Stay Free - Russel Brand - WTF!? Were 9-11 hijackers REALLY CIA Recruits?! - #120 - Stay Free With Russell Brand

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00:01:24.000 We're going to be having a look at the...

00:01:27.000 We're going to be having a look at the departure of Tucker Carlson from Fox and why the Pentagon is so delighted.

00:01:34.000 Sometimes I think this about radical liberals and whose views I respect and in so many cases absolutely align with.

00:01:43.000 Why are they happy to be on the same side of the Department of Defence and the Pentagon on any sort of issue at all?

00:01:51.000 Like, when you imagine Woodstock, the late 60s, the civil rights movement, the great hot stirrings of the summer of 68, a counter-cultural movement, the women's movement, all these powerful voices, they weren't In alliance with big businesses and with the state, they were anti-establishment.

00:02:11.000 It's so extraordinary to me how things have changed.

00:02:14.000 We're going to be talking to Max Blumenthal from the grey zone a little bit later.

00:02:18.000 We will not be able to have this conversation on YouTube.

00:02:21.000 I think it would be dangerous even on Elon Musk's Twitter, even within his great citadel of free speech.

00:02:29.000 Would you be able to openly talk about 9-11?

00:02:33.000 and the CIA.

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00:02:36.000 We're going to be talking to Max Blumenthal, a fine journalist, founder of the Grey Zone, about recent revelations I can't go into here.

00:02:44.000 If they're true, it's another one of those things where the conspiracy theorists had a point, and how many of those have you seen lately?

00:02:51.000 But before we get into that potentially contentious story, Sacrebleu!

00:02:57.000 France is... What's French for fire?

00:03:00.000 Not a thing, no.

00:03:00.000 Do you know any French?

00:03:02.000 You're supposed to know stuff like that.

00:03:03.000 I look at you and I think you would at least know a bit of French because you can play a certain instrument that has French in it.

00:03:12.000 Why can't you speak even a word of French?

00:03:16.000 Call yourself an on-screen assistant?

00:03:17.000 Is that what your credit is now?

00:03:18.000 I don't know what it is now.

00:03:20.000 Let's have a look at what's going on in France.

00:03:24.000 It looks actually like riots because people have been lied to.

00:03:27.000 Let's have a look.

00:03:30.000 Tonight, tensions boiling over in France.

00:03:35.000 Hundreds of thousands taking to the streets across the country.

00:03:38.000 Right, that French copper.

00:03:40.000 Go back a bit and have a look again.

00:03:41.000 That French copper booted that bin himself.

00:03:45.000 Look at that!

00:03:49.000 You're in the police force!

00:03:51.000 A lot of people are posting words for fire in front.

00:03:54.000 A lot of people say it's fuego.

00:03:55.000 That's Spanish.

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00:04:14.000 But now I'm for a French copper kicking a trash can. 1.00

00:04:18.000 Let's see him.

00:04:19.000 Streets across the country protesting against President Emmanuel Macron's move to raise the retirement age by two years to 64.

00:04:28.000 Ongoing riots and discontent in France because the people there have seen that democracy isn't working.

00:04:28.000 There you go.

00:04:33.000 They were rioting outside the offices of Blackrock, weren't they, Gareth?

00:04:37.000 Because they know that this is about centralised finance usurping the process of democracy.

00:04:43.000 And I'm always struck by this, that we are one planet in limitless, potentially infinite space, and on the same Little Planet, with essentially the same kind of interest.

00:04:54.000 And I'm, by the way, not suggesting that there should be centralized power.

00:04:56.000 Far from it.

00:04:57.000 Decentralized power at every opportunity.

00:04:59.000 But on the same planet, there's those riots and there's the Met Gala, which I don't know if you know this.

00:05:05.000 It's sort of like people dress up in outrageous outfits.

00:05:07.000 Have a look at this footage from the Met Gala the other day.

00:05:10.000 People are dressing up as mouses, as cats.

00:05:13.000 Look at this.

00:05:13.000 I think this is the lad at a Dallas Buyers Club.

00:05:17.000 He got himself all nice and thin.

00:05:19.000 He's actually tried to start a cult.

00:05:20.000 Jared Leto, isn't it?

00:05:22.000 Yeah, he played a thin... No, it's Matthew McConaughey.

00:05:25.000 He's the one that got us there.

00:05:26.000 He's been on our podcast before.

00:05:28.000 I like Matthew McConaughey.

00:05:30.000 No, he's great.

00:05:30.000 He's a good actor.

00:05:31.000 He is good, isn't he?

00:05:32.000 But it's not who's inside this cat, just to be clear.

00:05:33.000 It's the other lad.

00:05:34.000 Yeah.

00:05:35.000 It's the other lad out of Dallas Buyers Club.

00:05:36.000 That's it.

00:05:37.000 He's dressed up as a giant mouse, look.

00:05:40.000 Was he?

00:05:40.000 No, it's a cat.

00:05:41.000 Right.

00:05:42.000 This just in, Matthew McConaughey's dressed as a mouse. 1.00

00:05:46.000 That's no less stupid than what's happening. 0.99

00:05:48.000 Jared Leto, out of Dallas Buyers Club, Joker, he's dressed up as a cat. 1.00

00:05:54.000 Why?

00:05:55.000 Why is that happening?

00:05:56.000 Just in your mind, hold the image of that French copper kicking a bin because French democracy has been usurped after all those revolutions and guillotinings they've done. 0.96

00:06:05.000 Look at the Met Ball, it's meant to have.

00:06:06.000 Look at this whole story, it's crazy.

00:06:08.000 At fashion's biggest night, the cat is out of the bag.

00:06:13.000 This year's theme, an homage to the late Karl Lagerfeld, known for his signature black and white designs.

00:06:20.000 How, like, they went signature, and they showed Karl Lagerfeld doing a signature, then they went black and white designs, and they showed a black and white picture of him.

00:06:28.000 Like, not every word needs to be illustrated with an image.

00:06:32.000 It's too much, isn't it?

00:06:33.000 It's too overwhelming.

00:06:35.000 They were catatonic about... Like a tonic, a cat!

00:06:40.000 It's too much!

00:06:41.000 Like, this is an homage to Karl Lagerfeld at the Met Ball.

00:06:47.000 These things I remember, because I remember when I used to be famous.

00:06:49.000 Oh yeah?

00:06:50.000 Don't say it like that!

00:06:51.000 No, no, I remember it.

00:06:52.000 I was there for a lot of it.

00:06:53.000 I was being famous, and things like that Met Ball would happen.

00:06:57.000 I've never been to that.

00:06:59.000 Oh, you didn't go to the Met Ball?

00:07:00.000 But when I was married to KP, Katy Perry, I remember she went to that, and I was like, oh, do you have to go to that thing?

00:07:06.000 But she wanted to, and that's her right as a free individual, of course, and she did go.

00:07:11.000 Everyone goes there, they're all dressed up like that.

00:07:13.000 It's mental, isn't it?

00:07:14.000 Yeah.

00:07:15.000 What was your reason for staying home?

00:07:17.000 Just you fancied a night in or something?

00:07:18.000 I don't like things like that, mate.

00:07:20.000 I don't like things like that.

00:07:21.000 It makes me nervous.

00:07:21.000 Did you maybe, like, you bought a curry or something?

00:07:23.000 You're like, we'll have a night in.

00:07:24.000 Don't go off to the let.

00:07:25.000 We'll have a nice night in.

00:07:27.000 I'll have been doing something.

00:07:28.000 I'm not trying to say, oh, look at me.

00:07:30.000 Because I'm strange in so many ways.

00:07:30.000 Aren't I normal?

00:07:32.000 But like, when it comes to that, I don't like it.

00:07:35.000 I think you are pretty normal.

00:07:36.000 I'll be honest.

00:07:37.000 Am I?

00:07:37.000 A night in with you is about as far away from that as possible.

00:07:40.000 I'd rather watch football.

00:07:41.000 Have sanctuary.

00:07:42.000 Little curry.

00:07:43.000 Got your trays.

00:07:44.000 Got my tray on my lap.

00:07:45.000 I feel like when we were at Man City Arsenal.

00:07:47.000 Yeah, mate, if you want me to put a cushion on.

00:07:49.000 But I'll be honest with you, my tray's already got a cushion built into the tray.

00:07:53.000 Get an extra cushion, put it on there.

00:07:54.000 That's a little tip from me.

00:07:54.000 Put it on your tray.

00:07:55.000 I certainly can have that for free.

00:07:57.000 Well, I know, because you can't.

00:07:58.000 That's the thing with doing this job all day long.

00:08:00.000 NATO is corrupt.

00:08:01.000 This war we're being lied about. 0.67

00:08:03.000 You can't trust the pharmaceutical industry.

00:08:05.000 We're being censored and surveilled.

00:08:06.000 But when you're going home, you're just like a normal person.

00:08:08.000 All right, kids.

00:08:10.000 What did you do at school?

00:08:10.000 No, don't talk to yet.

00:08:11.000 Tell us something!

00:08:12.000 Tell us something that you did at school!

00:08:15.000 You went to the Met Gala?

00:08:18.000 I'm just back from the Met Gala!

00:08:21.000 Dallas Buyers Club was dressed as a giant cat!

00:08:23.000 What?

00:08:24.000 What?

00:08:25.000 What's going on?

00:08:26.000 Meanwhile, France is melting down.

00:08:28.000 It's too confusing.

00:08:30.000 Life's too confusing.

00:08:31.000 Look at the rest of the stuff they're wearing.

00:08:32.000 Like there's a bit where it goes, Karl Lagerfeld really liked dressing up in pearls, so everyone there's got loads of pearls on.

00:08:38.000 It's so weird.

00:08:39.000 Yeah.

00:08:39.000 Janelle Monáe in head to toe black and white.

00:09:00.000 Anyway, I went there and they took me to this rubbish dump. 0.97

00:09:03.000 And it was so depressing. 0.95

00:09:04.000 I nearly had a mental breakdown just being there half hour.

00:09:05.000 And people lived there, like little kids were there foraging in the dump.

00:09:08.000 And I couldn't get into the right mood.

00:09:09.000 You know how you're meant to be on a telethon?

00:09:11.000 Like, for just one pound!

00:09:12.000 I was like, that's not gonna work.

00:09:13.000 A pound?

00:09:14.000 This is mental.

00:09:15.000 This is not gonna be reversed by donations.

00:09:17.000 This is evidence of a systemic problem.

00:09:18.000 We're gonna have to radically wrap, no just say send a pound doll 0181, you know what I mean?

00:09:22.000 They're trying to keep it on that tier but I was having a mental breakdown. So like then the next

00:09:25.000 day because I was like in like my mad world of Hollywood and all that stuff, I was in like a

00:09:30.000 John Galliano fashion show in Paris. Wow. And like it was too hard to hold together the images of all

00:09:36.000 of that mad suffering in Uganda and then seeing like this show of John Galliano where there were

00:09:41.000 these beautiful bubbles full of smoke and people marching down a catwalk.

00:09:45.000 This is the same planet.

00:09:46.000 This can't be right that this is happening.

00:09:48.000 Something is deeply systemically wrong if you can simultaneously have that level of suffering.

00:09:52.000 I try to envisage it as one individual.

00:09:54.000 If it was one individual, like a female, who was like putting lipstick on her face and was all beautiful and then you look down like a leg and it was all sort of had all maggots in a hastily amputated stump, you'd go, you've got to sort that out. 0.98

00:10:07.000 Well, yeah, like all beautiful, but then hastily amputated stamp all maggots in it.

00:10:12.000 You should get someone to paint that.

00:10:14.000 That'd be nice.

00:10:15.000 I bet AI, get chap GPT and do it.

00:10:15.000 Paint it.

00:10:18.000 Do it now.

00:10:19.000 We're talking about AI because even the fella, right, this is the news.

00:10:22.000 This is paraphrased news.

00:10:24.000 Google man, the godfather of Google.

00:10:26.000 That's right.

00:10:27.000 He said he regrets everything he's done.

00:10:28.000 It's gone too far, AI, and he wishes he'd shut it down.

00:10:31.000 Pretty much, yeah.

00:10:31.000 That's the way he's gone.

00:10:32.000 I've gone too far!

00:10:33.000 He's gone too far.

00:10:34.000 But before we talk about Google Man in a minute, we're going to talk to Max Blumenthal later about... I mean, I can't believe it's true, but you know the story.

00:10:39.000 CIA, 9-11, all that stuff.

00:10:41.000 Let us know in the chat how you're feeling, baby. 0.98

00:10:43.000 Someone here said, I'm sorry for your mental illness.

00:10:46.000 It's alright, I don't mind. 0.53

00:10:48.000 Look, there is no harm in being maladjusted to a maladjusted world.

00:10:52.000 It is ordinary to suffer in a world where the value systems are so out of alignment with our evolution, where our diet is out of step, where our lifestyles are out of step.

00:10:59.000 If you're like, this is fine, I like this, then...

00:11:02.000 I don't know, man. 0.97

00:11:03.000 We've all got to be a bit mentally ill to be able to process this kind of imagery with then France or Ukraine or Uganda or whatever it is.

00:11:12.000 It's incredible that we can do it and then just get on with our lives.

00:11:14.000 Do you remember the Oscars they'd done in the year of COVID and they sort of did it in some weird basement?

00:11:18.000 Yeah.

00:11:19.000 But they still did the Oscars.

00:11:20.000 Yeah, right.

00:11:21.000 Out of respect, we're doing the Oscars down an alley.

00:11:25.000 Don't do the Oscars anymore!

00:11:27.000 Either give me one or stop them.

00:11:29.000 One of those things.

00:11:30.000 I guess the place where the two kind of come together was that what we spoke about yesterday, which is that White House correspondence.

00:11:37.000 That's the way in which show business and this kind of ridiculousness come together with the politics.

00:11:46.000 At that White House Correspondents' Dinner is where the consensus is achieved by the centres of administrative power, aka the President, and those that are supposed to report on it. 0.96

00:11:56.000 It ain't that long ago that Woodward and Bernstein were like, wait a minute, we're going to bring down these sons of guns!

00:12:03.000 But now it's like, alright, what do you want us to write about?

00:12:05.000 What questions don't you want asked?

00:12:07.000 We'll give you the questions in advance.

00:12:08.000 We've got this celebrity to our table, like Ryan Grimm told us about.

00:12:10.000 Ryan Grimm.

00:12:11.000 Ryan Grimmy Grimm, he was on the show, was that yesterday's show?

00:12:14.000 Yeah, it was an amazing show, but he did admit to giving Jesse Walters an almighty kick on the tip of the prinkle, didn't he?

00:12:14.000 Yeah.

00:12:21.000 I did say that, yeah.

00:12:22.000 I think, I don't think I'm being unfair when I say that that's what he admitted to.

00:12:26.000 Also, there's another one of these stories that's a bit like that odd coagulation of paradoxical imagery, but we'll work that out after we've seen this lady in this outfit.

00:12:36.000 Kristen Stewart, Vanessa Hudgens, and Jenna Ortega sticking to that colour scheme.

00:12:41.000 I think that one, General Tega.

00:12:43.000 Wow, what an exclusive.

00:12:48.000 I know her, I think.

00:12:49.000 I'll sit right, this is just in guys.

00:12:52.000 Firstly, 9-11 CIA, we'll talk about it in a minute.

00:12:55.000 I know her, mate.

00:12:56.000 I know her.

00:12:57.000 We can trust this guy.

00:12:58.000 In all white for her first time back to the Met Gala as a single lady.

00:13:04.000 Single lady? 0.96

00:13:05.000 So it's banal gossip.

00:13:07.000 I bet that gazelle, she's superb, I imagine. 0.99

00:13:09.000 Brilliant, beautiful, incredible.

00:13:11.000 These are not critiques of these individuals.

00:13:12.000 This is a critique of a sort of really crazy system where people are dressing up as cats and stuff for reasons that still seem confusing to me.

00:13:22.000 And our own Rhiannon Alley, gorgeous in all black.

00:13:25.000 Lagerfeld, also known for his pearls.

00:13:28.000 Serena Williams, sporting pearls.

00:13:31.000 Lagerfeld, known for his pearls.

00:13:33.000 Also though, everything is collapsing.

00:13:37.000 Everything.

00:13:37.000 France is on fire.

00:13:39.000 There are unnecessary wars.

00:13:40.000 US banks are collapsing seemingly every week now.

00:13:43.000 No banks now.

00:13:44.000 All your money, it's gone.

00:13:45.000 Meanwhile, you're spending $1,000 every year funding the military-industrial complex.

00:13:50.000 Don't think about that, because we got a guy out of Dallas Buyers Club, but he's dressed as mouses. 0.96

00:13:57.000 Look at that though!

00:13:58.000 mouses like it's it's not normal to have that happen it isn't i don't think so her own on the carpet lizzo too and kim kardashian wearing 50 000 freshwater pearls her dress took its makers a thousand hours to complete but there's definitely nothing better that could have been done without a thousand hours like we've um lost touch again these are not criticisms of these individuals i know what it's like to be part of that world i was briefly part of that world But what I sense is that we are participating in a gala of banality while there are serious things that need to be addressed and these things don't work either even for the people

00:14:42.000 Hedonism doesn't really work, ultimately.

00:14:46.000 Even though William Blake says the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, I think what Blake is saying is that through excess, you recognize that the material world can never really fulfill you.

00:15:00.000 And again, this is not about asceticism and the denial of pleasure.

00:15:03.000 I have no judgment about how other people live, whether they drink or whether they use drugs.

00:15:07.000 Although, of course, illegal drugs, you know, while we're on YouTube, you can't say stuff like that.

00:15:10.000 sex and sexuality and consensual situations, it's no one's business etc. 0.99

00:15:15.000 But this kind of orgasm of idiocy that sits at the heart of our culture to me 0.99

00:15:23.000 seems like an indication that we're on the wrong path perhaps and look at this 0.99

00:15:29.000 This is extraordinary because it ties us to a different time.

00:15:33.000 Many of you love it when we have Graham Hancock on the show because he's willing to talk about Egyptology and culture and potential ancient civilizations from a different perspective.

00:15:41.000 And I suppose what's fascinating about positing that we are not at the apex of the human phenomena right now, that human civilizations have risen and fallen before in the 300 million year history of our planet.

00:15:54.000 Is it 300 million years for Earth?

00:15:54.000 Am I right?

00:15:56.000 You can Google that pretty simply, although do you trust it?

00:15:59.000 It's possible that there have been other civilizations that have fallen, and many people say that Graham Hancock is not responsible in the way that he presents evidence, but he's an amateur archaeologist, isn't he?

00:16:08.000 And I think he presents some wonderful theories.

00:16:10.000 Look at this, they've taken some pharaoh out of his carsophagus and given him his voice I've given him his voice back. 0.65

00:16:19.000 It's really, really funny.

00:16:20.000 Because I'm confused by it.

00:16:22.000 I'm confused by it as a concept, and it's certainly very confusing as a noise.

00:16:27.000 And look at all of the pageantry that went on then.

00:16:30.000 We're talking about the coronation later this week, and the amount of pageantry that goes on now. 0.70

00:16:36.000 Ridiculous pageantry.

00:16:38.000 Well, in those days, they'd bury a pharaoh with their servants. 0.96

00:16:40.000 They'd bury him with all sorts of artifacts and art and all that kind of stuff.

00:16:43.000 Well, none of that.

00:16:44.000 Go on in there.

00:16:45.000 Like, it seems oddly desirable.

00:16:45.000 Back him up.

00:16:47.000 What do you reckon his voice was like, though?

00:16:49.000 Let's get down his voice box and give him a new voice.

00:16:51.000 Look at this bizarre piece of news.

00:16:54.000 Scientists were able to mimic Nessie Amun's voice by recreating his mouth and vocal cords with a 3D printer.

00:17:01.000 It allowed them to produce a single sound.

00:17:08.000 Let me rest!

00:17:08.000 Why?

00:17:10.000 I didn't even like seeing his little tootsies down there, like these little bare feet all like sort of all twizzled up by time.

00:17:17.000 Like leave him down there, in there, isn't it?

00:17:19.000 Don't you?

00:17:20.000 Should you?

00:17:21.000 Yeah, I mean that's...

00:17:26.000 That's the sound you could make at all culture.

00:17:30.000 There's a copper kicking a bin in France.

00:17:31.000 I mean, what great revelation are they taking from this?

00:17:36.000 I don't understand.

00:17:37.000 Did they not think that someone back then could have made that noise?

00:17:40.000 It seems that this pharaoh, at least, was unhappy about being dug out of his tomb and made to speak thousands of years later. 0.98

00:17:50.000 We are being sort of reduced to idiocy through the meter of our culture. 0.99

00:17:55.000 It's like dumbing down. 1.00

00:17:56.000 That's what dumbing down feels like.

00:17:58.000 Here's someone dressed as a cat. 0.91

00:17:59.000 Here's a copper kick in a bin.

00:18:01.000 Meanwhile, banks are collapsing, wars are going on, agitating China, encircling them with military bases.

00:18:09.000 This experiment's not working properly.

00:18:11.000 This is time for a radical re-evaluation.

00:18:13.000 I mean, we're thinking about starting new communities.

00:18:13.000 Let us know.

00:18:15.000 I believe Jared Leto tried a community, didn't he?

00:18:17.000 Wow.

00:18:18.000 But I don't know what went on.

00:18:19.000 Look at him now.

00:18:21.000 This is one of our... If ever you want to know where technology could potentially take you,

00:18:26.000 this is an experiment to recreate a voice box that we've shown you before, but we'll show

00:18:30.000 you again because it's not disgusting, but it looks disgusting and it sounds weird.

00:18:35.000 Merry Christmas.

00:18:46.000 What's that achieving?

00:18:48.000 Yeah, it is disturbing.

00:18:49.000 It looks a bit like with that mic in front of his mouth, it's like he's at the Met Gala and someone's gone, what are you wearing today?

00:18:59.000 Will you be appearing as the Joker again?

00:19:03.000 Where did you get those pearls and did it take a long time to get those out of the bottom of the sea and then polish them and then turn them into a dress? 0.51

00:19:12.000 Can we have four more years of Joe Biden?

00:19:16.000 Can we have a press dinner where nobody mentions, when celebrating journalism, that Julian Assange is in prison without trial in the United Kingdom, awaiting extradition?

00:19:27.000 Because of the Espionage Act, because he revealed information that's definitely sensitive, but also, I would say, relevant to the American taxpayers who are paying for these wars.

00:19:35.000 Remember, you are paying $1,000 every single year to the military-industrial complex.

00:19:39.000 We're going to be bringing your report about that later.

00:19:41.000 Oh yeah, I can use my noise.

00:19:42.000 into a kind of drone I would suggest.

00:19:44.000 Turned into satire, get on.

00:19:46.000 Very good, very good.

00:19:48.000 Oh yeah, I can use my noise.

00:19:49.000 Someone's pointed out that I've got this noise and I can use it whenever I want.

00:19:52.000 Oh dear.

00:19:54.000 Like I don't have to do it myself anymore.

00:19:57.000 So I can just let go.

00:20:00.000 Ask me a satirical question about the news or something.

00:20:03.000 Do you think it's right that US spy planes should fly close to China when there was all that furore about the spy balloon in America?

00:20:15.000 Satire.

00:20:16.000 Biting satire that we're delivering here.

00:20:19.000 We just mentioned that banks are failing all over the Gaffey.

00:20:22.000 Here's another one.

00:20:23.000 Look, another bank's failed.

00:20:24.000 Look, First Republic Bank collapsed, spurs fears for banking system and broader economy.

00:20:24.000 Let's have a look at that.

00:20:28.000 Is that good news?

00:20:30.000 It's not great news, no.

00:20:31.000 So it's three of the four largest bank failures in US history have taken place over the last two months.

00:20:36.000 No way!

00:20:37.000 Is this worse than the ones in 2008?

00:20:40.000 These are three of the four, so we've had three collapse in the last few weeks or a few months.

00:20:51.000 BP are doing well though.

00:20:53.000 They're doing very well.

00:20:53.000 British Petroleum, they're making profits.

00:20:55.000 How's your electricity bill lately?

00:20:57.000 Have you seen electricity bills?

00:20:58.000 They're enough going up.

00:21:00.000 Exclusive!

00:21:02.000 Wait a minute!

00:21:02.000 Yeah?

00:21:03.000 Hold on! 0.98

00:21:04.000 Wait a minute, let me look at last year's one.

00:21:08.000 We're still on YouTube, can't express myself.

00:21:11.000 Yeah, Barry, John and Fox, they're crazy high.

00:21:13.000 That was soothing.

00:21:14.000 Yeah, it's always nice to hear a little bit of Stevie Wonder, isn't it, guys?

00:21:17.000 You can join us on local, just press the button if you do.

00:21:20.000 We told you a minute ago, US spy planes are over Taiwan.

00:21:23.000 Taiwan, want to have a war with China? 0.62

00:21:26.000 I want, I want, I want to have a war with China. 0.99

00:21:29.000 They're in that Taiwan Strait, which is that little, that bit of sea right between China and Taiwan.

00:21:34.000 Don't go in there.

00:21:35.000 Well, it's agitating them, isn't it?

00:21:37.000 It's going to annoy China, and you know they don't like that. 1.00

00:21:39.000 You know, like, what would that be like going in the Gulf of Mexico, where BP like to spill their British petroleum, slosh that all about over a birdie beak?

00:21:47.000 Right.

00:21:47.000 US ready to help Philippines resupply ship in South China Sea.

00:21:51.000 That's going to annoy them.

00:21:52.000 Yep.

00:21:53.000 That's gonna annoy him, that.

00:21:54.000 But let's see what the world's best and handsomest politician is saying.

00:21:59.000 Trudeau's questioned his... Even Trudeau didn't believe that that freedom convoy was as bad as he was saying it was.

00:22:06.000 No, this is his staffers who didn't believe it.

00:22:08.000 Oh, even his people that work for Trudeau?

00:22:09.000 Yeah, so the people that work for him were, like, behind, I guess, closed doors, were kind of like, oh, I'm not sure he should be doing this.

00:22:15.000 Do you, with Justin Trudeau, always think, is it Trudeau?

00:22:19.000 Yes, I do think that all the time.

00:22:20.000 Have you ever heard those sort of conspiracy theory type sounding things saying that he's Fidel Castro's lad?

00:22:25.000 Oh yeah.

00:22:26.000 The conspiracy theory type things.

00:22:28.000 We wouldn't be interested in that then, would we?

00:22:29.000 No, not actual conspiracy theory.

00:22:31.000 I mean, also, look, always with the conspiracy theory.

00:22:33.000 Let me know if you agree with this, guys, in the chat.

00:22:35.000 Does it make any bloody difference?

00:22:38.000 Whatever you think about Cuba, socialism, Fidel Castro and all that.

00:22:42.000 Fidel Castro was not like a player on the world stage able to get people in via the WEF.

00:22:47.000 He faced pretty heavy sanctions from the US.

00:22:51.000 Whatever Cuba would do it over there, America were not into it.

00:22:54.000 America went like, hell, this is all part of our globalist scheme, innit?

00:22:59.000 Like Fidel Castro, and I'm well aware of the human rights issues over there in Cuba.

00:23:03.000 Judge Trudeau on what he actually does, rather than... Judge him on what he was, not who his dad is, or is.

00:23:08.000 Might have been.

00:23:09.000 Yeah, just because he looks a little bit like him, conveniently, really.

00:23:14.000 Listen, guys, I think we're going to leave.

00:23:14.000 Shall we leave?

00:23:16.000 If you're watching us on YouTube or Elon Musk's citadel of free speech, that is Twitter.

00:23:21.000 We're going to leave you now because we are going to speak to Max Blumenthal, who's a fantastic journalist.

00:23:27.000 Absolutely fantastic.

00:23:29.000 He founded Greyzone, founded it, he founded it and then he bloody well edits it.

00:23:34.000 Look what I found.

00:23:34.000 Wow.

00:23:35.000 Founded.

00:23:36.000 Didn't found it like find it.

00:23:37.000 He founded it like it's foundation.

00:23:39.000 Then he edits it.

00:23:40.000 Right.

00:23:41.000 Nice, isn't it?

00:23:42.000 Have you ever thought you might start editing this?

00:23:45.000 No, mate.

00:23:45.000 I find it too hard.

00:23:48.000 We're going to be talking to him.

00:23:49.000 We're off YouTube already, but like, we're going to talk to him about, well, I think people got the idea that it was going to be about 9-11 saying that the CIA, like the two of the 9-11 hijackers were CIA operatives.

00:24:01.000 Recruits.

00:24:02.000 Now that doesn't necessarily mean that 9-11 was a CIA scam, but put together, look at the various things you've seen.

00:24:09.000 Whether it's that loose change documentary that used to be on YouTube, don't know if it still is.

00:24:13.000 Tell us guys, is it still on YouTube?

00:24:14.000 Can you find it now?

00:24:15.000 Tell us in the chat.

00:24:17.000 Or, if you're like a Michael Moore type person, remember Fahrenheit 9-11 when he was saying all the Saudi Royals were getting flown out of there and the Bushes and the Saudi Royal family?

00:24:25.000 It used to be that you could get radical stuff from the left, and that's one of the reasons I like Max Blumenthal.

00:24:30.000 I don't think he's a right-wing fascist, and I don't think he's an anti-Semite, because I feel like Blumenthal might be a Jewish name I've not asked before.

00:24:40.000 All right, Max, are you a right-wing fascist anti-Semite?

00:24:43.000 Let's get that out from the top. 0.99

00:24:46.000 Well, I've been called a self-hating Jew.

00:24:48.000 So they do it.

00:24:50.000 You know, I always wondered why the self-loving Jews who call me a self-hater hate so many people from, you know, Palestinians, Muslims.

00:25:01.000 It's always a question I've had.

00:25:02.000 And why they seem to favor sending U.S.

00:25:05.000 taxpayer dollars to neo-Nazis in Ukraine.

00:25:10.000 You know, they care so much about our history.

00:25:12.000 But, uh, you know, it really depends on who you ask.

00:25:16.000 what label you want to apply to me. It's harder to get to anti-Semitism accusations for someone who

00:25:22.000 is themselves Jewish, I would have thought, than people that are explicitly neo-Nazis,

00:25:28.000 do the actual salute and everything, down with the swastika.

00:25:32.000 That for me seems like a more legit charge of anti-Semitism. I mean, I think we can 1.00

00:25:37.000 conclusively say that the Nazis are anti-Semites.

00:25:40.000 Mate, can we ask you a little bit about the CIA infiltration of the 9-11 hijackers and how this is

00:25:49.000 distinct from the kind of conspiracy theories that have circled around that event

00:25:53.000 for the last 20 years or however long it is since it happened?

00:25:58.000 Yeah, we can definitely talk about that.

00:26:01.000 This was Related to a report we ran, another masterpiece by Kit Clarenberg, who you've had on, and I've written about this case in my book, The Management of Savagery, which came out in 2019.

00:26:13.000 When I wrote that book, which is about the history of the US and its allies using jihadists, as proxies, as assets to undermine their geopolitical foes from the Soviet Union to Syria.

00:26:29.000 We didn't know as much as we know now.

00:26:32.000 There had been an investigation called Operation Encore that the FBI, that involved the FBI agents who had been attempting to prevent the 9-11 attacks or were at least Investigating al Qaeda and that investigation ended in 2016.

00:26:52.000 The results were completely redacted.

00:26:54.000 And so it took until.

00:26:57.000 2021, for a 21-page filing by a guy named Don Canestraro, who is the lead investigator for the Office of Military Commissions, which was overseeing the cases of 9-11 defendants, for us to really learn what had always been suspected, and which I got at in my book.

00:27:14.000 I said I suspected that two of the hijackers on American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon, Had been recruited by the CIA and by a very secretive and I would say corrupt unit within the CIA that had been charged since 1996 with taking on Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda network.

00:27:36.000 It's called Alex station.

00:27:38.000 And, you know, this was widely suspected that they had been possibly recruited by the CIA.

00:27:44.000 And it was confirmed by FBI agents interviewed by Don Conestraro in this bombshell filing, which was, and of course it was completely buried, just like a few blogs had picked it up.

00:27:56.000 And so Kit went ahead and put all of the details together for us going back through Operation Encore and, you know, taking us to the beginning That's not the same of course as saying that 9-11 was an inside job and it certainly doesn't verify some of the ideas that have circulated although of course it's not the only inconsistency or troubling piece of reporting that's taken place around that.

00:28:28.000 And of course, it's well established that the CIA, as you said, participated in the

00:28:32.000 establishment of al-Qaeda, funded al-Qaeda, so it's not implausible that there were recruits

00:28:40.000 from al-Qaeda operating in the US.

00:28:42.000 It's kind of likely.

00:28:46.000 Does that open the door, though, to conjecture around the events of 9-11 more broadly? 1.00

00:28:51.000 And sometimes, like, forgive me if this is like a kind of question an idiot would ask. 0.98

00:28:55.000 It possibly is derived from the fact that, to some degree, I am one. 0.97

00:28:59.000 Isn't it true that, like, Building 7...

00:29:01.000 and that there was a building in New York that kind of went down

00:29:05.000 and then it just sort of stopped talking about it.

00:29:08.000 My memories are hazy of that event.

00:29:10.000 And I like, you know, and it's difficult to deliberately and responsibly

00:29:15.000 put together narrative points that are proven.

00:29:17.000 Building seven's weird.

00:29:20.000 I mean, I'm a 9-11 conservative.

00:29:23.000 I get a lot of heat from people who think it was an inside job.

00:29:27.000 Building 7 is just weird.

00:29:28.000 I mean, I remember on the day of 9-11, just hearing that Building 7 had gone down because of the impact to the other buildings, and it just sounded weird to me.

00:29:38.000 The footage looks unusual.

00:29:42.000 But I prefer to stick to the facts that I really know the most about.

00:29:47.000 And this case is something that, you know, I've followed for years.

00:29:52.000 The case of Khaled Al-Midhar and Nawaf Al-Hazmi, who are the two kind of muscle hijackers, supposed muscle hijackers on American Flight 77.

00:30:01.000 And It's very clear they were recruited by the CIA.

00:30:07.000 So, within the, you know, the theories, or those who hold theories around 9-11, there's kind of three schools of thought.

00:30:16.000 Did the CIA do this because they simply wanted to infiltrate al-Qaeda and gain sources, and they protected these sources from the FBI?

00:30:26.000 If the FBI had been alerted about the presence, and I'll tell you the whole story of al-Hazmi and al-Midhar, In a second, but if they had not, if they had not protected these sources from the FBI, the 9-11 plot would have been easily broken up.

00:30:42.000 So, was it just because they wanted to gain access to Al Qaeda, or did they allow the 9-11 attacks to happen in order to produce what Paul Wolfowitz called in the weeks before 9-11, the catastrophic and catalyzing event that would allow the US to wage a massive military intervention in the Middle East and carry out its and Israel's goals. 0.60

00:31:04.000 And then there's the third school of thought, which is that the U.S.

00:31:07.000 government or U.S.

00:31:09.000 intelligence was directly involved in the plotting of the attack in order to carry out those geopolitical and imperial objectives.

00:31:17.000 And in the first camp, as I said, I'm a 9-11 conservative, but these new revelations raise a lot of questions about motives.

00:31:28.000 I think it's generally obviously sensible to remain conservative, particularly when dealing with such sensitive matters.

00:31:34.000 And even on our channel, where we fuse entertainment and conjecture, we are careful to ensure that we only use reliable information that's already been published frequently from Greyzone, as a matter of fact.

00:31:49.000 But if you apply this conservatism in this instance, Where does it take you to even have the information that the CIA had operatives that were on flight 77?

00:32:04.000 I know you named them.

00:32:07.000 So what?

00:32:09.000 It could have been prevented, I suppose.

00:32:11.000 Is that what you're saying?

00:32:14.000 Could have been prevented and Al-Qaeda could have never been created.

00:32:17.000 I mean, we can go back to 1979.

00:32:20.000 But in this case, you have, it's pretty fair to say, at least one component of the Day of Planes operation that had been planned for years and years and years to strike strategic targets inside the United States.

00:32:34.000 One component was a Saudi CIA intelligence operation gone, to put it conservatively, gone awry.

00:32:40.000 So you have Khaled Al-Midhar and Nawafal Hazmi, two Saudi citizens,

00:32:46.000 radical al-Qaeda ideologues, who appear at a 1999 meeting in Malaysia.

00:33:00.000 This was a January 5th meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with some of the top lieutenants

00:33:08.000 of al-Qaeda, including a figure who was involved in the bombing of the USS Cole just a few

00:33:17.000 And here you have CIA operatives videotaping the meeting, apparently they got no audio, they then broke into Khaled al-Midhar's hotel room when he was transiting through Dubai after the meeting, took a picture of his passport and found that he had a multi-entry visa to the U.S.

00:33:42.000 Okay, so you have an al-Qaeda, hardcore al-Qaeda operative with a multi-entry visa To the U.S., and not only that, he and his buddy, al-Hazmi, were able to, from there, get on a flight to Los Angeles International Airport, walk off the flight with no interrogation or questioning, and then be picked up at the airport by someone named Omar al-Bayoumi, who is another Saudi citizen operating undercover as an employee of the Saudi Aviation Ministry, or Aviation

00:34:15.000 As an aviation employee, so he could, I guess, get access to the airport.

00:34:19.000 He then takes them to rent an apartment, gives them $1500 a month for that apartment.

00:34:24.000 These are two guys who speak not a word of English.

00:34:27.000 They're picked up, according to their neighbors, in black limos every night and are meeting with strange men.

00:34:34.000 They're going to flight lessons.

00:34:36.000 And it later turns out that they were actually living in that apartment with an FBI informant.

00:34:43.000 Bayoumi, of course, turns out to be a Saudi intelligence officer who is managing these two figures.

00:34:48.000 And the FBI never learns that these two figures were in the country after attending the super summit of Al Qaeda on their way to carry out an attack that George W. Bush was warned about in Crawford, Texas, a month before it took place in a presidential daily briefing.

00:35:06.000 Bin Laden determined to strike inside the U.S.

00:35:09.000 This was at a time when the system was blinking red, according to former U.S.

00:35:15.000 intelligence officials.

00:35:16.000 And what happened was, The director of Alex Station, this corrupt and highly secretive CIA unit which was charged with recruiting al-Qaeda officials, or recruiting al-Qaeda assets, Richard Blee, refused to tell the FBI's unit in charge of investigating al-Qaeda that al-Hazmi and al-Midhar were even inside the United States.

00:35:43.000 There are so many more Act of cover up that took place to prevent the FBI from learning about them as this plot progressed.

00:35:55.000 They weren't even told that they were on the flight manifest of American Airlines Flight 77 until days after the attack.

00:36:01.000 The FBI wasn't even told that they had been at a meeting in Malaysia with a planner, a known planner, of the attack on the USS Cole.

00:36:09.000 So the CIA covered this up all the way to 9-11, and it's the same CIA that is responsible in so many ways for fueling the rise of al-Qaeda and keeping it alive to the present day.

00:36:23.000 And in fact, yes, you're quite right that you can sort of chart the history of the CIA to the founding of the Mujahideen and also you can say that there are still people in power, as you obviously just did, that are participating, presumably, in comparable programs

00:36:43.000 even now.

00:36:44.000 And I guess that's when we talk about the deep state.

00:36:46.000 We're talking about inaccessible institutions and bodies that are powerful,

00:36:51.000 that are able to act without mandate in ways that seem to be at odds

00:36:56.000 with the interests of the American population and perhaps the world at large.

00:37:01.000 And the way that the kind of global narrative is managed and enacted,

00:37:07.000 right up to present day conflicts and potential forthcoming conflicts,

00:37:13.000 involves these agencies.

00:37:15.000 So sometimes even when you're approaching it conservatively in the manner that you understandably are when it's such a potentially incendiary story, it's still difficult not to think I feel that the system of government and deep government in particular is concerning.

00:37:32.000 Do you suppose that when we talk about a story like the Nord Stream Pipeline, which increasingly appears to have been an operation conducted by forces of this nature, Do you imagine that with the burgeoning conflict between the United States and China, Taiwan could be subject to a kind of a Nord Stream-like event within their semiconductor industry?

00:38:02.000 Yeah, that's a great question.

00:38:05.000 You know, it's not just And it's not just idle talk.

00:38:11.000 Gave me two seconds and I'll pull up the name of the former US General who has actually proposed a US attack on Taiwan's semiconductor industry.

00:38:23.000 To prevent it from fall.

00:38:25.000 This is a former national security advisor.

00:38:29.000 You're looking for that data.

00:38:31.000 I just I have it right in front of me.

00:38:32.000 It's rich.

00:38:33.000 It's Robert O'Brien and he was a major figure in the Trump administration's kitchen cabinet of national security advisors and.

00:38:40.000 He has called for the US to bomb Taiwan's semiconductor industry, which would be actually a much more serious attack on the global economy than Nord Stream.

00:38:51.000 I mean, Taiwan produces the majority of semiconductors through its TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.

00:38:59.000 It would mean just basically a collapse of the global economy in order to prevent the factory and the technology from falling into Chinese hands. 1.00

00:39:09.000 And this is not just Robert O'Brien calling for this.

00:39:13.000 We have other U.S.

00:39:14.000 think tanks that have, you know, the Center for, well, other U.S.

00:39:21.000 think tanks, sorry, the U.S.

00:39:22.000 Army War College actually Call made a similar suggestion.

00:39:28.000 So, this is not necessarily a call for a false flag attack to trigger a war, but it shows that the US would willingly devastate Taiwan and Taiwan's economy to prevent this critical asset from falling into Chinese hands. 0.71

00:39:40.000 And it really highlights how the US sees its supposed allies who are really just proxies.

00:39:46.000 And that includes Ukraine.

00:39:47.000 The US is willing to see Ukraine's economy destroyed. 0.99

00:39:51.000 And it's best men killed to extend a war against Russia, thrown into a slaughterhouse in order to bleed Russia. 0.85

00:40:00.000 We should pull up that clip of the mainstream media where that current sitting US politicians said like where they were asked them on the mainstream is this the semiconductors that's like the resource wars of the 90s isn't it where you sort of had we have to have control these semiconductors and they just plainly said on the TV yeah we can't lose control of them and then he went like 10 seconds later but actually this is a war about democracy and freedom just have said it Democracy and freedom is what keeps us motivated.

00:40:31.000 I'm glad you kept talking a moment ago because I was, to fill time, going to ask you a question that Firegirl2020 was asking in the chat.

00:40:38.000 Did you enjoy the Met Gala?

00:40:40.000 Did you ask Max if he watched the Met Ball?

00:40:44.000 I feel that Max may not know that there was a Met Gala that took place.

00:40:50.000 You know, I've been taking a break and I'm in Mexico right now, so I missed out on all that nihilistic dystopian hijinks, but... They were dressed up as cats and stuff.

00:41:01.000 Yeah, it was pretty good.

00:41:03.000 Have you got that clip anywhere?

00:41:05.000 Has anyone got that out the back or is it to... Michael McCaw.

00:41:10.000 If you can find that Michael McCaw.

00:41:11.000 Was he on ABC?

00:41:13.000 Chuck Todd, yeah.

00:41:14.000 See if you can find that.

00:41:18.000 Nice one, Phil.

00:41:20.000 In short, do you think that the fact that there are semiconductor factories in Taiwan is not a significant consideration amidst this growing hostility?

00:41:33.000 Is that a question for me?

00:41:35.000 Do you think that's a significant component?

00:41:38.000 If there were no semiconductor factories in Taiwan, would this all be going down now?

00:41:44.000 Well, it is a major component, but it doesn't also explain U.S.

00:41:50.000 aggression vis-a-vis Philippines toward China.

00:41:53.000 I mean, this is about surrounding and encircling China, creating kind of a pressure cooker effect on China's leadership.

00:42:01.000 And forcing China to spend more and more money on its military and less on its social programs and, you know, driving this program Xi Jinping has of building a middle class and redeveloping the country.

00:42:15.000 It is also about competing with China, but I assume by now the U.S.

00:42:21.000 would be eager to move those semiconductor plants To a place they would consider safer, because as Thomas Friedman wrote, Taiwan is to be the U.S.

00:42:30.000 porcupine against China.

00:42:32.000 Taiwan is like, if you consider the concept of Israel, as explained by former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, where Israel is an unsinkable aircraft carrier.

00:42:43.000 It's a colonial implant in the middle of the Middle East that's a Spartan state, armed to the teeth with the most advanced weaponry, and the U.S. 0.89

00:42:51.000 is going to use it to attack any country That takes an independent or adversarial position, and that's why Israel has invaded Lebanon, attacked Hezbollah, why it's constantly bombing Syria these days, and it says it's attacking Iranian targets. 0.65

00:43:05.000 It just attacked deep in Syria and Homs.

00:43:08.000 So that's also the role of Ukraine against Russia, a country that's controlled from the outside by the U.S.

00:43:16.000 to antagonize Russia, to keep it in a constant state of war.

00:43:20.000 to keep its leadership paranoid. And then Taiwan plays that role with China. And to a certain

00:43:27.000 extent, South Korea, Japan and Philippines are intended to play the same role.

00:43:31.000 Which is why, by the way, the US is so hostile to a peace arrangement between North and South Korea.

00:43:37.000 With so many unpalatable truths, so palpably and demonstrably factual, it's clear that you require

00:43:48.000 powerful machinery to prevent people assessing reality in those blunt terms.

00:43:55.000 You need ongoing deep state operations.

00:43:58.000 You need a compliant media.

00:44:00.000 You don't need people Inquiring about the true nature of geopolitics and the kind of corporate and military relationships and the kind of colonial and resource necessities that underwrite much of the action that we're describing.

00:44:16.000 And with the ability for this kind of counter-narrative to be expressed, like either on Greyzone or reported on our channel, you need censorship and surveillance.

00:44:26.000 No wonder Julian Assange is in prison.

00:44:30.000 No wonder Edward Snowden's in Russia.

00:44:33.000 What do you think when you see something like that White House Correspondents' Dinner, like this sort of congratulatory circle jerk, where apparently the consensus between the media and the state is sort of reiterated and the framing for what's possible to discuss is reasserted? 0.71

00:44:51.000 Yeah, I mean, what you see with the White House press correspondence dinner is the most hated group in America. 0.88

00:44:56.000 Hated more than even Congress, and justifiably so.

00:45:00.000 The regular American people hate the media because they know they're being lied to.

00:45:04.000 And the media is there, the elite beltway media, giving itself awards for publishing fake stories.

00:45:11.000 Going back to the Steele dossier on Russiagate, they were celebrating themselves for publishing fake stories because the means justify the ends, and then the means was humiliating and destroying Donald Trump.

00:45:23.000 In this case, it's about celebrating and circling the wagons around Joe Biden, a doddering figure who, I mean, he put on a pretty good performance there, but someone who is simply a representative of the establishment and the kind of subculture that exists inside the Beltway that the rest of Americans are hostile to for justifiable reasons.

00:45:47.000 And this is the same press that's trying to lie us into a war with China over Taiwan that's continuing to push this endless proxy war with Ukraine that's basically a cheerleader for that war.

00:46:00.000 And that was the main vessel for duping the public into supporting war with Iraq.

00:46:08.000 And what they're going to do if there is conflict with China is sell the war the same way they

00:46:15.000 It's a war for freedom and they'll cover up any false flag or any incident that drives us into that war.

00:46:23.000 And you know who knows better than the press is actually the rank and file of the US military.

00:46:30.000 They do not want to go to war with China because tens of thousands of enlisted soldiers will die in the name Of us empire and the so called great power competition that's not just according to me.

00:46:43.000 That's according to the center for strategic and international studies, which is a.

00:46:49.000 Neoconservative-oriented, very anti-China think tank in Washington, which ran 24 war games, pitting the U.S.

00:46:55.000 military against China, following a hypothetical Chinese invasion of Taiwan in 2026.

00:47:01.000 And they found that the U.S.

00:47:02.000 lost dozens of ships, hundreds of aircraft, and tens of thousands of service members.

00:47:07.000 And Taiwan's economy was devastated, which means you can assume there will be hundreds of thousands Of dead Taiwanese people, maybe millions, maybe a nuclear exchange, maybe nuclear weapons reach China and Guam.

00:47:20.000 Maybe they reach California.

00:47:23.000 Hawaii has already run emergency operations where they were told that missiles were incoming.

00:47:29.000 It was a.

00:47:30.000 A lie, but the citizens there were terrorized into believing it in order to test the response systems.

00:47:36.000 So, whatever you think about China, I know there are many people watching this who don't like China's system because they saw what it did in response to covet.

00:47:45.000 This is about.

00:47:46.000 Human life being devastated.

00:47:48.000 And if that war ever takes place, it will produce an existential crisis inside the U.S.

00:47:53.000 that will destroy whatever's left of the of the veneer of democracy and the press.

00:47:59.000 Those people cheering Biden like sycophantic, loyal stenographers for the empire.

00:48:06.000 They will be responsible and they will be least likely to die because they'll be furthest away from the fight.

00:48:11.000 We'll look at the mainstream media now discussing the burgeoning conflict and look at the transition between truth and propaganda that takes place even within the clip.

00:48:21.000 This is Michael McCaul.

00:48:22.000 I can't remember if it's CNN or ABC, one of them.

00:48:24.000 Have a look.

00:48:26.000 It's like the case that would be made in the 60s, 70s and 80s of why America was spending so much money and military resources in the Middle East.

00:48:34.000 Oil was so important for the economy.

00:48:36.000 Is this sort of the 21st century version of that?

00:48:39.000 You know, I personally, I think it's about democracy and freedom.

00:48:45.000 No, darlings.

00:48:46.000 You sweet people.

00:48:47.000 Show the earlier clip where he says it's for semiconductors and stuff.

00:48:52.000 Like, there's an earlier clip on there.

00:48:54.000 There's the one where he sort of goes, yeah, we need semiconductors.

00:48:56.000 We've got to have them.

00:48:57.000 They're necessary.

00:48:59.000 See if you can find that one.

00:49:00.000 Max, you obviously dream big, because I've seen the size of your dream catch.

00:49:05.000 Oh, you've got the clip now?

00:49:06.000 OK, let's have a look.

00:49:07.000 You sure?

00:49:07.000 Because otherwise I can wrap this nicely.

00:49:09.000 But let's have a little look at the clip.

00:49:13.000 Make the basic case for why Americans not only should care about what happens in Taiwan, but should be willing to spill American blood and treasure to defend Taiwan.

00:49:23.000 Nobody wants that.

00:49:24.000 I think the deterrence is key here.

00:49:27.000 We travel to Japan, South Korea.

00:49:30.000 We are in Guam.

00:49:31.000 We are meeting with our allies, our partners here, if you will.

00:49:35.000 They don't have a NATO in the Pacific, but they do have partners.

00:49:38.000 We want to make sure that they are ready and supportive of the United States and Taiwan.

00:49:44.000 The case for Taiwan, it's a very good question.

00:49:48.000 About 50% of international trade goes through the international straits.

00:49:52.000 But I think more importantly, Chuck, is that the TSMC manufactures 90% of the global supply of advanced semiconductor chips.

00:50:06.000 If China invades and either owns or breaks this, we're in a world of hurt. 0.95

00:50:12.000 There you go.

00:50:16.000 All right, Max.

00:50:16.000 Hey, thanks very much for joining us for that.

00:50:20.000 We really appreciate your time.

00:50:22.000 What room are you in there?

00:50:23.000 Is that your house?

00:50:24.000 And why is there such a big dreamcatcher there?

00:50:28.000 I don't have any dreamcatchers in my house.

00:50:30.000 That would be cultural appropriation.

00:50:35.000 Somewhere in an undisclosed location at an Airbnb in Mexico.

00:50:40.000 For the best that you don't disclose it, some of the ideas you come out with, conservative on the subject of 9-11 or otherwise.

00:50:46.000 Thanks, Max.

00:50:47.000 It's great to speak to you and great to learn from you.

00:50:50.000 You can get more from Max by going to thegreyzone.com.

00:50:52.000 You can read his book, The Management of Savagery, and, you know, just follow Max.

00:50:57.000 Love and adore Max.

00:50:58.000 Cheers, Max.

00:50:59.000 Lovely speaking to you, mate.

00:51:00.000 That was fantastic.

00:51:02.000 Okay, should we have a look at... What are we going to look at now?

00:51:06.000 Are we staying on the subject of war?

00:51:09.000 On the general topic of war?

00:51:10.000 Should we do that?

00:51:11.000 Yeah.

00:51:12.000 Hey, you're gonna love this.

00:51:14.000 This is, uh, Tucker Carlson.

00:51:16.000 You'll obviously have seen that he's given that video, like, put that video out.

00:51:19.000 Hundreds of millions of people have probably watched that by now, I imagine.

00:51:22.000 And listen to how the Pentagon and the Department of Defense attack Tucker Carlson. 1.00

00:51:27.000 And whose interests, therefore, is Tucker Carlson speaking against?

00:51:32.000 Here's the news.

00:51:32.000 No, here's the effing news.

00:51:33.000 Have a look.

00:51:41.000 Pucker Carlson has broken his silence and the Pentagon and Department of Defense are cheering his departure.

00:51:46.000 Is it good that the mainstream media has cleansed itself of an anti-war voice?

00:51:51.000 Where will opposition to mainstream objectives come from now?

00:51:56.000 We're going to be having a look at Tucker Carlson's video response to the events around Fox News and his departure, focusing in particular on the anti-war rhetoric that Tucker Carlson regularly deployed.

00:52:08.000 Now of course a lot of people on the left, centre left, I'd call them the neoliberal establishment, are attacking Tucker Carlson, but Where else are anti-war voices going to come from?

00:52:18.000 Why did Fox News get rid of Tucker Carlson?

00:52:21.000 Where will Tucker Carlson go to next?

00:52:23.000 And where does radical opposition to the establishment agenda come from if anybody who speaks out against the agenda is one way or another cleansed from the system?

00:52:34.000 Did you see the White House press dinner?

00:52:36.000 What a cozy little jamboree with Joe Biden joking about the free press and how the press and the establishment have to work together.

00:52:44.000 The free press is a pillar, maybe the pillar of free society.

00:52:49.000 How can you have an establishment and press working together to keep ordinary people ignorant and bewildered and claim that it's anything like a free country with free comms?

00:52:58.000 Voices that attack the establishment, that attack the deep state, that attack the corporatization of America and indeed the world are unnecessary at this time.

00:53:06.000 That's why Julian Assange is in prison.

00:53:08.000 That's why Edward Snowden's in Russia.

00:53:10.000 And that's why Tucker Carlson's no longer on Fox News.

00:53:13.000 Even though I disagree with Tucker Carlson about a bunch of stuff.

00:53:16.000 Let's have a look at his video.

00:53:17.000 One of the first things you realize when you step outside the noise for a few days is how many genuinely nice people there are in this country.

00:53:25.000 Kind and decent people.

00:53:26.000 People who really care about what's true.

00:53:29.000 And a bunch of hilarious people also.

00:53:31.000 A lot of those.

00:53:32.000 It's got to be the majority of the population, even now.

00:53:35.000 So that's heartening.

00:53:36.000 One of the things that I like about Tucker Carlson is he's a kind of frequency jam.

00:53:40.000 The way he has those conversations with political figures where he's like, oh okay, oh alright, he's a difficult person to contend with I imagine.

00:53:47.000 And one of the things that surprises me is that people that oppose Tucker on cultural issues aren't willing to see that when it comes to things like the criticism of the war, The willingness to attack the establishment, the critiques of the military-industrial complex, the ongoing attacks of the deep state.

00:54:03.000 These are exactly the arguments of what was once known as the radical left just 20 years ago.

00:54:09.000 Cast your mind back to the late 60s or the early 70s, the counter-cultural movement, the civil rights movement, Black Panther.

00:54:19.000 The attacks on radical anti-establishment voices often use the technique of saying, oh, you're far right now.

00:54:29.000 But if we are far right for agreeing that the establishment needs to be took to task, then what have they become if they're on the same side as the Department of Defense or the Pentagon or the world's biggest corporations?

00:54:41.000 What's happened to them? 0.99

00:54:42.000 The other thing you notice when you take a little time off is how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are. 1.00

00:54:50.000 They're completely irrelevant. 1.00

00:54:51.000 They mean nothing.

00:54:53.000 In five years we won't even remember that we had them.

00:54:56.000 Trust me as someone who's participated.

00:54:57.000 So it seems to me that Tucker Carlson primarily is attacking the mainstream media and obviously in particular his former employers Fox.

00:55:05.000 Those of us that were observing Tucker Carlson personally felt that he was getting disillusioned with the limitations of operating within a mainstream space. And it's

00:55:15.000 interesting to observe, isn't it? And let me know what you think in the chat and the comments. That

00:55:19.000 if you go on the TV and attack the war machine, attack the deep state, attack the mainstream media, attack

00:55:25.000 the two-party system, that in the end you will be excluded. It makes you wonder how much control Rupert

00:55:31.000 Murdoch has over Fox and how much is a reflection of his own ideology. I used to think, well

00:55:35.000 maybe they don't care what anyone says as long as it's generating views and revenue and money and

00:55:39.000 power. Like having me on there, it's like they don't care if I'm anti-establishment. They just think,

00:55:43.000 who gives a shit what that little limey's saying. But now I'm starting to think, oh wow, 0.99

00:55:47.000 there's the potential that voices like ours, voices like yours, can really make a difference. And yet at

00:55:52.000 the same time, and this is the amazing thing, the undeniably big topics, the ones that will define

00:55:58.000 our future, get virtually no discussion War.

00:56:02.000 Civil liberties.

00:56:03.000 Emerging science.

00:56:04.000 Demographic change.

00:56:06.000 Corporate power.

00:56:07.000 Natural resources.

00:56:08.000 I would say that those are very important subjects, perhaps the most important subjects.

00:56:12.000 Demographic change is of course the subject that people say suggests that Tucker Carlson is talking about race and the balance between different races in America and stuff like that.

00:56:22.000 Personally, I feel that alliances between cultural groups that are not operating in the top tiers of the establishment is an absolute priority.

00:56:31.000 And I wouldn't participate in the promotion of any ideas that turn people of different cultures, colours, races, ideologies against one another.

00:56:39.000 Me, personally, that's not the way to go.

00:56:41.000 But when it comes to the debate around war, when have you seen in the mainstream media a reasoned debate about trying to pursue a diplomatic solution?

00:56:50.000 Debates like that are not permitted in American media.

00:56:53.000 Both political parties and their donors have reached consensus on what benefits them, and they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it.

00:57:03.000 Suddenly, the United States looks very much like a one-party state.

00:57:06.000 That's exactly what Noam Chomsky is saying as well, that there is more censorship in your country, America, than there is in Russia.

00:57:13.000 Noam Chomsky, about as far left as it's possible to go without it becoming, I don't know, it's not an angle anymore.

00:57:18.000 You'd go back around to the right, which is what a lot of people are saying, obviously.

00:57:21.000 Let me know in the chat and the comments if you think that Tucker and Chomsky are right.

00:57:25.000 That's a depressing realization, but it's not permanent.

00:57:29.000 Our current orthodoxies won't last. 0.99

00:57:32.000 They're brain dead. 0.67

00:57:33.000 Nobody actually believes them. 1.00

00:57:35.000 Hardly anyone's life is improved by them.

00:57:38.000 If you look at that White House press conference dinner and you see Joe Biden demanding that American journalists be released from prison, while you know that Snowden is in exile in Russia, while you know that Julian Assange is rotting away in prison, essentially waiting to be exiled or executed, you know that what you're watching is theatre.

00:57:56.000 But Tucker Carlson is right.

00:57:57.000 The orthodoxies are dead and brain dead, bereft of ideas. 0.96

00:58:01.000 All they are is the advocates and managerial classes. 1.00

00:58:04.000 This moment is too inherently ridiculous to continue. 0.58

00:58:06.000 And so it won't. 0.86

00:58:07.000 The people in charge know this.

00:58:08.000 That's why they're hysterical and aggressive.

00:58:09.000 into a state of constant friction around cultural issues, just so that there is some febrility,

00:58:15.000 just so there's some energy around it.

00:58:17.000 New ideas will come from new alliances, new ideas will come from new conversations.

00:58:21.000 The old orthodoxies are indeed dead.

00:58:23.000 This moment is too inherently ridiculous to continue, and so it won't. 0.94

00:58:28.000 The people in charge know this, that's why they're hysterical and aggressive. 0.90

00:58:32.000 They're afraid.

00:58:33.000 They've given up persuasion, they're resorting to force.

00:58:37.000 But it won't work.

00:58:38.000 When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful.

00:58:45.000 At the same time, the liars who've been trying to silence them shrink, and they become weaker.

00:58:51.000 That's the iron law of the universe.

00:58:52.000 True things prevail.

00:58:55.000 Where can you still find Americans saying true things?

00:58:58.000 There aren't many places left, but there are some, and that's enough.

00:59:02.000 As long as you can hear the words, there is hope.

00:59:05.000 See you soon.

00:59:06.000 One thing to note is that the Department of Defense and the Pentagon are very pleased about Tucker Carlson's departure.

00:59:13.000 At the upper levels of the Department of Defense, news of Carlson's firing from Fox News Monday was met with delight and outright glee in some corners.

00:59:20.000 We're a better country without him bagging on our military every night in front of hundreds of thousands of people, said one senior DOD official.

00:59:27.000 I would say that a bigger problem for the military are the fact that 50% of their budget goes directly to private military contractors like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, etc.

00:59:37.000 And members of the military are significantly likely to end up homeless, are unlikely to be able to afford their own shelter, and in significant numbers are using food stamps.

00:59:45.000 These things are all true.

00:59:47.000 Much easier to blame Tucker Carlson for bagging on the military rather than acknowledging that the military are always used As heroes when convenient, but are discarded whenever necessary.

00:59:58.000 What people are suggesting is that the fact that 50% of military budgets end up in the hands of the Pentagon, that $1,000 a year from average Americans is ending up in the hands of the MIC, check those figures, I'm afraid it's true, is not the best way to direct the finances of a country in crisis.

01:00:15.000 The following is from the American Prospect, a left-leaning publication who are willing to examine Tucker Carlson from a more interesting perspective rather than someone who don't like him.

01:00:25.000 Carlson's insistent distrust of his powerful guests acts as a solvent to authority, frequently making larger-than-life figures of the political establishment defend arguments they otherwise treat as self-evident.

01:00:35.000 Tucker's willingness to challenge and mock ruling elites went alongside an obsessively nativist message that alienated viewers who might otherwise have embraced his populist perspective.

01:00:45.000 That's one of the aspects of Tucker Carlson that I would query as a person that believes that alliances between different cultural groups are necessary to displace establishment power.

01:00:54.000 His popularity with a wide audience begs the question why other nightly news shows that attacked him didn't raise the same critiques without the nativism.

01:01:01.000 And the answer to that is of course because they ultimately support the establishment and are unwilling to advance arguments that attack establishment power.

01:01:08.000 Tucker Carlson went there, so even if you don't like him, you have to acknowledge that.

01:01:12.000 but will not attack the Death Star, the heart of the machine, the MIC, financial interests,

01:01:17.000 the deep state.

01:01:18.000 Tucker Carlson went there, so even if you don't like him, you have to acknowledge that.

01:01:21.000 Let me know in the comments and the chat if you agree or if you think I'm missing something.

01:01:23.000 One answer is that Tucker Carlson tonight was an outlier in corporate-owned cable news,

01:01:27.000 which is typically hostile to independent critiques of executives and political elites.

01:01:32.000 The show declined to play the gatekeeping role that many of Carlson's detractors demand of mainstream media platforms.

01:01:38.000 Carlson hosted Heads of State in the same week as fringe characters of both the far-left and far-right.

01:01:43.000 He tapped into populist insights, cutting through left- and right-wing echo chambers, and put in hard questions to corporate executives and members of the political establishment.

01:01:51.000 Though Carlson spent years as a staunch libertarian, he made a populist turn around the time of Trump's election, rejecting many of the free market doctrines he'd previously espoused.

01:02:00.000 Republican leaders will have to acknowledge that market capitalism is not a religion.

01:02:04.000 Market capitalism is a tool, like a staple gun or a toaster. 0.96

01:02:07.000 You'd have to be a fool to worship it, Tucker said in a typical segment. 0.83

01:02:11.000 Our system was created by human beings for the benefit of human beings. 0.98

01:02:14.000 We do not exist to serve markets, just the opposite.

01:02:17.000 What even that critique reveals is that Tucker Carlson is aware that free market ideology is beyond just economic utility and is being used to advance a particular agenda that benefits a particular strata of society and that is deleterious to the values of the majority of people and that we need new principles and new values or perhaps traditional old ones to be at the core of our belief systems.

01:02:42.000 Without that we have apathy and inertia in one portion of the culture and a very insidious invisible ideology making sharp incisions throughout the body of the rest of the state.

01:02:52.000 That passage of his monologue could have been lifted from a stump speech by Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders, progressive senators whose views on economic policy Carlson has at times echoed.

01:03:02.000 Carlson often hosted segments focused on big tech with guests calling for the breakup of Silicon Valley giants and increased antitrust enforcement.

01:03:09.000 He's been a frequent critic of trade policies that offshore jobs, a position that's found an unlikely ally in the Biden administration.

01:03:16.000 His 2019 story on how hedge fund manager Paul Singer orchestrated a merger of Cabela and base pro shops that destroyed a town in Nebraska had few equals in broadcast news as a critique of financialisation's impact on neighbourhoods and local business.

01:03:29.000 Those are the kind of stories and kind of moments that are going to appeal to a lot of people, because many of us are sensing that the current orthodoxy is leading to more centralization, a greater loss of jobs and community assets, a closure of small businesses, all things that started to become exacerbated during the pandemic.

01:03:45.000 Let me know in the chat in the comments if you agree.

01:03:46.000 Someone speaking out on behalf of those issues is going to reach a broad audience, and it's interesting to see that someone that speaks out on those issues is ultimately extracted from Fox News.

01:03:54.000 In the past year, Carlton also broke with the Washington political establishment to express scepticism about the US sending tens of billions of dollars in weapons and security assistance to Ukraine.

01:04:04.000 He has questioned the prevailing insistence that the war is not a proxy battle between superpowers and that the United States is not at war with Russia.

01:04:11.000 The television host censured the Biden administration after comments made by the president that indicated the goal of US involvement in Ukraine was regime change, which White House spokespeople then had to walk back.

01:04:21.000 Carlson repeatedly invited on independent journalists and commentators critical of American military adventurism.

01:04:27.000 Political commentator Jimmy Dore told Fox News viewers, your enemy is not China, your enemy is not Russia, your enemy is the military-industrial complex.

01:04:34.000 And it's amazing to see those kind of voices on Fox News.

01:04:37.000 You're unlikely to see those kind of voices on Fox News after the departure of Tucker.

01:04:41.000 So who benefits from that?

01:04:43.000 Did you see Tucker Carlson asking outright, what is the intention in this war?

01:04:47.000 When do we know that the objectives have been met?

01:04:47.000 When would it end?

01:04:49.000 Is there a limit to the amount of expenditure?

01:04:51.000 And I would add to that, is there a democratic process?

01:04:54.000 Could we vote for how much aid to spend?

01:04:56.000 Could we simultaneously be pursuing a diplomatic solution?

01:04:59.000 Those things didn't used to be called right-wing talking points.

01:05:02.000 And the fact that they suddenly are suggests that there's something bigger happening in the culture than just, I don't know, Tucker Carlson is a terrible guy.

01:05:10.000 While Carlson largely dedicated his show to criticizing Democratic lawmakers, he also excoriated the failures of Republican leadership.

01:05:17.000 In one recent instance, Carlson aimed his signature incredulity at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's comment that the most important thing going on in the world right now is the war in Ukraine.

01:05:26.000 No, the most important thing going on in the world right now is the state of your country, the one you're supposed to run, the people you're supposed to represent, whose lives you're supposed to care about, the ones who can't buy food or gas, the people overdosing on fentanyl, he said.

01:05:39.000 The fact that that voice is reaching a large audience, for me, is encouraging and shows that there are people that care about issues that are ultimately about the failing social fabric of America.

01:05:50.000 If the mainstream media, as represented by CNN and MSNBC, are not willing to carry those messages, are not willing to go against corporate interests on the issues just listed in that one statement, Then I think it's not only likely, but beneficial that voices from elsewhere take up that cause.

01:06:07.000 That ain't the fault of the populist right.

01:06:09.000 That is the failure of the neoliberal left.

01:06:12.000 Liberal media outlets like The Guardian scolded Carlson for his coverage of the Ukraine conflict, demanding to know who the host was really rooting for.

01:06:19.000 Which just sounds like old school, you're not a patriot type stuff that during the Iraq conflict would have been right or left, surely?

01:06:27.000 A chorus of op-eds on Monday cheered his ouster and the move to rescue his very impressionable audience from dangerous rhetoric. 0.99

01:06:33.000 Baked into that statement, of course, is the ongoing assumption that you are stupid, that you can't make decisions for yourself, that you need didactic pedagogy instead of informed news giving you as balanced an opinion as possible. 0.99

01:06:44.000 And of course, Tucker Carlson opined, and of course he had a perspective. 0.99

01:06:48.000 Often, frequently, it was at odds with the establishment.

01:06:51.000 People don't want to be spoken down to like children anymore.

01:06:53.000 I believe people want to be given the information, given the chance to have a conversation, and potentially form new alliances that might be surprising.

01:06:59.000 But cable news may struggle to find an entertainer equally skilled at skewering comfortable pieties on the left and right.

01:07:06.000 So there you are!

01:07:07.000 While you have a White House press dinner that celebrates the cosy relationship between the state and the media, you are ousting simultaneously significant and somewhat radical voices from the mainstream.

01:07:19.000 Don't be surprised that there's room in the information age for anti-establishment narratives, that there's room for radical voices, that there's essentially room for change.

01:07:29.000 When Tucker Carlson says in that video, the old orthodoxies are dying, he's He's absolutely right. 1.00

01:07:34.000 There's a clear choice that has to be made.

01:07:36.000 Do you empower communities to live differently and democratically, or do you double down on centralisation by creating conflict and conflagration?

01:07:43.000 It's clear that the latter has been chosen, and it's clear that the former is what's required.

01:07:48.000 Voices like Tucker Carlson's are facilitating the potential for a different type of government, even if there are cultural issues on which you hugely disagree.

01:07:56.000 But that's just what I think.

01:07:57.000 Let me know what you think in the comments.

01:07:58.000 I'll see you in a second. 1.00

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01:09:50.000 Can we talk about a conspiracy theory or something instead?

01:09:53.000 You'd rather talk about 9-11 than a private matter?

01:09:55.000 Yeah, I'd prefer to get into Taiwan or something.

01:09:59.000 Taiwan?

01:10:00.000 Taiwan to have a war with China?

01:10:00.000 Yeah.

01:10:02.000 That's it.

01:10:03.000 Okay, so listen, right, we're gonna, in a minute, we're talking to Barry Weiss, one of the Twitterphile journalists, she's brilliant, we've spoken to her before.

01:10:15.000 On Locals.

01:10:16.000 Yeah, so if you're a Local, a member of Locals, right, so you're watching this on Rumble now, join Locals, you can, oh dear, that's rude, you can join this rude conversation And also you can watch us live chat to Barry Weiss.

01:10:27.000 We always do stuff like when Jordan Peterson came on, we chatted to him live on there.

01:10:30.000 When Eckhart Tolle came on, we chatted to him live on there.

01:10:32.000 When Vandana Shiva came on, we chatted to her live on there.

01:10:34.000 Now Barry Weiss is going to chat to her live on there.

01:10:36.000 So join locals, right?

01:10:37.000 Click over there.

01:10:39.000 And I think you've got to press that red button.

01:10:41.000 Also, there's like weekly podcasts where I do guided meditations.

01:10:45.000 They're really good.

01:10:46.000 And you'll learn more about the stuff we do.

01:10:48.000 Look at my dog, isn't he lovely?

01:10:49.000 He's a lovely lad, isn't he?

01:10:51.000 Isn't she a good boy?

01:10:53.000 Frenchie Buffs, new to locals.

01:10:55.000 She's just saying she or he or him or her or they, I don't care. 0.88

01:10:58.000 And they're getting right in there with the balls chat. 0.96

01:11:00.000 The hairy balls chat, nice. 0.97

01:11:03.000 Regular item, maybe?

01:11:04.000 Regular item.

01:11:06.000 How do you like them?

01:11:08.000 Like, I mean, if you can make King Charles's head out of chocolate and medals out of bounty bars and stuff, and that is something that's happened, and we'll be talking about that later in the week, then why can't people just chat about nutbags? 1.00

01:11:19.000 No, they can.

01:11:20.000 They can, can't they?

01:11:21.000 Join us at Community Festival as well between the 14th and 17th of July, and tomorrow on our show, Stay Free, we've got Daniel Chandler, who's my mate, who's talking about the philosophy and politics of John Rawls.

01:11:33.000 He's talking about equality, Stuff like that.

01:11:35.000 It's gonna be a fantastic conversation.

01:11:36.000 She's my friend, so I know it'll be brilliant and we'll talk about... I'm gonna sneeze.

01:11:42.000 See that sneeze technique?

01:11:45.000 That's my technique.

01:11:45.000 Really good.

01:11:46.000 That's my technique.

01:11:47.000 That's the one I use.

01:11:49.000 But now we're off.

01:11:50.000 So come tomorrow to see us chatting to Daniel Chandler about his book, Free and Equal, what would a fair society look like.

01:11:56.000 And if you're on Locals, you can stay with us and see us chat to Barry Weiss.

01:12:01.000 And I'm going to be watching.

01:12:02.000 I'm personally with the change and I have respect for Barry because he's a brilliant journalist.

01:12:05.000 So I'm not going to be feeding dog treats to a German shepherd and chatting to you lot about airy nutbags. 0.61

01:12:12.000 It's not the way that... That's not the way to win a culture war. 0.99

01:12:15.000 That's not the way to get people to come together against establishment power. 0.99

01:12:18.000 To throw off the shackles of a media that wants you dumb. 1.00

01:12:21.000 Okay! 1.00

01:12:22.000 Hey! 0.99

01:12:22.000 See you tomorrow. 0.99

01:12:23.000 Unless you're on Locals.

01:12:24.000 We're not seeing you in a few seconds.

01:12:25.000 Just click the red button.

01:12:26.000 Join us there.

01:12:27.000 Not for more of the same.

01:12:28.000 We wouldn't dream of insulting you in such a way.

01:12:31.000 But for more of the different, baby.

01:12:33.000 See you then, stay free.

01:12:44.000 Switch off.

Stay Free - Russel Brand - May 02, 2023

WTF!? Were 9-11 hijackers REALLY CIA Recruits?! - #120 - Stay Free With Russell Brand

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