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02:02:06.000A history lesson. We know I love history.
02:02:08.000This is a historical emergency meeting where we're going to talk about times of the past that were particularly interesting to live within.
02:02:15.000We're going to talk about the Iron Curtain.
02:02:16.000And if you don't know what the Iron Curtain is, you're going to learn all about it on this very interesting history-orientated emergency meeting.
02:02:24.000Before we get started, because my brother can't control his mouth, You think I'm going to say something stupid?
02:03:10.000The culture presented in this program is a lie, and the mainstream media always tell the truth.
02:03:12.000COVID is true, and you should be a vegan, and everything Andrew says isn't real.
02:03:14.000Don't use your words against him in court because he's a liar, and he really loves President Biden and Grant Thunberg.
02:03:18.000Please don't take this program seriously, and get your boots and rejection as soon as possible.
02:03:21.000Women can drive very well if your discretion is advised.
02:03:26.000Right, so, now that that's been taken care of, I'm going to start nice and serious, because this is a serious emergency meeting today.
02:03:34.000I am an amateur historian who loves history.
02:03:39.000Love studying it. Love learning about it.
02:03:41.000Love knowing about it. And we're going to talk about one of the most interesting times in history.
02:03:45.000All the James Bond novels are set around this time.
02:03:48.000All the coolest spy shit happened around this time.
02:03:51.000The great chess game of espionage was played during this time.
02:03:55.000And we're talking of course about the time of the Iron Curtain.
02:03:59.000Now... A few people watching, because we have some younger viewers, may not know what the Iron Curtain was because it doesn't exist anymore in any form, obviously.
02:04:07.000So what we're going to do is we're going to explain very quickly what the Iron Curtain was.
02:04:11.000The Iron Curtain was the nickname because the world's second largest superpower at the time was the USSR. It was not Russia.
02:04:19.000It was the USSR. Ukraine wasn't a country back then.
02:04:22.000Funny. Moscow was the capital of the entire USSR. And the USSR states Had a very, very strong military.
02:04:31.000They enforced their border super securely with their military, Kalashnikovs and tanks.
02:04:36.000And it was called the Iron Curtain because nothing the West said or did could get through the Iron Curtain.
02:04:46.000It was a strong border that stretched from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, all the way down to modern day sort of Moldova and covered a lot of the Eastern European countries.
02:04:56.000So... That's what the Iron Curtain was, if you did not know that, and I see you pulling stupid faces.
02:05:02.000So now that we know that the Iron Curtain is a thing of the past, it fell apart in the late 80s, early 90s.
02:05:12.000All the Eastern European countries got their autonomy back.
02:05:16.000Russia was no longer in charge of all of these nations, and everyone got their independence back.
02:05:20.000But at the time of the Iron Curtain, it was a very interesting time to be alive.
02:05:24.000And nothing like the Iron Curtain will ever exist again, obviously.
02:05:27.000So we're going to talk about some of the key features of the Iron Curtain and the things that the world's second biggest superpower did to maintain control over its people.
02:05:38.000And obviously nothing like this exists at all today.
02:05:41.000Yeah, so as my brother was saying, you're getting me at my own game.
02:06:13.000For those of you who don't know history, let me give you a quick overview.
02:06:15.000World War II happened. The good guys, that's a very interesting rabbit hole, won.
02:06:22.000And then it was the West and its democracy versus the East, the Soviets, and their communism.
02:06:30.000And a war began in which the Soviets were attempting to spread communism around the planet and the democratic nations were attempting to spread democracy around the planet.
02:06:37.000The communists obviously wanted more We're good to go.
02:06:59.000The Vietnam War, the Korean War, why Korea is still split in two to this day.
02:07:07.000All of this was based around communism.
02:07:08.000So during this, there was a Cold War where America and Russia didn't directly fight each other, but they were at war in terms of information.
02:07:17.000It was a nuclear arms race, and the Iron Curtain was erected, as my brother said.
02:07:22.000Where people who lived behind the Iron Curtain had to live in a very strange type of life.
02:07:27.000And now that the Iron Curtain's fallen, we've obviously seen and most people acknowledge that they were the bad guys because they took away a lot of the basic freedoms that people are supposed to have.
02:07:34.000And we're going to discuss the Iron Curtain and how it worked and how crazy it would have been to live during those times.
02:07:39.000So for you who are not particularly versed on history, we're first going to play a very quick overview of what life was like inside of the Iron Curtain.
02:07:51.000The phrase, Iron Curtain, is frequently used in relation to the Cold War era.
02:07:55.000What exactly does this phrase mean, and why was it used?
02:07:58.000In 1946, during a speech to Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill used the phrase, Iron Curtain, to describe the divide between Western and Eastern Europe following the end of World War II. From Stittain, in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent.
02:08:17.000The nations of Eastern Europe were communist dictatorships with little personal freedom granted to their citizens.
02:08:22.000People were not allowed to travel freely and it was often difficult to get accurate information in and out of these nations.
02:08:29.000The concept of the Iron Curtain was best defined by the rivalry between what came to be known as NATO and the Warsaw Pact states which operated under Soviet influence.
02:08:37.000In 1949, the United States, along with the United Kingdom, France, Canada, and eight other nations, signed a treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also known as NATO. The member nations agreed that an armed attack against any one of them would be viewed and treated as an armed attack against all of them.
02:08:55.000Therefore, the members pledged that if any one nation was attacked by the Soviet Union or another communist state, that the other member nations would retaliate in an appropriate manner.
02:09:04.000Several years later, in 1955, the Eastern European nations created the Warsaw Pact.
02:09:09.000Led by the Soviet Union, eight communist nations, including East Germany, Poland, Romania, and several others, established a mutual defense treaty.
02:09:17.000Although the nations of NATO never fought an actual war against the Warsaw Pact nations, the feud between the rival factions persisted for 36 years in the form of the Cold War.
02:09:25.000The Warsaw Pact officially disbanded in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
02:09:32.000That's right, the feud officially continued for 36 years between NATO and Russia.
02:09:54.000Here we are. We're going to talk about life inside the Iron Curtain.
02:09:56.000I found some very interesting statistics about life inside the Iron Curtain.
02:09:58.000I think we should read out to people so they understand that when you were living inside of something as crazy as the Iron Curtain, perhaps afterwards, retrospectively, you could look back on the life you were living and think, wow, all of my freedoms were curtailed.
02:10:13.000Wow! I was part of a crazy dictatorship, a crazy, insane government that was only interested in controlling the citizen as opposed to any degree of individual freedom.
02:10:24.000And you would look back and think how nuts that is.
02:10:26.000But maybe while you were living inside of the Iron Curtain, maybe at the time you didn't really notice just how crazy things were.
02:10:36.000Okay. Inside of the Iron Curtain, there was one party rule.
02:10:41.000One party rule. Now, to you Americans, I mean, that must sound absolutely crazy to have one party that secretly controls everything, no matter what.
02:11:26.000And we're very lucky to have a democratic system today, because democracy is great, where you can vote for different parties that are completely different and definitely do loads of very different things.
02:11:37.000Here are the numbers you need to understand.
02:11:39.000Yale University released a study last week by three researchers, all of them liberal, I believe, who concluded that the actual number of illegal aliens in this country is not 11 million.
02:14:07.000Some crazy right-wing conspiracists have said that London is the most CCTV'd city on planet Earth, but that can't be, because London, you see, is outside of the Iron Curtain.
02:14:18.000Yeah. So it can't be that London is the most surveilled city on Earth.
02:14:23.000I mean, that simply wouldn't be possible.
02:14:25.000Well, it can't be, because if London was the most surveilled city on Earth, surely there wouldn't be stabbings, rapings, watch robberies, everything.
02:14:30.000Everyone wouldn't get broken into. It wouldn't be one of the most dangerous Western cities, right?
02:14:33.000Yeah, because that guy who threw acid in everyone's face last week, they would have caught him by now.
02:14:36.000Oh, yeah. He wouldn't just be roaming around.
02:14:38.000You know what? I wonder if you throw acid...
02:15:05.000But obviously, I mean, like him or hate him, if you're Tommy Robinson and you're sitting down eating lunch, they can find you in a minute and they'll arrest you because you're too close to protest.
02:15:11.000If you're sitting eating lunch, they'll find you in five seconds.
02:15:14.000But if you throw acid in women's faces, no, London can't possibly be the most surveyed city in the world.
02:15:21.000I actually have a video here that proves that we live in freedom and that we're not spied on all the time like the people were in the Iron Curtain because people in the Iron Curtain were constantly surveyed.
02:15:31.000Wild. And everything they did was being watched, which must have been scary.
02:16:24.000So, I mean, if your mobile phone was tracking everywhere you go and listening to everything you say, and if the Patriot Act was not designed to protect us and allow them to spy on anyone they want all the time, then we would be under constant surveillance in case we say anything bad against the state, because the state is a one-party dictatorship.
02:16:40.000And if you talk against the thinking they want you to have, then you end up in jail if you lived inside the Iron Curtain.
02:17:14.000Right. This is real conclusive evidence, once and for all, that we don't live in the Iron Curtain.
02:17:21.000Because as I said earlier, the people who lived inside the Iron Curtain probably didn't realize how crazy their lives were until afterwards, until the retrospect Allowed them to look back on exactly what degree of slave they were.
02:17:31.000I'm sure at the time they had no conception of how enslaved they actually were in their day-to-day lives.
02:17:36.000And this is actually a fantastic piece of evidence to prove that we do not live in an Iron Curtain of any kind and that only the bad guys do Iron Curtains during the Cold War and everything's fine now.
02:17:47.000Because during the Iron Curtain, news was manipulated by the governments to serve ideological purposes.
02:20:40.000Exactly. Okay. So it was a donkey with the head of a horse, and also, uniquely, the body of a horse, which identified as a donkey, which was transgender, and it...
02:20:58.000Firm, thank. Because genitals have nothing to do with your gender, but because you want to change gender, you still have to chop up your genitals, even though they're not related.
02:21:06.000Great. You understand. We're in business.
02:21:08.000And then the donkey told a very harrowing story about how it's not a lesbian.
02:21:14.000Okay. Because even though it was female, And like females.
02:21:20.000It's actually a man horse that likes females.
02:21:58.000They'd never do that to us because we're free in the West.
02:22:00.000No, no, no. I mean, we're free. I mean, obviously, when coronavirus was very, very dangerous and deadly, they had to stop everyone and lock them in their house for many, many years in countries like Australia and Israel and all the countries that did the strictest lockdowns.
02:22:10.000They locked everyone in their house. Forever, for many years, and loads of people died.
02:22:14.000But that was because of a very deadly virus.
02:22:17.000They'd never do it just to control us.
02:22:19.000That's the kind of stuff they did in the Iron Curtain, Andrew.
02:22:22.000Yeah, because here in the Free West, what's really great is diseases come in which they have to destroy your whole life, and you can't go anywhere.
02:22:31.000And then one day, Putin invades Ukraine, so everyone stops talking about it.
02:22:55.000Okay, great. So the germs, what happens to the germs?
02:23:00.000No, because they're terrorizing our whole life, and they're here, and everyone has to be scared, and wear a mask, you're not allowed to go outside, you're not allowed to eat at restaurants, you're not allowed to see your loved ones, you're not allowed to go to funerals, you're not allowed to do anything.
02:26:22.000Look, be very happy we don't live behind the Iron Curtain because what happens in free democracies is they quadruple the prices on everything and your ass gets eaten by inflation so no one can buy the things so they never run out in stores.
02:26:39.000Yeah, I mean, we have no problem at all in the West with food security, farmers complaining, the fact that the stores are now getting empty of some goods, the fact that the average price of food has doubled in less than a year.
02:27:28.000There was a lack... A variety in the consumer products available.
02:27:32.000Right, so you're telling me in the Iron Curtain a few key companies owned and controlled absolutely everything you could buy.
02:27:39.000So, like, they, for example, like, if we lived in Iron Curtain today, which we don't, like, one or two massive food companies would control absolutely all of the food and fill it with sugar and poison.
02:27:49.000Yeah, there was a company, I think, in the Iron Curtain called Rock Black and Guard Van.
02:27:53.000Yes. And they owned all of the companies that you purchase in basically any store.
02:27:58.000So you have the illusion of choice, but really it's all controlled by the companies that were in control of the government and everything else behind the Iron Curtain.
02:28:06.000Exactly. Because here, no, in the West, we have Pepsi, Coke, Fanta, Red Bull, they're all independent companies.
02:28:25.000Look at how abundant our food sources is.
02:28:27.000This is amazing. I'm so glad we live in a democratic, free society.
02:28:31.000It really depends where you go, but here at Highland Park Market, they've been struggling to keep certain items in stock, like orange juice and frozen food products.
02:28:39.000A spokesperson telling me COVID is definitely the driving force to this national issue.
02:28:44.000It's very evident though when you walk through any store that there's things that are missing on the shelves.
02:28:54.000Danita Sulik is one of the many loyal customers of Highland Park Market in Manchester.
02:29:00.000But lately, the way she grocery shops has changed for two reasons.
02:29:04.000One, her preferred items are not yet available.
02:29:32.000Don't live in the Iron Curtain. Don't live in the Iron Curtain.
02:29:34.000So apparently, Andrew, in the Iron Curtain, housing was often assigned by the state with limited choice.
02:29:40.000Thank fuck we have freedom because here in the West, it's not like every single property in the last 30 years has quadrupled in price so nobody can ever move out of the neighborhoods they were born in ever.
02:29:52.000It's not like poor people have to live where poor people live and rich people live where rich people live and there's no social mobility because no one can Ever on the biggest salaries ever afford to buy a house in the nice areas.
02:30:02.000No, no, no, no, no. We live in the free West.
02:30:05.000There's absolutely no way that the government has any hand in who lives where.
02:30:12.000In the West, you're so free to live where you want.
02:30:14.000You can live anywhere. You can just rock up in a tent.
02:30:16.000Look at this picture. On the left, we have the insane Iron Curtain where you were allocated a house and you weren't allowed to move because you couldn't afford it.
02:30:23.000And on the right, we have the free democracy because we don't live in the Iron Curtain where you can live wherever you like.
02:30:28.000And let's be honest. I mean, it's clear...
02:30:35.000Well, obviously on the right. I mean, I don't want to live behind some kind of insane dictatorship where the price of the average house is so high the average person can't afford it and they're born in a low-income area and they make low wages and inflation destroys them and they can't afford food so they can never save up money so they can never move into a nicer area so basically they have no social mobility.
02:30:51.000Are you insinuating that the government in any hand, in any way, controls where people live?
02:30:56.000Because we're free. If you're born in a low-income household, most people get a job, and they can just afford to buy a nice house in a nice neighborhood, and their wife can afford to not work, and they can have kids and a nice car, because that's the way.
02:31:36.000So all the farms had to be owned by these few companies.
02:31:39.000That's wild. These few companies inside the Iron Curtain, like Rock Black and Guard Van.
02:31:45.000Guard Van, yeah. And they would make it basically impossible...
02:31:48.000For anybody to be an independent farmer, because if they tried, they would hit him with such insane taxes.
02:31:55.000And I guess the people would protest and would block the streets and would complain against the European Union.
02:32:00.000I mean, the Russian Union, the USSR, the USSR, the CCP. And they would try and stop all their farms being stolen by these huge, large companies.
02:32:09.000Because now, in the Free West, our leaders, I think, I'm not really into the agriculture, I don't really grow anything, I don't know, but I assume, living in the Free West, that the government says, hey guys, you're growing food, very important job, you're the farmers.
02:32:50.000So it can all be bought by a few key people and they can have total control over the food supply and the water and everything everyone eats?
02:33:00.000Well, the reason they did that in the Iron Curtain is so that they could keep the population on the verge of starvation.
02:33:05.000So they had to behave to get their bread.
02:33:08.000Because if they tried to complain about, I don't know, what the political party was doing, then they would lose their access to food because food wasn't abundant.
02:33:16.000So starvation would keep them in line, and they could only do that by collecticizing all of the farms together so they could control them all at once under one massive company.
02:33:25.000Because if they were independent, then the free market would ensure that food always existed.
02:33:30.000So that's why they had to make sure that didn't happen.
02:33:32.000Well, I do love history, but these facts about the Iron Curtain are blowing my mind.
02:33:35.000I can't possibly imagine anyone in the Free West living this way.
02:33:38.000The farmers in the West are so happy with the freedoms they're given.
02:33:46.000I think they were on the streets showing their appreciation to the European Union.
02:33:51.000Yes. They were so happy with the European Union that, I mean, some of their tractors may have spilled shit all over the government buildings, but they were gifting the state, you know, free bales of hay that were on fire and things that were important to them because they just really loved how the governments treated them and how much freedom they were given to grow food, which isn't a very important job, as we know.
02:34:12.000I mean, look at these farmers who are super happy with the European Union.
02:34:17.000These farmers, I mean, this was only last week.
02:34:20.000So it's a good thing we don't live in the Iron Curtain.
02:34:21.000These guys have blocked all the major roads to a country and blocked off access to the airport because they're so happy that they are not being taxed into oblivion so that the government can control all the state-owned farms and force us to live in communism.
02:34:36.000Look at the appreciation these guys show.
02:34:48.000And it's amazing that, you know, the farmers show that appreciation.
02:34:51.000It's very important because we do not live in the Iron Road.
02:34:54.000Yeah, because, I mean, obviously plowing the fields and planting the seeds isn't as important as driving to the middle of the cities and blocking off all the roads and airports to show the government how happy you are with them.
02:35:57.000The education system was used to indoctrinate children with ideology.
02:36:04.000I mean, education is obviously about teaching kids, you know?
02:36:09.000We need to teach the children math, science, geography, geology, all the important things to be functioning members of the great Western democracies like France, England, Australia, etc.
02:36:22.000We couldn't possibly waste money, because obviously the state pays for education, indoctrinating kids with crazy ideology, because when would they learn the math?
02:36:31.000Yeah, that'd be crazy. You wouldn't just send kids to school to teach them a bunch of garbage that you want them to believe.
02:36:36.000I mean, that's not what school is for.
02:36:38.000And here in the West, outside of the Iron Curtain, we know that.
02:36:42.000And we respect parents' rights to teach their kids, you know, about morality and sex and stuff at home.
02:36:49.000So what we do in the schools in the West is we teach math and science and geography.
02:36:54.000Because we live in a free democratic society.
02:36:56.000We don't live in some crazy communist dictatorship where they're trying to brainwash all the children because children's minds are not yet fully formed.
02:37:01.000So they can inject ideologies inside of them that they would never believe as an adult because they've already come to worldviews which have been reinforced by reality.
02:37:08.000So what they want to do is take children while they're supple and malleable and put ideas in their mind which confuse them for the rest of their lives.
02:37:36.000I actually have to give credit, because not only in the West do we care so much about the freedom of people and freedom of people's ideas to come up with their own conclusions.
02:37:45.000Think about this. In the West, we allow people to just think what they want.
02:37:50.000And if they want to watch a particular content creator, which they find value from and they believe is telling them important things, then they can watch them freely without being demonized, right?
02:37:57.000Because in the Iron Curtain, if you believed or listened to the words of someone who was seen to be against the government or a dissident or somebody who was seen as bad, What they would do is they would do presentations in the school and in the education system saying, don't listen to this person.
02:38:12.000He's telling you bad things about the government.
02:38:14.000And that's why I'm so glad that doesn't happen in the West.
02:38:17.000I know they do presentations about me, particularly in British schools, trying to convince all the students not to watch our show and not to listen to us.
02:38:25.000But they do that because people are so free in the West that they're free to only listen to the people they like and not free to listen to the people the government doesn't like Yes.
02:38:35.000Because if they were free to listen to people the government doesn't like, they might come to conclusions in their own mind, which would be against their freedom, because their freedom has relied on them having the same conclusions that the government has, which is why the UK schools try and stop everyone listening to us for their freedom.
02:38:50.000Yes. Did you hear what happened in 1965 to that other guy?
02:38:53.000I think because the state controlled all the media in the Iron Curtain, and this guy was questioning very basic things that were happening within the Iron Curtain, and the media, which was completely controlled by the state, called this man, I believe his name was Brussel Rand, a rapist!
02:39:08.000Wow. All of the media called this guy a rapist.
02:39:11.000The state-controlled media called Brussel Rand in the Iron Curtain in 1965 a rapist.
02:39:16.000Just to try and discredit his message.
02:39:18.000They didn't say he's wrong. They didn't say he's asking the wrong questions.
02:39:47.000Back in Soviet Russia, Ulyan Jasanj got the double treatment.
02:39:52.000He got called a rapist, then put in permanent jail.
02:39:55.000Permajail! For talking about things the government didn't want him to do.
02:39:58.000Permajail! Now, that would never happen today to any free citizen in the West.
02:40:04.000The Iron Curtain did this to a man named Ulyan Jasanj.
02:40:08.000It must have been scary during the Iron Curtain, because you know what?
02:40:10.000I bet the people who were in charge of the country, like the leaders, they'd sit around the parliament, and they'd talk about the people they don't like, and they'd be like, hey guys, this guy's really bad because he's telling people things at home that's going to make them think for themselves.
02:40:26.000We have to get rid of his ideology, so all the leaders of the country would stand around talking about how they can destroy someone's life so he can't tell the truth anymore.
02:40:33.000That would be crazy. He reported that schools across the UK are in crisis as the effects of online influencer Andrew Tate's vile misogyny infiltrates our classrooms and society.
02:40:43.000Teachers are now having to develop their own resources to re-educate boys who are being brainwashed online by his deeply toxic messaging.
02:40:50.000The Prime Minister has been too slow to recognise the damages this is causing.
02:40:54.000What has he done? What is this Government doing to tackle this misogyny, this incel culture and the radicalisation of young men in this country?
02:41:01.000And will he commit to giving teachers the resources that they need to address this problem head on?
02:41:06.000Mr Speaker, with regard to funding, we announced in the autumn statement £2 billion of extra funding for our schools.
02:41:14.000But I'm also proud that this Government has introduced the...
02:41:18.000You know what's crazy? Imagine living during the Iron Curtain when the most powerful people in the world are standing around in rooms talking about how your life needs to be destroyed and you need to be put in jail.
02:41:29.000I bet the people in that position are extremely intimidated and must be living in fear.
02:41:33.000Anyway, I'm glad we're not in that position because I'm extremely scary Tristan.
02:41:51.000That video you just played, it must be from North Korea.
02:41:53.000That would be terrible! Because North Korea is the only place that still lives behind an iron curtain today.
02:41:57.000That can't be somewhere in the free desert.
02:41:58.000Why not have an opinion and saying, hey guys, here's my opinion.
02:42:01.000Do you agree with my opinion? What do you think about it?
02:42:02.000And people in charge of the country that you're from, that you hold the passport for, stand around in rooms, in the most powerful room in the entire country, and decide to try and ruin your life and put you in jail for something you didn't do, like human trafficking, to try and destroy your entire life because you told people to think for themselves.
02:42:43.000I want to give absolute credit because not many people understand the degree of bravery it would take to have people that powerful out to destroy your life, take you away from your children, lock you in a room for the rest of your human years, and to still sit and tell the truth because you believe God has entrusted you to educate the public.
02:43:00.000That takes a degree of bravery that most people underappreciate.
02:43:03.000And I want to give absolute credit to anyone who's ever been in that position during the Iron Curtain and continues to talk the truth anyway.
02:43:37.000That conversation in my lifetime has never been had, especially not last week or the week before.
02:43:42.000We don't have people saying we need to send all the young men to fight our wars because we're in charge of your bodies and if we send you to go die, you have to go and die.
02:43:50.000That would never happen outside of the Iron Curtain.
02:44:10.000I mean, Britain would never even discuss...
02:44:13.000Ever. Ever. The idea of conscription to go to war against their ideological enemies.
02:44:17.000See, during the Iron Curtain, the men were conscripted to go to war against the democracies, against their ideological enemies.
02:44:24.000Here in a democracy, they would never talk about the fact they're going to conscript all the men, the men they give no freedoms to, the men who aren't allowed to think and don't have food and don't have any rights.
02:44:34.000The poor. And the poor and force them to go fight against our ideological enemies.
02:44:38.000We would never talk about that in the West.
02:44:40.000In fact, I think last week I saw an article in the newspaper discussing exactly how they definitely don't want conscription because they definitely don't want a war with Russia.
02:44:52.000Let me see if I can just find it quickly.
02:44:55.000Yes, because who would want a war with Russia?
02:44:59.000Well, I'm sure the average Russian man didn't want a war with America.
02:45:02.000Yeah, exactly. But he gets forced into it, right?
02:45:04.000Now, obviously, as English people, we have freedom, and we can all stand up and say, obviously, we have no personal beef with Russia, and why would we want to go and fight Russian men?
02:45:12.000If I met a Russian man, I'd buy him a drink.
02:45:14.000However... If we lived in the Iron Curtain, they'd be trying to force us into some stupid war.
02:45:21.000And if this was the Iron Curtain, they wouldn't send their kids.
02:45:25.000Not the kids of the party of the ruling regime.
02:45:28.000No, their kids don't go. No, their kids don't go because it's the Iron Curtain.
02:45:31.000The poor. Yeah, everyone who's not a child of a leader has to go.
02:45:35.000Oh, okay. That makes sense, because you want to maintain control.
02:45:38.000Yeah, like a citizen army, you could call it.
02:45:40.000But the UK would never discuss such a thing, and they would never try and use their biased news organization to try and prep the world for this kind of war.
02:45:46.000That's insane. Nope. Thank God we don't live in the Iron Curtain.
02:45:50.000Next point. It's a really interesting one.
02:45:52.000Ah, this is just what you were saying, Tristan, about the...
02:45:55.000Let me... The appreciation. This is the appreciation of the farmers for letting them have so much freedom.
02:46:35.000So there's no way they'd spray shit all over the government buildings unless they were trying to show a massive appreciation for the freedoms they have because they don't live in the Iron Curtain.
02:46:44.000There's no other reason for them to spray...
02:46:48.000Poo! Everywhere! They must love their governments.
02:46:54.000Those French farmers must really love their leaders.
02:47:49.000Limited religious freedoms inside the Iron Curtain.
02:47:51.000Did you know that? They'd attack the idea of religion because if you believe in God, then you have a strict morality and you understand what's right and what's wrong.
02:47:59.000So they would mock and belittle the idea of God to try and stop you from believing in God because if they can do that, they can convince you of anything.
02:48:07.000But if you believe in God, it's hard to convince you to do bad things because you know it's against your religious principles.
02:48:10.000So let me get this straight. If you're a follower of Jesus or the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and you have strong religious convictions, that obviously supersedes absolutely everything.
02:48:18.000But if you get rid of this behind the Iron Curtain, and that all disappeared, so these countries that were very religious became non-religious because of the Iron Curtain.
02:48:50.000Because, yeah, as you said, if people believe in God, they will come along and say, I don't care what you say or how you try and use your propaganda machine.
02:49:28.000That's right! They've convinced your children that it's cool to mock God so they don't believe, so they have no religious conviction, so they can control everyone.
02:50:33.000Yeah, no, he's at that big trial where he got sentenced to all the time he's now doing in jail.
02:50:37.000Well, he's in jail. He must have had a trial.
02:50:39.000No, he must have had a trial. I mean, this is the Free West.
02:50:41.000The worst thing a government can do to you is come in your house with a bunch of armed men with guns at five o'clock in the morning and drag you to a jail without a trial.
02:50:47.000Yeah, I mean, that's the worst thing a government can do.
02:50:50.000In the Iron Curtain. In the Iron Curtain.
02:50:52.000In the Iron Curtain. Thank God that doesn't happen in the West.
02:51:12.000That guy looks like me. So what would happen is, inside the Iron Curtain...
02:51:18.000Inside the Iron Curtain. Inside the Iron Curtain, what would happen is, the people who were in charge of the country would stand around in the Parliament, or the important building, and they'd discuss how someone's ideas are annoying to them, because it goes against the ideas they're trying to convince everyone of at home with the propaganda machine, and then they'd throw him in jail without trial to teach him a lesson.
02:53:16.000You know what's interesting about slave labor?
02:53:18.000Most people think slave labor means you work for free, but that's not how it works.
02:53:21.000Traditionally, slave labor, what they do is they get to do a job, but they don't pay you enough money to ever get free from the job.
02:53:25.000So you have enough money to pay for your own house and enough money to barely buy food, but you have to continue to go to the job forever.
02:53:29.000That's what makes you a slave. Most people think if you're a slave, you're not getting paid.
02:53:33.000That's incorrect because it actually takes more trouble and more work for them to build you a house and give you food and make you work all the time when you don't want to than it is for them to convince you that you should continue to work and buy your own house and buy your own food with the meager money they give you, but you'll never have enough money to escape the circle that you're in of debt.
02:53:51.000So you're a slave without knowing you're a slave, which means that you're less likely to try and escape.
02:53:56.000But truthfully, you have no way of ever getting out because you're stuck working in the same place, barely eating, and barely paying your rent.
02:54:03.000That's how they used to do slavery in the Iron Curtain.
02:54:05.000You didn't work for free. You worked for so low money that you couldn't escape the No, but in our system, at least, you know, money is real wealth and it's backed by real goods like gold and stuff.
02:54:15.000So when they give us money, they've worked hard for it.
02:54:30.000As much as they like. And you'd do anything for the money.
02:54:33.000And they only gave you barely enough to pay for your house and your food.
02:54:36.000And you never stood a chance of getting out.
02:54:38.000What they've done is enslaved you in a way that prevents you trying to break free.
02:54:42.000Because if they gave you a house and gave you food and made you work, you'd be trying to escape and they'd need guys with guns, etc.
02:54:46.000It's hard. But if they give you a job which barely allows you to afford the same things a slave would get, and you somehow believe you're free, the best prison, of course, is the prison you don't realize you are in.
02:54:55.000You're now a slave with no chance of escape.
02:55:00.000They used to give you very low money in these slave camps, so you could barely afford to live, so you had to continue to be a slave, otherwise you'd starve to death because they controlled all the food and all the houses.
02:55:08.000Okay, wonderful. Thank God we don't live in the Iron Curtain.
02:55:12.000Thank God. I've got a little bit. You read that number 17.
02:55:14.000I've got a few things to say about this.
02:55:15.000Sure. I've got a historical story to share with all of you kids at home.
02:55:18.000Cool. So inside of the Iron Curtain, because they didn't want people to hear the other side of the story, which is, you know, of course, because if you have like this crazy dictatorship and you're controlling everyone's lives, you don't want people to hear how people live outside of the Iron Curtain.
02:55:32.000Of course not. So you have to block access to the other team's media.
02:55:37.000Yes. Right? So thank God we live in a free West where if a journalist wanted to go talk to, I don't know, Vladimir Putin, nobody would be upset about it.
02:55:45.000You know what? It would just be like, oh yeah, he's a journalist and he's doing an interview.
02:55:48.000What's the big deal? Well, in 1979, there was a very famous story in the Iron Curtain where a very brave journalist, I believe his name was Cucker Tarlson, He teamed up with a man named Milan Usk.
02:55:59.000Okay. And he was going to go to America to interview the President of the United States as a journalist from behind the Iron Curtain.
02:56:06.000Can you believe it? Crazy. And this man, Milan Usk, was going to broadcast it to the entire world.
02:56:11.000But the Iron Curtain, because you're behind the Iron Curtain, didn't just say you're a journalist, go do your job.
02:56:46.000If someone wanted to go to maybe the world's second biggest superpower and interview the leader because it's very important to hear what that man has to say, we'd just let him go.
02:56:55.000And the people broadcasting it would receive no backlash.
02:56:58.000Everyone would be grateful, including and especially the people in charge.
02:57:02.000They'd say, yes, educate the people at home.
02:57:05.000You don't have to agree with what the opposition leader says, but let's at least hear his side of the story.
02:57:10.000You're free to hear it because we're so correct and he's so bad that when you hear him, you'll agree more with us.
02:57:18.000I think that's what would happen in the West if a journalist tried to go to, let's say, Russia to interview their president.
02:57:24.000Which is why on Western News you always see Putin's unedited speeches.
02:57:29.000Yes. You see Chinese leaders' unedited speeches.
02:57:32.000What life is really like in Moscow, the opinions of Russian people, the opinions of Russian people living in places like Crimea and the Donbass.
02:57:40.000You hear unedited, completely normal, uncensored opinions from ethnic Russians all the time.
02:57:47.000Of course. Because we allow you to hear both sides of the story.
02:57:50.000There's no media blockade in which we prevent the other people from ever having a voice to the normal populace.
02:57:55.000And we just sit there and try and propagandize the standard populace of the country with our lies, which we purport endlessly.
02:58:02.000That would be some kind of insane dictatorship.
02:58:04.000And I'm very glad we don't live under that system because under the Iron Curtain, you couldn't get access to Western media.
02:58:09.000But now that we're in the West and we're free, we have all the Eastern media we can enjoy.
02:58:14.000All All the time. I can't get rid of it.
02:58:16.000It's an all-you-can-watch Eastern media buffet on every single news station all of the time.
02:58:23.000And when our very unbiased and completely fair news decides to come up with a version of events, they show both sides of the story.
02:58:58.000When we had our COVID passports to protect us all, I remember how happy I was that I could go everywhere I wanted because I just got the boosters I was supposed to get.
02:59:06.000So that doesn't count as an internal passport because that would mean if I disagreed with the government, I wouldn't be allowed to travel, which means if I disagree with what the government says, I wouldn't have an internal passport like the Iron Curtain.
02:59:16.000But it was done for my safety because of the virus, which is why I can smoke COVID and I'm fine.
02:59:50.000As you know, in the West, all art is very good.
02:59:54.000Very talented painters, the greatest artists in the world, the type of people like the modern-day Michelangelo who painted the roof of the Sistine Chapel.
03:00:02.000Beautiful art is everywhere because we live in a free market society and we can decide what's beautiful and what's not.
03:00:07.000In the Iron Curtain, get this, there was state-sponsored art.
03:00:12.000Artists had to come up with works that aligned with state ideology to be supported.
03:00:16.000So if we were living in the iron current, hear me out, every single art display ever put up in the last 50 years would be some ugly, stupid, scribble, or dildo statue.
03:00:29.000Or like the ugliest fountains in the world.
03:00:32.000We wouldn't have... I mean, here in the West, we have beautiful art in every single city center because they want to enlighten the human soul and inspire us to live free.
03:00:40.000Well, yeah. I mean, we live free, which is why they don't have to talk about conscription all the time because like the Iron Curtain we mentioned earlier, how they tried to force people to go to war is they don't do that here in the West.
03:00:49.000Exactly. They don't have to talk about going to war with the people who you don't agree with and everyone has to go fight except for their kids, just everyone else's kids.
03:00:57.000They don't do that here in the West. Let's find some amazing recent art to prove conclusively that our art is not garbage designed to purport a bullshit agenda and destroy people's minds.
03:01:45.000And the art is off the chain beautiful.
03:01:48.000Well, you think if we built those amazing cathedrals in the 1700s and 1800s, and if Michelangelo was done out pure marble all that time ago.
03:02:17.000Let's talk about the merits of this modern art.
03:02:21.000So I think the hand is a symbol for jerking off.
03:02:26.000Yeah, jerking off. And the face is a symbol for the empty soulless life you live when you sit around believing the matrix and jerking off all the time.
03:03:14.000I mean... That wouldn't be very artistic.
03:03:17.000I feel like only behind the Iron Curtain could someone think, let's upset everyone and their family values so much because nothing is sacred, that our new art is a dwarf holding a giant butt plug.
03:03:30.000I mean, only in the Iron Curtain could anyone possibly ever think of doing that.
03:03:54.000It could be a dwarfette. That's a vertically challenged humanoid.
03:03:58.000Non-binary. They, them, which enjoys flavorless ice cream.
03:04:02.000Sorry, F. At first I thought this was a little hairy dwarf holding anal beads, but clearly I've been mistaken because this isn't from the Iron Curtain, is it?
03:04:10.000No, this is from right now. This is from the free democracy.
03:04:12.000Because we just talked about how we built these beautiful cathedrals and all this amazing art.
03:04:16.000Amazing. And with modern technology...
03:04:17.000With hammers and chisels. There's no way we do what the Iron Curtain does and try and destroy the souls of humans by making sure all modern art is bullshit.
03:04:23.000Let me give an example. Let's say we spent $10 million of the hard-earned money because...
03:04:30.000And every 10 million they print from their printers inflates the currency and makes food more expensive.
03:04:34.000So the average person is not going to allow food to become more expensive and inflate the currency and make it harder for them to live unless the statue put in the middle of their city is worth it.
03:04:43.000I can't pay my bills, but look at the beauty of that statue.
03:04:46.000Yeah, it's got to be like Michelangelo's David or something comparable.
03:05:21.000What character? What do you mean? Alright, if you want to pretend you're in a character, then riddle me this, friend.
03:05:28.000If this isn't modern art if this isn't the most beautiful thing you've ever seen there's something wrong with you
03:05:33.000That's a dwarf holding ice cream But you know what? I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt.
03:05:47.000I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt.
03:05:48.000Because I'm a nice man, and I think when you have a point to prove, you should always try your best to give the benefit of the doubt.
03:05:55.000Because if you can't give the benefit of the doubt to your adversaries, then perhaps you're wrong, you know?
03:05:59.000And I don't want to be seen wrong. So if you seem to think In your crazy brain that this is a dwarf holding a butt plug as opposed to a vertically challenged non-binary human eating flavorless ice cream.
03:06:14.000Then I'm going to prove to you once and for all that we do not make massive pointless statues of butt plugs.
03:06:20.000Because I'm gonna prove to you once and for all that there's no way that here in the free west
03:06:26.000We would just make massive butt plug statues and put them out in public around
03:06:31.000beautiful historic buildings to destroy the entire look of a city
03:09:19.000And today, with heroes like Chris, who runs Rumble, Elon, who runs X, people speaking the truth, people like us, Dan Bongino, Russell Brand, etc., I feel like the free Europe radio of 2024.
03:09:33.000Because the parallels we've drawn between the Iron Curtain and today are well and truly scary.
03:09:38.000And what we're trying to do, and what we're trying to be, is the free Europe radio of 2024.
03:09:44.000We're trying to at least make you think.
03:09:46.000Think about the world you live in and whether it be on a micro scale within your own homes or families or towns or on a macro scale to make positive changes.
03:09:58.000God's truth is light and demons require the darkness to operate and just as you very pertinently and absolutely correctly observed or pointed out, it was the truth that destroyed the Iron Curtain because when you have a matrix of control, it will always be Held up by and charged by and fueled by lies and people who tell the truth are doing God's work for that exact reason and they try very hard to convince you to ignore your own eyes because they want to brainwash you to a level where you'll ignore the truth that even your own eyes will tell you.
03:10:31.000You'll look at the sky and say it's blue.
03:10:34.000You'll look at a man and say he's a man.
03:10:35.000They'll tell you it's a woman. And they're trying to convince you that your own eyes are lying to you because they require lies to keep you enslaved.
03:10:42.000And it is God's will that you know the truth because speaking the truth is spreading light and the demons operate in the dark.
03:10:49.000And the Iron Curtain, which very thankfully we do not live under because the people who lived under the Iron Curtain probably didn't realize exactly how bad their lives were until it fell.
03:10:58.000And once they tasted true freedom, they never wanted to go back.
03:12:09.000David Hampson is known locally in his hometown of Swansea as the Silent Man because he will block roads by standing directly in the middle of them and will not speak whatsoever.
03:12:19.000He will walk to his local police station and block the road directly outside the station.
03:12:25.000He refuses to talk to police, lawyers, or even therapists.
03:12:29.000He's been repeating the exact same stunt since 2014.
03:12:32.000He gets arrested, goes to prison, gets released, and goes back to block the road.
03:12:38.000It's unclear as to why David refuses to speak, but a local judge believes that the defendant's silence is the result of breathtaking arrogance and insolence.
03:12:46.000In 2018, he was sentenced to 42 months in prison, but even that didn't stop him because he blocked the road again in 2021.
03:13:27.000I'm a bit worried. But then maybe you do have a vested interest in trying to stop me from believing this guy is going to be a good co-host of the podcast.
03:15:34.000Now that Tristan's officially fired, I offer him a position on the Emergency Meeting Podcast because I believe he has very interesting things to say.
03:15:44.000So think of all the things he saved in his brain that will be really good for him to say when he finally talks.
03:15:50.000He's been saving up waiting for me to fire Tristan.
03:15:55.000That's why he stood in the road so he would get arrested so he'd make the news so I would notice him so I can fire Tristan and give him a job on the emergency meeting podcast.