.

00:30:57.000 That so many people have said so many ferocious and appalling things about one another and about each other's political ideology that it's become normalized and it's of course oozed into real life now.

00:31:09.000 People spend so much of their time, all of us do it, I'm trying to do it less, staring at some screen, escalating the scale and intensity of their invective in order to attract more attention without recognising that there are real repercussions.

00:31:24.000 Do you remember when your great Carl Sagan said that every single TV broadcast ever made is emanating outward into the infinite even now, indeed, isn't that the premise of Galaxy Quest that an extraterrestrial nation encounter the broadcasts of a 1980s Star Trek style TV show and think that it's a kind of reality that they've encountered?

00:31:45.000 They refer to these Star Trek style TV shows as historical documents.

00:31:49.000 In a way, rhetoric ain't real.

00:31:51.000 Tim Waltz don't mean it, I don't suppose, when he says, Oh, I hope I wake up one day and scroll on my phone and he's dead.

00:31:56.000 And I don't imagine that I don't really did did Crowder and excuse me, not Stephen Crowder, thank you, Mug Club, for the you know, for the raid.

00:32:05.000 Did Colbert mean it when he was endorsing vaccines?

00:32:09.000 That he thought about it long and hard when he danced about like that.

00:32:12.000 Did Jimmy Kimmel mean it when he said, if you haven't had the shot, you know, rest in peace, wheezy?

00:32:18.000 I think is the joke that he made.

00:32:20.000 And I reckon he probably made that joke after he'd been in intensive care with his son, and I I know what that's like.

00:32:26.000 I know what that's like to be in intensive care with your uh young child after heart surgery.

00:32:32.000 So all of us are entering into these sort of ridiculous spaces of rhetoric.

00:32:36.000 You know, people are doing it in the comments now, people are doing it all over X, all over YouTube, like sort of just reaching for the most incendiary and darkest remark that you can sling into the apparent infinite there.

00:32:49.000 Well, it turns out that there are consequences.

00:32:52.000 Those consequences might be that your show gets cancelled, or that sh that might be that you get shot.

00:32:57.000 Flying earish. 1.00

00:32:58.000 Charlie Clerk called an African American customer service agent a moronic black woman. 1.00

00:33:03.000 Well, yeah, maybe he did, but uh does he deserve to get shot? 1.00

00:33:06.000 I mean, I've just watched his widow forgiving someone for killing her husband.

00:33:11.000 Without forgiveness, we're all in serious trouble.

00:33:13.000 And indeed, the sort of presumption that everyone's entering into this conversation from a place of presumed perfection, it's a big part of the problem, isn't it?

00:33:21.000 I'm right, I'm right.

00:33:22.000 All I have to do is make you understand me, and then you will go away, and everything will readjust around my perspective.

00:33:29.000 That's not the reality anymore.

00:33:30.000 Let's have a look at the cancellation of his show there and talk about these two artifacts together.

00:33:36.000 The murder of Charlie Kirk, the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel, and look at what they tell you as a kind of a yardstick of where the culture's heading.

00:33:44.000 And in conclusion, really, what's fascinating about Charlie Kirk is what's the what's increasingly being revealed is the figure of Christ, and when you look behind Jimmy Kimmel, there's the picture of the state that wants you dependent on it in the same way that you must be dependent on God.

00:34:01.000 The state wants you to depend on it in some cases financially through this welfare, and some people require that.

00:34:07.000 There was times in my life when I needed the welfare of the state, and I'm thankful that I received it.

00:34:12.000 But what price are you willing to pay for that dependency if the culture also wants you dependent on it for your ideology, for your beliefs, for your faith?

00:34:20.000 How far are you willing to go in your fealty to this construct, this set of relationships between government agencies that appear to be somehow permanent and abiding, regardless of what happens in elections, commercial interests that appear to be global and able to evade and avoid taxation and restriction?

00:34:39.000 And what is behind it really?

00:34:42.000 Is it possible that there's something far fiercer and darker than just material interests behind the state's demand for absolute power?

00:34:51.000 And I'm not talking about the tyrannies of the last century, your fascisms and communisms, those words that are used to explode and generate more hatred, particularly on the social media streams that seem to be informing and infusing those that seek to take more violence into the world.

00:35:11.000 I'm talking about the end of those ideas, those ideas, communism, fascism, they're peeling away now.

00:35:18.000 And what's being revealed?

00:35:20.000 Let's have a look at um, let's have a look at this.

00:35:23.000 This uh what do I want to look at?

00:35:25.000 This goes straight to this Mark Ruffalo 26.

00:35:27.000 Those hospitals get any more overcrowded, they're gonna so what is it?

00:35:30.000 Everything's one thing behind.

00:35:32.000 Everything's one thing behind.

00:35:35.000 That is 26, I just pressed, and that was Mark, so everything's one behind.

00:35:40.000 Um okay, so that means that he will be 25.

00:35:44.000 We saw Jimmy Kimmel's show was cancelled.

00:35:48.000 Um we don't know what the reasons are really.

00:35:51.000 It's very cloudy and murky murky.

00:35:53.000 I don't understand what's happening right now.

00:35:55.000 My industry doesn't understand what's happening right now, but what they do understand is our freedom of speech is being attacked.

00:36:01.000 I heard Mark Miran today talk about it.

00:36:03.000 He said, You guys were so afraid of being cancelled.

00:36:07.000 You went out and you screamed and you yelled about being cancelled.

00:36:11.000 But the cancellation was coming from people who didn't like what you had to say.

00:36:17.000 It was coming from people who didn't agree with what you were saying and were speaking out about it.

00:36:23.000 This cancellation is the United States government coming and taking your voice away from you.

00:36:30.000 It is the United States government that did you ever watch Jimmy Kimmel's show?

00:36:34.000 It's like not that Jimmy Kimmel was like, right, okay, welcome to the Jimmy Kibbel show.

00:36:39.000 Right, what we're gonna do now, guys, this is how we're gonna organize our communities.

00:36:42.000 This is how we're gonna reach the holy divine within us.

00:36:46.000 This is how we're gonna organize our food resources.

00:36:49.000 This is how we're gonna take our country back from commercial and corporate interests that want us to live in spiritual darkness.

00:36:56.000 It wasn't, was it?

00:36:56.000 It was just like dancing around saying that vaccines were okay, um, normalizing corporatism and commercialism's way of life.

00:37:05.000 The Jimmy Kimmel show was meaningless.

00:37:08.000 In fact, you know, when Charlie Kirk died, a couple of days later, Robert Redford died, one of the most admired actors of his age.

00:37:15.000 This is like, you know, the Sundance out of Butchcasting the Sundance Kid.

00:37:19.000 He was in All the President's Men, a significant movie then about political corruption and the war gate scandal.

00:37:25.000 Well, Robert Redford's death in these new spaces is kind of, you know, it's a tragedy.

00:37:30.000 He was a sort of beautiful human being, but he was an old man who lived a good life and ultimately died, like we will all die, of course. 0.99

00:37:38.000 What I think is really interesting is that it's the culture's moved.

00:37:42.000 It cut it's over.

00:37:44.000 I noticed this, I think.

00:37:46.000 Let me know in the comments and chat if you did when the last election cycle was taking place and the Democrats marshaled the forces of A-lister actors like Mark Ruffalo and various others.

00:37:58.000 I don't know if he specifically was invited, but I remember seeing on Oprah Winfrey a bunch of real big stars, all of the kind of stars that we all love and admire if we take the culture seriously, or even if we enjoy the culture.

00:38:08.000 You know, I'm not saying the culture is absolutely evil, just saying it's generated by evil.

00:38:14.000 Anyway, when I watched it, superficially, you would think Trump using podcasters like you know, Charlie Kirk, God rest his soul, Joe Rogan and J.D. Vance appearing on Theo Vaughn, mostly sort of white guys, and other than Theo Vaughan, sort of middle-aged white guys, Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, middle-aged white American men.

00:38:33.000 And there was this variety of sort of attractive, appealing, glamorous stars endorsing Kamala Harris on Oprah, but actually, that was the antiquated and old institutional systems of media that are falling apart that can no longer function.

00:38:49.000 The old school.

00:38:50.000 Remember, I used to say a lot that Joe Rogan is the new Oprah Winfrey, a star so bright that you can generate other entities, like for example, Huberman or Theo Vaughn, or all of the people, Jordan Peterson that emerged out of Joe Rogan's orbit.

00:39:07.000 Oprah Winfrey was like that a couple of decades ago. 0.99

00:39:10.000 Dr. Oz, Marianne Williamson, D. Pak Chopra, uh Eckhart Tull, Dr. Phil, lots of wellness type folk, Gail King, all sorts of people emerged out of the Oprah sphere.

00:39:25.000 Well, now that media world has collapsed.

00:39:28.000 It's still present, and people are still making money out of it, and they're still trying to reboot and remodel out of the ashes of their old and collapsing systems of power.

00:39:37.000 They're trying to see if they can align with what's happening now in independent media.

00:39:42.000 But as Marshall McLuhan said, the medium is the message.

00:39:46.000 Old media was centralized and therefore could broker big deals with advertisers and could convey the messaging of a centralized state.

00:39:54.000 New media is independent.

00:39:56.000 And whilst, of course, it's completely possible for it to become captured by ideologies and commercial interests, indeed, many commentators say that independent media, they're all sort of mega nationalists.

00:40:08.000 But don't haven't you noticed, have you noticed the endless fracturing in that space that you could have once seen Jordan Peterson, Candice Owens, Dave Rubin, Joe Rogan, all this sort of one centralized entity.

00:40:20.000 That's not the case anymore.

00:40:21.000 There's so much diversity and division and opposition, even in that previously unified group.

00:40:28.000 And in one way, that might be disheartening, But in another way, it's important because the medium is the message.

00:40:35.000 And the message is decentralization.

00:40:38.000 You cannot centralize power to the degree you once could and keep the technology we have now free.

00:40:45.000 So you have to legitimize control over this technology.

00:40:49.000 And how do you legitimise control over this technology?

00:40:52.000 You align it with the worst things possible, like pornography.

00:40:56.000 Now, of course, most people use the internet for pornography pretty frequently.

00:41:00.000 I don't.

00:41:00.000 Thanks, Jesus.

00:41:02.000 But there are even beyond pornography, child pornography, hatred, right?

00:41:06.000 There are things that are disgusting and negative and awful about the technological revolution.

00:41:11.000 But most of those things I think are being mobilized and utilized to legitimize the centralization of technology and communication when the tendency is towards decentralization.

00:41:21.000 People worry that decentralization equates to chaos.

00:41:25.000 But that needn't be the case.

00:41:27.000 How would you avoid it?

00:41:28.000 Well, if there was underneath the decentralization, a governing ideology, and whose authority would you accept?

00:41:36.000 You might not want to accept the authority of Donald Trump.

00:41:38.000 You might not want to accept the authority of Keir Starmer or Kamala Harris or Justin Trudeau or Macron.

00:41:44.000 You might, in fact, only yield to the authority of God.

00:41:47.000 In fact, whoever's authority you appeal to, ultimately you're saying there is a supreme authority.

00:41:53.000 And you can't, well, you can, but you mustn't, shouldn't, oughtn't, quarrel with the authority of the God that died for you.

00:42:03.000 That died for you.

00:42:05.000 That's what's breaking out of the Charlie Kirk scenario that's fascinating.

00:42:09.000 And as you see Mark Ruffalo there sort of scrambling for the government shut down Jimmy Kimmel.

00:42:15.000 He must know in himself that Jimmy Kimmel was just selling products on late night and was gonna get cancelled soon anyway, because all late-night TV is gonna get cancelled soon anyway, because not enough people are watching it because they're watching independent media, because it's easier to get stuff that you're actually interested in and is authentic and you like and you can probably trust more on independent media now on platforms like Rumble,

00:42:38.000 on platforms like X, and you know, not for long, but even on platforms like YouTube, you YouTube will ultimately do deals comparable to the kind of deals that were done on your old school networks.

00:42:49.000 It's already somewhat centralized because it's owned by Alphabet Google, and that's the way that it'll go.

00:42:54.000 So we're in an important and interesting moment when it comes to media.

00:42:58.000 As things fall apart and break apart, there will need to be a defining ideology.

00:43:03.000 And if you don't have one, if you've not surrendered to Christ, if you're still trying to work things out with your own mind and your own feelings and a culture that basically wants you to sit like a blob and consume, you are going to fall apart and you are going to collapse into total despair.

00:43:18.000 Everyone will let you down.

00:43:20.000 I'll let you down because I'm just a person and I don't know really what I'm doing.

00:43:24.000 My primary interests are my wife and my children, and how I use my faith in God to not mess that up.

00:43:31.000 But you know, because of I've lived in these worlds, man, I've lived in them, I've lived in that, I've lived in Hollywood, I've been on Jimmy Kimmel, I've been on all them shows, I've seen them people, some of them are like really lovely and cool and amazing people.

00:43:44.000 And now I've lived in this world, I've been on Joe Rogan, I've been on Charlie Kirk, I've spoken to Jordan Peterson and Candice Simmons and everyone.

00:43:50.000 And this is what I can tell you now that out of this chaos, you better find something you can rely on, and it can't be a person, and if it's a person, it's the only person that ever lived that was entirely God, entirely God and entirely human.

00:44:03.000 And you can get that message a variety of places, and Charlie Kirk was one of the people that was trying to convey that message in his own imperfect way, and now he's dead, and people will use that death to expedite political messaging.

00:44:15.000 Of course they will, because that's what the machine demands, but the truth of Christ will be present in it as well, as we saw in that memorial.

00:44:23.000 As there are the emergence of Christ and perhaps the hastening return of Christ approaches the culture, which I ultimately think is controlled by evil. 0.74

00:44:31.000 I'm not suggesting that Jimmy Kimmel is evil, he's just like a normal person, he's no different than anyone else.

00:44:37.000 But that culture will start to fall apart because it's models are collapsing.

00:44:40.000 Let me know if you agree with that in the comments and chat, or you lot on locals like Caso and the nerd far away, and let me know what you think, Craven One and Cheryl Lee 41, or my friends on Rumble, and just have a little look at some more of Mark Ruffalo and understand how even something insignificant, like the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel, There's an anchor, there's a thread that drops down into a deeper truth.

00:45:04.000 And if you can identify what it is, you will understand the culture better.

00:45:09.000 Government that is now suppressing the freedom of speech.

00:45:13.000 It is the United States government, not your neighbors, not someone on social media.

00:45:18.000 It is the government doing it now.

00:45:20.000 And that's where we all have to come together.

00:45:27.000 Because authoritarian regimes, fascist regimes, have to degrade our freedoms more and more over time until we're living the smallest, the most frightened, the most secretive lives.

00:45:44.000 Think of yourselves living under the Taliban.

00:45:47.000 Because that's where we're headed.

00:45:50.000 So I know it's scary.

00:45:56.000 And I know sweet because it's not that different from what I'm saying, actually.

00:46:01.000 Except it feels like he could have said all of those things while Biden was president.

00:46:08.000 He could have said all those things while Obama was president.

00:46:11.000 Because if you're claiming that the culture can provide protection from the kind of forces that he's describing and that he attributes to Trump and MAGA nationalist populism, say then you think that the ultimate power and authority is human power and authority.

00:46:27.000 And it is not.

00:46:28.000 It is not.

00:46:28.000 That's why I suppose they revert to pagan ideas like ecology and climate change and Gaia worship because they don't believe in the one true God.

00:46:37.000 I am starting to understand everything now.

00:46:39.000 No.

00:46:40.000 There's a lot of doubt.

00:46:45.000 But now is the time for us to find our heroism.

00:46:52.000 I agree with Mark Ruffl on that.

00:46:54.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.

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00:49:11.000 The um there's there uh is there a printed article for the UK free speech stuff.

00:49:16.000 Should be right there, huh?

00:49:18.000 It might be.

00:49:18.000 I can't, I can't I can't see.

00:49:20.000 Um hey, okay, that we're gonna look a few a few, we're gonna look at a few more reactions to the Kimmel cancellation, but in a way, of course, it's inextricably and literally Linked to the Charlie Kirk assassination, in so much as the reason for Jimmy Kimmel being cancelled is because of inappropriate remarks about Charlie Kirk's assassination.

00:49:40.000 But also, you know, they would have cancelled that show pretty soon anyway, because the economic model's changing.

00:49:46.000 So they probably went like this gives us a chance to give it a bit of meaning and a bit of cultural heat and freight and heft.

00:49:53.000 That's what I think.

00:49:54.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.

00:49:55.000 Would it have been cancelled soon anyway?

00:49:57.000 Here's Barack Obama saying that the job of the president is to bring about unity.

00:50:05.000 Let me know what you think about that.

00:50:07.000 And I don't know, man.

00:50:08.000 Wouldn't you like to see some acknowledgement from the left about the Erica Kirk's forgiveness of her husband's murderer?

00:50:19.000 And I bet there has been, haven't they?

00:50:21.000 Haven't a lot of people said that's really beautiful and graceful.

00:50:24.000 I feel like I've heard some people saying that.

00:50:25.000 Surely they are.

00:50:26.000 Let's have a look at Barack Obama.

00:50:27.000 My view was that part of the role of the presidency is to constantly remind us of the ties that bind us together.

00:50:42.000 And we we live in a big complicated, raucous, diverse nation.

00:50:54.000 I've said before, I believe it is what makes us exceptional.

00:51:02.000 There's never been an experiment like this, where you have people from every corner of the globe show up on in one place and say, based on these ideals, we hold these truths to be self-evident.

00:51:23.000 All men are created equal.

00:51:26.000 That based on that and a constitution and a bill of rights and a democracy that we can somehow figure out how to get along.

00:51:39.000 And maintain our private beliefs, and pray to guard in our own ways and retain aspects of the cultures that we bring from wherever it is that we're coming from,

00:52:02.000 and yet still decide that uh we are all Americans who can salute that flag and believe in a certain creed and defend this country and and try to make it better for each successive generation.

00:52:25.000 And and I'm not alone in that belief.

00:52:28.000 As I said, I think George W. Bush believed that.

00:52:33.000 I I believe that people who I ran against, I know John McCain believed it.

00:52:43.000 I know Mitt Romney believed it.

00:52:47.000 So this what I'm describing is not uh uh a democratic value or a Republican value, it is an American value.

00:52:56.000 I think that's really interesting because w his critique there was that Trump has not used this as an opportunity to unify the nation and that a president ought to perform that function, and yet he sought actually to create division by saying there's goody Republicans and baddy Republicans.

00:53:14.000 And the list of goodie Republicans that he cited, one, they were vilified at the time, George W. Bush, they absolutely detested him.

00:53:21.000 But also that guy uh my humble opinion is that he was a pretty serious participant in the permanent war machine.

00:53:29.000 Certainly that's how he governed that unnecessary Iraq war would be a significant piece of evidence in making that claim.

00:53:36.000 And when I look at the sort of fatigued and bewildered Obama there, what I feel like is that's a person that's realizing I don't understand what's happening anymore politically.

00:53:44.000 Now, I mean, you know, I put myself in that category also, but I don't feel exhausted by it because I know what the answer is.

00:53:51.000 I know that I'm not a participant in that answer other than through my surrender to Jesus.

00:53:55.000 But what he's recognizing is, oh my god, this is moving so quickly.

00:53:59.000 We can't do anything about this now.

00:54:00.000 We can't do anything about this.

00:54:02.000 People are not gonna buy social democracy, neoliberalism, a kind of that's facilitate global commerce and permanent bureaucracies while telling people that their freedom is in their uh s sexual expression and the way that they identify and that that sort of idea's kind of just died.

00:54:21.000 And I reckon that it's demise has been hastened by immediate communication and the s sort of hostility generated in these spaces has created a kind of furnace in a way, and maybe what will emerge from that furnace is something that's from that furnace is something that's able to withstand heat.

00:54:38.000 Therefore a little more valuable, a little more valuable.

00:54:42.000 Let's have a look at some people that uh generally speaking on the left of the cultural argument, like Van Jones, Bill Ma and Raym Wilson, and talking about this very specific moment in American media and the American conversation defined by the death of one man, the cancellation of another.

00:55:03.000 And after that, we're gonna talk about my country and free speech, which appears to we're on a very different trajectory and a pretty scary one.

00:55:11.000 We'll be talking about that in a second.

00:55:12.000 Let's have a look first of all at Van Jones saying he got a message from Charlie Cook.

00:55:17.000 Charlie Kirk and I were not friends um at all.

00:55:21.000 Uh in fact, the last week of his life, we were beefing hard, uh beefing online, beefing on air.

00:55:27.000 But the day before he died, he did something that shocked me.

00:55:31.000 He sent me a personal message.

00:55:33.000 Calling for a personal dialogue, wanting me to come on his show.

00:55:36.000 He said we could be gentlemen together.

00:55:38.000 He said we could uh deal with our disagreements agreeably.

00:55:44.000 And in the past week and a half, just watching people talk about civil wars and censorship and all this stuff coming out of his death.

00:55:51.000 I just thought it was important to let people know that don't put that on Charlie Kirk.

00:55:58.000 Because the last day of his life he was reaching out to have not more censorship, more conversation, more dialogue with somebody who honestly was one of his adversaries, me.

00:56:09.000 And I just want to share that with the world.

00:56:12.000 And I hope that maybe it might help somebody on both sides.

00:56:19.000 Yeah, it helped me.

00:56:20.000 I liked hearing that.

00:56:21.000 It was pretty positive, wasn't it?

00:56:22.000 That from Van Jones.

00:56:23.000 That's let's have a look at Bill Maher.

00:56:26.000 Uh saying I guess comment on it's interesting. 0.98

00:56:31.000 Didn't say a single word about Charlie Kirk, but what the fuck is the Emmy? 0.97

00:56:35.000 Who cares about the Emmys anymore? 0.94

00:56:37.000 Who cares about the Emmys or the Oscars or the Grammys or any of the Tonies?

00:56:41.000 They just don't matter anymore.

00:56:43.000 It's absolutely irrelevant and redundant.

00:56:46.000 And how can you worship at the altars of Babylon anymore?

00:56:51.000 Anymore.

00:56:52.000 It's over.

00:56:54.000 Let's have a look.

00:56:54.000 I mean, the left does have this bad attitude of go no contact.

00:56:58.000 I mean, that's a big thing with your family.

00:57:00.000 They believe in not talking to people members of your family.

00:57:03.000 I mean, at the Emmys, would it have killed someone to get up there since they all want to talk about their politics?

00:57:09.000 Would it kill somebody to get up there?

00:57:11.000 Not give a speech about how much they like Charlie Kirk, just to say we had a political assassination this week.

00:57:18.000 And that's wrong.

00:57:19.000 And we should they would have been booed off the stage because he was on the wrong team.

00:57:23.000 So you're not even allowed to say that.

00:57:25.000 Can you imagine if a left wing person was assassinated that week?

00:57:28.000 There would the whole show would have been about that.

00:57:30.000 I just I mean I Is that not true?

00:57:32.000 It's true, can't you admit that?

00:57:34.000 Yeah, that's true, and it's because the culture has to rinse away serious and sincere ideology.

00:57:43.000 And so it it can't even allude to that.

00:57:45.000 It can't even allude to that.

00:57:47.000 It's a world of counterfeits and phony fake saints and fake ideals.

00:57:54.000 I remember now when I was in it, it felt so I thought it was something wrong with me because there are so many things wrong with me. 0.95

00:58:02.000 I'm a drug addict, I'm crazy and everything.

00:58:04.000 But when I was hosting MTV VMA awards, say, or cropping up at a kind of award ceremonies that Bill Maher describes there, I feel like a like thick and not right and nervous and fearful and had to sort of ease myself with promiscuity and hedonism and this constant escape.

00:58:21.000 Why was I not feeling like, oh my god, I'm in the thing that they tell you is fantastic.

00:58:25.000 I'm in it now.

00:58:26.000 I'm there, look, I'm on a red carpet.

00:58:28.000 Why didn't it feel any good?

00:58:29.000 There's a reason for that.

00:58:31.000 And it's not just because of superficiality, and because we all know that you can't make yourself feel better by uh purchasing a new pair of sneakers or a new car, or mm by having sex with an attractive stranger, or we we know that, we know that, don't we?

00:58:49.000 And yet, until very recently, that's the sort of dominant language of commercial content, glamour, dancing girls, tough looking guys, and there are still iterations and expressions of that in independent media, because these are powerful ideas that emerge, I suppose, from biology and paganism.

00:59:08.000 But now I recognize the reason I don't feel very good was because it wasn't very good.

00:59:13.000 It was not very good to be at the MTV VMA awards.

00:59:17.000 I was at that one, I was hosting that one.

00:59:19.000 Do you remember when Kanye took Taylor Swift's award?

00:59:22.000 I was hosting that one.

00:59:23.000 I was hosting that one.

00:59:25.000 I missed that bit because I was backstage, frantically searching for God in all the wrong places, most likely.

00:59:32.000 So it's not surprising that the Emmys can't deal with serious subjects, because it's all about simpering synthesis.

00:59:40.000 It's not about legitimate authentic reaction.

00:59:45.000 Online spaces are about that.

00:59:48.000 All of these new media stars, and we're now experiencing the magnitude of those stars because the death of Charlie Kirk has kind of created this extraordinary white light moment and experience.

01:00:01.000 And the thing that's most encouraging is what's emerging from it is Christ and the values of Christ, forgiveness, surrender.

01:00:10.000 And if you explore that further, and we will have to, what's also going to be revealed is everyone's evident imperfection and fallenness.

01:00:18.000 Donald Trump, broken, fallen man, broken, fallen, needs redemption, needs the holy hand of the Savior.

01:00:25.000 RFK, broke broken, fallen, needs the holy hand.

01:00:28.000 Tucker, everybody, everybody, all of us together on our knees, shoulder to shoulder, bathing in the blood of Christ, the only thing that can cleanse and heal us.

01:00:38.000 Nothing to be gained here except the honor of serving him.

01:00:42.000 And that will emerge.

01:00:44.000 People might try and maneuver to make it about their particular ideas.

01:00:48.000 There'll be bits where I'll try and do it.

01:00:49.000 I've got to make a living. 0.94

01:00:51.000 But I've been um I've had the shit kicked out of me by life so bad that I might be able to learn from this. 0.96

01:00:58.000 I might be able to learn from this. 0.98

01:01:00.000 This is good.

01:01:01.000 This is good.

01:01:02.000 Alright, um, here's like Rain Wilson.

01:01:04.000 Now I met Rain Wilson a bunch of times.

01:01:06.000 I went on his podcast.

01:01:07.000 He's a he's amazing, isn't he, in the office?

01:01:09.000 He's like Bahai. 0.95

01:01:10.000 He's like one of them sort of marginal faiths, or at least, you know, didn't know if it's marginal or not.

01:01:15.000 It's not many people are that, are they, Bahai.

01:01:18.000 Is that what Saddam is saying was?

01:01:20.000 Is it?

01:01:20.000 And didn't I see on the news that he was a bad guy?

01:01:23.000 And didn't he have a nice show trial and get beheaded?

01:01:27.000 I'm not sure.

01:01:28.000 Let's have a let's have a look at what um Rain Wilson's saying.

01:01:30.000 Because I the only reason is is because we're seeing people fleeing the burning wreckages, uh the burning wreckage of Hollywood and just sort of grasping through the smoke for something.

01:01:41.000 Well, I didn't agree with his ideas.

01:01:45.000 Shooting someone that we disagree with, even if they're vociferous and loud and out there is so colossally wrong-headed.

01:01:56.000 I spoke to a couple of uh let's say some liberal friends last night at an event, and they were like, you won't find me shedding any tears, and someone else was like, Oh well, there was a little bit of a kind of a good riddance thing, and it's like, guys, no.

01:02:12.000 Yeah, I know.

01:02:13.000 I know we cannot think or talk that way at all.

01:02:16.000 That is not so dangerous, man.

01:02:19.000 I mean, my first thought was you know, also we had another school shooting.

01:02:24.000 Yeah.

01:02:25.000 Which totally got buried in the headlines.

01:02:28.000 Of course it would, though.

01:02:30.000 And listen, I'm someone who my brother was was murdered.

01:02:35.000 My I mean I lost my brother through gun violence, you know.

01:02:38.000 And so I can see there, did you see uh the authentic a pain and anguish passing through Mark Raffloe's eyes?

01:02:44.000 Did you see that right?

01:02:45.000 He's in pain, he's injured, he's broken, amazing.

01:02:48.000 And so this is a real um personal topic for me.

01:02:54.000 It there's no winning.

01:02:56.000 We'll never win this way.

01:02:58.000 There's no there's no idea That if we cheer on our opponents being hurt or harmed in any way that we win as a society.

01:03:12.000 And there's we all lose.

01:03:14.000 Like those I know what his family is going through.

01:03:18.000 Like I understand that on such a personal level.

01:03:21.000 And and it's a tragedy that not only the person who is killed experiences, but the entire interesting.

01:03:36.000 We're going to see uh more fracture.

01:03:39.000 And uh what do I want to say?

01:03:42.000 This is gonna be really good.

01:03:43.000 The next few weeks are gonna be fascinating.

01:03:45.000 The next few weeks are gonna be fascinating.

01:03:47.000 It's gonna be fascinating.

01:03:49.000 It's gonna be fascinating.

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01:04:11.000 Uh them.

01:04:12.000 Uh I don't mean them in a kind of trance way.

01:04:14.000 I mean there's more than one of him, and there's a bunch of them, they're all like there hanging out together.

01:04:18.000 Go watch them.

01:04:19.000 They're good.

01:04:19.000 I like them.

01:04:20.000 I've been on this show, I think.

01:04:21.000 And hey, I don't know what I get up to.

01:04:24.000 Um I don't know what the time is.

01:04:26.000 I can't get poked down and all that stuff.

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