Where is the utopia you were promised? Where is your revolution? Where's your peace? Let us investigate together the most important news: Tariffs! China and the US are tariffing each other real hard now. In my country, there is leverage being deployed to introduce digital ID using the cause of the day, immigration. The Labour government is essentially a kind of centralist left-wing government, and now saying to oppose the threat caused by migration, we have to introduce Digital ID.
00:05:12.000Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:05:16.000What a fantastic day it is to glory in his holy light.
00:05:20.000What a glorious time it is to ask great questions of ourselves, to move into deeper authenticity and connection with him, ourselves and one another, that we may finally bring about the kind of changes that the culture and even politics, particularly at its apparent polls, doesn't seem to be able to deliver.
00:05:40.000Where is the utopia you were promised?
00:05:47.000Let us investigate together the most important news, Tariffs! I'll tariff you so hard.
00:05:54.000If you tariff me, I will tariff you so hard.
00:05:58.000China and the United States of America are tariffing each other real hard now.
00:06:04.000In my country, the UK, there is leverage being deployed to introduce digital ID using the cause of the day, immigration.
00:06:14.000The Labour government, they're essentially a kind of centralist left-wing government.
00:06:20.000One would sort of assume by the kind of, I don't know, the language of the day.
00:06:25.000And had always been very melting pot, cultural diversity is our strength, and now saying to oppose the threat caused by migration, we have to introduce digital ID.
00:06:36.000Let me know in the comments and chat if you can see something hypocritical all about that.
00:06:39.000And if you've noticed the trend to always deploy whatever rhetoric is necessary to achieve the desired result, and the desired result is always control, control, control.
00:06:49.000If you can see the way that they're trying to get control, then you can see what they're doing.
00:06:55.000Really? We're going to be talking about all that and more.
00:06:56.000If you're watching us on X, we'll be with you for a while.
00:06:58.000If you're watching us on YouTube, we'll be with you for a while.
00:07:00.000If you're watching us on Rumble, we will be with you forever, for at least an hour.
00:07:06.000And I want to know what stories out of these ones, because once we've covered the main things, like, for example, the trade war, we're going to be covering that in depth.
00:07:14.000Tariffs and digital IDs and that stuff.
00:07:17.000Then Gaza, Israel, of course, we're going to be covering the deaths of those aid workers.
00:07:24.000Let me know whether you want to see us talk about Jay Bhattacharya and Anthony Fauci's claim that he doesn't know who censored Jay Bhattacharya.
00:07:33.000Or do you want to see us talking a little about vaccines?
00:07:37.000And are you happy that mRNA has been addressed correctly since Trump has come to office?
00:07:54.000Let me know if you want to see me talk about Sam Harris and the sort of Sam Harris, what you might call libertarian dark web gossip and stuff.
00:08:03.000Also, we're going to be showing a brilliant clip of Callie Means confronting a bunch of people at Politico's healthcare summit.
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00:08:34.000First of all though, let's get into what's going on in my country.
00:08:39.000Digital ID in order to crack down on illegal immigration.
00:08:43.000Now, like most places in Europe, there's a lot of concern about migration, but is digital ID the answer, or is this simply an opportunity to deploy policies that they've long craved?
00:08:59.000The lapdog of George W. Bush in matters of war has long been campaigning for digital ID.
00:09:05.000You know they want to have cryptocurrencies if they can control them, digital ID if they can control us, and medical interventions if they inhibit, prohibit, or otherwise impair our ability to think straight and act fast.
00:09:21.000In short, they want you docile and bludgeoned.
00:09:24.000That's why there's agricultural protests all over the UK right now, because they want control of the food.
00:09:30.000Yes, they'll claim there's some ecological imperative.
00:09:33.000Them farmers are using terrible fertilisers.
00:09:35.000Those farmers are getting rich off the fat of the land.
00:09:39.000But ultimately what they want, as always, is control.
00:09:42.000I don't know what the peculiar reasons are for not wanting an inquiry into the rape gang culture.
00:11:32.000Some people might say, oh, he's owned by the city.
00:11:34.000Some people still might say he's racist, although I don't feel like his position was ever racist.
00:11:38.000He was always a kind of Britain-first nativist politician.
00:11:42.000And we're seeing now, increasingly, and even Keir Starmer himself admits that globalism is dead, that national nativism is in a sense essential and necessary if you're going to have a nation at all.
00:11:54.000Imagine a new political movement that could accommodate...
00:12:04.000Pro-Muslim, very outspoken, and then someone like Jeremy Corbyn, who when he was leader of the Labour Party, garnered and gleaned a great deal of left-wing appeal.
00:12:13.000Imagine if they were willing to align to create a new and true anti-establishment party with former politicians from the right, like Andrew Bridgen, or some of the people that are getting a lot of traction with their opposition and demand that rape gangs get looked into.
00:12:30.000This is a time for us to embrace anti-authoritarianism and recognise and acknowledge, and this is something we'll be talking about across today's show, the limitations of politics and politicians generally.
00:12:41.000We must look to ourselves and certainly elsewhere when it comes to spiritual leadership and spiritual resolution.
00:12:49.000Politicians are merely public servants that we elect in order to carry out managerial and logistical matters for strong ideals, For matters of truth and glory, surely we all look elsewhere.
00:13:04.000Let me know in the comments and chat what you think about that.
00:13:05.000And if you were watching us in the UK, would you be interested in a movement that was for ordinary working Britons, that stood up for the rights of the farmer, that opposed the increasing power of the state, and in particular, if it was drawn from a new...
00:13:21.000No, I don't want to say cartel, because you think drug cartel.
00:13:24.000I don't want to say cadre, because you think corrupt.
00:13:28.000I guess kind of what you think of when you consider that Bobby Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy have all come together under Donald Trump.
00:13:37.000Imagine if in the UK, I'm obviously speaking particularly to those of you that are in the UK.
00:13:43.000Keir Starmer were deposed by Jeremy Corbyn, George Galloway, Nigel Farage, a new political movement.
00:13:51.000Let me know what you think about that in the comments and the chat.
00:13:55.000Meanwhile, in the United States of America, many people have got a lot of questions when it comes to the $1 trillion that have been granted to the Pentagon because I...
00:14:04.000I feel that many of you like Doge because it's about a reduction in government spending.
00:14:09.000And I know that patriotic Americans are all about supporting troops, current service personnel, and looking after treasured and cherished veterans, ensuring that they have good homes and good lives after their loyal and brave service to their country.
00:14:24.000The problem has always been, when it comes to these vast military industrial complex budgets, is precisely that they end up in the wrong hands.
00:14:31.000They end up in the pockets and coffers of your Lockheed Martins and your Raytheans et al.
00:14:45.000We've got so much to talk about today.
00:14:47.000First, though, here's a bit of out-of-this-stick throwback nostalgia from my friend Tucker Carlson.
00:14:53.000Talking about, and I'd love to know what you feel about this, he's...
00:15:04.000Now, I'm old enough to remember when TVs were kind of turned over by an actual audio clicker, like you could change a TV channel by kind of making a noise.
00:15:36.000Or have we become overly reliant on a technology that's ultimately used, as in the case of the digital ID schemes of Keir Starmer, to control us?
00:16:27.000Like, I mean, I'm not pro, necessarily, the Tesla protest, but yeah, in Spherical, in the Rumble chat, says, I think Tucker's taking a jab at Cybertruck.
00:16:38.000When I was in that Cybertruck, it said it could do all autopilot.
00:16:41.000I asked it to do all autopilot, and I thought, well, this is good.
00:17:17.000You know, when I was in that Cybertruck, I thought someone's going to press a button and it's just going to drive me and drop me off at a police station if I say the wrong thing or believe the wrong things or bow down to a holy father or say that the living water's available to all of us.
00:17:31.000You will learn what gods you worship when those idols fall.
00:17:35.000If you worship the culture, you will find out about it.
00:17:38.000If you worship sex, you will find out about it.
00:17:40.000If you worship drugs or money or reputation or wanting to be young, I'm going to get myself a nice Ram Longhorn without any electronic capabilities at all.
00:18:20.000Over the course of the show about the death of aid workers in Gaza, we're going to be talking about tariffs, we're going to be talking about trade wars, but before we get into that, let's have a little bit of fun!
00:18:31.000Let's have a little bit of fun, shall we?
00:18:32.000All my friends in the locals chat, like Jim Earthsea and Sean M. Smith, all of you lot, like Lady1789 in the Rumble chat and Coast86 and Wall0822, let's go back to the V8, says Lin8, before we get into the more hefty, weighty, controversial, difficult subjects of today.
00:18:49.000Let's just watch Trump doing what Trump seems to do rather well, be inadvertently amusing.
00:19:34.000Probably like you, I've got concerns about what's happening with the United States of America.
00:19:40.000Not so much with the tariffs, actually, because I can see how that's putting American people and American jobs first and is a threat to globalism and global trade.
00:19:59.000And also the idea that sort of NASDAQ and all that stuff is in the service of ordinary people is ridiculous.
00:20:06.000That's the sort of playthings of the powerful.
00:20:09.000If you can get involved in that stuff and you can afford it and you can handle it and you're well advised, you probably should because in this brutal, mercurial and mercantile world, you know you've got to be able to play the game when it comes to the dollars and the cryptocurrencies.
00:20:23.000But the fact that it's sort of held up and held aloft as a kind of like, look at what he's done to the NASDAQ!
00:20:32.000Nevertheless, I suppose those of you that are enthusiastic MAGA or MAHA supporters, let me know if you feel that since Trump's come into office, he's delivered on matters of geopolitics and war and conflict.
00:20:44.000Were you hoping for that 24 hours after I'm in office, I'll have Putin in one hand, Zelensky in the other, knock their heads together like a schoolyard spat and solve it?
00:21:04.000And we care about what you say on Rumble, what you care about on X, even what you care about on YouTube, even though it's a highly monitored and curated space.
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00:22:29.000If you've fallen behind on filing or owe back taxes, delay will only make things worse, you know.
00:22:34.000Every day you wait increases your risk and the consequences.
00:22:38.000With over 5,000 new tax liens filed every day and powerful enforcement tools like property seizures, bank levies, wave garnishments at its disposal, the IRS is applying pressure at a level we haven't seen for years, driven by heightened administrative scrutiny.
00:23:05.000Whatever it is, their team of skilled attorneys and seasoned negotiators have resolved over a billion dollars in tax debt using proven strategies.
00:23:13.000They're not just making up strategies on the spot.
00:26:12.000So the thing is with Donald Trump and tariffs is it's completely consistent with the kind of political rhetoric and economic vision that he's always had.
00:26:21.000Often that you'll see on X or other platforms like that, some clip of Trump turning up on Oprah or Trump in Home Alone or Trump in some kind of rap video, a Trump that preceded his political career where he was culturally revered and certainly not a board in the way that he subsequently became when he stood for office.
00:26:38.000Over the course of this show, we're going to be talking about these early months of the Trump administration when it comes to war.
00:26:44.000Do you think wars are being handled in the way that was offered during the campaign?
00:26:48.000We're also going to be talking about Israel and Gaza and the subsequent report in and, I guess, aftermath of the death of 15 aid workers in Gaza.
00:27:02.000But before we get into all of that, let's resolve this China trade war story.
00:27:07.000I don't think we're actually going to resolve the issue, but we'll resolve at least this item on our show by showing Donald Trump on Oprah Winfrey way back in 1988.
00:27:53.000Something's going to happen over the next number of years with this country because you can't keep going on losing $200 billion and yet we let Japan come in and dump everything right into our markets.
00:29:34.000You can certainly say that he's been consistent in his rhetoric when it comes to tariffs.
00:29:38.000And there's a strong argument to be made that he's...
00:29:42.000...imposition of tariffs on foreign trading partners is in alignment with his general America First purview, that it is beneficial to American workers, that it could re-industrialize America.
00:29:55.000Is there an argument to be made that we have more isolationism, that globalism, as even Keir Starmer admits, has failed, that whilst we want to acknowledge that we are all the children of God, one...
00:30:07.000...part and active components of the body of Christ, that you want maximal democracy and sovereignty within nations and within communities, and that these tariffs are very much in line with the kind of policies, ideas and language of Trump's campaigning.
00:30:23.000And indeed, it's primarily globalists and those that look to accrue and gather resources and power on a global level that are most...
00:30:32.000Outraged by the imposition of these tariffs.
00:30:35.000Let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.
00:30:38.000In a minute, we're going to be talking about the death of 15 aid workers in Gaza and the ongoing conversation about Israel's power and influence in American politics.
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00:32:57.000Now let me know what else you want to talk to me about.
00:33:00.000Gaza and Israel, that's our next subject.
00:33:03.000We're also going to be talking about Didi, if you want to talk about it, and like Terrence Howard's chat on Rogan, Sam Harris and the gossip around that.
00:33:45.000Don't you think it would be good to have more subsidiarity?
00:33:49.000Don't you sort of crave and hanker after the days where you go into a coffee shop and the people that were working there were participants and beneficiaries of that economy?
00:33:57.000Wouldn't you like to eat food grown and reared near where you're from?
00:34:01.000Shouldn't we break down centralised power wherever possible and only maintain it where it's necessary?
00:34:05.000For example, I suppose you want some sort of military fighting force to protect your land.
00:34:58.000Let's talk about Netanyahu's visit to Trump and let's talk about the impact of Israel on American politics and see if in the next 10, 15 minutes or so if we can come up with some solution so that the Israeli people feel safe in their homeland and so that the people of Gaza feel safe in theirs.
00:35:16.000It's a simple challenge for us to undertake.
00:35:22.000An incredible piece of important real estate.
00:35:26.000A lot of people, of course, will be offended just by that type of language.
00:35:29.000But, in a way, isn't the world continually reduced to a resource, and even people that are ecologically inclined only talk about saving Gaia, Mother Earth, in terms of extraordinary pagan apocalyptic religiosity, i.e., the Earth is our resource.
00:35:52.000I believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
00:35:55.000I believe that we have to as custodians of the earth love it and I believe that everyone has a right to be free and have a relationship with their land.
00:36:03.000Let me know in the comments and chat how you feel about Trump's use of the term real estate to describe Gaza.
00:36:11.000Important real estate and I think it's something that we would be involved in but you know having a peace force like the United States there controlling and owning the Gaza Strip would be a good thing because right now All it is, is for years and years, all I hear about is killing and Hamas and problems.
00:36:30.000And if you take the people, the Palestinians, and move them around to different countries, and you have plenty of countries that will do that, and you really have a freedom, a freedom zone, you call it the freedom zone, a free zone, a zone where people aren't going to be killed every day, that's a hell of a place.
00:36:48.000It's a, you know what I call it, a great location that nobody wants to live in, because they really How did that
00:38:03.000In a way, the journalists there play into Trump's hands.
00:38:07.000Trump knows how to have this kind of discourse and this kind of conversation.
00:38:10.000But the conversation around Israeli sovereignty and the ongoing deaths in Gaza is a conversation that...
00:38:17.000Pretty much anyone finds difficult to manage in a sanguine and open fashion.
00:38:22.000Are we able to reach a position where, as with atheism and belief in God, we recognise that there are intelligent people on both sides of the argument?
00:38:30.000Even if you're a believer in Christ Jesus like me, you'll be well aware that there are many atheists in the world that have brilliantly articulate views, or people of other faiths that have brilliantly articulate views.
00:38:41.000For example, would you dismiss Rumi as an imbecile?
00:38:59.000So even if you advocate for an Israel state, it seems to me perfectly reasonable to look at the origins and the numerous wars, pacts, treaties and deals that led to its establishment.
00:39:10.000But you can't either neglect scripture.
00:39:12.000I suppose where we are right now is a place where Do we have to be open-hearted enough to acknowledge that there are some principles that transcend territory, that transcend war, that we must find in ourselves and in one another?
00:39:26.000Do you believe like I do that maybe the conflicts in the Middle East are somehow the Gordian knot?
00:39:35.000For so much time it seemed like globalist imperialism, the kind of bureaucratic imperialism that was exposed during the pandemic, was where real power was located.
00:39:46.000The WEF and the WHO and NATO and these NGOs have this extraordinary power and influence that seems to be expressed through corporations and their ability to control, at least influence, but I would say control governments.
00:39:59.000But now because of the rise of nativism, because of the success of Trump and the MAGA and Maha movement, that process in America has been to a degree interrupted.
00:40:12.000Where are the solutions to the war in the Middle East?
00:40:16.000Where are the solutions to the war between Russia and Ukraine?
00:40:19.000How are we going to, as evolved and awakened people and products and children of a Holy Father, going to live our lives a little differently now?
00:40:49.000anti-Semitism to Islamophobia, that we have to find in ourselves and one another a new territory to explore where we can demand of our leaders that That we can openly say that the execution,
00:41:10.000annihilation and death of people is wrong without being told first who are the people what was their religion what color were they in what conflict are we talking about can we and is it right for us to aspire to absolute principles of the sanctity of life and the love of one another to recognize our own prejudices and our own bigotry and to declare them before one another that we may be healed to recognize the limits of human power that
00:42:10.000Those are the kind of solutions that are likely to be presented and brought forth.
00:42:14.000I guess what a lot of you have are questions about the impact and influence of Israel over American politics and whether or not that supersedes American interests.
00:42:24.000I know, because my friend Tucker Carlson posted about it recently, that there seems to be a real threat of potential conflict with Iran.
00:42:32.000I don't feel like anyone's going to benefit from that.
00:42:35.000But for the people of Gaza and for many people in Israel that are affected by this conflict, this war is already happening.
00:42:42.000The same as for people in Ukraine and Russia, this war is already happening.
00:42:46.000The same for the people that are suicidal or homeless or hopelessly addicted, the apocalypse is already upon them.
00:42:52.000Well, how long is it before the creeping fingers of the apocalypse affect you and I, before we are forced to confront our own mortality and our own transience and to reach out in hope and faith to all eternity?
00:43:05.000Surely there is a kingdom beyond this one.
00:43:08.000The supernatural pledges of every religion by I speak as a Christian are that there is a world and a realm beyond this one and from that world we derive our principles, all authority comes from that world and any opinions we have or decisions we make ought to be informed by that holy authority.
00:43:27.000And Lord alone knows what chaos may reign if we reject it.
00:43:33.000Surely we know it somewhat from experience because many people in positions of power deny that there is a God.
00:43:39.000Many people and authorities and institutions say that mankind and our pleasures and our pursuits are the apex of all authority.
00:43:46.000This we must reject as individuals, as nations, as communities, as tribes and as one planet under a holy sign together.
00:43:55.000Surely then, perhaps new solutions will be emerging and emergent and victorious eventually.
00:44:52.000Now, you know, that is not a good move or a good inflection for this complex, difficult and agonizing story.
00:44:59.000Let's have a look at Dave Smith's recent appearance on Joe Rogan, where Dave Smith questions Tulsi Gabbard and other members of the Trump administration that we felt would be representative of movements towards peace in this and other ongoing global conflicts.
00:45:16.000In the belfry says, I'm beginning to like the shirt.
00:45:20.000The real scandal is like when you look through the chat, and that it's like, what are we, because what are we doing here?
00:45:27.000We're bombing another country in the Middle East, we're bombing the poorest country in the Middle East, Yemen, which has been bombed forever.
00:45:34.000Oh my god, on beha- Honestly, they're talking about them texts and the signal leak and about Yemen.
00:45:38.000Now, apparently in that signal chat, that now famous signal chat, J.D. Vance was the only person who was a bit, like, reticent about the potential for civilian categories and stuff.
00:46:11.000Vance is the only one who offers the mildest pushback and goes, he's like, hey guys, this is kind of a mistake and it's kind of everything against what Donald Trump ran on.
00:46:21.000And by the way, it's like such an insignificant amount of our trade that even goes through this area.
00:46:26.000It's really Europe's problem, not ours.
00:46:28.000But I'll go along with it if you guys want to.
00:46:30.000If you guys say, and then they literally say on the thing, they go, we've...
00:46:37.000This is the target they're trying to take out.
00:46:39.000They go, we've tracked him to his girlfriend's apartment building.
00:46:42.000And so we'll level the apartment building.
00:46:45.000And then Tulsi Gabbard's just like, job well done, team.
00:47:16.000Djokovic says that Dave Smith's retarded, but I've always kind of enjoyed his commentary and perspective, and surely all of us...
00:47:24.000That believe either in God or love or one another must be praying for, or if secular, hoping for an outcome that does not necessitate ongoing annihilation and war.
00:47:38.000Surely, whatever conflict we are discussing, on a more practical front...
00:47:44.000Surely we too want the Pentagon to be able to start passing audits and to have a greater examination of what they are afforded budgetarily from the taxpayers of your great nation.
00:47:57.000Here's Trump announcing that the Pentagon will be getting a $1 trillion boon coming soon.
00:48:05.000We have great things happening with our military.
00:48:11.000A budget, which is in the facility, you'll like to hear this, of a trillion dollars, one trillion dollars, and nobody's seen anything like it.
00:48:20.000We have to build our military, and we're very cost-conscious, but the military is something that we have to build, and we have to be strong, because you've got a lot of bad forces out there now.
00:48:29.000So we're going to be approving a budget, and I'm proud to say, actually, the biggest one we've ever done for the military.
00:48:37.000Surely what we need is a prayer for peace.
00:48:39.000Surely what we truly need are peacekeeping forces, if such a term ain't in itself an anathema and contradiction.
00:48:47.000Surely we need to find a new consensus among us that whether we're of the left or the right or American or Chinese or Palestinian or Israeli, that we can reach resolutions through our shared and common divinity or access to our shared and common divinity,
00:49:02.000that conflict played out on the physical plane will only perpetuate Let me know
00:49:32.000what you think in the comments and the chat.
00:49:35.000Hey you lot, did you see me on Sean Hannity recently on the TV?
00:50:18.000The first year of my life, my parents were no longer together.
00:50:21.000And I reckon, having spent a lot of time in communities where people talk openly about their past, the kind of recovery communities and group therapy communities that form around addiction, I know that my biography is unremarkable, completely unremarkable.
00:50:38.000Every day I hear people that have harrowing and terrifying stories.
00:51:30.000I think I brought that up in the chat.
00:51:31.000The fact is, women that have to do sex work to support their drug habit, they end up in jail, dying of an overdose, or some other tragic, slim and dreadful...
00:51:41.000Can we talk about the genetically modified children?
00:51:44.000Yes, let's talk about genetically modified children.
00:51:47.000That does seem like an interesting place for us to go.
00:51:49.000That's Sean Hannity interviews up, and I think we've got aspects of it up on Rumble.
00:51:55.000Certainly Rumble Premium will be with you for another 13 minutes on Rumble.
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00:52:55.000You can't explain to people what they did.
00:52:57.000They said they were inoculating them from HIV, which is...
00:53:00.000Yeah. They actually were engineering babies and editing their embryos to confer a resistance to HIV.
00:53:10.000Now, still to this day, so they were cloning them and then they were genetically modifying them.
00:53:16.000And so they're doing lots of things that are, there's a general moratorium in the world on some of these things around humans.
00:53:21.000Anything that's considered a germline edit.
00:53:23.000So anything that could be passed on to the next generation, right?
00:53:27.000So if you If you engineer something into the genome, the fear is, you know, from a germline, so all your cells in your body are somatic cells, except for your, like, egg or sperm, those are germ cells.
00:53:39.000So anything that could be affected into the germline so that you pass it on to the next generation, that could be like, you know, umbrella corporation type moment, right?
00:55:27.000You only want to have trade wars with genetically modified China.
00:55:31.000If China are creating an army of superchildren, then surely this is a further reason to find diplomatic and peaceful solutions to potential escalating tensions.
00:58:20.000Wolves. We've taken a grey wolf genome, a grey wolf cell, which is already genetically 99.5% identical to direwolves, and we've edited those cells at multiple places in its DNA sequence to contain the direwolf version of the DNA.
00:58:38.000That animal looks like a direwolf, it will behave like a direwolf, and it is a direwolf.
00:58:44.000Why did you say it looks like one and behaves like one?
00:59:31.000All these images, they're blowing my mind.
00:59:33.000I mean, I liked them so much, I nearly turned my head all the way to the front, but not quite enough to turn my head all the way to the front.
01:00:17.000Hey, look, it's a bit like Game of Thrones.
01:00:20.000You got yourself a Game of Thrones, Wolf.
01:00:22.000Also, what we're doing is creating a super army of cyborg robot beings that are going to imprison you in your homes.
01:00:29.000I'll take a sideways look at that next week.
01:00:31.000I suppose the function of that story is to normalise genetic research at a time when people are deeply cynical about science after the Wuhan lab leak likely led to the coronavirus pandemic.
01:00:40.000And the mRNA vaccines essentially cause more harm than good.
01:00:45.000They have to sort of come up with branding exercises for why it's good to have a bunch of people in labs doing stuff that might end up having a detrimental overall impact on humankind.