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March 27, 2023 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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France Burns!! What The F*ck Is Going On?! - #099 - Stay Free With Russell Brand
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Hello, you Awakening Wanderers.
Thank you for watching Stay Free with Russell Brand.
It's going to be a fantastic show today.
We're talking about France.
France is burning.
The people are revolting.
In for me, in for me.
They've all got it in for me.
We're going to be talking to Crystal Ball on the show about a variety of topics.
And when we flip over to being exclusively on Rumble, we'll be talking about aspects of the TikTok trial that we wouldn't be able to speak about on YouTube.
But first, did you know That Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton went to a Broadway show, and next to them in the aisle were a couple of stools.
And I mean with a double O spelling.
Have a look at that.
Do we don't know if those faecal deposits were as a result of their attendance, or if it's just a coincidence, do we, Gareth Roy, Screen Assistant?
No, we don't know if it was them who did it.
It seems odd that it would be one each and look at them.
They've been to see Some Like It Hot and they seem pretty pleased about something.
I would say that's the kind of euphoria that often infects a face after a deposit, Gareth, because you can let me know in the chat, in the comments, have you ever known bliss like it?
Sometimes when I'm talking like this, you know what I remember is that people tune into this, parts of the mainstream media, with the specific agenda of attacking our show.
And they'll say things like, Brand did a poo joke at the beginning.
That, oh, how rebellious!
Well, it's going to get pretty rebellious later because we're going to be talking about the French protest and how it relates to a new emergent globally populist movement where people en masse across the world are becoming so...
Incensed by institutional corruption and hypocrisy that they are taking to the streets.
I wonder how these protests are going to play out.
I wonder how they're going to affect leaders in your nation.
Let's take a second to look at Joe Biden inadvertently tagging neoliberal utopia Canada as the place that it actually is.
A sort of little brother, an emulator of the Chinese state.
Get ready for a Freudian slip from Dear Joe Biden.
Have a look.
Today, I applaud China for stepping up, excuse me, I applaud Canada.
You can tell what I'm thinking.
It's interesting that he did that in Canada and it's also odd that Joe Biden's slips and errors have now become almost soundtracked with canned laughter.
It's become the sitcom presidency.
We've long argued on this channel that almost unconsciously Joe Biden epitomises the problems with contemporary democracy.
He is aged and inept.
He is no longer appropriate for you.
So I'm only talking about Joe Biden as a symbol because when I say stuff like that, I feel mean because I know he's a human being and I know like he lost children and all that kind of stuff.
So I'm not attacking him as a human being.
I'm just talking about as a symbol of the level of corruption and ineptitude.
How these models are out of date now.
Don't you think that sometimes when you just learn about more wars, more corruption, like aren't we supposed to be wearing aluminum foil suits by now?
Aren't we meant to be evolving towards the next level of humanity by now?
I get why you feel sorry for someone who's old.
I understand that.
But when you talk about wars, and you talk about the situation in Yemen or Syria at the moment, there are a lot of other children dying, just to kind of sew up that point.
Thanks, Gal, because I don't like to be mean to people, but you're right.
Due to the ongoing involvement of the US military-industrial complex in the war in Yemen, children have probably been killed today.
They've probably died today, whose names we will never know, due to a geographical quirk.
One of the things though that encourages me that global change is possible, that there is a global awakening, that new systems could be brought into being that allow us to bypass the entrenchment corruption that all of us live within, even if we're people that are doing okay or if we're people that Suffering terribly is this conflagration in Paris.
Now, we are English, so we've got a long-standing antipathy towards France.
It's just sort of casual xenophobia.
We've had wars with them for a long time.
Look, my dog's flying outside really angry.
He's not been allowed in.
There is the beast at the periphery right there.
That's why it'd be good to have that camera.
I'd love that from now on.
Maybe one of these days.
Maybe one of these days.
Little Dan, who works here, operating a handheld gal, the shots we'd get... I hope he doesn't do an angry protest out there.
Bear will even now be making a Chelsea Clinton style package to let you know that some may like it hot, others like it lukewarm, others like it almost semi-liquid.
One of the things, before we get into the details, such as they are about these protests
across France, which are essentially the French people are protesting against having to work
an additional two years for no extra return, a bill that was passed in the National Assembly,
that's their equivalent of Congress or Parliament, without being put to a vote.
And it caused amazing scenes of disruption in France and leads me to believe that generally
speaking French politics, like French everything, is a little bit sexier.
One of the things though, on the ground, on the streets, in the restaurants, that's fascinating,
is just how French people have immediately adjusted to living in the middle of a riot.
It's like it's not bothering them anymore.
Like me, if I was in a restaurant and outside was on fire, I feel like I would, like that, I wouldn't be out just going and saying, oh please, excuse me, I'll have the soup.
I think I'll get dessert.
I might go home now because it looks like society is coming to an immediate cataclysmic end.
Have a look at this first clip.
France is burning down and no one cares.
It's the same with people eating outdoors, which looks even more dramatic.
If you've seen this one, have a look.
Look, people are just carrying all the...
I like that the server thinks that the problem is the organisation of the chairs.
Oh, monsieur!
My apologies.
That chair is a little crooked.
It's the angles that are the problem.
If we can just get this in proper relationship to the table, everything will be okay.
The streets are on fire!
Put in the car, I mean it's just everything's perfectly normal.
Actually, I'm not sure if she works there or if she's dining there.
I can't tell what's happening.
Look at this one.
This is like performance art, this final one, because of the sort of musical choices.
Let us know in the chat and the comments how quickly you work out what song this is.
It's a little quiz.
If you get it right, you can come and see me in a live show.
Yeah, what about that?
If you want to come, you might not want to.
You might be a sort of a radical French person, happy to bring down the state because you're not being pensioned properly and democracy's being ignored like everywhere because your country's being led by a neoliberal stooge that went to the right school, made the right connections, organises the right tax breaks for the powerful, attends Davos conferences, May pretend to care about cultural issues, may pretend to care about inequality, as they would call it in France, but actually cares about, I don't know, corruption.
Yeah?
Yeah, I reckon.
Is that enough?
Just say stuff in a French accent?
Yeah.
Will that do?
Is that enough for you?
Have a look at this.
This is... I would say this is surreal and bizarre.
Not only because people are carrying on as normal, but there's something macabre and extraordinary.
And note that the keyboard player is still wearing a mask.
It's a weird visual oxymoron.
I'm not sure what this is.
That's a very good point.
If you're watching us on Rumble right now, you'll have to, because we're only going to be on YouTube for a few more minutes.
You should click the red button and join our, well, I don't know what to call our club.
We'll work out a name for that by the end of this week, shall we?
You should join our Affinity, our affiliation, our group, our crew, and then it's your comments.
Oh, people are saying Eternal Flame.
Becker D, Eternal Flame.
Yeah, people recognise it as Eternal Flame.
Do you think that's been ironically rendered by that Street Edition?
I think so.
Can't be a coincidence.
Eternal Flame, by the Bangles.
That's how he's scoring this disruption.
Gunshot gal, the gunshot, or whatever that was.
whatever that was.
I'm going to go ahead and get started.
The world has become sort of performance art.
Yeah, I guess it's interesting as a metaphor you could argue that maybe we all have to get on with life and ignore all the awful atrocities that are going on just because here it's literally happening right next to them.
We're ignoring something that's happening not that far away in foreign countries.
Yeah, I get it, mate.
Also, Nero literally fiddled while Rome burned.
The Emperor Nero, who was an early symbol of centralised authority and despotism.
The Emperor Nero apparently played a fiddle.
I didn't think fiddles had been invented that long, but I suppose they must have been.
Anyway, apparently while Rome was burning at the end of that particular empire, perhaps in the same way we're seeing the end of not just American empire, but its expansiveness.
Because when we talk about America, we're not talking about you.
American people with all your glory and your culture and your principles and your beauty.
We're talking about American institutions, American expansionism and Americans' representation
of corporatism on a global level.
And the comparison between America and Rome is frequently made.
You don't, you know, how do we diagnose the end of empires?
What does it feel like?
How will it play out in European nations that have evident differences?
You can sort of see that and feel that, but ultimately the same kind of corporatism, the same sort of commodification, the same sort of ideology that is engendered by secularism, a kind of Sort of, what do I want to say, a diluted nihilism, a sort of sense of meaninglessness that's best embodied perhaps by a man playing a bloody organ in the street wearing a face mask while the culture falls apart around you.
What leads people to riot?
Martin Luther King said, and I must say tonight, that a riot is the language of the unheard.
And what is it that America has failed to hear?
It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met.
And it's failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.
In a sense, the idea that rioting is the language of the unheard is important.
You can't have a riot on your own.
A riot suggests consensus.
A riot suggests that a deep psychic injury is being expressed.
A riot tells us that our institutions and systems are insufficient, they are inefficient,
they are unable to represent the will of people.
This case, this particular set of disturbances brought about by an undemocratic change to the pension laws is a great example because the French feel like they have a Deal!
A contract with the government.
We pay these taxes and then we get to experience a little bit of literal joie de vivre.
The joy of life.
The essence of life.
Don't you sometimes forget that your life's meant to have a point?
Like you.
You have a purpose.
You have a relationship with divinity of your own determination.
That you have relationships with the people that you love.
That you're allowed to decide on your own destiny.
You're not meant to be someone boxed off in order to facilitate convenience of powerful sets of interests.
Victor Hugo, writer of Les Miserables, which is of course about the unrest that led to the French Revolution in that book and, you know, subsequent musical and all those assets.
Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the state of life or of destiny
is on the verge of riot.
And so as soon as it appears, he begins to quiver and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind.
When I used to attend those kind of things when I was a younger man, what I used to enjoy
was not the idea that people might be hurt or the sense of danger, but the fact that beneath order
there is a kind of chaos and that in order to facilitate change, you have to allow that chaos
to in a sense infuse the order.
And that is frightening, I think, because most of us, because there is a heightened state of fear,
many of us experienced that during the pandemic.
Let us know in the chat and the comments, do you feel that, that your culture is constantly trying
to make you anxious, it's trying to innovate you so you don't feel relaxed enough to demand change,
that you're kept kind of docile with the kind of palliatives and panacea of our culture, entertainment, sugar, et cetera,
just being sort of two examples.
But when you sense, hold on a minute, we could create a better world, you know,
the technology and the ideology for true democracy We could localise, we could collectivise, we could organise things differently.
It's not to say that there would be no centralised authority, but it would be authority in response to the will of the people.
Essentially, what they claim we already have, when what we really have are institutions that operate on behalf of corporate interests and financial and military interests and keep you distracted and subdued.
Let me know in the chat and the comments if you agree with that.
This is a A quote from Maria.
I've never said this name before, so I might say it wrong.
Ali Akina.
We have the right to refuse. This is our right, yours and mine.
You can't know all the laws by heart. You don't know what will happen if you refuse, but you have to try.
I suppose this is a kind of a call for deep bravery in a time that can feel pretty frightening.
You might not yet know what exactly Emmanuel Macron is all about, but you might have the same sense that I do, that he's a kind of globalist corporate stooge, that one of those people that operates on behalf of the rich, uses language about equality and diversity, a kind of, what do you want to call him, a Gaelic Trudeau figure, like just one of those people that acts like they're super nice, but in fact operates on behalf of essentially Well, you'd be kind of right, I reckon.
He went to the École Nationale de l'Administration.
It's an elite French finishing school that a lot of French leaders and CEOs and stuff attend.
He came under fire after they spent 2.4 billion with consultancy firms now being investigated for tax evasions.
They've just introduced a new bill that prevents you photographing the police.
I guess that came about because of those yellow vest protests in France recently,
which was a fascinating movement because it couldn't be dubbed right wing or left wing or racist.
Or it seemed to be a genuine organic populist movement.
The fact is we do in a country as vast and as complex as France,
there can be a variety of cultural interests of different demographics.
But the thing that populism is about, if you ask me, is that it's truly about allowing people to come together
around the issues around which we all agree and to temporarily suspend internal conflict around the
subjects that where we do have disagreements, cultural identity, etc., where there's necessarily going to
have to be diversity.
Also, another story about Macron is that they're using the 2024 Paris Olympics to introduce a bunch of biometric AI
surveillance gear.
That's like they're ushering that in and sort of the auspices of the Olympics, of course, famously now raising the retirement age by a couple of years without so much as a vote.
And during these riots, they've been using ketaline and spraying people with gas all the usual sort of staff garroth. Well yeah I mean one
of the things that he's literally been doing these last few years is increasing the kind of police
state. I mean has he? Well as we're seeing happening in the US and certainly a crackdown on protests
in this country as well Macron's been putting loads of money into increasing that police state
militarizing exactly again like we've seen in America and as we've seen happening over the pandemic it's
similar kinds of stories over in France they're doing the same thing and so they're actively
trying to crush dissent in ways that I feel like that conversation we had with Glenn Greenwald, like the elites are no longer interested in negotiating or appeasing the masses, they are happy instead to militarise, confident that with AI and new technology it's possible to repress dissent and crush dissenters.
That's why in your country, America, You're seeing the militarisation of the police force.
You even saw budgets allocated to COVID aid reallocated to the militarisation of the police force.
That was pretty popular during those times.
In our country, the UK, similarly, we're seeing the undue empowerment of police forces.
And by the way, this is not anti-police rhetoric.
I've got friends that are in the police force and I know a lot of people join those organisations with Good, well-intentioned, community-oriented goals.
And I would say consensual policing, consensual law, democratic law, be it having services within your community, by your community, is a big part of our future.
What we don't want are police forces that operate on behalf of the state, crushing dissent and ultimately the military arm of the government.
That's why it's interesting that after the whatever you want to call what happened on jan 6 insurrections protests riots you choose your word one of the responses was to give billions more to the capital police force and turn them into a kind of domestic terror force because when they talk about terror they're talking about you listen we're only going to be on youtube for a couple of more minutes then we're going to click over to being exclusively
On Rumble, we're going to be talking about how Rumble has been banned in France, and of course a lot of mainstream media are criticizing and condemning Rumble.
That's because we're doing something right.
We're going to be talking too about the kind of stories that are impossible to talk about on YouTube, including...
Excuse me.
Fellow content creator, Dr. John Campbell's recent revelations around excess deaths, which we simply cannot talk about on this platform, and how that relates to the ongoing congressional TikTok hearings currently.
In fact, let's get into that now.
Because what's fascinating about those hearings is every single thing that they're saying about TikTok, they're responsible for themselves.
TikTok are spying on you!
And all the while, they're Being Chinese about it, because of course social media companies in America are spying on you.
Of course social media companies are in cahoots with the government.
The Twitter files showed us that.
One of the things that's fascinating about this story, of course, not just the corruption, not just the data capture, not just the fact that ultimately what they're looking for is TikTok to be propagandised on behalf of the state.
They just want a more favourable relationship with TikTok that they presumably can't get because of its origins and national relationships.
It's another of those stories that shows us that the current elites still do not understand what they're dealing with when it comes to the power of social media.
That's why you have to crush dissent.
That's why you have to smear independent media.
And we've been on the receiving end of that because power doesn't yet understand these new tools and technologies.
And that becomes evident when you listen to dear old Mr. Hudson of North Carolina talking to the CEO of TikTok.
Have a look.
Mr Chew, does TikTok access the home Wi-Fi network?
That's like the kind of question you'd ask when you're checking into a hotel.
Am I going to be able to get this on my phone?
Will that show up as adult content on my hotel bill?
You're conducting a congressional hearing.
It's weird, isn't it?
You should be more informed, I would say.
TikTok!
Is that the same thing or is that two things?
Like, it doesn't sound like he knows enough to be empowered.
What's really lovely about this, maybe spool back about five seconds, because what I love about this is you see Mr. Shu Qiu, the CEO there at TikTok, or ByteDance, or Datadance, or whatever they call that company that owns TikTok, you see him do a face that I'm familiar with as he works out, oh no, I'm talking to someone who's so much more stupid than I am, is I'm going to have to level down almost to sort of finger puppets to describe this to him. Watch him, he looks up and he's
like, oh no, this geezer's an idiot, where do I begin? Like, you know, when you do, you're not
old enough, you're young enough, but when like remote controls and that came in and we had
to explain it to our nans and grandads, no nan, you just have to, oh, do I jab the TV with it like
it's a bamboo cane? No, nan, you can stay in your armchair, for God's sake, woman.
Have a look at this.
Does TikTok access the home Wi-Fi network?
Only if the user turns on the Wi-Fi.
I'm sorry, I may not understand.
So if I have... No, you do understand.
You do.
He really is that stupid.
You're dealing with someone who... But more important than this obvious ineptitude of the investigators in this particular congressional hearing, is a story or a notion that we touch on pretty frequently.
How do they have the moral authority to investigate, let alone condemn TikTok when they, check this out, politicians blast TikTok by accepting its executives donations.
So you've got politicians condemning TikTok who take money from TikTok.
If you think TikTok's bad, don't take TikTok's money.
No, exactly.
I mean, this comes on top of what we already know about all the members of Congress and senators that own, as we always talk about, stocks and shares in the big tech companies that they regulate.
Yet more hypocrisy on top of hypocrisy.
Later on, we're talking to Crystal Ball from Breaking Point.
We love her and saga, saga, saga, saga.
What do you say?
I'm never confident with those kind of pronunciations.
Saga.
Cigar.
Yeah.
You're uncertain.
That's the first question.
But my second question is going to be, do you believe that any current political party is capable of dealing with the deep systemic corruption that becomes evident with the money in politics issue?
Why will no political party say, if you are in Congress, you cannot own stocks and shares at all.
You cannot have another job.
This is a problem that's been in British politics right now.
It's like, we find out all of the politicians have got some other job where they're paid a bunch more money.
That, we would ban that.
Do not accept lobbying money.
Do not accept donation money.
If you made those laws, it would change the landscape of politics over Night.
So even this TikTok trial currently, which will ultimately, you know, what they want is the ability to censor the ordinary users of TikTok.
They certainly won't be trying to make institutional change within a powerful organization like that.
And secondly, look at this idea.
They are saying that TikTok are probably capturing and sharing your data.
Well, look at this.
50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridgeshire Analytica in a major data breach.
What about the CDC?
All the way through, we can move on, or the CDC, all the way through, all the way through the pandemic, or certainly at points of it, they used data, they captured data and used it to monitor people.
data yeah based on people's activities during lockdown to monitor whether people were moving
about or not but again like not actions that you would expect from your own government when we're
talking about spying so it's okay it's okay when we do it but when China are doing it where that's
what we're against. Every single thing they're attacking TikTok for they are culpable of.
Accusing TikTok of having a relationship with the CCP, with the Chinese state communist party, they have relationships with social media companies.
The only thing that I can think of is They're not Chinese.
That's literally it.
There's a story now.
Google ordered to hand private customer data over to FBI investigators.
And this seems like a good time for us to get off YouTube.
There's a link in the description to Rumble.
Click on that.
Join us over on Rumble because we're going to do some excess deaf stuff.
As well as looking at the relationship between Google and the FBI.
For obvious reasons, we're not going to do that on YouTube.
So click the link and join us over on Rumble right now.
See you in a minute.
Stay free in the few seconds before you make your way onto the free speech utopian platform that is Rumble.
So what is this story?
Google handed private customer data over to FBI investigators.
Once there's a precedent for that... Yeah, just another way in which big tech and the government colludes.
And has colluded, as we have witnessed through the Twitter files.
If there's an organisation as powerful as big tech organisations have become, you simply cannot have an unfavourable relationship with the state.
They necessarily have got to find a way to jog along nicely together, haven't they?
The idea that this whole thing is about intrusion and privacy is kind of laughable in a way, when you know things like this have been going on.
If it were about that, they would have done different things in all of these cases.
So this idea that we're forced to live in a kind of theatre, that's why I think there's an uncanniness when you see that keyboard playing in France.
There's something eerie about it, like, oh, this means something.
There's riots in the background.
Some friend rocks a police car.
Someone's playing the bangles.
Life's falling apart.
It doesn't make sense anymore.
Of course, in France, Rumble's banned there because, well, it's not Not necessarily banned, was it?
It's like France won't allow Russia Today content to be shown, so Rumble video service, turn off France.
Rumble, an online video platform and cloud services, has disabled access to its services in France after the French government demanded the multinational company remove Russian news sources.
Recently, the French government demanded that we remove certain Russian news sources from Rumble.
It's part of our mission to restore a free and open internet.
We've committed not to move the goalposts of our content policies.
The statement from the statement from Rumble read the company said
it would challenge the legality of demands made by the French government.
Chris Pavlovsky, who's the CEO there, has like, yeah, look, he's made that sort of claim once more on Twitter.
I've got that amazing clip of us at the Rumble launch party where me and Chris Pavlovsky sort of stood to get a photo
done by the logo.
And he sort of instinctively his body language to sort of hold his own hands
by in front of his reproductive organs.
And I just as the photo was taken, I went, don't cover your genitals
like that, as if it was a thing.
And he went, oh, like I did it like it was a tip.
And we'll show that clip at some point.
We'll show that towards the end.
What is the excess deaths thing that John Campbell said?
A new study covered by John Campbell has demonstrated a correlation between countries with high COVID vaccination levels and excess mortality.
The study has not been peer-reviewed.
So it's not sensible to do that on YouTube at this point because we have to be super diligent.
No, I mean he tiptoes his way around but not with your mouth.
There's no chance we're getting away with that on YouTube.
Why are you saying that I'm not I wouldn't suggest you're as nimble as Dr. John Campbell.
He'd shoot it from above, wouldn't he?
So it seems then that there's a direct correlation between this had a high vaccination.
So you see Israel, one of the highest correlation.
Oh and see this, well they don't have very many vaccines and yet look, look at the excess.
Now the number we're interested in is excess deaths.
That's how John Campbell would do it.
One excess death would have been his own.
When John Campbell came here, someone sent death threats.
Yeah.
Death threats.
That's what goes on.
I know.
I was angry.
Someone's going to get a death threat here.
It should be me.
It should be you, shouldn't it?
Don't you death threat John Campbell.
Do you miss your death threats now?
No, because actually I was scared of the death threats.
But some of the death threats, I think, they're not, this is just a simple death threat.
I don't think you should be doing that.
I think you should take them all out.
Don't try and weed through the death threats.
No, you're quite right.
I don't want to be killed.
No.
I'd like to live on.
Sure.
If I die, then you're in a lot of trouble because you're next.
What?
Oh.
You'd have to be in charge.
I thought you were going to say I'd have to host the show.
That's what I meant.
Right.
I don't want to do that.
You'd have to be in charge.
people said that when you know like if you join our locals community where you get extra content and the ability to ask us questions directly it's much more casual show our extra show you know like it's more relaxing but earlier i was eating some dinner so gareth hosted it for a bit and people said it's like when garth hosts swain world Wayne World?
Yeah, you know, Wayne World.
You know Wayne, he's got a world.
Are we feeling there's got to be an apostrophe S there?
Who are you, the grammar police?
Who are you, the Macron of grammar?
Well, we're fighting against it, man.
I'm going to set fire to a bin bag, crash can.
I'll fight against your system, your grammatical system.
Shall we?
I'll tell you what, we've got a fantastic show.
Crystal Ball might already, for all we know, Crystal Ball could already be on the line and about to be subject to be reading like a gold advert or something.
So let's make sure we show our item.
Here's the news.
No, here's the effing news.
It's lovely this because one of the things I use is barometer.
Now, I don't know how you guys feel about Jon Stewart.
I think he's a great comedian.
And even in the areas where I disagree with Jon Stewart, I respect him as a comic and as a public voice.
And I really loved his Wuhan joke.
I think it's the best Wuhan joke, actually.
You know, the outbreak of chocolate goodness near Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Can't really beat that joke.
We've been trying.
But like, he talks about the criticism that he received after he made that joke.
And I think also in this report, we talk a bit about the ongoing experimentation.
This is so funny.
Like during the pandemic, there was talk about how dangerous everything was, but that it definitely, definitely didn't come from a lab and definitely came out of a stinky old dirty old wet market.
They were still doing mad sort of Things that are too much like gain of function.
You know, we want to make sure we get the language right because even though we're on Rumble where there is free speech, we believe in responsible speech and we believe in unifying speech.
Let's have a look now at that story.
Here's the news.
No, here's the effing news.
Thanks for watching Zipfuckzine.
Here's the news.
No, here's the fucking news.
Suppose if it did come from a lab leak, that would mean that the people in control of response
to the pandemic also caused the pandemic, and also in some cases, benefited financially
from the pandemic.
And that surely wouldn't be right.
The only thing that could be worse than that would be to find out that, I don't know, during the pandemic itself, they carried on doing that type of experiment that caused it in the first place, if indeed that did cause it, and that would be unbelievable!
Today's story teaches us a great deal about how that went down.
In particular, Jon Stewart, who, let's face it, is something of a darling of the liberal establishment left, was widely condemned and criticized for his brilliant Wuhan joke and observation about its likely origins.
What surprises me even more than the venom and invective faced by dissenting and critical voices is the astonishing fact that during the pandemic new evidence suggests that they continued with the very kind of experiments that likely caused the whole thing in the first place.
Let's have a look at Jon Stewart.
So the idea was, you know, about the vaccines and other things that science had truly helped heal the world from a pandemic, probably called by science.
Let's face it, as a comedian, every time you're doing joke about Wuhan, which I do in my new special, link in the description if you want it, you're aware of the brilliance of the outbreak of chocolatey goodness in Hershey, Pennsylvania, as probably the perfect pandemic joke.
But the backlash is what's interesting in this instance.
And the backlash was swift, immediate, and quite loud.
The part that I don't like about it is the The absolutes and the dismissive, like, fuck you, I'm done with you.
I will never forgive you.
What was stunning to me, I think, was the anger.
Let's remember, the framing for Stuart's joke was, if science caused the pandemic, why would you trust science to resolve the pandemic?
And that's a great joke.
And I'm sure me and Jon Stewart would disagree with loads of things around the pandemic, as me and any other person would on a variety of subjects.
And a significant point that we need to address is that they carried on with experiments of this nature, even knowing that it was possible that the pandemic had been caused by a lab leak.
You won't believe this.
And this reporting is from the mainstream media.
Way back in the midst of the pandemic when there were new varieties and variants emerging every day, oh the Delta one, the Omicron one, they were, instead of thinking, oh this is a pain in the arse, when are we going to be able to go back to our normal lives such as they are, combining them to see what would happen.
At what point is there going to be some humility?
At what point will the hubris be punctured?
At what point will proper safety measures and a consensual agenda for scientific experimentation, other than the pursuit of finance would be what I contest, be achieved?
British scientists Lads, you've let us down.
I was hoping it was going to be American or Chinese scientists.
Damn.
Carried out experiments that risked creating more dangerous variants during the pandemic, it has been claimed.
In testing led by Imperial College London and supported by the UK Health Security Agency, cells were infected with Delta and Omicron at the same time to see which had a competitive advantage.
So I was thinking that scientists are like children.
I know what.
We'll put Omicron and Delta into one cell and see who wins.
Fight!
Anton van der Merwe, Professor of Molecular Immunology at the University of Oxford said, bearing in mind he's a conspiracy theorist, that such experiments risk combining the two variants to produce something more lethal that could have infected scientists or leaked from the laboratory.
Don't you worry when your own common sense and gut instincts turn out to be empirical science.
Hey, wait a minute, shouldn't they not be doing that?
Hey, what if it came from that lab though?
All those things just keep being true.
Should we agitate Russia into a war?
All this stuff's like true and correct!
You're right!
Don't forget, in the face of all the propaganda, that these people are fucking maniacs!
Coronaviruses like SARS-CoV-2 are well known to evolve by exchanging genetic material when two distinct viruses infect the same cell, he said.
This makes it much more likely that these strains will recombine and create a more dangerous variant, which could infect those doing the experiments, who could then spread it into the community.
Professor Van der Merff said, Using Delta and Omicron was particularly risky because they were from different lineages and had more differences than those variants closer to the original Wuhan strain.
What kind of scientists are doing that?
What kind of reckless, risk-taking high-rollers are conducting experiments that seem to be fueled primarily by risk and gambling?
These are not the qualities I want in clinical scientists.
I want them to be like, okay, well, we've got a problem here.
This is the best way to do it.
Not like, okay, Papa needs a new pair of spats.
Let's get in there.
Come on!
I'm not feeling too good, actually.
I want to pop down to the wet market, get myself one of those Penhaligon things.
I could do with a bite of that right now.
Sadly, these people are English.
You've let us down.
You've let the Queen down.
In fact, when did she die?
Imperial College London defended the experiments which took place in London.
Of course they fucking did.
Arguing that they were needed to inform the pandemic response.
It added they were carried out under high biosafety standards.
Oh, thanks very much.
Thanks for not just doing it in a skate park or a supermarket or in an old people's home.
We did the very best we could.
Why don't you mind your own business?
A spokesman for the university said, And we all know that government decision making during the pandemic was absolutely perfect, whether that was the parties they continued to hold throughout the pandemic, or the way that they admitted in text messages that they were exaggerating the risks in order to frighten us.
It was conducted in a biosafety level three laboratory.
We don't even need biosafety level one and two.
Always try your hardest for it to be safe.
Okay, it's Friday.
No school uniform.
Let's just have fun then.
Biosafety level one.
Whee!
Why don't we jug all those coronaviruses?
Let a couple of these mice out.
Why don't you go guys?
I only have level three.
Always try your best not to cause a pandemic.
In line with strict government regulations.
Government regulations at this point don't seem to have that much credibility, do they?
I mean, it's likely this thing came from a lab leak.
The government responded appallingly and were biased in directions that were ultimately unfavourable.
They were dishonest and propagandist throughout it.
So we've got science that's interested primarily in profit, a government that's interested in regulating, even if it's unethical and untruthful, and there are literal examples of that.
That is not a combination for a loving republic.
Since the start of the pandemic, there have been fears that COVID-19 leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, where researchers were carrying out experiments on bat coronaviruses.
By coincidence.
Why are we still talking about this?
Why are we still talking about Raccoon Dog and trying to blame a perfectly innocent, adorable new pet?
Anyway, probably you don't often have viruses leak from labs.
It's probably rare, unprecedented, or hardly happens at all.
So we've probably all got nothing to worry about.
In recent decades, oh yeah, recent ones, smallpox Swine flu, SARS, and anthrax, as well as foot and mouth disease, have escaped through laboratory leaks.
That is a terrifying list.
Smallpox, I'd hate to get that.
Swine flu, ew, SARS, well, we know where that led.
Anthrax, I didn't even know that was a disease, it was a literal thing terrorists did, as well as foot and mouth disease, which I think, of the diseases, is the most disgusting one, because who wants a foot in their mouth?
Pervert.
This week, a report by King's College London warned that laboratories containing dangerous pathogens are increasing.
Oh, great news!
We've all had a terrible time in the pandemic.
It's been rough for all of us, whether it's the deterioration in education standards, the threats to small businesses, the lack of trust in institutions, the increase in inequality.
We've made some vital decisions on that basis as scientists.
We are pleased to announce More dangerous pathogens in laboratories!
And also, some of them we're doing on biosafety level one.
Just for a bit of fun, man.
Woo!
Three quarters of maximum security facilities are now located in urban areas, increasing the risk of a leak.
And didn't I mention?
We're doing it in cities and towns, where people live.
But, you know, if they're going to live in cities and towns, some of which already have markets that are not as dry as they should be, they're well accommodated with these kind of risks.
Imagine if you're buying a house and the estate agent says, oh, there's a market over there.
Oh, nice.
That's convenient.
Should also tell you there's a laboratory there doing high risk experimentation with lethal, deadly pathogens, which is going to worry you more.
Oh, no, not a market.
I might get a bargain.
Report authors said that many countries are conducting risky research.
I mean, the name itself should be cause for caution.
This research is risky.
Well, should we not do it then?
Oh, come on, man.
Where's your sense of fun?
It's not jackass.
That could lead to the accidental or deliberate release of a pandemic-capable pathogen.
I don't think we had to even consider deliberate release.
Okay, so due to our risky experiments that we conducted only at biosafety level one, there has, I'm sorry to say, because we're in a busy urban area, there has been a lab leak.
Oh, well, never mind.
Can't be helped.
Accidents do happen.
Accidents?
We did it on purpose!
Dr. Philippa Lenzos, co-director of the Centre for Science and Security Studies at King's College London said, there's been a global boom.
In pandemics?
No.
In construction of labs handling dangerous pathogens, but this has not been accompanied by sufficient biosafety and biosecurity oversight.
That's good news!
Boom!
A great big explosion, an experiment on pathogens, but not accompanied by safety measures.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
If we're going to do all of these experiments, should we at least accompany that with safety measures?
Ah, what's the point?
Come on, you're taking all the fun out of science.
Professor van der Merwe, who must be exhausted, has argued previously that many scientists were reluctant to consider the possibility that a laboratory leak started the pandemic for fear of having to curtail their own risky viral experiments.
Hey, but, like, you know, if it did come from that lab, what about my own risky experiments?
What is this, Make-A-Wish Foundation?
Their love of risky experimentation should not be the north star of our decision-making.
Well, first and foremost, we will not be doing anything to curtail the risky experiments of these adorable, fun-loving scientists.
Now, put that to one side, how best to handle this pandemic so that as much money as possible and as many rules as possible can be...
Lost my focus on the fun-loving scientist for a minute.
He discovered that in a separate experiment in Germany, scientists carried out similar tests as Imperial using the alpha and beta variants on hamsters, ferrets and humanised mice.
Okay, so we'll do the hamster.
Ferret.
Ehehehe.
And now my favourite of all, the humanised mice.
Um, would you mind not doing this?
Shhh, it might not be that bad.
And it will certainly be profitable.
Ow, my heart hurts.
Shut up!
There is more opportunity for recombination in animal experiments and selection for more dangerous variants
because they involve more cells infected for longer periods, added Professor Vandermeerf.
Handling animals is also riskier in terms of transmission to the experimenter than handling cells.
Yeah, the obvious risk being that you can't be bitten by a cell, but you can by a humanised mouse.
And now the kicker, he added, neither of these experiments are of any help in protecting us from SARS-CoV-2.
The only possible justification for all this madcap foolishness could be that it's of some use.
OK, I mean, God, it's a silly question.
I can't believe I'm even asking it.
This is of some use, is it, in curing SARS-CoV-2?
No, not really.
We just like injecting humanised mice.
Now get the fuck out of my lab, you squares!
Ow!
I'm getting a blood clot!
If it was conclusively proven the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was the result of a laboratory leak, it would obviously strengthen the case for stricter global regulation of experiments on potentially dangerous pathogens.
So that's just one more reason why the narrative is being so tightly controlled.
Why they're working so hard to say it was a raccoon dog.
Why they're working so hard to smear dissenting voices.
Why at the beginning, even when they were considering the lab leak theory themselves, because it's so bloody obvious, they prevented that from being widely shared and promoted the wet market idea.
Doesn't it make you think that it's been overhauled?
In the entire way that science is conducted.
Notably, not having science as a subset of corporate pharmaceutical interests.
Not having science as a tool to underwrite a new orthodoxy of regulating people.
Having science as a kind of mutual and magnificent principle to drive our kind forward.
Yes, but in that version...
Do I get to inject the humanized mouse?
No!
It seems to me that we should regulate, prevent, massively shut down this type of experimentation unless it directly leads to advances and benefits for ordinary people, not just for profit and whatever other crazy motivations are in there that I can't even work out.
But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
I'll see you in a second.
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Ah, and on that final expletive from my four-year-old daughter,
we'll read some of your comments.
Alex Overton, locals works fine in France.
It's nice, isn't it, to know that it's working perfectly well.
Killuminati369, deploy the next variant.
These are the kind of comments that allow us to seamlessly move into a conversation with a very important voice in our cultural space of independent media and free thinking.
Friend of the show, personal, deity is too strong a word, but a reporter that I very much admire.
Crystal Ball from Breaking Point is joining us.
Alright Crystal, thanks for coming mate.
Thanks for having me.
You're setting the bar a little high, though.
I'm getting nervous now.
Don't get nervous.
You look like you could be a mid-ranking officer in Star Trek in that fantastic outfit.
Well, thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
We wanted to start by talking about the French protests and what can be drawn when talking about the, I don't know, is it the downfall, the demise of neoliberalism?
And we wanted to look at whether or not you personally feel that it's too late.
to reform centre-left parties, but to accept that with the ongoing militarisation of the
police force, this tendency for centralising authority and crushing dissent, where the
change from outside of the system is going to be required, in fact, isn't that what protests
and riots ultimately are? So I just wanted you to contextualise the protests in France
alongside what's happening in your country for us. Thank you.
Well, I think of neoliberalism as a sort of zombie ideology, which has clearly failed
and been rejected by all sorts of people all around the world as failing to really serve
the interests of the people.
So you end up with governments and economies, which should be there to serve society, to serve the people, and instead are serving a group of But I call it a zombie ideology because even as the failings of it have been exposed and rejected, it still holds a lot of power as we see obviously in the UK, as we see in the US with Joe Biden, as we see in France with Macron.
Being able to win reelection with, you know, he had like a 30% approval rating when he won reelection.
And by the way, Joe Biden's chief of staff pointed that out as a model for how Joe Biden himself could get reelected, even as he is tremendously unpopular.
So that's how I sort of see the ideology of neoliberalism.
As far as whether it can be reformed within the system or what sort of tactics might work, I think you need a whole-of-body politic approach.
So the sort of protest movement that you see right now in France, and incidentally that's being very successful right now in Israel as well, that's not just people marching the street with placards, but it's people shutting down airports, shutting down commerce, shutting down transit, and really hurting Neoliberalism in the Capitol, where it really hurts, that is tremendously powerful.
That's one essential piece.
I think another essential piece, and all of these are about basically, you know, small d democratic weapons.
Another piece is in building out the power of labor and labor unions.
That's obviously an instrumental part in having power when you go to protest and when you go to have a general strike, that you have people who are working together in solidarity to have that kind of an impact.
But then I think another piece is electoral politics.
You know, in the American context, we take for granted that the Democratic Party is what it is and the Republican Party is what it is.
But these parties are just collections of people.
And the Democratic Party of the past, When it was the FDR New Deal party meant something very different and stood for things that are very different from what the party does today.
So, you know, I think the people who run the DNC are a bunch of posers who could, you know, be supplanted by a real movement of the people and sort of hijack that party to restore it to its roots of serving the interests of the people rather than the interests of the donor class.
That's an exciting proposition, but even in recent electoral cycles we've seen that party, it feels like from within, scupper the attempt of a more populist leader in the form of Bernie Sanders, who I figure you were well into, and it makes me feel like, in a sense, part of the function of these institutions is their ongoing preservation and the ability to stymie any
serious reform.
So I recognize what you're saying is that without populist uprising outside of political systems
such as we are seeing in France and as you added Israel, there is no incentive or likelihood of the
of that kind of internal change happening.
Like in recent, you know, the Clinton Sanders stuff is a good demonstration of that,
would you say?
Well, I'll give you a perfect example of that.
And I think your point is spot on.
So right now, Joe Biden, he hasn't officially announced for re-election,
but he's likely to.
And he has a progressive primary opponent who was announced in Marianne Williamson.
And Democrats, for all their talk about democracy during January 6, et cetera.
Now that it's time to actually put to a vote among Democratic primary voters, OK, who do you want to be your nominee?
And we know from the polls that an overwhelming majority would like Joe Biden to step aside and they would like to have options in this primary.
They've already switched around the order of the states to try to rig the primary election for Biden.
And they're also already saying, we're not even going to have a debate.
So you don't even get to hear on a stage what the various platforms are.
So there is no doubt that when it comes down to it, they have zero commitment to democracy.
They will use any authoritarian tactics, just as Macron did in France, to try to maintain their power.
The only thing that can shift them from that stance is a populist uprising that forces that Their hand that demands a debate that demands a real primary that demands a real democracy.
And I think those are the only sort of choices.
Neoliberalism, it's no accident that it's being forced.
leaders like Macron and Biden are being forced to use increasingly authoritarian tactics
in service of maintaining their power because it has sort of been revealed as this rotten
ideology that doesn't deliver on its promises.
The only response to that is a truly populist response, which really means handing power
and people reclaiming power both in their workplace, through labor unions, both in the
streets, through protest, and also by taking back electoral politics.
So you have to have all three of those pieces in my opinion.
I feel like the professional neoliberal centre-left kind of hates working people and that kind of contempt comes through continually in their rhetoric.
Marianne Williamson's coming on this show next week.
I love what you said there about the institutional and centralised authoritarianism that would corruptly rejig the order of those sort of state elections in order to prevent any momentum or even debate and that makes me feel like what like why would I grant any airtime to that kind of political body with that kind of mechanic a slightly more trivial question before moving on to things that are a bit more intense it just occurred to me then uh crystal like do you see now when joe biden makes one of those errors where he sort of accidentally says it you know that's why i love china when he's in canada or whatever that people laugh straight away with that and do not product placement that drink you should be drinking
Kombucha, or something healthy, rather than that evil brew!
Stinking Coca-Cola!
Oh no, I'm sure it's a fine brew.
It's delicious though.
It might be evil, but it's delicious.
Don't give them a pack shot, you maniac right next to your electrifying white smile!
You lunatic, that's worth thousands!
Get your agent on the phone, I'll do that deal.
Like, when Joe Biden does that, when Joe Biden does that stuff and he makes a mistake, have you noticed they started laughing now?
Do you think that that's something that's happened as a result of a spontaneous cultural movement?
Or do you think someone goes out and briefs before Joe Biden appears on stage and goes, if he makes one of those errors, just chuckle along with beloved old Uncle Joe to sort of soften the evident ineptitude and the horrible metaphor that that ineptitude represents Of a kind of atrophy and cadaverous power.
In fact, when you say zombie neoliberalism, it is convenient that there's an actual zombie running the country.
Yeah, true, true.
He's like the sort of living embodiment, semi-living embodiment of exactly that.
Look, I think when people are uncomfortable, they tend to laugh because they don't know what else to do.
And so when you have incidents like, you know, I don't know if you remember the one where there was a congresswoman who died in a car accident and he had sent out a letter of condolences to the family and then he's at this event and he's calling for her, Jackie, Jackie, where are you?
In any case, there are clear signs that he's not the politician that he used to be.
Now, listen, if people are able to see him on a debate stage and hear his ideas for the country and defend the areas where he's made clear promises and completely failed on and in a completely open democratic fashion, that's what the American people decide to go in the direction of.
Okay, that's democracy.
But what They are trying to do because they know that he's an incredibly precarious and fragile position is they're trying to shut down any ability for people to hear an alternative whatsoever.
So, you know, it really reveals their hand of how weak they think that he is.
And then they also have the issue of Kamala Harris as vice president.
She's even less popular than Joe Biden is.
And not only is she a heartbeat away from the presidency, she's the heartbeat away from a president who, you know, would end the next term at 86 years old.
So this is a series of really compounding problems for them that they don't quite know how to deal with other than through authoritarian, anti-democratic tactics.
The only choice is for us to reject them and say, listen, whatever you think about the issues, whatever you think about Marianne Williamson or Joe Biden, The American people at least deserve to have an open forum and an open debate because we're at a critical juncture in our nation's history and in world history where it's never been more important to have that open discussion and debate of ideas and visions for the future.
I am really encouraged by what you say, Crystal, about how populism can advance existing political
structures because I tend sometimes out of despair to feel like, oh, there's no point.
There's no point.
It's so corrupt.
It's so broken.
The only thing it's worth doing is protest.
The only thing that's worth doing is establish alternative systems.
But I see how, as you describe, it could influence existing political structures were we to be
more vocal and aggressive, and I don't mean that obviously in a violent sense, in our
protest and opposition and noncompliance to the corruption within these systems.
And I wanted to ask you...
Well, if I could just insert in that, you know, I'm talking a lot about the Democratic
Party, but there's a similar process that's playing out in the Republican Party right
I mean, there are some real schisms that have emerged in the Republican Party that are a real, you know, potential source of democracy and reform as well.
So, you know, I don't see this as a sort of one-sided opportunity to change the tenor of our country or the world or change the landscape.
But it's not going to come without a fight.
There's no doubt about it.
I mean, the people who have power are not going to just willingly give it up to a group of renegades, whether it's operating within this party system or within a third party.
With the mechanics of the U.S.
political system, you know, as much as Bernie Sanders was shut out in 2016 and again in 2020, he still came a lot closer.
Then a third party is able to come just because of the fundamental structure of first past the post voting and how this ultimately works.
So I just think from a pragmatic standpoint, you're likely to have a better shot of success going for hijacking one of the existing political parties than coming from the outside.
Thanks, Christel.
You're quite right that that pressure should be bipartisan.
I wanted to ask you, do the current TikTok congressional hearings demonstrate the evident and ongoing hypocrisy that exists in American politics, in so much as almost every facet of attack that's being explored, whether it's the surveillance, the data capture, the apparent collaboration with the state, could be levelled at American.
Social media companies or global social media companies.
And I want to tie this to the subject we were just discussing, meaningful change within the system or even beyond the system.
Do you feel that if either the Republican Party or the Democrat Party or an independent party stood on a platform that included banning politicians from having a second job, Banning politicians to trade in stocks and shares full stop or having any dependent child or spouse own stocks and shares and making it illegal for either party to receive corporate donations, only individual funders and even then in a very regulated way.
Do you think that that, you know, essentially getting money out of politics, ending lobbying, ending congressional stock trading, ending the sort of funding of the parties by finance and big business, would alter the landscape of American politics So radically that, you know, that it would actually bloody well work and be meaningful.
And what kind of opposition would those kind of ideas face and how would they stop it happening and sort of loophole their way out of it?
Well, I think it'd be dramatically popular with the American people.
And you see this from time to time.
You know, leaders, congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle were sort of forced to pretend like they cared about banning stock trading in Congress.
And both Nancy Pelosi, back when she was Speaker, and also Kevin McCarthy, when he was running to be Speaker of the House, pretended like they wanted to take action on this issue because they knew it was so popular and so politically powerful.
And then now that Kevin McCarthy is actually Speaker of the House, you haven't heard anything about it anymore.
That just sort of died.
Even the renegades that like challenged him in terms of a speakership, that was not one of the concessions that they extracted.
And Nancy Pelosi found a way to effectively kill, you know, some real genuine bipartisan efforts that might have had some teeth in that direction.
So they use it as a political cudgel as it serves them, but then make sure that there is no actual change that happens.
Do I think that getting money out of American politics would make a difference?
Absolutely.
I think it would absolutely, you know, transform the landscape of American politics because we ask ourselves so many times, why when you have things that are so incredibly popular, you know, things like making sure people have paid sick leave or that union membership is available to people or that people have a living wage?
I mean, these are massively popular issues.
Why is there never any action?
And frequently, corruption is a core part of the story.
And if we go even one level deeper than that, this is really, going back to France, this really is the core of the rot of neoliberalism, which says profits and money above all else.
So of course, if that is your system, and that's the altar that you worship at, Then you're going to end up with a system that is rife with corruption.
So I think that's kind of the root of the problem, and they'll do everything they can to protect the status quo that exists because the people in power, they got there because things work well for them the way that they stand right now.
It means to me that that's an interesting edifice to focus attack on, because it exposes the areas in which both parties plainly agree and will use rhetoric around it, but won't implement legislation around it.
And it exposes that, as Chomsky says, where both parties agree, you have no choice at all.
And to sort of introduce that and popularise those ideas, I feel like it'd be a really interesting way of radicalising political debate in a meaningful way.
Crystal, thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you for endorsing that soft drink, which I think has links to Alzheimer's.
I don't know.
That's allegedly at this stage.
Listen, we have to exist in society as it is, Russell, until we can revolutionize in it.
So I'm just here existing in society with my Diet Coke.
You, like Gareth Roy, are a positive influence.
You are the voice of reason and the taste of Diet Coke simultaneously.
Crystal Ball, thank you so much for joining us.
You can catch Breaking Point every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday on YouTube, surely on Rumble soon.
That's midday Eastern time.
Thanks again, Crystal.
Thanks for joining us, mate.
Thank you, Russell.
It was fun.
Lovely to speak to you.
Thank you very much.
And there we go.
A wonderful conversation.
Perfectly enjoyable.
I think we advanced the debate somewhat, didn't we?
And we also promoted a deadly soft drink.
No, I think, I mean, I think, you know, all the points about Biden, I mean, I wasn't aware of what Krystal was talking about in terms of ways in which the Democrat Party are going about making, ensuring that, you know, Biden gets re-elected over, for example, someone like Marianne Williamson, who we'll speak to, but it's...
We can ask her that.
We'll also say, are you aware they're shifting the order of the states?
I'm sure she is.
I've been paying attention to that.
Amazing.
I like Marianne Williamson.
She's spiritual.
She's cool.
I've interviewed her a couple of times.
She's all right.
Hey, she's a good person.
Listen, when I went over to Rumble and met this... I already knew the CEO, Chris Pavlovsky, but like, I went over there and sort of there was, you know, I met Donald J. Trump.
Lovely, of course.
His wife, that little girlfriend, that lady, Kim, off of, like, Fox, who really aggressively attacked me, saying I was like a scumbag and a stinkhole and a scuzzbucket, and then, which was an absolute joy to me, and, like, just laughed her way through all of those things, and it sort of felt like it didn't matter at all to me.
We had like our photo done me and Chris Pavlovsky over by the rumble logo right and I just as we were taking our photo like he sort of intuitively put his hands clasped his hands across his midriff right like or lower midriff your torso let's call it and I just went at the moment in that moment I went Don't cover your genitals!
Like, as if I was an expert in body language or something like that?
And, like, it was the person that took a photo that works with us, Lauren, I think, she had a camera on live, so it's got the audio of it.
And, you know, to celebrate Rumble's recent controversies being banned in France, or at least taking themselves off of the French system, here is me and Chris Pavlovsky, and me advising him to not cover his genitals, which I say is an entertaining moment.
Have a look.
Don't cover your genitals.
He actually did it!
Like as if I know about stuff like that.
Never cover your genitals.
Unless you're nude.
In which case... From one CEO to another.
These are my tips.
Do not cover your genies in a photo!
It says a lot though, doesn't it?
The fact that you're stood there with your hands so far away, about as far away from your gentles as it's possible for them to be.
I don't want them anywhere near them!
That's when the problems start!
Well, thank you for joining us for another fantastic show.
I hope you learned something about the connection between the protests in France and your own corrupt systems.
I like Crystal's point about it's a sort of a zombie ideology lumbering on, but zombies are Pretty deadly.
And they put up a fight.
And then sort of the observation that perhaps in Biden, we have the perfect zombie president, a cadaverous undead figure lurching his way forwards into new conflicts in Syria, weaponizing and mobilizing and monetizing the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
Or is it ideologically sound?
Let me know in the comments.
We've got a fantastic week coming up tomorrow.
We'll be speaking to Vandana Shiva, the great mother We'll be talking about the various agricultural revolts, in particular the one in the Netherlands currently, and again, how a new populist movement that transcends cultural differences is emerging.
That's what's happening in France.
We'll be looking at that in even more depth, if such a thing were possible, in our Here's the News tomorrow.
And if you sign up to Locals, you'll get my stand-up special Brandemic available right as part of your package, or you can buy it
for a one-off price of $20.
You get access to Stay Connected, me and Gareth's little show,
where we're really intimate with one another, and we respond directly to your questions,
as well as weekly meditations, and the opportunity to attend live podcast recordings,
like the latest one with Graham Hancock.
That's up on Rumble now.
You could have come.
We gave away tickets to people.
There's people in the locals community, like, what's his name,
the man that looked like a man on another man's shoulders?
What was his name again?
Primal Colin.
Primal Colin.
You, like Primal Colin, shout out to you, could come here and meet Graham Hancock,
and loom above him like a Muppet Man.
Join us!
Join us on our adventure.
We're getting more and more serious by the day.
We're on the very precipice of starting communities.
Are we, Gal?
Oh, of course we are.
Let's start those communities.
Join us tomorrow, not for more of the same, but for more of the different.
Until then, stay free.
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