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Aug. 23, 2023 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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GOP Debates: The REAL Reason Trump Won’t Be There! - Stay Free #196
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In this video, you're going to see the future.
Hello there, you Awakening Wanderers.
Thanks for joining me on Stay Free with Russell Brand on this historic day when Rumble will be bringing you the Republican primaries.
But what kind of Republican primary can we gear when the primary Republican ain't even gonna be there?
Is he even now gonna be dropping an interview with O-tuck-a-tuck?
Is that what's going to happen?
Let us know in the chat.
If you're watching us on YouTube, remember, we'll be here for 15 minutes, but then our special guest will be joining us.
It's the Critical Drinker, one of the most popular guests we've ever had on this show.
And by God, we've had some very popular guests.
He wears his sunglasses when he does his interviews like this.
I'm personally a fan of his YouTube channel, Critical Drinker.
Let us know if you are.
We'll be talking to him about why Hollywood, the culture war, the current strikes.
Snow White.
Gonna talk to him about Snow White?
Gonna talk to him about Barbie?
Gonna talk to him about Barbie Heimer?
Gonna talk to him about the emergent models?
Is it the end of the franchise?
Is it the end of the Marvel multiverse?
You know, cinematic universe, all that stuff.
Yeah, we'll be talking to him about a lot of things.
I do a lot of research.
People don't realise how hard I work.
I don't think you understand.
Do you know what I go through just to keep this show on the road?
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You'll find like-minded people there.
You'll find independent, free speakers.
Freely speaking.
That's what we're interested in.
There's no problem arguing, is there?
No.
Under any circumstances?
Well, you can, I think, respect all disagreements.
Perhaps if you're doing surgery, and like one of you say, I believe this to be a respiratory disorder, and have one saying, nonsense, bunions is the issue, and then scurrying down to the wrong end, that's where an argument is unhelpful, like in critical medical care.
but fortunately there seems to be a broad consensus in the area of critical medical care,
particularly with regards to pandemics, which we'll be talking about also when we are exclusively on Rumble.
If we get round to it, let's see what's going on in the primaries.
And later on also, we're going to be talking to you about Joe Biden's numerous pseudonyms.
How does he remember them all?
Because I think he struggles to remember just the normal Joe Biden one.
And what his son's doing for a living seems to be baffling to the poor old codger.
Also, he struggles to remember things to say when dealing with a country dealing with a massive disaster.
Here's some things to say.
I can't imagine your terrible loss and what you're going through and the fact that infrastructural failings on behalf of my government is partly to blame.
It's something that we're going to immediately remedy.
And if we find out that privately run electrical companies are in any way culpable, we'll ensure that they are penalised.
We are here for you.
There's no point in being an American if in times of crisis America can't put their arms around you. We are going to make America great
again. I can't use that catchphrase.
That catchphrase has been all burned out, like Joe Biden's Corvette nearly was, because
that is what he said, to placate and console a population in grief. What kind of president
says things like that? Your president. But who's going to be next?
Well, let's have a look at some of the contenders from the Republican pie.
While the main man himself may not be available, our competitors over there on the mainstream, Fox News, are looking at their candidates.
Let's see.
Remember, already on our show, tell me, who's been your favourite presidential candidate that you've seen here on Stay Free?
Is it RFK?
Love RFK.
My pull-up opponent.
Yes.
I'm coming for you, RFK!
You know I'm in a pull-up competition to raise money for his campaign.
If we get to $100,000, the pull-up competition is gonna go ahead.
Sometimes I want to jeopardize it because I don't want to be defeated by a man in his late 60s in a competition of strength, testosterone, vitality and virility because that's humiliating for me.
Yes.
And that is what's going to happen.
Is he your favourite one, or is Ron DeSantis, who, like I guess, I thought Ron DeSantis was the very model of a presidential candidate, but some people think he's not, like, jokey enough.
Not like Vivek Ramaswamy, who also came on here, crunch-crunch with the apple, but, and playing tennis, he crunch-crunched on an apple.
I like him a lot, I've stayed in touch with him.
Have you?
Yeah, I'm talking to him about our own moves, our own political moves over here in the UK.
You should have done little challenges with all of them.
You know, like you've got a challenge with RFK?
What would I do with... Right, so with Vivek, tennis.
Well, again, don't you want to start winning some of these challenges?
I want to win them all.
Right.
And that's why I'm choosing ones that they have declared experts in, because of sweet lady hubris.
Like the nitwit I am, I'm taking them... Sorry we're late, by the way.
Sorry we started late.
My children are here, and I think that's the fault, really, is it?
Well, you're just blaming your kids.
Is that not what you do as a parent?
I'm not sure it is.
It's my children's fault.
Like, you know, I blame my parents for everything, or my psychosis, but now I'm getting a bit too old for that.
Moving on to the children.
It's never my fault.
I'm like, just on time's string, and I'll blame the things either side of me.
Parents, children, parents, children.
That's my little way for it.
Ron DeSantis' fault for this.
I've entered an origami competition against Ron DeSantis.
A pudding of your fingers licking competition.
That's what Ron DeSantis apparently does, although that's never been proven, has it?
What side of it is that bad?
In India, they have even things like rice and curry, you eat that with your fingers.
In fact, spoons, chopsticks, Get it out my way!
Right.
Eat your puddings with your fingers.
Yeah.
Put in your thumb and say, what a good boy am I!
Not just for me, not just for Florida, but for the whole of damn America.
Because one of the things with Ron DeSantis is they say he ain't got enough snap, crackle and pop.
Humour.
That's what they want.
Yeah, it is humour.
It's not snap, crackle and pop, which is a catchphrase of a breakfast cereal.
That's right.
No one wants that.
No, they don't want that.
Probably too much sugar in it.
That's going to be one of the big things, is can he be likeable and a bit funny?
Because that's what people are evidently looking for.
Well, Vivek is apparently up at number two now because of this likeability, though he does play tennis in black socks.
I'm not sure that that's right under really any circumstances.
And he does lean, in this news report from over on the mainstream there at Fox in a minute, you'll see enough leans in close to a voter Yeah, he's almost getting off with her.
He's also, he's at her head height.
I know.
I don't know how he manages to get himself up at her head height.
It's like he's floating in midair at her head height.
Yes.
It'll astonish you.
We're going to have a look at it.
We're going to be on YouTube for a few more minutes.
then we'll be going over onto the other place, the home of sweet lady free speech to talk
to Will Jordan, aka the Critical Drinker. If you've got questions for him, press the
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and I'll ask the ones that I spot and stuff. They go shooting by. Anyway, they say I want
a leader, not a character, says Carrie-Anne Salvey.
Interesting.
Yeah, I want a leader, not a character.
Tell me the difference, mate, in the chat and we'll get into that.
Let's have a look at Fox News on the primaries.
They'll be here on Rumble as well, so stay tuned because the presidential primaries are on Rumble later.
Let's have a look at one Foxy Lady.
Tomorrow marks the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign and tonight we're getting a preview of what we can expect.
It's a bit too quiet, the audio in here.
I can't hear it properly.
And when you see those people all lined up, they look a bit too, well, I like Vivek, I like Ron DeSantis, and there's a couple of people I don't know at all.
Well, you won't because, you know, even Nikki Haley and Tim Scott, they're polling so low that you think it's gonna come down to Vivek or Ron DeSantis.
One of these people has to trick his way in, like saying, I'm doing well in a good poll.
And they say, well, that poll don't count.
He goes, it should do, though.
Anyway, he says it later on in the news.
Fox News says this is where the candidates will be positioned for the first debate of the 2020 election.
Well, that's just where they're going to actually stand.
Is that where you're like, OK, DeSantis and Ramaswamy, they're center stage.
I suppose that's the indication is they're the most important.
Yes.
Do you suppose?
How do they come up with this?
Is it based on?
Like a dinner party.
Right.
Don't put DeSantis next to Penny Pence.
Oh no, we have done it.
He's next to Penny Pence.
They're going to quarrel.
And then Christy, isn't that the one that Donald Trump called an FP?
Correct.
And it rhymes with catsick.
Kind of.
That is that one, I think.
Yes, it is that.
Anyway, he can't do very well.
Look at Burgum.
He's dressed like Hannibal from the A-Team.
He's not even wearing proper president clothes.
You've got no chance, mate.
...24 Republican presidential race, with Donald Trump choosing to skip the event.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will be center stage.
Standing beside him is rising star Vivek Ramaswamy.
The first-time candidate...
He got his top off for tennis.
Is that normal?
Topless tennis?
Well, I think he's probably pretty hot where he is, I would imagine.
Getting hot under the collar.
Topless tennis in the black socks.
I mean, you took your top off for literally no reason.
There are sometimes reasons.
Oh, OK.
Sometimes the reason is to show these little guys.
Oh, I see.
Yeah?
Yeah.
But today, got them under wraps!
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What?!
And do they get the, uh... They get the... Yeah, and also I will flash the guys at will.
At your will, not mine.
Video of him playing tennis and calling it debate prep.
This is mad as well.
This is mad.
When did life turn into this?
I'm not criticising Vivek Ramaswamy.
I think he's the first sort of modern political candidate.
Whereas Trump is of course, in a sense, old school billionaire, but populist reality TV star, skilled persuader in the public space who understands, curiously, the emotional Subcutaneous realities in a way that normal political figures don't.
I can't think of another one.
Vivek Ramaswamy.
I guess anyone else that's that age group.
I don't think anyone else is at this point in either party.
He, I think, understands the discourse and almost the energy.
Almost something that's hard to define.
Yeah, I understand that.
It's just that he's got no political experience, isn't it?
And you wonder, as it carries on, whether that will make a difference.
When he came on here, he said he's more Trump than Trump.
He said, I'll Trump Trump up the trumpet.
He was like saying that I'm Trumpier than him.
I'm what Trump was in 2016.
He then said it will be better for Trump because Trump won't be able to pardon himself, but I'll pardon Trump.
But he also said that he would consider pardoning Hunter Biden, which I think he's had a lot of pushback against.
And that's kind of what I mean about the experience.
I think someone like Trump knows how to deal with these situations.
He's going to jail.
He's going to lock him up.
Like that bit, one of my favourite ever bits of Trump, and we've been looking at some of our other favourite bits of Trump in a minute, was when Hillary goes in one of the presidential debates against Hillary Clinton, and she says like, well I wouldn't like it if you won, and she goes, because you'd be in prison.
Because you'd be in jail.
That's so funny!
And some of the meanest things he says are funny.
And if you put aside everything else, and the problem is, in a nihilistic culture where everyone's living in some level of despair, note the rising death rates among the young, if someone is actually funny, a humane quality, it's incredibly effective.
Once I went on this screenwriter's course, right, And they said, if you want to make your protagonist sympathetic to the audience, there's a number of ways that you can do that.
They do something heroic in the first five minutes.
That yields the famous phrase, save the cat.
You'll notice in Hollywood movies, this is something you can talk to Critical Drinker about in a minute.
They have, like, the protagonist do something that makes you think, oh, he's a nice guy.
Like, in a Tom Cruise movie, he'll, like, pick up a kid or do something nice.
You know, some little gesture that makes you align with them.
But, like, so if you have a star like Bill Murray, like a sort of a classic comedic curmudgeon who might play sort of a Skeptical or cynical characters.
They say the way you get by that is they're funny.
If someone's funny, you think, hmm.
And the late, great George Shapiro, who is Seinfeld's manager, and the manager of Andy Kaufman, as well as a host of other great comedians, he said, if someone makes you laugh, you love them forever.
There's something about it that sort of anchors you.
Well, Trump supporters love him more than they love their own family.
And their own God.
And their own God.
Their own God.
So, there you go.
You're good now.
You are him!
That's right.
Let's have a look at Vivek Ramaswamy though.
He's bringing some millennial zest to the contest.
This video shows him working out with his wife, labelled more debate prep.
I'd call that a classic burpee they're doing there.
Do you hate to do a burpee?
It's the worst exercise.
Who here likes doing burpees in the chat?
It's the worst exercise, so credit to him for doing that.
I mean, probably I'd do a burpee competition with Vivek Ramaswamy.
I hate that.
The last thing you want to do after you've done a push-up and a jump forward is a jump up in the air.
What a massive downer.
I reckon I could take him in a rapping competition.
Oh, that's what I want to see.
You bastard!
That's what I wanted to say.
I didn't like the way you said that.
I feel like you would sort of sit there watching him.
Yes, I would.
Like, with a cigarette.
Oh, very good.
Oh, this is wonderful.
Look at these two ninnies, wrapping their way out of public relevance.
I'd be mainly focusing on one of the ninnies.
Which ninny will you be?
Oh, I don't know.
What ninny you gonna be looking at?
This last week on The Issue Is... What's your strategy for debate night?
My best form of debate prep is actually talking to him.
Look how near he is.
How's he even gotten up there?
Like firstly, he's floating about four foot in the air, like, and then look how...
That's his best form of debate, he just said.
Look at that.
See, if they do reintroduce COVID restrictions, Vivek Ramaswamy's in a hell of a lot of trouble
because I'd say he's only two fingers away from a voter there.
I beg your pardon?
I'm saying he's two fingers from a voter.
There's nothing wrong with that, baby.
I don't like being in a cloistered corner office.
You better have good breath.
Yes.
You gotta have minty fresh breath.
You do that.
Your oral hygiene routine's gotta be like mine.
Scrapey.
What's the scrapey?
Scrape the tongue.
Don't let the tongue gather no moss.
Keep the tongue pristine clean.
What are you scraping it with?
Clean the teeth.
I gotta say it looks like a little brass hook.
Do you remember Abu Hamza?
Yes.
He was a Abu Hamza.
I wonder where he went.
I kept told of him.
He was a preacher of... They called him a preacher of hate, but there was some cultural complexity, let's face it, with the long historic relationships between the West and the Islamic world, let's call it.
Anyway, I use a hook.
It's not a hook like that.
It's more of a U, like a horseshoe-shaped item made out of brass, I'd say.
Down the tongue, tongue minty fresh.
Then clean with a toothpaste that doesn't contain any dodgy stuff.
Right, well done.
You don't want anything leery in there, you know, don't want to get into conspiracy theories while we're in the World Health Organization governed YouTube space.
No, best not.
And then, um, and then I use a nice toothbrush, get that nice and fast and clean.
Now, like, so my breath, I hope at all times, and I would know if my breath weren't nice, because I've got children, and one thing children are is little bastards, and they're so rude.
You stink!
What's that mole?
You've got a hair growing out there!
You're a pig!
Look, you're not even my children.
Get out of here!
Like, you know, that's what my kids, they cut you down hard.
That's what she was saying to Vivek then.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
GET OFF ME!
THERE'S A HAIR GROWING OUT THERE!
I'LL NEVER VOTE FOR YOU!
Uh, let's have a look how this go though.
Getting coaching from political consultants on how many times I'm supposed to make a particular point or which lines I'm supposed to use to attack.
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie plans on attacking Donald Trump even though Trump says he's gonna skip all the debates.
If he shows up at the third one, which I suspect he might, because he's going to get pretty damaged.
I was thinking about this.
He doesn't need to go to those debates.
I don't think it does damage him.
He can only lose because he's the one where like, you know, people, the story will become if someone takes down Trump or criticizes Trump.
That's it.
That's the story.
Whereas he can just starve them of oxygen.
I don't understand what Chris Christie's strategy and plan is here.
To attack the person who's so far ahead of everyone else.
Impossible.
Nothing can be done.
Nothing can be done.
It's pointless.
It's extraordinary.
He's an indefatigable, unimpeachable, can't-be-brought-downable phenomenon.
Because that's the issue with DeSantis, isn't it?
It's been so difficult for him when asked about Trump, which he continuously is doing.
What's his answer to him?
Does he back him?
Does he push against him?
What does he do?
How do you keep certain people on course?
I'll say it in person.
You guys, let me know what you think about this in the chat.
RFK handles it so well.
I saw him on NBC at some sort of trade fair with his sleeves rolled up, looking dashing as all hell, forearms looking pretty muscly, worryingly for me.
And he said, he calls in President Trump, he goes, no I would never run with President
Trump, of course not, but I welcome the support of people.
So he handled it sort of politely I would say, and gracefully.
Maybe it's different if you are directly opposing Trump for the candidacy of your party in a
way that he isn't.
RFK in a sense I suppose has, I'm not saying that he has nothing to lose, but he's an opponent,
He's a person who's barely able to communicate well.
I mean, look at this Fox News report on... In fact, gosh, we better get off.
We should get on to... Listen, we gotta get off.
I'm gonna show this Hawaii thing, but we better get off of YouTube because, quite frankly, we came on late and we don't have the time.
Let's get over onto the home of free speech.
Listen, if you're watching this on YouTube, we're going to be speaking to The Critical Drinker in a matter of minutes about movies, movie culture, and if you've got any questions, post them in the chat.
If you're watching this on Rumble, press the red button and join us over on Locals.
Let's have a look at how Fox News reported on... I want to see that.
What I want to see, right, Is the clip where mainstream say that Joe Biden handled it well.
Yes, CNN.
Apparently they're saying that Biden said the right things.
And then we're going to look at those right things that he said.
Let's have a look at that.
President and Dr. Biden spent several hours both over Lahaina on the ground here and meeting with both first responders and victims of this tragedy at the big shelter, the War Memorial Shelter in Central Maui.
And he said the right things.
Well let's have a look at those right things because I think he said mental stuff.
Look this is one of the weirdest performances or appearances that I've seen from Joe Biden.
I feel that Joe Biden backs himself as a kind of folky homespun man of the people.
I say this because of times when you know when we've seen him say sort of corn pop or lying in bed at night worrying about health care.
Whenever he like what I've realized is that Statesmen that seem like cold bureaucratic edifices of inhumane data are not appealing, plainly, obviously.
So I feel that there's an obligation, an intention, an agenda to appear personable, ordinary, normal.
But if you've been in politics for 45 years or whatever it is like you have lived a pretty unusual life so when he uses anecdotes like this one when he speaks to an audience of bereft and traumatized victims of a unprecedented conflagration and tragedy he uses a near domestic fire as his tool for gaining empathy and sympathy with them and from them look at this is astonishingly misjudged i think
I don't want to compare difficulties, but we have... Don't then, because I've just had a fire, but let's hear you.
A little sense, Jill and I, what it's like to lose a home.
Years ago, now 15 years ago, I was in Washington doing Meet the Press.
Look at the fellow there with the ukulele.
Even he knows, oh, this isn't going to be good.
This is not a good thing to say.
No, no.
It was a sunny Sunday.
Lightning struck at home on a little lake that's outside of our home, on a lake, a big pond.
Also, like, inadvertently revealing that you've got a massive lake on your property.
This could have happened to any of you lake owners out there.
Luckily it missed the yacht, hit the jetty, went very near my ark of treasures.
But he realised very quickly, lake doesn't sound good, let's change it to pond.
I'm surprised he didn't say paddling pool.
It was more like a tiny puddle, really, with a long duck in it.
me, Hunter, JRB, all of my aliases, we just sat around a puddle warming our toes.
And hit a wire and came up underneath our home into the heating ducts, the air conditioning
duct.
To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my 67 Corvette.
It's weird.
Almost.
Almost is the word that's a problem there.
You can't say that.
Have you seen what Hawaii looks like?
It's been devastated.
It's post-apocalyptic.
It doesn't even make sense that ongoing military support to Ukraine is draining taxpayer money at such an extraordinary rate.
Even though I'm sure all of us would agree that Ukrainian people ought to be supported.
There is a disaster in America that demands immediate aid and attention.
What it don't require is a man in a lay saying that something almost happened to him once and he very nearly lost a sports car.
It's extraordinary, it's misjudged, it's crazy.
Shall we get straight to our guest now?
We love free speech, maybe we'll do free speech with... Can I tell you one thing?
Yeah?
Breaking news that I've just uncovered.
Go on.
So we know, we had the news that... I'm putting my sunglasses on for Critical Drinker.
So Hawaiian Electric's grid experienced immense stress for a prolonged time due to a new report.
There were dozens and dozens of major faults on the grid and any of those could have been the ignition source for a fire.
Obviously it's been claimed that this was climate change.
We're now seeing that it could be Hawaiian Electric's.
Do you know who the biggest shareholder of Hawaiian Electric are?
Is it Blackrock?
It's Blackrock.
It's Blackrock.
I don't know how I did that.
Must be because I've been paying attention to our own content.
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This is how it starts!
Listen, I'm very excited to introduce our next guest.
Last time he came on, you lot got double excited.
We got fantastic views and an incredible response.
The great YouTuber and movie critic, Critical Drinker, who's renowned for his abrupt, brilliant, persuasive, and abrasive reviews of movies, is joining us now.
His real name's Will Jordan.
Alright, Will, how's it going, mate?
Good man, it's good to be back.
I feel like I was only on a couple of weeks ago, and here I am, right again.
We're trotting you right out like a gorgeous trollop, because the fact is, people love you.
I had to put the sunglasses on when you mentioned them as well.
I was like, okay, I'll find them here somewhere.
Be embarrassed about it?
Let's do the whole interview in our sunglasses.
Hey, I will take mine off in a minute.
We'll just try and take it off organically like it ain't no thing.
Hey mate, you went to the United States recently.
Have you noticed that you've got a following over there?
Were you recognized?
Did people say, call me now and use your slogans at you?
More times than I can count.
Yeah, it got to the point where I couldn't just go down to the hotel bar for a quiet drink.
You would pretty much get ambushed by at least three or four or five or six people.
But, you know, that's part of the fun of going to things like this.
It was good fun.
Met loads of people when I was out there, and they were all, like, super positive and super supportive, so I can't say fairer than that.
We did a poll earlier.
We asked whose view on movies do you trust more?
Will Jordan, The Critical Drinker or Rotten Tomatoes?
Where's the result of that poll?
I hope it goes in your favour as it's going to be difficult having you here as a guest.
What does it say?
I can't see that guys.
Can you go full screen for me because I can't see it on that mouse screen.
88%!
Look at that!
I've squeezed and pulled and hurt my neck in 1988, like Rayman himself.
What were you doing in America?
Were you at some sort of Comic-Con type thing?
I was at a Comic-Con, yeah, and it was a good opportunity to meet up with some of my fellow YouTubers that I've been doing live streams with for a couple of years now and never had a chance to meet them face to face.
So we all hung out there for the weekend and it was great, man.
Really good fun.
Like most enjoyable critics going back to the great A. A. Gill and like even I don't know people that dabbled like Clive James and you know like people like it more when you really diss something heavily rather than a favorable review and probably when I'm watching your content which I regularly do I think oh yeah he's gonna rip that apart people enjoy it um But sometimes I feel that there are... Gosh, what do I say?
There's some complexity when there are cultural issues involved, as there often are with your reviews and your content.
I listened recently to some of your snuff... Not snuff... Maybe that's the next... No one was dying in the course of my reviews, man!
I was on the edge of my seat when you murdered that person!
This guy's committed!
I watched the review of the Snow White reboot.
Tell us why is it that that particular project is causing you so much, I don't know, agitation?
Well, it's not so much a review of the reboot because it hasn't come out yet.
But I was commenting on the backlash that seems to be happening towards the actress that's playing Snow White.
Because one of the weird side effects of the writers and the actress strikes at the moment is that there's not a whole lot of news coming out of Hollywood.
And so people have got more time to go back over old interviews, old pieces of news.
And a lot of the things that have come out recently have been this actress, I think her name's Rachel Zegler,
talking about not just the original movie, but the new version that she's gonna be playing.
And I don't know how else to describe it, man.
Her tone and her attitude is just one of absolute contempt for the original movie.
And I guess you've got to be aware of the fact that this was one of the most beloved animated films
of all time.
It's literally the movie that established Disney as a movie making studio.
So it's been enjoyed by generations of audiences and her attitude towards it is,
it's really outdated.
It's terrible towards women.
The love interest in that is basically a stalker.
And so it's a terrible movie that we're going to update for modern audiences.
And I don't think people are quite embracing the message that she's trying to sell to them.
I've got so many questions about this.
Here they are.
On one hand, it's odd to consider that the desecration of a cultural artefact is anything other than a commercial enterprise.
But similarly, oddly, why is that a problem?
Because we know it's only about trying to Re-galvanize a sort of a dead piece of IP and drag some more money out of it.
So, you know, what would reverence matter?
For example, take Pinocchio, a sort of a comparable remake.
I mean, in my view, it was that that was a really bad film.
It didn't add anything to the original story.
It stayed quite faithful to it.
It actually took away some of the complexity, plainly because they didn't want to deal with even the complexity of the main character being like a liar, which is Fundamental to Pinocchio's story and fundamental to him becoming real.
I want to add this to it a little bit.
Like, you know, I made a remake of a brilliant film that didn't do well.
Like, ARFA was a fantastic movie.
People loved it.
It was right on that line between a cult movie and a very successful movie.
And it was a cool film and I really liked it.
And when I saw back a lot of the one that I made, I thought, oh no, this is too cheesy and commercial
and it's not got edge to it.
It's not like someone here saying, I loved your version, thank you very much.
That's sweet of you.
And that's my mum.
And I found myself thinking, cause it was attacked at the time,
well, you still got the original, like the original ones there.
There's a bunch of question here.
Is it that you object to utilizing a project that has a lot of affection and then disparaging it
to utilizing a project that has a lot of affection and then disparaging it and taking the piss
and taking the piss out of it in ways that are more apparent
out of it in ways that are more apparent when you literally take characters like Han Solo
when you literally take characters like Han Solo and like mug him off or whatever,
and like mug him off or whatever or Harrison Ford in any of his roles in fact and then
or Harrison Ford in any of his roles, in fact, and then like mug him off in the new version of it
like mug him off in the new version of it and like sort of use the acclaim, use the
audience but don't respect their fandom, devotion and expenditure. Is that what you object to?
I would say like with Snow White right, I think some of it is because she's called Snow
White and it's a woman of colour that's playing her and I think that don't matter because
the whiteness of Snow White is not fundamental to the message of the film although it equates
whiteness with innocence which people that are critiquing this from a racial perspective
would want to analyze and scrutinize I'm sure. It don't matter if Snow White, what the colour
of Snow White is, is irrelevant I would say other than the coincidence of her name and
a historic and potentially racist therefore and what I want to say correlation between
the word white and the idea of whiteness. So there's a lot there.
I'm saying like, you know, is there a requirement for racial sensitivity?
Should there be a sort of an evolution of roles available to actors of colour?
When the whole bloody thing's just a commercial enterprise anyway, what the hell does it matter?
And why would there be reverence towards what amounts to a commercial enterprise that no one seems to revere or expect anywhere along the line anyway?
So I know there's a lot in there, Will, but I thought...
You've given me a lot to work with on this one.
Okay, cool.
Right, let's crack on with this.
So I think the race swapping of the actress isn't that important to it.
I think you could probably make the argument that this is based on a piece of Germanic folklore, where the protagonist is specifically described as having skin as white as snow.
But you can Probably, yeah, you can change that.
Fine.
I think the bigger issue, though, is that they changed the fundamental meaning of the story because Snow White was, as a character, her quest was one of finding true love.
They have done away with that, as Rachel Zegler has informed us, that it's no longer about true love.
It's about her quest to realize her own power and her own authority and grow into the role of ruler, which is...
You know, it's it's not necessarily something a protagonist aspires to.
That's more the kind of thing that the antagonist of a story wants.
They want power at any cost.
And also, even just little things like the it was Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
Apparently, Peter Dinklage got really offended by the dwarves from the original movie.
And so they're no longer dwarves.
They are magical forest creatures.
So all of those things combined like each of them on their own isn't a huge deal.
But when you add them all together, you've got a Snow White who isn't white.
You've got dwarves, seven dwarves who aren't dwarves anymore.
And you've got a story that used to be about the quest for true love and the redeeming quality of that.
Now it's just a quest for power and control.
All of those things added together, it doesn't sound like it's even related to Snow White.
It's like a name only.
And so that's where people start to have an issue because they think, well, if you really hate the original story and the original movie so much, why not just make something completely new and different?
Just do that.
Yeah I see like that in a way it's like that what yeah precisely as you've said if you don't like these aspects of the film make another film come up with new stories it's interesting I think partly what we've created is a kind of A cultural mosaic where you can't step on barely any squares.
Like, I remember, like, see that new movie, relatively new, it's probably 10 years old now, the one that's like based on Hawaiian mythology, Moana.
You know, like, I remember when that come out, there was like merch that was a sort of like a t-shirt
that had all the tattoos on and stuff.
And people said, them tattoos are totally sacred in, it wasn't Hawaiian was it, it was Pacific Islanders.
And it was just like, those tattoos are super sacred and you can't, and what I think in the end
starts to become revealed is it's the cultural machine is so devoid of values and purpose that,
and there is now such a, because of channels like yours, such potential for critiques and scrutiny
that would not be applied by a compliant partnering media industry
where everything's just a big frenzy of promotion essentially, that it becomes very difficult.
In a sense, you can't have monoculture anymore.
And monoculture is what is trying to be maintained, I believe.
So it's almost like they can't take the economic risk of coming up with some new fairy tale that genuinely is about the empowerment of women, if that's a story that they want to tell.
They can't take the economic risks of that.
when they go around the world sort of pillaging mythologies, whether they're Bavarian or Pacific Island or Chinese,
they're gonna run into cultural problems because ultimately the agenda is to make money.
And so it's going to be exploitative.
I think part of the problem is that these live action remakes that they've done of all their classic animated movies,
by and large, they've been really financially successful.
And initially, at least, they stuck fairly closely to the original stories like Cinderella, Beauty and the
Beast.
They changed tiny little things here and there, but for the most part, it was the same movie.
It was just redone in live action, and they were making like a billion dollars apiece.
It's tough to turn that down because it's just a money printing machine.
We've got the story.
We're just going to redo it.
Easy.
The problem that they've got now is that they are starting to diverge more and more from those original stories because they're trying to make it conform to current day cultural norms.
they did it with the Little Mermaid, where they had Ariel save herself.
She saves the day rather than Prince Eric getting to do it, because that was an old-fashioned aspect of the story.
The princess has to save herself now.
She can't be saved by a man.
And it's getting really extreme now when you get into the level of Snow White,
where they seem to have changed the fundamental aspects of the story.
So this is where people are now starting to push back against it,
because you're not just taking classic stories and giving them a new lick of paint.
You are fundamentally changing what they are and what they represent.
I've got two daughters, and I am supportive of stories and characters,
as we discussed last time when we talked about the action genre and good action heroes,
like out of Alien and Terminator and those kind of 80s and 90s female action leads.
Um...
But I am also sort of sympathetic to the To what might amount to unconscious cultural motifs around men are required in order for a woman to self-actualize.
I think it becomes more complex in the idea of folklore and myth because I would say that the reason that folklores and fairy tales etc have sustained is because they appeal to and represent deep archetypes that are actually a little deeper than gender and even sexual identity that these stories have motifs symbols and even narratives that occur throughout cultures and throughout our individual dream lives because they pertain to in Jungian terms anima and animus
Masculine and feminine aspects of our own identity.
In order that we become whole, awakened individuals, the male and female part of us must align.
We have to overcome the tyrant or the malevolent mother, whether it's the mother that locks you in the tower, or the mother that would abandon you in the woods of the unconsciousness.
Because our culture, I think, generally speaking, lacks psychological depth and is, by its nature, almost quite superficial, people cling to details.
Someone here in the chat, PrideFault, says Snow White is about a black witch and a white witch.
It's about dark power and light power, and that probably pertains to morality.
That's an interesting analysis.
Do you think it's in part because the culture is lazy, in terms of the IP it uses, and superficial In terms of the type of stories it wants to tell, because I've heard you say before, it should be about, like, not about individualistic self-fulfillment, you know?
Yeah, I think so.
I think I guess there's a couple of different strands to this.
What I would like to see is a bit of variety in the stories that they tell.
So you could have like one story that's male centric, one story that's female centric, different movies, you know, and so you want to have a male savior who rescues the princess and gets to save the day.
Fine, do that in one film.
You want to have a princess who saves herself and rescues the prince or whatever and goes on her own journey?
Do that in another movie.
I think the problem that they run into is that they try to fit every story in every movie into that same mold where they have a set of prescriptive rules that say the princess can never get saved by a man.
You know, and when you do that to every story, then they become samey because they're all governed by the same rules that just that squash individualistic storytelling.
And yeah, like definitely the other point you made about You know, the pursuit of these characters should not be about the pursuit of their own, their own fulfillment, their own wants and desires and needs, and not really caring about anyone else, particularly when it's when it's female characters, because I think they interpret that as empowering, whereas it just comes across as an unlikable, selfish character.
If you say like, well, they're literally just out for number one.
Their entire character arc is centered around finding themselves and just doing the things that make them happy.
It's not a very laudable quality in any hero.
They should have at least some awareness of other people and perhaps some sense of self-sacrifice, because that's what makes a hero a hero.
And if you don't have that anymore, you've got just an antagonist, essentially, in a nice form.
We have to, I suppose, consider the deeper function of movies and cinema, and perhaps even culture more broadly.
You know, like Terence McKenna's famous maxim that culture is not your friend,
like that we assume is our friend because culture is, you know, sometimes I get,
I'll tell you what happens to me, mate.
In this role that I have, like analyzing the, I would say, degenerative and decimating role of culture
when it comes to individual freedom, that it becomes like this hypnotic zoetrope
that drags us, particularly through news media, but elsewhere in cultural artifacts,
such as those that you analyze, it becomes a tool of disempowerment rather than awakening.
Often in your critiques, what I sense is that you want movies to be entertaining,
that you want them to be fun, that you're like, but you do often refer to sort of values and principles
that are pretty important.
But in a sense, do you think that the critiques that you're offering around, for example,
the franchising and remaking of a historic IP pertain to a cultural decline that is evident elsewhere,
that this is a culture that's running out of ideas?
I was considering the sort of idea of post-modernity and meta-modernity.
Modernity being, you know, sort of we understand that cinema is one of the perhaps the main modern medium.
You're told stories now in a technologically advanced way.
Post-modernism when you start to riff on the expected outcomes, the complexity of saying this
person's good and this person's bad and we all know life's not like that and it led to
notably like Coen Brothers movies and sort of movies of the 80s and the movies of even Tarantino
where they start messing with what good and evil and expected outcomes are.
And then I heard a good definition of metamodernism, metamodernism being you want the knowingness
of postmodernism but you don't want to lose the purpose and meaning that postmodernism
Postmodernism becomes nihilistic.
Nothing means anything anyway.
The baddie gets the treasure.
This is life.
Nothing means, you know, like it leads us to despair.
What are your kind of sort of positions on that function of What's your take on cinema?
I think at its best, cinema and culture in general should be aspirational, inspirational and uplifting.
I think it should inspire the best aspects of us and give us something to aim for.
And that's what you used to get with the heroes that you saw in cinema.
Now it just feels weirdly demoralising.
It's a culture based around grievance and oppression and guilt.
Almost just making people feel bad about themselves.
There's a difference between encouraging people to think and see the world in different ways and just straight up making them feel guilty about who they are.
I feel like I see a lot of that in cinema.
But yeah, the other aspect of it is definitely the recycling of old ideas.
We are seeing so much of that.
I did a breakdown recently about the number of movies now which are either remakes or sequels or reboots of older franchises.
And it's like 75% of the mainstream movies that come out.
Yeah, there's a whole bunch of obviously smaller independent films that are new ideas, but these are the ones that have the big cultural impacts.
and they're the stories that we tell ourselves and reflect the culture we're in.
And they are based entirely around old ideas.
It's like we're losing the ability to come up with new stuff.
And that is a terrifying prospect for any culture.
I can't remember who said it, but they made a good point about Western culture.
There's a kind of malaise on us.
There's a kind of weariness on us right now.
It's like we've gone down the road as far as we can, and we are just out of energy, we're out of creativity, we're out of ideas, and we are stagnating.
And it's not a nice thing to face up to, but it does feel real.
Yeah, I agree with you.
I think that's one of the problems of a materialistic worldview.
If all that matters is what you can measure, in the end you will run out of purpose, drive and meaning if you denigrate ideas like tribe, other than tribe as it pertains to oppositionism, family, the sort of historic positive relationship between men and women.
If all of these building blocks are ultimately decimated and desecrated in When the claim is this is the pursuit of freedom and representation, which I don't buy anyway because I can see what the agenda is of most of these institutions, and it's not about helping people, broadly speaking.
You can buy their fruits, know them, to quote the Bible.
And I think that that does lead to the kind of despair But one of the side effects of that, which I think perhaps to a degree, if I may be so bold, both you and I are benefiting from, is people start to prize authenticity.
People start to care more about whether or not they think the person talking believes what they're saying.
Mate, a lot of people are asking, like ADZ33, are there any films coming out that you're excited about, mate?
That's what people want to know.
Is there something you're optimistic about?
For the remainder of the year it's a bit dry but Dune 2 should hopefully be good because I was a big fan of the first one.
I love the Frank Herbert novel and they've done a really good job of bringing that to the big screen so I think part two should hopefully be quite good.
That's it, though.
June 2.
A literal desert.
A film about a desert in a desert of films.
The rest of the year is kind of just some holdover superhero movies.
And yeah, off the top of my head, I can't think of much else.
I'm sure there are smaller films that are ultimately going to be good, but I'm not aware of much else mainstream-wise that's coming out this year.
I watched American Made, the 2017 Tom Cruise movie, the other day because I've been watching a bunch of Tom Cruise films.
I was in a film with Tom Cruise and hung with him a little bit.
Oh yeah, it just keeps showing off, why don't you?
Hang with Tom Cruise.
Sorry, I can't, I can't, I've got to take this because it's actually Tom Cruise.
Hi, Tom.
Yeah, no, I'm just talking to the critical drinker.
Yeah, he loves you, but not as much as I do.
Like, because I've got all into Tom Cruise and stuff again.
And like, I thought, God, that's such an amazing film.
But like, what's astonishing about it, the subject matter is it covers like the, the C.I.A.
were backing the drug industry.
They were involved, as we sort of all know, in sort of Noriega down there in Nicaragua.
They were involved in coke deals, the stuff going on with, like, Aman Escobar.
And, like, I was thinking, like, wow, like, in, like, five years ago, you could have a mainstream movie that talks about the deep state involvement in crime and assassinations.
Sort of seems like you're gonna have to have Like a real reckoning around sort of cultural events, like even now.
How can you, like, that's, it's so astonishing that the turnaround is that fast, you know?
I think that they were, you know, that movie was lucky in the sense that it was talking about stuff dating back to the 1980s and early 90s.
And so there was enough of a gap there that you kind of get away with that.
And, you know, it's ancient history as far as modern culture is concerned.
But yeah, it's a good film, actually.
I really enjoyed it.
When it comes to, like, more Up to date stuff?
I don't know.
I think there would be a real block against them being able to make stuff like that.
I don't think that would get the mainstream exposure or support that it would need.
You're Ryan Drake book series.
Tell me a little bit about that character and whether or not you want to make a screenplay and movies about it and do you think with like the Sound of Freedom phenomena that sort of new media models are emerging where you can get funding for staff and make them and they'll reach an audience and is that something you're thinking about?
Yeah.
Well, speaking about the CIA, yeah, I mean, the main character, Ryan Drake, works for the CIA.
He's part of a Shepard team.
So if any of their spies, their assets, should be captured or go missing, then his team is sent in to try and find out what happened to them and bring them back.
And so that's what leads him into the first big mission of the series, where he's got to spring a prisoner
from a Russian jail deep in Siberia.
He manages to get her out, but he soon discovers that there's a whole lot more to what she is
and what she knows than he's been told.
And eventually unravels this big web of conspiracies that dates all the way back to the Cold War.
So it's like a nine book series so far.
And yeah, a lot of books.
So yeah, that's what I've been working on.
That's partly why I went away from YouTube for a good many years.
When I first started my channel, I stopped it so I could focus on my writing and eventually came back once I was done.
And yeah, in terms of, you know, film adaptations and stuff, yeah, we're working on a few things.
And we've done some crowdfunding, and we'll see how that pans out when we eventually release something.
I'm excited for you.
That's really brilliant.
See this sort of cynicism, alcoholism and despair that's in your on-screen persona.
Is it real?
Are you not an alcoholic, are you?
I mean, you are Scottish, and that's 50% of it.
Despair and cynicism and alcohol abuse, like, that's just part of being Scottish, man.
What can I say?
It's just national identity right there.
How come you went that way?
What is that an expression of?
I think it's just like, uh, you know, sometimes when things are so ridiculous in culture or cinema or whatever, like, the only recourse you have is just to get drunk and laugh at it.
That's pretty much where it came from.
You know, I'd rather do that than just get super angry about stuff.
I'd rather just kick back with a few beers and just quietly mock the things that seem so ridiculous.
And so that's how I approached it, and that's pretty much how I've been for the past several years, and people seem to like it, so...
I really enjoy your content.
I'm a massive fan.
Tell me, your latest video I think is about the Blue Beetle and how it never stood a chance.
Can you tell us, of course I watch the video and I recommend everyone does, but what is your take on that movie?
It's actually not a terrible film.
I kind of enjoyed it.
I just think it came out at the wrong time.
If this had come out like four or five years ago, when superhero movies were absolute king of the hill, and you could basically make anything with a superhero in it, yeah, it would have been fine.
I just think at this point, the whole genre is kind of in decline, and if you want to get audience attention, it needs to be something really different or really special.
Like, Across the Spider-Verse was a good example of that.
that animated movie, look gorgeous, really interesting.
Yeah, that was something a bit different, but this is just a generic superhero film.
There's no particularly big stars attached to it.
And really, it's just, it was a film that didn't really have any chance.
They didn't even seem to advertise it at the studio.
So yeah.
That's interesting, because Across the Spider-Verse was like super meta movie in a bunch of ways
like a super meta movie in a bunch of ways that sort of played with the identity of the
that sort of played with the identity of the protagonist.
protagonist and plainly I would say was about inclusion, diversity, ensuring that like whatever
And plainly, I would say, was about inclusion, diversity, So that's interesting because Across the Spider-Verse was
background you were from you could sort of access a version of the protagonist hero.
Spider-Man has always been I suppose an interesting hero because he's always had a dose of anti-heroic
about him before that was a sort of a kind of a Marvel trope I suppose.
So I suppose in your affection and the esteem you hold that movie in that's at odds with
the criticism that could potentially be levelled at you that you simply don't like progressivism.
What do you think about that?
Yeah, I mean a lot of people like that.
You're always going to get them, I suppose.
But, yeah, like, I praise good movies when they're good.
Like, I don't know what else I can say.
I try to be as fair as I can be.
And that's a good example of, you know, you've got a whole bunch of diverse people inhabiting that role of Spider-Man.
And it's fine.
It works perfectly well within the context of the film.
So, like, I'm more than happy with it.
Yeah, I think I told you last time that I'm reminded of Jerry Seinfeld's quip in one of the episodes where he's like, the dentist converted to Judaism in order to be able to tell Jewish jokes and Seinfeld tells his rabbi and his rabbi goes, does this offend you as a Jew?
He goes, no, it offends me as a comedian.
The offence is Treat culture properly.
Do your work properly.
Make things funny.
Make things make sense.
And I personally appreciate the authenticity, integrity, and sincerity of the way that you treat cultural artifacts.
And also, I do enjoy it when you rip things apart because it's kind of cathartic.
So thanks for that, man.
No problem, man.
Yeah, people always... It's a lot easier to be funny when you're ripping something apart than when you're praising it, put it that way.
Yeah.
Like with Charlie Brooker's stuff, like when Charlie Brooker used to, on them screen burns, when he was tearing something apart, it was like bliss.
But if he really likes, I don't know, The Wire, he's like, yeah, The Wire is good.
Now, could you tell us about something you hate, for God's sake?
I remember I remember him saying about one TV show. He said if I
worked on that TV show, I would tell my family that I made my
money by standing in a bin sucking off stranger for penny just like whoa, the TV show I was in that TV show. Yeah,
anyway, listen, well, thanks very much for joining us, mate.
Appreciate your time and good luck with all of your projects.
Thanks, man.
Great to be on it as always.
Thank you.
Thanks.
You could watch the Crickle Drinkers movie critiques and his After Hours live streams, which are worth watching.
He gets into more granular stuff and conversations on YouTube, and I'm going to be going on that soon, even though I don't think I've been invited onto that.
So check him out on YouTube and hopefully rumble soon.
Who knows?
Who knows what the future holds?
Still to come this week, we got I'm not wearing any and we can't get you in some, can we?
I'll give it a go.
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you in a low neck. You're hot aren't you? You've been working too hard. You're tired. I can tell.
We need to get you out of here. What's this? Oh my god. Oh that's interesting. That dude,
the Wagner boss, Prygozhin, that fella that tried to do a coup against Putin, he's dead now in a
plane crash. Well there you go. I'd like to take this opportunity to say that Vladimir Putin is
doing a tough job very well.
Over there in Russia.
And whilst I may not agree with some of his wars, I say he is the best person to lead Russia.
You can join us on RT.
That's pretty amazing.
So that dude is double dead now.
He was a bit mouthy, though.
He needed taken out.
I beg your pardon?
He was only precocious coming up, fronting up to Putin.
There you go.
Extraordinary.
Good night, baby.
That's the end of that.
Sure, I mean, you know, for anyone who thinks Putin isn't serious about this, he certainly is.
Putin don't play!
I remember when we were sort of doing stuff, like when we were doing the Trues and we were getting all stuck into UK politics and everything, like sort of saying, would you do this in Russia?
And the simple answer was, no!
Because people who do end up double dead.
Hey, the presidential primary debates will be streamed on Rumble tonight at 9pm EST.
Why don't you watch them there?
You'll get some good commentary.
There's some fantastic people attending, although you know who won't be there, baby.
And what's this?
Ah, Trump was right about the Hunter Biden.
Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you'll like this.
Have a look at this.
We've made some brilliant content here.
This is really, really funny.
I'm really proud of this.
We've covered all of, oh yeah, Putin does look like the Mona Lisa.
Someone's just posted that in the chat.
Young Putin looks like the lad we've got working in there now, Will Sudders.
Current Putin looks like the Mona Lisa.
There's the news.
It's a favourable comparison, I would say.
You enigmatic bastard.
Although, obviously, I think he looks better.
Seems like you're criticising him!
He looks better, I would say.
I love him.
No, he's actually a war criminal and everything, but who isn't in leading nations these days?
That seems to be the brutal, blunt reality.
So, you'll enjoy watching this.
The mainstream media has to admit that Donald Trump was right when he claimed that Hunter Biden's business dealings earned him millions.
Maybe that's the reason that Joe Biden's got more pseudonyms than he has memories!
Here's the news.
No, here's the effing news baby.
Maybe that's connected to the fact that Donald Trump was right.
Millions were made in those energy deals with China and the Ukraine.
Could those two things be connected?
Joe Biden has been using a host of pseudonyms.
But don't get suspicious as a result of that.
There's a whole host of reasons that people use pseudonyms.
And let me talk you through them.
Sometimes you use a pseudonym to hide your identity because what you're involved in is either criminal, illegal or shameful in some way.
That's it!
That's the only reason anyone would ever use a pseudonym!
So let's get into this story, particularly as CNN have had to recently admit that Donald Trump was right when he said that millions were made from the energy deals between China, Ukraine and the Biden family.
How extraordinary.
And Kristen, Glenn Kessler from the Washington Post had a fact check about Joe Biden from earlier this month noting that Hunter Biden admitted in court in July that he was in fact paid substantial sums from Chinese companies.
Kessler wrote Hunter Biden reported nearly 2.4 million in income in 2017 and 2.2 million
in income in 2018, most of which came from Chinese or Ukrainian interests.
And this directly goes against what Joe Biden said in the debate in 2020 with Donald Trump.
Take a listen.
None of that is true.
He made a fortune in Ukraine, in China, in Moscow.
That is simply not true.
That is really, really inconvenient, I would say.
for Joe Biden supporting Democrats.
To have Donald Trump and Joe Biden sharing a screen together and Joe Biden be the one that's lying.
Because Donald Trump is the one that's currently being indicted.
Credit to CNN for showing this and bringing it up.
Let's see how they try to offer us panaceas, palliatives, mitigation, contingency.
Oh, why is this okay when he does it?
So it's from two different debates, but I mean, Trump was right.
I mean, he did make a fortune from China.
Look at how they're beginning to justify it.
A Hunter Biden blind spot.
Like, oh, all of us parents would make little efforts and fudge the facts for our kids.
And God, I suppose I would, actually.
But it's not a blind spot when you're the president.
It's a corrupt spot.
Got a bit of a corrupt spot when it comes to saying my son didn't earn millions when he did earn millions.
That's a lying spot.
That's a measles.
That's an outbreak.
That's one pandemic we can get behind.
And Joe Biden was wrong.
I don't know that he was lying about it.
He might not have been told by Hunter, but this blind spot is a problem.
All these bloody blind spots?
Well, we can just put it down to a blind spot as long as Joe Biden hasn't been masquerading under a host of pseudonyms.
Because when someone uses a pseudonym, they're usually trying to hide what they're doing under that pseudonym.
If, for example, you were buying an illicit substance and the person selling you that illicit substance, hey, what's your name?
My name is Rob Innocent Man.
One would assume that you were using that pseudonym to conceal your tracks in making that transaction, right?
Homer?
Who is Homer?
My name is Guy Incognito.
It's a problem, one, because Republicans aren't gonna let it go, that's for sure.
Oh, those Republicans, they won't let it go.
Just because someone lies and is corrupt, they bang on about it.
Unlike us, we, you know, look at us with Donald Trump.
Not tenaciously dogging the guy to get him out of the presidential campaign.
You know, it's like it's one role for them and another role for us.
But also, these problems are continuing through the legal system.
It's not as though this is something that's been settled in other jurisdictions and Republicans are just harping on it.
It is an ongoing thing in our courts.
It's not going anywhere.
This is a blind spot.
It's a blind spot!
It's a blind spot!
That's how it works, isn't it, mainstream media now?
They just give you phrases.
Look out and see if you hear anyone going, oh yeah, admittedly, Joe Biden's got a bit of a, I don't know, what shall, how can I describe it?
Corruption?
No, that's not it.
Lying?
No, that's not it.
Bad, lame, dunk president?
No, that's not it.
Blind spot!
That's what the TV told me!
Blind spot!
Does it concern you as a Democrat?
Well, I think dads sometimes and parents sometimes have blind spots.
It's understandable, we're dads, we got blind spots.
It's just not like me today with my daughters when they sort of argue about who's going to wear what thing.
I'm like, God, I love these kids so much. Look, I'll get you one as well.
This is corruption. This is lying.
All the while building your forthcoming campaign around the corruption of your opponent.
This guy's so corrupt, we have to do something about this guy.
Hillary Clinton, smug and snug on Rachel Maddow. I told you this would happen.
Yeah, well, should we have a little look at that foundation?
And what about this dude and Hunter Biden's business dealings?
With that many blind spots, I don't think you can be in charge of steering a country.
But when it's convenient, they equate matters of international governance to the simple domestic relationships you might have with a child.
Like when it's convenient they equate matters of international governance to the simple
domestic relationships you might have with a child.
That's not fair.
Not in this instance.
You can't map that onto it.
You can see that the approach to this item is, this is not okay.
How do we make it sound okay?
Well, when have you done stuff that's corrupt in your life?
Oh God, I suppose like I'd be corrupt if it was to protect my kid.
Should we say that then?
That's not good enough.
That's not rigorous journalism.
What they should be saying now, actually, because for a minute I thought, oh, it's good that CNN are including this because obviously they're addressing it, but they're not addressing it.
They're trying to dampen it down, dilute it, and obfuscate it live on your TV set.
Donald Trump's got a blind spot on whatever it is you've got him up for this week.
He's got a blind spot on wanting to win elections.
He can't just start using that.
Those elections are like his kids and he just likes to win his kids, you know?
But nothing has tied the president to any of Hunter Biden's dealings.
There's no whiff of him being involved or him being implicated in it.
This is a terrible whiff of that, isn't it?
Whole place stinks of it.
I feel like I've got my snout up Joe Biden's bum hole and he's just farting lies up my snout pipe.
Now there's an image for you.
And, uh, it's, you know, I think it's not something the voters care a lot about.
Oh!
The voters don't care about that, because that's you!
When does the news turn into hypnotism?
It's not the job of the news to tell you that you don't care about corruption and lying, is it?
The job of the news is, here's some facts, I don't know what you think about it, you might think it's okay, you might go, oh, any parent would do the same, or you might for some reason, like you're a mad nihilist, Not care about it.
It's not the job of the news to offer you suggestions, to sort of take you by the hand and lead you to erroneous conclusions about systemic corruption and hypocrisy at a time when democracy is apparently on the brink of collapse because of this kind of thing.
Because the mainstream news, instead of saying, look, all this while we've been saying Donald Trump's corrupt and Joe Biden's fantastic, it actually seems that at the very least, Joe Biden is also corrupt.
And we're going to have to look now with new eyes Without all of our blind spots we have, because we love our kids so much, at the reality of this situation.
This is insidious suggestion rather than news reporting.
With all this stuff going on, no wonder Joe Biden's using pseudonyms.
President Joe Biden's use of multiple pseudonyms during his vice presidency appears to have hidden some of his communications from that period.
Yeah, because that's the fucking point of them.
Including some involving, wait for it, Ukraine policy and his son, Hunter Biden.
What an incredible coincidence.
Almost as if he's trying to obscure and conceal his involvement in Hunter Biden's business deals.
The House Oversight Committee asked the National Archives on Thursday for communications involving three of Joe Biden's aliases, Robert Peters, Robin Ware, and J.R.B.
Ware.
I think he's going to have particular trouble remembering J.R.B.
Ware.
Hello, it's me, Robin Peters.
Robin the American public of taxpayer dollars to keep my son in business.
Yes, that's how I can remember that.
I'm Robin the American public while my memory peters out.
That's good.
J.R.B.
where?
Wait, which one of you is J.R.B.?
Which one of you is Robin?
I'm J.R.B.
Robin!
Hunter, I got some bad news.
J.R.B.
just shat his diaper.
I hope Burisma don't find out about this.
Well, to be fair, Dad, they do deal in gas.
Call me J.R.B.
I mean Robin.
Oh, which one am I now?
So it looks like Joe Biden, in order to manage his complex life, has to have a number of special identities, Robin J.R.B.
Well, if you're going to run as many identities as Joe Biden, you're going to need a lot of support.
I'm a person who sometimes has to advertise magnificent products.
Not least because I've accidentally got myself in a pull-up competition with someone that should replace Joe Biden, good old RFK.
The stacked, jacked, buff, hench candidate for the presidency has challenged me to a pull-up competition that I'm probably going to lose.
Have you been in a situation like that?
In order to avoid global humiliation at the hands and huge massive arms of RFK Jr, I've turned to Black Forest Supplements.
NMM gets me pepped right up and increases my strength and endurance, since that's with Tonka Ali.
Yeah, Tonka Ali is a natural remedy I use to boost energy and to help me remember all my pseudonyms.
And Turkesterone is my favourite.
It helps me build my muscle and enhance my performances.
Next time you're going mano-a-mano with a member of the Kennedy family, ask not what you can do for Black Forest supplements, but what Black Forest supplements can do for you.
Sorry mate, that was a good line.
Get them down ya!
Ich bin ein Black Forester!
Try them out today and use the link below to get a 10% discount.
I'm coming for you RFK!
Get ready for the gun show!
You're probably soft on gun laws as well, aren't ya?
The committee sought correspondence between those aliases.
That's funny how they're talking to each other.
Robin, I got J.R.B.
on line one.
Hello, J.R.B.
here.
How did you get this number, J.R.B.?
Robin gave it to me.
Which one?
Robin Peters or Robin where?
Peters, I think.
OK, I've got to go.
Hunter's on the other line.
I know Hunter's in here somewhere.
I can smell gas.
Oh, no, that was me.
The committee sought correspondence between those aliases, Hunter Biden and two of his former business partners, Eric Schwerin and Devin Archer.
Only emails involving the aliases and Hunter Biden are presently public due to the publication of contents of a laptop he abandoned in a Delaware repair shop.
He should have picked that fucking laptop up again, shouldn't he?
That laptop that we were told for ages was irrelevant, that it was Russian propaganda.
Everything they don't like is Russian propaganda.
I'm gonna watch some Russian propaganda.
I bet a lot of it's just bad stuff that Bidens have done.
Several of those messages suggest Hunter Biden was looped in on preparations his father, in his capacity as Vice President, was making for talks with Ukrainian officials in 2016.
At the time, Hunter Biden was working on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.
In one message from May 26, 2016, for example, Hunter Biden was copied on an email to his father from a staff member who was reminding the then Vice President that the following morning he would huddle with staff before a phone call with then Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
Why is Hunter Biden being copied in on government emails if Hunter Biden's business dealings are not connected to the government?
It seems particularly relevant that he's on the board of Burisma and it was a call with Petro Poroshenko, the then Ukrainian president.
Wait, is that the president or is that another one of my pseudonyms?
Petro, is this you?
Yes, this is me, Petro.
Are you real or are you a pseudonym?
I'm real, I'm the president of Ukraine.
Oh, in that case, can my son have a job?
Your son's already got a job.
What are we going to do about Robin Peters?
You are Robin Peters.
Good, good.
At least he doesn't know about Robin Ware.
Oh, J.R.B.
What am I going to do with these kids?
Hunter Biden was not frequently looped into such emails about his father's schedule, presumably only when it was relevant to his business dealings that are definitely not corrupt.
I mean, we saw it on CNN.
Everyone's got a blind spot.
His inclusion on scheduling emails with Robert Peters, his father's pseudonym at that time, appeared to happen on just a handful of dates that corresponded to developments with Ukrainian policy.
Almost as if Joe Biden, or Robert Peters, scheduling details with the Ukrainian president had some relevance to Hunter Biden and his business dealings.
Huh.
Joe Biden had already successfully pressured Poroshenko to fire Ukraine's prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, by the time the May 27th call occurred.
Shokin had been investigating the energy company that was paying Hunter Biden and his business associates significant money at the time.
Luckily, that's the kind of thing that the American voters just don't care about, do you guys?
You don't care about a vice president meddling in the eternal affairs of a foreign nation that later you go to war in when their son has a job working at a company within that country.
That's the sort of thing that makes me, oh, I'm so bored.
We've all got blind spots, right, JRP?
Oh, JRP.
How did they sack Paul Victor Shokin?
That could have been an easy conversation.
I have some bad news, Victor.
I'm afraid you're fired.
Why?
Who has the right to fire me?
Well, it's Robert Peters, Robin Ware, and J.R.B.
Ware, but I never hear of any of these people.
They're all Joe Biden.
Well, at least that explains the stink of farts in this office.
In an email between Hunter Biden and Robin Ware, another Joe Biden pseudonym, It must be so confusing.
Joe Biden can't even remember which direction to walk when a speech ends or not to read out the teleprompter information when he's doing a speech.
God knows how he coped with multiple pseudonyms.
Hunter, you better have a word with Robert Ware.
He's furious.
Why is that?
Because Robin Peters is going to go through the roof.
What's going on, Pop?
Don't you talk to me like that or you'll have JRB Ware to answer through.
In an email between Hunter Biden and Robin Weir, another Joe Biden pseudonym, Hunter Biden appears to press for a friend, John McGrail, to land a job he wanted in June 2014, year of the coup in Ukraine, imploring his father to consider McGrail before you fill the position.
Call me right away, Joe Biden replied.
Wait, McGrail, you're not another one of my pseudonyms, are you?
I'm afraid I am.
We're still hired.
I like the cutting of jib.
By the following month, according to his LinkedIn page, McGrail had landed a job as a deputy counsel in the vice president's office and was later promoted to counsel.
He's rising through the ranks, old McGrail.
He's brilliant.
An IRS whistleblower this spring Brought forward evidence that investigators have compiled over several years about the extent of Joe Biden's role in the business, including an FBI interview with a former business partner who said discussions were had about cutting Joe Biden in on a Chinese deal if he decided against his 2020 presidential run and Joe Biden's willingness to stop by dinners to help his son close deals.
Wow.
I mean, that does seem to again quite adjacent to corruption right there.
But he did become president.
Thank God.
Archer, another former business partner, Now I told the House Oversight Committee last month that Hunter Biden would frequently put Joe Biden on speakerphone during meetings with his foreign business associates, including some from the Ukrainian company, and confirmed that Joe Biden stopped by in person, or should I say persons, to multiple foreign business dinners.
Listen, you've not seen me.
If anyone asks who was here, just say old JRB supports this deal, right?
Although Robin Peters has some serious questions.
It might be corrupt, especially if I do run for president.
In addition, emails and bank records show that James Biden, Joe Biden's brother, oh god there's more of them, also earned substantial income from foreign sources while Joe Biden was vice president, undermining the talking point that Hunter Biden's business was completely isolated from the Biden family.
It does Doesn't look that isolated, does it?
But anyway, as CNN told you, there's nothing to worry about because these things are all in the legal system.
They're all being investigated by good old David Weiss.
Let's have a look at David Weiss's history.
What was he doing before he was investigating Hunter Biden?
It's not like David Weiss has any previous organisation with Moderna who have had huge profits in the last few years and maybe a shady past.
Meanwhile, it's been revealed that US Attorney David Weiss, the special counsel in the DOJ's investigation into Hunter Biden, was previously involved in a Moderna lawsuit in which he defended the massive pharmaceutical company from any liability relating to patent violations.
Oh!
The US government, on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services, filed a Statement of Interest on February the 14th.
That's Valentine's Day!
Perfect day for a sweetheart deal!
That urged the federal court to divert liability for alleged patent violations committed by Moderna to the government itself.
Weiss was one of six people named on the DOJ's Statement of Interest.
The Statement of Interest supported Moderna's argument that because its COVID-19 vaccines were made specifically for the government, the taxpayer should bear the liability associated with alleged patent infringements.
They're acting like it's a tab on a bar.
Yeah, just stick it on my bill.
Oh, there's a few patent infringements as well.
Put it on the bill.
Yeah, don't worry.
J.R.B.
will pick it up.
After the filing of the statement of interest, Moderna both attempted to raise prices on its vaccines and grow its golden parachute.
Gold is actually quite heavy.
You should make parachutes out of that.
For CEO Stéphane Bancel to over 926 million dollars.
Oh my god, that's so much money!
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Weiss Special Counsel for the ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden's taxes and foreign business dealings on August the 11th.
on the page.
Pretty appalling, doesn't it?
It looks like there's a set of interconnected interests, a bunch of pseudonyms, pretty plain evidence that Joe Biden to some degree or another at least supports and is perhaps significantly involved in Hunter Biden's business dealings.
The mainstream media's reporting on it in a way that's akin to hypnosis.
The voters don't care about that.
We've all got blind spots when it comes to having multiple lying identities, getting involved in our kids' business dealings.
What is the best offering they could give you at this Oh, it's just the way things are.
This is the way government is.
That's precisely the problem.
If this isn't corruption, because they can sort of weevil their way through it, if they can nitpick their way through the various crosshairs and tangled thickets of what appears to be corruption to a normal person, that's even worse.
That shows how deeply corrupt the system itself is, that it affords this level of corruption without consequence.
But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the chat.
Until next time, if you can, stay free, JRB.
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