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Oct. 19, 2022 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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Stay Free with Russell Brand #016 - Pfizer And Avengers - What Is A Hero? Plus Guest Biet Simkin
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You're not alone.
In this video, you're going to see the future.
I'm so happy that you've joined us today for Stay Free with Russell Brand, where we give you a unique approach to global affairs, where we give you, is it, would you call it a sideways look at global affairs?
That's a polite term for it, I think.
We're looking at it from another perspective and I suppose mostly a perspective of absolute love and devotion.
A deep belief in a unitary force that underwrites all reality that within you there is grace and beauty.
Why don't you in the chat below ask us anything you want to know as we embark on a voyage discussing today Pfizer and Avengers, what is a hero?
The reason we're asking this question is that now that vaccines are no longer publicly funded, Pfizer have entered into a commercial partnership with Marvel and in particular the Avengers, I think just in their comic book branch, not the movies.
Not in the films yet, it's not the latest edition, Pfizer.
Because it would be harder to phase four, phase Pfizer, Marvel heroes.
It'd be harder to sort of push that agenda on a big screen.
Good name for a baddie, though.
Good name for a baddie, if you need a new one.
What are you suggesting, Gareth?
I'm not suggesting anything.
I'm just saying it's a good name.
What would baddie Pfizer's sort of like a glove with a bunch of syringes on them?
I'm not saying that.
But I've had five of these jams already!
You need five more!
Where's your booster?
You'll irritate Thanos!
Isn't it though?
The truth of the matter is, I don't know what's best for you.
I don't even know what's best for me.
I just want to be involved in an honest and open conversation with you so that all of us as individuals and collective communities are well informed so that we can make decisions for ourselves and for our families and those that we love that are not so biased by commercial interests And governmental ineptitude, that we live in a kind of delirium.
And I think it's a worthwhile question because, I don't know if you've noticed, but we appear to be teetering on the brink of Armageddon.
Like literally, people are rehearsing for Armageddon.
I don't want to worry you, I don't want to worry you, because deep down, and actually on the surface, I believe things are going to be okay.
I think humanity is going to be okay.
I believe that love is stronger than hate.
I believe that the forces that are within us, whether that's individually or collectively, are ultimately Benevolent.
And that we will move in that direction.
That's what I believe.
But remember, I'm quite seriously mentally ill.
You know what else is moving in a certain direction as well?
Missiles.
Just to let you know.
Was also moving.
Gav, the producer of the show, makes a good point.
Missiles are moving in a certain direction.
And he did the right one.
Putin is moving missiles to what sort of new locations where if it comes to the crunch you can fire them at us.
Guess so.
What I'd say is, don't annoy him.
Don't wind him up.
Also joining us is young Putin and Subi over there.
They will be conveying your comments to us.
So convey your comments to us and be loving to one another in the chat.
Be loving to one another at all times.
But don't be stupid.
I mean, you know, don't turn yourself into an idiot.
I just want to say hello to a few of you.
Kay Winter, you're joining us from Canada.
Hello over there in Canada.
Are you allowed outside yet?
What happens if you take a truck to Toronto and go... Does your bank account get shut down?
What if James Blunt went to Canada?
Hey, is that James Blunt?
Are you trucking?
No, sorry, I'm just actually telling you that you're beautiful.
Price his accounts!
Let me open my bank account!
I've a fortune in there from these banners!
You're making it worse for yourself!
Oh, what about Mr Galway?
We don't know where you are and Ibzbzbz says what up.
We've got new members to our Stay Free AF community just to let you know.
That if you are a member of our Stay Free AF community, you get to join me when I do incredible live interviews with people like Jordan Peterson coming up, Elon Musk coming up, date to be confirmed, uh Cartol, date actually confirmed, and you can join me in in Stay Free AF and like chat along and ask me questions.
Yesterday I spoke to Navy SEAL Jocko Willink and actually asked him, like I said, regular viewers of the show will know that I've told you that I'm going to ask like, you know, you want to talk to, if you're going to talk to a Navy SEAL, When there's been a mysterious explosion down in the old Nord Stream 2 pipeline that could have been done by Russia, but could have been done by America, why not ask a Navy SEAL?
Later on in the show, I'll show you what Jocko Willink said when I asked him that question.
I didn't ask him some of the questions I said I was going to ask him, like in previous shows I joked about that I'd maybe say to Jocko, Jocko, do you love me?
Stuff like that, didn't I?
Well, no.
It doesn't seem like the appropriate question.
I actually acted quite tough.
So when you see, like, you know, in Subcutaneous, it's next week's episode of Subcutaneous.
Those are the deep, under-the-skin style conversations that I have with people.
It's definitely not under the skin.
That's a previous brand name that I used with a previous contract.
You'll see that I act in a very dignified way with Jocko.
And you did rather well as well, Soobs, I thought, in the questions.
Were you intimidated?
Little bit, yeah.
He's an intimidating guy.
Do you think you got under his skin?
Yeah, there was a bit where I did think I did get under Jocko Willink's skin, because I was a bit late, and like, I feel like if you've been in the Navy SEALs, one of the things you'll be pretty on top of is punctuality.
And if someone just sort of rocks up five minutes late, Oh Jocko, sorry I'm late mate, I was having a kombucha, I'm playing with my crystals.
You little man bitch!
He was actually quite lovely and he didn't like being characterised in any way.
He's obviously a very intelligent man, a brilliant leader and a successful businessman.
Didn't like coming across like Dick Cheney then.
I made mistakes, Gal.
Mistakes have been made.
Look, I'm trying to welcome our Stay Free AF members, including Cava Girl, Wheel of Time, The Alien Morbo, Autumn Rose, and Devastation Dan.
How lovely to be joined.
You sound like Avengers.
You sound like Phase Fizer heroes, you guys.
Let's see what's going on on your planet during the time that you are alive.
This is a good time to do it.
Here is what that is.
NATO and Russia are holding long-planned exercises of nuclear forces.
They're holding exercises of their nuclear forces.
That's right, yeah.
The news sometimes takes words out.
I don't even know why they do it.
Why don't they do that in news?
Why don't they just talk normally?
Because they're like, alright, I'll put this into normal.
It looks like NATO and Russia are rehearsing for Armageddon because tensions over Ukraine remain high.
Should we have a look at them practicing for when the old planet, the planet that Jesus lived on, Mohammed peace be upon him, all the fluffy bunny rabbits and stuff.
Remember the rabbits?
Think of them, the little lovely rabbits of the world.
Your nans, your grandans, all them guys, they're gonna blow that up!
Over a sort of argument, as famous as I can understand.
That's my petrol!
Gasoline.
Basically, people are very keen that their cars don't run out of gas and that you pay a high price for that bloody stuff.
Let's see what they're practising.
Any nuclear strike by Russia would receive a response from Ukraine's allies.
He didn't exactly say what it would be.
He said it would be a physical response.
I, for example, would be sending a basket of muffins.
Anyone who tries to annihilate me using uranium in its worst possible form.
A little bit, uh, later from the French president, Emmanuel Macron.
He seemed to almost contradict that.
Emmanuel Macron saying that, uh... That person liked saying Emmanuel Macron.
Macron.
Emmanuel Macron, I know how to say it properly.
Emmanuel Macron.
Some people lean into it, don't they?
Yeah, don't lean into that.
Macron!
Emmanuel Macron!
I don't... I'm not a fan of Emmanuel Macron.
Oh?
You know I don't like the boy band presidents.
No, you're not a fan.
I don't like the boy band ones.
Who's your least favourite?
I... like... Do you think...
I don't like to criticise people because they're all human beings, and they're all children of God, and they're all worthy of love.
I don't like Trudeau, though.
And I don't like the ones that have come on, that have been elected, in my view, on the basis of a haircut.
I think, like, yeah, start with a haircut, but also be actually good at running countries.
Do you want to know what they're called, these exercises?
I thought you might be interested.
So they're both holding exercises, which I think is interesting that they both practice for it.
Like if you were doing like a football match, you're like, right, this bit's the bit where they both practice and then they do the match.
This is the training phase.
Is it like the warmup?
It's like the warmup.
Yeah, it is that.
Are they warming up for the end of the world?
They're warming up to, if they have to go and do these nuclear strikes, they're warming up for that.
And they're, like, they call them exercises.
And then the US, the NATO one is called Steadfast Noon.
That's its name.
And the Russian exercise is called Grom.
Oh, they're going to win.
They're going to win.
That sounds so much more scary, innit?
OK, time for Steadfast Noon.
Steadfast Noon.
Steadfast Noon.
That's just a really committed snack.
Where's Grom?
Grom!
Oh, no!
No!
Like, Steadfast Noon, I think I could get through that.
That sounds like a cake, a bit of tiffy.
It just happens at midday.
Oh, well, what's the time?
Well, it's 11.59.
Bit of Steadfast Noon.
I once went on holiday, by mistake, with Nell Style, to a place where lots of Russian folk were, doing their Christmas that's near our Christmas, but somehow a bit different, and a couple of days later, you know riffs on Christmas?
Awful people.
Those monsters!
How dare you!
Let's go to war with them!
You do Christmas different, I'll show you Christmas!
Christmas should be a bit different!
Fuck you!
Steadfast Noon!
Grom!
I'll give you Steadfast Noon!
I'll Grom you!
This is Grom, right?
Steadfast Noon as a sex move sounds a bit boring.
Always about the sex moves, isn't it?
Grom, I say, is that you affix your mouth... No, I'm not going to go into it.
I'm not even... Hey, did you see?
I grommed Becky in the locker room!
Don't you gromm me!
Don't you gromm me!
Till I say... You better not gromm me till we're married!
Sorry.
Stop now!
What did that look mean?
I liked it.
No, it was just... I was just looking at you in awe.
Awe?
Yeah.
Oh.
Yeah.
It means thunder in English.
Yes it does, Will.
Shit.
It does.
Bring the grom!
The Russian, even their language, and when I went on this holiday by mistake with Russian folk, well look, I'm not being racist against Russians because I believe that we're, as I keep telling you, that we are all one and that separation is an illusion and that we must overcome the inner institutions of the ego and self-centeredness, Russell.
I'm speaking to myself here.
Before we even embark on trying to make the world a more peaceful and beautiful and loving place.
However, when I was on holiday with the Russians, everyone looked so odd.
Like the blokes, the women, everyone.
And I made a mistake, I was single then.
Kids.
And I saw this woman, she was getting out of the swimming pool, and I did, it wasn't like, you know, I did a, your telly's, your telly's broke mate, your telly's broke.
And like I done a, like I done a, like a look to this person, like sort of like, just a kind of, hey!
It's just that, low level, low level.
I'm not talking Grom level.
No, no.
It was just like, I don't know, what's the Russian word for... Hey!
It was just like that.
Brezhnev!
Krasnost perestroika!
Like that.
Anyway, whoever she was at least married to or seemed to have some sort of proprietal relationship with this woman.
I see him, look at me, like this.
It was like Grom.
It was like Jocko Willink.
It was Jocko Willink.
Right.
You had a sort of a serious air of... And then everyone that worked, not worked there, but that was on that holiday looked well-armed.
Everyone, like everyone else except for me, was Russian and everyone else except for me looked very, very good at fighting.
And I thought, is this what, as a cross-section of the Russian people, Why are they not more... Why is there no... Where are the nerds?
Right.
Where are the Russian nerds?
Where's the Russell equivalent?
Right, where are the Bohemians?
Where are the Shaggers?
Where are the Lotharios?
Where are the errant boy-childs?
Where's the mystery little orphan match girl?
Like, everyone in Russia looks hard.
So, bear that in mind before going to war with them.
Also, don't you remember, like, both the Napoleonic Wars and the Second World War?
Russia, they are so hard.
Like, they just will not... You can't beat Russia!
I'm intrigued to know what you did, because when you're in that situation, do you either go, like, again, lean in to trying to be more hard, or move further away so that you're really not hard?
Look, I considered both options, because, like, I do sometimes... Like, even yesterday with Jocko Willink, I thought, I'm not going to try to mimsy my way through this, like little Nancy Ninkum poop.
Like, I was like this.
This is me with Draco.
Hi Draco, good to meet you.
Good to see you again, mate.
I'm not like, you know, he's on the other end of Zoom.
Well, this hair, oh, I could cut it any time I want.
I'm not attached to it.
Grown-ish.
You know, like, sometimes you hear, like, SAS men, like, they actually got long beards and long hair now, because they're so SAS.
They've gone full circle, and they're living in the jungle, got a bellyache, want to go to the toilet, too late.
I'm that now, right?
That's what I am.
Like Rambo.
Yeah.
Did he believe that?
No.
No, he knows what I am, Draco.
You can tell that he conducts himself with absolute certainty that he could kill me whenever he wants to.
I live only out of Draco Willink's kindness.
If Draco Willink decides it's over for you now, what am I going to do?
I'd like...
Look, I do, as you know, jujitsu.
I'm very good.
But, like, with Draco, there's certain people you think, I wouldn't feel that confident in a fight with Draco Willink if I had a gun.
And, like, Draco Willink, he starts there, and I've got my gun, and Draco goes... Like, even the bit where he says, now!
Alright, that's the beginning of the fight.
I might go... I might drop the gun out of panic.
I mean, I don't know if I'd have it in me to sort of go...
Right!
Take that, Jocko!
It doesn't seem like your personality, I'll be honest.
I didn't feel right doing it then!
You didn't look right.
I'm worried that Jocko's watching this like, you better not try that.
You little man bitch!
You man bitch!
So he'll pull me through the telly, and suddenly, oh no, I'm in Jocko world!
Like, it's a good interview, and I enjoy it, because I thank the Lord, and if I didn't, I wouldn't tell you.
I love and respect Draco Willink.
In fact, I sent him an email.
I'm not good at emails, Gal, because I don't want to get replies from any of these people.
Well, no one's replying, are they?
What I'm glad about is that I'm married and I'm not in the market for a Navy SEAL or a tech billionaire richest man in the world because otherwise I'd just live in constant heartbreak because all I get is rejection.
If you like me, tell me in the chat!
Be kind, use emojis, the modern ones.
Scars, don't use smiley face now, a monkey do that.
No one wants that anymore, no one wants red heart.
I'm trying to keep up with the times, Jocko!
I'm trying to keep up with the times, Jocko!
We got on quite well, but has he?
I've checked the emails though.
Don't need to know about my personal business.
No, there should be a part of the show where it's Russell checks his texts.
Russell anxiously checks his texts for approval while claiming that everything is already resolved in the great oneness within which we all participate.
Why are you so worried about your emails for then?
Putin, meanwhile, declares martial law in annexed areas as Ukraine pushes offensive.
Martial law.
There's different types of law.
There's martial law.
There's sharia law.
There's law of the jungle.
Law of attraction.
Law of diminishing returns.
Is that all the laws?
That's it.
And I think they're all encapsulated.
I think he's doing all of them.
Who?
Putin.
I'm not just doing martial, I do also diminishing returns.
See what other laws, let me know in the chat what other laws you can think of, I'm interested in laws.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden.
Joe, he's not declaring no martial law.
No.
Apparently his approval ratings are stuck at 40% and he's done one of those things again where he's on a stage and he's acted unusually.
This time, for those of you listening to this as a podcast, which you can do on Spotify, iTunes, anywhere you get your podcasts from, He is doing what looks like some sort of an announcement with another guy and it goes a bit wrong, doesn't it?
Let's watch Joe do that announcement.
He's just left the stage, another man is talking.
Joe Biden, I would call it he's sort of hovering like a phantom.
It's like he's preparing for the afterlife.
Let's have a look.
I mean the journalist does direct this question to Joe, to the President.
Right, because then this guy none of us know who he is, obviously if you're an American or if you're well informed
about current affairs, which I'd imagine we might be, but like, we'll know who this dude is. But yeah, let's
check out what happens.
And the people who have privately held loans, will they at some point become eligible for this forgiveness because
they...
I don't think either of them are handling it this well, because the guy in the red tie is grinning about people's
loans becoming perhaps defunct or going out of control with hyperinflation
or being defaulted on or whatever terrible financial trap they've got you in now, having made you borrow that money.
And then...
Biden looks baffled.
Biden's own waxwork would think, come on mate, get come alive, wouldn't it?
Like that's, that's what, like you can probably go to places in our country, it'd be called Madame Tussauds, wouldn't it?
Yeah.
Madame Tussauds, she was a madam that made waxworks and I've, I've had one of me.
Yes.
I like him.
Anyway, Joe Biden's one would, I think, be more lively than this.
Let's see what he does next.
Shall I unpause it?
I've got the buttons.
Oh, nice.
What's he thinking in that bit?
What's he thinking in that bit now?
Where's his eyes going to?
Where are your eyes going?
Like, what he needs there is a waft of adolescent hair.
If he got a waft of a teenage bonnet, you could lead him off the stage with that.
You could lead him about like a truffle pig, like with a waft of adolescent hair, and he would truffle pig.
Hey!
No serious boyfriends till you're 30!
So now, what's he thinking in his mind now?
Let's study his eyes to see where he is.
Thumbs up.
Thumbs up.
Whatever he said.
I don't think that that guy did a very satisfactory response.
No.
It wasn't even on mic.
Get on mic and answer the questions of the American people that pay your wages.
Later on the show, you're going to love this.
I've got my friend Biette Simpkin coming on.
She's a breath master.
She knows how you can use respiration techniques to attain new levels of consciousness.
And me and my producer and creative partner, Gareth, will do those exercises along with her.
And what you will experience if you do these exercises at home is a transcendent...
realm of consciousness that's within yourself, so that's a good offer.
You're not going to get that. It's nice to know that there is a transcendent realm of
consciousness as William James, the American theologian, said, separated by the
thinnest of veils.
There are other realms of consciousness. If you've taken psychedelics or if you're
on psychedelics right now, you would know that's true, baby.
So, why are you showing me this? That's their waxworks, I think it must be.
Oh, that's Joe Biden and Kamala Harris?
They actually look better.
Do you know what?
Put Joe Biden's waxwork in charge.
Kamala Harris is one.
I think real Kamala Harris looks better than that.
But Joe Biden's one, that's actually all you need from him.
Because if you're going to have a stooge president whose power is only nominal and symbolic, who can't be making the decisions that are being attributed to him because of his observable senility, just have A wax one, and then you could, like, make it dance.
You could use, like, uh... You'd better have the robot dogs that are making those deliveries for Amazon as president.
We'll be talking to... about them in a couple of seconds now.
Meanwhile, in our country, it's called the UK, Liz Truss, which is a type of prime minister, that's our prime minister, our president figure, she's apologized for going too far and too fast with economic charges.
That, again, sounds like sort of erotic.
I've gone too far and too fast.
Sorry about the smell.
I'm sorry about that, but come on, be grown up.
If you want to play the game, you've got to pay the price.
Let's have a look at Liz Farr apologising for going too far, too fast.
You saw the whole of the moon, the whole of the moon.
Now is the time to focus on delivering, making sure that we are Delivering all that.
She's blinking too much times.
Yeah.
Watch the blinking.
One thing I'll say is watch the blinking.
Two, I'm gonna say why is she dressed like that?
Is that an attempt to seem sort of more serious?
Is there a pressure on women in positions of power to sort of emulate the traditional military derived dress of men in positions of power?
Is the tie an arrow to the genital?
Or is the tie cutting off the head from the body?
What is the function of the necktie?
Is it to say that we're disembodied, not embodied?
Or is it an arrow to the genital?
These are all questions that we must ask ourselves.
Is there going to be a test after this?
Yes.
There's a test coming up.
We're going to take you to another realm of consciousness with Beate Simpkin doing breath exercises, so if you are listening to this as a podcast, pull over and watch it only here on this site, Rumble.
Also though, she's doing too much blinking.
I'm a father.
I have two daughters, as you know, Gareth.
You're the godfather of my oldest child.
And what I'll say is, like, sometimes now, when I'm in my better states, when I feel connected to love and to God, when I don't see the world as a playground of things, of opportunities to consume or seek pleasure, I look at people, even people in positions of power, and I think, this is a child.
And I feel a bit sorry for her.
Right.
You know, I feel like, she's a person.
You don't mean a literal child, do you?
Luckily.
No, I do not mean that.
I mean a child in a figurative sense.
And what I mean by that is, like, she's trying her hardest.
And imagine, like, she would have been at school one day going, one day I'll probably be prime min... Well, not probably.
One day I might be prime minister!
Like, she's worked really hard, and now she actually is prime minister, and it must be a total nightmare.
It's not going well.
She's broken the economy.
Look at the pound.
Just gone down to there.
Yeah, but what does she think about when she, like, takes all that money from fossil fuel companies and things like that?
She thinks it's necessary, Gareth.
Okay, right.
She thinks it's necessary.
This is the system.
I don't have any power.
It's not my fault.
If I don't do it, someone else will.
All those things.
I have to do this.
This is just the system the fossil fuel companies have.
We have this relationship.
Like, that's what she thinks.
Sure.
Like, whoever... People, when they're doing crazy stuff, they can justify it to themselves, can't they?
Like, the worst monsters in history, they're trying their hardest, aren't they?
To be nice.
In their own way.
In their own sweet way.
Stalin, Hitler.
They're just like, this has gotten a bit out of hand now.
I think if I just push through.
I didn't really mean that.
A bit more genocide, maybe.
Oh no, it's gone too far.
Like, it's just a calamity after calamity.
When I was a boy, that was, you know, when I was a boy, I had this, it wasn't a fish tank, it was a bowl that was meant to be making a cake in.
Oh God, what did you do?
You can buy these little shrimps down at a pet shop.
Oh no.
You can get these little shrimps down at a pet shop and they're meant to be fed to, I think, to other fish.
But I saw them as creatures in their own... Your new family!
So I brought my new family home with me and I put them in the brown bowl.
It was a bit brown, so I did feel that it wasn't the right light conditions, but I didn't let that worry me.
I put them in the brown bowl in the bedroom and I pledged to them that I, as their leader and primary lover and caregiver, would look after them.
They jumped out of there.
I didn't know they were going to do that.
They kept jumping out of there.
They'd rather risk death than be in your new family.
Gareth, that is an interpretation I find it hard to disagree with.
So they were jumping out there, they're little see-through shrimps.
They've not even bothered to not be see-through.
What kind of deal is that?
So they're jumping out and they're on my blue carpet in my bedroom now.
And then in the melee that followed, I'm trying to solve it, the whole bowl gets knocked over.
I get the vacuum cleaner.
I think this has got to be solved.
We're in a crisis.
This is a clear up job now.
So I just tried to vac up the water.
But you can't vac up water unless it's nowadays and it's a special vacuum cleaner by Dyson or one of those people that do vacuum cleaners like that.
So it goes into that brown bag that's inside the vacuum cleaner and that turns into sog.
A messy, shrimpy, soggy mess.
And then I hear my mum's coming home and I'm sort of like running.
Oh no!
Oh no!
The bowl!
The shrimps!
I'm coming darling, Russell!
I can't wait to do some baking!
I'm going to make you a lovely shrimp cake!
Oh no!
Oh no!
And it just escalated really, like I apologised and you know... Who to?
The shrimp?
I apologise to their god, to their shrimp god, to the platonic form of ultimate shrimp, from which all shrimps must surely have come at some point.
And I do think that this is what's happened to Liz Truss.
She's tried to... In her case though, it was the British economy is that cake bowl, and the shrimps is us, the people of Britain.
We've tried our best to get the hell out of there, we didn't want to be in there, and Liz is now vacuum-cleanering us up.
With a series of errors to reverse her initial undertaking, which was evidently ill-advised.
One chancellor, another chancellor, all these people spend their whole lives trying to learn this stuff.
They can't do it, can they?
No.
Stop it!
The system's broken.
Stop having...
Centralised government.
Let us all run our own communities.
Only have centralised government where it's helpful for municipal facility.
Stop using power as an opportunity to pursue basic goals like selfishness and greed.
Stop being stooges and henchmen of invisible deep state power and allow people to run their own lives.
Is that too much to ask?
Is what my mum said to me when she got back and said, Mum, this is only taking place in shrimp land.
This is only in Shrimp Land.
I'm a tyrant, but only in Shrimp Land.
Let's see what Liz says next.
I can unpause it, Gareth.
Don't patronise me!
There's a button here with a triangle on it, drawn by pen.
I'll show you one day.
I won't move it because it's attached to so many wires, but you should see what's on here so that I can understand which button to press.
It's insulting to all of us.
Energy package, so before we stepped in, people were facing energy bills of up to £6,000.
That's a lot.
It's more time with our eyes shut than open.
She's blinking, she can't, like, she must be like, she's watching like Charlie Chaplin.
What must reality look like to someone who blinks that much?
You think it's like a code to the aliens or something?
This is going really well, anytime now.
She's thinking, beam me up!
Beam me the fuck up off this planet!
Because who's she morse coding with those eyeballs of hers?
I don't know man, but whoever that message is for.
We've now put in place the energy price guarantee, we've reversed the national insurance increase, and that's what I'm thinking about as Prime Minister.
That's what I'm thinking about as Prime Minister!
There's so much deception and duplicity and abstraction from reality that a person finds themselves saying the sentence, that's what I'm thinking about as Prime Minister.
You don't have to say that you are as Prime Minister.
You are Prime Minister!
No.
Like, you know me, I'm me.
Well, I'm the Prime Minister.
And as that, I'm thinking this.
Yeah.
That's not an embodied way of thinking and communicating.
No, it's wonk speak, isn't it?
That's wonk speak.
Because they don't have recourse to authenticity, integrity, honesty, the value system by which government should be run.
Our systems ought be underwritten by those principles that all of us understand.
Wherever we're from, however we were raised, we know we're supposed to be being honest, being of service to others, being kind.
So because that, oh shit we can't do any of that and still serve our Corporate overlords.
So I'm gonna have to say some weird wonkish thing.
That's what I'll be thinking about as Prime Minister.
Blink every so forth.
I do staring contests with my children.
I'm toughening them up.
My life with Jocko.
After I've gone.
That's your idea of fun games?
Come on children!
They're quite good, aren't they?
We're gonna go and play with the shrimp!
No!
Come back!
Leave those shrimp!
They're mine!
They will be raised from the dead, shrimp zombies!
But they look cute when they're doing it as well, while they're staring at you like that, huh?
Liz Truss, she'd have no chance.
She's blinking, that's like, she's done about five rounds of blinking in five seconds there.
Like, if that was boxing, she's on the canvas as soon as the bell's gone.
Well, apparently she is.
83% of the Tory members have lost faith in her, apparently.
Which is an interesting term to use.
Faith.
Faith is the belief That things will be okay, even though you don't know how.
Just a general sense that things will be okay, I don't know how.
Do you have faith in this trust?
No.
I know that it's not going to be okay.
I don't know how it would be okay, and I don't believe it would be anyway.
I can't even imagine how it would be okay.
Is she going to blink herself to another dimension?
Is she going to blink so many times?
Like money starts to come out or something.
Wait a minute!
Is money coming out of her eyes now?
It's like an arcade machine.
Oh, man, the pound's going up!
This is brilliant!
Oh, keep blinking, Liz!
It's the answer!
She's blinked us to freedom!
God love her.
Meanwhile, Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a.
Rock, is... No, The Rock.
Yeah.
Well, you work with him, you should know.
I do know him.
What did you call him?
Let me think.
Alright.
If you know him very well, DJ.
Wow.
You know, if you hear a nickname, you think, am I going to use the nickname?
Young Putin?
Use it all the time.
Always call him Young Putin, Young Putin.
He look like a Young Putin, I call him a Young Putin.
Yeah.
Rock, you don't go, like, alright, I've been in this situation a couple of times.
There's Puff Daddy.
Yeah.
I call him, well, he didn't want to be called Puff Daddy.
He said it's P. Diddy now.
He told me that explicitly.
But for some reason, I wouldn't accept it.
Right.
Because I feel like hip-hop stars, you've already gotten yourself a great hip-hop name.
But some of them, Slim Shady, Eminem, Marshall Maverick, like he's got a few there, hasn't he?
That's a few different ones.
I'm not telling people what to do, obviously.
But with Puff Daddy, I was in a position where I could do something about it.
You start with Puff Daddy, you're staying with Puff Daddy.
It's Diddy now, P. Diddy, he'd say.
I like also saying Puff.
You know, hey Puff, like that.
He never answered.
There's another one in the old text.
No response there.
Dear Puff Daddy, is it too late to call thee Diddy?
But it was too late.
So him, I messed up the nickname.
Now with DJ, aka Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, Um, like, I just tried not to bother him too much when I had scenes with him.
Like in, I was in a show called Ballers on HBO.
Don't worry, no one did.
And like, uh, so when I was like, uh, doing that, what I used to do is just be very nice and very polite, um, and try not to irritate him.
No.
And I think it went quite well.
Yeah.
Well, he was very encouraging when you had to get your bottom out, wasn't he?
She was encouraging.
On day two of working on Ball, here I am with The Rock.
He's lovely, isn't he?
He's lovely!
There I am looking over at him.
So when I was doing that show, Ballers, wish I was a little bit taller, there was a scene where I had to get my bum out, like walking down the beach.
Now obviously when you get your bum out, typically what you do is you put your I was worried about it.
It was that day!
It was that day!
a little hammock, such as Saddam Hussein popped his head into before the executions.
So you pop your little nuts and wink-a-swoo into there and then you have to sort of, in
this instance, it was in Malibu on the beach and I had to sort of, like someone say, action,
and I had to throw off this sort of warm coat and then walk naked down the beach.
I was worried about it, it was that day, it was that day!
Wow.
Yeah, there I am with Rob Corddry, brilliant actor, and Dwayne Johnson.
And a little bit later that day, on that very beach, they go, you know, Russ, what would be so funny?
And I go, go on, what would be so funny, Rock and other fellas, if you took off... Humiliate yourself.
I can see that would be funny for everyone else in the whole world, except for me.
No.
See, it's funny how this keeps happening.
Funny how what's funny always involves me humiliating myself.
This literally looks like the moment they've told you that's what you're going to do.
What?
That's me.
That's why I'm going, what, Rock?
What?
Right?
So like, uh, but Rock is also producer of this show.
Yeah.
And like, so I thought, I'll ask Rock.
I go, Rock, um, when later, as we've all discussed how funny it is that I get my bum out, I'm a bit actually...
I'm a bit embarrassed about it, you know?
Actually, they told me the day before, so I'd had some chance to practice getting my bum out in front of my wife.
And I said, would you mind taking a photograph of my bottom, just so I know what it looks like?
Just for the annual.
For the yearly calendar!
For the Christmas card!
December!
Anyway, what I will tell you is if you are ever having to reveal your bottom, you may feel like the good thing to do, the right thing to do, is tense it.
Don't tense it, that can lead to dimpling, unless you've got very low body fat.
Just relax your bum.
Relax your mind and relax your bum.
Just relax.
Don't do it.
What you do is just relax.
Don't think I can control this bum.
I can make it look great by tensing it.
Just relax it and let it go.
Not too far because otherwise it could be consequences, but relax to a point.
And then just walk into the sea with extras paraded, you know, background artists either side of you like that as a corridor.
Yeah, flanking.
I was flanked by them, like human, like they were providing a human chance.
There was paparazzis there.
Oh, that's just what you need.
Yeah, for when you're worried about your butt dimples.
Yeah.
Of course, though, of course, the fact is, is they were there for Rock.
Sure.
You know?
And I didn't mind that.
They just thought there was some crazy naked guy there.
Who's this guy?
He's ruining the Rock's day doing that.
The Rock's not going to enjoy that, is he?
Oh, look, Rock seems to be permitted it.
Oh, he's getting angry!
He's punching him in the back of the head!
And then I just went and walked off into the sea.
It was just like they said, this character's so unusual, wouldn't it be funny if he just took all his clothes off and walked into the sea?
And I don't know if it was funny or not, Gareth.
We'll find out.
We'll find out in retrospect.
Anyway, The Rock is in the news because he says, uh, they asked him, would he be a good Prime Minister?
Let's have a look at Rock responding to that inquiry.
There.
There he is.
Looks amazing, of course.
Thank you.
Are you ready for a Mother Johnson Prime Minister?
Maybe Rock Prime Minister?
I will tell you this.
It's great to be back in London, I'll tell you that.
So The Rock has more diplomatic skill than Joe Biden.
The Rock has realised, don't criticise the British Prime Minister because it's going to be a pain in the arse for everybody.
But like Biden in the old ice cream shop, yeah they shouldn't do that!
Went all nuts and so maybe Rock should be, although I don't know about with that satin.
I don't know.
People like it.
Apparently, they want him to do it.
Okay.
Of our country?
No, not of our country.
America?
Of America, yeah.
Fair enough.
He's apparently left the door open to a future presidential run, but right now he's focused on fatherhood.
Just to let you know.
Right, it's good to know, it's good to know.
But personally, if you're going to have You know, a person be a president, and it doesn't make any difference because the systems of power that underwrite the entire system won't shift.
Yeah, have a movie star one.
At least it'll be good.
Yeah, it would be great.
Maybe I'll get something out.
Ray Russell, do you know what would be funny?
For the people of America, get your ass out.
I don't know, Rock.
Well, I'm president now.
I mean, I could actually make you do it when we were just people in a TV show.
Now I've actually got a nuclear capacity.
Well, I'm just standing... Oh, no!
Once is enough, Rock!
Once is enough!
You say... You say... You ready for this, Jelly?
You think you are?
Eh?
That's what I'll say.
Yeah.
Call the press conference.
Yeah, if he pressures me, I will do it.
1.3 million US adults with diabetes.
Look, we're going to talk about some serious stuff later.
The Avenger Marvel thing and the obvious implications for the commodification of medicines and the propagandist implications of a move like that.
And the history of using cartoon characters to convey social messages.
All of that's going to get done.
I don't know when.
I know.
Long show.
Long show.
We've got to do this and also there's loads to tell you but it's just there's only so much time.
I want to tell you that... Just to let you know that that does this story literally fits in with what you just said.
Tell me how?
Well because insulin now 1.3 million US adults with diabetes are having to ration their own insulin because it costs so much now and that is almost entirely due to the fact that Big pharma companies are inflating the prices.
So just so you know, Eli Lilly has hiked the list price of the insulin product Humalog by an inflation adjusted 680% since it started selling it in 1996.
percent since it started selling it in 1996. Now I think 680 percent seems excessive for
Why?
profits.
Yeah that's too much.
Don't be so mean, because I know people that are diabetic.
That's the last thing they need.
Sometimes they have to jab themselves with that pen in a chat, don't they?
Yep.
They go.
My mates with Shepard Fairey, the artist, he'd go like that with his diabetic pen.
I sometimes feel a bit jealous.
Oh, right.
You know?
It feels like you've got, you're in control.
Sure, yeah, yeah.
I also feel like he's acting quite cool when he's doing it.
Like, he feels like he's got one... Where's your pen?
Over me.
Yeah.
You know?
I think people do quite like having little things.
It was like you with those little sticks you used to have in your mouth.
I used to numb my mouth.
Initially it began as a part of my now legendary performance as Arthur in the film Arthur.
Oh yeah.
I thought the character should have a...
A numb mouth because he was always, in my mind, coked up.
Even though in the film it didn't mention that and they'd sort of moved away from this more sort of transgressive and decadent perspective.
Because John Belushi, in the one that Dudley Moore done, original Alpha, it was going to be John Belushi playing Alpha.
That was the original intention.
I was like, oh yeah, John Belushi, he would have done it so crazy and like mad and everything.
But that's not the way it went.
The many of you that have seen the film and are hopefully now filling the chat with compliments about my performance.
Compliments that I frankly need.
Um, anyway, so I would numb my mouth.
Those that I, uh, you know, felt like all coked up.
Then I sort of obviously got addicted to it.
They were just these numbing sticks for if you've got canker sores, as you call them in your country, America, or ulcers, as we call them in our country.
Delicious.
So, like, I would numb the old goblet and, uh, That was one of my affectations for a brief while.
Turns out that it didn't win me the Oscar that I'd imagined it might.
Were you trying to do your version of Brando in The Godfather?
Was that what it was?
I'm always trying that.
I'm always trying my version of Brando.
You know, just little moments of raw reality.
That's what all of us want from art, is some sense of truth.
That something real and authentic is happening.
We want to feel connected.
We feel so distracted from reality, don't we?
We feel that we live in a world of commodity.
Everything lived through a screen, devoid of meaning, where there is this odd choreography between commodified commercial products like the Marvel Avengers and a Pfizer vaccine, now that it's no longer paid for by the state and is therefore a commercial and privately purchased product.
They've got to make it appealing to you through advertisements, man.
It's bloody crazy.
It's ridiculous.
Anyway, a bit later when we do this breathwork with Biet, at least then you'll get in touch with a deeper reality.
And if you do it properly, as I instruct and as Biet guides, you will see that, um, you know, you've got access to another dimension, which will cheer you up.
What are you thinking?
No, that's it.
You're just enjoying it.
I was just enjoying it.
Where's your French horn?
That's what I will say to you.
A fleet of dog-like delivery robots will soon roam a Texas college campus.
So let's have a look at these dog robots that are going to be roaming a canvas.
Just one of them, just so we can see what those guys look like.
So look, all of us have seen these dog robots now, and most of us are scared of them because of their unnatural, bug-like appearance.
Insects.
It's weird that our early tech resembles the relatively simple life forms that are insects.
Not that simple, they're incredibly complex.
But it's almost like our technological evolution is mimicking biological evolution, even in a sort of an archetypal way.
That's like an insect more than a dog, particularly a wasp.
But also like the way it's little, like stag beetle.
Let's go.
You wouldn't want that coming up to you, would you?
Delivery!
Delivery!
Get the fuck away from me, you little son of a bitch!
I got a delivery for you, sir!
Like, like, playing it's a dog, because we like dogs.
That's tricky, tricky.
Yeah.
Isn't it?
Yeah.
Like, my dog, I love that guy.
Friendly.
Joyful.
What a little beauty.
Like, not this evil robot dog.
No.
Doing a delivery.
And then, the thing is, is these dogs have been used in a military capacity before, because most of these things are, you know, it's the military-industrial complex that develops it.
Usually with your money!
Usually with your money!
And then it becomes, oh, Amazon are gonna use it.
Are you gonna give us a bit of that money back?
No!
In fact, we're going to charge him again for a delivery from a dog that does this.
I don't like his little trotty.
No, it's very trottery, isn't it?
It's too trotty, and it's... What I don't like, Gareth, is when it shoots that gun.
It scares itself.
Yeah.
Like, go back and look at the... What have I done?!
Sorry about that!
You bloody... Get out of my garden!
It shoots the gun, and then it shits itself, doesn't it?
Like, have a look at the bit where it shoots the gun, Gal.
He's gone!
Bill, I'm in charge.
You tell me what to do.
Don't let dogs get out.
No, fuck you!
I don't want an armed pet.
Your pet is recalcitrant, disobedient, willfully so, enough without arming it.
Yeah, because it's already doing unnecessary, like, stomping in it, isn't it?
I don't need to do all those little tappy taps.
It's likely his truss is blinking.
It's doing too much of a thing that's fine in moderation.
Yeah.
It's like a little Nijinsky mouse dog, isn't it?
Like it's ballet-ing about.
But it's already, you know, it's not doing what it's meant to do, I reckon.
I reckon if you could say, don't shoot any bullets this time, okay.
What do you mean?
It's already taking its own choices.
It's already making its own choices.
Listen, you know I told you not to make so many little trots that you look a little prick?
Also, we'll stop it then, and I specifically said lots of fire!
Today's just the Amazon deliveries, okay?
Okay!
Whatever you say, boss!
It's gone nuts!
Don't trust them, Ross.
I'd like to see that little guy trotting around here with his uncanny.
It's the feeling you get in Exorcist when that girl goes down the stairs.
You know when she sort of flips over and goes down the stairs all like that?
That's right, yeah.
Arachnoid.
Yes.
Arachnoid menace.
Uncanny movement patterns that we are evolved to recognise as potentially dangerous deep in your core being.
You think, mm-mm, that ain't good.
Don't ya?
Yeah.
They'll be like, oh, the trotty dogs here with a machine gun.
Well, that's good news.
Hopefully it won't change its mind about loving us and spray us with bullets, the little monster.
Before we go to our item that we've been teasing, here's the news.
No, here's the effing news, where today we look at Pfizer and the Avengers and the collaboration between the two of them.
I'll just give you one little old bit of news.
Daniel Craig receives the same honour as James Bond.
Yes.
Well, like, these are my problems with... Firstly, I was... Daniel Craig, fantastic guy.
But James Bond's not real.
No, he's fictional.
So any honours James Bond get are made up.
Yeah, and also who's receiving it?
So is Daniel Craig receiving it?
There you go, Daniel.
Does that mean he had to go once as James Bond and just pretend to be him?
Well done, Bond.
Thank you.
I can't come back round.
Ah, Daniel!
Well done, well done.
Oh, thank you.
Nice to see you.
Again.
What's going on?
James Bond is pretend.
Yeah.
A pretend spy.
Daniel Craig's real, but he's only pretending to be James Bond.
Nothing in that's real.
But they've got so many medals that they just need to hand them out to anything now.
Yeah.
You know, just fictional characters.
We've got loads of medals left.
Give them to fictional characters.
Yeah.
Iron Man.
Thank you, Iron Man.
It was especially brave of you to have done that with your bad heart.
Machine gun dog, come over here.
Not that many steps!
Just take the necessary number of steps.
That's about three steps.
I can do a hundred steps in that space!
No!
Stop it, because you're too jittery.
And what I don't want a jittery thing having is a gun.
A jittery thing don't arm someone that's jittery.
No.
Like, that's not on the gun license form, is it?
No, that's if you go for an audition for the army, which I imagine they do.
They audition, that's what they call it as well, Gareth.
Yeah, I imagine so.
Do one classical dance and one modern dance, have a song in baritone.
That's right.
They don't pick the jittery person, do they?
Okay, son, what are you going to bring to these forces?
Well, I like you.
I like you.
You'll be after my job one day.
Yeah, jittery is not what we're after.
But it's a crazy world, that much is clear.
A world in which Pfizer and the Avengers can team up.
I'd like you to keep talking to us in the chat and the comments and rumble like you mean it.
If you're rumbling on a phone, it's with a little plus button, isn't it?
And if you're rumbling on a computer, just have a little look at this picture before we take you into it.
It's a picture of the Avengers, everyday heroes, Captain America, I think she's Captain Marvel, her with a Mohican.
The metally one, don't know who that is in the middle, metally one in the middle, some sort of baddie.
Who's he?
Oh, that's Ant-Man, is he?
Oh, it's Ant-Man.
He's beamed himself up to that big.
And then Scarlett Johansson, and then, uh... You're doing it now.
Mixing up fictional people with real people.
Chris Hemsworth, what you've done with that hammer has made me very, very pleased.
Here's a fucking medal.
Take that.
Um, here's the news.
Hang on a minute, sir.
I think here's the effing news.
Have a look at this.
No, here's the fucking news!
Good news everyone!
Pfizer booster shots are now available on the open market!
We can buy them when we want, how we want!
And the Avengers are endorsing them!
I know which Avenger will enjoy them most!
Tony Stark!
Especially with his heart condition!
Pfizer have enlisted the help of the Avengers to ensure you get more booster shots.
Less than 4% of eligible people have got updated COVID booster shots and only 2% of parents of children under 5 took the vaccine.
But if you think that has any connection to Pfizer partnering with Marvel you're a conspiracy theorist and quite frankly worse than Thanos.
So them teaming up with the Avengers and little cartoon people and getting Elmo off Sesame Street.
Oh, you think that's for marketing?
There was a little pinch.
Those Avengers were a treat for your birthday party.
That would be a good treat for your birthday party, ironically.
Okay, let's see if we can understand this thing.
Just like how the Avengers have repeatedly kept the world safe from Ultron, people need to protect themselves by updating their Covid-19 vaccination with the latest booster.
That's the message Pfizer and BioNTech are trying to get across in a new custom comic book partnered with Marvel.
Why is this happening?
What's the point of it?
Either you need that booster shot or you don't.
Why do we have to drag Captain America into this nightmare?
Isn't Incredible Hulk fragile enough as it is without this problem?
Aren't we concerned about Tony Stark's heart condition?
Shouldn't we be being a bit more careful with these Avengers?
What are we trying to avenge?
Stock prices falling?
We are proud to work with Marvel which is so firmly entrenched in global culture.
Oh god that makes me feel sick that sentence.
And entertainment to help remind people of the actions they can each take to protect themselves.
Similarly, how the Avengers protect their community.
Note the difference.
You protect yourself with a vaccine.
What?
Did you think that you were protecting someone else?
Did you get that idea from somewhere?
The Avengers though, they protect their community.
Like they protect their Nan.
Hey!
If you really love your Nan, you'd get an Avenger, wouldn't you?
That's all though.
That's all.
You'd get an Iron Man to protect and make sure Iron Man's heart's okay.
The new comic titled Everyday Heroes represents Pfizer flexing its marketing muscle.
Covid vaccines are slated to switch to the private commercial market after the US government failed to secure additional funding from Congress.
Because I guess they didn't think it was worth paying any more money.
As Pfizer CEO Albert Baller has said, Pfizer can be even more competitive and its commercial skills are even better suited in an open market than a government contracting model.
Oh, well perhaps you'll give us the money back then.
The project also comes amid a reportedly slow start to the Omicron booster rollout in both the US and Europe.
Oh.
Enter the comic book featuring some of Marvel's most popular and powerful superheroes.
The story happens as Ultron, which is used to represent COVID, has come back again all evolved, just like how coronavirus has developed into new variants.
As the superheroes fight Ultron a few blocks away, a grandpa and his family are waiting to get their COVID shots at a clinic.
This is actual propaganda.
The old man describes to his grandkid how the Avengers relied on new technologies to fight Ultron the first time.
As the villain keeps changing and coming out of a new power, the Avengers keep adapting and re-strategizing to beat him.
The grandpa says in a clear reference to how COVID vaccines are updated.
I mean, for example, the Hulk learned his powers on five mice, not six mice.
He would practice punching those little mice.
And if five or six mice died, Hulk would say, well that's a pretty good power we've got ourselves there.
And that bejeweled glove.
Each one of those jewels of Thanos' glove represents a mouse that got a booster shot.
In this round of the battle, Iron Man arrives with an ionized energy cannon and Ultron flees the scene, a news anchor reports.
The plot leaves the door open to potential follow-up chapters.
I'll be interested to see the edition where Tony Stark, with his heart condition, gets a COVID jab.
It's later revealed that the Grandpa used to work at a company that helps clean up the messes after superhero fights.
Even in the fucking comic book, there's a revolving door of corporate conspiracy.
Actually, before this, I used to work at J.P.
Morgan.
Then I worked for a while as a lobbyist in Washington.
Grandpa, I'm starting to go off you.
Shut up, kid!
It's the way the system works!
That's how I know we can fight back against even tough, ever-evolving enemies.
If you're willing to adapt, fight back, and take steps to help protect yourself, the grandpa says.
A disgusting message.
In the next frame, the father adds, that's exactly what we're doing today.
With a Pfizer poster hanging on the wall in the background.
Oh, Stanley.
Come on, baby.
The story ends with what appears to be a ceremonial scene, featuring the Avengers on stage and the family off stage, all wearing bandages on their arms, indicating they've received the vaccine.
What makes them everyday heroes, one page reads.
They know what to do to help defend against COVID-19.
Vaccinate!
Stay up to date with the latest recommended booster for you and be an everyday hero at Banner States, accompanied by a scannable QR code containing COVID vaccination information from Pfizer.
I suppose in a way it's good to encourage... I don't know what to say!
The world, this is your planet, okay!
Let's see though how Pfizer's profit model is operating and let's cast the mind back to the beginning of the pandemic and the pledges made by big pharmaceutical companies about the unique challenges we face.
Heroism is about self-sacrifice.
Modern-day heroes are the values that used to be enshrined in gods in religions.
In a secular culture, these gods, these energies, come back in different forms, but always they have to embody values that are important to our culture.
Kindness, humility, community.
There's nothing wrong with that.
That's all fantastic.
Do you think that Pfizer are motivated by the desire to help people?
Or do you think they care primarily about profits?
Let me know in the comments.
Let me know in the chat.
Let's have a look at some data to help us make up our own sweet little minds.
In summer 2020, as COVID vaccines moved ahead at warp speed, the companies behind them promised they wouldn't make too much money on them.
Okay, well, I sort of remember hearing that they made billions and had their best ever year.
Their best ever!
We're not gonna make too much money.
Oh, so you won't be having your best and most profitable year ever?
Well, if we do, that would certainly be at odds with what we just said.
Let's carry on.
Johnson & Johnson is Okay.
Okay.
So you would imagine that a statement like that wouldn't be followed by record profits, wouldn't you?
Would you imagine that?
Let me know in the chat.
charging a single price worldwide rather than charging countries like the United States
more. Okay. Pfizer chairman Albert Buller was also emphatic.
His company was developing a COVID vaccine for the good of humanity, not for money, he
told Time magazine July 2020. So you would imagine that a statement like that
wouldn't be followed by record profits, wouldn't you? Would you imagine that? Let me know in the
chat. Let me know in the comments.
This is not business as usual.
Not for our baller, which is a bit taller.
He said, if you were calculating return on investment, we would never do this.
What?
For money?
Over at Pfizer?
Hey, I'm offended.
What, you think those opioids, we're trying to help people with that stuff.
We would never do these things.
We were discussing that back in March, what that means to human lives, to the economy of the world.
So it was a must that we take those measures.
Thus, Pfizer would not overcharge for the mRNA vaccine it was developing with the German company BioNTech, Baller said.
We are going to charge governments a very, very nominal value, he said, because Pfizer would charge so little, it believed governments should give it shots free of charge to all citizens.
Asked directly if Pfizer intended to profit.
Do you intend to profit?
Bourla said, we will make a very, very marginal profit at this stage.
Now, if you're like me and you love language, you would think the significant words in that statement would be, we will make a marginal profit.
Very, very marginal profit.
That's what you would imagine is the important information.
But the important information is actually at this stage.
That is the most important and marginal.
It could be a great bit.
This is a margin.
Whoa!
Look at that margin!
Oh yeah, I can see poor people over there.
That's...
Outrageous at this stage because down the line they made 108 billion.
Do you think Pfizer should be able to keep that money?
Do you think that government should be reimbursed?
Do you think that given that this much of this experimentation was funded by taxpayer money that the profit should be returned to the taxpayer also?
These are just things for you to consider.
Let me know in the chat.
In February, Pfizer forecast that its revenue this year will grow to a total between $98 billion and $102 billion.
That's the highest estimate for the 173-year-old pharmaceutical company ever.
What a mad coincidence!
Pfizer, totally not motivated by money, doing it for the good of humanity, looking for a marginal profit, somehow, against all odds, a bit like Iron Man or something, ended up having the best profits in their entire history.
What a wonderful system!
What a crazy world!
Makes me think of the values of, like, Spider-Man, and Iron Man, and Thor, and all those other great heroes that fight for justice and truth.
Pfizer, Thor, Spider-Man, Johnson & Johnson.
For me, it's all just one panoply of heroes, all just out to help humanity.
That's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the chat.
I'll see you in a second.
Some of those other laws that there are, mate.
Waddle want says law and order.
Patriot Sean, natural law.
Zazaba.
Universal law, natural law, maritime law.
Nice one.
Lucky Dog, oh well.
Murphy's Law.
Oh, that's a good one.
Oh, very good.
Yeah, these are a good one.
You know, in England they always say, Sod's Law.
You drop something, it lands the wrong way up.
Sod's Law.
I've heard my dad once change that to Sea Word's Law.
Just to give it more clout.
Right, yeah.
It's Law, he said.
Daddy, isn't it Sod's Law?
He's watching now.
Is that what happened to my shrimp?
Where's those shrimps?
You killed them!
Well, that's not like that.
He's lovely, Ron Brown.
You watching, Dad?
You alright?
Let us know in the comments.
Fronko P, Jude Law, and Big Bill 235, mother-in-law.
Good contributions, everyone.
Well done.
Thank you.
What a lovely community you are.
How beautiful you are.
Um, the thing was about that Pfizer-Avengers thing is that it's utilizing the idea of heroism.
As we talked about on this show previously, heroism ultimately can only be determined by our willingness to sacrifice for others.
As Bob McKee, the great screenwriter-instructor, told me, and everyone who does his class, Look, if you want to demonstrate heroism, you have to show it through sacrifice, because all else is just affection.
In fact, he said love.
If you want to demonstrate love, you have to show it through sacrifice.
I was thinking about the idea of the hero.
I was thinking about the mythic notion that the hero is the movement from the ego to the transcendent self.
That's the energy that's required to get from the person that's only concerned about what they want and what they're going to get for themselves.
You have to move.
And that's why every film is about A hero undertaking that very journey.
The thing that troubles me is that the people that control the messaging, they know what our values are.
They know what heroism is.
That's why you get things like Albert Baller saying we certainly won't be making any profits from this Pfizer situation like we covered there.
Nominal.
Nominal.
Phenomenal profit, just the biggest profits we've ever made.
Because they know, they actually know it's not right.
Otherwise, why did they say that bit at the beginning?
Because they know it would be wrong to exploit the global pandemic for profit, and yet...
That's exactly what they did.
So among all the other more controversial shifts in narrative, some of which we're not able to talk about on other platforms, but we can here, for example, the general impression that it was going to stop transmission, even though vaccines aren't generally understood to stop transmission, all of that, stop the spread, all of that, if you don't get the vaccine, you're selfish, all of that stuff.
And we have a variety of views on the vaccine here, just so you guys know, but You know, I don't have a strong view on whether or not other people should take tablets or pills or use a cream or one of those pens.
Actually, I do have strong views on that.
They're showing off.
No, they're not.
They're obviously doing it for necessary medical reasons.
It's that exploitation, that...
That shift from a project that was for humanity, that was about the sacredness of human life, about the necessity for us all to pull together, leading to this economic crash, leading to greater ability to spy and gather data, leading to huge profits for already powerful institutions.
That's what troubles me most, and no one can provide a reasonable argument against that position.
Can they, Gail?
No, I mean, you know, when you're at the stage where they're teaming up with the Avengers at a time when, as you say, it's now on the open market, you know, that is clearly a marketing exercise.
There's no other way of looking at it.
Otherwise, you would say, well, we're only doing that to raise awareness.
And as we said, we're taking a nominal profit.
But once you know that those profits are not nominal, that they are record in their entire history, then you have to then view teaming up with the Avengers as being more than just raising awareness.
Yeah, but it's a response to, oh no, we're no longer guaranteed government contracts.
Our share price is going to drop.
How are we going to mitigate that?
Team up with popular commercial partners.
It's plainly that.
If you think it's something else, let me know in the chat.
Or if you think it's that, let me know in the chat.
And here are a whole bunch of other intellectual properties being exploited.
You might not know in your country, America, but in this country, a sort of banking organization called Halifax use all of Hanna-Barbera's back catalogue, including beloved Fred Flintstone, Top Cat, called Boss Cat in America, I believe.
That dinosaur, I don't care about him, actually, do what you want with him.
And Scooby and Shaggy down the Alifax.
I don't think Scooby and Shaggy would even have a bank account.
Of course not.
They're hand to mouth.
They're living on Scooby Snacks, aren't they?
They're not like, right, hold on a minute, what interest rate are you getting?
They ain't got a bank account!
He's too nervous, Shaggy.
Oh, man!
I'm not filling in a form Scoob!
Huh? Huh?
Inflation! Inflation!
Scooby was fucking out of control, wasn't he?
Let's face it.
The only one that would might be Scrappy.
He might have one, I don't know.
Like a Young Savers account or something.
I've invested a hundred bucks!
He'd be like, I've got crypto money!
I've got Bitcoin coming out the fucking wazoo, Uncle Scoobs!
I never liked him.
Did you not, Scrappy?
Nah, he ruined the vibe.
Did you like him?
Why did you like him?
He's like that robot dog.
Strap a gun to Scrappy-Doo's back, it'd kill anyone, wouldn't it?
I did what was right for America!
I did what I did because it was the right thing to do at the time, you jittery little fucker!
Get that gun off him!
We never understood why it was his nephew as well.
The reason that he was his nephew, as pointed out by the great English comedian David Baddiel, is because no one wanted the image of Scooby-Doo with an erection ejaculating into a female dog.
Because Scooby as well, Was a bit like that, wasn't he?
He was like... He was thinking about sex and drugs the whole time.
That's what Scooby ran on.
That's an orgasm!
Right.
He lived on the brink of orgasm.
Anyway, we could go on, of course, but the fact is we are only contractually obligated to provide one hour of content a day before moving to stay free AF, our members community.
We are gonna now, I wanna just let you know that this week we've got, God, so many fantastic stories.
One about a new COVID strain, we're talking about the war.
We're gonna be doing more wellness techniques to make sure that you are well looked after and loved.
We're beginning that with our breath work with beer in a minute.
And Nick Ortner, my friend from Tapping Solutions, is gonna be teaching us techniques to manage our anxiety and our emotions.
That's available if you join the Stay Free AF community.
The link is in the description.
Now though, I'm going to join Biette, who is my friend who participated in Community last year and will be joining us again at Community 2023.
Now, I believe we're having a bit of trouble with your audio, Biette.
Can we see Biette's face while you grapple with the audio challenges, guys?
Hello, Biette, we can't hear you at all.
No, still not.
Actually, I can hear you with such clarity.
It's like she's here.
Yeah, it's like you're in our consciousness.
I can hear you so well, and you look amazing.
How are you?
I'm so good.
It's so nice to see you.
Good show!
Thank you.
I hope you're enjoying it.
We love you so much.
That's a fantastic hat.
You look so cool.
Your bangs, as you call it in your country, are terrific.
What we're going to do is we're going to do our breath work over into this little area of the studio, and we'll do it with Stay Free AF.
If you're not a member yet, become a member now.
It's super easy.
BX techniques are fantastic.
Have a look at me explaining them to Jimmy Fallon when I was making a mainstream media appearance recently to promote... I can't remember what I was doing anymore.
I think I was in a film.
I must have been in a film.
I must have been in a film because I was on Jimmy Fallon.
Have a look at me.
I got Jimmy Fallon to do BH techniques.
You can do those techniques with us in a minute.
Have a look at those techniques.
With this breathing exercise, you could experience a glimpse of the divine.
Inhale like this.
When you exhale, clap forward and relax.
I think I, I think I felt it.
Hello Dan, hello everyone.
So, listen, we're going to wrap up the show... Oh, look at me here.
Gareth, why don't you join me here and do some breathwork as well?
So, we're going to do this breathwork technique over on Stay Free AF.
If you're watching us on the Rumble stream now, join us tomorrow.
If you're listening to us on a podcast, remember we do these things every day.
Join us when we talk to Eckhart Tolle, Elon Musk, Date to be confirmed.
Can you?
Date to be confirmed.
Jordan Peterson, date confirmed.
And right now we're going to do this wonderful technique with beer.
Thank you for joining us today.
I hope you learned something about Pfizer.
I hope you learned about commodification of medicine and financial imperatives.
What are you thinking about now?
I don't know.
It's just a bit strange.
Do you feel unusual?
Yes.
We haven't done anything yet.
I've not got my desk anymore.
No desk now.
The genitals are in the world.
Because that's what the desk does on a talk show, isn't it?
On a normal talk show, like Fallon or whatever, the desk is, that's your power.
That is your power, that desk.
I'm in charge, isn't it?
It is that, yeah.
Well, you ain't got no desk now.
Where's your God now?
Where's your God now?
Within and all around.
Limitless and accessible to all.
And the techniques that we're about to do with Beate Simpkin over on Stay Free AF will help us to connect to that limitless oneness.
Whether we like it... Oh, you don't know what to do with your face.
I see when people do that on TV.
I love that, huh?
Like, look at me.
That's what you do.
Look at you.
Yeah, you idiot.
Like, look over at him like you're waiting for your bit.
It's very awkward.
It's easy, just look over at me.
Look at you.
Oh, like we're on the news or something?
Yeah, we're on the news.
I'm the lady one, you're the man one.
And do it like you're thinking, these are good points.
Good points, these.
You don't say it!
No, absolutely not.
I'm watching you on the monitor, right?
Go on.
That's it, that's good.
You look handsome.
Stop.
You're a good kid.
I stick up for you in the staff room if you have teachers.
Just relax.
OK, so, listen.
We're going to keep doing this.
This is the bit where we're going to transcend to another dimension, two higher dimension, with B.S.
Simpkin, the great breathwork teacher.
Join us for the rest of the week.
We've got fantastic shows every day where we're going to be exposing inequities and corruption in the systems, in or out, showing you techniques, methods and ways to bring out the limitless light that even now shines from within you.
See you tomorrow, same time, stay free!
Those of you that are watching us on Stay Free AF, wait for about a minute and then we'll be kicking in with B.F.
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