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Jan. 24, 2023 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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Ukraine & The New World Order - #065 - Stay Free With Russell Brand
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So, we're going to go ahead and start the video. So, let's get started.
So, let's get started.
In this video, you're going to see the future.
Hello there, you awakening wonders, you glorious fascists that believe nothing more than all people will be equal and allowed to become who they truly are regardless of their culture or their race, that all people should be free, that we deserve individual freedom and community democracy, that centralised establishment thinking has robbed us of our freedoms, and these freedoms must be returned to us.
And we can do it!
Don't let them drain the hope out of you, wherever you are, whoever you're from.
Recognise that the old ideas are melting away and the new thing is being born.
Being born from us, in this very moment.
We're live on YouTube and on Twitter, just for 10 minutes, then we flip over so that we're just on Rumble, which is our exclusive home, and we can say what we want over there.
But we don't use freedom of speech to create division, instead we use it to create unity, to critique establishment power.
To point out that the old language is dying, that to talk of left and right in a world where Bernie Sanders is writing for Fox News, where Noam Chomsky is saying that Trump is one of the only vocal war critics, these are redundant labels, redundant terms.
The world hasn't caught up with the changes of the last 10, 15 years.
We've got to catch up fast though, because Armageddon is a-coming.
We've got lots of things to tell you about.
Lindsey Graham is advocating for sending tanks into Ukraine.
Boris Johnson's in Ukraine, chatting to Zelensky, being all sycophantic and nuts.
We've got a deep, deep presentation about taking, like, the weapons industry, using Ukraine as a kind of testing lab.
It's brilliant, you'll love it.
I mean, it's not brilliant, really, it's devastating and awful.
And we've got the first Amazon labor union, not labia.
No.
They're selling those now?
Amazon is selling labia.
What, will they stop at nothing to get it on Prime?
That's true, of course you have to be a subscriber to get the inner vulva.
Yeah, Christian Smalls is the first Amazon Labour Union leader.
But should we have a quick look at the, like, apparently we're closer to Armageddon than ever before, Gareth.
Yeah, that's right.
Do you know that there's an organisation?
Did you know this?
Let me know in the chat, let me know in the comments, let me know on whatever social media platform you're currently watching us on.
There's like an organisation that are dedicated to sort of counting down to Armageddon.
Yeah.
They're a weird little tribe.
Have a look at them.
There could be a nuclear war.
Now let's have a look at this weird doomsday clock thing and look at the acolytes that are around it.
They're a crazy little crew.
The members of the Science and Security Board move the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward.
Largely, though not exclusively... Who are they, these people?
And how have they met?
And what is going on with them all?
They're an odd assortment, aren't they?
How have they met each other?
I think they're atomic scientists, or at least it was set up by atomic scientists in 1947, apparently.
Because this is an extraordinary collection of garments available.
If you look at the distinction between that lady's sort of somewhat eastern seeming satin jacket and that man's canvas-y trainers.
Yeah.
What's going on?
It looks like, or most of it looks like this could have been shot 20 or 30 years ago.
I guess scientists aren't necessarily... What, they're not cool?
Maybe not.
Maybe they don't have one of these, for example.
They're not going to be wearing a lovely cool gilet like you, Gareth, strobing away on the internet.
What I don't like about this Armageddon countdown is the sort of pious grandiosity of it.
The sort of earnestness of it.
I don't like that it looks like there's a harp under there.
Right, and now the end of the world!
Let's have a look what is under that rather cheap piece of tarpaulin.
Because of the mounting dangers in the war in Ukraine.
We move the clock forward the closest it has ever been to midnight.
It is now 90 seconds to midnight.
You could have just said this 90 seconds to midnight.
Come on Eileen!
Why come on Eileen?
I don't know, it looks like something you'd do at New Year's or something.
Come on Eileen isn't integrally connected.
Do you not do that at New Year's?
No, at Auld Lang Syne.
That's the one, yeah.
Come on Eileen can be played all year.
Yeah, it's a wedding classic.
Yeah, of course it is.
I mean, Dexys Midnight Runners, they're a lovely bunch.
Why are they only down a quarter of the clock?
I don't know.
It's strange.
Also, why?
So it says here they set up the clock to provide a simple way of showing the danger to the earth and humanity posed by nuclear Armageddon.
It isn't simple though, is it?
It's abstract in so many ways.
It's abstract that they've only shown a quarter of a clock, these grey dots, and it isn't actually 90 seconds.
The whole concept of turning all of the history of our planet into a day, is it that thing?
Do you know that if all human history was just a day, then people only appeared at 5 past 10?
It's a weird system.
I know.
Apparently it's never been more than 10 minutes before midnight.
Why do you need a whole clock then?
Don't need a whole clock.
No.
Just have that 10 minutes as 24 hours.
Yeah.
I don't know.
There'd be an odd combination of like sort of really data-oriented, reserved and rational and then sort of hysterically grandiose.
It's a really odd conglomeration of ideas.
But this is the way the world is these days.
As you know, there are continuing revelations around Joe Biden and his endless files that
he keeps all over his house.
You'd have thought he'd have sniffed them out.
They should spray him with whatever hairspray 10-year-old kids use.
He'd have sniffed them out in an instant.
Let's have a look at the mainstream media, still desperately keen to make a clear distinction
between Trump having classified documents in his house and Biden having classified documents
in his various residencies.
And just so you know this, I don't advocate for any establishment political party, Republicans, Democrats, whichever, whatever.
I believe in community democracy, actual democracy, individual freedom, radical change, new revelatory visions being introduced and discussed on this platform right now.
After we flick over to being just on Rumble in a second, we're going to have a fantastic guest, Amazon union leader, and we'll dive a little deeply into some stories that would be contentious on the platforms we're currently on like YouTube and Twitter.
Let's have a look at the mainstream media continuing to justify Biden having these classified documents.
Lawrence, I'm sure you agree with me on this point.
The fact that Joe Biden has documents, the fact that he opened up his house, and it's nothing like so far, nothing like the Trump document case, that shouldn't confuse I suppose that what the mainstream media has to do is continually suggest that there are meaningful and significant differences between the two potential parties that you could vote for.
Because it's not nothing like it, is it?
Where it says that it's nothing like the Trump case.
It is quite a lot like it.
It's classified documents in someone's house that they shouldn't have.
Generally, it's not like Biden's got classified documents and Trump ate a frog.
They're generally in the same neighbourhood.
They're in the same ballpark, aren't they?
Yeah, I would say so.
He says Trump's a lively debate within a small framework to sort of stop you thinking, Oh my god, we could change everything actually, there's no
reason at all why we should have all these centralised authoritarian structures that prohibit
our freedom and ultimately serve corporate globalism.
Eric Garland, that shouldn't confuse the DOJ.
They should still be able to hold these two separate cases in separate silos and still...
I was on that show.
I know.
He wasn't there that day.
That lady was there.
That's right.
He's Joe, isn't he?
He's Joe himself.
They were a bit cheeky to us.
They were.
They kept saying your name wrong.
Yeah, one of them said my name wrong and they kept trying to knock me off.
They said Willy Brand.
But old Russ was more than equal to the situation.
Why Willy Brand?
I think he was a Chancellor.
Oh, OK.
Yeah, you didn't like that, but you showed them, didn't you?
Yeah, it was really cool.
Look, they have the White House framed between them to show their proximity to power.
I don't think they're that close to the White House.
Yeah.
Martin Goury, who's coming on our show on Friday, is a former CIA agent, and he talks about in his book, and will be talking to us, about how the problems that we have now is our Old systems of analysis and our old taxonomies have died.
Left and right are no longer relevant terms because what you have is centralized power and peripheral dissent.
And I suppose that's why the culture war is continuing to gain momentum as the territory
that still belongs to conventional left-right arguments has to be occupied and made ever
more incendiary and seemingly significant.
But I know people that have very traditional views and very progressive views, and generally
speaking people wouldn't mind what people do in their own lives as long as they're allowed
to, as long as there's a kind of a consensus that we leave each other alone.
So the continual stoking of these cultural differences and cultural conflicts is one way that we are prevented from forming necessary unions.
And that's one of the things I'm going to talk to Christian Smalls about, about the necessity not only of workplace unions at an organization like Amazon, but different types of community, people finding new ways to come together, which is going to be necessary because I don't know if you've seen the news, it's 10 seconds till midnight dead o'clock.
Mmm.
Ten seconds to nuclear armageddon on the little grey quarter of a trivial pursuit piece.
Dead.
But let's not ever discuss why we might be at that point.
The fact that Russia are saying if we lose in Ukraine and you keep on ramping things up.
Yeah, let's not look at that.
Why are we not discussing more openly that Russia have explicitly said, stop winding us up or we're gonna blow up the whole planet.
Like, of course the suffering of Ukrainian people has to be ameliorated, mitigated, wherever possible.
The humanitarian effort must not stop.
I think we should offer our studio up to refugees.
Right.
I really do.
Why are you just saying right like that?
You think they might try and get inside your g-lay?
Is that what concerns you?
I'll be wearing it.
They've got no chance, have they?
Here's that story about Bernie Sanders writing on Fox News.
If alliances are forming between presumed right-wing organisations like Fox, And an avowedly left-wing politician like Bernie Sanders, it supports Martin Goury's idea that there is the centre and the periphery and essentially Tucker Carlson and Bernie Sanders are meeting round the back.
Yeah, also I think, you know, it shows that, like, you have to be open to... I mean, there's that phrase about the left and right that you were talking about earlier, Ross.
What bit, mate?
You know, the left and right.
You were very... Oh, OK, I'll do it now.
The left looks for traitors, the right looks for converts.
Right.
But the left is continually... I mean, you're not left-wing enough, you're not left-wing enough.
I believe in social equality, I believe in justice, community justice, the right to express yourself freely, but you have to afford that to your opponents, which doesn't mean anything at all.
Shall we have a look at Boris Johnson visiting Ukraine?
I think when this trip was set up, Boris Johnson was a more relevant political figure.
If you're watching this now on Twitter or YouTube, we're coming off those platforms in a minute and once we're on the other side of the line we'll be talking more explicitly about what we believe to be the military-industrial complex and the financial industry's involvement in Ukraine, the project to reconstruct Ukraine.
Also, we're going to be talking to Christian Smalls, Amazon leader.
And by God, I'm going to be crossing some lines.
We've got some good WEF, Tony Blair, globalist stuff as well.
So join us.
It's just there's a link in the description.
You can click and you can watch us uncensored.
And remember, we use freedom of speech to bring people together, not to drive people apart.
We've got no business in that game.
There's no time for it.
It's five seconds to Armageddon, according to the grey, dull Tomorrow's World Clock of Open University.
Let's have a look at Boris Johnson.
Two prime ministers old already in Ukraine sucking up to Zelensky.
Something chronic.
Well, I can tell you that the UK will be sticking by Ukraine for as long as it takes.
How can he tell us that?
Because, as a matter of fact, he's got no mandate.
He's just like a... Not anymore.
Unless he does.
I mean, what kind of powers does he have?
What kind of power does he have?
Right.
Possibly what he sits on boards of things.
Well, maybe even within the government.
Who knows?
You know, there's an idea that they want him back, aren't there?
A certain faction of the Tory party want Boris back.
Who knows?
You are going to win and you're going to get all the Russians out of your country, but we will be there for the long term.
And we will also want to be helping you to reconstruct.
Oh!
Reconstruct, you say?
Might be a few quid in there, I wonder.
Okay, mate, what we're going to look at now, Lindsey Graham wanting to send these tanks, I don't want to dive into that kind of stuff, it's absolute craziness.
Why do people keep putting 30 seconds up on that screen?
I don't know, but the Lindsey Graham thing is interesting because he's talking about the world order is at stake.
What he's saying, I mean he's being very vocal about wanting Vladimir Putin to be killed and we need to send tanks into Ukraine because the The world order is at stake.
And when you've got Boris Johnson saying things like, we're going to help reconstruct Ukraine in the same way that Blackrock, we know Blackrock are involved with Zelensky in doing the same thing.
You've got to wonder about this reconstruction of Ukraine and the new world order even.
You know, one that doesn't, you know, in which Russia is severely impeded.
I suppose what a lot of people believe, and often these people are condemned as conspiracy theorists, is that this conflict is about draining Russia of resources in order to create a unipolar world, and that after this conflict, agitation between the US and China will increase around the issue of Taiwan.
Let me know in the comments, let me know in the chat if that's the way you think things are Going down.
Just in case you weren't terrified enough at the sight of that clock counting you down into oblivion, it's time now for our item, Everything's Fine.
Check it.
Eminem's just getting rid of them little sweeties.
Yeah.
Have a look.
Well, there is a big change in the works for M&M's, at least to the M&M's commercials.
They're marketing.
Okay, so here's what we're talking about.
The brand just announced on Twitter they will no longer have the little spokes candies.
You know, those guys at the bottom of your screen?
That's right.
The red, yellow M&M's.
Them, like, M&M candies have had so much attention over the years.
Like, this is, I suppose, what the power of marketing can be, is symbolised by this.
Because it is just some sugar and just some chocolate.
They're not actual little people.
Their views are not important.
No.
They don't matter if there's a... They're too prominent, aren't they?
Like, why have they even got them shops in every significant city in the world?
Like, there's probably one in Tokyo.
I know there's one in New York.
There's one in London.
They're too high in the cultural mix as well.
I mean, I guess what it shows is, at this time where we're saying, you know, Bernie Sanders can go on Fox News or, you know, the right can vote for, you know, demilitarization, and then you get these kind of culture wars popping up around M&Ms.
It just shows what a bizarre kind of space we're in at the moment.
Yeah, we're sort of on the precipice of something nihilistic and terrifying, I would argue.
That's pretty clear evidence of that.
Should we have a look at that presentation that we made, Gav, about how the military-industrial complex are using Ukraine to test new weapons potentially for a future conflict and demonstrate how the mainstream media are promoting literal brands. Yeah. You know, Rafie and Lockheed
Martin. See if you can spot the there's an actual sort of product placement in the news.
Time now for our item. Here's the news. No, here's the effing news.
After the war, BlackRock get to profit from rebuilding Ukraine.
But we're still in the war now, so who's going to profit?
It's the weapons industry.
The mainstream media have admitted that Ukraine is a weapons lab for the West.
They sound better than that when they explode.
These weapons are brilliant.
Today's story is about the Ukraine being used as a weapons lab.
Essentially, many of the weapons that are being sent by the US military-industrial complex are being trialed for a future conflict.
Oh, that'll be good!
So if we don't die in Armageddon as a result of this proxy war between America and Russia, we can die in the actual war between America and China.
Phew!
Something to look forward to.
forward to then.
Normally, we like to bomb people who don't have any weapons at all.
Bomb a terrorist, bomb a wedding, bomb two weddings, do another terrorist in a minute.
So this, in a sense, is very legitimately a real opportunity to trial these weapons.
Ukraine has become a testing ground for state-of-the-art weapons and information systems and new ways to use them that Western political officials and military commanders predict could shape warfare for generations to come.
The problem is there won't be generations to come if we keep provoking former and actual superpowers. Russia, yeah, they've been on decline since
the Soviet Union when we made that deal with them not to infringe on former Soviet Union
territories. Let's provoke them. China, they're probably not that hard, but why take my word for it?
I have after all got this hat on. Let's listen to the Ukrainian Minister of Defense.
He surely knows something about Ukrainian defense and how it's being ministered.
We are carrying out NATO's mission today.
This guy's a fucking liability, by the way.
He keeps turning up on television going, yeah, of course it is a proxy war.
Yeah, we're testing weapons.
You're saying that Ukraine is de facto NATO member?
It's true.
It's a fact.
He's going to get a phone call from Zelensky.
We carry out the mission of NATO today without the loss of their blood, with the loss of our blood.
Wow.
So there is a pact.
Because wars like Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan became unpopular because America doesn't like to see its children coming home dead, there's now an agreement.
Outsource the conflict in order to confront opponents but without the bad PR of the loss of American lives.
Okay.
And also, look, it is the mission of NATO.
Explicitly crazy.
This is the Ukrainian Minister of Defense.
This is not a guy of the equivalent of Infowars in Ukraine.
He's from the government.
Because they need to spend their weapons.
So there you are.
I mean, you can tell me whether you think that's conspiracy theory or not.
If it is a conspiracy theory, it's a conspiracy theory that emerges from the heart of Ukrainian government.
Ukraine's Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation says,
Ukraine is the best test ground as we have the opportunity to test all hypotheses in battle
and introduce revolutionary change in military tech and modern welfare, said Mikhail Fedorov.
So in a sense, there are mutual interests.
America benefits from being able to provoke and potentially drain Russia.
NATO benefits from this new alliance.
Ukraine benefits because they are opponents to Russia and Russia has invaded them, whatever the circumstances of that invasion were, and they are now able to fight at at a level that is not representative of their military or
economic power or standing in the geopolitical landscape. So everyone is benefiting from
this, except potentially everyone if there's a nuclear war.
The use of remote-controlled boats could become particularly important, military experts said,
showing how warfare at sea might play out as the United States and its allies brace
for potential future naval aggressions by China in the east and South China Seas and
against Taiwan.
Really, wouldn't you prefer a world in which diplomatic solutions were being sought by
these major superpowers.
Because we do not benefit from these conflicts.
It has ever been thus.
Economically, interests will benefit from these conflicts.
You won't.
The CNN report said that for the U.S.
military, the war has become an incredible source of data on the utility of its own systems.
For example, the U.S.
has seen that its HIMARS rocket launch system has been effective against Russian forces.
Hey, that's a very effective rocket!
Look, we've killed all those Russians!
Oh, what are they doing now?
Oh, they're telling Putin!
And what's he doing?
Oh, he's going behind his desk!
And what's that button he's gonna press?
Oh, this is a real triumph!
The war in Ukraine has also created a demand for weapons that were beginning to become obsolete, such as the Stinger shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles.
Buy a sale!
Everything must go!
Over-the-shoulder missile launchers, now at half price!
Shouldn't be a war that's about bargains.
You're continually told about, you know, this is helping Ukrainian grandmothers, these orphans, and all this stuff.
It's really, essentially, Walmart Let's see how the mainstream media covers this contentious issue of arms sales and spending billions of dollars of taxpayer revenue on a war that could lead to a global conflagration.
as thousands have been shipped to Ukraine.
Let's see how the mainstream media covers this contentious issue of arms sales
and spending billions of dollars of taxpayer revenue on a war that could lead to a global conflagration.
I expect it will be balanced and transparent.
A secret location, a precious weapon.
Fetishizing the weapon?
Mmm, a precious weapon.
Look at you, baby.
The High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS.
A powerful gift from the United States to Ukraine.
A powerful gift, a sexy weapon.
It's gonna be so good to get that radioactive rain tumbling onto my face, knowing it was such a sexy phallic missile that provoked the conflict.
So far they've only received four of these launches, but the scorch marks on the earth show they've been busy.
When I see a scorch mark on the Earth, I think, yay!
We've been busy, baby!
Hopefully, if they get the maximum number of weapons possible, the whole Earth will be one bloody great big scorch mark.
Brilliant.
The operators say its accuracy and range, about 44 miles, allows them to hit important sites deep inside Russian-controlled territory.
The local pro-Russian forces were in no doubt.
Only Ukraine's new Heimat could have done this.
In a sense, you shouldn't be fetishizing war and conflict.
Ukrainian people are dying, Russian people are dying.
I believe that no one is ultimately benefiting from this except for the most elite interests in the world.
In another sign of the Haimars' ability to influence this war, Ukrainian leaders can't stop saying thank you.
No other donated weapon has inspired so much public gratitude.
Donated weapon?
The language around this.
This is a profitable endeavor that allows the West to test pilot weapons that they may be able to use in future conflicts.
Of course they want to present that as humanitarian aid.
Of course they want CNN puff pieces.
The Ukrainians say, I thank her.
But this is something that is contentious and dangerous and requires responsibility, not only with the decisions that are made, but the way that we are informed about the nature of those decisions.
This commander wants to thank the American people and President Biden for providing a weapon that is helping Ukraine stay in the fight.
Oh Lockheed Martin, I've heard of them somewhere.
I wonder how much money they make this year.
That's why their message to their allies is unchanged.
So CNN there are just presenting essentially a commercial for Lockheed Martin and their products, dressing it up as aid to the Ukrainian struggle.
Please send more weapons.
Now.
Don't worry, more weapons are coming.
That's the news.
Lockheed Martin announced recently that it plans to expand its production of the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, better known as HIMARS, or H-I-M-A-R-S, by more than 50%.
So it's a good job that there's a commercial right in the middle of the news saying that we need more of them.
The decision follows months of positive publicity for the weapons system on the news, which seems to have sparked increased interest from governments in Eastern Europe.
Of course it does, that's propaganda, that's the function of propaganda.
The announcement comes just a month after the army said it wanted to double HIMARS production and triple production of certain types of artillery in response to the war in Ukraine.
This type of boost would require new or at least dramatically expanded production facilities, raising concerns that it would be difficult to scale back down in the future.
Hopefully we can have another war then!
Keep production just rolling on!
Large defence companies are already seeing their share prices go up as investors anticipate the impact of the war on profits.
As of June 2022, Lockheed Martin has seen an increase of 14%.
Of course they have.
They've got CNN on board, doing news broadcasts that essentially highlight the demand for their product as a pious endeavour.
Jack Reed, Democrat, and Jim Inhofe, Republican, recently proposed a new amendment to this year's National Defence Authorisation Act.
The proposal would give the Department of Defense wartime powers that would free it to buy huge amounts of artillery and other munitions using multi-year contracts.
Of course, we mention that to highlight that whether you are pro-Democrat or pro-Republican, you are pro the military-industrial complex, you are pro your tax dollars being spent on this war.
And again, let me iterate that supporting Ukrainian people Ending this conflict should be an absolute priority.
The message that patriotism and profits for the military-industrial complex are one fused idea is a propagandist one.
I believe what's best for Ukrainian people is a peaceful solution as soon as possible.
This amendment will mean that they don't have to vote on it, no one has to talk about it.
Essentially, your money can be funneled directly into Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.
That's exactly what they want to be able to tell their shareholders.
The amendment would also authorise the Pentagon to skip competitive contracting for Ukraine-related deals, including billions of dollars worth of contracts to refill US stockpiles, and it would waive other provisions aimed at stopping weapons makers from overcharging taxpayers.
So they're going to be able to set their own prices, there won't be competition, all these ideas.
Remember how often, if you hear sort of what you might regard as socialist rhetoric, No, entrepreneurialism, capitalism, free market competition, this is what generates ingenuity.
Well, we're going to be really taking a hit on the ingenuity here because they're not competing, they're not signing it off, and they're not having to account for their expenditure.
There is also legislation pending in Congress that indicates that the US government believes the Ukraine war may continue for years.
Fingers crossed.
On October 11th, the Senate Armed Services Committee submitted its amended draft of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2023.
Nestled within the draft is a provision that would establish an emergency 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.
Whether or not it's this war or future wars, there is kind of a policy and an intention to continue with conflict in order to service these kind of deals.
Congress is supportive of this.
They're going to give us multi-year authority and they're going to give us funding to really put into the industrial base and I'm talking billions of dollars into the industrial base to fund these
production lines, said the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer Bill LaPlante. And Bill LaPlante is an
accurate name because he's been planted there by a corrupt system. So when we're talking
about this war, we're talking about this conflict and we're focusing on Putin's brutality and
endless array of diseases and Russia's criminal invasion, all of which is true, and the suffering of
Ukrainian people, certainly true, it is operating as a veil to prevent us seeing that much like the
pandemic, this situation is highly beneficial to some of the most powerful interests in the
world. And if what could be regarded as a crisis for you and for me is beneficial to the most
powerful interests in the world, what kind of outcomes do you anticipate? Do you think there's going
to be an end to the war? Or do you think the war will continue? Let me know in the chat. Let me know
in the comments. A recent Ukrainian embassy reception was sponsored by Northrop, Lockheed and
Raytheon.
We appreciate what you're doing over there, Zelensky.
That's why we've put on this lovely buffet for you.
Look at all these beautiful missiles!
Actually, that one's a baguette.
Here it is, all of the DLs and all of the information.
And look who sponsors it.
Northrop Grumman.
Yep.
Raytheon Tech.
Lockheed Martin.
I suppose you have to highlight certain aspects of this conflict.
The suffering of Ukrainian people.
The brutality of Putin.
In order to distract you from the fact that this is systemic, this is built into the system.
There is a beautiful invitation, sponsored by the military-industrial complex.
Whatever you think about this war, if it were ended right now, it would be a problem for those powerful interests that spend a fortune on lobbying and are benefiting hugely from the situation.
And with the added advantage of being able to test pilot their products for future conflicts, which they appear to be agitating for elsewhere.
As documented in a Pulitzer Prize-winning series in 2008, the Pentagon orchestrated the commentary of 75 former officers who served as radio and TV analysts, turning them into message force multipliers for the administration's point of view.
Many of the retired officers who appeared on TV worked for companies that counted on military contracts, creating a built-in conflict that news organizations didn't mention when introducing the analysts.
So what this video shows you is how CNN, a media partner, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon work together in order to pursue a common end.
You don't need a conspiracy.
You don't need hoods and reptiles or any of that stuff when you can see in plain sight that there is a convergence of interests.
The weapons industry are benefiting, the US state are benefiting, the media are benefiting.
All of these people individually benefit, their interests align There is no requirement for clandestine conspiracy when overtly interests converge.
This is one of the issues that we want to continually observe.
This is not conspiracy theory.
This is not crazy wackiness.
This is just the system and the machine doing what it does.
But that's just why I think.
Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.
I'm going to read those comments right now.
Thank you for choosing Fox News.
The news.
No.
Here's the fucking news.
My brain, my choice sets.
Supported by NATO.
Funded by NATO.
Armed by NATO.
They are NATO.
Pride, folks.
Zuckerberg should let them fight it out in meta.
Retrack 81.
Sustainable war is the goal.
Permanent military industrial income and constant death.
A gloomy, yet perhaps accurate, appraisal of this perennial conflict that we're invited to participate in.
But in other news, M&Ms.
People seem to be focusing a bit too much on the apocalypse and not enough on the demise of the candy spokespeople that we've touched upon earlier in the show.
We've got a fantastic guest on the show now.
He's created unions where it seemed impossible that such a thing could happen, where only division existed, where tyranny, centralised power, a monolith named after the lungs of the earth but seemingly determined to asphyxiate us all, Amazon, mightier than most of the planet's countries, have yielded to the power that can only be... can only be wielded When people come together, Christian Smalls is the president of the first Amazon Labor Union.
Before we meet him, let's have a look at him in a moment of triumph.
Check this.
A champagne bottle was popped as Amazon workers in New York cheered on their historic vote.
For the first time in almost three decades, employees at one facility voted to unionize.
This is the catalyst for the revolution.
Just like Starbucks.
Y'all see what's going on with the Starbucks unionizing across the country.
Christian, thanks very much for joining us on Stay Free with Russell Brand.
Can you tell me, mate, how did you find yourself in this situation where you moved from working at that organisation to creating this union?
Seems you've made an incredible impact.
Yeah, thank you for having me.
It's a pleasure.
My journey started two years ago, three years ago now, actually, 2020, when I was fired for protesting outside of that same facility that we unionized, JFK.
I led a protest over COVID-19.
I was fired the same day.
Um, about a week and a half later, Jeff Bezos himself, along with his general counsel, had a smear campaign calling me not smart or articulate that leaked to the public.
And from that moment forward, I continued to organize and agitate across the country for about a year.
protested in front of every Jeff Bezos mansion that we can find from New York all the way to Beverly Hills.
And then when we came back, we decided that we wanted to form an independent union and we started campaigning.
I spent over 300 days outside of the facility signing people up for this independent union.
And then last year, April 1st, 2022, we became the first union in American history.
You know, like, the union movement is regarded, I feel, as somewhat outgraded as industrialization has altered.
Coal, steel, manufacturing jobs have largely disappeared and seem to be on the way out where even they currently still abide.
Do you think creating a union in this space, which is ultimately within the realm of big tech, is a way that ordinary people can come together to oppose centralized power?
And Christian, when you talked about in that news clip there about revolution, do you feel that new forms of union and community can create genuine opposition to unprecedented power that these kind of big tech companies have?
100%.
Absolutely.
Um, you know, we're at a point in time where, you know, workers realize the value, uh, the pandemic put the world on pause.
And during that time, we realized that, you know, the power, our oppressors against us, our government has failed us and nobody's going to save us but ourselves.
You know, I realized that from a company that I poured my blood, sweat and tears into for a number of years.
And I spoke up one time and they terminated me.
So I had no protection.
I had nobody, no Calgary, nobody to come help me out.
I had to find myself in my community and with the community, uh, we formed this union and that's what it's going to take to really get the protections and the benefits and the life that we all rightfully deserve.
It takes that the community come together, people coming together, realizing that we all have to build up a commonality, that we're not going to be given these things, the things that we want in life, whether it's higher wages, better medical leave options, job security, free housing, free Medicare, we're not, we're never going to be given these things, we have to fight for it.
And the only way we're going to do that is by forming unions, forming community organizations, mutual aid, and things of that nature that's going to bring people together.
The obligation then to support unions, even if you're not a member of one, becomes yet more significant when you describe how important and how successful your action has been.
One of the things as well that's changing, Christian, is that the categories of left and right don't seem to make sense in the same kind of way they once did.
I feel like you went on Tucker and talked about your union and got like a sympathetic ear there where once Fox News wouldn't have been a place where left-wing issues were looked upon favourably.
Also, this is my own opinion, it seems like the Democrat party isn't willing to go at a map for workers when it matters, even though I know you met Joe Biden and stuff.
I feel like the Amazon and the government have significant contracts and the relationship between big tech And the government is so entrenched and enmeshed that ultimately, whether it's the Republican Party or the Democrat Party, but you know, I guess it's more surprising that the Democrat Party don't care.
It seems like that ordinary workers are not going to get the support that they require How do you find yourself navigating that space where once customarily you'd known that the left would have had your back, that the Democrats would have had your back, or Labour in this country that I'm in.
Now you can't rely on that.
And how do you feel about having to deal with organisations like Fox News and stuff like that?
Is that a big deal to you?
Well, I mean, no, for us, uh, you know, we just have to continue to do the work, you know, and we organize.
Um, my, my union specifically, uh, we're independent for that reason.
Uh, we're not tied to any political party.
We're not affiliated with any established union that's tied to political parties, whether it's left or right.
We're independent.
Um, in our constitution, we do not endorse politicians.
We don't care how good they are, how progressive they are.
We love and support, um, You know, whatever supports the workers, and that's how we organize.
We don't feed into the politics, and we don't rely on Democrats to save us as well.
We use their support whenever that is.
We don't know how and whenever they give it to us, but it comes in doses, and we understand that the time that we're in, we're going to have to hold these politicians accountable.
And that's what we've been doing.
I've been on record calling politicians out.
I'm going to continue to do that as the president.
I'm going to make sure that whoever I need to get support from is on notice on the public platform.
And that goes all the way up to the White House.
You know, I've been on record saying that Joe Biden, that claims to be the most progressive union president in history, has to do more.
And he needs to bring these CEOs to the table and tell them that they need to sit at the table with the workers, especially the ones that are unionizing.
Mate, have you heard much about The ways that new progressive ways that organizations like Amazon and these big tech companies could be structured, granting more power to workers, even a share of the business.
When you talk about revolution, it seems like, and when any of us talk about revolution, really what we mean is, are we able to meaningfully alter, you know, even overthrow these systems when they have such a grasp on power Sometimes it feels that all we can do is create a little bit of change, a little break here or there, which I know is significant to the people that you represent if people get Medicare or people get a pay cut.
But when we're talking about revolution, I suppose what we're talking about is meaningful radical change and the ability for ordinary people to Have some control in their lives.
And I wonder if you ever think about how this union movement could grow, become affiliated if not with one of the existing political parties with as yet unborn political movements.
I wonder if that's stuff you think about.
Well, absolutely.
I mean, you know, I'm at the point where, you know, we need a third party.
We need a party that represent workers, the working class party.
We need a party that represent the people that's actually being suffered every day, suffering, living every day in this country that's not being represented, that's not being heard.
Um, you know, I'm out here in the streets, uh, daily, connecting with people, different communities, traveling the country, and I see what's going on on the ground, and it's, uh, it's really heartbreaking to see that, uh, America, which claims to be the richest country in the world, um, and we have such a crisis in this country.
So for me and our movement, it is a revolution because we're at a point in time where workers are taking the power and putting it back into their own hands.
And I know it's going to be a long process.
You know, that's why I always remind ourselves that this is a marathon, not a sprint.
You know, just imagine Amazon workers getting a contract.
Amazon workers, the trillion dollar company, the most powerful company in modern day history right now, are one of them.
And we're getting a contract that is going to protect ourselves as workers at the bottom of the totem pole.
That's going to change the whole industry.
That's going to empower, encourage people, no matter what industry they work in, from Target, to Whole Foods, to Home Depot, to Trader Joe's, to Apple, to Google.
It's going to empower people to want to fight and form these unions, which we already started to see last year with the Starbucks campaigns and other campaigns launching as independent unions, not just forming our affiliate or established unions.
A lot of unions are now becoming independent, and there's going to be more to come in the future.
And I believe with our victory and our success of getting a contract, that's going to change the whole industry forever.
You're describing there is pretty exciting because big tech presents itself as kind of convenient and friction free.
You don't see the invisible people behind an organization like Amazon, you just get the package and the parcel.
And with Facebook and Apple and all these companies, there's a kind of cleanliness in the way that they present themselves.
And you don't see the invisible toil and suffering that sometimes when I hear about it, it doesn't sound like it belongs to this century.
People not getting breaks, the peeing in the bottles.
Then internationally, we know that like the kind of products that we're all relying on.
I'm holding up my iPhone there, a dependent upon slave labor in like Congo, like with the cobalt mining deal and all that kind of stuff.
It seems to me that what you're describing is a need for an awakening.
That we've all gotten so used to being consumers, we've gotten so used to convenience, that we've come to tolerate the idea that other people's suffering is a price worth paying.
That it's somehow become marginalized and concealed.
No one cares about it.
Like in the age in my country with the steel workers and the coal workers, It became a source of pride, the labor unions, and it feels like what you're interested in is creating those communities again.
And in order to do that, the truth has to be revealed about the human cost of these apparently friction-free, convenient, big tech devices and organizations that all of us have become kind of addicted to.
Absolutely, I agree 100%.
Just think about it.
What was we doing 10 years ago?
Just 10 years ago?
We were getting up, going to the mall and shopping on Saturdays.
We weren't really ordering on Amazon Prime.
Just 10 years ago, you were able to go to your local Main Street in your local community and possibly still go to a Barnes and Noble or bookstore.
You can't go there no more.
Main Street and every community right now in America looks different.
The malls, the shopping centers, they're empty.
There's we're givin one company.
money to one company. So one click by you're affect
different people and people don't see that.
And that's exactly what we have to put on Front Street.
And that's exactly what organizing and amplifying voices that are unheard is doing.
It's exposing the ugliness of these corporations and the malpractices that's happening in these warehouses.
And hopefully one day that we'll get to a point or a platform where There will be an awakening where people will be like, you know what?
Let me stop shopping there.
Let me shop at my local store.
Let me stop supporting this company until they do better and stand by their workers.
This power that's being aggregated by organizations like Amazon make it increasingly difficult
to have power at the level of the individual or at the level of the community.
In order to have that kind of community, you need real democracy.
In order to say, we want a community where we have our own stores, our own banking, you
know, like, that's real democracy.
real democracy. Like you said, just 10 years ago, this landscape was recognisably different
and it's happening so slowly. And the pandemic, of course, just exacerbated it, trained us
once again to be okay with being locked up and locked down.
And I suppose that the, I feel like that the lockdown was significant in the advance
and creation of your movement.
Is that right, Christian? Is it because like your conditions were exacerbated there?
Absolutely. You know, I was, I was just a worker going to work while they're
You know, I have twins, one boy, one girl, single parent, just living my life.
I wasn't thinking about any of this three years ago.
If you'd have told me today, I'd be sitting here as the first union president of Amazon, I'd have looked at you like you had 10 heads.
So it took me losing everything.
It took Amazon firing me publicly.
Um, it took all of that to really put me in position to continue and fight against them.
And, uh, I didn't want to unionize that first.
And I, you know, those who have been following my journey from the beginning know, uh, we were just advocating on a community level with my organization.
TCOEW, the Congress of Essential Workers.
We were traveling, just protesting, rallying, trying to build this movement up.
And then it took a whole year and a half later, after the pandemic already started, for me to realize that the only way we're going to really protect ourselves is by forming a union for Amazon workers.
And that's when we begin that campaign.
And, you know, the rest is history, you know.
To be standing here now and continue to fight, it's been nothing short but amazing.
But I know that we have a long battle ahead of us.
But I can see from being here on the ground, connected with different communities, I can see the change and I can see the difference.
And I can see these conversations starting to take place in different spaces.
On a personal level, it must have felt like at the time that you were under most duress, an opportunity emerged.
But what was it like for you to lose your job as a single parent and a father of two kids?
I imagine you were under incredible financial and psychological pressure.
What was that like, mate?
Oh my gosh, yeah.
Yeah, I lost everything.
Once again, I worked at Amazon for five years.
I was a supervisor for four and a half years.
I opened up three buildings in a tri-state area, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
I was a really good employee.
I wasn't just a regular that just come in there and do the job.
I did my job, and I did it well.
I was well-respected.
Everybody loved me.
My team loved me, my department.
I was really popular in the building. And, uh, yeah, to lose all of that in one day
was definitely devastating, especially during the pandemic, especially being in New York City,
when New York City was the epicenter of the world. People were dying every 15 minutes over here.
And to lose all of that, because I was speaking out to protect everybody,
uh, was definitely devastating, but also, um, empowering at the same time, because,
you know, once again in t to make a decision.
When they fired me, I had to make a decision right then and there, whether I'm going to just say, you know what the hell with them and take legal action
or I'm going to continue advocating and
Amplifying what happened to me so that doesn't happen to other people and that's when I decide to continue
advocating How significant is it that people find ways to connect?
That are not determined and defined by cultural conflict.
It's It seems that when people have a shared plight and a shared agenda, when all the people in your organization, for example, are suffering as a result of advanced capitalism, commodification, lack of rights for workers, things that are affecting
Probably billions of people around the world.
And like we've discussed, Christian, stories that are simply not told.
How important is it that we start to develop a vision that enables us to see beyond the amount of divisiveness and conflict that the culture pumps out, giving us reasons and ways to turn against one another on the basis of culture, religion, racial or sexual identity.
How important is it to find ways to unify in meaningful, purpose-driven ways such as this?
Well, it's simple.
When it comes to environmental justice, social injustice, labor, when it comes to these different movements, Black Lives Matter, we have to, as labor leaders, As the working class, we have to take a stance, and we have to stand in solidarity with these issues.
And like I told Lindsey Graham, it's not a left or a right thing.
It's a working thing.
It's a people's thing.
Meaning that my building, JFK, in Staten Island, for example, Staten Island is, everybody knows, is conservative.
It's Trump Island.
Everywhere is Trump.
It's all conservative over there.
We had to build off a commonality of the work-related issues.
You know, not everybody in that warehouse is Democrat.
Not everybody comes home and watches Democracy Now or watches anything close to CNN or whatever.
Amazon workers do not do that.
We had to educate them.
And we also had to bring all different backgrounds
sexualities, whatever ide bring community together
came from to build off th the work related issues.
Everybody wants higher wages.
Everybody wants to be treated with respect.
Everybody deserves to have a decent amount of family time.
Everybody deserves to not have to work 10 to 12 hours and commute two or three hours each way.
So everybody felt the need to unionize to anybody.
because these things are important to anybody.
If you ask me, any working class person would definitely deserve, or definitely want to have
a better life, a quality of life.
And that's what we're fighting for overall, a better quality of life.
These ideas and this analysis, I think will scale even beyond the incredible achievement
that you have already undertaken.
I feel that this is an important global message for people to recognize that we have more in common with one another than that.
Which divides us and that this division is a crucial ingredient in preventing the kind of success that you've experienced.
In our country, there's a walkout tomorrow at Amazon in Coventry.
That's a city in the middle of the country.
Have you spoke to them and what advice would you give them?
Yeah, I stand in solidarity with them.
I know about it.
I'm actually gonna be I'm plugging myself right now, but I'll be on BBC tomorrow speaking about it.
We definitely support one another.
I'll be visiting the UK very soon.
So I'm hoping that I will be connected with some of the organizers.
I finally got my passport.
So like you said, this is a global movement.
I'm looking forward to traveling abroad, starting with London next month.
And I'm definitely going to connect with every movement that I could possibly when you're talking about Amazon.
And tomorrow we're going to talk more about it when they start their strike.
When you come out country, mate, I'd love you to come here and be in studio with us because I feel like if you've got global corporations that are astride the globe, that essentially transcend borders, then there needs to be a response in kind.
There needs to be a worker-oriented or people-oriented movement to oppose and confront that kind of global power.
You know, a lot of, I think, resurgent nationalism is a response to globalism, that people feel
they don't have no control in their countries.
And if there are ways that people can unite behind a common interest, like you said, quality
of life, standard of life, right to dignity and respect, I feel that this could be, you
know, a global movement.
So, yeah, will you come on?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
100%.
I definitely love to come visit.
I stand with that.
I stand on what I say.
I wouldn't have been doing this and sacrificing the time that I had if I didn't believe in it.
I believe that we're at a point of no return.
We're at a point where there's no way we can go back to what we've been getting because we weren't getting anything.
So now we just have to continue organizing, continue pushing forward, and understand that this is a revolution, this is the beginning, and we have to continue to fight.
And when we fight back, as we always say, we win.
Christian, that's pretty exciting.
There's a lot of things I want to talk to you about.
There's this festival, this community festival we do in the UK in July.
I'd love you to come and speak at that as well if you're available.
Christian, thanks for your time.
I think you're doing really, really powerful and important work.
Congratulations on what you've achieved and what you've overcome and I'm really excited about what you'll achieve going forward and what we can achieve together because ultimately this is a Thank you.
Thank you.
Absolutely.
I'm looking forward to it, my brother.
Be safe out there.
Be well.
of success which you've said is necessary now.
Thank you, thank you absolutely. I'm looking forward to it my brother.
Be safe out there, be well, I'll be seeing you guys soon.
God bless you.
Thanks, mate.
Thanks very much.
You can follow Christian at shut down Amazon.
There's an underscore shut underscore down Amazon.
That's what it is.
Now, Gareth, you very deliberately asked me not to come to you.
And it's a shame because we do have like you to ask special questions, don't you, during our interviews.
You've done them all.
I thought it was excellent.
For my interview in school.
I thought it was excellent.
Especially as I'm not very well.
You're not very well?
You've got a bit of a tickly cough, haven't you?
Well, actually, seriously, a little bit of a tickly cough doesn't sound like a real illness.
I didn't mean to undermine it.
I'm actually going to ask Christian to represent me against the powers that be and the head honchos in there because I shouldn't be forced to work in these conditions.
No, that was fantastic.
You sit there in your G-lane.
You got me it.
I had to.
From my wages.
This is Gareth's special question.
Why don't you ask me a special question, if you're such a good interviewer?
How bad is it, really?
The cold.
It's quite bad.
When I wake up in the night, I feel like I could cough up an omelette's worth of cough juice.
Got it.
You envisage it.
Small omelette, big omelette?
Like one my nan would make.
Got it.
That's mushroom, tomato, bit of onion.
Cheese?
I'm afraid so, yes.
Yeah, I didn't feel very well in the night, but I'm feeling a little bit better now.
That's something about Amazon.
Look at the sheer power of the bastard!
Look at the size of Amazon, gal!
And look at it smiling down at us with its arrow.
I like Christian Smalls.
I thought he was great.
Do you think that he, like me, Sorry, do you think he likes you?
Yeah, do you think he made a real connection?
I think he did.
I mean, he called you his brother at the end.
I think I did some good work.
I knew you'd enjoy that.
As soon as he said that, I thought, oh, Ross is happy there.
When you're a white person, in your heart of hearts, you want black people to call you brother.
Right.
In your heart of hearts.
I knew you'd be happy.
I'm always happy with that.
Yeah.
Interesting, though, isn't it?
amazing kind of story that is this point where we're so polarized and we're
increasingly encouraged to be polarized by the media just look what's going on
with the Biden Trump documents at the moment it's like no no they're so
different everything's still so far apart and then no one's sticking up for
Amazon workers no not the Republican Party, not the Democrat Party. You've got a situation now where like a
union that used to be so associated with the left is now gaining traction with the right because it's a bigger it's
a bigger issue now people have seen that the Democrats you know Joe Biden
promised rail workers seven days holiday that went nowhere that promise I think
they got one in the end. People are saying that politicians don't come through
with these promises and therefore the Democrats aren't the solution. I loved what he was saying
that we don't rely on anyone we're not relying on media we're not relying on
politicians anything It's fascinating.
That's why Martin Gurry's analysis is so important.
He says that if you're using the old rubric, the old lens, the old analytic of left versus right, you'll miss what's really happening.
There is the centre and the periphery.
Joe Biden is a centralist politician.
The attacks come from the periphery.
The problems that he's pointing out is the periphery don't come with solutions.
They come with critiques and attacks.
That's why we have to evolve a vision, Gal, if we are to overtake the planet and instantiate this new confederacy of devolved communities that confront establishment power.
That's the plan, is it?
I'm hoping to do that if I get over this cough.
Right.
On the show tomorrow, we've got Helena Norberg-Hodge coming on.
She is the OG of community.
Like, she's the person that says you should, like, she's the antidote to you'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
You'll own everything and you'll be miserable, I suppose.
Now, she's all about localism, like you should run your own community, eat food that's from around there, all that kind of stuff.
Well, it's another one of these issues that we're kind of talking about.
That would have been... Normal!
Well, it would have been normal, but it would have, in more recent times, been associated with the left.
But I think what's happened is...
That the issues have got so problematic that people are now realising we've got to just put aside what politicians are trying to stoke us in whichever direction, you know.
We've got to say, what are the actual issues?
And one of those issues is localism, that globalism hasn't worked.
Companies like Amazon treat the workers terribly, treat the planet terribly, treat everything terribly while making massive profits in the pandemic.
We've got to find a way of fighting that.
When you think about the industrial movement of the last century, the unions that emerged
around steel, coal, shipyard manufacturing, the big industries in our country and presumably
over there in the States, probably everywhere, part of it was like the restoration of dignity
to the worker.
Because I was thinking then, you know, you think of, for example, think of Rockefeller
Place, that Diego, what's his name?
Frida Kahlo's husband did this big mural at Rockefeller Place.
They were sort of, I don't know, left-wing artists.
And it's like these Russian looking beautiful murals of workers and stuff.
I've been like, workers were regarded as disposable.
That's, that's what's behind the idea, isn't it?
You haven't got any right because if you don't do it, someone else will fuck off.
That's the idea, isn't it?
And like, that idea was broken down by the rise of the union movement.
It was the restoration of power.
But that's re is reemerging with zero contracts.
You know, even like we look in New York state when they laid off them 34,000 nurses, I think
around vaccine issues, like they they're able again, so we don't need you.
And this is the danger of AI.
Of course they'll sell us AI as, you know, this will be more convenient for you, your washing machine will give you a blowjob.
Mine already does.
But in effect what it'll be is like just low paid and medium paid work will disappear and workers will have...
Less and less rights.
We have to, I think, have a vision.
When the only vision is progress, progress.
It's not real progress.
It's not an advance ideologically.
It's not an advance spiritually or philosophically.
It's an advance in commodification.
The false markers of technology and medicine distract us from the fact that elsewhere we are stagnating.
There's no doubt that technology is advancing.
That's what's bought about this diaspora.
of information this breakdown of communities there's no doubt that there are brilliant advances made in medicine of course there are but because they are underwritten by capitalist interest late capitalist corporatist interest whatever language you like it means that people are being left behind of course amazon workers should have dignity of course they should be unionized and taken care of it like wherever we thought like we can't have this Unconsciousness, like the unconsciousness around the human cost of these trinkets and devices that we fetishize.
Yeah, and I think if anything, if anything good is to kind of come out of the pandemic, it is probably that there's been a bit of an awakening in people as to where we need to focus our attention.
Where as groups outside of the elites, outside of the 1%, we need to focus this.
We shouldn't be, we can't just continue to be divided in the way that we have been.
We need to look at who did best out of these situations?
Who grew in all sorts of wealth?
Who grew in powers?
And I think that is one thing that we can say is that there was a moment in time, two years, where it gave people the opportunity to kind of look more closely at where are the problems and where do we need to focus our energy?
And it sounds like that's kind of something that Christians use that.
That's good, isn't it?
So that the pandemic could be a sort of, we could regard it as a collective awakening, like a positive thing, even though it brought about a lot of suffering, even though it was clearly an opportunity to introduce more regulation.
And as Gareth just pointed out, that the most powerful interests in the world in many ways
became more powerful. Big Pharma, the Big Tech, it's actually also an opportunity for
us to recognise what's been going on. Alright, that's pretty good. Hey listen, don't forget
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It is very relaxed. We respond to all of your comments.
You know, it's like if you want to get deeper into this community, if you want to attend the live events, I just invited Christian there to speak at.
Look, Rick Rubin, I think, is going to come too.
You're doing your own guest bookings now, aren't you?
Doing my own guest bookings.
Running a show like Joe Rogan.
Doing his own guest bookings.
Yeah.
Doing my own guest bookings.
Don't hear him.
It's no big deal.
Just doing a guest booking.
Got all your needs scheduled.
You got his number, have you?
Think of him as Buckets.
Christian, I believe he's shut down Amazon underscore.
I'll be tweeting him on there.
Fucking cesspool.
What's going on now?
All right, join us.
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Imagine if people are watching this.
They are, we don't have to imagine it.
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For a minute, this is going to blow your mind.
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It's not worth it, guys.
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I sometimes actually misjudge situations.
They're trying to protect you.
It's like that time when I was on stage and I wee'd in a bottle.
No, I know.
Because I didn't want to leave the stage.
I was doing a show and I really needed a wee.
I'd rush there, I was late for the show so they didn't like me.
So I wee'd in a bottle outside the stage.
I stayed on mic, did a wee into the bottle.
You always have to create a little air gap otherwise you could get bullfrog neck.
You can get that.
Sure.
So then I weed into the bottle.
That sounds like a man talking through experience.
This is the experience that I had.
The bullfrog neck.
Oh that's if you put your willy over the bottle and like this the willy forms a sealant and sometimes you get bullfrog neck.
Do you see?
There's some pushback.
How many times did that happen?
Twice.
And then I thought, never again.
Right.
Neary again.
That's it!
Where's my ticker tape parade?
Absolutely.
I didn't receive no heroes' welcome.
You know?
No.
My average age was 19!
Was my average age.
We've lost him.
I don't set fire to the fart.
That's what we've basically agreed.
Anyway, by mistake, I showed them the wee-wee in a bottle.
They're disgusted.
They didn't like it.
Of course.
They like, they think they can handle it, but they can't.
No.
That's what you have to remember with the audience's wee-wee.
Oh, what was in there?
Just that?
Oh, yeah.
Well, some poo in a bottle.
Okay.
Alright.
I just wondered why they were so disgusted.
And a genie in a bottle.
And it weren't even that lella, because I drink a lot of water.
Oh, that's the rule.
I like, when I see my urine, I like it to be, yes, okay, gold, but I don't want it to be, like, coarse.
No, no.
You don't want it coarse.
You don't want an undercut rap show.
I feel bad enough.
Yeah, no, sorry, this is mental illness now.
Listen, we're going.
We'll see you tomorrow.
You were talking about global unions a minute ago.
It really fell apart fast.
Christian Smalls was holding us together, weren't he?
I hope he's not still watching.
Listen, I'm not coming in that thing, and I retract my use of the word brother.
You are now not connected to me.
I wouldn't even have you in the union.
Alright, we're off.
Join us tomorrow, not for more of the same, but for more of the different.
I think we've proved that.
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