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BOMB Mexico To End WHAT?! You Won’t Believe THIS! - #127 - Stay Free With Russell Brand

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	I'm a veteran and I could never be a veteran. I'm looking for the steel. In this video, I'm
	In this video, you're going to see the future.
	You're wonderful, you're awakening, you're doing everything you can in a crazy world to remain connected, even though you are continually stimulated into a synthesized state by a system that wants you distracted.
	Let's face it, you awakening wonder.
	Thanks for joining us today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
	We've got some fantastic stories for you, haven't we, my dear on-screen assistant?
	Many, yes.
	A lot of good stuff.
	We'll be talking about how many people from the military-industrial complex end up taking Lucrative positions around the world.
	It's a fantastic story.
	We're obviously looking as well about the incremental march towards war, how it's being continually exacerbated.
	When we go exclusively, if you're watching us on YouTube right now, are you watching us on Twitter?
	Are you allowed to watch us on Twitter anymore now that Twitter is the new throne of King Tucker?
	King Tucker on his Twitter throne?
	Is that where you're watching it?
	Are we allowed to stream on there now?
	We, uh, Tucker and Elon are friends of this show.
	I actually was, I would say, troubling.
	Bothering.
	Pestering, bothering Elon Musk at night because... Angering?
	Angering Elon Musk, because I was like, sort of going, is that his number?
	Because, you know, if you ring a foreign number, sometimes it goes... And then it's this thing, and it was in a language that's not the mother tongue.
	Right.
	English.
	So I just rang back and someone else in our group, James, one of the producers here, had the number of Elon Musk as well.
	So I felt irritated by having to ask.
	I said, James, send us that Elon Musk number.
	And I call it again.
	And then a text come through.
	I'm in San Francisco.
	I'm trying to sleep.
	So if Elon Musk today seemed off his game, if he sacked another 50% of the workforce, if he can't focus, if he's given Tucker Carlson a real big deal over there at Twitter.
	Did you see Tucker saying that?
	I like the way that tech genius Elon Musk doesn't know about turning it on silent.
	You know you can put it on silent, mate.
	You know, that button on the side.
	Wait, what?
	Oh!
	Yeah, we all know that.
	Maybe he could be his, like, consultant or something.
	Give him tips.
	If you shut all those windows, mate, your battery lasts longer.
	Little tip, little tip.
	You can put that just down the brightness.
	It's me, Russell Brand, Elon Musk's tech consultant.
	And while I'm advising the genii of the world tech, the new plutocrat class, the new kings of the big tech world, I could give Zuckerberg a bit of advice on the BJJ, hmm?
	Because he's been BJJing his way through life.
	Hey, when we're exclusively on Rumble, the other platform where you can speak freely because I noticed Tucker was saying that Twitter is the only one.
	We'll be talking about the coverage of 420 and the sort of fetishization and celebration of cannabis use.
	It's really funny because like the mainstream media are casually supporting, celebrating drug use.
	Well it's the like fun story of the day isn't it?
	Hey, it's fun!
	But elsewhere, drugs are still criminalised in ways that's really punitive and challenging.
	In fact, we do a presentation on that a little later.
	I thought Biden pledged to revoke that, though, didn't he?
	Oh, well, what that was, is when he was trying to become president, he did some things.
	Like, you'll also remember he said, we're going to make Saudi Arabia a pariah.
	Hey, you're fire pariah!
	Boom!
	Yeah?
	Yeah.
	That's right.
	People say things when they're trying to become president that they will not back up once they're president.
	Ah, that's the lesson we'll learn today.
	I don't like the idea of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook king, and look at how Facebook has followed the imperial model first.
	They dominated the anglophonic countries, the Americas, us lot.
	And then they sort of, like now in the Philippines, I think if you own a phone, you have to have Facebook on it, innit?
	In some countries.
	It's the only way you can get on the internet.
	Yeah.
	In most of Africa, I think.
	In most African nations, you have to go via Facebook.
	It's like Zuckerberg stands there.
	That's the internet.
	Like Gandalf.
	Right.
	You shall not pass.
	But can you pass his guard, BJJ fans?
	Let me know in the chat and the comments.
	Let's have a look at him.
	Zuckerberg's winning gold and silvers in the world of BJJ.
	As you know, old Russ is a purple belt in the noble sport of Brazilian jiu-jitsu after seven, maybe eight years of toil and trouble.
	Wow.
	Have you ever won gold and silver?
	No, because I'm too scared to go to such competitions.
	It seems a little unfair if he's winning both of them.
	It sounds a bit fixed to me.
	Were you fighting yourself?
	And now I get gold and silver, sonny boy!
	Yeah, like, who won bronze?
	Was it Rumble?
	How did he not sweep that up, the mad monopolist?
	Even in his BJJ, he's good.
	He's winning those fights in the metaverse, so I'll warrant checks.
	He makes a mockery of them like he does of Congress.
	Yes!
	Yes, you see, keeping it well done there, that's good.
	Take the rest of the week off, don't.
	What's he gonna do?
	Sell those medals like he sells your data?
	Oh, yeah!
	Give Gareth some love in the chat!
	This guy's on fire!
	Let's have a look at Zuckerberg doing his crazy thang.
	Don't be really, like, nerdy about it.
	Of course you can.
	Like a mechanic, so like, ooh, shouldn't have done that, mate.
	Shouldn't have done that, mate.
	Or in America.
	In America, what do they do?
	Do they suck their teeth in American mechanics?
	Like, oh, buddy, that's going to be expensive.
	Is that or is that just UK mechanics?
	In UK, take your car to a mechanic.
	They'll go...
	It's going to cost you.
	It's going to cost you that, mate.
	Shouldn't have done that, mate.
	Like, in America, whoa, whoa, whoa, buddy, buddy.
	It's maybe like that.
	Anyway, so here I'm nerding out on that.
	That's actually a very good guard pass, applying a lot of pressure to the face of his opponent.
	It looks like he's going to move into mount now.
	I do Gi BJJ myself.
	That means I wear the pyjamas, the outfit.
	I see he's doing no Gi BJJ.
	Now, you look at that.
	The genitals are very close to the opponent's face.
	Right.
	And that's mounting, is it?
	That's a lot of skill.
	That's a proud day for Zuckerberg.
	You've spent a lot of time learning that, have you?
	I picked it up pretty quickly.
	You've known that for a long time.
	Yes, I'm one of the best.
	Crowd shouting.
	That's half guard actually.
	He's got to get his other leg through.
	is he going to be able to do that?
	It seems like what Zuckerberg's got there is a points victory rather than by submission
	because I didn't see anybody tap at the end there.
	Do you feel like Zuckerberg should be allowed to do that?
	And wasn't there a South Park episode where Zuckerberg started beating everybody up and stuff?
	Should we have a look at that?
	Is that a copyright issue?
	I think it's true.
	It's one of those, you know, people like to say that Simpsons predict, South Park predict, so let's know in the chat if that's true.
	Anyway, and the ongoing war, not war, uh, the, the, well it is a war, but it's not involved America in it.
	Look, the US, the UK vow...
	To keep supporting the Ukraine regardless of counter-offensive.
	Apparently there's going to be some sort of counter-offensive in springtime.
	That's right.
	Springtime for Hitler, as you know from the producers.
	Hitler is dead.
	That just in.
	Now springtime is a time for the Russian counter-offensive.
	We had a fantastic conversation that you can see now on Locals.
	You'll be able to see it on Friday with RFK, Robert Kennedy Jr.
	Where he talked extensively about how really we're funding this war at a time when we can ill afford it and we're being incredibly misled.
	You've got to watch that if you're a member of our locals community you can join us on the chat now if you are.
	Uh, you can watch it now, it's already up, but it'll be on Rumble on Friday.
	So, yeah, he also said, by the way, that he estimates 300,000 Ukrainian people have died, 100,000 Russian people have died, and as with all wars, it's not the people that are agitating for and advocating for war that pay the ultimate penalty, it's ordinary people who temporarily have a national identity.
	That was one of the things to come from the Pentagon leaks, wasn't it?
	That there was more people that died than the U.S.
	have made out.
	And that not as many Russians have died as the U.S.
	have made out.
	RFK called it a money laundering operation.
	He said essentially that finances being your tax dollars go, you know, into this war.
	They come out the other end into the military-industrial complex.
	You know that the Pentagon have never seen an audit that they can pass yet.
	And you know that Assange said the same thing, that the function of government is to take public money and to put it into private hands, legitimising it.
	He was running for the Afghanistan War.
	Seems like the same playbook to me.
	Let's have a look at the agitation for a new war.
	That's the sum of the amount of money that's been spent.
	Is it true that there's a, that Philippine patrols are in the South trying to see what's going on there, Gal?
	There's just more wind from China right up.
	That's right.
	Yeah.
	Doesn't seem wise.
	Exactly.
	Do you think that's wise?
	What else is going on with the ongoing agitation of people?
	Oh, this is, yeah, so this is the thing where when Trump was doing this it was condemned.
	Can you explain this to us a little bit?
	Yeah, so this is like the one China policy, which is obviously what, you know, the fears are around this at the moment, that by agitating China And by supporting Taiwan, like when Trump took a phone call from the president of Taiwan when he got into power, and Rachel Maddow and a lot of the media came on and said, how dare he?
	You know what he's doing is violating the One China policy and this is going to lead to war.
	But as we know, he's happening at the moment with the support of Taiwan, with giving them military equipment, with sending troops over there, with training them, all that kind of stuff.
	It's doing the exact same thing, but without the same kind of pushback as Trump was getting from taking a phone call.
	That's extraordinary.
	Let's have a look at that being reported on MSNBC now.
	It took decades to develop the ground on which we talk to China, and Donald Trump tore it up today.
	And the intense and important thing here is that we don't know if he did it on purpose, or if he just bumbled into it.
	I mean, either way, I mean, this conceivably is the way wars start, right?
	What worries me is that there are no morals or principles.
	There's no certainty or spine.
	There's no institution that you can claim has moral authority anymore.
	Revelations around the church in recent years have shaken our faith.
	And when you see how the media behaves differently, advocating for the party that they traditionally support and are aligned with when they're in office, opposing the other party, their principles changing, you've seen We've seen that happen around important issues, around
	medications connected to the pandemic, they just switch sides when appropriate.
	It brings us to a difficult point, as we've discussed earlier this week, that every election
	result is queried, the judiciary is queried, there's no sort of faith that, oh, these things
	are sacrosanct and sacred.
	And I think it's because we've desacralized, as Vandana Shiva says, we've desacralized our culture.
	We've lost our love, reverence and respect for one another and for the Earth.
	So when it comes to important decisions, verdicts and choices, there's no sense that, well, these are our principles, these are our values, we know that we can rely on them and trust them.
	We live in these silos, separate, people reorganizing their principles, their values and their opinions in accordance with often monetized alliances, would you say?
	Yeah, absolutely right.
	I mean, it can't be one rule for one and different for someone else, can it?
	I suppose not.
	Not if it is indeed a rule, otherwise it's not a rule, it's a kind of a technique.
	Okay, let's have a look at this.
	This is a sort of a complex story, but you won't be surprised to learn that it centers around military-industrial complex manipulation of the media and financial industry.
	People are retiring from the NSA, then winning lucrative contracts, not only within the United States.
	We're well aversed.
	We've seen military generals turn up on the news, often advocating for war.
	Let me know in the chat if you've noticed that.
	Certainly we've discussed it.
	That happens elsewhere in the world, and it gives me the idea that there's this class, this strata of political movement that is transcendent of national identity.
	When it comes to matters like military and the war, we talk about ideas like humanitarianism, patriotism, honour, connection, alliance and allegiance.
	But there is, and perhaps has always been, a transcendent group, i.e.
	people retire from the NSA, then go get consultancy deals with Saudi Arabia, who are meant to be still a pariah, fist bump.
	It shows you that They don't live within the framing that they invite us to operate within.
	Is that right, Gary?
	Yeah, I mean, this is the Washington Post that they've put in.
	The only way they got this information, because it was being withheld from them, as you can imagine why, it's kind of embarrassing to admit that 500 retired US military personnel have gone on to work for countries like Saudi Arabia, who, as you say, Ross, are meant to be pariahs, have, you know, human rights abuses that apparently we care about, and yet our military personnel Can leave their post, retire, and not only go and get involved in the revolving door with military-industrial complex, but go and work for regimes like Saudi Arabia.
	So they had to obtain a freedom of information lawsuit, which is the only way that anyone in the press... So they're trying to control this information, presumably because they know most people wouldn't be down with it.
	Also, that's a staggeringly high figure, 500.
	Someone's like Trump.
	I mean, it's probably an easy thing to find out.
	How many countries are there?
	I don't know, there was 500 countries That's like a retired military general for every nation on earth.
	So this is 500 military personnel that they've got access to.
	Where are they all going?
	I mean, have you got a couple in some countries?
	Have you got 10 over in Saudi Arabia?
	What do you do if you have a dissident journalist?
	Go to the embassy, chop them up!
	Oh, OK, thanks.
	Let me write that down.
	No need, I'm going to chop your hand off in a minute.
	You got on my nerves just then.
	That's not an attack on Saudi Arabia other than, I suppose, a reference to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
	He was chopped up in the consulate in Turkey, which led to Biden, while campaigning, saying, this dude's going to be a pariah.
	But in office, things went all a bit different, didn't they?
	What it also does is, for example, we were talking about the Pentagon leaks a few minutes ago, and everything around the Pentagon at the time was, this should not be in public hands, the public should not have information to this, this is the Pentagon, we are the military, we have authority here, we know what we're doing.
	You do know what you're doing for a few years, and then you retire and go and work for the very regimes who you've just gone and said should be pariahs.
	It's utter hypocrisy.
	Can't we have any faith or trust in these institutions when we know that much of the clandestine redacted and concealed information's got stuff like, oh, guess what?
	When we leave work, we go work for countries that we've condemned as pariahs previously, that we know have records of human rights abuses.
	How can we trust them?
	How can we trust election results?
	How can we trust the judiciary?
	How can anything be trusted anymore?
	Because we know that when they talk about protecting us, they're exploiting us, surveilling us and spying
	on us.
	How do you feel about this? Let me know in the chat.
	Now we're going to leave, if you're watching this on YouTube right now,
	we're going to jump over to Rumble. There's a link in the description.
	This, look, I'll be honest with you, this isn't because it's a story that's going
	to change the world because we're attacking the establishment using their
	own weapons against them. No, even though, by God, if you want to
	see that happen you are not going to want to miss our show on Friday with RFK.
	This is a person who grew up at the knee of one of the greatest presidents in American history.
	Let me know in the chat who your favorite is.
	And he's actually telling you stuff.
	I mean, even just on the conversational level, stuff about Jackie Onassis, stuff about KGB spies being around the house, the hotline to Khrushchev.
	And then when it comes to the pandemic and Fauci, you lot, Yeah, I felt like I was, like, you know, I can handle a conspiracy theory.
	Like, Gareth afterwards goes, you know, like in, uh, Few Good Men, when Jack Nicholson goes, YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
	And you sort of, the subtext of the minute would be, well, we can handle the truth, give us the truth.
	We can't handle the truth.
	Look, you wait.
	If you think you can handle the truth...
	Listen to our interview of RFK.
	If you're a member of Locals, you can listen to it right now.
	There's a red button on your screen.
	If you're watching us on Rumble, oh my God, just go watch it right now.
	Incredible stuff.
	And then tell us, can you handle the truth?
	Can you handle the truth?
	We're going to go and be just now on Rumble.
	We're going to be on Rumble now.
	This isn't... We've got some serious coverage coming up in a minute about how drug promises and pledges made about the drug laws have been reneged on, as usual.
	But this is just an amazing, delightful I think it's Fox, actually.
	Pothead Christmas.
	Right, exactly that.
	It's like, oh, isn't it funny that people can freely smoke?
	And it is really funny.
	Is it true that you can, though?
	Yeah.
	On 420?
	One day of the year.
	in an amusing way. There's a link in the description. See you over there.
	This is the 420 story, then. What is it about? Just people, how they celebrate 420.
	I think it's Fox, actually.
	Pothead Christmas.
	It's like, exactly that. It's like, oh, isn't it funny that people can freely smoke?
	And it is really funny.
	Is it true that you can, though?
	Yeah.
	On 420?
	One day of the year.
	Why?
	I don't know, but that's the law, apparently.
	Whatever this is.
	That shows you how mad laws are, and for this day, do what you want day!
	Right.
	Like those films where, like, the devices is one day a year we can kill anyone.
	Yeah.
	Battle Royale, something like that.
	You know, those dystopian films.
	I don't like Purge and things like that.
	Purge, yeah, things like that.
	I don't like those.
	But this is... Why?
	They're scary.
	Oh.
	Let's have a look at Gareth's worst nightmare.
	Because we're headed in that direction, right?
	Gareth's worst nightmare is freedom.
	Have a look at that freedom right now on the lips of a high guy.
	Sorry, Detroit celebrating 420 day. It is a hey It's a beautiful thing man
	Beautiful!
	Give these two a movie.
	Anyway, he's on Fox 2. I didn't even know there was a Fox 2, did you?
	No.
	Fox 2, they really line up.
	This time it's personal.
	Yeah, Fox 2, yeah, it was very general in Fox 1.
	Fox 1, much more like, uh, concerns about demographics and balances.
	Fox 2, ah, we don't care, let's just get high and be friends.
	Race is an illusion. Why don't we all just get high and have fun together?
	What the heck?
	Smoking on the news!
	Hit it, Charlie!
	Yeah, hit it, man.
	Hit it, Charlie!
	That holiday, 4-20, April 20th?
	Do you feel like you've seen this somewhere?
	Like the feeling of this news, it's like the feeling of someone being jostled along by cooler people in a sort of a delightful way.
	It's not quite Weekend at Bernie's.
	What is it where someone gets sort of hoovered into it?
	Is it all American high school movies where a nerd gets in with a cool kid?
	By the end of this news report, is that guy gonna be sort of the coolest one but then realize that actually he's better off?
	They're singing Summer Lovin' by the end of this.
	I don't think that's possible.
	Celebrating everything hot.
	How are you celebrating it today?
	Like this.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Smoking weed.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Get high.
	There are risks.
	Like many on the weed bar bus from Eastern Market to here.
	It's first stop at the Detroit Herbal Center on Detroit's West Side.
	Free weed!
	Who wants some weed?
	And many happy that this year smoking pot for recreation is legal and business is good.
	Business has been good.
	You making money?
	I can't complain.
	Is it cheaper now?
	Heck yeah, way cheaper.
	I'm saying like the gang saturated now so like everybody can afford it.
	And further on the west side, on the corner of Warren and Greenfield, the herbalist cannabis company is celebrating.
	420, the holiday that only matters to a lot of people in Detroit.
	420, 420.
	It's gone too deep.
	What it is, is like deep cover, like when you get involved in an operation or a community, but then it's somehow you are in vagals and you forget.
	Listen, this was just meant to be a news broadcast.
	Why don't you go to hell?
	I'm smoking a newbie, baby.
	I'm down with these people now.
	Leave me alone.
	We eat all the time.
	It's not just today, it's more than every day.
	And with all this pot, most places are giving away free burgers or Cinnabon.
	Why are you like that?
	Because he's funny.
	With all this pot!
	He's so excited about this pot.
	As you say, he's getting more enveloped in this day as the day goes on.
	He's lost his objectivity.
	You used to be a journalist, Paul.
	Yeah, but I'm something much better now, baby!
	We're sandwiches.
	How was it?
	Charlie, listen to me.
	I ain't gonna lie to you.
	Amazing.
	You gotta grab one of them Jones.
	So, with the munchies satisfying, feeling good, it's back on the weed bus for another 420 celebration in the deep.
	Look at me, Mom.
	I made it!
	On Detroit's West Side, Charlie Langton.
	Look at me now, I made it!
	There's quite a few layers of irony, post-modernity in that.
	What an extraordinary piece of news.
	You could put that up as a piece of art, really.
	You could use an installation and just say, look at where the culture is now.
	It's an incredible celebration, particularly when you look at the fact that Elsewhere, pledges are being made around decriminalization and declassification of drugs, in particular cannabis, ironically, that have not been kept.
	You're gonna love this story and how it leads to, oddly enough, the criticism, condemnation, and ability to criminalize certain classes of people.
	That's what you can do if you have certain substances that are culturally significant or emotionally necessary that are illegal.
	Here's the news.
	No, here's the f***ing news.
	Thank you for choosing Fox News.
	Here's the news.
	No, here's the f***ing news.
	If cannabis isn't actually a gateway drug, then why is it still illegal?
	Particularly when the current administration said they were gonna de-schedule it.
	And who on earth thinks that the solution to all of this might be to bomb Mexico?
	Why are they still criminalizing drugs?
	We're talking about drug decriminalisation on the back of a debate on Fox News where Judge Janine predictably said the solution might be bomb Mexico.
	Is there a single problem that Judge Janine doesn't think can't be solved with a bomb?
	Usually on Mexico.
	Look at these problems in Iran.
	Could we bomb Mexico?
	But there's no Come on, let's try it!
	Try it!
	And remember, Joe Biden did run on a pledge to de-schedule cannabis use.
	So what is it about drug use and the potential awakening of minds and changing of perspective that means that drugs are continually used to fence people in and hem people in?
	Let's have a look at the Fox News debate.
	Look, I think you should target the cartels.
	Uh, while you negotiate with him, and I also think you gotta legalize drugs.
	I mean, the only way you're gonna have quality control, uh, like prescriptions, and the only way you're gonna stop fentanyl poisonings would be to legalize these drugs, which people want.
	Seems like a sensible solution proposed by Greg Gutfeld, a libertarian or indeed liberal solution, allowing people to do what they want as long as it doesn't affect other people.
	There is some precedent for decriminalization, notably in Portugal.
	Since it decriminalized all drugs in 2001, Portugal has seen dramatic drops in overdoses, HIV infection and drug-related crime.
	So it has been tried successfully.
	The problem isn't with the dealers.
	The problem is with us.
	Right?
	We're the demand.
	They're just the supplier.
	You want to know who the drug dealers are?
	Snoop Dogg was a drug dealer.
	Ooh, I like Snoop Dogg.
	Jay-Z was a drug dealer.
	Ooh, I like Jay-Z.
	50 Cent was a drug dealer.
	Love Fiddy.
	Mark Wahlberg was a drug dealer.
	Marky Mark.
	Gotta love him.
	Tim Allen.
	Tim Allen?
	From Home Improvement?
	Tim Allen?
	This list's getting weird.
	And do you know who opened this segment?
	Who?
	Kid Rock was a drug dealer.
	Drugs, yes.
	Bud Light, no.
	There's a lot of hypocrisy from Republicans.
	What do they love and preach to everybody?
	Capitalism.
	What do they hate?
	Regulating it.
	What is the drug market?
	Unregulated capitalism.
	A lot, a lot, for the first rung onto that ladder of capitalism, often is drug dealing for blacks.
	So how dare you?
	Judge Janine's not going to stand for much more of this.
	She's already reaching for the bomb Mexico button.
	Hmm, this sounds like bomb Mexico territory.
	Bomb them.
	Bomb them.
	Well, everyone.
	Judge Jeanine's not gonna stand for much more of this.
	She's already reaching for the bomb Mexico button.
	Hmm, this sounds like bomb Mexico territory.
	Bomb them.
	Bomb them.
	They legalize drugs in Portland, essentially, and everyone's dying and sleeping on the streets.
	Well, everyone.
	Do you agree that we should legalize drugs, Judge Jeanine?
	Let me ask you a question.
	What do you think my answer is to that?
	Absolutely not.
	Okay.
	We can't legalize it.
	And look, here's the thing— Because the drug war is working great!
	Well, no, because we're not doing everything we need to be doing.
	Arrest more people?
	No, what we need to do— Because they're seeking oblivion?
	Arrest?
	No, not yet.
	Judge James found a measure a little harsher than just plain arrest.
	Keep going, Judge.
	Look, Joe Biden wants this sanctioned and financially crippled.
	We heard this drug czar saying they're going to know that we're serious.
	Are you kidding?
	We need to designate them as foreign terrorists.
	Right.
	Finally, some common sense.
	Here's Greg Gutfeld saying that they're entrepreneurs and Judge Shadeen, terrorists.
	He has some pretty diverse views over there on Fox.
	So that we can go after them the way we go after terrorists, we need to have military strikes.
	Yes!
	It's a war.
	The war on drugs.
	We all remember how successful that war on drugs has been from our own horrible struggle with drugs and from the opioid deaths of the last few years.
	And I don't care if President Obrador of Mexico thinks we're rude or thinks it's an insult that we would consider doing this.
	The truth is that if you've got 100,000 people dying, we're in a damn war right now.
	And these kids are not dying because they want to take fentanyl.
	They're dying because they want to take maybe an Adderall or maybe they want to take an oxycodone.
	This is extraordinary because the debate is actually moving away from the pharmaceutical companies who deliberately and manipulatively encouraged doctors, financially, to prescribe fentanyl knowing that it was addictive and harmful.
	This is an example, I suppose, of how the mainstream media, even in their framing of a conversation, prevents you from looking at the issue in its entirety.
	While I recognize that Fox News have been quite overt in their covering of the opioid crisis, fentanyl, the Sackler family, Purdue Pharma, Okay, and it's an undeclared war.
	No, that's not why you legalize it.
	Do you know who caused all this?
	It's Mexicans.
	That's why you legalize it.
	Undeclared war.
	No, that's not why you legalize it.
	That's when you get the control of it.
	When it, look, read about prohibition.
	The reason why people died during prohibition was because the alcohol wasn't controlled.
	Greg Gutfeld very much carrying on the mantle left behind by Tucker Carlson of providing
	a genuinely liberal and anti-establishment voice in a corporatized space.
	I wouldn't have believed it possible just five, ten years ago that you would ever see someone on Fox News who was salaried by them saying that drugs should be decriminalised, that the pharmaceutical industry are worse than drug dealers, ensuring that the debate is handled deftly.
	Okay.
	Once you control pills, then you know it's an Adderall.
	Then you know it's a Xanax.
	So we're gonna make fentanyl so that it's not lethal anymore?
	Fentanyl is legal, by the way.
	Lethal!
	Lethal!
	Like a bomb!
	It's gonna be landin' any minute!
	An Acapulco!
	But it's also legal.
	I know it's legal.
	Doctors prescribe it.
	It's also lethal on the street, but not lethal when it's prescribed.
	Well, it's not lethal when it's prescribed.
	Yeah, I get it, but here's the problem.
	Is that the kids who don't want, necessarily, an illegal drug, and only want something that's ordinary, and that it's in everybody's medicine cabinet, end up taking something like... Because it's not regulated!
	Because they get mixed!
	You're agreeing with me!
	I'm not agreeing with you!
	Yes, but the reason why people... Look, I've had two friends die of overdoses from fentanyl.
	We all have had friends die of overdose.
	That's why I got a bomb, Mexico!
	For the same reason you're talking about.
	They didn't know they were taking it.
	If it was legal, that wouldn't have happened.
	But the truth is that people are dying of these overdoses because they don't think that there's fentanyl in it, or they don't know that there's that much.
	I will arrest my case, that's what I said.
	First of all, let me say, this was a fascinating conversation.
	Firstly, you guys have got a great marriage.
	That's what I want to say, and it's worth saving.
	And I tend to agree with Greg.
	After trillions of dollars and the failed war on drugs, I don't think that prohibition... Because we haven't done the war properly!
	And I also think... Do the war properly!
	With greater wars!
	Afghanistan?
	Okay, maybe not Afghanistan.
	Iraq?
	Okay, maybe not Iraq.
	This one!
	The one we're not in!
	Okay.
	Just look!
	Bomb Mexico!
	Just say no is not a war!
	That's like just burying your head in the sand, ignoring a problem with a ludicrous catchphrase.
	It isn't a war, to be fair, to Judge Jeanine.
	What is a war then?
	You referenced... You take out the drug pins.
	If you could take out the drug kingpins, I mean, target the cartels with military strikes, as several prominent Republicans are advocating.
	Then why can't Mexico target our gun manufacturers?
	Because we're flooding Mexico with guns, hundreds of thousands of guns every year that they're using in all this violence.
	Guns don't get up and say, I'm going to go out today and kill somebody.
	I don't know what they're talking about.
	She's amazing, Justine.
	Guns don't just get up on their own and kill people.
	Even trucks don't just get up on their own and give themselves to people.
	It's the exact same argument and quite a good one from that beautiful Guess Who character.
	If we're gonna bomb Mexico, why don't we bomb China?
	China's the source of the fentanyl.
	I mean, you just cannot.
	You cannot do these kinds of actions.
	Let's legalize it and see how good that goes.
	I've covered every drug from 1970.
	I was there when Nixon started the war on drugs.
	It's not working.
	It doesn't work.
	We've got to confess it at certain point.
	You know, trillions of dollars wasted.
	No controls.
	It's suicide.
	What's killed more people, alcohol or pot?
	Exactly.
	It's the easiest comparison one could make.
	Exactly.
	There are a lot of very progressive liberal views being expressed in this debate and it's an indication of how much the taxonomies of media have shifted.
	It would have been unthinkable to see a debate where views were expressed articulately that were anti the war on drugs or anti legislation and regulation and criminalization and condemnation around those issues.
	It shows you in a sense that the old barometers, markers and categories are starting to melt away.
	Whether it's legitimate or sincere.
	I would say in the case of Greg Gutfield having met Greg that it is sincere.
	Elsewhere it might be rhetorical on the channel.
	I'm in no position to really say.
	But what this tells us, I think, is that the old values are shifting.
	This is somewhat under him by the recent revelation through study that cannabis is not as long presumed a gateway drug at all.
	Legalizing recreational cannabis at the state level does not increase substance use disorders or use of other illicit drugs among adults and in fact may reduce alcohol related problems according to new CU Boulder research.
	The study of more than 4,000 twins from Colorado and Minnesota also found no link between cannabis legalization and increases in cognitive psychological social relationship or financial problems.
	Of course, one of the campaign pledges of the Biden administration was that cannabis would be de-scheduled.
	Let's see how that went.
	In a campaign ad that hit YouTube seven days before the 2020 election, Biden said,
	as president, I'll work to reform the criminal justice system, improve community policing,
	decriminalize marijuana, and automatically expunge all prior marijuana convictions.
	According to a Gallup poll last fall, 68% of Americans said that they wanted to go beyond
	They want full federal legalization of the recreational use of marijuana by adults.
	The kinds of big dramatic steps in that direction that Biden promised would be attention grabbing and base mobilizing.
	It has 83% support among Democrats, but best of all, it wouldn't even be a potent issue for mobilizing conservative voters.
	That poll showed slightly more Republicans were for it, 50%, than against it, 49%.
	Other polls in the last few years have put the Republican for number even higher.
	A Pew poll in November 2019 found that 55% of Republican-leaning voters were pro-legalisation.
	When something like this has broad appeal and is broadly popular across both parties, I have genuine questions as to why it's not carried, and I feel that it might indicate a deeper set of psychological biases at an institutional level, As well as a means to incarcerate, stigmatize and criminalize people conveniently.
	Eventually, drugs will become decriminalized if not fully legalized because it simply doesn't make sense.
	It's a relic from a more legislative and prohibitive era that can't withstand the kind of conversations that we're currently having around identity, freedom, the right to be who you are.
	If people have the right to change aspects of their biological nature, which again, I have no strong opinion on.
	I support individual freedom full stop.
	Then certainly an issue like this is one that needs to be looked at.
	Hell, there's even a case for it from a pro-business Republican perspective.
	Legal weed businesses would finally be allowed to accept credit card payments.
	And yet, in April 22, he was reviewing powers that no one anywhere doubts that he has.
	Has Biden just forgotten?
	Unlikely.
	Last July, three of the most high-profile senators in the Democratic caucus, 2020 presidential candidates Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker, sent Biden a letter urging the administration to use its existing authority to de-schedule cannabis.
	They have a comparable authority when it comes to controlling pharmaceutical prices for serious diseases.
	We did a video on how a cancer drug that costs $100,000 a month could be white-labeled or threatened with white-label regulation, meaning it will be cheaply available to those that need it.
	So there are sort of areas of legislation and administration that don't make rational sense.
	And if something doesn't make rational sense, to me it's an indication that there's a sort of a faith-based ideological component that isn't obvious and evident.
	You know folks, it's just like Biden promised explicitly more than once and in so many words he would do when he was running for president.
	It's also like the overwhelming majority of Americans want him to do.
	Biden was a hardcore war on drugs hawk for most of his Senate career.
	Why did he promise to de-schedule cannabis when he was running for president?
	It's hard to see an answer to that question other than he knew it would be good politics.
	When Fox News is continually attacked, and we've participated in attacking Fox News, and yet they have more progressive, open-minded views on decriminalization than the apparently Democrat president, it makes you wonder what really controls American administration? How are decisions
	genuinely made? This is another example of not only the fact that pledges are made when
	running for office that simply aren't carried out during administration, but also that
	there appear to be guiding principles that are not obvious and evident and are certainly not
	connected to the will of ordinary people.
	Let me know what you think in the chat and the comments. I say all of this as a person
	in recovery who doesn't use drugs or alcohol one day at a time for a number of reasons,
	Let's have a look at the benefits of a new attitude towards drug and criminalization at the level of the state.
	Decriminalization changes the way we think about drugs.
	Drugs will no longer be treated as a criminal issue, but instead a health and social one.
	This means that instead of addressing drugs through handcuffs, the focus will be on the root causes of drug use, including inequities rooted in housing and healthcare.
	Perhaps it's these deep roots that cause legislation to remain entrenched, that you have to acknowledge that, ultimately, drugs, when used pathologically, are a response to trauma, sadness, social decline, all points that are covered by Greg Gutfield in that debate, and seemingly unacknowledged by the Biden administration, which doesn't seem to tally with how most Democrats would regard Fox News versus the Democrat Party.
	What's happening?
	Decriminalization saves governments money.
	A large proportion of the justice system, police, courts, prisons, are occupied with drug-related crimes.
	As seen in other decriminalized jurisdictions, such as Portugal, it can reduce the demands and costs to this system.
	Considering the demonstrated need for addiction and mental health resources, the money saved could be well spent elsewhere, such as community-led responses, healthcare housing, and social programs.
	For example, eliminating criminal records related to drug possession offences promotes opportunities for people to access employment and housing.
	Interactions between people who use drugs and police can also be reduced, or better yet, won't happen at all.
	Decriminalisation reduces stigma.
	Negative views towards drugs and people who use them is a major factor in the overdose crisis.
	By reshaping the way our family, friends and the medical profession think about drugs, drugs can be talked about more openly and honestly.
	Reducing stigma can also encourage people who use drugs to talk to their doctors about prescription-based therapies.
	At the very least, it will help bring drug use out from isolation where fatal overdoses tend to be the highest.
	I suppose that failure to change this legislation reveals that the government are out of touch with the population that they are charged with governing and out of touch with their own declared ethics.
	Here's another indication of That there has been a divorce between the public and the people that govern them, and that there are shifting sands in the media landscape where presumed opinions are starting to shift an order.
	It also indicates that authoritarianism now is housed within the left, and in particular within the Democrat Party.
	Not that I'm saying that the Republican Party is meaningfully better, just that the liberalism that used to underwrite the modern Democratic Party is no longer in evidence.
	Even with an issue that would seem, according to this article, like an easy win.
	So what does that indicate?
	That authoritarianism, the ability to legislate and the ability to control, is more important to them than fulfilling their promises or cost-effective policies that would make a difference in people's lives.
	We all saw in the last couple of years that the tendency to legislate, regulate and support Big Pharma almost appeared to have a kind of tidal, meteorological power, rather than the declared ideologies of an apparently liberal democracy.
	Decriminalization is harm reduction.
	Although some people fear that decriminalization may increase or encourage drug use, this concern is simply not supported by evidence.
	We know from dozens of countries, states and cities that have decriminalized drugs, that use does not significantly increase.
	In some places, it's actually decreased.
	Decriminalization also lowers overdose and disease rates while increasing people's access to social services and healthcare.
	In this way, a decriminalization model is a basic harm reduction approach mitigating the harms experienced by people who use drugs by eliminating or minimizing the source of those harms, criminalization.
	Overall, the notion of decriminalization is not a panacea or a standalone solution to the harms of drug prohibition, but it is a critical step in the right direction.
	It will have a positive impact on the lives of so many people who are harmed daily from criminalization.
	This, I suppose, is an attitude that could be applied to drug use across the board, from less harmful substances like cannabis, all the way to plainly more toxic substances like heroin.
	Within it is the revelation of a philosophy that's closer to Judge Janine there, bomb them, arrest them, control them, wage war on them, than Greg Gutfield, who's, let's face it, espousing liberal, sensible views that are focused on the sources of the problem rather than attacking the symptoms.
	That's what progressivism used to mean.
	Having an assessment of social situations and individual liberty that's about practical solutions rather than imposing regulation and legislation and criminality on people when it's actually completely unnecessary and ultimately harmful.
	What does it indicate then?
	I would say it's almost an indication of an unconscious desire to control, an unwillingness to fulfill pledges and promises that would meaningfully benefit people.
	And as a person in recovery, myself from drug addiction to a whole raft of substances, I can tell you from personal experience, both for me as an individual and the people that I've spent time with and worked with, that criminalization is an obstacle to recovery.
	It stops people getting well, It puts problems and barriers in their way, increases prison populations, it damages people's health, it breaks down society in the social fabric.
	And if you're a deeply cynical person, you would say that the state government, in alliance with global corporatists, have a vested interest in the continuing dismantling of our social systems so that what they're dealing with is a disparate, broken population rather than a healthy, fit and awakened one.
	But that's just what I think.
	Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.
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	time for football is nice. Hello and welcome to football is nice.
	On Football is Nice today, we're going to be reacting to Man City versus Real Madrid.
	Hopefully not in the way that Erling Haaland's father did by throwing stuff around.
	We're going to be looking at the forthcoming fixtures and making our predictions, talking about the forthcoming relegation battle, as well as responding to your comments.
	Like, for example, dhenz32 or 321 says, how about you give us Yanks a quick rundown of how your football Your football works.
	Do you have play-offs in some sort of championship system?
	Are there different leagues?
	Or do you just randomly play each other in the hopes of qualifying for a World Cup one day?
	That's culturally insensitive, that, isn't it?
	They may as well have called us limeys.
	Like, there are different professional leagues.
	There's that one that your very own Ryan Reynolds is in, with his W. Rexham.
	And then there's Top Flight Football, the Premier League, where there is relegation, unlike in many American sports.
	The division below is the championship where Gareth's football team that are called Hull City and on top of that, they have to live there.
	That's where they play.
	And they do have things called playoffs there where they can like the top two teams go up and then there's playoffs between the next four teams to see which one comes up.
	West Ham occasionally drop down the team that I support into that league.
	And of course, the World Cup is between nations rather than these professional sports franchises, as you might call them in your country.
	I think that's nicely done.
	Enough for now, isn't it, Gareth?
	Did you watch the Champions League semi-final, Ralphie Man City?
	I did.
	I thought it was a fascinating game.
	Ultimately, I think obviously people wanted more goals, but we had two amazing goals.
	I mean, they were both incredible goals.
	Vinicius Junior?
	Yeah.
	I like him.
	He run around, doesn't he?
	He does run around.
	He was immense yesterday, I thought.
	I think there was some commentary like, is he the best player in the world at the moment?
	Maybe he is.
	He was astonishing, I thought.
	I don't know.
	than the next-gen greats. They're the... people were saying it was gonna be Mbappe in Ireland,
	but maybe it's Vanish Jr. You know, if you're a very famous person, would you want Jr. at the
	end of your name? Like Neymar Jr.? Mmm, I don't know. You've got to go and make that all the time.
	Right. It's all about... You can't drop it.
	You're junior.
	People are like, implied he's your dad.
	But then I suppose you've got to think about, like, women changing their name when they're married.
	Then you're losing your name.
	I reckon by the time my kids grow up, that won't happen no more.
	Right.
	I'm going to revise against it.
	Strongly.
	Anyway, like, so there were two amazing goals.
	De Bruyne's goal was amazing.
	Vinicius' goal was amazing.
	I see Vinicius Jr.
	swapped his shirts with Edison at the end.
	At the end.
	Yeah, had a good look at them.
	Brazilians.
	I have a good look at them when they take their tops off, do you?
	Probably not as much as you do, but yes, I definitely do.
	I have to keep my wife interested by objectifying the players.
	She wasn't even there, was she?
	She's left me gal, it's the truth, because I objectify.
	My wife interested.
	Your wife was at a yoga class.
	My wife is now my penis.
	I'm a man who's married to his own reproductive organ and has to persuade it to be interested in Jack Grealish's Alice band.
	Hour after hour.
	Grealish is a tough one, because he's got those thighs of his.
	Would you like them?
	What about the calves?
	He wears those little shorts, doesn't he?
	The calves and all that.
	He knows what he's doing.
	He knows exactly what game he's playing.
	Of course he does.
	He knows exactly what he's doing.
	Where's my phone?
	Because I've got some good things on my phone that I wanted to talk about.
	If you're a Sopranos fan, and I know you are, there was an episode where AJ got his eyebrows shaved off by some bully boys.
	We can find a still of that.
	Yeah, I remember that.
	Uh, AJ's, uh, mates saved, you know, that sort of, uh, fraternity-type prank that you love so well in America to shave off someone's eyebrows when they're drunk.
	Well, have a look at AJ when he had that done, and then have a look at Erlin Harland, and, uh, you will see a similarity.
	I'm not criticising Erlin Harland, he's a perfect person.
	Other than his eyebrows.
	There's hardly any of them.
	Yeah, and his brow is maybe pronounced enough anyway.
	He's very intense.
	What was his dad doing throwing olives and peanuts at people?
	He was celebrating, wasn't he?
	He was celebrating through missiles.
	While continuing to talk about people's physical appearances, I want to say that I've noticed this week that a lot of managers have an assistant that looks like them.
	Yes, they do.
	Ten Hag has basically another Ten Hag.
	Klopp, the Jürgen Klopp of Liverpool FC, Ten Hag of Manchester United, Clop used to have another clop.
	Yeah, he's got another one now.
	And is it another clop?
	No, it's another clop.
	I noticed it the other day.
	So that can't be coincidence, can it?
	They keep employing... You know how they say people look like they're dogs?
	People look like they're assistants in top flight football.
	They get someone that looks like other them.
	I see Ten Hag looking, because obviously West Ham beat Manchester United with a goal that will surely end the career of David de Gea.
	At United, maybe.
	At United, yeah.
	Who now thinks that David de Gea will be at Man United next season?
	No-one.
	No-one in their right mind.
	and it's all because of Ben Rama's sort of, like it wasn't a strong shot, was it?
	Fluffed, sort of fluffed, sort of snuffly little shot.
	Dump, dump, dump, dump, dump, dump.
	Like sort of going past an outstretched and slightly pathetic hand.
	Let's have a look at that still.
	Yes, look, there's AJ with our AJ Soprano with our eyebrows.
	If you listen to this as a podcast, he looks, well, he looks like Erling Haaland.
	That's what he looks like.
	There's a lot of face there.
	A lot of face could do with a bit more definition.
	Not that Haaland isn't beautiful and I don't know.
	beautiful and I don't know.
	No, we talked about his hair last week, didn't we?
	No, well, we talked about his hair last week, didn't we?
	And his penis.
	And his penis.
	We did talk about that also.
	We did talk about that also.
	We talked about the hue of the tip in considerable detail.
	We talked about the hue of the tip in considerable detail.
	I think some people followed up on that.
	I think some people followed up on that.
	We did talk a lot about the anatomies and bodies of players.
	We did talk a lot about the anatomies and bodies of players.
	Richarlison, now of Tottenham, took his top off revealing a dermatological mural on his back that included
	Richarlison of, now of Tottenham, took his top off, could do with a bit more definition. Not that Haaland isn't
	himself. Tombras was kind enough to send a post explaining it.
	At the bottom is a pic of him as a little boy in the Brazilian ghetto. They call it barrios there.
	They've got a good name for it over there. He grew up in.
	Looking up at his face, next to two of the great football legends,
	Neymar and Ronaldo. Actually quite a moving tattoo if he had not included his own face there.
	Yeah, that is the problem. Tattooing you on you. I mean, we might as well tattoo your face on your face at that point.
	It's like when Michael Jackson tattooed his own eyebrows on his eyebrows and tattooed his own lips on his lips.
	We're showing a picture now for those of you watching this on Rumble of that.
	That don't look like Ronaldo by the way.
	That's why I got confused.
	And him down there in the Barrios, or like, you know, City of Gold days, there, still with the number 9 shirt, looking
	towards his own future.
	And what's that, above his own future? I mean, that looks like a basketball above a future Neymar.
	And then there's actual him, like, his own back, ♪ Let me tell you about my life... ♪
	It's a melancholy Fleetwood Mac song running up his own spine.
	There he is, in the lumbar, being a little boy.
	Mid-back, he's himself again, between Neymar and apparently Ronaldo.
	Then, right up at the top of the spine, he turns back into himself, Richarlison.
	So his spine is a journey into him. And that's before you even get to the Vega nerve.
	Oh, God knows what that's telling you about.
	It's a complex and baffling tattoo that he's gone for.
	Also, some people said, Dunballer particularly, holy shit, you're fucking back again.
	Don't know a thing about soccer and football, spelt wrongly.
	It's spelt F-U-T-B-A-L.
	But for some reason, you two talking about it entertains me.
	Well, the reason we do it is because it takes us into a more relaxed Manner of broadcasting, because we spend all our time talking about bringing down the government, deep state corruption, the corporatisation of politics, how to defuse the culture war, and frankly it's terrifying and exhausting.
	I mean, wait till you get a load of Friday's show with RFK, you know, shown inside the establishment, stuff about the pandemic, so heavy that sometimes it's nice to just talk about football in a relaxed way. I mean, in a way it's a selfish
	thing for us to do because we're actually paid to do this. But you're also supposed to
	do things not many do. I've got some things I want to point out to you, Gareth, and I'd
	like your reaction to them.
	Why was the Bernabeu not sold out last night? I had that tour of Pauling across behind who
	won the goals. It was not sold out because of the construction work going on.
	No, I heard this as well.
	Real Madrid, Man City. I don't like it, because as a stand-up comedian, if I see that, when
	they black seats out at one of my gigs, I get upset. I won't do the gig, I'll have a
	tantrum, I'll meltdown. It turns out they're rebuilding the stadium. Why? We watched it
	on BT Sports, great coverage from Rio and the gang. Jake, Etal, good commentators, good
	pundits. Why are they changing the name of BT Sports to TNT for?
	No, I heard this as well.
	It's confusing.
	That's ridiculous.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I like that that's your point.
	Don't change the name.
	Leave it.
	Leave it for some corporate reason.
	I suppose BT is British Telecom.
	That's confusing, because in my mind, BT still means, like, well, when I was a boy, BT, British Telecom, because it was publicly owned and paid for by the public, then they sold it back to the public for some money, and then they didn't give it back to the public.
	It's this thing they did during when I was growing up.
	They went We're gonna sell your stuff!
	And you can buy it!
	But it's already mine!
	I know!
	That's why this is so crazy!
	Anyway, give us your money!
	You can also buy your council house, but it's my house already!
	I know!
	But you gotta buy it again already!
	When they sold us British Telecom back, uh, it was Busby then.
	He was their mascot, their icon, their- he was a little bird.
	Phone calls are going cheap.
	I found him again in my attic, I gave him back to my kids.
	So I think of BT very much as that.
	Right.
	What, you found a little toy?
	Yeah, Busby, he's lost his vest.
	That's gone.
	That's never coming back.
	Nor is his voice.
	You pulled it straight.
	You kicked him.
	Yeah, it was sad to see him.
	Have you got many, like, little toys?
	Yeah, I've kept a few things, you know.
	Some of the Subuteo players.
	Is it all kind of evocative of, you know, positive memories?
	No.
	It's Proustian, but it's negative Proust.
	It's Proust with a difference.
	Proust famously says you can evoke things through smelling something, like you smell a little cake.
	Oh my God, I've gone back in time.
	That's what Proust says.
	You smell Busby's belly.
	I don't like my stepdad.
	You smell Busby's bottom?
	Why's my dog dead?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It was that sort of thing.
	Did you keep those, like, I'm not gonna call them trinkets, uh... Why?
	Did you keep them so that you could tell your children sad stories from your past?
	My children only want sad stories about my life.
	Really?
	They go, tell us that story again about how you didn't get on with your stepdad.
	Well, I didn't get on with my stepdad.
	Go on, go into it a bit more.
	Where's the toy that goes with this story?
	Okay, get the toy down from the attic.
	Get the sad smell-evoking toy down from the attic.
	Now put on Fleetwood Mac.
	Let me tell you about my life.
	In fact, I've got a tattoo of Colin, my stepdad, in the mid-back area.
	Over here by the buttock is my dog getting hit by a bicycle being ridden by the gas man.
	Oh, there's the fire in the allotment.
	It's all there, up and down the old back.
	Because you told me that thing when we were in LA together and I caught something that fell off a table and your kids were really impressed with it.
	I remember that thing.
	And then you said that they said to you something like, I'd be able to catch you or something.
	It was so beautiful.
	One night at bedtime, I was, like, making me retell another sad story of when I was sent away to school and my gerbils cage got knocked off.
	Like, and I knew I was gonna do it.
	It's one of those things where, that's why I try to pay attention to my intuition now.
	Because on that day, right, when I was 11, my intuition said to me, careful of this gerbils cage, which is not even a proper gerbils cage, it's an on-its-side rabbit arch filled with sawdust, because I'd had a rabbit before, but I thought I could keep the gerbils in there just by turning it on its back and having the cage there.
	It was of your design?
	I'm behind this masterpiece, so I'm culpable!
	Of course I'm culpable!
	I thought this was someone else's fault!
	Of course it... I'm only 11!
	Anyway, like, I perched it on the edge while I'm cleaning it out, and of course it fell.
	Now Barney, who is the mother of the journal balls, because I thought she was a boy when I got her, but then she had all these babies, she was crushed when the cage fell on top of her.
	Do you mean emotionally?
	Physically and emotionally.
	Physically through the midriff and all the vital organs, sadly, were crushed.
	As were her emotions, presumably.
	I can't see how they could have independently remained buoyant under such difficult circumstances.
	Although in some ways it's possible, because they say that they'd done, this is somewhat apocryphal, that they'd done a study on lottery winners and people that had become paraplegic as a result of an accident in life.
	And the lottery winners that was miserable fuckers stayed miserable.
	Stayed miserable.
	And the lottery winners that, like, were happy, they were, like, this is great!
	I can buy whatever I want!
	Same with paraplegics.
	Paraplegics have been miserable for, like, oh, this is hell, obviously.
	And the ones that are upbeat, like, oh, it could have been worse.
	Yeah, you come back to your level of happiness, apparently.
	Unless you go on a spiritual voyage and cultivate your inner self and find a deep connection with God, yes.
	They didn't mention that in the news segment, by the way.
	Of course not, there wasn't time for that.
	Anyway, like, uh, so, when I- I told my children that, because they're always mining me for sad, sad stories.
	Yeah.
	I told them already about the terrible death of the gerbils, several gerbils died.
	In my mind, it's like a film- you know in a scene in a film?
	Yeah.
	Like, it could be Platoon, it could be a Terrence Malick film, it's one of those films, and then it plays that sort of music, duh, and everything's all slow motion, and they're looking around.
	Think of a beach scene.
	Shops of nature and stuff.
	No, it's a massacre on a beach in Normandy.
	A death, and they're looking around in the devastation.
	Like, you know, say there's an explosion and it goes all white.
	And then you're sort of looking around and it's all slow motion now, and they're looking around for everything.
	There's gerbil stories like that in my mind.
	Anyway, I haven't told them this story for the umpteenth time, not because I want to tell it, because they love it.
	They keep making me tell it.
	Like, I don't know why, they're trying to help me process it, I think.
	They went, it's a shame you weren't friends with Gareth then because Gareth could have caught that gerbil cage because they'd seen Gareth catch a bowl that someone knocked over at a meal that we were at.
	And Gareth went like that and caught it very quick, very impressive.
	And the kids were like, that's good.
	They clocked it and they remembered it.
	Anyway, they thought that it's a shame.
	They thought that you weren't there back at my boarding school when I was 11 to catch that gerbil cage.
	And I was like, yeah, in a way kids.
	Because in a way, Gareth does do that job in a way, because my blunders that could potentially lead to travesty and problems are often caught by Gareth.
	Like, whoa!
	Don't say it!
	Whoa, whoa!
	Maybe not that!
	Maybe not that!
	Nose!
	We'd also have saved the lives of many innocent gerbils, wouldn't we?
	Or wouldn't I?
	Think of the ongoing, in a Schindler's List way, like think of all the descendants of those gerbils that would have been saved had I been there.
	You could have been the Oskar Schindler, but of gerbils.
	I've always wanted to be that.
	What would we have been, mates, when we were young?
	I mean, you'd have been a few years ahead of me, so it would have been interesting.
	Puffing about and... Right, there, little fella.
	I appreciate you catching the gerbils.
	It was very decent of you.
	Now, let me tell you a thing about lady life.
	She's a cruel mistress, anyway.
	Do you want to have a look at these poor, poor mags and have some popping candy?
	Sorry, I've got to do a French horn practice.
	Get back here!
	Let's go on a crazy journey together.
	Wait a minute.
	Wow.
	During the commentary for Real Madrid vs Man City, Steve McManaman said this.
	Oh no, my phone's actually writing down everything I'm saying.
	Stop, stop.
	It's so man-mental to see that.
	That was like being spied on in real time.
	That was like Five Eyes stuff.
	It was saying everything I was saying.
	That is what's happening right now.
	Right.
	So, Steve McManaman, formerly of Liverpool and, of course, Real Madrid, like, when there was, like, a penalty claim at one point in the game, said, oh, it's getting ridiculous.
	Everyone wants a penalty for everything now.
	Everyone wants a penalty for everything.
	I want a penalty for that!
	I want a penalty for that!
	And it's everyone doing it.
	It's not that bad, Steve.
	No.
	It's not everyone wants a penalty.
	That's as extreme as it could be.
	Yeah.
	You can't actually... That's hyperbole.
	You can't go beyond that.
	Everyone wants... You could say some people want a penalty for it.
	No.
	Everyone wants a penalty for everything now.
	Whoa!
	That's too much.
	I can't deal with that.
	He was on the side of City, I guess, wasn't he?
	Because Madrid were doing the kind of usual Madrid thing of trying to get fouls and all this kind of stuff and shoving Man City players.
	Would he not maintain an affinity?
	You would have thought so, but I guess he's a proper pundit, isn't he?
	If you know a lot about football, right, or even just are culturally interested in football, here are some things that you oddly will know.
	Daniel Levy.
	Oh, they're going to have to negotiate.
	They're going to have to negotiate with Daniel Levy.
	He's a tough one.
	He don't give anything away, Levy.
	Like, why do you know that?
	Like, why don't everyone know?
	It's like he can't be mentioned.
	It's like, if someone mentions kilts, you have to go, oh, did you wear underpants under them?
	Or did you do it?
	That's what you have to say, right?
	It's like those two things live together.
	If someone mentions Daniel Levy, oh, he won't let Kane go to Man United.
	He's a tough negotiator, Daniel Levy.
	Is he what?
	Especially and particularly and beyond other people so much?
	It's true, because I've never negotiated with Daniel Levy.
	The only thing I know is when he's on that documentary, he seems nice.
	that is pressed every time Daniel Levy's name is mentioned.
	Daniel Levy, chairman of Tottenham Hotspur.
	Ooooooh!
	Uh, I'm actually gonna see...
	It's true, because I've never negotiated with Daniel Levy, ever.
	The only thing I know is when he's on that documentary, he seems nice.
	Yeah, that's never happened in my life, and yet, as you say, if you mention Daniel Levy...
	Ooooooh!
	...that's the first thing I will do.
	Good luck!
	Alright, are we gonna split this bill then, Daniel?
	You know, it's like as if every one of us has had the experience of Daniel Levy going, I never had none of the garlic bread.
	You drank that red wine, only I had tap water.
	Yeah.
	Like, you know, it's like that Daniel Levy isn't gonna negotiate with you about everything all the time.
	Although, Harry Kane is 50 years old, and he's down now, not got his dream move.
	He's just trying to, he's trying to win.
	They're having to make a statue of him, just so he wins something.
	And now you've won this.
	It's you, but just made out of metal.
	Oh, does anyone else care?
	Nope.
	No one cares.
	And if you ever do anything else... Could I go to Man City and win things with the others?
	Nope.
	You'll stay in here to look at Metal You.
	You've got Metal You now.
	Metal You should cheer you up.
	That's one thing.
	The other thing is Stockley Park.
	Yes.
	Oh, Stockley Park!
	That one's going to Stockley Park!
	Listen, Stockley Park!
	No, Stockley Park is because of VAR, Video Assistant Referee, is that what it is?
	Like, now they replay things, like American sports have always done, and like they were saying, should happen for ages and ages.
	Now they do do that, right?
	Like, they replay things and then it's like nitpickery, nitpickery video.
	I generally, generally, I don't like VAR.
	Right.
	That's my general position of it.
	I see.
	Because in my mind, it belongs with technological encroachment on human capacity.
	That's where I place it.
	Of course, that opinion would alter if VAR would have helped West Ham in some way.
	But often, VAR hasn't helped West Ham.
	Like, for example, earlier this season, there was a goal against Chelsea that Jared Bowen got and they didn't use VAR.
	It should have been.
	Anyway, so it seems what I remember more is the times it goes against me.
	Yeah.
	It's that standard, isn't it?
	It's adjudicated from Stockley Park.
	You are right.
	That's where the person is.
	No one even knows where that is.
	I'm sure some people do, but the rest of us don't.
	I bet it's near Isleworth.
	Yeah, I kind of think that.
	Where Sky is.
	It's like one of those M25 unplaces.
	Yes.
	There's a road that loops London, and it's sort of corralled within it are unspaces and untowns.
	The place that I'm from, Grey's, is sort of like a tassel on the M25, like a nipple tassel around the areolae.
	of the M25.
	Yeah, that's how I see it.
	Yeah.
	So Stockley Park, people say, Oh, we're gonna have to see what you know, Stockley Park, it's just become Yeah, oh, it's a synoptic a synecdoche.
	That's what it is.
	Stockley Park now means it's become linguistically emblematic of what, of the adjudication of
	tech like Synoctecae, like the White House. It's West London near Hillingdon. Hillingdon
	life sciences, that's all we know about Hillingdon, that's where they experiment on cats.
	That's true.
	So they put soap in their eyes.
	Never get the two mixed up.
	Never go...
	Is it a penalty or not?
	I don't know, I'm in trouble with the tail.
	Surely that was offside.
	I don't know.
	It smells delicious, but this rabbit just shat a load of blood.
	What?
	Was that offside?
	No, only from L'Oreal.
	Yeah, Hillingdon and Stockley Park have got to make sure that they don't ever cross jurisdictions like the streams in Ghostbusters.
	Otherwise, it's in a business park.
	Jamie, the producer of the show, is telling us.
	Yeah, of course it is.
	It's in an unspaced... Imagine, the reason why they make so many bad decisions is because they bloody hate being there, for a start.
	They're there.
	Must be awful.
	It's so grim.
	There's no character.
	If you look at architecture, I don't want to be all in my day about it, but if you... Because it ain't my day.
	But if you look at a municipal building from, like, Victorian England, it's beautiful.
	Like, the masonry.
	It's like people loved communities.
	They loved society.
	They were proud to participate in their culture.
	And buildings are an expression of the community, an expression of love.
	Now, everything's just like a sort of a dropped, glum box, or a sarcastic piss-take, like the Guggenheim.
	Oh, this is what a building could be!
	Oh, it's all wobbly!
	Woo-hoo!
	Like, no, it gives a shit anymore!
	I don't have any values!
	Ah!
	I'm old!
	I'm officially old!
	I can't get an erection!
	I actually can.
	That's part of the problem.
	It's just there's no need to.
	Absolutely.
	I'm glad we got onto that.
	Yeah, well, we're about... Oh, and on that note, here comes my oldest child.
	Come in, darling, come in.
	You alright, mate?
	Come see me?
	And there's my other daughter.
	Hello, Mabes.
	Hello, Pegs.
	Who's my babies?
	We want pizza!
	You want pizza?
	You're gonna do it?
	Sassy's still here.
	What are you gonna say?
	Poo-poo bum-bum fucking hell!
	Good girl!
	That's it!
	Another generation.
	Another generation.
	We're fine.
	We're gonna be rich.
	This is a... This is a... This is a dynasty like the Kennedys we're building here.
	You taking that, Ken?
	There they go, my kids.
	Um, there they go.
	I really like that moment that Peggy came towards you, and you thought she was leaning in to give you a kiss, and actually what she was doing is leaning into the mic to say, poo-poo, bum-bum, fucking hell.
	I felt the kind of pride, like she is actually already, ah, the pupil has surpassed the teacher.
	I thought she was coming to cuddle me, but she was coming to just rain down expletives on the mic.
	You know, like, um, that's what they think my job is.
	Like, I'm going to work now, and they go, I go, what do you think my job is?
	And like, they go, oh, fucking hell, bum, poo, willy.
	That's a certain percentage of it.
	I think that's a significant percentage.
	It's the foundations.
	That's just, that's simply the foundations of what I do.
	Putting Vaseline on people's cuts... Yes.
	...I don't think is good.
	Isn't good enough.
	Don't just put Vaseline on a cut.
	Yeah.
	Isn't it?
	It's blocking it all up.
	Right.
	And why, they could have done that a hundred years ago.
	Vaseline's been around for ages.
	Yeah, I mean, they have been doing it for a long time.
	They've always done that.
	Like boxing, I suppose.
	They do that.
	That's the thing.
	That's why I'm slightly surprised that we haven't moved on from it, in a way.
	I can't!
	Put petrol in it.
	That'll solve it.
	Yeah.
	It's not right, is it?
	It's not the right thing to do.
	All right, we've got a whole bunch of content on Football is Nice.
	We've got your comments, of course, and thank you so much for your contributions.
	At the end, we're going to be doing our predictions.
	There's a relegation battle.
	My Club West Ham, we're safe now after beating Man United and ending the career of De Gea.
	You did tell us.
	In a shocking result, Everton beat Brighton 5-1.
	Astonishing.
	In pink shirts on top of that.
	That's surprising.
	Fulham beat Leicester, condemning Leicester to the championship and meaning there'll be a bonanza fire sale at Leicester with players like Thieleman and Maddison and maybe Vardy.
	Vardy stays.
	I think he'll probably still be in the championship.
	Henry Barnes, he's the... Harvey Barnes.
	Harvey Barnes, sorry.
	Is he one of the plum picking the lefty?
	I think he's a great player.
	Yeah?
	Who's getting all of these people?
	I don't know.
	I mean, a couple of them will go to West Ham, certainly.
	Leicester fans won't like that.
	Do you think Forrest might stay up because they beat James' club, Southampton, 4-3?
	It's so tight.
	I've no idea.
	I want Forrest to stay up.
	Do you think Leicester are down, do you?
	It's impossible to tell because it's changing.
	What I'm happy about is that West Ham's last games aren't going to be as significant as I thought they would be.
	We've got the fixtures up here and it's proper maths.
	But football does that.
	This is what I'm holding out for.
	Everton beating Man City.
	That would be amazing.
	For the title race, because then Arsenal have only got, what, a point to make up, then it's possible.
	It's possible.
	They're not going to do it in goal difference.
	Essentially, City have to lose one and draw one, and Arsenal have to win everything.
	That's right, isn't it?
	Is that going to happen?
	That's not like last night, the Bernabeu's going to have to take them off track, is it?
	It's not going to actually take them off track.
	No, if anything, I think it will give them confidence.
	I mean, there was a period in that game where Madrid were all over City.
	I mean, they'd gone 1-0 up.
	Because Man City started well, didn't they?
	Yeah.
	Then Madrid scored.
	Madrid were dominant, I thought.
	I thought they were going to get another one.
	Man City getting back into that game, you've got to think it's just going to give them confidence.
	BR60 attacked me, right, because I was sort of criticising both Wrexham and Man City and all that stuff.
	Right.
	He said, Brand... I always know I'm in for a drubbing when someone calls me Brand, you know?
	Yeah.
	Brand putting success down to money shows his ignorance.
	That's where he starts.
	He's just starting that.
	It's actually quite a well-written attack.
	This is the theme of the attack.
	That's ignorance.
	But it's not, because year after year, you can go, this is their wage bill, this is their position, there's normally a correlation.
	Yeah, the only anomaly this season is Chelsea.
	Chelsea's an anomaly, are Brighton an anomaly in the other direction?
	Certainly they are, yeah.
	But there are more cases for teams who haven't spent as much doing well than there are teams who've spent a lot of money doing badly, I would suggest.
	When that happens, it's disgusting and mental, innit?
	Like, what happens at Chelsea is mad.
	Insane.
	Like, there's so many good players there, you can't even really remember it.
	Hold on a minute, doesn't Kai Havertz play?
	Wait a minute, what's going on?
	Where's Aubameyang?
	One of my favourite names to say in the world, Obama Yang.
	Because you get to say Obama, and you think, well, that was enjoyable.
	And then Yang!
	Right at the end.
	They played Jorginho, didn't they?
	And everyone was... Everyone says that was a masterstroke.
	But look at, like, another one.
	Chelsea just got rid of him.
	He's no good.
	Get rid of him.
	Seven million quid off to Arsenal.
	Oh, he's brilliant!
	Go on, say your thing.
	You like to sound about Chelsea.
	No, it's this thing, it's amazing that when they haven't got a striker and then you look, Tammy Abraham and they're just discarded.
	They're like, oh we can't, we don't have any place for Tammy Abraham.
	Get him out of here!
	Doing brilliantly at Roma, it's madness.
	Giroud gone to Milan.
	Get him out of here!
	A million quid, he's in the Champions League semi-final, it's crazy.
	Cos what Chelsea are, and forgive me if you're a Chelsea fan, cos I've obviously got friends that are fans of every club there is, and so I think of my friend Parker, who loves Chelsea, I've got my mate, old, what's that mate, Lil Liam, he's a Chelsea fan, Uncle Rick, Chelsea fan, I know lots of Chelsea fans, but this is what they are.
	Superficial glory hunters without souls.
	Because, look, we're a Chelsea fan, they've corralled together these Russian purchased spoils, haven't they?
	And they're out of touch with reality, aren't they?
	I think so.
	And if they went down, like, they can't go down.
	But, like, it's just such a mad experiment.
	And that Todd Burley, or whatever he's called, who's bought Chelsea, an American fella, no disrespect, who's bought them off the Russian, he looks like Luke Skywalker when he's old.
	He looks like old Luke Skywalker.
	When Luke Skywalker's on an island and he's gone wrong...
	Look, Todd Burley, there's a comparison to it.
	When Luke Skywalker lost his dignity and he's on an island and he's forgotten everything he ever stood for, that's what Todd Burley, if that's indeed the correct way to say his name... Anyway.
	Brand shows his ignorance.
	Man United have spent one and a half billion and been nowhere near the league title for ten years.
	Yeah, but they've been extracting money and the infrastructure of the club is terrible.
	Look at the state of Chelsea and God knows what they've spent.
	And Man City are actually tenth place in transfer spending league table after the last five years.
	But isn't that because of the good business they've done on the way out?
	Yeah.
	Look, OK.
	In the last, what, years?
	There's Todd Bowley.
	Put him next to Mark Hamill.
	All old.
	All old Luke Skywalker.
	Even next to him, you can do it sequentially, and people can do it in their old time.
	Like, they look the same, if you ask me.
	Go on.
	The way the city has built since the shake money came in, you can't discount that.
	That's absolutely crazy talk to do that.
	I understand what they're saying about Man United, but they've been badly managed.
	It's not to say there aren't other criteria.
	I think Man City, fair play, there's no financial fair play unless every time Man City buy a player for themselves, they've got to buy a player for someone else.
	I don't understand this system of yours.
	Because it's mad.
	We're going to go into depth in a minute, right?
	We're going to wrap this up.
	And we're going to go over to Locals.
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	You are not going to want to miss that.
	Have a look at this moment of our chat with RFK.
	It's all like this, honestly.
	Have a look.
	It turns out it was the CIA.
	As I was almost 10 years old, my uncle was killed.
	And I was standing in the White House, in the foyer of the White House, with my aunt Jackie Kennedy, and my mother, and my father.
	My uncle's body was in the easel.
	I, at that point, like many Americans, was asking questions because this didn't look right.
	How can you speak out openly against these kind of interests, let alone try and mobilize a political movement and stand against them without serious fear of, well, assassination?
	It wasn't just Fauci, it was the whole US intelligence military apparatus that was basically... Simply not possible for you to answer that question on YouTube.
	They were bragging that they could kill everybody, basically everybody in the world for 29 cents a person.
	What you're saying, Robert, even leaves many hardened conspiracy theorists quivering like Boy Scouts.
	None of this is stuff that we should be doing.
	Quite bloody terrifying.
	This is a war where Ukraine has been made a victim, not just by Russia, but by the United States government.
	We have to just say, wait a minute, we've got to stop fighting each other, and we've got to go after the people who have their jackboot on our head.
	It's time.
	Unbelievable that, wasn't it, Gareth?
	It certainly was.
	So, if you remember our locals community, join us more for this ebullient, effervescent, enthusiastic football chat.
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