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THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING! Ex-Secret Service Agent BREAKS SILENCE On JFK - Stay Free #207

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	I'm a black man and I could never be a veteran.
	On the second floor, I'm stuck with my water bottle deal.
	So I'm looking for the CEO.
	I'm a black man and I could never be a veteran.
	On the second floor, I'm stuck with my water bottle deal.
	So I'm looking for the CEO.
	In this video, you're going to see the future.
	Hello there, you Awakening Wonders.
	Thanks for joining me for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
	It is a joy and a glory to be with you today as we discuss the Biden impeachment inquiry, his comments on 9-11.
	On Rumble exclusively, we'll be talking about Ram Paul on Covid vaccines.
	Obviously, we can't talk about that with you, our glorious 6.5 million Awakening Wonders, as much as we'd like to.
	So you'll have to click the link in the description and join us in the other place.
	On Here's the News, we'll be talking about Biden's response to 9-11.
	Again, another anecdote that appears a little bit dubious and masks his actual involvement with the Iraq War, and perhaps gives us a different inflection on his current perspective with ongoing conflict.
	But, did you know there's a new iPhone out?
	That's fantastic, isn't it, on-screen assistant, Gareth?
	It's great news, it's great news.
	We all needed it, didn't we?
	One thing I need is a minor amendment to my existing iPhone.
	You say minor, I say major!
	Obviously the function of the mainstream media at a time when the world is being torn apart by war, when our culture is collapsing, when censorship and surveillance are on the rise, when trust in media and government are at an all-time low, Is the mainstream, the legacy media, to focus on the launch of a new product which, perhaps let's face it, is detrimental to our health?
	I mean, let me know in the comments, how do you feel about your device?
	Of course it's a miracle.
	It's an incredible miracle in your pocket.
	It's certainly detrimental to some people's health, those kids that go down cobalt mines.
	I don't know if they're benefiting tremendously as they're mining out the old coal ball instead of, I don't know, playing jacks or stick and hoop or whatever children are supposed to be doing.
	Let's have a look at the mainstream media though.
	They are ecstatic about this new release.
	Check it out.
	Apple has announced a new watch and a phone at its highly anticipated event earlier.
	It also announced the iPhone... They're just showing their promotional materials.
	The news and commerce are utterly confused.
	I suppose because the news and commerce are completely we'll be talking more about the trusted news initiative,
	the relationships between major news vendors, how they collaborate on news stories,
	how they're funded, what their relationships are with their advertisers,
	and how we find ourselves in a position where the launch of essentially just a product
	is turned into a kind of cultural event.
	In a way, it's revealing, because it shows you that consumerism
	is more than just a sort of practical modality, it is a way of life.
	This is sort of iPhones, but they're still trying to keep it as a kind of techno
	Christmas, aren't they?
	Yeah, I mean, look, I think it's dreadful.
	I mean, it's no coincidence.
	Apple spent over $100 million in advertising each year.
	A big portion of that, I imagine, goes to CNN, hence why they're doing basically a commercial for Apple.
	But I think worse than that is the choices that a company like CNN make, in that they should be telling stories about Apple that is how much they're spending on lobbying, the coal mines, the child labor.
	They're choosing They're electing, they're making a decision at 7pm, prime time on CNN, not to focus on where's all that money on lobbying going, what kind of things do they get away with through that lobbying money, the child labour, all those things, and instead focus on basically a commercial.
	They're tax relationships in various territories.
	It's extraordinary, isn't it?
	It's just normal.
	What they would say, if you were to ask, they'd go, it's a matter of public interest, people love it when there's a new iPhone out.
	How many times in your life have you seen that shot of People are queuing!
	They began lining in their hundreds at 6am!
	The mainstream media is not conveying information to you, it is participating in ongoing hypnosis.
	It is facilitating further globalisation, centralisation, corporatisation.
	You can imagine a news media, in fact we are it, that will say this.
	In fact, put those facts back up.
	It's been put together by our team here at Stay Free.
	Apple spent over $100 million on advertising.
	Gareth's already told you that.
	In 2022, Apple ramped up its lobbying spending to record amounts, increasing its total for the year by 44%.
	Where is that revenue coming from?
	What kind of tax relationships they have?
	They spent over $50 million in the last decade.
	In 2022, tech giants face the prospect of It's astonishing, isn't it?
	How can the news give themselves that name when they convey information in this manner?
	never got a vote on the floor of either a chamber of Congress, a fact that the
	bill's sponsors have blamed, at least in part, on an aggressive tech influence
	campaign. But I wonder what Nancy Pelosi and that fella Paul she's married to
	think about Apple as a business. It's astonishing isn't it?
	How can the news give themselves that name when they convey information in
	this manner? Let's have a look at the rest of this propaganda.
	Have you got a better camera?
	Camera?
	He's actually not even that committed to it, is he?
	No.
	He's kind of shouting a commercial at you.
	Not very well.
	There's a new camera.
	Look at that.
	That's nice.
	Also, why is this guy on CNN?
	I don't understand.
	He should be doing sort of like a rural community report in pre-war Britain.
	The Hun are advancing on us.
	Get your bayonets fixed.
	I mean, it's like an extraordinary tombra to hear in such a sort of apparently slick legacy media organisation.
	Offering automatic portrait mode.
	But this is what I want to know from my news.
	Portrait mode, is it automatic or am I going to have to manually slide something?
	No, you don't have to worry about that, mate.
	It's automatic portrait mode.
	Straight into portrait mode.
	How's the war going?
	How's that going?
	Are we doing anything to bring about peace?
	No, don't worry about that.
	Listen, I think You're focusing on the wrong things.
	Portrait mode happens automatically now.
	What about increasing surveillance?
	What about, like, the kind of contracts that Apple have with the government?
	Of course, it's easy for us to talk, as we have done elsewhere this week, about Musk's intervention through Starlink, refusing to convey military orders.
	Which is astonishing, really, because you find Elon Musk in the position of potentially preventing an escalation of a potential global apocalypse, and the government and the mainstream media condemning him.
	And now you see why.
	Look at the relationships they have with big tech.
	They can't believe it when one of their allies in big tech won't do their simple bidding.
	Because look, the mainstream media advertises their products, What's the problem?
	These tech companies typically accumulate data, conduct censorship, and the mainstream is happy to do their propaganda, really.
	A titanium case, meaning it's lighter and stronger.
	The case takes, apparently, a long time to create.
	Oh my God!
	It was not rubbish.
	Takes a long time to create that.
	I mean, some of the kids down the titanium mines, they're toiling there for hours.
	They're 25 when they get out.
	There, you might be a kid when you go into the titanium mine, but you will come out a man, mark my word.
	But it's all worth it, because it comes in a spectrum of pastel colours.
	I'd happily send my own children down there right now, not even see them again, all their birthdays up to 22.
	And do you know what I'd give them on their 22nd birthday?
	New iPhone.
	There you go, it worked the way it went, didn't it?
	And one of the most consequential features is the new charging port.
	It's good, you mean we're going to have to chuck all that out?
	They're not putting that in the news, you've got to chuck away your old one.
	That's right.
	That, when they change that thing, that jack mate, nah, I'm not happy about that.
	Have you still got things that adapt them?
	Of course I have.
	And headphones with like strings in them.
	I mean I've basically got what he's got in his hands there.
	That's what you use to sort of connect to them.
	When I see someone wearing headphones like that, I should think, yeah, you've not bothered to just keep up with the constant, needless, incessant march of what calls itself progress, but is metastasized consumerism.
	But what I actually think is, uh, get some of your pods.
	Like, I'm basically... You're part of the problem.
	I'm him!
	I'm basically him!
	Give me one of those iPhones, I'll advertise it!
	Now, again... That would be great.
	If we give you all the wires and the cables... Just imagine this.
	If we have you pick through them... All right, no, okay, fair enough.
	And we'll still call it news and then go sleep in our beds at night.
	That's right, that's exactly what we're proposing.
	You had the original, the long one.
	Apple... What?
	It's a long one.
	That's when apples were apples.
	It's a lightning port.
	Have I got a lightning one here?
	Yes, I've got a lightning one here.
	He's alright, look, we're getting carried away.
	He's probably a really beautiful human being, isn't he?
	Oh yeah.
	Sure.
	You're not committed to that.
	He's a beautiful human being, he deserves love, he's a child of God, he's here with us, he must be loved.
	I guess it's not his fault he's doing this, is it?
	He probably wants to tell some proper news.
	I bet he's worried sick about them kids down at Cobalt Mine.
	I bet he's very curious about their tax status.
	I bet he's interested in lobbying people in Congress that are on big tech regulatory boards that own stocks and shares in the corporations that they're supposed to be regulating.
	That democracy has become a sham.
	the function of the mainstream media is to support a centralised, authoritarian narrative
	and somehow sell it to us as progress, to sell war to us as better than peace, to sell
	this kind of inanity while this same quarter of the world claim that we're on the precipice
	of ecological disaster, don't they? Like climate change, and again, by the way, I'm not denying
	that I love this planet, I think we should do everything we can to advance our energy
	systems, I think we should awaken to new models, I think we should respect and love the Earth
	and one another, and I bet our man here feels this too, but CNN claim to care about that
	kind of stuff and then they dedicate their time to sort of untangling Apple cables.
	I can't imagine any of that advertising money makes a difference there.
	That would be cynical.
	Very cynical.
	Like, I mean, we don't get any Apple advertising money and look at the way it's changed our reporting.
	It's astonishing.
	Apple is ditching its lightning for the... I've said that a couple of times.
	USB-C, which of course it already uses on its own computers.
	It's been pushing companies for standardised chargers so that users don't end up with random piles of different chargers.
	Great, that's a real snake-sweating of random charges.
	Who needs all those random charges?
	Okay, that's an infomercial.
	Do you remember the times when we used to look at sort of channels like QVC and various shopping channels
	and regard them as somehow inferior?
	That we somehow have an expectation of media to be authentic and honest with us,
	to treat us like adults, to engage us in serious conversations
	about the state of our planet, the state of our individual lives, our psyches,
	what we might collectively achieve together.
	And now, CNN, a prestigious legacy news media outlet, just happily peddles for Apple and pretends that it is.
	They want us to take them seriously.
	That's the joke with all of this.
	They think that we should take them seriously.
	They actually sneer at us when we don't take them seriously.
	Oh man, do you remember when they were doing like the Joe Rogan takedown
	and they were sort of saying like, you know, we have rooms full of people back there.
	Joe Rogan, he just turns up and speaks to people from a variety of backgrounds with incredible expertise.
	And people like him, well, they shouldn't.
	Like, you're right.
	They expect our obedience.
	They expect our trust.
	But is trust in media declining?
	I certainly know mine is.
	OK, let's have a look at this potential impeachment of Joe Biden.
	Let's have a look.
	I don't think impeachments don't really do anything.
	They're always happening.
	I remember when we first heard it, or at least when I first heard it, it was Bill Clinton.
	Is that when you heard it?
	Of course.
	Biden. The order gives House Republicans...
	I don't think impeachments don't really do anything. They're always happening. I remember
	when we first heard it, or at least when I first heard it, it was Bill Clinton. Is that
	when you heard it?
	Yes, of course.
	Listen, there's going to be an impeachment.
	Oh no!
	There's been so many impeachments now, I still don't know what it is.
	Doesn't seem to do anything at all.
	Basically some people chat for a while, no one ever gets condemned, nothing ever gets done.
	We're still basically living within the same system.
	Sounds like politics, yeah.
	We're gonna pretend to do some stuff for a while and then do nothing.
	And then we're gonna just accept a load of money from Apple and other companies and then we'll carry on.
	Back to the real news!
	You can get it in lilac!
	The White House calling the move extreme politics at its worst.
	McCarthy alleging corruption and abuse of power on the part of the president.
	But does he have the evidence and the votes?
	Garrett Haig starts us off tonight from Capitol Hill.
	It's not real news is it? I mean in a sense this is comparable to the Apple information in a sense
	that it's sort of held within such a sort of tight frame so lacking in genuine inquiry.
	But will he have the votes? What will really happen?
	Basically nothing. I suppose what this is is an acknowledgement that having gone from a maligned and
	forbidden story it's now just something that's being at least talked about in the
	mainstream.
	I don't think it's going to end in any sort of significant condemnation, is it?
	Who knows?
	I mean, I think, you know, the left are very much saying that they don't have the evidence, the right are saying that we do.
	Who knows what will happen?
	We'll just see.
	We're going to leave YouTube.
	For one thing, we're going to be talking about Rand Paul and COVID vaccines, and also then I can speak freely about Saudi Arabia and 9-11, and maybe even the CIA.
	Allegedly!
	So if you're watching us on YouTube, if you're one of our 6.5 million awakening wonders, click the link in the description, join us in the other place.
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	And remember to subscribe and press the red button and join us in Locals for the chat.
	Now, here is some praise for Saudi Arabia in connection with 9-11.
	Let's break that down.
	Adrian Watson posts, we welcome this weekend's announcement by Saudi Arabia committing $20 billion to support President Biden's signature initiative, the Partnership for Global Infrastructure.
	It seems auspicious that that was announced on 9-11.
	Yeah I mean there's been yeah there's been outcry from people who say that you know this is not something we already had Joe Biden lying about where he was on September 12th when he was doing that speech recently on September 11th which was inconceivable really that he'd follow up a lie about Hawaii and his own house fire with another lie about where he was the day after 9-11 absolutely incredible and now the White House has released this on 9-11 also praising Saudi Arabia.
	I like that he said he was at ground zero. I was at ground zero with the victims or were you actually
	pushing for a subsequently proven to be irrelevant and unnecessary and unhelpful war in Iraq? Oh no,
	yeah, I remember now. That's like saying where were you? I was just at a dog's home helping dogs
	when in fact you were strangling a dog in an alleyway. It's the sort of opposite of that.
	Yes, I mean of course, I mean are you allowed to talk about Saudi Arabia and 9-11 now?
	We've got reports here from the Intercept and Jacobin, so there.
	There you go.
	It's so difficult, isn't it?
	You're sort of like, there's the news that you watch on the TV, and then there's like, look, we understand now that Saudi Arabia was significantly involved in 9-11 in so much as many of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, that Saudi Arabian royals were rushed out of the United States on that day, that there were curious relationships between the Saudi Arabian royal family and the Bush family.
	Now we know that some of those hijackers have been recruited by the CIA.
	Yep.
	Allegedly!
	Kit Clamberg's report.
	Kit Clamberg from the Grey Zone, yeah.
	So there's some extraordinary information available, and yeah, what do you get from the mainstream?
	Whether it's, you know, online or on TV, you get sort of puff pieces about initiatives, infrastructure initiatives.
	Absolutely astonishing.
	From one not-conspiracy theory to another, JFK, a secret service agent, has broken his silence on the JFK assassination.
	Should we talk about it?
	Yeah, you're gonna like this, Ross.
	Is this good?
	Yeah, you're gonna like it.
	Let's have a look.
	We are about to talk to a former Secret Service agent with a secret that, if true, could rewrite so much of what we know happened on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
	It is a confession.
	I can't watch this in the same way since we've become friends with Bobby Kennedy.
	I used to just watch this as pure sort of spectacle, as an evident example of obvious corruption, of what happens if people step out of line.
	My main reference would have been like Oliver Stone's movie.
	It's an early entry point into many of our understanding that you can't trust the state.
	Now I've sort of got ideas of him being like a little kid and like losing his uncle and his father and stuff.
	It's interesting, it changes it.
	And he says he is making, after 60 years of silence, all about a single bullet he found in the back of that convertible.
	60 years after one of the most earth-shattering days in modern American history, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963.
	President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1 o'clock.
	Central Standard Time.
	Former Secret Service agent Paul Landis, who was with the president that day, is opening up for the first time about what he witnessed.
	For decades, the prevailing theory was that one bullet struck JFK and then hit Texas Governor John Connolly, who was sitting in front of him.
	It became known as the magic bullet theory, which explained how one shooter could have fired all the shots.
	The theory is based on this bullet being found on Governor Connally's gurney at the hospital.
	But now in a new book, Landis says he knows how it got there.
	The 88-year-old tells the New York Times he found that bullet lodged in the car seat behind where Kennedy was killed.
	He says he then took Wow.
	So, I mean, that theory anyway, to see that theory disparaged or discredited shouldn't come as a tremendous shock, should it?
	Given that it was contingent upon a bullet bouncing around several times, passing through various people, pinging about on some crazy little assassination jolly.
	And the fact that it was wedged in the seat and was placed there.
	Yeah.
	Demonstrates plainly that it was, you know, demonstrably untrue at the time.
	But this does come back to conspiracy theories.
	I mean, Oliver Stone himself, the amount of flak he's received personally about, you know, his film.
	You know, people at the time were kind of saying, oh, it's highly entertaining, but it's, you know, not plausible and it's ridiculous and that he's a conspiracy theorist.
	Another one of those things is like, then stuff starts to come out and you're like, oh, I don't think he was a conspiracy theorist, actually.
	I mean, it kind of rings true with what's happening in society at the moment, doesn't it?
	Again and again and again.
	First, there's this huge discrediting and then, oh yeah, no, sorry about that.
	We were lying.
	We killed him.
	Allegedly, for heaven's sake.
	Hey, let us know what you lot think in the comments.
	Press the red button if you want to join us in Locals and become a member of our community.
	Now, our exclusive Rumble story is Rampool talking about the risks of the vaccine outweigh the risks of the disease.
	Now, that's astonishing and it's also we're looking at that Commensurately with something from the British media.
	Andrew Bridgen released a video claiming the Pfizer vaccine used in clinical trials was different to the one rolled out across the world.
	But first of all, let's look at Ramport.
	I mean, I guess this is where the rubber meets the road.
	After all of this perambulation, all of this analysis, the mudslinging, the condemnation, the climbing back from condemning Joe Rogan on CNN, shaming people for not wanting to get vaccines, saying that it was beneficial to other people and a kind of civic responsibility to acknowledge and it wasn't, to potentially It's worse for you than the disease.
	The cure is worse than the disease.
	I mean, have we finally arrived at that point?
	And will the mainstream media allow that conclusion to be successfully reached?
	Will the system be able to accommodate a truth that heavy?
	Because Moderna is still sponsoring Novak Djokovic like extraordinarily by proxy with that mad shot of the day.
	Did you guys see that?
	It's bloody ridiculous.
	Let's have a look at what Senator Rand Paul's got to say.
	Because the risks of the vaccine outweigh the risks of the disease.
	This really encapsulates the debate here.
	Your health care is about you.
	You're not a statistic.
	The Democrats somehow feel you are a cog in their wheel and you're just supposed to do what everybody does and do as you say.
	There you are.
	Curious to see that that's now being publicly said.
	Imagine that on day one of the pandemic or with the rollout, that enthusiastic rollout.
	I shudder to think about the freight, the amount, the cargo of propaganda the glibness, the certainty, the condemnation. It was such
	an extraordinary epochal time, already being repackaged, already being somehow passed into
	some space of cultural Alzheimer's that we're not meant to remember. We don't talk much about
	Andrew Bridgen who was like excised from the Houses of Parliament in our country for,
	essentially I believe he was criticising vaccine rollouts. I don't want to reprise what he said that caused
	so much ire, but now he is saying, Andrew Bridgen is claiming the Pfizer vaccine used in
	clinical trials was a different vaccine to the one rolled out across the world. Let's have a look.
	In August this year, I wrote to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with evidence that I'd received from Dr Josh Guchko of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which indicated that Pfizer had been enabled by the MHRA, the Medicines and Healthcare Product Regulatory Agency in the UK, to carry out a bait-and-switch operation with their vaccine, which meant that the Pfizer vaccine that was tested on 22,000 individuals with 22,000 in a placebo group was not the same vaccine that was rolled out in the UK and around the world.
	The compelling evidence for this is the fact that on the second day of mass vaccination in the UK, the MHRA changed the guidelines, told people they had to stay at the vaccination centre for 15 minutes after vaccination.
	The reason for this remaining at the vaccination centre was the risk of anaphylactic shock.
	The MHRA hadn't expected anaphylactic shock because it wasn't shown in the Pfizer trials.
	You only get anaphylactic shock when there are endotoxins in the vaccines.
	You only get endotoxins in the vaccines when they've been cultured up in bacteria such as Escherichia coli.
	That demonstrated that the vaccine that was rolled out around the world was not manufactured in the same way or to the same standards as that vaccine that they'd got medical approval for.
	And that dude's had to make himself such an expert on vaccines.
	He understands the kind of cultures that you have to grow them in.
	It seems to be another demonstrable example of peculiarity with regard to the ongoing pandemic narrative.
	Let me know in the comments if you agree.
	The main question is though, why has no one mentioned how many mice this has been tested on?
	How many mouses did you test it on?
	There must have been nine, or as many as twelve mouses that have tried that.
	It sounds like they did a trial on 22,000 people, a placebo trial on 22,000 people, and then, as is being alleged here, used a different and distinct vaccine.
	Extraordinary allegation there.
	Let us know what you think about that.
	Hey, you can come see me in Plymouth if you're in the UK on the 22nd of September and Wolverhampton on September the 28th.
	Both of those events are to raise money for a couple of treatment centres that I would say I support, that you support, because it's your money actually.
	So if you're interested in coming to those, have a look, come along, it'll be lovely to see you.
	Now, Joe Biden, as you know, went to Maui and claimed that his house fire was in some way comparable to their incredible suffering.
	He's now just told another extraordinary story about his actions on September the 12th that seemed to go beyond hypocrisy.
	So we have a look at the nature of Joe Biden, the truth and war.
	Here's the news.
	No, here's the effing news.
	Here's the fucking news!
	Joe Biden, after consoling Hawaiians with his liar liar house on fire lie, has now tried to claim that on September the 12th he was at ground zero, sticking up for those brave Americans that suffered those assaults and that onslaught.
	When in fact what he was doing on September the 12th was advocating for a war in Iraq that was a complete made-up fiasco lie.
	Liar liar, house on fire, not just the house, maybe the whole world.
	We talked, didn't we, about Joe Biden going off to Hawaii and saying, oh, you know, I know what it's like to have your whole country devastated by fires because there was a time where one room of my house briefly caught fire and gave me the opportunity to potentially get some nice new stuff.
	Wink, wink.
	I almost lost my Chevy 67 and my cat.
	He scoffed to the devastated people of Maui.
	I almost lost my wife, my 67 Corvette and my cat.
	Well now Joe Biden has claimed that on September the 12th he was one of the almost the first responder almost rushing up the stairwells of the North Tower when in fact after the horrific attacks of September the 11th what Joe Biden was actually doing was advocating for attacks on Iraq which retrospectively were a waste of time and made things a hell of a lot worse.
	Hell like him.
	I join you on this solemn day to tell some little old lies.
	To renew our sacred vow.
	Never forget.
	Never forget.
	It's a bit rich coming from you, mate.
	I don't think you're going to get to the end of this sentence, are you?
	Never forget.
	Never fulfill.
	Never lapped up to the... Wait, what was I saying?
	We never forget.
	Joe Biden's catchphrase should not be never forget.
	Joe Biden's catchphrase would be, I do sometimes forget.
	Each of us, each of those precious lives stolen too soon when evil attacked.
	That rhetoric is much too similar to the George W. Bush rhetoric that at that time was condemned by the neoliberal establishment for being too simplistic and reductive.
	Evil, all that kind of stuff, you know?
	Like, aren't we ready for a different type of perspective?
	New is this person offering when it comes to international diplomacy, geopolitics, new world solutions, organizing democracy differently.
	It was evil.
	Of course, the bombing of the Twin Towers was evil, but there's no review of what took place after those events.
	Whether the subsequent war was illegal, immoral and wrong and how that pertains to current conflicts, they can't give you that because essentially the same administration or the same sets of interests are still governing America right now.
	Joe Biden, who's about to claim that he spent September the 12th clearing up rubble, was actually advocating for the invasion of Iraq on September the 12th.
	So ultimately what you're able to witness is in spite of the fluctuations and the mad static that takes place in the mainstream, the kind of political figures that are offered up to you as leaders will continue with the war machine.
	Except, let us know in the comments if anyone's outside of that, you crazy kids.
	Brownsville, New York.
	I remember standing there the next day and looking at the building.
	I felt like I was looking through the gates of hell.
	It looked so devastating.
	That's such a mad thing to say, if it's not true.
	I was, like, looking through the gates of hell at the devastation.
	Were you even there?
	No, I was actually advocating for creating more war and mayhem in Iraq.
	Because the way you could... From where you could stand.
	What?
	You could see all that from Washington, where you were advocating for invading Iraq?
	Yeah, I got really good eyes.
	I did then.
	And plus, I never forget.
	I never, ever forgo Bojo.
	Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
	The Pentagon in Virginia.
	I spent many 9-11s in those hallowed grounds to bear witness and remember those we lost.
	Every day, but especially the last few days, their memory has been with me.
	In a speech in Anchorage, Alaska on Monday to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, President Joe Biden told service members, first responders and their families that he visited Ground Zero the day after September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans.
	Ground Zero in New York, he remarked, I remember standing there the next day and looking at the building.
	I felt like I was looking through the gates of hell.
	It looked so devastating from where you could stand.
	I suppose what their defence would be is that, oh, he was there a few days later or a week later or whatever it is.
	But in a sense, what you have is just a series of events where Joe Biden has offered up anecdotes about how he was approximate to suffering a disaster, where in one case there was a small fire and in the next case it's a big liar because he was actually exacerbating that situation by advocating for further war.
	Despite what he said, Joe Biden, who was then chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, did not visit Ground Zero on September 12th, 2001.
	He was in Washington that day, participating in a Senate session to consider a joint resolution condemning the attacks, which passed unanimously.
	Bit of a waste of time.
	Should we condemn these attacks?
	Yes, they were bad.
	They were bad.
	Another great day's work in the Senate.
	Okay, so where was Joe Biden on September 12th?
	Mr. President, this is a time to mourn, but not to despair.
	A time for resolve, but not remorse.
	A time for sober investigation and no recrimination.
	Instead, Biden appeared on WNET's Charlie Rose via satellite from Washington for a segment discussing the international and congressional response to the attacks, a fact identified yesterday by National Review's Noah Rothman.
	In reality Biden did not visit the site until nine days later on September the 20th as part of a delegation of fellow senators.
	This is not the first time that Biden has been caught embellishing details of his own life experience and similar incidents relating to a 2004 house fire and a supposed arrest while trying to meet Nelson Mandela in South Africa have drawn criticism in recent years.
	Yep, I was going over there to meet Nelson Mandela.
	Got myself arrested.
	Still met Nelson though.
	I remember looking at him thinking, it's like the gates of hell.
	No, wait, that's the other one.
	He did it three times in a single speech last month, falsely claiming to have witnessed a bridge collapse in Pittsburgh in 2022.
	He actually visited the site more than six hours after the collapse.
	Falsely claiming his grandfather had died just days prior to his own birth at the same hospital.
	His paternal grandfather died more than a year prior in another state.
	Died just the day before.
	Same hospital.
	It's a circle of life.
	It was a year before in another hospital.
	Still a circle of life.
	Just a bigger circle.
	Never ever forget.
	And again, repeating a long debunked false story about a supposed conversation with an Amtrak conductor who was deceased at the time the story would have had to take place.
	You know what I was talking to?
	That Amtrak striker, quiet guy, quiet and decaying, slowly, on a mortary slab.
	I liked him.
	Never forget.
	In 2021 and 2022, he falsely claimed to have been arrested during a civil rights protest.
	He had previously said merely that an officer had taken him home from a protest.
	Falsely claimed he used to drive an 18-wheeler, the way I said he once had a job driving a different vehicle, a school bus.
	Falsely claimed to have visited the Pittsburgh synagogue where worshippers were killed in a 2018 mass shooting.
	He had spoken to his rabbi by phone but had not gone.
	Falsely claimed to have visited Iraq and Afghanistan as president, he made repeated visits as a senator and vice president, but not as president.
	In a sense, either dear Joe Biden's a bit of a fibber, or he sort of can't really remember anything.
	And I think both of those challenges, in a sense, are a problem when you consider that he could be president for another Six years.
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	Maybe we could offer them some stickers.
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	Now let's get back to this dreadful, unnecessary, unwinnable war.
	He told a false story involving a late relative and the Purple Heart and falsely described his interactions decades ago with late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.
	No wonder he's so confused all the time.
	He's living simultaneous lives, he's visiting places, people are being born, he's having conversations with dead bodies.
	It's like Forrest Gump really.
	You know, it's funny how you remember some things, but some things you can't.
	So of course those are rather frivolous lies, but it's worth mentioning that one of the main attacks that the Democrat party establishment has towards Donald Trump is that he's a liar, that he doesn't tell the truth all the time, and it just seems that, of course, they will say that Trump's lies are worse or whatever, and loads of you adore Donald Trump, but Plainly, Joe Biden is a person that has his own challenges with the truth, some of which are pretty frivolous and amusing, like some of the ones we just listed.
	But one of his more serious lies is his attempt to distance himself from the events that led to the invasion of Iraq, which was illegal.
	Here's a different perspective on Joe Biden's involvement in that terrible conflict.
	The Iraq war vote is part of the extensive record Biden cites and he has struggled to accurately account for it, repeatedly suggesting he opposed the war and Mr Bush's conduct from the beginning.
	Claims that detailed facts checkers have deemed wrong or misleading.
	Biden didn't just vote for the war, he was a leading democratic voice in its favour and played an important role in persuading the public of its necessity.
	More broadly, laying the groundwork for Bush's invasion.
	So it seems like he was a key instigator, collaborator, supporter.
	Now that it's no longer convenient to acknowledge that role, he claims that he opposed the war.
	I think this becomes relevant because continually comparisons are made between the invasion of Iraq or the two wars with Iraq and the ongoing proxy war now.
	Many people saying that all that's really changed is there's a more refined and deceptive model when it comes to foreign military action.
	The intentions remain the same.
	America is willing to go to war for corporate globalist interests, always claiming it's for humanitarian reasons or for some righteous crusade.
	And Joe Biden, in spite of claiming to be on one side of history, quite plainly is on the other.
	As President Bush attempted to sell the US public on the war, Biden became one of the administration's steadfast allies in this cause, backing claims about the supposed threat posed by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and insisting on the necessity of removing him from power.
	Count me in the 90%, Biden said in the weeks after the attack.
	There was total cohesion, he said, between Democrats and Republicans in the challenges ahead.
	There is no daylight between us.
	Wow, that's a pretty significant statement.
	One that supports a growing belief that what you have in America is a kind of war machine that requires continual international conflict in order to sustain itself.
	And then it needs to find new sophistry to justify ongoing wars.
	This is a humanitarian war.
	They've got weapons of mass destruction.
	We're not even in this war.
	What do you want to happen?
	Putin's a criminal.
	That machine has to be maintained at all costs.
	And it seems that Joe Biden, whether it's the Iraq war, Or this current war is very firmly entrenched in that mentality, which is beyond partisan politics because it's very difficult to disrupt or derail that machine.
	That machine is motoring forward and probably will do anything it needs to to prevent its agenda being opposed.
	There's no daylight between the Democrats and Republicans.
	What if you were against that war, which In retrospect, you would have been absolutely right to oppose.
	Many people did oppose it.
	This has nothing to do with Iraq.
	What we invade in Iraq for, they're not involved.
	It's much more to do with other countries.
	I probably still can't even say on YouTube.
	Allegations that there was deep state involvement.
	There's so much to go into here.
	But look at what actually happened.
	No daylight between them.
	Both parties aligned in their agenda towards war.
	You had no choice.
	There's nothing you could have done.
	You can protest.
	You can complain about it.
	What did they also do during that time?
	Increased surveillance.
	Increased censorship through the Patriot Act.
	The Patriot Act for you patriots out there.
	Which gave them the further ability to control you that has led to very little successful action or preventative measures against terror.
	Do you see how crises are used in order to create more authority and more ability for centralised authority to control the population?
	Whether it's through big tech, whether it's through military action, whether it's through more surveillance, whether it's through an ability to lock you in your home.
	Whatever crisis comes about, and I'm not saying the crises aren't real, 9-11 really happened, plainly.
	Coronavirus really happened, plainly.
	Wars, plainly really happened.
	But what is the response?
	And what is the intention of the response?
	Is it humanitarian or is it profit and dominion and a unipolar agenda that seems to be being pursued aggressively to this day with Joe Biden involved then as he was now and still lying about it, sometimes admittedly quite humorously.
	The Iraq war has generally been seen as one of the worst US foreign policy blunders in decades.
	It fueled the spread of terrorism and destabilized the Middle East and parts of North Africa.
	ISIL is a direct outgrowth of al-Qaeda in Iraq that grew out of our invasion.
	No, it's President Obama.
	We did a story about his involvement in American foreign policy, you should have a look at that as well.
	More than 4,500 US soldiers and nearly as many US military contractors lost their lives.
	Tens and thousands were wounded, with hundreds of thousands more suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
	Estimates of Iraqi deaths run as high as 1 million.
	Bear those ideas in mind when you hear with regard to the current conflict that America is supporting that America are getting their money's worth because Ukrainians are dying for just 3% of the American military budget.
	All that's happening is this war machine is able to amend and adjust in order to continue.
	It seems that many policies that are presented as ideological shifts, as progress, are actually just ways of masking the same monolithic power, thrusting through history, profiting the powerful, ignoring ordinary people, dividing us through rhetoric, and claiming that it's a humanitarian enterprise.
	At the very least, Biden should explain why he played such a major role in winning the authorisation from Congress for President Bush to wage this disastrous war.
	So it appears that Joe Biden has always, throughout his career, been engaged in the politics of war, making war seem necessary, humane, a response to an egregious terror attack, Necessary support in a humanitarian conflict against a wild, tyrannical aggressor.
	Joe Biden appears to be advocating for something other than the American people.
	And if you ask me, something other than the truth.
	And whether or not these sort of casual, anecdotal indiscrepancies are significant or not is for you to decide for yourself.
	Perhaps it isn't that significant, but what it is an indicator of is that you have a government that does not advocate for you, that does not represent you, That has an agenda that is way beyond anything that might interest or improve your life.
	Big Pharma bill coming through.
	Not really, it won't affect Big Pharma.
	War coming through that you're paying for.
	Massive disaster in Hawaii.
	Irrelevant packages of aid.
	Ultimately, when it comes to the important issues, there's no daylight at all between the Republicans and the Democrats because they are both living in darkness.
	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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	No, he's the fucking news!
	War as an economic model.
	A president that casually lies while his chief opponent is persecuted and pursued.
	In many instances because he's declared to be a liar.
	What an extraordinary world we live in.
	Thankfully football's not like that.
	Football is nice.
	Football is nice.
	And football remains nice even when there's a break in the EPL, which is what I primarily follow.
	Gareth, of course, likes a championship because that's where Hull City find themselves and may yet remain.
	We've had some fantastic football stories going on this week.
	Firstly, Messi still might get Ballon d'Or in spite of the fact that he's playing in America.
	Amazing.
	Has that ever happened before?
	No, it won't have done, surely.
	It would have been only people playing in major European leagues, I would have thought, wouldn't it?
	And it's usually Lionel Messi.
	Where's Lionel Messi play?
	Well he's the best.
	Give it to him.
	That's really interesting story we're looking at.
	We're also going to be looking at that YouTube football match.
	I saw it and I couldn't make visual sense of it and I actually couldn't identify the stadium even though it's the home ground of the team that I support, West Ham United.
	It was just so sort of It's sort of jarring and startling to see the Sidemen there, YouTube Sensations, playing a YouTube all-star team to raise money for various good causes.
	I couldn't like get my because whenever you see like a charity match of any description,
	even though it's quite high profile ex pros, or even current pros, you know, like in some
	sort of friendly context, the crowd looks different and is often not for this thing
	was like they've just invented a new sport. I mean, I suppose this is off the back of
	those kind of Logan Paul boxing matches is it's now the criteria of excellence is no
	longer required. And this is not criticism is a charity raising the endeavor and I'm
	not gonna be some sort of Oh, sticking the mud as I mentioned, be allowed to that, of
	course, they should be allowed to do whatever they want. I'm just looking at the idea of
	merit. Yeah, no.
	Or excellence at least, no longer being a kind of a precondition.
	Because I suppose sport comes from things like the Olympics, where it's literally about excellence.
	These are the very fittest, finest.
	But now it's about something else.
	It's become about something else.
	These new models, I think it's interesting, isn't it?
	I mean, we've talked about Sound of Freedom before and the way in which Sound of Freedom came to what, make more money than Indiana Jones at the box office?
	Sure, I think.
	And maybe even Mission Impossible.
	Incredible, really.
	And that is like a new model of raising capital and a new model of advertising, all those kind of things.
	And it's the same for these guys.
	I mean, obviously, amazing what Logan Paul and his brother have done.
	But this was astonishing.
	I watched it and the production value was incredible.
	It was like watching a Champions League game, not even a Premier League game.
	They pulled out all the stops.
	It was really amazing.
	There's so much wealth and revenue in a sense I think these people are remarkable vanguard entertainers particularly I mean I suppose the ones I've heard of like Mr. Beast and KSI there.
	It was so mad to see Mr. Beast actually because obviously it's in England and he wasn't as anywhere near as prominent as you would think he would because obviously Mr. Beast in YouTube world is he is Mr. YouTube isn't he?
	astonishingly massive on there. In this game, he was just one of the many, many players.
	It was like, oh, there is. Did you know many of them were?
	I knew I knew a few. And I mean, I know the sidemen, but I didn't know everyone. How do you
	equate a phenomena like this or not equate contrast and compare this phenomena with the
	sort of appearing this the appearing changes in the kind of upper echelons of say for example
	Hollywood like sort of Now the most major Hollywood stars, is it someone like Timothee Chalamet?
	If you think in the 80s or 90s, it's like, Arnie!
	Bruce Willis!
	Demi Moore!
	These are what stars are.
	As media diversifies and changes, these people are more famous than any movie star.
	Certainly to a certain generation they are. Yeah, and like other than KSI and Mr. Beast, I mean them other four lads
	I don't know if they're English. I don't know like where they're from. They're a mixture. Yeah amazing
	I was supposed to some of them are YouTube all-stars and some of them are like from Sidemen like I've allowed like I
	mean, it's Extraordinary the way that technology orders the world is
	Have we got any of it?
	Have we got any live footage of it?
	I saw a little bit of it and like you say, it just shows that the standard of the game is less relevant.
	Someone's getting a yellow card.
	Let's have a look at this little bit.
	This is meta modernity, right?
	Because now, like, it's something that I think all of us think about with sport, is that we have to enter into a consensus to enjoy it.
	Like, if you were watching it from a sort of, what do I want to say, a kind of truly objective perspective, we would simply pick the ball up and run it into the net, or, you know, like this.
	And, like, to see that kind of odd metamodern moment where someone gives a card to the referee, also to see... That's Max Fosch, I think, that was.
	We ran for London Mayor, didn't we, last year?
	There's an interesting concept.
	Max Fosch there, giving a card back to the referee and the referee sort of gamely recognising that his authority is subverted.
	I'm going to offer you now that this is sort of a cultural artefact that demonstrates a changing and shifting paradigm.
	Firstly, there's a new set of stars, YouTube all-stars and sidemen. Football no longer
	needs to be based on, as long as you said earlier, if the ephemera is still there, like the
	car bringing out the ball and the full crowd and all that stuff, it sort of seems as
	spectacular as anything else.
	It's almost like some kind of mass pornographisation could take place where you could just go,
	let's get celebrities, you know like something that used to be like an MTV show, like MTV
	Celebrity Deathmatch or whatever.
	You sort of could have that now.
	You could sort of have that.
	There's something sort of, like this, I'm not saying it's nihilistic, I think it's like a news context.
	Yeah.
	I mean, what's amazing is what you were saying before about these guys are, you know, bigger than movie stars now.
	And I think to is definitely to a certain audience they are.
	Imagine if you'd had a movie when we were young, where you could literally get 40 of your favorite movie stars and put them all in one movie.
	I mean, that's essentially what's happening is people are going to watch this and filling stadiums because they're seeing all their favorite YouTube stars in one place.
	It must be.
	and doing something that must feel a bit exciting as well.
	It must be bloody brilliant.
	My kids watch someone called Salish and Jordan.
	Jordan is a dad who makes their shows and Salish is this young kid
	and it's just her getting on with stuff.
	It's pretty amazing the way they, even things the way they,
	the product placements, the graphics, everything is so sort of slick, so much faster.
	It's like the evolution from say radio to television is plainly sensually different.
	You sort of think, okay, well obviously that's going to outdate, outmode and outstrip its predecessor.
	But this is still like, you're looking at stuff But it has a different mentality to it.
	It has a different vibe.
	It has something about it, the speed that it moves at, the casualness.
	Like, other stuff seems stilted and odd, and like it's not moving at the right pace.
	Like, when you watch something else, it seems like it's too full of artifice and lacking in authenticity.
	Like, and there is something, there is something philosophically happening when, like, give the car back, and it's sort of like mucking around and that.
	Yeah.
	Jizz all over this sort of thing that's only, you know, it's a bit of fun.
	But I'm just saying... No, I agree with you.
	You're melting something.
	I think you're right.
	There was like moments where KSI was getting interviewed.
	He was in goal because obviously, like, he's, I think, preparing for a fight.
	And so, like, they didn't want him to, like, you know, get injured or anything.
	So he was in goal.
	And, like, every so often, the kid who was doing the interviews would interview him just next to him.
	In the game?
	During the game.
	Why not?
	There you go.
	And I was watching it thinking exactly that.
	And these are the things that obviously football will evolve and in a way they're ahead of the curve.
	They're creating new formats that almost inevitably you would think football will embrace at some point.
	Mr Beast, what I've always thought about him is he's someone that just sort of goes, yeah, that'd be good.
	I mean I'm not diminishing his obvious incredible set of skills and industry that's gone into it but he thinks in like a producer like would have done in TV 20 years ago like I think like Chris Evans definitely British TV personality like and now you have the possibility that football will be kind of forced to go oh my god people like that because I always I always thought it would be driven, and I suppose it will,
	by finance and commerce.
	When they do things like introducing VAR, I'm like, oh, that's going to...
	I always thought they'll put adverts on while decisions are being made.
	That's how it will be leveraged.
	But now it seems like it might somehow be influenced culturally, rather...
	And I suppose culture and finance, perhaps to a degree, they're indistinguishable and
	can't be separated.
	But that's mad.
	And now, like, because, yeah, why not, instead of, like, you know, when you go a yellow card or sending off, like, we're gonna release a tiger onto the pitch, you know, oh yeah, cool!
	You know, like, when you, so, because the world is sort of, I can't, in a sense, I think it's sort of beautiful because it's evolution, but in another sense I do think it's end times indicators.
	Like when you see Messi's bodyguard running down the pitch at the side of it, it shows you that it's changed.
	It's changed and you're the person that sort of always observed that football's robustness,
	its power, like something great like Shakespeare, can withstand messing with it.
	It's so sort of powerful that as you said, you can put it in Qatar, you can do all these
	things and you're still like, oh my God, it's amazing.
	I wasn't even wrong putting it in Qatar, but you perhaps were aware of the controversy
	and stuff that went on at that time.
	And now it's like, oh my God, you ain't seen nothing yet.
	It's really interesting because you go, how powerful is this game?
	And maybe all games, maybe all sport, but I was watching this and obviously the level
	of quality is way below professional football match.
	But then also there's a range of quality within the players.
	There's this one lad called Manny, he was actually really good.
	And so when he scores a really good goal, you're like, oh my God, he's so good.
	You're like, oh, that's brilliant!
	And so you've adjusted your levels of expectation.
	So you're now watching something when a moment of quality pops up.
	It is entertaining.
	You actually felt excitement.
	You actually felt, oh, pretty well done, mate.
	Yeah, I suppose you would.
	Like if you start watching a game at a park or something like that, you can sort of, oh, I'm into this now.
	You know what we need to do, don't you?
	Rumble All-Stars.
	We need... Rumble All-Stars.
	Yes.
	I'm not comfortable playing football at a level that has stars.
	But you know, it's all the Americans.
	They're not going to be able to play football, Ross.
	You'll finally, finally be the best player on the pitch.
	Can we play just against American children?
	If we play against American children... I'm not sure, actually, that's because they play a lot of soccer, don't they, in America?
	The kids play soccer.
	They'll be good if you're right.
	It's the adults that you want to play.
	It's the crowds.
	The elderly, the vulnerable.
	Bring us your sick.
	That's what it is.
	It's the message at the bottom of Statue of Liberty.
	Bring us your dispossessed, your ravaged, your poor, your sick, your broken, with bunions, ingrowing toenails, drunk, falling over, and play the Rumble All-Stars.
	We want to play Glenn Greenwald.
	For the Football of the Year, Glenn.
	That's alright.
	I'm up for that.
	And perhaps a couple of his dogs.
	Versus us.
	Sure.
	And our dog.
	Let's do it.
	Also, over in the world of ephemera culture around football, Posta Koglu, Spurs' new beloved manager, had a song sung about him.
	First by their fans, then by Robbie, but now we commented on it and look, the Spurs fans that wrote it They like it.
	They like us talking about it.
	I never saw that.
	That's cool.
	They are thanking us for commenting on what Because We So Said, who come up with it.
	Yeah, we liked it.
	We like the lyrics.
	Christian Gross, we were very into that.
	Yeah, you pointed out that it was a sort of a third and a button and all that kind of stuff.
	That's pretty good.
	Let's see what's going on with Saudi... Radically shifting away to politically neutral areas of the game.
	Let's see what... Is that all Saudi Arabia?
	Look at the Saudi Arabia all-stars.
	Could they beat the Sidemen?
	I mean, look at them.
	I heard the guest of Football is Nice and friend Simon Jordan say he could give you an argument for why each and every one of them in one way or another is sort of past it.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, he did sort of say that, more or less.
	Really?
	I hope I'm not oversimplifying it.
	But, I mean, that's a... I don't think that's true in all cases.
	Go on, who would you say?
	There was that Kesi, who's left Barcelona.
	I was looking at some of the ages of some of them, and I think Kesi's, like, 26?
	Like, some of them are mid-twenties and have come from teams like Lazio or Barcelona.
	I don't think he just meant aged.
	Okay.
	I reckon he said, let's say for example, Sam Maximan.
	Brilliant footballer, probably not 30, but look at what's going on at Newcastle.
	Newcastle are sort of transitioning into a better side.
	And look at Riyad Mahrez.
	I think they want more Arabic and Muslim players, isn't it?
	That's why the prize to get is Mo Salah, isn't it?
	I think it's a good point.
	Is Karim Benzema?
	I think he's Muslim.
	I don't know if I'm getting into the religion of it, I just suppose it's culturally, it gives it some sort of weight in Saudi Arabia to have.
	But I think you can probably also form an argument for why none of them were kind of elite players at the top of their game necessarily.
	Yeah, it's not like Haaland.
	Exactly.
	And that's why Salah wouldn't have, it would have been an anomaly to an extent.
	To an extent.
	Yeah.
	Maybe this is just our kind of, what do you want to call it, Occidentalism.
	just our sort of perspective is like anyone that, cause I used to think that when say David Platt or Gaza
	or Mark Hughes, Lineker, when English or British players went from our league to Spain or Italy,
	I thought they've gone somewhere better.
	That was the sort of assumption, wasn't it?
	And that goes, when we were growing up, Italy, the Italian league, still the Italian national team,
	but the Italian league was better than the Premier League, Spanish league better.
	And then it was us probably, wasn't it?
	Maybe you'd say like, yeah, yeah.
	We were sort of generally better than German and French, but like we regarded them,
	like cause of teams like AC Milan with like the right cards and all of that.
	And I think there is a distinction between the players that have gone to Saudi and, for example, Jude Bellinum going to Real Madrid.
	Jude Bellinum is someone who is, you know, peak, peak within his career at the moment.
	His age, his abilities, what he's doing at Madrid.
	I mean, he is on fire at Madrid.
	Yeah, he's only got five or something.
	He's absolutely started the season incredibly and so, you know, luckily Jude Bellingham's gone to an established footballing, I don't know, nation and team.
	It's difficult, isn't it?
	It's difficult.
	I don't want to kind of sound dismissive.
	The conversation is interesting.
	Firstly, here are things that are definitely Occidentalism and just a lack of familiarity.
	I'm not yet sure what all of the different teams are, but that is now enough.
	If you saw a match between the one that Ronaldo's in and the one that Neymar's in, you're like, I'm going to watch that.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	So, sort of interesting enough spectacle now.
	What our man Jordan said is that there's a point where if they want to, for example,
	participate in the Champions League, which isn't impossible on this, you know, there's
	no reason why it has to be Europe because Turkey isn't so conventionally Europe.
	And again, you know what, you end up having quite important cultural conversations because
	when you're talking about Europe, sometimes what you're talking about, are you talking
	about whiteness?
	Are you talking about Christianity?
	What are you actually talking about?
	When you say Europe, I mean, I know it's a recognized continent, but it's extraordinary
	from what you talk about when you say Western, because sometimes when you say Western, you
	mean Australia and like, which is not in the West.
	And you've got, oh, right.
	What I mean is sort of North European derived white pro post-colonial.
	I mean, it's a bit of a mouthful.
	So like, I can see why you would say Western, but like, yeah, it's reached a religious...
	Well, anyway, they'd find a way if the Champions League needed to be rebranded to include Saudi
	Arabia.
	They would.
	would be subject to financial fair play.
	And in the end, true globalism, i.e.
	because no one's gonna go there, presumably, when they could be in Paris or Barcelona.
	But then again, you have to start asking questions of yourself, don't you?
	That's what I think started to happen around Qatar.
	Like, it's an odd consequence of globalism and that you now start to have to look at
	how you culturally categorize things.
	And in the end, true globalism, i.e. we have a perspective of the world,
	ought mean no slavery, no little children going down mines.
	A true understanding of a kind of parity and equality of the world's people.
	Fairness.
	The world will not be able to accommodate the presumed ideology because there's still too much mass exploitation, corruption, monetization.
	In a way, I like it as a circus because I enjoy spectacles.
	We all do, don't we?
	Yeah, it is.
	And it raises some very interesting conversations at the moment, this situation with Saudi Arabia.
	Yeah, because it's not all just... Because my first reaction is, they shouldn't be allowed to do that!
	And that's sort of when you examine it, you'd be like, well, why not?
	Why the hell not?
	Hey, you know the Ballon d'Or is probably going to be won by Messi, but Julian Alvarez of City, is he being nominated this year?
	The nomination's out for it.
	Has Harlan been nominated?
	I'm not sure.
	Because apparently he's in some Awakened Wonderpants, or something that looks similar to Awakened Wonderpants.
	These are the nominees.
	Barella, Bellingham, Benzema, Dick.
	That's a long shortlist, isn't it?
	It's a long list.
	It's too long.
	I can't even actually conceptualise it.
	And it doesn't have enough... Hold on a minute.
	Break that down.
	How many people were playing in... You know, it's not... That's probably not English Premier League dominated, is it?
	Anymore.
	You know, there's a lot of, like, I would say, what's the biggest single nation represented there, I wonder?
	Would you be confident that it's the UK, at a glance?
	Salah, Saka, Rodri, Erdogan.
	It'll be between Spain and England.
	Yeah.
	I would suggest.
	Haaland.
	But then also, the two English people are abroad.
	They are now, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's cool.
	Let's have a look then.
	Let's have a look at Alvarez in some Awaken Wonder pants.
	Let's see if that's true, because you could become an Awaken Wonder at any time.
	Click the red button, like Julian Alvarez almost certainly has not, and it is likely a visual error.
	Let's have a look.
	I'm on a boat!
	Woo!
	Woo!
	Woo-hoo!
	I'm here!
	Woo!
	Why did he...
	I actually am astonished by that.
	Bye.
	I've never seen that.
	Taking the shirt off is such an accepted piece of conduct.
	To see someone like that actually, I was a bit overwhelmed by that.
	No, I noticed the shift in your facial expression.
	My breathing changed?
	Because when he bent down, that's his bum.
	Do we need to explain for our audio listeners what AwakendWonderPants are the first thousands of you that join our locals AwakendWonderPant community will get these little underpants that look a lot like that with a little badge over where the reproductive organ might be.
	Will they make your bum look as good as that though?
	I don't think so.
	I think what you'll have to do though is become an elite athlete.
	And win everything.
	Because hasn't he won everything now?
	I think he's won it all in the same year.
	Because he's won the Trebleman City.
	And he won the World Cup as well.
	And he won the Copa America with Argentina the year before or something like that.
	I think he's won the most ludicrous amount of trophies.
	That's it.
	There you go.
	He's Alexander the Great.
	He's got no mountains left to climb.
	He's going to have to play against the Sidemen just for something kind of novel to happen to him.
	That's astonishing.
	And he's got a bum like that.
	That's his bum.
	That's his own bum.
	There he is winning a variety of every single trophy with the same just sort of mild contentment.
	No, not really.
	that characterizes someone that's got such a delicious bum.
	Uh, hey, get yourself some new camp grass.
	I got Upton Park seats from you.
	Yes.
	That I sit on.
	Get yourself some Camp Nou Barcelona's legendary stadium grass for 420 euros.
	Do we want some of that?
	No.
	No, we don't want it because it's just grass.
	Can you, you don't care?
	Not, no.
	Not about grass.
	It's grass, isn't it?
	You don't care.
	I like the presentation though.
	It's a nice idea.
	You get it in a little stadium, that would... It's pretty cool.
	I'd go for that.
	I would actually take care of that.
	I would nurture that grass.
	Because it's in that thing, I'd be pretty sad if I looked in there one day and it had gone all brown.
	I'd be like, oh, I've let myself down there.
	I have to use this for something else now.
	What am I going to just... I'm going to put a little mouse in there or something.
	Get a little mouse, do the odd test on it.
	This one's good to go!
	The mouse is still alive!
	The grass... Hold on!
	No, the mouse is dead.
	The grass is dead.
	I'll give it a try.
	It'll be all right.
	Meanwhile, over at the Bernabéu, Real Madrid, the historic opponent, and shall we say enemy?
	I mean, it's fair to say enemy if you consider the Luis Figo match and so many other matters.
	I can't believe I've never been there and I want to go there and I want to dedicate my life to just going to a football stadium.
	I've been.
	When did you go?
	When Beckham was there.
	I saw Madrid win a title on the last day of the season.
	It was great.
	I was right at the top and the atmosphere was amazing.
	Just another day in Spain?
	Yeah, I went for a job, a work job.
	Did you?
	Yeah, I was very lucky.
	It was one of those moments where you're like... Were you working on the job?
	Was it like when you were on one of those sport shows?
	Yeah, I was on a show that there was a competition for someone to win and I went with the winner and this was great.
	Oh my god!
	But now they've updated that stadium.
	Let's have a look at the new Bernabéu because I think it's got like, it can have a lid on it, they can do big television shows in its upper echelons.
	Let's have a look.
	Why does it do that?
	Oh, come on.
	Why does he do that?
	Oh, come on.
	I think he just knows it.
	Actually, he can't be...
	No, what's the point?
	It just looks like a jigsaw at the moment.
	Why are they playing sort of Tetris with the ground for?
	Move that over there.
	Now what?
	They should do that during games.
	No, no you don't.
	Now you're over on the wing.
	The sidemen will probably do that next year.
	We're going to play on the moving bonobo.
	We are the sidemen.
	No, middlemen.
	No, back to the side!
	Oh!
	I'm struggling to deal with this.
	I'm struggling to deal with this.
	struggling to deal with this.
	First there's Alvarez's bum.
	Yes.
	Now this extraordinary universe.
	Right.
	It's mental.
	It is fun doing this.
	That is so expensive, isn't it?
	And they've bought Bellingham.
	Yeah, I know.
	Well, they got him for a bargain price, to be honest.
	Did they?
	80 odd mil for what he's demonstrating.
	And he's got five goals already.
	He's scored the winner in two or three games already.
	What is this guy?
	I know.
	He's fantastic.
	He's gone at the right time.
	Madrid are looking tasty.
	New stadium, cracking young team.
	Benicios, Bellingham, supremacy.
	It's back.
	Real Madrid ascending.
	OK, let's have a look at some predictions.
	What happened last week?
	Oh no.
	Well, we did the same, which for you is a crushing loss.
	Because, oh look, there's nothing of note there, is there?
	No, there isn't, really.
	You'd get the same if you've got a mouse to walk across a chessboard with paint on its feet.
	We're as clever as that.
	You're soaring ahead, very much the Man City of this, and there are some further predictions.
	We've reduced it down.
	Bad Graphics Jack just decided that was happening, and thus it was deemed.
	So Hull, good start to the season.
	You've got to assume they're going to beat Coventry, and I'm going to say It'll be a tough game.
	Playoff finalists last season, Coventry, that'll be a tough game.
	After that string of draws, no.
	3-0.
	Hull.
	Wow.
	Oh, look at that clash of the titans between West Ham and Man City.
	Just one draw.
	I just feel like the colour red is going to sneak to the left-hand side of the screen there.
	I hope not.
	If anyone's going to give City a game at the moment, it's West Ham.
	Because of the robust, sitting deep set pieces.
	Let's see if we can get a one-all draw.
	AC Milan v Newcastle.
	Is this Champions League?
	Yep.
	Group game?
	Cool.
	Yep, Newcastle back in the Champions League.
	I hope they win.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	One nil away.
	Bayern v Man U or 3-1 Bayern, don't you reckon?
	Current form, Bayern, surely.
	So those are my predictions.
	You didn't do your predictions as usual.
	I did!
	Well, while I was talking.
	Oh, this week's.
	I did last week's.
	I know you do.
	You go off and squirrel away and consult AI.
	You consult AI.
	I just take a little bit longer to think about it.
	Well, that's good.
	It's been right last week, didn't it?
	No, you got the same results as me and I'll paint foot the mouse.
	Okay, so there you go.
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