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Sept. 28, 2023 - On Brand

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OB #22 - Russell Brand Returns

He's back! Does he address literally any of the allegations against him or the victims? Let's find out what he has to say in his first show back after being outed. CW: Mention of suicide, sexual assault, and many other awful things. Support us on Patreon! - patreon.com/OnBrand

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	This is On Brand, a podcast where we discuss the ideas and antics of one Russell Brand.
	I'm Al Worth, and each week I go through an episode of Brand's show with my co-host Lauren B. That's me!
	I'm Lauren B. And I have no idea what the subject is going to be in this episode, but I know it's not going to be great, which is why we share the good thing before the bad thing before we get into it.
	Indeed we do.
	And Lauren, what is your good thing before the bad thing this week?
	Well, a really lovely, wonderful friend of ours, just who's a spectacular human being, treated us to The Who last night.
	Nice!
	With an H, not a W. Yep, yep.
	The Who!
	Okay.
	Yeah, and I texted you this, but I've been just kind of entertained with the types of things that we talk about in off-brand, and basically how I admitted into a microphone when the question is posited, Lauren, how do you deal with the pressures of being an adult daily life and, you know, this this modern world that we live in?
	And my answer was basically like, I pretend to be a dinosaur sometime.
	Which is possibly the dumbest thing I've ever said, but it was a very like it was that moment.
	It was so cool.
	I mean, if you're not one of our patrons and you're not enjoying the off-brand episodes, you're missing out, because this is the quality content that you get.
	You get Lauren saying, oh no, when I work out, I pretend I'm a dinosaur, and that keeps me going.
	And not even that I actively do it.
	It just naturally has happened in my brain.
	It just slips into your subconscious.
	You're like, oh yeah, I'm a dinosaur, babe.
	Sorry.
	What was really cool about, I'm trying to like power through mine so I can get to yours, but like what was really cool about this show, it felt like, I mean, so they have newer songs since the last time that I've seen them, and some of them are a little more like Mellow, a little more, like, oh, they're going through a Coldplay phase?
	Crazy.
	But also, I mean, but also, like, she got a hint of, like, Jethro Tull in there.
	There was some anthrax in there.
	They did a, like, just as far as a mood, in addition to, and if listeners aren't aware, The Who, H.U., is like a Mongolian kind of, like, They use traditional, like they're Mongolian kind of, um, like I would say metal band, but it's kind of more than that, you know, metal-ish.
	Yeah, it's a Mongolian rock slash metal type thing.
	Yeah, and they use traditional instruments and they're so, they're all custom made, they're so cool.
	They do throat singing like with the thing.
	It's very cool.
	It's like drone throat singing which is in a lot of like not just indigenous like cultural music traditions but also has like found I think it started in like the 1100s or something in Europe where they figured that out and kind of incorporated that into Church music.
	So it's this very like visceral basic thing that most humans have figured out as like an altered state kind of inducing type of music which is really like it's very cool I don't know I felt like we were all invited into the They invited us all into the yurt and we all imbibed a fermented yak milk, you know, traditional drinks.
	Yeah, this like it's it was such a fun, cool thing.
	We just really needed it.
	And it was really rad to be treated to it, too.
	It's really nice.
	So I have a theory what your good thing will be, but I'd love to hear it from the horse's mouth, as they say.
	I'm gonna be a little bit sneaky and I'm gonna have two.
	The very first one is just a quick thing to say that Wales kicked Australia's ass in the Rugby World Cup.
	Nice!
	And I'm talking, it is the biggest win that Wales have ever had against Australia.
	Ever.
	Wow!
	It was it honestly honestly I was expecting some pretty great rugby and and I got bored.
	It was it was so good I got bored.
	I was like a note hitter.
	Yeah.
	Basically I like the the yeah the the two points that um the like the the well it was six because you know Australia got a couple of penalties and that was it.
	That was all Australia managed to achieve.
	And Wales just fucking walked all over them with clinical play.
	It was incredible.
	That's funny.
	It's exciting as like a blowout situation.
	That's exciting in theory.
	I cannot think of fewer places I'd rather be than like a no-hitter baseball game.
	That sounds like torture.
	So good news.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But as it happens, that was on the Sunday night and I was already a little bit wiped from my main good thing before the bad thing, which was QED.
	QEDCon in Manchester.
	Went there and, you know, it's a skeptic conference where a bunch of excellent talks and things happen, but also a bunch of podcasts kind of show up and do live recordings and stuff like that.
	And like I got in with the Skeptics with a K and Incredulous and I was in the Knowledge Fight recording as well that was awesome.
	But the real kind of pleasure for me was actually kind of meeting a few of said podcasters and there were a couple in particular you know with kind of interests adjacent to this podcast who I don't know, we hung out a lot and there was kind of a very genuine friendship developing there, which I was not expecting at all.
	Because you never know what you're going to get when you meet essentially random strangers whose content you know.
	There's a parasocial kind of hopeful aspect, but really you never know what someone's like until you meet them.
	um and so yeah that was that was really really nice and it you know they're such incredibly kind lovely people i really i really wasn't expecting it i was i was blown away um but i had i had a wonderful time in general i mean it's like it's the chips are at least stacked in your favor because Yeah, kind of.
	I mean, saying that, there were kind of other podcasters there where I was like, ooh, okay.
	And that can happen too, and you just don't know.
	You just don't know when that's gonna happen.
	But no, I was...
	Really, really fucking happy and genuinely such incredibly kind, lovely human beings.
	I'm very, very pleased.
	You deserve it.
	Yeah.
	I am.
	I'm very happy.
	Well, yeah.
	Next year.
	We're gonna figure out a Chicago live show.
	We're gonna figure out a British live show.
	It'll happen.
	We'll get there.
	Live show on the moon.
	It's okay.
	Yeah, right.
	Hey, you never know, QED might invite us!
	That'd be cool.
	I mean, sure!
	Let's do it while out there!
	Yeah, I'll see if I can butter Marsh up.
	I mean, how long did it take Knowledge Fight to get invited?
	Like six years?
	Seven years?
	But did Marsh also scold you for not participating in Merseyside's skeptic events as well?
	He did, he did.
	Almost immediately, right?
	Yes, as soon as I said hello and where I lived, it was like, why don't you come to our events?
	And it wasn't just Marsh, it was all of them.
	Okay, okay.
	I'm being verbally assaulted.
	Okay, I need to go to the Merseyside sketch.
	Kind of fair, kind of fair.
	Yep, yep, fair enough, fair enough.
	Right, so we have a show to deal with, but first we should thank some of our new patrons.
	So first up, Matt Johnson, you are now an Awakening Wonder.
	You are indeed an Awakening Wonder.
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	Hell yeah.
	Of the Dauntless, you are now an awakening wonder.
	You are indeed an awakening wonder.
	Thank you of the Dauntless.
	Did you open for the Who last night?
	That's a very band name sound.
	Yeah, I mean, when I think Dauntless, that's a ship.
	That's a ship named the Dauntless.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I'd be curious to hear the rest of that story of the Dauntless.
	Send us a message.
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	Thank you very much, Doctor.
	Thanks, Doc.
	I appreciate you.
	Uh-huh.
	Allison, you are now an awakening wonder.
	You are indeed an awakening wonder.
	Thank you, Allison.
	Do you know what?
	I like the... Thank you.
	I like the simplicity.
	Just Allison.
	Nothing else.
	Tom MacMillan, you are now an awakening wonder.
	Very true.
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	Thank you, Tom MacMillan.
	MacMillan, I love your maps.
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	And finally, Amanda Boyd, you are now an awakening wonder.
	You are indeed an awakening wonder.
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	Very much appreciated.
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	We have shared a lot of new ones and plenty of historic ones and we are so very, very grateful.
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	It's this which allows us to be editorially independent and ad-free, and yeah, we don't monetize our YouTube videos, so hopefully many fewer ads for you YouTube folks.
	And hello new subscribers, by the way, I see you.
	As a patron, you will also get a shout-out on the show, much like the ones that have just happened, and access to our patron-only show Off-Brand, where we talk about pretty much anything but Russell Brand.
	I've got something fun planned this week, Lauren has something depressing planned this week, we'll see where we end up, probably somewhere in the middle.
	And please note that while you can easily listen to our audio version anywhere you can find podcasts, you can also watch us on YouTube, or if you listen in the Spotify app, the video should come up there too.
	We do have a new voice message from our resident Robber Baron with an interesting perspective on last week's show.
	Julia Hartley Brewer interviewing the main press guy who did the investigations of Russell Brand is interesting because I think the public perception of Russell Brand is that he's still very much a left-wing figure I don't think a lot of people really understand what he's been up to lately in the mainstream press.
	Julia Hartley Brewer being on Talk TV, and as Al says, it skews to the right, I think they think he's still very much a left-wing figure.
	So I think that's why she may have been more on the side of the newspaper in outing Russell Brand as kind of this guy, because they still think he's on the left.
	Which is quite funny.
	I wonder what their reaction would be if they knew he'd gone quite so right-wing.
	That is an interesting thought.
	Yeah, an image does count for quite a bit.
	Yeah.
	And I mean, over here, I think, I think right wing pundits have kind of gotten the message that because like Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, you know, like, I think right wingers are to some degree have picked up on his turn in a way that maybe, you know, his home country kind of Has a longer memory of him.
	Yeah, I guess.
	He's more famous probably for being left over here compared to the States.
	There is an element of that, and I think that could help explain the Daily Mail consultant editor who was heavily against Brand as well.
	It could just be that.
	That would actually be really interesting.
	It's very difficult to know without personally asking them.
	Yeah, I know, that is very interesting to think about.
	So thank you, Rob!
	If anyone wants to send us a voice message at all, the link should be in the description to the episode, I think, on Spotify and on YouTube.
	I think it should be elsewhere as well, but yeah, drop us a line.
	Should be.
	Should be.
	Equally, you know, just send us a voice recording via email.
	That's fine as well.
	But yeah, very, very cool.
	Thank you very much, Rob.
	So before we get into things, just a quick update on Brand's current state of affairs.
	The London Metropolitan Police says it will investigate allegations of non-recent sexual offences following reports about Russell Brand.
	They have received a number of allegations of sexual offences in London and elsewhere in the country.
	We can only have our fingers crossed.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, you know, we kind of we saw this coming.
	It was never just going to be those four cases in isolation.
	Sure, sure, sure, sure.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I just it's it is so frustrating to keep living over over here.
	I feel like I'm taking fucking crazy pills.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Like I'm in an alternate universe over here and like it's just.
	Like, who I want to hear from is the Los Angeles Police Department, you know, because that's where the DNA was frozen and everything else.
	So I'm like, well, can we do something?
	There's no media pressure here at all.
	No, no, no, no, absolutely.
	At all.
	If you don't take it as seriously, you don't understand the gravity because it's also like vague reporting and you don't have access to the main um you know the main uh investigation which like there are archived links to the times investigation now you can find them pretty easily um so if the paywall is is an issue then it's a lot easier now to find
	Yeah, for sure.
	And I mean, any kind of paywall problem or anything like that, just remove paywall.com.
	There are plenty of sites that do the same thing.
	Archived versions will achieve the same result.
	Yeah, there are ways to look at it.
	So anyway, fingers crossed about people coming forward.
	Hopefully some of them are at the very least credible and can provide something, some kind of evidence, some kind of anything would be awesome.
	Just some kind of legal recourse because crimes were committed.
	That's also when people are going to take it seriously.
	Yep.
	They're like, oh, no, it's not like a weird like, oh, I don't know.
	It's like, no, they were like crimes.
	There's a number of crimes.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I know.
	So last we left off, it was radio silence from Brand following the allegations made against him.
	This changed on Friday while I was at QED and he released what could be described as a statement.
	I have other descriptions for it but let's have a look first.
	Hello there you Awakening Wonders.
	Obviously it's been an extraordinary and distressing week and I thank you very much for your support and for questioning the information that you've been presented with.
	By now you're probably aware that the British government have asked big tech platforms to censor our online content and that some online platforms have complied with that request.
	I don't know if you saw this, but the other day a Member of Parliament who is part of a Select Committee did a stupid thing.
	Said Member of Parliament is Dame Caroline Dainage, Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
	A Select Committee acts as a sort of cross-party shadow to government departments, acting as a form of oversight with the ability to investigate certain areas within the remit of its department.
	It's important to note that while Caroline Dynich is a Tory, she is not in government and has no official position with the government, unlike what Brand is saying.
	Last week, she sent letters to both TikTok and Rumble asking them to demonetize Brand's content.
	She said, quote, while we recognize that TikTok is not the creator of the content published by Mr. Brand and his content may be within the community guidelines set out by the platform, We are concerned that he may be able to profit from his content on the platform.
	We would be grateful if you could confirm whether Mr. Brand is able to monetize his TikTok posts, including his videos relating to the serious accusations against him, and what the platform is doing to ensure that creators are not able to use the platform to undermine the welfare of victims of inappropriate and potentially illegal behavior."
	The letter to Rumble was virtually identical.
	Predictably, Brand and his crew have had a fucking field day at this, and it's something we're going to be forced to cover in much more detail later on.
	My position is that while I do completely believe that Russell Brand is a serial sexual assaulter and rapist, the matter is yet to be proven in a court, and when asking myself at what point a Member of Parliament should get involved, it's probably at the point where something is legally proven.
	Private companies are free to do what they want before or after the fact, and a Member of Parliament shouldn't be using their power to influence that.
	Despite agreeing with the sentiment that Brand shouldn't be able to profit off his blatant propaganda, I do consider this an overreach.
	What do you think?
	It's tricky because...
	She's not really asking for something that is in the legal system.
	No, I mean, so no, it's true.
	It's not.
	I can see how this would be an issue that doesn't necessarily violate official rules, but no, I mean, you know, she's still like an overreach.
	Yeah, I mean, you know, it's definitely still using her position and her influence in the law-making body of this country to try and tell a private company what it can and what it should and shouldn't do.
	Which I personally think is an overstep.
	Not least of all because this chucklehead gets to fucking use it as a bludgeon now.
	And he gets to play victim.
	I think her efforts would be spent better trying to amend or write some kind of legislation rather than single out one person.
	One would think.
	As it stands, we are going to get to some legislation of hers in a little bit, because Brand is by no means going to let this go.
	But next we see how he's going to spin all of this.
	And bear in mind, my prediction was that he wouldn't mention the allegations and would instead opt to continue doing his show, acting as though it's too important not to.
	What we may not know is that this happens in the context of the Online Safety Bill, which is a piece of UK legislation that grants sweeping surveillance and censorship powers, and it's a law that has already been passed.
	I also don't imagine you've heard of the Trusted News Initiative.
	Now, as is often the case when a word like trusted is used as part of an acronym to describe an unelected body, trust is the last thing you should be offering.
	The Trusted News Initiative is a collaboration between big tech and legacy media organisations to target, control, choke and shut down independent media organisations, like this one.
	We'll be talking about that on our show on Monday on Rumble.
	But just to give you an idea of what the TNI is, this is a quote from one of their spokespeople.
	Because the actual real rivalry now is not between the BBC and CNN globally, it's actually between all trusted news providers and digital platforms.
	That's right, Russell is back at work.
	Essentially, he took a week off, gained followers on both YouTube and Rumble, and now he's back on a daily basis.
	Fucking yay.
	Do you recognize that sauce at all?
	Do you recognize the logo?
	I recognize the shield with the arrows, yeah.
	Mm-hmm, that's right.
	It's reclaimthenet.org, the disreputable blog run by hacks who engage in disinformation content surrounding free speech.
	The very same one we covered in our first episode with the weird logo of the shield with the planet on it.
	This article that Russell is citing is from January of this year, 2023, so eight months ago.
	Real current, Russ, well done.
	And the quote is from the former senior news controller at BBC News, Jamie Angus.
	He's presented by Brand as a spokesperson for this trusted news initiative, which just isn't true.
	Those watching on the screen will see there's an ellipsis in the sentence.
	So it reads, quote, because actually the real rivalry now is not between, for example, the BBC and CNN globally, it's actually between all trusted news providers and dot dot dot digital platforms, unquote.
	Naturally, I got curious what was between the dots, and I did manage to track the full quote down.
	It's from an interview that Jamie Angus did in March 2022 discussing the Trusted News Initiative and the role of the News Leader, as they put it.
	I got a clip of it, so you can hear the quote in full plus the surrounding context.
	You know, we've taken used material from our trusted news agency partners, material from the EBU during the war.
	We've, as I say, we've collaborated with Bellingcat and with other investigative bodies because we have more in common with them.
	And it's and it's important to these moments of crisis that trusted news providers club together because actually the real rivalry now is not between, for example, the BBC and CNN globally.
	It's actually between all trusted news providers and a tidal wave of unchecked, incorrect, or in fact explicitly malicious nonsense that's being piped out mainly through digital platforms specifically to destabilize regions of the world.
	That's the real competition now in the digital media world.
	Of course, organizations will always compete with each other for audiences, but the existential threat, I think, is that overall breakdown in trust.
	Trust is that last word there.
	I've got to say, I do appreciate the irony of using someone talking about disinformation to create disinformation.
	There's a neat little bit of poetry there.
	Magnetic poetry.
	That's the way it is.
	Enough messing with quotes and you can kind of say whatever you want.
	Yeah, right?
	The Reclaim the Net article does actually feature nearly the full quote and keeps the spirit of it, whereas Russell and his crew are the ones who added the ellipsis here, removing vital context for what Jamie Angus was saying.
	The quote in full should have been, Because actually the real rivalry now is not between, for example, the BBC and CNN globally, it's actually between all trusted news providers and a tidal wave of unchecked, incorrect, or in fact explicitly malicious nonsense that's being piped out mainly through digital platforms specifically to destabilize regions of the world.
	Interesting.
	As we will be covering Russell's return, you know, his Monday show,
	I would like you to take a guess at the first subject he covers.
	Aliens?
	No, no, it's Ukraine and how Russia are actually somehow the victim.
	Talking about destabilising regions, huh?
	Yeah, I've seen quotes maliciously used and twisted to support a narrative before, but editing a quote from someone railing against what you're doing specifically and then using it to propagandise is pretty next level stuff, and I can only imagine that Jamie Angus is pissed.
	Well, it's convenient that the interview is from March 2022 and then it makes it into an article from 8 months ago and now they can use that.
	But if they use the original quote, that's even further back.
	So the article is quoting another piece of writing, let's call it, in using that quote, and I will get to that later, and you can have a fun time trying to guess who it was that provided the piece of writing that might be against all these people.
	You're not going to enjoy the answer.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	It's someone you hate considerably more.
	Oh, good.
	Yeah, no, it's going to be great.
	So, yeah, we'll get to that in a little bit.
	But first, let's get to the final portion of Bran's statement clip.
	It's clear that these organisations collaborate in constructing narratives, whether that's around the war or the pandemic.
	And of course, there are other examples.
	And it's very clear to me that we have to be very, very cautious indeed.
	That's why I'm asking you to follow me on Rumble.
	Rumble have made a clear commitment to free speech, and Rumble is the primary platform that we will be streaming from.
	We'll be back this Monday and as usual we'll be talking about deep state and corporate collusion and how ordinary democracy is anathema now, how it's shut down, ignored and avoided.
	We'll be talking about a military industrial complex that is able to facilitate and start wars that seem sometimes to be little more than money laundering operations and that's with all respect to the Hundreds of thousands of victims of the numerous ongoing wars in the world at the moment.
	We'll be talking about the role of Big Pharma and how Big Pharma have been able to influence government policy around the world and how they've been able to evade due liability and necessary scrutiny.
	How they've been able to avoid media investigation that perhaps ought be due them.
	And of course we'll be talking about media corruption and censorship.
	So please follow me on Rumble because that's the only way that we can keep our voice.
	You can go to rb.rumble.com to support me directly and keep me and our channel independent.
	And I need your support now more than ever and more than I ever imagined I would.
	So follow me, support our channel if you can, if it's within your means.
	But more important than any of that is that you please, if you can, stay free.
	If he's trying to seem less culty, he's doing a bad job.
	So that was the end of the statement, with not one mention of the allegations, his victims, or, well, anything serious.
	It instead served as a monologue promoting his show.
	He knew he would have more eyes on it than ever, and so he just went full promo.
	And it worked.
	Since the allegations, his rumble following has gone up by about 200,000, and his audience now eclipses Stephen Crowder's, where they were for a while going head to head.
	Hmm.
	That was a real Sally Struthers routine.
	Like, oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	For a few cents for a coffee a day.
	Mm hmm.
	Mm hmm.
	Send us money like that was 100 percent.
	I've never like this exact energy.
	I have never seen this before.
	Yeah, yeah.
	He is very much considering himself the victim of the situation.
	It's chilling.
	Which is fucking rich!
	So I visited rb.rumble.com to see what was there and it was just a link to his local's channel.
	But there has been something of a development there.
	I remember a while back I made a point about how his audience were awakening wonders, permanently, and that they'd never be awakened, which was a system of placing Russell at the top of the pyramid as the awakened one.
	This tickled me so much that we named our first tier of patronage after it because it's so absurd and deserves to be mocked.
	But now, it turns out there is actually one way to awaken, and that's by giving Russell Brand money.
	Because now, in joining his local's channel for $60 a year, you can elevate yourself from awakening wonder to awakened wonder.
	Ah, spiritual enlightenment for as little as $5 a month.
	Not bad, huh?
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Uh-huh.
	Be more transparent, Russell, please.
	It's just, yeah, that's extremely predictable, but also still awful to hear.
	That's bull.
	Mm hmm.
	Oh, my audience of Awakening Wonders, if you want to awaken, just give me money.
	Okay.
	Cheers, buddy.
	This doesn't have a huge amount of relevance, but when Russell put this statement out on Friday, Elon Musk got his knickers all in a twist.
	For the first time, Elon said he was disappointed in Russell, not because of the allegations against him, but because he was promoting Rumble as the home of free speech and not posting his stuff on X like Tucker Carlson does.
	Cornering the market these days.
	rather disappointing that he is exclusively pushing Rumble when X has supported free speech as much."
	Okay, buddy. If you want to play Who's the Biggest Nazi Sympathizer, we'll at least give you a participation award. Thanks for
	playing.
	[laughter]
	Cornering the market these days. Really, like...
	It's just, it's such a race to the bottom.
	It really, it's unbelievable.
	So next we move to Russell's Monday show, right?
	His big return!
	So let's take a look at how he opens.
	Hello there, you Awakening Wonders.
	Thanks for joining me on Stay Free with Russell Brand on Rumble.
	If you're watching this on YouTube or anywhere else, eventually you're going to have to click the link in the description and join us over in Rumble.
	And if you can become a supporter, it's the only way that you can back Our independent voice at a time where it's obviously being challenged.
	We've got a great show for you today.
	In our item, here's the news.
	No, here's the epic news.
	We are going to be talking about the state and the legacy media's war on free speech, and in particular, how that has affected me this week.
	We've also got Jimmy Dore coming up on the show, and you know what Jimmy Dore will be advocating for.
	We're gonna continue to do on this channel what we've always done.
	Tell you the truth as best we can.
	side the barriers and boundaries of left and right that we can come together to oppose increasingly
	authoritarian centralized power. We're going to continue to do on this channel what we've always
	done, tell you the truth as best we can, listen to you as best we can.
	There's a couple of things you may notice from this opening.
	Firstly, Jimmy fucking Dore, who I'm sad to say we will have to deal with at least a little bit later.
	Yeah, I thought you'd be thrilled.
	Secondly, because once again he knows he's going to have more eyes than usual, Russell is pushing the hard sell for his Locals channel.
	It becomes more apparent throughout, but he is really pushing.
	What's also interesting here is the fact that the promo and this here Monday show were both filmed on the same day.
	He's wearing the exact same clothes with the same lighting.
	His stuff is in all the exact same positions.
	And what you'll see if you're watching is that between the promo and the different segments of this show, the only thing to change is the sunlight coming through the window.
	So this was all filmed last week while the rest of the world was being alerted to the reality of the allegations against him.
	So we were going through the brutal experience of hearing from his victims, and he was fucking around with Jimmy Dore.
	Great.
	It is funny that the one thing that Americans that I have talked to, you know, in my anecdotal experience, they're like, yeah, I did see the one video of him.
	It was like a commercial or something.
	And I was like, oh, yeah, this one, because he's the way that This one for listeners, I'm doing, I'm mimicking his like hand movements.
	It kind of looks like he's holding an invisible beach ball and just shaking it back and forth in front of his face over and over.
	That's where his hands are.
	And so that is the thing that I have had a touchstone for people that are up with the news is like, oh yeah, this video is the video where he's like, he looks like he's directing airplanes on a runway.
	Yes. Yeah, yeah, no, that's that's that's one of his deals.
	And I'm yeah, now I've conditioned myself through that to like hate it.
	Yeah, no, he justicially justiculates much, much like a politician,
	to be honest, which is ironic.
	Oh, that's just repetitive.
	I gesticulate.
	I'm not going to come for somebody for that.
	No, but there's a specific way, you know, much like Tony Blair had a specific way of, you know, moving his hands.
	Obama as well, you know, just a very specific way of engaging their hands while giving a speech or monologue of some kind.
	Yeah, a politician, yeah, you're absolutely right.
	Yeah, totally.
	The other thing that you may notice is that he's doing his show from a different room.
	The promo video, fine, whatever, doesn't really matter where he shoots that, but his show?
	The show that's usually done in his fancy studio of the garage in his pub in Piss Hill?
	You know, the same one that was like a half million pound loan to build?
	Here, he's clearly in a separate location, possibly within the pub, or more likely his home, which is nearby.
	I will get into my speculation on why I think this has happened right at the end, but needless to say, this is both weird and bad by comparison.
	It is markedly worse than the show he does in his studio.
	One thing that's...
	To me.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Right.
	One thing that is no longer visible if you were to check this video out on Rumble is that Rumble have added a new feature for when something is live streamed to their platform.
	As we know, Brand records these videos ahead of time, edits them, then live streams them to Rumble as it does help inflate the numbers a touch.
	What was different this time is that there was a donate button.
	So if you donated money, the comment that you make while donating the money gets highlighted in the rapidly scrolling chat.
	Kind of like a cam girl situation, but way less value for money.
	Or like Twitch.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, right.
	I was watching this live stream and he made at least a few thousand just from the audience in that moment, though the numbers are again somewhat obfuscated.
	But yeah, just for showing up, just for uploading the video.
	Well, and I recognize this, like, setting from other videos that we've watched.
	I think it probably is from this house.
	I also noticed that Pothos plant used to be a lot smaller.
	And it's a little leggy.
	I get it.
	I have a hard time, too, keeping my pothos happy and healthy.
	But I remember that plant being significantly smaller.
	So my little detective hat, I've seen this before.
	Yeah, yeah.
	He used to shoot videos from here a while back, is my kind of memory of it.
	And so I do think it's his house, this particular spot.
	His home office or whatever.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Oh, I recognize it from the documentary.
	There were some older videos they played from the documentary.
	I mean, and probably even just from the background that we've done.
	But yeah, I remember.
	I recognize this from the documentary, I think.
	Yeah, I think.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I know.
	I know that plant.
	OK, let's let's get into the first topic of the show proper.
	So the first story we're going to talk about is Stoltenberg acknowledging that Putin invaded Ukraine due to NATO infringement.
	A significant story because of course what we've mostly been schooled in is that Russia are a criminal nation led by a lunatic in Putin that unprovoked attacked Ukraine.
	As we always say, the Ukrainian people should be utmost in our thoughts and the humanitarian imperatives That the world claims are what's driving this war ought be what's driving a move towards peace.
	But as you know, the military industrial complex are significantly invested in what some people, Jimmy Dore notably, regard as a money laundering operation.
	The reason I tell Russell to fuck off anytime he's pretending to sympathise with the Ukrainian people is he spends the rest of his time either demonising them by writing them off as Nazis or telling us how Russia is the real victim of the scenario and that Ukrainians should just lay down arms and let bygones be bygones.
	Eh, Putin wants your country so just let him have it, okay?
	That's fine.
	Don't worry about it.
	You're Russian now.
	That's not peace.
	No, no, it's not.
	It's surrender.
	That's a little bit of a different question.
	When he mentioned like what thousands of wars happening with the in the previous clip, there were thousands of wars going on.
	But I don't I don't notice him talking about any of the other ones.
	No, because there are conflicts in the world that probably should be covered on a show like this that is supposed to deal with, you know, current geopolitical events and all that.
	But, weirdly, not a mention.
	Not a single mention of any of them.
	It is very curious.
	So, I could get into Jimmy Dore calling the Russo-Ukraine war a money laundering operation, but it's so profoundly stupid it's really not worth the oxygen.
	So, next we get into Russell's apparent evidence that Putin was provoked into invading Ukraine.
	Let's have a look at Stoltenberg acknowledging the simple truth that Putin was provoked.
	President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and he actually sent a draft treaty that he wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement.
	That was what he sent us.
	And that was a precondition for not invade Ukraine.
	Of course, we didn't sign that.
	The opposite happened.
	He wanted us to sign a promise never to enlarge NATO.
	He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe.
	We should remove NATO from that of our Alliance.
	Introducing some kind of E and B, a second class membership.
	We rejected that.
	So he went to war to prevent more NATO close to his borders.
	He has got the exact opposite.
	In a sense, what's being described there is the recipe for a peaceful resolution to this conflict, which many believe.
	And let me know what you think in the chat.
	And remember, if you press the red Awaken button, you can join our community.
	And it's more important that you do that now than it ever has been before.
	Join our locals community.
	We need your support.
	We are plainly in a position where your direct support is going to be incredibly valuable to us.
	Really pushing that locals channel.
	So, the person talking there for anyone listening was Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of NATO.
	So, Russell's idea of a peaceful solution is apparently just letting Russia do whatever the hell they want.
	So, Putin threatens NATO, right, and says, hey, if you don't remove all of the military infrastructure in the entire of Central and Eastern Europe, Which would coincidentally open things up pretty nicely for a massive military to roll through and take things over.
	If you don't do that, and also promise to never expand again, then I'm invading Ukraine.
	Russell hears that and thinks, oh, what a reasonable proposition.
	Who would possibly say no?
	And of course, NATO say no, and Russell does his best Pikachu surprised face yet again, and the answer is, well, gotta invade that Ukraine, I guess.
	Got no choice now.
	Don't want to lose face or something.
	Or maybe he just He really wanted to invade Ukraine and decided that being denied an insane demand would be enough of a justification on the global stage.
	It might not be accepted geopolitically, but Russell's certainly on board.
	And so's Jimmy Dore.
	And so's Tucker Carlson.
	And Elon Musk.
	And RFK Jr.
	And all these chuckleheads who I fucking swear are being paid in rubles at this point.
	I mean, the first thing I thought was like, so wait, you just wanted NATO to do whatever Putin demanded.
	Right.
	Yeah, that's what he's saying.
	Assigning that amount of authority is crazy.
	It's insane!
	It's absolutely insane that anyone should bow to those demands.
	That would be absolute madness.
	And if Putin, like, I'm sorry, but like, if I can think of somebody out there on the world stage that is ready, willing, and able to issue, like, a setup, like, that's a setup!
	Yeah, like that's like saying I want a million dollars in a helicopter and a pizza with all my favorite toppings by three o'clock today.
	And if you don't give them all to me right now, I'm going to, you know, I'm going to start shooting up my neighborhood.
	Like, actually, that situation sounds a lot.
	More easy to remedy.
	Yeah, no, absolutely.
	It's complete madness.
	And it's like, well, maybe you just wanted to shoot up the neighborhood, didn't you?
	I think that's the answer.
	And you just wanted a handy little goat to escape.
	And so there we go.
	And Russell seems to think that's a smoking gun of some kind.
	They're like, oh yeah, it was NATO, they provoked it.
	If you see anyone saying, oh yeah, NATO provoked it, tell them to get fucked, because it's complete bullshit.
	This is an obvious illustration.
	It's very faux intellectual.
	I think that there is...
	And it might be a little like toxic masculinity or some kind of like bravado, but it does feel like the talking about the war thing is not just serving the purpose of, you know, like proliferating Russian propaganda, essentially.
	It feels like guys feel smart when they talk about international military stuff.
	Yeah, smart and masculine, because it's big weapons and big stuff and people dying and blood everywhere.
	Yeah, yeah. - Spooge murders, blood everywhere.
	Yeah, like there's, I'm just picking up on that, like it's very butch.
	I mean, pootis.
	I mean, Putin is the human embodiment of the evils of the patriarchy, let's be honest.
	From topless, posing pictures, you know, with bears and whatever else, you know, it's, yeah, it's pretty nuts.
	And an express...
	Plan!
	And concerted effort to eradicate the LGBTQ plus portion of your citizens from your country.
	Yep.
	He's doing a great job of that because I know plenty that have left because fucking I would.
	No shit!
	No shit!
	Speaking of which, this is a complete aside, but did you see that Tucker Carlson is getting a TV show with the Russian media?
	Yeah, I haven't had a chance.
	Was that a while ago?
	No, it's pretty recent.
	I haven't had a chance to look into it properly.
	But yeah, I saw a thing saying that Tucker Carlson is getting like an actual show with RT.
	Also, every day has felt like a week or 10 minutes.
	It's true, it's true.
	It has not been long since we've dealt with the allegations.
	Everything has been very speedy.
	So in the next clip, Russell just gets into some classic fearmongering.
	But I think it's important that we cover these vital issues that appear to have considerable opposition from the mainstream legacy media.
	We're talking about what we've always talked about.
	Big Pharma and their ability to assert and exert power over political process.
	The military-industrial complex that seem to be able to control foreign policy, to generate, create war, and then find convenient excuses for why that war might be taking place.
	Most of all, what we are advocating for is our shared collective voices and our ability to independently communicate with one another.
	For the possibility that we might create new systems together.
	If we don't have the ability to control currency, if we don't have the ability to create independent media, then we are slowly being corralled into a totalitarian space where nobody has any individual power.
	We already live in a globalist, corporatist condition where unelected bodies, whether that's NATO, no one voted from, The WHO, no one voted for them, or the UN are in a position where they are able to impose policy on sovereign nations.
	Democracy is becoming meaningless.
	And the only reason those stories are not being told is because legacy media are in lockstep with one another in order to prevent truthful, open and honest conversations happening that would allow us to form new alliances.
	We'll be looking at that in Here's the News.
	Are you scared?
	Because I'm scared and we're barely 10 minutes into Russell's show.
	Not even, actually.
	He's giving us the classic right-left one-two punch combo of fear and selling something to assuage said fear, and boy is he going hard on it.
	Okay, so the world is scary.
	What is that?
	Doesn't elaborate.
	I think he's on about Bitcoin.
	That does come up with Jimmy Door at some point.
	I didn't cut a clip of it because the whole conversation was bullshit.
	But yes, I'm assuming he means Bitcoin.
	Okay, so the world is scary and can only be put to rights by joining Russell's Locals channel where you can awaken and surpass the globalists.
	Great.
	So, the WHO we have a whole episode about and the members are democratically elected by the individual member states who then come together and elect the rest of the upper echelons of the WHO.
	NATO, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, are of course represented by each of the countries who opt into joining NATO, and any NATO decision, as they call it, is the, quote, expression of all the collective will of all 31 member countries, since all decisions are taken by consensus, unquote.
	The US and the UK joined in 1949, which was decided by our democratically elected leaders at the time, and no leader in either country's history has ever opted to try to leave NATO.
	Given that they're mostly an alliance formed for collective defence, not offence, so attacking one would mean attacking all of them, It's a wonder why Putin didn't want further NATO expansion or for Ukraine to join NATO.
	Almost as though he wanted to invade all along and didn't want to have to then bother going to war with the other 31 countries in NATO, so he threw his toys out the pram before just invading anyway after making sure Ukraine didn't join.
	Almost like that was the plan all along, one might think.
	Yeah.
	It's like if you were playing a game of Risk and your opponent was about to place all of their troops in that country you really wanted to invade and you went, oh no, don't put them there, don't put them there, if you do I'll invade.
	And so the opponent doesn't put them there and of course you invade anyway but it was much, much easier.
	And the UN are, of course, represented by people from the individual member states who are decided on by said member states' governments.
	Russia and China are members of the UN, which is probably why Brand opted not to shit on that example of a supposedly undemocratic organization.
	All those pesky votes.
	Ugh, what a bore.
	Yeah, the making new connections and stuff.
	I've been trying to at least pay attention to what what he is selling as his like little locals channel like what what What the mission statement or like what he's advertising as like, OK, well, you can even just vaguely like be a part of the conversation he's alluding to, but not explicitly saying, like making new connections.
	Oh, it's like, well, you know, all these bodies we didn't vote for and there is an implication that it's it's slippery and maybe I'm off base, but it just sounds like let's make new connections in this chat room.
	Like, this is where we start the revolution is in the chat room right now.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, for sure.
	Let's be very selective about who we think is worth a vote and who isn't.
	That's not good.
	Yeah, no, absolutely.
	He regularly spouts off about making new connections in unlikely places and all of this.
	But the only people he ever seems to connect with are very predictably aligned with his views.
	So, hmm.
	And he's extremely explicit and instructive on the questions he wants them to answer, like in real time.
	Oh, yeah.
	A hundred percent.
	Um, so we've dealt with brand bombshell evidence of Russia being provoked into invading Ukraine.
	Next, we get a big bombshell about Big Pharma.
	But now, without going too much more deeply into this obvious crisis and counter-narrative to how the war between Ukraine and Russia began, let's have a look at the Empire State Building being lit up as a giant Pfizer needle.
	For what reason, exactly?
	This is a press release about that story. Today the Empire State Building turned its iconic building
	blue to announce that the CDC recommends everyone six months of age and older gets this season's
	updated COVID-19 shot. The blue light symbolizes our gratitude and appreciation for the updated
	vaccines and all those who made it possible. A literal monolith and icon of American culture
	is being turned into an advertisement for a private company.
	When did the symbols of a great nation become co-opted by a corporation?
	How has this been allowed to happen?
	And how is it still allowed to be referred to as a democracy?
	Let me know in the chat.
	Marty Makary, Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, wrote in the New York Post that Pfizer's version of the new vaccine has not been tested on humans at all.
	We only have data about antibody production from 10 mice.
	If I wasn't reading that from a reliable scientist myself, I would assume that it was untrue.
	How is that plausible and feasible that a national cause, an international notion, can be presented to a global population on the basis of 10 mice?
	The experience of 10 mice is being used to undergird an ongoing global program.
	For me, that's a cause for some concern.
	Okay.
	Right.
	So, firstly, the Empire State Building being turned into a mock blue syringe isn't a celebration of a corporation.
	It's a celebration of a life-saving vaccine.
	I'm going to read the full release that was read out on radio stations in New York the morning of September 16th.
	Quote, seems like COVID's everywhere again but here's good news from Pfizer.
	This season's updated COVID-19 shots are now available for ages six months and up and they're designed to help protect against recent variants.
	That is why today at 8pm the Empire State Building turned its iconic building blue to announce that the CDC recommends everyone six months of age and older get this season's updated COVID-19 shot.
	The blue light symbolizes our gratitude and appreciation for the updated vaccines and all those who made it possible.
	COVID-19 isn't gone and vaccination remains one of our best tools to help protect against the virus that causes the disease.
	Ask your doctor or pharmacist about this season's updated COVID-19 shots.
	Learn more and schedule at the CDC's website vaccines.gov.
	Unquote.
	Um, so basically, it's a public awareness campaign to say, hey, we still live in the Wild West over here.
	Get a booster and protect yourself and hopefully fewer people will die.
	Uh, not terribly unreasonable by my view.
	No, no.
	Regardless.
	I'm quite excited actually.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I'm pretty stoked.
	No, should be.
	Yeah.
	Regardless, guess who else was whinging about this a week ago?
	Jimmy fucking Dore, that's who.
	Yeah, it's a nice little homage, a nice little tip of the cap to that other shithead.
	Their media is so uncoordinated.
	Right?
	It's almost like they have the same narratives at the exact same time.
	How do they do it?
	Fucking idiots.
	As for the issue with the mice, a booster vaccine has only been tested on 10 mice, right?
	Sounds very scary, right?
	Sounds possibly even dubious, but it's not.
	It's not even terribly complicated for a layman to understand.
	So basically, clinical trial data from other bivalent mRNA COVID-19 boosters was taken into account for these new boosters.
	So to quote FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf, Quote, bivalent and multivalent vaccines are very common and modifying a vaccine to include different virus strains often does not require a change in other ingredients.
	FDA has extensive experience with reviewing strain changes in vaccines as is done with the annual flu vaccine.
	Unquote.
	There was a discussion around using mouse data to predict vaccine outcomes in humans back in 2022, where while Cornell Medicine immunologist John Moore told NPR, quote, for the FDA to rely on mouse data is just bizarre in my opinion.
	Mouse data is not going to be predictive in any way of what you would see in humans, unquote.
	However, When asked about this specific example, so this current
	booster shot, he said, "I would not have said the same words this time around as
	the context is different, as is the extent of our knowledge on booster composition
	changes. We have a similar challenge with influenza and every year the flu shot is tweaked to
	better match what is coming our way.
	Some years the match is good, others less so." Basically, it's completely fine and standard
	practice when simply adding a strain of It's tested on the mice to make sure it reacts the way it's supposed to, which this booster shot did.
	That's literally all this is.
	You know, standard procedure that they think looks a bit weird.
	And don't do any investigation into further than that, or more probably, knowingly lie.
	Let's be real.
	Yeah.
	So, yeah, that's all that is.
	So you can still feel perfectly fine about this.
	Yeah, it's that.
	Sure.
	Sounds sensational.
	I immediately was dubious.
	Yeah.
	No, I could see it.
	I could see it on your face.
	Come on.
	Come on.
	And you've every right to you've every right to think that in the moment.
	Like, is that correct?
	And it is.
	But for but for reasons that that make complete sense.
	So, OK.
	Yeah.
	Oh, God.
	You may notice that because Brand is aware that he's got more eyes on him than usual because of, you know, the rape and sexual assault he did being outed, he's bringing out some of the big hits.
	So the classics of the Stay Free with Russell Brand repertoire.
	And we get another one of those in this next clip.
	In summer 2020, as COVID vaccines moved ahead at warp speed, the companies behind them promised they wouldn't make too much money.
	Let's see how that went.
	Pfizer chairman Albert Baller was emphatic.
	His company was developing a COVID vaccine for the good of humanity, not for money, he told Time magazine in 2020.
	This is not business as usual, he said.
	If you were calculating return on investment, we would never do these things.
	We were discussing that back in March, what that means to human lives, to the economy of the world, so it must be that we take those measures.
	Thus Pfizer would not overcharge for the mRNA vaccine it was developing with the German company BioNTech, Baller said.
	We're going to charge governments a very, very nominal value, he said.
	Asked directly if Pfizer intended to profit, Baller said, we will make a very, very marginal profit at this stage.
	So, were Pfizer telling the truth?
	Pfizer made more than $100 billion in profits from the COVID vaccine in 2022 alone.
	Those facts seem to me to be significant.
	Those facts seem to me worthy of discussion.
	And I don't think we're going to see that discussed on the mainstream media.
	Let me know in the chat if you've noticed how the mainstream media reports on certain stories, investigating them extremely thoroughly and elsewhere, there is little or no debate or dissent.
	What do you think about that?
	What do you think is actually happening?
	I think what's actually happening is you're a liar.
	So we've covered the stupid Albert Baller misrepresentation before, but basically his quote is being entirely twisted and he never said that they wouldn't make any profit.
	Not only that, but notice he's grabbing the figures from 2022.
	That's because the initial rounds of the COVID-19 vaccines through 2020 and 2021 were sold at a much reduced level of profit, like four times less than what they are currently charging.
	I mean, it's still gross.
	Just don't do that.
	In an ideal world, there would be no profit at all, and this would all be a humanitarian project.
	But we live in a world of late-stage capitalism, and honestly, there's a part of me that feels lucky that we were able to get the deal that we did.
	The pharma companies could have had the entire world over a barrel, but at least some sense of decency won out.
	At the tail end of 2022, Pfizer announced they'd be considerably raising prices on their COVID vaccines due to weaker demand because, well, most of the world has thankfully been vaccinated in one form or another, and governments are having to order considerably fewer booster shots en masse.
	The USA, of course, is still in the Wild West, so the US government has ordered plenty.
	Again, I'm not a fan of this, and according to the People's Vaccine Alliance, the cost of vaccinating the world could have been five times cheaper had these companies not earned any profit.
	But again, we are in a system of capitalism that should probably be Brown's real target here, but instead we're just meant to subscribe to his local's channel.
	And the prompt for the locals trying to like, for what he might as well just make a poll of like, yes or no.
	Like that is such a specific, like, I'll give you a topic.
	And then it's just what, what chat you're just like, yes or no.
	A or B. Any kind of deviation from that is going to be obviously be shouted down.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's not going to be a place of fucking diverse opinions, is it?
	Oh, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	These are the people who give him all of their money.
	So next, we naturally get into another of Russell's big hitters, but with a decidedly gross twist.
	So whether it's the war in Ukraine and NATO's involvement in provoking it, or Pfizer's relationship with the United States of America and their ability to co-opt national symbols of pride and turn them into corporate emblems that have only been, let's face it, tested on 10 mice, it seems that the state and the media have a pretty close relationship.
	Let's have a look at events this week.
	You now know that I've been demonetized on YouTube.
	You're fully well aware that the government wrote to social media platforms to demand that I be further censored.
	Here's the news.
	No, here's the effing news.
	The corporatist state and global media war against free speech is in full swing.
	How do I know?
	Take a guess.
	Mmm, take a guess.
	All right, you can already tell the tone of this editorial is going to be fucking infuriating because right out of the gate he's saying the allegations against him are nothing more than the corporatist state and global media war against free speech.
	Said it before and I'll say it again, Russell Brand, you're a fucking rapist and I'm happy to go to the mat on that one based on the weight of evidence against you.
	Bring it on.
	He can pretend Yeah.
	Violent serial rapist.
	That's you, buddy!
	He can pretend the things he says on this show are dangerous and radical, and that the world is trying to silence him as much as he likes, but we spend every week simply outing him as either an idiot, a liar, or both, on top of which he's most certainly a grifter exploiting his audience for money.
	Yeah, and like I hear these talking points all over the place.
	Where are those documentaries?
	Where's the Jimmy Dore?
	Where's where?
	This does not add up like at all.
	I mean, obviously, obviously at all.
	Yeah, he's going to say effin, but then the bumper that he plays says, here's the fucking news.
	He does that sometimes.
	I think he was trying to, I think again he knew he'd have more eyes on it and he was trying to soften it.
	When I first looked at this video it was already immediately up at a million views.
	So, yeah.
	People are paying attention.
	But again, it's his first one back after everything so he's definitely got way more eyes on it.
	Yeah, and he's playing it.
	Yeah, his normal kind of video can be anywhere between, like, 150,000 and, like, 500,000, so, you know, it's, um... Oh, good, okay.
	Well, uh... Uh-oh, that just hurt my stomach to hear.
	Thanks, great, good.
	Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
	No worries.
	I'm here to help.
	So, in the next clip, we get to a familiar source that Russell decides to use, and it's not Jacobin for once.
	The author of letters to social media companies demanding the financial punishment of Russell Brand, a British lawmaker implicated in London's war on COVID-19 and Ukraine dissenters.
	Her husband was a commander in the army's PSYOPS division.
	The Grey Zone can now reveal that YouTube's financial censorship of Russell Brand is the result of an effort waged by a former British government minister who was responsible for London's crackdown on dissent during the COVID-19 pandemic.
	My husband has also participated in that campaign of state repression as Deputy Commander of the 77th Brigade, the British Army's Psychological Warfare Division.
	That's, of course, the official title of it.
	It goes, British Army, 77th Brigade, colon, Psychological Warfare Division.
	So, this article is from The Grey Zone, Max Blumenthal's rag of a news outlet parroting Russian propaganda and anti-USA screeds.
	It was written by Kit Clarenberg, who has been on Bran's show.
	As a matter of fact, almost all of the writers at The Grey Zone have been on Bran's show at this point.
	Yeah, right!
	Like, oh, how do they all get the same narratives?
	I don't know how it happens!
	In any case, we will take this bit by bit.
	So, firstly, it's calling Caroline Dynadge a British lawmaker.
	Technically true, given that she's a Member of Parliament and has the right to introduce a bill into Parliament if she wanted to.
	But really, she doesn't have a huge amount of influence.
	Still, good so far.
	You got a sentence right, Kit.
	Well done.
	As for London's war on COVID-19 and Ukraine dissenters, curiously, that slipped my notice when it was apparently happening.
	This will come up later, but from February 2020 to September 2021, Caroline Dynadge was in government and was the Minister of State for Digital and Culture under Boris Johnson.
	Apparently that's supposed to mean something, but we'll get into specifics shortly.
	According to the Grey Zone, Caroline Dinege was somehow involved with YouTube demonetizing Brand, but that's just simply not true.
	YouTube did so of their own volition, and long before Caroline Dinege sent letters to TikTok and Rumble asking them to demonetize him.
	She even references YouTube's actions in the letter to Rumble, saying that they should do the same thing.
	As for the British Army's 77th Brigade, who according to the Greyzone are engaging in PSYOPs.
	This is the description of the 77th Brigade according to their own website.
	Quote, 77th Brigade is a hybrid unit of regulars and reservists with specialist skills to combat new forms of warfare in the information environment for the defense of the UK and its overseas territories.
	unquote and in the what we do section they say quote uh 77th brigade constrains our hostile state actors and adversaries through information operations and targeting deployed and at standoff using intelligence to understand audiences and systems analyze networks and identify intelligence opportunities the brigade holds a range of capabilities to deliver effect 77th Brigade activities are best employed in concert with other military effects to achieve integrated action."
	So they do work with information and military intelligence, that's for sure.
	Whether it's PSYOPs or psychological warfare is up for debate.
	I mean, if we use as broad a definition as possible, then sure, I guess, that's definitely verifiable.
	But by that same token, every time Brand mentions his locals channel, that's a PSYOP.
	Either way, even if Dynadge's husband was engaging in psychological warfare of some kind, because it is the military and the public will only ever have a certain amount of access to information, it's fair to say that he isn't now.
	His full name and title is Major General John Mark Lancaster, Baron Lancaster of Kimbolton, T.D.V.R.P.C.
	He's a Tory politician who sits in the House of Lords, our upper house of government.
	And though he does still serve in the Army Reserves, who are only ever called upon when needed, the last time he saw action, so to speak, was 2006 in Afghanistan.
	Yeah, a little while ago for this guy.
	I would also like to point out the misogyny inherent in the Greyzone's insinuations here that Dainage isn't capable of writing a couple of letters by herself and must instead rely on the support of her supposed spook of a husband.
	Also, we have the letters.
	Could you point out to me what the military-grade psychological warfare is in those letters?
	Fine question.
	Or what any of it was during the pandemic, or in London, or about the Ukraine war, or any of it.
	I mean, we went through a bunch of the pandemic stuff when we covered fucking Laura Dodsworth and her bullshit politics of fear thing.
	Um, you know, and it was, it was just public announcements of like, Hey, this thing is scary.
	Please be respectful and don't like, please try not to be responsible for anyone's death.
	You know, that, that was pretty much it.
	When you're drawing comparisons to the color of a wasp's butt, maybe you're reaching.
	Maybe you're reaching.
	Maybe it's not too robust of an argument.
	Well, I cut this bit out because it wasn't especially important, but there is a little bit later in this editorial where the Grey Zone basically assert that the husband, because he was at some point involved with the same brigade that was tackling misinformation with ISIS, He was then involved in employing those same techniques on the British public.
	And I was like, okay, that's a bold claim that you can't back up.
	And they don't.
	That'd be fascinating.
	That'd be fascinating and insane.
	I'd love to hear the evidence.
	Because it'd be crazy.
	There isn't any, it's just pure speculation.
	So let's get into a little bit more of this.
	New developments suggest YouTube's censorship of Brand was driven by a direct British government decree.
	On September the 19th, the social media companies TikTok and Rumble received a pair of almost identical letters dispatched from Caroline Dynadge, the head of the UK Parliament's Culture, Media and Sports Committee.
	Dynadge informed the companies she was concerned that Brand may be able to profit from his content published on both platforms.
	She then suggested they impose financial penalties.
	In a sense, the bypass of judicial process right to punitive measures, financial ones, seems like an interesting stance for a government minister to be suggesting to a big tech platform.
	So again, Caroline Dynadge isn't in the government.
	She isn't a government minister, and the government themselves have had nothing to do with any of this.
	That Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport is a cross-party, and government ministers aren't allowed to be members of it, because the whole point is to put the government under scrutiny.
	So there's literally no way that she even could be a government minister in this situation.
	This is all nonsense to give some kind of impression that the government are trying to silence Brand, while the reality is much, much darker.
	Victoria Prentiss, the Attorney General for England and Wales, which is the highest legal position in government, sent out a media advisory notice on September 22nd, 2023.
	And I'm going to quote directly from the notice.
	Quote.
	The Attorney General, the Right Honourable Victoria Prentiss KCMP, wishes to amplify the importance of not publishing any material where there is a risk that it could prejudice any potential criminal investigation or prosecutions.
	Publishing this material could amount to contempt of court."
	First and most obvious point here is that the contempt of court rules she mentions don't apply to Brand's case because it's not being taken to court yet.
	There are no legal proceedings against him at this stage.
	There have been no arrests and no interviews.
	Reporter for The Times, Sean O'Neill, wrote, quote, the Attorney General is either poorly informed about the law of contempt or, more likely, has taken it upon herself to issue a thinly veiled threat intended to have a chilling effect on reporting of the Brand allegations.
	Unquote.
	So, yeah, I mean, I mean, this is this is someone with a legal background.
	I think it's fair to say she's got an understanding.
	So Brand is making a...
	Brand is making a big fuss about being silenced by the government, while the reality is the government's highest legal office is trying to protect him, and those outside of government are the ones trying to demonetize him.
	Which also isn't the same as silencing or censoring someone, like the Grey Zone is making out.
	In fact, if Brand's message was so dangerous and important, one would think he wouldn't be too worried about making money out of it, as long as the message got out there.
	How strange.
	Fools would work for free and do all this shit.
	All right.
	Just 'cause they think it's the right thing to do.
	Sounds like a couple of suckers if you ask me.
	The financial penalties, that specific verbiage implies fines of some kind,
	when really it's just less money.
	'Cause getting demonetized off of YouTube, which was YouTube's choice,
	which they can make as a- It's up to them.
	They can do what they want.
	They can do what they want.
	Because they're beholden to advertisers.
	That's the motivation at the end of the day for a social media company.
	Advertisers don't want to accidentally be endorsed by or put next to a rapist.
	Yep.
	100%.
	It's a capitalistic preference.
	His channel is still up, you know, all of his videos are still there.
	Nothing new has been taken down.
	His message is still free to get to any fucking idiot that comes across it, which, you know, I think that's in a way a bigger problem.
	But yeah, all that said, I still disagree with Caroline Dynadge sending those letters to TikTok and Rumble.
	Not least of all, because now I have to deal with this bullshit.
	The next clip I include just for the ending.
	The committee's letter to Rumble contained a direct demand for demonetisation.
	We would like to know whether Rumble intends to join YouTube in suspending Mr Brown's ability to earn money on the platform.
	In a withering response to Dinegy's letter, Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovsky asserted that Rumble emphatically rejects the UK Parliament's demands.
	This is of course why we are fortunate to be on Rumble.
	Please join us there.
	Please consider supporting us so that we can continue with our organisation.
	I'm beginning to think that our organisation is having an impact due to recent events.
	I mean, he's having an impact in the same way that a toddler playing in a bath of custard is having an impact, in that he's having a great time making an enormous mess to the inconvenience of everyone else, and sooner or later it's going to become clear that he's full of shit and someone has to clean it up.
	And in comes the on-brand podcast armed with a hose of truth, rubber gloves of reality, and sponges of shame.
	Here we are, Russell.
	Cleaning up after your bullshit, yet again!
	And our emotional support hammer.
	And our emotional support hammer, just in case.
	Break glass if needed.
	Hello, buddy.
	Oh man, that's a lot.
	That's a lot.
	Yeah.
	I'm beginning to think we're having an effect.
	Fuck you.
	Oh my God.
	This, this to him is the appropriate response to, you know, him being outed as a rapist.
	The implications behind that are the audacity.
	It's the same audacity that was in the first video that made insane claims and mentioned Joe Rogan.
	Like, We're not done with Joe Rogan.
	I knew you'd be pleased.
	Honestly, the other guys that came out in support, I feel like if I were Joe Rogan, I'd be like, keep my name out of your mouth, sir.
	I don't know.
	I don't know about that.
	Please don't put me in your weird deflection video.
	That's a bit much.
	Yeah yeah no that's that's true that's true and you know what I haven't actually I haven't checked this week what Rogan has said specifically because last I couldn't find a solid reference for anything that he'd said um so so I I was I mean the smartest thing is to ignore it like I get that but yeah I mean I don't know if he because Russell was on the show multiple times so I I was on was on the Joe Rogan experience um so I don't know I don't know.
	I'll have a look after we finish the record and see.
	The fact that the news is not coming out in America and is not being communicated would potentially be a reason why Joe Rogan wouldn't even bother to be like, Don't mention me.
	That's not all right.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It might be such a, yeah, such a kind of quiet thing over there that he doesn't even realize, you know, that it's that it's as big a deal as it is.
	Oh, cool.
	Thanks for keeping me awake at night.
	Abject horror.
	Cool.
	Cool.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Next, we finally hear about that online safety bill that Brand is taking issue with.
	The CEO continued, We regard it as deeply inappropriate and dangerous that the UK Parliament would attempt to control who is allowed to speak on our platform or earn a living from doing so.
	Caroline Dynage served as the UK Government's Digital and Culture Minister from February 2020 to September 2021, making her de facto chief of the Department for Culture, Media and Sports, DCMS.
	In this capacity, she was personally responsible for overseeing construction of the repressive World Economic Forum-endorsed online safety bill, Which has been criticised by rights groups for threatening the rights to free expression and privacy.
	For her leading role in crafting the bill, Dynage was honoured by the Princess Royal with the title of Dame Commander of the British Empire.
	So, first things first, Caroline Dainage was indeed the State Minister for Digital and Culture during those times, but that did not make her de facto chief of literally anything.
	The Department for Culture, Media and Sports actual leader is the Secretary of State, who at that point was Priti Patel, who is a total cunt.
	That's apropos of nothing, but it bears mentioning.
	The other senior officials at DCMS are the Permanent Secretary and Directors General, who are all civil servants.
	Dynage had nothing to do with it.
	Greyzone then assert that somehow the leader of DCMS had something to do with crafting the online safety bill, which isn't true, but it is true that Caroline Dynage had a lot to do with the writing of the first draft.
	As for her knighthood of being named Dame Caroline Dyninch, because that is her title, that was for political and public service after she served in seven governmental departments under three prime ministers.
	I don't like any of the government she's been in or most of the things she stands for, but I do agree that she seems to be a hard worker.
	So let's take a look at the Online Safety Bill, why it exists, and what it will do when it comes into law.
	I'm like, well, fucking yeah, I mean, yeah.
	I'm not gonna tell the Royals what to do. They're not gonna fucking listen to me.
	So let's actually take a look at the online safety bill, why it exists, and what it will do when it comes into law.
	So in November 2017, 14 year old Molly Russell took her own life after viewing suicide and self-harm content online,
	encouraging people to engage in these acts.
	There was an inquest into her death, at which point the senior coroner recommended that the government consider reviewing the provision of internet platforms to children, including the possibility of separate platforms for adults and children.
	Thus began the crafting of the Online Safety Bill, which has passed through Parliament and the House of Lords, and now is only waiting for a Royal Assent.
	So the King needs to sign it, and then it's law, basically.
	That's just it.
	It's part of our system.
	Yeah, it's one of those constitutional convention situations where it's like, they don't have any actual power.
	The idea of the monarch refusing to sign it would be insane.
	It would cause a constitutional crisis, at which point basically we'd just get rid of the Royal Assent bit is what we'd probably do, but yeah, the whole country would fucking fall apart.
	But that's never going to happen for various institutional reasons.
	Anyway, we have some stupid little quirks.
	That's basically an excuse to have a fancy brunch.
	Kinda.
	Yeah.
	The basics of the bill is that it requires social media platforms to take more responsibility for the safety of their users.
	It will force firms to remove illegal content and protect children from some legal but harmful material.
	It will also introduce new rules such as requiring porn sites to stop children viewing content by checking the ages of users.
	How effective that will be is a different question.
	The illegal content that will require removing includes child sexual abuse, controlling or coercive behavior, extreme sexual violence, illegal immigration and people smuggling, promoting or facilitating suicide, promoting self-harm, animal cruelty, selling illegal drugs or weapons, and terrorism.
	Whatever that includes.
	New offenses have also been included in the bill, including cyber flashing and sharing of deep fake pornography.
	So that's interesting.
	Cyber flashing, so dick pics?
	Yeah.
	Basically.
	You know, that kind of thing and doing it in video format as well, I believe.
	That'd be great.
	Yeah.
	Let's clamp down on the many, many, many millions of unsolicited dick pics out there.
	That's not a bad plan.
	There are legitimate concerns with the bill, namely an intention in some cases to de-encrypt private messages from companies like WhatsApp and Signal, who've both said they will refuse to comply if asked, but it very much remains to be seen how that's going to go, and it may end up being settled in the courts.
	As for who is going to be enforcing this, it will fall to independent communications regulator Ofcom, who will have to write up codes of conduct and guidance for all companies needing to comply with this law.
	From my view, overall, this bill seems like a good thing, mostly in place to protect children from the absolute wasteland that is the internet.
	There are legitimate concerns, but I do fail to see how any of it has literally any bearing on Russell Brand, unless he intends to start committing his crimes of sexual violence on his show, or he wants to start cyber flashing his locals channel.
	That one's more possible, I would say.
	So yeah, it's definitely possible that he might want to dick-pick his audience.
	But other than that, I really don't see how this is relevant to him.
	Because it's not.
	It just sounds scary.
	And he's making it sound scary.
	Did you see how the name is implying that he'll be censored in some way?
	That's what he thinks.
	Yeah, it's great.
	The next clip is once again a bunch of bullshit, but I included it mostly for the end.
	Moreover, during this period, the DCMS was home to the shadowy, intelligence-official-run Counter Disinformation Unit, which policed COVID-19 disinformation narratives online.
	Investigations by the civil liberties organisation Big Brother Watch has revealed that instead of suppressing content that posed risks to public health, the CDU was preoccupied with censoring and de-platforming reasonable online criticisms of the British government's COVID-19 response, including opposition to lockdowns and vaccine passports.
	What we appear to be looking at here are a set of collaborating institutions that have an agenda and then pursue that agenda even when in pursuing it they have to bypass, repress, obstruct or absolutely ignore existing judicial or regulatory bodies and protocols by moving straight to punitive measures, by bypassing judicial systems and in particular in the event of COVID of course repressing true information preventing healthy online debate.
	It's plain that there were narratives that were repressed during the COVID pandemic.
	It's plain during the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict that, well, for example, Russia Today are not allowed to be on most social media sites.
	Rumble continue to host Russia Today so that people are able to discern from themselves propaganda from truth.
	This, I feel, is an important component in any democracy.
	Let me know if you agree in the chat.
	Okay, um... Right.
	All Wolverines have sadly been barred from full movie theatres, like... Oh my god!
	Yeah, yeah, right.
	So, Russia Today, or RT as it's better known, is literally state-run Russian propaganda that exists to sow dissent and misinformation among the masses of any country not allied with Russia, but predominantly the UK and the US.
	Congrats to Rumble for continuing to host it, I guess.
	Good on ya.
	As for the other stuff from Grayzone, the reasonable online criticisms of lockdowns and vaccine passports was people bitching about having to actually respect people other than themselves in a society and anti-vaxxers.
	Those people would regularly spout complete bullshit about COVID-19 propagated by people like Russell Brand, at which point the Counter Disinformation Unit would have to get involved and try to minimize the damage.
	In general, this country is fairly good with government transparency, though this is graded on a curve, and I'm going to read to you from a fact sheet on the CDU.
	Quote, examples of narratives the CDU has referred to social media platforms includes COVID-19 disinformation narratives such as claims pushing harmful cures for COVID-19, e.g.
	bleach.
	Hey, remember when the President of the United States of America said we should inject bleach to kill COVID-19?
	You remember that?
	Don't.
	Stop it.
	I feel attacked.
	This is aggressive.
	I know.
	I was there.
	I think that you know the feeling of when your eyeballs are gonna fall out of your head, and you're like, huh.
	Bleach guy wants to... he wants a second shot at it, you know?
	He's like, I could have done better.
	Couldn't figure out injecting sunlight.
	That was in the same moment.
	Yeah, UV.
	That's cool.
	Smart move, man.
	Smart.
	It's, you know, the Underworld movies.
	It's UV bullets.
	That's how you do it.
	There's also, quote, disinformation related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, such as denial of mass casualty events by Russian embassy accounts, e.g.
	claims the Bucha massacre and the bombing of the maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine were both hoaxes.
	Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, over 95% of referrals made by the CDU related to state-backed disinformation, unquote.
	I wonder why Russell and the Grey Zone are taking issue with the CDU.
	It's a complete mystery.
	I'm going to read from further down the fact sheet.
	Quote, preserving freedom of speech is extremely important as part of the CDU's work.
	It does not monitor political debate and the CDU does not refer any content from journalists, politicians or political parties to social media companies.
	The online safety bill will put in place legal protections to ensure that platforms enforce their terms and conditions and cannot arbitrarily remove content, unquote.
	So the online safety bill that Brand is railing against, protect him!
	What a fucking idiot!
	Of course.
	Of fucking course.
	Uh-huh!
	Of course.
	Great.
	I just... I'm done.
	I'm done with this editorial.
	I am done with this editorial.
	Or I would be.
	But Brand has done something unique for his return episode, and he's pinned two of them together, back-to-back.
	So, I'm gonna skip ahead to the second one, where he pivots away from talking about how the government are trying to silence him, and instead goes to discussing how the government are trying to silence him.
	It appears there are financial ties between Google and the person that wrote that letter.
	It's worth noting too that Google is a competitor to Rumble, a significant competitor, a near monopolist.
	How do media organisations cooperate with one another when it comes to present in a news narrative?
	You will remember perhaps in particular the Joe Rogan horse medicine moment.
	You will recall how you saw a spate of comparable headlines from around the world using the same wording.
	You will perhaps recall that you never once heard, hold on a second, this is a Nobel Prize winning medicine, the Inferno, which actually has a statue outside of medical organisations.
	A revered and significant medicine was simultaneously referred to as horse paste around the world.
	How does something like that happen?
	How does the media operate in coordination and lockstep to present Well, apparently there's an organisation called the Trusted News Initiatives.
	We've said many times on our channel that when you have a word like trusted in the name of an organisation, it's worth questioning whether or not you can trust them.
	Firstly, how fucking childish is that?
	Oh, they've got trusted in the name.
	It means you can't trust them.
	By the same logic, I should really think of Stay Free with Russell Brand as Go Captive with Rosella Generic.
	That may take a minute.
	I mean, yeah, way more farting birds.
	That's what I needed to give a check in the yes box for an organization.
	Or Joe Rogan's horse medicine shtick, and how could all of the media possibly have all reported on it in the same way?
	Well, it's because Joe Rogan is an idiot saying stupid things, and people who aren't idiots saying stupid things all tend to have roughly the same perspective and response to it, which is to discredit and mock them for being idiots who say stupid things.
	Of course, Russell doesn't quite understand this, because despite a certain intellect, he is also an idiot saying stupid things.
	He's right about the Ivermectin, by the way.
	It is a Nobel Prize winning medicine, just a long time ago and for nothing to do with COVID-19.
	So it doesn't have any relevance whatsoever.
	Horses?
	It seems great for horses.
	Yeah, no, it was medically important at the time.
	It was some kind of breakthrough.
	But nothing to do with this, by any stretch of the imagination.
	It seems like an easy remedy for a common problem.
	By the same logic, I'm 99% sure that penicillin is a Nobel Prize winning thing and I don't think that that will help COVID-19 either.
	I'm going to read to you from the BBC website on the Trusted News Initiative and what it is.
	The Trusted News Initiative is a unique global partnership bringing together organizations across media and technology to tackle harmful disinformation in real time.
	The partnership focuses on moments of potential jeopardy that could threaten life or the integrity of democracy, particularly during elections.
	Partners alert each other to high-risk disinformation so that content can be reviewed promptly by platforms, whilst publishers ensure they don't unwittingly share dangerous falsehoods.
	Increasing understanding of how to address harmful disinformation and ways to report it is a core part of the TNI.
	Regular forums allow partners to share their insights in editorial or technological best practice.
	This learning is also shared publicly through an annual conference featuring speakers from across the partner organizations."
	Right.
	Fairly reasonable, right?
	It's not terribly unsurprising that... Sorry.
	Oh, no.
	Yep.
	I have reacted so emphatically with my body.
	Yeah, said nothing.
	Sorry.
	Super duper agree!
	Yeah, uh, what?
	Yeah, no, that's a good thing.
	I like his thing.
	Yeah, no, it's not terribly surprising, sorry, that Russell doesn't like the TNI because they are specifically going to be dealing with the narratives that he spins on this show.
	In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if they have a special person just to deal with Russell Brand's bullshit.
	If they don't, hi TNI, or BBC, I'm available for probably less money than you'd think.
	Yeah, I hope it's not just us.
	Yeah, I hope it's not, but I get the feeling it kind of is.
	There's more attention on it at the moment, but that attention is going to go away.
	I know, I know.
	But hey, we'll still be here.
	We will still be here.
	We're going to make sure this motherfucker gets taken to task one way or the other.
	Yeah, our teeth are in this.
	Yep.
	Finally, before I forget to mention it, the apparent financial ties between Google and Caroline Dineage that were very briefly flashed up on the screen was a donation.
	It was two tickets with hospitality and accommodation as guests of YouTube at the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Arts 2023, valued at £3,302.
	23, valued at £3,302. I've no idea why this occurred. I've no idea why this occurred,
	but I would frankly be pretty amazed if Dame Caroline decided to go to Glasto, even on
	an all expenses paid trip.
	Financial ties, indeed.
	To a Dame and the Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton, do you think a trip to Glasgow is enough to bribe them?
	And most importantly, to do what exactly?
	The online safety bill shouldn't have anything to do with brand, and YouTube merrily demonetized him of their own volition.
	They could kick him off if they felt like it, and there's not a damn thing anyone could do about it, because they're well within their rights to do so.
	Utterly ludicrous.
	Yeah, even the, like- Financial tides.
	I can't think of Google having a competitor.
	Mm-hmm.
	I don't think there is one.
	Which is a whole other problem in and of itself.
	Well, they're on about, you know- Don't you see their rumble?
	I'm like, I'm stuck on that.
	Specifically, they mean YouTube that is owned by Google.
	You know, that's how it's a competitor.
	But the idea that Rumble is a competitor to YouTube in any kind of...
	I mean, it's definitely inflating their own status a little bit, isn't it?
	It is a competitor.
	Yeah, I guess.
	Yeah, sure.
	I put like in a technical sense is like so so is Vimeo, you know, so
	There are lots of other sites that can host videos that are technically
	competitors.
	How much of a- Yeah, so is Photo Bucket?
	How much of a market share they have is a different fucking question, right?
	Anyway, I promised that we would get into who the reclaimthenet.org were copying their work from.
	And so in the next clip, we get into why the Trusted News Initiative has fallen under brand spotlight.
	And yeah, let's see if you guessed correctly.
	Let's find out what the Trusted News Initiative is.
	In short, I can tell you that it's a collaboration between legacy media and big tech sites in order to prevent independent media voices communicating.
	How effective could that be?
	Is it possible to shut down independent media?
	What strategies would be deployed?
	How would they work together?
	Surely the BBC and CNN and the New York Times and various other organisations, online ones like Facebook, would have a vested interest in competing with one another.
	Is that true?
	Let's find out.
	In January, the Chairman of the Children's Health Defence, Robert Kennedy, and other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the Trusted News Initiative, alleging antitrust and First Amendment violations.
	Trusted News Initiative, launched in March 2020, is a coalition of some of the world's largest news organisations, including the Associated Press, the BBC, the Washington Post, and Reuters, who partnered with Big Tech with the aim of stopping the spread of misinformation.
	It's just a couple of weeks to stop the spread.
	That's right, it's RFK Jr.
	But of course.
	You know, we're getting the greatest hits.
	He's not gonna go this show without mentioning RFK Jr., come on.
	Interestingly enough, this is from January 2023, so real current news yet again.
	What we have is a lawsuit from the Children's Health Defense, RFK Jr.' 's lawsuit organization.
	I'd say they do more, but really he just uses them to sue people and not much else, against the Washington Post.
	So, great.
	We are going to skip huge chunks of this editorial because it's just Russell reading from reclaimthenet.org who have mostly just copied and pasted various parts of the lawsuit from RFK Jr.
	I've already done an episode on RFK jr.
	And frankly, I am done with the guy because he just makes shit up And that's precisely what he's done here.
	And this next clip is an illustration of exactly that The TNI exists to, in its own words, choke off and stamp out online news reporting that the Trusted News Initiative, or any of its members, preemptorily deems misinformation.
	The lawsuit states, choke off and stamp out independent news voices.
	Let me know what you think in the comments.
	TNI members have targeted and suppressed completely accurate online reporting by non-mainstream news publishers concerning both COVID-19 on matters including treatment, immunity, lab leak, vaccine injury, and lockdowns and lockdown mandates, and US elections, such as the Hunter Biden laptop story.
	It adds, by their own admission, members of the T&I have agreed to work together, and have in fact worked together, to exclude from the world's dominant internet platforms rival news publishers who engage in reporting that challenges and competes with T&I members reporting on certain issues relating to COVID-19 and US politics.
	Okay.
	Okay, here's the thing, though.
	Here's the thing, though.
	There were parentheticals that were listing out the specific issues that they were focusing on, and including the Hunter Buttons laptop.
	Oh, shade!
	Oh, we're under the shade tree today!
	That was cunty, and I'm kinda here for that.
	Like, I have become a fan of the person who wrote that, not this article, but the original text, it was like, uh, swerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr So, yeah, according to RFK Jr., all of those things are demonstrably true.
	The lab leak and all of that, and there's been true reporting on these things, according to him.
	Yeah, that's complete fucking nonsense.
	So, according to RFK Jr., the Trusted News Initiative have said in their own words that they want to choke off and stamp out online news reporting that they deem to be misinformation.
	And those words are in quotes.
	Well, the words choke off and stamp out are in quotes.
	Why?
	Because what he's done is cherry-picked words from Jessica Cecil, who at the time was assistant editor of BBC Newsnight, and she was the founder of the TNI.
	She was having a conversation about how to choke off the spread of misinformation and stop it from causing more harm.
	The stamp out part, however, were words that Jessica Cecil never said.
	They're words that nobody ever said.
	Those are, those are RFK Jr.' 's words being misrepresented as Jessica Cecil's by reclaimthenet.org.
	Which, by the way, even the title of the article is at the bottom of the screen.
	Landmark Lawsuit Accuses Mainstream Media of Forming Coalition to Censor Misinformation.
	Yeah, and there are scare quotes around LANDMARK LAWSUIT and to censor scare quotes MISINFORMATION.
	Like, okay, so uncoordinated.
	Mm-hmm.
	So underlying all of this is, of course, the fact that Jessica Cecil does not claim to be a representative of the TNI.
	She wasn't speaking in any official capacity for them when making these remarks, nor did she have the authority to do so even if she wanted to, because even as the founder of the initiative, it's an alliance of news organizations and tech companies, and she couldn't possibly speak for all of them at once.
	It's that simple.
	Just said a thing.
	Yeah.
	She's a person in the media, you know, who is involved with all of this and founded it, and so was talking about what it does and what it's supposed to do.
	And yeah, these chuckleheads just... Oh, an official spokesperson for the tit... No, she's not.
	And I'm quite sure if you asked her, she would say, no, I'm not.
	As for members of the TNI wanting to get rid of rival news publishers who engage in reporting that challenges and competes with TNI members reporting, what a load of shit.
	They exist to get rid of lies and nonsense like the very things that RFK Jr.
	says on a daily basis, which is why he doesn't like them and has filed this suit.
	Specifically, what he wants is to get rid of them completely.
	I'm going to read the prayer for relief section from the lawsuit he filed.
	Quote.
	Plaintiffs respectfully request that the court enter judgment in their favor as follows.
	A. An order declaring defendant's conduct to be unlawful.
	B. An order enjoining defendants from acting in furtherance of the TNI's agreement and from continuing to work together or continuing to work with internet companies to boycott and censor other online news publishers.
	C. An order awarding plaintiffs treble damages and attorney fees and stating that each defendant is jointly and severally liable, therefore, and D. Any other relief the court judges to be proper.
	Unquote.
	So, he wants to prevent them from ever working together again, and also get a shitload of money from them, while declaring that their work is somehow unlawful.
	That's the aim of this lawsuit here.
	That's the relief he wants.
	Oh, more impossible threats, cool.
	Yeah, it's funny that.
	This is being heard in a court in Texas, and I'll be mighty curious to see how it plays out.
	Especially as even if somehow the judge signs on to RFK Jr.' 's bullshit, it would only be effective in America.
	The guy isn't judge of the world.
	And even then, the Washington Post would appeal.
	And it would hit the various appellate courts until presumably making its way to the Supreme Court, which is admittedly a coin toss, even with a lawsuit as batshit and based in lies as this one.
	Yeah, I would be a little bit concerned.
	All bets are off with the Supreme Court now.
	I mean, and also in Texas, that's a...
	There's a possibility.
	It really depends who it goes in front of, on what circuit doing what, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Yeah, Texas has been a pipeline to the Supreme Court.
	There's no way this could work.
	I can't hold that in my mind.
	I can't.
	I can't.
	No.
	I could see in America a First Amendment argument saying it is my right to spread misinformation.
	If they came at it from that angle, but that's not what he's saying.
	He's saying all of this was true.
	Whereas I feel like if he came out and went, well, yes, it is wrong, but it is my right to say it, then I think he would probably make some headway.
	Well, yeah, that's how those losses have been won in the past.
	I'm just a baby.
	I don't know the news.
	I'm just entertaining.
	Don't expect me to be responsible for the things I say.
	god.
	Oh me?
	Oh me?
	I bet.
	Why are you making me?
	Just picturing RFKJrnius.
	saying, Why you mean to me?
	Next up, Russell... I was picturing Tucker.
	I don't think I was whiny enough, but what are you going to do?
	Yeah, no, no.
	Why you mean to me?
	Next up, Russell states the obvious.
	My objectivity has been strongly challenged over recent weeks, but I recognise that I'm an insignificant individual in the show of things.
	What is incredibly important is independent media.
	What is incredibly important is the ability to hold the establishment to account.
	What's incredibly important is that you have independent media that doesn't just accept government narratives, but investigates, challenges mainstream legacy media narratives and government narratives.
	For example, a group like the Grey Zone.
	It doesn't even matter where politically they might lie, on the left or the right.
	This is becoming increasingly irrelevant.
	Because what we are seeing is the rise of centralisation and authoritarianism.
	A desire to censor, to surveil, to control, to shut down dissent and to deprive people of the option of meaningful political alternatives.
	What we are being given is a homogenised media space that literally has an accord to agree with one another and to defy, shut down, oppress, choke out.
	Stamp on independent media voices.
	Why is that?
	Well, one might imagine it's because they are in absolute alignment with centralist state and globalist elite dictates, and they simply don't want opposing voices out there.
	Because if there are opposing voices out there, then we have an alternative.
	We have an alternative view.
	We have the ability to oppose their agenda.
	Once independent voices are stamped out, then all you have are legacy media outlets who already agree with one another and already agree with the corporatist state.
	That means there will be no opposition.
	There will be no dissent.
	Russell, we oppose you.
	Thank you so much for your support and encouragement for this project.
	I really appreciate hearing that from you, because that's kind of the biggest endorsement that we need.
	We'll be here, and we're not going any fucking where.
	That shit's fucking rich, man.
	Very glad he's a fan of opposing voices because here we are.
	We'll give it to you in spades, friend.
	He is going hard.
	I'm very scared.
	So dissenting voices or opposing narratives don't work quite the way Russell thinks they work.
	Take the online safety bill as a good example, right?
	So pro voices will say, this is a good idea and we'll protect the children.
	Anti-voices will say this could be an overreach and lead to a slippery slope of stifling free speech.
	Whereas what Russell wants is the ability to say this bill is out to kill us all because it's globalist and we've proved that based on this blog a staff member of mine saw once and it's just so they can dumb us down and kill us all slowly for profit.
	Quick!
	Subscribe to my local channel or we're all gonna die!
	That may have been a minor dramatization, but you get the idea.
	What you and the grifting asshats like you are doing, Brand, is not opposition, it's lies for profit, and they're lies which are seldom even close to living in reality.
	That's not opposition.
	Yeah, there's a very useful phrase, and I'm not sure where it's from or if it's from anything, that I do think is really, it is useful, but there needs to be like an asterisk, and I've been hearing it more, but much like a lot of phrases that used to be useful, like do your own research, are out the window, and I'm trying to claw this one back, is that, The phrase specifically that I've, and the way I've heard it, is every accusation is a confession.
	And that's, there are a lot, like, I want to almost amend it to say accusations can be a confession, or accusations are often a confession.
	Because that is absolutely, especially for our right-wing politicians.
	Wow!
	It's true like immediately and blatantly.
	But the, We are also making accusations, but it's not a confession.
	We are responding to an issue with information that should enlighten our listeners and ourselves to the underlying truth.
	Oh, but so am I!
	This is how we awaken together!
	Yeah.
	And so, especially with a lot of the things that I've heard Russell say, and the context has certainly been amended retrospectively, that there is a lot of like, it's a really useful thought But it can go either way and I don't want that.
	I'm not happy with that.
	No, no, but it is.
	Yeah, it is interesting to note when it does occur because it does seem to occur fairly often.
	Daily?
	Yeah, pretty much.
	Pretty much.
	Yep.
	The frequency has increased.
	This whole show is a fucking lot.
	I don't like it in this not studio.
	I'm not appreciative.
	The next clip we have a bit of a sneaky editorial decision from Brand.
	The spokesman for the Trusted News Initiative continued, "So actually we've got a lot more to hold us together than
	we have to work in competition with one another. Plaintiffs are online news publishers who
	as a result of the TNI's group boycott have been censored, demonetized, demoted, throttled,
	shadow banned and/or excluded entirely from platforms like Facebook, YouTube,
	Twitter and Instagram."
	By prefacing that with "the spokesperson for the TNI continues" which, by the way,
	Jamie Angus, not a spokesperson for the TNI, but by doing that he makes it seem as though the
	entire of what he's just said is from Jamie Angus.
	In reality, the quote ended after the sentence, so actually we've got a lot more to hold us together than we have to work in competition with one another.
	That's where that ends.
	The next part about plaintiffs or online news publishers who've been censored, blah blah blah, is RFK Jr.' 's words from the lawsuit.
	In the article between these two things are the words, quote, the lawsuit explains, unquote, with a colon before going into RFK Jr.' 's quote.
	Russell has taken that out and slammed the two quotes together to make it sound somehow like Jamie Angus is saying, oh yes, we've censored and demonetized these people, isn't it great?
	Like, I'm not entirely clear if that's illegal or not, but it fucking should be, because holy shit.
	You're magnetic poetry again.
	Mm-hmm.
	You just take out and add.
	Mm-hmm.
	Mm-hmm.
	Also, siren party over here.
	I don't know if you can hear it.
	I'm like, oh no.
	Oh yeah, that's hopefully the siren coming to arrest Russell Brand all the way from Chicago.
	That's my hope.
	They'll run every red light all the way there.
	Yeah, they'll hit Oxfordshire in about a week.
	If there's a person with a health emergency.
	No, I'm not hating on that.
	It's just... No.
	Boy.
	No, no.
	Hey, I mean, I mean, if they are rushing to arrest Brandon, I'm fine with that.
	Right.
	If he could send CPD instead of you lovely people?
	That'd be pretty sick.
	They're crazy.
	Very true.
	I was going to say he would get the shit kicked out of him immediately.
	We have black sites.
	It's terrible.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	What was it?
	The Chicago 7?
	That was those guys, wasn't it?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Allegedly, in Roblox.
	I don't know.
	What?
	Politically.
	He'll be beaten to a pulp politically.
	That rapist and sexual assaulter will be beaten politically.
	what a shame that would be. So basically this is the kind of chicanery that Brand engages in
	to deceive his audience into giving him money, right?
	This is outright falsehoods, and he doesn't give a shit because it serves as narratives.
	So I'm pretty dumb with the editorials this week, because two is a lot.
	It's a fucking lot.
	Uh-huh.
	And they don't even have the polish of the old ones either.
	That was at least something to appreciate.
	Like, oh, well, at least it's been, you know, horribly put together to, to, to, you know, to, to, to be, Optimized for social media because that's what it is.
	But you can at least appreciate that there is a, you know, there's something stylistic to it, right?
	Whereas this is just, this is just horrible.
	This is just very badly done from start to finish.
	So yeah, next we are going to see what happens as he comes out of this second editorial.
	Joining me now is Jimmy Dore, comedian, political commentator and host of the Jimmy Dore Show.
	Jimmy, thank you for joining me this week.
	My pleasure.
	Thanks for having me.
	Obviously, I now in particular have a new experience on the way that the media and the state can cooperate and corroborate one another's narratives and stories.
	I'm beginning to sense that if you publicly question important stories that are agenda-led, like for example the
	war in Ukraine or the response to the COVID pandemic, that it appears that there is some
	significant heft behind controlling those narrative spaces and preventing them from being overtly
	challenged.
	Can you tell me what your personal experience is around censorship and whether or not you
	ever personally feel there is an attempt to close down independent media voices?
	Well, 100%. I.
	I've experienced it every day with YouTube demonetizing videos for no reason.
	The first time it happened, they took down, I think, three or maybe five of my videos in 2021.
	because I was doing videos that talked about the efficacy of the vaccine and I stated that it didn't stop transmission or contraction of the virus which we all know now and at that time I had kind of pieced it together myself and I had on Dr. Robert Malone who explained how that worked to me and then I got censored by YouTube for that and when I asked what was the censorship for and why did you take down these five videos and they said it was because I gave misinformation saying the vaccine didn't stop transmission And when I said, I showed them, well, the FDA says they don't know if it stops transmission, that they hope it does.
	And so their response to that was, oh, no, no, we made a mistake.
	It's because you said it doesn't stop contraction of this.
	So they just changed the whole thing.
	They gave me a strike on YouTube.
	You know how important that is.
	Or they gave me a warning, which is the first step to giving you a strike.
	Fucking idiot.
	Oh, I got a strike from YouTube.
	Well, I got a warning from YouTube, which is the first step to getting a strike and that's just as bad.
	Okay, so Jimmy Dore was throwing anti-vax bullshit around YouTube and they took his video down.
	Boo-hoo.
	And as we know, the vaccines do actually help prevent transmission, but that's not what they were designed to do, which is why it was never tested.
	So there's that.
	And we've had flu shots as long as we've all been alive.
	There's that.
	And I'm willing to bet this old man probably takes them.
	I imagine he gets them.
	Dr. Robert Malone.
	Dr. Robert Malone, Arbiter of Truth.
	I know.
	It's two of the worst people.
	It just is.
	It just is.
	And Dore's doing the rounds at the moment as well.
	Yeah.
	This next clip, we get a very weird admission from Jimmy Dore.
	And you know, they would have done this to me.
	A lot of people wanted me to run for president, right?
	And this is before we knew Bobby Kennedy was running.
	People wanted me to run because they wanted me to give a voice to these kind of concerns that I'm talking about.
	And they like that I can speak to people on the left and the right, and I don't demonize my neighbor for the problems that the oligarchy is causing us.
	And they wanted me to run, and I told them exactly what would have happened to me Is the exact same thing they did to Julian Assange, the exact thing they did to you, they would have done to me and they would have taken down my channel.
	So I knew all this and I knew I could be more effective right here doing this because they would have just disappeared me and people would have forgot about me and they would have discredited me.
	They would have done to me what they did to Julian Assange and what they did to you.
	So, Julian Assange was wanted for extradition by the Swedish government on suspicion of rape, unlawful coercion, and multiple cases of sexual molestation.
	He managed to stall legally for years until the statute of limitations had run out on most of the charges against him, to the point where the Swedish Prosecution Authority had to drop their case.
	As for Russell, well, we know the allegations against him pretty fucking well.
	The guy's a rapist.
	Jimmy Dore is saying that if he tried to run for political office, that level of scrutiny would dig up similar information against him.
	I mean, he's presenting it as a hit job, but in reality, these kinds of things don't happen unless there's a credible case to be found somewhere from someone, right?
	I mean, he's bragged openly about sexually harassing Anna Kasparian at the Young Turks, repeatedly calling her sexy and asking where she bought her jeans so he could buy the same ones for his wife so she would dress better.
	That's not sexual assault by any stretch, but it is pretty gross misogynistic behaviour displaying a specific mindset towards women.
	I don't know, there's something.
	There's a degree of like, well, first of all, if you are an individual who identifies with Russell Brand and Julian Assange regarding specifically these accusations, and you're identifying on their side, Instead of any pick another side, any other side, just choose.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Because you're picking the worst one.
	And that is just potentially telegraphing a problem.
	So I wasn't curious.
	Now I am.
	Exactly.
	I'm like, buddy, come on, by the sound of it, you've clearly done something.
	Why draw attention to it?
	Because now people like me are going to be paying attention.
	I'm going to be just having a little rifle through the history of Jimmy fucking Dore.
	You picked your team.
	You're like, I would like to be on team great with those boys over there.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	Exactly.
	Not because I did anything.
	Just because I agree with them on principle.
	Oh, nope.
	That's also bad.
	Yeah, he's saying he already is on that team, you know, and oh, if he tried to run for president, he would be, you know, he would be exposed as that.
	I don't know.
	It's interesting.
	It's interesting.
	This is part of what I've been so curious.
	Daniels Ross, come on, buddy.
	Let's hear it.
	Katy Perry, baby, say what you got to say.
	Yeah, it's true.
	We need the inside.
	We need the inside scoop.
	Come on.
	You can do it.
	But the WhatsApp groups, you know, that we found out about that, like the Whisper Network, that were WhatsApp groups that were female comedians that were trying to protect each other.
	I want to know every fucking name.
	I want to know everything.
	I don't want people to be outed.
	I don't want the transcripts to implicate anyone.
	And I certainly don't want spurious claims to be, you know, like cast to the winds.
	But I fucking want to know.
	I want to know what's going on.
	Yeah, no, no, it's true.
	It's true.
	Yeah, there's definitely, within all of this, and I imagine with Jimmy Dore, there's inside information that people know somewhere that is not getting out for whatever reason.
	You're the one that volunteered to pick your team in front of us right now.
	No one made you do that.
	Well, he just he just willingly made this comparison on his own.
	And that's just so incredibly stupid.
	It's just incredible to have seen it.
	Alternatively, it means that he can at a later date when the thing inevitably comes out, he can go, I told you that we're going to do it, that we're going to do it.
	It's the setup.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I'm concerned.
	Yeah, so my prediction is there will be some kind of allegations against Jimmy Dore at some point, because he said there will be, so I'm gonna take his word for it on that one.
	Now, this next clip is something a little bit special.
	The five minute question from Russell Brand to Richard Dawkins has become part of the
	mythos of this podcast, right?
	[laughter]
	Mike's trying to read it yesterday!
	Oh yeah, someone transcribed it on our- Yes.
	It's incredible.
	You're like, what is going on?
	It's incredible, right?
	It's almost a thing of legend at this point.
	And you, Lauren, have also repeatedly described Russell Brand as a human gish gallop, right?
	Embodying the very concept of the rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm their opponent by providing an excessive number of arguments with no regard for the accuracy or strength of said arguments.
	Well, Jimmy Dore seems to have taken both of these things as a challenge.
	So Lauren, audience, I present to you the six minute answer.
	Shut up!
	And it seems to me extraordinary that we've arrived at this point where free speech and ordinary protocols of justice are being bypassed.
	How have we gotten here, Jimmy?
	And what dangers does it pose in the coming years?
	Well, we've gotten here because they have to control the narrative.
	Before it was easier for them to control the narrative because they held all the strings to the media.
	So now that we have media, social media and things like YouTube, Rumble, that we can actually get our message out to question authority, that's what's dangerous for them.
	And so they have to control the narrative.
	They have to censor things that are detrimental to the establishment, because if they can't do that, then they have to start disappearing people.
	And that's a little harder and it's a little more risky.
	I'm already lost. So right now they can discredit you. Let's just be honest, right? So when Tucker
	Carlson got fired from Fox News, it wasn't because he was lying. Those people lie on Fox News all the
	time. They lie on corporate media all the time. They're currently lying to you about COVID and
	they're currently lying to you at the top of their lungs about the Ukraine war. Nobody gets fired for
	You get fired for telling the truth.
	And that's the thing that scares them the most.
	You don't get in trouble for lying.
	You get promoted for lying.
	Look at Rachel Maddow.
	She did the most Russiagate segments of anybody on television.
	Which was proven true.
	She told people that Russia was going to turn off their heat in the winter.
	She told them everything, every lie that could possibly be told about Russia and Russiagate and Donald Trump.
	And she got rewarded with a $35 million contract, which is $100,000 a day.
	A lot of love for Russia going in here.
	propaganda is to lie, but if you tell the truth you will be discredited and you will be demonetized for sure, I mean
	they so they control that you know it's a handful of billionaires that run the world right now and people don't
	realize this you know there's that movie network, I don't know if you're familiar with that movie. He says there are
	no countries and companies and the international transfer of
	dollars and so people like us we upset that that balance that
	international transfer of dollars because the truth might get to the taxpayers might get to the people and there
	might be a revolution.
	Now, in the United States, during the Great Depression, FDR The only reason he gave people social security, the only reason he gave people a jobs program was because the establishment, the ruling capitalists, were afraid of an actual revolution.
	And so FDR told the wealthy, from the class that he came from, he said that if you don't give them some of your money, they're going to come and take all of your money.
	And so that's the only thing that scares them is an actual revolution,
	which is what I think we need right now in the United States or in the West for sure,
	because we are controlled by a handful of billionaires.
	Right now, in the United States, we have people living under every bridge.
	People don't have a living wage.
	They're 80% of workers live paycheck to paycheck.
	We don't have healthcare in America.
	People still go bankrupt.
	I was one of them went bankrupt when I got sick.
	We still did, but unlimited money to Ukraine.
	And so what does that tell you they're doing?
	So Chris Hedges once said that they're lying, cheating right out in the public right now and nobody cares.
	And that's exactly what's happening.
	They've concocted this Ukraine war narrative so they can go do a money laundering operation, which is now called the Ukraine war, which they provoked so they could start their money laundering operation to give it to their donors.
	This is all about the donor class running our Congress and our presidency, at least in the United States, the donor class does, which is why they're also criminalizing Donald Trump, because they've demonized Donald Trump as a white supremacist.
	That's what the establishment... Or it's because he's a criminal.
	That could be why he's being criminalized.
	Then they call you a white supremacist, and they've done this to Donald Trump, and now it's harder to sell wars with someone who's demonized as a white supremacist.
	So now he's no longer useful to the establishment.
	So that's why they have to discredit him and criminalize his organization.
	So that's exactly what's going on.
	And so now there's also protesters in Atlanta, Georgia, who are protesting against the expansion of the police state there.
	It's called Stop Cop City.
	So the same jury that used a thing called the RICO laws.
	RICO laws were invented in the United States specifically to go after the mafia.
	They're now using it to go after their political opponents.
	What?
	Rico is being used maliciously against Donald Trump, apparently.
	Rico is being used maliciously against Donald Trump apparently.
	You don't have to like Donald Trump to be worried about this.
	I'm not a Donald Trump supporter, I never voted for Donald Trump, but I can see, it's
	just like that old saying, when they came for the Jews I didn't say anything because
	I wasn't.
	When they came for the trade unionists I didn't say anything because I wasn't.
	But when they came for me, there was nobody left to say anything.
	And that's why it's important we stand up now and say something about the criminalization of the politics and the political opponents of the establishment.
	Who we're seeing left and right, whether about COVID, whether about the truckers, whether it be about climate change and the way they're using our fear of climate change to control us, manipulate us, and get us to hate each other.
	And that's another thing that the establishment corporate news does in the United States, is they report every story in a way that turns the country against each other.
	I'm supposed to blame right now The establishment wants me to- they did a controlled demolition of our economy during COVID that wrecked everybody except a handful of millionaires and billionaires at the top, and they want me to hate my neighbor and blame my neighbor for the pain I'm feeling because they wouldn't take a vaccine that didn't work the way they said it did in the first place.
	Well, I'm not going to hate my neighbors because they're suffering just like everybody else is under the same garbage from the oligarchy.
	And I'm going to join with them to oppose them.
	And it's so bad in the United States that they won't even give money to those victims in Maui right now.
	He's still going!
	But only if we give another $24 billion to the most corrupt country in Europe with absolutely no oversight whatsoever.
	It's 100% money laundering operation, the Ukraine war.
	We're completely corrupted.
	The only thing I think that can save us now in the United States is a revolution that takes down and tears apart the government and the corporate media.
	Jimmy, that is a powerful piece of rhetoric that you have just unloaded and it's impossible not to take note of Julian Assange's famous observation that the function of government is to take money from public hands and to place it in the hands of private interests.
	Okay.
	That was a lot.
	So I have an inkling as to what's happened to Jimmy Dore over the years is that he's been doing a lot of that and over time it has deprived the amount of oxygen to his brain and now he's this guy.
	The thing is, now I understand that's my sister.
	You want to rant?
	I could produce a rant.
	I could get a rant today just like a six minute rant by 3 p.m.
	today with toenail polish on and everything.
	I can get you one.
	I have learned to rein it in.
	You've seen my texts.
	You know sometimes.
	I have.
	There's a lot of information I gotta say.
	Yeah.
	But guess what?
	It happens.
	I've learned to curtail that instinct.
	And because I want to like communicate effectively with other humans in the world.
	Yeah, whereas instead, you know, what Jimmy's doing is I'm gonna throw out a bunch of bullshit, and it doesn't really matter what I say as long as I give the right vibe and say the right buzzwords.
	Ukraine, bad.
	Russia, good.
	Social media, bad.
	Donald Trump, good.
	You know, he hit on kind of all the...
	But he is good, isn't he?
	Yeah.
	Weirdly, I think the six minute answer in response to the five minute question would make just as much sense as anything either of them are trying to say.
	Someone needs to stitch that together out there somewhere.
	That's a lot.
	I mean, he really hit.
	Nonsense.
	Start to finish.
	Yeah, totally.
	Well, what I do want to say about the Rico thing.
	It's a run-on stream-of-consciousness rant from an aging sex pest interspersed with Russell being a pretentious prick and playing the victim.
	Potential sex pest.
	Potential sex pest.
	Well, no, Anarchist Baron, Anarchist Baron, he admitted that, so definite sex pest.
	Yeah, about Rico, because apparently that's intentionally, that's being maliciously used to get Donald Trump.
	That is the argument of the right.
	If there's not evidence of racketeering, then there shouldn't be a problem, should there?
	Well, but here's the thing.
	Specifically in Atlanta, I got spicy about Cop City because I thought that maybe Jimmy Dore touched on any part of relevant, legitimate news.
	Silly.
	Oh no.
	No, buzzword.
	Silly rabbit.
	Current buzzword.
	I know because, but I, it is, it is, um, front of mind for me because, um, in Atlanta right now, there is a grassroots movement that is working very hard.
	And at least one of them got shot a whole bunch while sitting in his tent by the cops.
	Um, already they are using Rico charges and they are applying Rico to To like grassroots protesters that are trying to bolster and protect the will of the people because they so Cop City is this like state-of-the-art basically it's like a School of the Americas level style like training facility they're trying to put in a forest which is has been termed the lungs of Atlanta.
	Mm. So we can assume that there's an environmental component that is extremely important. And
	then also there is going to be, um, military, like militaristic training for police. That
	is not the training that we need.
	It's not where the money needs to go for this project or anything in Atlanta right now.
	There's absolutely a racial component that only the protesters and people that are trying to get it stopped are actually, because it's also in an area where You know, like they're not necessarily entirely, but like more lower income families will be affected the same place that they put like trying to put the pet coke plant here in Chicago.
	Yeah, I do feel like I do feel like the last thing that Georgia needs is more ways to kill black people.
	That's just my my perspective.
	Hmm.
	I think.
	Right.
	So there is a massive problem on every possible level and the city, like the people, like the citizens have worked very hard on all fronts to, uh, because basically like there's massive corruption within the government to push this thing through that has been, um, manipulative of, of the will of the people.
	So no one wants it except for like a couple of folks and they're using RICO charges.
	The cops are lobbyists too.
	They have a whole, a whole thing about that.
	It's a whole thing.
	It's a whole thing.
	Funny.
	They got a lot of money to throw around.
	Crazy, right?
	So, but the RICO charges are being used for like protesters that are handing out flyers are being all roped into this RICO charge.
	And also that like the notion that there is a which I have contributed to the like a bail fund.
	Yeah, that's the that's a monetary component of the Rico charges.
	And I don't know all the ins and outs, because honestly, it's wrong.
	I don't want to learn about a completely insane, wrong thing.
	So I don't know all the details of the case.
	But the fact that that's actually happening to people in the same city is out fucking rageous.
	I've got to say, police corruption in the United States, I am shocked.
	And I made that in way under than six minutes, thank you!
	Yeah, Jimmy, and kept it to the same subject as well.
	Good going.
	Yeah, but so so honestly, I'm done with Jimmy Dore.
	Our audience doesn't deserve to have to hear any more of his bullshit, because like the six minute answer is is a perfect encapsulation as to why.
	So I've got one more clip and it's the very end of the show.
	And I want you to see if you notice anything a little bit different.
	Thank you so much for joining us today for our first show back.
	Join us again tomorrow, God willing.
	In the meantime, stay awake, stay safe, but more important than any of that, if you can, please stay free.
	So for listeners, what's just happened is the ending of the show with the end theme
	tune where the credits would normally roll, but instead of the credits, there's just
	a message saying "Stay Free".
	Remember my saying I had a suspicion as to why Brand wasn't using his big fancy studio
	to record this show?
	Well, the thing about a big fancy studio is you need enough staff to run it.
	Now, I might be overly optimistic here, but I think there might have been an exodus of staff at Stay Free with Russell Brand.
	And they don't have the right technical personnel required to run the show in the studio.
	I was curious about that as soon as we recorded that emergency episode.
	Either way, if they believe it or not, it is expeditious for an individual to amscray Yeah, well, there's that, you know, and there are also minor details that are different, so just like shoddier editing, worse lighting, just a general feel of it being a bit rough around the edges compared to the polished turd that we normally get.
	I don't do.
	I have tried looking up each of the individual staff members, but a great deal of them have
	the absolute highest privacy settings on all their various accounts or have simply deleted them.
	Other more junior members of staff are pretty impossible to track down because they've not
	done anything notable yet and don't have Brands Show listed online attached to their names.
	And yeah, it...
	It could be because they're running away, it could be because there is some contractual thing, it could be just because Brands asked them all to do it and they're all going, yep, okay, we'll do that for now.
	But either way, for now, it is going to remain a mystery.
	But as of recording, every single one of Bran's shows since returning hasn't been in the big studio, even though there is a picture of him sat in the studio used as the video's thumbnail.
	Okay, so that's that's tragic.
	Yeah, I've been looking at him like, oh, he's back in the studio.
	And then I click on Oh, no.
	Oh, that's sad, isn't it?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So that was Russell's return.
	The return of Russell Brand, there we go.
	Man, oh man.
	The phrase that stuck out to me, because...
	The thing that is very, very frustrating in watching how this news has been shaking out is, you know, this like totally uncoordinated and organic conversation where you see the same tropes being circulated, much like Alex Jones and in its time, Breitbart and the Gateway Pundit all managed to use and Laura Ingram and everybody on Fox News manages to use like the same word.
	Even, or same phrase, talking about the order of the day.
	And trial by media is the thing that I have been being followed and tortured by.
	That phrase.
	Yeah, that's still being bandied about all over the place.
	I see it every day at the moment.
	They were trying other stuff, and then that stuck.
	And folks are really...
	Get into it because like I explained earlier, like a lot of people do not understand the legal implications of that kind of reporting being released.
	The trial is the trial.
	That's the evidence that you're going to like.
	You have to be.
	You have to, you being the reporters and the investigators, like you have to have a like a level of scrutiny, like you have to expect a level of scrutiny that would at least be an equivalent in a court of law.
	And yes, yeah, pretty much that phrase.
	The way that Russell put is bypassing judicial systems is an interesting way to say that.
	And I would say that Putin Poison.
	Trump.
	Let him behead a guy.
	Those are extrajudicial solutions that they've chosen.
	And even near Jimmy Dorsey, like, worried about getting disappeared.
	You're on the wrong team, my man.
	Like, RT is not the place.
	Like, that's not the side to align with.
	If being disappeared is a Yeah, no, no.
	It's not people on the right who get disappeared.
	That's not what happens.
	Invariably, it is people on the left that are disappeared by, yeah, the very people probably paying you money, Jimmy.
	It's that guy!
	America's not great at disappearing people in your stature these days.
	That may have happened, but they're not really on that game.
	No, no, it's much harder to pull off these days, you know, in a surveillance state, all that, right?
	I think in America, like, itself, yeah, that's like, you know, they're going to do that.
	Cameras everywhere.
	Like, it's very difficult for a person.
	Like, you know.
	The only people it could possibly happen with is the houseless, the people who are on the bottom rung of our society because we've let them get there, and the people who are very difficult to track as to what's happening with them.
	Those are the only people who that could happen to.
	It's not going to be anyone Like, without it being kind of noticed or publicized, necessarily.
	Like, it's not going to happen to someone like Jimmy fucking Dore.
	As though no one's going to ask the question like, oh, what happened to Jimmy?
	Yeah, I last saw a video from him a couple of years ago.
	Really strange.
	I wonder what happened.
	Oh, well, let's move on.
	They're usually, they're usually black people.
	Yeah.
	CPD.
	Yeah, I mean, I mean, there's very I remember during the Black Lives Matter protest, people getting piled into vans, you know?
	And you're like, oh!
	Oh yeah, I didn't even think about that!
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	That's a lot.
	That's a lot to do.
	But you know, they weren't disappeared, disappeared.
	But yeah, there's...
	It was a brief magic trick that they pulled.
	Yeah, but it was a trick nonetheless.
	Yeah, very, very scary.
	But yeah, it's it's not it's not white right wing people who have a shitload of money and fame that are the ones being targeted.
	Jimmy, I don't think you need to worry.
	I think you're okay.
	Not really implemented here.
	No, no, no.
	It's, yeah, it's pretty frequently implemented in Russia.
	And even can disappear in a big explosion in front of everybody.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, what was the, uh, the friggin'... The guy on the plane that blew up.
	Name escapes me.
	That, that, that, everyone's pretty sure that was Putin.
	Playing with Putin's biggest enemy.
	Boom.
	Okay, yeah.
	Shocking.
	I'm shocked.
	That's the budget, yeah.
	Or was that the other guy?
	What a weird thing to have to keep track of, y'know?
	You are right.
	It's like, shit, which of the murder victims was it?
	Okay, maybe we're kind of not seeing the forest for the trees here.
	We're getting a little bit caught up.
	I'm kind of tired, I'm kind of hungry.
	My brain isn't on... it's kind of going on E right now.
	Because I have been pretty shocked at the public nature of Putin's choices.
	Yeah, that guy doesn't give a fuck.
	He doesn't give a fuck because no one can stop him.
	And he's made that abundantly clear at this stage.
	Right, well, everybody, that is our show.
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	Yeah, that's right.
	Ha!
	Ha!
	I remembered.
	I usually just don't have to look it up because it's just in the app for me.
	People are saying funny things.
	Why don't we just look at it because there's news in there.
	Yeah, you haven't been able to the last couple of days.
	You can look at it now.
	I'm at Al Worth Official and Lauren is at made.buy.lauren.be.
	Uh, Lauren, do you got any plugs?
	Or are we done with plugs for now?
	Well, if you would like to see still the most abysmal website ever created by human beings, it's still there, it's still un-updated, because... I like abysmal things, as is noted by this show!
	It's comically bad, but there is still art that you can get, if you would like, and... so again, on... this is the last time?
	No, we have one more.
	But it's close.
	So October 6th is First Friday in Lubbock, Texas.
	We are doing UFOs over Lubbock, which is a fantastic event.
	It's very, very cool.
	And Mike and I will be there selling art.
	And I will still be accepting, now that I actually can focus on the trip, slash have to focus on the trip, I'm still accepting any recommendations for Roswell.
	Because we'll be making the pilgrimage.
	To our sacred space of goofy weird alien stuff.
	Very exciting.
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	And so yeah, see us if you're around Lubbock, Texas.
	That'd be fantastic.
	Nope, that's it!
	That's it!
	Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome.
	Thank you so much for being here.
	Thank you everyone.
	And news, olds, you're all great.
	We see ya.
	We appreciate it.
	And middles.
	I'm sure there are some middles.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	All the above.
	You're welcome and we appreciate you.
	We really do.
	I'm so glad you're here.
	And I'm sorry.
	Welcome.
	Yes, also that, also that.
	Oh god, I'm so sorry.
	So at the moment, we've kind of taken to ending the show with Russell Brand as a rapist because he is one, but I do feel at some point there is going to be a little bit of a fatigue of that, particularly for many of our audience who might kind of struggle around that kind of subject area.
	So I would like to find something to replace it just as code.
	So we all know what we mean, but we don't necessarily have to kind of go through that because, you know, Yeah, I feel like some people over time might struggle with that.
	So if anyone's got any... If anyone's got any suggestions, you know, fire away.
	I'm open minded.
	We can figure something out.
	Let's press charges!
	Yeah, that's not a bad one.
	Let's get that investigation going.
	That's not a bad one.
	Let's press charges.
	Let's party.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Come on, detectives.
	Charges party!
	Yeah, we'll figure something out, we'll figure something out.
	But yeah, until then, Russell Brand is a rapist, but we love you all very much and we're glad you're here, so thank you for being here.
	So yeah, we'll see you all next week, everybody.
	Take care of yourselves.
	Bye!
	Yeah, take care.
	Take care.
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