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OH SH*T…Is Taiwan the New Ukraine!? - #116 - Stay Free With Russell Brand
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Yeah, enjoy your life.
Enjoy it.
This is your life.
You're living.
You're lunatics.
This is Stay Free with Russell Brand.
We're streaming live.
Hello, Vandana Shiva.
Are you the new Snowden?
Hello, Van Dyne-achiever.
Are you the new Snowden? Are you?
Join us not for more of the same, but for more of the different.
Until then, stay free.
In this video, you're going to see the future.
That's better.
We are getting to breaking news. We've got a live shot there.
So there you Awakening Wonders.
Thanks for joining me live on the internet for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
We've got a hell of a lot to talk to you about.
Of course we have.
We're living in a crazy world.
We're living in crazy times.
If you want to join the conversation, you can get on Locals right now.
That's our membership community.
People are saying stuff like, actually, I'm here for the beginning live.
People are excited.
People are feeling the energy.
People sense that real change is about to happen, that the institutions are crumbling.
That the media is falling apart, that their funding models don't work, that their advertising is collapsing, that they don't know how to cope with this degree of dissent and it's all because of you and the great power within you.
Trust that power.
Don't trust their lies.
Trust your instinct and intuition.
Sure, you might be fallible, but we're approaching this situation in good faith, ain't we?
Can you hear some of the revelations we're making today?
You're gonna double down on that self-trust and that loathing of authoritarianism that's got you this far because we are talking about...
The mother of all conspiracy theories.
Is it the mother?
I'd say so.
If JFK's the father of all conspiracy theories, then the mother... Stop there.
...9-11.
That great scar on the American psyche.
We cannot talk about this on YouTube, but there's a new revelation, and if this is true, and the reporting suggests it is, this is groundbreaking.
This is earth-shattering.
This shows disdain for the American people and lies at the heart of government, and we will be talking to you about that in ten minutes' time.
9-11.
I can't say more, otherwise I'll be called a conspiracy theorist.
But what do they call people?
Yeah, that horse has bolted.
And it's become a term, as you know, as you taught us, that they use to shut down debate.
It's interesting that conspiracy theorists often talk about ideas that are not amenable to the interests of powerful elites that Joe Biden governs for.
When Joe Biden told those donors Nothing will fundamentally change.
That is a direct quote.
What was he saying?
We will act as stewards for your elite institutional interests and we will control the American people.
The American people are our enemies.
That's why we need surveillance.
That's why we need control.
That's why we look for opportunities to legislate and regulate.
We're certainly not trying to help people.
So we're going to be looking at some pretty interesting stories actually about Joe Biden.
We are going to look in depth at the relationship between almost the entire Biden family and Burisma.
A lot of them.
Yeah, there's the Biden family.
The Biden family.
Every single member of the Biden family seems to have some sort of relationship with Ukrainian gas firm Barisma.
Barisma.
Best in the business.
Oh, you want gas?
Come get it here.
We're also going to be talking to Shania Twain.
That don't impress me much.
No, it isn't.
We're not talking to Shania Twain.
We're talking to Dr. Shanna Swan, whose name, when written down, looks a bit like Shania Twain.
But you're going to get a very different interview.
Right.
Well, who knows?
Have you ever tried interviewing Shania Twain?
No.
Right.
But I'll tell you, I'll tell you, even though we're talking to Shanna Swan, not Shanna Twain, I'll tell you what don't impress me much.
Go on.
The deterioration of sperms.
Your own?
Mine are fine.
I've looked at those guys under a microscope.
Oh, that's what that was for.
And the instrument that delivered them.
I wonder why it was all greasy.
You stay away from that.
You don't need a microscope.
Use that.
God's microscope.
Got it.
The mind.
The mind.
Shannon Swan, a world-renowned reproductive health professor who believes the modern world is threatening sperm counts and imperiling the future of the human race.
Sometimes, do you think that the human race is worth saving?
Do you ever get into a state of despair and think, it's humanity itself.
But then you think of Christ.
Then you think of Gandhi.
And then you think of this great suffering that we've been through.
And you think of the love that you feel for the people in your life.
And you think, no, this is worth fighting for.
Christ didn't have to deal with phthalates though, did he?
He wasn't around in his day.
Christ may not have had to deal with phthalates, which are sort of this toxin in food that's getting down into what I call the sperm duct and messing with your testy juices.
We're still on YouTube, and I'll tell you what, if YouTube regulators, and you know that the WHO set their policy around healthcare, for example, If the YouTube regulators have any idea of what we're about to say, you know, like when they put a warning at the top of all our videos, or like, you know, if you look at Joe Rogan's podcasts on Spotify down the menu, COVID advice, COVID advice, COVID advice, like, you know, like also
9-11.
It's one of those subjects, isn't it?
And I, out of respect for the victims of 9-11, I would never convey irresponsible theories about what went on that day.
But these revelations seems to me that they're demonstrably true.
But we'll investigate it together.
We'll tell you.
You'll tell us whether you think it's true.
It's been reported elsewhere.
We're going to be discussing it exclusively on Rumble though.
There's a link in the description whether you're watching this on Elon Musk Citadel of Wonder, that's Twitter, or over there at YouTube.
Subset of Alphabet, subset of Google.
Fantastic there, 6.4 million awakening wonders can hardly be wrong.
Can they, Gal?
Can they?
I've got here, I have in my hand... Is that, what is it?
It's a tick device.
Oh yeah.
For, um, not for, uh, wounded sperms.
I thought that's how you got it out.
Boop!
Out you come!
Beep!
Beep!
No, it's for, uh, it's for my beautiful dog, Bear.
Did it come free with the microscope?
No!
This is the sort of thing you would get in cereal.
You know, like Rice Krispies or Frosties or something like that.
Anyway, let's not get bogged down in that.
It's for Bear.
There's my beautiful dog, Bear.
See him?
God, I love that guy.
You a good boy?
Yes, you are.
Yes, you are.
Are we going to bring down the government using only truth as our weapon?
Yes, we are.
Only truth and a tick remover.
The parasites that sup upon the human spirit must be removed.
Truth is our weapon.
You know where Joe Biden's announced that he's gonna be running again?
Through a beautiful piece of propaganda that we have analysed, scrutinised, and debunked, essentially, because we've offered a rebuttal for many of his points about freedom.
Sweet lady freedom.
Freedom that we all adore, that we all love, that perhaps isn't being delivered.
Searching for the soundbite.
Oh, where are we gonna get it?
Is it gonna be there?
No, it's the wrong one.
There it is.
Freedom, you will let us down though, Joe Biden, because you will make all sorts of claims, whether it's sick days for workers.
Well, once you've said nothing's going to fundamentally change, what you've essentially said is, I am going to manage this nation for the elites, right?
One person who's been making his own.
I mean, is Donald Trump some sort of YouTube maestro?
His latest video, his response to Biden's news that he's running, it's like a YouTube video.
Like there's cutaways that are the same as when we do, say if we do an advert for golden things.
You think he's copying you?
I think he's copying me.
Right.
I think he's copycatting us.
A sincerest form of flattery.
Yeah.
I think so.
Let us know in the chat.
Wait till you see this video.
I would say this is Donald Trump.
Stay free.
And if you're watching Donald Trump, because we know Don Trump Jr.
is on Rumble, and we've been trying to organize an interview with Donald Trump for a little while.
I bet you'd love to see that, would you?
Would you love to see Donald Trump on Stay Free?
We'd take the trip to Mar-a-Lago for that.
Imagine that, gal.
You and I on the sunbeds at Mar-a-Lago.
I'll be up for that.
You would too?
Yeah.
What do you think?
Would you get bothered?
Because it's a busy place, Mar-a-Lago, these days.
Is it?
What's going on there?
Well, it's booked out.
Fully booked.
Is it actually a holiday resort?
You'd have to talk to the big man.
I don't know what it is.
I thought he'd just live there.
I thought he'd start going to his house.
I thought it was like Hugh Hefner's mansion or Graceland.
Like, I like it when someone's so famous that their house is famous.
Yes.
Michael Jackson, never land.
Or as we call it now, sometimes land.
And Graceland, that's for the King.
Mar-a-Lago, anyone else?
King Arthur, Camelot.
That's your next example.
Emu's Pink Windmill.
That's it.
That's all I've got.
Emu's a British TV show where Rod Hull manipulated a Emu puppet, memorably once, irritating Snoop Dogg,
who didn't enter into the spirit of it. It was like a puppet thing, like Rod Hull, who managed Emu,
went, oh no, Emu, Emu! And like, Emu was naughty and that, and bothered people.
Yeah.
But Snoop Dogg, he was the early incarnation of Snoop, still cripple-walking Snoop, I'm thinking.
Like, he was like, I don't agree with this.
Like, he sort of treated it like this is just this guy's hand.
Yeah, well it was his guy's hand, yeah.
And he treated it as such.
Maybe we can have a look at that later, because it's a pretty good clip.
It's Rod Hull appearing on The Word with Snoop Dogg.
Maybe after we get through one of the biggest conspiracy theories in the history of humankind, then we'll get to Rod and Emu.
We're gonna look at one of the biggest conspiracy theories in mankind.
Not that the CIA were potentially involved in Snoop Dogg.
Was Rod Hull a CIA operative?
That's it.
Who was really operating that emu that attacked the towering Snoop Dogg that day?
Was it apparently the emu of...
No, I see what you're doing.
Do you see?
I think you've got round the YouTube guidelines.
Guidelines!
Guidelines!
There are only guidelines.
There are only supposed to be a guide.
Let's have a look at Trump's response vid.
Have a look.
You could take the five worst presidents in American history And put them together and they would not have done the damage Joe Biden has done to our nation in just a few short years.
I like that.
I like the way he said that.
So we've had a look at who we think, and let's know who you think are the worst presidents, but let's have a look at who we claim are the worst presidents in American history.
You can let us know in the chat who you think the worst ones are.
So this is what we're offering, but let's hear your offers.
James Buchanan, He refused to challenge the spread of slavery.
That's bad, and he should at least challenge it.
Right.
Herbert Hoover, he presided over the stock market crash, which spiraled into the Great U.S.
Depression, right?
Is that bad?
Lyndon Johnson, he escalated the Vietnam War.
Richard Nixon, for his involvement in the Watergate cover-up.
And George W. Bush for the invasion of Iraq, based on the false accusation that they had weapons of mass destruction.
But hey, this is a conversation.
Who do you guys think the worst five are?
Or just some more...
These were only put together by the lads in the gallery.
More contributions to that rogue's gallery!
That's a rogue's gallery!
See, let us know in the chat.
I want to know who you think are the worst ones.
Of course, some of you are saying Obama, you nitwits.
That's called recency bias, that is.
Right.
Recency bias.
He's already said Biden.
Although, yeah, what could you say, by Obama?
2008.
2008.
Bailed out the banks for equality.
Could have said, nah, them banks collapsed, man.
We're going to have a whole new system.
Change.
Hope.
Change hope?
Didn't you run on change and hope?
Let's have some change and hope to help the American people.
Bill Clinton deregulating Wall Street.
Bill Clinton!
I mean there's lots of cases for a few of them.
I think our guest Shanna Swan would be interested in Bill Clinton's blue dress deposit.
Let's see the quality of Monica Lewinsky's dress.
You think that's worse than deregulating Wall Street?
Who knows?
Maybe.
He did deregulate Wall Street.
Guys, do me a like over there on Wall Street.
All these regulations.
I'm getting sick of all these regulations.
I'm having to regulate this guy.
My downstairs little pocket pal.
I ain't regulating him no more.
He's going to ride a...
He's got to write a little letter on Monica's legs.
with a wide ink of life. Come on over to Baker Street. So who is the worst president?
Andrew Jackson.
I thought he was for real.
I'm sorry, Andrew Jackson.
I thought he was for real.
He's a good president, isn't he?
Yeah, he's for real.
So yeah, let us know what you think.
Do you want to say any more Trump, or are you done with Trump?
I don't know, man.
The thing is with watching Trump, whether you like him or don't like him, normally the things he says are funny.
And it's difficult to... What you could do is offer rebuttals and go, well, you've said that, mate, but it's, like, drooling.
Sometimes it's a bit boring.
Or you could just go, it's funny what you've said there, mate.
Because of his style.
He's got good style.
I mean, in a conversation that we will be having soon with David Sirota from The Liver, I think we'll be talking about the oratory skill that Trump possesses and the ability as to exploit the apertures.
You think you'll be talking about that, do you?
It's just a hunch, mate.
That's in your mind, I'm going to mention that.
Inside my mind, I've got a hunch.
Someone in the chat said that Truman is a bad president on account of he dropped an atomic bomb on a city of humans, like us, with babies.
Babies, old people, folks of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
You're right.
Why did the lads miss that one?
That is so bad that Truman done that.
Especially when his name is Truman.
Right.
Because you'd think he'd be a nice guy.
I think we've got people working for us that think that was okay.
I think that those... Let's have a look at the gallery, Dan.
Open them up.
We've been infiltrated.
Infiltrated.
Do you see that?
And also show the way that that glass can turn from frosty, opaque, to... Go on.
Defrost it.
Defrost the glass.
Oh, it's frozen.
Oh, it's frozen.
Oh, right.
I'm a technical issue.
Yeah, conspiracy.
No, it's stopped.
It's defrosted now.
Look at that, see?
They can defrost and frost the glass.
That is technology.
Defrost, frost.
Defrost, frost.
See?
Wow.
That's very much like the system itself.
That's where the money went.
That's where the budget's gone.
Yeah, that's all.
We spent every single penny we had on the old frosty glass.
There's the team out there.
Which one of you didn't think that actually bombing the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was as bad as Clinton just making a downstairs mistake writing a letter with the pen of life?
The pen of life.
Him.
Al.
60% Al.
Al, would you apologise to Japanese people?
I apologise to them, because I don't think Hiroshima and Nagasaki were... They're worse than Clinton.
They're much worse, they're much worse.
Should we... Stories?
There's a war brewing.
We've got some stories, yeah.
Speaking of atomic bombs...
Oh yeah, because I'm still not actually over the current attempt to bring about Armageddon by provoking the great bear that is Russia through the proxy war in Ukraine, which seems to me to be somewhat connected to the military-industrial complex that can't pass an audit.
They've spent billions and billions supporting this war.
70% of the weapons, we just don't even know where they're gone.
So, you know, finish your first war.
Right.
Have another one later, that's what I have with my children.
It's a bit like your main meal and dessert kind of thing.
With my kids, gal.
I'm like, you will finish... I'm trying to get them to eat vegetables these days.
Oh right, they're not doing wars for you?
Well actually, me and my kids are actually trying to provoke China into a war.
By saying, oh, we've got to protect Taiwan.
It's a crisis over there.
It's nothing to do with those semiconductors.
Those semiconductors, don't worry about them.
Them semiconductors, I don't even know who they are.
So like, yeah, this is the next US proxy war.
Let us know in the chat if you think it is.
And also keep telling us who you think are the worst presidents, because we obviously can't rely on our own research team to spot a literal nuclear bomb dropped on an independent nation.
Our Reagan for mentally ill homeless people.
Good.
Well done.
We can only do five.
I mean, there have been a lot of mistakes.
Right.
The next proxy war is going to be with Taiwan.
Not with Taiwan.
We're going to help Taiwan against China.
Those oppressive swines.
Yeah.
Troops are getting sent over now.
Actual troops!
That's right.
First the weapons, now the troops.
They've sent some weapons.
Can I just ask, who's paying for those weapons?
That would be the taxpayers.
Taxpayers.
Do you remember voting for that?
I remember in the election when Joe Biden goes, we're gonna send some weapons and that.
Yeah, there are tootsies on the terra firma.
There's tootsies on the terra firma in Taiwan.
We will not use phrases like boots on the ground.
Not on this show.
We will not use the idioms of the state.
We will not kowtow.
Never will we kowtow.
I thought that was coming.
Even to their idioms.
Billory was the worst.
Billory, alright Billory, you've made that into a Hydra.
Look at this.
Portmanteau.
You're really contributing to this.
Everyone wants an opinion on this.
Well done guys.
Well done.
Funny you skipped Obama.
We covered Obama, darling.
Don't editorialise.
Don't know who said that.
We covered Obama.
We talked about the quantitative easing 2008 and the way that it exacerbated the mistrust in the population.
We covered it quite well.
But, in a way, it isn't worse than dropping a bomb on a whole city.
I mean, imagine the guy in Nagasaki now.
Or Hiroshima.
No.
What are you going to say to those guys?
I don't like to think of that.
You've got to apologise.
But let's look ahead to the future.
What's going to happen?
The future.
New war now.
Got another war.
And this one's going to be a good one.
But it's for the right reasons, Russ, because GOP Congressman Michael McCaul has been interviewed about it.
This is so brilliant, this, because he starts off by accidentally just plainly saying...
saying, watch this, this is like how the mainstream media and the government
occasionally err. He sort of goes, oh we've got to have that war because there's
semiconductors over there and they're sort of in a sense the the
interviewer actually says it's the oil of our epoch. Then just at the end
he goes, no it's for democracy and freedom.
You can't just say things about democracy and freedom.
Can you?
Yes, you can.
That's what he does do.
Watch this.
This is brilliant.
It's brilliant.
Check this out.
So they're agitating for a conflict with a pretty serious superpower.
It's a very glib affair.
Check it out.
Make the basic case for why Americans not only should care about what happens in Taiwan, but should be willing to spill American blood and treasure to defend Taiwan.
By the way, treasure?
Treasure?
American treasure?
Arrgh!
Hold on to my treasure!
I'll tell you someone who did spill American treasure.
Is it Bill Clinton?
I think it's going to be him.
About 50% of international trade goes through the international straits, but I think more importantly, Chuck, is that the TSMC manufactures 90% of the global supply of advanced semiconductor chips.
Angus Brennan, it almost sounds like...
It's just told us what it is. 90% of these advanced semiconductors, which I don't know, besides the computers
and computer chips, you need them, innit?
You do need them, yeah. Weapons as well.
Oh, and then?
All sorts, yeah.
All sorts, they're doing important...
They're fundamental, yeah, to the American project.
Right, you just told us that's what it's for. Like, you know, there's always some economic and financial reason.
If your ideology is ultimately economic and financial, sort of late corporatist zombie capitalism, call it whatever you want to, then that will be the ideology that drives your actions.
Certainly the significant actions that undergird your entire economic and political system.
We've already established that the United States of America cannot exist without war.
That's why you can't start unravelling like the British monarchy, for example, because once you start looking at it, the whole thing just stops making sense.
We'll be doing a coronation special, by the way, next week.
So anyway, after saying, look, we've got to go over there because of them semiconductors, he sort of almost remembers in the middle of the interview, or maybe like they have a chip inside them that gets activated by a central control.
That's a conspiracy theory, I'm just making that up.
Unlike the conspiracy theory we'll be telling you about exclusively on Rumble.
Oh God, yeah.
Allegedly!
They don't have little chips in their minds.
They don't have that.
They don't have that.
That was a thing called a joke that we used to have before everything got all crazy.
Like, they don't have a chip in their mind that could be activated by central control.
They might as well have though.
They might as well have because they do use things like they all use the same word and do crazy stuff and have kangaroo courts in congress where they call legitimate journalists like so-called journalists and attack them and then threaten to imprison them.
I mean there's all sorts of craziness going on.
Anyway, watch this dude now about to say something like, he just goes, oh sorry, I'm in democracy and freedom.
Taiwan ain't even a democracy, is it?
Right.
Like, leave him alone.
They can have their, if you are truly democratic, you've got to allow other people not to be.
You would think that would be one of the foremost principles.
Let's check him, maybe he gets back on brand.
We'll check him.
The case that would be made in the 60s, 70s, and 80s of why America was spending so much money and military resources in the Middle East.
Oil was so important for the economy.
Is this sort of the 21st century version of that?
You know, I personally, I think it's about democracy and freedom.
Aww, that's actually quite sweet, like a kid at school, almost.
Is it democracy and freedom?
Well done, you can have a biscuit now.
You can, here, have a saxophone.
Even the way that Chuck Todd talked about oil in the 60s, 70s and 80s.
and 80s as if it's not going on now. I mean what do you think these
relationships with Saudi Arabia are for? What do you think the fist bumps are for?
And all that kind of stuff and not holding them to account in the way that
Biden said pre-election like he would do making them pariahs.
Do you know the reason why they're not pariahs? Because we need oil you
know so it's still ongoing.
So are you saying that that's another pre-election pledge?
I am suggesting that.
Yeah. We do a pretty good analysis of Biden's electoral campaign video.
It's really quite a good video actually.
It's good propaganda.
But the claims that it makes are absolutely outrageous.
Friday that'll be on.
Is that?
We're going to watch it on Friday?
You've got to watch Friday's show.
It's going to be a cracker.
It's going to be a scorcher.
Okay, and look, here's more future war with Taiwan stuff.
The U.S.
urged to destroy Taiwan's semiconductor factories if China invades.
Oh, they're gonna smash them up!
Right, exactly.
So if they can't have them, they will smash them up, yeah.
If I can't have you, no one will!
Them semiconductors is like their girlfriends in their minds.
But in blowing those up, you would imagine the US would be causing quite a lot of damage to Taiwan that it's just clearly used to protect.
Excuse me, we're working in that factory.
My dog's in there.
Oh, I've just left me lunch box.
If we can't have those semiconductors, no one will!
Also, they're rehearsing wars with China.
Is that good? To rehearse a war?
I would say probably not, no.
Because you start to sort of get into the idea a little bit.
Over in the Philippines, practicing doing a war.
I don't know that that might precipitate the war.
Military exercises and drills.
I always think that thing about drills. It's like, don't worry, it's just a drill.
Right, what is that proceeding then?
You know, it doesn't seem like a good thing.
Imagine if you found out, for example, that prior to the pandemic, there had been a series of...
Well, why would we, whilst we're on the...
We wouldn't!
Speculatively, hypothetically, if prior to the pandemic, just hypothetically, there had been like a series of like drills where like, oh, in the event that there were, here are some things we've do and possibly we don't.
Imagine if you found out, for example, that, and this is again hypothetical, that China had already invented medications for an as-yet Not invented, an emergent condition.
Look at you.
Allegedly.
Grappling around the guidelines.
Do you see me?
I'm a guideline ninja.
I'm the Nijinsky of the guidelines.
I'm like that tightrope walker between the twin towers and we've got some interesting stuff coming up about that.
Allegedly.
The only thing that could make all these unnecessary wars even worse, the suffering, the death, the needless loss of life for Americans and natives of the various countries, Ukrainian blood spilled, Russian blood spilled, all children of God here to participate in the miracle of life together.
The only thing that could make all this killing and profiteering worse would be discovering that you, the American taxpayer, are literally funding it Without ever being asked if you would like to.
Ordinary Americans are being forced to subsidize the military-industrial complex.
Subsidize it?
It can't even operate on its own capitalist metric.
Excuse me.
A new report released by the Institute for Policy Studies examines Americans' income taxes in relation to military and security spending to show just how much of the average person's tax bill is going to the likes of cluster bombs rather than hospitals.
Would you, sir, could I ask, would you like hospitals and schools?
Well, yes, I suppose so, because eventually everyone will get sick and die, and having hospitals can only be a good thing.
And what about schools?
Well, yes, I have children, and even those of us who don't have children want an educated population that can participate in society.
Okay, well there's no more questions.
That's the end of the show.
Oh, before I go, one other thing, Columbo style.
Would you also like cluster bombs?
Oh, just tell me a little more about these cluster bombs.
Well, what they are is a cluster of bombs that can kill and maim potentially innocent people.
Oh, No, no, no.
I was much more interested in the schools and hospitals.
Well, frankly, this was just a survey, not an electoral process, because you will never be democratically invited to participate in that by either party.
Whoever you vote for, you will never get to vote for anything meaningful, because there's already a consensus that you're only going to quarrel endlessly about hot-button cultural topics.
Meanwhile, powerful elites are stewarded by whoever That's a grand a year, by the way, that you can't spend on food or whatever else.
A grand a year we've got to spend.
That's what American taxpayers are paying.
and this actually straddled a couple of presidencies, both of whom cause a great deal of ire on
either side and in a sense in microcosm it demonstrates the whole damn bloody problem.
Um, okay.
That's a grand a year by the way that you can't spend on food or whatever else.
A grand a year we've got to spend.
That's what American taxpayers are paying.
On cluster bombs.
Yep.
I'd rather have that grand for... You could have a VIP trip to Disneyland for that.
Could you?
A grand?
You get, like, Q-jumping.
Right.
You, like, maybe Ron DeSantis would come with you himself.
I don't think he would.
Why?
Oh, he hates it there.
Come on, Ron.
Oh, absolutely not.
Okay, hold on.
On the worst ever present.
He's a groundbreaker.
Tell me, Americans, if you agree with this one.
George Washington's first love was the wife of his best friend.
Oh, that's the worst of the lot, isn't it?
Don't you do that!
Don't you do that when you come over to watch Man City Arsenal tonight!
Well, we get on well.
You do!
And she already told me that if I died, and if it was, if I died, she'd, like, marry you.
Did she?
Oh.
Yeah, because you're good with the kids, you're a nice person, you're handsome.
What about me?
I'm down in the grave, rotting.
Yeah.
You won't spend my legacy!
I'll be taking that grand off you a year.
Oh, my grand!
Spend it on whatever I want!
Oh, my precious grand!
Mind you, at that point, I've rejoined the limitless consciousness that abides in all things, that was present before the Big Bang, that is present beyond that which can be determined and measured.
Ah, I forgive you for this.
You know, see?
Grand a year, grand a year.
I'm living it up.
Moving on up, I'm moving on out.
Allegedly.
We can never prove that people are moving up or out and M people were wrong to claim that they could.
That's a British band.
Uh, okay, we're gonna leave you now.
If you're watching us on the oo-oop or a toy-tar, we're going to have to leave you now because we're about to talk about something so controversial and you are gonna love it.
I'm telling you, you're gonna want to join us on Rumble.
There's a link in the description.
There are conspiracy theories, and then there's the mother of all conspiracy theories.
There are territories that even Alex Jones and David Icke dare not traverse for fear of the cluster bombs that accrue.
We're going to tell you stuff that is going to make your knickers go all unusual.
Oh no.
Okay, we're on Rumble now.
Wow.
That was... I can tell you he's got actings in his bones, isn't it?
Did you see that?
He just did.
Acting!
Was that the Branagh training, was it?
Do you want to see some acting?
Because I got... Yeah, when Branagh just went... I'd done a film called Death Down the Nile.
Now, while I was being in that, I was playing the part of you.
I look like you.
I look like you anyway.
You were the basis of my character.
Hmm, how would Gareth Roy be?
I was in the film, Death Down an Isle, with Wonder Woman.
She was the main star.
Yeah, I know, yeah.
There was one bit of Death Down an Isle where she kissed me.
Yeah.
I just thought, let's pretend this is real life.
Well, yeah.
And then I'm being kissed by Wonder Woman.
I was thinking that.
Yeah, it is real life.
It's real life.
I was thinking about animals, like, you know, when animals are acting.
And animals in a film.
They don't know that it's a film.
And a baby.
Like Beethoven, like when he's being in Beethoven, Beethoven!
BEETHOVEN!
Like, it's Charles Grodin.
The dog.
We're on Rumble now.
Yeah, not Beethoven in the museum.
He wouldn't be able to hear you anyway.
No.
There's no point.
You're wasting your time.
You'd have to slap him.
Yeah.
Beethoven, you little motherfucker!
BEETHOVEN YOU LITTLE MOTHERFUCKER Beethoven's like, well I don't know what you mean
I've actually got an equity card, I'm a member of SAG, you can't talk to me like that
I also don't remember that line from the movie Yeah, what happened, Beethoven is spilling all the crisps
He's knocking down a wallpaper paste And Charles Groening like, Beethoven you little
motherfucker No, that wasn't a line, no
Definitely wasn't.
I watched those as a child.
Beethoven, he'd come in, he'd knocked over all the plants, the flowers and the fabric.
I remember those bits.
And he'd got like a sort of a bow on, I think.
Beethoven, you little motherfucker!
No, that's the bit I don't remember, no.
Well, it's actually a big part of the film.
Okay, right.
Beethoven, sadly, didn't even know that was real.
Or like, if you're in a film with a baby, it's like a little baby like this.
Or a monkey like you were.
Oh, that little dickhead.
That monkey that I was in Rocker Ages with...
Just one more minute!
Just one more minute!
Just one more precious minute!
trailer. Yeah, it was own caravan, it had monkey girlfriends in it and during the intervals it would go in
there and kiss and cuddle them to relax it.
How do you know that? Because it's just in there as well.
I said, what is this happening to everyone?
Well, Mr. Brand, they are baboons.
Mr. Brand, you are wanted on set.
You've been there for three hours.
Just one more minute!
Just one more minute!
Just one more precious minute!
Beethoven, you little motherfucker!
There he is.
Beethoven didn't know what Charles Grodin wanted.
None of us do.
He's a complicated man.
He's a complicated man.
So... Yeah, so I was in Death, Down and Up, no?
Is that the main story?
Main story!
That's what we came on to Rumble for.
Alright, no, listen, if you've just joined us on Rumble because you want the truth, you can handle the truth, and we believe you can handle the truth.
Check this out.
Can this be true?
Tell us in the comments.
Tell us in the chat.
Because if this is true...
This is not only a groundbreaker, it's a ground zero breaker.
A declassified court filing from the Guantanamo Military Commission, the court considering the cases of defendants accused of planning the 9-11 terrorist attacks in New York City, suggests that two of the hijackers were being closely monitored and possibly recruited by the CIA BEFORE Before the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Is this emerging evidence, Gareth Roy, that the CIA was somehow involved in the execution of 9-11?
I mean, you don't want them in any way... and is it at best Evidence that the CIA should have intervened and prevented it?
What the hell is going on?
Why can't we have an open discourse?
Well, we already don't have an open discourse about 9-11, don't we?
I mean, Saudi Arabia... Going back to Saudi Arabia and making them pariahs, I mean, we know that there were, like, financial ties between... Well, it certainly claimed, allegedly, very nice, that, like, there was financial assistance provided... Actually, Ron Rumbaugh, I don't need to press that.
No, you don't need to.
If we could speak freely elsewhere, but we can't.
It's the simple truth.
That the terrorists involved were being supplied financially by Saudi Arabia, and that the reason why Bush administration downplayed the Saudi connection was obviously because of oil.
I mean, coming back to the same old issue that we were talking about regarding the semiconductors.
So that's already one thing that isn't being thoroughly investigated, or so it hadn't been revealed.
I also heard that there were members of the Saudi royal family that were flown out.
I think that was in like a Michael Moore documentary.
That's right, yeah.
♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom. ♪ It's a good song.
Yeah.
What's the connection to the...?
Because the war was for freedom.
Okay, cool.
Yeah, that works.
Sweet Lady Freedom.
Nicely done.
There's one lady we love above all others, gal.
It's Sweet Lady Freedom.
Breithoven, you motherfucker!
A former... The court filing suggests that the CIA obstructed official 9-11 investigations to conceal its infiltration of Al-Qaeda.
It obstructed the official 9-11 investigations.
This is from Greyzone.
We've got to get... Max.
Max Blumenthal.
We've got to get him on.
Kit Clarenberg, I think it is.
Kit Clarenberg.
Not what you called him earlier.
Clit Cattenberg.
That's a totally different guest.
That's the porn version.
That's right.
Of him, who we would also... Great articles though.
Well, you would.
In a state of continued ecstasy.
A former FBI special agent with extensive knowledge of counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence matters said, the attempt to recruit al-Hamzi and al-Mindar was an operation directed by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Is there more reporting on this?
Yeah, there is, but... Go on, give us more.
Well, there's a whole... I mean, this is why we should get the guys from the Grey Zone on.
Grey Zone.
The Grey Zone, they suffer a lot of attacks, don't they?
They certainly do, yeah.
A lot of criticisms.
And I actually like the grey zone.
Well, obviously this will all be under, for many people, under the kind of banner of conspiracy.
But also, I mean, the reason why there's conspiracy and conspiracies around this, or alleged conspiracies, is because we don't obviously have all the truths around it.
I mean, just what we were talking about, kind of the financial ties and things.
I mean, the American people deserve that, surely, don't they?
You tell us in the chat.
I don't know any more.
Now, do you want to see the ties between the Biden family and Burisma, an energy company in Ukraine, or do you want to see Rod Hull operating a marionette land-bound bird, aka the emu, irritating Snoop Dogg on a British TV show?
Tell us in the chat and we will go to whatever one you... One or the other, is it?
Those are your options.
Okay.
You can even have a Rod Hart emu.
That's the first answer.
Let's have a look at that.
Okay, so yeah, yeah.
Let's have a look.
Let's check it out.
Yeah, let's have a look at that.
Only for a minute.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE OK, good reaction, New Smoke.
Isn't that right gang?
Oh, hi, gang!
Yeah!
Stop it, stop it!
Stop it!
I'm sorry about that.
He's emu and he can do what he likes.
Isn't that right, gang?
Yeah!
So there you are.
Okay, so that means my puppet can...
I want to see the bits where he really...
Can you find the bits where Rod's really attacking Snoop Dogg?
I think Snoop Dogg doesn't play ball anymore.
That's my favourite bit of this.
For a moment we saw our guest waiting, Shanna Swan, an eminent doctor who's improved that the impact of phthalates on male sperm count is detrimental and maybe even deleterious to our entire species down the line.
And I will tell you now, At a glance, possibly Shanna Swan was not amused, possibly by your constant harping on about Beethoven.
Not amused, so I'm sorry.
Well done.
That's a good pun.
Was that a good pun?
I liked it.
Can we see a bit?
Oh, look at this bit.
Snoop Dogg's going to bite back now, I think.
Is this the bit?
Let's have a look at this and then we'll show you how the Biden family have affiliations with Ukrainian energy companies that amount to corruption, potentially.
Allegedly.
Let's have a look at... E-mail.
It was a weird TV show.
Because Snoop Dogg there, he's about 19, isn't he?
And Snoop Dogg, as I understand, was still quite strongly affiliated with the Crips.
And I think the whole process was irritating.
Maybe I'm misremembering it.
In my mind, there was a bit where Snoop Dogg... He attacked Snoop Dogg.
And Snoop Dogg's like, I ain't having this.
But you could see that Snoop Dogg sort of rejected the premise.
Yeah, have you mixed up Snoop Dogg with Michael Parkinson again?
You've done it again, you're always doing that.
I do mix up British, Yorkshire, TV presenter Michael Parkinson and 80s and 90s hip-hop sensation Snoop Dogg frequently.
Hey listen, should we have a look at the Biden family and their systemic corruption?
Simply to present you this idea, how can you be optimistic about four more years of a Biden administration?
How can you equate it with change or getting the job done when there are evident financial ties that are, I would say, compromising an amount of the type
of corruption that should be systemically cleansed. They need a kind of enema, a kind of moral enema.
They need to be flushed of the systemic corruption that governs them. What you need,
essentially, is an end to career You need an end to the systemic monetization of the political process through lobbying and donations and people in Congress owning stocks and shares and the companies their men are regulating.
But is that going to happen?
Is either party going to offer you that?
And by the time that such ideas reach the mainstream, will we even be able to procreate?
Dr Shanna Swan's coming up a little later.
I'm sorry for the use of the term coming up, given the Nature of a conversation.
But, uh, let's have a look now.
First, here's the news.
No, here's the effing news darling.
Thanks for refusing Fox News videos.
No, here's the fucking news!
Good news!
Joe Biden's running again!
Even though a former CIA head says he helped Biden with corruption.
Even though Biden was suspiciously visiting Ukraine when Hunter was getting a job at a Ukrainian energy company.
Democracy!
Hooray!
Four more years!
Perhaps under Joe Biden, we will live in a futuristic utopia with a decrepit, corrupt, elderly man as the figurehead for this glorious new future.
Let's see how the mainstream are handling this.
First tonight, President Biden making it official he is running, well aware of concerns about his age.
He hopes the American people will let him, quote, finish the job.
President Biden came into this term as the oldest person in U.S.
history to assume the role.
And if he wins re-election and is sworn in, he'll break his own record at 82 years of age.
That's not a good record.
It's all in charge.
The problem with the presidency of Joe Biden is not a personal issue.
It's because he's an emblem of institutionalized power.
He is an emblem of a Democrat party that shuts down, even within its own ranks, alternative voices in order to ensure ongoing hegemony.
The problem with Joe Biden is the way that he's funded.
It's his past.
It's what he stands for.
It's that he is the very epitome of a career politician that will say whatever's necessary while There's so many problems with Joe Biden, we've not got time to list all of them, but what we'll focus on is a former CIA head saying that he helped Joe Biden make the Hunter Biden laptop story look like Russian disinformation when it was true from the beginning, and that potentially Hunter Biden's ties to Ukrainian energy companies were greatly assisted by his father.
Just imagine for a moment that these were stories about Donald Trump, who I also don't think is the solution, I know some of you do.
Can you imagine how much saturated media coverage this would get?
Donald Trump Jr.
is working with a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma.
Donald Trump was visiting Ukraine to get him that job, potentially.
That story would be everywhere, all of the time.
The problem, I say, with the liberal establishment is their fetishization of the small differences between them and more overtly corrupt political entities.
Now despite concerns of his handling of the economy and his age, it does appear President Biden is looking to face those challenges head-on and is prepared for another four years at the White House.
He's not facing the problems head-on, he's just carrying on being president even though he's much too old and apparently much too corrupt.
Even in a system that allows a certain degree of corruption, maybe his corruption is egregious.
Certainly a former head of the CIA seems to be saying so.
In the final weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign, the New York Post reported on the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop, alleging he used his father's position for personal gain, a claim the president's son has denied.
Less than a week later, more than 50 former intelligence officials released a statement that the laptop had all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.
Our own conversations with journalists like Michael Schellenberger have educated us and helped us to understand that this is how the system works.
What happens is, is someone says, you might want to watch out for some laptop stories.
They're disinformation, I tells you.
Then when that story breaks, because they already know that story is about to break, you regard it as misinformation.
What happened is, allegedly, Joe Biden or his administrative team contacted the CIA and said, could you put together a letter with 50 signatories from the CIA saying that this story is Russian disinformation?
So when the story broke, the Biden administration were able to say, hey, this is nothing to do with us.
The CIA are saying that it's disinformation, misinformation, malinformation.
The fact is, it was a strategy to prevent a very damaging story influencing the public and prevent them from voting for the Biden administration.
The idea that he would stand again is ridiculous.
Notice that these categories of misinformation, malinformation and disinformation are being escalated, elevated, that we're all hearing about them all the time, simply so there are means, methods and opportunities to control and censor the type of data we get access to.
Not to protect us, but to control the information that we see and the type of decisions we might make The opinions we might form.
According to a letter released Thursday night from the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell told congressional investigators the days after the laptop story, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, then a Biden campaign advisor, reached out to Morrell and set in motion the events that led to the intelligence official's public statement.
The problem is you start to feel like you've heard this story a thousand times.
The problem is you start to find it hard to engage in this information because really it just confirms something that you've long sensed.
That the system is completely corrupt.
The politicians that are in charge of you are corrupt and are in league with corporate and financial interests.
That they use the deep state to control the media and that the idea that they're being offered to you is a fresh alternative is ridiculous.
The CIA acted on behalf of the president in controlling a story that could have affected the outcome of an election.
Allegedly.
The fact is this, only through the imposition of centralized authority through censorship, through new regulations to be able to lock people down, the ability to control social media spaces, can the inertia towards devolution be stopped.
All of us are starting to realise now that the Republican Party and the Democrat Party are both corrupt.
That career politicians are not the answer.
That there needs to be significant changes in our economic, financial and sociological systems and that neither of those parties are going to deliver that change.
The media and the government broadly are trying now to impose narratives that confine our conversation to convenient framing for them.
No one wants the rise of new independent media voices, the rise of new independent political movements, because that is precisely what's required to end this kind of institutional corruption.
The idea that there could be an election in 2024 between two elderly men, neither of whom are going to meaningfully change the system, is ridiculous and tells us the deeper truth that we all need to come to terms with.
The system is dying.
But that's not the only shady deal involving the Biden family.
There's the laptop, there's the control of the story around the laptop, but what about its contents?
What about the financial relationships between the Biden family and Ukrainian energy companies?
Len Vice President Joe Biden visited Ukraine on a mission to bolster the country's energy industry days after his son Hunter joined the board of natural gas company Burisma in 2014, which a former White House stenographer claims implicates the now eight-year-old in a foreign influence peddling kickback scheme.
So I'm sitting back there with a tape recorder.
Jake Sullivan comes back and somebody asks him about fracking.
His answer is, well, we're bringing a lot of American assistance over for fracking.
Burisma was the direct beneficiary of that fracking.
At the time, Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma, and Joe Biden is bringing American taxpayer money to enrich that company and himself and his family.
But that's only two members of the Biden family that are demonstrably corrupt, it appears.
There's still probably loads of other Bidens that are completely reliable.
On Monday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer revealed we've identified six additional members of Joe Biden's family who may have benefited from the Biden family's businesses that we are investigating, bringing the total number of those involved or benefiting to nine.
Last month, Comer announced his committee had found evidence that at least three Biden family members and two associates received payments that originated from China in 2017, fewer than two months after Joe Biden left office as Barack Obama's vice president.
Bank records subpoenaed by the committee show that State Energy HK Limited, a firm affiliated with Chinese Communist Party-backed energy company CEFC China Energy, wired $3 million to Biden family associate Rob Walker in March 2017, who then divvied it up over a period of about three months, Comer said.
It appeared that first son, Hunter Biden, received about $610,000 in payments as part of the 2017 deal, while first brother, James Biden, got roughly $360,000, and the president's daughter-in-law, Haley Biden, received $25,000.
The panel's March memo also enlisted an unknown Biden, who received four payments in 2017, totaling $70,000.
Hunter Biden's longtime business partner, Eric Schwerin, made at least eight visits to the White House in 2016, bringing his total number of visits during the Obama-Biden administration Is this good enough for you as a system of government?
Is this good enough to warrant another four years of Biden administration?
Are you willing to accept that degree of nepotism and corruption?
If you are a Democrat supporter, would you not be appalled if the same exact things were being said of the Trump family?
What does it say about our political systems more broadly that we just accept this kind of corruption?
That it almost kind of bores us?
What it shows you is that Joe Biden is the perfect symbol for where American democracy is right now.
The appearance of general conviviality, but deep state corruption when it comes to the misuse of CIA powers, inappropriate financial behavior when it comes to members of his own family, A peculiar coincidence that soon after these connections with Ukraine and China there are wars that involve those countries on the horizon.
It doesn't instill a great deal of trust, does it?
It seems that the media and American politics more broadly are in alliance with one another in some desperate attempt to maintain some kind of centralized status quo.
When all of the evidence points to the dawning of a new political era, more devolution, More decentralization.
A new experimentation with federalism.
It's time, I think, to consider some radically different political solutions.
How can you be motivated to get out and vote, let alone be excited about the potential for voting for Joe Biden in 2024, knowing that whether or not these actions are legal, they certainly feel corrupt.
They're certainly not the kind of political leaders that we're going to require if we're going to change the world.
How do these kind of stories make you feel about your political system?
How do they make you feel about your media?
How do they make you feel about deep state involvement in managing the outcomes of an election at a time when people are super excited that Fox are about to pay out a bunch of money because of saying untrue things about Dominion voting machines?
It shows you that even when you can't demonstrate electoral fraud, the whole system is fraudulent anyway.
So what's the point in it?
And people will criticize me for encouraging voter apathy.
Oh, this is what leads to people not voting.
Now what leads to people not voting is there's nothing worth voting for, there's no one worth investing in, the media is totally corrupt, and I am actually advocating for real, passionate, genuine change instead of continuing down this line of atrophying corruption.
Why are we trapped in some sort of abusive relationship where we allow ourselves to be treated like this and then continue voting for them and advocating for them?
Surely it's time for new independent voices.
What's wrong with breaking up these systems that are only there to serve the kind of financial corruption and deep state collusion that these stories demonstrate?
There is the possibility now for new parties.
The Republican Party aren't going to deliver real change.
The Democrat Party aren't going to deliver real change.
Dear, sweet, doddering old sods are going to give you nothing but the same old corruption.
It's time for new independent political voices.
And now there is the technology and the media to carry their message.
But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the comments below.
I'll see you in a second.
Thanks for refusing Fox News.
The dude.
No.
He's the fucking loser.
The comments in locals is blowing up baby, blowing up.
Why can't we be more like France?
I mean, it's moving so quick, I can hardly believe... Can it be more like France?
Eat some French food, speak a bit like them.
I mean, there are ways.
Onions.
Onions around the neck.
Those bicycles that the British police force occasionally use in a motorcade.
You can be more like France, but can we rise up?
That's Venus siren, venue siren, Venice siren.
It is Taiwan, the new Ukraine, says Cordalis.
Yeah, the globalists are trying to reshift world powers.
Firegirl 2020, our mate.
Hello there, Firegirl.
I am so not on board with a new proxy war in Taiwan or anywhere, but too bad.
Who cares what I think?
My brain, my choice.
Democrat slogan for 2024, feed the people, S-H-I-T, which is a which is a type of swear word.
Allegedly.
And keep them in the dark.
Billboard369, there's nothing intelligent about the CIA.
Alex Overton, we need one of those for golf.
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This is a real deal, what we're doing now.
Now, we have to have a macro perspective of what's going on, as well as scrutinising and analysing the minutiae of American political life, as well as trying to vivify debate with good humour and good grace.
We have to understand the science of the macro narratives.
We have to understand if we are a species in decline.
We have to understand the molecular and the cosmic simultaneously.
I'm joined now by Dr Shanna Swan, Professor of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, one of the world's leading environmental and reproductive Epidemiologist, author of, and we're going to post a link to this, Countdown!
How our modern world is threatening sperm counts, altering male and female reproductive development, and imperiling the future of the human race.
Could there be a more important ontological subject than the future of our species itself?
Dr. Shanna, thank you for joining us for this conversation, and I apologize in advance for some of the things that have happened in the last hour.
I, for example, am mentally ill.
Hi Russell, it's wonderful to listen to you.
I've enjoyed the last hour, actually, and I'm happy to be here and talk to you.
Don't take this the wrong way, Doctor.
What the hell's going on with the sperms?
Well, I don't know about your sperms in particular, but sperms in general, actually all over the world, are not doing very well.
The count is down about 50% or more.
And it's getting worse.
50% in what time frame and to what do you attribute this radical, sudden and worrying decline?
So we don't really know where it started.
But in our studies, we've been looking at this for 50, 57 years, other people have looked farther back.
But it is Going on for a long time, and I would say very dramatically since post-World War II with the rise of the love of science, the love of modern technology, which I believe is playing a role.
So when you say, what is it due to?
Not one thing, of course.
But I like to kind of dismiss the things that I'm not going to focus on, right?
So it's not going to be genetics, it's not going to be evolution, because it's too fast.
That's two generations, it's not going to happen that much.
Okay, and then there are very important things about how we live, how we live.
So our smoking, our alcohol use, our marijuana use, our stress, our obesity, and so on and so forth.
These are all really important things.
They're, I call them lifestyle factors, and they're going to, you know, they do play a role for sure, but there's a whole other category of things which are chemicals in our environment.
And that's where I focus my attention, although I have published on these other lifestyle factors as well.
The lifestyle factors, I suppose, ultimately come down to individual freedom of choice.
But if there is an epidemic toxicity within our food sources, for example, phthalates in fast foods, then that seems to me to be an immersive and corporatised, if not deliberate, then It's still a detrimental and incredibly destructive and avoidable problem that literally threatens the future of our species.
The more conspiratorially inclined members of our viewership might think that this is part of a process of diminishing our potency.
But approaching this from a data-oriented conversation, what do you think is the problem with our food and toxicity within our food?
So food is definitely a major source of the chemicals I worry about.
One of the things that's really serious in our food is plastics.
Believe it or not, plastics, chemicals in plastics, and now we're hearing more and more about micro and nanoplastics, which can be measured in food.
Here's a little example.
Okay, you milk a cow by hand.
Old-fashioned way.
No phthalates.
You milk a cow with a milking machine.
Plastic tubing contains phthalates.
Phthalates are in the milk.
Okay?
So you can blow that up and talk about that in all kinds of food, and then you can talk about phthalates that come in when you wrap the food, when you ship the food, when you store the food, when you cook the food.
And it's not just phthalates.
There are things in our, you know, pans, Teflon, which is not doing us any good.
And these things can, what we call, interact with the phthalates and make the problem worse.
So it's phthalates plus, I would say.
It's not just sperm which is a problem enough in itself, I would contest, but also testosterone is being diminished.
Now, without wishing to overtly signal to a portion of our beloved viewership, Does the ideological attack on masculinity extend to a kind of chemical warfare against sperm and testosterone if we are seeing decline of this degree in such a short time frame?
Does it amount to a kind of chemical castration of the portion of the population most likely to become radicalized and rebel
against institutional corruption. Now this is wild conjecture and
of course beyond the remit of your study. But it's curious isn't it to ponder,
Doctor, that we are being denied the biochemical impetus for the kind of priapism
that could lead to revolutionary change. That we're becoming neutered at the
same time as the culture appears to be diminishing the disobedient traits
that likely might lead to meaningful change. What do you reckon to all of
that then?
So testosterone is also declining.
We have less evidence on that, but we have quite a bit and we see not only measured in studies, you know, showing testosterone declining, but also reports and data from physician's offices where more and more younger men are coming in for testosterone replacement therapy.
More and more men are being seen for erectile dysfunction.
These are Of course, related to testosterone.
And let me tell you, it's not just the men.
It's also affecting women.
So women also have testosterone, right?
And in our study, we got the urine of pregnant women.
Why?
Because you can't know what's in a pregnant woman's body by asking her.
I can ask you, how much thalates in your body right now, Russell?
No, you don't know that, right?
But we asked the women... We asked the women, give us our urine, we tested the urine, and the women who had higher levels of phthalates had less successful sex lives.
Okay, so that's just it.
I don't want to say a lot about the women.
They're very important in here.
I don't know how much you want to talk about them, but the book is... Countdown emphasizes sperm, and I've been emphasizing sperm, and I've been studying sperm primarily, but I've also studied the female side.
So it's not just a male problem, and it's not just a human problem, by the way.
Oh, what do you mean?
The animals, their sperm and testosterone is being diminished also.
Look, let's not worry about them just yet, although I do love my dog.
His sperm is another matter.
I want to ask you this as plain as day, dear Dr. Shanna.
What the hell are we going to do to reverse this decline in testosterone and sperm?
I need every last cell.
Every last...
Endocrinal advantage I can get needs to be undergirded by sheer science.
How am I going to boost those boys back to the good times?
Build back better like Biden?
What are we going to do to get our sperm and testosterone riding high once more?
So what we can do as individuals is kind of limited because we don't have the information we need to make healthy choices.
And because the chemicals that are in our products are not regulated.
That's just the fact.
They're mostly not regulated.
And to make it worse, the damage has already been done when we're adults.
Okay, so the worst hit is the fetus in the womb because there's the rapid, very rapid cell division that's going on that's extremely sensitive and will govern how that organism develops.
So if you mess that up, you cause damage, which is not fixable.
Okay?
Doctor, it sounds to me like we need to go to war with these corporations that are polluting our food sources.
Gareth, I can see that you've got an inquiry.
Yeah, hello Doctor, nice to meet you.
I just had a question about the kind of, I guess, the political environment around all of these things because I guess one of the big issues is when you're talking about the...
Sorry about that.
One of the big issues around this is that, for example, with the FDA, I mean, these are an organisation that's meant to regulate these things.
And when you have a big food industry that gives so much money to the government to kind of keep these, I'm guessing, profitable endeavours when it comes to plastics in food packaging going, Is that a massive issue that we're going to have moving forward?
That the kind of developments we need to make and the changes in packaging and things and the way that we're going to change this in the future won't be able to occur because of the huge amount of lobbying that goes on within the government.
Of course, people like, for example, people who work for the FDA, they're obviously extremely compromised by the kind of money that they receive.
Definitely.
I think that's actually correct.
I also would like to say it's not just our food, okay?
So these chemicals are in our food, yes.
They're in our water, yes.
But they're also in our products.
If you walk around your kitchen, if you walk around your house, And just take a little inventory of what's made of plastic, or what we call barrier chemicals, these PFOAs in them.
It's everywhere, and we don't know where they are.
We, individuals, consumers, should not have to figure this out.
Right?
So, so, I mean, I would challenge you, you know, to ask, you know, how much have you touched plastic?
How much have you eaten plastic today?
Just think about your, your day.
Maybe Russell, you would like to do a little inventory of your walk through your house or your car.
You know, that little, um, I don't know if you hang this in your car, a little pine cone, right?
Yeah, I get that right out.
They put that in at the car wash.
I whip it out.
I dispose of it sensibly.
I hate that little guy.
What does it do?
I've always mistrusted it.
What does it do?
Sometimes the one that's like a Christmas tree, that's the worst one.
What's it doing?
What's it doing to the downstairs magic factory?
So I actually had a hard time hearing all of that, to tell you the truth.
Probably for the best, Doc.
Probably for the best.
You know those sort of little Christmas trees that you hang up on your rear view mirror?
Are you saying that they cause problems to sperm and testosterone?
That's a more sensible way of framing what was, frankly, a very silly question, but it was the same general gist.
Yeah.
And let me just add that it's It's more.
I want to just mention a couple of other things that are hurting our sperm.
How about cosmetics?
How about personal care products?
How about what you put on your face this morning?
Here's an example.
If you put on a face cream or something, you know, aftershave, that gets absorbed into your skin.
And one of the things that helps that get absorbed is phthalates.
Phthalates not only make plastic soft and flexible, they also increase absorption.
When you put something with a nice scent, That's going to contain phthalates because phthalates hold, help a product hold its scent.
And if your partner puts on lipstick or nail polish, that's going to contain plastic phthalates because phthalates add, you know, make the thing hold the scent and the color.
So those are just, you know, wherever we look in every phase of our life, we're getting this stuff in and we haven't agreed to this.
Right?
Nobody asked us to test these chemicals, but we really are the lab rats on this.
Because they have not been tested.
So what has to happen?
It goes into the product.
Somebody might, like me, does a study.
We say, ah, there's an association between an exposure and this bad outcome.
And then eventually it goes maybe to the regulatory branch.
And then they consider whether they should change the regulations.
And then they have to retool the industry and make a new product.
You can see that this takes a very, very, very long time, right?
And so meanwhile we're all exposed and our sperm count is going down and our fertility is going down.
Oh man, this isn't good news that you've given us there, because a lot of that stuff's unavoidable.
We're gonna have to just use glass, we're gonna have to get into organic farming.
In a sense, God, isn't it?
How many times do we have to be reminded that we ought remain within the remit of our anthropology?
That, in a sense, the miracle that plasticity provided in terms of our ability to generate consumer goods has been immediately countered by a You know, medical consequences.
It's something that has to be not only addressed, but plainly reversed, it would seem.
Yeah, reversal is possible, Russell.
It actually is possible, but it will take, based on animal experiments, take three generations.
So that's good for the animal, because a rat has a two-year lifespan, so three generations, six years, right?
But for humans it's going to be A much longer time.
So, meanwhile, before these things are totally cleared up, we have to limit their invasion, I call it, invasion of these chemicals into our bodies by educating ourself and educating our friends and our neighbors, like talking on this show, which is what I'm trying to do.
And, you know, Turning to, I have to say, alternative means of conception.
Oh no!
Alternative, even conception.
Listen, we're watching the chat right now, Doctor.
People, whilst they are not plainly enjoying being informed that there is immersive toxicity being absorbed through our skin, through numerous products, through everything that we touch, and that it's having such an evident and observable, detrimental, deleterious effect on our productivity and procreative capacity, there's a lot of love for your communication skills and for your message.
Imaginary Coffee, for example, saying simply, she's brilliant.
And people commending you for popularizing the idea that that which we
absorb for our skin is being absorbed more broadly into our systems and people
are sending you love and people are sick and tired of the regulations. A lot of
people think Gareth's question was childish and ineffective and they're
very happy that I pressed that button that played the French horn sound.
Dr Shanna Swan, thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you for giving us this important information.
I'm going to take that laptop right off of my lap.
Shouldn't have the word lap in it.
I bet that's doing all sorts of downstairs damage, even as it sits there.
Thank you for joining us.
Thank you for the polite and appropriate way you've conveyed these difficult messages.
It's clear that there's a political component to this, a consumer component to this.
Ultimately, it will become about being conscious about what we're doing to our bodies and the way that we're consuming products and probably challenging the ideology that sees our roles primarily as consumers is going to be a big part of this.
Thank you, Doctor.
Thanks for having me.
Such a lovely person, thank you.
You can read more about Dr Shanna's book, actually by getting it, and then read the book.
Read that, get it, and read it, and then do what it says in there.
It's called Countdown, How Our Modern World is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race, or as an acronym, I've reduced it to an acronym.
Why not?
Um, also, though, well, what should we do now?
I mean, I think we've finished the show.
Yeah, that seems to... yep.
I mean, time has passed, hasn't it?
Time has passed?
Master of us all.
Time you've got us in your arms once more!
Like Charles Grodin used to say in the film Beethoven.
Beethoven, you little motherfucker!
Didn't have phthalates to deal with in those days.
They did, but they didn't know they did.
They were filling up little Beethoven's nutbag with phthalates.
The dawn of them, wasn't it?
Grodin sounds like the decay of the balls.
Oh no, I've got Grodin in me testes because of these phthalates.
No?
Gareth, I gave myself such joy when I heard that, because I'd forgotten what that button did.
It just says Gareth's question.
When I pressed that while you were asking a really insightful, brilliant, and on-message question for the type of framing that we like to offer on our show... Yeah, that's what I was trying to do, yeah.
Well, you did do that, and then when I heard this...
I think it's only you that does, to be honest.
Swan who's obviously such a good sport but plainly like anyone doesn't
understand what the hell's going on. I think it's only you that does to be
honest. I've got a master plan. I hope so. It's all going extremely well. It's actually what we're
supposed to be doing so no one needs to worry at all about anything really.
I like panela for sugar.
It's very unprocessed and dark and tastes wonderful in coffee, says Little Renegade.
No aftertaste, I'll try.
Then there's people talking about B.O.
Do you like burgers, B.O.?
I like mine too.
I still wear it so I don't smell in public, though.
You're B.O.
Gone from latex to silicone for medical supplies.
Anyway, they're all chatting in here, this community.
They all love each other in here.
Did you know that?
You can join this community, by the way.
Press that red button on your screen and join a beautiful group of international folk who are interested in progress, tolerance, acceptance, and love innovative ideas.
Are you like that?
Well, you can join this community as well.
Have you had just about enough of the system?
Join this community, you'll love it.
Join us for Community, a live event on the borders between Wales and England.
A beautiful river, freshwater swimming.
Probably get a big bunch of phthalates up your nutbag.
Yeah.
Won't you, probably?
Maybe in the water, yeah.
But not in our community.
That's not something we promote, but it's something that seems immersive and environmental.
That's part of the issue.
It's raining phthalates now, you know.
It's raining phthalates?
It's raining phthalates, yeah.
I liked it when it was raining men!
Hallelujah, it's raining phthalates!
My nutbag is retracting!
BEETHOVEN!
Okay.
No, that okay means it's the end of the show, isn't it?
All right, listen, we're gonna go now because it's time to.
And also it's Man City versus Arsenal tonight.
Oh, look at that, David Sirota just appeared or something like that.
Look, he's got his face like, listen guys, why do you keep talking about Snoop Dogg and Beethoven?
Come on, you can do better than this.
Look, I'm trying my very best over at The Lever to create conversation, genuine conversation, if you will, around important subjects.
Anyway, we'll be talking to David Thoreau tomorrow.
There he is.
Look, you can see him in his shirt, looking nice.
He's good, isn't he?
Oh, he's fantastic.
He's really good.
You'll enjoy it.
Join the locals community.
Press the red button on your screen now.
I think there's a version of it that's free and there's another bit we pay a bit of money and for that you can tell me what to do.
Right.
Like tell me to do a guided meditation and by God I'll do it.
Oh, anything?
Just the meditation.
I'll probably go further than you might imagine, because I'm edgy.
Tootsies out, will it?
The tootsies will come right out, but some people didn't like that.
They thought I was marked a low point in the trajectory of Stay Free with Russell Brand, I think, when they saw them.
Today I've got a little white tube sock on the feet, so people probably prefer that.
Do they?
I don't know.
Although Dan, over there operating that camera there, says that a sock is merely a condom for the foot.
But that makes me wonder, what exactly is he doing with his foot?
And where are all these phallets coming from, Dan?
How's it getting in my dinner?
What's that in my dinner?
A thought condom?
Oh dear.
Dan, what have you been doing to Russell's dinner?
Beethoven, you motherfucker!
You put phallets in my food!
You can get meditation from me.
In spite of appearances, I know how to access the innermost realms.
Sounds like it.
I do know how!
I do know how!
It's not by doing the Beethoven thing, is it?
Yeah.
Meditate, you little motherfucker!
I don't do that.
Right.
That's not how meditations are.
No.
They're not like that.
Not good.
You use language as a kind of royal road for the deep unconscious pre-linguistic mind, actually, and respiratory practices as well.
Over time, if not mastered them, learned a great deal about them by meditating with some of the best teachers currently alive, who themselves are passing on a great heritage, a forgotten knowledge that has been disavowed and forgotten and replaced with apparently phalates, ignorance, propaganda and nonsense.
Well, we must return to this golden age.
And in order to do that, we must first acknowledge there's a problem, believe it's possible to change and then make a deep vow to ourselves and one another to bring about the necessary revolution.
And it's already begun.
You're further along than you think.
You're better than you know.
Don't let them destroy you.
Together we are powerful.
Beethoven!
All right, we're off now.
You've got another show tomorrow, and then another one the day after that, and then perhaps a couple of days off.
And then?
Back again!
For another one!
46 weeks a year!
That's it!
46 weeks!
And we love it!
I love it!
What else are we gonna do?
Sit on the ground, look at the sky, drink ourselves full of phallates till our sperms just lay about on the microscope lens doing F-all?
No.
It's not what you want, is it?
You want vibrant guys hustling and bustling like a New York City minute.
Look at my sperms jostling up against each other like little champions down there.
That's right.
That's what you want, huh?
Ever seen your own sperm under a microscope?
Not yet, no.
Come round mine tonight.
Is that what we're doing?
Yep, we will study those little guys!
Well, I'm not going to use a microscope, I'm just going to peer at them like that.
I'm just going to squint.
Like, I see them!
Yeah, there they are.
There they are, those little guys.
You feel for them, don't you, when you see them going up the fallopian tubes, trying their best, you know?
Like, they're really trying their best.
Yeah.
They're doing their best in there, those guys.
1 in 400 million.
Yep, I've sent them into action and the results so far, promising.
Okay, guys, we're going to go now.
I hope you've had a nice time.
This is not even the opportunity to show you me working with a baboon.
Simply not time.
No, not the time.
We've got plenty of shows.
We've got the whole future laid out ahead of us to examine baboons, haven't we?
And that's probably what we'll do.
I hope you've learned a lot.
We'll do, if you want, we'll post the video about Joe Biden and all that stuff on Rumble.
Why are you laughing?
I thought you were going to say baboons, but no.
Post the video about baboons on Rumble later.
No, we'll just talk about that another day.
Do that another day, shall we?
Bye then!
Join us tomorrow on Rumble, not for more of the same, but for more of the different, yeah?
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