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Oh Sh*t, Russians Down US Drone…WW3?! - #091 - Stay Free With Russell Brand
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So, I'm going to go ahead and get started.
In this video, you're going to see the future.
Hello there, you awakening wonders.
Thanks for joining me for Stay Free with Russell Brand, where we criticise mainstream media, bring you spiritual insights, have a bit of a laugh, muck around, and talk about potential solutions that could be born of new alliances.
I do the show with my, and he's called this for legal reasons, on-screen assistant, Gareth Roy.
Hello, Gareth.
Hello there, Russell.
Have you seen the news?
I certainly have.
Good, innit?
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And if you don't want to move towards that light, you better be careful because you could be being spied on right now by a drone.
Because the main news in what you might call mainstream media, legacy media, is about that drone that Russia has bought down, an American drone.
And what's fascinating when you watch this coverage is the piety around it.
They're talking about this drone being bought down as if it's like the worst thing that's ever happened.
Also, Russia are denying bringing it down, just to make it clear.
We did not bring down that drone.
That was our favourite drone!
Let's talk about this drone.
Look at this on the mainstream news.
Unless someone's briefed them to say, personify that drone, talk about that drone like it is a beloved family pet, and like it's got a personality, and it's a really nice, it's a particularly nice drone.
This was our best drone.
Whenever we wanted to bomb a wedding in Syria, this was the drone we went to.
But that's just my take on it, my hopeless conjecture.
Let's go to the mainstream media's take, which is for some reason being hosted by Ross from Friends.
No one told you life was gonna be this way.
Your job's a joke.
We're broke.
Because, of course, the banking system is collapsing all around you.
Why is this bloke doing the news a bit sideways?
He always does it like that.
Is that how he does it?
That's his style.
He's ABC News.
Look, I've got some news for you.
There's 23 more letters in that alphabet, baby.
A fighter jet collided with an unmanned American drone over the Black Sea.
That drone worth up to...
The Black Sea sort of near Russia.
Yeah.
Isn't the Black Sea adjacent to Russia?
Isn't the Black Sea in Russia?
Like it's not like unconnected it was just flying around innocently over the Black Sea that's somewhat near to and if you look at it on a molecular level interconnected with Russia.
Note how they report on this story.
Watch this and let me know in the chat in the comments if this is the sort of thing you've noticed before.
They start talking about it financially.
Unconsciously, they reveal their true perspective.
That militarism is a financial system.
This guy, Ross from Friends here, he ain't gonna be able to do even 10 seconds more mainstream media news without talking about how much them drones cost.
And I'll remind you that in Ukraine, like, kids and stuff are dying, they're blowing up nuclear plants, all that total It's not nuclear plants, we'd know about that, but I'm saying like energy centers and all that kind of stuff, aren't they, Gareth?
Yeah.
I think it's fair for me to say, but let's see what the cast of Friends have got to say about it.
$82 million and crashing into the sea, and of course it comes amidst significant tensions already between the U.S.
Significant tensions?
It's a war!
It's a proxy war!
They are funding that war?
I mean, is it, is that an allegedly Because we're still on YouTube, right?
Allegedly!
It's not necessarily a proxy war, but they are providing military equipment.
They are providing lethal aid.
He's already mentioned it.
It's a $32 million drone.
What about the lives of the Ukrainian kids that are being needlessly lost as this war continues?
And I'm not trying to exculpate Russia.
That's hardly my job, the exculpation of Russia in a military conflict.
But I'm saying that the pursuit of a peaceful solution, particularly as it looks like there was a deal on the table prior to the escalation of conflict, And, of course, the neglect to mention how we got into this crazy situation with NATO infringing Russian territory.
As has been argued, you don't even need a NATO now that they... NATO exists to agitate Russia.
That's the whole point of NATO.
Russia.
The US says two Russian fighter planes intercepted the Reaper surveillance drone as it was flying in international airspace southwest of Crimea.
They say Russian pilots harassing the drone for 30 minutes.
Harassing?
Harassing is a weird word.
And do you know what?
The word harassing is not just being used on ABC.
Numerous mainstream media news outlets are using the word harass.
Harass is a very person-oriented word.
Harass has all sorts of connotations.
It requires that the drone has an emotional reality.
How dare you harass me!
Harassment means, like, that there's an intention.
Like the Russian fire jets, they're like lascivious little sky perverts, like, coming up to that drone.
Hey, what you doing?
What you doing?
What you doing?
Hey, can I get a smile?
Can I get a smile out of you, tootsie?
Is it a drone or is it Harvey Weinstein that's flying around up there?
The White House calling the pilots reckless, dumping fuel on the drone, making All of the language.
Reckless dumping fuel like it's literally shit.
Those dirty migs, those dirty sons of guns up there, defecating all over our automatic skybird.
It's only a remote control object, isn't it?
There's some kid somewhere, some computer nerd, in Vegas, in a warehouse somewhere, flying that drone, fresh from bombing off a load of innocent civilians.
I think it's just 90% of deaths in Syria.
You can check those facts for me.
Maybe we'll check them.
But I think, like, something like 90%.
Well, that's what Daniel Hale went to prison for, for revealing that, isn't it?
Under Obama, 90% of drones.
Allegedly!
Oh, OK.
Because I prefer not to go to jail with Daniel Hale, simply for saying that.
Drone strikes cause more civilian deaths than legitimate target deaths.
And the whole idea about drones as well is that drones, they're immaculate.
Like, as if it's somehow logical, rational.
Not like the crazy violence of brown people that we're bombing.
No, this is rational violence, bespoke, targeted.
This is like Top Gun.
And elsewhere in mainstream media, they literally say that this is like Top Gun.
But I've never trusted drones.
Do you know why?
I don't like their... I don't like they ain't got a face.
You know?
There's no windows, and there's no need for a window because there's no one in it to look out of it, but that still makes it look like a relatively contemporary, shall we call it, pleasure aid oriented towards a female market.
Like, it doesn't it?
Look at its ergonomics.
Look at its bulbous bonts.
No, I know what you're getting at.
If anyone's being harassed up there, it's those Russian fighter jets by that pervert!
19 close passes.
One of the jets hitting the drone ...passes as well.
And this language cropped up, doesn't it, Gareth?
Elsewhere in mainstream media, they keep using harassment and dumping its guts and spittling its diddly-wops.
But harassment and close passes doesn't suggest hitting it, does it?
I mean, it just, it was near it.
And also, this is international waters and international airspace.
And the nation that it's into is Russia, because it's the Black Sea.
It's right next to Russia.
And yeah, you're right.
Harassment and near-misses.
That's another way of saying nothing happened.
Nothing happened today when some Russian jets went near a drone that simply shouldn't have been there.
Now, we're not suggesting that Russia Don't have their own international espionage operations or that Russia don't have their own imperialist projects, but I've heard that mentioned on the news already.
So it's not like that needs to be additionally covered.
What does need to be additionally covered is the mainstream media appear to be reporting on this event as if it's been disseminated from a centralized authority right down to the vocabulary that's being used.
I.e.
if you see a word like harassment suddenly being used and you've not seen it used in that context particularly before, Then obviously it's a result of briefing.
Let me know in the chat, in the comments, if you've noticed that a lot, that everyone seems to be singing from the same song sheet.
And if they're all singing from the same song sheet, and they're all singing from the same song, then it tells you that they're all from the same choir, that they're all from the same cathedral, that they've all got the same belief system, that they've all got a vested interest in the evangelism of the state, of centralized system.
And we're simply suggesting a true secularism, a true division of the religion of consumerism, commodification, And the militarisation of the planet, particularly for financial ends.
Is that too much to ask for, girl?
No, that's absolutely right.
I also think that it isn't the job of the mainstream media to convey all angles to this.
And like, when you read it in independent media, they say Russia is denying this, whereas on the mainstream media, it doesn't seem to suggest that.
Right, let's have a look at a bit more mainstream.
...propeller forcing it down.
Russia says the US is to blame tonight and that their jet never hit the drone.
ABC's Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz...
Did mention the denial at the end, didn't he?
He did, yeah.
But he was being so sideways that I couldn't even begin to trust him.
He's pretty sideways.
He's just a sideways newscaster.
Leading us off tonight.
The U.S.
Reaper surveillance drone was... Look at the mood of this person.
The U.S.
Reaper surveillance drone, man.
Life's a beach, man, and then you die.
...an international airspace over the Black Sea when the Russian fighter jets rapidly approached and began what would be more than 30... Rapidly.
Rapidly.
It's a jet!
What do you want it to do?
Gingerly approach?
Meekly approach?
You can't drive a jet slowly!
It'll fall out of the sky!
That's Da Vinci's principles.
...innits of reckless aerial harassment, much like this encounter with...
Reckless aerial harassment. That's not unbiased reporting.
How bad can we make this sound? What is the worst we could make it sound?
Should we call it reckless aerial harassment?
Because another way of saying it is it just went by.
Mm. Yeah.
...US B-52 bomber in 2020.
Interceptions are common but never before like this.
This is the worst thing that's ever kind of happened in the last few seconds since they started talking.
Like, why is everyone behaving in that way?
They're not even talking like normal people.
I think we know exactly why they're behaving that way, because they're ramping up a narrative.
Ah, they're ramping up a narrative.
Is that what they're doing?
Do you think so as well?
Because honestly, we're making this show for you.
We want to know what you think.
I mean, we've been watching this stuff.
We've been trying to work out using our best efforts, haven't we, and all of our available insights and resources to try and present you a better version of this story so we can decide for ourselves whether or not walking towards Armageddon enthusiastically and dumbly is the best possible course of action.
The Russians shadowed the drone, they made 19 close passes, sprayed fuel on the unmanned aircraft multiple times, while one boy said that the drone got touched on its ass by the fighter jet!
What is this weird list of sky crimes?
Shadowed the drone, so didn't touch it, followed it, 19 close passes, didn't touch it, sprayed fuel on it, I mean, this is a war.
That's not the worst thing that's happening in a war.
This is spending more time on what this drone has been through.
This drone, as far as we know, has no subjective reality.
You know, chatbot GPT aside, we don't know what the internal reality of a constructed digital consciousness might be like, or even if such a thing is possible.
It's not like the drone's going to come back from this and go, oh, bloody hell.
You weren't there, man.
Where's this drone?
It's not Vietnam.
None of them received a hero's welcome.
What do they want for that drone?
For it to be decorated?
For it to have... Well, I'll tell you what they want for that drone is to build a lot more of those drones.
That's what they're saying, innit?
By their friends in the military-industrial complex.
Who's making these drones?
Who's profiting from these drones?
Where did that $32 million go?
One of the jets pulling up vertically as it approached the drone, then colliding with the drone's rear propeller.
They collided with the aircraft, damaging the propeller.
All of this energy.
Look, this guy's stood... Right.
Yeah, the same language is being used consistently throughout here.
And also, there's a press briefing on what amounts to what would happen if your car had a near miss on a freeway.
Oh, well, yeah, the car went by.
Sort of my license plate fell off.
That's it.
It's just a military level.
There's all sorts of money being spent.
There's all sorts of lives being ended.
The escalation of tensions and a potentially earth-shattering conflict.
I mean, worrying about someone's propeller.
I'm not able to see the drone with the kind of affection and sentiment that seems easily accessible to the military spokespeople, so I've had to... What I need is a... Because I don't like its windowless face.
I don't like its sort of dumb... They're trying to make us care about it, aren't they?
If they really want us to care about drones they need to present them like this.
Here's a drone that I can really learn to love.
Have a look at this little guy and he's a beautiful little visage.
Let's see it.
Come on, we've spent time on this.
I wonder what they're thinking.
Yeah, that's what I need.
That's what I need from a drone.
Black rock, a CND sign, a little wing there.
It was worth it.
It's worth it to see that adorable little guy.
They made it a bit like Justin Bieber.
I'd like to know where they've got That's our team back there.
We've got youngsters that work for us and that's what they do over the course of the day.
While we're trying to bring people together from across the political spectrum, while we're trying to create new narratives to help us challenge centralised power and bring peripheral figures together in a new union, some people are there getting that Justin Bieber wig together.
I think I would pay $32 million for that.
Well, tell me that even that was actual size, I can think of several uses for that device.
Looks to me like it could be a valuable ally in times of deep loneliness.
MSNBC similarly presented the conflict, get ready, similarly presented the conflict in a favourable hysterical and hyperbolic light with this piece of reporting.
It's a little bit like the opening scenes in Top Gun.
Bit reductive.
It's not Top Gun.
Real life.
Is that the thing that they're getting us to care about this with?
It's like Top Gun, but in reverse.
Reverse Top Gun.
Gun Top.
Nugpot.
Nugpot.
Think of a backwards Top Gun in which Tom Cruise seemingly gets younger.
That is what happened in Top Gun 2!
This is fascinating as well.
As well as simplifying it and presenting it to you like you're a dumb idiot, which is you know how they see you, they also, you start to think, who is this guy that they're chatting to?
He looks like he's got a bunch of authority.
He seems like a pretty serious person.
I mean, look at his face.
I'm a bit scared of him.
Like, trust your instincts.
How do you feel when you look into the eyes of that man?
I don't want to make a judgment.
I'm a non-judgmental human being as best as I can be, but let's have a look.
The first one with the roles reversed here.
They were obviously brazen.
Brazen?
Brazen?
This is an actual war.
It's not like Jane Austen.
Sir, I am undone!
It was uncustomary to arrive for tea less than 15 minutes early.
You know what I mean?
It's about comedy and manners.
This is like an international global conflict, much of the money of which is being funneled towards the military-industrial complex.
There seems to be some daft protocols that are concerning these folk mostly.
...to believe U.S.
defense and intelligence officials, which we do.
And I know this is one of the things that... ...said, if you believe intelligence officials, which we do!
Of course we do!
And why wouldn't you?
Because they tell us what to say!
I didn't even know why I even questioned that as a possibility, as if there's anything other than one objective truth that we're questioning here.
...haunts our national security professionals, especially on the military side, that something like this could precipitate an escalation.
We've got to recognise that Putin is desperate.
Strategically, he's in checkmate.
Putin is one of the baddies.
He's a bad guy.
You can't rely on Putin.
Can we go back to the shot where you can see the picture on the dude's wall for me, please?
Yeah, if you pull forward to that.
Because when you look at this guy, you might think, who is this person that they are citing and using to underwrite and legitimise their narrative?
A person that they're able to bring on.
to talk punitively and pejoratively about Putin.
Look at the background, there's a picture of him standing next to Bill Clinton there, so you figure this dude's got a little previous, he's got some connections.
Well, Seymour Hersh, who's been a guest on this show, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, wrote about Barry McCaffrey in this piece.
He wrote, Former General Barry McCaffrey may have commanded his troops to kill retreating Iraq soldiers after the ceasefire had been declared and then failed to properly investigate reports of killing unarmed persons and an alleged massacre of hundreds of Iraqi POWs.
So you should be kind of told that the source we're using, wouldn't you like to know that?
Like when MSNBC, by the way, the party of peace, the party of love, the party of liberalism and freedom.
Oh, we're just going to bring on this potential war monger.
To give you a warmonger's perspective on this situation.
Also the drone that's worrying about sort of harassment and stuff.
Let's have a look at the media and military connections first.
Interesting.
This is great because often MSNBC, CNN, and I'm sure other media organisations as well, it's common practice, let us know in the chat and comments if you've noticed other mainstream media.
So Fox, whoever man, because we think they're ultimately funded in comparable ways.
I said that when I was on Fox the other day, huh?
They bring on experts that are apparently objective, albeit experts.
There's a degree of subjectivity, of course, because expertise means, by its nature, esoteric knowledge.
But check out what they don't reveal is the financial connections that many of these experts might have to various organisations, in particular in this context, military-industrial complex organisations.
Check it.
Many of the retired military leaders employed by the networks as paid contributors have secondary affiliations, and I wouldn't say they're secondary, I reckon primary, because, you know, you know what money does to a person, that are rarely, if ever mentioned, leaving viewers in the dark about whose interests they're promoting.
None of the leading networks, including MSNBC, makes a regular practice of announcing its military analysis financial ties to the Pentagon, connections that colour their on-air comments during its Ukraine coverage, MSNBC even failed to include disclosures when the network vied on former Homeland Security Secretary Jair Johnson, who serves on the board of directors at Lockheed Martin, the world's biggest defense contractor.
Now to get an unbiased look at this conflict, someone who profits financially from there being a conflict.
Now to give us some insights on war, a person who may have committed...
War crimes in the past!
It's extraordinary that you're not given that information.
Let me know in the comments and chat if what you would like is a media that are culpable
and accountable, that talks to you like an adult, that the information isn't predicated
on your stupidity, a kind of parental dynamic where you're instructed rather than informed,
where centralised information is clearly disseminated and the DNA of that centralised authority
is found in the vocabulary.
If you keep seeing the word harassment all of a sudden, which isn't a word we used to
associate with drones coming up in their coverage, or words like force and the dumping of the
fuel.
Now I know there's going to be a continuity if there are certain facts in the story, but
note the adjectives.
The adjectives, like it rapidly moved, like jets move rapidly.
What are you going to do the jet for next?
It moved at the speed of sound.
It brushed sound to one side in an indelicate manner.
That's an attempt to tell you what conclusions you should draw from the information.
I think what we do, I hope, let us know in the chat and comments, this is what we're
really trying to do.
We say, this is what we think.
We recognise our own biases and our own flaws and inability to gain access to any kind of objective truth.
So as part of the discourse and dialogue, do you reckon that we might better understand the form that is in front of us?
We try our best to remove the biases.
And the only way we can do that is by being open and accountable.
Yeah, I mean, you'll probably call the Putin lover or something.
I don't love Putin.
I don't even know him.
Well, exactly.
It seems a bit scary.
When you go on Bill Maher and talk about MSNBC, it is for these very things.
You know, that's not responsible by a mainstream media network to have people on who directly profit from war and go on to talk and ramp up all these situations that are going on.
We don't know.
I mean, the way that they use those adjectives and certain words to create a narrative that we literally do not know if that was the case.
And yet, as far as the mainstream media are concerned, this is just another escalation of tensions between Russia and the US.
So that's all offering.
And do you remember the sort of the Hector in tone of that dude I was on Bill Maher with?
He was like, you know, give me one example of the mainstream media doing anything as bad as what Fox has done.
I'm not trying to sort of get high on my own little farts here, but if you look at... Well, I don't know.
I mean, it depends how bad you think escalating a war to Armageddon is.
It is really bad, isn't it?
It's worse than those text messages, I think.
And also, like, that you should at least have a kind of conscious awareness that, look, admittedly, we do get people on the channel to advocate for military action that have financial ties to weapons manufacturers.
I mean, that's like, you know, if that is your deal, you're not, like, in the world's... Hey, look at us!
We're fantastic!
But luckily, we're not reductive about it.
We don't just compare it to Top Gun in reverse.
Don't worry.
This is a bit like Top Gun, but upside down Top Gun, like the first Top Gun where Maverick did go upside down.
Do you understand that?
Can you remember a fictional film?
Remember a fictional film!
Now shut up!
Now sit down!
Now vote for one of these two bunches of bastards!
Here's some facts about those drones that they're trying to get you to feel sorry for, simply because they cost 32 million quid.
Between 2010 and 2020, US drone strikes killed up to 16,000 people.
Bloody hell.
2,200 civilians were killed and 454 children.
Now if you think of the time they just devoted to that... I saw a graphic earlier, I don't know if we've had time to show you, where they made the drone turn a different colour after it had the fuel, like someone's going...
Right, listen, that's when they dump the fuel on that drone, those bastard jets.
Why don't we depict the drone turning lime green?
They've, like, went through a lot of trouble to do that.
Like, Ross from Friends getting all agged out.
The other woman sort of saying, like, oh, we're doing our best over here.
It's like Top Gun.
454 kids have been killed.
We work in media, and I sort of, I've heard it before, but you sort of forget.
Children, like your children, Children!
They're not worse than your children, unless you've got some crazy belief or value system about human life.
The United States Department of Defense remains the largest customer for unmanned systems technologies, with an estimated $7.5 billion budget for 2021.
I don't know that it happens in such an overt way as this, of them going, oh no, people won't care about this enough because a drone is by its nature an unpersoned craft, they won't give a toss.
But what they do do is, through their reporting, try to escalate not only the tensions between Russia and America, but the feelings, the affinity.
And I don't think that kind of patriotism has the hold it once does, because, I mean, people are recognizing that there's a difference between the American people, beautiful human beings trying their best in life, and the systems of governance and control that are biased in very particular, and I would argue nefarious, ways.
And even the individuals within those systems, if you want the absolute truth out of me, I don't think are Especially culpable because it's a systemic bias that locks them into a mindset that they can't control.
So when we're joking about these people on news even, like Chomsky famously observed, if you didn't hold at your heart the interests of the system, you wouldn't be sitting in the chair.
They weed you out.
They weed you out when you're at school.
They're looking for recalcitrance.
They're looking for rebellion.
They're looking for radicalism.
You've known it your whole life.
You've known your whole life that if you're your authentic self, you'll be punished for it.
That you have to allow yourself to be subsumed by this system.
Well, not anymore.
This is a time of mutual awakening where together we can, at last, using these technologies, create new movements of confrontation.
Shall I give you some very unconnected news, Ross?
Is it connected?
It's not in any way connected.
Okay, well this is some stuff that's not connected to anything we've just been saying.
It's just something to mull over and then we'll have a look at that little tweet about Russia and stuff.
So the US has increased its dominance as the world's top arms exporter.
So new research shows the United States accounts for 40% of the world's weapons exports in the years 2018 to 22, selling armaments to more than 100 countries while increasing its dominance of the global arms trade.
But that's completely unconnected to any of this, so I don't So like all of the reductivism, the simplification, the mentions of Top Gun, the fetishizing of a drone is not connected, or even the war itself is not connected to 40% of the world's weapons.
That must mean there's a significant number of military conflicts where both sides are using weapons that they... Shame that the weapons don't, sort of, aren't friends.
Well maybe if you put faces on them they will be.
Put faces on those drones and it might be like the film Fox and the Hound.
If I recall, in the end... I wondered whether you'd get to this metaphor, Mr Brown.
The hound, in the end, will not kill Todd because it remembers they were mates when they were little.
Of course, of course.
And isn't that the real message?
Here's a tweet from someone called Medea Benjamin going, US complains that its Reaper drone conducting routine
operations over the Black Sea was intercepted by a Russian jet.
Why are US drones flying over the Black Sea? Routine operations or routine
provocations? And remember it's not that long ago is it?
Since we were all meant to get up in arms about a balloon floating... How dare you!
How dare you balloon us in the Dakota!
I will balloon you so hard, we'll $400,000,000 missile you straight up in your balloon holes!
Right?
Well, it makes you feel like we're being asked to take certain information seriously and ignore other information.
What about when Poland fired their missiles or whatever, and they were like...
Ukraine fired the missiles that they said was Russian into Poland, but it turned out it was from Ukraine.
Nothing to do with bloody... They're always trying to package information in order to direct you towards a particular outcome.
Now, maybe all of us do that in various ways of our communication.
Maybe I want you to like me or something.
But what I'm not trying to do, I don't think, is take over the whole planet in order to support the arms industry.
And I think that's better, ultimately.
So, look at this.
What was that drone even doing there?
6,000 miles from the Black Sea to the United States.
That's 6,000 miles that drone traveled.
Yeah, from North America to the Black Sea.
That's 6,000 miles.
Now let's see how far the Black Sea is from Russia.
It's nought miles.
There's no miles because it's touching it and on occasion on it and bits of Russia are under it.
Yeah, there might be like a nice beach or something.
Right, you could go and stand in there on your holiday.
I don't know because it might not be warm enough.
I don't know where you go on holiday if you're in Russia because I've been deprived of access to that type of culture because I was brought up to think that Russian people were somehow fundamentally different from me so that I became a little drone, ironically, within the system, unthinking, unquestioning, consuming the information spoon-fed to us by systems of culture that are not our friends and that want us dumb and distracted so that our only means of self-soothing are commodity and consuming.
How many of these stories do you think they think are going to eventually work?
Because it's amazing isn't it?
Like you had Nord Stream and then Nord Stream has now surely gone through the filter of people going, come on, we did Nord Stream.
Then there's the balloon thing, then there's the missile thing, now there's this.
I think they think they can do it endlessly.
Just keep doing it.
Endlessly do it.
Now, to pivot for a while to other aspects of corruption, and we'll be coming off of YouTube in a minute to be exclusively on Rumble for a number of reasons.
We've got James O'Keefe, that dude from Veritas who done that sting on that geyser that worked for Pfizer.
It's brilliant.
You'll love talking to James O'Keefe, I think, because he's going to tell us more inside info about that Pfizer sting, which we obviously can't talk about on YouTube.
I'm going to show you some of the stuff from my stand-up special, Brandemic, which you get for free if you join our membership community, which you definitely should do, or you can buy it for a one-off $20 fee.
And right now, we're going to tell you that you know that banking crisis?
You know how it's nothing to do with 2008?
Guess what?
It's nothing to do with 2008 except for two people that worked at banks that collapsed in 2008, i.e.
Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank worked at these banks!
Check this!
Joseph Gentile joined Silicon Valley Bank in 2007 after leaving his position as the Chief Financial Officer at Lehman Brothers Global Investment Bank.
And why did you leave your last job, sir?
No reason, really.
Just fancied a change.
Just found myself with that cardboard box and a plant wandering around, and she's like, oh my God, it's happening again!
Meanwhile, recently appointed Chief Risk Officer Kim Olsen worked at Deutsche Bank from 2007 through 2010, when it lied to investors about its mortgage-backed securities, the collapse of which led to the housing crisis.
Also, she wasn't very good at her job.
She was the Chief Risk Officer.
OK.
I don't see any risks here.
Oh, Papa's gonna get a brand new pair of spats.
Let's do this!
Oh no!
I've ruined everything for everyone!
Luckily, the consequences will only be felt by ordinary people and not by the banking community.
If only we had someone that could come and explain the opacity of the financial world in broad cockney.
If only we had an ordinary working-class economist come on in and decode their programmatic lingo into stuff that we can understand.
Unravel the nomenclature of deliberately obscure financial chitter-chatter into something that we, the people, can easily discern and break down.
Yes, we now have him.
He's the Del Boy of the Dale Jones.
It's Gary Stevenson, an economist, inequality activist, and working-class person.
Gary, what's up, mate?
I'm good, thanks.
Thanks for having me on.
What a fantastic introduction.
Good, wasn't it?
Made it up using me imagination.
Can you tell us, please, what's been going on with all this hullabaloo?
Is it like the last one, the 2008 one?
Is it up?
Will taxpayers end up inadvertently round the block, round the back, paying for it in some sort of way?
And also, how do they keep doing these things?
What are they doing?
I know it's something to do with interest rates went up by 4.5% and they'd bought these bonds and it all went wrong.
So just give us stuff so that we can understand it and then resent it and attack it.
Alright, so I'll start with your first question.
Is this going to be like 2008?
Markets are still concerned that this could spread.
It's unlikely, but possible.
Most likely it will be Kept to this one bank, Silicon Valley Bank.
There's worries about Credit Suisse today, which is a much, much bigger bank.
Probably it won't happen.
We have to hope it won't happen because if it does happen, it'll be a disaster for everyone.
Let's assume it stays just within this one bank, Silicon Valley Bank.
If that happens, The banking system will survive and ordinary people will not be massively affected and the reason for that is it's only one bank going under and the loss which sits with Silicon Valley Bank will be spread throughout the whole of society and everyone will pay a few dollars.
I think the way that it has been communicated has been pretty misleading and we've been told it's not a bailout and Essentially, nobody will pay.
If there's a loss, somebody has to pay it.
In this case, you know, they don't just disappear.
In this case, basically, anyone who has a bank account will pay a little bit more over the next few years.
And that will be how it will be socialized.
I think the most interesting thing is the point that you make basically about in many ways, this is a repeat of 2008, in the sense that the banking system itself, and in this case, Silicon Valley Bank, most of the deposit holders are venture capitalists, big businesses, wealthy people.
They are going to be protected and the loss will be socialised.
For me, what I think is most interesting is the way that this reminds me of actually the mismanagement of the Covid economic crisis and the way that our society mismanages economic crises in general, which is as soon as the crisis hits.
Wealthy people can contact the government and they can protect themselves and ordinary people are not protected.
Go for it.
Nice one, mate.
Thanks for respecting the sign.
I like what you said about the COVID pandemic and the mismanagement of the financial aspects of that.
Put the sign down now.
Oh yeah, I am talking.
Sorry about that, mate.
But I wanted to point out that we are still on YouTube and we are bound by their guidelines.
In a minute, we'll click over onto Being Rumble, where we can just speak freely and say whatever the hell we like.
So I just wanted to alert you to the fact that we have to So you're saying, mate, that this is yet another example of creating financial conditions that are beneficial to elites, or at least are not punitive to the elites, while punishing ordinary people, even if not directly.
So when Joe Biden goes, our taxpayers won't pay this, what does he mean Really, mate.
It's an example of a management of a crisis in such a way that the rich are protected.
And the communication given to ordinary people is that nobody will pay the cost.
And I think the best example of this is at the beginning of COVID.
Do you know how much money the US government has given out since the start of COVID?
How much money they've given out in total?
It's $8 trillion.
That is $24,000 for every man, woman, child and baby in the US.
So if there's a family out there, family of five, mum, dad, three kids, if they don't have an extra $24,000 each, someone else has got it.
Now, I don't know about you, but if I were going to give out $8 trillion, I would think I should do an analysis of who's going to end up with that money.
But was that analysis done?
I'm guessing that's one of your rhetorical questions.
I'm seeing your style now.
You're using rhetorical questions.
You're a skinhead, using rhetorical questions.
No analysis was done.
No analysis was done of who ends up with our money.
They've done some analysis, Gary.
It's standard procedure.
Well, you won't be surprised to know I've done some analysis, where I'm from.
We pride ourselves on understanding things fully.
Listen, the reason that money was needed is because the spending of the rich collapsed, all right?
If you're an ordinary person, what are your expenditures?
Rent, mortgage, food, bills.
During COVID, you're still paying them.
If you're a very wealthy person, luxury holidays, going to the theatre, going to bars, you probably know about that kind of stuff, Russell.
I'm self-made!
Those expenditures couldn't be made, which meant the spending of the rich collapsed.
It was replaced by the spending of the government, which means the government pays your wages, you pay your bills, you pay your mortgage, it goes to a rich person, and he can't spend it.
$8 trillion funneled through ordinary people to the rich.
Now, what do you think will happen?
That's $24,000 per person.
So it goes to the rich, you're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Same in the UK, to all of the rich people in the country.
What do you think will happen if, in a period where the economy is closed, we give hundreds of thousands of dollars or pounds to all of the richest people in the country?
When you reopen, you'll have inflation and a cost of living crisis.
It was obvious.
And if you don't believe me, go look at my YouTube.
In June 2020, I predicted massive increase in inequality Massive increase in inflation and a cost of living crisis because that is what happens when you massively increase inequality and people need to understand that when crises happen we need to start looking at them through the lens of inequality.
Who wins and who loses?
I like it, I like it.
My favourite bit was the bit where Gary goes, and if you don't believe me Right?
You can ask my mum, because she's seen me do that analysis, blood!
That was my favourite bit.
Mate, what about Julian Assange's thing that the function of government is to take money from public hands and to pass it into the private sector, whether that's through military action, exploitation of crisis, or even in economic situations like this one, look for opportunities.
I think if you look at the last three years, that is definitely what they have done.
There's a question of why they did it, whether they knew they were going to do it.
So I worked in finance for a long time and I studied economics.
I went to London School of Economics, went to Oxford.
From my observation of wealthy people who understand economics, I suspect they probably did it by accident because I think what it is, is a mixture of greed and stupidity.
What they want is to protect their interests.
As long as they're protected, that's all they care about.
So they go in.
I think this SVB example is great.
It's a great example, because straight away, these guys on the phone to the government, bail us out, get your bail out.
Nobody talks about who wins, who loses.
You know, I think at the beginning of COVID, we had such an amazing example of that.
We are so privileged to have witnessed such an example of mass elite stupidity, right?
£700 billion, $8 trillion given out.
Nobody in the mainstream media said who ends up with that money.
It's a simple question.
Simple question, right?
That money is in the bank accounts of rich people now.
And now we have a cost saving crisis for ordinary people, but ordinary people can't afford, in many cases, to feed their kids at the same time as the biggest and fastest ever increase in millionaire and billionaire wealth.
The average US billionaire doubled their wealth in the first one year of COVID.
The average UK billionaire increased their wealth by £630 million in one year.
And yet here we are now, Where ordinary people, in many cases, can't heat their homes, can't feed their kids, and we're talking about it like there's no money.
What ordinary people need to start thinking, when there's a crisis, when your cost of living falls, please, please, God, look at the rich and say, is it falling for them as well?
If your life is getting worse and their life is getting better, Probably what's happening is inequality is increasing.
If you look at the statistics, that is what's happened here.
It's a brilliant lens to provide, mate, because it does seem like the very definition of a wealth transfer.
An energy crisis that leads to profitability for energy companies, even though they receive them subsidies.
A financial crisis that appears to somehow or another benefit financial elites.
Wars that benefit the military-industrial complex.
Medical crisis that benefit the pharmaceutical industry.
Before you know it, Crisis becomes the state that most benefits the elite, so crisis for ordinary people becomes de rigueur.
Gary, that is a fantastic contribution to our show.
I hope you're going to come back and contribute more.
You can follow Gary on his YouTube channel, Gary Economics, but maybe Gary's the very kind of person who'll be joining us over here at Rumble, where free speech is something we pride ourselves on.
That was a brilliant contribution, mate.
How did you end up being in the financial industry before you go?
What was your first job?
I grew up in East London.
I went to London School of Economics and I won a card game.
Pre-financial crisis, one particular large American bank used to hire one trader to do a card game and I won it.
He gambled his way into the financial industry and now he's gambling his way back out, all the while sipping a cup of tea and spitting truths.
It's Gary Stevenson.
Gary, thanks for that fantastic contribution.
We'll speak to you soon, mate.
I'll be in touch.
Thanks a lot.
Appreciate that.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Gary.
I'll tell you what, Gareth, don't lie to yourself, I'm coming on!
He's the Cockney version of me.
No, you don't need to worry.
Really?
No, don't be frightened.
On normal news, you would have a financial person, wouldn't you?
It'd be someone in a suit.
He's that guy.
Right, imagine this was normal news.
And now, me and Gareth, we're like the mum and dad, although we're both dads because we're a gay couple in this.
We're the Normal News, and now it's the financial person, this threatening, menacing, Stewie from Family Guy, stroke, snatch, supporting cast member, Gary Stevenson, a financial expert, who's gonna menace your ass.
I come over here to tell you some truth, dog!
Blah, blah, blah!
That sort of thing.
You know, you get the idea.
Anyway, I didn't say it to his face though, did I?
No, you were very good.
That was very enjoyable.
It's a laugh, isn't it?
Let's hope he does come, then.
You have Gary and Gareth.
We'll put him over there if he's going to bother you.
You don't need to be menaced.
You're fantastic, Hugh.
Now, why don't you click over... If you're watching this on YouTube, we're going to drift now.
Yeah?
I'm going to use more slang, I think.
It makes me seem cooler.
I don't even know if that is slang.
You're up for it as well, aren't you?
I'm going to up the slang.
I'm upping the slang.
It's the only way to... Listen, there's someone that's come on here that's more working class.
Now, we're going to have to raise it.
You made the wrong decision by going the sort of glam rock Mark Bolan route, but it's too late now.
You're going to have to geyser it up.
We want you to join us over on Rumble now, because we're going to be bringing James O'Keefe on, telling us about the inside scoop on that Veritas story.
I want to know where that dude is now.
You know the bloke that they've done that date with?
Yeah.
Well, it's Pfizer, and obviously I can't tell you the stuff he said, because it's not allowed to be on YouTube.
We're also going to show you a bit of my stand-up special, which you can buy for a one-off price of $20.
In fact, at six o'clock, it's going to be available.
And we're going to show a clip of it right now, but there's no way we could show that on YouTube, could we, Gareth?
No chance.
No chance.
Too much truths!
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, and then we're going to talk about January 6th.
You're working class.
Get an eye of this.
Oh, working class!
Dot Cotton, Oliver Twist, eat your heart out!
Because here we go now for some ranting and raving from me.
So YouTube, click over.
Watch us on Rumble.
This stuff's completely free over there and we can speak freely.
You'll love it.
Have a look at my stand-up special, Brandemic, right now.
YouTube, see you later.
Check out my stand-up.
At the beginning of the pandemic you all recall that xenophobia was very much in play and it took the form, an interesting form I'd say, of a simple prefix.
A simple prefix was where we was introduced to xenophobia during the pandemic.
I noticed it first with the use of the word wet in front of the word market.
Cos who don't fucking love a market?
A market is a place of great joy and pleasure, innit?
The market.
Oh, down the market.
What's your favourite market?
You've got fucking good markets in Liverpool, innit?
Love it down the market.
Going down the market.
I'm from Essex.
We love the fucking market.
The market's like a fucking outdoor cathedral.
It's a bazaar.
It's a souk.
It's a place of trading.
It's a place of life.
Going down the market.
A pair of Gola trainers.
20 quid down the fucking market.
Love it.
Fucking fruit and veg stand.
Geezer doing this with a brown paper bag.
Twiddling that round.
Fucking hell, you're a working-class hero, mate.
Will you be my new dad?
I fucking love that, don't you?
Market?
Joyful place.
But if you put the word wet in front of the word market... Ew, what the fucking hell's going on down there?
What is a wet market?
That sounds disgusting.
Yeah.
You know where this coronavirus come from, don't you?
Down a fucking wet market.
That's what's caused it.
No, they're down the wet market.
They're different than us over there.
They've got fucking wet markets.
What do you eat?
Domino's, Burger King, McDonald's, Fish and Chips, stuff like that?
Not these fuckers.
They're down the wet market.
Eating bats all covered in cum.
Guzzling it down.
Crunching up little bat heads with all cum coming down their neck, guzzling, smoking a fag while squatting, eating a bat, all covered in gum.
It's going to cause a fucking pandemic, isn't it?
If you're eating a fucking bat, all smothered in cum, bat wing going in your mouth like that, down there, guzzling it down the wet market, all slop and gunk all over the floor, fucking all bat cum dribbling down you, it's going to cause a fucking coronavirus pandemic.
That's where it's fucking come from, them dirty parts down the fucking wet market.
Yeah, but... What?
But...
What?! !
Well it's just over here the Wuhan Institute of Virology where they're doing gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses!
Where they're deliberately making bat coronaviruses more infectious.
I mean, it's a bit of a coincidence, isn't it?
That there is a Wuhan Institute of Virology where they're making bat coronaviruses more infectious and that is the place where this pandemic started.
Is it more than just a coincidence?
Listen!
They've got bats.
They are fucking smothered in cum.
They've got these little bamboo cages with these fucking armadillo things in them.
They ain't got a shell on.
They're fucking eating that as well.
Slimy little fucking fish with their eyes on.
They're guzzling that down.
There's cum going down their necks.
They're crunching up the little bat.
It's all foaming bat cum all coming out of their fucking mouth.
There's spunk fucking everywhere up the wall.
They're skidding about in that stuff.
Isn't it at least possible that it came from this laboratory where DARPA, an American firm, are proven to invest, where the files from January 2019 were mysteriously deleted?
Isn't it at least worth considering if even by accident it's possible that there was some sort of accident at that laboratory?
LISTEN!
What fucking spunk on a fucking bat do you need before you start understanding science?
That clip was from my new special, Brandemic, only available on Locals.
You can buy the special for $20 or you can become a member of our community to get both the special and all my Locals content for one whole year.
Go to russellbrown.com forward slash tour.
That's right.
Why don't you join us over on Locals?
We're watching a chat right now.
SensitiveHeart25, I love you.
Where's my money?
I think he's talking about the financial crisis rather than Locals because you will get great value as we just saw.
You'll get Brandemic, you get access to the show where me and Gareth talk about our true feelings and answer your questions.
Fantastic stuff.
Oh, look at Georgie Gal.
It's not a cost of living crisis, it's a cost of elitist greed crisis, a cost of manufactured greed crisis.
This is good.
We need to adopt that narrative, not keep referring to it as if it was some kind of inevitable act of the spam-demic and proxy world.
Georgie Gal, that's a hell of a comment.
And why don't you, you know, when you get Biden, this isn't another thing, isn't it?
Again, we've pointed out, we were talking about it yesterday, that yeah, this was going on during
the Trump administration in the kind of deregulation and things that were put in place after 2008,
and it's not being corrected by the Biden administration.
But then when you get Biden going on the telly and doing a speech where he's like, this
won't affect normal people, and then you get...
10 or 20 or 30 dollars.
That's money that people shouldn't have to pay.
You shouldn't have to pay money.
That's an additional tax.
Look at this, character zero.
These are all distractions.
This is if you join locals where you can comment.
Look, these are all distractions, says character zero, to keep people from taking the power.
Fear mongers and provocateurs.
And then ZashX3133.
I never eat out.
I bring my own stuff to Sunday lunches because I'm not willing to pay $15 for a salad.
See, people just say stuff.
Sometimes they talk about their own stuff.
They love Gary.
Look, they're really enjoying him.
That's good.
That's what some of that stuff about a family guy that came from there.
Did I declare that at the time I said it?
Or did I just sort of act as if I was making it up?
I think you act as if you were making it up.
I do that sometimes.
I just absorb things.
Oh, look at this.
Tamara Spencer.
He's nothing like you, Gareth.
You're smarter and better looking.
G&G double act.
Georgie Gayle was trying to get you at it.
Right.
And then Ash Ella.
Gary reminds me of Matt Kennard.
Not Gareth.
Yeah, Matt Kennard.
He was another good sort of autodidact.
Slang on, says Talani.
See, these are the sorts of things.
It's a lovely little community in there.
You can join it if you will.
Also, though, one of the things we do here on Stay Free with Russell Brand is we create conversations from across the political spectrum.
Now, we were, surely like you, spellbound by the Project Veritas sting of that Pfizer employee, which we called a classic honey trap.
I.e.
it was a set of little dates where Jordan Tristan Walker revealed, or at least said, that he, well he said the Pfizer were using gain-of-function-like, or sort of advanced evolution, directed evolution was the phrase, wasn't it, techniques, which they weren't a good look for Pfizer.
Anyway, the mainstream media kept it right out and they found a way of getting James O'Keefe, one of Oklahoma's greatest stars, because one of the claims was that he spent company money flying people to see Oklahoma or something like that, I'm really sort of clutching at straws to find reasons why I should.
He stole a pregnant lady's sandwich.
But what about Pfizer's profits during the pandemic?
Listen, don't you care about pregnant women and sandwiches?
Well, I mean, of course I do.
Then shut up.
Shut up and sack James O'Keefe.
For doing that sting.
I mean, for stealing that sandwich.
For daring to question the mainstream narrative.
Now, of course, he probably comes from a different political perspective.
Thus, I imagine he's a conservative sort of person.
But is he going to be more conservative than Ben Shapiro or Tucker Carlson?
Some of the world's loveliest darlings?
We're about to find out.
Let's find out, because James O'Keefe, newly unemployed due to this weird stuff that went down, perhaps because of the Koch brothers, we don't know yet.
We found out the Veritas are funded by some interesting people.
James, are you there, mate?
Hello there, Russell.
Oklahoma!
How's it going?
Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains, where the wave and wheat can sure smell sweet when the wind comes right behind the rain.
I want the pension fund.
I want it now.
We're all going to wherever James O'Keefe is, and we are watching him do that.
And I don't care where we get the money from.
Tell Gary Stevenson we needs that money, baby.
In intermission, I'll be eating some special sandwiches.
Yeah, make sure, yeah.
And if there's not a baby growing in the belly of the person you take it from, it's hardly a sandwich at all.
James, tell us what happened.
You set up that stick.
Don't worry about that sandwich.
Not interested in that.
It's hullabaloo.
Tell us about the Pfizer sting and how it went down and then what happened subsequently.
And if I have to talk, I'll hold up this thing that I'm actually really pleased with.
Thanks.
Well, this was a big—this was the biggest story we ever did.
This got 50 million views.
It was—one of the medical directors at Pfizer, Walker was his name, he was caught on tape talking about mutating the virus for Pfizer pharmaceutical.
He says, don't tell anybody.
I confronted him at a restaurant in New York about a month ago.
He took the iPad out of my hand, he smashed it on the ground, caught red-handed, and then about a week later, I was thrown out of the organization, Project Veritas, that I founded.
Some very bizarre series of events here.
But, Russell, I'm announcing today on your show my new venture.
It's called OMG O'Keefe Media Group.
I've got an elite team of 10 journalists.
We're going to continue, including On the Pfizer beat, as it were, one of the whistleblowers inside Pfizer working on the right now to release more information very soon.
So the revelation, well done mate, and that sounds like a great venture.
Now, Jordan Tristan Walker, I suppose the story hinges upon his credibility and the fact that he did say that stuff.
Has the subsequent FISA response, albeit muted and outside of mainstream media as one would anticipate, ultimately been that there's no legitimacy to his claims?
Is that what their response kind of is, was?
No, Pfizer kind of gave a non-denial admission that Pfizer said, quote, in a limited number of cases when a full virus does not contain any known gain-of-function mutations, such virus may be engineered to enable assessment of antiviral activity in cells.
In addition, in vitro resistance selection experiments are undertaken in cells incubated with SARS.
So this, remarkably, Pfizer did not deny what Walker said, and albeit buried in jargon, they basically admitted they were doing it.
So Pfizer responded.
They never did confirm that Walker worked for him, but they didn't deny what he said or that he was a Pfizer employee.
It's weird.
It's weird, man.
Hey, like, weren't you helped by Debbie Bernal, a whistleblower, and she went public presumably, what, for ethical, moral reasons?
Why is that?
Why are the revelations that your sting brought to the forefront not being used to alter the activity within Pfizer or the way Pfizer are treated publicly?
Well, it's interesting.
Debbie was one of two people at Pfizer who helped get the Walker story, right?
We had to get people to give us the information, tell us where to go, who to find, and we identified this guy.
Now, Debbie was unwilling to go public.
A month ago.
She was scared.
She had people stalk her at her home, her loved ones.
They had a red van pull up and spy on her.
They put her in a room, interrogate her.
But after I was thrown out of the organization I founded, Debbie Bernal was inspired to go public last week.
And apparently, Debbie has more coming out.
So this whole situation with me, whether it was Pfizer or whatever, retaliating, has inspired a lot more people inside Pfizer to be courageous, to blow the whistle, to, you know, jump on the proverbial grenade.
That's what they're doing.
And they're going to this website up here, and I'm giving them cameras.
My new vision is to equip thousands of people with these special cameras.
And that's what we're going to do, Russell.
Like that, that's very Fight Club.
Gael's got a question.
One question regarding the kind of power of Pfizer and the pharmaceutical industry.
Has this whole episode and what's happened to you as a result made you more anxious and worried about the power of the pharmaceutical industry?
Because it seems incredible from just some of the tactics you were talking about there.
I think it's made me more fearless, and more focused, and more driven, and more motivated than I've ever been.
Because while there's a lot of evil and darkness in the world, and these companies lie, and these companies lie to their consumers, there's also a lot of people that have reached out to me They're like, hey, I want one of those cameras.
I want to make a difference in this world.
I think there's a lot of evil, but there's also a lot of goodness.
And the goodness is getting more motivated.
So I walk away from this episode very inspired.
This website I've launched, you can actually sponsor one of these cameras.
They're about a thousand bucks.
I will put it in the hands of these whistleblowers and coach them.
Obviously, ethics is very important as a journalist.
You got to be careful how you do it.
We have a we have an elite team of 10 people I've identified that work with me.
So, to answer your question is I'm highly motivated.
I'm ready to go.
That is good, and, like, it's good that you're confident, James.
I mean, how could you not be confident?
I've seen you in Oklahoma.
You were terrific.
But doesn't it make you realise that the sort of tendrils of corporate power are so intrusive that they're able to oust you from a company that you founded?
I hate it when that happens.
I don't think that's right, because that makes me think, well, that could happen to me!
Like, that's out of order.
And what sort of actually happened?
How did it sort of go from, oh my God, this is brilliant, we've got this revelation where someone's admitted that they're doing shady shit down Pfizer, James, I've got some news for you.
Remember when you ate that sandwich of Sandra's?
You shouldn't have done that!
And taking all those black cars to meetings.
No, we shouldn't take black cars to meetings.
Listen, I hear you.
It's almost like it's a fear-based question, right?
Everyone's afraid.
The fear is the problem in our society.
Everyone's so afraid, and obviously they're going to try to ruin the reputations of people that expose them.
But in response, what we have to do, the only way forward, is to build an army of investigators and exposers.
And I think that Oh, James has dropped off there because what's happened is the mainstream have prevented him from broadcasting even one more word.
He's been shut down, snatched, defunded and cut off immediately.
We'll try and get James back, but... God, Pfizer really are pretty powerful, aren't they?
They can cut him off, like, just at a moment's notice.
Did you see that?
Yeah, I think he was saying just an army of investigators.
That's what he said.
I'm up for No, not militarisation.
I want to just start communities, peaceful, democratic communities that are autonomous, independently run, that operate in confederacy with one another, where we have a set of agreed upon universal principles and an alliance, but you run your community how you want to, according to your own values, ending in one stroke the culture war and bringing us together against centralised power.
What could be wrong with that?
Please, can I talk now?
Should we try and get James O'Keefe back?
I mean, do you reckon that was just the We've got so much more to tell people.
We've got, like, January the 6th information, like, some amazing stories to tell you.
I guess we're going to have to do that tomorrow now, aren't we, Gareth?
We've got some brilliant stuff about January 6th.
It's absolutely fantastic.
We've also got a presentation.
You've got to watch the video.
It'll be up on Rumble in a minute about Matt Taibbi appearing before that congressional committee.
Did you see it?
You will crack up, man, because this congressperson that's investigating him is so haughty, it will really, really make you laugh.
It's so funny.
I guess we should maybe wrap up the show, shall we?
I guess so.
Oh, they're trying to get James back to say goodbye.
While we're doing that, I don't want to watch him on Oklahoma.
You guys are always trying to peddle that.
I think these people are real musical fans.
I can see it all in my mind.
Like if it was like Rocky IV, something that I really know, the bit where the gloves go...
It's become iconic.
It's become iconic is what I'm trying to say.
Shall we look at the bit where Ron DeSantis is badly introduced and someone nicks his podium?
So Ron DeSantis, who like I know a load of you lot really, really love, but we'll be looking into that dude, or not into that dude, we'll be looking into some of his policies and stuff and inquiring about them.
But have a look at this where he does a speech and someone nicks his podium.
Pay particular attention to the people that take the podium, they do it so busily like little Lego men,
they just dart off as if they had no other care in the world or business other than taking that
podium away. And also the woman, that's one job was to introduce Rhonda Sanders, to really
pull in focus when he's trying to begin his speech and adapt to his new podium-less reality check
it.
I think he's trying to comb his hair up a bit more since the Meatball Ron
nickname has started to take on a little bit.
I think he's trying to make his head look less meatball-y and a bit longer.
Now don't be rude about Ron DeSantis because I think we'll probably get an interview with him at some point and also he shouldn't be rude about people.
But the Meatball Ron nickname is showing a sign of sticking.
I just don't get, the people moving the podium at this point, do they not know who Ron DeSantis actually is?
Do they think that just someone else has wandered onto the stage?
We don't know what was going on before.
Perhaps that that podium was being used before, I don't know, was it being used in a net in a sort of a ping-pong-like game?
What were they doing with that podium before this that they thought that the arrival of Ron DeSantis means we don't need the podium anymore?
Do they work for Trump?
Take away his podium, take away his power.
Thank you!
They're disappearing now.
Look, they're so diligent.
Like, well, come on, let's get this podium out of here, guys.
Get the podium back.
The thing you're doing is ruining everything.
You take my podium away from me.
They took the podium.
Well, it's great to be with you.
Greetings from the free state of Florida.
We want the podium back.
That reality is such a shit show, isn't it?
People can't do things properly.
That's why in our show we embrace a kind of lo-fi ethic.
At least we're not trying to make it all slick.
So when the clips don't play or the edges are a little rough, or James O'Keefe is executed in the middle of an interview, you just can sort of roll with it.
But when you're trying to make stuff slick, Can you bring that podium back please?
Like all the trouble of putting the flag up and everything.
How much afterwards do you think there was a lot of like chat about that podium moment among the people that are organising that rally?
Yes.
Do you think like she really had a go at them lads?
Why did you take the podium?
It's mad because she's obviously not meant to then interrupt his speech.
She's making it worse because what's happening is she's panicked there because that's oh no that thing where I've got Ronda Santis and I'm in charge and all that stuff and now it's going wrong but then she's really exacerbated the situation hasn't she?
Oh, well, listen.
Guys, we've got to go.
Hopefully, I'd like to talk to James O'Keefe again.
It sounds like he's got some bold projects in store.
Did you notice it was the wrong way round, though?
Not the podium?
No, not the podium, no.
Old James O'Keefe.
I was thinking that might be on Zoom, and I was hoping not necessarily for broadcast.
Like, everything was backwards, because when he went, you can follow me on the website on the screen, it was something like... I was like, you need a catchier website.
Mate, don't use backwards letters.
You've gone too far.
I'm not ready for that.
There's anti-establishment, then there's...
The basic building blocks of language.
Hey, we don't trust letters.
Let's reverse them all.
Turn them upside down.
It's a backwards-tup gun.
It's nug-tup.
Whatever.
Hey, guess who's on tomorrow?
Kim Iverson.
We love Kim Iverson, don't we?
She's brilliant.
She's got nice hands, I feel like.
What?
Well, I don't know.
I feel like I can remember watching and looking at her fingernails and stuff.
She's immaculate, I think, as a person.
Alright, immaculate.
Sure.
Stick with immaculate.
No, no, it's good.
Immaculate!
I'm not suggesting you're wrong.
I think she almost certainly has.
It's just interesting that it's the first thing that comes to your mind.
Well, the nails.
Let's not investigate that.
On Friday, we've got Dr. Cornel West coming on for it.
I've wanted to talk to Dr. Cornel West for so long because he's a legit left-wing philosopher, thinker, analyst and critic.
And I think he's...
Ram down his throat, your far-right conspiracy theories, don't you?
Sir, I've got some far-right fascism for you!
That's going to change your view!
No, but what I want is to be able to hear an authentic voice of the left, to be reminded that it's not all just liberal establishment Hollow claptrap, which is all we've experienced lately.
People just trying to grease their own interest just on a black, haughty, supercilious piety being fired off as policy and as a meaningful worldview.
It doesn't mean nothing to me no more, that stuff.
I think that those tags, those definitions are melting away and that we have to find something new.
Something new is being born.
That's the good news.
Whether it's the Cockney economists, or the cocksure confidence of James O'Keefe after being booted out of his own company, you can feel a new and nascent confidence in people.
I know you've been beat down, I know it's been a tough time, a tough pandemic, damn it, a tough life, but maybe this might be a new springtime.
Certainly in our hemisphere, the winds of change are blowing, and it's not just my constant flatulence.
Hey, remember, you can see my stand-up show right after this.
It's on Rumble.
You can get it $20 for a one-off price, but it's only for a limited time.
If you sign up for Locals, you've got it for life, as well as access to my weekly personal meditations.
You could even come and attend a live podcast recording.
We've got Graham Hancock.
He's going to be... We've got a live space over there.
Graham Hancock will be sat in there.
You can come and be in the audience.
We're going to give away free pairs of tickets tomorrow for you to attend it.
If you're a Locals member, you can join us online and ask Graham questions and stuff like that.
We're building a movement here.
We're building new alliances.
Not only do we want you, we need you.
Not only do we respect you, we love you.
Not only will we not talk down to you, we talk up to you and we revere you.
Let's do something fantastic together.
Join us tomorrow, not for more of the same, but for more of the different.
Until then, stay free.
Many switching, switch on, switch off. Many switching, switch on, switch off. Many switching, switch on, switch
off.
Switch on, switch off.
Man, he switchin'.
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