Lord Miles Rutledge is a British student and vlogger who travels the world in search of the most dangerous places on earth. In this episode, he tells the story of how he almost died in Afghanistan, and how he managed to survive it. He also talks about how he was the last ever tourist in the country, and why he didn't need a COIDV vaccine. He also shares some of his favourite memories from his time in prison, and talks about the time he was mugged by a crazed man in the streets of London. This episode is brought to you by Vevolution, and produced by and . Thank you so much to Lord Miles for coming on the pod, and we can't wait to hear what he has to say about Afghanistan and the dangers he has faced on his travels there. We hope you enjoy this episode and that you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it! We look forward to hearing from you all in the future episodes! xoxo, Ben & Chris - Ben & G. - Chris & G - G & G - Matthew - P.S. Sorry about the audio quality, we had some issues with the audio in this episode. We re working on this one, but we re getting a new equipment so we ll get that fixed in the next episode, so please bear with us next time! - Thank you for bearing with us, we promise we ll be better next week! Love ya! - Ben and G. - - Chris - Mike - R. :D - BONUS EPISODE: - SONGSV - CHEERS - M. ( ) - G. (A. (Miles) - B. (C) (S. (R) (A) (P) (A). (B) (S) (C.) (A.) (C). (A ) (D) (F) (B). (B.) (M) (J) (E) (M. (P). (D). (R). (F). ( ) (S.) ( )(A) & B) (K) (L) (T) (R.) (S). ) (P.) (P. (F.) (K). (M.) (MID) (V) )
02:00:22.000Oh, when you hear what I have to say, you won't be ready.
02:00:24.000It's not very often someone has a story more interesting than my own life, so I'm certainly looking forward to it.
02:00:28.000Well, you both had fun in prison, somewhat.
02:00:31.000Speaking of fun, yeah, that's an interesting one.
02:00:33.000So let me play the intro, and then we'll introduce you, and we'll go from there.
02:00:36.000Sick, mate. I've got my headphones on because I'm a consummate professional in all things,
02:01:12.000you know, so I have to wear them, make sure that I can hear things as I'm Mr.
02:01:15.000Producer. So, anybody who doesn't know the background to who this gentleman is next to me, we're going to start from the absolute very beginning.
02:01:23.000I'm going to give you an introduction. I'm going to explain who you are.
02:01:26.000But you and I have already met, haven't we?
02:01:28.000You met, was it a year ago? Oh, over a year now.
02:01:30.000I think, what, a year and a half maybe?
02:05:49.000Can the average person, and we're not advocating for this because I don't want to be held responsible, can the average person in the UK right now fly to Kabul?
02:05:57.000You need a visa. And I'm going to guess, as a professional, you will go via Istanbul, Dubai, somewhere?
02:06:03.000Yeah, Dubai, Istanbul, maybe Islamabad in Pakistan.
02:06:06.000The way I got the visa was I went there and I created my own company and I put myself down as a tourism company and I wrote on the letter, I, Miles Routledge, am giving myself a tour in Afghanistan.
02:07:19.000I got invited to help a member of parliament who was fighting on a kickboxing show, and he invited all these famous kickboxers to legitimize the show and put us in the crowd.
02:07:27.000So when we landed in Baghdad, and I've got some pictures I'll have to find and put them up.
02:07:32.000We had VIP the whole way through, so I didn't see the airport or nothing.
02:09:39.000Had a pool, had a nice view, had a garden, breakfast included.
02:09:43.000Okay. And when you answer this following question, I want you to try and answer as a layman, because you're clearly a very brave man.
02:09:52.000So I don't want you to answer as yourself.
02:09:54.000Because sometimes when you're trying to make people empathize and understand your story, you have to answer as yourself so they understand your worldview.
02:10:01.000But you also have to then explain it as a normie.
02:10:04.000I can do that. So as a normie, did it feel dangerous?
02:10:09.000You've got to understand. I was walking around and I saw people with guns and I thought to myself, you know what, if I get into trouble, everyone can be talked to, everyone can be reasoned with, everyone wants something and I can always provide it.
02:10:22.000There's always a way out of a situation if you understand people and how to speak to them.
02:11:22.000Tourists? I was like, yeah, yeah. So only if you tell them do they care.
02:11:25.000Most of the time, you're just another white guy in Kabul.
02:11:28.000You just blend in. Everyone minds their own business because, you know, if you are an Afghan, which they knew, by the way, the Taliban were about to take over, and they were seen talking to another white guy, you know, there might be some insinuation.
02:12:11.000I find it very strange when I was in Baghdad that especially in the reception of this extremely expensive hotel, there were so many Chinese people because they were rebuilding all...
02:12:22.000America comes along and destroys these countries, but China gets the contracts to rebuild them.
02:12:26.000So you had all these Chinese businessmen with like blueprints and loads of Chinese people everywhere in Baghdad.
02:12:30.000I couldn't believe that one in three people I saw in Baghdad was Chinese, which really blew my mind.
02:12:45.000We're starting negotiations with the Taliban.
02:12:47.000And then as soon as the Americans left and Kabul got taken over by the Taliban, they instantly struck up mining contracts in the northern provinces, $300 million deals.
02:12:58.000Infrastructure was just instantly imported.
02:12:59.000So the plan was there. The Chinese were waiting in the shadows for the Americans to leave and just swooped in, then just took all the money from Afghanistan.
02:13:06.000Okay. Okay. I'm getting ahead of myself because I have so many questions.
02:15:27.000But before that, I remember I had an argument with somebody who went to university, and I was explaining that university is a waste of time and money, and I'm richer than they'll ever be, so what's the point in going?
02:15:37.000And they said, ah, yeah, but life's not all about money, et cetera, the prestige, I've got a degree, I've got a doctorate, I'm a doctor.
02:17:12.000Now, before we cut the Twitter feed and move over to Rumble exclusively, which we're about to do, I want to say thank you to all the Super Chats.
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02:17:20.000You can go there and see who we're helping in the world today.
02:17:23.000I'm going to play some video later showing who we're helping.
02:17:25.000And also, you have some stories to tell about charity and NGOs and all these kind of things, so I think it ties in very well.
02:17:30.000So thank you to everybody who sent us a super chat.
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02:17:50.000We just send guys into the country to help people.
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02:20:41.000And what I find out is the Taliban have given an ultimatum to the current government saying, hey, either you go surrender and evacuate or we're going to take the place by force right now.
02:22:11.000And I see a kind of a group of white people walking around and they look like they're military guys, you know, contractors, that type of thing.
02:22:19.000So, as I'm walking, I see they're walking towards this safe house they tell me about, where all the foreigners have been instructed to go.
02:22:26.000So I think, you know what, this is a more interesting time to do this.
02:22:29.000So I'm starting posting some photos, and then some Taliban corner me.
02:22:35.000Of course. Right? You found white people, and you said, I'll go with them.
02:22:37.000Mm-hmm. And it's kind of interesting because every single time you're telling me these stories, I have a story which ties into a lot of them.
02:22:43.000I had a story once. I fought on K1 in China.
02:22:47.000Oh, really? This is a long time ago, and I can't remember the name of the Chinese town I was in, but it wasn't Beijing.
02:22:52.000Let's put it that way. We landed in Beijing, and it was another three-hour flight far west, like the Mongol border.
02:22:58.000Oh, very far. Yeah, where no one goes.
02:23:01.000And I remember after my fight, I got dropped off at the airport.
02:23:04.000They just left me there. And all of the airport boards are in Chinese.
02:23:07.000I had no clue my flight had been canceled.
02:23:10.000And I was going up to people trying to find out information.
02:23:13.000And I guess they were afraid of the government.
02:23:15.000If you get seen talking to a foreigner, maybe it's a crime or something.
02:23:17.000But they were running away from me like they were afraid.
02:23:20.000So whenever I go up to someone to say, excuse me, they'd go, no, no, no, no, and run away.
02:23:24.000Airport staff, everyone would run away from me like I had COVID. Pre-COVID. Yeah.
02:23:43.000I need to find somebody who speaks English.
02:23:44.000Who knows what's going on? Who knows what's going on?
02:23:46.000And I walked around the airport for a good two hours until I found some German businessman who was in the steel business who also spoke Chinese, who managed to negate and fix the whole situation for me.
02:23:55.000Very kind gentleman. I don't know his name.
02:24:38.000Yeah, so it's basically a compound, full-on barbed wire everywhere, guards, concrete walls, you can't throw a rock over, that's how tall it is.
02:25:44.000I don't believe you. Where are you from?
02:25:46.000And I said, oh, Wales. And he said, where's Wales?
02:25:50.000Because you know, no one's heard of Wales outside of Wales.
02:25:52.000No one's heard of Wales. That's true. No one's heard of Wales. Yeah, exactly. And I showed him my passport and I said, yeah, look, say United Kingdom, it means like a few countries have come together, you know?
02:25:59.000And he said, so you're part of England?
02:28:18.000No one knows what they're doing, but I'm just sitting in my room and thinking, you know, I've got something from the vending machine right now.
02:28:24.000I have a right laugh. I'm going to post about this, you know.
02:28:26.000Should be some fun. If I'm going to die, I might as well go out documenting it.
02:28:31.000Well, that's true. There's no advantage to not documenting your absolute demise.
02:28:35.000So, how long are you in the safe house for?
02:29:39.000Pussies. Fake. Probably booked a hotel in advance.
02:29:42.000Crazy people. But they needed to get evacuated because they were very scared.
02:29:48.000They didn't want to walk a whole five minutes just to the safe house, even though the Taliban at this point promised everyone safe passage.
02:29:56.000So these men got charged, what, $30,000 for a five-minute walk?
02:30:08.000Okay, so you're in the safe house, you meet the SAS guys, and the SAS guys say, we're leaving?
02:30:12.000Yeah, they said, you know what, we've got a safe channel out, we've got C-17s flying in every five minutes, everyone's going out, man, come join us.
02:32:47.000You still have time? Yeah, I still have time.
02:32:49.000And overall, what's your view of, and I know this is a side note, but I think you're going to say what I think you're going to say, and it ties into my overall message, because I believe the modern education system is the biggest waste of time.
02:32:58.000Of course. Ever. And I think it's designed to put you in debt and indoctrinate you as a slave to the matrix.
02:33:04.000So I'm very anti-traditional education because nobody learns anything of value.
02:33:12.000You end up enslaved and they just pump your mind with propaganda for years.
02:33:15.000So what did you think of university as a whole like?
02:33:18.000A good 75% of lecturers, I thought, yeah, these people definitely got bullied in school.
02:33:23.000They got a weird complex going on that they need to be respected.
02:33:26.000And then suddenly they went into this niche little bit of research that no one cares about outside their niche circle jerk of autistic men researching some derivative or some chemical.
02:33:36.000And they think they're important in their little field and they get paid like, you know what, 50 grand or something for dedicating, what, 20 years of research of their life.
02:33:44.000And, you know, they express their power and exercise it on kids who actually respect them because they want to climb up in the world.
02:33:54.000Honestly, if you want to earn money, I earn money selling Taliban merch.
02:33:57.000I earn more in, what, one month than they do in one year, and they're meant to be geniuses.
02:34:02.000Well, that's true. I mean, I can't sit here and tell people that it's a solid business idea for the average person, but it's proven itself to be effective for you.
02:34:11.000Oh, yeah, yeah. And I think traditionally, and I've said this many times throughout my message, that when you find people who ended up rich, they usually did something a little bit unorthodox.
02:34:19.000I've never met anybody who's truly rich who went to school, went to college, went to uni, got a degree, got in debt, got a mortgage, followed the prescribed system and ended up rich because the prescribed system is designed to enslave, is not designed to allow you to break free.
02:34:32.000And this is a perfect time for me to mention university.com, which is at the bottom of this video.
02:34:38.000You can see it there in the scrolling banner at the bottom because university.com is a genuine alternative to traditional education because we actually teach people how to get rich for real, which is what university does not want to teach you.
02:34:51.000So it's a perfect time to mention. So you're not upset that you've missed any classes.
02:35:23.000You can't talk to the media. And I thought to myself, you know, this physics degree is a joke.
02:35:28.000I'm never going to do any of this stuff in real life.
02:35:30.000You know, I'm going to take a gamble here.
02:35:32.000I'm going to drop out. I'm going to go my own way, see what I can do.
02:35:35.000And if it messes up, I can always work another job.
02:35:38.000Right. So you're back in England after this, and normally what happens, I mean, I have a story which is semi-famous on the internet where I went to Jamaica and I was robbed in Jamaica, and I said to myself when I was out, I'm never going back.
02:35:49.000Didn't you think, I am never going back there?
02:35:51.000Shirley Part, you thought, I pulled it off, I have the story, I can tell everyone now, there is no point in me going back to Kabul.
02:35:58.000No, I thought, oh damn, I need to go back quick.
02:36:00.000I thought to myself, holy shit, this is a great opportunity because now I can meet a whole different Afghanistan, you know, because everything's changed now.
02:36:07.000So I thought, you know, if I go back, I'm going back to a different country effectively.
02:40:57.000Because what they're going to do is they're going to say, Andrew Tate, toxic influencer and misogynist, is encouraging young schoolboys to go visit Afghanistan.
02:41:05.000And no, I am not. I'm just trying to understand your story.
02:41:07.000Of course. Because it's Extremely interesting.
02:42:36.000I align myself's. Well, I understand that because I had a saying I said about money a long time ago, and I said that money is a lot like water.
02:42:43.000Oh, yes. And it's like the precipitation cycle where it rains and then it falls into a river and then it flows downstream into the ocean and then it evaporates up into a cloud.
02:42:52.000Then the cloud moves and it rains somewhere else.
02:43:24.000If you put yourself in the middle of the cycle, you're going to get wet.
02:43:27.000If you can see how the water is moving, if you can be in the way of that river, or if you can be standing under the cloud when it rains, you're going to get rich.
02:43:34.000So what you did is you identified that a lot of money was moving in this area.
02:43:49.000It's very brave. I'm not sure exactly what your plan was, and we don't want to reveal that to the world in case anyone tries to steal it, but I understand.
02:43:57.000So you go back with the intention of becoming a mining mogul for the northern province of Afghanistan, which the Chinese have bought the mining rights to.
02:44:06.000So I was going down south at this point because the Belt and Road Initiative...
02:44:11.000The Chinese didn't want to go down south.
02:44:14.000And from what I understood, the Taliban did not want any more Chinese influence around the country because they saw what's happened in Africa.
02:44:21.000They don't want the Chinese monopolizing the country.
02:44:23.000And they go, you know what, we want someone else, but no one's touching us.
02:44:26.000And plus, if you've done deals with the American government, which most big companies have, you're ineligible.
02:44:32.000So I was the only person who was going there and looking at the opportunities.
02:44:38.000The Americans had taken the samples, the core samples, and wrote a written report saying, hey, exactly this much gold is here.
02:44:43.000This is how you get it. The number's all here.
02:44:47.000And I thought to myself, there's literally money in the streets, buried inches below my foot, and no one's taking it out and putting it in their pockets.
02:44:55.000Okay, before we carry on with this story, because I need to collate my thoughts and make sure I can ask the right questions to get this in a nice chronological order for everyone at home to understand.
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02:50:45.000So, we're showing another picture here of you with the Talibros.
02:50:48.000Oh, yeah, man. Not my talifos, honestly.
02:51:59.000Yeah, yeah. You know, it should be a lot cheaper for the average state people.
02:52:02.000You know what a lot of people don't know, though?
02:52:03.000A lot of people don't understand that a lot of the most dangerous countries and places you don't want to visit are actually very expensive.
02:52:10.000You think, oh, Africa's cheap because it's poor.
02:52:11.000No, it's because of international sanctions, because of all the problems, because of how hard it is to access money, because of the banking, etc.
02:52:16.000It's actually an expensive place to go.
02:52:18.000Oh, the UN as well. They raise the prices because they spend all the time there.
02:52:21.000Sorry, they make nothing for the locals because the locals are unprofitable compared to white dudes turning up, you know, for charities and such.
02:55:10.000They want to decrease terrorism or anything that might cause problems for the average Afghan people.
02:55:16.000They want shady stuff to stop, basically.
02:55:18.000And you know what's interesting? And this is a side point, but most people, especially humans, we all gravitate towards peace.
02:55:26.000And this is actually quite an interesting point I can make in light of the current situation in Israel-Gaza, because you have a lot of people on Twitter who are calling for war and calling for destruction.
02:55:34.000It's very easy to call for war and destruction when it's far away and you're on Twitter and you want to sound like a tough guy.
02:55:38.000But the reality of life is that when you reach a point of genuine violence or disorder or chaos...
02:55:45.000You're naturally going to gravitate towards peace.
02:55:48.000And as bad as the Taliban are supposed to be, the boogeyman that we say they are, if they can preserve society and keep things peaceful, they're going to be appreciated by the general populace.
02:55:57.000Because if you don't have the Taliban, you have chaos.
02:55:59.000And people would rather have something they understand, better the devil you know, than absolute chaos, right?
02:56:05.000Because the Taliban do have law and order, a version of law and order.
02:56:13.000And if you're a normal man living a normal life, you don't want your store to be robbed, you don't want your daughter to be raped, so you need to have some degree of law and order which is feared.
02:56:20.000Yeah, exactly. Which is going to be the Taliban, right?
02:56:22.000Yeah, the Americans never understood that, and that's why Afghanistan always had loads of problems.
02:56:26.000But as soon as the GDI came in, I even saw the difference.
02:56:29.000The streets, peaceful, no prostitutes, no robberies, no hold-ups, no nothing.
02:56:35.000Everyone is in their place and acting well, which is excellent to see.
02:56:38.000So the GDI know what they're doing. Exactly.
02:56:40.000So you've been there five times, you've just got a big chunk of money, and they bust in your door?
02:56:45.000I'm in the car at this point about to drive.
02:56:46.000Oh yeah, the car. Sorry, they come up to the car and they put a gun up.
02:56:49.000Yeah, and they go, you know, stop, get out, come with us.
02:56:52.000You know, we need a question. I go, you know what, that's routine.
03:00:44.000You never know how people are going to rap when the pressure turns up.
03:00:46.000The greatest thing about me and my team, like when I sat with Tristan in jail, they would have said to me, oh, Tristan told us I could have laughed out loud.
03:00:54.000No way! I would have bet my life on it.
03:00:57.000This guy, you took him on a holiday and he pussies out and fucking sells you down the river?
03:01:01.000Oh, exactly. He's not used to stress, so he just fumbled.
03:01:04.000Pussy! You know, I always give people one chance.
03:01:16.000Yeah. Oh, yeah. So obviously, if you hear, hey, we think he's a spy, and then one of my close friends, my best friend, tells the Taliban GDI, hey, this guy's maybe a spy.
03:01:26.000That is unbelievable. That genuinely upsets me.
03:01:28.000And I don't want to disrupt the flow of this story.
03:01:31.000But I've talked about at length on my podcast and on emergency meetings about how important it is to make sure that you create your circle.
03:01:47.000In fact, I would actually argue, and I obviously have no statistics for this, but I know everything because I'm top G. 95% for nearly all law enforcement is based on getting people inside the inner circle to rat or flip or lie.
03:01:58.000That's all they do. They get everyone, you, all your mates, and they just put pressure until someone cracks and lies.
03:02:04.000That's all they do. That's how law enforcement works in every country, not just Afghanistan, in all of them.
03:02:08.000So you'd be very careful who you're rolling with.
03:02:09.000So you're taking this guy on a nice holiday and he pussied out and sold you out.
03:02:13.000Exactly. Bro. The good thing is, he was meant to be my partner in the goldmine.
03:05:01.000I'm not a spy. How do I get out of this place?
03:05:05.000Like, were you asking them a very simple, straightforward question?
03:05:07.000How do we solve this situation so I can get on a plane?
03:05:10.000Oh, I was, yeah. But the thing was, it was still an investigation.
03:05:14.000And of course, with such serious charges, they just didn't know.
03:05:17.000They weren't the people who made the decision.
03:05:19.000Who made the decision? Some people back at headquarters, they gather the information, like any good court system, and they send it to them and they go through a whole court process and they go guilty.
03:05:47.000I've got to admit. I've got to admit because it would be unfair if I lied.
03:05:50.000I didn't have permits to go to one gold mining site.
03:05:52.000You have to have permits to go in certain areas because if you're just wandering around mountains, the Taliban think, you know, why are you going there?
03:05:58.000I didn't have that permit. I want to apologise to the Taliban for that.
03:06:01.000That was my mistake and won't happen again.
03:06:03.000But one crime and obviously the whole spy thing wasn't true.
03:06:06.000And they found that out after a few meetings.
03:06:09.000And when they discovered this guy has been coming to Afghanistan, he said some good stuff, some honest stuff about the country.
03:06:16.000They love my YouTube video, by the way.
03:06:18.000One of me shooting guns with the Taliban.
03:06:20.000So let me reiterate this to everyone at home.
03:06:21.000Anyone who's not been through a judicial process, and I've recently just been through one, the way it typically works is they try and separate all the systems to prevent corruption.
03:06:28.000So what happens is the police officers just have a very simple job, which is to collect evidence and to collect you.
03:06:33.000They take you, they put you somewhere, they collect evidence that you've done a crime, they put together a file, and then it goes to a judge, which is supposed to be a completely separate branch of the state, who then reviews the evidence and decides if there's enough evidence to hold you, to charge you, to put you in jail, whatever.
03:06:48.000And the reason it's separated is so that the police themselves are not the ones who decide you go to jail.
03:06:53.000The judge doesn't meet you, doesn't know you, he just looks at the evidence, the hard evidence in front of you.
03:06:57.000Obviously in corrupt countries, in some countries, they're very linked, right?
03:07:01.000So when the police put together a file, the judge is like, well, I trust the police because the police are Afghani.
03:07:07.000Who cares? Jail. That's how it works, typically.
03:07:09.000And it can work in lots of different countries this way.
03:07:11.000There's some very rich countries, I'm not going to say the names of, where you will be surprised how the courts, the judges, are working hands in hands with the prosecution to ensure that people are getting destroyed and wrecked And I don't even have to say the names because the brain understands what I'm talking about here.
03:07:25.000So your number one concern when you're in a judicial process is, are the judges fair?
03:07:30.000Are the judges going to review the evidence against me and come to a fair conclusion?
03:07:34.000Or are they bought, paid for, corrupt, or hands in hands with the prosecution and just instantly going to say I'm guilty just because they can say I'm guilty and they're a judge and no one can do anything about it anyway?
03:07:43.000But you're saying in your experience what you truly believe is they investigated you, they composed their file, and it was sent on to a judge, and you believe the Afghani system, the Afghanistani system under the Taliban is a fair judicial system.
03:07:55.000Oh yeah, it's not corrupt. Corruption in a Muslim country is very hard to find in Afghanistan.
03:08:08.000No, no. But I'm flabbergasted, and I'll tell you why.
03:08:10.000Oh, yeah. I'm flabbergasted because that's the primary concern, right?
03:08:14.000And the fact that they have such a separated system, and obviously under Islamic law, corruption is against the rules, of course.
03:08:20.000But there's going to be a degree of prejudice that exists within the tribalism of humanity.
03:08:24.000That's reality when they are Afghani as a judge and the prosecutor or the police officer is Afghani and you are a foreigner Especially based on I don't know the fact that Kabul just fell and the very interesting history of Afghanistan It'd be very easy for them to just assume the worst or perhaps look at some evidence Which isn't that damning and make a mountain out of a molehill?
03:08:45.000It's very easy But you're saying it was actually very that you believe they were doing a very fair job which impresses me and I'll tell you why I was having a conversation with one of my friends the other day I won't say who and he was talking about a judicial process.
03:08:54.000He's going through and he's saying I Don't know where I can get a free shot anymore. I don't believe in the American judicial system Look what they're doing to Trump. I don't believe in the British judicial system.
03:09:03.000Look at some of the decisions they make.
03:09:04.000If you're an enemy of the state, or if the media don't like you, or if the public don't like you, they will screw you over regardless of how innocent you are.
03:09:11.000And the judge is bought and paid for based on public opinion.
03:09:14.000And he's directly going to do exactly what the prosecutor wants.
03:09:17.000And he was trying to go through and name countries to me and explain to me how difficult it is to have a free and fair judicial system.
03:09:23.000He was explaining to me that the French system is a complete mess.
03:09:26.000The Spanish system is a complete mess.
03:09:28.000The Japanese system is one of the worst.
03:10:41.000And it got to the point where they found me interesting.
03:10:43.000And they were like, you know what? You want to do business here?
03:10:45.000Let's talk business. So I was having picnics with the Taliban intelligence, with the Taliban commanders, with some of the ministers in Afghanistan.
03:10:53.000At this point, it was just one big networking event for me.
03:10:56.000And I rather enjoyed it. That's me in Taliban prison right there.
03:11:17.000No, no. So this is for the small criminals, the people who may have made a small mistake.
03:11:21.000You know, something genuine, something that hasn't directly hurt someone or isn't a huge security risk to Afghans, like a spy or a terrorist.
03:11:28.000So this jail is just a normal guest house being converted.
03:11:38.000You know, if I needed something, I asked them through Google Translate or through the Pashto that I know, and they would get it for me 100% of the time.
03:11:46.000If I wanted, you know, a movie downloaded, I would give them Tim Ashgani or they would pay and they would go to the market and get it for me.
03:11:54.000They went to extreme lengths to get exactly what I wanted.
03:11:57.000And he did it for the other people too that were there.
03:12:59.000Why have I been sold? I can't believe this.
03:13:01.000I invited you on holiday and you said no.
03:13:03.000These are the consequences of your actions.
03:13:05.000You invited me, but you know what? If I would have gone, it's a good thing.
03:13:09.000Allah's the best of planners. Because if I would have gone and whoever your little fucking friends are would have sold me out, they'd have a bigger hell to pay than any jail.
03:13:16.000Of course. Because I'm top G. I'm not having that.
03:13:35.000I went through the jail experience, and in jail with my brother, him and I, one of the ways we were coping with the madness is we were discussing all the scenarios in which we would rather be in Romanian jail than somewhere else.
03:13:49.000The food is bad, it's freezing cold, and there's bed bugs, and we're getting bitten, and this is bad.
03:13:54.000But at least we're not on a U-boat, which has just been hit with a depth charge.
03:13:59.000Or at least we're not in a trench getting shelled in World War II. And I think maybe at some point we probably talked about, well, there's probably worse jails than this one.
03:14:09.000This one's terrible, but there must be worse ones.
03:14:11.000And now you're sitting here telling me that...
03:14:14.000The Taliban jail was 1,000 times better than what I went through.
03:14:19.000Absolutely. Like I said, it was a lovely heartache.
03:14:22.000You know, I could have escaped, Andrew.
03:14:26.000You could have escaped, but because of respect to them.
03:14:28.000Yeah, exactly. And to be honest, I was like, I'm kind of enjoying this.
03:14:31.000I'm kind of enjoying this. You know what's funny about jail?
03:14:34.000Obviously, at some point, you always consider escape.
03:14:36.000Yeah, always. Because you're sitting there like, could I get out of this?
03:14:39.000Because you have all the time in the world and you're trapped.
03:14:41.000And you ultimately come to the conclusion that nearly any jail, whether it's American, Romanian, Taliban, Turkish, your name of country, Japanese, anything, the way you can get out is to betray the trust of people who are nice to you.
03:15:38.000At one point, because I was arrested with a thousand dollars, anything you're arrested with, apart from a phone, let's say, you're allowed to have.
03:15:45.000So, of course, they gave me that thousand dollars.
03:18:38.000Yeah, yeah. So he believes Joe Biden is speaking to him through satellites.
03:18:43.000Isn't there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he also believes he is a big leader of ISIS. He also believes he's founded, what was it, Al-Qaeda, and he also founded, what was it, Al-Shabaab, the Somalian terrorist.
03:18:58.000So he believes he's part of this big network.
03:19:00.000I find his Facebook at one point when I get out, by the way.
03:19:03.000Complete crap show. I think he's either the worst US asset in the world, or he's just completely insane.
03:20:07.000They had good reason to suspect spies were in the country.
03:20:09.000Sometimes I'll be walking around the house and a new guy would arrive and he would walk up to me and go, Hey, I'm CIA. I'm like, what the fuck?
03:20:16.000And he would go, yeah, yeah, so you're British, right?
03:20:18.000So you're with your guys. Hey, what's the plan?
03:20:20.000Have you heard anything from the outside?
03:20:21.000I'm like, hey, I'm not in your fucking world, man.
03:20:23.000All right, but yeah, heard from the outside is a good question, though.
03:20:25.000How did you contact? Did anyone know you were safe?
03:20:27.000How did you contact anyone? Did you speak to anyone?
03:20:29.000Were you allowed a phone call? How did it work?
03:20:31.000I had monthly phone calls. I could call my MC anytime I wanted.
03:20:34.000Like, it was in Doha, so I could call them.
03:20:36.000I was allowed supervised calls to my people, so I could call my friends.
03:20:40.000How often could you call your friends?
03:21:42.000And even after court, when we were waiting for our decision to go home, my brother had so little faith and so little nerves, he'd just go straight to sleep.
03:22:07.000So every time he'd sleep, because for court you had to be up early so you were tired, and like this time he was asleep, and we got the piece of paper saying yes, and I'm like, Tristan!
03:22:54.000Oh, it was incredible. But yeah, my brother didn't care.
03:22:57.000So for you, it was the same. It came out of absolute number?
03:22:59.000They gave me an hour. They said, Miles, you're going somewhere an hour.
03:23:02.000Did they tell you why they decided to let you go?
03:23:05.000Like, what did they say? After a while, they said, hey, Miles, we gave you the minimum sentence of six months because we think you're a top guy.
03:23:09.000We actually like you. I was like, oh, the Taliban like me.
03:23:12.000Lovely stuff. And he said, oh, yes, very sorry.
03:23:15.000Paperwork and bureaucracy, because there's no embassy here for British.
03:23:18.000It took a little bit longer. And because we wanted you to be released with the other British people who were actually convicted, being spies, by the way, they came with me.
03:23:27.000So they said, okay, Miles, it's been eight months.
03:23:28.000Very sorry about this, but you're going home now.
03:24:12.000This might not be the end. I might not be released, but we'll see.
03:24:14.000We'll see. And I went to the Taliban at this point, and one of my friends, one of the commanders, I can't say his name, but he said, Lovely bloke.
03:24:21.000And I know he's watching this, so thank you, Commander.
03:25:39.000And it's kind of funny, at the fall of Kabul, I remember seeing loads of memes on Twitter when it showed, like, all the Taliban, like, charging at the previously held American fortifications.
03:25:48.000Imagine you and your boys just picking up AKs and just...
03:28:34.000I spoke to some people and they said, yeah, here you go, man.
03:28:37.000Same day stuff. It was very, very straightforward.
03:28:40.000Okay. So now that you've faced these life and death situations, how do you view the everyday challenges that most people in the West complain about?
03:28:46.000Like, what do you think the average...
03:32:13.000It's nothing. Everyone, when they hear the word Afghanistan, they hear that scary music and they go, oh, I'll shiver my timbers, Afghanistan.
03:32:20.000That's like, you step off the flight, your head explodes.
03:34:06.000I'm just my brain, somewhere else, man.
03:34:09.000You know what happens? Well, when they came in and interviewed me every single time, when they came in, I said, oh, welcome to my office, please take a seat.
03:34:15.000They would chuckle with us because it's just this grand confidence.
03:34:19.000And in the end, from that, they learned, hey, you do business?
03:34:21.000I go, yeah, yeah. And I started pitching to the Taliban my business as I'm being interviewed.
03:34:26.000You see what I mean? And they like it and they pass it on.
03:34:29.000They go, you know, this guy's onto something.
03:34:31.000He can make something out of this situation in our country.
03:34:35.000He seems alright. I mean, it got to the point where this guy's making a lot of sense.
03:34:40.000So I could have been in a situation where I just sit in the corner, chattering at my nails, crying a little bit, shouting at them, disrespecting them like a lot of people did.
03:35:13.000The whole thing is with my travels, it's a very goofy front, but you must understand, I briefly worked in investment banking, which is a very hard field to get into.
03:35:36.000I have five different plans if something goes wrong.
03:35:39.000Contingencies. Yeah, I had five different contingency plans.
03:35:41.000So when I didn't stop an email sending out for a few days, my contingency plan, the PDF, got sent automatically to a few friends saying, this is how you sort out my affairs, this is how you log into my social media, this is what you say, this type of stuff.
03:35:56.000You do know I was trying to get you out, don't you?
03:35:58.000Oh, you were? Oh, you're my top chief man.
03:36:46.000And the lesson we're going to extrapolate is the fact that these people who you were supposed to do business with and make money with went there, sold you out, and put you in an unfavorable position.
03:36:52.000And me, someone who you had met for one hour once in your life ever, was trying to save you.
03:36:57.000Which shows you need to know important people, and you need to have high-value people around you, which makes it extremely important.
03:37:02.000I say to people all the time, I know guys and they say, oh, he's my friend.
03:37:05.000And I say, well, he's a loser. Oh, but he's funny.
03:37:07.000But he's useless. Why are you talking to this person?
03:37:10.000The best, at his most competent, he can hurt you.
03:37:43.000I can't say who, but a very close friend.
03:37:45.000And what about your views on family and God and tradition?
03:37:49.000Like surely they were, were they, did they have any strong traditions or is there anything about them you, you witnessed that you admired or did anything evolve with your time there?
03:37:56.000Did you see how their society functions?
03:37:58.000Because I know absolutely nothing until my visits.
03:38:01.000I'm going to come see the Taliban one day, but I'm assuming.
03:38:04.000And of course, like I said, I'm a professional and as a professional, I just know life generally, I don't have any studies to back this up, but I'm assuming with a less powerful government, although people are afraid of it, of course, people respect it as you've just described, I guess.
03:38:18.000Family is a huge part of remain retaining social cohesion, right?
03:38:22.000Yes, they've got a lot of autonomy in their area and the social unit is very important to them, Andrew.
03:38:28.000The thing is they have very big families that carry on for generations and they always live underneath one roof, looking after one another, having each other's back and there's that strong societal trust that you just don't get in the West, which I really do respect.
03:38:41.000And that's why we found common ground too.
03:38:43.000They asked me, why was it in Inglestand?
03:40:48.000I'm Catholic. I don't like this whole thing where people wear green.
03:40:51.000I can't sit here and agree with the Taliban on that.
03:40:53.000Yeah, you absolutely can, but The Matrix, they just want you to say, oh no, they're mistreating everyone.
03:41:01.000No, they're not. Things are pretty well there.
03:41:03.000If you speak to the average Afghan, they say things are good.
03:41:05.000You can't find one article out there where one Afghan says a good thing because, of course, the Western media do not I've spoken to Afghans who are living in London, so they have no pressures to say good things.
03:41:17.000They pulled me aside and said, you know what, Miles?
03:41:35.000Is that how they know me, TikTok? I think so.
03:41:37.000Yeah. Yeah. I think they come across you a few times.
03:41:39.000They've seen our videos too, that we did together.
03:41:42.000Yeah. You know what? Obviously they're not up to our Western standards and they're never going to be because it's a whole different ideology, but they're going more and more towards us.
03:41:52.000They're relating. There's more common ground.
03:41:55.000You know what I think? I think we give them some support.
03:42:13.000Very, very limited. I do know there was meant to be a meeting between MI6 and the Afghanistan government.
03:42:20.000Yeah, yes. But Pakistan ISI, that's the Pakistani intelligence, called the British up and said, hey, bad security situation, which is mostly a lie.
03:42:31.000100%. If you go to Afghanistan, you feel very safe because there's soldiers everywhere patrolling the place, keeping, you know, the everyday citizens safe.
03:42:55.000Did you see homeless people, hungry people?
03:42:57.000Were people struggling there? People must be struggling.
03:42:59.000I have to admit, people are struggling.
03:43:01.000The situation is not good, but you know what I see the Taliban doing?
03:43:05.000Every single day, the Taliban go out with any extra food they have and they give it to people.
03:43:11.000If you see someone hungry, there will always be someone that comes around a few minutes later and gives them food and gives them shelter and gives them something.
03:43:17.000And that's a perfect way for me to go into what I do with Tate Pledge because we try our best to feed people and I think that's one of the most basic Things you can do.
03:43:25.000It's very tangible. When you give somebody who is hungry a meal, it's very tangible and easy to feel.
03:43:30.000A lot of these NGOs and charities, they want to turn up and put up banners and talk garbage.
03:43:33.000But that doesn't help anybody. When someone is hungry, they need food.
03:43:36.000So I'm going to quickly show a tape pledge video, then we're going to have a little Q&A. And, uh, bro, I'm glad you're out.
03:43:42.000Let's put it that way. And I'm a little bit jealous of your jail.
03:43:44.000I genuinely believe there's no better karmic bonus to life than feeding starving kids.
03:43:49.000Kids who can't eat, get a meal with your neighbor.
03:44:06.000It's such an honor to be able to be of service to them.
03:44:08.000The Prophet Muhammad taught that the most beloved deed to Allah is to fill the stomach of the hungry, to help those that are facing times of difficulty.
03:44:16.000And we're here in a very remote village that is very impoverished and filled with orphans and needy women.
03:44:21.000Alhamdulillah, providing maybe one of the only hot meals they get throughout the year.
03:44:25.000And this was made possible thanks to the generous donation of Andrew and Tristan Tate with the War Room.
03:44:29.000So may Allah reward you guys and bless you guys for your generous support today.
03:44:32.000It's such an honor to be able to bring smiles to all these beautiful faces.
03:45:04.000If you just search Lord Miles, I will definitely be at the top.
03:45:07.000I recommend everybody follow this guy on Twitter because it sounds like you have some stories and you're going to be going back there.
03:45:12.000And you've also shown me some other stuff you've done, which you keep telling me is fine to show, but I refuse to show because I'm telling you the Matrix is going to wreck you, my friend.
03:45:20.000So we're not going to show it. It's up to you if you want to say it on Twitter.
03:46:03.000They're not me, man. You're just going to smile your way through it.
03:46:05.000No, no, I have a grand plan, but I can't reveal it.
03:46:07.000I can't reveal it. Darien Gap 2, so that's 50 miles of narco kind of territory between Colombia and Panama, one of the most dangerous jungles of the world.
03:46:17.00020% of people who enter do not come out alive.
03:46:19.000There's literally skulls on spikes around there.
03:46:22.000I went to Snake Island 2, actually the second most dangerous island of the world.
03:46:26.000Per West... Per one square foot, there's one snake.
03:46:29.000If you get bitten by it, your organs liquefy.
03:46:35.000I wore a suit of medieval armor, so snakes can't buy through armor.
03:46:38.000So I walked around like a little can, you know, just snakes can't get through this.
03:46:43.000I've been to the front lines of Ukraine a few times.
03:46:45.000I got bored around Christmas time, so I popped down there.
03:46:47.000Every single war zone in the last two years, I have been to.
03:46:51.000Also, when Iran had issues with Afghanistan, I heard about the news through my Tali bros, my good friends, and I begged the Taliban commander.
03:47:00.000I said, please, man, let me go there under a supervised visit.
03:47:02.000I will film for you, but of course, I was in custody.
03:47:46.000And to be honest, because God has a great sense of humour, I think I'm going to one day die at the age of 110 by slipping on a banana peel.
03:47:56.000Well, it's certainly the British spirit because the British conquered the entire world by doing extremely dangerous things and going to very dangerous places.
03:48:03.000That's what made Britain the empire it was.
03:48:05.000You are certainly perhaps a throwback to the age-old British Mentality of, who cares?
03:48:11.000It might be dangerous. It'll be fine, old chap.
03:49:56.000And I don't see anyone else having signature shoes.
03:49:59.000These are a piece of history and I'm auctioning it off on my Twitter.
03:50:03.000So if you want to bid on them, have a little piece of my life.
03:50:07.000Have fun bidding. Yeah, and heaven forbid, heaven forbid, I'll pray for you every day, but if anything does happen to you, that's going to be worth a lot of money.
03:50:14.000You know, when I was in Taliban prison, you were still in prison for a short period of time.
03:50:17.000I was praying for you, man. Because I wasn't worried about myself.
03:50:20.000I was worried about you. Bro, it's crazy.
03:50:22.000That's pretty funny. And then I got out and I'm trying to break you out.
03:50:25.000Bro, crazy. When I escape this matrix attack, we're going to deal with your little friends.
03:50:28.000Yeah, good man. That's right. Thank you.