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Gangster Government | Big Tech TAKEDOWN! - #101 - Stay Free With Russell Brand
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Hello there, you Awakening Wonders!
Thank you for joining me for Stay Free with Russell Brand episode 101.
We couldn't celebrate the 100th episode because it was a terrible national tragedy in your country, America.
Today, on show 101, we are celebrating having done this a century of times.
If you're watching this on YouTube, the whole show will be available on Rumble.
We're going to give you this first part for free.
To let you know what free speech sounds like, baby, but we can only give you an inkling, we can only give you a tickle, the full thing will be over exclusively on Rumble and what a crescendo it promises to be.
We're going to be talking to Chris Best, the co-founder of Substack, an online media organisation that hosts many so-called journalists like Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenberger, many friends of the show.
I suppose we're going to talk to him about independent journalism and how, because of Substack, counter-narratives that centralised authority would prefer to suppress Just get out there into the world.
Written version of Rumble, in a way.
Written Rumble.
They write Rumble.
They write it.
That's what they do over there on Substack, so we're excited to talk to Chris Best about that, and I suppose the success of Substack demonstrates your appetite, your ongoing appetite for truth in a climate of fiction and falsehood.
We do a deep dive into the TikTok hearing, and Ask, and indeed answer, because it's a rhetorical device, what exactly is this Congressional hearing about when so many of the accusations levelled at TikTok could equally be levelled at US-based social media companies where there is obvious deep state infiltration, one of the things that Matt Taibbi and Barry Weiss and Michael Schellenberger's revelations showed us.
When we click over to being exclusively available on Rumble, we'll be talking about You know it's it's it is I mean it's plain it's often it's obvious and frequently we cover this subject because it's still something that's censored because it's become a pivotal and revelatory cathartic moment we're going to be talking about vaccine injury compensation cases in my country the UK we can't talk about it on YouTube and I think we should be able to it's been reported elsewhere in mainstream media and what
infuriates me about this and i'm gonna use the word infuriate this is show 101 i'm off the hook oh wow that's right if you're watching this on youtube get ready because like this i'm really going to express myself like this is what bothers me about that entire period of the pandemic and in particular the suggested medical solutions we paid for the development of those products you overpay to buy it from big pharma Moderna currently charging a 4,000% increase.
A drug that they could sell for $2.65, they're selling for hundreds of dollars.
It's just ridiculous.
And then when it all goes wrong, and there are vaccine injuries, allegedly, still on YouTube, you pay for the compensation.
That's out of control.
Let me know in the chat, in the comments, particularly if you're a member of our Locals community, where you have the opportunity to directly communicate with us.
We, on Stay Free, we're on there with you.
So post us questions.
The questions will get to me.
You'll be able to talk to us directly.
You'll see our little Stay Free avatar on there.
We're chatting away to you on Locals.
Join us.
Join us over there.
Well, it's business as usual.
It's as if Joe Biden don't know that we're celebrating Show 101, because the adorable devil he is, he's dithering about the great Vivified cadaver from place to place, all bewildered and delirious.
And so are you at the point now, Joe Biden, that even if you're appalled in particular by his recent sanctimonious grandstanding around Big Pharma, the new bill that doesn't do enough to cap Big Pharma prices is super diluted.
We'll be talking about that in more depth over the course of the coming days.
Even evoking the phantom of his father to say, you know, like, I know what it's like
to worry about a family member getting cancer, when there is a piece of legislation already
in place that would mean that they could prevent people profiting from cancer drugs by rescinding
their patents and ensuring that there would be, well, actually capitalism, free market
capitalism, and those drugs could be made at competitive prices.
Socialism in development, capitalism in the profits, very, very interesting modality.
Nevertheless, I, as a compassionate person on a path of individual awakening, on a journey like you, just a fallible, flawed person like you, not as bad as Gareth, worse than some people, Adorable Dan on Dan Cam.
He's a person that's on the path as well.
On some level I still feel sad about Joe Biden.
It's gone beyond the just condemnation of him.
Because I feel like it ain't right dragging him around like this anymore.
Like when you see him on some sort of like construction site.
Also I think like we're aware of like what Biden used to be.
Whether you agreed with his politics or not.
Like the earlier versions of Biden in Congress and he had such a kind of demeanor about him.
It was actually pretty impressive.
An erection with a comb over.
Can I say that?
Is that okay?
I guess... An erection with a comb over.
That's what it was like.
You see him in Congress, he was sort of like... He was like, Billy Big... Billy Big Bollocks!
Wasn't he?
He was hot for Trump, though, wasn't he?
He was, he was indeed.
Wasn't he, Joe Biden?
He had some... He certainly did.
I see where Hunter gets it from!
Gets what from?
He had some lead in his pencil!
Oh, I see.
Didn't he?
Joe Biden, back in the day... There he is.
I don't know, I mean, like, you know... Don't mind if I do!
Anyway, listen, you can talk.
You're the one that dreamt of Joe Biden, ain't ya?
I did, yeah.
Tell us about... Martin Luther King had a dream.
It was a dream that we'd all learn to get beyond our cultural differences and fight against centralised power, build a better world for the oppressed minorities, recognising that ultimately we all have the same interest, to rise up and confront centralised authority.
Gareth had a dream.
It was that he was looking after Joe Biden in an old folks home.
Did you wash his bottom?
No, I didn't.
What happened in the dream?
No, I don't think we're in the focus.
I think because I saw this clip last night when we were Twitter scrolling, as we do around here, and I think it just got into my head.
And then I had this dream where Joe Biden was a bit like his ear and he was sat next to me and he lent on me and he put his head on my shoulder.
And I turned to my right and Jill Biden was there.
Of course she's there.
She's always in a six yard.
It's like in London.
You're never more than six yards from a rat.
You're never more than six yards from Jill Biden.
Have a look around you now.
She'll be there somewhere.
Anyway, like I just remember in my head thinking, surely I've got to say to Jill, it would be so bad if Joe ran again, wouldn't it?
Don't make him run again.
Don't make him run.
And I never got to voice that to Jill.
Why?
I don't know.
I woke up before it happened.
Let us know what you think Gareth's unconscious mind is wrestling with in that dream.
And also let us know if we should be getting one of those blue ticks on Twitter.
Maybe I am the personification of the Democrat Party.
Is that what you are?
You're its lost ideal?
They don't want him to run, but no one's going to tell him.
But I'm an emerging independent!
Am I that?
What unconscious forces... Well, I didn't dream about you, so I don't know.
Why aren't I in a dream?
What archetypal forces are being expressed through us?
What diffuse, divergent, powerful energies are embodied temporarily in human form?
These are all questions we'll answer over the course of the show, as well as, shall we get blue ticks on Twitter?
Well, there's a poll.
Do you want to get a blue tick on Twitter?
Is it worth it?
10 quid a month, is it?
I don't know.
We'll let the public decide.
You decide.
Let us know in the chat and the comments.
Join us over on Rumble in a minute when we start talking about vaccine injuries.
Before that, though, we've got a lot to talk about.
We're talking about gangster globalism.
How we've forgotten now that there's a lot of ongoing international racketeering happening, whether it's Bloody the Shakedown, The TikTok are experiencing because ultimately all the things that are coming up in the congressional hearing could be leveled at American social media organizations.
It's racketeering I tells you.
Also Matt Taibbi, he's going to be on the show soon.
Matt Taibbi's like all of a sudden subject to an IRS investigation.
It's just weird that these things are happening.
It's gangster globalism.
That's what I call it.
It's intimidating.
It's got to be intimidating.
It's not a coincidence, is it, that he goes to Congress and then on the same day someone from the IRS turns up at his door and leaves a note on his door.
That's apparently what happened.
I mean, that is gangster, isn't it?
That's creepy.
They could have put a poo through his letterbox.
Yes, they didn't do that.
That's their version of it, the IRS.
The IRS, they don't, we don't do that.
That's unhygienic and it's just not tax efficient.
But what we do is a simple note on the door.
Let's have a look at Joe Biden being gingerly read around a construction site with an ongoing commentary that's required to ensure he doesn't misplace a single Tootsie and end up in one of Gareth's sweet little dreams.
Check it out.
Down here?
Yes, sir.
Down the ramp.
And we have people lined up on the left over here.
Some union leaders and workers.
It's like the director's commentary of that visit.
Also, we've got some people lined up here.
He should be able to work that out, shouldn't he?
I think that guy's just gone into the rhythm of explaining everything.
I don't want to speculate as to Joe Biden's conjugal activities, presumably with Jill Biden, but do you reckon there's a running commentary there?
Do you reckon there's ongoing?
That's it, Joe.
That's his private life!
Exactly.
We're not interested in people's private business, are we?
Are we?
We are, but we won't.
But we don't gratify that.
We're trying to elevate ourselves onto a higher plane.
We're trying to find a divinity in all people, even corrupt people that are avatars of state corruption.
Even them, we try to look upon with deep, deep love.
Shall we have a look at, no let's just see the rest of it because I like this.
Thomas beard on the chat saying uh kama sutra for the elderly. Oh saucy.
Your mark is going to be the blue one to the left.
How y'all doing?
He's not listening, is he?
He's not listening to the instructions.
He's just been told his mark's going to be the one on the left and he's just gone into how y'all doing.
Isn't he?
He's wrong.
You've got a blue mark and that's okay.
I'll say my blue mark and then I'm going to say Lodi 20.
Yes sir.
Joe Biden get a blue tick on Twitter.
Will they buy one?
It's become politicised, hasn't it?
I can imagine they will.
I guess the thing with this is just that there's nothing actually extraordinary that occurs here.
I guess what's got to people is that this president who is in charge of, essentially, whether or not we go to World War Three or not, has to be guided around in this manner, told that your mark's there, told that some people are over there that you need to talk to.
It seems too much manhandling for someone who's with that amount of power.
Kid gloving.
Right.
Too much cotton wooling.
Let's have a look at old previous president Donald Trump.
I mean before we get into this actually I just want to mention that over the last hundred shows we've made a lot of important discoveries since show zero.
Yes.
Well show zero that's the sort of the unmanifestable.
You don't make show zero.
That's the unmanifest realm from which all shows come.
Since Show 101, this is some of the things we've learned.
We've learned about the Twitter files.
They're an important story for us.
That's revealed big tech and state collusion.
We've learned about the Nord Stream Pipeline sabotage.
Who done that?
It's people that support Ukraine have done that.
We've learned that both Biden and Trump have got top secret documents lying around their home.
But as Trump pointed out, Biden kept them on a garage floor where they could be subject to damp.
US military spending is at a record high and a couple of government agencies have said that they believe that COVID originally came from a laboratory in Wuhan.
That's just over a hundred shows and I bet we've missed some stuff.
What else have we learned in that hundred shows?
Not that we're claiming credit for breaking those stories, although we've had some incredible investigative reporting go on, my own and others.
We got the first interview exclusive with Seymour Hersh, didn't we?
Seymour Hersh, who it was on his sub stack that it was like the Nord Stream Pipeline story
was broken, wasn't it?
Although the pipe itself broke under the sea and as a result of just some Ukrainian supporters really,
but I know I was at home with my mom.
Let's have a look at Donald Trump.
This is really funny.
He's talking about farm taxes.
What I like about this, you might have seen it already, but if you haven't, it's an absolute joy.
He sort of gets too caught up in what your relationship with your children might be.
Like he...
One of the things that makes Trump an interesting and engaging orator is his ability to trust himself in the moment and follow tangential threads and see where they may take him.
But in this instance, he ends up sort of speculating too deeply on what your relationship with your children might be.
It's a weird way to approach a sort of a farmyard death tax.
And I made farmers happy and rich again, and they're doing a fantastic job.
And you know what?
Someday it'll become time for them to leave this beautiful Earth And they'll be able to- Because, like, describing the Earth as beautiful, that's already an unusual choice that he's made.
It's just, someday they will die, is all you need at that point.
Someday they'll die, like- In fact, even that!
Yeah.
Is unnecessary, because that's everyone.
We're all gonna die.
I still don't really fully agree with it.
No.
But it is gonna happen.
I guess.
Leave their farm without taxes to their children.
I got rid of the death tax on farms.
So that when you do pass away, on the assumption that you love your children, you can leave it to them and they won't have to pay tax.
But if you don't love your children so much, and there are some people that don't.
Yeah, some people, yeah, they don't love their children.
And maybe deservedly so.
Maybe their children aren't very nice.
It's not about farm tax anymore!
We've taken a weird journey with Donald.
It won't matter, because frankly, you don't have to leave him anything.
Thank you very much.
Have fun.
It's interesting.
There are still a lot of people that are deeply angry about the presidency of Donald Trump, pointing to their perception that he created, caused that, what they believe to be an insurrection on January the 6th and many other issues.
But for me, I'd just lean into the fact that when that man talks to a camera, it's engaging and a departure from the typical sanctimony that we see elsewhere with the current White House incumbent.
We're going to expand on our idea, if you're still with us on YouTube, that we're living in a sort of state of global gangsterism.
And one of the ways that we want to explore that right now is that the current congressional hearing where TikTok are being investigated badly by people who don't understand what Wi-Fi is, on the evidence of some of the stuff we've covered elsewhere this week, is that in banning TikTok, the government would get sweeping powers to crack down on tech Elsewhere, when we say crack down on tech, we don't mean demonopolise, we don't mean control or break up tech, we mean ultimately grant them the ability to censor information that they don't agree with, which has always been their agenda.
A bill introduced in the Senate designed to ban the video sharing app TikTok would give the Biden administration sweeping authorities to crack down on transactions between people in the US and countries deemed foreign adversaries related to information and communications technology.
Do we have some more stuff on that?
You think so?
would authorise the Commerce Secretary to take action against transactions between US
Yeah.
citizens. You've said that. The legislation would designate any foreign government or
regime as a foreign adversary. Any of them. They're all adversaries. That's not the wrong
attitude. You'd think so. Everyone's an enemy. Start there.
Yeah, let's assume that. What's your name? I don't like you. It's the wrong attitude.
Support for the Restrict Act has 21 co-sponsors, including 11 Republicans and 10 Democrats.
There you go. So it's trans party. A person who violates the Act could be fined up to a
million dollars.
This isn't good legislation.
This is more legislation that punishes individuals and favours corporations.
20 years in prison.
20 years in prison?
Yeah.
For what?
Sharing, well the sharing of potentially information with foreign adversaries.
So this comes down again to censorship.
So something like what we've just seen with TikTok.
Obviously it's inspired by what's going on with TikTok because the issue there is apparently China.
But this now is just being opened up to everyone.
It's sending a message out there of do not send information around.
Do not start relationships with other countries, foreign adversaries or you will get banged up for 20 years.
There you go, more global gangsterism.
What's Trudeau been up to?
It's always worth keeping an eye on Trudeau.
You never know when he might turn up in front of a fire truck making outrageous claims.
One of the things he's recently done is conflated cynicism around vaccines which is extraordinary in light of
the way that that narrative has progressed and the number of admissions
that have been made that we can't talk about until we're on rumble. He's conflated
cynicism and hesitancy, let's call it, let's use their language, around
that medication with flat earthers as they are known.
Anti-vaxxers and flat earthers.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked flat earthers and anti-vaxxers to call for a crackdown on disinformation online.
He made the comments during a town hall event in Ottawa last week.
Trudeau began by saying the government should find a balance between censorship and free speech to protect people.
from disinformation.
Would you please, please protect me from disinformation.
Don't worry about my health.
Don't worry about my poverty.
Don't worry about my mental breakdown.
Just do not let any disinformation, by which I mean information that could awaken me and cause me to be critical of centralised state power.
Don't allow that to happen.
Shall we have a look at Justin Trudeau now doing extraordinarily a sort of an informal
evening with in front of a fire truck. This is another thing about Justin Trudeau,
we all know he likes to get a bit of makeup on, don't we?
He likes to get under the spotlight, he likes the smell of the grease paint of a particular hue
we have noted, and he also sort of likes to have a little bit of a sing-along. There's
nothing wrong with that, being a bit of an entertainer, but what I've noted about
many of these, let's call them Davos Stooge type politicians, globalists, neoliberal apologists,
is that they use this kind of affability and friendliness to mask authoritarianism, in
particular in the case of Trudeau, with his treatment of the Canadian truckers, his attempt to
evoke the emergency Powers Act that hadn't been used I think since the Second
World War and much of his incendiary rhetoric when describing his own citizens as
well as his public admission that he admired China presumably for their
ability to let's say organize and manage a population. Let's have a look at
Justin having a little bit of fun in front of a fire engine just to see how
Canada is governed. I got fascinated with the idea of flat earthers.
Now this is an entirely new phenomenon.
There wasn't really...
Why are they watching like these people?
Some of them, like that Clint Eastwood bloke in the left bottom corner,
he ain't bothered, is he?
That little child, don't give it a toss.
He's bored out of his mind.
No one's having a very nice...
I don't think they're there by choice.
No, I don't.
I think they've been corralled into that fire station.
I think they came for something else and then Trudeau turned up.
What we're going to do is we're going to teach you about fire safety,
but first, as a little treat, it's Justin Trudeau with five minutes on flat earthers.
Any moment back in recorded history, not the ancient Greeks or the ancient Babylonians or the Incas or whoever else, who actually wondered whether the earth was actually flat or not.
Christopher Columbus, they knew the Earth was round.
There was no danger he was going to fall off the edge of the world.
That wasn't what people worried about when he was setting off to discover the Americas or discover a shortcut to India.
Going over well.
Clint Eastwood, he's not raised a smile.
I mean, if I was, even me, with our ongoing cynicism about Justin Trudeau, I would sort of smile politely.
Give him some kind of... Yeah.
This is the face I would do.
Yeah, Christopher Columbus.
Yeah.
No, they did.
They did, yeah.
Like, just even if I disagree with him, out of politeness, but these people, given their due, they are coldly, stone-facedly, almost ignoring Justin.
I don't know what they would do differently if he wasn't there, other than perhaps smile congenially at one another.
But recently, over the past few years, a whole bunch of people have decided that the world is flat.
And they hang out with each other, ...and they find different ways of proving to themselves that the earth is flat.
Now that may not seem like a very... ...this event.
Come and stand near a fire engine and listen to Justin Trudeau riff on flat earthers.
I also feel that the kind of pose of conviviality ought be denied to people in that position when we know the kind of legislation that they pass.
the kind of relationships they have with globalist corporations. It's the same sort of resentment I
feel when I hear Joe Biden using those sanctimonious yarns about his own family and
even, and I'm sorry to say this, family tragedies when you know that when he's in a position of
authority and able to make decisions and guide legislation and promote the interests of ordinary
Americans, time after time, right now and historically too, they lean into their alliances
with corporate interests. They always ultimately back their paymasters. So in a way, even something
like this that's sort of quite innocuous on the surface, although visually bizarre because of
what the hell is he doing by that fire engine, ultimately becomes kind of offensive. I don't
think we should give Justin Trudeau and that fire engine any more time. Later this week, we're going
to be talking to Matt Taibbi. He's got the IRS shaking him down because he's attacking establishment
interests and yeah.
I feel that this too is an indication that if you speak out against establishment authority, they will use their might, much in the manner that we would assume an organised crime family might leverage their particular authority.
In fact, this happened in New Jersey, so it's very Sopranos.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has revealed that Matt Taibbi received an unannounced home visit from an IRS agent.
Mr. Taibbi told Mr. Jordan's committee that an IRS agent showed up at his personal residence in New Jersey on March 9th, the same day Taibbi testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government about what he learned on Twitter.
There is power there.
In this time of managed decline where we're continually told, even by Joe Biden, that there's nothing he can do about powerful interests, that he's like some kind of David and Goliath figure standing up to entrenched corporate power, it's interesting to note that there There is the ability to organise a response, to manage perception, to do deals, to when required, quantitatively ease financially failing industries.
It's extraordinary that this sort of pretence is maintained, that we are subject somehow to cosmological forces that are beyond Everybody's control.
If you're watching us on YouTube, we're going to click over to being exclusively on Rumble right now.
Remember, in a minute, we're going to be joined by Chris Best from Substack, who's going to be telling us about the importance of free speech and independent journalism, the right that we all have to disagree with one another and how that, in fact, will bring us together against centralised authority.
And also, we're going to be talking to you about You know, vaccine injury stuff, which we simply can't talk about on YouTube.
This is astonishing.
You pay for the development, you overpay for the product, and when it goes wrong, you pay for that.
See you later, YouTube.
We're going to cover this story on Rumble now.
Let's have a look at that story from The Telegraph.
Let's have a look at that, please.
So, increasing demand for COVID vaccine injury payments has seen the number of staff processing claims increase 20-fold, figures show.
The Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme has scaled up operations and boosted its administrative staff from 4 to 80 to handle claims.
So I suppose that's Yeah, it certainly does.
Yeah, I mean, I guess it's worrying.
Some of the things that you kind of find from this are pretty worrying.
So there's been over 4,000 claims related to the COVID-19 vaccine have been submitted since November 2021.
334 of those relate to a claimant who has died.
If this is, for me, the worst bit of it, if a person is left severely disabled as a result of receiving certain vaccines, they could be entitled to the one-off payment from the government, which they're debating over how much that should be.
Under this, severe disablement means a patient must be at least 60% disabled to qualify.
Which sounds... I mean, how are you working that out?
And also, why is that the case?
60%?
I mean, shouldn't it be any percent?
You've got to be 60% disabled before that.
Yeah, that's an interesting metric to introduce.
And I'd say, yeah, it's...
Again, there's got to be ongoing logistical gerrymandering in order to minimise these payouts, but I would say the fact that they're staffing up is an indication that they know that the lawsuits are coming.
Since January 2020, the UK government was found to be the largest funder of Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, contributing £33 million of UK taxpayers' money.
They've overpaid by 1.8 billion for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
Oh my god.
Sometimes when I'm reading these things out, even though it's been going on for a while, the pandemic is... I remember Bill Hicks used to talk about the Kennedy assassination and that people were sort of tired of hearing, I'll stop going on about the Kennedy assassination.
But what the problem is, is that there are certain pivotal moments in cultural and public life that are revelatory the true meaning of the word apocalypse as you know is revelation and the pandemic was a kind of apocalypse because it showed how corporate and state interests converge and
How brilliantly the media cooperated in preventing the information that should have been made plain from the beginning.
It was kept out of, you know, most of our awareness and consciousness.
Deals for doses happened behind closed doors between the EU and pharmaceutical companies.
We remember those text messages between... That's right.
Albert Baller and that woman at the... Von der Leyen.
Do you remember her name?
Oh, she's a Von der Leyen.
Ursula von der Leyen.
I'd say a villainous moniker from the get-go.
A bit like an Austin Powers femme fatale, I'd say.
New variants, international competition and darkness around manufacturing costs have allowed Pfizer and BioNTech and Moderna to increase the bill for European taxpayers.
The New York Times report that the European Commission... Aha!
President Ursula von der Leyen and Albert Borland had been exchanging text messages leading up to the purchase of 900 million doses of the vaccine worth up to 9.75 billion euros.
So that was a deal that was not done publicly, that was not subject to democratic vote.
This is why you need independent voices.
This is why you need to be able to communicate openly about these sorts of subjects.
The fact that WHO guidelines prevent this kind of thing from being openly discussed on YouTube to this day and that we have to tiptoe around subjects like the vaccine industry The vaccine injury, well I don't know, do you want to call it a scandal, shows that still it's something that's subject to considerable censorship and I suppose that's an indicator of what kind of interests are at play.
Yeah, I mean just these relationships that you have, like the reason why that one between Baller and von der Leyen and basically doing deals over text messages, that shows the kind of relationships and how kind of casual and how, I don't know, how well those kind of two,
where the EU should be basically taking Pfizer to task. They should be saying, you know, do
these work? What are the, you know, why are you overcharging by this amount? Whereas
rather than that, they're just sending text messages. Yeah, we'll take 900 million doses.
Just have another 900 million. It's only 9.75 billion euros.
Yeah, it's a little like when our, I'm talking about in the UK, Health Secretary Matt Hancock's
WhatsApp messages were revealed, It was shown that he was sort of just casually...
Uh, exchanging information with other members of the government saying, no, no, we can't admit to that.
It would make us look bad.
Oh, let's amp up the fear a bit.
It's almost like in so many cases, your worst suspicions are confirmed that the idea that even something that I personally consider to be somewhat ludicrous, like a flat earth conspiracy is something that people will consider entertaining.
Although it's very deliberate that Trudeau Attempts to conflate something more ludicrous with something evidently legitimate, like the concerns around the pharmaceutical industry that came to the forefront once more during the pandemic, but have been a concern for many years.
It's like a matter of years, a couple of years after the opioid crisis, billions of dollars of out-of-court settlements have been made.
The pharmaceutical industry is plainly not one that warrants trust, so an attempt to conflate Anti-vax is a term that's like, you know, had its
definition...
Well, we know it's changed to mean anti-mandate as well.
So even if you're pro-vax but anti- the mandating of that vax,
you get labelled anti-vax and therefore in Trudeau's world, the same as a flat earther.
I think once you start meddling with the dictionary, it's an indication that we've literally entered Orwellian
territory.
I don't know, man.
Fortunately, we have each other.
We have independent news voices like Substack.
We'll be talking to Chris Best in a minute.
Before that, though, let's have a deeper look Here's the news.
congressional hearings where the US government are of course grilling TikTok, making accusations
and allegations against TikTok which may well be true, but are certainly equally true as
the Twitter files revealed of major American social media organizations.
Here's the news.
No, here's the effing news.
No, here's the fucking news.
Oh, here's the fucking news.
Oh, no.
TikTok are stealing your data and spying on you!
Do you mean like everyone else?
Yeah!
But they're also Chinese!
Today's subject is a particularly good example of how we have been educated by you.
Because the last time there was a kangaroo court hearing around the behaviour of big tech giants, we took a misstep thinking, oh, this is good.
Facebook are going to be regulated.
And then you pointed out in the comments, no, no, no.
What's going to happen here is ordinary people will be controlled and blacklisted and observed, surveilled and spied on and banned.
This is a trick.
You were right back then and I bet you will be right this time.
Because apparently what's happening is there are congressional hearings to see if TikTok is spying on us and capturing our data.
And of course they bloody well are.
But so are all big tech organizations.
And did you know that many of the people in Congress that are vocally criticizing TikTok literally accept money from TikTok?
TikTok is a very bad thing and should be stopped, right?
I like TikTok.
Actually, and really, should we just, you know, have a sort of kangaroo court hearing and then say they can carry on but give us a slice of the pie?
This is one of those stories that shows you how corruption and criminality within globalist politics is not a bug, it's a feature.
It shows you why those Mafia films, particularly The Godfather, are a great window into how American institutional life operates.
Nice big tech business you've got there, be a shame if something happened to you.
You give us a slice of the action.
How many people watching this think that the ultimate result won't be you help us to regulate TikTok, you give us some sort of slice of the action and we'll leave you alone?
Is it really going to be an end to corruption?
How?
Who's the institution that's going to stop corruption?
They're all corrupt themselves.
You know that people in Congress own stocks and shares in the big tech companies that they're supposed to regulate.
This is another example of that, except of course in this instance, it's from a powerful international rival.
So let's learn what's going on in those congressional hearings and the three or four main ways that this is happening.
Total hypocrisy, total corruption and how nothing meaningful will get done because the systems that are governing, administrating and judging are totally corrupted.
The social media tip-top came under very intense scrutiny yesterday on Capitol Hill.
Firstly, it's not Tip Top, it's Tik Tok.
In other news, Tik Tok's just basically the same as all social media sites, but the people in charge are Chinese, though.
Tik Tok's chief executive was met with intense skepticism on Capitol Hill Thursday over the app's security and privacy practices.
We do not trust TikTok will ever embrace American values.
Of course they will.
If those values are corruption, taking a piece of the action, surveilling ordinary people, banning dissenting voices, you're going to get along just fine.
Then stop pretending this is about anything other than, look, if you want to carry on with TikTok and give us some of that data and do our propaganda for us, just like all the other social media companies.
ByteDance is not owned or controlled by the Chinese government.
Oh, come on, guys!
You're suggesting that the government and big tech organizations don't have deep state infiltration, and the people at the state can't control the narrative, and if there were stories that were inconvenient to the government, that you wouldn't stop them or censor them?
Are you still talking about China and TikTok?
Yeah, why?
What did you think we were talking about?
Hunter Biden laptop!
Twitter files!
I mean, I can't even produce enough coughs for the corruption!
Has fight to inspire on American citizens.
I don't think that spying is the right way to describe it.
It's like Edward Snowden, Never Happened.
Have you been spying on American citizens?
That is the worst, oh shit, Edward Snowden, thing that's happened in the last few years only.
And if it happened a few years before that, that was because of terrorism.
But doing it now though, that's what really smarts.
I don't even like TikTok.
TikTok, what do you mean all quick like that, just 30 seconds?
It makes me feel old!
You damn well know that you cannot protect the data and security of this committee or the 150 million users of your app because it is an extension of the CCP.
Also, there's the added advantage that this amplifies tensions between the United States Just in case a proxy war with Russia isn't enough for you to worry about, let's get a proxy war with China started.
There's another way of making us all scared, all the bloody time, when probably the truth is that all big tech platforms are by their nature exploitative, all of them engage in surveillance, and even organisations like the CDC, after promising that they wouldn't, Spied on 55 million people in ways they assured you they would not during the pandemic.
Once again, there is no legitimate moral platform from which to make these judgments.
That's why it sounds crazy.
You know that what's likely to come out of something like this is the ability to censor ordinary people more.
When what we want is the regulation of the company itself.
Their ability to bundle up and sell data.
Their ability to cooperate with the state.
Presumably TikTok ain't cooperating with the American government in the same way other big tech companies are.
What they want is for TikTok to censor on their behalf.
The same for all social media platforms.
What they should be pushing for is the ability to control the companies themselves.
You lot Stop stealing people's data.
Stop spying on them.
You can see why it's going to break down because they are the partners.
What they're trying to do is negotiate a better partnership with TikTok so TikTok are more compliant in spreading their propaganda and preventing independent media, probably like us actually, from using social media sites to convey our message to receive your stories and to create alternative movements.
Let me know in the chat in the comments if you agree with that.
I have seen no evidence that the I find that actually preposterous.
This would only become more obviously propagandist if they started claiming that TikTok was somehow bad for kids and that this whole thing was in order to protect children.
The panel also probed what safeguards the app has to shield teens from harmful content.
Oh, there you go.
TikTok could be designed to minimize the harm.
It's clear that the attempts to isolate TikTok from its competitors to treat it differently than dozens of other companies with atrocious records for endangering kids and abusing private data is a pointless exercise.
Shouldn't be.
But it is.
The truth is that if TikTok were to vanish tomorrow, its users would simply flock to any number of other apps that have no qualms about surveilling the most private moments of their lives and amassing, manipulating and selling off sensitive information about them.
Congress was handed ample opportunity to address concerns about children's minds being warped by social media more than a year ago, but when Facebook was caught creepily referring to preteen kids as a source of untapped wealth, Congress in response did nothing.
So it's not about children.
What they have to do is make the conversation about something that any sensible person would think was important in order to get on with their normal business of financial control and psychological domination.
So privacy isn't the issue.
Why would the government in particular not be interested in privacy?
Possibly because they are more likely to spy on you than anybody else and have more power to spy on you than anybody else and necessarily spy on you because they're not going to cater to your demands, requirements or even democratic rights.
Records show that the same politicians who've publicly attacked TikTok and voted to restrict its use have also accepted donations from top executives with TikTok and its parent company ByteDance.
So that shows that what they say means, well, sort of less than nothing really.
TikTok spent over $30 million lobbying the federal government since 2019, according to Open Secrets, including a record $5.4 million last year.
ByteDance's spending on lobbying was reportedly the fourth largest among internet companies, behind only Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet.
So other people that do exactly what TikTok do is Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta.
So do you imagine they have a similar agenda?
I mean, doesn't the institutional practice itself tell you what results it's likely to yield?
In 2021, Sludge reported that 18 senators or their households owned stock in the tech companies nicknamed Fangam for Facebook, Apple, Netflix and Google, parent company Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft, valued at a minimum of $9.9 million and a maximum of $24.6 million.
Three Senators with stock holdings in Big Tech are members of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law.
Eight other Senators whose households own shares in Big Tech are members of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation's Subcommittee on Communications, Media and Broadband, which has jurisdiction over the So you have particular subcommittees with a responsibility for regulation of industries that have members that own stocks and shares in the companies that they're literally supposed to be regulating.
Couldn't you, in five seconds, with the stroke of a pen, ban that forever?
Every time they try and do something like that, though, of course, at the last minute, they insert a loophole going, oh, it'd be better if we could carry on doing it in some more opaque way.
Should we just insert a loophole?
And then they, of course, all agree to that, because ultimately they know they're all going to benefit.
Its parent company ByteDance is under investigation by the Department of Justice for alleged spying.
And the Biden administration has threatened to ban TikTok unless it divests.
One of the main claims being made against TikTok is that they're spying on the American public.
If you're going to spy on the American public, you better be American.
The U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy people's data from third-party companies, Safegraph and Cubic, who are in the business of tracking physical locations.
So the CDC have definitely, demonstrably, literally done exactly that.
But did they have a good reason?
The CDC did this in a bid to check on how citizens were complying with lockdown and other COVID restrictions.
One of these companies received $420,000 while the other deal was worth $208,000.
The CDC was allowed to buy this data thanks to emergency rules enacted because of the pandemic.
But the idea that that emergency was amplified and escalated and utilized in order to bring about new regulation or create opportunities for profit is a conspiracy theory, even if you can literally see those things happening.
Don't trust your eyes or your own mind.
Trust the government.
The data Safegraph and Cubic are able to get hold of and sell comes from apps installed on phones.
But that's different from TikTok, because those apps are just, um, they are, well, they're not Chinese!
In Safegraph's case, this information covered points like neighborhood patterns, revealing the frequency at which somebody visited a place of interest, as well as where they came to that place from, and where they went from there.
That sounds like...
Buying, to me.
Well, all we did was installed an app on your phone where we observed how you got from a place to another place than where you went after that place.
But other than that, you were free to do whatever you wanted to do without us looking at all.
What are you doing now?
Where are you going?
Get that goddamn data!
Cubic, meanwhile, sold its shelter-in-place index data set, and that reveals for how long a phone is inside a house, expressed in percentages, as well as the time people would spend in another state.
The goal was to assess who was sheltering in place, as the authorities had mandated.
Do you remember all the while from that pandemic them telling you that wouldn't happen?
Are you listening?
That did happen.
Are you seeing now that the entire congressional hearing around TikTok is totally hypocritical and will only lead to an ability for the state to propagandize TikTok more efficiently and censor ordinary users of TikTok more efficiently.
What it will not lead to is more privacy for you.
When they say they're going to protect you, they mean they're going to control you.
When they say they care about you, they mean they want to regulate you.
When they say they're concerned about TikTok, they just mean they want a slice of the action and the ability to control it like they presumably do all the other big tech companies that they own stocks and shares in while they regulate.
All this stuff is palpable and observable.
Anyone who tells you this is a conspiracy theory is interested in just some other version of the mainstream.
Hey!
That's conspiracy theory!
What we should do, because we're more sensible and academic, is keep stuff basically the same, because we're invested in this system too.
These congressional hearings are a facade, a sham.
It's beneficial to the state in a number of ways, escalating tensions between the United States and China, creating another platform that they can ultimately control, creating more cynicism and suspicion.
suspicion, capturing your data, utilizing it to their own ends, like they've been doing
with the other social media companies, like they did during the pandemic, like they said
they wouldn't.
What's required in order for this to end is real systemic change.
And when I say that, of course, sometimes I think about radical ways where the world
could be decentralized and there could be tribal, locally organized collectives and
all sorts of different ways.
But right now, what's not radical is you could ban people in Congress from owning stocks
and shares at all.
That would mean you'd only have people in Congress that were like, oh wow, I care so much about this, I'm going to give up my right to make money in the stock market.
Is that too much to ask?
Don't have political parties or Congress people or anyone involved in politics receive lobbying money in any form.
That would mean that they would be focused on their bloody job.
And do not allow political parties to be privately funded by large corporations.
You can make those three laws tomorrow.
They won't make those laws because that would mean meaningful change that would empower you.
The Republicans won't do it.
The Democrats won't do it.
Nobody will do it because it would mean meaningful change and change does not suit them, even though it does suit you.
But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the comments in the chat below.
I'll see you in a second.
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Look at this, a Einstein University drug company using lawless, unregulated... Oh, the comments are coming thick and fast!
I want to focus on the people analysing Gareth's dreams, like Tamara Spencer.
Gareth's dream could be expressing his feelings about Biden running again, and that no one seems interested in talking about if that's what's best for him.
At his age, I'd want to be enjoying my retirement.
Also, Gareth might fancy Joe Biden.
Is that what it is?
You did that bit, didn't you?
How do you even know and how can you prove it, more importantly?
What are you going to do, haul me up before a congressional hearing?
I just might.
Get Rand Paul to question me, like look at me over his glasses, like that?
Is that what you're going to do?
I'm going to get that Debbie Wasserman Smith.
You won't get a word in edgeways.
That's my time!
For a change.
This is my... Let's get Debbie Wasserman Smith.
Schultz.
Schultz Smith.
She'd be really annoyed that you didn't remember her name, I tell you that.
Oh, of course she would.
We've been asking you as well whether or not you thought I should get a blue tick, you know, on Twitter.
Yes, is the answer.
As a player, right?
We'll get one then.
Democracy is as simple as that.
You tell us what to do and we do it, whether we agree with you or not, because we trust your judgment.
We'll persuade you as best we can, but then we'll hand over to democracy, trusting independent journalism, free and independent voices to guide us.
How excited we are on that basis to be talking right now to Chris Best, the CEO and co-founder of Substack.
Chris, thanks so much for joining us today.
We're very grateful.
Thank you for having me.
Are you at Substack now?
Yes.
It's the place.
It's a place.
It's a building.
It's in San Francisco.
It's a rainy day.
You're doing well, aren't you, over old Substack?
And I've got a few questions that these have been sent to me by Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
How much money have you got now compared to when you were a little boy?
You're rich, aren't you?
How many people are using Substack, whatever the hell that is?
What did you think about that congressional hearing, Chris?
The TikTok one or the one where they were asking Matt Taibbi about what Substack is?
They were both quite funny.
Matt Taibbi first, but you can do whatever you want while you're here.
Yeah, we love the one where they were asking, is it a website?
Is it a Substack?
What is that thing?
We had a good laugh about that.
Alright wasn't it?
The very fact that they don't know, I mean that is very telling isn't it?
They're doing a hearing, a congressional hearing, they don't know what Substack is.
We're talking to Matt, he's coming on tomorrow and I know that what he feels is like the whole tone of it, It was like really aggressive and condemnatory.
It wasn't an investigation.
Like they were smearing him and slandering him live.
It was appalling really.
I suppose that Substack is to a degree about protecting independent voices.
You've got Tybee on there, Seymour Hirsch the Pulitzer Prize winner, Alex Berenson.
What stories are you most proud of?
Some of the Twitter file stuff that actually Matt Tybee shouldn't have put on there.
You got in trouble for that didn't you?
Was that Berenson?
Berenson!
Or the Nord Stream Pipeline story that old Seymour Hersh who loves us, he uses our content,
Seymour Hersh does, he came on here, he loves our, he watched some of our videos, didn't
he, Gal?
Didn't he?
He did, he liked the Condoleezza Rice video.
He sat there like the dad in Frasier, having like, sort of going, hey you, what you wearing
that hat for, you son of a bitch?
And then by the end of it, he loved us.
So tell us what stuff you're most proud of, Chris.
I'm proud of the work that people get to do on the platform.
We don't get to take any credit for it, right?
We don't get to take the credit for Seymour Hersh breaking world-changing stories.
We don't get to take the credit for Barry Weiss building a new media institution in the free press.
She's covering everything from JK Rowling to You know, she did an interview with Benjamin Netanyahu.
It's just crazy, sort of world-changing stuff.
And it's very diverse, right?
You get Matt Iglesias, who writes Slow Boring, who's sort of like center-left establishment on the spectrum.
You know, he's exactly in the mainstream politically, but he's challenging the orthodoxies.
He's coming out early against defund the police, all this stuff.
You get people saying what they believe on Substack, and I think that matters.
I suppose, yeah, we've often said that one of the indicators of the kind of cultural shifts we've experienced is that journalists like Chris Hedges used to be at the New York Times, and indeed Seymour Hersh, and now they are migrating to these kind of spaces as centralised authoritarian institutions increasingly censor and smear dissenting voices.
I suppose organisations like ours, Rumble, and like yours, Substack, are gonna, we're gonna have to form alliances of some kind, aren't we?
I think this is the right answer.
I mean, you talk a lot about the government stepping in and regulating everyone.
I say build something better.
That's what we can do.
Build something better.
It's a bit like Build Back Better.
It's a bit like Build a Berg Group.
It's a bit like Build a Bear.
But it's actually cool.
Build something better.
Yeah, a lot of people, in fact, Daniel Pinchbeck, who writes on Substack, he always cites, I think it's like Buckminster Fuller, who said, like, you shouldn't compete with the atrophying institutions.
Simply build new systems and people will migrate organically to them, as is Hopefully happening, although a sort of centralised authority will continually condemn them.
That's what tends to happen, isn't it, Gareth?
Yeah, I guess it is.
I mean, I just had a quick thought when you were talking about that.
Was it about Joe Biden kissing him?
It wasn't that.
Him wearing a baby's bonnet and sitting on your lap.
Gareth's been dreaming about Joe Biden, but he's also a journalist and he's got some questions.
No, I wouldn't claim to be at all.
But I was just wondering, do those hearings make you in any way worry about the power of those hearings and Congress and government in its ability to potentially censor Substat, in its potential to make a difference to your business platform and all of that?
Does it worry you in any way?
This is my favorite joke about that, them not knowing Substack on Twitter.
Somebody said, just give them two years and they'll be trying to ban it.
And I think that's true.
I mean, I think you get these moral panics where people freak out about whatever the cause du jour is.
And the answer is always the same.
The answer is always, we need more power.
We need to, you know, have the right to regulate and control these things.
And I think we have to have a robust idea of free speech and a free press as like a default norm to protect against that.
What kind of regulation do you have that would be considered sensible?
For even, like, you know, Rumble, they do have, like, guidelines.
Don't be racist, don't commit crime, no hate speech, don't be anti-semitic, which is just a form of racism.
You know, like, there is regulation.
This is a free speech platform and we use that free speech, of course, to attack centralised authority and to provide counter-narratives where necessary, support great journalism, for many of the people that are On your platform, what kind of things, what kind of guidelines do you have so people know that Substack's not just some sort of Wild West gangnam lunatic hole?
Wild West Gangland Lunatic Hole.
We should make that our new tagline.
I mean, we have rules, too.
We have a content policy.
We don't allow spam.
We don't allow porn.
We don't allow illegal things.
But I think the central ethos of Substack is that the writers and the readers need to be in charge.
You're deciding who you want to follow.
You're deciding who you want to trust.
People should choose their own heroes.
And we trust people to make those decisions.
We think people should make those decisions by their own lights.
And if they make them as their best selves, then we're happy.
Hey, you know those trusted flaggers?
Matt Taibbi's talking about them.
Trusted flaggers, do you know about them?
They're going to be trusted to flag stuff.
Don't be alarmed by trusted flaggers.
They're trusted, after all.
But I think that these trusted... Right in the nail!
Yeah, that's right.
They're only flagging things.
It's not like some untrusted flagger.
God knows where they'd stick that flagpole.
I suppose that ultimately that's the kind of creep that might lead to regulation and censorship of platforms like ours, because we've actually saw an article about how the EU do have plans to regulate online spaces like Rumble, and I imagine that will ultimately affect Substack.
So I guess we're going to need to form alliances, aren't we, to fight against trusted flaggers.
Yeah, I think it's not a new thing.
I mean, this has always been, you know, the idea of a free press, free speech has always been under assault.
Each new generation gets to fight this battle again, learn it the hard way.
It's our time.
You know, it's exciting.
Thank you, Chris Best, for joining us on the show.
Chris Best is the CEO of Substack.
You can go to Substack whenever you want.
Unless you're a Congress person carrying out an investigation, you probably know that already.
Chris, thanks for joining us, mate.
Thank you for having me.
Lovely to meet you.
You look right handsome.
Hey, we've got Matt Taibbi coming up on the show tomorrow.
He gets called a journalist in some spaces, but he's a tax criminal and a pervert.
He didn't know how to respond to you calling him handsome.
Yeah, I know, sometimes I say that to people.
Like, fry them off guard, right at the end of a chat.
What's wrong with that, to tell people they're handsome?
I think it's fine, but he had no comeback for that.
He doesn't need a comeback!
Embarrassed poor Chris.
I didn't, it's not like I went, Chris, Chris best, best in show, Chris best, kissy kissy, I'd like to stack you on my sub, you son of a gun!
Right, well you just have done that.
That was hypothetical.
Wasn't it?
No, it certainly was.
It wasn't a real thing that actually happened in reality.
You wouldn't write that on Substack, would you?
Would I?
I would join Substack right now.
I have my own account and I'll use it simply to write fan fiction about Chris Best.
Chris and I were meeting at the office in front of that plant, that beautifully kept money plant in the background.
How are we going to water it today, Chris Best?
Oh my word.
What's wrong with that?
That's just a man expressing himself.
That's one of the lines in the story, actually.
Hey!
Oh, he's still there!
Sorry about that, Chris.
We got carried away.
I don't know if you know this about me.
I'm quite seriously mentally ill and have managed to turn my mental illness into a type of job.
Luckily, occasionally, I channel some home truths to those in power, don't I?
Certainly do.
It's good, but often though I also channel untrue, mad things at Chris Best, an innocent guest.
Chris Best, he's just an innocent guest, I've got a few things to get off of my chest, but Chris Best, I've been blessed with a stack and it's under the water, a submarine, smarter than it ought to be, oh baby!
Staring at me through those porthole eyes.
Look at those octopi, look at those squid.
I'll join you for a couple of quid.
On Substack, it's unregulated.
Substack, it's fan-generated.
If you don't subscribe, how can you complain?
I don't prescribe anything for pain.
I just face that pain with meditation.
We're gonna create a brand new nation, a glorious flag.
This is show 101.
101 in the mind of Orwell was your worst fears.
The worst fear that any of us should have is tyranny, endless surveillance, lack of true freedom.
But together We can fight it, baby!
We've been fighting it for a hundred shows now, and we're gonna keep fighting it!
We will fight till they nail that fucking lid down on me, baby!
Have a look at those hundred shows!
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Enjoy it!
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Actually you can see that I'm mentally ill.
We really worked hard on the set, haven't we?
Oh the set's, surely it's best.
It's good now.
Do you like the set best?
Tell us in the chat.
Do you like it?
Let's not change the colour again.
I can't go through with it.
It's too much pressure to do more changes.
Yeah, a lot of us liked it when James O'Keefe came on, did you know that?
Is that why you just burst out into song?
To challenge old O'Keefe?
Was that what it was?
That's what it was.
Ever since he came in, Project Veritas, James O'Keefe.
thinking if he can be in a musical why can't I? I want to thank some of the regulars over here,
Ash Ella, Alex Overton, Human Fly, Dear Sensive Heart 25, all of these people that support us.
Bonnie Boo, Bonnie Boo I said I can't believe how good looking they are, I don't know yet if
she means me and you or Joe and Jill Biden.
It could be either.
Primal Collins says he prefers the blue.
Peace, love, light.
Wowee!
Simply.
There's no one commented at all on what just happened before we did that VT then.
Encore, $2 tip from Toker Pro.
There we go.
It's been a great show, Sir Simon Flyer.
Yeah, let's make him sing the clap, says Ellen Sophia.
Jesus Harold Christ, that was amazing, says CRC AE.
Yeah, and then other people are clapping at that.
I think someone says, hey, Einstein Universe, poor Katy, lol.
I think she might mean Katy Perry.
But like, she's surely fully recovered.
Ah, CRA, you're a genius.
That's good.
We need a brand new society, nation.
Yeah, bravo.
I know people, I'm getting back to that bit now.
They're happy about that.
They're happy that happened, aren't they?
Yeah.
Are they?
Yeah, they must be, right.
Why not?
Because that's good to be able to do that.
No, I think it's very skillful.
It's not bad to be able to do that.
No, it was great.
I enjoyed it.
But it's a type of illness?
Yes.
What type?
The mental type.
Manic depression?
I don't know, we'll work it out, won't we?
But I won't take tablets for it, Gal, I won't.
I won't have my light dimmed by the pharmaceutical industry.
No, God no.
Not again.
Not them.
No, thank you.
We do not trust them.
Hey, listen, if you want to join the locals' community and be able to comment directly on the sort of things that go on on this show, if you want to come and join us when we do live recordings, see people like Graham Hancock and Vandana Shiva in live conversation, If you want to come and see our community event, we give away free tickets to join us at Community in the middle of July.
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That's us in the chat.
That's us.
I think it's Lara that's run of it, one of the people that works here.
You can just chat to them.
If you want meditations for me to do a guided meditation for you, unbelievably, they're quite good.
I did one the other week with a woman who was bereaved.
Well, she was by the time I finished with her.
No, I mean, like, she was suffering from a bereavement.
Sure.
She'd lost her husband.
She was called Judy.
She lived in Denmark.
Her husband, Paul, sadly died.
She needed a guided meditation.
I'm here to help people with their spiritual development.
Yeah.
That's what I do.
I know.
You didn't do the song then, did you?
Yeah, she said it was inappropriate.
She said I ruined her evening with what she called claptrap.
Claptrap, time wasting.
Rhyming claptrap.
Rhyming claptrap.
Come over here, Dan, and do some different shots.
Wander about a bit, express yourself.
Look at that.
We've got a new camera in here now.
It's operated by Dan Camp.
Look at that bloody hell.
Look at the freedom.
Look at me.
Hey, how's it going?
All right, that's show 101.
Nearly done.
And the most bizarre show yet, I would offer.
Is it?
Who do you think it is?
I reckon it's up there.
Why?
What's so bizarre about it?
It's up there.
That bit where I spoke to Substack?
Little bit.
Oh, I thought I was nice to Substack.
No, you were nice.
Do you think I was nice to Substack?
Couple of questions, give him a compliment, do a weird song, end of show.
What do people want for their subscription fee?
Mm-mm.
Eh?
Hey, so I suppose, what's happening now?
Go and talk to Matt Tobey tomorrow, talk to Callie Means the next day.
Yep.
Go to 12-step meetings.
Yes.
Deal with things, just deal with reality I suppose.
Good.
Go home.
Alright then, shall we wrap up the show?
Yeah.
Are you enjoying yourself?
This person, Thomas Beard, just says Dalmatians.
There's no context for that.
101, 101, 101.
Oh, Dalmatians.
Thanks, I just thought you were saying it.
He's free to say it if he wants.
That's what Rumble's about.
You want to say Dalmatians out of context?
Yeah, Thursday, Matt Taibbi.
Free Matt Taibbi.
Although he's already free in a way.
Why do people keep asking for Liam and Noel Gallagher?
Imagine the commission on that reunion, getting Oasis back together.
It'd be good, wouldn't it?
Mission?
Why have I got to do it?
And can I do it?
No.
Although I did think that I could achieve a Middle East peace deal if I was trusted to.
Yeah, someone's just written 101 Dalmatians on the screen.
I really feel like, you know when dreams and reality all merge into one thing?
That's happening to me now.
Dalmatians, 101 Dalmatians.
This might be still part of my Joe Biden dream.
All of this.
If in a dream, and I ask you this at home as well, if in the middle of a dream you were running away from, I don't know, 101 Dalmatians, say, and someone came up to you in the dream, not Cruella de Vil, you're not going to trust her after what she's done, someone came up to you and went, stop running, it's just a dream, it's just a dream, you in the dream would be unable to respond to that.
You know, because it becomes an immersive and total reality, even though it's entirely within your own consciousness.
Some people believe that that's what we're experiencing now.
And in fact, when you think about it, it's more unlikely that this is the deepest and ultimate level of reality.
That would be ridiculous.
We know already there are things called dreams and then things called reality.
The idea that this is the apex and nadir of reality simultaneously is ludicrous.
It's plain that there are other dimensions of reality.
It's plain that we access them through things like love, solidarity, kindness.
These emotions that are difficult to discern and understand.
So, um...
We're not doing a chat about...
Why not?
Alternate realities, mate.
Alternate realities!
That's what I'm talking about, baby.
Yeah, it's sad news about Paul O'Grady, Primal Colin.
He's a British entertainer in drag.
He played Lily Savage.
He was pretty funny.
I went on that show a couple of times.
He was a pretty beautiful person.
It's a shame that he's died.
He was a pretty beautiful guy.
Yeah, brilliant.
He was funny, yeah.
He was well funny.
He really was.
Scouser and that, yeah.
Let's remember him with love for a moment.
Alright, so should we wrap up the show then?
Let's do that.
Thanks for joining us for our 101st show that appropriately had a beautiful sprinkling of insanity throughout it.
But remember, we spoke about independent journalism, we talked about government corruption, we talked about propaganda.
These are the themes and ideas that define Stay Free.
A belief that individually there is a greatness and a glory within us.
That if we access the deeply personal, we will find the universal.
That from this deep resource within us all, We can form new systems.
Perhaps it's true that we should just create our own institutions, our own democracies.
Perhaps we should, as one, reject the systems of the state, reject the systems of corporatism, and form new nations now.
New democracies, new alliances, accepting, tolerant, loving, Yet defiant against corruption.
That's just one of the things I've learned over the last hundred episodes.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Do stay with us.
Do join us on this great voyage towards truth and freedom.
Join us tomorrow when it's show 102.
We can't keep celebrating all of them, can we?
There ain't 102 Dalmatians, are there?
Are there?
No, there aren't.
I don't think so, if there's no film about them.
Alright, join us tomorrow, not for more of the same, but for more of the different.
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