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Oct. 17, 2022 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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Stay Free with Russell Brand #014 - Biden's Cannabis Prison Pardon - For No One
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With me is the producer of the show, Gareth Roy, and over there is Suby and Will.
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Of course, not if you're in your car right now listening to a podcast, You'd be asking us to master time travel, and I actually just find punctuality in itself quite difficult.
Like, that's just travelling to a place.
That's not even... That's place travel.
That's not time travel.
Although, what about when you get on a plane, and then you arrive somewhere at a different time than... That's still travel.
Right.
Because... What about... Well, like, they say that helicopter travel, that's like time travel, because all of a sudden, you're just somewhere else.
Yeah.
In an helicopter.
That's right.
So we're all doing it in our own way.
Because, you know, when you get to a place on a plane and then you get back and you say, oh, in my time, back where I was, it's actually 6pm tomorrow.
And you're like, well, have we time travelled?
The answer is no.
The answer is no.
It's still, like, the same time.
The truth is, is there is only the present moment.
You know that, don't you, darlings?
Like, yeah, we are all travelling through time.
That's a good point.
Little IT guy says, aren't we all travelling through time?
Little IT guy, you're right, we're wrong.
Wittgenstein said, if you consider eternity not to be a sort of a sequence of time, but the present moment, then the way to eternity is the present.
In fact, Will, can you find that Wittgenstein quote on the eternal present?
First up, a Wittgenstein quote on the eternal present, then not long after that, the news, which of course is about things that are new.
Yeah.
When I was at school, which I was, I don't know if you know that about me.
Not for very long, I imagine.
I tried not to stay too long because I found it confusing.
That was the first time when I knew I didn't trust any systems was school.
I thought, I don't like this.
People and family, like all of the systems, I thought, this doesn't seem right.
I didn't trust none of it.
I remember reading a note from your teachers that had to go to your mum that said Russell hasn't turned up to school or he's late all the time or something and you actually wrote it didn't you?
I was actually corresponding.
I was playing all of the parts.
I was playing the teacher.
It was like I was one limitless consciousness expressing myself for all the various nodes of attention but also what I was doing was faking notes to bunk off PE because I was shy about not being good enough at PE.
One time there goes So, talking about the news, it was Mr. Hall who was the headmaster of what you lot would call, probably, grade school, if you're an American.
But it's when you're about that old.
You know when you're about that old, you don't know much yet, but you've realised, hang on a minute, I'm being lied to.
This isn't the limitless oneness I was promised.
You found Wittgenstein's quote yet, mate?
Wittgenstein's quote on the eternal present.
That's quite a lot.
Yeah, he's got a lot to say on that.
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, Then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Let us know what you think about that.
Let us know what you think about that in the chat or in the comments.
Later on, we're doing this really brilliant news item where we look at Joe Biden's recent decision to release anyone, anyone who's in a federal prison just for marijuana.
You're out of there!
Oh God, yeah.
You're free.
Thousands of them.
Come around if you're in a federal prison for marijuana.
There's been no one left.
No one's in federal prison for marijuana!
So what's going on?
What is that story about?
I'll tell you what it's about, you know already.
It's propaganda.
It's approaching the midterms.
They've worked out that it was popular.
Obviously drug legislation has an interesting history that's often been propagandist.
In America, your country, I'm assuming you're in America, let us know where you actually
are, I don't mind where you are.
Like in your country, the temperance movement, that was a sort of a populist movement, the
puritanism around that.
Then cannabis was made illegal primarily to sort of irritate, I think, Mexican people,
I'm not being racist, I think that was the law.
Opium, it was Chinese people.
I bet all these laws are a bit racist because the assumption is, you know what the Chinese
are doing, opium, innit?
But that might be the culture of the Chinese then.
Anyway, all I'm saying is that often drug legislation, whether it's prohibitive or, you know, letting you do the old drugs, what do I want to say, permissive, like, it's usually propaganda.
I.e.
no one's going, what's best?
What's best?
Because if that was true, you wouldn't get a law that released no one from jail, would you?
You wouldn't go, we're gonna release everyone from federal prison, that's actually no one.
So we're gonna be talking about drug regulation.
Are you saying the war on drugs was just to create an underclass?
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah, basically it was to create an underclass and then to irritate that underclass and now because the underclass is growing because of AI and increased mechanization, the fact is is that not that many people are necessary anymore.
There's more of us that is necessary and they're thinking of ways to get rid of us.
I don't want to be, you know what I mean, I don't want to be...
For the old tin foil hat.
And I know a lot of you will be saying about population reduction.
Foretaker, wasn't opium bought to China by the British?
Yeah, probably.
Russell Brand, spiritual, spiritual.
Sodomites?
I don't know about that, darling.
Hawk Freeman, I only smoke cannabis, I'm now three months sober from alcohol.
Well done, well done.
Hawk Freeman, weed doesn't make you stupid.
Yeah, fair enough.
I'm pretty sure.
Sorry, Ross.
No, I'm just reading stuff that people are saying here.
What are you saying?
I'm pretty sure we did a story fairly recently about how prison populations have gone up under Biden.
Have they?
It's interesting when he's talking about releasing people where there is no one to release, but also in general prison populations have gone up, but also the fact that it's pretty profitable.
There'll be, yeah, there'll be a prison lobby.
Every time you say we're going to reduce the population of prisoners in America, they'll say, oh, loads of them are making agent provocateur knickers and stuff, and loads of them are working in those prisons, plus there's the prison contracts themselves.
There's no authenticity of governance.
And the simple truth is, I don't think it would be any better if the Republicans got in.
I know some of you do.
In our country, it's absolute chaos as well.
Like our country, Britain, the pound can't keep still for a minute.
I think it's about I think it's about there.
You'll have to get an economist to correct me, but it's more or less there.
The new Chancellor has had to make, well he's just made an emergency statement, and his emergency statement, we've got one, is called Jeremy Hunt, right?
Now if you're an English person, you'll have heard of Jeremy Hunt for a while now because he's been floating around in the political scene.
The main thing about Jeremy Hunt is when people talk about him, they make an evident and obvious Freudian slip, which I will not make in case it offends you, but there's loads and loads of clips online of people going, I was just talking to Jeremy and then they I have to say the C word, because there's something in them.
Either it's because that's what they think about him, or just in their minds they're like, I mustn't say it, I mustn't say it, I'm gonna say it, I can feel myself nearly saying it.
Sort of like the yips, you know, with darts or golf, where you go, I can't throw this dart!
In all of golf, I can't hit it too much!
My father-in-law's like a proper golfer, did you know that?
He was excellent.
He won't watch this.
Anyway, the fact is I'm talking about the yips.
It's like a psychological yips.
They can't release the word, so they end up saying the C word.
But I like the point you make.
Like the geezer that was Chancellor about an hour and a half ago, Kwasi Kwarteng, who had to be nutted off because he was making such a bad job of it, because every policy that he introduced in his mini-budget Annihilated British economics.
We're now sort of invited to believe that this next person knows exactly what they're doing and as if it's like as if it's sort of money chess.
Yeah.
But the whole thing... Well he used to be health secretary as well.
I mean that's when a lot of people used to see him.
Oh that's why!
I still find it amazing when they move around as if they're experts in all those things.
Like is he just brilliant at everything?
I've mastered this now.
Yeah.
It's money that I know all about now.
I don't believe that.
I don't believe it.
Nor do I. Over in your country, President Biden, that's Joe Biden, the president of your country, commented on British politics while in an ice cream parlour.
He transgressed against the protocols that exist between our nations.
Our nations that I feel that we built together, member, is our idea to go there.
It was our idea to nick it.
It was our idea to establish Virginia.
I believe we established many of those Caribbean slave colonies as well.
And then, you, very ungrateful, nicked it.
Back for yourselves.
But also, there's quite a lot of death and genocide involved, I think, historically in that narrative.
Anyway, Joe, you're not meant to criticise the leader of another country, are you?
Unless it's Putin, then you say, new Hitler, evil.
You've got an alliance, that's the point.
The alliance.
And the alliance is for good stuff, isn't it?
That's all the alliance is about, just nice things.
We're just a couple of pals helping each other out.
Let's have a look at Joe Biden down an ice cream parlour.
What I think is troubling about this is that it happens in an ice cream parlour.
Why is Joe Biden in an ice cream parlour?
We'll show you a video in a minute which gives you a clue as to why Joe Biden might be in a bloody ice cream parlour.
But first of all, just look at Joe Biden in an ice cream parlour.
I wasn't the only one that thought it was a mistake.
What I'm interested in at the moment is everything else that's happening in the ice cream parlor.
There's this person behind, the woman here with glasses, there's a couple of other people.
She looked to me like she's part interested in getting an ice cream, and also partly like, he's mad that the president's in this ice cream parlor.
I think she works with him, because in a minute she says, Mr. President.
Don't she?
I thought she got an ice cream and left.
Well, she does get an ice cream as well.
You think it's his ice cream or her ice cream?
I think they both get one.
They're having one each, why not?
I see what you mean.
But look, she, uh, she... Well, I think that, uh...
It says, alright, she's got her ice cream, he's got his ice cream.
It says, flavour every moment in the ice cream.
Flavour?
It's gotta be flavour in every moment, isn't it?
Gotta go, oh, I licked it, and it was vanilla, and then I licked it again, and it was nothingness, it was just the taste of my own tongue.
Also, what are they suggesting, that they've got a flavour for every moment?
That is, that's a lot of flavours.
Because you're gonna go for about 20, in like a moment, that's that long.
So that's like, even the more abstract ones, where they're like, do you want an egg flavour ice cream?
No, I don't!
I don't want egg extracted into a juice and then played out.
I don't want that.
That's not part of my life.
So, like, they reckon they've got one for every single moment.
There's some people are clearly normal ice cream shop customers.
Yeah, normal people.
Now, Joe Biden now is about to drop a bombshell and criticise Liz Truss, our Prime Minister, Different from the front than the side.
That's what we say about you.
Look at her front on.
She's got one face.
Look at her from the side.
Another face.
She's a peculiar person.
Her profile and her front on don't match.
If you did a sort of like a mugshot of her, you'd think, is that the same?
Like even in the same mugshot, you wouldn't be able to identify her.
Let's see.
Let's see him do his thing, gal.
Keep going.
All right.
The idea.
Cutting taxes on the super wealthy at a time when... Anyway, I disagree with the policy, but it's up to Great Britain to make that judgment, not me.
What's happened there is he's gone to an ice cream parlor for some reason or another, some sort of photo opportunity.
A PR stunt, isn't it?
Some sort.
PR stunt, there's the... He's probably gone to release people from prison from having too much ice cream.
Another one of those policies.
We've got to release everyone who's in prison simply because they like to have a different flavour of ice cream every moment.
Yeah, there's loads of them in jail.
Putting an inconceivable burden on the state.
Yeah, that's it.
That's nobody, that's nobody at all.
Look at that, what a lot of confectionary to create that moment.
All of these sort of CIA secret service people, the inconvenience down the actual ice cream parlour.
I bet there's an online interview already of people, oh when he came in he was perfectly polite.
That bit of press already exists, I guarantee you.
That little bit of propaganda, find it would you will.
The bit of propaganda it goes...
Yeah, when he came in, he was so friendly.
We really liked him.
All that stuff.
Do you reckon, to be a normal person in there, you have to get screened?
Like, what process will there be?
Because there's loads of CIA.
They're not going to just let anyone in, are they?
I know people that their kids are going to the same school as, like, royal children.
Yeah.
Of course they've got to screen them.
But when really they should be screening the Royals.
How often is Andrew going to be picking these kids up?
Well, once a week.
What day?
Wednesdays.
You'll stay home Wednesdays till you're 25 when you won't be at school anymore.
And on the subject of inappropriate jokes about sexuality and powerful people, look Well, not necessarily sexuality.
Let's work out what this is.
Many of you that are familiar with the President of the United States of America will have sort of been aware of these peculiar interactions he has with young women.
I would have thought he's been told enough times now about this hair sniffing to never do that again.
Never do it.
But look, he does do that now.
My filming this knows he's, like, uh-oh, something's gonna happen.
He's prepped, isn't he?
The guy that's sort of using selfie mode to capture this moment is aware that Biden's about to do something.
Now, Biden, he's got to the shoulder.
Oh, God.
And now, this is what I think is, again, it's Freudian.
Like accidentally calling Jeremy Hunt, the new British Chancellor, Jeremy Seaward, What is it that's on Biden's mind to say this to a person?
Now, I've got daughters.
I'm aware that, you know, that one day they will be adults and that typically that involves Congress of some kind.
Hopefully not U.S.
Congress.
That's too much corruption for my kids!
I meant sexual Congress of some consensual kind.
Let's see what Joe Biden sort of says to this youngster.
that also try to study her face his face see if you can understand it
like to be any I don't like being approached from that angle no by anyone
I don't want to receive news from there.
I don't want to receive advice from there.
I don't want someone at my shoulder going...
I want to give you some sex tips for when you're grown up.
Because of course, if you've seen the clip already, maybe you haven't, he says no serious men until you're 30.
Or boyfriends or something.
Yeah, and I suppose what that means is sexual partners or commitment or is it degrees of sexuality?
In any event, that young woman is between 13 and 17, would you guess?
Yeah.
I would say sort of, in a way, that's not small talk.
No.
You know, stick to the ice cream or whatever.
What's your favourite?
I know a place you can get an ice cream for every single moment of the rest of your life.
They've got literally infinite flavours.
Some of them are disgusting.
Slug juice.
But that is less weird and inappropriate than conjecture on her sexual proclivities.
I think he does this thing, Biden, where he starts talking and then thinks, oh God, I've started talking, and then just says something mad.
Like, he was in an ice cream shop.
Right.
And he started talking.
Before he knew it, he'd upset his alliance with the whole, with the UK.
Like, you just need to stop.
And now here, he's put his arms, like maybe he thought, it's like my granddaughter, I want to just say hello.
And then he's gone, I need to say something.
And I don't know, got some weird advice with a stranger.
I know what it is.
Like, your point is exactly right.
I think it's like them old time cars, where you have to rev that engine at the beginning to get it going.
So I think when he sees there's an interaction coming, like he's got to do a speech, he's down the ice cream parlour, he's got to comment on the British economy, he's got to make small talk with an adolescent female.
He gets the old brain going, fires up them new...
And all of the systems are sort of getting all jazzed up.
Like, while it's all getting pumped up, once he starts talking, like he's hearing himself talking, and I'm like, what am I saying now?
The British made a mistake, you shouldn't be alleviating a tax burden on the super-rich at a time like this.
Hold a minute, mate, all you're describing is socialism.
Oh no, I'm in an ice cream parlour and I'm quoting Karl Marx!
Shit, back off Joe, back off!
And they're like, oh better do a bit of small talk with this young one.
My, she's attractive, I bet she'll have a lot of boyfriends.
Oh no, I'm saying this out loud!
Hey, when you do meet those boyfriends eventually, keep it vanilla!
Although there's a thousand flavours that you can have at any time!
Just stick No one wants advice from that angle.
That's vampire angle.
Stay away from the chonker! Biden get away! Get away from her! Don't mix the pink and the brown! Joe! Get away from
the child! That is a child Joe!
I'm just trying to help! Let go of her shoulders! No one wants advice from that angle! That's vampire angle! Like if
Dracula...
Hello!
I got news for you!
This is a great time to invest in American energy!
Got feeling Nord Stream Gas Pipeline about to go down!
Invest in American energy!
You don't want tips from the jugular!
No, I think we've talked about it before, but the behind hug, that's a very personal hug, is the behind hug.
I don't give my wife a behind hug.
I don't.
It's part of our marital contract.
I wouldn't give you a behind hug.
No.
I won't give anyone a behind hug!
Like, I do Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, you can tell.
And like, that's the only time you take the back.
You take the back.
They don't call it a hug though, do they?
I do, and actually they stripped me of one of my belts for that.
Teacher!
When I'm doing the behind hug, sometimes I feel a feeling!
That's good.
That just means you're very committed to non-sport.
Sometimes some chocolate ice cream comes out!
Oh, my ice cream comes out and makes a muddle of me!
Excuse me, teacher!
When I'm doing the behind hug, ice cream comes Then I'll have to write a letter to Jesus!
You're very good at Jiu Jitsu.
We don't want you here anymore.
Go to that place Tom Hardy goes.
Go and irritate Bane.
Go and fight Bane.
Because the thing is, if you've got to do Jiu Jitsu with Bane, I'm not going to put that out.
When I do Jiu Jitsu, I try and distract them with the fact that it's me.
Oh, OK.
You know?
Do they fall for that, though?
Never.
No.
Near the beginning they did, but I've been going more than a week now.
So like, me I'll go like, I'd like to sort of go, hey guys.
Nice to be doing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with you, baby.
And I think, oh, I like that.
But, like, now they know.
If you're doing that at Tom Hardy, he's not going to be impressed, is he?
Didn't you tell me one time you were doing it with, like, almost children?
Jiu-Jitsu.
Like, the beginners class or something.
Were there kids there, or...?
Well, don't do it with children!
Okay, right, maybe I've imagined that.
I've done it, like, sometimes there are mixed groups in terms of weight and size.
But I don't do it with... I don't join the... Right.
I did go with my... Alright, oh no, he's coming back.
I went to the kids' class, because I took my children... Oh, is that what it was?
...to the kids' class, yeah.
And you were like, hey, it's me, what's up, man?
I kicked ass!
I put those kids down!
I choked them out in a variety of ways!
Them kids have never been so subjugated.
So, um, oh yeah, the behind hug is already a weird move and then don't be on that topic.
Keep it neutral.
Don't do that.
Look, I don't know who's doing this.
He's probably got pretty good PR, you would think.
He's president.
Why don't I say never do a behind hug?
No.
Never comment on the British economy.
No.
Just stop saying stuff!
Do you remember when they were campaigning, what they done?
They put him in a cupboard so if they see him, he'll piss people off.
Leave him out of the way, he'll probably win.
One of the things when he was leading up to the election was he's a bit touchy, isn't he?
That was one of the ways in which the other side would paint Biden.
So to now, to not just completely cut that out seems, you know...
Drop it!
I mean, the thing is, look, let's not create a culture where you cannot be affectionate and loving and it's immediately assumed that it's some sort of sexual advance.
It is possible.
We're apes.
We form attachment through touch.
We establish hierarchies through touch.
That's how we know where we are.
But I just think if you're president, you shouldn't be operating on the picking fleas out round the back, offering sex advice to nippers.
Is that too much?
Well, you put it like that.
Yeah, too much.
All right.
So also later on in the show, we're going to be talking to you about the Sweden are not willing to share their Nord Stream investigation findings.
So they investigated Udanis.
Udanis.
Udanis pipeline.
Was it America?
Was it Russia?
We found out.
We're not going to tell you it was.
It's too secret.
It's too secret.
They've done such a good job of the investigation that they still actually can't tell you.
It's like making your house so secure you can't get in it.
I've put burglar alarms here.
I've got all them, like, them lines, them laser lines that they have in cat book films where they have to get, like, something out of a museum.
You know, all the crisscrossing lines.
Yeah.
I've put them everywhere.
Well, can you get in there?
I can't go in there.
So, like, Sweden don't even know.
Well, they're so secret, they won't tell you.
My assumption is that it means it weren't Russia.
Well, it's a little strange.
If it was Russia, you think that might come out of that investigation?
Why didn't they just go, it's Russia, then?
Well, I wouldn't say it was Russia.
Or if it wasn't Russia.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know.
But later on, we're just going to spend a bit of time talking about it.
And is it tomorrow's show, Gal?
It is.
In tomorrow's show, we're doing an in-depth analysis of the Nord Stream whodunit.
You've got to watch it because it shows that even at the level of geopolitics, the same way as that ice cream Farago and this, you know, this incident with this youngster, Show that even at the top level of politics there are kind of levels of ineptitude and clumsiness that you would expect to find at much lower levels of society.
I mean I suppose that's what the work of Armando Iannucci is about is that you expect these people, you know he wrote like Veep and directed Veep and brilliant shows like In the Loop and The Thick of It, is that you anticipate that these people are going to be brilliant but when you encounter them they are not.
They're normal people with The budget is a perfect example, isn't it?
The budget in this country.
Go on.
Well, it's a perfect example of bringing someone in who's meant to solve it.
I'm a chancellor!
I've been apparently a chancellor my whole life.
Here's my chance.
Okay, time to get to chancelling.
Mate!
It fucked up everything!
Yeah.
Talk about that.
And they bring in terms like, there's a mini-budget, and now they're doing a U-turn, and now it's a non-budget.
Because all these, like, little terms, that's the problem, isn't it?
It's all these terms.
We've done a mini-budget, we've done a U-turn, now it's a non-budget.
Well, what the fuck's happened?
Because my mortgage has gone through the roof.
At the end of all this rhetoric and all this ludicrous skullduggery and tomfoolery, all this faux idiocy, all this apparent expertise, all of this language designed to create a war between them and you, there's just people fucking stuff up and suffering.
The suffering of ordinary people.
I'll admit this again, I don't watch the news.
I can't stand to watch it.
It makes me sad.
I put a bit of it on last night.
The cost of living crisis.
Here's this bloke with a dialysis machine.
Well, like, I've got a foot in the shit here all day and nothing to reduce me benefits.
And then it's like this woman, I have to eat soup now.
I just think, I'm like, oh, Jesus, this is too much.
It reminds you that this is reality.
I know you lot watching, you're real human beings with real economic struggles.
I read the comments.
I read when people say, I'm a veteran.
This is what happened to me since I left the services.
We're this poor now.
This stuff's happened to us.
How do you take that on?
How do you reconcile that all this ludicrous posturing relates to ordinary suffering?
When do you recognize that what's required is major systemic change?
Major systemic change.
You're not like, I think if we have a woman one, that!
That isn't gonna be it!
And an on-budget, that's what it is.
Right, we tried a mini-budget, and it's a bit like a mini-bar.
It's exactly like a bar, but it's like a mouse's size.
Like, a mini-bar is the least economic thing you could do, because, like, a bottle of vodka, to produce one glass bottle that big, it's probably only a few cents more to create a full-size bottle of vodka.
What a waste.
And a Toblerone that big?
What are you doing in there with that thing?
You've pushed me over the ridge!
So, yeah, you're quite right, Gareth.
Again and again, we are either blinded by jargon and ridiculous rhetoric or distracted by cultural collisions that ultimately aren't going to make a difference in most people's lives, while ordinary power continues apace and interrupted by our requirements.
Our requirements, the people of the earth, with all of our diverse needs, with all of the limitless expressions of being human that you would find in any room, in any school, in any business, in any town, in any place.
I'm not just talking about obvious cultural markers like race or creed or gender.
I'm talking about some people are very emotional, some people are very anxious, some people are likely to obey rules.
There's so many ways of being human and I feel that we're at the point where we have to discover A general unity and a general consensus to do things differently.
That's the part of like the kind of climate change movement that I wholeheartedly agree with.
There's two things.
You should love and respect the planet.
Two, we all live on one planet, so we have to find a way of uniting.
I recognise that those of you in the chat are like, oh, climate change, it's a myth, the universe is heating up generally, but still, it ain't good, all of the pollution and the filthy behaviour and the disgusting submission to the requirements of corporations.
You know, I'm not able to agree with some globalist agenda that ultimately costs you more money.
I'm not advocating for that.
I'm not advocating for that.
What I'm advocating for is real democracy.
Yeah, we also can't really get behind BP and ExxonMobil.
They're not the real heroes, are they?
I mean, those people charging ridiculous money and making record profits.
It's not like, oh yeah, we should get behind them.
Let's just, come on, BP!
Like, they're one of the fourth, I think they're about the fourth biggest corporation.
You know, like when you see that list?
In fact, let's pull that up, young Putin.
Like, he just looks a bit like young Putin.
I'm not advocating for Russia's actions in Ukraine.
Like, when you see that list of the 100 most powerful NAEs in the world, like, of the top 100, like 20 of them are countries, the rest of them are corporations!
We're beyond the point where national sovereignty and the power of the nation, and therefore the power of democracy, are the dominant forces in our culture.
That's over!
It's yesterday's news.
Corporate power is much more able to influence democracy than democratic power.
All democracy can afford you is a gesture.
And if it's an empty one, all the better.
We will release everyone in a federal prison!
That is there for cannabis charges.
How many people's that?
None people?
None, zero peoples?
Oh, well, because obviously what they had was, they recognised, oh, do you know what would be popular?
Releasing people from prison for cannabis or, no, decriminalising cannabis.
That was the original idea.
You can't decriminalise cannabis.
Prison lobby won't like it.
There'll be some extreme moral folk who don't want to do it.
Best thing to do is some empty gesture that will make no difference.
Same as the farmer price caps, the, you know, the drug cut in the United States, and same as the Saudi Arabia stuff.
All that rhetoric will make them a pariah.
Did that happen once Biden was in office?
And I don't say this as a Republican person.
I don't think the Republicans will be any better in some areas.
They would be worse, even though there are probably areas where, you know, you agree with whatever party.
Don't limit yourself to that binary choice.
Don't limit yourself to that binary choice.
You can't allow it to happen.
I understand the aversion to the climate change stuff.
How do you mate?
Because I understand how people must be pissed off at being blamed for something.
Because I think that's ultimately what it comes down to.
Is everyday people, working class people, are told the problem lies with you.
It's that you're not recycling enough, that you're not changing your cars to electric vehicles that cost an absolute fortune.
Still have to be ran from energy from somewhere.
The problem is you, and so people rail against that and go either it's not real or they're just trying to, you know, change us to some one world government type stuff.
And I get that, but the problem is if you then say, oh actually there's nothing wrong with Exxon Mobil and BP, you're also wrong.
Yeah, that's also a problem.
See that polar bear standing there on like one little tiny iceberg melting away?
That's your fault for not getting a Tesla!
Why won't you get a Tesla?
Is that fucking expensive?
That's your fault for not doing the recycling.
It annoys people.
Yeah, that's so... Go on, Putin.
Read a few of these hundred companies or whatever.
Seven of the world's top hundred companies.
So, in the world's biggest economies, you've got Walmart sitting at 10, you've got the United States first, China second, Japan third.
If Walmart was a country, it's beating Spain and Australia.
So the country of Walmart, they'd be entitled to have their own national anthem, they should have their own flag.
Spain is like a proper country.
Cervantes, bullfighting, Rioja, all of these amazing things.
Barcelona!
Although Barcelona don't want to be part of Spain.
It's a bit of Walmart.
We're not actually Walmart.
We're our own little bit of Walmart.
Maybe it's the pharmaceutical aisle or the middle in Lidl.
The middle in Lidl is the best part of Lidl.
I don't go Lidl.
I don't go.
I don't go out.
I don't.
I like being around stuff.
I can basically cope with meditation and doing this.
Beyond that, I'm in a lot of trouble.
Then you've got Exxon Mobil at 20, Royal Dutch Shell at 18.
See?
They're doing great.
These are companies that receive massive tax breaks, that receive massive incentives from the government.
Walmart, which get away with all sorts of stuff.
Argentina can't even beat Costco.
Like, imagine, like, the only thing Argentina can beat Costco at is probably football.
Like Costco, they'd be able to get ringers in.
I bet a lot of their staff would probably be quite good.
Yeah, and if you take away Messi, then even that!
That's it!
Let's face it, he is a genius in decline.
Costco!
The winner of the World Cup is Costco.
What it makes me feel like is that we live in a veneer of reality.
Rather than reality itself, we think of ourselves as, I'm an American!
My father died in that war!
My grandparents!
This is our cultural dish!
And all those things are beautiful, and all those things are valid, and all those things are true.
But they are also ultimately meaningless when it comes to the movement of power.
In our country we have a thing, National Health Service.
The National Health Service was brought about after the Second World War when they realised, we've took the piss now.
We're going to have to, as we've killed so many of them, we're going to have to give them an hospital.
There's the least we could do.
Then we'll have, over time, gone, we don't have to give them that hospital now.
It's ages ago.
They're slowly, slyly privatising it and selling it back.
It was built on taxpayer money.
They sell it back on taxpayer money, like the Pfizer vaccine.
Allegedly.
It's funded by taxpayer money, the investigation, probably, you know, through BioNTech, so it's German, you know, taxpayers, presumably, and ultimately bought by taxpayer money.
They weren't giving it away free, like sweeties.
So in the end, we're extracted from the profit, we're included in the funding, but extracted from the profit.
Systemic change.
Don't get too distracted by whether or not it was weird that Joe Biden smelt that hair, although it definitely was.
Unbudget?
Unbudget.
Also stupid.
Is that going to work, though?
Maybe that's a... I know you want massive revolution, but maybe an unbudget.
Could we unbudget our way out of this?
I just want to do a few more bits of news.
Yep.
Scientists behind the COVID-19 jab say cancer vaccine could be ready by 2030.
Oh, good!
Get ready for cancer, everyone!
Yeah, also get up for... ready for a massive markup of over 1,000% if you want the... if you do want the vaccine.
I'd like a cancer vaccine.
Get ready to pay through the nose, but that's where I've got my cancer!
Well, you won't miss it, then, will you?
I've got the news down there.
Diana crash outrage.
Like, I mean, I watched something on Diana crash the other day.
There's a point where you're gonna have to accept Diana's crash.
And I can't keep going through that fucking crash.
People are saying it's too soon.
That's what they're saying.
I'm still not fully over it, to be honest.
Right, yeah.
I know.
They're doing it on the crown.
They're doing it on the crown, that's the thing.
But people are saying it's too soon.
When would it not be?
When is it okay to do it?
Nearly.
I'm nearly ready for Diana Crash.
Nearly.
Right, now.
Go on, dramatise it.
No, I wasn't ready!
That was too soon!
You can't premature ejaculate emotion.
No.
You just feel what you feel when you feel it, baby.
Apparently, bosses were also on the fire of a soon-to-be-aired scene suggesting Prince Philip had an affair with a female friend.
What?
Our Philip?
Female friends?
I don't think so.
That royal family.
They love it, don't they, that bunch?
That was all allegedly, that was all covered by alleged... God, crackhead.
Right, so listen, I'm just going to briefly, Gareth, have you got your page on anarcho-syndicalism?
Oh God, have I?
Alright, so we're going to describe to you anarcho-syndicalism and you guys can tell us if you think it's going to work as we discuss alternative ways of organising our reality.
And before you criticise it, have a look at your own reality and see if you like it very much.
Just try that.
Have a look at this country, the one I live in, reversing budgets and doing mini-budgets and half-budgets and quarter-budgets and pseudo-budgets and demi-budgets and miss-budgets and dis-budgets.
I mean, can we beat that?
Can we do better than that?
Have a look at your country with balmy, blooming vampire presidents, you know, like the undead Nosferatu.
That's what it is.
He's a cadaverous figure.
He's a shell.
You know, I'm not saying he's a bad human being.
I just don't want to speculate.
But like, that is not what should be happening.
Plainly.
Look at the policies.
Look at what's being said.
Look at the fact that it's clearly exploitative.
And one obvious example of this is the recent announcement that everyone, absolutely everyone, right, round them up!
All those people that are in federal prisons just for cannabis.
Freedom!
It's not going to be like Braveheart.
It'll be like Braveheart with an empty field without even someone to show their arse to the enemy.
Here's the news.
No, here's the effing news.
No, here's the fucking news!
Joe Biden pledged to decriminalize cannabis use.
He ain't done that, but he has pledged to release all people in prison solely for cannabis possession.
So that's, um... Nobody!
You'll remember that when Joe Biden was campaigning to be president, a glorious time that fortunately ended with Joe Biden as president, he said he was going to decriminalize cannabis.
He wasn't going to go to Saudi Arabia and do deals with them.
He was going to make them a pariah.
He was going to put caps on big pharma prices.
Now, he hasn't really done any of those things.
What he's done is fudged versions of those things that are kind of gestures, empty, hollow, shallow gestures that don't really help Anybody.
And nothing demonstrates this mentality more clearly than what began as a pledge to decriminalize cannabis.
It actually, as a piece of propaganda, looked quite good.
Let's have a look.
No one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana.
That's hypnosis is going on there.
He's trying to trick us into thinking that what he said when he ran for president is no one should be in prison.
But that isn't what he said.
He said it would be decriminalized.
That's different.
That's legally different.
So he's only been talking about half a second and there's already been a lie.
I suppose we should be grateful that he got to the end of the word.
No one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana.
At a federal level, no one is in prison for that.
It's an unnecessary, pointless pledge.
At a state level, there are some people.
But he's not doing anything about that.
It's the very essence of pointlessness.
As a person who has drug addiction in his family, I would imagine that Joe Biden would be sympathetic to the fact Well, is it happening?
No.
Well, that's dealt with.
business because it's just leisure or a mental health issue as it is with like
me and it seems that it is with his son Hunter in which case people should
generally be sympathetic and it should be treated as a health issue. He's quite
right no one should be in prison at federal level thankfully no one is.
What other problems can we solve? I don't want any more caterpillars chewing on my
tits. Well is it happening? No. Well that's dealt with. It's already legal in many
states and criminal records for marijuana possession have led to
needless barriers to employment, to housing, educational opportunities.
And that's before you address the racial disparities around who suffers the consequences.
So what this is, is yet more what I would call pretend politics.
Stuff that looks like something's happening, but nothing really is happening.
Because imagine the process was something like this.
We said we would decriminalise marijuana and cannabis use.
It was quite a popular thing.
You can't do that because of lobbyists for the prison industry need the prison population to be relatively stable.
Maybe people that are Republican or right wing or whatever you want to describe it as, you use your own words, but they might be anti the idea of people that are drug dealers being released.
All right, well, what can we do?
Some sort of hollow gesture?
Let's do a hollow gesture then!
So today, I'm taking three steps... Well, don't go in the wrong direction on the second one, is what I'd say.
One over there, one over there... Oh no, which way's the stage?!
First, I'm announcing a pardon for all prior federal offences for the simple possession of marijuana.
There are thousands of people who are convicted for marijuana possession.
But not at a federal level, Joe.
Not at a federal level.
Did anyone explain this to you?
Second, I'm calling on all governors to do the same for state marijuana possession offences.
Calling on?
Does that amount to making a couple of phone calls?
Hey, it's Joe.
Joe who?
Joe Biden.
Joe Biden?
Yeah, the president.
What are you calling for, Joe?
Oh, I don't remember.
Third, the federal government currently classifies marijuana as a Schedule 1 substance.
The same as heroin and LSD, and more serious than fentanyl.
Fentanyl?
You can make a good profit on that if you tell people it doesn't kill them, which... Oh, shit!
I'm asking the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General to initiate a process to review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law.
This pledge amounts to a person telling you that they're going to ask for something.
I'm asking the Secretary of Health and Human Services...
That's not enough, is it, for the Commander-in-Chief?
Well, I'm gonna give him a damn good asking.
And what if the asking don't work?
Well, then it's over to the sighing and rolling my eyes.
Will you decriminalize cannabis?
No.
And if that doesn't work, that's when I bang my fist on the desk.
It's time that we right these wrongs.
Look at the difference between the rhetoric and the reality.
I call it the Rhetoric Reality Gap.
The rhetoric is decriminalised cannabis.
The reality is nobody is affected by this policy in any way that's meaningful.
It therefore, for me, qualifies as propaganda when approaching the midterms.
Look at the pharmaceutical caps that were placed.
At the time it was revealed, it wouldn't meaningfully impact the pharmaceutical industry.
How can you say, we beat pharma this year!
Imagine if you had a fight with someone, and at the end of the fight, the other person wasn't affected.
Could you say, I beat that person just then?
You couldn't, could you?
You've not affected them.
Joe Biden repeatedly promised on the 2020 campaign trial that he would pardon everyone serving time in federal prisons for marijuana and expunge their records.
Last week, he seemed to belatedly carry out on that promise, announcing with great fanfare that he was issuing thousands of pardons.
The problem is that he's now reinterpreted his previous talk of releasing everyone in federal prison for marijuana in such a narrow way that his partner won't release even one federal prisoner.
Even one!
Like, imagine if it was, like, one and you could, like, watch them come out, like, there you go, look!
Thanks man!
It only applies to federal convictions for simple possession, a crime for which literally no one is currently serving time in federal prison.
No one!
There's no prisoner.
And this is the possession wing in our federal prison.
Crickets, crickets.
No one, no one.
Lovely empty landing.
Biden also announced the beginning of a process that might eventually lead to marijuana being taken off Schedule 1, the federal government's classification for the most dangerous drugs with no accepted medical uses.
Could you say that Biden also announced the beginning of a process that might eventually lead to marijuana being taken off Schedule 1?
Might eventually.
That's the presidential pledge, is it?
I'm gonna call some people.
I'll be calling on them to decriminalize marijuana.
And I might take it off Schedule 1.
That's not the kind of strident, vibrant presidency that America deserves.
Might and trying and asking.
Where does power really lie when the best a president can do is might and maybes and asking, while pharmaceutical giants can sort of like wrench us into a situation where medicines are almost mandated without being trialled for efficacy?
Where is real power?
The reason that everyone giggles and laughs when they see Biden fluffing his lines and stumbling over words is because Because it reveals what we all deep down know to be true.
There's no real power there.
That is simply a vessel, a mouthpiece for actual power.
The Democrat Party is owned by lobbyists.
I would contest, so are the Republican Party.
Everything beyond that is a meaningless spectacle that we engage with to varying degrees, knowing deep down in our heart of hearts that that channel will never lead to any meaningful change.
And this is yet another example of that.
Decriminalising cannabis might take it off schedule one, not one prisoner released.
Meaninglessness.
Meaningless.
So if you've seen any TV shows where people are like, hey, Joe Biden really, you know, all going and jokes and treating it all light and like it's, Joe better not smoke any, he's forgetful enough as it is, and all that sort of light, high crap.
Really, what should be happening is serious opposition to this kind of senseless, nihilistic, plastic governance.
All in all, it's a baby step in the right direction.
Who cares where babies go?
But he falls well short of his campaign promise and leaves thousands of people languishing in federal prison for non-violent marijuana offences.
The pardon does not cover convictions for possessions of other drugs or for charges relating to producing or distributing marijuana.
We've been trained to accept piecemeal and gestural politics as opposed to the real thing.
If you're going to get into drug use and narcotics, really what ought to happen is some wide-scale decriminalisation, meaningful control over those substances, available therapies for people with addiction issues.
What's happening here is like they're trying to find the narrow crack Through which you can appear to be doing something without offending genuine powerful interests, isn't it?
Like, can't offend the prison lobby and their, you know, powerful privatised interests and their lobbying groups.
Can't offend whatever other interests are involved, I don't know, tobacco, alcohol, people that are really just dead against any sort of moral decline.
So through that tiny gap that exists between those opposing sets of ideas, you can just get like a meaningless pipsqueak Fart of policy.
That's what's happened.
Now we're all supposed to stand around clapping.
As a presidential candidate, Mr Biden also promised to decriminalise cannabis use.
Fulfilling that promise should be the easiest of easy calls.
As a matter of principle, it's awfully hard to argue with a straight face that buying, selling or possessing a pound or two of marijuana.
is somehow worse than buying, selling or possessing a fifth of vodka.
And as a matter of politics, it's a slam dunk.
Ending the war on cannabis is wildly popular.
According to a Gallup poll last year, 68% of Americans support not just pardons, but full federal legalisation.
That poll found that even Republicans were split down the middle on the issue, with 50% supporting full legalisation and 49% opposing it.
Other polls in the last few years have showed a somewhat larger Republican majority for legalisation.
The pardons come a month before November's congressional midterm elections, which will determine the power balance in Washington for the last two years of Mr Biden's term.
Mr Biden is not the first US president to pardon cannabis offenders.
On his final day in office, Donald Trump pardoned 12 marijuana offenders, including some who have been jailed for life under the free strikes rule created by Mr Biden's 1994 crime bill.
He invented it!
He came up with it!
This is basically an old man apologising by doing basically nothing for a problem that he caused.
That's not cause for celebration, that's cause for radical change and recognition that the systems that we live within are incapable of doing anything other than offering us theatre with unattractive people in the lead parts.
Too many lives have been upended because of our failed approach to marijuana.
Your approach was literally your own idea.
Wouldn't you expect any public figure to say, and actually this is a bit ironic because I came up with it, and admitting that it's basically nothing.
Not good enough, is it?
Is this good enough?
As a White House candidate, Mr Biden was criticised for writing the 1994 crime bill that stiffened penalties for drug crimes and led to more incarceration of minorities.
I imagine that the reality is Joe Biden is a career politician who only became president because it was his turn.
He's been in Congress for so long he'll have deep entrenched relationships But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
Let me know what you think in the chat.
he will be completely incapable due to systemic corruption of introducing any legislation that will make
any meaningful difference to the lives of ordinary American people.
If your life improves as a result of a decision Joe Biden made, it's by accident.
It's just a by sheer coincidence.
But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
Let me know what you think in the chat.
I'll see you in a minute.
Thanks for refusing Fox News.
I'm on the phone.
No, here's the fucking news.
Here is what you think.
Josephius Biden is in a perpetual state of lucid dreaming.
I like that, that he's in a sort of dream state.
It would explain a lot.
Or Bruno from, you know, that family magical.
Yeah, Bruno.
Like he's gone into a trance of prophesying.
That's what I think about that.
Where are the trials?
Where are the trials?
I want things to be trialed on at least five mice!
You give that CBD oil to, like, them free-blown mice, I'll be happy with it.
that too much is problematic. Yeah, Valerie Rose Music, CBD is truly the best alternative
for cannabis, extremely helpful for people and animals.
Where are the trials? Where are the trials? I want things to be trialled on at least five
mice. You give that CBD oil to like them free-blown mice, I'll be happy with it.
They must have some left over at Pfizer.
Did you use up all your mice?
They must have loads of them.
And you've got no mice?
We gave you a bunch of mice, you used them already.
Unless that was the problem, that they only bought eight.
Listen, we didn't buy that many mice and we've only got 25 minutes to perfect this vaccine.
Have you tested it on transmission?
No point.
Nobody thinks that it stops transmission.
Where did you get the idea that it would stop transmitting?
Did anybody say stuff like, you know, it stops right here, it stops transmission, is it responsible to not take it?
No, they didn't.
That's why we only need one mouse.
If that mouse is okay, no matter what happened to the other mouse.
You think I'm made of mouses?
Do you think I'm some sort of mouse man made of mouse?
No!
I'm a man, a regular man made out of bad stuff.
On this, quickly though, on the subject of ice cream, Steve Sacks says, I'm gonna call you out on egg flavoured ice cream, it's called French Vanilla or Custard and it's awesome.
It can't be egg ice cream!
Egg ice cream!
I don't think they call it egg ice cream though.
I'll take an egg ice cream!
If you could just squeeze a bit of yolk out!
And later there is a sort of a new yolk, isn't there Soobs?
Yolk juice!
For children!
That can't be right, can it?
Would you like, can I offer you some extra yolk on that?
Get away from me old man!
Up my shoulder!
I'll do you!
No yolk until you're 30.
When you're 30 though, you can get as much yolk as you want.
That yolk comes thick and fast.
In your third decade, you can't stop that yolk.
You ever get a double yolk?
Hmm?
Did you ever get a double yolk?
I made two, two chicks.
Two chicks, two double yolks.
Two chicks, one yolk?
Listen, I think you should be running the country, darling.
Shell, mmm, you ever tap that open and see a little baby bird in there? You ever smell that baby bird?
Statin' the shi- Listen, I think you should be running the country, darling.
You're wanted back at the White House.
Uh, Gareth, I believe, look, some of the people don't believe just how sexy we are,
whereas others can believe it.
Others don't believe that Joe Biden, while campaigning, said that he would release or decriminalize cannabis.
That's right.
He did say it, didn't he?
He did, we've got a video of it.
Here's the proof.
Have a look.
As president, I'll work to reform the criminal justice system, improve community policing, decriminalise marijuana, and automatically expunge prior marijuana convictions.
Expunging!
Expunged!
Yeah, he also said he'd reduce the prison population, and as I mentioned earlier, er... We've gone down!
It's massive!
Well, all those people were released from federal prison!
Exactly!
Yeah.
It's coming down like the pound, baby!
You're going down like the pound, that prison population!
So Biden said he'd cut incineration by half.
Incarceration.
Incarceration.
Apologies.
Can't cut incineration.
No.
You gotta burn stuff, baby.
No.
No, we won't get into that territory.
But rather than that, we're actually seeing, according to one source, the start of a prison boom.
Prison boom?
That's no fun.
The prison industry has spent more than $8.5 million in state lobby in the last three years, mostly to Republicans.
They also lobby Democrats.
They do also lobby Democrats.
They lobby that one, then they lobby that one.
So, Anna, an interesting thing Anna Gunderson, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Louisa State University pointed out, Democrat governors who barely win their elections outspend and out-incarcerate their Republican counterparts.
Democrats were afraid to look weak on crime and instead supported policies at least as punitive or even more punitive than their Republican counterparts.
They adopted tough on crime measures to curry favour and siphon voters who were voting Republican because of their crime platform.
None of our audience will believe, Gareth, no matter what you say, That the Democrat Party are bad.
These guys, you love them, don't you?
You love a Democrat, don't you?
You love them or you see one, but you can't get enough loving on them.
Look, we've got some information here on the... I've got some things to say to you guys about... I've done some research.
Oh, wow.
Wanna see it?
Yeah, I'd love to.
Here it is.
What's it on this time?
You gay as well, in case I make a mistake.
Got it.
I want you to follow it.
This is anarcho-syndicalism again.
Yeah, I'm going to do that in a minute.
I'll never understand it, doesn't matter how many times you explain it.
Yeah, it's perfectly simple.
I'll explain it in a minute using Wikipedia verbatim.
Firstaclu.org this is.
Currently illegal drugs have not always been illegal.
During the Civil War, morphine, that's a type of delicious heroin, was found to have Had pain-killing properties and soon became the main ingredient in several patent medicines.
In the late 19th century, marijuana and cocaine were put to various medical uses.
Marijuana to treat migraines, rheumatism, and insomnia.
Cocaine to treat... Sinusitis.
Is that for something up the sinuses?
Sinusitis.
We're both doing it today, aren't we?
Incineration.
Reading.
Cynicist us.
It's difficult.
What was that mood of temperance?
Drugs were also used recreationally and cocaine in particular was a common ingredient in wines
and soda pop including Coca-Cola.
Soda pop, God love ya.
At the turn of the century many drugs were made illegal when a mood of temperance swept
the nation.
What was that mood of temperance?
Swept a nation?
Get everyone!
Calm down!
Become temperate!
What have you all been doing?
We're enlarging it!
We're having it!
Then suddenly, temperate now.
Yeah.
So, there's no, like, objective position on narcotics that's fundamentally right.
What I'll talk to you about is the bacchanalian spirit, or the spirit of Dionysus, which I've mentioned to you before.
It's the ability to access ecstasy within yourself, so you recognise there are different realms of consciousness, which is part of your life.
You don't want the state regulating your state.
Your state of consciousness Is your own business?
Unless of course you're me and I'm a drug addict and I shouldn't take drugs under basically any circumstances because it's been proven that I become basically unreliable.
Yes.
Basically unreliable and potentially annoying.
But for people that are using it recreationally, Should be able to use it recreationally.
So the first, so drug laws have always been about populism and about manipulation of a particular demographic.
Look at this bit.
The first anti-opium laws in the 1870s were directed at Chinese folk.
The first anti-cocaine laws in the early 1900s were directed at black men in the south.
The first anti-marijuana laws in the midwest and the southwest in the 1910s and 20s were directed at Mexican migrants and Mexican-Americans, today Latino, and especially black communities are still subject to wildly disproportionate drug enforcement and sentencing practices, which our man mentioned, didn't he, Joe Biden, when he was doing his propaganda?
Yeah, he did.
But he doesn't actually, I mean, he doesn't seem to be doing anything about it because it's going up.
It's the opposite of down.
Now, whether you take drugs or don't take drugs, which I consider to be none of my business, if you're taking drugs and it's bad for you, I'd like to help you.
If you're taking drugs and you're having a lovely time, I'm a bit jealous of you.
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I want it to be that naughty bat what started all this trouble.
As I continue to talk, observe that pattern of breath.
In for five, out for seven.
We'll dive deep into the minds of people like Elon Musk, Vandana Shiva, Yanis Varoufakis, Wim Hof, Eckhart Tolle, and
whoever you want us to.
Remnant disciple of Jesus.
Remnant disciple of Jesus there in our chat.
Russell Brand, you're pushing a New World Order religion, bud.
I'm not.
I think that people should be able to believe in whatever they want to believe in.
I think you should decentralise power, not centralise it.
I think people should run their own communities.
I think people should run their own workplaces.
I am not pushing a New World Order religion.
I don't know where people are getting this from, with you and the New World Order.
It's the thirty-three tattoo.
It's because we had Yuval Noah Harari on the show once, because he had a long time ago.
In fact, we had him on twice, actually.
It was just about his book though.
And I had a good argument with him in front of some school children at a school that I was meant to be at with him for an interview at Penguin Books.
And I was like, hang on a minute, why are you telling these kids they all need to learn coding?
We could tell them to smash the state and organise against this AI revolution that you're telling us is inevitable.
The Penguin Publisher people were like, oh, hold on, this is going wrong.
They didn't invite you back to that school, did they?
Never went back.
Not for the first time, but I don't care.
WolfClub77, I want to see Elon Musk here.
So do I, but I ain't double texting.
I will not double test Elon.
I text him already, he ain't text back, what am I going to do?
Elon, if you are watching, send us a text, but I mean, I can't assume I can use media like this if he's actually ignoring a direct...
SMS message, can I?
Who knows how Elon works?
Who knows?
Like, if you knew how Elon Musk's mind worked, you'd literally build your own rocket ship company, wouldn't you?
Yeah, you would.
You wouldn't just be trying to work out when he texts and doesn't.
You'd think, well, why don't I make myself a personal fortune and then use that to not care whether or not other people's approval is gleaned.
I'll just have my own approval, my big stack of money, go to the moon when I feel like it, Help Ukraine with their internet, then say they're not going to help Ukraine, then help them again.
Help!
Bit of help!
Bit less help!
Help!
No help!
Itchy!
Watch it!
Okay, and now for a small announcement.
In fact, Gareth, will you read this about anarcho-syndicalism?
Oh, thanks.
It's not hard.
Is it not?
Alright, here we go.
Yeah.
What did you say to him?
I said I loved him, Patriot Short.
I was going, alright mate, I'm not going to ask him that, mystic aura.
Go on then, Gareth, read us about anarcho-syndicalism.
I'm reading it to you, not to the audience.
Yep.
It helps my mind.
Focus on me, because I want to understand it.
I've been talking about it for years, I still don't know what it means.
Anarcho-syndicalism is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought that views revolutionary industrial unionism, or syndicalism, as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and thus control influence in broader society.
Stop!
Right.
So, even though that model will not be relevant now, the industrialization is entered into another phase and much of our manufacturing is in, I say our, because it's in like different countries now, isn't it?
It's in like Indian subcontinent, elsewhere and stuff.
I'd say the idea that you're in control of your own community and workplace is a good idea and will be explored.
And before you rush to, I'm not doing that, I'm not doing that, just think about the chaos and craziness in the world right now.
And also forget the abstract, You know, somewhat abstract geopolitical conditions, although obviously it will ultimately affect us all.
Think about your own life.
What is it you're looking for, really, that you've appropriated into different systems?
I.e., I really love, say, football.
But what's behind that?
Is it that I want to feel like I belong?
Is it that I enjoy competition as a spectator sport?
Is it an expression of masculinity?
What is it?
What is it?
We have to find the deeper truths.
Having control in your own life can never be a bad thing, unless you're some sort of lovely little nitwit.
Right, now let's talk... What's the next bit?
The end goal of syndicalism is to abolish the wage system, regarding it as wage slavery.
Anarcho-syndicalist theory generally focuses on the labor movement, too, reflecting the anarchist philosophy from which it draws its primary inspiration.
Anarcho-syndicalism is centered on the idea that power corrupts, and that any hierarchy that cannot be ethically justified must be dismantled.
See, this key phrase cannot be ethically justified.
Now, a lot of you will love JP, won't you?
Jordan Peterson and stuff.
And Jordan Peterson will say, you want a hierarchy if you're having heart surgery or if you're getting some plumbing done.
You don't say, oh, just get me, you know, a plumber or a heart surgeon.
It doesn't matter.
I want the best one!
I want the best one possible.
So that's ethically underwritten by a value system.
So that's cool.
But what you don't want is ultimately for medicine to be in the hands of profiteers.
When you look at the last few years where we've lurched from crisis to crisis, 2001 and the resource wars that came out of that, 2008 and the economic impiccunity induced by that deliberate market crashing.
2019 and the pandemic and the way that the pandemic was handled in it seems in a way that led to powerful interests becoming more powerful.
You have to recognize that systemic change is required.
I'm not an EU having stuff or having power in your life or your traditions or your diet or your but I don't actually care.
I actually think that the only way to diffuse the culture war is to recognize let people run their own communities.
If some people want an ultra ultra progressive life inverted commas Let them.
Leave people the fuck alone.
If people want an ultra-ultra traditional life, let them.
Leave them the fuck alone.
Start focusing on who is controlling resources, who is controlling the narrative, who is controlling big media.
Start focusing on those ideas and start dismantling those systems.
Stop underwriting those systems with our obedience and compliance.
It's bigger than just, oh this person or that person.
No one's going to do nothing.
I can see you've thought something.
You're allowed to say stuff.
Go on.
Well, I guess, you know, when you're talking about the industrial revolution that we were kind of touched on earlier, I guess now you could compare that to the way in which big tech operates and, you know, the giant, massive social media companies.
There is a call by some people for those to be publicly run.
And you've got to think how different our society would be now if they were.
Do you know we heard though the other day that the reason that they won't ever introduce regulatory measures is because big tech and government agencies have already merged.
That was Alan McLeod.
Have a look at our interview with Alan on Stay Free AF.
He says that there's already such a degree of integration between social media giants.
He's talking specifically Facebook, Twitter, Google.
They already have, you can check this out yourself, they have MI5 operatives, CIA operatives, not in insignificant roles either, in the control of information.
So the state and big tech are already operating cohesively.
They already have congruent goals.
They're already regulating them because they have the same interests.
You saw that.
You saw the things that couldn't be published prior to the last election in the United States of America.
You saw the things that got censored.
They ultimately benefit from a culture where people on the inverted commas left and right are, well it's their fault, it's the people on the left or it's the people on the right.
Get beyond it.
If you're able to go, I'm not going to think about that for five years, for five years I'm not going to think about it, I promise you some very good results.
That's why when I'm Chancellor, this little guy Please, Bailey, you can only see his titmouse!
Oh, another shot.
You can see him again!
Oh, you can't get higher than that.
Oh, no, he's crushed it.
He's crushed the pound.
It's not as easy as I... Damn you, Kuatang!
Turns out that economics is quite complicated, even when it's a metaphor for economics.
Let's read the rest of this anarcho-syndicalist analysis available on Wikipedia and then we'll see if we can establish new systems of government and empower people.
This is what I know for a fact.
You don't want people to tell you what to do, do you?
You don't like being told what to do.
Maybe in a certain context, you little perv.
But generally speaking, you don't want to be told what to do.
Nor do I. Nor does anyone.
People want to run their own lives because you evolved.
To run your own life.
You didn't evolve to live in a centralised system of governance where you're some little pipsqueak placating yourself on commodity on screens and sugar.
Let's have a look at the next page.
Carry on.
The basic principles of anarcho-syndicalism are solidarity, direct action, action undertaken without the intervention of third parties such as politicians, bureaucrats and arbiters.
Yeah, get rid of them!
And direct democracy, or workers' self-management... I wouldn't define us as workers.
Got to get rid of that.
Your role is not just to fulfil a function.
You've accepted their model in arguing with it.
That your role is as a worker.
But you may be thousands of things.
Thousands of things.
You don't only exist to work.
The problem with this idea is it's accepted the framework of the system.
Break even that framework!
Harder to put that on a form, though.
It's impossible.
You can't get it on a form.
Just put worker.
It's easier.
Short and.
Worker, shirker, jerker, burker, put what you want, little gurker.
Climbing up a mountain, climbing up a tree, big as an elephant, tiny as a flea.
Part you, part me, endless subosis, endless gnosis, limitless knowledge flowing infinitely through everyone.
The eternity present in the moment.
What else though?
Okay, anarcho-syndicalists believe their economic theories constitute a strategy for facilitating
Good.
proletarian self-activity and create an alternative cooperative economic system with democratic values and
production centered on meeting human needs.
Good needs, yes.
Gandhi, of course, will tell you that India, there's no point India throwing off the shackles of the
British and then replicating the systems of the British Empire.
India is a country of 70,000 villages, he said.
Each one should be fully independent and autonomous, trading only when necessary.
We've become distracted and spellbound by commodity and commerce.
There is bigger than that.
Don't stay on the level they want you to stay on.
Don't stay there.
Be bold.
Be brave.
Why ketchup?
Why mayonnaise?
Why mustard?
Get out there into the outer region, Sue B, because there's better condiments available, isn't there?
What's the best new condiment available?
Egg chop.
Egg chop!
Yes!
Egg chop!
Consider thee this!
Why not try some egg chop?
Let's have a look at Sue B on that shot.
You just lovely sods, have you lost that shot?
Let's have a look at egg chop.
There's a new Juice!
Egg chup.
What is that though?
It's the yolk part of the egg that's squeezable in your morning breakfast.
I don't feel like that should have happened.
No.
Like don't distill that down to its essence in it.
No.
Because also that's the only reason that works as an egg is part of an egg.
Yeah.
You know it's not you don't just get You don't just get the yolk, do you?
You've got to take the rough with the smooth.
The one thing I will avoid is if you give me an egg and there's a snotty... Oh, no.
...cummy, I won't have that.
No.
I will not have that.
You've got the nuts in there, do you?
Egg chop!
Here!
You've tried the best, the rest, now try best!
Egg chop!
A lovely sluicing gloop all over dinner!
There, that should never happen.
If you need more of this sort of thing, and I believe deep down that you do, then you can pay a small stipend and join us on Stay Free AF.
It's about the price of an egg chop.
You can get, you do what you want with your money.
If you want, go get yourself some egg chop.
Get yourself a big lolly of egg chop.
Or, you can join us, Stay Free AF, where we give you regular podcasts, regular meditation, regular live events, access to the best information that we can make up on the spot.
We do research, I make up on the spot.
On tomorrow's show, we're going to be talking about that new Nord Stream pipeline.
Who done it?
Was it a country that's got no reason to do it?
Or a country that's got about 20 reasons to have done it.
Vandana Shiva is on the show.
The great Vandana Shiva World Teacher.
The only person that I would vote for for World President.
Also, if you are a member of the Stay Free AF community, which you can join, I think, for $33.
You know me, 33.
At 3.30, you cater... Wow, that's too many 33s, even for me.
You can join me talking to Jocko Willink.
Former Navy SEAL who, if you watched the stream last week, you saw that I went all sort of mad talking about it.
I'm going to ask him, Gal.
I'm going to ask Jocko Willink.
You're a Navy SEAL.
You were a Navy SEAL.
Could you have done that pipeline?
I thought you were going to ask him about his chin.
I'm not mentioning that.
I'm scared now.
I'm backing away from all of that.
I'm backing away from all of that.
All of that stuff that was a bit sort of homoerotic and flirty, I'm not doing any of it.
I will go.
Jocko.
Do you like egg chop?
Can I ask you a personal question?
Do you get enough yolk on your eggs?
Or would you say that you need an extra squeeze?
Listen, you fucking little bitch!
You little man bitch!
Dick Cheney, can I ask you outright, face to face, man to man, do you have enough egg yolk?
Okay, that's enough of that for now.
On Thursday's show, we're going to be learning about tapping to interrupt our little systems, and that's with Nick Orner.
He's my friend, and he's a tapping expert.
Well, if you don't know about tapping, you'll have to watch the show.
It certainly shows.
It certainly shows.
You've been taught well.
Huh?
You've been taught well.
That's right.
Tappity-tap.
You don't see tapping like this on the ice street, my man.
This is top-class tapping.
That's tapping like Mama used to make.
You see that?
You see me tap?
Oh, yeah.
Well, then, I'm tapping on the streets, gangnam style.
You see me tap?
There's plenty more where this came from.
I'll tell you that.
Eggchuck!
I like your eggchuck!
So join us on Stay Free AF.
It's $33 to watch another 15 minutes of this, if you can handle it.
You can't handle the truth.
Can you?
Oh, all right.
We'll see you in a minute, then.
Stay Free.
See you in a minute.
Stay Free AF.
Tomorrow we'll be back.
You can join us live at Draco Willink.
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Amazing.
Stay Free.
See ya.
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