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How The US Plans To Keep The War Going For YEARS TO COME - #047 - Stay Free with Russell Brand

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	In this video, you're going to see the student circle.
	Hello there, you awakening wonders.
	Thanks for joining me for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
	Today we've got some fantastic stuff to talk about, like how the war industry is looking to make billions out of the Ukraine conflict for years to come.
	Also, the Pentagon has failed another audit.
	I think they've failed five in the last five years.
	That's right.
	I should do the audit.
	Did you see my math test?
	Very good.
	Joe Biden though, he's a man who could do that all day also because he does know how old he is, which is good news.
	That's a good platform to build upon Joe.
	In our presentation, here's the news, no here's the effing news, we're going to be showing you how your health data is captured and used against you.
	Let me know in the chat right now, did you know that was happening?
	Do you know to which degree?
	Do you know the new mercurial measures they're introducing to make them more adept at that?
	Joining us later in the show, if we didn't have enough wonder to present you with, Steve-O is joining us to talk about addiction, activism, censorship and his new plan to become the Archbishop of Canterbury.
	Oh yeah!
	He hasn't got that plan.
	We need you to hit rumble right now because it helps us in a way that I can never understand.
	Before we get into that heavy news about the military-industrial complex and how they're willing to take us to the brink of Armageddon in order to turn a profit, which I don't know how they're going to spend in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, because in the post-apocalyptic wasteland all there is is ash, and you'd just be swapping that.
	What about the bunkers though?
	Down in the bunkers.
	They love bunkers.
	Of course.
	I forgot about the bunkers.
	I always forget about the bunkers.
	Now though, it's time for our new item.
	The system is fine.
	Don't collapse into existential despair.
	The first example of things being fine and there being no need to collapse into existential despair is Pilk.
	Pepsi have introduced this thing called Pilk.
	Have a look at Pilk.
	Nice.
	Ooh, naughty.
	Hep C and milk.
	There's a lot of things to unpack, Gareth, and I'm going to start unpacking them now, if you don't mind, mate.
	Firstly, right, they're using Lindsay Lohan's cultural cachet as a person.
	I'm guessing as a sort of a bad girl, girl gone wild, addiction, etc.
	And she is mixing a drink.
	The milk is what's described as naughty.
	The milk would be the nice, wouldn't it?
	Because that's the nourishment.
	That's the nourishment, isn't it?
	That's the mother's milk.
	That's the milk of the Marjorie right there.
	So that should be the nice, not the naughty.
	It probably isn't mother's milk.
	Why not?
	I mean, if you're going to start putting milk in Pepsi, why not put human milk in it?
	Why not sperm?
	I mean, if you're watching this on YouTube, then remember, after 10 minutes, we go into an ascensorial wonderland where we talk about whatever the hell we like.
	And I communicate to you deep, deep truths about the deep, deep state.
	For the first 10 minutes, we have a little bit of a laugh about putting lactation into carbonated drinks.
	Also, why is the whole thing so sexy?
	There's a lot of things happening here.
	Because that's the other element to Lindsay Lohan, isn't it?
	That's what she represents.
	She's sexy.
	Lindsay Lohan represents sexy danger.
	And naughtiness.
	And it's interesting, again, in post-modernity and in a sort of a state of ongoing irony, the culture devouring itself, it's like things that were sort of serious once, wasn't she getting in trouble for converting to Islam?
	Drug references.
	Drug related, everything was sort of all very serious.
	And now though, the whole self-cannibalizing culture.
	What is so dangerous or naughty about putting milk into a cup?
	I don't understand that.
	It's not dangerous or naughty, it's just not going to taste very nice.
	Exactly, yeah.
	Because I once put milk into a soda stream and it just turned into bubbly foam and it was awful.
	I was a pioneer, I didn't know even then.
	Pilk.
	That is one dirty soda.
	And dirty as well.
	I mean, like, what is this?
	This is a children's drink at best.
	But anyway, like, if you're going to get into portmanteaus, here's some other products.
	You could mix vinegar and chocolate.
	You can have chinega if you do that.
	You could mix fish and yogurt.
	That's simply foggot.
	And you could also mix eagle drones and Ukraine.
	And what you might do there is start a nuclear war.
	So there's all sorts of other potential.
	Did you ever do coke floats, though, when you were young?
	Because that's not a million miles off, is it?
	My brother Gareth, my dear friend.
	Okay.
	In the Coke float, you have found the one possible argument for this working.
	And that's, when I thought about a Coke float, that's when I thought, that pilk might be alright.
	It's gonna be nice, isn't it?
	Creamy, lovely pilk.
	That's right.
	But like, a Coke float, it did go flat, didn't it?
	It did.
	You had to drink it very quickly.
	Get that Coke float down, yeah.
	Get that Coke float down, yeah.
	Why?
	What is everyone doing?
	I think, in a sense, that's the pathway that started me on to crack and heroin, the brown and the white.
	The coke float is baby smack and crack, I say.
	Don't do drugs.
	Drugs are very bad, particularly if you're watching this on YouTube, where it's a bit more sensorial and a little bit less able to tolerant nuance and complexity, as we've learned over the years.
	Biden, though, does know how old he is.
	Have a look.
	I'm not happy with questions on whether he is too old to run for president again.
	The 80-year-old venting to aides about the media's fixation, quote, you think I don't know how bleeping old I am.
	He's been pushed too far there.
	Yeah.
	I know how old I am.
	He's actually just finally said it.
	That's good, though, because numbers is one of the areas where he displays most delirium.
	As you know, on this show, Stay Free with Russell Brand, on every day, we believe that this is a sort of a repeat of the madness of King George III.
	Where the descent into senility of a monarch represented the end of the old empire, giving birth, as it did, to both French democracy and the American Revolution, which could have been a mistake.
	Let me know in the chat and the comments where you think that you shouldn't have had that revolution.
	You should have stayed with mad old King George.
	Probably not because, you know, you've got back on the cycle of senility anyway.
	Putin news.
	He's had to withdraw from an ice hockey game because of yet more health rumours.
	As you know, Putin... Not because he's just a bit busy.
	Also, like, that's a high level of fitness, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	Like, you're in the middle of a war with Ukraine.
	Just Ukraine?
	Well, just Ukraine.
	There's no evidence there's a proxy war.
	Although, of course, what are these Eagle drones that are being recommended?
	Yeah, you can't... I don't think he should be playing ice hockey.
	No.
	His excuse shouldn't be, oh, I feel a bit ill.
	It should be, I'm busy.
	And also, it doesn't have to be something extreme like Parkinson's or liver cancer.
	Ice hockeys really are.
	I mean, even standing up on ice skates is very difficult.
	Then to sort of enter into combat under those circumstances, I think is outrageous.
	These are the kinds of stories that are, of course, used to distract you from significant and important news that we would like to draw your attention to now.
	Remember, if you're watching this on YouTube, we continue for one hour on Rumble. We'll be talking about how the healthcare
	industry is mining your health data and you know also in conjunction with big
	tech. Let's have a look at that story now about the war industry looking
	forward to multi-year authority in Ukraine. Let's have a look at that. So okay
	there is legislation pending in Congress that indicates that the US government
	government believes that the Ukraine war may continue for years.
	On October the 11th, the Senate Armed Service Committee submitted its amended draft of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2023.
	Nestled within the draft, Gareth, nestled, they've got a draft and then they've found a little enclave where you put a bird's egg or a baby bird or a little viper.
	Nestled within the draft is a provision that would establish an emergency.
	Whenever you hear that word, you know they're up to something.
	Whether it's shutting down trucker protests or endorsing profitable endeavours for Lockheed Martin, etc.
	There's a multi-year plan to award massive defense contracts to Lockheed Martin, Raytheon,
	BAE Systems and other war corporations to produce weapons for Ukraine and to replenish
	U.S. stockpiles, as well as those of foreign allies and partners.
	An amendment spearheaded by New Hampshire Democrat Senator Gene Shaheen and co-sponsored
	by Texas Republican Senator John Cormian would allow the Pentagon to award non-competitive,
	no-bid contracts to arms manufacturers under the plan.
	Now that's the kind of complexity that I want to see covered by the mainstream media.
	Why are they not including that story in their reporting on the Ukraine war?
	These are vital defining facts.
	I noticed that was a Democrat and a Republican.
	This is bipartisan.
	No, no, no, hold on.
	They can't be the same.
	Both those parties can't have ultimately the same interests.
	It must mean something when you go down to that booth and you pick one of them, maybe
	nibbling on a nail or sucking on a thumb, you're making a valuable decision.
	Now that's the complex reporting there in the intercept, or at least the transparent
	reporting, but have a look at the mainstream media have reported the emergence of a new
	superplane.
	It's like something from Top Gun.
	Like, Gareth, what exactly is this superplane?
	It's just fast and can ignore radars.
	This is Northrop Grumman who have unveiled their new B-21 nuclear bomber.
	They spent $200 billion on this.
	The thing is with Northrop Grumman... I don't like saying it.
	I don't like it because what they make is very very high tech but Northrop Grumman sounds like a Yorkshire farmer.
	It does.
	I hope I've invented new super jets that'll be able to evade detection and drop missiles on Val from Grade 8.
	Look at how they're reporting it on the news.
	This woman makes it seem so amenable and sexy that I actually start to think, I'm glad we've got these broadcasters.
	This is the news.
	It sounds like promo.
	Look at it.
	This is the news.
	An Air Force project long under wraps is a secret no more.
	Excited.
	She's thrilled about it.
	There's a secret note.
	Finally we know all about it.
	This is a bomber.
	This has got to bomb children.
	This is a machine of death that you're paying for if you're an American taxpayer.
	And we're probably paying in some sort of crazy old roundabout way.
	Display fit for Hollywood.
	The Pentagon showed off the new long-range V-21 Raider in Palmdale, California last night.
	It is fit for Hollywood.
	It does look like Hollywood production.
	It does look like Top Gun Maverick, in particular the bit at the beginning when he's test pilot in that plane, you know, and you see him in that lab.
	Maverick, you fool!
	Don't try and fly it that fast!
	But of course we know Maverick.
	He does try and fly it that fast.
	Well, he's a Maverick after all.
	If Maverick starts behaving within the lines, they're going to have to change his name to a conventional figure within the Air Force.
	It's also like a Steve Jobs iPhone launch.
	The commodification of war, the normalisation of war, the reductive vilification of a figure like Putin, who doubtlessly requires no additional vilification because he's a former KGB head who's engaged in military action overseas.
	You know, the vilification stands for itself.
	You don't need to turn these figures into cartoons.
	Unless you're doing that to strip the conversation of nuance in order for this crazy, profitable crap to go down unquestioned.
	How can the Pentagon fail five audits?
	Let me know what corruption you envisage that masks.
	Now, we're going to have to drop out on YouTube now, not just because... Not because we don't love you.
	I love all six million of you awakening wonders.
	I feel connected to you in the limitless, but it's... Gareth, I'm feeling the censorship.
	I'm feeling the censorship on me.
	I've got to let myself loose.
	I've got to unveil some truth.
	Steve-O's coming on here later.
	Me and Steve-O, we've got to be untethered.
	That's right.
	Haven't we?
	Yeah.
	And also, we've got hero videos coming at you.
	Deep, deep, dark presentations on truths that simply cannot be unveiled on YouTube.
	We're just too dangerous and naughty.
	We're a lot like that... Pilk!
	Yeah.
	I'm like a delicious glass of stinking pilk.
	Why don't you just tip a yoghurt and sperm, whatever you want, into a can of cola and drink it down.
	It could be any type of sperm, I don't think it's necessarily egregious to say that.
	I wouldn't keep going down the sperm line.
	I'm not sure we're off earth.
	That's what she said.
	I mean, I never use that joke, but there you go.
	All right, listen, YouTube, join us over on Rumble.
	Got to say goodbye to you now, but get over there now.
	There's a link in the description.
	Okay, let's have a look at this relentless commodification of war a little more.
	Let's see how the rest of the advert goes.
	I mean, news.
	It's not an advert, is it?
	it.
	Yeah.
	Big for their boots.
	When you get to a point where the, you know, trust in media is like, you know, falling dramatically over the last few years, is it kind of any wonder?
	You know, there was obviously all the issues around the pandemic and blame, the blaming of the unvaccinated and all those kind of narratives that the news was regularly, you know, CNN, Brian Stelt, we saw it all.
	And then you've got, and you go, no, no, we're fair and balanced.
	How dare you not trust us?
	Horsepace, things like that.
	And then they go and advertise this.
	What do you think in the comments?
	Do you think the mainstream media see you as absolute morons and idiots?
	Do they talk down to you?
	Do they give you narratives fit only for mainstream media?
	And also, by the way, those big movies, you know that they're made in alliance and compliance with military ideals and goals, and this is certainly not an attack on The brave service people around the world who sacrifices, we regularly and rightly honour.
	It's to simply say that the military-industrial complex, who take 50% of most Pentagon budgets, do not care about service personnel either.
	No, they don't.
	Nearly a quarter of enlisted families are experiencing, this is within the military, are experiencing food insecurity, and more than 60% of respondents pay more than they can comfortably afford for housing.
	So this is like people who literally serve in the military are experiencing problems with food insecurity.
	How dare they propagandise and ally those two ideas, pretend that if you don't support the troops you're somehow unpatriotic, when in fact, as you've always known, as you've always known, they simply use that narrative to fatten already wealthy organisations like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.
	Is it later in this same news report that you see like a general come out that used to work for Raytheon?
	Oh man, this is going to blow your mind.
	You won't believe this.
	They could bring this person out like it's part of the news.
	He works for Raytheon, check it out.
	The B-21 Raider is the first strategic bomber in more than three decades.
	One of the best strategic bombers I've ever known.
	Even when I was working at Raytheon, it was one of the best ones we had there.
	So he now is working for the government.
	He's the defence secretary.
	He's Biden's pick from Raytheon.
	If I'm looking for anyone as the new defence secretary, who shall I pick?
	Someone from...
	The defence industry?
	No!
	No!
	They'll be wanting to have wars unnecessarily!
	Oh no!
	God!
	Hold on a minute!
	I've just seen something!
	If you pick someone that's both Raytheon or Lockheed Martin, they'll, because of their relationships and because of their systemic ties, they'll be looking for ways to create war.
	It'll be bad for world peace!
	Joe!
	No!
	Oh, he's already done it!
	I know how fucking old I am!
	We're big, big farmer this year!
	That's what we say.
	Let's have a look at this dear old darling.
	It is a testament to America's enduring advantages in ingenuity and innovation.
	Corruption and complexity and reductiveness.
	Also, ingenuity and innovation could be used in ways that don't lead to, you know, annihilation.
	For example, why not tip a delicious glass of milk?
	Like you did.
	That's what I've done.
	That was enough for me.
	Lovely old milk or chinica.
	Chomp down on a lovely bar of vinegary chocolate for your ingenuity.
	Is this still the news?
	This is still the news.
	This is still the news.
	It actually looks like the Top Gun trailer.
	It does.
	Still the news.
	This shouldn't be the news.
	Do you think that the news should be a trailer for war?
	Do you think that the news should be a mouthpiece for commerce and further commodification of your culture?
	Do you know by now that mainstream media news is just another TV show that they put on at a regular time and wrap up in graphics and grammar that distract you from the fact that it's propaganda?
	Let's check out a little bit of it.
	The V21 Raider represents a view into the future and brings it to the here and now.
	nuclear armageddon if you keep agitating china and russia can't keep doing that gareth it's going to annoy them in tomorrow's high-end threat environment the b21 looks imposed we are opening and imposing That's what it's come down to.
	Oh my God, look at that thing!
	Let's just drop it.
	People aren't going to make decisions based on the aesthetics of the aircraft, truly, when it comes to geopolitics and the complex global arguments and the ultimate showdown between the USA and the globalist forces that want a unipolar world and can't handle the complexity of a necessary Multi-polar geopolitical space where China aren't going to just give up and go home.
	Obviously, this war is about bankrupting Russia.
	Many people have explicitly said that.
	That's the point of it.
	It's not to protect the Ukrainian people, which would be a worthy goal.
	That's why they say it.
	It's not to bring down a tyrant in Putin, which would be a worthy goal.
	That's why they say it.
	It's to further line the pockets of corrupt organizations like... Well, I don't know if they're corrupt.
	The whole system is corrupt.
	They're not corrupt, but the fact that they're not just shows you the space they operate in.
	The biggest lobbying group in Washington is the defense lobbying group.
	So when you talk about corrupt, I mean, lobbying basically is corrupt.
	That's by power.
	Do you think that that's corrupt?
	Do you think that lobbying should be banned?
	You know when Tulsi Gabbard left the Democrat Party and just said that it's a war machine, didn't she?
	She said that when she came on our show.
	You can see that show on Rumble.
	I guess it's difficult to contest that she's right when the defense industry is the most powerful lobbying interest.
	Yeah, you can.
	And also, you know, when you get a stat like this from Global Living, which according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it would cost $20 billion to end homelessness in the United States.
	Let's have a look at some of that stuff, Gareth.
	I know you've done some tireless work there with your team.
	Well, I guess, you know, when Tulsi Gabbard talks about leaving the Democrats and that it's, you know, a party of warmongers, and you see statistics like, you know, the new Pentagon budget, which is record amounts that Biden's asked for, And 200 billion going on this new B-21 bomber.
	And then you get a statistic like it would cost 20 billion to end homelessness.
	I mean, I'm sure that's slightly reductive in its own way, because all sorts of systems will also need to be altered.
	But it does seem like their priority is on defence, doesn't it?
	Could you bring that full screen for me, guys, so I can see that in its entirety?
	Thank you.
	Last week, the Department of Defence revealed that it had failed its fifth consecutive audit.
	I would not say we flunked it, so we don't even know what they're doing.
	When they have audits, like when they go into bed and go, right, let's see what's going on with all this money.
	Isn't it something like 70% of the weapons that have been sent to Ukraine can't be tracked?
	That's right.
	I would not... So listen to this.
	This is going to blow your mind.
	You're not going to believe this.
	Let me know what you think in the comments of the chat about this story.
	I would not say that we flunked, said DOD controller Mike McCord, although his office did note that the Pentagon only managed to account for 39% of its 3.5 trillion in assets.
	Only 39%!
	Imagine you could only... Imagine you could only account for 39% of your fingers.
	Where are the rest of your fingers?
	I'm not telling you I don't need to tell you that!
	Why don't you look at these ones?
	I'm going to have to smell those ones because I don't trust where you've been putting them on the basis of your inability to accurately audit.
	The process is important for us to do and it's making us get better.
	It's not making us get better as fast as we want.
	We want to get better faster, but possibly because most of your fingers are up inside your bumholes, you crazy crowd.
	The US military has the distinction of being the only US government agency to have never passed a comprehensive audit.
	Stop auditing them!
	They never pass one.
	No, it's pointless.
	Because normally if you fail an audit, there are consequences to failing an audit.
	With them it's just record amounts of additional funding.
	Well, I've got some very bad news.
	Oh, what is it?
	You have failed the audit.
	Oh, is this going to affect our funding?
	Let me check.
	No, you're getting record funding.
	So what's the relevance of the audit?
	Oh wow, when you put it like that, no relevance.
	How about I stick my fingers up my own ass?
	Why not?
	That's what we're here doing.
	39% of my fingers are the ones that you can see.
	The rest of them, they've got to be somewhere, baby.
	They've got to be somewhere.
	What does it say here?
	In the Hill, the House on Thursday passed the annual defence authorisation bill for a record $847 billion, 50% of which it's estimated will end up in the hands of organisations like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, which by some weird coincidence, the Defence Secretary used to work at.
	Oh, you think because he used to work at Raytheon, now he's his defence secretary, they set up favourable contracts and would even go so far as perpetuating needless wars in order to fatten the pockets of those organisations.
	That war in Ukraine was a surprise for your birthday and you've spoiled it.
	You're just like Big Pharma.
	No?
	Maybe?
	Could work, could work, could work.
	And as you say, Gareth, 40 million people nationwide are living in poverty.
	Yeah, I mean, I guess at a time where you're talking about the cost of living crisis all the time, you've got politicians going on the telly talking about how difficult it is and how, you know, it's because of Putin that we can't, that we have to, you know, you're paying high gas prices because what we're doing is fighting Putin.
	Well, it seems like there's plenty of money around.
	It's money, isn't it?
	They're getting some money from somewhere, aren't they?
	They're getting it from somewhere.
	The military industrial complex giant, Northrop Grumman.
	Hurry up, Northrop Grumman here!
	I was out lambing this morning, up to shoulder!
	Not many people, I imagine, are going to appreciate this rather good impression of a Yorkshire farmer from All Creatures Great and Small in the 1980s on British television because you're most likely in America, aren't you, in all reality?
	Military industrial complex giant Norfolk Grumman introduced its B21 radar on Friday.
	The B21, whose development was 30 years in the making and whose total cost is expected to exceed $200 billion, is tapped to replace the B2 Spirit.
	According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it would cost $20 billion to end homelessness.
	I mean, I recognise that you can make those kinds of financial connections almost arbitrarily, but it does show what our priorities are.
	as a culture and in particular when you see that that money is not going to
	support in troops who we've just heard are living in various degrees of
	deprivation in spite of the amount of resources available and the bloody
	Pentagon can't even complete an audit. Yeah. It leaves a lot of questions.
	I think we're in a situation now with this war and with some of the things that we're discovering about this war that people, the public, are now starting to ask questions about where does this money go?
	Let me know in the chat, is this war just a pandemic sort of again?
	Is the war the new pandemic?
	I.e.
	in 18 months will we be going, I'm fucking ill, we were saying at the time That this is a result of NATO infringement.
	Again, this is not.
	Please, this is a sensitive matter.
	People's lives are at stake.
	That's why it's important that you tell the truth.
	People are dying in Ukraine.
	This is a terrible, terrible war.
	We're not saying that, you know, the censorship that prevents people having an ordinary conversation and a necessary conversation about this isn't out of respect for Ukrainian people.
	It's out of respect for Rafian and Lockheed Martin and their agenda.
	So do you think in 18 months there'll be more facts available?
	Let me know in the chat.
	Let me know in the comments.
	Right now.
	Now, are you curious, even a little bit, about how your health data is captured and used against you and the methods and the measures that they use to capture yet more information in even more interesting ways?
	Have you noticed the ubiquity of cameras?
	Have you noticed how everything now, it requires a little glance of your face that they're reading the contours of your, in your case, Gareth, beautiful face.
	Thank you.
	Well, why not?
	Why not do a compliment in the middle of the link?
	Do a compliment in the middle of the link.
	That's what I learned at school for old media.
	Now that we're in new media, now that we're truth tellers, now that we're on the side of truth and justice, I can still use some of those techniques.
	When they're reading the contours of your face, where is that information going and how could it be co-opted and misused?
	Time now for Here's the News.
	No, no, oh no, here's the effing news.
	Thank you for choosing Fox News.
	No, here's the effing news.
	In spite of Ron DeSantis calling for a statewide jury on the efficacy and practices around vaccines,
	narratives are still being created saying that anti-vaxxers are bad drivers, for one thing.
	Thankfully, people aren't simultaneously advancing new ways to capture and weaponize your health data.
	Are they?
	They are.
	In this fantastic story, hot off of Ron DeSantis announcing that there will be a statewide investigation into the efficacy and practices, potential misrepresentation around mRNA vaccines, we want to talk to you about some of the phony narratives that are being constructed, for example, People that didn't get vaccinated are probably really bad drivers.
	If you can make such tangential leaps, isn't this a time to be especially vigilant around data capture?
	Because it seems that they don't use that data in ways that are entirely linear, and I would say that they are weaponising health data and trying to create social credit score conditions already.
	Let me tell you a little bit more about this crazy idea that people that aren't vaccinated are bad drivers.
	I'm not taking that medicine, it's not been correctly trialled.
	Also, woo-hee!
	I don't care about trees or white lines!
	People who refuse to get the COVID vaccine are far more likely to get into traffic crash requiring hospitalisation, a recently published study found, adding evidence to the theory that anti-vaxxers often demonstrate other kind of dangerous anti-social behaviour.
	Now that is obviously a narrativisation to suggest that a personal choice not to take a particular medication, particularly as more and more information is revealed, and Ron DeSantis calls for a state-wide jury to analyse evidence that they could have been misleading and misrepresenting the efficacy of those vaccines.
	You can't say, well, as we know for a fact, anti-vaxxers are anti-social.
	This is like extraordinary propagandising techniques.
	Have you noticed that Almost all media now is propagandising, potentially from both directions, this is not just a liberal establishment modality, possibly the right are doing it, possibly even I'm doing it, maybe none of us are free from this tendency but perhaps the only chance we have is by inviting discourse and conversation around issues, not leaping to conclusions and certainly not giving the ability to garner more data to corrupt
	Centralised forces.
	And as usual when they take your data, you know, like during the pandemic, hey, just so we can help you.
	Have you taken that medication?
	Just so we can help you.
	We're not letting you in that venue.
	Just so we can help you.
	You're a bad driver and you shouldn't be allowed a car and we're not going to insure you.
	Do you see how this edges us towards a social credit score dystopia?
	Do you see?
	Let me know in the comments.
	Let me know in the chat.
	We theorise that individual adults who tend to resist public health recommendations might also neglect basic road safety guidelines, the authors stated.
	Non-compliance isn't automatically negative.
	There might come a time where non-compliance is necessary.
	Haven't we seen the mainstream media already shift from, boo, anti-vax protesters, what's wrong with them, those idiots, they should be denied health care, all the way to, look at these brave Chinese protesters protesting against lockdown.
	Why are these people ignoring lockdown?
	Boo!
	Hey, these people are ignoring lockdown.
	Hooray!
	The only difference is the passing of time.
	You can't trust them.
	They have no moral authority.
	They are simply peddling whatever ideas maximize the ability of the powerful to enhance their power.
	Even if they don't know it yet, they know not what they do.
	I hope that's the answer.
	The study published in the American Journal of Medicine looked at data from more than 11.2 million people in Ontario, Canada, and data from 178 medical centres in the province.
	Of the 11.2 million people, 84% had received Covid vaccines, and 16% had not as of July 31st, 2021.
	Of that same group, 6,682 people needed emergency care for a serious vehicle crash, During the one month period researchers looked at, or 200 per day, of those traffic crash victims, 75% had gotten the jab and 25% had not, or an increased risk of 72% for the unvaccinated relative to the jab.
	Now that might seem like some pretty contrived mathematics, but it's essentially a pirouette around the algebra to come to the conclusion that unvaccinated people ought be persecuted And when you note that in January, Quebec had a plan to put significant health tax on unvaccinated people, you can see how this data is being mobilised in unique and unusual ways.
	So I think it's really important to spot when they say A is potentially true and therefore B, because A is probably a lie and B is probably tyranny.
	The conclusion around Quebec is drawn from a tweet from Quebec Health Minister Christian Dube who announced, What do you want?
	Taxing or vaxing?
	Neither?
	Well one of them's inevitable.
	People thought that they were going to be heavily taxed if they didn't immediately get vaxxed.
	What do you want? Taxing or vaxxing?
	Neither. Well, one of them's inevitable.
	In fact, both of them are inevitable.
	Traffic deaths surged in the United States during the pandemic,
	but Canada, like nearly all comparable countries, saw the opposite,
	the extension of a long-term trend of fewer road fatalities.
	There could be loads of reasons for that.
	That could be because across the US people's businesses were closing down, they were experiencing despair, they knew lockdowns were being imposed on them that were ultimately unfair, that they couldn't trust Big Pharma, that they couldn't trust the government.
	The researchers are careful to note the studies show no causal link between vaccine hesitancy and risky driving.
	That means there is no link.
	That means it's being made up.
	That's an arbitrary link.
	That's a narrativised link.
	That's another way of saying propaganda.
	But the results may relate to a distrust of government or belief in freedom that contributes to both vaccine preferences and increased traffic risk.
	Man, I love me some freedom.
	No vaccines.
	Also, I'm going up on the sidewalk.
	Also, that old lady's getting what's coming to her.
	Other explanations, the researchers said, might be misconceptions of everyday risks, faith in natural protection, antipathy towards regulation, chronic poverty, exposure to misinformation, insufficient resources, or other personal beliefs.
	I.e.
	so many variables that the entire study is absolutely redundant Other than its potential utility in creating erroneous, facetious narratives to damn and condemn people that it's safe to damn.
	It's almost like in the wake of the woke, where they've realized that you oughtn't condemn people on the basis of identity, there's a craving, a longing.
	Ah!
	We've got to still find a way of hating poor people.
	These people!
	We've got to find a way of demonizing some group.
	Is there a group that we can legitimately condemn?
	Not really, not really.
	But could we sort of cobble together some data?
	Well, I suppose you would.
	It'd be unethical.
	Doesn't matter about ethics.
	We don't have any.
	This is why it's all the more concerning that we are seeing again, through the process of commerce and convenience, new technology introduced that will give centralised big tech resources, which, as you know, are deeply interpolated with political and government agencies, the ability to garner more of your data.
	New software from Radiant, a San Francisco-based software company that plans to roll out its AI-driven kiosk by the end of this year, will create a personalized experience for customers while helping boost restaurant sales.
	Well, that's good news.
	Or customers.
	I might be a customer.
	Restaurant sales?
	Well, that's got to be good for the economy.
	This isn't going to lead to you stealing our data and using lots of facial recognition tech to make all sorts of assumptions and prevent people getting insured, is it?
	According to Radium, you'll walk up to a kiosk in a quick-service restaurant, and a tiny camera will scan your features, registering your height, age, gender, and mood.
	Depressed, sad, stuck in a dystopia.
	Pronouns?
	Pissed off and angry!
	Instantly, it will adjust its display, selecting meal options picked just for you.
	How dare it!
	You look depressed.
	Here, here's a milkshake.
	Now fuck off.
	Let's have a look at how this technology is being presented to potential vendors.
	Window displays have always been an effective way to catch the eye of passers-by.
	Yeah, I love window displays.
	Keep talking.
	Using anonymous AI facial technology, cameras attached to radiant screens capture and count the number of passers-by with the opportunity to see the content.
	Do you see that what that's actually suggesting is there's going to be posters that are reading your gender, your age, your preferences.
	This is at the point that it's being offered to vendors as a way to sort of target customers.
	Apparently with bananas.
	But do you see that in the wrong hand, for example, in the kind of hands that might make a connection between you not taking a certain kind of medication and being an irresponsible driver, that could be used to make all sorts of decisions and choices about not only what you might buy, but where you might go and what you might be allowed to do and not do.
	And also health information of yours that ought remain private.
	And measure engagement behavior through the number of people that pass the screens Oh my God, look at those bananas!
	The performance of each ad is measured using the data captured and visualized in SightCorp by Radiant Analytics.
	Data plus capitalism will lead, ultimately, to a sharp spike of evil.
	Because in the end, there's an obligation to use all of the data accrued to generate profit.
	This same data could be used to create a better, fairer, more just society.
	To create better diets, better conditions.
	but in an irresponsible culture where the- Chayna.
	...
	In spite of Ron DeSantis calling for a statewide jury on the efficacy and practices around vaccines-
	On a per-screen and per-campaign level.
	Isn't the music like sort of semi-tribal?
	Like, hey, we're in nature.
	We're not in nature, we're in an open prison and it's increasingly less open.
	Psycorp by Radiant Analytics provides unique, anonymous audience measurement.
	Why does he keep saying anonymous?
	How come the only people that get to be anonymous are these powerful interests?
	Every little bit of privacy is being extracted from your life, from your masturbation habits, to your personal acquisition choices, your consumer habits, your health biometrics, the shape of your face, your mood, your gender, your preferred type of weather, what kind of hat you like to wear.
	I like these ones.
	But for them, absolute anonymity.
	Does that seem like yet another power imbalance?
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	What are some of the ways though that the data accrued through this charming tribal tech could ultimately be utilized?
	With little public scrutiny, the health insurance industry has joined forces with data brokers to vacuum up personal details about hundreds of millions of Americans.
	The companies are tracking your race, education level, TV habits, marital status, net worth.
	They're collecting what you post on social media, whether you're behind on your bills, whether you order online.
	They feed this information into complicated computer algorithms that spit out predictions about how much your healthcare could cost them.
	Are you a woman who recently changed your name?
	You could be newly married and have a pricey pregnancy pending.
	Or maybe you're stressed and anxious from a recent divorce.
	That too, the computer's models predict, may run up your medical bills.
	Once you know that data accrued under one pretense, often within very prescriptive and
	explicit conditions, can be used elsewhere, you know that this data will end up being
	used to the convenience of the highest bidder or the most powerful.
	Once you know that the state has agents deeply embedded in social media organizations and is controlling the narratives of just public discourse, you know that these relationships and conditions already exist.
	You know that the real tyrant that you need to be concerned about is not Vladimir Putin and whether or not he's shat himself lately, but the new tyranny afforded by this kind of technological dictatorship.
	Are you a woman who's purchased plus-size clothing?
	You're considered at risk of depression.
	Mental health care can be expensive.
	I don't think so.
	You've just bought those leggings.
	Hopefully they'll keep you cheerful, because you ain't going into no clinic.
	Cuddle up to your giant leggings, tubby!
	We sit on oceans of data, said Eric McCulley, Director of Strategic Solutions for LexisNexis Risk Solutions, which sounds like a Superman baddie.
	Insurers contend that they use information to spot health issues in their clients and flag them so they get the services they need.
	Yeah, because that's how insurance companies behave, isn't it?
	Oh, oh, we've just noticed you're an insurance risk.
	Would you like us to insure you so we can help you down the line?
	Do you not know that whenever you get insured, this is my experience, Oh yeah, we'll insure you, we'll help you, your car, your house.
	Oh, I need you.
	Oh, let me just check your policy.
	Now, how to say this, it's a very complicated thing.
	We've looked at your data and I've created a graph for you that helps explain the complexities of your situation.
	So, if you could just follow the advice.
	See you in a week!
	And companies like LexisNexis say the data shouldn't be used to set prices.
	But, as a research scientist from one company told me, I can't say it hasn't happened.
	Because it has, and that would be lying.
	At a time when every week brings a new privacy scandal and worries about the misuse of personal information, patient advocates and privacy scholars say the insurance industry's data gathering runs counter to its touted and federally required allegiance to patients' medical privacy.
	Patient advocates warn that using unverified, error-prone, lifestyle data to make medical assumptions could lead insurers to improperly priced plans, for instance raising rates based on false information or discriminate against anyone tagged as high cost.
	So in a sense you can see how A story saying that people that didn't get vaccinated are causing car crashes, while there are new investigations into the efficacy of those vaccines that were, as I recall, quite aggressively pushed, means that we oughtn't be marching open-hearted with our trousers down into the arms of data capture organizations, even if they're saying that they're ultimately going to offer us better services.
	There's enough evidence to suggest that these big tech platforms and data capture giants operate in coordination with the government to push An agenda that is not beneficial to anybody but themselves.
	But that's just what I think.
	Let me know what you think in the comments.
	Let me know what you think in the chat.
	See you in a moment.
	All right, look at that.
	We're back on the all of a sudden just like that.
	We're back in the stream and joined by Jackass legend, Steve-O.
	Hello Steve-O.
	You all right, mate?
	Yeah, dude.
	I'm doing great, Russell.
	Fascinating conversation right here.
	Yeah, thank you so much for participating.
	Thanks for being on our show.
	I just want to mention straight away Steve-O's new book, A Hard Kick In The Nuts, What I Learned From A Lifetime Of Terrible Decisions.
	Brilliant title.
	It's out now and also Steve-O's on tour at the moment with his bucket list tour.
	If you can get tickets, we'll put a link in the description.
	Stevo, I've always loved you, mate.
	Firstly, I loved you in the Jackass days because I thought there was something piratical and mad about what you all were doing.
	And now I know, I think it's okay for me to say, we're both in recovery and stuff and I know you have a very different side To your nature.
	Now that you're like a sober person, how is your perspective altered?
	Not only to your past, but to the aspect of you that still craves that kind of attention and still craves that kind of craziness.
	How do you adapt to that as a man in recovery?
	It occurs to me there's a saying, what happens when you take a drunken horse thief and take away his alcohol?
	You've got a sober horse thief.
	You know, I'm an attention whore, so I'm just a sober attention whore.
	I do want you to know that in my book, I mention you in here, Russell.
	There's a mention of you.
	It says, this all helps explain how I let Russell Brand talk me into taking a course in Transcendental Meditation.
	Though, truth be told, I think Russell Brand could have talked me into sticking my dick in a blender.
	Perhaps your greatest stunt was allowing me to talk you into Transcendental Meditation.
	Now, let me tell you this.
	I'm a very all-or-nothing type of personality.
	And as it relates to meditation, you got me into the course.
	And by the way, thank you for that.
	It was 2013.
	When I took the course in Transcendental Meditation, and kind of like any good habit, if it's working out, if it's eating properly, all you have to do is miss one day, and then it just becomes this slippery slope of inactivity.
	And, you know, that was my experience.
	I dabbled in it, and then I just fell off and it went away.
	But the years that went by, I felt that I was really missed.
	I thought, you know, I should be meditating.
	I would be really benefiting if I meditated.
	And I got myself a new teacher in 2019.
	And knowing that I'm all or nothing, I started recording my meditation, keeping track of it on an app.
	And so I've got this streak going.
	I'm 1,000, how many days do I have?
	1,084 days, averaging over 40 minutes every single day.
	I've not missed a single day since December 27th, 2019.
	And I really believe that it's transformed me.
	I genuinely believe that my meditation practice Causes the universe to conspire in my favor.
	When you say that, can you think of examples or times that you felt that you've accessed another power or that your life has been different as a result of meditation?
	It's very, very hard to put your finger on it.
	You know, there are experiences that, you know, in our world of recovery, we refer to as God shots, things where we just think that something's just too magical to be chalked up to coincidence.
	There's, you know, just the general, I would, I would call it momentum.
	You know, I've got momentum.
	I would call it, you know, rather than say, wow, I've been fortunate.
	I have good luck.
	I like to say the force is with me.
	Because much of your public persona is derived from a very unique time where like you and the crew
	that you moved with engaged in dangerous, chaotic acts that were beautifully presented and brilliantly delivered
	that would have been required in my opinion, a kind of, as well as craziness,
	a kind of a valor and bravery.
	It makes me think that perhaps people don't appreciate the complexity of you.
	When you look back at it now, mate, and I know that part of it is looking for attention,
	but what else do you think you're striving for?
	I once heard you describe it as a kind of pursuit of glory.
	And given the way that those, much of that stuff is presented on MTV,
	there was sometimes a kind of nihilism.
	Aside from the camaraderie and friendship between you and the rest of the crew, there was something that indicated to me that we were coming to a time where the world was changing.
	But now, in this new spirit, in this place of new spirit where you are becoming more awake, where you're in recovery, where you have more self-awareness, what aspect of yourself do you think was being expressed?
	beyond requiring attention.
	Do you think there's any self-hatred or self-masochism in that stuff?
	Am I overthinking it or is it simply about glory?
	And how do you pursue that glory now?
	It's funny that you would point to a possible self-destructiveness and self-hatred
	where I think my view on it, and going back to before I was in recovery,
	my position has been that most people have really a very strong sense of self-worth.
	Fairly serious problems, whether it's health problems, whether it's financial problems.
	Maybe they're not happy in their marriage, but people have great stressors in their life.
	And I genuinely believe that by performing the most outrageous, ridiculous, shocking acts, That when people are consuming my art, that I have effectively distracted them from their stressors.
	And I would not purport to having solved anybody's problems, but by distracting people from their problems, I have made their problems go away, albeit temporarily.
	And as such, I have given myself the title of Distraction Therapist.
	And I believe that it's a noble title.
	Absolutely.
	I feel like almost, I was just thinking then, that in certain yogic practices, the endurance of pain is regarded as a kind of a noble mastery over people's addiction to comfort, addiction to conformity, and normalness, and being willing to do those things.
	There's a reason.
	I think things don't become that successful and that exciting without there being something at their heart that is magnetizing people.
	Another aspect of your nature that interests me, mate, is your evident love of animals.
	I know that you've... I got a dog where I've got an emotional support card for my dog, Bear, you know?
	And I did that because I saw you talking about it on your YouTube channel.
	And also, I wanted to ask you about your protest and arrest at SeaWorld there.
	Tell us a bit more about that and how that went down.
	Well, I absolutely love animals, and thank you for mentioning my YouTube channel.
	How about that?
	You and I, we are of the new school, Russell.
	We're of the new school.
	We used to be of the old school, where every job that we God, we needed permission for.
	We needed some asshole in a boardroom to give us permission to work and now we don't need that anymore because we're of the new school of the digital world and we work when we want to work and we deliver our content straight to the audience.
	God is that refreshing.
	What kind of freedom do you feel as a result of that?
	And were you aware at the time that when working within mainstream media and an organization like MTV, that there are certain agendas strapped onto your work?
	Commercial, but perhaps agendas even beyond that.
	What do you think is the significance of operating in this space, as well as the artistic freedom?
	Do you think that there are other ideals that you can tag onto that, mate?
	I don't know that the That the agenda of MTV or Paramount Pictures was anything particularly nefarious outside the confines of standard issue capitalism.
	I don't know that there was much political behind it, but I feel that at a point, the mainstream media, the entertainment industry, just kind of lost interest in me.
	You know, I had expired for their purposes, and they no longer believed in me, and they no longer wanted to give me permission to work, as they had in the past.
	And I was the only one who believed in myself, and I had to take control and give myself permission to work.
	And since then, I've built an audience, and I'm thrilled.
	And with regards to my love for animals, It's just pretty shocking how much callous disregard there is for animals.
	The sea world seems like the most, you know, low-hanging fruit.
	I think.
	I mean, I think that if there's a fight that most people can get behind, it's the plight of orcas in captivity in SeaWorld.
	And at the time when I got arrested for protesting It was pretty silly what brought about the idea.
	I had just purchased my first drone, and my team and I, we were figuring out how to fly this thing, how to use it to film, and now I wanted to come up with an idea to use our new toy.
	And I felt pretty strongly that for drone footage to be compelling, I needed to place myself extremely high up in the air.
	And so I looked up in the air and what I saw was construction cranes.
	And I thought, okay, well, if I climb to the top of a construction crane and we're flying the drone up there, that might look pretty cool.
	But it didn't feel like a complete idea.
	It felt like kind of a part of an idea.
	So I thought, Well, I'll take an inflatable killer whale and go up to the top of a crane, inflate, I'll write SeaWorld sucks on the inflatable killer whale, and I'll blow up some fireworks, and then that's it.
	The crane that I climbed up was nowhere near SeaWorld.
	There were people who saw just a figure up 150 feet in the air with a backpack.
	Who knew if I was some kind of a terrorist?
	And the response, I mean, God, there were like 80 firefighters and who knows how many police officers, a SWAT team.
	And, you know, at the end of the day, I was quite And not in a good way for wasting the city resources the way that I did.
	Now, with that said, there was a change in legislation regarding orcas in captivity, which followed fairly shortly thereafter.
	I'm not taking credit for that change in legislation, but I may have helped.
	It was just a big attention grab and I slapped a, you know, a worthy cause onto it to try to get, you know, I don't know, like, it was pretty dumb.
	You know that free climber Alex Halland, like, when they tested his amygdala and all that stuff, they found that he didn't have a normal relationship with fear and adrenaline, etc.
	Have you ever had tests like that done?
	No, but I'm reasonably sure that I wouldn't have to have those tests done.
	I experience fear, I experience pain, you know, all of these things.
	I don't think I'm particularly unusual in that regard.
	I think it's simply that my desire for attention outweighs my desire for comfort.
	It's just a simple equation.
	How do you contrast the kind of fear and pain that you feel in anticipation and execution of your stunts with the kind of emotional fear and pain that a lot of us associate with addiction?
	Fear of rejection, fear of being alone, the pain of not being loved, the pain of trauma from your childhood.
	How do they compare on a scale?
	You know, it's interesting that In preparation for stunts, there's really two things that I equate, and one of them is
	There have been times when drawing attention to something that I've done to harm another person represents genuine risk, especially in cases where the person may not know that this harm has been done.
	addressing that by by calling attention to it by revealing this uh this harm that's been done there there are potential consequences uh much the same way there are potential consequences with uh with dangerous stunts like jumping off of a building and in both cases preparing to do that uh it looks like um you know an objective assessment of what the Logistics are, you know, like an assessment of the risks, you know, an assessment of how it's going with the men's, you know, to sit down with the sponsor and sort of read a script of what's going to be said.
	Not that you would ever read the script, but just to prepare.
	And, you know, with this stunt, a little bit of a blueprint, maybe a stick figure drawing of what it looks like.
	Once it's been assessed, then It's quite literally an exercise in counting 1, 2, 3, go.
	And I've done that with every dangerous stunt and, you know, with all of those, you know, really scary amends.
	And I've never backed out after counting 1, 2, 3, go.
	Wow.
	It's the most useful tool for me.
	I've never backed out of anything.
	That's pretty amazing mechanism that you've set up in yourself.
	I bet all things like cold therapy and all that.
	I saw you swimming in the Arctic that time.
	I bet those kind of things, you're just so schooled in it.
	You must just be a kind of master of those kind of things now.
	Stevo, how does it apply to stand-up?
	And also, you know, and the fear that most people that do stand-up comedy associate even when experienced with standing up in front of an audience and also having experienced whether or not it was a cultural cancellation, you know, the cancellation of Jackass in 2000 when in your words it no longer became a sort of an appropriate commodity.
	How do you feel about the risks associated with content now as a stand-up comedian and the risk cancellation even when masters like Chappelle are like, you know, and Rogan, you know, super experienced
	guys are like, you know, within the sights of a particularly difficult cultural moment.
	I mean, there's a couple of things there.
	Um, and.
	Initially, the idea of performing stand-up was, like, absolutely terrifying at the level of any kind of, you know, really risky behavior.
	You know, I've since found my voice.
	I've been touring doing stand-up for more than 12 years now.
	You know, I've just kind of become accustomed to it.
	I've found my stride, my voice.
	With respect to the cancel culture, I'm not as concerned with that because, much like with Jackass, you know, I really only target myself.
	You know, I'm not... I view Jackass, again, you know, you know suggested maybe that there's an underlying self-hatred and uh you know and i see nobility i see something very wholesome in it because with jackass you know we we only ever target ourselves and each other and we're all such willing participants it's permissible to enjoy our uh
	Our misfortune and outside of that intimate targeting of ourselves and each other.
	We're so universally respectful of third parties.
	You know, there's just really nothing.
	There's never been anything.
	There's never been anything hateful and as such I really view Jackass and the spirit of the comedy that I perform as something that's genuinely wholesome and I wouldn't want to go so far as to say You know, immune from the woke cancel army.
	But I think, you know, I don't really particularly consider myself, for the most part, anybody who is a target of that type of stuff with the comedy that I perform.
	Yeah, I think you're right as well thinking about it with the Jackass, that the spirit of that always came through, that it was inclusive and joyous.
	And again, even with a little bit of analysis and research, emerging as it does out of skater culture and punk, both of those ideals and genres afford the pushing of boundaries and breaking rules.
	And it's kind of like, and also risk with skating in particular, I suppose.
	So like um yeah it makes sense and I guess what I was saying with the I suppose if you weren't a person in recovery I wouldn't have thought about the potential for because I know I've done things in my life where there's because I did self-harm like as a kid not in a kind of a joyous celebratory just in a kind of angry like breaking glass and all that kind of crazy stuff so I guess yeah I was looking at it from that angle but you've made it very clear that that's not a motivation thanks for it thanks for explaining.
	I mean, nothing is ever purely black or purely white, so you're not wrong to perceive that, and certainly I think there's a tinge of all of this, and that's what makes it a little bit dangerous, and so you're not entirely off-base.
	I think that there's room for that as well.
	And when we think about, you know, having been destroyed, you know, as men in recovery, you know, man, are there other ways that we can be self-destructive for the love of God?
	I've made my way into, I want to say, five different 12-step fellowships at this point.
	I'm balls deep in four of them, and I think barrelling towards a fifth.
	God, the fifth.
	I can't even imagine what the fifth one is.
	I'd love to continue that conversation with you, possibly offline, because I think I could probably benefit from some of your experience in some of the only four, because I keep it sort of substance-oriented, even though plainly I've got behavioural addictions in all sorts of areas where I could really do with support.
	Stevo, it's amazing to speak to you and see you.
	I'm always struck by your spiritual rigor, your bravery and your connection to very vivid principles like joy, the evidence of clowning and things that I think are right, important and beautiful.
	I always get it emanates from you very clearly.
	So thanks for sharing that.
	I'm going to check out your book, A Hard Kick in the Nuts, what I learned from a lifetime of terrible addiction.
	And I will make this one request of you, as well as the potential learning that I could get from some of that 12 step stuff you just outlined.
	I was thinking, I would like to come on your channel one day and like see this like I was thinking what I would do steve-o is like say like if you had to get a child to do a stunt like how because I'm I always say I always said from jackass from the beginning if I did any of that
	I would die.
	I would die.
	It wouldn't be, oh, look, he's got a bump on his elbow.
	It would just be mortuary, on a slab, autopsy.
	So perhaps we could find a stunt that I could undertake that I don't die from.
	That would be my dream.
	You know, it's wonderful to speak with you, Russell.
	It's been a long time since we've seen each other.
	I've been remarking as I was watching you have your conversation with Gareth, I thought, man, he really is a beautiful creature to look at, this Russell Brand.
	He's just...
	A shockingly good-looking man.
	And I'm also fascinated by this Rumble thing.
	Is Rumble really a platform where you can just show whatever you want?
	Because I run into a lot of problems with community guidelines.
	I mean, they censor, like, all of my exciting stuff.
	So do I need to get on Rumble and how much can I really show on there?
	Stevo, this is the non-censorship platform.
	I will be happy to broker your arrival on this platform and use it as leverage for my own advancing interests.
	Yeah, there's nothing that they won't let you show.
	Within, like, the law of the land and common, you know, what is understood to be a consensual decency, you know, like in the spirit that you've already described, I don't think you'd have any problem.
	The community guidelines here is a community of maniacs that are self-supporting.
	I love it.
	I love it, man.
	Do you have the same cell number that we last communicated on?
	Yeah, I think I do.
	I think I do.
	But I'll get, I'll send, I'll have them send that cell number to you as well.
	I love it.
	I love it.
	And presumably you are in the UK.
	That's right.
	I'm coming over there soon.
	I'm coming over there to sort of, in fact, to promote Rumble and evidently now to do a baby stunt and I assume some work around S-fellowships and food fellowships, gambling, debt.
	I don't know which other ones there are.
	I mean, yeah, we'll talk, Russell.
	Do you still have that same home that we had all those meditations in?
	I don't have that home.
	I think that was the 50 cent house, like I briefly lived in in LA.
	For a while, I lived in the 50 cent house.
	That was, I think, just after my marriage ended.
	I think that's where we did that stuff.
	And no, I don't have that.
	That was a rental property, but I've got a place over there, so I'll catch you there.
	Well, hey, I look forward to catching up further.
	Thank you for having me on.
	It's been fascinating.
	Please don't take offense to this, but I thought, man, this is like a much more attractive, a much more articulate, and a much more expedited and British InfoWars.
	I look forward to serving my custodial sentence and paying out billions to the innocent people who my words have harmed.
	Yeah, I didn't even think of it in those terms, but it's interesting and everything that you said makes sense.
	You know, it's fascinating.
	I really enjoyed listening to you speak.
	And, yeah, like, you know, I remember all of our times together so fondly, and it's really great to reconnect.
	Stevo, thanks, man.
	So lovely to see you.
	You take care.
	Nice one, mate.
	I'll catch up with you soon.
	We'll get in touch offline.
	Loads of love, mate.
	Loads of love.
	Oh, yeah.
	Right on.
	Take it easy.
	We'll catch up with... Well, that was lovely to see, Stevo.
	Oh, my words.
	How lovely was that?
	Wasn't he so sweet and so lovely?
	So nice.
	So warm.
	What a lovely man Steve-O is.
	He also carried on the conversation there.
	We went into sort of personal territory.
	I nearly ended up giving up a phone number and an address in the conversation, but we'll pass that.
	I mean, he's such a beautiful bloke.
	Hey, listen, we're going to round up the week in a fantastic way.
	Tomorrow, we are talking to, I mean, an Oscar winning actor on this show, Gareth.
	Can you believe it?
	Tim Robbins in our conversation, The COVID Redemption.
	have a look.
	It was a very different political environment in the United States.
	Very divisive.
	At first, if you were a Democrat when Trump was president.
	Well, you weren't going to take that vaccine because it was Trump's vaccine.
	And then that seemed to somehow change.
	It was kind of Orwellian.
	It was like we are no longer at war with East Asia.
	It was it was now we were thinking about a different way.
	And if you didn't take the vaccine, you were a Republican.
	And it wasn't that way here in England.
	It was a much more tolerant attitude.
	British Info Wars, that's what we are now.
	That would be like the Info Skirmish or something.
	It wouldn't be a war with the British.
	No, we don't believe in them.
	We don't believe in war.
	We can have someone else have that war on our behalf.
	Twisted Cuffs.
	Info fisticuffs is what we have.
	All right, listen, we are carrying on.
	Me and Gareth have got so much more to discuss.
	There'll be a bit where Gareth points out something I did or didn't say.
	Stevo, for example, has already probably got that as a little nest egg of nastiness that he's nourishing by his nut bag.
	So join us on Locals in our Stay Free AF community.
	Straight away, we'll be carrying on there.
	If not, we're back tomorrow with Tim Robbins, not for more of the same, but for more of the different.
	Until then, stay free.

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