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Oct. 3, 2022 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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Stay Free with Russell Brand #004 - They Want A Reset. We Need A Revolution. What's It Gunna Be?
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Hey, all right.
Welcome to Stay Free with Russell Brand.
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It's just one of the planets.
There's other ones.
But if you're watching this in New York, it's about midday.
It's 9 a.m.
in Los Angeles, and it's 5 in the United Kingdom.
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Get involved in the chat.
Like Simply Nina Valentina Nova B says, whoa.
Just a simple exclamation there.
Just a simple exclamation of woe.
A sordid echo.
Oh, the WF is the same as the Fed.
I see you, WS84, commentating.
Patriot Sean says, we need a revolution.
But when?
We surrendered out of... Oh, the Count of Havoc.
Yeah, okay, okay, Patriot Sean.
Listen, the reason we're here, because we are uncensored and we can say whatever we want.
Guided only, in fact, by principles like kindness.
Love and awareness of continuing unity.
Thanks for joining us on this stream.
We've got a fantastic show.
Well, I think it's going to be fantastic.
It's difficult to tell because it's live.
So it could be insane.
The question that's governing the show, that's bracketing the show is they want a reset.
We need a revolution.
What's it going to be?
We've got Daniel Pinchbeck joining us in the studio.
He's written a bunch of books.
I would say that Daniel Pinchbeck is a kind of contemporary shaman, a latter day beatnik.
He's a sort of a A trend spotter, a commentator.
In many ways, I'd describe him the same way as I'd describe Gareth Roy, the producer of the show.
Oh, that's very nice of you.
You're wearing a temporary microphone because your microphone went down.
You're absolutely right.
You're just using the lapel mic.
Let me know if you can hear Gareth properly.
And Virgil Fitzgerald, you should check out Dr. Livergood.
He's a nutrition and lifestyle specialist that talks about how in the US we don't have a system that maintains health, but one that treats sickness and disease.
I think you're right about that, Virgil.
They're going quick on the comments, aren't they?
They're going quick.
They're like lightning.
Straight off the bat.
No, like, how you doing?
You know.
No, they go hard.
Straight in.
Lebanon TN says boring most days.
W Bateman.
Principles.
I love it.
Can you guys hear Gareth properly?
Let me know if you can hear Gareth properly.
We're going to change it in a minute when we get an opportunity to.
Anyway, we start the show by giving you an understanding of mainstream media news, in case you're not watching mainstream media now, in case you find it like an intoxicant because you don't trust it no more.
Fewer people are, Ross.
What?
Fewer people are.
Fewer and fewer people are watching the mainstream news because of a simple lack of trust.
That's it.
But do you ever watch it, just for a bit?
It seems mad if you put it on.
If a monarch dies or something, you think, I better watch the news, see what's going on.
The whole atmosphere of the news is a bit intense.
Like, our country, England, they talk to you like this on the news.
Hello!
Welcome to the news!
You feel like you're in trouble.
Like, they're in charge of you on the news, innit?
They still talk down to you a bit.
In America, it's, Hi!
Where are your friends?
But, you know, there's a sort of a strange presumption.
It's a man and woman.
It's a man and woman.
They're your next door neighbours.
They're better than you.
That's the general assumption of it.
Don't do that, guys.
Don't have a little chat in my peripheral vision there.
That's a...
It's distracting for me, if you don't mind.
Right, let me do the normal news now.
Move over there, if you don't mind.
Sorry about this, I'm just commenting on... Because what it is, is this show is all new at the moment.
They're not figments of your imagination, are they, those?
Well, as far as I can see, there's John Lennon.
He's stood just there and he's talking to Prabhupada, the founder of the Hare Krishna movement.
The two of them are there.
They're saying, we are preparing you, Russell, for this great day, for this great revolution.
You're doing extremely well.
We're pleased with you.
Over here joining us is young Putin.
So cool because of his similarity to Vladimir Putin, not in terms of his personality, in terms of Well, it's his political beliefs.
No, it's physical.
It's his physical appearance.
That is young Putin.
And Subi is here also.
They have jobs in our team.
Those jobs should come up now on the screen as a graphic.
Look at that!
We have a pink crow.
This is our second week of the show.
This is the first Monday we've ever done.
So it's like straight after a weekend.
So there's so much news.
And I'm going to tell you it now so you don't miss out.
But later on in the show, we're doing a fantastic item.
What does that item talk about, Gal?
It's about the pipeline, isn't it?
Nord Stream.
Nord Stream 1 and 2.
Which is your favourite?
I loved Nord Stream 1.
I see that as the original OG pipeline.
That's the best pipeline.
For me, you only need one pipeline.
That's Nord Stream 1.
I consider Nord Stream 2 to be a Johnny Come Lately pipeline.
It's a bad egg.
That's probably what that smell is.
We're asking Nord Stream 2.
Who done it?
It's a geopolitical who done it?
Was it a simple twist of fate?
Was it the Russians or was it the Americans?
Let us know in the chat.
Daniel Pinchbeck's coming on the show.
I told you that later.
I'm gonna be asking him.
Who done it?
That's what I'm gonna be asking him.
Do you have a hunch yet?
Do I have a hunch who done it?
Who done it?
Yeah, I've got a hunch.
What, you want to know my hunch?
Not yet.
Save it, I reckon.
Because I do an item later in the show, Gal, called Here's the News.
No, Here's the Effing News.
Oh, OK.
And I will relay my hunches there.
But they're not just hunches, Gal.
They're based on research.
Meta-journalism.
I've put together... You don't know about this, so I don't like to worry you with it.
We put together, like, clips of Condoleezza Rice in 2014.
She's saying some stuff that's very interesting.
I've got Joe Biden, who I believe is King of America.
You can tell me in the chat if that's correct.
Him saying some stuff way back in February.
Where did you pull the clips from, Ross?
Alright, the truth is, Gareth does a lot of the hard work on this show, alright?
Because he produces the show.
I just turn up here in a heavily badged denim garment and a sparkly necklace and essentially convey it to you, intuitively and as best I can.
But, I would say it's a pretty high standard.
The news now!
Where is the news?
Is that on page one?
I don't have that news.
There's no news here!
I've lost the news!
Where is the news?
You've not given me the news page, you've got to give me the basic details.
Great, Gareth, you read it out.
I'll press the gong, you read it out.
Russian officials criticise retreat from key Donetsk city after Putin annexed region.
The thing was with that annexing, back on me, the thing is with that annexing is that they hadn't actually done it.
It's like me now saying, right, I've annexed Disney World, I've annexed Chessington World of Adventures, Legoland, that's mine, and then people just went, they're ours still, we've still got those, we've got military presence, we've got all the infrastructure, you've not done your work.
Yeah, it was embarrassing for Putin that, because he announced it and they did that handshake, which we all liked the other day.
I loved that handshake, the Never Never Break Up Five Way Backstreet Boys handshake.
Yeah, they did that the other day, all happy and that, and now they've had to admit, oh now we've had to retreat.
They've annexed nothing.
Good job he doesn't have his hand on the button or anything.
He uses those hands willy-nilly.
What if he uses those hands, uh, young Putin?
Here you are.
Thank you, mate, for the news.
Although I quite liked watching you read it.
So I'll do another gong and you do the next story.
Pope slams Putin's nuclear threats as absurd.
Because a nuclear threat, I suppose, is an absurd thing to do.
It's absurd.
I don't know if I'd use that word.
Maybe it translates differently in Italian or something.
It's a bit glib, you would say.
Maybe.
I should blob the planet.
Oh, how absurd!
Don't be ridiculous, Gerald!
You're not blowing up anything!
You're going to sit down next to me and treat me like a fucking wife!
That's what it's like, isn't it?
Absurd's the wrong word.
It's devastating and catastrophic.
Although, if you are the Pope and therefore the leader of the Vatican and the Catholic Church, some things have gone on within that little organisation.
Some absurd things.
That was a bit absurd.
What exactly are you doing in that vestibule?
That's absurd!
Ah, it's a bit of fun.
Passes the time, mind your own business.
Just the wafers in the mouth, for Christ's sake!
Trust drops tax cut for top UK earners to fend off rebellion.
In our country, we've done some economic stuff that is... I don't know, Gal.
I mean, I don't... Listen, I've never claimed to be an economist, but it seems like some peculiar choices have been made, haven't they?
Yeah, they have.
Yeah, I mean, the pound's dropping ever so fast, isn't it?
Do you care when the pound drops?
I don't... I'll be honest, I don't know much, but I don't think it does well for us.
I don't think it's good.
I've always been a loyal supporter of the pound.
I love that little guy, the pound.
And I don't like to see... Pound.
I'm right behind you.
Do you know what I mean?
No, I back the pound.
We want a strong pound, don't we?
You want that pound robust, muscular, almost complacent, arrogant.
You want an insouciant pound.
You don't want an insouciant pound, because that's a French word.
And then it might as well be a franc or un euro.
No.
We never went for that euro, did we?
No, we didn't have any of that.
Get lost, we're not doing an euro.
Anyway, Liz Truss has become so, I don't know, she reeks so much of disappointment and failure that even, like, we've got a down in, our, the synoptic of British power is ten, yeah.
That's right.
I used the word synoptic in a sentence.
So get with it, motherfuckers.
So the synoptic of British power is number 10 down the street.
Here is number 10 down the street.
He's got his own type of cat.
And like, you know, even prime ministers come and go, but the cat, the cat stays.
Like remember when you have a president and that president's got a dog and they go, Oh, it sucks.
The cat was the first to point out that the invasion of Iraq was illegal.
But they bring it into the news.
Don't they?
Sometimes.
Sucks.
The cat was one of them.
Right.
And I think the Barack Obama's had a dog.
And I think, what did Trump have?
He had something, didn't he?
I don't know what Trump had.
I don't know.
He had a lady wife, didn't he?
He had one of those.
So we got a cat.
And look at the cat, like Liz Truss, God love her.
She tries to play this VT.
Have a look at Liz Truss getting ignored by a cack.
She's doing that photo op.
She already looks a bit embarrassed.
She's doing the handshake.
Oh, look at him.
Do the cat now.
Might be friends with it.
Okay, go on.
This is... Fuck off!
The cat made, like, a sort of a hard choice straight away, like, not having anything to do with it.
Yeah.
She made a mistake in going down for the stroke, though, I think.
It was doing okay, and then... It's because it was an intention stroke.
Cats are very intuitive creatures.
They know if you're not stroking them with a good heart.
That's true.
It's interesting, Jordan Peterson, who many of you will admire, I think does a whole chapter in one of his books of why you should always stop in the street to stroke a cat.
I don't remember reading that bit of Dr. Peterson's work, but I imagine that it's partly because you should remain sort of intuitive and connected and all that kind of stuff, but... I hope it's for that reason.
Yeah, I'd like to somehow bias the cat, influence the cat, or trick the cat.
But, like, if it's on Downing Street, be careful, because that cat, it may not be on board with your, um, what looks to me like a PR stunt.
Tinder date turns into free grand armed robbery carried out by a criminal couple.
That's a nightmare bit of news, isn't it?
Where you've gone on a Tinder date, possibly with a palpitating heart and hopes of romance, and then you're robbed.
Yeah.
I mean, I read the story.
It's actually quite troubling.
Oh.
What is it like?
I think in the days of the war between Britain and Ireland, this was known as a honey trap.
And I feel like British Secret Services, we've got Annie Macken, former MI5 agent, coming on the show next week.
She's going to be telling us about the skullduggery that goes on within Secret Services.
They used to do these things called honey traps.
And a honey trap was, they would put an attractive person forward, I think usually a female, and that female would lure people in, and then there would be terrible consequences.
So this was like a honey trap.
Yep.
Is that like that?
Simple as that.
Bruce Willis denies selling face.
That's weird news.
Prince William becomes his dad's own landlord and will get 700 grand a year from his king's beloved Highgrove home.
That's weird that the prince has become the king's landlord.
That's like when you've got an uncle what's younger than you in a family.
You know, like when your dad has another baby and now there's an uncle.
Who's this?
It's my little baby uncle.
He's going to take me fishing, isn't he?
He's nothing but a baby.
Well now the king himself has got his own son as a landlord.
It's a topsy-turvy family.
Yeah, it's mainly because that's Charles' favourite abode apparently.
He likes that one, does he?
He likes that one.
Apparently he's going to live in modest living quarters at Buckingham Palace, which I think is a great sentence.
Oh my God, look at your house!
It's enormous!
Yeah, but I only live in these modest living quarters.
What?
In a palace?
Funded by the taxpayer?
Stolen from around the world?
Look, you're ruining this!
Look, just this humble little suite here.
Your bed's made of gold!
No, please, my slippers.
Where did you get them?
We stole them from the Ottoman Empire.
And your hat, what's that made of?
Solid gold.
And that jewel in the middle, stolen from India.
Yeah, modest is not a word that you can apply to the quarters in Buckingham Palace, can you, for God's sake?
Also, can you wear socks and sandals?
I've got some news as well.
And that's sort of fashion week news.
It's interesting, isn't it?
Because on one hand, the planet is in undeniable decline.
Fissures and fractures form everywhere we look.
We don't know where to turn for a new change.
The sense of impending crisis.
Almost history speeding up and eating itself.
An all-devouring illusion.
A Uroboros self-eating serpent.
Seems to be the order of our day, but also it's fashion week and Kanye's wearing those... I don't know, man.
I'm not sure about like... I think we've moved forward with the sock sandal debate.
People wear Crocs and socks.
That's no problem.
Crocs and socks is in and also socks and sliders are back in.
No problem.
I've been doing that for a while.
I've done it because footballers in the UK started doing it.
EPL players.
They did it and I thought, yeah, I can do that.
Yeah.
I've done a few months with Puff Daddy.
What?
Yep.
And Puff Daddy would often wear Crocs and socks on the set.
So that's what you would see.
And I would sing to myself, Puffy wears Crocs and socks.
Puffy don't know what a good thing he's got.
I never sang it to Puffy, because I always sensed he would be annoyed by it.
You had a bit of a bromance with old Puffy for a while.
Puffy took me Vegas.
Yep.
Puffy took me Vegas to see Manny Pacquiao fight Ricky Atton.
Pacquiao won, violently and early on.
Puffy stood up on the seats.
Jay-Z was in the row in front.
You're the luckiest man in the world.
Where's that Jay-Z?
I said, and he said, because you're hanging out with this guy, something like that.
And I stood there for a while, and then I just sensed I didn't fit in, really.
Yeah, you don't do well in those kind of situations.
It's not my natural environment.
It's not my natural environment.
What I felt, I'm one of those people that I'm confronted with terrible epiphanies.
That's one of the problems of being me.
Like, once when I was a lad, I was took to some sort of sex club, and I felt, this is sad and wrong and not right.
Instead of, like, you know, that was at the age when I was watching pornography as part of my daily bread, you might call it.
But when I was confronted with live sex, I thought, this is somehow not right.
And actually, I can see that that's a valuable and valid ethical position.
And one that I found, intuitively.
Now, when I was at the Ricky Hatton-Manny Pacquiao fight, I didn't like to see Ricky Hatton beat up like that.
I felt this shouldn't happen, should it?
Poor Ricky Hatton.
He's going to be on the jam sandwiches for months after this, isn't he?
Because he likes to have a bite to eat, Ricky Hatton.
Yeah.
Particularly when he's down in the dumps.
So yeah, no, I don't fit in in those environments.
Don't matter how many hip-hop legends you surround me in.
There you are.
Oh, yeah, I am.
There's me with Puffy, just to prove that those things did happen.
Me and Puffy in our hats on a private jet.
So you can't say I've never known the good life, because I did know the good life.
There I was, on a private... You would put, like, little sticks in your mouth at this point.
That was the sticks-in-the-mouth age!
That's what the kids was doing back then.
We had sticks in the mouth.
Puff Daddy told me to wear a long purple scarf.
I goes, like, I haven't got a purple scarf, but I've got a golden cowboy hat.
He went, that'll do.
So we negotiated, me and Puffy, and yes, I did chew little tea tree sticks.
That's it.
Kept me going.
Let's have a look what else went on in Fashion Week.
There was a lot of... Elon is watching.
Is Elon watching right now?
Hello, Elon Musk.
Good to see you, mate.
Elon's coming on the show just the minute he's dealt with... I believe he's got one or two legal matters to contend with.
Let's have a look at the stuff that's been going on in Fashion Week.
I think this is Kanye West's fashion show, isn't it?
As I understand.
People sloshing about in mud.
That's it.
Check it out.
That's not like how you're meant to do a fashion week.
She looks terribly peeved.
She does.
That's why we've simply added, with a little bit of production, a piece of British sitcom music called Old Ned, the famous theme tune to Steptoe and Son.
let me know in the chat if this means anything to you or if we're antiquated referees of a bygone time.
Yeah that's good.
That actually was worth doing.
I'm pretty pleased about that.
She's hunched.
I think that's the main thing, isn't it?
It's the hunch and the gunge, man!
You can't hunch and gunge and call it fashion.
Can ya?
Can ya?
Course you bloody well can't.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
Now, that's sort of a bit of insight into what the rest of the world is calling the news, but of course what we are talking about is the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that has been sabotaged, NATO said.
Who would sabotage it?
Remember, we want to know what you think in the chat.
Do you think America are more likely to sabotage it, to escalate the condition and trigger a stronger NATO response?
Do you think Russia would do it because Putin, he's a badass, he's the kind of dude that would bite off his own finger in a fight?
I'll do it!
I'll do it!
Or do you think it's simply an accident?
And the fact that we've got such a lack of trust in the...
Most powerful players in a geopolitical conflict suggest that we need new systems.
That we're at a time of crisis.
That we need to imagine new dreams together.
That we can't allow ourselves to be confined to binary code.
Not no more.
We can't be choosing between two corrupt parties.
We can't be choosing between different materialist individualistic identity systems.
We have to find new ways to evolve.
Let me know in the chats.
This is all for you.
All this stuff I'm saying.
Now it's time for our item.
Here's the news.
No, here's the effing news.
No.
Here's the fucking news!
The Nord Stream pipeline is broken.
But who done it?
And who benefits?
Was it the goodies?
Or was it the baddies?
And who are the goodies and baddies now?
So, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has been sabotaged.
NATO suspects it could have been sabotaged.
In any event, it's broken.
Does anyone in particular benefit?
Well, it's possible that you could say that the Russians benefit from this situation because it exacerbates the economic conditions in Europe that are causing immense suffering and soaring energy prices.
But there are also reasons to suggest that there could be American involvement.
We are certainly not alleging anything on that scale here on this channel.
But it is convenient in some ways for both sides that that pipeline is broken.
Let's look at the case for Russia doing it.
Let's look at the case for America doing it.
And then you, using your own intelligence and your God-given mind and your own eyes, decide for yourself what is the most likely course of events that led to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline breaking.
I'm not even over Nord Stream 1 breaking!
That's my favourite Nord Stream, baby!
Let me know what you think in the chat, in the comments, and we'll solve this riddle together, so as we will.
Hmm.
First of all, the first piece of evidence I'd like to present you with is Joe Biden in a rare, cogent public appearance last February saying this.
Let me answer the first question first.
Yeah, answer the first question first, Joe.
Don't just wander off the stage.
Answer the first question first, and then make sure, secondly, that you remember which country it is you're talking about.
Say for Germany, if Russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the Right, now what you're doing there is you're over-explaining.
I think we all know what a war is.
We know what the word invade means.
Invade?
What do you mean by invade?
It's because he's forgotten the names of the countries Germany and Russia.
he's over explaining invade. Then there will be no longer a Norse team 2. We will bring it into it.
Oh okay you'll bring an end to it.
But how will you do that?
Yeah, how?
You can't just bring ends to pipelines.
I mean, what would you do?
There's a pipeline.
How do you bring an end to a pipeline?
You'd have to do something to the pipeline.
What would you do, Jo?
Since the project and control of the project is within Germany's control.
We will, I promise you, we'll be able to do it.
The beginnings of a wry and villainous smile formulating on Biden's face there.
Now before you start asking yourself what occupies agencies like the CIA and FBI and all of the secret agencies around the world, Navy SEALs that do great brave military work and undercover deep state stuff.
Before we get into the potential that they could be involved, and this is not something that I'm alleging, I'm just engaging in the possibility of it, let's look at the case for Russia as well.
Because we're not saying that Vladimir Putin's like some Mary Poppins adorable lovely geezer.
He's clearly a bit leery.
Let's look at the Russian case for sabotage.
Putin's illegal war on Ukraine.
That's an illegal war.
Is there such a thing as a legal war?
Oh, like this war.
This is in the bounds.
Like the Iraq war.
Nice and legal.
Oh, sorry.
Bad example.
The illegal war in Ukraine resulted in unprecedented Western sanctions against Moscow, but the Russian president is confident these people can endure economic pain longer and better than Europeans.
His calculation is that soaring gas prices and the cost of living crisis in a continent hopelessly addicted to Russian energy will turn the situation to his advantage.
European gas prices have been dropping for the last four days.
On Tuesday, after news of the suspected attack, they rose by 20%.
The British price was up 33%.
That establishes a motive.
They could do it for that reason.
And Vladimir Putin is a sort of mad barroom brawler, the type of lunatic that would bite off his own finger in a fight to show you how You think I'm not crazy enough?
Oh shit, alright!
No!
You win!
You win!
Just don't buy off any more of your digits!
The Nord Stream 2 pipeline was filled with 117 million cubic meters of natural gas worth 230 million euros at current prices, but Putin is shown he's willing to sacrifice valuable gas and use it as a weapon.
Russia was burning 8.4 million pounds worth of gas a day at a plant near its border with Finland, rather than export it to Europe in August.
I'd rather burn my gas than give it to you.
I like the smell of my own gas.
Good stuff.
I'll do it!
I'll fucking do it!
Okay, so that's the case for Russian involvement.
We've already seen Joe Biden saying, oh, well, we can do it.
We'll blow up that pipeline.
I got ways.
I know people in energy companies in Ukraine already.
I mean, I don't know anybody.
Which way is after stage?
Which way?
Hunter!
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February the 24th, Washington was able to get Berlin to suspend the pipeline project that was about to go online, even though it wasn't in Germany's interests.
The pipeline has remained closed ever since.
Why then did someone attack the pipeline on Monday, releasing the gas it contained into the Baltic Sea?
As long as the war continues, the US has what it wants regarding the pipeline.
Interesting.
It has what it wants.
Later, we'll look at if there are any historic statements on this matter that could further point to US involvement.
Also, I can't help but think that if this is Russian gas, couldn't they sort of turn it off at the source?
I mean, I don't know much about sort of fracking and mining for gas and stuff, but if it's in Russia and it's being piped out under the Baltic Sea, couldn't they just go switch the old gas off?
I mean, I know it's not a cooker, but you know.
But ending the war and lifting sanctions would lead to the reopening of Nord Stream 2.
Three weeks ago, President Vladimir Putin told a press conference that Russia was ready to resume supplying natural gas to Germany if Germany lifted its economic sanctions against Russia.
Putin said, if they need gas urgently, if things are so bad, just go ahead and lift the sanctions against Nord Stream 2 with its 55 billion cubic meters per year.
All they have to do is press the button and they will get it going.
Gazprom and Russia have Now, before you allege anything as heavy as US sabotage of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, you'd need to know that there was a sort of historic understanding of that event.
You'd need to know NATO would act more aggressively in order to enforce imposed sanctions and unify military action against Russia.
You'd need to know that historically someone in a position of power had suggested that having North American gas and oil as the primary supplier of European energy was a desirable outcome.
You'd have to know that pipelines between Ukraine, Russia and Germany had been under consideration in American foreign policy for some time.
Here's Condoleezza Rice in 2014 saying some pretty interesting stuff about pipelines.
But now we need to have tougher sanctions, and I'm afraid at some point this is going to probably have to involve oil and gas.
Oh, this is interesting.
Tougher sanctions that involve oil and gas.
Keep talking, Condoleezza.
The Russian economy is vulnerable.
80% of Russian exports are in oil, gas and minerals.
So they're aware of Russian vulnerability back in 2014.
Wonder what was going on in Ukraine in 2014, if there were any elections around that time with NATO involvement.
People say, well, the Europeans will run out of energy.
Well, the Russians will run out of cash before the Europeans run out of energy.
Yeah, but we're like, we're Europeans.
My phone's not working.
Sack of blood.
I'm out of croissants.
Europeans are not as hard as Russians.
And I understand that it's uncomfortable to have an effect on business ties in this way.
But this is one of the few instruments that we have.
Over the long run, you simply want to change the structure of energy dependence.
Change the structure of energy dependence?
Keep talking, Condoleezza.
You want to depend more on the North American energy platform, the tremendous bounty of oil and gas that we're finding in North America.
You want to have pipelines that don't go through Ukraine and Russia.
But there is a pipeline going through.
I mean, what would you do about that?
For years, we've tried to get the Europeans Just good old-fashioned acting.
Acting as quickly as possible.
It's time to do that.
And so some of this is simply acting, and acting as quickly as possible.
Just good old-fashioned acting.
Acting as quickly as possible.
So you've just got Joe Biden saying, believe me, we've got ways of stopping that pipeline.
And Condoleezza Rice, ten years ago almost, saying that we want Europe dependent on North American
energy.
We can't have pipelines.
And all of a sudden, there's a little bit of a pipeline issue.
Let's look into it a bit further.
If momentum grows for a peace deal of any kind, it would ruin Washington's long-term plans to weaken Russia.
There's no evidence to suggest that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was badgering Zelensky in Ukraine to delay peace terms.
Oh, no, there's some evidence that he did, that actually, Russia and Ukraine were on the brink of a treaty, then Boris Johnson did go over there.
They've named a cake after him now, though.
It's called the Boris Johnsonuk, and here, it's their best seller.
If it was Russia that sabotaged this pipeline, and not the US, how would NATO respond?
NATO has warned it will retaliate against any attacks on the critical infrastructure of its 30 member states, as it suggested the Nord Stream pipe explosions could be an act of sabotage.
The Alliance said, all current available information... Who's in charge of what information's available, guys?
...indicates that the damage was the result of deliberate, reckless and irresponsible acts of sabotage.
Any deliberate attack against Allies' critical infrastructure would be met with a united and determined response.
Get ready, baby!
I'm united!
I'm determined!
A peace deal would also mean Nord Stream 2 would reopen, which would help Germany and Russia, but crush US aims at regime change and making Europe dependent on US energy.
Oh!
Oh!
You think just because America would benefit financially because Europe will be dependent on North American oil, And just because NATO would amp up their military attacks on the Russian region, and because it would prolong this war and create more profits for the military and national complex, and just because Joe Biden is on camera saying, oh we'll do it, we'll do it, and Condoleezza Rice eight years ago was saying,
We'll have to do it, we'll have to do it.
You thought because of all that, that the US could possibly have been involved in sabotaging the pipeline?
We sabotaged that pipeline as a surprise for your birthday!
And you've ruined it!
All that gas bubbling up, it'll put a smile on your face!
Who doesn't like a bubble bath?
Even better, a bubbly Baltic Sea!
Well, you've spoiled it!
You're just like your father!
So there you are.
No one can say for sure whether it's Russian sabotage or US sabotage or simply a convenient accident.
You can simply ask yourself, who benefits most from this situation?
Whose aims are most likely to be met?
Is it NATO's?
Is it US aims?
Does this somehow benefit Russia?
I genuinely don't know.
I'm not an expert in geopolitics and complex matters of energy distribution or long-term American foreign diplomatic These are not things that I'm an expert in, but I know you know a lot about it, so let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments what you think you're able to decide for yourself.
Or a further consideration is if you find censorship around these issues, that too should play into the information that you use when calculating for yourself what is the most likely outcome.
Me, personally, I think it's important to remain unbiased, open-minded, and to consider all possibilities.
But that's just what I think.
Join me in a minute.
I'll be answering your comments in the chat.
No.
Here's the fucking news!
Hello.
Gabi Rios 59.
The WEF installed Mr. Biden into office via election fraud to be their puppet, so who sabotaged the Nord Stream pipeline?
Interesting comment.
Neon Gramarian.
I think China did it.
They're the ones who would benefit if the US and Russia destroyed each other.
All sorts of wonderful opinions here.
Patriot Sean.
Russia would have sabotaged the Baltic pipeline into Poland that conveniently opened two days after the Nord Stream was disabled.
Did you know about that, Gail?
Yeah, that did happen.
You really follow the news, don't you?
Of course I do.
You're across all of it.
Soobs, what other comments did we get?
We've got, wouldn't you like to know has tipped you $20 and said, no rant, just a thank you for being a perver of the truth.
A purveyor of the truth, she said.
Not pervert!
Like, but a truth pervert is surely a good thing.
I think so.
Oh, I love it!
Oh, I love the truth!
Look at it!
Look at that truth!
Go on, my son!
Um, like that's, yeah, that's the way.
And by the way, any of those donations you give us, we give to the Stay Free Foundation, which goes to junkies and nutters.
That's people who can't even cope with life without a little bit of the old drugs down their necks.
We make donations to places like Friendly House, a brilliant treatment centre for women in Los Angeles, or BAC O'Connor, that's a place in the UK.
We try our best to help people.
Um, just so we know for a fact that these comments aren't, um, that are legit and that we support free speech.
This person with the username Russell Brand is a, I mean, is a c-word.
I won't say c-word because that's, some people find that word offensive.
That's worse than truth pervert, isn't it?
Yeah, uh, uh, uh...
You can call me a truth pervert all you want, but please don't call me a C-word, and please don't call me controlled right-wing opposition.
He helps Putin to solidify his propaganda as he was approached by RT News ten years ago to give him his own slot.
Russell Brand as a traitor, and then it sort of cuts off, but some of you beautifully sticking up for me in that chat, and don't think I don't appreciate that, you beautiful, lovely people.
But what we'll say is, the controlled opposition argument, I always think, how does that work?
At what point is it that you go, Right, now a bit more control, bit more control.
Because I can see it's controlled opposition when you see people on mainstream news go like, supporting narratives that necessarily... We support the war, but we also are funded by those organisations or big... Yeah, because actually the truth is I've not been offered a show on Russia Today ten years ago.
Well, also that's just only an offer, isn't it?
It's just an offer!
And you didn't even take it.
That wouldn't be... You've got to think your theories through.
You've got to present a whole thesis and say, this is how the idea works.
Russell Brand is controlled opposition.
He was offered some money by Russia Today ten years ago.
Then what he's doing is he's carefully cultivating an audience that... Like, also, Putin?
That guy's got, like, nuclear weapons.
Isn't it?
And I don't think that part of the strategy would be also get that geyser out of Sarah Marshall to be somewhat unbiased when reporting on it.
I don't think Putin's a good guy by the way.
I think he's like imperialist.
I don't think anyone gets to those positions of power.
I think the Ukrainian war is a terrible travesty and all the human suffering being caused by that.
Nightmare.
The only reason we don't emphasise that more is because it's reported on quite a lot in the normal news, isn't it?
Otherwise, we would spend time saying it's causing a refugee crisis.
Pointless sense of the suffering at a time when people should be coming together.
Also, though, another comment is a person promoting their book, but so vehemently promoting their book that I feel that we should... Yeah, Bitey Dog.
What are they saying, Supes?
See if you can get through this sentence without declaring me a truth pervert or a humility pedo or something.
Well they say they love your work.
What about Hillary giving Putin a big reset button?
Was that a foreshadowing that never came to fruition?
And then they plug their book at the bottom.
My Novel.
Stay tuned by Liam Baker on Amazon.
That's off Amazon.
If you want a novel by Liam Baker, get that one.
It'd give us $33 that goes to junkies and nutters, so you can do that.
And you can say what you want in the old chat if you like, but try to cultivate a more sophisticated argument is what I would say.
What else is going on?
Haha, Russell isn't right-wing, says It's Me Again.
Yeah, I'm not right-wing.
I don't agree with the economic policies more broadly of right-wing people.
I'm sort of anti-corporate and centralised financial power.
Nina Valentin-RB, I'm being offered to... What's this?
Nina Valentin-RB, question.
I'm being offered to learn how to shoot a gun.
Oh!
Should I do it, or do you think through the Fractal Universe it encourages guns, or do you think it's wise to know how to protect myself?
Well, I have been down gun ranges, and I've also shot clays, and I will say, it's tremendous fun.
But don't shoot a person, or an animal, is what I'd say, although some people you probably like shooting animals, let's just say, not people.
Don't shoot people.
Right, Gav?
I was with you at a prison once, and you were given a machine gun, and I've never seen you look so crazed in all my days.
And I sometimes do look crazed, all it normally takes is for a photograph to be taken.
We were in a prison in Louisiana making a documentary.
And that is, curiously enough, is where I learned the phrase, stay free.
Because the inmates in there would say, they'd go, hey, tell Puffy, stay free.
Because I was doing that film with Puffy.
So I was like, we'll tell Puffy, stay free.
Puffy, you stay free, won't you?
And by which I mean, feel free to wear your Crocs and socks and whatever you want to wear.
And I liked that phrase, stay free.
And that's why this show is called Stage 3, all this time later.
Now, there's another bit where they were letting me play with guns.
Now, I know that guns cause a lot of suffering, but I know there'll be a lot of people who see that as the totem of their constitutional freedom in your country.
You know, you do whatever you want in your life.
I'll tell you, when I was having on that machine gun, well, there was one bit where I said, can I just shoot it that way?
And the person said, well, actually, that's where the crew are standing.
Yes, we were there, yeah.
We were to the exact direction that you wanted to shoot.
I said, I'll shoot it above the head.
A lot of people are quite hurt by that, Rob.
One of the golden rules of shooting is do not fire a machine gun at the crew.
Some of you in the chat, I'm sure, will pick up on some available jokes there that I will not do for sensitivity reasons.
But see if you can spot the joke that I'm not doing right there.
Hey, Gal, do you want to comment a little bit more on the Nord Stream pipeline thing before we throw to Daniel Pinchbeck?
You wanted to make a point, I think, from Caitlin Johnston, the brilliant writer who you should follow on Substack, guys.
She's wonderful.
So she's written a piece and I thought there's a few bits from it that I thought would be interesting to read.
So promoting this claim, the claim of, you know, Russia or America that we were talking about here, you're necessarily either Russian or far-right conspiracy theorists.
Like, for example, Poland's former foreign minister and current sitting member of European Parliament, Radek Sikorski, who openly thanked the United States for exploding the pipelines.
Now this is something that happened last week.
There's a lot of people talking about it on Twitter.
As soon as this happened, Uh, he put a tweet up saying, thanks USA.
Oh, did he?
Yeah.
Thanks for doing that pipeline, mate.
Yeah, and then they pulled it down a few days later.
Get that tweet down!
Don't thank us for that on Twitter!
Thank us for that private chat!
That's a DM!
Oh, sorry, sorry!
DM that!
Yeah, it was pretty amazing.
So, she goes on.
This is a big old sentence, but it's probably worth... God, it is a big sentence.
It's a big one.
Is that a sentence?
It's a full sentence, yeah.
I couldn't find any full stops here, so... She writes like I talk.
The news is that this conspiracy theory's baseless may also come as a surprise to those who've noted that both President Biden and his Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland explicitly say that Nord Stream 2 would be brought to an end if Russia invades Ukraine.
Also that DC Insiders are on record saying they want Europeans to be more dependent on North American energy than on pipelines from Russia.
The Germans have just been angrily demanding an end to US-led sanctions on Russia and the reopening of Nord Stream Gas.
That US naval forces were recently conducting unmanned underwater vehicle drills right where... Oh!
Oh, just because we're doing unmanned underwater drills, you think that was an opportunity for us to sabotage that?
We were doing them unmanned underwater drills to organise a surprise...
Under the sea, Little Mermaid themed birthday party for you and you've just spoiled it!
Get rid of this aerial costume!
Right where the pipelines were attacked.
That unmanned underwater vehicles have been found carrying explosive charges near Russian pipelines in the past.
That Poland literally just inaugurated a gas pipeline that will transport gas from Norway through Denmark and the Baltic Sea.
That US military helicopters were recorded travelling between the two blast points and along the Nord Stream 2 pipeline shortly before the explosions.
Not a lot to go on, Inspector.
That the US Empire had an explicitly stated policy of ensuring that no powers develop that could challenge its global hegemony, including in Europe, and that the CIA had a known history of blowing up Russian gas pipelines.
But other than that... What have they got?
But other than that, they've got a known history of doing it as well, just because we've done it before and we could have done it again and the Polish PM said thank you for doing it.
I suppose, look, I wouldn't like to be so glib as to say, oh no, it looks like America sabotaged that pipeline, but I would like a good response to every single one of those points, wouldn't you?
Yes.
Because, also, what do you think they get up to in the CIA and Navy SEALs?
I mean, what do you think they're doing all day?
They're doing, sort of, they're up to these kind of tricks, aren't they?
I've just read all this, and we can't go into that as well.
We'll do that in tomorrow's show, shall we?
Do that in tomorrow's show.
In fact, what a show it's going to be tomorrow, we're actually doing, uh, oh yeah, what is a fascist?
It's like, what determines what a fascist is or not?
Because, I tell you, it's a lovely video, because Hillary called some, Hillary Clinton, I mean, called some Trump supporters fascists.
Because of the one thing.
Yeah, but that's, at worst, only a quarter fascist.
I'm a little bit fascist.
Steady, start shit!
That's actually a Cub Scout.
That means on the journey to becoming a fascist, you have to be Jesus, that bit, that's our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and that's what the British Cubs do.
Yeah.
So every fascist... I was in the Cubs.
Uh-huh.
And I see you do your top button-up, sir.
I do.
Like Hitler himself.
To cover up the tattoos.
But it's this final finger, that's the one, that's this guy, if he starts joining the rest of the gang.
I'm actually, myself, against fascism.
Don't know about you, Gal.
Yeah, broadly speaking, I would say so, yeah.
Because of the horrors of history.
The old horrors of history have turned me right off of it.
So, like, yeah, Hillary's saying the fascists are doing that one-finger salute thing.
And also, though, she praised, in a regard, Georgia Maloney, the new Prime Minister, or potentially, or President, maybe, of Italy saying, every time a woman does that, a fairy gets its wings.
Basically along those lines.
Every time a woman rises to a position of prominence, it gives you wings.
So I don't know that it's a good thing, but the left have said that Georgia Maloney is a fascist, although she did give that rather encouraging speech about family values, although that could be sort of some dog whistle exclusionary stuff.
So we on this channel are interested in discussing the nuances of that debate.
Saying that family values is probably a beautiful thing.
Supporting family, wonderful.
But supporting new and emergent forms of tribal identity, also fantastic.
We've got to learn to love one another.
We've got to learn to tolerate one another.
Whether we have a traditional set of values or a progressive set of values.
Why would we turn on one another?
When evidently there are powers so significant on this earth that they can potentially sabotage entire pipelines just for somebody's birthday.
So let's have a look what Daniel Pinchbeck, who I teed up earlier, brilliant author, soothsayer, man of mystery, real-life Shaggy from Scooby-Doo, author, had to say when I asked him about the pipeline.
Let's have a look.
If you did have to choose with the Nord Stream Pipeline 2, America done it, Russia done it, it's a legit accident, and you had to have a finger cut off if you didn't give a definitive answer, which definitive answer are you going to lose the finger?
I would say Russia did it.
You'd go Russia did it?
Absolutely, yeah.
To, what, escalate the conflict?
Yeah, I mean, I mean, you know, I mean, I know I'm gonna maybe I sound like the New York Times, you know, in this in this case, in this circumstance, although I've been a lot of other areas, I have a different perspective.
But I mean, I think we're seeing a very corrupt kind of mafioso style leadership in Russia.
And, you know, Putin poisons his friends, like you, you know, your friend, you shake hands with Putin, you come away with like plutonium poisoning.
I mean, he operates with a very different psychology than we understand.
And, you know, he's willing to constantly threaten nuclear war, like, over and over again.
I mean, that's pretty, you know, that's pretty all-in.
You know, you're going to destroy the world entirely if you don't get what you want.
Well, that's standard practice in Western democracy as well.
Do you see that as rhetorically different?
No, we don't use the nuclear.
We're not threatening nuclear war.
Yeah, but Liz Trust, the newly sworn-in British Prime Minister, you won't be able to remember her.
No one can.
But, like she said when they made her Prime Minister, will you be willing to nuclear?
She goes, of course.
Of course.
Well, you have to say that.
Not enough of a threat.
Otherwise Russia or China will assume they can do whatever they want to do.
Is geopolitics conducted at that kind of level?
We can't go on like this.
I just saw her on the news.
She said she won't do it.
Go!
Obviously it is.
When we look at what's happening in Russia, it is conducted on exactly that level.
How do you mean, Dan?
Just what I said!
All the people who are running these, you know, large countries are like adolescents who are like, you know, psychopaths, narcissists.
You know, we're not going to survive as a species in this circumstance.
I mean, the best thing that we can hope for You know, is, you know, that there's some form of cracking apart of the, you know, the financial system.
And then we have to rebuild, you know, maybe we get lucky in some sense, and there's enough, you know, largesse left in the system so that we can create these autonomous decentralized people will be forced to do it.
Hey, so there you go, that's Daniel Pinchbeck's views, just looking at some of you folk in there.
Gobbledygoo says, account Russell Brand is a C-word, is controlled left-wing opposition.
Then it says, of course, paid for by George Soros.
Listen, do you know one thing?
I like exploring conspiracy theory.
I have my own tinfoil hat, for example.
But I feel, thank you, young Putin, would you bring that?
You're not going to throw that, you could damage it, bring it over.
But I think that when you're coming up with conspiracy theories, cheers, there it is, See, I bow to no one in my love of the conspiracy theory, but I feel like it's very important to be able to underwrite the examples that we use for corruption and centralised power.
See, obviously the item we've done, Here's the News, we've shown, oh my God, Condoleezza Rice said that, Joe Biden said that, or when we talk about Congressional power, we demonstrate the wealth and the people that have previously worked in Congress.
You don't need to get into speculative territory.
It's interesting sometimes to think about those conspiracy theories.
That's one thing I want to say.
The other thing is, I'm not down with the old anti-Semitic language, guys.
Because I don't like any form of racism.
And even though I completely respect your right to say whatever you want in this chat...
Don't say stuff that's anti-semitic, it hurts me a little bit, because I like to think of you as people that I can love and talk to, that we're on a path together.
And when I see you say stuff that's sort of, is this guy Jewish or whatever, or things that are slightly more succinct than an inquiry into their heritage, I feel wounded by it personally.
So continue to say it if you want to, I suppose, but know that it personally makes me feel hurt, because I feel Ultimately, we have to approach one another in good faith, with loving hearts.
I hope that's not too sentimental for you bloody psychopaths.
Now, let's see what else people are saying down here.
I don't think Russia did it.
DW Delano, Jesus is coming to get his church.
Good, that'd be nice.
Ooh, no, no.
Remnant.
Don't say... Could you not be anti-Semitic?
There's actually only one person.
Actually, no, so we can't judge all of you on that basis.
Obviously, I wouldn't judge all of you, because that would, curiously enough, be a form of the type of racism that I'm not into.
Hey, check out this.
There's some fantastic Elon Musk news.
Now, possibly Elon is watching this, and if Elon is watching this, Elon...
We love you.
Elon, we are preparing a place for you on this show.
We believe you to be an innovator, a great thinker, a brilliant man.
But let's have a look at the launch of Elon's new robot buddy, Optimus.
Optimus.
Named after Optimus Prime.
Must be, mustn't it?
Is he a goody or a baddy?
I think he was...
He was a goody, yeah.
Yeah, he's a goody, Optimus.
He's mates with the little lad.
That's it.
Shia LaBeouf.
That's it.
But that was Bumblebee, I thought.
Yeah.
Yes.
But in the Optimus Primes, he's boss.
They've got complex social hierarchies to their robots, haven't they?
They've got like a robot king, then there's robot underlings.
Wasn't he voiced by Orson Welles in the cartoon originally?
Maybe he was voiced by Orson Welles.
Transformers.
Yeah, I think it was Orson Welles.
That's a good bit of casting.
It really is.
It's surprising.
Okay, so let's have a look at the launch of Optimus and see how it makes you feel to see Optimus brought onto the stage and onto the scene.
A look at how Tesla aims to bring humanoid robots into the workplace.
They look like that.
And eventually they could end up in your home.
Elon Musk is debuting a prototype.
I don't want him tottering into my home like that, do you?
All sort of jittery and stuff.
Eventually they could end up in your home.
Well, it's on its way then, now.
Right, where the hell's the house?
Come on, let me in!
I'll kick your fucking door in, mate!
You have to play a part in that, as well.
It's not just gonna wander in.
You have to verbally agree and, like, buy it.
Probably, probably, about twenty, fifty grand.
I bet hundreds of thousands to get one now.
Eighteen grand, apparently, it's gonna be.
Eighteen grand?
Yeah.
I noticed in the long list of potential attributes, it goes, like, it could do, like, it could do a bit of graft, it'll do gardening.
Then, sooner or later, come on!
Can you have sex with it?
But I wouldn't want to have sex with that, because it looks like a stereo from the old days.
Yeah, you'd want to cover up them wires for a start, wouldn't you?
Some of my mates was boy racers, you know, like well into doing their cars, rims, all that.
On the wheels, you pervert, you truth perv.
Hey, truth pervert's a t-shirt, we should have that.
Um, like, uh, it's a good thing.
I'm a truth pervert, man, and I'm proud of it.
Um, like, and the stuff that they had in their car, like vans and that, my mate Mark Stone, God rest his soul.
Oh, yeah?
It used to look like that, all of those things.
Right.
Were you saying Elon Musk has stolen that from Mark Stone?
Elon, if you are watching, I'm on to ya.
That was, uh, that was my mate's subwoofers.
What you trying to launch my mate's subwoofers as a, as a robot for?
So, go on, Gal, play him on.
Let's see what else this robot can do.
And ABC's Deirdre Bolton has more.
Introducing Optimus.
Go full screen on me for this, because what I want to say is, like, why is it that he looks a bit like, oh, come on, Sean.
Oh, there we are.
He's a bit sort of, he's jittery, isn't he?
Yeah.
Oh, right.
It's like, I've created a robot Joe Biden.
Yeah, what's going on, right?
Oh, it's this way, sir.
Oh, where am I going?
Oh, God.
Oh, no.
It's too gingerly, isn't it?
Yeah, I want a strident, like, Terminator.
He's gonna shit all over that, innit?
Like, the way Terminator's, like, marched up to people, all turning into mercury out of a thermometer and that, when it wanted to.
This little jitterbug.
Oh, bloody hell, what's going on?
You want me to do the washing up?
Oh, me short circuits!
Oh, you got me by the short and curly shit, mate!
You know when, if you used to come home late, and you'd maybe been up for a drink, and you'd come home... You're drunk.
You wouldn't want to wake up your parents, and you'd just tiptoe around the house.
He walks like that.
That robot's coming home after a bend down, isn't he?
Oh, bloody hell, oh no!
Yeah, he is a bit like that.
I know he's doing that.
And again, if you are watching, Elon, come on the show, please.
We're only having a bit of fun.
We love your inventions.
We all want a Tesla, don't we?
Oh, absolutely.
Poor, bloody hell, do we all want a Tesla.
Respect Elon.
Respect him.
Go on, let's have a look at what just happened.
Elon Musk's long-anticipated humanoid robot.
Musk and the Tesla team unveiling the robot at Tesla's 2022 AI Day.
It's literally the first time the robot has operated without a tether.
The five-foot-eight prototype walking on stage and waving.
Oh, see you later, son.
You all right, boy?
He's like a British granddad from the 1970s.
You all right?
You got any money?
Whatever's fake, don't tell your mum.
That's what he's like, isn't he?
The audience.
And even busting a move.
They always make them dance.
Tesla's autopilot system, fully equipped with advanced human-like qualities.
It gets kind of easier to do it.
I've never seen a human do that before, anyway.
For example, if you need him to thrust his hips along.
It's like he's having sex with someone that he can't stand.
Ugh, go on!
To do everything that a human brain does.
Processing vision data, making split-second decisions... Now, I'll be along!
Oh, dear, what an accident!
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO says he hopes Optimus will fundamentally transform civilization.
One day, handling tasks thought to be boring, repetitive, or downright dangerous.
This is boring.
I'm not doing that.
That's so subjective.
Boring.
Yeah, some people are like, fishing!
Get your robot to go fishing!
I love fishing!
But young Putin, he loves a fish, doesn't he?
Yeah, you caught the world's biggest fish once, didn't you?
It's a bit of an exaggeration.
You put it back, well that's part of the, hey, put it back though.
So what I want to say about Elon Musk's great breakthrough, this is what will concern me I suppose, that these brilliant innovations often end up further disadvantaging people and groups that are already under pressure.
Now, I suppose that suggests that we need to alter our systems.
Oscar Wilde, who our man Daniel Pinchbeck quoted in a conversation you can see on Stay Free AF, said that Oscar Wilde, the Irish playwright and genius, wrote a famous essay, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, in which he envisaged a version of socialism that was not about centralised state power, but rather Systems of leisure, where people were free to spend their time having a laugh, and in Oscar Wilde's case, having it off, outside of his marriage.
And, like, while the robot's done all the graft.
Yeah.
And that's what could be happening.
You could send Elon's army of robots out to do all the work.
I'll stick up for Elon here, because I'm a big fan.
I like him more than you.
If you're watching, Elon.
I like him.
I'll text him.
Love to see Elon just mucking about.
Can't get my phone to work.
So Elon said, uh, the mass rollout of robots has the potential to transform civilization and create a future of abundance, a future of no poverty.
Oh, that'd be nice, wouldn't it?
Yeah, it would, wouldn't it?
I'd love an abundant, no poverty future.
With this guy.
Me and him.
Let's see.
Go on, just look at the last seven seconds.
But others who witnessed the demonstration saying this early prototype falls flat and didn't demonstrate anything new.
Aw, look at it just wandering off like it's feeling.
Sorry, I tried my best, baby.
Okay, well, uh, I feel like, uh, what are we gonna do?
Are we not gonna have to do... I mean, there's so many things that I can press here, like this.
Fake comments.
Which is where we do some additional news stories, because we've got a little bit of time.
Also, you know I...
You know I enjoy doing that.
And I think we've got a few stories I'd like to cover before we leave.
For example, who's the dude that talks about cop haters?
Is he a campaigning American politician called Kennedy?
John Kennedy.
They've got a lot of Kennedys, haven't they?
A lot of Kennedys, haven't they?
Bloody hell.
I mean, they do live tragic lives, these Kennedys, but there's always one to take up the slack.
Let's have a look at what this Kennedy had to say.
Look, if you hate cops just because they're cops, the next time you get in trouble, call a crackhead.
I'm John Kennedy.
Because you can't rely on a crackhead, is one of the things I've learned, because they will always prioritise crack.
No.
But surely there's a next level down from cop, isn't there?
Yeah, I've got some good friends who are policemen actually, or in the police.
You don't go straight from police to a crackhead.
You could try someone who's a Cub Scout, Civil Servant, Local Baker.
A local baker.
Try a local baker.
Not straight to a crackhead.
He's like, I've got no stake in society at all.
I'm bailing on society.
Because I know a lot of crackheads, as a matter of fact.
And a lot of them, they couldn't operate as a cohesive, hierarchical law enforcement unit.
So why would you have a number of a crackhead?
How would that happen?
I mean, we all know 911 or 999.
But what's the number for... A crackhead?
Well, I don't know.
You simply, all a crackhead is interested in is some more crack.
Right.
They'll basically do anything to get their hands on a bit more crack.
Also, a crackhead, I will say, can be drawn across society, although all crackheads ultimately end up similar in their primal drive being to get their hands on the old crack.
Yeah.
You know what we've got, though?
What you have, Russ, the foundation, don't you?
If you are a crackhead and you want to stop taking crack, which you probably should do, because, let's face it, it's not working, is it, the crack?
After an initial period of distraction and intense joy, you will realise that the crack's become a little bit of a downer.
That's why we have the Stay Free Foundation.
Have a look at this, the merchandise.
Check out all this merch that we sell.
Every last bit of the money that we make goes to crackheads and it goes to nutters as well.
People that simply can't cope with reality.
Call it crackhead.
So call a crackhead, help a crackhead.
Look at this, you can get a lovely t-shirt like this one, and then the profit off of it, we give it to the old crackheads.
As I say, not directly, because you can't rely on a crackhead, because they'd simply spend it on crackheads.
Plain as day, what they do with their money, isn't it?
Yep.
You can't say to a crackhead, why don't you invest in a vehicle or something like that.
No, no.
Cryptocurrencies.
Cractocurrencies.
It's all they want, it's all they're interested in.
Alright, so I think that's essentially, we're running, we're not running out of time, because time actually doesn't work like that.
As far as we know, time is limitless, without limit, and the whole concept of time needs to be examined more closely before we can try to...
I don't know, segmenting it off.
But like, if you're a member of the Stay Free AF community, then you get additional content, including subcutaneous and in-depth weekly podcast interview next week.
Tomorrow on the show, Wim Hofsson, there'll be an additional bit of content with Wim, if you are a member of the Stay Free AF community.
Also tomorrow, we're talking to, uh, we're doing my item, Here's the News Now, Here's the Effing News, and we're looking at Hillary Clinton's accusations around fascism for Trump supporters, And analysing the idea of fascism.
What is a fascist?
You can let us know in the chat what you think.
And in fact, you're probably going to spot some fascism in the chat.
I mean, especially if you see antisemitism as a component of it.
We're also this week going to be talking to Annie Mackon.
I think I'm saying her name right.
She's a former MI5 intelligence officer.
She's going to tell us exactly what they're up to.
Real life James Bond stuff.
She's going to tell us all their secrets.
Stella Assange, the wife of Julian Assange, is coming on to talk about the campaign to have Julian Assange Freed.
Many people believe, of course, that Julian Assange shouldn't be in Belmarsh High Security Prison simply for revealing state secrets that, ultimately, while embarrassing government, did enable ordinary people to better understand the machinations of government and the complications of geopolitics.
We've got Eckhart Tolle coming on.
Do you love Eckhart Tolle?
Do you want to get deep and spiritual?
Do you want to liberate yourself from the machine?
Of course you do!
Eckhart Tolle's coming on the show.
Vandana Shiva!
Yanis Varoufakis.
We've got all sorts of fantastic people coming up this week.
Also, as I say, in the conversation, in the Stay Free AF conversation, where we answer some of your comments, we've got Daniel coming on.
Here we go.
Look at this.
Reckoning Night.
Putin is fighting the deep state.
Break some eggs.
Time is only a measure of change.
Well done.
Break some eggs.
And then the controlled right hate Russell, says Jules Verne 23.
Thank you for sticking up for me.
Time is finite, says Tessa Jones.
Eternity is infinite.
We'll have to go deeper into that in the membership chat because it's complicated.
What the Fakarta?
Thank you, Mr. Brand.
Look forward to noon tomorrow in NYC.
Have a lovely evening.
Then Liam G, will it... Oh, no, Russell Brand is a C word.
It isn't... Oh, God, that's actually also hate speech.
No hate... I don't know, I suppose they can do hate speech if they want, but we can't.
Free speech, Russ.
We can't read it out.
Free speech!
We believe in free speech!
We do.
Say what you want.
Yeah, say what you want, we don't mind.
Firesnake0 says, free Assange.
Although, I have told you what my view's about, innit?
Like that the basic values of kindness, compassion, love to one another, that should underwrite basically what we're doing.
Knowing that we'll all make mistakes sooner or later, but that our intentions is what will define us ultimately.
Although we can all fall into traps, can't we?
Can we?
Can you not mute the racist comments says Pyderfolz?
I don't know, maybe you should have an election on it.
We'll have an election on it and see if you want to.
But I don't know, we'll work it out, won't we?
This is an emergent and new medium.
It's only Monday.
It's only Monday, we've got a whole week to save the world!
Now remember at the beginning of the show, we asked you, they want a reset, we want a revolution, who's going to win?
Well, in order to create genuine change, we're going to certainly have to get beyond the kind of limited thinking that leads to bigotry of any kind.
It must be resourced in love.
You can't make anything out of hate.
Stay with us on Stay Free AF.
That's our membership platform, where I'll be talking to Daniel Pinchbecker.
We'll be getting a little deeper into some of these issues, and we'll be larking about.
We've got a fantastic week for you.
Join us tomorrow, New York City, 12 o'clock, LA, 9 AM, UK, 5 PM.
But we're streaming all around the world.
That's the beauty, and that's the glory of our situation, isn't it?
Sure is.
Ubiquitous, limitless connection at all times.
Stay free.
See you in a minute.
Man, he's switching.
Switch on.
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