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00:00:51.000you Hello there, you Awakening Wonders!
00:00:55.000Thanks for joining us on Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:00:58.000For the first 15 minutes, we will be available with all of you on YouTube.
00:01:02.000Those of you that come here for truth, those of you that come here for hope, those of you who come here because you want to be part of a movement, you don't want to participate in the entropy and despair of a culture that's devouring itself, a legacy media that's lost its way, that wants to do nothing but annihilate and destroy, that's lost its vision, that's lost The light of the Lord that looks to you, that looks to me, that looks to us collectively to bring about a new order, a new awakening.
00:01:28.000And when I say new order, I don't mean some new global order of centralised authoritarian power.
00:01:53.000We're gonna be talking about Trump's potential assassination, hyperbole, or possibility.
00:01:58.000Let me know in the comments, guys, do you think it's a real possibility?
00:02:01.000If you're watching this on Rumble right now, why don't you press the red button and join us in the locals' chat, like Blessed Old Bird and Thomas Beard and Taz Being and Jim Earthsey.
00:02:09.000They're chatting away in there, they're expressing their free speech, and later we'll have freech.
00:02:13.000Where your freedom of speech will be broadcast live.
00:02:16.000We've got a fantastic guest on the show as well, Barry Weiss, one of the great Twitterphile journalists, or Xphiles.
00:02:21.000That's the wrong music, that's Twilight Zone.
00:02:25.000You'd do Doctor Who then, wouldn't you?
00:02:31.000Well, Barry Weiss, we've chatted to her before the show.
00:03:32.000What we could do is lock everyone in their house, make sure people wear masks, they stand these distances apart, they take all of these injections.
00:03:37.000What about if, you know, we just let people do what they like?
00:03:43.000What I say is, we'll look at that, but obviously with the WHO having the power that they have over the guidelines on I love you 6.5 million awakening wonders. I love you and
00:06:14.000Well, now the past... All the way through.
00:06:16.000I don't know how much, like, what constitutes, like, if someone has diarrhoea in a plane, it's gonna ruin their seat and their aisle, and if you're in coach, the aisle behind and aisle in front of you.
00:06:28.000All up the plane, that means they've tried to go to the toilet, it's gone wrong, and imagine the dreadful panic of being in a fuselage, the indignity of that.
00:07:55.000What I feel like is, doesn't it show the hubris of our kind that since the Wright Brothers we have conquered the air, but all it takes is one person with a dodgy belly and the two Bob Bits and the squirts and suddenly aeroplanes are being brought down.
00:08:10.000It sort of shows you the fragility of civilisation and the hubris of our kind.
00:08:14.000Civilisation lays upon the planet and by the mighty winds of God, or a passenger, it could be coughed off into brown oblivion.
00:08:23.000I think that's what got Pregosian last week.
00:08:55.000It's almost like they enjoyed it at this point, like it was a dirty protest.
00:08:58.000Now I don't know where that coronavirus came from, but you should have been able to contain it in the Wuhan lab or wet market, could be either, area.
00:09:05.000You don't want people skiddily skidding out of the labs and out of the wet markets, running down the back caves, running down the town, getting in the airplanes.
00:09:13.000What you've got yourself there is a super spreader event.
00:09:16.000That is a super spreader event right there, a one-person super spreader.
00:09:38.000And I think maybe, under the circumstances, if you're temporarily the member of a 500-person community, all airlocked together, because you know on that plane, you're breathing that stuff.
00:10:36.000If you're gonna poo yourself like a pig in the streets.
00:10:40.000Get that thumb, the thing that separates us from the animals, and use it so you don't become like a sky monkey pooping your whole way up the aisle.
00:10:48.000Now let's get on with some proper freedom and some proper news because Tucker predicts... What do you... Let us know, do you want to see Tucker talking about the potential assassination of Donald Trump and how that contrasts with Maddow's prediction that if he becomes president he will elect himself president for life or nominate himself or designate himself president for life?
00:11:07.000Or do you want to see this thing with Kamala Harris and Big Pharma and the Big Pharma drug prices?
00:11:13.000We've got this brilliant story where all of the claims of the Biden administration that they're going to control drug prices are in a sense erroneous and False, aren't they?
00:11:25.000Yeah, they're certainly massively exaggerated and the way in which they congratulate themselves at this historic, I think Kamala Harris says it at one point, this historic situation where we've managed to beat Big Pharma again is shown to be an absolute load of rubbish.
00:11:40.000Yeah, a lot of people are saying both Trump and drugs, and some people are saying they want it at the same time.
00:11:47.000But what kind of evening is that, you crazy young people?
00:11:51.000This is, I think, extraordinary, because what we're being offered, you should see the giddy hyperbole and fanfare that accompanies this story.
00:11:58.000Let's go to the mainstream media reporting of the event.
00:12:02.000Kamala Harris, I say she's making this and introducing this policy honestly as if it's seismic, apocal and as if it's going to change American life forever.
00:12:11.000Proudly announcing that no senior citizen should have to choose between putting food in their fridge and buying drugs.
00:12:18.000Meanwhile, dear Joe Biden there looks like he couldn't cope with either.
00:12:22.000Filling a fridge or buying drugs could reduce him.
00:12:24.000They just took him off a plane apparently.
00:12:27.000I had a hell of a time up there, one or two other people complained, and then I was on a standy-up lay-down bed on the way out!
00:14:06.000And I'm talking about Joe Biden there, not the other fellow who I believe does have a medical condition that exempts him from the kind of critiques that we freely offer Joe Biden.
00:14:15.000Thank you, everyone, for being here and for all the work that you have done leading up to today.
00:14:20.000I want to thank, of course, our nation's champion, President Biden, for your leadership and commitment to lowering costs for working families.
00:14:28.000This is, I think, what people mean when they say that the mainstream media are out of touch and that the government are out of touch.
00:14:34.000This is not the correct tone for what's happening in American public life right now.
00:14:39.000There's a deterioration in the standards of living.
00:14:42.000I think Americans are feeling persecuted, penalized, struggling with the ongoing war, energy crisis, energy prices, grocery crisis, grocery prices, and to hear your vice president say this is the champion of America before introducing a highly diluted, weak booster shot of a policy that's been tested on less than eight mouses, if you ask me.
00:15:02.000Seems like the worst kind of political rhetoric, but let me know what you think in the comments.
00:15:06.000Let me know what you think in the chat.
00:15:08.000Nodaganoku says, this is the kind of deflective doublespeak that we've got used to.
00:15:14.000TrueChimera says, no wonder she can't handle her life.
00:15:17.000Oh, they've got the other guy to make Biden look young, says someone, but remember that guy, that dude ain't well, so he's exempted from any critiques because we looked into it because you know
00:15:25.000you know me I would have been looking for a joke all over the place but that fella is actually um
00:15:29.000unwell and deserves naught but compassion but Joe Biden there is he a champion is that
00:15:33.000what you guys think let me know let me know in the comments guys in every way and thank you to all
00:15:38.000of the members of congress for the work that you have done and continue to do to help us
00:15:43.000achieve this type of progress your tireless work Yeah, thank you for all that lobbying money that you took from the big pharma industry.
00:15:54.000That must have been so... How did you even carry it with your fragile little arms?
00:15:58.000Hunter's laptop under one arm, a big bundle of money under the other, no corruption, nothing to see here.
00:16:04.000And I'm certainly not alleging that there is.
00:16:08.000Any corruption, because there's sort of no proof.
00:16:10.000But I think it's worth noting that, listen to this, in all, the Build Back Better drug pricing framework is not a bad outcome for the pharmaceutical industry.
00:16:20.000Most drugs won't be affected by negotiations, the analysis said, and ultimately they entice drug makers to boost their products' launch prices.
00:16:28.000Pharmaceutical companies in the US raised drug prices 1,186 times in 2022.
00:16:30.000The pharmaceutical and health products industries Spent.
00:16:36.000Get ready for this important piece of news and let me know in the chat if you think this is relevant to this story.
00:16:41.000263 million dollars on lobbying in Washington and let me know should that practice be banned?
00:16:46.000Why are we having these conversations about Trump and Biden and Republicanism versus the Democrats when we know that unless that is altered you are going to get a comparable paradigm no matter who's in office.
00:17:06.000Let me know in the chat and the comments if you think that would make a difference and if you have any hope that such a thing could ever occur.
00:17:13.000In 2021, Democrats accounted for roughly 60% of the $177 million in pharmaceutical industry lobbying and campaign donations.
00:17:21.000Do you think that kind of leverage amounts to the ability to alter decisions, i.e.
00:17:28.000The policy begins as, we are going to cap all drug prices, and ends up as, for senior citizens, for this handful of drugs, as long as there is no generic competition, and the drug's been on the market for nine years, we will introduce control.
00:17:43.000To see Kamala Harris talk about this, you'd think she was announcing endless orgasms for everyone.
00:17:49.000It's an extraordinary piece of rhetoric.
00:17:53.000So we are here today with the firm belief That in the United States of America, no senior should ever have to choose between whether they are able to fill a prescription.
00:18:06.000Or whether or not their son works for Burisma, or whether or not they have a hell of a time with their hobbies.
00:18:22.000Because we know for years, far too many of our seniors, millions of our seniors across
00:18:36.000the country have struggled to afford their prescriptions.
00:18:41.000And too many of our seniors risked their health as they may have delayed to refill their prescription or they cut their pills in half to try and stretch out the length of time that they could take their medication.
00:18:58.000One of the things that's astonishing, as revealed by David Sirota in his article in The Lever, is that the National Academy of Sciences tells the story that the federal government spent $100 billion to subsidize the research on every single one of the 200-plus drugs approved for sale in the United States between 2010 and 2016.
00:19:14.000Those subsidies, of course, that's your money, that's your taxpayer dollar.
00:19:19.000Because we, the public, invested early in these medicines, we reduced the R&D, research and development costs, for pharmaceutical companies.
00:19:25.000Therefore, on the back end, the public should have received some sort of return in the form of affordable prices.
00:19:32.000This should be, we're so sorry this has taken so long and that it's not as good as we initially promised.
00:19:36.000And there's clearly been radically altered and re-legislated by the drug companies themselves in order to not ultimately affect their profits.
00:19:45.000That's what the speech should look like.
00:19:58.000So since we took office, President Biden and I and our administration has taken historic, historic action to cut the cost of prescription medication for our seniors.
00:20:09.000We capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month.
00:20:16.000We will cap the total cost of prescription drugs at $2,000 a year.
00:20:26.000Sometimes when I watch it, even as a person who spends a lot of time thinking about these issues, looking at this stuff, I kind of start to get baffled and think, oh no, maybe it is good because they seem so certain.
00:20:38.000Well look, even $2,000 a year is a huge amount of money for a great many people in America.
00:20:44.000And when you're paying 1,000 times more than people are paying in other countries for the very same drugs, that's incredible.
00:20:50.000And when she talks about historic, you know what she's not talking about is the historic reasons why we're in the situation in the first place that involved the Clinton administration, Joe Biden himself and Obama in making sure that we're in the situation that we are now.
00:21:03.000Let's read that segment from Sirota's article in The Lever, which of course is a left-wing publication, but the analysis is fantastic.
00:21:09.000This is why we so strongly believe that we have to look for new alliances, new systems, new narratives.
00:21:15.000In the mid-90s, that business axiom was tossed out when drug lobbyists persuaded the Clinton administration to repeal rules that allowed federal officials to require government-subsidized drugs to be offered to Americans at a reasonable price.
00:21:29.000A few years later, Congress, with then-Senator Joe Biden's help, so check this out, Biden voted down legislation to reinstate these rules.
00:21:37.000That was an opportunity deliberately missed and denied.
00:21:40.000And later, the Obama administration rejected House Democrats' request that federal officials at least provide guidelines to government agencies about how they can exercise the remaining powers to combat drug price gouging.
00:21:52.000So this is a story that's been presented to you as a great victory, as a delivery on an election promise, as a victory for the American people.
00:23:59.000Hot on the heels of the dreadful Grenfell disaster, where a building burned down due to poor regulation and lack of council culpability.
00:24:08.000The Prime Minister has been accused of cutting back repair efforts when he was Chancellor.
00:24:12.000Education Secretary Gillian Keegan was forced to apologise after she was caught complaining to a TV reporter others with responsibility for school repairs had sat on their arse rather than act.
00:24:21.000It feels that our schools could crumble on our children's heads.
00:24:45.000Interesting situation that's going on with Donald Trump at the moment.
00:24:47.000Very much pushing back against mask mandates, vaccines, when obviously we know at the start of the lockdowns that he was massively behind those beautiful vaccines.
00:27:21.000I will turn you into a molecular compound with my eyes and then heal you with ivermectin, you son of a bitch!
00:27:32.000I don't like to think of making love with that man.
00:27:35.000If that's how he looks when he chats to Anthony Fauci, how would he deal with it if he and I, after a lovely evening of... Go on, set the scene.
00:28:30.000That's the kind of causistry, the kind of sophistry, the kind of Fauci-ing we've come to know and recognise.
00:28:37.000If you've come here for truth, you will not be disappointed because we are being joined now by a fantastic, epochal and significant journalist, Barry Weiss, founder of The Free Press and the Honestly podcast is joining us.
00:28:51.000Now, Barry, you're here because you're doing this.
00:29:25.000The proposition is, has the sexual revolution failed?
00:29:29.000We have Sarah Hader and Grimes facing off against Louise Perry, coming over from the U.K., and Anna Katchian, one of the co-hosts of Red Scare.
00:29:38.000The event is going to be opened by none other than feminist icon and hashtag ally, Tim Dillon.
00:29:44.000For anyone in L.A., we'd love to see you there.
00:29:46.000post the link in the description that sounds like a fantastic debate I think
00:29:50.000we could all be better educated on that topic it sounds like you've put together
00:29:53.000an incredible roster of people and who knows may show up I remember we've played
00:29:57.000that Ace Theatre Gal I can remember doing shows there in Los Angeles lovely
00:30:01.000little venue if you are in LA at that time go along join it educate yourself
00:30:05.000and like I think this is important Like, you know, we recorded our conversation with Sam Harris the other day, and we saw many, many issues quite distinctly and often opposingly.
00:30:15.000And it was, I would say, valuable, I hope, for both of us to have that conversation.
00:30:20.000I certainly enjoy speaking to people that I disagree with, but also people like you, who I broadly do agree with, Barry.
00:30:26.000Yeah, I mean, one of the reasons we started the Free Press was because we had a question, and that question was, do Americans still want real journalism?
00:30:36.000Do Americans and people beyond America, do people in the West, is the English-speaking world still want lively, honest, fair, sober, provocative debate?
00:30:47.000Or do they just want the sort of Pre-masticated ideological mush that those of us who left the mainstream were being asked to produce.
00:30:56.000And the answer has come back to us over the past two years as a resounding yes.
00:30:59.000So we're super excited to put on our first live debate, and we hope it's going to be the first in sort of a national series of debates about urgent conversations, the kind of conversations that people have in private, but often are too scared to have out loud in public.
00:31:54.000I think it's actually emblematic of the entire sort of media landscape we're living in, in which, you know, it feels often to many of us like you have the choice.
00:32:02.000You have the choice to listen to someone who's talking about the president or the former president getting assassinated, or you have the choice to listen to someone who's suggesting that we live in a dictatorship.
00:32:12.000I think one of the reasons for the rise of independent media is because people are sick of those being their only options.
00:32:21.000People are sick of a media that polarizes us further, that makes us more hysterical, more panicked, more fearful, more isolated, more lonely, and they're looking for something Different.
00:32:33.000And I think one of the reasons for the rise of independent podcasting for the kind of Wild West, you know, Cambrian explosion we're living through, to mix like five metaphors, sorry, it's early here, is because of that.
00:32:46.000So I saw both of those comments and I kind of rolled my eyes and went back to doing my actual work, to be honest with you.
00:32:52.000I'm not sure what you thought of those comments.
00:32:54.000Certainly a lot of people really value the important work you're doing.
00:32:58.000Ashella in our chat, mate, over on Locals, if you want to join us in Locals, not you, Barry, you've got work to do.
00:33:04.000You've got a bloody debate to put on by everyone else.
00:33:06.000Like, press the red button and join us in Locals.
00:33:08.000Ashella asks, Russ, ask Barry if she still backs RFK Jr.
00:33:13.000And just to answer your question to me, yes, of course, I think both statements are somewhat hyperbolic, but presidents have been assassinated before.
00:33:20.000I think Tucker He's an excellent orator and built his arguments beautiful in the same conversation when he talked about the potential for the Cold War and the proxy current proxy war to become a hot war.
00:33:31.000I think he walked us through that in a way that's very identifiable easy conversational and in a sense is shows you like the almost the molecular structure of his ability and the reason he's become so successful.
00:33:42.000he can walk you through an argument, even if it's an argument you wouldn't receive elsewhere.
00:33:47.000And when I saw Maddow, I thought that what irritates me is the pose of rationalism accompanied
00:33:53.000by hysterical messaging. That's what sort of irritated me about that. But Ashela's question
00:33:58.000to you, mate, is this, do you still back RFK Jr? And it does relate to the other stuff,
00:34:03.000really, because he's a person who's galvanizing this space.
00:34:38.000I haven't endorsed anyone for president.
00:34:40.000Am I happy to see people trying to challenge Joe Biden and Donald Trump, neither of whom
00:34:47.000I think — neither of whom most people I know would be excited to vote for?
00:34:51.000And the answer to that is absolutely yes.
00:34:53.000What I'm interested in is the phenomenon of these people.
00:34:56.000How is it that someone like RFK, how is it like someone like Vivek Ramaswamy, who's, I think, 38 years old, how are these people sort of coming out, political neophytes, never having run for office, and garnering the kind of support they're getting?
00:35:10.000You can say it's because of the ideas they're putting forward, or you could also say that it's because of how frustrated Americans are with these terrible choices.
00:35:19.000Choices that I think many of us are shocked that we're actually going to be in this same scenario yet again in 2024.
00:35:26.000So I'm very interested in these people that are popping up and can continue to host, I think, challenging and fair conversations with all of them.
00:35:34.000Barry, the moment that you participated in the Twitterphile revelations, it seemed like that platform was significantly changed, perhaps forever, with Elon's acquisition.
00:35:47.000But now with the name changed to X and the emergence of peculiar phrases like lawful but awful content.
00:35:53.000And similarly, I feel like YouTube pulled a Jordan Peterson RFK video.
00:35:59.000Do you feel that we're seeing a new mutation Look, I think that we're living... One of the big themes of our era, of our epoch, is the question of what do we do?
00:36:17.000Given the fact that the Town Square has been digitized, what do we do about the fact that the Town Square is not a place that you go to, a place paid by citizens, by taxpayers, but are private companies run by a handful of billionaires, right?
00:36:40.000The Town Square is certainly Google, which I think has something like 90% market share.
00:36:45.000And what do you do about the fact that these places are controlled by a handful of private citizens who are redefining what violence is, who are redefining what acceptable speech is?
00:36:58.000The question is not should there or should there not be guardrails, right?
00:37:03.000There's always going to be guardrails on any of these platforms.
00:37:06.000But the question is, what is constituting hateful speech?
00:37:11.000And what is sort of normal or controversial speech that's being redefined as hate speech?
00:37:17.000Is, for example, talking about the lab leak at the height of COVID.
00:37:21.000Should that be constituted as hate speech?
00:37:25.000In the case of Jordan Peterson, I believe that the video that was banned is a video of a conversation that he had with the Irish journalist Helen Joyce, questioning whether or not children can consent to lifelong medical changes with gender transition.
00:37:40.000Should that be an open conversation we're able to have in public or not?
00:38:26.000And I think it remains to be seen whether or not under Elon Musk's Twitter, or X as I know we're supposed to call it now, the Twitter files have become the X files, whether or not that's going to be the case.
00:38:39.000And it's an open question because in the very same way that a handful of people ran it, well now it's just a different handful of people.
00:38:46.000With different political biases and different potential power trips.
00:38:50.000And I think anyone who has learned anything over the past decade or so, as we've seen the rise of big tech, should always be skeptical when so much power is in the hands of so few people.
00:39:04.000Yes, it seems that what you're proposing, or at least ruminating on, is the potential for a kind of consensual regulation that is democratic.
00:39:14.000And in a way, that's what I'm appealing for, examining, praying for, across many of our institutions, the possibility for a new type of consensual governance.
00:39:26.000Democracy, I think is a the other word for it, the way that you feel that you have
00:39:30.000some purchase, some ability to communicate rather than top-down government that appears to have been
00:39:35.000co-opted by financial corporate interests and that use the ideology simply as leverage to
00:39:40.000curb and control debate and conversation.
00:39:42.000Well, like the beauty of this country is that, you know, is that when we go to that physical
00:39:49.000town square, we have the Bill of Rights, we have the Constitution, we have the First Amendment.
00:39:55.000When we go into this new digital town square, we have none of those things.
00:39:59.000And the question is, like, how can we have a sort of political and cultural software update to meet the technological update that we've already lived through?
00:40:08.000That is the big challenge, I think, of the next decade.
00:40:11.000And, you know, the high school answer, of course, is they're private companies.
00:40:16.000And the people that are making that argument, of course, are people that would never say that about something like big tobacco, which makes you wonder like what their actual principle is, right?
00:40:27.000The more challenging answer is, you know, are they actually something more like public utilities?
00:40:32.000Should they be regulated like the railroad has been, like the electricity company is, right?
00:40:38.000We don't cut someone off of their ability to get on Amtrak or their ability to turn on their lights because they believe in QAnon, but we might unperson them on the internet because of that.
00:40:50.000We are living through this technological revolution, but we don't yet have the political, the social, or the cultural updates to meet that technological change.
00:41:02.000What that change is going to look like, what the regulation should look like, what the relationship between individual people with individual rights should be to these big tech behemoths.
00:41:15.000That, to me, is one of the most urgent questions of our day.
00:41:19.000And I think that, you know, if you're interested in democracy, if you're interested in free speech, if you're interested in individual dignity, really, those are the questions you have to be asking yourself.
00:41:47.000Now, you can't stop these subcutaneous energetic forces rising up, whether it's Delta Diarrhoea or the phenomena of Oliver Antony emerging into cyberspace, a hirsute and auburn wonder Piping and stringing and strumming new rhythms into the world.
00:42:07.000What do you make of the Oliver Antony phenomenon?
00:42:09.000Do you think he's another example of the left looking for traitors and the right looking for converts?
00:42:14.000How are you seeing this subject treated and what are your views on it, mate?
00:42:19.000I'm speechless by your ability to connect diarrhea on the airplane to Oliver Anthony, but here we go.
00:43:18.000Now, the thing that is, like, tragic and emblematic of our current moment is that immediately when that song comes out, he's taken up as sort of a saint by the political right that thinks he's on their side, and he's in turn vilified by the left.
00:43:35.000There were some unbelievable stories in places like NPR and Rolling Stone trying to demonize him.
00:43:40.000And then he sits down with Rupa Sabarmania, who works for the Free Press, the night of the first RNC debate.
00:43:46.000She flew from Ottawa to Virginia to go to his concert and see if he would talk to her, and he graciously did.
00:43:51.000She got the first and I think the best interview.
00:44:30.000What this is about is a cultural class, the elite class.
00:44:36.000That is deeply out of touch with people like me, people like Oliver Anthony who worked the overnight shift in a paper mill for $14 an hour.
00:44:44.000It's about the fact that there's been no accountability.
00:44:47.000It's about the fact that there's been no sort of comeuppance for these people that have gotten so many things wrong.
00:44:54.000His answer is just, and I urge people to read the piece, it's a deeply humane one.
00:45:00.000It's about the fact that looking to politicians for our salvation Salvation's never gonna come from people in Washington, or as he puts it, rich men north of Richmond.
00:45:08.000It's gonna come, as he says, from us putting down our phones and starting to talk to one another again.
00:45:36.000Do you know what I'm minded to at least recount, recite, to tell you, Barry, is that for a while I've been feeling that the problem with the left is that they abandoned ordinary working people they actually don't like.
00:45:50.000ordinary working people. So I have to find ways to vilify them. Your views are not progressive
00:45:55.000enough, you ain't advanced, and then like in a sense you can see in all of the Oliver
00:45:59.000Antony phenomena, that a sort of a trend that's been prevailing since the Democrats under Clinton
00:46:05.000and the Labour Party under Tony Blair abandoned ordinary working people. They had to justify it
00:46:12.000by saying ordinary working people needed to change.
00:46:14.000The problem's not that we don't care anymore about representing the interests of ordinary Americans or ordinary Brits against the elites and the establishment and corporatised state institutions.
00:46:25.000The problem is that ordinary Americans and ordinary Brits are somehow disgusting and racist.
00:46:30.000They vote for Brexit, they vote for Trump without looking at what conditions People are enduring.
00:46:36.000And I suppose that there is mitigation against the charge that these bourgeois elites are uncaring by saying, well, we do care about these marginal minority issues.
00:48:52.000But I started to think about that as like, no, this is what the legacy institutions say, because all of Redepenny is the real mainstream, right?
00:48:59.000Look at this movie, The Sound of Freedom.
00:49:01.000The Sound of Freedom, which was made by Angel Studios, I had never heard of Angel Studios, beat Mission Impossible at the box office, which was put out by Paramount, right?
00:49:13.000I don't even think it was reviewed by the so-called mainstream institutions.
00:49:18.000I think one of the things happening is that like the real mainstream just isn't represented by a lot of places that That's brilliant, Barry.
00:49:27.000I mean, yeah, it's just like these institutions never represented the interests of ordinary people.
00:49:31.000It's just before they never had an alternative.
00:49:33.000Take your medicine, eat your filthy culture.
00:49:36.000Now, because of this technology and communications miracle, it's possible to provide alternatives.
00:49:40.000That's why you have to establish a means and legitimize censorship.
00:49:44.000Otherwise, what we learn is this culture is entirely non-representative.
00:49:47.000It will atrophy and die, and people will build a new culture that absolutely ignores it.
00:55:06.000If you become an Awakened Wonder Pant wearer, you get early access to interviews, meditations, podcasts, Anyway, we've been talking a lot about hyperbole.
00:55:14.000We've been talking about the mainstream media's hysteria and propaganda.
00:55:18.000Some of you will have already seen, because I think we talked about it earlier in the week, Rachel Maddow talking about if Trump wins, he might make himself president for life.
00:55:26.000And that that would just sort of be a thing that happened.
00:55:29.000Also, we talk about like that mugshot image and how it's already been used to raise millions of dollars.
00:55:35.000We're going to have a real look at this.
00:55:37.000So if you are an awakened wonder, pull your underpants right up tight.
00:55:41.000Right uptight, I'd say, until your lower body cannot even access blood, let alone delta diarrhea.
00:56:37.000And the mainstream media are furious about it.
00:56:39.000Even though they recognize that the more he's persecuted, the more popular he becomes as an anti-establishment figure, they continue to condemn him, with Rachel Maddow saying that if Trump wins in 2024, he will turn America into a dictatorship for life.
00:56:53.000Now, I'm not sure that that's actually true.
00:56:57.000I don't know what evidence that's based on.
00:56:59.000I don't think the only reason that Trump was removed from office last time was because Biden was so mighty and the system is so fantastic.
00:57:05.000And why do the mainstream hate Trump so much?
00:57:08.000Is it because he's alleged to be a sexist and in some ways morally off-key?
00:57:12.000Or is it for more profound geopolitical strategic reasons?
00:57:44.000Because say Trump did win, and Trump didn't want to go to prison, and he went, I'm going to be president forever, we're not going to have elections.
00:57:50.000I feel like even the most ardent Trump supporters would say, no, no, we're not down with that.
00:58:28.000Even the Georgia case alone is a state, not a federal case, so Trump wouldn't be able to pardon himself from that.
00:58:33.000Why is that not being mentioned in this report?
00:58:35.000Well, the answer could be because it's a hysterical report that's propagandising a population, playing to an audience of people who love Rachel Maddow, who can't remember all the vaccine stuff for some reason, and Absolutely hate Donald Trump.
00:58:46.000This is precisely the problem we have.
00:58:47.000My perspective is we have to overcome these kind of political affiliations and accept that we're at a point where different political models have to be considered.
00:58:54.000I mean, if those are the stakes, if winning the election is his plan to stay out of prison, what happens in that election if and when he does not win it?
00:59:04.000Does that kind of an election end with a graceful concession to a fair and square re-elected President Biden?
00:59:11.000The function of this piece of news is to ensure that you vote Democrat.
00:59:15.000To ensure that the Democrat base is mobilized into voting.
00:59:19.000I don't think the Democrats or the Republicans are going to provide the kind of solutions that you require, and I don't think you do either.
00:59:26.000I think whatever side you're on, your argument will basically be, yeah, but they're better than the other party, and these small differences are all we're being offered.
00:59:34.000And I say that's the biggest problem of all.
00:59:36.000Being willing to kill one another over these small differences is what prevents the real change that's required from ever happening.
00:59:44.000I mean if Trump and his supporters see the stakes as losing and going to prison or winning and being president and probably president for life.
01:00:00.000I know you feel there are metropolitan elites that called you a basket of deplorables at They can't say any of that because Biden's in office and he's doing nothing of note or value or worth and all of the promises he made while campaigning have evaporated into nothing.
01:00:36.000How should we expect that he and the Republican Party and Republican officials in swing states are going to handle the conduct of that election that Trump may very well lose?
01:00:51.000Yes, I think we forgot the efficacy of vaccines, didn't we?
01:00:55.000We have to say out loud, I mean, that we would be remiss, we would be willfully naive to ask that question as if our politics exists in a vacuum, somewhere outside the rest of our news.
01:01:11.000As if the politics pages are totally different than the crime pages, right?
01:01:15.000As if we are not in a moment where far-right politics is coincident with far-right violence, with regular shows of force from paramilitary extreme right groups, and with acts of violence by people who are explicitly and admittedly motivated by far-right eliminationist political ideas.
01:01:33.000You know like when you do exchange trips when you're a kid and you have to go to another school or whatever?
01:01:38.000I think mainstream media should have to go and work at the other place for like a month instead of being sent to France to live with a French family or whatever.
01:01:44.000Rachel Maddow should go on Fox, Fox people should go on MSNBC and should experience the world from that perspective.
01:01:50.000I'm aware that this content gets watched by people who like this content.
01:01:54.000Our hope is that we can create new conversations where people from across the political spectrum can see that they have more in common with one another than the establishment interests that purport to represent them on both sides.
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01:05:45.000Trump down in Georgia turning that mugshot into a record-breaking fundraising haul.
01:05:50.000According to Politico, Trump's campaign claims to have had its best day of fundraising yet, pulling nearly 4.2 million dollars on Friday night alone, making it the single highest 24-hour period of his campaign to date.
01:06:03.000I love when he said, one more indictment and I'll have this election sewn up.
01:06:06.000He talks the language of modern politics.
01:06:09.000Perhaps it wasn't just a coincidence the fact that he was the Twitter president.
01:06:12.000We thought that Obama represented a true progression because he was from a new diverse race, because he had a sort of a charisma and conviviality, but it appears that actually Obama was a very traditional President in the sense that he represented establishment interests, particularly financial interests, in 2008.
01:06:29.000And Trump, in spite of being an older man, and indeed a white man or orange man, depending on your perspective, has understood the media age in a way that no other politicians, certainly in the American landscape, do.
01:06:45.000And I would suggest new political models are going to emerge from it.
01:06:48.000Whether they are authoritarian centralised models, a bit like actually Rachel Maddow is suggesting, but I would say there's more danger of authoritarianism, curiously and paradoxically, from the liberal left than there are from the right.
01:06:59.000Much of that fundraising comes from merchandise.
01:07:01.000T-shirts, posters, bumper stickers, coolers, ranging from $12 to $40 on that website.
01:07:10.000It's like when MSNBC does Pfizer interviews.
01:07:12.000Also has been peppering online donors with emails and text messages.
01:07:16.000We kind of expected this Jonathan Lemire that Donald Trump was going to make a virtue and yes a t-shirt of his mugshot had it pushed out almost immediately in a fundraising email.
01:07:45.000Yes, it's exciting and yes, it raises a bunch of money for your base supporters who do view you as a martyr and a victim who's being prosecuted by Joe Biden.
01:07:53.000That's not the way this works, of course, but that's the tale he's telling them.
01:07:56.000Because they don't offer you news, they offer you attitude.
01:08:00.000They can't go, well, obviously this isn't bloody working.
01:08:03.000People like Trump's anti-establishment stance and the establishment attacking him obviously validates his perspective and claims that the establishment are against him because he's against their interests and they're not trying to get him, they're trying to get you.
01:08:16.000And if they're against Donald Trump, plainly they are, they should just try to stick to the facts about this and move away from the emotions because they've lost the emotional war because they don't actually care about ordinary people.
01:09:27.000Allies from Paris to Tokyo regard Trump as an erratic leader with little interest in
01:09:31.000culverting long-term ties to counter Russian and Chinese expansionism.
01:09:35.000Unwillingness to counter Russian and Chinese expansionism could be a sensible policy unless you believe that Russian and Chinese expansionism ultimately includes nations like America and European nations rather than being localised and regional issues.
01:09:48.000Not saying that I don't care about the people of Taiwan.
01:09:50.000I'm saying I just don't care that much about semiconductors that want Americans to start dying for them.
01:09:55.000And to ignore the potential of a peaceful solution to the Ukraine-Russia conflict, which Donald Trump advocates for just because it's good for BlackRock and the military-industrial complex.
01:10:03.000Policymakers and politicians were reluctant to make public statements that might rile the current administration or an incoming one.
01:10:09.000But officials interviewed by the Wall Street Journal did share their thoughts about what a Trump return to the world stage would mean for geopolitics.
01:10:14.000Among the most widespread fears is that Trump would spark a global trade war.
01:10:19.000I prefer a global trade war than a global... war.
01:10:22.000The candidate is threatened to impose fresh tariffs on all goods imported into the US, hitting friend and foe alike, a move that risks sowing divisions in transatlantic relations in a time of war.
01:10:32.000Trump has also threatened to withdraw the US from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a move that his former National Security Advisor John Bolton recently described as a near certainty if he is elected again.
01:10:43.000Some governments are moving to lock in military assistance to Ukraine to strengthen security there in case a newly elected Trump scales back US support.
01:10:51.000Members of the Group of Seven Wealthy Nations are trying to reach bilateral agreements with Kiev to provide weapons that meet NATO standards.
01:10:58.000Even the Group of Seven Wealthy Nations seems ridiculous with escalating fuel bills, increasing poverty, the decimation of ordinary public spaces, the poverty and despair on the streets of most developed nations.
01:11:09.000Where's all this wealth going, I wonder?
01:11:11.000And Washington has sent billions of dollars in arms and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
01:11:15.000There's a strong possibility Trump might be re-elected, said Benjamin Haddad, a French lawmaker from President Emmanuel Macron's party.
01:11:22.000It forces us Europeans to read the writing on the wall and take more responsibility.
01:11:26.000Part of the reason, at least, that Trump is unpopular is because of his anti-globalist position, or at least that he isn't a fully imbibed and controlled globalist asset.
01:11:35.000That Trump policies might not lead to more war, but might lead to less war.
01:11:41.000French officials have been warning European allies that the possibility of Trump's return requires the continent to significantly expand arms production from artillery to missile defence systems so it can supply Ukraine on its own.
01:11:52.000Oh no, America won't be supplying arms to Ukraine anymore.
01:11:55.000Do you want I actually, you know, how could I possibly know what is the best geopolitical policy for the Ukraine-Russia conflict?
01:12:01.000But it would be good, wouldn't it, to have unbiased, clear, open conversations about that and maybe even vote on what the preferred outcome would be.
01:12:09.000The idea that Trump's ascendancy is a problem because he would end war is being presented to you as a bad thing seems to me all kind of topsy-turvy and upside down.
01:12:18.000Eastern European countries and France are also pushing allies to admit Ukraine into NATO.
01:12:36.000I suppose what that article indicates is that there is indeed a globalist, corporatist agenda.
01:12:41.000That organisations like NATO do supersede national interests.
01:12:45.000But a figure like Trump, with his nationalism, with his inward-looking gaze, whether you like Trump or not, is an opposition to that corporatist, globalist agenda.
01:12:54.000I consider those figures like Macron and Trudeau to not be the forbearers of a new liberal democracy, but actually globalist corporatists who don't very much care about the ordinary people of their nation, but instead care about advancing elite interests under the auspices of liberalism.
01:13:10.000I believe that more decentralisation, more localisation, more democracy, more political freedom at the level of the community and the individual is the answer.
01:13:20.000Not more centralisation and a globalist agenda that cannot be opposed, particularly when it includes a potentially apocalyptic war.
01:13:26.000So, Trump's rise and the missteps taken by the mainstream media appear to relate strongly to a corporatist globalist agenda, and that's hardly surprising.
01:13:36.000For all of the condemnation of criticism of Trump that you can read and see elsewhere in sufficient quantities to not require me to give it to you again, is a figure that appears to be At odds with the advances of a globalist, corporatist agenda, and you have to ask yourself this.
01:13:50.000Are they anti-Trump because of all the reasons they say?
01:13:53.000Trump is a savage and he's against your freedom and he's a dictator.
01:13:56.000Or are they against Trump because they tacitly and quietly and silently in fact support exactly this agenda?
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