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Jan. 28, 2025 - Stay Free - Russel Brand
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BREAK BREAD EP. 12 - PAUL KINGSNORTH
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All right.
All right.
Paul Kingsnorth's internet ain't working, so he ain't here.
Thanks, man.
But I'm coming because we're going to reschedule with Paul Kingsnorth and we'll just hang out.
Michael L. Ross and Rozelle on Locals and Thought Criminal also on Locals and Sensitive Hearts on Locals and Trish McLeod and A. Rozelle on...
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Is that how we do this?
So currently we're on Rumble actually as well.
Thank you very much.
So whoever you are and wherever you're watching us, we'll be taking communion together, talking a little bit about Scripture, and I'll be actually much more responsible Too responsive to your questions than usual.
Because I've not got the distraction of another human being.
I've got quite a lot of things to update you on.
That trip to DC blew my mind a little bit.
It blew my mind a little bit.
In a number of ways.
Mostly I had some sort of pretty profound spiritual encounters.
I would say the primary one being my inadvertent and synchronous involvement with a charity called Helping...
Oh man, the name of that charity is not a memorable name.
I blame the name of the charity for me not remembering it.
What does that tell you about me psychically?
The charity is called Helping a Hero.
But think about that for a moment, Helping a Hero.
How many ways you could go with that.
You could easily say, is it help a hero or help...
For Heroes.
I think it's Helping a Hero, I think is what it's called.
Someone, could you look it up and sort of post it in the chat?
And I had sort of like a very profound, borderline disturbing encounter with the Absolute there.
Now, Helping a Hero was run by this lady called Meredith.
Tell me when you found it.
Right.
Oh, you saw some of it, did you, sensitive heart?
The chat with veterans.
Here's some of the things that I encountered there.
Here's some of the things I encountered there.
One, these veterans, some of them were like kids.
I don't mean that in a derisory way.
I just mean, this is sort of a cliche in my country.
I don't know if it is in yours.
Like the, you know, oh, the policemen are getting younger.
Like, because as you, like when you're a kid, police seem like these severe...
Adult.
Ah, Helping Hero.
Well done, Michael L. Ross.
Isaac, could we go on that page of Helping Hero and could I see it in my output?
I mean that in all sincerity, could we?
Is it possible or is that not possible?
Thank you.
Like, when you're a kid, police are obviously adults and you get older and you start, policemen start looking younger and football managers start looking younger.
Yeah, we're getting older.
But I'm sure football managers are also getting younger.
I mean, go back and look at, like, you know, think about Vince Lombardi in your first ever Super Bowl.
Like, I feel like he was a guy in a trench coat, looked like Columbo, right?
And, like, look at, like, football managers now in your country.
I see him, I think...
You should be like Justin Bieber.
Some of them have got, like, hats on and those little things for their mouths.
They look like NSYNC. They're not, like, sort of curmudgeonly...
And in my country, I used to wear literal sheepskin coats, football managers, and, like, be smoking a cigar.
This is not even a lie.
I feel like I'm talking about something from another dimension.
They wear a sheepskin coat, smoke a cigar, wear proper...
Tomfoolery jewellery all over their hands.
They'd be called things like Ron Hackinson, Bill Shank.
They were like, hey, oh!
Old!
Old!
And now, like, football managers look like they could all be played by Benjamin Bratt.
Or, like, Benjamin Bratt.
Or...
Who's that other one that's in everything now?
It's called something like Pascal.
Like, he's...
Yeah, I do...
Isaac said that, so...
Pedro Pascal.
Isaac, you want tenterhooks over trying to find that website?
It sounds like it.
Because I felt like, you know when Tom Cruise talks to Simon Pegg in Mission Impossible?
That's the level of intensity it felt like you were operating at.
And now that we've got this curtain, like, I've got a curtain there.
They've put a curtain across this.
Sweep it away if you hate it, Jake.
There's a curtain.
No, I'm not.
I'm trying to concentrate.
I'm seeing my output.
You're in charge of that feed.
Thanks, Jake.
We've got a curtain, right, to stop me being distracted, like blinkers on a shy horse.
But the curtain doesn't go all the way to the ground.
So I'm guessing you've got it off the peg somewhere, like Home Depot, right?
It comes up to, like, you know if you use a public store and it cuts you off at the knee?
Like if you're off to defecate in a public toilet.
It's a very embarrassing and I would say undignified height.
It's like a medical screening.
Yeah, it's like a medical screen.
Like, you know, just the legs.
Yeah, just the legs.
You know, if you're in a medical, like, yeah, that's exactly what it feels like if someone's in a booth in a hospital.
That's undignified, I would say.
It's because it's, well, because why is that curtain there?
Because your pants are down and someone's fiddling with your nuts and maybe butthole.
That's what it's for.
And then think about it when it's in a public toilet as well.
Like, you're defecating.
So, like, it's not like we're going to provide you with the maximum amount of dignity.
It's like, this is, you know, we're just going to put essentially an extended belt.
You want to see that website?
Pull it up, man.
And pull up a page where it sort of tells you what it is, Isaac.
And why am I... Frankly, can I tell you, I've only recently done an event with them.
Why am I not their homepage?
Our mission...
Right, so listen.
To empower our severely wounded heroes injured in the post-9-11 global war on terror.
That's interesting.
By partnering...
With the wounded hero to build a specially adapted home.
Is it called helping a hero?
Yeah, see?
A specially adapted home designed to restore his or her independence.
Empowering wounded heroes one home at a time.
That's good.
That's catchy.
One home at a time is a better name for the organisation, I would argue.
Let's go back to the statement again, Isaac.
Read the next paragraph.
Mission statement.
A non-profit, non-partisan, well...
I tell you what, I mean, you wouldn't go in there screaming Barack Obama four more years, let me tell you that.
It felt like it was sort of like, it felt like, would you say that the military as a concept belongs to Republicans, even though the Democrat MIC is super powerful and they're, you know, like the military-industrial complex, don't care who they work with.
I'm talking about true soldiers, though, and heroes and warriors.
In 2006, provide support for military personnel severely injured in the global war on terror.
That's unbelievable.
Because the global war on terror is a political idea.
That was a choice that was made post-9-11 to invade Iraq and take action in Afghanistan and Syria.
Other countries that had nothing to do with 9-11, as we now know, as we now know as an indefatigable, straight-up, undeniable fact.
So I guess the subtext of even that line in a non-political, by its own definition, website is the people that were critically injured and obviously in some cases killed for, if not nothing, a lie, a lie.
And that's what it felt like there, is that there was an honour and dignity among those veterans that somehow is expressed through the military, because to be a warrior is a bold thing, sort of an almost undeniable and essential level.
But there was also an awareness, a total, not the naivety of 20, 30 years ago, there was a total awareness that those wars were not legit.
It was amazing.
And the people themselves, the men, like I've listed them before, as best as I can remember, Jason and Daniel and Amos and Jake, Isaac, I've been in touch with Amos.
I really want to do some stuff with these guys because I've been profoundly affected by them.
And indeed, the reason I'm talking about it on Break Bread today is because I had an encounter with the Absolute, if I may say it.
Now, that's not my words.
Those are the words of Bruce Lloyd, who's...
My only therapist, but one of my spiritual guides, who when I told him the story of encountering Amos, gave me his diagnosis of what it was.
Now, we've got footage of all this, and I wouldn't mind at some point putting all of this together, because I just arrived at that place, went on stage at the Hyatt Hilton, Washington, D.C., in a conference room in a basement, round table, sparsely populated.
Just went directly onto the stage and started to interact with some of the vets that were present under the stewardship of Meredith, the woman that runs the thing.
In fact, can you find Meredith on the website?
Does she give herself...
Is there a bio on there or any way of identifying her?
Thanks, Isaac.
It was so intense.
And beautiful to meet them because why?
Because the fact that they're in that situation of being at a charity event shows you, doesn't it?
Let me know in the comments that they're not being appropriately cared for by the military organisations that were happy to use their lives and their bodies when it was convenient.
And there's a requirement for charitable support.
And then you meet the men themselves, and there was a woman actually, she was the photographer, and they are so...
I'll tell you what it is when I feel inspired, is when I see someone in this situation, I think that's not how I would be if I was in that situation, to be specific.
If I received significant facial burns and other injuries while in the service of my country, nearly said company again, Or if I lost both my legs in the service of my country and then I wasn't, like, for the rest of my life, put in a mansion and adored by the public and there wasn't a documentary on about me every day at 7pm, I don't think I'd be able to cope.
Well, here are men in exactly that condition and not only are they not sulking, they're like radiant lights of human kindness.
And it makes me realise, In the same way, when I met Jay Bhattacharya and Marty Makari, I felt, oh, it's not like everything's ruined, it's just the correct people aren't in the correct positions.
You know, now Jay Bhattacharya's the head of the NIH, if he's confirmed, and Marty Makari's the head of the FDA. Like, when you see valour and beauty and boldness, like I saw at the Helping a Hero event, it makes me realise that human beings do have the capacities endowed by God that are required, but we don't have systems that bring them to the forefront.
So the reason I was so affected that day is that I saw human beings And I've not read my daily devotionals today because my wife is sick.
A 24-hour bug has passed through our home.
And it took us out one by one.
Bam, bam!
I went down first.
My immunity is like as weak as the southern border.
I give up!
Can't do what you want to do!
Well, I was flayed out, but I didn't vomit once, even though it was a sickness bug.
Do you know why?
Because I totally submitted and surrendered.
I just stopped moving.
So the sickness didn't have nothing to cling to.
When it reached my wife, me getting sick, that's no big deal.
That's a 5% impact.
Hit on the efficacy of our home.
My home can absorb me.
Say if you were bombing my home, if you bomb me out, that's no problem.
It's like you've bombed out one train station.
If you bomb my wife...
That's critical infrastructure.
That's it.
The Pentagon's gone.
The white water.
Whatever's required for the internet not to go down just in one hit.
Bam!
That's our information centre.
That's our domesticity.
That's our childcare.
The whole thing.
So the second 24 hours, the first 24 hours where I'm here, that's fine.
That's just me on my ass watching the TV. Basically what I would have done anyway.
By the time it gets to Laura, oh my God, we are annihilated.
We're on the back.
End of that right now.
We're just coming out of that.
So this morning I'm doing my therapy.
I know I have to get to work.
So I haven't done my devotional readings that I do every day.
Jesus Calling.
So if someone can get Jesus Calling and post it in the chat, I'd really love that.
And if they do do that, guys, can you pull it so I can read it?
And the other devotional reading, and I'm talking to you like Kazo or Mrs. CMS or Fort Criminal or you Captain Crunchybutt or Gene Bartlett, give us some help.
Go find out the reading for today's day.
Is it 27th today?
Is it 27th?
Is it 28th?
Of Streams in the Desert and Jesus Calling.
They're both Christian devotionals.
And post them in the chat, please.
And then, Isaac, could you...
Oh, look at that.
And then pull them.
I will in a second.
Right.
Thanks, Jake.
Right.
Because yesterday's one was amazing.
Because I've not read today's because of critical infrastructure down in my household due to a 24-hour bug.
In fact, I can tell you something kind of usually in my mouth right now.
Ah, and we got it from Jake's family.
And don't think I'm not thinking that the whole way through this.
It's weird, isn't it?
Like, when you get ill, you sort of blame the people that gave you the illness, even though you sort of...
But, like, what about the people I give it to?
I don't want them to blame me.
I'm like, well, it's not my fault.
I got it off Jake.
Right?
But, like, they will go, Russell!
And I don't want them to blame me, so in a way, I should be thinking about the people that gave it to Jake's family, or even the people that gave it to that, or not even seeing any distinction between us, seeing us all as a continuum and outflowing of the glory of God, which is what I felt on that Helping a Hero Day.
I felt the absoluteness instead of the separateness of a life with God.
I'll keep going on.
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