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Oct. 21, 2022 - Stay Free - Russel Brand

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UK Meltdown - Beginning Of Global Crash - #018 - Stay Free With Russell Brand

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	I'm going to go ahead and get you out of here.
	I'm going to get you out of here.
	In this video, you're going to see the future.
	Who has the surgery?
	I have the surgery.
	We've got a live shot there.
	Today we're talking about, on Stay Free with Russell Brand, how the crisis in our country, the UK, foreshadows a global reckoning, like the breakdown of cultural norms that have long bound us.
	Well, not bound us together, but I suppose have supported existing power structures, because even though you might be American, Or you might be Canadian, or... I mean, who knows what you are?
	You could be anywhere, doing anything.
	But I suppose what's interesting is this is like a... You know, like how people say that, oh, there's these symbols and signals of empires in decline?
	There's an argument I've seen advanced that the Anglo-American empire viewed critically could be regarded as one movement.
	I'm not just saying that because I'm English and I'm trying to still go, we're still sort of in charge by proxy with America, but...
	I think we're beginning to see things really fall apart in significant ways.
	If you are interested in UK politics, and of course we are because we're British, you would know that the people that are standing after our disposable, throw-away, built-in, obsolescent Prime Minister for the day, bring your Prime Minister to work day, Liz Truss has been tossed onto the scrap heap, The people competing to take over are Boris Johnson.
	He was Prime Minister a couple of months ago and he had to leave because they were holding parties throughout lockdown while people were watching their grandparents' funerals on YouTube, while people were missing the birth of their children, while people were not able to say goodbye to dying relatives.
	They were living it up and living it large.
	The Avar person, Rishi Sunak, ran against the woman Liz trusts that they've just booted out.
	He refuses to comment on if he has profited from the hedge fund that he used to work for as investments in Moderna, who of course you know already made vaccines.
	He co-founded that hedge fund.
	And also he's married to a billionaire.
	So like, what are we being offered through democracy?
	Forget the fact that none of these people have ever been, well no, Boris was elected I suppose, but after he was elected he held parties during the lockdown that irritated people.
	So we're using that To sort of, in a sense, establish the context of the show.
	We're going to be talking about it a little bit.
	We're also going to invite you, if you're watching us now, let us know in the chat, do you want us to do a story about the New York rats?
	Real life Ratatouille, that's definitely what it is and how you should regard it.
	Pfizer, what aspect of Pfizer?
	Price hikes, they're going to be charging up to $130 for a vaccine that I think costs about a dollar to make for them.
	$100 but only costs a dollar to make.
	We can do a story on that for you if you want.
	Also, there's another story about someone from the GOP.
	That's the Grand Old Party.
	That's right.
	I should be able to call it that.
	The Grand Old Party.
	His actions were not very grand.
	Well, it depends on whether you... Depends what you mean by grand, I suppose.
	If you mean by grand, you mean masturbating outside of a playground, then you're overqualified, sir.
	So, yeah, there's obviously a member of the Republican Party, I feel like, or was he a Congress person?
	I'm not sure.
	Anyway, he's wanking.
	The main thing is he's wanking.
	It's difficult to remember the details.
	Once someone's been wanking outside of a playground, you go, but what star sign?
	What star?
	An Aries.
	Typical.
	That's what people say.
	Let's see, yeah and also we're going to talk a little bit about, what is it Gal?
	What else are we going to talk about?
	Is it all COVID price hikes?
	Haven't we got more things to say about the pharmaceutical thing?
	Well we were going to talk about potentially Gavin Newsom in California introducing a bill that basically punishes doctors for spreading how they deem misinformation.
	Yeah, that's it.
	Doctors are being usurped by the state.
	You might know about that.
	Well, you're going to know about it in a minute because we're going to talk about it.
	But first, let's have a look at how German news are reporting on the British political meltdown.
	You'll like this because for a while you'll be thinking, unless you do speak German, well, I don't understand.
	I don't speak that language.
	And then there'll be a moment where you think, oh, I see what they're talking about.
	I like it when foreign languages go into English, don't you?
	Yeah, I love it.
	That's really specific, isn't it?
	I'm fucking furious and I don't fucking care anymore.
	I don't translate that now, but that's a...
	I like it when foreign languages go into English, don't you?
	Yeah, I love it. That's really specific, isn't it?
	That's a word that you can't really translate, obviously.
	Yeah, I don't fucking... That can't be a mistranslation.
	Like when you watch subtitles, you couldn't land on I don't fucking care anymore by accident
	and find out that she was saying something.
	I think she enjoyed saying it as well.
	She relished doing that I think.
	I think she really let go of some the kind of frustrations that must come with being on mainstream news.
	So how come they're allowed to swear on the news in Germany?
	Because it's not swearing there is it?
	Because What, because it's a foreign swear?
	Have you ever seen an episode of The Simpsons where, like, Mr Burns would go, Wankers!
	Like about you too.
	Right, I see.
	Yeah, they're allowed to do our swear words.
	That's amazing.
	They're allowed it in the news.
	So you're finding a way into swearing on the news?
	That's the route.
	If you sort of, like, feel like you want to get some... Although, of course, in our country, Krishna Gurumurthy said the C word on normal news.
	Although, that is funny, isn't it?
	Because a couple of weeks ago, this newscaster was like, Bollocks, we're not sure if bollocks is allowed, and was sort of, like, Googling it.
	I'm sorry if you've been offended by that.
	If you've been offended by the fact that this person said bollocks, oh this geezer's a c-word, they're c-words!
	It's a merry-go-round in the mainstream media.
	You could even say it if you wanted to.
	I know, I don't, look, c-word, because I spend a lot of time in America, c-word is a bit different now, and I think that that trend is being set.
	There used to be a time where c-word, like in Australia, we've got some Australians work here, c-word just is equivalent to hello.
	It means mate, really.
	It means mate.
	That's all it means.
	They don't care about c-word over there.
	In America it's like as if you're specifically and deliberately misogynistically attacking women and here it used to be just a bad swear word but it was all part and parcel of everyday British life.
	But isn't it weird that the language is getting sanitised while the politics is getting more filthy?
	Liz Trussell continues to be paid £115,000 for life, at least she'll have that option, just the result of being Prime Minister for 15 minutes.
	And we're going to talk about how she was kind of put there by think tanks, which are disguised, their name at least suggests that it's a tank with thinking in it.
	When really what it is, is a tank with corruption in it, exerting influence on media outlets to bias the outcomes of apparently democratic processes.
	We'll talk about that based somewhat on an article by a brilliant British journalist called George Monbiot.
	Do you want to know the odds for the new Prime Minister?
	Oh yeah, I'd like to know odds.
	So this is when gambling becomes legitimised, doesn't it?
	Like around elections and stuff.
	Although these are weird odds, because I've not heard them done like this.
	But if you assume that is 0.8 to 1, which I've never done ever, Why are they doing it as a decimal point?
	It's politics now.
	It's because the pound is so worthless.
	We can't give you a 1.
	We can't get to 1.
	Like a 0.8.
	We can't even form the basic unit of a number anymore.
	Boris is 1.4 to 1.
	I don't even know what's better because of the decimal point.
	It's very confusing.
	Which one's better?
	Which is the better odds?
	Is 0.8 more or less likely?
	So it's less likely.
	So Sunak is the shortest odds at the moment.
	That means more likely?
	More likely to win, yes.
	That's the odds at the moment, yeah.
	More likely.
	Which corrupt billionaire-affiliated member of the establishment do you want to pretend to lead your country as you're ushered into decline and despair?
	One you've already had or a new one?
	There's actually still an inquiry going on into whether Boris lied to the commons after if he's found guilty he could be suspended which would be an amazing series of events if they voted him in and then they went right you're suspended now be amazing because then he's like he's just like bouncing in and out because the name Bojo that's what we call him it sounds like something that's sort of rubber and sort of spongy He's Bojo-ing all over the gaff.
	And of course in your country, America, if indeed that is your country, you are still led very competently by a man who wields real power and is definitely not a puppet of more deeply entrenched political and financial interests, as you can see from his ongoing ability to stride powerfully onto a stage and address a podium without any trouble at all.
	Here he is.
	It's so like circus like that music that it fits what he's doing.
	Well, God, that's not added soundtrack.
	That's what's happening.
	Oh, that's real.
	That's actually happening, yeah.
	Oh, God.
	At this point, if I was working anywhere in the vicinity of Joe Biden, I would attach an invisible bit of piano wire to him, and I would physically yank him where he needed to go, if necessary, using a fishhook and a scrotum, just to sort of pull him right back Back this way now.
	Well, doesn't it depend how long that's going to be?
	I don't want to get vulgar.
	Oh Joe!
	He's still there!
	He's not noticed yet!
	Yeah, because I suppose once someone's head bears a resemblance to a scrotum, you can only imagine what their cut is like.
	It must be super scrotum, scrotum squared.
	All right, but let's see what else he's been doing.
	He's been bungling more stuff.
	He may not be able to master ambling off of a stage, but he can certainly answer a numerical question, right?
	Over a billion two hundred, a trillion two hundred billion dollars.
	We don't know which one of those he actually means.
	Over a billion, two hundred trillion... Like, I'd say now it's time to eliminate numerical references from his discourse.
	And I'd say it's time to have some sort of... You know how some people say no strings attached?
	Have some strings attached.
	We've established not to the scrotum.
	That's a weak link.
	Yeah, because you're describing like a scrotum puppet at that point, aren't you?
	He's my nut puppet.
	Because, in a sense, they are, in my opinion, puppets, these political figures.
	Why not actually attach strings to them in a very literal way?
	Sure.
	Tug them about all over the gaff.
	That's what I propose.
	Is it more gibberish or is it... That's all the gibberish.
	Oh, actually, there is.
	There's one more.
	There's a bit more.
	He does a brief interview.
	Let's have a look.
	Tim Ryan in Ohio said he doesn't want you there.
	Warnock said, wouldn't say.
	We don't want him to come and support their campaigns in the midterms, I suppose, isn't it?
	People are saying, we don't want you showing up, you're going to balls it up for us.
	Even if they did want him there, how's he going to get there?
	He can't get six foot away reliably, and we now know that the scrotum tightrope is no way to get him somewhere.
	Do you think they're making a mistake?
	No, by 16 I've already gone in for you.
	I had a lot more grass.
	Another 20 or so.
	When my nan first said something like that yeah I can still remember the feeling of it it was like my what it was was my mate Matt came around and like when it came out in the course of the conversation that Matt was a Jewish lad he went right oh was it hard for you during the war and like Matt said he like my like I was like Because I had to sort of like, what?
	But Matt's only 20!
	That doesn't make sense.
	And then like, you have to sort of go, firstly, you're angry with your nan for saying something like that.
	And then you're like, that doesn't make sense.
	And then it dawns on you, you know what this is?
	Oh no!
	Nan!
	Oh no!
	Death!
	Oh no!
	Nothing lasts!
	Was this the nan who you stole pension book money from?
	I did steal her welfare cheques from time to time.
	Do you think that was a contributor?
	The stress of it, Gareth, in my defence, I only stole her welfare cheques to buy drugs.
	So, just a little bit of context before you make those accusations.
	Oh dear, my lovely old Nan.
	God rest their soul.
	We'll not see their like again.
	Not safe to worship our ancestors now in our nihilistic culture where the elderly, unless they're running an entire country, are just quietly kept in corners and forgotten.
	That is part of our sadness.
	I think there's even one more thing, isn't there, on our Biden news.
	I'll play my bit of music.
	This one is him just saying happy birthday to Kamala Harris.
	And what we were querying here, and you tell us if you agree, is the production values.
	Yeah.
	It's really poor.
	They're not high enough production values, are they, Gail?
	No, it's like you'd put this into, well, people will be aware of iMovie if you're in the editing trade, but it's a strange one.
	They could have really upped the values here.
	He's the president after all.
	I think if you can go to nuclear war, you can probably afford some editors.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Like, I've had things where people are just, like, saying, that was a nice holiday.
	Here's a little video I've made on my own phone.
	Or, like, what about when your phone shows your photos?
	Yeah.
	This time last year, look what's going on.
	Oh, God!
	I'm dying!
	The kids are getting all, that's good music.
	Oh no, that was a fun one.
	That's only that quality of that.
	It's like his phone's done that by itself.
	Yeah, I don't like those ones because they like ascribe music to whatever mood you're in at that time.
	You don't know what mood I was in.
	And also some of those minor things like little sort of video messages that I've sent to people like, actually could you mind getting that done by Wednesday?
	You burn in like fire!
	Listen, mate, I've told you every time!
	Bright eyes!
	They're just like photos of things.
	My kids get my phone sometimes.
	There's weird angles and photos of their heads and that.
	They're always trying to blag a phone off you, a kid, aren't they?
	They're always after it.
	Do you want to have a look?
	Yeah, let's see those production values.
	Text.
	What's the subtext of that?
	What's the subtext of that?
	There is no subtext.
	The subtext and the text are the same.
	It's a happy birthday.
	Sometimes we're in the same frame.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Also, not a very good frame.
	Sometimes you can't hardly see them.
	Yeah, and like, you always think now, whenever you see him, you feel that the people around him are primarily concerned with gaff avoidance.
	He said gaff, not guff.
	Like, yeah, maybe she's operating one of the nut strings.
	Hey, we've got some fantastic things coming up later in the show with you.
	You wanted us to do a book club, so guess what we've done?
	A book club, and it begins today.
	So get your copies of George Orwell's 1984 ready, because we're going to start off by examining it.
	and exploring it and setting it up and then I'm actually going to read it.
	To help us with it is philosopher friend Brad Evans, a radical thinker and a bit of a snappy dresser.
	Oh yeah.
	Very dashing sort of silver fox philosophy.
	You're not doing too badly yourself today.
	Well I saw Brad and he'd come here looking like a reservoir dog.
	Oh.
	So I thought like you say he looks like a reservoir dog.
	That's my shirts!
	Go and fetch me something!
	Yeah I do, I've been looking at myself in the monitor and I feel like I'm doing alright.
	Yeah, star spangled, it's got an American touch to it.
	I'm going to wear things like this more often.
	Put the old pound up there because my morale, that's really helped my morale.
	Thanks for that.
	So yeah, we're doing a book club, so stick around for that.
	We're gonna, like, talk about, you know, obviously the validity of 1984, the prophetic themes that are explored there, and I suppose we'll probably talk about how we always envisaged a Cold War, post-Cold War, communist version of tyranny, rather than this sort of numbing, anodyne, spellbound, consumerist version.
	Although it is declining so quickly into yawning horror that it could probably get a bit of both.
	Yeah, it's very relevant in terms of the move towards central bank digital currency as well, which is in the news at the moment.
	Thanks, Gareth.
	No problem.
	Did you know that the Biden administration... Gareth, let me tell you something.
	Go on.
	We're moving forward with a central bank digital currency.
	So again, we're at the point where the government wanted to co-opt cryptocurrencies, which for a brief moment was a potential alternative currency movement.
	They want to be able to tell your doctor what to tell you about COVID.
	The creeping fog of governmental power, government I argue, as many others do, is ultimately the representative of corporate interests.
	The merry-go-round of these British nitwits, all with their own affiliations to big business and think tanks.
	This is, I suppose, what makes 1984 relevant, all but for the aesthetic and the presumed central dictator figure.
	Yeah exactly.
	I mean and at the time where this like in our country this media circus is going on where like they act about they act about you know all this chaos that's going on in Westminster but at the same time they're not covering stories that are actually important so like We were talking earlier on about an anti-protest law that's going on at the moment, which is literally going to shut down the ability to not just protest, but if people think you're going to protest, they're going to be able to tag you up, surveil you 24-7.
	It's like deeply, deeply worrying.
	It's just been slipped under the radar.
	It's stunning to me that while we've all been caught up in the drama, the soap opera of these transitioning political figures, none of whom are going to do anything that helps you, they sneakily and on the sly introduced legislation where you could be preemptively busted for looking like you might protest.
	What are you doing?
	I was hailing a cab!
	Looking like protest could be on the agenda for you.
	Yeah, that's right.
	So you're looking for something because you look spellbound by the prospect.
	So police will be given powers to stop and search people or vehicles even if they have no reasonable grounds to do so.
	If a senior officer believes protest offences are likely to take place in an area.
	No reasonable grounds and they believe.
	So now it's moved to sort of almost a faith-based system.
	Yep.
	The idea is that it's simply by someone reckoning.
	Yeah.
	So like you know I've got friends that are in the police force and I don't sort of yield to the idea that it's an entirely corrupt institution without good people with like you know core values of service but certainly it is possible for the police to make errors and mistakes and given that the power and increasing power that they will have and given that they'll ultimately be operating at the behest of corrupt forces it seems to me that that's the kind of legislation that in a democracy You don't want passed, and it wouldn't be passed if we were informed, wouldn't be passed if we were involved.
	That's why those kind of things seem to be unallowed.
	It's also interesting that this does get passed at a time of, you know, this, as I said, this kind of circus that's going on, you know, with the truckers protests in Canada.
	That happened when he introduced emergency laws to be able to shut down a lot of their abilities to protest.
	That was happening in a way that wasn't really covered much by the general media, but was out there in social media.
	In this country, this is happening and no one's talking about it.
	Anyway, that's the point of this show, I suppose, is to, to a degree, report on mainstream news from a different perspective, but to inform you what is not being reported on and how what is being reported on is masking more important narratives.
	The most famous case of burying was that leaked memo around 9-11 might be a good day to bury bad news.
	The only problem they have in the political world is getting caught, isn't it?
	I mean, even old G.O.P.
	wanking outside a playground guy.
	You know, well, if you're gonna do that, just do it discreetly, for God's sake.
	Put one of those silver foil things over the passenger window that people use to protect a dog on a hot day.
	Yeah.
	Or get those windows that you can't see through.
	Tinty windows.
	That's it.
	Tinty windows.
	Yeah, so like, in a sense, there's no actual ethics or morality.
	There's simply an obligation not to get caught.
	Hey, what are people saying in the chat, Subs, that they would like to see in terms of their free offerings?
	Masturbating politician, rats, or Pfizer corruption?
	Mostly C, masturbating.
	Well, I mean, I don't know if we've got an image.
	The GOP one.
	Do we have an image of a masturbator?
	Like, OK, well, a GOP candidate... Hang on, what kind of image did you want?
	I want his mental image.
	I want to know that it was so urgent to masturbate over that you can't wait till you get home.
	Although a recent British survey revealed that something like half of almost everyone wanks their way through the working day.
	Masturbations on the rise.
	As we become more and more detached from meaning, as we lose our faith in God and one another, as we lose hope that the world could be saved, hope that I would like to Restore you to, because I believe that this apocalyptic vision that we teeter on the precipice of is the dark moment before the dawn.
	We are approaching a new era.
	These systems are atrophying.
	It is beholden upon us all.
	I just saw something floating that was amazing.
	Uh-oh!
	It happened to his nan first!
	Hell, there they come!
	It's the UFOs!
	They're going to give me the new system of governance!
	It's a new anarcho-syndicalist version this time, darling!
	All of this chaos, from this chaos, a new order can be born.
	Not a globalist new order.
	Decentralised, local, community-oriented democracy.
	That's all I'm suggesting.
	Before we get there, a GOP candidate quits after cop catches him masturbating outside preschool.
	A Republican running for an Arizona college district's governing board suspended his campaign on Tuesday, two weeks after he was arrested for allegedly masturbating outside a preschool at one of the colleges he was hoping to represent.
	Randy Kaufman, oh dear that is unfortunate isn't it, once said he wanted to protect children from the progressive left.
	How are you going to do that?
	By masturbating?
	Are you coming here with unusual ideas about different ways of relating to people?
	Don't come one step closer!
	What they could use his cock for is to cattle prod Joe Biden into the right part of the podium.
	Right.
	I say, use this man's peculiar pathology to his advantage.
	They can use that phallus to nudge Joe towards the right direction.
	Got it.
	Why don't they use their resources correctly?
	I've no idea.
	The answers are already in front of us.
	There's some interesting notes in this article.
	So he was arrested October 4th in Surprise, Arizona, which I thought was wonderful.
	Surprise!
	Watch out for the progressive left!
	What's that in the middle?
	Police found him fondling himself in his car while parked in the lot in Rio Salado College, one of the colleges he was running to represent.
	In full view of the preschool, a police report notes that several children were playing on the playground outside the school.
	It could have been the prospect of representing that college.
	Yeah, so it excited him.
	He's so committed to his work.
	Oh, there he is.
	Randy Kaufman.
	Maricopa County Community College District.
	Aww.
	I like that it said he's only suspended his campaign as well.
	Like, I can come back from this still.
	It's just a brief hiatus, like sort of tantric campaigning.
	Just before, I'll just pause the campaigning for a moment.
	You can enjoy it now.
	That's it!
	Campaign!
	Campaign!
	I'm back on track!
	Officers found Kaufman seated in his car with his pants around his thighs, manipulating his genitals in a masturbatory manner, according to police report.
	When the officer on the scene approached Kaufman, he said, seriously?
	To which the hopeful politician began his explanation.
	I'm sorry, he allegedly said to the officer.
	I effed up.
	I'm really stressed.
	Seriously?
	That's an amazing exchange between that officer of the law and Randy Kaufman, the enjoyably named.
	Come on, mate.
	I'm sorry, I fucked up.
	I'm really sorry.
	Oh my God, I'm enjoying this more.
	The shame, the blame, the potential consequences.
	This college, I'm going to resent you.
	Do I need to suspend my campaign?
	Dear old Randy.
	Oh yes.
	God bless him.
	So there you go.
	You asked, we delivered.
	They are literally engaging in acts of onanism and even that's not enough to curtail the campaign permanently.
	Robot dog killing weeds by zapping them with electricity as we march into our dystopic AI future.
	It's good to know that them little trotty dogs are being given more jobs.
	We showed you a trotty dog last week and I always enjoy a glance at a trotty dog.
	Can we just see him to re-establish him?
	This technology, yes of course it can be used to fire off bullets, but also how about one
	of these do in your garden?
	Too many steps.
	It takes too many steps!
	He's too trip-trap-trotty-trotty, isn't it, the poor little guy?
	Absolutely fantastic stuff.
	It's like he's angry about it.
	Yeah, he's concerned about it, confused, and the idea that they've created... The ones that are doing the gardening don't look as advanced, I suppose.
	No, they look rubbish.
	Have a look at these little guys, God love them.
	Yeah, no, they look like people that have been made out of Meccano, haven't they?
	Yeah, they're rubbish, and they've called them Tom, Dick and Harry.
	The one on the left is basically a toboggan that you get from a gas station.
	The one on the right, that's sort of been half-arsed put together from things from Home Depot, and Harry's the best one, I suppose, but that's still bike made by the A-team hastily to escape from a tight spot, isn't it?
	It doesn't look Bit for purpose.
	The future is now.
	The future is rubbish.
	Listen, I'd like to see some things from the chat, some comments from people in the chat, so as I feel connected to you, because you know I love you.
	Remember to keep rumbling like crazy.
	Your rumbles keep us humble.
	That's what I'd like to say.
	And uh I suppose should we show on Monday we're gonna this is the story we're doing on on Monday is about Gavin Newsom, Governor of California.
	Boris Johnson, former British Prime Minister, held endless parties throughout the lockdown.
	Gavin Newsom, he had a little bit of party in doing your American lockdown over there.
	But now he wants to tell your doctor whether or not your doctor can advise you just freely and openly or whether your doctor is presumed corrupt.
	We've got a little clip of that video.
	Let's have a look at it.
	California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation that would allow the state medical board to discipline physicians and surgeons who spread coronavirus misinformation during direct patient care.
	So law would designate spreading false or misleading medical information to patients as unprofessional conduct, subject to punishment by the agency that licenses doctors, the Medical Board of California.
	That could include suspending or revoking a doctor's license to practice medicine in the state.
	So maybe I'll boot doctors out, suspend and strike off doctors that disagree with them.
	But already during the pandemic period, we've seen key workers, medical professionals, nurses, doctors lose their jobs.
	...for refusing to undertake certain procedures which YouTube guidelines prevent me from elaborating on, but I suppose might relate to the recent admission by Jane Small, the Pfizer executive, who said... Did we know about stopping immunisation before it's entered the market?
	No!
	I'm just looking at you guys.
	Oh, QArmyQ, new scum.
	Sasa111, newsome gruesome.
	Rodderflyfish, CA should be, California should be ejected from the state.
	Oh, crikey, newsome is evil.
	Oh, hello, DubDuck, robot soldiers, a staple of sci-fi.
	Russell, what would you say if you was caught with your pants down?
	I'm so sorry!
	I'm so sorry what I've done!
	I suppose an apology is a relatively sensible thing, or maybe something like a bee, or maybe say that I was connecting my own scrotum to Joe Biden's to ensure that he could never stray too far from the mic.
	This story about Gavin Newsom, I suppose, again, is another example of government overreach and a sort of What spaces are going to remain in your life where you are at liberty to have some kind of privacy, where you do not feel surveilled, curtailed and controlled?
	Tell us a bit more about it, Gal.
	Yeah, so this bill is catchily titled AB2098.
	I can see why people aren't talking about it.
	Which means that a licensed physician or surgeon could be committing unprofessional conduct if they disseminate misinformation or disinformation.
	Those two buzzwords.
	About the nature and risks of the virus, the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 and the development, safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.
	So any kind of advice against people taking vaccines, whether that be now that we know that they're recommended for children also, and it could result in them being struck off or reprimanded in some way.
	They're not allowed to recommend hydroclo... I'm never gonna be able to say it.
	Who in the chat can confidently say hydroclo... Wait a sec.
	Hydroxychlorochorin!
	Hydroxychlorochorin!
	Doesn't sound quite right.
	Can you do it?
	Ivermectin... You don't feel confident?
	No, I don't, no.
	You're not even gonna try!
	Hydroxychloroquine!
	Hydroxychloroquine!
	Hydroxychloroquine.
	Can you do it?
	Hydroxychloroquine.
	I hope you can't pronounce it because you've been taking it.
	No.
	Because you mustn't.
	No, I'd never.
	You're not to touch that stuff, you know.
	And your doctor can't recommend it.
	A group of... What I like is that this bill says doctors have a duty to provide their patients with accurate science-based information.
	Yeah.
	That's just being a doctor.
	Yeah.
	Isn't that always the assumption?
	Is there new legislation required to prevent your doctor lying to you and telling you stuff that they've made up on the spot?
	I think, like, as people have pointed out, and someone who wrote in the Washington Times, Leanna S. Nguyen, she made the point that, you know, the science has changed.
	That's been one of the you know, narratives around this pandemic is that the
	science does change. Hence, at the beginning, saying that it couldn't stop, that it stops the spread and
	then the acknowledgement now that it doesn't. So, you know, making a law that punishes
	people for science being an unmovable thing, you know, is unfair. What I imagine it means is that
	science has become a subset of a dominant ideology, that science is no longer free to be
	objective, discursive or part of an ongoing and evolving discourse, that it has to toe a
	particular line.
	Sometimes I query whether or not there is a deliberate conspiracy, a centralized force offering dictates from on high.
	But it's clear to see that the legislation or recommendations passed by the WHO tend to become regulation, even with our own situation.
	On YouTube, YouTube's community guidelines are informed by the WHO.
	So a body like the WHO, which you think of, oh, well, maybe they're just kindly folks doing stuff to help out recommendations.
	Ultimately, the stuff they say and their funding, you know, and you know that their second biggest funder is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
	Ends up being implemented in a way that affects, like, actually our lives.
	It informs YouTube community guidelines.
	Like, when we do, like, videos on this subject, like, when we try to talk about Jane Smalls' admission that they didn't trial it for transmission, the sort of pushback on that was, oh, well, they never said that they were trialing it for transmission.
	But there was clearly a massive campaign to get people vaccinated in order to protect other people.
	There's so many people that did it for precisely that reason.
	I think the issue with this, again, like we have kind of talked about with censorship as well, it's almost you have to take the issue out of it.
	The fact is, that if you're it becomes a political matter ultimately if a different government gets in and says that science is this is one thing and they you know mandate that doctors have to adhere to their version of science and then another political party says you i'd have to adhere to our version of science you can't make health political you or you shouldn't
	There's another argument for decentralisation.
	Decentralised boards that are not accountable to a particular political agenda or funded by the pharmaceutical companies that they're supposed to regulate.
	Thank you Pride Faults for saying just call it HCQ and IV.
	Thank you mostly Firegirl 2020 for giving me a pneumonic device, hydroxychloroquine.
	Just wrote it out as words.
	Hydroxychloroquine.
	I reckon that's enough for me to remember it forever.
	That's how I learn, you know.
	That's how I want to... We need new systems of education.
	Do you know there's whole new ways of teaching kids, like phonetics, like the phonetic method of teaching children to spell.
	It's like so hard.
	Once I met this woman, she sort of spoke to me like she was someone that had been either released from a mental asylum, Or as if she had this cherished piece of information.
	Look, I've got this system.
	All you have to do is under, if the L is pronounced, use this symbol underneath it.
	And if you're going to say TH as the or the, then use this symbol.
	But they were just like, she had a system to indicate.
	She goes, children will learn easier.
	But I had that woman arrested.
	She was a free thinker.
	She was dangerous.
	She was a menace to the state.
	Who are these people that you meet?
	There was a woman who, you were obsessed with the colour chart for a while as well.
	What colour chart?
	You know, where you went into the woods and you filled in a colour chart.
	You get obsessed with these people.
	Why?
	What is it?
	Look, this is a different story and it's an equally good one.
	I met this brilliant doctor who, she'd stopped normal doctoring to focus on... I'm a bit worried about why.
	She said something put her off.
	She said one patient in particular had ruined the noble art of doctoring for her by being an idiot.
	She said Sweet Lady Nature herself is the best cure of all, so she can't do no doctoring.
	Try it in Gavin Newsom's California, baby.
	You'll doctor the way weed tells ya.
	She says Sweet Lady Nature's the best way to do your doctoring.
	So she took us out, me, my wife, my dad, Ron Brand, and our littlens, for a walk in the woods.
	And she gave us this colour chart, and her whole Ethos is about helping mentally ill people without the use of psychotherapeutic drugs.
	Sorry, I shouldn't have laughed at that point.
	So she gave us this lovely colour chart where it's all these different greens.
	Sage green, mint green, peppermint green, bottle green.
	But then pinks and yellows and autumnal tones and reds and stuff.
	And she goes, just go for a walk with your little colour chart.
	And it was sort of mainly for the kids and for mentally ill people.
	Go and have a look around the woods and find all those colours and find something and see them little pegs, just peg it onto your colour chart.
	It was a wheel and you could move it and it was extremely satisfactory.
	And I thought, well, I was just humouring it at first, but then I got so into it, I couldn't think about anything else.
	And then I discovered a deep sense of peace.
	So at the end of it, I go, it's funny this, because, like, I know it's meant for mentally ill people, isn't it?
	But actually, I found it very effective.
	And then, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun!
	Like when I was talking to that autistic man down at the climbing place, and he describes his sit, he goes, he goes, he goes, I've got autism.
	I go, what type of autism is it?
	Because it was at the climbing where you climb a wall.
	Do you know what I mean?
	Like with a little sticky out bits, little, you know, if you've been on a climbing wall.
	No, I've never been on one.
	Right, we're doing a work trip.
	We're doing a work trip to the climbing wall.
	Will you do it, Soobs?
	Your eyes actually lit up at the possibility.
	Yeah, I quite like it.
	Well, he goes to me, I'm autistic.
	And I sort of wanted to say, are you the type of autistic where you've emotionally don't care about no one else and human life has no value to you?
	Because I believe that's one type I've seen depicted in the film.
	Or is it that you're really fastidious and really care?
	Or could you be distracted by sort of a buzzing noise?
	Like it goes like, all it is is right now, even when I'm talking to you, I'm aware of a lot of ambient noises and there's sort of a variety of influences.
	For example, I'm aware of that person over there and I'm saying, yeah, I'm aware of that person.
	And then I can hear that sort of subtle noise over there.
	Sometimes I have trouble expressing myself.
	Oh, another diagnosis!
	So, I've been doing those quizzes to see if you are autistic, but my wife says don't try and bias it so that, you know, that you come out as autistic soon as you've got a new thing that you can use to justify behaving like a dickhead!
	Like, oh, what are you supposed to say for this one?
	Oh, hold on, people want to sub me.
	Pay attention!
	Have you heard of Joe Dispenza?
	Yes, I have, in Senza111.
	They're coming on.
	Trying to get them on.
	We're getting him on.
	He'll come on if you want him on.
	I love a bit of Russell's energy, sis.
	That same person, actually.
	Cordalis.
	There's info here.
	Rockefeller Medicine.
	Russell, you saved my life.
	What do you want me to say?
	I'm looking at... You should interview PJW.
	Yeah, alright.
	Currently re-listening to the BBC.
	Look, I'm looking at them.
	My son's friend, Katie babe, my son's friend's autistic and climbs those walls too.
	It's well scary!
	It's well scary though.
	The thing is that you can do something for a hobby that there's a moment of actual dread.
	It's sort of like, there are bits that are like, oh no, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die.
	You know?
	Have you seen this?
	This is massively changing the subject.
	I literally just saw a headline now that came up about Boris Johnson and it said the Tories are returning like a dog to its own vomit and we're all going to have to eat it.
	Well, the dog wouldn't make you do that.
	The dog wouldn't return... The dog... The part of the deal is that the dog eats its own vomit.
	It eats its own vomit.
	The dog doesn't return and then sort of try to... Well... I'll show you into it.
	What a little of this!
	Like it's sort of like it's cocaine.
	Yeah.
	Like it's a sweet offering.
	Yeah.
	Or a pizza.
	And before we go into our George Orwell 1984 inaugural Russell Brand... Let me just get my name.
	Let me deal with this gas.
	I've got a lot going on.
	Get his colour chart!
	Quick!
	Give me my cartilage out!
	There's something that I really want to say.
	Oh yeah, I just want to just quickly look at that New York pizza rat because... Oh yeah.
	And then we're going to like delve into the world of George Orwell and the great philosopher friend, Brad Evans.
	Like those of you that saw Brad last time will know, but you've learned all sorts of stuff.
	Deleuze, rhizomes.
	We're so much cleverer now because of this.
	But in New York City, where they claim that the rat problem is being tackled aggressively
	and that it's not ratatouille, look at this rat actually trying to make it as a pizza
	delivery guy.
	Like, I actually, my feelings of revulsion, people might have natural feelings of revulsion
	towards a rat because of their association with ebonic plague and things like that.
	That's all put to one side because that is a delightful little guy.
	Yeah, just trying his hardest.
	Just trying to make it.
	But, once more, let's just see New York and how seriously they're taking it.
	And also, look at the problem they think they're tackling in New York.
	From this, you can assume that New York think that rats are listening to this, and that the people of New York are opposed to the idea of getting rid of those rats, because they think it's ratatouille.
	Let's have a look.
	The rats are absolutely going to hate this announcement.
	Well, I don't think they are, because they firstly don't speak English.
	But the rats don't run this city.
	That's clear because they don't understand democracy, they don't understand municipality, facilitation, mass transport, finance, vaccination programs, propaganda.
	We do.
	This is not Ratatouille.
	Rats are not our friends.
	It's like, what?
	The rats are winning the propaganda war.
	Even Eric Adams behind him looks like he's going, what was that comment for?
	He's annoyed at his own members.
	Hey, sanction that!
	Sanction that you can say it's not Ratatouille.
	Hey, listen, I'm thinking of going during the announcement, just reiterating it's not Ratatouille.
	You don't need to do that.
	People know that Ratatouille is a movie.
	Just do the announcement, say that we're going to, these are the programs, don't put your trash out after eight or whatever it is.
	You don't have to sell that they're not our friends.
	That's the point.
	You don't have to sell that.
	It's like people are reveling in the rats.
	Ah, now, rats, get ready for a link, baby, that's gonna knock your socks off, because what does he find, Winston, in room 101, in Orwell's classic, 1984, His worst fear.
	Sooner or later we will all be confronted with our worst fear.
	Our fallibility.
	Our vulnerability.
	But in the case of Winston, it was rats in room 101.
	The designation of your fear.
	The cause of your anxiety.
	The cause of your dread.
	Under constant surveillance.
	One unimpeachable, central, authoritarian figure.
	Governing all.
	It's time for our inaugural book club.
	But before we play the... Are we gonna... Let's have a look at...
	We're just going to promote the idea of Stay Free AF, our members community to you right now, and then we're going to get into it.
	So have a look at this, because if you're not a member of Stay Free AF, you should be, because you would get stuff like this.
	I'll show you the stripper move if you need to see it.
	Baby!
	Push it real good!
	You're right, this is the proper show.
	That thing was just passing time.
	The little title sequence that we've got, have we got that now?
	Check out this, we've got a title set.
	Let's do it properly.
	Watch this, I can do this properly.
	That ain't even 1984, get rid of Vandana Shiva!
	Right, watch this, like I'm doing it properly.
	Hello, welcome to Books with Brad, our new book club.
	Thank you.
	And then title sequence.
	Oh my god that's brilliant.
	Tell us how, how did we come up with, you did it, did you?
	Your wife?
	Who's, how did we get that brilliant, brilliant thing?
	Yeah, my wife, the brilliant artist, Chantal Mirza.
	She's, yeah, phenomenal.
	And then Chantal did this image.
	Yeah.
	And we're going to give it away as a prize at some point, aren't we?
	But when we've reviewed, oh, it's stuck to the wall.
	But when it's, when we've done it, quite rightly really, because you should have pictures stuck to the wall, when we've, um, when we've reviewed Night Night 4, we're going to give this away as a prize, aren't we?
	Yep.
	So beautiful.
	Your wife's a brilliant artist.
	I'm very lucky.
	Yeah, you're lucky to have a brilliant artist wife.
	You are lucky.
	Yeah.
	We're all lucky, aren't we?
	I'm not lucky.
	You're not lucky.
	Maybe you'll have a brilliant artist as a wife one day, Gareth, but this ain't the time for that.
	This is about 1984.
	Can you, first of all, Brad, you're a philosopher.
	Why don't you set out the significance of this book culturally and philosophically right now so as we can all get into this book club?
	Because remember, you lot are going to have to read it and Let's be honest, so am I, which I will have done by the next time we do the final.
	Don't laugh at me, I'm a goddamn pro.
	I know book clubs, baby.
	Brad, so tell us, why is 1984 such a significant, ongoing, and ongoingly relevant piece of work?
	Yeah, I think it's an ideal book to start this book club, first of all, because I think it's the one book which really, you know, captures the imagination.
	It's a book which The more, the older I get and the more you read it, the more you feel the gravity of the book because the more you become aware, you know, Umberto Eco said this book is 75% real and 25% dystopian fiction, right?
	And I think it's a book also, which I think the brilliance of Orwell is he manages to traverse time.
	We're not sure when the past is, when the present is, and when the future is.
	That's a recurring theme throughout the book around the oppression of the system.
	But also it's a book which has this timeless appeal because it is so mutable, like power is so mutable.
	And the fundamental themes which he's dealing with in terms of oppression, in terms of love, in terms of torture, in terms of hatred, in terms of the obedience to power, they are profound questions which still affect us today.
	This dislocation After an assumed apocalyptic event, you suppose this does something to us when we approach this book, that it somehow invites us to enter into the fiction with a sense of anticipation or even dread?
	It's anticipatory, but it's also a, you know, a sense in which we know this has already happened in some capacity.
	We've been always teetering on the point of this annihilation.
	Now, you talked about, for instance, in the earlier part about, you know, the Cold War.
	Orwell is actually accredited for inventing the very phrase, the Cold War.
	Wow.
	And so he's already imagining this kind of futuristic, kind of annihilative landscape in which this is kind of set.
	But then it becomes the ever-present amongst all our kind of imaginations.
	What is it that drives us to this point of utter annihilation?
	And then beyond that, what comes after the annihilation?
	And what comes after a catastrophe?
	And the catastrophe which can tear society apart in such a way that we will give ourselves over to power and not question it because we think it's right for us or we fear power so much.
	Brad, as a sort of passionate socialist, how did Orwell end up using a kind of communist dystopia as the general palette for 1984?
	Yeah, well Orwell is obviously, he's a self-professed democratic socialist.
	And I think we have to kind of remember the history of Orwell's life.
	You know, as a writer, you know, he kind of, when he was 33 years old, he went to fight in the Spanish Civil War.
	He went as a journalist, but then ended up getting caught up.
	And then Busquem part of the fighting, which became the basis of his book, Homage to Catalonia.
	He was avowedly anti-fascist in his politics.
	Now, I think it becomes very clear for him as well that the ideal of socialism, like, you know, Orwell's book is about the corruption of language, but he's also very much interested in the corruption of political systems.
	And I think it's very apparent to most people by 1945 that what professed to be a kind of a socialist ideal was very corrupted.
	And then if you read, for instance, many years later, you know, what Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote in a very famous book, The Gulag Archipelago, of a system where everybody is watching one another.
	You know, you can't even trust your brother because they might kind of, you know, dob you in and you end up in a gulag.
	This is the narrative which Orwell is really talking about.
	You know, it's not just the surveillance cameras.
	It's a system in which we survey one another.
	We are constantly the watch persons of one another.
	And we can say that is so prescient today as well, you know.
	Where in particular do we see the realization of this dystopic vision?
	What are the most obvious comparisons to draw and what are the most evident distinctions?
	Well, first of all, I think the book works on multiple levels.
	So the book starts as a narrative of war.
	And what Orwell makes very clear is if you invoke a condition of war, now we could argue, for instance, what became of the pandemic was kind of very much wrapped up in war mentalities.
	If you invoke a war, you instantly naturalize hierarchy.
	That's the start point for Orwell.
	So if you and the idea of the war in 1984, nobody really knows what the war is.
	You don't really know who the enemy is.
	The enemy keeps changing, but war structures hierarchy.
	And then through that, you have this normalization of hierarchy, which gives rise then to the normalization of surveillance technologies, because it's for your own security.
	And you kind of embrace those technologies, even though you know they're fundamentally wrong.
	And I think those are the two start points for Orwell, which then gives rise and the ways in which then there's a kind of people are told evident falsehoods, but they have to accept them as true.
	And evident, you know, the evident contradictions, for instance, in Orwell's 84, you have, you know, the Ministry of Plenty, which is in charge of economics.
	And even though people's, you know, lived realities of everyday life is deteriorating, they're constantly celebrating an increase in GDP or an increase in living standards.
	Or the Ministry of Love is responsible for torture, you know, or the Ministry of Peace is responsible for war.
	And all these kind of, you know, evident displays with language is very kind of clever with Orwell.
	Yes, an induction of a kind of continual bewilderment and an inability to find a locus that you can situate yourself in, as you said, with the book's entire premise.
	How do you place yourself in time?
	Where do you live in the spectra of language when meaning itself is being stripped away?
	It's curious that these terms misinformation and disinformation are becoming the parables de le jour, if I can mix a couple of Latin languages in an attempt to come up with a pithy phrase.
	And Adam Curtis is always keen to point out That we began with identifiable wars that were geographically defined and could even, it seems in retrospect, at least be seen.
	It's one of the things that I spoke to when Aaron Maté came on, I said to him, like, look, mate, you're always being anti-establishment, like, you know, saying that Russia have got their reasons and American hegemony must acknowledge its culpability in this ongoing NATO-inspired complex war.
	But how would you feel in the Second World War?
	Would you be going, oh, the Nazis, they're probably alright?
	And he went, no, no!
	Firstly, his father, of course, Gabor Mate, is a Holocaust survivor, and he said that that was plainly a war that could be identified both as morally and territorially, even though, of course, there's good and bad in everyone, etc.
	It was clearer.
	So we've gone from the Second World War to the Cold War that was played out in peculiar proxy wars, and it seemed that that's birthed this continuum of war ever since then.
	Furthermore, the idea of the war against terror is beginning now to become abstracted, an enemy that is diffuse and difficult to identify.
	Until, as you've already noted, you end up with the war against germs, a kind of microbial conflict that can't ever be won, that breath and each other are the enemy.
	And with this mentality of condemnation, for example, of Trump voters in the United States, you land at a point where you other 75 million sort of ordinary Americans, now I'm not saying that that's More egregious than other Muslims, or people of colour, or women, or people as a result of their sexual orientation or gender orientation.
	But it's more likely, given the proportionality, to create a state of near constant conflict.
	But to move now, Brad, to the distinction, there's an evident aesthetic...
	Disjunct between Orwell's prophecy, if you want to call it that, and the peculiar sheen of progression, the progressiveness of our age.
	This is something that's absent.
	For me, in 984, having seen a bit of it and read a bit of it and not read the fucking thing yet, but I bloody well will, I promise you, by next time.
	And you've got to read it too.
	You've got to read it too.
	It's clear that this is a kind of a penitentiary, a place of stasis, rather than what we all live with, is this myth of progressivism expressed through things like GDP, but also through our infatuation with technology.
	What do you reckon about that, though?
	Yeah, well, the... There's so much in there to unpack, mate.
	We've got to unpack it, Brad.
	That's why you're here.
	You're a philosopher.
	First of all, your points about... Unpack it!
	Your points about war and the brilliance about Orwell in the context of war.
	It's based around this society called Oceania, and they're at war with Eurasia.
	But then, very quickly, the war shifts to East Asia, and they have to rewrite the history and say, we were never at war with Eurasia, right?
	It's kind of a bit like the approach Blair used to have with Libya.
	You know, it's like, Gaddafi's the enemy, he's not the enemy.
	He is the enemy, he's not the enemy, right?
	But even then, as you say, it was fixed enemies.
	Now, first of all, we're in a very different terrain of war to what Orwell envisaged.
	Because at least they were still geopolitically kind of set, right?
	Whereas we know with the advent of Al Qaeda, for instance, you know, the war on terror was declared.
	I've got no idea whether we're still in a war on terror.
	Nobody's declared it over, you know, but it's kind of slipped into, as you say, the war on germs.
	Now, what's very interesting about the war on terror and, you know, the response to COVID was, First of all, the hyper militarization of the early narratives, the narratives around heroes, you know, we had this kind of constant heroism, you know, heroes normally die, so it's okay for, you know, medical people to die because it's heroic.
	But then you have that kind of shift between an amorphous enemy, which nobody really can put their finger on.
	What it does do is normalized preemptive governance.
	And I think that's, you know, because the war on terror was the idea was, you know, you can't wait.
	So you have to attack before and you actually create the very threat that you want to kind of kind of bringing it out of hiding.
	And I think that's the other point then about, you know.
	The relevance today, I think Orwell got it wrong on two counts.
	And I think this is also important to recognize, you know, it's not a manifesto.
	There's a lot of errors in the book as well.
	And I think the first thing is kind of interesting.
	If we think, you know, Orwell writes this book and it's based in 1984.
	People date the 1st of January 1983 to the invention of the Internet.
	So the Internet starts to arrive at this cusp in history and Orwell's world is still very industrial.
	It's still very analog.
	It's still very primitive technology.
	Orwell could never have imagined the types of technology we have today.
	The second point, I think, where Orwell was wrong and perhaps Aldous Huxley was right, is that, you know, Huxley was, Orwell's narrative is about how do you get people to, you know, there's this famous line in the book where, you know, if you want to understand history, it's a man stamping on somebody's head eternally.
	You know, that is history for Orwell.
	Whereas Huxley says, no, people are more seduced by power.
	People can be seduced into loving power, and that can be just as perverse.
	I think what Orwell got it wrong was that people don't fear being watched.
	They fear not being watched.
	And I think that is a different, you know, we've learned to basically be seduced by our own surveillance and because it makes it easier for us to access, you know, airports quicker and so on.
	This convenience, the lubrication of convenience, one of the things we talk about a lot on our show.
	Just from today's show, the stories that we covered like Gavin Newsom's new California legislation that means that what doctors say to patients will be subject to the government or tenure and also Yeah, the protest bill that, you know, that this was just slyly put through during the carnival of trust, no trust, trust Bojo, no trust bus, this bizarre sort of interchange of, you know, comparable political figures.
	Meanwhile, you know, so yes, you're right, this The banalisation is like that sort of gently banal, the easy exchange of autonomy for convenience.
	What for me that I can infer from that is the sort of the gentle Nihilism.
	And I can see how something that obviously precedes Orwell, the rational materialism, the idea that we are into post-enlightenment values of, well, this is what life is.
	There is no afterlife.
	There is no soul.
	And again, Curtis pointed out that through the access to data, we've entered this phase of managerialism, like it's your job to sort of manage yourself.
	Have you had your five a day?
	How's your little Fitbit? How you doing? Are you sleeping properly?
	This tyranny and this surveillance, as you say Brad, has been openly taken on, willingly
	taken on and paid for. Well people forget, you know, I think one of the downfalls perhaps of 1984 is a book that
	has become very caricatured.
	And it's a book that's really just about surveillance.
	And I think it's a book that's so much more than that.
	In many ways it represents the best of the old kind of Greek tragedy tradition.
	Because it's a book which is in three parts.
	The first part kind of sets the scene.
	The second part is basically a love story.
	Where, you know, this character Winston falls in love with this protagonist and he's kind of, he hates her to begin with because he has these feelings for her and nobody's meant to have any feelings unless it's for the state.
	And then he falls in love with this woman and then of course he becomes tortured and there's a great act of betrayal.
	It's an ultimate tragic story because at the heart of it... Spoiler alert!
	Yeah, but at the heart of the book is basically the idea that love is revolutionary.
	And the final part of the book is basically how do you break a human down in such a way that the only thing they can love is the party or the big other or the big state.
	And the intimate bonds between humans are literally reduced, as you say, to mathematical criteria.
	Oh man, I feel like by reading this book and studying the news, we'll be able to see what the trajectory is going to do next.
	So that's why we are going to read it together.
	Are you going to read it as well, Gareth?
	Now, in a minute we're going to slip over to Stay Free AF, our members community, where Brad's going to read a little bit of the book and we're going to analyse it in more depth.
	Those of you that are in our community can tell me if you want to do anything else, like a little bit of meditation or you just want to lark about a little bit, but I can see the real value in using our understanding of literature, and obviously in this case in particular this book, to advance our understanding of the news. In fact my mate Jamie Bing who's the publisher
	of Canon Books, you know, Canon Gate, that's what it is, like on the subject of self-help
	books he said, all books are self-help books. That is the point of a book. And another
	good thing I've said about books one, so when I went to a literary agent, I goes, like
	people say don't judge a book by its cover but I do. And he goes, everyone does. Like that's,
	no, I don't like it.
	I'm actually looking at our two covers, because we hold up your copy there, Brad.
	there Brad you've gone for you've gone I mean both the theme is cogs in both
	cases but you've got those rather beautiful yellow cogs I've gone for the
	red cog version here We've really paired this conversation back.
	That's because we've had a fantastic show.
	But remember, if you want to read along with us, get your copy of George Orwell's 1984.
	There's going to be a competition.
	We'll tell you how you can win this fantastic piece of art.
	And also, there's something else that I wanted to do, like as a competition.
	What is it?
	Vandana Shiva?
	We'll do that in Stay Free AF.
	Vandana Shiva, has Vandana signed this book?
	Or is it like I've got to sign it?
	We're not going to send it to India and back just to get it signed.
	I'll ask Vandana if it's alright for me to, like, did we, has someone won these books?
	Who's won them?
	Is it written down there?
	Link and Kilby, you've won this.
	Link and Kilby's one person?
	Alright Link and Kilby.
	Because it sounds like Link and Kilby.
	It sounds like a double act.
	They sound like cops.
	Lincoln Kilby, well done.
	Use this to fight crime.
	And can there be any greater crime than patenting seeds and Bill Gates using his foundation to potentially avoid tax, allegedly, allegedly, and also potentially to exert undue influence on the planet.
	Me and Brad and Gareth and everyone are going to stay around for Stay Free AF.
	Remember, you can join for I think it's like $33 and stay with us all the time.
	Plus there's a whole bunch of other stuff.
	You can join us live with Eckhart Tolle.
	You can see me and Jocko Willink.
	I've fallen over that guy.
	But for now, thank you for joining us.
	What a lovely week it's been.
	Next week, we've got some fantastic guests.
	Who do we have?
	We've got Eckhart Tolle.
	Eckhart Tolle!
	Is Jordan Peterson coming next week?
	Week after.
	Week after that, Jordan Peterson.
	So remember, it's going to be another lovely week.
	Gal, is there anything that you want to say about the shows next week?
	No.
	No, you don't want to say nothing about them.
	We've got some good stories.
	You're going to know a lot more.
	You're getting cleverer and cleverer and more and more beautiful every day.
	There is hope.
	Don't feel despondent.
	Don't feel despair.
	And if you do, know that I will visit you there.
	I've been there too.
	There's a way out.
	Stay free.
	See you in a minute.
	If you're joining us for Stay Free AF, see you next week.
	Otherwise, ta-ta, ta-ta.
	Man, you switch on, switch on, switch on.

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