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Dec. 21, 2023 - On Brand

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OB #34 - Russell Brand: Antisemite, Antivax, Pro Liar

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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 Show with my co-host Lauren B. Hi, I'm Lauren B., and since it's Christmas, I'm going to do a little different, something a little different.
	Al is here to tell the story, and I am here for the food.
	Actually news, but it'll make sense in a little bit.
	Yeah, Al's here to tell the story.
	And I don't know what we will be getting into this week.
	But I usually know it's not great, which is why we do the good thing before the bad thing.
	It is indeed exactly why we do the good thing before the bad thing.
	And what is your good thing before the bad thing this week, Lauren?
	A few listeners already know that are probably your backs hurt more these days.
	Maybe your neck is a little stiff because you're my age and you were raised by the Muppet Christmas Carol.
	That is my very, very good thing.
	Yeah, it's the holiday season, and yeah, I have reached the age of nostalgia.
	For my mother, it's a wonderful life because it was rerun on TV all the time whenever she was younger and she was forming her own nostalgic kind of thoughts and feelings.
	And I was, well, when I was hatched and not so much born, but hatched and then put in front of a television and raised by it, by TV and the big soft VHS Yeah, now I have finally reached that age where nostalgia ads and advertising is catering to me.
	And yeah, and actually, it's really funny, both of these movies, yeah, and I, Muppet Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life, not great to show your kids if you would like to indoctrinate them as subservient cogs in the soulless grinding misery of capitalism.
	Oh, that's true.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Radicalizing moments for baby Lauren.
	It's a Wonderful Life is not a movie for kids in general.
	I dare say.
	I don't think that should be shoved to children.
	I like this a lot.
	Nah, it's cute.
	I mean, yeah.
	It's a different time.
	What I also love is that Muppet Christmas Carol, like, addresses, like, this is too scary, like, a couple of times in the movie itself.
	Yeah, that's fine.
	That's fine.
	Yeah.
	And also, I mean, they're throwing us a bone.
	People of my generation, we're never going to get to retire or own a home.
	So you've let us have this, and that's great.
	Let us have this.
	Thank you.
	Which they kind of didn't.
	Disney still kind of fucked it up.
	I'm not one that normally cares a lot about pop culture things.
	Who's Spider-Man this year?
	I can't be bothered to care.
	Still Tom Holland, but Karen, yeah.
	Okay, you could say any name, and I'd be like, sure, I bet he's great.
	But yeah, I was a very concerned member of the masses of millennials that were close to my age that watched Muppet Christmas Carol last year, and were like, Where's the fucking profoundly sad song that made me cry as a child?
	How dare you take that out of this movie!
	It's... Disney took this song out of this movie because it was so sad and yes, it did break my heart and maybe traumatized me lightly.
	So did the Marleys!
	There are some very scary parts of this movie.
	The Ghost of Christmas Future?
	Terrifying.
	And also, awesome!
	I feel like they probably put a little bit of that love for horror into this wonderful film.
	But that is definitely like, the sad song We still wanted it in there, and, like, the version that is available now is without, but I think around Thanksgiving they released it with the original, you know, whole movie and the sad song that, like, here's the thing!
	And this is what makes me, oh, livid!
	The song at the end doesn't make sense without the song in the middle, and I don't care how sad it is!
	It's the- The Love We Found seems fucking random as shit without the song in the middle!
	And I just still hate it!
	And it's so funny for me to like, I had this moment where I'm like, I care about a stupid pop culture thing that is inconsequential to my life, but I felt gaslit by Disney, and I'm offended to this day.
	How dare they lie to my fucking face, piss on my leg, and tell me it's raining!
	It's great that you are able to care that much about the thing.
	I think that's a positive way to look at it.
	And also, it is a great movie.
	But do you know my favorite thing about it, and I only really have appreciated this in the last couple of years, is just how hard Michael Caine goes in that film.
	That man is acting from start to finish!
	He's so good!
	He's so good in that film!
	I'm like, this is insane!
	This is insane.
	He is delivering a Shakespearean level performance in Muppet Christmas Carol.
	This is phenomenal.
	Everyone that works with the Muppets, all the actors and stuff that work with the Muppets have nothing but just rave about it.
	They're so thrilled.
	Yeah, for sure.
	Specifically, and I don't know if listeners will relate to this experience, I feel like I was in just the right mental state, and my dad's best friend helped us steal cable, because he was an electrician, he climbed up the pole and helped us steal cable, so I had more of a connection to Jim Henson than I would have with basic antenna TV.
	That later I did not have.
	So Jim Henson died in 1990, and that's one of my first very visceral childhood memories.
	I was crushed.
	I was absolutely like I was so I I like I had an understanding um I had a basic understanding of
	like my my real dad.
	And I joke about this all the time, it's like, Jim Henson, my real dad, was no longer with us.
	And what that meant is I didn't get any more Muppet stuff, and I didn't get the thing that I liked, and I was so attached to the characters, and therefore the person.
	Because also, he was...
	Um, I mean, if you just watched, uh, Muppets, that's one thing, but the Jim Henson Muppet Hour, he was on the show, and he was, like, the thing on the show.
	Um, and that was, I was obsessed.
	I mean, my siblings being fraggles, of course, but, like, my, you know, TV dad, and I understood that, like, when he passed, um, it was crushing.
	It was heartbreaking for me.
	So, whenever, well, yeah, but there is something to be said for this movie in 1992 coming out and being an absolute triumph that is only aged better with time.
	Like, it's such a good, like...
	It is so to me it's so significant that his son like pulled through and like did it like rallied and did an amazing job and we still have fantastic Muppet Entertainment to this day to me it's very like Yeah, yeah.
	We're fortunate that it's still there.
	My favorite when I was younger, and still is to a degree, is Muppet Treasure Island.
	Fucking love that movie.
	So funny.
	So funny.
	It's so funny.
	Billy Connolly, Tim Curry, fantastic.
	Absolutely hilarious.
	The Muppets are still hilarious today.
	Right now.
	Their writers are great.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So yeah, what's your good thing?
	What's your good thing?
	See, I told you you would have time.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Well, I was struggling to think of one before the show, everybody.
	So I'm going to go a similar route to you-ish.
	My nostalgia is a lot of it surrounding The Grinch with Jim Carrey.
	Right!
	I was so curious what you're like.
	Because, I mean, you're younger enough Not to say that you're not familiar with him, but Chris Carroll, but it's slightly different, because even Mike doesn't have the same attachment, and he's like three years younger than me, than I have.
	The Muppets were less of a thing over here in general as well, so there's also that to contend with.
	But I definitely remember that being around as a kid, I definitely remember having the VHS and everything.
	But I went to see The Grinch in the cinema, I remember that, and it was out around my birthday at some point, and my buddy Matt, his birthday is like a week before mine or something.
	And I remember we went to see it, and yeah, just instantly blown away.
	Jim Carrey in that movie is just so, so, so good.
	And there's a reason it's aged really well, and you still get the Grinch memes and stuff.
	Just spend an evening with my self-loathing, or whatever it is.
	Well, I can't cancel that!
	Yeah, I had an instant crush on Cindy Lou Who as well, which Taylor Momsen, that has persisted, that specific crush.
	Weird, oh well.
	The fun thing for me though is being able to then introduce April to the Grinch.
	Yeah.
	And I was kind of concerned with that movie that she might find a little scary, because there are, again, moments of like, ooh, this feels a little terrifying for a little person, maybe.
	Completely fine with it.
	Really loved the dog Max, naturally, and just thought it was really funny.
	But then, because she really liked the character of the Grinch, she really wanted to watch the updated animated version with Benedict Cumberbatch as the Grinch.
	Have you seen that one?
	No.
	Okay, I'm very attached to the original Like, Dr. Seuss animated, you're a mean one, that like, I'm very attached to that version.
	I'm not telling you my body rejects the notion that it was redone in any way.
	That was like 40s or 50s, wasn't it?
	That's old.
	That was probably 60s.
	Maybe, maybe.
	I don't think I'm going to live in the world where I use separate things, but I hope they all got paid and I hope they did a great job.
	I understand your instincts.
	Because this came out a few years ago.
	My instincts were very much the same.
	I was like, why is anyone touching the Grinch?
	No one needs to do that!
	Jim Carrey did it!
	There's a cartoon version, and there's Jim Carrey, and that's all you need.
	Why do you need anything else?
	But she wanted to watch it, and I was like, well, it's better than half of the other shit that you could choose, so okay, sure.
	In general, the character of the Grinch, I will go in on.
	And yeah, do you know what?
	Pretty good.
	Pretty good, actually.
	I was surprised.
	It kind of- I voted for others!
	Well, it pays homage to both the original animated one and Jim Carrey.
	There are little characterizations and little bits and little references.
	I'm like, okay, you know what?
	This is acceptable.
	And, you know, it puts a slightly different spin on the story as well, which is nice.
	Kind of updates it very slightly, but not in any kind of, you know, egregious sort of way that changes the meaning of anything.
	No, it's actually really good.
	It's actually really good, and it's been nice to have April be like, yeah, can we watch The Grinch when we get home?
	I'm like, yeah, absolutely.
	Yes, of course we can.
	Can we watch The Talking Grinch?
	I'm like, yeah, yeah.
	Talking Grinch, because she associates the animated one with the song, and she's like, I don't want The Singing Grinch, I want The Talking Grinch.
	That's funny.
	Also Astute.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Very astute as well.
	Though there are songs in both of the other Grinches.
	Anyway, that's where I'm at.
	Within her logic, I get it.
	Yes, no, absolutely.
	Embodying the logic that she's bringing to the table.
	Yeah, yeah.
	She's on point.
	She is on point.
	So hey, happy holidays, everybody.
	Hail Santa.
	Merry Bigfoot.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Merry happy, everybody.
	Show me better, man!
	Let's do this episode!
	I'm gonna get all my holiday spirit right now!
	Yeah!
	Do it!
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	Now!
	This week we don't have an interviewee to deal with, which thank the maker, because Matt Taibbi was exhausting in his dullness alone.
	Lord, the man is a snoozefest.
	We had a couple of dulls in a row there.
	Yeah, just unreal, unreal.
	Yeah, instead we get a full dose of Russell on his bullshit proper, and this first clip entering the show tells me something I didn't want to know was happening, and something awful about society in general.
	Hello there, you Awakening Wonders.
	Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand as Rumble explodes.
	The chat is lighting up.
	Congratulations to Dan Bongino, getting over 3 million subscribers.
	Fantastic stuff.
	A lot of us asking, will we do a mash-up with Dan Bongino?
	We certainly will.
	We are negotiating that even now.
	I'll be on Dan's show.
	Hopefully Dan will be on this show.
	I've not asked him yet.
	So, you know, I'll try and send him a text.
	But I'll text him during this.
	See if you can get Dan Bongino in the chat.
	Carl Rhino asks, is Russell Brand even real or is it all a Gareth Pipe dream?
	We'll never know.
	We'll never know.
	ALICE Don't text during your show, Russell.
	Come on, be a professional.
	Yeah, so, Dan Bongino is up to three million subscribers on Rumble.
	Wonderful.
	Well done, humanity.
	Russell's show airs just after Bongino's finishes, so a lot of people apparently just hop on over to Russell's right afterwards.
	Oh!
	Yeah, yeah, so there's a little thing.
	Oh, is there?
	Interesting.
	It's cute, huh?
	Yeah, I was anticipating having to look at Bongino at some point because he's ostensibly the biggest thing on Rumble, but I didn't suspect it would be in the form of a proper crossover.
	That said, I am taking everything Russell says with a pinch of salt as I'm still waiting on Roger Waters and Elon Musk to make their appearances.
	Yeah, and after Russell wasn't included in their little Alex whip out.
	But we all had to hear Vivek pee.
	Yeah.
	Though, in fairness, I didn't check what time that was happening, because Russell may have been asleep.
	You're right.
	Because, you know, people were just kind of hopping on, weren't they?
	Yeah, we have to deal with that.
	So yeah, I don't know why I didn't think about that.
	But yeah, you're right.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I didn't I didn't check what what kind of time that was happening.
	So yeah, it may have been in the middle of the night.
	But hey, also listeners, if you have if we haven't covered this in quite some time, I guess we haven't talked about it in a long time is, Al's in the UK, and I'm in the US.
	Yeah, in case that's not blatantly obvious, because it might not be.
	Yes, yes.
	We're talking.
	I mean, people can sound this way anywhere in the world.
	It's true.
	It's true.
	I could absolutely live in the U.S., I do not.
	And you could absolutely live in the U.K., and you do not.
	We put ourselves through the fucking ringer to figure this shit out.
	Yeah, we do.
	It's because we love you, listeners.
	And both perspectives are useful.
	It didn't even occur to me.
	You're absolutely right.
	Yeah, we should probably remind people of that.
	Oh, maybe just with Russell.
	I didn't even think about that.
	And I should have at the time, because we deal with this every week.
	But, you know, yeah, for whatever reason he wasn't there, and fuck him, he doesn't deserve to be.
	That's a really good point.
	I mean, I don't think I heard anybody else make that point either.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I don't know if there's a way to look it up, even.
	I have no clue.
	No, it's just a possibility.
	Fuck it.
	Who cares?
	Who cares?
	In the next clip, we get into something that is part of Russell's Stay Free legacy that we've not actually covered yet, and that is a story which acts as a nice gateway to antisemitism.
	Oh.
	Have you noticed that farmers all over the world seem to be... Yeah, Noladude says that has noticed that farmers across the world appear to be kind of peeved about something, almost as if whether they're in Sri Lanka or India or Netherlands or the UK or Ireland or Germany or the United States of America, farmers are sensing that there's almost like a kind of globalist movement to take control of agriculture and therefore take control... No, no, leave that there, thank you.
	And therefore take control of food.
	That's what's fundamentally happening.
	You will be aware that the Netherlands is the second biggest, I think, exporter of food in the world.
	And for some reason, up until Geert Wilders, who I'm sure I would disagree with on a whole variety of subjects, I am assuming at least, he will arrest food.
	this globalist tendency to impair and control farmers almost as if if you can control farmers
	you can control food and if you can control food you can control the people is that what's happening
	shoot a nine to eight i'm a cannabis farmer he says i'm sure you are i've never doubted you i
	don't doubt you i believe in you and i believe in your freedom okay
	Oh my.
	Yeah.
	So, Lauren, something that Russell covered a while back and before we got to covering him was farmers protesting in the Netherlands back at the tail end of 2022.
	Did you have any particular awareness of that or what went on?
	I did at the time, and I cannot remember now, but... That's more than most people.
	Well, we've talked about this at this point.
	My media diet is almost entirely nonfiction and incredibly depressing, so don't be super surprised that I'm a little more interested in that kind of... It's really bugging me that I can't remember, so just...
	It's okay, it's okay.
	Here's the CliffsNotes version of what happened.
	In response to a court ruling that the Netherlands' nitrogen emissions violated European Union conservation laws, the Dutch government proposed measures to significantly reduce nitrogen emissions.
	These measures included reducing livestock numbers, changing farming practices, and possibly closing some farms, especially near protected nature areas.
	Many farmers felt that these policies unfairly targeted them and threatened their livelihoods in the agricultural industry's future.
	They argued that the agricultural sector was being disproportionately blamed for environmental issues and that the proposed solutions were too drastic and lacked sufficient support for affected farmers.
	The protests involving thousands of farmers were marked by demonstrations, tractor convoys blocking roads and highways, and in some cases, confrontations with the police.
	The farmers used... Yeah, they used the tractors to blockade roads, distribution centers, and even government buildings, and caused plenty of disruption, which then eventually led to ongoing negotiations between farmers' representatives and the government.
	There have since been more protests from farmers in the Netherlands, and It's still a fairly delicate situation, to be perfectly honest.
	Russell then uses all of this happening to traffic in what's known as the Great Replacement Theory, which, for those who don't know, is the idea that the globalists, or some shady group of billionaires who all just happen to be Jewish, have a deliberate plot to replace the native population of a country with immigrants to dilute or erase the native culture and demographic.
	Attributed motive for this varies from propagandist to propagandist, but the general themes are control and ownership and dominance, right?
	This theory often targets Western countries and is associated with far-right and white nationalist ideologies.
	White!
	Yep, there it is.
	White!
	White!
	Yeah, the Great Replacement Theory has deep roots and is based on antisemitic bullshit like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which in turn is based on centuries of antisemitism.
	Russell's specific brand of it, haha, for the moment involves the globalists trying to control food sources and in turn control and eventually replace the populace that way.
	That's the current line that he's been spinning since the end of 2022.
	And yeah, now there are farmers protesting in Germany at the moment over something entirely different, but Russell brings back the same anti-Semitic peddling narratives.
	There's question as to whether he knows what he's saying is steeped in anti-Semitism, and George Monbiot asked this very question when being interviewed on the subject of Russell.
	But once again, I don't think it truly matters.
	Whether he knows it's anti-semitic or not, he's shouting this shit from the rooftops to his audience of millions, and some of those millions are being nudged in the direction of hating the Jews because of what he's saying, and a whole bunch of others are just going, oh yeah, we agree with you, Russell, we've been on this tip a while!
	So whether he knows or believes it is irrelevant, the harm is exactly the same.
	Yeah, and what you specifically just said is like, if there weren't like a layer underneath or maybe in the chat that Russell is looking at
	on rumble right now, like this group of people that are salivating at the notion of more
	people coming over to their like racist bigot side, and he's a gateway drug. Yeah, that's
	a, that's actually also a problem like you have to consider not just the motives
	but the harm that's being caused, regardless of what his intention might be, and his
	awareness might be. We're like, We're all adults here.
	It doesn't matter.
	You don't get to make that excuse, especially if your job is talking into a webcam, you know, a camera.
	If you self-describe as a journalist and you are doing a journalistic show, allegedly, then there's a standard I'm going to hold you to.
	And I've not seen it be met yet, but I'm going to keep trying.
	So yeah, that's harrowing bullshit.
	Russell gets a little bit more into the story in the next clip, but first he does have some problems with how the protest is being done.
	Now ostensibly these protests in Germany are about their removal or rescinding of tax breaks for diesel use, which is a fuel that's commonly used in agriculture.
	They're losing this exemption and the Germans are gathering at Brandenburg Gate Their protest looks good, I would say.
	All of the tractors and agricultural vehicles.
	It looks good and still they start using their horns because some of them have got, I would say, horns that undermine them.
	I think one of them has got baby shark as a sort of horn ringtone.
	That undermines the whole protest.
	Remember the trucker protests?
	Here's a bunch of tractors.
	What did they end up calling those people?
	Those people that were fighting for freedom?
	I wonder what they will call the farmers over there in Berlin.
	Let's have a look at that farmer protest right now.
	(tractor engine roaring)
	There's a bunch of tractors.
	One of them has a snowman on the front.
	Personally, I like the Christmas tractor.
	I like that even at the height of a protest.
	Russell, you'd look good in a tractor, says Buddy.
	Thank you very much.
	Even at the height of a protest where people's livelihoods are on the line, maybe a fundamental part of the globalist agenda is to control food sources so you can control population, so you can create scarcity so you can control population.
	Do you think that's part of it?
	Even during that, a German farmer's going, "Yes, but it is Christmas, so I'm gonna put
	a snowman on the grill."
	[Snowman sounds]
	[Snowman sounds]
	That's Baby Shark.
	That was Baby Shark.
	No, it wasn't!
	No it wasn't!
	That last one was!
	She was coming around the mountain!
	That's what that was!
	It could be.
	My money is on it being Baby Shark.
	That's my money.
	Interesting.
	I'm mad at all of you for making me care.
	You tricked me and I'm going back.
	I may need to track down the original footage just to find out.
	So yeah, the globalists are going to control food sources to create a scarcity and control the populace.
	That's Baby Shark, isn't it?
	That's plainly Baby Shark.
	Capitalism created scarcity.
	Capitalism did not.
	Nah, subscribe to my locals channel.
	I'm eating.
	Oh dear.
	Jesus fucking Christ.
	I mean, I can see why he has a problem with the horns.
	I have a slightly different perspective to Russell on this whole thing, however, and that's that while the farmers are probably pissed at losing diesel fuel subsidies, we shouldn't be subsidizing something that's killing the planet.
	And even the farmers are beeping their song horns and have snowmen on the front of their protest tractors, which suggests to me that, yeah, they're pissed off about the situation, but at least have a sense of humor or civility about the issue to a degree, you know?
	Yeah, they're trying to just get attention on their cause.
	And what I remember from, like, the previous, you know, in the Netherlands, like, the one thing I do remember from that news story was, like, that it was being misrepresented.
	Like, what they, like, To liken it to the trucker convoy in Canada is completely off base.
	Yeah, that's not fair.
	I would say in general, you're right, there were definitely elements of right-winger-y and violent altercations with the police.
	Yeah, yeah.
	There were issues, but I wouldn't say... To describe them in the same breath is not fair.
	I think that's true.
	Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
	It's so easy to misrepresent, because especially if they're objecting to the way a law is written, or what is included in legislation, is very different than what the fuck the trucker convoy was... I mean, it's just a very different...
	Yeah, yeah, and you know, I think the grievances that the farmers had in the Netherlands were legitimate in that the way the thing was written was too aggressive and there wasn't enough of a safety net underneath it.
	Exactly.
	I think, yeah, completely valid.
	But yeah, that's definitely not the way Russell takes it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Anyway, Russell tries to rein in the sense of humour and remind us that we should all be scared.
	So, this is it.
	Wherever we are in the world, I'm guessing we need to eat food.
	I'm guessing we want a relationship with the land.
	I'm guessing we want to be in control of our food sources rather than yielding that to globalist interests that want you to own nothing and be happy, eat bugs and be happy.
	Everything you do, You will be happy because you will be drinking and eating nothing but Soma, the fictional drug invented by Aldous Huxley in his dystopia that was anodyne, banal, somehow clean and perfect, where the power of the individual and the power of the nation had been subsumed into one global elite power.
	Dynamite Klaus Schwab impression there.
	He does love to pull that one out every now and then.
	Um, yeah.
	That's funny, I went to Kissinger in my head.
	Ha!
	No, no, that's his Schwab.
	That's his Schwab.
	He likes the, um, you will eat bugs kind of thing.
	I feel like Kissinger's too accurate.
	Yes, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Also, Russell, what about the tribal people in Brave New World?
	Racist depictions aside, they weren't part of the clean and anodyne system, were they?
	So even in that conception of things, it wasn't the entire world that was made all clean and perfect and globalist.
	Do you know, I would love to know if he's actually read the book.
	I would, I would really love it.
	Because I feel like it's one of those things that he maybe read in high school and has just never picked up since, or like has listened to the audio, half listened to the audio version maybe?
	I don't know.
	I think that, I think that former.
	That's, my money's on that.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I also just kind of like don't, I mean, who gives a shit?
	Like it's, it's completely like, this is all so... He brings it up all the time.
	Okay, I see.
	Well, you see that more than I do, though.
	Yeah, I do, I do.
	This is the first time I've heard him make a direct reference to Soma.
	But I mean, that's also so fucking... Conservatives making references to Animal Farm in 1984 and all this other shit.
	Yeah, they're just gonna be wrong because they're circulating this narrative for each other and then building on it and reinforcing it, and it has nothing to do with the content and nothing to do with reality.
	To do with the actual literature.
	Yeah.
	At all!
	I don't, I mean, like, guilty till proven innocent as far as trying to say a smart thing, like, come on, man, it's, mm, nope.
	I just, I, like, it's also so, like, the notion that, that there's control, like, they're, they're making less Food for control.
	No, access to food is limited and it's not like we have to go somewhere else to see this.
	You know because of the food waste in your town, in your city.
	Capitalism is the driver of food insecurity in the world and all these people that Legitimately, probably weren't great with their politics and whatever in the mid-century.
	In the 60s and the 50s, we're making strides in developing technology for food production to feed the world.
	Feed the world was a thing.
	I got the tail end of it when I was growing up.
	But eliminating hunger, however they wanted to go about it, I mean, it's very on theme with the holiday.
	Feed the world, right?
	Band-Aid, yeah.
	Exactly!
	Yeah, like very much.
	That was like the thing, you know?
	Sorry, complete side note.
	Is that a big song over there?
	It's a massive song over here every Christmas.
	It's, I mean, Mariah Carey's edged everybody out and I'm kind of fine with that at this point, but I mean, I'm super familiar with it.
	Like it's, my favorite import is Slade, is the Slade holiday song.
	No one knows about that here at all.
	Really?
	Really?
	That's one of the best Christmas songs.
	My favorite is the Pogues and Kirstie McCall, Fairytale of New York.
	You know, I think that's just the best Christmas song ever written.
	I'd like to see anyone argue different.
	But yeah, Slade is a fantastic Christmas song!
	The outfits, when they performed it on TV, were buck-fucking-wild, by the way.
	The Top of the Pops performances, oh boy.
	Those guys!
	We might have to put together an on-brand Christmas playlist.
	I already have one.
	I have, like, I've got it.
	Done.
	A friend of mine makes video compilation stuff, and that was actually... Yeah, any news will be.
	Right, so capitalism.
	Feed the world, yeah.
	Outfits on Slade, right?
	That's the thing, is the notion, like, it's just, oh my god, food waste.
	It's so obvious.
	The turn from feed the world to Give everyone an opportunity to buy food in that shift is so blatantly apparent to me.
	And like, it should be that much more obvious to Russell.
	It happened real quick and thorough.
	It's so thorough.
	And like, we want options for food.
	Like, Oh, okay.
	It's when, Oh man, like, Oh, I think we need to save this discussion for when we eventually are going to have to cover Vandana Shiva, because she's on Stay Free every now and then, and she talks a lot about the food kind of situation and goes into a lot of Bill Gates conspiracy theories and that kind of shit, and it's one of those things where half of what she's saying is definitely based in reality, you know?
	We're like, oh yeah, these big corporations and fucking seeds and whatever else, yeah, there's stuff there, and then she just takes it that little much further.
	So yeah, we'll save some of this food discussion for them.
	I was gonna say, everything that just hit me in my brain about the problems with this argument that are obvious, on its face, walk down the street and think about where food goes and why.
	And why food gets thrown away instead of eaten by people.
	Seriously, you don't need Any like you don't it's not complicated.
	It's not complicated, but Russell is like being so, I think, cause I don't, speaking to his motives, there is no excuse at this point in his life, his age, what he's lived through in the world that has happened to everybody.
	Cause that's how time works.
	There is no excuse except for being intentionally obtuse.
	I will not accept the re like, I won't accept the, like, The potential excuse that he doesn't know any better.
	He does.
	It's food.
	He does.
	Period.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	There's plenty of other subjects I would not be this certain about.
	This one, fucking get out of here.
	Absurd.
	Yeah.
	And instead, let's hate on the Jews for a little bit.
	Even like he talks shit because like he went like, he's like, Oh, I saw the poverty whenever I was doing what comic relief or whatever.
	Yeah.
	You referenced moments where you've seen it and you don't know why these people can't eat.
	And it's not, it's, it's plain as the nose on your fucking face.
	And you're weird Jesus beard guy.
	Like there's no excuse.
	Like there's no excuse except for intentionally obfuscating.
	Yep, yep, and subscribe to my locals channel.
	Now we have another current events story from Russell with, I'm gonna say, a good dollop of interpretation thrown in.
	Your man Joe Biden, who just to remind you, is still the president of your country, responded to a heckle from a journalist.
	I'm assuming it's a journalist.
	And then sort of there was a kind of eerie crash.
	Did you see the eerie crash that is ominous?
	Perhaps as part of this great awakening, because we are awakening, we start to sort of sense synchronicity.
	Do you know what I mean?
	That when you see sort of Biden and like you then you just hear a car crash.
	It's almost as if the universe is telling you, car crash presidency, car crash presidency, car crash presidency.
	Mr. President, why are you losing to Trump in the polls?
	You're reading the wrong polls.
	He said you're reading the wrong polls.
	Yeah.
	Boom roasted.
	It's a crashing sound.
	The universe itself, in the language of coincidence, will tell you a truth that the legacy media will never tell you.
	These systems are failing.
	These systems are falling apart.
	Do yourself a favour And read this little book, The Revolt of the Public, where Martin Guri analyses how new technology suggests that decentralisation could be a solution, could be what we're all looking for, no matter where we are internationally, no matter where we are culturally.
	Of course, we have an investment in individual power and community power and opposing this establishment agenda.
	Okay.
	Yeah, he's not brought that book up again in the rest of the show, but it's gone on my reading list, so I'll get back to you listeners.
	Anyway, all of that because a lady who may or may not have been a journalist, I don't know, shouted a question at Joe Biden, you know, why are you losing to Trump in the polls?
	Biden responded, you're reading the wrong polls.
	Also true.
	And then a car collision happened nearby.
	Apparently that is a message from the universe telling us that Biden's presidency is a car crash, according to Russell, and the systems are failing and falling apart and are sad, eerie, weak, and dreary.
	Looking forward to your inevitable poetry album, Russell.
	That video is of a rainy evening.
	when car crashes are most likely to happen.
	And Joe Biden is probably one of the most filmed and monitored people on earth.
	So we're talking about a fucking coincidence here? We're talking about a coincidence.
	Yeah.
	Great.
	Yeah, but that's a message from the universe. Car crash.
	Sad.
	Eerie.
	Weak.
	Eerie.
	Bye.
	Felicia.
	I'm out.
	Okay.
	That's dumb, dude.
	I know, I know.
	I'm just like, what?
	Do you have nothing to say on this subject at all?
	Right?
	Well, he crashed because he's a bad president.
	But also, like, what kind of journalist is going to ask that question?
	Guess who knows the answer to that question?
	The people who got polled know why he's losing in what poll?
	What you talking about?
	Exactly.
	And yeah, No journalist would ask that question.
	I mean, come on.
	It shouldn't be directed at Joe Biden.
	The answer's there in the poll somewhere!
	A journalist would know that and wouldn't have to ask the President.
	And also, I know why.
	I know why he's taking a nosedive in the polls and it's because Genocide Joe is the nickname that is causing these results.
	How is Russell like, is that going to be addressed or no?
	Um, so... It's not convenient to this particular, like... No, no, no, no, but I don't mind taking a mild detour for a second.
	So, the other thing that I was considering for this show today was an interview he did with a chap called Norman Finkelstein?
	Finkelstein?
	Yeah!
	And you know who that is?
	Very familiar, yeah.
	Right, okay, and semi-controversial figure by all accounts as far as I can find.
	However, seems to have, as far as I could tell, and again I haven't done a full dive onto all of the things he was saying, but seems to have some salient points about the way Israel have treated Palestine and are currently treating Palestine and the Palestinians.
	I mean, he's another old guy.
	Another old guy.
	And I think that he can agree with people on face value because he's got very specialized expertise.
	Yeah, he's interesting.
	Son of Holocaust survivors who is himself Jewish but supports Palestine and that whole thing.
	Yeah, it was very interesting.
	But the most interesting kind of thing about it really, other than Norman's new book, which... Is Russell having him on at all?
	And it seems to almost kind of mark a kind of shift, more in public opinion than anything really, I think.
	I'm going to have this person on because he's already been on Candace Owens, he's already been on with, there was some other right-wing shit, his name escapes me, that he was on with, and so he's doing the rounds in the right-wing media spheres, so Russell has him on as well, and the conversation, you know, compared to, you know, October time, for instance, is now much more, hey, Israel are fucked.
	What was kind of fucked up and crazy is, first, no one called him, and then he started by making lefty rounds, and then I think that Oh man, it's a bummer because his research and his writing, from what I understand and from what I've heard, he has an incredible amount of insight into the situation itself.
	He was so involved in studying and understanding the reports from the UN that like we all like, okay, it's I
	think it's the frustration that keeps happening over this like, whole, you know, like issue
	and what's happening in Gaza is because like, hey, we made a bunch of laws and rules
	that we should be following. Hey, excuse me. Yeah, we agreed that a lot of this stuff is
	illegal and wrong. So stop. You Well, this is the thing.
	that keeps coming back over and over.
	Well, this is the thing.
	What I found when listening through it and doing cursory research was that I found a lot
	of what he was saying very difficult to argue against.
	Just like, hey, there's a genocide, there are war crimes happening.
	Why is it acceptable that a state's policy is bombing hospitals and that's okay?
	And I'm like, well, I question whether that's the policy, but yeah, I take your point.
	It happens.
	I know it happened as to whether it's like, yes, we bomb hospitals.
	There's a difference between something happening and it being policy, capital P.
	But yeah, language.
	Maybe I'm being finicky.
	But yeah, I found it very difficult to argue with most of the things he was saying on principle.
	I imagine there are probably a couple of things in there that would require further examination.
	yeah, there's lots of kind of testimony from soldiers that he's referencing and things like
	that that we'd need looking into. But in general, yeah, tentative agree with the guy on that subject.
	But anyway, we're covering this instead. And yeah, the most interesting thing I think was
	the fact that Russell had him on at all because Russell's actual kind of input,
	he mostly just let Norman talk, which I was kind of grateful for, to be honest.
	Yeah.
	Because he's slow, but he's quite engaging.
	And yeah, Russell mostly just kind of walked the line in the middle the whole way.
	I was like, ah, okay.
	But yeah, in general, Russell's whole kind of take was very, very milquetoast.
	And I think, again, having him on was much more a representation of the way that public feeling is going, rather than anything else.
	And the fact that this guy's been on other people's shows, who's like, oh, he's doing well.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, let's get back to this bullshit.
	So the last clip had a fairly hefty dollop of interpretation and a little bit more of that because, well, we've seen Russell go to some pretty great lengths to defend and promote Donald Trump.
	And, well, I sincerely hope he did some stretches before making this next leap.
	Tell me what it makes you feel.
	When you see Trump arrive at a UFC event with Dana White, who's coming on the show, actually.
	Dana, I better start saying his name.
	Dana White.
	If you remember Day and Night, then you'll remember it.
	Dana White.
	Like, what do you think?
	We see Dana White, and Trump, and Kid Rock arriving At a UFC event, do you feel good?
	What do you think is the archetypal subtext of the event?
	Is it to do with fighting?
	Obviously it's explicitly to do with fighting, but what is the connection between the fighting that's taking place in the ring and the fight that Donald Trump is engaged in?
	Does it make you feel kind of triumphant and victorious?
	What messaging does it give you?
	Does it give you the sense that Trump has already won?
	What do you think would imagine?
	Let me know who you'd most like to see enter in that space.
	What is happening?
	Do you know, I would actually be really curious to see the response Obama would get at a UFC event.
	Because like, not all UFC fans are inherently right wing.
	Obama get?
	Do you know, I would actually be really curious to see the response Obama would get at a UFC
	event.
	Because, like, not all UFC fans are inherently right wing.
	And a lot of them are black!
	Yeah!
	Yeah!
	I don't know if that's a guaranteed response in one direction or the other!
	That's what I'm wondering!
	Hillary would definitely be booed by pretty much everyone.
	I mean, I would boo her.
	I would boo Hillary.
	And I'm not a booer.
	But just for the fuck of it, I would boo Hillary.
	But yeah, I'd be surprised if many people gave a shit about Vivek showing up.
	I feel like he would wave and everyone would be like, eh, who's that guy?
	But Obama, that would definitely be a really interesting litmus test for the UFC audience.
	Hey, let's never do it.
	How about that?
	Let's just never do it.
	I mean, it'll never happen.
	It will never happen.
	Yeah, good.
	Not in a million years.
	Okay.
	I don't even know about that corner of the human experience.
	I'm fine without it.
	Yeah, it's interesting and varied.
	Anyway, so Donald Trump shows up to UFC alongside Kid Rock and Dana White, and that apparently gives the sense that, ah yes, he's already won 2024.
	It's a foregone conclusion because he walked into a place to watch some other people have a fight.
	Nothing says democracy like a foregone conclusion.
	Yep, and Dana White is supposedly coming on Stay Free as well.
	Something else we look forward to.
	Okay, that's why I was like, wait a minute!
	Dana White is coming on Stay Free, according to Russell.
	So Bongino and Dana White.
	We're fucking queuing them up now.
	Still, grain of salt, but still.
	It was hard to follow what was happening.
	Yeah, he's all over the place in today's show.
	He's taken great leaps in every direction.
	Like, what the fuck is happening?
	And the next clip is a fine example of this, because he's been easing up on the straw man polling on his show, right?
	It isn't just me excluding a lot of them in the edit, he's genuinely been doing it a lot less, thank the stars.
	Maybe he heard us taking the absolute piss out of him for it, one can only hope.
	Still, he's taken instead to posting polls to Twitter slash X, which he then takes in a weird direction in this next clip.
	What's important, we did a poll a little bit earlier.
	Do you think it's more important that a car crashed near Joe Biden or do you think it's more important that a trillion dollars, nearly a trillion dollars in your taxes, is going to the military-industrial complex?
	We asked you that question earlier and it's astonishing to learn.
	Put that back up for a sec, thanks guys.
	97% of you think that it's obviously the latter, the military-industrial complex donation from the government.
	No shit, Russell!
	As Julian Assange said, The function of government is to take public money and to put it into private hands.
	There's a trillion of it taken from your hands and put into the hands of the military-industrial complex.
	How else would you accept that if you didn't feel perpetually under threat?
	If you didn't feel perpetually disconnected from God?
	Disconnected from one another?
	Disconnected from nature?
	That's why I have to work so hard to make sure I feel connected to God, feel connected to you.
	I'm able to overcome my own conditioning, my own conformity, my own limits.
	We've got to overcome it!
	Okay!
	Disconnected from God, from nature, from one another.
	Good lord, that got weird at the end.
	I want to solve part of the food waste problem right now by throwing rotten cabbage at him.
	We've gotta overcome it!
	Like, dude.
	The binary, the obvious leading question thing makes me so mad.
	Oh, it's fantastic.
	Would you rather eat shit or cake?
	Oh look, 97% of people want cake!
	That should tell you something!
	I think a car hydroplaning once is less important than the overwhelming nightmare of the military-industrial complex.
	Yeah, okay.
	Yeah, okay.
	Why?
	Oh my god.
	Why ask?
	I just love that 3% are clearly fucking contrarians that were just like, yeah, the car crashed.
	Honestly, I'm surprised it was so low.
	I didn't expect 97% to actually... okay.
	But I mean, he's got him trained.
	I was gonna say, that tells you the state of his audience, doesn't it?
	Hungry.
	Walk.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Pushing the buttons like a husky.
	Just absolute stupidity.
	So next he starts talking about the defense spending bill that recently passed, which is what he's talking about here, saying how it's crazy that the US military gets so much money, blah blah blah.
	Sure is!
	Agree on the surface, anything beyond that is a minefield of bullshit with this man, and then he's made aware of something more interesting.
	Packed into that act is... Is this a separate act?
	This is the same act!
	Oh my god!
	This is... What a brilliant bill!
	There's one bill that takes a trillion dollars of your money, gives it to the military-industrial complex, and also, they just slipped in there, and no president can ever, ever leave NATO.
	Do you remember voting for that?
	Do you remember that?
	You know, it's a democracy, right?
	Or that thing that you call it.
	I don't care.
	You meant about vote for stuff and have referenda, right?
	Well, would you leave NATO if you could?
	If Trump said, we want to leave NATO, or if RFK said, we want to leave NATO, even if the other one that loves wars, what's her name?
	Nikki Haley.
	She's not going to say it.
	Oh, she's not going to say it.
	I shouldn't have brought her up, really.
	Yeah.
	So, so no president can ever, ever leave NATO.
	They've slipped it in there in the defense spending bill.
	No.
	Did you hear about this?
	No.
	Yeah.
	I'm positive this isn't true the way that Russell is presenting it.
	I'm positive.
	Well, you got good instincts.
	Tell me how, yeah!
	Because what it actually says is it prevents any president from withdrawing the United States from NATO without approval from the Senate or an act of Congress.
	Almost like there should be democracy involved in the decision, you know, that thing that Russell is supposed to be an advocate for.
	But no, because the decision to unilaterally withdraw from NATO, spearheaded by Tim Kaine and Marco Rubio of all fucking people, has been prevented by the provision in this bill, it's an affront to democracy.
	And listeners, you should see the face that Lauren just made at the mention of Tim Kaine and Marco Rubio.
	Like they smell of fart.
	Yeah, right.
	Yeah, it's an affront to democracy, or an affront to that other thing you Americans keep calling it, Republic or whatever, but Russell doesn't care about that.
	I'm like, buddy, your audience are the ones who keep saying, IT'S A REPUBLIC!
	Cleptocracy.
	Oligopoly.
	kleptocracy, oligopoly, absolute shitshow, a really great insider trading scheme for a few Americans.
	That's our Congress.
	Tax haven.
	Yeah, definitely that too.
	Yeah, there are a lot of options.
	But yeah, I just, I love the shock as he learned about that in real time, right?
	And the person that Russell was asking, you know, oh, is it a different bill?
	Oh, it's the same one!
	...was of course Gareth Roy, who now stands behind the camera controlling the autocue and producing the show to a degree.
	But members of the locals channel are still taking issue with it.
	I liked it when Gareth was on screen while he says Colorado Watch.
	I did.
	But...
	Remember, we have to stay very awake and focused, because this is a serious movement now.
	We're under serious attack!
	Oh, that's why?
	Oh, that's why?
	That's why.
	That's why!
	We're a serious show under serious attack, so we can't let Gareth in front of the camera again, because he's just too much of a comedy icon.
	Yeah, they really want him back.
	Like, every week, they're just like, where's Gareth?
	It's really funny.
	I wouldn't blame Russell if he started really getting his feelings hurt at this point.
	Legitimately.
	I think it would be to the degree, like, it's been weeks and weeks and weeks.
	It's been months!
	It's been months.
	And they're still begging for, like, not exactly a sparkling human being.
	No!
	No, they just want some counterbalance to Russell, and I don't disagree.
	I don't disagree.
	Yeah, he has to make more sense when he's talking to Gareth.
	Gareth translates!
	It's Russell without a translator!
	Gareth knows the fucking stories, that's the answer!
	Yeah, like, Gareth keeps it all together.
	He knows what he's talking about.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Russell would hurt my feelings a little bit, I think.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And Gareth wants to be on screen as well.
	He clearly wants to be back.
	Almost every show, he's fucking yelling stuff at Russell.
	And Russell's like, yeah, what, what?
	It's like, oh, my God.
	Do we have a definitive reason why, like, oh, he probably has to take over somebody's job because they shrank their... Serious show, serious attack.
	Well, but they shrank their employees.
	He probably has to be behind somewhere in order to actually... he can't just be in front, right?
	I question whether he has to be, because I don't think they had that before.
	But then again, they weren't kind of doing livestream proper before either, so yeah, there is a question there.
	But whether they couldn't get someone else to fulfill that role, because they did just kind of have everyone in the control room.
	But, yeah, I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I feel like it's definitely possible.
	There's definitely a way that they could pull it off with Gareth back in front of the camera, but, yeah, I don't think... I mean, but, like, the public facing thing, I know that, like, that all went, that ground to a halt, and Gareth, like, Football is Nice, their podcast together immediately stopped as soon as the documentary came out.
	Yeah, nor has it resumed.
	Nor has it resumed.
	And that is interesting, because I'm like, well, it's not like you can try and erase your history with Russell Gareth.
	You've worked with the guy for 20 fucking years.
	You can't, and have clearly been very close friends during that time, so I don't understand the game there.
	You might as well just carry on.
	And how much are you protecting yourself from either legal implications or PR by just not being at a table?
	And why the fuck does he need PR?
	He's not anyone, you know?
	He's a nobody.
	He's still gotta have a job.
	I mean, who knows?
	He's still gotta have a job.
	He doesn't know if his Russell train's gonna go to the station that he intended to buy the ticket for.
	I guess if Russell goes to prison instead of Bali, then yeah, that might be a problem for Gareth.
	Fair point.
	Maybe he's trying to protect his career, but then again, if that was the case, quit.
	You should have quit the moment that you're aware of anything, but there we are.
	I mean, again, he was working with Russell for, yeah, 15, 20 years, and, you know, there's footage of Gareth in fucking radio studios and stuff with Russell surrounded by women and that kind of shit from... Yeah!
	A long time ago.
	And all he had to do was hide a little bit and everything was fine.
	So that might be the same thing again, but it doesn't seem like it's removed enough necessarily.
	I don't know.
	That's weird.
	Yeah.
	But, I mean, it's funny.
	It is interesting.
	I'm curious whether Gareth will ever return in front of the camera, but what I do know is that they will.
	It's also all speculating.
	I don't know how valuable it is.
	Yeah, for sure.
	Because there's no way to know.
	But it's interesting to think about the reasons that he would.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And I don't know.
	What I do know is, yeah, people will keep on asking about it.
	They're going to carry on and it's going to continue to amuse me.
	Yeah.
	So I want you to bear in mind as we go into the next clip that this is a serious show, right?
	This is a serious show that's been under serious attack and I need to stay focused and awakened and serious.
	Have a look at this.
	What is causing America to have lost more people in the first nine months of 2023 than in all the foreign wars?
	And you know your military industrial complex have dragged you into a lot of unnecessary wars all over the years.
	Let's have a look at the war that was kept secret.
	A war against the American public.
	What's killed so many Americans?
	And why are the legacy media not investigating it?
	Here's the news.
	No, here's the effing news.
	Stay with us.
	We've got great stories after this as well.
	Thank you for choosing Fox News.
	The news.
	No, he's the fucking news.
	Americans are dying at an extraordinary rate.
	You could say there are excess deaths.
	This phenomena began during the pandemic and isn't as a result of COVID.
	And yet public health authorities are in no rush to investigate it for some reason.
	So what happened around the time of the pandemic that's not COVID that could be causing excess deaths?
	And why are the legacy media and public health agencies not investigating it?
	Let's have a look.
	I mean, at this point, I'm upset when a serious show doesn't include bird farts.
	How dare.
	How dare.
	Next time I'm watching the Nine O'Clock News or Panorama or one of the various dispatches specials, if I don't hear bird farts somewhere in the broadcast, I'm going to write a letter of complaint to the producers.
	How else would you know when the news starts?
	Exactly, they're not taking things seriously enough.
	I want bird farts and children's voices swearing and idiots grinning while talking about massive death tolls so I can be clear in the knowledge that it is a serious matter.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's not looking great, this story, is it?
	Just on a first glance.
	That was batshit.
	What he just said was batshit.
	Mmm.
	I'd love to tell you it gets better.
	No, I don't imagine it will.
	There's a war on the people.
	Yeah, he gets into this COVID story a little bit in the next clip, but he takes it in a direction that even I wasn't quite expecting.
	Let's have a look at the opaque way that Legacy Media covers this story.
	There is grim news today about the state of America's health.
	The average expected lifespan for a person in this country shrank by over seven months last year, according to the CDC.
	That's a significant decrease, isn't it?
	If you read rationalist, secular philosophers, even ones from an evolutionary, biological perspective like Steven Pinker, they'll say the great achievement of our age is that the average life expectancy has radically increased, i.e.
	because our news cycle is so rapid and we're focused on the minutiae of apparent decline across the West, say, we're not noticing that, broadly speaking, bloody hell, from medieval times, people are living a lot longer.
	What then should we make of it if the average life expectancy drops by seven months in a couple of years?
	That would mean a ubiquitous change has taken place, wouldn't it?
	I mean, that's across a population.
	It is across a population, isn't it?
	Abortion bans!
	I wonder...
	I wonder what could possibly have happened to an entire population over, say, a three-year period.
	It's a mystery, I tell you.
	Also, those bloody secular atheist scientists, people are saying that life expectancy is going up and is a good thing.
	Well, they're wrong!
	It's going down!
	Ah, score one for Russell and the Christians who aren't responsible for the downfall of society.
	Yeah, yeah, that felt like a stretch.
	Just like, oh, these biologists, they say it's, you know, the age of enlightenment.
	He didn't say biologists.
	He said philosophers.
	That shit to the point of losing all meaning.
	Who are you talking about?
	Philosopher biologists?
	No.
	Well, I mean, Steven Pinker, yeah, you know, he's in the vein of Dawkins in terms of evolutionary biology, though I think he deals with much more of the psychological side of things.
	But yeah, that was very much just like an intentional flinging of shit at secularism.
	Well, it's anti-intellectual.
	That's a very basic conservative trope.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah.
	He doesn't- He's included enough descriptors that you can make a complaint about one of them.
	It's going to, like, all of those different words that he used to describe thinking people who look at stuff and think about it.
	You can, like, he covered so many bases that anyone listening that's got a beef with whatever authority can find something and be like, yeah, fuck those guys!
	I already don't like them!
	Like, he just covered his bases to make the Venn diagram a circle.
	Yeah, no, no, I completely agree with that.
	I would hesitate.
	He doesn't engage in anti-intellectualism in the same way as a lot of propagandists do, but it's definitely there.
	It's more sophisticated, yeah.
	Yeah, there's more nuance, but it's definitely fucking there.
	Yeah.
	So, we're into the editorial proper now, right?
	Which is always heavily edited, as we've already experienced.
	And I think that someone in Russell's team fucked up.
	Because as far as I can tell, in this next clip, Russell talking was supposed to happen after a different clip of the news anchor talking.
	See what I mean?
	I'll play it and it'll make more sense, right?
	Life expectancy in the U.S.
	dropped last year for the second year in a row.
	That's according to a new report from the CDC.
	So we looked at that then.
	Right.
	What is it that's contributing to the average life expectancy?
	Yes, sir.
	What it is, is there's been a war against Hitler and people have been getting shot.
	Good, good.
	That would account for it then, because people are in a war, so we'll just write that down.
	What's happened in the last couple of years that's a bit like a war, but has to be spoken about in peculiarly opaque terms?
	That last comparable drop was back in the early 1940s, during the height of World War II.
	All right, now we want to get to some interesting health news.
	Okay, so Russell's comment about fighting a war against Nazis only makes sense after the second clip, not the first.
	Whereas if you take the since-the-1940s-in-the-height-of-the-World-War-Two comment from the news anchor and then you hear Russell say, oh yeah, the reason all these people are dying is we're fighting Hitler.
	Okay, that makes sense, but what's happening today then?
	It makes a lot more sense.
	So basically, someone completely fucked up the edit here, and that whole bit was just... It took me a good five minutes to figure out what the fuck had happened when I first heard that.
	I was like, why is he talking about Hitler all of a sudden?
	And then he just glides past it.
	The edit just moves straight on into this fucking thing.
	And yeah, it's a great job from the team at Stay Free.
	Well, but I mean, so wait...
	I mean, it could just be bad writing, too.
	Like, well, we know we're going to get there, so we might as well say it.
	Like, either way, I mean, my issue is with what's being said.
	Like, my issue is with this content.
	I kind of, I mean, I understand.
	I'm confused by these clips all the time.
	And they're in orders!
	Yes.
	Yeah, it does take him a minute to make what I will call the big reveal in this one.
	He's definitely building something, isn't he?
	Yeah, it's definitely still bullshit what he's saying, but if it had been edited in the way that I suggested, it would have made more sense.
	Anyway, I still think... It doesn't even make sense!
	I'm gonna be in the I don't care camp over here.
	Fair, fair.
	I bet they're doing a lot of shit bad.
	I'm definitely being pedantic and I do appreciate that but I still think that he's struggling staff wise and he's still not rolling the end credits after his show anymore so I still can't find out for sure but I think it's still happening.
	Also, what seems like a war but isn't?
	He's asking riddles of his audience, and I don't think there's any way that can end well.
	Based on the live chats that I've seen, his audience does not seem like the brain teaser type of people, you know?
	They like an A or B, and obviously you should choose B right now, or else you aren't part of the group.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Which button gives me food?
	Tell me that one, and then I'll press that one.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Instead, riddles.
	Alright, so in the next clip, hopefully Russell's narrative and where we're getting at starts to become a little bit clearer.
	But take a look at what these numbers were back in 2019.
	79 years of age was the average US life expectancy, then it dropped to 77 years of age in 2020, and now 76.1.
	of age in 2020 and now 76.1. Largely the thinking behind that is COVID has an impact on that.
	Extraordinary really to try to mitigate and manage those figures. We all know that the
	average COVID deaths were often over the average age of death.
	Generally, there's been a lot of analysis around for and with COVID, and increasingly, while muted and managed inquiries take place, for example, in our country, the UK, collectively, people are beginning to understand the nature of that pandemic, what type of mortality and fatality occurred, who was most vulnerable and at risk, and who simply wasn't at risk at all.
	who simply wasn't at risk at all. I mean, risk of what? Of getting COVID? Because that was a
	universal risk. Of feeling symptoms of COVID? Again, pretty much universal there. Serious
	and life-threatening cases were fewer and further between, but ultimately...
	It still happened to anyone! It was a Russian roulette!
	A degree of randomness, exactly.
	There was a degree of randomness to them once you examined those who weren't already vulnerable.
	Never mind the number of unknown and undiagnosed medical conditions people had that were then exacerbated by COVID-19, which then killed them.
	That they were completely oblivious to and then dead.
	Absolute nonsense.
	Anyway, so...
	Most of the average COVID deaths were above the average age of death generally.
	Interesting thing to try and cite there.
	It's also... Doesn't sound like... I mean, you're averaging everyone.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So average COVID deaths were above... But you're averaging everybody regardless of what age they are to put in the number to get the result of the life expectancy.
	So why does the age of the person who died have anything to do with this?
	I don't know.
	Most of the COVID deaths are above the average age of death, generally.
	It's not true, in that about half of the deaths from COVID in the US from 2020 to present day were below the average life expectancy figures.
	Doesn't really fucking matter because it's still people having their lives cut short by a virus.
	Right.
	Like the people in their 60s who died could have lived another 30 years.
	We don't know.
	They were never given the opportunity.
	And equally, the people who were above the average age of death, those in their late 70s and above, could have lived another decade apiece or more.
	Some of them could have lived into their hundreds, but were denied the opportunity because of a deadly virus.
	Yeah.
	And then this motherfucker comes in with, oh, well, what does that matter?
	It's above the average age of death anyway.
	Fuck you, Russell.
	Fuck you.
	That's like, oh, they were above that anyway, so it's fine.
	No!
	No!
	That's not okay!
	I lost a member that were in, like, were in, like, senior care.
	Yeah!
	Yeah!
	And it was before- I mean, that is abhorrent to me.
	Like, I'm so- Yeah!
	I'm fucking mad.
	That's like- They're elderly so they don't matter.
	Fuck you!
	Like, that's- I can't- That's- Yeah!
	I mean, or like- But that's like- Is that even what he's saying?
	Like, I don't even understand, like, what is the argument being made here?
	Like, Yeah, the life expectancy is going to get affected.
	And if he's making the argument that, like, if it's the anti-vax argument and the vaccines are killing people, then just say that!
	Like, what are you doing?
	What are you doing?
	Is COVID killing people or is the vaccine killing people?
	Do we not even have to decide for this particular segment because it changes all the time?
	Well, we will get to it in a second, but yeah, he's very much attempting to minimize COVID throughout this entire piece and the dangers of it, and in part of that he's willing to just be like, oh yeah, you know, most of the people were older than the average death age anyway, so you know, Okay.
	Okay.
	Wonderful.
	It's a good look.
	I mean, this combined with him talking about leaving a fucking elderly woman alone in the forest when we were dealing with the cult episode, if you remember that, I'm like, Jesus Christ.
	Oh, I sure do.
	This guy does not like old people.
	Fucking hell.
	You know, that's, yeah.
	I mean, it's not that long before you become one, buddy.
	Hey, Russell, they're not all your dad.
	You don't have to hate all of them secretly.
	How about that?
	Yeah, they don't all have sex in beds next to you.
	Right.
	Next, we're going to skip ahead a little bit to Russell citing his first source.
	Any takes as to where it's going to be from?
	Any guesses?
	Ack-a-bin-jay?
	It's not.
	It's not Akabin-J, actually.
	No, no.
	This little red square one?
	No, no, no.
	What is it?
	Protect the net or whatever it is.
	Yeah, no, no.
	It's not that one either, but it is a familiar one.
	Life insurance factories are finding that more people are continuing to die at alarming rates, even more than before the pandemic, but cannot be accounted for by COVID.
	Of course, there's an attempt to suggest that this is because of COVID, but plainly, and that was even evident in that legacy media reporting, it isn't COVID, but it's contemporaneous with COVID.
	So can you remember Anything else happening?
	Just come on, let's work on this as a planet together.
	At the time of COVID, did anything else happen that kind of have a massive, deleterious impact on human health?
	I don't know.
	We just have to look at clues.
	Did any major organisations, for example, demand indemnity from legal prosecution?
	That would be a clue, because that would point, I think.
	If anyone said you can't publish any information for 75 years, these kind of things would all be clues.
	So let's all just together, like Scooby-Doo and the gang, have a look and see if there's any information.
	This is the second cartoon dog that I'm going to have to be defensive over, but I'm going to do it.
	Russell, you keep Scooby-Doo's name out of your damn mouth.
	He's a saint, and I won't have you even tangentially sullying the good name of Ruby, Ruby, Ru.
	Yeah, you seem to take issue with the indemnity thing.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	I get mad every day, at least once, at a thing that affects public health in some way.
	And they can be very tangential.
	It can be a maybe distant corollary, but still, even If I were the person that regular people think Russell Brand is, if I were the, like, goofy, hippie, kind of funny Russell Brand that people think Russell Brand is, I would come from, like, I would say the massive wealth disparity caused by COVID or the vaccine, fucking whatever, you know, pick your poison, that in and of itself
	Negatively impacts life expectancy, is the wealth disparity being exacerbated by the COVID pandemic, increase in houselessness, lack of health care, lack of access to health care, even if you can fucking pay for it, fucking beds are full, whatever, the overall impact of women's health in America due to all these fucking abortions, like overturning of Roe v. Wade and all the abortion bans, the statistics around that are That's fucking hideous.
	I don't know, was there a gun sale?
	That's how kids die the most in America now.
	Yeah, it does occur to me looking at life expectancy reductions.
	I'm like, well, yeah, there's also an increase in mass shootings of children.
	So I'm like, well, that's going to increase, you know, if you look at the average.
	There's a lot of factors.
	There's a lot of fucking factors that I have just off the dome right now.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah.
	Well, Russell's assertion is that it's not COVID, but it's something that's like COVID or happened around the same time as COVID.
	Oh, what could it be?
	Maybe there are breadcrumbs.
	Maybe there are clues.
	Maybe people who manufactured something didn't want to get sued for it later.
	Get to the point!
	Oh my god!
	No!
	I'm gonna dance around it another 15 minutes!
	This was a long fucking editorial as well actually.
	He spends a long time dancing around this.
	What limit do you need to reach that I don't know about?
	Like, oh fuck me dude, this is taking way too long to get to the point.
	We'll get there, we'll get there.
	Yeah, so we have another piece from Wuss Wuss, the world socialist whatever the fuck, the dear old misleading cavern of bullshit that is Wuss Wuss.
	We've covered that already in previous episodes.
	We have, yeah.
	Did you notice the name of the article that's being cited?
	Did you see that at all?
	No, I did not read it.
	So the article in question is titled, Deaths of Despair and Suicides in the U.S.
	at Historic Levels.
	Interesting, right?
	And seemingly on the surface very little to do with COVID.
	In fact, the author, Benjamin Mateus, does in his other pieces go to great lengths to point out how dangerous COVID-19 is and how the current measures in place in the US are completely insufficient to protect the public.
	Uh-huh.
	How is Russell using this piece for his own propagandizing purposes?
	Well, first, let me read to you the next few lines of the article, right?
	So it starts with, uh, meanwhile, life insurance actuaries, right?
	This is a bit that he just read.
	Meanwhile, life insurance actuaries are finding that more people are continuing to die at alarming rates, even more than before the pandemic, um, that cannot be accounted for by COVID.
	Right, that's in the clip that we just saw.
	Russell then goes on to read out the next part.
	For instance, the Society of Actuaries Research Institute found that there was a 34% increase in deaths among working-aged people, 35 to 44, in the last quarter of 2022.
	Hmm, because they're not an at-risk group from COVID, are they?
	That's not comorbidities, that's not elderly, that's not respiratory conditions, that's working-aged people.
	34% is sort of unthinkable.
	If that happened and there wasn't something being concealed, this would be headline news.
	If this was a story that could be used to say, and therefore everyone better start carrying an ID card, or therefore everyone better remain in their homes, It's because of climate change.
	We found that because of fossil fuel fumes in the air, 34% of people are dying.
	Get in your house, give us your car, you will own nothing and be happy.
	They will be on it.
	So it's something that's not being investigated.
	Isn't this extraordinary?
	Another clue would be, I suppose, if there was a particular industry that paid a lot of money to news media and their advertising, that would be good.
	Someone should look Look into that as well.
	Also, were there any subjects that were heavily censored, where true information was censored?
	These are all breadcrumbs out of this forest of death and lies!
	My patience has... is... the limits are getting fucking barraged right now.
	I'm under siege.
	This is stupid.
	I understand why, Lauren, and it's because we're in a forest of death and lies.
	So that got heavy real quick.
	So right, back to what the actual piece says.
	So, quote, for instance, the Society of Actuaries Research Institute found there was a 34% increase in deaths among working-aged people 35 to 44 in the last quarter of 2022.
	That is an outrageous amount.
	That is an outrageous amount.
	A 34% increase.
	It's poorly worded though, because it's a 34% increase when compared to pre-pandemic levels.
	This is all taken from a Society of Actors report from the tail end of 2022, which is unsurprisingly difficult to find specific information in among the 70-odd fucking pages.
	But also, a 34% increase does not mean 34% of the total of working-aged people 35 to 44 are dying, because that would be absurd.
	But that's what Russell's saying.
	A good chunk of our friends would be dead and we would have spotted this.
	Completely absurd, right?
	So it's an increase of 34% of whatever the number was before.
	So as an example, say it was 9% pre-pandemic, it's now 12 point something percent.
	The reality is actually much lower.
	Jeez, dude.
	That's a good lesson in how statistics can be completely- numbers can be fucking manipulated.
	Entirely fucking manipulated, exactly.
	That's a great example.
	And this WussWuss article is partially guilty of it, as is the fucking actor's report, but obviously, for their purposes, they're just like, oh, we're looking at insurance shit.
	You know, we understand that that 34%, you know, is still a tiny fraction of a fucking fraction, but it wasn't designed for kind of public dissemination like this.
	Yeah, so the following I got from ChatGBT, right, so take it with a hunk of salt, but the numbers are about right, because it's painfully difficult to actually find the actual fucking figures.
	The mortality rate for the age group 35 to 44 in the US pre-pandemic was 0.195% and has since gone up to 0.233% as of April 2023.
	So that's about 646,000 deaths, gone up to 770,000 deaths across the course of a year.
	percent as of April 2023.
	Right. So that's about six hundred and forty six thousand deaths gone up to seven hundred and seventy thousand deaths
	across the course of a year.
	Right. Again, big hunk of salt.
	But those are the actual sort of numbers that we're dealing with here. Much less scary than it sounds.
	Though, I will say the concept of that many people dying in general, just of normal causes, is a bit weird to talk about.
	It does feel weird. Yeah, but the numbers are big enough that like I as my human. No, yeah, yeah
	Yeah, I know I'm holding on to it. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, it's fair. That's fair. Um, but yeah
	Comparison of like nine percent and then up thirty percent is now
	That is a really great illustration of like, I think that was an excellent example of like, this is what we're dealing with.
	Yeah, yeah.
	There's just a lot of statistical manipulation going on here.
	I'm a picture person.
	I'm not here to do math.
	So it's nice to have an example that's very obvious that I can relate to.
	Thank you.
	No, I get it, I get it.
	As soon as I heard that figure I was like, that can't be right.
	No, that's a lie!
	Nope, nope, nope.
	So next we have what I would probably say is our smoking gun of this show.
	Many of them are working age people who are in the prime of their life, not anymore, who are suffering deaths from cardiac and neurological disorders.
	However, the CDC and public health agencies are at a loss to explain these statistics, nor is there any apparent urgency on their part to get to the bottom of the crisis.
	Well, we'd have to look to see if the CDC has any financial relationships with any other industries.
	Just keep putting all these clues together.
	Hopefully, the COVID inquiry in the UK will get to the bottom of this.
	Or when Anthony Fauci is, for example, being interviewed by the legacy media, he'll help us because, after all, he is science.
	Okay.
	Now, yeah, Anthony Fauci is science.
	What he's referencing there is there was a BBC piece, an interview with Anthony Fauci, and Russell covered it and mostly just spent the entire interview going, meh!
	Yeah, was he pausing it and drawing a booger on his face for fun?
	Almost!
	We were so close to that.
	It was ridiculous.
	Now, it's painfully obvious at this point where Russell is going with this editorial, but I'm going to let him have the big reveal.
	Seems the least I can do.
	And in the meantime, I'm going to read the full sentence from the article that he just fucking read and compare it to what he just read out, right?
	So, quote, many of them are working-aged people who are in the prime of their life who are suffering deaths from cardiac and neurological disorders.
	This is where Russell stopped reading and moved on to the next sentence.
	The rest of the sentence read, right, cardiac and neurological disorders that could be attributable to long COVID and its complications that include anxiety, depression, and despair.
	Instead, Russell skips that part and moves on to the next part about the CDC and public health agencies being at a loss to explain the statistics.
	Russell considers himself a journalist, so I will say, Russell, this is gross misconduct and is obviously and intentionally misleading your audience to minimize the health risks of COVID-19 and instead promote a conspiracy theory that we'll get to in just a second.
	This is lying by intentional manipulation.
	If this man had any credibility whatsoever, he'd be ashamed of himself, but evidently he is not.
	I want to see where this is going.
	I'm like, I'm so dumb.
	I'm sick of his beating around the bush.
	Yeah, so we've had intentional manipulation and inflation of statistics.
	Here we've had actually just chopping out parts of sentences to make something fit his narrative, which is not a fucking good look.
	And yeah, in the next clip, he finally sets up his shot so that he's ready to tee off on the conspiracy.
	In Australia, excess deaths in 2022 were 12% higher than previous years, with one third of those deaths considered non-COVID related.
	It has been extensively reported the degree to which deaths and mortality and sickness were statistically managed during that period.
	Even with that caveat, it appears there are inexplicable or excessive deaths across the world, in various continents, in various territories, almost as if there were some secondary agent at the same time.
	According to our world in data, under the heading of cumulative number of excess deaths in the last 12 months,
	as of May 21, 2023, the US had over 103,000, Germany had 83,000, France had 17,600, UK had 55,000, Brazil 60,000, Russia 72,000
	and Italy 25,650.
	Numbers, numbers, numbers.
	All sounds very scary.
	According to Russell, however, it's because of some other agent that's somehow been spreading among the populace.
	I wonder what he's referring to.
	Well, wonder no more, because, and forgive my pun here, he takes his shot in the next clip.
	If people were just all of a sudden dying because of some novel new agent, there would be footage from across the world of people passing out, collapsing, dying, banging their head, that we would all be able to put together and look at as kind of evidence that something unprecedented and historic had taken place.
	Yeah, we had that at COVID.
	Comedian Heather McDonald collapsed over the weekend during a show.
	Management saying she suffered a skull fracture in the fall.
	The CDC has confirmed higher than normal cases of heart inflammation in 16 to 24-year-olds.
	Service members later developed myocarditis.
	You take all the vaccines since 2010 and you compare 2021, this thing blows through the roof.
	Experts say more and more younger women are suffering from stroke.
	Sorry airmen, I'm not feeling very well right now.
	80% of the cases have been in young boys.
	I am in the hospital with heart complications from the COVID-19 vaccine.
	The 14-year-old's heart stopped.
	15-year-old boy died after receiving his first dose.
	16-year-old was rushed to the hospital.
	Loved ones say the 17-year-old's heart stopped.
	The elite runner was rushed to the hospital after suffering a heart attack.
	A high school football player has died just hours after getting his second dose of COVID vaccine.
	Collapsing on the football field.
	Collapsing in the middle of the game.
	Collapsing during the game.
	Collapsing on the tennis court.
	Suddenly collapsing.
	The player collapsed.
	Collapsed and died.
	Died after collapsing.
	He collapsed.
	He collapsed.
	It seems that there's a second player who's collapsed.
	This is unusual.
	I've never seen anything like this.
	Yeah, what's going on?
	Yeah, what's happening?
	It is now well established that the mRNA vaccines cause heart inflammation.
	That's very disturbing to watch, so we have to ensure that we stay away from crackpots and conspiracy theorists, and I think we'll be relatively safe in the hands as we continue to investigate of Dr. Pierre Khoury, MD, President and Chief Medical Officer at the frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance.
	This is what he wrote.
	I saw all kinds of fucking red flags in that clip.
	We'll get to him in a second, but yeah, that was a lot.
	That was a lot.
	The spike on the fucking graph that he showed and then there was a clip, that was clearly some YouTube asshole.
	That was VAERS data.
	And if we are, I don't know if you're, oh my God, dude.
	We're not going to get into VAERS data too much, but it does come up in a minute.
	But, but yeah.
	I'm sure a lot of us are way more familiar now than we were three years ago.
	By necessity.
	Yeah, is completely like, is, is not useful for drawing any conclusions on what people are saying to VAERS.
	Jeez.
	From that clip, he hasn't said it outright, but has instead maliciously edited together a load of footage to be able to say, it's the vaccines, they're killing us all, without actually having to say it.
	He just plays the footage instead and then dances around the subject.
	Oh, I never said that.
	Well, no, but come on, fuck you.
	And yeah, we're going to get into the doctor that he's mentioned in just a second because there are problems.
	But now it should be painfully obvious why he excluded the line about long COVID from his reading of the WUSWUS article.
	See, when I watch that edited piece of shit that he just whacked down the golf course with such fucking pride, I now pretty much just think, oh yeah, COVID and long COVID are really fucking dangerous, aren't they?
	Whereas without that explanation, along with Russell's intentional additions of TikTokers saying it was the vaccine that's why I'm in hospital, and newscasters talking about the incredibly rare instances of myocarditis from certain vaccines, we're led to believe, ah, there's been a 34% increase in deaths among 35 to 44 year olds in the US because of the COVID-19 vaccines.
	That's what he wants everyone to conclude.
	The reality is, the jury's still somewhat out, but long COVID is absolutely some kind of factor here, and I am pretty confident in making that statement.
	For instance, I'd be very curious to see a proper comparison of all the fucking numbers, numbers, numbers he read out before in the various different countries, you know, before versus vaccine uptake figures in the various countries, right?
	So just have a look at the Have a look at the actual, the number of excess deaths versus the vaccine uptake, right?
	Yeah.
	Have a look at that per each country, right?
	There are other factors, but my personal bet, after a cursory Google search comparing the figures, is there's a fucking obvious reason that the UK and Italy have a much lower percentage increase in non-COVID excess deaths compared to the US.
	When you should have more because a higher percentage of your population got vaccinated than we did.
	Right, by Russell's logic.
	Yeah, by Russell's logic, more vaccines means more deaths, and that's not the numbers that he's even showing us right here.
	Yeah, because we came to like, I think it was around a 94% vaccination rate in this country.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So we should all be dead.
	Or very, very unwell.
	60-ish percent America?
	Yeah, we shouldn't have higher numbers then.
	If this is the reason.
	Exactly, exactly.
	Doesn't make any fucking sense.
	Anyway, let's get into the doctor guy that Russell was talking about.
	Frontline doctors, right?
	So what we're about to look at is something from Dr. Pierre Corey, MD, who is an American critical care physician who gained attention during the COVID-19 pandemic for advocating widespread off-label use of certain drugs as treatments for COVID, as president and co-founder of the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance.
	Were those treatments available for sale on the website as soon as you started saying that?
	Funny you say that.
	He's been on Rogan, he's a long-time advocate of ivermectin, and a long-time critic of the COVID-19 vaccines.
	I think he's a long-time salesman of ivermectin, I think is maybe more accurate.
	So vocal, so vocal about it that one might think he had some kind of financial interest in doing so.
	Yeah.
	And Corey and the FLCCC sell a cocktail of supplements and drugs such as ivermectin and nitazoxonide for treatment of other viruses, and they can't say it's for COVID because that would be illegal, but that's absolutely the way it's presented.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So that's great.
	This guy has written an opinion piece for The Hill along with someone called Mary Beth Pfeiffer,
	who was by all accounts a semi-credible reporter it seemed up until the pandemic hit, at which
	point she went batshit with half the rest of the world and she's now circulating things about DNA
	fragments in COVID-19 vaccines. So that's who we're gonna be dealing with in just a sec.
	Check. - Check.
	I'm sorry I'm not surprised by any of this stuff this episode.
	I hope it's still fun to listen to.
	It's a lot.
	It's a lot.
	Yeah, like, man, I wish I was surprised.
	I wish it was shocking.
	I would love that.
	I wish that that was true.
	It would be nice to be surprised about any of this being nonsense.
	Yeah.
	You know, to just have like, oh, they said a true they did.
	They said a thing that happened.
	But no, no, we've we've had none of that so far.
	I see, though, like all the the, you know, like, I mean, Professional athletes collapsing or whatever.
	Like, I do wonder for people that had to, in order to make a living, had to stay in the public eye, like professional athletes, but still were like coming into contact.
	Like those are people that got COVID a lot.
	I wonder if there's some kind of liability that can be sussed out.
	I mean, but it won't because people are too fucking like distracted by bullshit to actually care about what's happening.
	But like, Yeah, no, there should be a liability to some degree if you're pushing people that have to and also especially if you're not like a top tier athlete you've got to work a lot and you got to work really hard to be able to pay your bills.
	And you've got to work your heart really hard.
	Exactly.
	There's a lot of fucking cardio and I agree with you.
	So that's not necessarily a comorbidity but it's certainly a concern.
	A sucker player!
	ALICE Yeah, there's definitely extra fuckin' factors there, aren't there?
	LAURA And they were the ones that were getting COVID, like, off the bat, I remember that, like, y'know?
	In the spring of 2020.
	ALICE Before there was a fuckin' vaccine to make it all less dangerous, for example.
	LAURA Yeah, and the NBA was specifically doing, like, uses an example of a better job, but still having serious issues, where the NFL was just...
	Throw it under the wolves!
	I wonder if there's some kind of liability that can be determined by pushing these people to work?
	The example that you've just used kind of paints it in perfect perspective for me, and that's that these people are athletes and so are considered expendable.
	Yeah, and they're brown sometimes.
	Exactly, exactly.
	So who cares if they get several?
	Throw them on the pyre of entertainment.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	You know, I mean, yeah, they'll probably have, you know, severe brain damage and various other things for the rest of their lives, but that's fine.
	We got to watch a game.
	Don't ask about their life expectancy at all.
	Those numbers are actually terrifying.
	No, no, no.
	I know, I know.
	I still remember reading about that guy who played for like one season or whatever and then retired and bought himself a farm, and I was like, yeah, that's the fucking way to do it.
	That's how you NFL.
	That is how you get out with a semi-intact skull.
	Yeah, good going.
	What's not to ask about his ankle or anything?
	Yeah, right.
	Anyway, anyway, yeah, we've got Dr. Corey and Mary Beth Pfeiffer.
	Let's hear what these idiots have to say.
	Life insurers have been consistently sounding the alarm over these unexpected or excess deaths which claimed 158,000 more Americans in the first nine months of 2023 than in the same period in 2019.
	That exceeds America's combined losses from every war since Vietnam.
	Congress should urgently work with insurance experts to investigate this troubling trend.
	So in the first nine months of 2023, America's excess deaths accumulate to more than All of the deaths of American soldiers and military personnel in every single war since Vietnam.
	And we're off to a bad start.
	So those numbers are about right, but based on the figures I mentioned earlier, you know, going from 600 and something thousand up to nearly 800,000, you know, that's the number of people in just that age group who just up and die every year for various reasons, right?
	So Sure, 158,000 people dying sounds terrifying until you realize just how many people die every year.
	The total deaths in the US for 2021 was 3.46 million people.
	So yeah, across a nine month period, 158,000 extra or unexpected deaths is surprising and yeah, quite concerning, but in the grand scheme of things, it's not fucking world shattering.
	Like statistically, that's not, you know.
	Also, yes, and they were warning about this shit from the second that COVID was in the news, the second that it started, is that there will be cascading ramifications for the rest of us even after the initial lockdown is over.
	They've been saying this the entire time.
	It makes me fucking furious to hear these jokers act like this is some new thing that we weren't prepared for.
	And genuinely, the mainstream media does a piss poor job of explaining that too.
	Everybody's at fault for this type of misunderstanding.
	I mean, obviously, it's an outsized fault for like stochastic terrorists, but generally, People have kept their heads in the sand about the ramifications of not just COVID but also like a lack of a social safety net and lack of health care and a wealth disparity and like housing markets.
	These are all have serious implications for everyone's quality of life.
	Yeah, yeah.
	No, I completely fucking agree.
	And I don't know, I don't understand how you can kind of go through what felt like a world-ending event, you know?
	For a period there, it felt like the world ended.
	How you can go through that and think that there aren't going to be aftereffects, that there aren't going to be ripples of that for the next decades?
	It's not even just that!
	The fact that we fixed NOTHING.
	We addressed NOTHING.
	And we learned NOTHING.
	That is the issue.
	It's just the event itself, and then moving on from that.
	If we address some of the problems that were exposed by COVID or if we made decisions that were positive or in any way like reasonable, oh plus fucking climate change, oh I mean I can't even, pardon me, I forgot we're in a conservative talk show area.
	Heaven forfend I even mentioned climate change.
	Oh, you can't talk about that!
	You might want to lock us in our homes!
	Straight up!
	It's still happening and people won't even acknowledge that.
	The society, the powers that be, and I mean that in a literal way, just wants everyone to fucking put your head in the sand and keep moving forward because of the economy or blah blah blah, whatever.
	Ignoring this problem makes it exponentially worse, and that's exactly what they've done, and that's what Russell is proving to me, and also tangentially proving that he's a dipshit.
	Those are the two things that I'm learning from this segment.
	Yeah, both, I would say, accurate.
	So, next, Russell...
	Yeah, yeah.
	If I had telekinesis, y'all would know, because Russell's house would be on fire right now.
	This is crazy.
	Yeah, the village of Piss Hill would be burned to cinders.
	Yeah, so next Russell gets into the article properly.
	Where is the legacy media investigation into a story about a 34% increase in deaths of working age people from 35 to 44?
	Isn't that a significant story?
	Where are the resources being deployed?
	What interest does that suggest they have at heart?
	Ordinary people?
	It doesn't look like it, does it?
	Unlike the pandemic's early phase, these deaths are not primarily among the old.
	Is it me, or does the future feel more insecure and uncertain?
	Wars, pandemics, lies, trickery, my cats keep having kittens, love from personal.
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	Yeah, gotcha.
	Damn if that edit wasn't... Who's telling you gold?
	We are!
	Yeah.
	It's automatic and it's gold leaf.
	We're braving up to sell you gold for real.
	That edit was so fucking harsh, it almost seems like I put it in there just to prank you, but I promise you that's on the actual Stay Free broadcast.
	Russell pranks the shit out of us all the time.
	That was insane.
	I've been trained to recognize this shirt by now.
	Yeah.
	Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But yeah, we're all dying, so buy some gold, I guess.
	That is gross.
	They'd rather you just put some money in an account, of course.
	Unlike us at On Brand, who have real gold to sell you!
	Yes, buy a magnet everybody, link in the description.
	They're very cool magnets.
	They actually do something!
	It's crazy!
	They do something and they have actual gold in them, unlike American Hartford Gold, who want to sell you the idea of gold.
	Yeah, that was just absurd.
	That was such an absurd pivot, I had to leave that in there.
	Oh my god.
	So, I know, I know, and also just- It's so shameful, like it's so shameful.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The incredible fear mongering that he's gone down already, you know, with the fucking horrible footage of everything.
	Oh, isn't life uncertain?
	Buy some gold, that'll fucking fix everything.
	Yeah, well I'm just, I'm so sick to death of any reporting that just uses big scary numbers with no context whatsoever.
	So the only thing that you can walk away feeling is like a, you know, an existential dread.
	Yeah, just like this, this kind of generalized helpless fear.
	Like, not, not, hey, we should fight for socialized medicine and we should fight for better working conditions, we should fight for better mental health structures, more community support, any of those things, or to make abortions available at every 7-Eleven for a dollar, any of that.
	Like, I'm sorry, I just...
	Be afraid, buy gold.
	That's the message from this broadcast.
	It's great.
	It's a good show.
	So next!
	In the next clip.
	So, you know Armando Iannucci, the writer and creator of The Thick of It and Veep?
	He said he wouldn't do any more of The Thick of It because the political reality has reached the point of satirising itself, right?
	It's impossible, yeah.
	Exactly, and honestly, that's what the next clip feels like to me.
	Vaccines were given to more than 270 million people, among them babies, pregnant women and workers under employer mandates.
	The Therapeutics Warp Speed Emergency Use Authorization must be part of any post-pandemic analysis in light of more than 1 million reports of possible harm to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System and a new Yale University study validating a chronic post-vaccination syndrome.
	We were right.
	Just take a breath.
	We were right.
	Now we're probably right about a bunch of other things as well.
	So hold it together.
	We did it.
	We were right.
	Just take it.
	We were right.
	Gestures to banner that says mission accomplished.
	Right?
	We were probably right about a bunch of other things too.
	Like honestly.
	Right between the eyes is what I say.
	Dude.
	Emotional support hammer.
	Give those lines to like Jez from Peep Show or Michael Scott from The Office and they would fit fucking perfectly.
	I'm just gonna start barking.
	I don't have words anymore.
	What else?
	I already have a weapon.
	I'm just gonna start.
	God.
	God.
	Smug fuck.
	Fuckin' insane.
	Fuckin' insane.
	So as, yeah, that's where the VAERS system comes in.
	Also, great job, like, spelling out VAERS.
	I don't know if that's because people that want to put out this kind of information are more... are hedging their bets against people recognizing VAERS more readily than the spelled out acronym?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, the full thing.
	Yeah.
	Good catch.
	Yeah.
	So past the fear-mongering bullshit of, oh, they gave this to babies and a gross and intentional misrepresentation of how the VAERS system works, Corey and Pfeiffer referenced a Yale study there, which I thought was interesting.
	So to quote from Yale News, In a new study, Yale scientists have identified the immune signature of rare cases of myocarditis among those vaccinated against COVID-19 with mRNA vaccines.
	These findings, published May 5th in the journal Science Immunology, rule out some of the theorized causes of the heart inflammation and suggest potential ways to further reduce the incidence of a still-rare side effect of vaccination, the authors say.
	Unquote.
	That is the study that these idiots are talking about, and it does exactly nothing to validate any point that they've made.
	In fact, I read it and thought, ha, great news, maybe we can get Russell to shut the fuck up about myocarditis if this thing has legs.
	But also all the quotes from the previous, like the previous like clips, yes and, the previous clips from the articles were talking about how much the CDC and whoever, like health professionals, are unconcerned and they're not addressing the problem.
	Why aren't they worried about this?
	Obviously they are.
	You just read it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	They're trying to solve the problem.
	That's what they're doing.
	And that is what that thing is.
	It does not validate anything that Corey and Pfeiffer have fucking said.
	The idea that, oh yeah, data from VAERS and this new study that definitely validates what we're saying.
	No, it fucking doesn't.
	It doesn't at all.
	It goes the opposite direction.
	Garbage people.
	Absolute garbage.
	Alright.
	So next, we get a little bit of an idea as to why they are targeting 35 to 44 year olds specifically.
	Finally, government officials who sanctioned unprecedented censorship of dissent enforcing pandemic measures for media pressure must be called to account.
	Actuaries and industry analysts predict excess deaths will continue among people with life insurance through 2030.
	Watch out for that date, everyone.
	And are anticipated to be highest at younger ages.
	What, the portion of the population that are able to stand up and resist authoritarianism?
	There we go.
	Excess deaths will continue through 2030.
	Only for those with insurance.
	I love that bit.
	For those with insurance.
	Un-fucking-hinged.
	Also, get that word out your fucking mouth.
	Socialized healthcare piece of shit.
	No.
	No.
	Yeah, I know, right?
	You've never had to try to get healthy after being sick for a minute in your whole life in America, Russell?
	Fucking stuff it.
	That, oh man.
	Ooh, I'm hot.
	The hammer is flailing.
	So excess deaths will continue through 2030.
	I mean, look, there's some amount of excess deaths every single year, so I imagine they will continue to the end of humanity, at which point excess deaths will finally reach a zero because there will be no one left to die.
	That's how that works.
	But also, like, yeah, we haven't fixed any of the problems that are causing excess deaths.
	And I gave, I've listed, what, 15 at this point?
	Off the top of my fucking dome?
	Yeah!
	At least 2030!
	Come on!
	Again, the figures are much better in the UK because of vaccination.
	Y'all aren't concocting new crazy strains of COVID by spreading it around every 10 minutes!
	Yeah, I bet!
	No, no, no we're not.
	Though I'm slightly getting concerned about that.
	I think we might have to ban travel for Americans coming into the UK at this point.
	I'm like, oh, I don't want that over here.
	But anyway, the young are being specifically targeted because they're the ones most likely to rise up and fight against their oppressors or something.
	Interestingly, Russell is considered to have some sway among a younger audience compared to his contemporaries.
	Like, that is the kind of general wisdom.
	I would be curious to know how that actually bears out across his total audience, though.
	Yeah, because based on the various live chats I've seen in the comment sections, there's some boomer shit going on under the surface.
	That is for sure.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It gives very QAnon influencer, like, the language use, not even the content, I mean, y'all will see the content and what they say, but like, and those people aren't young.
	They're not.
	No, no.
	Except for like that one awesome guy, just because he's a fucking rich dipshit.
	Like, he's the exception.
	Like, it's not...
	Uh-uh.
	Not checking out.
	None of this is checking out.
	Even if I just watched this and did not have you to back it, just the content of what he's saying doesn't fucking add up.
	I hate that he's adding to the cognitive dissonance.
	I mean, okay, that's the point.
	Lauren, ugh.
	No, no, you're allowed to.
	Oh, it makes me feel stupid to be mad at him for doing the thing that he is designing himself to do.
	You're allowed to feel and express those things.
	That is perfectly valid because, yeah, it's fucking infuriating.
	And it's infuriating how obvious it all is as well.
	But here we are.
	And so next, Russell closes out the editorial, and this is the last clip I'm gonna play, and he says something that I kind of agree with on the surface.
	Looks like a great time for an apocalyptic showdown.
	Looks like a time to awaken, to question, to bind together and oppose, and to be most of all, what can I do?
	What can I do?
	I'll tell you what we can do.
	Start thinking about what prejudices and opposition you have to other people that are in the same socioeconomic class as you.
	Think, I don't care about culture.
	I don't care about religion.
	I don't care about race.
	I don't care about anything now.
	I just care about opposing this establishment.
	I just care about taking the head of this beast and moving forward into the utopia that is achievable with decentralisation, but unity.
	Among the people.
	Kind of lost me at the end.
	So class solidarity and dismantling the system of oppression.
	OK, this is a topic that I'm generally on board with, but wait.
	So to him, the system of oppression isn't capitalism, though.
	He never well, he never brings it up as the problem.
	And he actively encourages people to engage in capitalism, especially if he can also convince them to subscribe to his locals channel.
	There's a lot of work in obfuscating the culprit of capitalism whenever it rears its ugly head, which is every episode that we do.
	There's a lot of work.
	Yeah, you're right there.
	So, to him, it's dismantled the deep state and the globalists, most of which happen to be Jewish.
	Hmm.
	Hmm.
	Class solidarity, however?
	Well, they claim that most of which happen to be Jewish.
	That's not actually... That's a claim, not a reality.
	I don't know.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But class solidarity, that's a great message.
	Until you remember that Russell Brand is among the world's 0.01% of wealthiest people.
	He's a multi-millionaire raking in more millions every single year, so who is he keeping class solidarity with?
	Oh, that's right!
	Other millionaires like Tucker Carlson or Jordan Peterson or Candace Owens.
	The same people that Russell advocates for on his show.
	The class that actually executes their choices.
	That actually does class solidarity.
	That has the most solidarity of any class on the planet.
	Yep, the fucking rich people.
	They always know to act in accordance with what you're supposed to do to stay rich.
	They're the ones that do it.
	So Tucker and Jordan Peterson and Candace Owens, these are the people that Russell advocates for on his show, who present themselves as Christians and in various forms hate people of colour, women and the LGBTQ plus community, often weaponising the Bible to spread their hate.
	But no, we should forget about race, culture and religion, according to Russell.
	Instead, we should be decentralised but unified, whatever the fuck that oxymoron is supposed to mean these days.
	Ugh, yeah.
	And decrease the surplus population? Like, really? Like, what the fuck are we doing? This is insane.
	Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, pretty much. Pretty much.
	I appreciate you have been exasperated for the entire second half of this show.
	I was hanging in there for a while, a couple episodes I was okay, but hammered back.
	Yeah, it is not unjustified, because this is some bullshit.
	Jesus Christ, dude.
	And like, even at the end there where he's saying things I on the surface agree with, the second I take even the briefest moment to think about it, I'm like, oh no, no, no, no, no, no to all of what you've just said because of who you are as a human being and what you do.
	Well, there's no meat on the bone here.
	Like, you're not It's like, yes to all of it, but no to you being the one who says it.
	You know, because you, you, no, you can't.
	It cannot have the same meaning from you.
	Well, and I think that we've established, because we talked about it earlier in the episode, was like, your intentions do matter.
	And if we can use context clues of like, you still exist.
	I don't care how gilded your cage is.
	You still exist in the world and at least you have to read the news whenever you're trying to say it into a camera.
	So you should know better.
	You're a fucking- Russell, you're a fucking adult.
	There is no excuse, and there's no, like, plausible deniability, and I'm not gonna buy that shit.
	It's just not true.
	I've also been- I've known what he said in decades previous, and that person would even be miffed at what is happening here.
	Maybe if he took a look at the bank account, then past Russell wouldn't be so upset and saw that he still wasn't in prison for sexual assault and be like, well, maybe we should stick with the program, but he certainly wouldn't be proud of it saying it publicly in what, 2013 or whatever.
	Yeah, there probably would be at least a modicum more shame, I would imagine.
	I would hope, anyway.
	But yeah, intention does matter.
	Well, up until the point where you're causing harm, and then it kind of doesn't.
	But, like, as in whether you intended to cause harm doesn't matter, just stop fucking causing harm.
	Yep!
	Yep!
	But yeah, I'm just, yeah, I'm not happy about any of this to be perfectly honest.
	I'm not thrilled with this whole thing.
	And I kind of went into this, you know, after trudging through Norman and dealing with Israel-Palestine and Russell just kind of walking the tightrope on that one because he's just so incredibly reluctant to take a side.
	Yeah, I kind of got into this thinking, ah, this will be a bit more lighthearted compared to that.
	It'll be, you know, a little bit, um, you know, we can deal with, oh, he's doing some stupid shit with Biden.
	He's doing, you know, some other stupid bollocks.
	Oh yeah, Trump's going to win the election.
	And then I got to this bit and I was like, aw, come on, man.
	Say what you will about like, and I mean, also like the as far as the career of Norman Fiegelstein, I think that he's been at this for a very long time.
	So.
	He says stuff that has evidence and like proof and references.
	Yeah, that is.
	Yeah.
	Well, that was that was one of the surprising things about it was like, I almost want to want to show this because it's kind of a demonstration of A sort of interview kind of being done in earnest, which doesn't really happen very often on Stay Free.
	In fact, I think it's probably the first time I've seen it, maybe.
	Well, no, you know what, that's unfair to Rainn Wilson.
	I think that was a fairly earnest interview, at least on Rainn Wilson's part.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, yeah, instead we have to deal with this incredible misrepresentation
	of COVID bullshit.
	And it's just, it's just.
	It's gonna keep happening.
	It's gonna keep fucking going.
	Because people like Russell and Dr. fucking Corey and Pfeiffer have money to make out of the situation, so it's gonna carry on.
	They got mectin to sell!
	Yeah, they do.
	Yeah, they have supplements as well.
	I wonder if they're selling supplements or just powders.
	I wonder if they're hip to the cheapest possible supplement scheme.
	We'll see, right?
	Good question, good question.
	Oh, I would love to see them.
	I know they're definitely selling Ivermectin and, you know, and Rogan selling his supplements as well.
	That's great.
	That's fun.
	Yeah, this is this is where we're at as a society, you know, like all of this taken as a whole and you got fucking Dan Bongino hitting three million subscribers and all this.
	Oh, Jesus Christ.
	I just.
	This is a lot.
	I mean, he's on the radio.
	He's on the radio.
	Like that's fucking no good, dude.
	I mean, no, no, no, no.
	And we will deal with him at some point.
	And also because he seems to be pretty massive and no one else seems to actually be covering him, really, which I'm a little bit concerned about.
	But yeah, he's no good.
	No, no, no.
	I've had a look at his Rumble page.
	It's not great.
	It doesn't take long at all.
	No, it doesn't take a lot to see.
	Man, I'm thrilled about it.
	All right.
	That's a that's a that's a show everybody.
	Happy holidays, I guess.
	Yeah, I guess.
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	I mean, I feel like I said my piece.
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