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Natural Immunity - It’s All Coming Out! - #084 - Stay Free With Russell Brand
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I feel like I'm standing on a stage, and it's giving me the chills,
and I'm feeling like I'm standing in a cube.
I feel like I'm standing on a stage, and it's giving me the chills,
and I'm feeling like I'm standing in a cube.
I feel like I'm standing on a stage, and it's giving me the chills,
and I'm feeling like I'm standing in a cube.
I feel like I'm standing on a stage, and it's giving me the chills,
and I'm feeling like I'm standing in a cube.
I feel like I'm standing on a stage, and it's giving me the chills,
and I'm feeling like I'm standing in a cube.
I feel like I'm standing on a stage, and it's giving me the chills,
and I'm feeling like I'm standing in a cube.
I feel like I'm standing on a stage, and it's giving me the chills,
and I'm feeling like I'm standing in a cube.
I feel like I'm standing on a stage, and it's giving me the chills,
and I'm feeling like I'm standing on a stage.
I feel like I'm standing on a stage, and it's giving me the chills,
and I'm feeling like I'm standing on a stage.
I feel like I'm standing on a stage, and it's giving me the chills,
and I'm feeling like I'm standing on a stage.
In this video, you're going to see the future.
Hello there, you Awakening Wonders.
Thanks for joining us for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
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I'm a real world person.
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Russell, you're fantastic.
I made that up.
This is what we'll be talking about today.
Joe Biden's in Ukraine, that's where he's gone, doing a little bit of dealing.
And we'll be asking and demonstrating whether or not Taiwan has the right criteria even to be the next Ukraine.
You know, you've got to make sure that the criteria is correct.
You're suggesting it is the new Ukraine, then?
That's the subtext.
Got it.
You're bringing the subtext to the text.
I just thought I might.
That's Tennessee Williams.
What if people don't get subtext, Ross?
Like your little red button that's not there.
Press it!
That's really there!
Listen, once we leave YouTube, we're going to be talking to you about natural immunity and if you understand how the YouTube guidelines are formulated, you'll recognise why it is we're waiting until we're exclusively on Rumble to discuss that story because I've got some things to say about natural immunity.
I can't say them yet, can I?
No.
I can't say them!
Not even subtext at this point.
Hold on.
No, I can't.
Not even subtext!
There's a WHO of bad subtext!
W-E-F, they don't like it.
They do not like subtext.
They like everything to be nice and clear.
Like my bubbly, gargling spit.
My ever-foaming mouth.
Also, we're doing a wonderful presentation.
Did you like that?
Very nice.
Come on.
We're doing this brilliant presentation on how the word freedom is being redefined before your very eyes to mean, I think, fascism or something.
I mean, that's literally Orwellian, isn't it?
To subvert and invert the meaning of particular words.
I hate speech.
Yeah!
We've got a mystery guest coming on.
It was meant to be Christian Smalls.
He might be coming on tomorrow.
He's the union leader for Amazon, and ironically, he's not been delivered on time.
We don't know where he's gone.
Where is he, Christian Smalls?
He was meant to be here.
He's the union leader.
He hasn't been delivered.
Maybe he's round near the bins or something.
We left him with the neighbour.
Excuse me, did you get a union leader?
Oh yeah, they're always dropping news off.
Yeah, so hopefully we'll see him tomorrow.
But before that, I want to assure you that the system you're living with, within, on Planet Prison Prison Planet, You're fine.
You're absolutely fine.
Buddhist Abbey loses all of its monks after they all test positive for meth.
All of them.
Not a single monk in the place.
Do you know one of the reasons I didn't become a monk?
There's two.
Go on.
And one of them was because you can't do meth.
Right, okay.
And then the other one was obvious.
And like, I feel like they might as well have been doing that.
Look at that.
A Thai Abbey's four Buddhist monks.
Oh, there's only four of them.
Hang on.
They've been defrocked, dismissed and sent to rehab after they've all been on methamphetamine when the police sprung them.
The monks were then sent to a clinic to undergo drug rehab.
And then they're going to be replaced at the temple.
I think they were lonely.
There's only four of them.
I thought it was a whole abbey full of monks.
I thought, I got the idea that that was them.
That's them all like sort of acting like really spiritual.
Actually, they're doing well to sit still like that if they're on meth because it's a very edgy substance.
Sure.
Is my understanding.
Yeah.
Not that we're endorsing drugs, drugs are obviously bad for you.
Here's the mainstream media news telling you about that stuff.
Let's have a look at those guys.
This temple in Thailand lost its monks after they all tested positive for meth.
The four monks including an abbot all tested positive yesterday and were defrauded
I guess you could say I deserve a drug abbot come on
They've been transferred to a medical facility for drug rehabilitation
But with the temple empty, nearby villagers are worried they can't do any merit-making, which involves... Do you not think that the villagers have lost faith in the entire system?
You'd think so.
They're like, oh no!
What, all the monks are off because they were doing meth?
How are we supposed to do that thing that obviously wasn't even working for the people that were most into it?
Because the point of being a monk is you give up everything so that God can come completely into you, nothing between you and God.
If you're not into it, don't just go like...
Hit up some meth, or however you do it these days.
And all of them.
Every single one of them.
It's really caught on.
You know the thing we've been doing?
Yeah, meditating all the time, letting go of all our desires.
Well, I've got another idea, and I think it's better.
Talk me through it.
It's meth.
Okay, it's a bit different from what we were in for.
It's in fact the opposite.
It's literal dependency on the material and chemical world.
I don't know.
Hopefully they'll all be all right, those guys.
As a recovering drug addict myself, I can offer them a few tips.
Although one of the things I would have suggested is go and become a monk, so that's not worked.
The Chinese have got this new trick for how to handle protests.
You're going to love this, Gareth, because some people worry that you can't handle disruptions and people holding up placards and all that kind of thing.
Well, look at the Chinese.
They've got this new technique that's shielding protesters.
Have a look.
They also, they get another one in.
No!
They also...
They get another one in.
Look out!
Urgently, they move.
Then another one.
When did you see the Chinese moon round?
I know they've been sped up so, you know, they're not that quick.
It's not like the methamphetamine monks whizzing their way through meditation.
The way they hold them belts like that, I think they will be good in a war.
Yeah, I mean, one positive thing you've got to say about totalitarianism is that it's, you know, it looks good, doesn't it?
They've got that under control.
They really have.
Like, if you remove free will from a population, as we are, I think, doing in our own way, what do you think about, like, our kind of Western totalitarianism, where we're sort of blithely subdued by commodity and idiocy, dimly staring at screens till nothing means anything?
Over there in China it's a bit more... It's choreographed.
It's beautiful.
America's got talent over there.
It's enjoyable.
It's like the masked singer.
The masked protester.
Just cover him up.
Who's that inside there?
Just can't even know.
Let's go and see more of what they do.
They've nicked him.
But you wait till you see... Once they walk off, this guy's already got Stockholm Syndrome.
He marches off with them and he's actually quite into it.
Have a look.
That's playing out in here, you loonies!
Leave it!
Stop!
I've moved on!
I've moved on!
I move on fast, don't I, Gal?
Very much so.
You know that about me.
I don't know, the whole show ruined.
Or is it? No, Tim, I'll turn on the audio now, don't try and do it now.
That's playing out in here, you loonies. Leave it. Stop, I've moved on, I've moved on.
I move on fast, don't I, Gail?
Very much so.
You know that about me, I don't hang on to resentments.
I can't afford to.
And that's another of the lessons that monks are going to have to learn.
Yeah, absolutely.
Let go.
Let go.
Let it go.
Let it go.
Move forwards.
We've got more information for you about the balloons that have been expensively shot out of the sky.
400 grand to shoot a balloon out of the sky.
Let's have a look at it on the mainstream news.
Apparently, it's just a nice little, like, Christmas balloon or something.
It's just something for you.
It might have been, well, been a Valentine's heart.
It was just a festive item.
Let's have a look.
Did the U.S.
Air Force just shoot down a party balloon?
I gave the order to take down these three objects.
He may be able to bring down balloons, but he can't bring down your drug prices.
Group of balloon enthusiasts, teens, dads, and grandpas say they believe their $12 balloon, just like the one in this photo... For Joe Biden, that group of men, a sort of young whipper-steppers, is an upstart!
Who are these crazy kids releasing balloons in the sky?
You punks!
Oh, you punks!
I'll take you down like corn pop!
Corn pop would have been a cheaper way of bringing down the balloon.
That's what you do.
It's inexpensive to just simply pop a balloon.
That is the best way.
He should have used his old style skills a little bit, shouldn't he?
Yeah.
If you're watching this on YouTube, remember, we're going to click over into a rumble.
There's a link in the description in a minute because we're going to be talking about natural immunity and Lord alone knows what would happen to us if we tried to discuss that freely on this platform.
Hey, so yeah, let's see what's next.
What is this game, by the way?
Balloon Enthusiasts.
Enthusiasts.
They're enthusiastic about it.
Generational.
Generations of balloon enthusiasts.
Although I say that there's a drop-off in interest.
There's a few elderly, some middle-aged, a couple of youngsters.
I'd say 10, 20 years.
Also enthusiastic.
I mean, I'm, I would say, enthusiastic about balloons.
Not enough.
Not enough.
They're going to a gathering.
Sure, sure, yeah.
It's rubbish, that one, though.
That one looks like a Victorian prophylactic.
I would say, doesn't it?
It's like a sexual measure.
Alright, let's have a look at what's next with these guys.
Was the balloon shot down over Alaska by a $400,000 missile?
You'd have to say pro rata, that's an expensive solution to that problem.
Although, if, you know, all the news that they got out of it, it might have been worth it.
Oh, I see.
If you think it was a potentially a propaganda- Distraction technique, yeah.
One of the things we think is that they were distracting us from that terrible Ohio train wreck and the subsequent environmental disaster.
We've got a brilliant presentation about that later in the week and we're trying to get Erin Brockovich on.
I really want Erin Brockovich to come on because of the film Erin Brockovich and everything.
And what I feel is, have you noticed, and let me know about this in the chat and the comments, particularly for on locals because that's what I'm watching here on locals.
In fact, Joe, can you come make it work?
It ain't working properly.
Like, If you're watching us on Locals, I see all of your comments.
Right, what we feel is, like, what troubles me anyway, personally, is the way that environmentalism is used as a kind of calling card, ideologically, to define a political movement, like the Democrat Party.
Like, we care about the environment, we care about it.
But then when the environment actually really needs a bit of help, look at what Biden's doing, backing Norfolk Southern's bid to block lawsuits.
Now, if you really care about the environment, this is an ideal chance to show it beyond rhetoric, isn't it?
Yeah, rather than, you know, siding with the corporations, of which, no doubt, I mean, they definitely threw lobbyists' funnel money into the Democrat Party and the Republican Party.
I mean, we were told today, weren't we, about 80% of U.S.
rivers now are, like, polluted with toxic chemicals.
You know, so this isn't just a one-off, oh, God, the Ohio River, you know, what a dreadful situation.
This is going on everywhere.
You're not surprised that whether it was a distraction or not from these kind of stories,
they're not evidently doing what they should be doing.
It's a brilliant opportunity, as most news stories are these days, to analyse what the
systems of power might actually be like.
They use rhetoric to convey an interest in environmentalism, but when the opportunity
comes to act on behalf of the environment, they do not take it.
Joe Biden will say that his administration will protect American workers.
When it comes to paying rail workers, I feel like they're in industrial action in your
country America.
I know that railway workers in our country are getting shafted real bad.
They never take those opportunities.
The reporting in The Leather, they're certainly worth taking a look at.
They're an affiliate of this show, I'd go so far as to say.
Fantastic, yeah.
Where is the real national security threat?
That's one of the questions we're posing.
Are you more at risk from enthusiastic balloons floating across the sky or from serious pollution in your rivers?
And as Gareth just told you, 8% of your rivers already have that pollution.
It's a really, really worrying story.
Biden, though, is in Kiev as he thought Putin could outlast us.
In what context does he mean there?
Quite a situation.
I guess what he's saying is that Putin thought that he'd have this wrapped up a long time ago, but because we keep giving...
You know, weapons and arms and aid to Ukraine.
We've managed to keep this going.
Gareth, you had like a hundred billion dollars in total, but you said that what was the figure for the average U.S.
household now?
I think you said $806.
It's $861 now that this has cost the average American household.
That's the average American household.
What worries me about that, I suppose, is it's not like it's going to support Ukrainian troops directly.
It's military expenditure, much of which will be for-profit military-industrial complex stuff.
They'll be going to Rafi and Lockheed Martin.
Northrop Grumman, those guys.
Not that they don't do great things like actually build really cool telescopes, I heard the other day.
Sure.
But in this instance... And that plane, and that missile.
We've got this brilliant plane.
It's pretty expensive.
When we had Seymour Hersh on it, he said that was the first mission that plane had ever done.
It's cost billions for him to make it.
I think that's that one we've seen skipping about like that, isn't it?
That's it, yeah.
The one you've seen sort of up on its wrong end.
That's it.
Sort of like farting itself into the sky then scatterbugging off like Clippity Clop's mum.
Mitch, what's old Mitch up to?
Mitch McConnell's there, the great dear.
He's like frozen semen, grayly melting down the palm of your hand.
I was thinking of it as an ice cream.
Right.
Because that's how we all like to...
Most of us consume semen as a sort of delicacy.
What's he got to say?
Oh yeah, this is a bit of mainstream news.
Where's Fox?
You know, so right-leaning, mainstream stuff about expenditure in Ukraine.
Check it.
We might have to figure out a way to get more funding so that we have enough ammo for ourselves and to give to allies like Craig.
What is Biden's responsibility?
That bloody television set they've had to get in order to convey how much money's been spent.
That's a serious widescreen telling that they've had to use.
Some of that budget has been spent on TV sets to get all the zeroes on, to be honest though.
There's Putin.
Do you want to say something about that?
I've got a little fact about me blinking if you want it.
How unlike you, Gareth, to startle me with a fact.
Tell me about Antony Blinken.
I think Antony Blinken's surname describes what he's doing when there's important business going on.
He's just blinking all the time while they let balloons out.
Antony, are you looking at this?
No, not really.
I'm busy using my little eyes simultaneously.
So he said Wednesday that a Ukrainian attempt at retaking Crimea would be a red line for Vladimir Putin.
risks major response so they're kind of admitting this now but in January
Zelensky vowed that Ukraine will take back Crimea. So it's just an interesting
thing that's going on whilst Joe Biden's over there giving more weapons. It's kind
of like they know what Zelensky wants whilst acknowledging how dangerous this
would be and yet continuing to supply weapons anyway. It's a strange situation.
Yeah it's extraordinary and Putin is not a man to take aggravation lying down.
Have you seen this thing where someone comes and stands in front of him in a photo op?
Have a look, you'll enjoy this.
Very strong bass in that track.
And who is this little egghead that's getting in front of him firstly?
What's that haircut about?
I'm not criticising the person just on the basis of the way that they look.
But he looks like he's from 30 or 40 years ago.
He looks like he's from the wrong era and his facial expression, I don't know why he wants to be in that photo.
And who thinks, like even if you don't know Putin that well, which I don't, I don't know what makes him tick or anything, but I figure that is not someone you stand in front of in a line-up.
Why would you do that?
I'll get in front of him.
He won't mind.
He seems, from everything I've heard about his background in the KGB and his willingness to kill his enemies, he's someone that's not going to have an ego.
yeah shifty i call him a shifty little guy
guy yeah luckily he's just like reading the vibe of the people either see the
side of it going well yes I stand with these guys he's for the left she thought
alright no problem here but look at like the person they've got they've got the
perfect person lined up to solve this little dilemma Oh
yes please well done Well done.
Good team, good work team.
Yeah, nice.
Okay, so while the proxy wars got a bit more complicated now because it's a bit proxy proxy because America is having to fund militarily Ukrainian efforts.
But now look, China might start funding Russia.
Yeah.
So now it's like actual Russian dolls of funding load.
They're getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
That's right.
I mean, who's going to fund China?
I know.
UFOs that they are balloon enthusiasts.
Oh, well, we've decided to, you know, to fund China for a little while.
OK, listen, I think we're going to have to... Are we going to click over for a minute, or can we do our Taiwan thing?
Let's do our Taiwan thing, and then after that, we're going to have to leave, you guys, if you're watching anywhere other than Rumble, because I'm going to talk about natural immunity, and it's a subject that has to be... Well, it doesn't have to be censored, actually.
I don't think it should be.
I think you should be able to openly discuss things, because you are a free adult individual with your own divine connection to the limitless.
But apparently me and certain other platforms and power structures see things differently.
Before we go, we'll just tell you this thing.
Is Taiwan the next Ukraine?
We have created a set of diagnostics to help us understand.
When we ask simply, is it?
Now let's have a look at the first criterion.
Right, is it next to a superpower?
Yeah, yes or no?
Yes!
Because China.
So what's the next question?
There's some information on it from the great journalist John Pilger.
Does a superpower want their land?
Yes or no?
You can play along at home.
Play along in the chat.
Come and see if you can beat us.
What's the next question?
There it is.
That's how you define it.
Is Taiwan resource rich like Ukraine is?
Yes or no?
Go on, try and guess along.
It turns they are with semiconductors, and don't pretend you know what semiconductors are, because even though you keep hearing it on the news, you still don't know what they are.
And if you think you know, let me know in the chat.
Go on, tell me in the chat then.
It's semiconductors, they make loads of them.
Is that it?
Have the US been giving them weapons?
Oh, is it yes or no?
Have they?
Yes, they have been doing that.
Uh-oh, it's starting to look like how things were in about 2014 between NATO and Russia.
Is this going to work out well for everyone in the end?
Let's have a look.
Yes or no?
No, potentially not because what you're doing is you're aggravating a powerful nation that are willing to put placards around you, billboard you out of existence and then march you off into whatever is Chinese for a gulag.
I'm afraid I can't answer that at this point.
OK, so it seems like, according to our deep analysis, that Taiwan could be the new Ukraine.
But it don't matter what we think.
Tell us what you think in the chat and the comments.
We're going to flip over now to be exclusively on our home platform, That's Rumble,
where we are permitted to speak freely about subjects like freedom, which I believe is freedom
for you, freedom for me, freedom for us all to be who we want to be as an individual and as a community.
Where we focus on our own spiritual development, not on judging others.
Where we recognize that devolution is absolutely what's necessary.
Let's get into this natural immunity story without delay.
Turns out, right, natural immunity is better than... Are we off YouTube?
It's better than taking a vaccine.
There, I've said it.
It's better than it.
It's not just better than taking one.
It's better than taking two.
It's better than taking any.
So if you've got a choice, I don't remember there being big ad campaigns.
I don't remember there being... The response to the pandemic, it seems, has potentially caused more harm than coronavirus itself.
Certainly, it's difficult to make that analysis because there isn't a parallel universe from which to judge it.
But now we're looking at this 30% spike in heart attack deaths.
In young people, we're looking at the economic impact of the lockdown, addiction, mental health, cancer.
Oh my god, I mean, it's just total chaos.
Let's have a look at this natural immunity thing.
Immunity acquired from a COVID infection.
This is actually just off of NBC though, huh?
Yeah, I mean, that's the irony now that NBC are reporting on this and that even NBC can have a Why is that?
They shouldn't be allowed to.
They ain't no better than us.
Why is that? They shouldn't be allowed to. They ain't no better than us. Is it because we ain't got no peacock?
The strange thing about it all is that they can change their story and not be, you know, called out on that by
YouTube But if you've had a consistent story of questioning these
kind of things Right.
Questioning Natural Immunity from the start, which a lot of people, you know, as we've spoken about before, the hashtag was banned on Instagram.
It was very much in the realm of conspiracy.
Now to have something where they're saying not only is it equal to, but better than, and NBC are freely allowed to report on that, it does seem like something nefarious is going on.
Complete at this point.
At this point, you can't do anything about it.
I don't know if the regulations have been changed, meaning you can travel internationally without it.
I think that's due to happen.
Change it immediately!
They instantiated it quick enough, didn't they?
They could just bring about the legislation when they needed to.
Naturally, it doesn't protect you as well as COVID vaccines.
Here's why.
That's a story from when the machine wanted that result, November 2021.
And now here we are, in reality, immunity acquired from a COVID infection is as protective as vaccination against severe illness and death.
Have we got a clip of those people?
Let's have a look at this bit of mainstream news talking about it.
It's brilliant.
In today's Daily Health, there's a new study that looks at our body's immunity after getting COVID.
Yeah, it finds the immunity that naturally builds up in our bodies after a COVID-19 infection is as protective as the two doses of the mRNA vaccines against severe illness and death.
Oh okay, so you guys are conspiracy theorists right now.
I mean this is the way that the narrative is traveling.
So what I recommend to you as a discerning and awakening wonder, that's what I'm going to call you, is that you stay present with us.
We don't claim to know anything but we do claim to legitimately inquire.
We do claim to consider as many sides of the argument as possible.
And we do claim to bear our own interests and biases in mind as we embark on this journey in good faith with open hearts together.
And frankly, it's lucky that our hearts are functioning at all!
Some of the things that have been recommended these days!
The strange thing about that clip for me, well not the strange thing, but the odd thing is that they introduce this item and talk about natural immunity as if it's something that nobody has ever heard of that before and this hasn't been a massive divisive point all the way through the pandemic.
There's this new thing called natural immunity.
It once was the enclave of only crackpots.
Another thing is that mRNA protein spikes may leave the site of the injection and migrate to other tissue, like your heart, causing myocarditis and pericarditis.
Well, we know that they are already kind of saying things like that.
Oh no, we have this from Politico.
Data has shown an elevated risk of myocarditis and pericarditis, inflammation of... after the second mRNA vaccine dose among males aged 12 to 39, with those in their late teens and 20s most affected.
That sounds a little similar to...
It's very interesting that the group affected by myocarditis and pericarditis co-align beautifully with that 30% spike in people dying of heart disease.
Listen, should we have a look at a presentation that we've worked very hard on together as a team?
This is fantastic.
One of the ways that our environment is shifting, altering, is through the use of language.
You may have seen elsewhere this fantastic story that the word Freedom is being reframed in order to make it a kind of forbidden piece of language so that the idea, the concept of freedom, which I would say is absolutely universal, that we have our rights to individual freedom, it's enshrined, I think, in your constitution, and collective freedom.
If you make the term freedom Here's the news!
term that's somehow laden with far-right meaning, that's what's being suggested,
then obviously freedom movements become, well, what's next?
Freedoms for terrorists or something like that? Have a deeper look at
that with us right now in our presentation. Here's the news. Oh no, here's the effing
news mate.
According to a new report, the word freedom is racist.
And people that want to be free are racist.
Even if those people are multiracial and want all people to be free.
The bloody racists.
Have you seen that the word freedom is now being repackaged as racist at a time that the Democrat Party is becoming increasingly elitist and using subjects like diversity to mask lobbying and corporate interests?
Just to let you know where I stand right from the very top, for me, freedom means you're right as an individual to be the person that God or the universe Intended you to be, beyond culture, beyond religious orthodoxy, beyond race, your right to be you, your right to your freedom.
Not your right to tell other people what to do, from whatever perspective.
And I believe in your freedom of expression, whether that's on the right or the left.
As long as your freedom of expression doesn't involve oppressing others, I believe in your freedom.
Just to make that absolutely clear from the top.
Now then, Let's see how language is being manipulated to grant more power to already powerful establishments and to prevent dissent.
Those are two vital jobs.
Undermine and smear dissenters and ossify centralised power.
Check this out from a CBC article last year.
As demonstrations against COVID-19 restrictions continue across Canada, the word freedom is on the lips and placards of many protesters.
Yeah, why could that be?
Almost like they want freedom and feel like their freedom is being shut down by a raft of new laws that have come from a centralised authority that no one voted for.
Almost as if there was an attempt to apply an emergency act illegitimately.
Often associated with protests and rallies in the United States, the term has taken hold among protesters who are part of the Freedom Convoy.
For many, freedom is a malleable term that's open to interpretation.
All words are open to interpretation.
You can start breaking down words.
You know, misinformation, malinformation, disinformation.
Where did those words come from?
What do they mean?
Whose misinformation?
Is there such a thing as objective, meaningful words?
We're in a sort of territory of post-modernity and post-structuralism now, but I would argue that this is a bad faith argument.
That, for example, those Canadian truckers, when talking about freedom, and most people now, when they're talking about freedom, mean this.
I want to be left alone.
I want to be left alone by the government, and more importantly, by centralised, globalist organisations that have never been elected anyway.
That's what freedom means.
To see the word freedom bandied about as part of these protests points to a broader circulation of what Elizabeth Anker calls violent forms of freedom.
We're just tired to give up violent freedom.
By the way, if anyone said, I want to be free, I want freedom, and I asked, oh, what kind of freedom do you want?
Freedom to be horrible and racist and to persecute people.
Oh no, that's not freedom.
I'm not backing that.
Let me be clear.
Let me use language deliberately and specifically.
But if people say, by freedom, I want to live as I am, I want to be free from government intervention, I don't want to live in a corporatised world where there is no democracy, where I can't leave my house, where I can't work at my job, then I would advocate for that freedom.
Similarly, freedom to express yourself however you want to, to be spoken to using language that suits you and your identity?
Cool!
Freedom is an absolute concept as far as I'm concerned, and this is a nefarious argument that's being used to shut down legitimate protest by working people.
This is a trend that's been happening for the last 30 or 40 years.
There is no representation of ordinary people in countries like Canada, the United States of America, presumably France, presumably elsewhere.
I know for sure in my country, the United Kingdom.
Because the parties that used to be about representing ordinary people, what used to be regarded as the left, have become increasingly professional.
Increasingly dominated by the same financial, corporate and military interests that have always been associated with a particular brand of politics.
Let me know if you disagree on the left.
I'm referring to Cheney, Wolfowitz, old-school, rand, think-tanks, let's-go-to-war-and-make-a-profit parties, are now both political parties in America, for example, and in my country, the UK.
Both parties represent ultimately elitist interests and will not stand up for the rights of ordinary people against centralized, globalist, corporatist interests.
Freedom is a slippery concept, said Anka.
Yeah, in the wrong hands it is.
But in the right hands, freedom means you leave me alone, I'll leave you alone, we'll come together and cooperate where necessary, which could be quite a lot.
Because a lot of people think, and I'd have to include myself here, that these arguments around supporting diversity are often actually a mask to underwrite and advance corporate interests.
And we've got a fascinating example of that exact thing coming right up.
Because diversity is important.
Respecting people's identity, culture, religion, race, those are important things.
That is part of freedom.
And anyone that denies that, any aspect of it, I'm not in the argument with you.
I stand with anyone that's standing up for their freedom.
But also, working class people of any colour that are trucking across Canada, they want freedom too.
Yeah, they should have it.
Farmers in Sri Lanka, they want freedom.
Yeah.
Farmers in India, yeah.
Farmers in Germany, the Netherlands.
Have you noticed that working people across the world are starting to be negatively affected by centralist, globalist, corporatist interests and there is no movement to represent them?
Why is it that there are now no parties that represent the interests of ordinary people?
Here's an article about an interesting demographic shift that could help explain that.
The rise of college educated Democrats.
In the last 15 years, the Democratic Party coalition has undergone a dramatic demographic change.
The white share of the party are far more likely to be college educated than in the past.
In 2020, for the first time on record, the college educated white share, 27% of the Democrats, exceeded that of non-college educated whites, 25%.
Those with a college education tend to be wealthier and have higher socioeconomic status than those without.
But they also tend to be more socially liberal and more likely to prioritise post-material moral concerns over kitchen table issues.
Essentially what that's saying is that the Democrat party has now become a party that's more interested in postulating rather than dealing with economic inequality that affects guess who's more affected than any other group by economic inequality?
Oh, the very people that you claim to care so much about.
So ultimately there's been a cultural and demographic shift within the Democratic Party that means that they're no longer interested in addressing inequality.
If you don't have a political party that's addressing inequality, and I mean economic and social inequality, then what you'll get is a cry, a void, a need, For those concerns to be addressed, for those needs to be met, the Democrat Party aren't going to do it, the Republican Party ain't going to do it.
You're just going to end up with demagoguery, pedagogy and rhetoric around those subjects with no one making meaningful moves to help ordinary Americans, ordinary Canadians, ordinary people from all over the world.
That's where I start to believe that we have more in common with one another than we do with the centralised systems, whether they're corporate or governmental, that prevent these kind of conversations or political movements taking place.
Let me know what you think about that.
Perhaps one of the reasons is they're more interested in symbolic displays of helping people than actually getting on and helping people.
They have become masters of finding ways of pretending to address those issues while actually carrying on with business as usual.
Look at this example.
Christina Antelo, a corporate lobbyist known for her reach within the Democratic Party, held court last month at a gala where her clients and other lobbyists rubbed shoulders with lawmakers and congressional staff.
Such a scene would be familiar to anyone who has spent significant time on Capitol Hill.
Lobbyists host parties and fundraisers on a nightly basis in order to forge connections with policy makers, gather political intelligence, and nudge politicians into actions that benefit their clients.
But this time the influence effort was branded as a righteous celebration of racial progress, exploiting the cultural emphasis of liberal institutions to lobby on issues that have nothing to do with increasing diversity.
So they're pretending that the event is about helping diversity, increasing diversity, supporting people that may not have conventionally been supported by their establishment to just carry on with corporate lobbying.
It was a night to welcome and celebrate diversity in the 180th Congress.
The event was titled Diversity Across the Aisle, featuring a dozen sitting members of Congress and many staff members.
The lobbying shop, Ferox Strategies, currently represents a range of interests including Walmart, Reynolds American and Eli Lilly and Company, pharmaceutical companies and retail giants with incredible profits and incredible power.
Lobbying for what?
More diversity?
To end inequality?
Economically?
Racially?
Culturally?
Let's have a look.
In one photograph from the event, Irene Bueno, a lobbyist for Pfizer and Comcast, huddles with staffers to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Well, to be fair to Pfizer, they don't care about race.
They'll stick a vaccine in an arm of any colour.
So this is an example, I would say, of illegitimate, demonstrative, but not authentic use of diversity with no intention of aiding or helping the necessary issues that ought be addressed, but simply to create lobbying opportunities.
Ferox Strategies stands out as one of an emerging set of influence agents that have exploited the appetite for virtue signalling around diversity to push policies benefiting their clients.
The firm often flaunts its access to identity-based organisations in Congress to leverage client relationships, Many people think, for example, that ESGs that the WEF recommend are not about helping the environment, simply are about ensuring that establishment power has new ways to hold on to that power.
New ways to appear to be addressing problems, while really it's business as usual.
Let me know in the comments and chat.
Do you think that these groups genuinely care about diversity?
Genuinely care about helping people that are disadvantaged, either economically or because of long-standing cultural issues?
Or do you think they care about increasing the profits of Walmart, Pfizer, Comcast, Eli Lilly, let me know in the chat.
In its message to clients sent after the event, Ferox bragged about using the diversity as a way to ingratiate its corporate clients with democratic leaders.
Ferox clients, Walmart, Alexian, and Waste Management joined a who's who of corporate sponsors to generously celebrate the most diverse Congress ever.
The message noted.
How diverse is it when it's contributing to a massive wealth transfer of five trillion during the pandemic?
Those wealth transfers do not diversify wealth and opportunity.
They consolidate it and concentrate it.
And events like this distract us from that fact.
The invitation for the event included the LGBT Congressional Staff Association,
the Black Women's Congressional Alliance, the Congressional Asian Pacific American Staff Association,
and other identity-based professional societies for Capitol Hill staff.
The largest race-based congressional caucuses each have sister non-profit groups
that are funded and led by corporate lobbyists.
Obviously, they're simply exploiting an opportunity to con- It is so exciting and I just can't hide it.
I'm about to gain control.
and I think I like you.
I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this.
According to a new report, the word freedom is racist.
According to a new report, the word freedom is racist.
Society do not want race happily.
Obviously, they're simply exploiting an opportunity to continue with their agenda as they have always done.
I believe the issues that they're pretending to care about are important issues.
And if these issues were correctly addressed, along with all inequality, most notably economic inequality, you would see real change in society.
Real change in society means diminishing the potential for the powerful to continue to operate within systems that always prefer their desired outcomes.
That change can never be allowed.
The system will always happily make gestures.
The system will always happily fund jamborees and galas that don't change anything and provide opportunities for Walmart.
What we need is legitimate change, legitimate alliance, legitimate care and love that looks beyond identity and cares truly and authentically about all of our feelings.
The advisory board to the CHCI, for instance, features representatives from JPMorgan Chase & Co., Mastercard, ExxonMobil, Apple, Airbnb, DeVita, Toyota, Reynolds American, Microsoft, and New York Life Insurance, among other interests.
Those kind of corporations with that kind of power do not want radical reorganization of society, do not want radical reorganization of profit, do not want the disempowered empowered.
What they want is the appearance of change, business as usual.
Last month, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Xavier Bequerra, appeared with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to swear in its first year class of nine new members.
The event featured live music and a message from Jeffries.
But before Bequerra could administer the oath, Marco Davis, the president of the CHCI, paused the program to thank the sponsors of the swearing-in ceremony, including Genentech, Google, Amgen, Walgreens, and Target.
We must have equality between Google, Amgen, Walgreens, and Target.
Are we not all the same?
Do we not all need iPhones?
Do we not all want Walmart to succeed at any cost, paying people the minimum amount possible, extracting as much profit from America, insuring through lobbying that democracy becomes an empty, hollow shell?
And if in order to maintain this appearance of a system that meaningfully represents people, Once in a while, we have to promote a person who looks a bit different from most powerful people.
By God, we'll do it.
Now, here's some people that look a bit different from most powerful people, but ultimately, their elevation, temporary, will not make any difference to the interests of Walgreens.
Apple.
Ah, I promised myself I wouldn't cry.
Ah, Walgreens.
Walmart.
Dammit, we must build a better, more profitable world.
He then handed the microphone to Omar Vargas, the head lobbyist for General Motors.
At General Motors, we do not discriminate against anybody.
And on occasion, when knowing there was something wrong with our vehicles, when it was discovered the callback cost was more expensive than the insurance payouts, we just let those people blow up and die.
That is the kind of ethics we want.
Here are some people of a variety of colors and identities who we would let blow up if we could make money from it.
Now please enjoy the free bar, which is tax deductible.
To be very honest with you tonight, said Vargas, General Motors and I are personally extremely committed to diversity in the public policy profession.
As long as it makes no difference to profits.
If you had a political party that genuinely cared about helping ordinary people, the kind of policies that you'd hear them talk about would be ending lobbying, Not finding new, novel ways to do it.
Stopping people in Congress owning stocks and shares in the companies that they regulate.
Stopping enormous expenditure on wars that ultimately end up in the hands of the military-industrial complex.
And ensuring that big companies in energy, for example, couldn't extract enormous profits while saying that there's an energy crisis.
Also what they might do is this.
They might stop the annual wage theft of $50 billion that happens to workers based on this story.
Employers steal billions of dollars from workers every year by paying less than minimum wage, making employees work off the clock, Not paying earned overtime, misclassifying workers as independent contractors and more.
While wage theft is all too common, it is rarely reported.
As a result, stolen wages are rarely recovered, leaving already low-wage workers even poorer and bosses even richer.
That is the kind of thing that, if addressed, would make a meaningful difference to the interests of ordinary people and would negatively impact the interests of powerful institutions, whether they are corporate or governmental.
So when people talk about the freedom is a dubious term, What they're attempting to do is prevent galvanisation.
Prevent people coming together, of all races, of all colours, with a wide range of interests, that all ultimately could sit within the framework of a popular movement where we all enjoy more freedom, where we all enjoy more access to resources, and more importantly, democracy.
Sometimes life does involve suffering.
Sometimes life does involve sacrifice.
But what it needn't be about is increasing centralisation.
Increasing institutional power, increasing surveillance and digital IDs, increasing bigotry and hatred of people of all hues and colors, turning people against one another in order to simply ensure that systems can continue to operate as they currently do for maximum profit and power without any concern for the impact it might have on you.
But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the comments in the chat.
I'll see you in a second.
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Hunter Biden, I'm not going to read out your name, you know that.
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Hunter Biden likes crack 2022 because we were on Rumble.
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Gaz needs a hat.
I suppose you, they mean.
And then Dark Dev says YouTube just cut out as soon as you mentioned natural immunity.
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And now there are official studies that state that natural immunity is more effective than vaccines, but the YouTube regulations do not acknowledge that.
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This is why I'm proud to introduce as our guest now, news editor at antiwar.com and friend of the show, Dave DeCamp.
All right, Dave.
Hey Russell, thanks for having me back.
Thanks for coming on our last minute after Christian Smalls, Amazon union leader, didn't get delivered.
We still think he might be next door at any moment.
He could turn up as a surprise package.
In fact, we're hoping to get him on the show tomorrow, but we're thrilled to have you on, particularly with a few very pertinent questions to ask you.
Firstly, I understand you went to that anti-war rally yesterday in Washington DC and there were balloons floating about.
Were people terrified at the potential that that balloon could spy on them or drift into
them, maybe brush past them and cause static?
Yeah, I did see a few F-22s flying around.
They might have spotted some balloons, but the rally was really great.
It was the Rage Against the War Machine rally, and it brought together people from all over
the political spectrum, which is, you know, our whole thing and antiwar.com.
I was organized by the Libertarian Party and the People's Party.
Speakers included Jimmy Dore, who I know was on here to promote it, and Ron Paul, which was really amazing, Chris Hedges, our guy Scott Horton, just a whole list.
Max Blumenthal, Dan McKnight, just a great lineup.
I mean, I'm missing a lot of people because there were so many speakers.
And it was a good showing.
There was a few thousand estimates I saw were between three and four thousand, which is good.
You know, we hope for more next time, but I think it's a good start.
It's the first kind of rally of its kind during this current, you know, proxy war in Ukraine that brought together, again, everybody from the political spectrum.
And they got the big names and they spoke at the Lincoln Memorial, which was really great to see.
And then they marched to the White House and there was more speakers there.
It was really just a good showing.
And again, seeing the libertarians and the leftists and the conservatives just all mingling and talking, that was what made me really happy to see that they could get together on that.
And I was there with my son, who's 15 months old.
He just started walking, so my attention was focused on that.
I wanted to write up kind of like a proper report on it, but I had a great time.
It was great to meet people there, and it really invigorated me, you know, gave me some new motivation.
I've got some pitches now for your son's autobiography if he goes on to be a significant public figure.
March, before I could walk, my first steps in the activist movement.
No need to thank me, Dave!
That's completely free, you can have that.
Meanwhile, over in the... And also, by the way, those kind of political alliances that are forming, libertarians on the right, they're interested in individual freedom.
People to the left of the Democrat Party who are interested in collective community freedom and the empowerment of communities rather than centralized government, devolution and decentralization, individual freedom.
These are the banners and flags that we can all march under together, I reckon.
Meanwhile, in that not a proxy war, Isn't it hotting up a bit, mate?
Because Zelensky does say that it's part of his plan to take Crimea.
Zelensky has said that he never planned to honour the Minsk agreement about what's going on in Donbass.
And also, isn't it pretty clear that if Crimea gets taken, we might all find ourselves in a terrible pickle nuclear Armageddon-wise?
Yeah, and there's a few interesting points there when it comes to Crimea.
So last month in January, there was a report in the New York Times that said the Biden administration was considering helping Ukraine attack Crimea, said they weren't concerned about escalation.
And this is just based on the fact that Putin hasn't used the nuke up to this point.
That's all they're basing this on.
Oh, he hasn't done anything yet.
You know, we don't have to worry about it, which is really unbelievable.
And they quoted somebody in there from the Rand Corporation.
If you're familiar with that think tank, you know, they're funded by the U.S.
military.
They've been shaping U.S.
foreign policy for decades.
And she said, oh, Putin, he hasn't really done anything big in response to attacks on Crimea.
But that's not true.
In October, if you remember the truck bombing of the Kerch Bridge, which connects Crimea to the Russian mainland.
After that is when Russia started the large-scale bombing of Ukraine's energy infrastructure, leaving millions of Ukrainians without power.
The fact that she says that and the New York Times reports it that way, oh, they haven't done anything.
It shows they don't care about Ukrainians.
They're suffering much more.
Shows how dislocated are from the consequences of their actions.
For the Ukrainian people, the loss of that energy was a pretty significant loss and a pretty considerable exacerbation in the conditions they're living under.
And of course, we remember that bridge bombing because I feel like British special forces were significantly involved in enacting it.
Remember it?
By Jove, we did it.
That's the British response to that line of inquiry.
So, what other developments around Crimea are you going to tell us about, mate?
Yeah, well, so recently last week, Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State, he acknowledged that taking Crimea would be a red line for Putin, which, you know, we've been saying all along and people call us Putin apologists for that.
But here's Blinken saying it.
And there's also been other indications.
The Pentagon briefed Congress and said they're not going to be able to retake Crimea.
It's unlikely.
A lot of U.S.
officials have been saying this.
And then you have the Ukrainians still saying that they're going to retake the peninsula.
But I think behind the scenes, the U.S.
telling them, you know, focus on this other territory for now that, you know, they want
to push this offensive over the next few months to retake other territory that Russia controls.
And there's talks that the U.S. is saying, there's reports that this aid isn't going
to last forever.
They don't believe that they can get these huge aid packages anymore when this latest
one is exhausted, which should be by the summer.
They're going to spend all of it.
But then you see Biden flying to Kiev today, or however, he maybe he went on a train.
I'm not sure how he got in, but to show Zelensky, you know, that support from the US.
And I think that's pretty big symbolic when it comes to the proxy war, the president of the United States entering a war zone.
But maybe behind the scenes, you know, in private meetings, he's telling them, all right, you know, this this aid spigot isn't going to be open forever.
You got to start gaining some territory, which is what the US wants them to gain territory and then negotiate.
But Russia has been building up its forces for months and months, and they're starting to gain territory.
So these next few months are going to be pivotal.
And there's talk that they're going to try to wind things down, but anything can happen.
I mean, the escalation risk is still there, of course.
The risk of nuclear war and direct war between NATO and Russia has never been higher, and it's just madness.
So hopefully it ends as soon as possible and that, you know, these next few months aren't too bad.
Dave, you're getting a lot of love in our community on Locals, that's our membership community, that any of you are welcome to join at any time and get additional content and the ability to communicate directly live in the show.
MCMT says, Hi Russell, I really like Dave and I'm really enjoying his contributions.
Trilo, Bitterus, our government only cares about world political and economic domination, not the lives of Ukrainians or Russians.
What do you think, mate, about Not only this conflict, but the ongoing escalation of tension between Taiwan, China and the United States.
We did earlier on a little item of how the various ways in which the territory of Taiwan, to forgive the use of that term, is comparable to Ukraine, i.e. vital resources, in this
case like the semiconductor industry, strategic benefits for the United States already in a place
where there is sort of militarization taking place. And also what about the story that China are
continuing to militarily aid Russia?
So with Taiwan, you know, there's a lot there and this has been going on for some time.
I went over, you know, last time I was here, so I don't want to say too much about how the U.S.
used to handle it, but basically the U.S.
used to give Taiwan, they would sell them weapons, but they wouldn't encourage them too much to declare independence because they knew that could start a war with China.
But in recent years, the U.S.
is really ramping up that support, and China is reacting immediately by increasing its military pressure on Taiwan.
So that's all happening.
What really concerns me with Taiwan, Is that in Congress there is some opposition to the war in Ukraine and it comes from a lot of Republicans.
It's small but it's still significant.
When it comes to Taiwan, a lot of them are all for sending these weapons, not to Ukraine, but to Taiwan.
If you know Josh Hawley, he's a senator from Missouri, and he really encapsulates this line of thinking.
He wrote a letter to Antony Blinken.
He said, all these weapons that you're shipping to Ukraine, get them over to Taiwan.
They want to really increase the flow of weapons.
Some more Republicans just wrote a letter to Biden saying, add $2 billion for military aid for Taiwan in your next budget.
And again, China is warning, you know, if you keep doing this, it could lead to war in the region, but the U.S.
continues to provoke them.
You know, when they first started passing these bills that had military aid for Taiwan, Mitt Romney, the senator, if you're familiar with him, he said, you know, what we're doing is very provocative and bellicose.
Mitt Romney said that, and then he voted for it anyway.
He voted in favor of sending them the aid anyway.
So that's the path that we're going on there.
And again, it's not slowing down by any means, because there's no opposition.
If you know Ro Khanna from California, House Representative, Democrat, progressive, He's against the Middle East Wars.
He's very good on Yemen and issues like that.
He just went to Taiwan this weekend.
I mean, there's no opposition.
And that's what really scares me.
That's why I think we have to wake a lot of people up to understand that the U.S.
preparing for war in the Asia-Pacific, encouraging Japan to double its military budget, giving South
Korea everything it wants, sending more bombers to the Korean Peninsula, increasing bases in the
Philippines, opening a new base in Guam, expanding their military presence in Micronesia. Did people
vote for that? To expand the U.S. military footprint in Micronesia or Palau or the Marshall
Islands? This is all happening, and people need to wake up to it and say, you know, we can't be
doing this because we're going to provoke another war. And it's the people over there, unless it
turns nuclear right away, it's the people in Taiwan, it's the people in Southeast Asia, it's
the Chinese who are going to suffer. It seems that we have systems that require conflict and crisis
in order to sustain themselves.
And in terms of US politics, currently there is no option that will not give you an escalation Of global agitation that seems like the Republican right or the Republican Party in particular are keen to escalate tension with China.
The Democrats have several years now demonized Russia and the idea that Diplomacy, multipolar worlds where different regions have different government that don't require intervention, seems odd to me at this point in our history, when progress seems observable in the areas of technology and medicine in so many ways.
that we are making such rudimentary errors when the consequences could be so grave and you know it's great that you're uh you know the walmart that you and jimmy and everyone from gray zone and all those groups that we're sort of that we're really supportive of and consider ourselves to be allies with uh... like i i you know create enough by movement around it
but it feels like it's something that
needs to become pretty radically insignificantly popularized and is going
to require a meaningful political bison
to see anything like that being able to uh... emerged a well again i was pretty hopeful after this weekend and uh...
you know i have friends in the libertarian party
I'm a member.
I'm not too involved.
I focus my work at Antiwar.com, and we're a non-profit, so we can't do political work, but I am a supporter personally.
And, you know, the Libertarian Party is the third largest political party in the U.S., and right now they're focusing on local elections.
And, you know, that's kind of our whole thing as Libertarians, is decentralization and localizing, and so that's really important.
And again, it comes to the coalition, I think it's very important just to be able to drop it.
I mean, we had Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich at this rally, and back when they were in Congress, Kucinich, the progressive, and Ron Paul, the right-wing libertarian, they worked together on all sorts of issues that they aligned on.
That's really what we have to push.
And luckily, you know, we're always talking about the mainstream media, how they control the narrative.
I mean, since I've been on your show, I've been checking out Rumble More, and I see these shows on here getting huge audiences, and I think that's really encouraging.
And also Joe Rogan is the biggest media in the world.
And my friend Dave Smith, I'm not sure if you're familiar with him,
he's a comedian, it's a podcast called Part of the Problem.
He went on Joe Rogan and he told them, you know, the truth about how the US provoked the war in Ukraine.
And that got millions of views on YouTube.
And so I think we're living in a very good time to be pushing this.
You know, of course, we have the sensors with big tech, but there's ways around it.
And it's exciting.
I'm excited.
And it's tough to not get too cynical doing what I do, just writing and researching about all this horrible stuff.
But again, this weekend, I'm really motivated.
And I really appreciate people like you who have big platforms and are willing to have us on to speak these truths that people need to hear.
Thanks for saying that, Dave.
And much of the censorship and the smearing and the shutting down of dissent and the constant projection of inane stories and the provocation of division and entrenching overly lobbied political parties So Dave, thanks for coming on here.
Thanks for the incredible work that you're doing.
I'm going to be in America in the next couple of weeks.
I hope that we get to connect soon.
Thanks for joining us today, Dave.
I appreciate it.
in the last 10, 20 years require extreme effort to control.
That is cause for optimism.
Dave, thanks for coming on here.
Thanks for the incredible work that you're doing.
I'm going to be in America in the next couple of weeks.
I hope that we get to connect soon.
Thanks for joining us today, Dave.
I appreciate it.
Yeah, that would be great.
Yeah, thanks again for having me.
Yeah, thanks again for having me.
Remember that title I gave for your son's potential forthcoming autobiography, March Before I Could Walk, my first tentative steps as an activist?
Might become relevant, I don't know.
That's pretty great, yeah.
It was all right, wasn't it, that I came up with that?
Thanks, Dave.
Thanks.
Cheers, mate, take care.
On the show tomorrow, we've got Julia Rock coming on.
She's from The Leather.
She's reporting on the Ohio train wreck and the lobbying by rail companies to avoid safety measures that haven't led to... Oh no, there's been a massive train wreck!
We're going to be talking about that story a little bit more and its connotations.
I like the way that it exposes the hypocrisy and lack of depth to the rhetoric around ecological care.
And this is an opportunity to bring people together.
Look, we're talking about the ecology, the environment, how much we care about it.
Here's a chance for us to demonstrate that care through our actions.
And that's not what's happening.
No, it isn't what's happening.
I think, you know, what's been labelled the bad administration and I think the best is that they've been basically silent and just haven't really been involved in this and at worst are some of the things that they'll ever uncovering which we spoke about earlier and obviously Julie will talk about that tomorrow about them side literally siding with the railroad company
We've got some other exciting content tomorrow for you.
You've got to join us.
We're speaking to Dan Cohen on the NIH's search for the new Fauci.
I hope they do it like a talent show, like America's Got Talent.
New Fauci.
Do you like royalties?
Have you got a good history?
What's your connections like with the pharmaceutical industry?
What you need is someone who's got no connections to the pharmaceutical industry and I hope that they'll start there.
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And whoever sent that picture of some boobs or whatever, I don't feel like you should do that in this kind of chat.
I mean, I don't agree with censorship, I agree with free speech, but I also agree with politeness and kindness, but I feel like people are sorting that out among themselves.
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I'm not!
They're not mine!
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I'm not looking at it right now.
I'm looking at the normal chat.
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Hold on, let me just make sure whether that's wrong or right.
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That's wrong!
No, we are anti-censorship.
I'm also pro-respect, am I?
Yes, you are.
Also, if you're a member of Locals, you can join us for our weekly show, Stay Connected, where we show you how we make this show.
Plus, I do a weekly meditation with someone from the community.
Like, they'll go, I've had my heart broken, or something like that.
And then I do a meditation with them, and I'm almost 20% certain it helps.
My stand-up special will be coming soon.
You'll get it exclusively for a while on the Locals platform.
And if that wasn't enough, I'm coming to your country, if you're in America, On March 2nd I'll be in LA at the Vermont Theatre, and on March 6th I'm going to be in Tampa at the Bilheimer Capital Theatre.
You can go to RussellBrand.com and get your tickets.
They're on my mailing list, I think they got those first.
Join us tomorrow, not for more of the same, but for more of the different.
Why are you looking at me like that?
Just watching it all happen.
This is it, this is me doing my work, doing what I do best.
Join us tomorrow, not for more of the same, but for more of the different.
Until then, stay free.
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