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Aug. 24, 2023 - Stay Free - Russel Brand

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“They’re Sending Us Here To DIE” - Ukraine Soldiers BLAST NATO - Stay Free #197

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	in this video you're going to see the future In this video, you're going to see the future.
	Hello there, you Awakening Wanderers.
	Thanks for joining us for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
	There's a lot going on.
	My dog Bear's got the terrible farts, but by God, it's the dogs of war you want to worry about, ain't it?
	Demanding yet more war paid for by you.
	Although they are giving a little something back.
	We've got to talk about the Ukrainian counter-offensive, haven't we Gal?
	We simply must.
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	ill person. Me! I'm that figure. You see, every day I do that
	little joke. It puts a smile on my face. We've got to talk about
	the Ukrainian counter offensive, haven't we Gal? We simply must.
	Can do. And over on Rumble, because the first 15 minutes will be be with you on YouTube. But then we are going to
	migrate to the home of free speech where presidential debates were
	covered thoroughly and fairly only last night.
	Of course.
	You covered it in an irresponsible way, and those of you that saw the show will know exactly what I meant by that, so I don't want to embarrass you, Gareth, by going into any more detail, but I think if it's not right for me to take my top off, I don't see why you should be allowed to do it.
	Joe Biden's sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine.
	That's going to cost a few quid, ain't it?
	I hope that this isn't an unwinnable war.
	He's given approval for the Netherlands to provide F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, which is a major win for the Ukrainian army.
	You will know already it's costing $700.
	No, it's $900 per household in Ukrainian aid.
	$700 in Is that fair?
	Is that how you want your tax dollars distributed?
	All the while, the US intelligence services have deemed Ukrainians' counter-offensive a failure.
	And there's a picture of a sort of hammock cover thing being exploded that shows just how wrong it's going.
	Aaron Maté has done some interesting tweets on this subject.
	Let's have a look at what Aaron Maté, that radical enemy of freedom, has been saying now.
	American officials say they fear that Ukraine has become casualty-averse.
	That's a really unfortunate piece of language, isn't it?
	Saying that Ukraine aren't willing to sacrifice their sons and daughters to pursue NATO and US imperialist objectives.
	Let's have a look at that story in a little more detail.
	American officials say they fear that the Ukraine has become casualty averse.
	One reason has been cautious about pressing ahead with the counter-offensive.
	Almost any big push against dug-in Russian defenders protected by mineral minefields would result in huge numbers of losses.
	In just a year and a half, Ukraine's military deaths have already surpassed the number of American troops who died during nearly two decades during the war in Vietnam.
	That's pretty dreadful.
	It's dreadful, it is.
	I mean there's estimates now that half a million people have died in this war.
	This war that before the counter-offensive, the discord leaks and other reports showed that the US didn't believe Ukraine could regain significant territory, but they pressed ahead with it anyway.
	Biden pressed ahead with it.
	Now they know that the Ukraine troops aren't confident, i.e.
	are casualty averse, which you would be if you're not confident in the strategy, you're not confident you've got enough weaponry, Maybe you'll feel that you're getting pushed into this war by another country who keeps insisting it's not at war with Russia.
	But the casualties are stacking up.
	They're massive now.
	And then the next thing we read about is jets are getting sent over.
	So it's just escalating.
	It's just continuing with no sign that this is going to end despite the massive amount of casualties.
	The war, of course, took over as the current thing from everybody's favorite global authoritarian phenomena, the COVID pandemic, which appears to be back in force with some colleges instantiating mask mandate and some film studios introducing similar measures because of a new COVID variant.
	Let's see how the mainstream media reports on this story.
	One Atlanta college is now reinstating a mask mandate.
	Yes, so this is Morris Brown College announcing this decision on its Instagram account Sunday evening.
	And take a look at this post.
	It says it's because of the reports of positive cases among students.
	So for the next two weeks, all students and employees must wear a mask unless alone in their office.
	There will be social distancing.
	At that point you might as well wear it alone in your office.
	What seems extraordinary to me is that since the last pandemic, indeed if we can say that the pandemic ever truly ended, there's been considerable dispute around the efficacy of lockdowns, masks, social distancing, Even everybody's favourite medical measure has been queried and questioned and yet there seems to be an appetite and even rumours that lockdown restrictions are on their way back.
	Let me ask you this as an awakened wonder.
	Will you obey those restrictions?
	At what point does it become reasonable to defy the imperatives of what appear to be bad science?
	Let's have a look at the rest of this report.
	What's Rand Paul saying about this?
	The notion of new mandates are in fact a power grab, defies all logic, defies science.
	Now that we know that the social distancing measures were arbitrary, now that we know that many of the lockdown measures were determined by peer-to-peer chit-chat, Between the likes of Mandy Cohen and her peers, like, oh, are you guys going to shut down the football leagues?
	OK, we'll shut down the football leagues.
	It's difficult to get it up again for measures that seem more like superstition than science-based and preventative.
	Yeah, as you say, exactly.
	We've got Dr. Scott Godlieb, formerly of the FDA, saying that the The rules for social distancing were arbitrary, so we know that's non-scientific.
	But at the same time, we've got scientists from Johns Hopkins University.
	I always struggle with that one.
	You don't like to say John's?
	John's.
	It's the John's bit, isn't it?
	Because you think of it as a bloke called John Hopkins who's got a plucky little upstart with his own university.
	I think they're all called John.
	There's lots of Johns, and you have to be called John to work there.
	You don't have to be called John Hopkins to work here, but... Well, actually, no, you do.
	This is part of why the whole premise about university falls apart.
	But you've got scientists there saying that the costs of lockdown to society far outweighed the benefits and argue that they should be rejected out of hand.
	So when we're talking about potentially going back into it, if these rumours by Alex Jones are to be believed, he was speaking to a whistleblower, Um, you think, well, on the one hand, we're being told that aspects of the pandemic didn't seem now to be scientific when they're saying lockdowns would go against science.
	Are we even able to show that tweet while we're still on YouTube?
	Yeah, I don't see why not.
	Are we able to show dogs sniffing out COVID like it's a crazy new class A?
	Are we able to show that?
	If you're watching us on YouTube right now, join us on Rumble because we're going to be talking about the new measures to detect COVID It's your four-legged friendly little pal down there who I'd always imagined might at some point turn snitch.
	No, this is service animals like my beloved bear who farted his way through the last show and put us all under a great deal of unnecessary pressure.
	Apparently dogs are more effective at detecting COVID than those bloody tests we were all forced to conduct.
	Those expensive tests?
	Those pricey old tests.
	Oh, cost you a pretty penny, Russ.
	Oh, stick that little, that sharp little where it's like a mascara brush up the uter.
	No thank you.
	Not on your nelly, down your neck hole.
	I can't imagine it's all that convenient that all we ever needed, potentially, was dogs.
	I've long said dogs are the answer, whether it's for my personal wellness or knowing just exactly how much of this very well promoted disease you've got down your snout pipe.
	We're not going to talk about that on YouTube now, not with the WHO closing in like an arachnoid monster around the community guidelines.
	So if you want to If you're watching this on YouTube, click the link in the
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	Do you know what?
	Jordan Peterson's just texted me.
	He's just texted me.
	I see.
	From JP right now.
	He's asking whether or not he was, like yesterday, he was talking about the primaries, the Republican
	primaries and we're not going to believe that.
	I said, I don't need to go baby, it's been so well covered on Rumble, and Elon has demanded that if we want him on the show, I've got to text him personally.
	So for once, it's the other way around, it's Elon asking me.
	I don't believe it.
	So Elon's coming up soon, we've got Eckhart Tolle.
	Oh, I'm so relaxed.
	We've got Candice Owens coming on the show.
	Shapiro's coming on the show.
	My word.
	The names keep flowing.
	They keep flowing.
	We are signing more guests than Chelsea are transfer targets, and we'll be talking a little bit about football in a bit.
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	Almost as many as Biden.
	Almost as many as the good old J.R.P.
	Wears himself, the President of the United States.
	Another thing, my mate Tone, he helps prisoners come out of prison when they've served their sentence.
	We don't break them out.
	It's not a file in a cake type scenario.
	Once they come out of prison, they can get back to work.
	He's not the A-team.
	No!
	He could be, and he's a big guy.
	He's a lovely fella.
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	Shall we have a look at these stinking mutts sniffing your guts, hovering around by your snout hole, trying to suck down a bit of a lab-leaked virus?
	We're on rumble, I can say that.
	Oh, OK, fine.
	Let's have a look at them.
	Man's best friend may be able to detect COVID-19 better than some of the world's best technology.
	Research findings have shown that dogs know... I'm going to rumble, I'm going to say this.
	Them PCR tests were shit anyway.
	Everyone said that.
	They used too many revolutions.
	They tried to amplify it too much.
	They ain't good.
	But dogs, however... They're good.
	They know the exact number of revolutions.
	You're feeling rough!
	Sausages!
	You need to die!
	Sausages!
	Can identify the virus faster than some PCR tests, even in patients without symptoms.
	CBS's Bradley Blackburn has more.
	They are our companions and best friends.
	Objectively true.
	That's not news.
	No, it's not news.
	What if you don't like dogs?
	You don't like my dog.
	No, I don't like big dogs.
	You like cats.
	You don't like big dogs.
	I like small dogs.
	Little dogs.
	Anything that can fit on the lap.
	Don't you feel that they're a bit like a Yorkie?
	A bit too greasy.
	I beg your pardon?
	A Yorkie is too greasy.
	They've got greasy fur.
	They're very greasy.
	If you ease your fingers into its pelt, I call it, and start getting into its tissue, you'll have a film all over your fingers.
	Well, I'm not surprised.
	A Yorkie, a Maltese teacup, they're greasy.
	I don't like a little dog.
	No.
	I like a big dog.
	Right.
	I like my dog, Bear.
	No, I know.
	Since I've become a parent and a dog owner, I used to- I thought you were a parent of Bear.
	I consider- well, in a way, he's my parent.
	I love that little guy.
	Anyway, I don't like everyone else's dog.
	No.
	I just like my dog.
	Right.
	Everyone else's dogs, kids.
	I'll say hello, but I'm not interested.
	Oh, here he comes, look.
	Come on, Bear, old son, you dirty bastard.
	Get in here and sting the place up.
	We've been farting like it's going out of fashion.
	Have I got Covid, Bear?
	Go on, Bear, do your work.
	See?
	Nope, I think I'm okay.
	Well done.
	Brilliant, we can avoid a lockdown.
	Especially as they don't work anyway.
	Right, let's have a look at the rest of the news.
	And now a growing number of studies show dogs have the power to detect the COVID-19 virus.
	One of the investigators from Columbia came out and said that... He's biased!
	Look at him!
	He's got dogs all over everywhere!
	We can't trust his evidence!
	He's the equivalent of, like, taking Albert Baller seriously, or that geezer in our government, Jonathan Van Dam, who worked for the government, then Moderna.
	He's like him.
	This guy's biased towards dogs.
	Listen, don't take my word for it.
	Look at my wives!
	Up on the wall!
	They've been sniffing around for ages, and I'll tell you, I'm fit as a fiddle.
	I mean, to love dogs so much that you've got the dogs, then you've got pictures of the dogs, then you've got another picture of you and the dog, presumably on some sort of swimming honeymoon.
	But that's all he's got pictures of.
	There's nothing else.
	There's a picture of a dog in his own hat!
	He's like, where else could I get a picture of a dog?
	Not on my grey skin, that's for sure.
	I'd tattoo myself!
	They've got someone who's invested in dogs to do this.
	Almost a bit like with, I don't know...
	Moderna?
	You cannot be objective about dogs when you love dogs that much.
	If you say, for example, used to work at Moderna, then take a role in the government recommending Moderna, then go back to Moderna again, wear a Moderna hat, pictures of Moderna vaccines on you, I'd say, hang on a minute, mate.
	You invested in this, and more importantly, does them dogs sleep on your bed, or do you sleep on theirs?
	RT-PCR is no longer the gold standard.
	Sorry for needlessly, uh, slandering that man.
	He's a lovely fella.
	I don't know why I'm saying it.
	I'm just saying it for what I do know.
	Well, it's because he looks like he's got a dog family.
	That's why you're doing it.
	It looks like that's his wife and they're his daughters.
	And it looked like he used to be a dog even ten minutes before this news broadcast began and suddenly turned into a man.
	And he's just adjusting to life.
	That's right, yeah.
	One of my many great rejected film ideas.
	Dog man.
	It's the dog!
	Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and colleagues reviewed dozens of stuff.
	Colleagues or colleagues?
	...from around the world.
	They say the findings demonstrate trained COVID-19 scent dogs are as effective or more effective than PCR tests, as well as at-home antigen tests.
	The dogs can detect the virus faster and in patients positive for infection, but not show... I don't like it when they show... Positive, surely.
	Positive.
	Oh, that's great.
	Well done.
	Is that what you've been thinking about all that time?
	No, I just said it then.
	You know when the news shows you... Well done.
	When the news does, like, this...
	You want to film people's midriffs?
	Yes.
	I would not like to see myself there.
	No.
	No.
	If, for example, you're that person in Edible Arrangements t-shirt carrying that bag, join us.
	If you come and we'll support you in your claim, because I think you've got a claim there.
	You definitely have.
	They're exploiting you.
	Or if you're that person with that bit of grey t-shirt dangling down over your crotch like a sporran.
	Awful.
	Like a codpiece, like an impromptu cloth codpiece and you're wearing your clodhopper boots.
	I think they're exposing you to potential ridicule.
	Yes.
	Aren't they?
	That's the mainstream media.
	Also, they can use this footage for any story.
	So they could do this about obesity or something.
	Pedophiles.
	Pedophiles are large in number.
	Over half of people are pedos now.
	They could be among us walking down the street in that t-shirt.
	It's out of order, isn't it?
	You're getting tarred with whatever brush they want to use for.
	Dog people are marrying dogs and wearing dog hats in extraordinary numbers.
	Their grey, sallow skin, an indication that they spend all day and all night in the kennel.
	One person's feeling rough, and his bark is certainly worse than his bite.
	This reporter won't be wearing a flea collar.
	The news is just mad, isn't it?
	Or is that me?
	...symptoms yet, as well as patients who do not develop symptoms later, which could help stop the spread of the virus.
	Should just be a dog coming in that window.
	That's it, yeah.
	Instead of that little Q-tip ear-bud thing, stick a dog in the window.
	We don't even have to stop all the cars.
	You just, you don't need to do all this.
	What do you mean, the dog can just run by?
	He'll just walk by.
	Dogs are good at sniffing stuff.
	Yeah, he's alright.
	He's alright.
	Quick piss up that way.
	You're alright.
	Then maybe he'll get an erection once in a while.
	Who will?
	The dog?
	The dog?
	Not you!
	That geezer would, wouldn't he?
	He might.
	That's a busman's holiday for him.
	That's what got him into this mess.
	That's a dream job.
	Anyway, look, there it is.
	Dogs can sniff out your Covid.
	I tell you what, the makers of those tests are not going to like this news.
	They will not like this.
	We've got a lovely little racket there.
	Exactly.
	Keep your mouth shut.
	A lot of dog murders going on in the next few months.
	Dogs are going to be getting knocked off left and right.
	Yeah.
	They're going to be, the dogs, Battersea Dogs Home, they'll have a dog pound.
	Step it up.
	Knock out a few more of them.
	It'll be like Jeffrey Epstein's cell down Battersea Dogs Home.
	Dogs hanging from their leads.
	We took those leads off them.
	How did they get back in the cells?
	All the cameras went off.
	Wouldn't it though?
	Wouldn't it though?
	What's that Pfizer logo?
	Hang on a minute.
	OK, listen, we've got some other important things to tell you about.
	What caused them terrible fires in Hawaii?
	Was it climate change or was it infrastructural failure and neglect?
	And Joe Biden, have you seen his speech that he gave over there?
	He said, like, I understand how you feel.
	I saw a firework display once.
	It was heartbreaking.
	Like, he used a nearly story.
	I nearly lost a Corvette.
	I nearly lost my Corvette.
	Well, I found it again.
	Hunter had parked it outside a porn cinema.
	You can't compare something that nearly happened to you to something that did happen to a lot of people if you're the President of the United States.
	He needs a new alias.
	He's a brute.
	He needs a new alias, that geezer.
	So let's have a look at how Biden's handling Hawaii and how the media is framing the Hawaii fires.
	Here's the news.
	No, here's the effing news, darling.
	Here's the news.
	No, here's the fucking news!
	What caused the Hawaii fires?
	Was it systemic neglect and infrastructural failure, which means it's their fault?
	Or is it climate change, which means it's your fault, you'll be paid for it, you'll be banged up?
	Hmm.
	We've all been shocked and appalled by the Hawaii fires, and it's interesting to learn that the cause could be infrastructural, i.e.
	electrical failures, lack of investment, failure of local government, and indeed, federal government.
	Of course, as soon as these fires happened, many people thought this could be because of climate change, and it will almost certainly be blamed on climate change.
	Whatever your opinion on climate change is, you surely, like me, must be curious that all of the solutions presented seem to be favourable to centralised authority and beneficial to certain interests, and usually come down to impeding your personal freedom.
	Let's have a look at this story, and look at how appallingly Joe Biden is handling this mess.
	Wow, he's finally here!
	Wow, yeah!
	Awesome, awesome!
	Yeah, thanks for nothing!
	Thanks for nothing!
	Fuck you!
	Fuck you!
	Some distance from Aloha.
	Fuck you!
	Fuck you!
	F**k you!
	It's interesting because the mainstream media will have trouble repackaging these disaster victims as sort of pro-Trump, MAGA haters, but if they have to do that, they will.
	F**k you!
	F**k you!
	In a sense, from the perspective of news reporting, it's easy to note that if something supports their agenda, they'll promote it.
	If it doesn't, they'll ignore it.
	These reactions are comparable to the post-hurricane Katrina reactions, where people were disgusted with the state, felt let down by the infrastructure that was in place.
	The fact that these protests are being largely ignored tells you how this event is being framed.
	So why aren't you taking care of what you claim to be in charge of, rather than sending out all these funds
	and whatever else you guys are sending to Ukraine or anywhere.
	Take care of here first.
	You know, this... I don't see why any president wouldn't step up and take care of what's part of their,
	you know, territory.
	This disaster, like many disasters or crises, is revealing. It's very difficult not to see that shot
	and think, yeah, that's a situation that requires public amenities and public funding.
	This is exactly the type of situation that your tax dollars are meant to go towards resolving.
	It's a stretch to say that international incidents require American intervention
	because there's culpability and responsibility.
	What?
	Because of imperialism?
	Colonialism?
	Because of an American global agenda?
	Because of a geopolitical situation that may one day benefit American interests?
	Surely all of us make a contract with the government that we pay our taxes, you one way or another take care of us.
	Whether it's through ongoing infrastructure, schools, roads, hospitals, name your priorities.
	But in particular, if there is a disaster, a situation that requires immediate attending to, the resources are there.
	The concept of nation is an expansion on the concept of tribe, or family.
	And if there's a crisis in a family, it's nice to know that the resources are there to take care of it.
	And more than the resources, the willingness.
	How is this situation being handled?
	And what does it tell us about what the nation of America, or at least the American establishment, stands for?
	I don't want to compare difficulties, but... It's always reassuring to know that the nation is being led by a cogent, cognizant, mindful, fluent, and brilliant politician who'll be able to use his political experience and even family experiences to soothe the suffering people who are just coming out of a massive national emergency and are gonna need to hear some words of compassion, empathy, and above all, wisdom.
	We have 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.
	It was a sunny Sunday.
	I maintain that Joe Biden believes that he has a kind of homespun folky warmth that he can rely on in times of crisis.
	I don't think he does possess this ability because often when he uses these anecdotes about stuff that happened to him when he was a kid or normal family stories, he doesn't come across as, oh yeah, he's a person just like Me, it comes across as this guy's really, really dangerously out of touch and has misjudged the mood, not only of the nation, but also like what the human psyche is and what it is to be in a situation of crisis.
	Like, you do not say to people who have just come through a massive fire that's devastated their homes, I once nearly had something happen to me before.
	You don't say to Nelson Mandela as he emerged from Robben Island after 27 years of incarceration.
	I know how you feel because I got trapped in an elevator once.
	Lightning struck at home on a little lake that's outside of our home, not a lake, a big pond.
	You can't even accurately describe the body of water that's outside his home.
	Is it a pond?
	Is it like... Listen, this ukulele's starting to feel quite heavy.
	Can you hurry up, please?
	And hit a wire and came up underneath our home into the heating ducts, the air conditioning duct.
	Make a long story short.
	It's making an inappropriate story appropriate.
	Oh, I was feeling quite bad about my children burning to death, but God, tell me, tell me that your air conditioning unit was all right after your big pond nearly got into the circuit.
	I almost lost my wife.
	My 67 Corvette and my cat.
	I think the important word in this anecdote is almost.
	Any anecdote that includes the word almost to people that have actually suffered in a terrible fire is an inappropriate one.
	Look, I know you're still reeling from your children being burned to death, but you see that 67 Corvette?
	Yeah, I can see it.
	Well, you might not have been able to if what had nearly happened had actually.
	Anyway, I'm going to get in it now.
	Bye!
	Well, while life in West Maui remains uncertain, one thing is for sure.
	That place is devastated.
	That requires immediate intervention.
	Say if they went on the news in the same way they were at the beginning of the Ukraine-Russia war.
	There's a terrible crisis in Hawaii.
	We've got to intervene.
	What should we do?
	This is our suggestion.
	We're going to set up these programs, these plans.
	Now, I'm sure elsewhere they go, no, people are doing exactly that.
	But we know that much more money is being spent perpetuating war for the military-industrial complex.
	We know much more money is spent supporting pharmaceutical companies.
	We know that the system is set up to be advantageous in times of crisis
	to elite establishment institutions and barely benefit ordinary people. We know
	that and actually we can see it. Residents are furious over the local
	government's response. You see typically when there's a fire
	you use water to put it out.
	But Maui's Department of Land and Natural Resources delayed the release of water to landowners to help protect their property from the wildfire.
	In fact, they even disputed the release of water for hours after the West Maui Land Company made a request to release it.
	Part of the subtext of this story is that the disaster will impact poor people more than it will rich people.
	There are even some suggesting that resources were not used expediently and immediately.
	That most basic of resource that's required during a fire, water, was withheld and people are curious as to why that might have been.
	At this point it will be irresponsible to suggest anything conspiratorial.
	But when it becomes plain that our social systems benefit the privileged more than ordinary people, you can't help but wonder if that same mentality applied when deciding what to do with this water.
	Maui survivors are even telling reporters they had to grab water out of their toilets to fend off the flames.
	I was grabbing water out of the toilet.
	I was grabbing water out of my Brita filter in the refrigerator.
	It's a kind of disconcerting feeling when the fire guys show up and they don't have water.
	Fire department, sir!
	Can we have access to your toilet?
	This isn't even a host.
	Officials neglected their duties to protect the people they claim to represent.
	They had other priorities.
	Just like in 2019 when Hawaiian Electric vowed to invest in fire-resistant technology, now that same company is under heavy scrutiny over indication that its power lines may have ignited the wildfires that has now taken over a hundred lives.
	And the people of the once beautiful town of Lahaina?
	Many of them are left to fend for themselves and their neighbors with very little answers and a whole lot of miscommunication.
	And now they have to fight off vulture capitalists from tricking people into buying their property.
	Oh, bloody hell, what a terrible, awful story.
	There hasn't been sufficient investment in infrastructure, there are areas of public life that ought never have been made private, that should have remained within public control, that were given over to profit-pursuing enterprises, and now, in the midst of this terrible disaster, vulture realtors are trying to acquire their property.
	Isn't this somewhat comparable to some of the things we learned during the pandemic?
	It was a disaster and a crisis for most people to varying degrees, perhaps dependent on your economic conditions and your general health.
	But it was hugely beneficial to a particular strata.
	Billionaires became richer.
	Big tech became richer.
	Big pharma benefited.
	And in a more localized disaster like this one, it's easy to see how this might be beneficial to certain interests while penurous for ordinary people.
	Some of the things that's already been happening is realtors are calling families who lost everything, offering them to buy their property and their home for pennies on the dollar.
	Just pennies on the dollar.
	So, it's pretty offensive to us that people won't even give us the time to grieve properly.
	In a way, disasters can be regarded as revelatory.
	They show us what was previously concealed.
	And in this instance, it shows that there was an exploitative, corrupt, and inept system undergirding Hawaiian life.
	And now that's being revealed to us.
	Similarly, what's being revealed is there's no infrastructure in terms of our ability to collectively respond, or at least no willingness, certainly not the same willingness that appears to be applied when there are more profitable disasters or disasters that can be exploited for corporate gain.
	So how will this disaster be used in the media?
	How will it be exploited economically?
	And how will it be used to advance ideas and agenda that are favorable to the establishment?
	This is from Michael Schellenberger's Substack Public.
	Climate change caused the fire that ravaged Hawaii, according to the New York Times.
	Climate change turned lush Hawaii into a tinderbox, it reported.
	The explanation is as straightforward as it is sobering.
	As the planet heats up, no place is protected from disasters.
	But the cause of the strong winds which pushed the wildfires into the city of Lahaina was Hurricane Dora, and the best available science shows no increase in hurricanes at global or national levels.
	It's true that there's been a 31% decline in average yearly rainfall in Hawaii since 1990, according to researchers.
	The La Niña weather pattern, which usually leads to significant rainfall, has brought less precipitation over the last 40 years.
	But other changes are more difficult to tie to the rising global temperatures, such as the fact that larger storms have been moving northward, resulting in less rainfall.
	And only 16% of Maui County, where most of the wildfires were burning, has been in severe drought, with another 20% in moderate drought.
	What's more, it's been human-made changes to the landscape, including the reversion of former sugarcane farms, which had been irrigated to invasive grasses which are quick to ignite.
	The landscape is just covered with flammable stuff, one expert told the Times.
	All of the conditions just came together.
	Analysts found drops to power line voltage, which means that the lines were likely spraying sparks onto dry grasses.
	It is unambiguous that Hawaiian Electric's grid experience demented stress for a prolonged time, said one analyst.
	There were dozens and dozens of major faults on the grid, and any one of those could have been the ignition source for a fire.
	Hawaiian Electric failed to clear flammable grasses from around electric wires.
	Over the last three years, the electric utility spent less than $250,000 into wildfire prevention.
	It had a plan, but it failed to implement it, noted Li Fang.
	The State Utility Commission dragged its feet on upgrades to La Hena's fire protection, with a time estimate for wildfire protection upgrades starting this year and completed in 2027.
	If this is a result of infrastructural neglect, particularly if that infrastructure is privately owned and driven by profit and is therefore cutting costs and not investing significantly in, for example, safe lines and clearing grasses, that leads you to very different conclusions than it was caused by the planet heating up and anthropogenic climate change.
	One of those theories leads to more control being asserted on ordinary citizens.
	The other theory means that there has to be more investment in infrastructure, more accountability, and more accountability in government.
	One of those theories will be promoted, the other one will be largely ignored for obvious reasons.
	If the problem is government and corporate greed, what kind of solutions suggest themselves?
	More accountability from government, the ability to control private utilities, If it's climate change, 15 minute cities, you've got to recycle more, it's essentially your fault, and just a general culture of fear which can be utilised to generate and implement control.
	So those theories have very different outcomes.
	Personally, I believe that respect and love for the planet and doing everything possible to ensure that the planet is treated favourably and respectfully is just plain common sense.
	But I note that whenever climate change arguments are leveraged, It's usually with the aim of controlling ordinary people's
	actions rather than making big business or the state more generally culpable.
	I was already fighting with the electric company because they never maintain the lines, said
	a fifth generation Hawaii resident who lives on a family farm.
	We were very concerned that these high voltage lines were running through our property and
	going to our neighbours because they'd been on the ground, buried in trees or lying so
	low.
	And it's now clear that a Hawaii state water official named M. Kaleo Manuel delayed the
	the release of water to landowners who wanted it to prevent fires.
	The water standoff played out over much of the day, reported Stuart Yurton of Honolulu City Beat, and the water didn't come until too late.
	Another example of infrastructural failure and prioritization that seems at odds with the needs of ordinary people.
	Firefighters didn't have the water they needed because Manuel, the Deputy Director for Water Resources of Hawaii's Department of Land and Natural Resources, refused to release water even as the fire was raging.
	It seems as if that situation demanded immediate reprioritisation and response.
	So now we're looking at potential corporate greed and government ineptitude as the causes of this fire, or at least conditions that made the consequences of the fire worse.
	A private landowner, the West Maui Land Co, which manages three of West Maui's water providers, said its firefighters asked the state to divert water from streams to enable them to store as much water as possible for fire control.
	If there are favourable relationships between corporations and the state, those are the kind of things that are not implausible.
	They're quite possible, even likely.
	Why is that?
	Why did Hawaiian Electric fail to implement its wildfire mitigation plan?
	And why did Manuel refuse to release the water?
	To a large extent, the apocalyptic claims made about climate change by people in developed nations reflect their ignorance of the infrastructure and practices that protect us from flood control, to baseload power plants, to forest management.
	They take civilization for granted, at least that is, until it fails, as it is increasingly starting to do.
	Elizabeth Pickett, co-executive director of the non-profit Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization, told the Wall Street Journal that measures like ramping up emergency response capacity have been stymied by lack of funding, logistical hurdles in rugged terrain, and competing priorities.
	What are these other priorities?
	While the US government, backed by the corporate media, continuously claims there is no money to build
	infrastructure and take measures that will prevent such disasters
	from happening in the first place, there is an endless supply of funds
	for war and financial bailouts of the banks and corporations.
	We've all noticed that.
	We've all experienced that from 2008 onwards.
	Resources are made available for particular crises, financial and military, but they're not
	made available for domestic disasters such as this one.
	It's almost like in microcosm, the diversion of that water and the use of that water tells you how the system works.
	Private interests that have close connections with the government are able to divert resources and funds to their favour.
	It seems to me that in a real democracy you would be able to determine where resources are allocated.
	Do you want them spent domestically?
	Would you like funds available when there are disasters?
	Or do you want perennial war that are beneficial to certain establishment interests?
	The US government, through both Democratic and Republican administrations over the past three decades, has spent trillions of dollars on imperialist wars that have killed and displaced millions of people, and at the same time, funneled similar amounts into the financial system to ensure that money-making for billionaires on Wall Street continued without disruption.
	And yet the response of the political establishment has been an astounding degree of disinterest and the shrinking of any responsibility for the disaster.
	Joe Biden earned more criticism for being out of touch with Americans during his stop in Maui Monday, including scorn for providing $700 assistance checks.
	The White House announced that each affected household in Hawaii will receive a $700 check to address immediate needs, including water, food and clothing.
	But it's a sum that many Islanders consider insulting.
	The level of dismay, anger and distrust of the government is palpable within the population of Maui.
	This disaster and tragedy is revelatory in a number of ways.
	It shows that at least in part, these fires were caused or exacerbated by government ineptitude, by a bias towards corporate interests instead of the needs of the community.
	And in the response of the American government, We can see how our institutions are organised in terms of what is prioritised.
	And with ugly details like the vulture realtors swooping down to profit from the situation, it is made even clearer that our culture is in need of radical review.
	It's not unreasonable to expect that if you're a taxpayer, and a citizen of a nation that in times of crisis and disaster there are resources made available to you to help you in a crisis.
	Particularly if that crisis has been made worse by a lack of infrastructure and maybe even caused by it.
	Particularly if privatised electric companies, in order to increase profits, don't spend enough money on maintaining their lines or clearing the ground.
	And particularly if water isn't made available because they have other priorities Rather than putting out urgent conflagrations.
	And the fact that the mainstream media will, when reporting on this story, focus on the climate change narrative rather than ineptitude within the state and private sector, in a sense, tells you everything you need to know about the modern world.
	Our systems are not set out to benefit us in times of crisis, or indeed at any time at all.
	It just becomes clearer when there is a crisis.
	A crisis functions as a lens that reveals to you how your leaders behave when they're put under pressure, how your institutions behave, what the consequences are of having no public infrastructure, and how the media will rally to ensure that the narrative that sticks is one that doesn't afford us the opportunity to reorganise our systems.
	Those people shouting, fuck you Joe Biden, they intuitively and indeed empirically now understand what the problems with the American government and American system is.
	It's set up to benefit one strata of society and one strata of society only and it becomes more evident in times of crisis that your government doesn't work for you and trickle-down economics doesn't work for you and in times of emergency that will become candid and stark.
	And while Joe Biden gives speeches where he pretends that he's just like you because he nearly had a fire once, the fact is that he, as he told the donor class prior to his election, operates on their behalf and nothing will fundamentally change.
	As this article says, nothing has fundamentally changed in the last 30 years.
	The relationship between government and corporations, whether a local level or a national level, are so entwined that it will take a disaster to reveal how little support for ordinary people there is.
	And when those disasters come, It's already too late.
	But that's just what I think.
	Let me know what you think in the chat.
	See you in a second.
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	Of course, the Lionesses sadly lost to Spain 1-0 in the Women's World Cup final, but it done well on Australian telly, so that's good, isn't it?
	It is.
	Not surprised.
	Massive stadium full.
	It's huge over there.
	It's good that it's doing well and it's been very successful.
	And in the EPL, there's a lot of things going on that I actually want to talk to you about.
	Yeah?
	Yep.
	I've got a lot of observations, Gareth.
	Oh, good.
	I like this.
	West Ham beat Chelsea.
	Yes, they certainly did.
	That's the main news again.
	That's the result of the weekend, surely.
	Yeah, it is.
	It's the result of the weekend.
	It was enjoyable.
	Last half hour, just ten men.
	Did you ever see it, or did you watch the highlights?
	Yeah, I was watching it live.
	I watched it live, then I watched the highlights, knowing that it's not that feeling.
	That's the best.
	And you can even enjoy when Chelsea equalise, you know, this don't matter.
	Doesn't matter.
	And all their happiness looks stupid and pointless.
	Yeah.
	And you can laugh at them, from the safety of the future.
	Oh, I love that.
	I love laughing from the safety of the future.
	Absolutely.
	At Chelsea's celebrating goalscorer.
	There's nothing better than getting a really good result for your team.
	Watching the full game, then watching the highlights, and then watching all the mini highlights and stuff.
	It's a joy.
	Brilliant.
	What I do think is that Chelsea need a shirt sponsor.
	I'm not surprised they can't get one.
	£75 million per win under Todd Bowley's stewardship is what it is.
	They spent a billion quid and have only had 15 wins.
	The rest is maps.
	We could offer them Football Is Nice as a sponsor.
	I'd like to see that lad, Caicedo, came on, did a little prayer.
	If I was a betting man, I'd say he's going to score that!
	Apparently he's been investigated for betting on yellow cards.
	Is that what it is?
	I'd say he's gonna score that.
	Apparently he's being investigated for betting on yellow cards.
	Is that what it is?
	What's wrong with that?
	You can't stop someone having a bit of fun.
	It's a bit niche, isn't it?
	Betting on yellow cards.
	What, on whether or not there's going to be one?
	Or when?
	And who?
	I mean, they're taking it seriously now, though, aren't they?
	That's obviously why Ivan Toney got that ban as well, wasn't it?
	Yeah, and he's been out.
	Is it an eight-month ban for Ivan Toney?
	Not that it seems to matter to Brentford.
	No.
	They don't care.
	They just get another player for next to nothing.
	What's happened?
	Exactly.
	It's amazing.
	They can accommodate selling their best players.
	One minute, Oli Wilkins, Saeed Benrahma.
	Yep.
	Ah, the claim is he was getting a yellow card on purpose.
	Not for the Hammers over there in Brazil before.
	When was he doing it?
	Where did Paquita come from?
	Where did he come from?
	Did we get him from... Where was he?
	He was in Portugal.
	I don't watch him.
	He was getting the yellow cards on purpose.
	I bet I do get a yellow card on purpose during this game.
	Oh, look, I did get a yellow card on purpose.
	Oh, no.
	Well, that's... I hope he didn't do that.
	Well, he's only been investigated.
	We don't know that it's... Leave him alone.
	...definite yet.
	He's a good lad.
	He's not gone to Man City now.
	That's the reason it's fallen through, apparently.
	The deal was agreed, 85 million, and now Man City don't want him.
	That clause didn't come active till next season, so they should have left it.
	My city's got to stop buying.
	Who'd they buy now?
	They bought some little French lad, Winger.
	Yeah, they're buying another player, yeah, I don't know.
	They just buy players all the time, don't they?
	Everyone's doing it.
	But I've got a few observations.
	Oh, this is what's happened.
	Lavia, condemned forever to sound like labia, but which isn't really a bad word, it just means lips.
	Yes.
	Endo, he's gone from Stuttgart to Liverpool.
	I like him.
	Oh, where's Mitrovich gone?
	He's gone to Saudi Arabia.
	He'll do alright out there.
	He's tough as old boots, isn't he?
	And there's that lad that's come from France.
	Belgian lad, is he?
	He's gone to the city now.
	Now, there's a few observations I'd like to make.
	Go on.
	Pochettino.
	Yes.
	He's a nice fella, and a lovely friendly face.
	Lovely face.
	Lovely friendly warm face.
	Yeah.
	Face you can love.
	Squidgey kind of face.
	Give him a good squidge.
	My kids like a thing called a Squishmallow.
	It's a type of cuddly toy, first bought for them by producer James in there.
	Nice.
	They've got lots of them now, and Pochettino's head could very easily become one.
	Right.
	If he wanted that.
	Although he's got to focus on Chelsea because they seem to be in a lot of trouble.
	One of the things he has done for apotropaic reasons.
	Yeah, that means good luck.
	That's the word I got Simon Jordan to use when he, you know, when he went back on radio.
	He's moved dugouts.
	He's switched up the home and away dugouts.
	Has he?
	No one does things like that really, do they?
	Is that a Ferguson move?
	Is it a Mourinho move?
	Or is it a Bum move?
	It's not paying off.
	Is it Phil Brown on the pitch at half time?
	Or is it Ferguson booting a teacup at Beckham's head and selling Japstam?
	Was this pre-season then that he did this?
	Yep.
	He said he didn't want to be there.
	He wanted to be in that one.
	He says that one's better.
	That's what he's decided.
	Superstitions.
	I mean, they're all at it, aren't they?
	They've all got them.
	When football's so much down to the fine lines, superstition comes into it, surely.
	Superstition's as old as our kind itself, because it's difficult sometimes to work out the reasons for things.
	Like, I think a lot of it's born out of, you know, like praying before a hunt, or praying before a crop yield.
	You know, they say in agricultural societies you have resurrected gods, gods that have come back from the dead, because you'd want things to come out of the soil again.
	It's like you need God to carry you from beneath the soil, and of course our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Famously came back from the dead.
	That's almost very good.
	That's his main move.
	Main move.
	It was great.
	There's walking on water.
	We all love that.
	Yep.
	But the main move... What about the old wine?
	I've always thought that's probably saying you could pull off.
	Right.
	Like, but like the back from the dead.
	Oh, come on.
	That separates the men from the deities.
	Once you're sort of saying death itself, the sweet lady.
	Because Klopp doesn't even watch penalties, does he?
	What do you mean?
	He turns away?
	Yeah, he turns away.
	I always think, God, someone with clop... the kind of passion and the... I guess... I can't watch this!
	I can't!
	I can't!
	I'm actually worried that his teeth glint will put off the penalty taker.
	Right.
	Those big, gleaming, gorgeous railings.
	If I had to lick another man's teeth, I'd lick clop's.
	Would you?
	How about for me now?
	I know he's gone now.
	Hold on.
	No.
	No?
	Okay.
	Because of the neck tattoos.
	I know that don't affect dental matters.
	Hang on, how much are you licking at this point?
	Just one lick across the front.
	Okay.
	Like that.
	Yeah.
	I don't generally lick anyone's teeth.
	I think after you did it, Clot would laugh.
	Ha ha!
	Well done, you fulfilled the bet!
	Get out there!
	Now get out there and take a penalty!
	Oh no, I shouldn't have watched that.
	He'd be very disappointed.
	Yeah.
	Artea didn't even know he was going to take the penalty against Palace the other night, did you know that?
	No.
	He didn't even know he was going to take the penalties?
	No.
	Live up to them.
	Oh no, it's important isn't it?
	Don't you think Artea should know?
	Well, it's working for him isn't it?
	Artea should know.
	Is it working?
	Why?
	Because it's a good score?
	Well, yeah, two out of two now.
	I mean, is it going to be the same as last season?
	Is it going to be Man City and Arsenal again?
	Because the others don't look at it at all, do they?
	They don't.
	Liverpool.
	Liverpool.
	Crap at the back.
	United.
	Not great.
	Crap at the back.
	Really bad in general.
	Terrible against Tottenham.
	Awful against Spurs.
	Really, I thought, really bad against Wolves before then.
	Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
	Some people are saying, specifically Jamie there, be right on.
	Brighton.
	Huh, what?
	Top four?
	Possible.
	They've had a great start.
	They've had a great start.
	Who knows?
	And they look good.
	Yeah, I just don't know who else is... Chelsea obviously aren't going to challenge, but it feels like it's those two again this season.
	Is De Serby...
	Guardiola in hamster land.
	Right.
	Interesting.
	Hamster Guardiola, you know?
	Like, he's got the sort of qualities of Guardiola.
	And Guardiola's influence is so strong that it's not even football anymore.
	It's tops.
	Like, people wear different... I swear, people wear different stuff now, managers.
	Right.
	Since Guardiola, they don't wear what football managers used to wear.
	A football manager's never gonna turn up now in a sheepskin coat.
	No.
	With a big, like, gold bracelet.
	There you go.
	Guardiola meets hamster.
	Deserby.
	Like he's been spliced in a lab.
	Not in Wuhan, I'm not saying that.
	It's been done somewhere else.
	This has been done for good purposes.
	In the service of science.
	For our benefit.
	We must know what happens if you cross Guardiola with Amster.
	We want to know.
	Put him in one of them little spheres.
	You're never going to get another football manager out in a sheepskin, like Ron Atkinson.
	Big lovely old gold bracelet.
	You're not going to get that no more, are you?
	Smoking all over that fella.
	He also used to have a fag on his bucket, didn't he?
	He'd smoke a snout and sit on his bucket.
	He did.
	It's a shame.
	Maybe every now and again you get someone like Turnup, you know?
	Like a weird anomaly from yesteryear.
	Absolutely.
	Did you see them having the Sky Sports presenters had to apologise to Sean Dyche?
	Because you think Sean Dyche is one of the old guard, one of the last remaining.
	All right.
	That's right.
	Zelensky voice.
	All right.
	Yeah.
	That's it.
	He's old school.
	Good manager.
	Oh, he's got a tough time at Everton, though, hasn't he?
	They're in serious stuck, I would say.
	But they said he looked like a croupier, but actually was a mark of respect.
	For a sadly recently deceased fan.
	It is lovely to see.
	Anfield, they did that.
	A minute of applause on the 26th minute as well.
	Yeah, well, that's plainly a black armband.
	What did they think that that was?
	They said he looked like a croupier.
	You look like a croupier!
	It's actually a mark of respect for the recently dead fan.
	Sorry.
	They're silly sods.
	They should nary have gone near that subject, should they?
	Whose nickname is a bit stupid?
	Cherries.
	Right.
	Who wants to be called Cherries?
	No, I wouldn't want that.
	Come on, Cherries!
	I even feel a little bit embarrassed about Tigers sometimes.
	At least Tigers are... Yeah, because the problem is... It's overkill.
	Yeah, it's a bit too much.
	I think you have to be... You have to be the greatest team in the world, in a way, to pull off... Yeah, for that.
	If Man City were the Tigers...
	Yeah, you could just about, but it's all like, rawr, and we sing like mauled by the tigers and sometimes I think, oh, I don't know, I don't feel so comfortable with this.
	Redding are the biscuit men, which like, you know, they get sort of bogged down in wet conditions, they crumble too easily.
	The biscuit men's stupid.
	Toffees, I mean it's so old that it almost, I don't know, but cherries, the connotations of cherries are too...
	I would say almost sexual.
	Got it.
	Yes.
	We're those cherries of Bournemouth.
	Look what's going on down there.
	Pluck one of those, pal, if you wish.
	It's too arch!
	We've got a new manager from Spain.
	Have you seen this fella?
	He's about 25 years old.
	Look at this guy.
	Plucking those.
	Suck the stones off of that, why don't you?
	Nibble all the flesh off.
	See what you're left with.
	You'll be fine.
	Our Ford's pretty bloody useful.
	What are you going to do about him?
	West Ham want him.
	We do?
	Well, I'll take you, Sonny.
	So it's not a good nickname.
	Right.
	and uh... right city vs newcastle when you watch the city vs newcastle you
	find yourself in the peculiar position
	of wanting another oil nation that team to put up a fight these lot really when it comes to it are the only lot that
	can put up a fight say when you watch man united you think actually
	man united are basically not trying
	I don't mean on the pitch, I mean in the transfer market.
	The only way I think that they were going to make a difference, other than the kind of ingenious marketing and transfer strategies deployed by clubs like Brentford and Brighton, is going to be buy Harry Kane and buy Declan Rice.
	It's got to be that proven top flight Professional footballers if I don't do that I think you have to take seriously the idea that Man United are happy with their economic model and like football's almost a side hustle for Manchester United that they're not in it for the trophies the medals or even the top four places because
	On current standing, Ten Hag, I saw him and he looked like he was out of Star Trek.
	I saw him and he was wearing something beige.
	The neckline was too high on his t-shirt.
	He looked like Ming the Merciless' stepchild.
	It was Ming the, I'm doing my best, but I do have some mercy.
	He didn't look like, I thought, nah.
	You know, it's weird how quickly that allure changes, isn't it?
	It's a bit like, right now, we're all in the lure of Ange Ball, like, Poster Cogloo.
	I want it to, as I've said many times, I'm not a fan of Tottenham, but I like Ange Poster Cogloo.
	I like people that talk like, ah, come on, mate, look, just try it.
	Well, you know, it's not exactly that.
	Yeah, it was done quite well.
	No, these two lads are doing good.
	The two midfielders look good.
	One's called Sarri and Burismo or something like that.
	I don't know, Burismo's actually where Hunter Biden had a legitimate and deserved job.
	But like, I love him.
	But it can change so fast.
	You know, at the moment you think, hang on a minute.
	I've read him things.
	He's revolutionised Tottenham.
	They're playing with joy.
	It's a new system.
	It's going to be fantastic.
	But it can change like that.
	And for Spurs especially, it can change like that.
	I mean, how many false dawns have Spurs had over the last few years?
	You think, oh, this is the solution.
	Pochettino, we've got to the semifinals of the Champions League.
	Final, sorry, of the Champions League.
	And then, you know, I think he's gone the following season.
	There's always... Mourinho, he's going to be the answer.
	Conte, he's going to be the answer.
	You know, there's... I'm not suggesting... I mean, Postacoglu plays definitely a different type of football to those managers, but I don't know.
	I'd be wary.
	It seems to me that sometimes football clubs have objectives that are distinct from the explicit and obvious objective of winning football trophies.
	Like, Tottenham seem to prize, do you know what we can do?
	We get brilliant deals on players and we only sell them at the absolute last minute for a shitload.
	United, we've got a fantastic economic model.
	It's only really Manchester City that seem resolutely determined to actually win football trophies Mercilessly, if necessary, they're deserved tigers.
	It's nearly 5,500 days since Tottenham won a trophy.
	Yeah, it just seems like strategically Man City know exactly what they're doing, doesn't it?
	Every time they let someone go, they've already got a replacement there.
	It's like, how are they doing this?
	I mean, obviously the money, but there must be more to it.
	Like we talked about before, the kind of infrastructure at City.
	But the strategic side of what they do and what Guardiola does is incredible.
	I can't see how even another Royal-backed nation is going to be able to compete because, as you say, look at Newcastle.
	They've come in, they've brought some good players, including that lad who was tricked into going to a Wetherspoons pub, which is a low-rent boozer in the UK.
	Tenali.
	Tenali, yeah.
	Tenali was pranked by his mates and he said, can you tell me what is the finest restaurant in Newcastle?
	Then after much sniggering and amusement, because the question itself is Ridiculous, no offence, people of Newcastle, I love you.
	They sent him to a Weatherspoon, which actually might be, actually, the best restaurant in Newcastle.
	And, like, but it's a sort of, also, it's a booze house.
	I mean, what's the American equivalent of that?
	That is a chain bar, you know, like a bar that's everywhere, and where it prizes itself on cheap booze.
	That's Denny's, isn't that, is it?
	No, Denny's is... Imagine Denny's sold alcohol, and that when you went in there, you might get beaten up.
	And then it's Denny's.
	It's Violent Drunk Denny's.
	No offence Weatherspoon.
	It's Violent Drunk Brexit Denny's.
	That's what it is.
	Denny Brexit Denny's.
	Actually, if you'd like to speak to us, there's a number there if you want to speak to a member of staff or contact us.
	That's good.
	We could ring that number.
	You don't often get phone numbers in tweets and I can see why people take number plates and phone numbers out of films because I actually really strongly want to ring that.
	In the old days we would have done.
	In these days I might do.
	Now, Malaga fans were so angry that their club have not made any signings that they've decided to sarcastically meet arriving tourists at Malaga airport as if they were new signings, which is the kind of sort of situationism that you would never get out of British football fans.
	You can see that these are the descendants of Salvador Dali using surrealism as a form of protest.
	So if you're watching this, it's amazing.
	And if you're listening, I'll just describe it for you.
	Here it is.
	Let's do it again.
	What I like about this, they're all at the airport wearing their kits and they're greeting tourists.
	And this one coming, I would guess, based on a bit of racial profiling, somewhere for like Japan or Korea or something like that.
	They meet this guy, he looks so confused.
	Yeah.
	It's brilliant.
	Like they just come up to him, take photos with him and stuff like that.
	And imagine that, you must think that's just what happens when you go to Spain.
	What's Spain like?
	Friendly, like every single person arrives there, they treat like a conquering hero.
	That's took some planning and some discussion.
	And also, I like the joyful expression of anger.
	Yes.
	Like, rather than, like, this guy smashed something up.
	Yeah, at worst, it's deeply sarcastic, isn't it?
	Using sarcasm as a form of protest is amazing.
	Because in England, you think, like, are they going to throw paint over the chairman's car or run onto the pitch?
	But this is like you're sort of meddling with the rules of reality as a form of protest
	So i've gone up to this arriving holiday maker with a shirt with 69 written on it
	Which is as you know a saucy and sarcastic sex number in itself and they're taking the photo with it
	And like it's funny because the guy's sort of going with it He's holding on to the shirt and I wonder if he's gonna get
	a few starts for malaga as part of this unfolding prank YOSHI!!!
	JOKER!
	It's weird when people do that because there's a sort of raucousness to it.
	Yes.
	Like when you're caught up in someone else's sort of joke.
	Yeah.
	You're like, oh no.
	Not sure really which way it's going to go.
	Yeah, because that's the thing with the mob.
	It can go anywhere.
	Once you have diminished individual culpability, you don't know what's going to happen.
	No.
	That's why there's so much continually imposed social control through media and through government, because a mob correctly directed can Unsettle many established systems.
	Well, we don't know if there are FBI informants inside that.
	It turns out that most of that Malaga crowd are FBI informants.
	Do any of you guys actually support Malaga?
	No, I'm FBI.
	What about you?
	I'm Capitol Hill Police.
	I'm CIA, sir.
	We're finding out now that this was mostly peaceful sarcasm.
	It can get out of control.
	Some of those Malaga fans did have zip ties on them.
	There were intercepted messages that there could have been sarcasm, and yet why were the Malaga airport police not informed in advance?
	This is a false flag event, shall we think.
	I imagine some football fans might not have any idea what we're referencing there.
	And then some, uh, like, sort of, MAGA-style, jazz-sith advocates will be confused.
	In a sense, we've made that for a very particular audience.
	Yes.
	That set of references and jokes.
	It's ours, isn't it?
	I think we are it.
	It's ours, yeah.
	It'll be, like, it'll be interesting to learn that this whole thing's a sort of a simulacrum.
	Yeah.
	Like, we don't put this podcast out.
	No.
	There's no market for politically radical, fringe football commentary.
	And anyone that thought for a moment that there would be is an idiot.
	And you are those idiots.
	Yeah, that we are in our own version of that sarcastic protest, I think, sometimes.
	It's like the Truman Show, or something.
	Oh, well.
	First, that's the point of the Truman Show, is that all of our realities could be a kind of construct.
	And in fact, I think that's what underwrites the concept of horror.
	The idea that there is this sort of unknown and uncanny quality to reality that you might find out That someone you know well is like, oh my god, what?
	They're completely different.
	Like in Rosemary's Baby or something, it turns out they're having sex with Satan.
	Yes, they were.
	And that was a bit of a surprise.
	It was.
	I trusted you.
	You mean you've been at it with El Diablo, with the Dark Lord, and now you've got East Nipper.
	Who's raising him?
	Not this mug!
	What about the elderly couple next door as well?
	They seemed nice.
	They did seem nice.
	They seemed ever so friendly, but on the quiet, Beelzebub was their true king, wasn't he?
	That's what it turned out.
	Necromancy.
	Under me own roof, I won't stand for it.
	I shan't stand for it.
	I do stand for it.
	Lionel Messi's got yet another trophy, making him the most decorated footballer in history, even though if you ask my personal view, he's put on a couple of pounds since going to America.
	He's got Pochettino-stroke-Deserby-style chigaboos on him.
	Well, he can afford to, let's be honest.
	He could put on a lot of weight and still be the best player.
	Apparently, he's not trying very hard.
	Well, he's scoring a lot of goals and they've just completely changed the turn of the season around.
	It's ridiculous.
	Seven appearances, one assist, ten goals, strolling about, looking delightful.
	Popping down the shops, pink shirt, little bit of pink tattoo.
	Yeah.
	Nice.
	I spoke to a friend recently who said it's mad up there.
	Everyone wants to see him.
	Or just have a little look at him.
	Top dollar for tickets, apparently.
	So have a good look at him.
	Yep.
	But then the problem is, is the minute he go, when he go, I go.
	Right.
	Because when he's substituted, say, in the 75th minute to have a rest, we've got some footage here of the Miami Sound Machine, I think it's the name of the stadium, just emptying out there.
	Look at them all just departing.
	That's what happens when he go, I go.
	I only come from Messi.
	So it's weird, isn't it?
	That's what happens when you have a sort of a... Yeah, you won't get that with Mikel Antonio, even though Mikel Antonio is having a hell of a start to the season.
	I love him.
	He's brilliant against Chelsea.
	I was going to ask you a bit more about that game.
	What do you want to know?
	Well, you were confident that they would win beforehand.
	Not only confident, I predicted it.
	I know you did.
	Yeah, I remember.
	There's confidence, then there's predictions.
	But you were not feeling confident about West Ham at the start of the season.
	Has that changed as a result of this game?
	We've just gotten a new lad out of Stuttgart, who I can imagine might be on the basis of his name.
	He's either Turkish or Greek or something.
	He's called Constantine, and then there's a lot of syllables in his surname.
	First couple or something, like Marcos Attaka, you know.
	Apparently he's pretty good.
	He gets the odd goal, and I'm figuring he's a centre-back, based on our initial interest in Harry Maguire, which led, some would say, blessedly to naught.
	We've got this guy now.
	He's called Mavrapanos.
	And he's always ex-Arsenal.
	When was he at Arsenal?
	A few years ago, did he start?
	Five years ago?
	I don't remember him.
	Mavrapanos.
	Mavrapanos.
	Ex-Arsenal and good.
	Alright, well that's gonna be okay.
	James Ward-Prowse though?
	James Ward-Prowse.
	I got, like, after they sold, sort of, like, I started to lose faith in James Ward-Prowse as a signing.
	But then, like, apparently, he's only, sort of, a couple of goals off of David Beckham's free-kick record.
	And that corner, Amazing corner.
	That he put on to Goede's Bontz.
	Certainly did.
	It was fantastic.
	And actually West Ham are well set up for set-pieces.
	Absolutely.
	That's like a strong team of big lads like Suchek and whilst we might not have the same quality of centre-backs that we had a little while ago when it comes to set-pieces etc, a season and a half ago, still obviously suits our game and has brought about a brilliant and memorable victory there against Chelsea.
	I think for the amount of goals that it could yield, Ward-Prowse is a great signing.
	And he'll stay fit, and I think maybe because of how good Rice is, and obviously how much the fans are going to miss him, I think it felt a bit underwhelming getting James Ward-Prowse, but it seems already that it's starting to pay off.
	I think they look great, West Ham.
	I thought they played So well.
	It was a fantastic result for football, personally, I think.
	I think everyone came into the office on Monday and were like, brilliant, well done West Ham.
	Also the way they played, they were so disciplined.
	They really stuck to their plan and they made Chelsea look bang average.
	Because the last season, aside from the Conference League win, was a disappointing one, capped with the departure of Rice, plus the broad, lachrymose pessimism of West Ham fans generally, felt like, oh no, this is going to be difficult.
	And I sort of forgot that there'd been that couple of seasons of discipline, you know, like under Moyes, West Ham playing in a disciplined, hard-to-beat, somewhat defensive, sit-in-deep, counter-attacking way.
	And yeah, we've still got Bayern, we've still got Antonio, and Paqueto, he ain't going nowhere.
	I'd like to place a little bet myself that Paquette is going to be standing at West Ham for a little while longer, although he may be a spectator, largely.
	So yeah, it could be alright.
	I do feel, in short, I feel a lot more optimistic.
	It shows you that's part of the caprice that we enjoy about football, isn't it?
	Suddenly everything changes.
	You go from thinking, what's the point?
	Everything's awful, to Everything's fantastic, actually.
	Everything's going to be fine.
	Shall we have a look at this?
	The third-tier trophy in Europe is the Europa Conference League Cup, which West Ham have won.
	Aston Villa and Hibs will be competing for the qualification for that trophy tonight.
	Our mate Brian McDermott is upstairs at Hibs at the moment.
	They've got Villa, so it's going to be a tough tie, and indeed it will be.
	And it's known many incarnations, the third tier domestic trophy, sometimes the Milk Cup, sometimes the League Cup, once it was the Littlewoods Cup, Coca-Cola Cup for a season, maybe Barclays for a while, before finding the most ridiculous name, the Caribou Cup.
	But, Caribou, is that a type of a drink?
	Is it an energy drink, Caribou?
	I'm not even sure.
	Who's drinking it?
	Did they just advertise it somewhere else?
	I've never seen anyone drink no caribou.
	No.
	Can I offer you a caribou?
	They must do, though.
	I say that Vile Slops can take the place of caribou in the market.
	Vile Slops is our new kombucha, but not only kombucha.
	It's got energising qualities.
	Why are they?
	Give you a bloody good stiffy.
	That's the slogan.
	Vile Slops, give you a bloody good stiffy.
	But is that scientifically underwritten, or?
	I'd say so.
	What do you mean, I'd say so?
	Well, ask no questions, do you know what I mean?
	Really?
	I like the company so much I bought it, in the words of Victor Kyan.
	Do you know what I mean?
	Alright.
	Do you know what I mean?
	I'd say so.
	Vial of slops, sweet as swoo.
	I'm worried about this advertisement slogan.
	We'll work on it.
	It's brewing down in the cellar now.
	Jim there's brewed up a batch.
	He should be editing, so you've taken another one off our hands, haven't you?
	I keep stealing your team for my madcap business schemes.
	Exactly.
	But the new employees are coming thick and fast, pilgrims and wanderers.
	Whoever you are, wherever you are, come one, come all, join the movement, join the revelation, revolution.
	We've got jobs for the boys, jobs for the gals, jobs for y'all.
	Come join us here and the mighty...
	Anyway, look, the Carabao Cup... I think it's Carabao, isn't it?
	Carabao, Carabao.
	The Carabao Cup used to be called the Rumbelows Cup.
	Yes.
	That's when people rented TVs.
	What a crazy day that was.
	Now you could buy a new TV for next to nothing, and it's obsolete in half an hour, isn't it?
	That's true, yeah.
	Do you remember a bit where they sort of curved around it, yeah?
	Yeah.
	Like a toenail.
	It's stupid.
	Like a toenail telly.
	These new toenail tellies are the future!
	Well, not for long, because we can't be fucked with them.
	Yeah.
	Oh, okay.
	No one ever wanted one.
	Who wants a TV curling at you like a dirty old toenail?
	And what kind of research did they do?
	Especially... I've done a lot of experiments with toenails as a younger man.
	No, I know you did.
	And with all sorts of disgusting things.
	If you're criticising my bedside lamp experiment, sir... I certainly am.
	...know this.
	I am a scientist worthy of Wu-An.
	Now, firstly... Oh, you're not going to elaborate any further?
	No, I am.
	I'm going to throw open the books to analysis.
	There's Morning Gak.
	That's some of the snot you might hack up of a morning.
	That goes straight on a bulb.
	Cook that up.
	Be ready for you when you're back from school.
	Let's just recap there.
	On the bulb.
	On the bulb of the lamp.
	When it's on.
	Sizzle it up, distill it down.
	Sizzle it up, distill it down.
	Go off to school.
	Probably get sent home from school.
	Mucking about.
	Being weird, not making sense as a person.
	Offering up toenails to anyone who wants one.
	You don't make sense!
	Can I offer you a toenail?
	It's like the pork scratching.
	It's a guilt-free snack.
	You put a toenail in a bowl, it will pork-scratching up lovely.
	And you don't have the guilt of thinking a pig has suffered for it.
	You get your toenails lined up in a bowl, You've got your own scratchings!
	Why go to the humble pig for scratchings when you've got your own scratchings dangling off the end of your toes?
	So obviously those were two of the most successful experiments on lightbulbs.
	That's why Vile Slops is going to be the product.
	Logan Paul's Prime.
	Do not stand a chance against Vile Slops.
	The minute I get to involve a lightbulb in this product...
	I'll cook it up on a lightbulb, see what it makes.
	Did it happen by accident, these?
	Or was it a brainchild?
	Like many ingenious inventions, it was a happy accident, like Louis Pasteur and Mary Pasteur, who accidentally, I believe, came up with the Covid vaccine.
	What they were doing, they were messing about in their barnyard, and they thought, hang on a minute!
	That's the same with me.
	I don't know what led me to line up toenails and snot on a lightbulb.
	I can only assume it's a kind of mental illness.
	And I thought it was not going to pay off until eventually, and inevitably, it did.
	Time now to look at Donald Trump doing the Rumbelows League Cup draw with Saint and Greavesy.
	If that sentence makes sense to you, I'd like you to write us a letter and send it to 1980 when it was relevant.
	No, it's 1992.
	And one of the things I want to invite you to observe is how the old days sort of get older quicker than you think they're gonna.
	Like you watch something and it's like, Like, you watch it and you feel like it's from 1975.
	It's like someone in a Ford Cortina smoking, like, a Rothmans fag.
	And it's like, that was actually 2002.
	Yeah.
	Like, it's weird.
	Old days get old.
	Like, the 90s now look like how I thought the 70s looked.
	I think if you watch something from last year, it looks really old suddenly.
	It's bad.
	Except for me, I don't look old.
	I look about 19 last year.
	Every time I look at an old photograph of myself, I'm like, oh, shit, man, I'm aging so fast.
	That's what I mean.
	It's terrible, isn't it?
	What are we going to do?
	Wild slops!
	The answer does not involve lightbulbs.
	Wild slops!
	Cook up your cracklings and grin to yourself in the mirror.
	Let's have a look at Donald Trump, former, yet ex, and maybe future, president of Estados Unidos, with St.
	and Greavesies, two British former footballers and TV legends.
	...a draw for the fifth round of the Rumbler's League Cup, assisting me with... Look at David Dent.
	He didn't know how to be on telly, and that's only 1992.
	He's talking like 50s people.
	Hello.
	I'm honoured, in the company of Her Majesty the Queen, to be doing the Rumbler's League Cup.
	Mate!
	Loosen up!
	He's like, if I had to present this show.
	Hello, welcome to football, it's nice with me.
	Gareth Roy, a whole city Tiger fan.
	And Jimmy Greaves will draw the home team.
	You can see he's up for it.
	Look at his golden shirt.
	Look at him, he's like, alright mate.
	He looks like someone smacking you in the mouth, doesn't he?
	He does.
	Fists!
	Look, his fist's ready to go.
	Like, think of how many bets on yellow cards Greavesy was doing.
	There's no investigation.
	Now, Greavesy, he's going out there, pissed.
	Pissed on a blind game.
	Drunk!
	No, he was.
	At West Ham, he admitted.
	He said he'd done training drunk, and he said it didn't make any difference.
	He said the drop-off from going from Tottenham to West Ham, he said, like, it was chaos.
	So if I was just bowling about with fags on and that, not trying their hardest, eating pies on the pitch and everything, he would have been gambling his way, smacking John Lyle in the balls and stuff.
	It wouldn't have been John Lyle, Ron Greenwood then.
	But like, yeah, look at Greavesy, and there's Saint.
	Saint's job was to... I'm Greavesy, you're Saint.
	Yes.
	Like, you have to rein me in.
	Right.
	But you need my, sort of, mercurial presence.
	Absolutely.
	Oh, no, Greavesy, I don't know about that, son.
	Oh, I don't know about Vile Sloth.
	Greavesy, don't keep telling the story about putting fingernails on a lightbulb.
	That's unusual.
	I don't know, Saint.
	It's the way it was in my time.
	I stuck 50 goals in.
	I'd have been a fucking hero in 66, but for that knee injury.
	Oh, that's certainly true, Jim.
	OK, we've got a competition coming up at the break.
	I want a toenail!
	Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! What a toenail! That's a t-shirt I can get behind.
	There's a slogan.
	And Donald Trump will draw the awake.
	Donald Trump looks absolutely insane, doesn't he?
	Hey, I'm Donald Trump.
	Like, his hair even then was extraordinary.
	Yes.
	It's one line from one side of his head all the way to the back of his head.
	It's like one uninterrupted yin-yang.
	His head looks like a Chinese symbol of equanimity, doesn't it?
	Like the face being like the white part of the yin-yang and his head being the black part, although it's sort of as golden as Jimmy Greaves' shirt.
	I told you, didn't I?
	I told you.
	I told you how you managed it.
	Donald, very pleased to meet you, sir.
	Greavesy loves Donald Trump.
	Loves him.
	Leans right in.
	All right, Donald, go on, on your own.
	He's all right.
	He's self-made.
	Jimmy Greaves was sort of already MAGA before he existed.
	He could tell Greavesy then, if someone had gone to Greavesy, here, we're going to do a vote, get out of the EU.
	You fucking bet your life.
	It's bullshit.
	This is some pad you've got here, isn't it?
	No, it's pretty good.
	I hope you enjoy it.
	This is beautiful, I tell you.
	I don't listen to the common man, fuck them.
	Well done, Don.
	So, really, this is some pad you've got here, isn't it?
	No, it's pretty good. I hope you enjoy it.
	It's pretty good. It's up Trump Tower, isn't it?
	I like it.
	This is beautiful, I tell you.
	I haven't seen a ballroom like this since I was in Doug Ellis's.
	That was the great humour of St. Agatha's.
	Andrews.
	They were always banging about Doug Ellis.
	Aston Villa.
	Never would shut up about Doug.
	Oh, deadly Doug.
	They were always making jokes about it.
	That was probably the beginning.
	They were the, in a sense, football is nice, stroke, Baddiel and Skinner of their time.
	They pre-empted lad culture by some 20 years, it appears.
	Carry on.
	Carry on with the draw.
	OK.
	I'll draw the home teams.
	That's right, David, isn't it?
	Number four.
	Tottenham Hotspur.
	Okay.
	Number seven.
	We'll play Norwich City.
	Only two left.
	Number five.
	Leeds United.
	Against number six.
	We'll play Manchester United.
	Oh, Donald!
	You don't realise what you've done there.
	That's a big game.
	That's a big game I want to go to.
	I think we're going to maybe go over there and watch a couple of these games.
	Take my advice.
	You can open one in Leeds, but don't go to Manchester.
	Well, look, we've got something to give to you.
	This actually is the Sainton Greavesy mug.
	This is the most prestigious award in football in history.
	And when you pour your hot Funny old game.
	Sounds good to me.
	Which was of course, Greavesy's catchphrase, which should be resurrected.
	It's a funny old game saying anything.
	Oh, it certainly is Jim.
	Okay, we'll be back next week.
	Giving a mug with funny old game to Donald Trump.
	Extraordinary.
	It can only be regarded almost as a sort of situationist art
	that met that tourist at Malaga airport.
	The mainstream culture, just a few years later, looks like an extraordinary experiment.
	That means that we are in a state of hyper-normalization.
	Culture is moving too quickly even to keep up to itself.
	Its immediate antecedents all seem absurdist.
	Everything's sort of a bizarre sort of cyclone of nihilism and meta-modernity.
	Yes, and we're moving so quickly as well, that's the thing.
	It's madness and it's happening at a ridiculous rate.
	It's a funny old reality, isn't it girl?
	Funny old reality.
	Let's make our predictions then.
	We've got to wrap up football is nice because we've got to do something else now.
	Ah, look at this, more or less.
	We didn't do quite as well as I thought.
	I predicted... I want to get things 100% correct, but I never.
	These are our results from last week.
	I predicted the right results for Spurs-Man U, West Ham-Chelsea and Blackburn-Hull, but not the correct score.
	Gal, un-customarily for you.
	In fact, between us, we got everything right.
	Hmm.
	Between us, we got everything right.
	Between us, if he was a betting man, and I'm not saying Paquette is, I'm saying he isn't, he could use our results to guide him to new fortunes.
	They must just be gambling for fun because they've got enough money, but it's done very little.
	It's just given me, reduced the deficit by a single point in my what already feels like futile pursuit of your excellence and dominance.
	Are these the results we're going to predict for next time?
	Chelsea v Luton. I'd love it if Luton won at the bridge.
	So I've got to go with... I was thinking actually, I'd spent an angry moment on my own thinking
	I'm not gonna like predict in the same way that I've been because guess what my prediction
	technique is? Do you know? No. It's what I want to happen.
	Okay. It's not what I think will happen.
	Yeah. It's what I want to happen. Yeah. You use what you think will happen. I...
	That's what you predict.
	I think this will happen.
	With Hull I tend to go against what you want in order to have a win-win in a sense.
	You try to create a win-win.
	I'm very happy we beat Buckburn.
	I predicted that!
	You certainly did.
	I told you!
	Not only did I believe it, I bloody well predicted it, see?
	Because I wanted it to happen.
	That's what I'm using.
	And using the self-same techniques that got me those miserable three points, I predict that Luton will beat Chelsea 1-0.
	Wow.
	Yeah, that's what I want to happen.
	And you'll beat Hull... No, but you'll beat Bristol, excuse me.
	And that... Oh God, we're going to struggle, aren't we?
	Down at the Amex against Brighton on Saturday.
	Is it on the telly?
	Is that on the telly?
	It's the late game.
	And then Newcastle-Liverpool... They have historically very good high-scoring games.
	Although, why would that matter?
	Because...
	You know, there's no actual continuum.
	No.
	Everything's changing all the time.
	Like he says, Brian, who's him in succession?
	Yeah, because it should be Brian Cox.
	I met him when I was staying in Primrose Hill.
	I was jealous.
	I went over to him.
	I don't normally bother the famous because I thought I'd go bother him.
	My wife told me she'd seen him all past the house.
	She went, Logan Roy's gone by.
	I ran over.
	I had my baby in my arms.
	I ran over at him with the dog as well.
	He was very impressed with the dog.
	That's a nice I've got a dog and a nice baby.
	Yeah, I've got a new baby.
	I've got a dog.
	Oh, good.
	What have you got?
	Oh, just this hat.
	He looked exactly like Logan Roy.
	Wow.
	I mean, he is him.
	But he dressed like it as well.
	Yeah.
	That's what you want.
	That's what you want.
	You don't want there to be a terrible disjunct.
	No.
	Oh, no.
	We were mentioning we're going to be doing another show and we're chatting about something that we've acknowledged even while doing it is a niche interest.
	Yes.
	And that we are that niche.
	Well, why don't we do this later?
	Or do we want to do it now?
	Just say, look, alright, I think Liverpool will have an away win of 3-2.
	And New York Red Bulls, fuck off!
	No, I mean, sorry, New York Red Bulls v Inter Miami.
	I've got, I recognise, I can see what's coming out of me, what's being brought out of me by the content.
	Yeah.
	If it were not for my deep compassion and love of all the world's people, and this goes beyond demographic information, oh, they're still at the bottom.
	Wow, it's weird, it doesn't matter, they're all at the... God, look at the MLS!
	It looks like a weird, almost unrecognisable phenomena, that.
	But can anyone catch the Cincinnati FCs these days?
	I reckon, yeah, Inter Miami are going to win, aren't they?
	They're going to keep winning because they've bought a player who's not passed his prime enough to be irrelevant.
	They've almost got half the ex-Barcelona team, so you'd think they'd be alright.
	I don't know, New York City Red Bull, part of a big franchise, they'll be doing, won't they be doing little
	loan out deals with Salzburg and Leipzig and all them like type of other Red Bull franchises?
	They will if they've got... Unless I'm the person that's realising that because of the ingenuity that's brought you
	a human crackling and vile slops.
	But it's possible that that will one day become relevant.
	We'll make those predictions in a minute.
	I've done mine.
	You bastard.
	You're what slows it down.
	Saint.
	You spend too much time trying to work it all out correctly.
	I do, yeah.
	I like doing it like this.
	I go, what do I want to happen?
	It's weird those graphics as well that is used there.
	Like a sort of Tesco value sort of style graphics is used.
	Like that white, blue and red.
	He used to be on our toothpaste.
	He calls it an argument nowadays because I said I want to get Colgate, but it's all got fluoride in it.
	None of it's good for you.
	All right, another conspiracy theory just casually offhand flung into the mix.
	That's all we've got time for today.
	Football is nice.
	We'll be back in September because, oh, we're having a holiday.
	And of course, you can listen to the whole conversation as a podcast.
	And why don't you get yourself a bit of merch, which Gareth has had the audacity to criticise, even in the show.
	Every item you buy supports the Stay Free Foundation.
	There's a link in the description to get the full range.
	Football is nice, isn't it Gael?
	Yes.
	Funny old gang.
	Good morning, science!
	Hey, Dr. John Campbell will be on the show tomorrow talking about Moderna, payouts, myocarditis and why he no longer
	trusts authority.
	This is a fantastic conversation.
	For those of you that love Dr. John, and I know millions of you do, I know our Awakening Wonders over on YouTube love him, and I know our new fantastic free speech community on Rumble adore him too, this is the best Dr. John Campbell conversation you will ever see, or your money back.
	May not apply, because how would we legislate?
	It's difficult to do that.
	So yeah, join us tomorrow for that.
	And join us soon because we've got fantastic guests coming up on the show.
	Do you know who we've got?
	Candice Owens, Jordan Peason's coming back, Elon Musk is coming on the show.
	We've got Ben Shapiro, Eckhart Tolle, some of the greatest orators and thinkers from across the political and spiritual spectrum will be here because they want to talk to you because they value you.
	They value this movement.
	Join us tomorrow, not for more of the same.
	Ugh, vile slops.
	Vile slops are delicious.
	But for more of the different.
	Until then, stay free.

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