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	Hello there, you awakening wonders.
	Welcome to Stay Free with Russell Brand.
	We're streaming live on Rumble.
	At the moment we're on YouTube and we're on X. Join us wherever you can for one more person's view on a global conflict that's extremely complex and confusing.
	But perhaps there are assets and aspects of it that we can sort of...
	Certainly Tucker Carlson don't think we should get involved.
	You were right, Jake.
	How are you coping over there with reality?
	Life, man.
	Life.
	What do we think about it?
	It's difficult, isn't it?
	Watch us now, Isaac.
	We're in the fortunate position of we've got members of our team.
	We've got a Jewish man.
	We've got ourselves a Jew.
	We've also got Massey, who does a lot of our post-production, vital member of our team, Iranian.
	And Canadian, kind of.
	Iranian, Canadian, he's got an English accent.
	I don't understand him.
	I've been working with him for a while.
	Look at all the people that you've hired.
	Also, if you can have complex gender fluidity, and there are certain days where I can understand that ideological argument where you can say, look, I don't want to be a burn.
	Like me, actually.
	Like when you're a father.
	It was Father's Day yesterday.
	You've got children.
	You've got responsibilities.
	That's it.
	Testosterone, husband, daughters, son.
	You're a man, son.
	Get on with your job.
	Get on with it.
	You know, there are days where I'd like to go, do you know what?
	I'm a pixie like let me I don't want to come up with complex arguments about whether or not militarily it's beneficial to the United States for America to support Israel, what the relationship between Israel and America is, the responsibility of the British because of the carving up of that region, the Balfour Tree.
	I don't know what to do anymore!
	And I don't think anyone else knows either.
	But let us know in the comments and chat if you've got a solution, if you want to tiptoe through these daisies with us.
	Before we get into Israel, Iran, and escalating tensions and the fractures and fissures that's causing in even MAGA spaces, Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson, for example, saying that they don't want American dollars to support Israel's conflict with Iran.
	Before we get into that, let's have a look at the less complex ideas that are emerging out of the United Kingdom, where it becomes clear that whether it's digital ID or eating bugs, the British media are willing to catch...
	Look at that.
	That's in the Guardian.
	Digital ID would be good for Britain.
	And a secret weapon against reform, against patriotism.
	This is TikToker looking at Keir Starmer.
	He's still the leader of the UK, although there's a lot of online stuff going on now, man.
	It may not be long for Keir Starmer.
	Although, over the weekend, I thought...
	I don't want to put out anything negative about anyone anymore.
	I felt this sort of exhaustion with it, Jake.
	I sank down to my knees and felt I can't, even with people that I feel personal grievances against, say whether that's legacy media or British establishment, I can't carry it anymore.
	I can't carry the loathing.
	But let's have a look at this TikToker who seems like he has got time to find ways to be somewhat mean to Keir Starmer.
	Let's have a look.
	Watch this.
	Watch his face, right?
	Watch this.
	This is not fucking right, right?
	Just watch this.
	Watch this.
	Watch.
	The fuck is going on here?
	What the fuck?
	Look at it.
	He is fucking sweating.
	He was at a snort or something of that nature, but look at the fucking state of that.
	For real.
	Look at it.
	I'm in.
	That was my face this morning.
	Right, you won't just take a little breath.
	Seems like a life face.
	Just getting hit with it.
	This is what I feel like.
	And let me know how you feel if you've joined us from Mug Club or if you're joining us from Timcast.
	Ultimately, join us over on Rumble.
	Rumble support us.
	They pay us a damn fine wage.
	They pay us a stipend for our endeavours and our efforts over on Rumble as we continue to speak freely.
	And what I can tell you about Rumble is they supported me and accommodated me when YouTube turned against me, when the British government turned against me, when the legacy media turned against me.
	Let this guy speak freely.
	Do you feel like when you're looking at bombs raining down on Tel Aviv or Jerusalem or Tehran or the rubble in Gaza, do you feel like, I've just got to get my kids to school, man!
	I've just got to earn a living!
	I've just got to pay for my children!
	I've just got to keep grinding!
	Do you sometimes feel that you are not evolved or designed to accommodate geopolitical complexity?
	When I look at scripture and I think of even like a giant of the Old Testament, like David, it's odd to call him a giant given mostly he's a giant slayer really, when I think of like the complexity of his life, being in exile because his son wants to claim the throne or returning to the throne and finding like another one of his sons is turning against him and refusing to honour his preferred inheritor, Solomon, obviously being his preferred.
	I feel like, wow, at least I suppose in those days you were dealing with regional tribal wars and the establishment of nations and an ark where you're carrying God, where God is something you're communicating with.
	God is someone, something that you can conceptualize.
	And territory is something you can understand and fight for, where your enemies and opponents can be understood to be.
	People whose names you know, whose tribal wars date back to a time that at least you can feel the dust and ashes and blood on your own hands and on your own sword.
	Now, how are we meant to conceptualise this, Jake?
	Well, should Iran be allowed to develop nuclear capacity?
	Should France?
	Should England?
	Should America?
	Who's got the right to kill one another?
	Who can answer those questions now?
	John Mearsheimer?
	Jeffrey Sachs?
	Donald Trump?
	The leader of your country?
	Hey, I went on Candice Owens when I was in Nashville.
	And even my own relationships, I'm friends with Dave Rubin and do a podcast with him.
	You know he's a Jewish man.
	He's very pro-Israel.
	I'm friends with Candice Owens.
	She got a podcast.
	She's very, I guess you would have to say anti-Israel, I guess, would be a way of describing her position.
	She has Jewish employees, too.
	So she can't really hate Jews.
	I don't think any of us can really like...
	That's why I was thinking, you know, maybe we should...
	Well, no, not random Iranians, because there's very specific Iranians.
	Massey, who works for us, and a random Jewish man.
	And just go, look, come on, should we work this out?
	Because I don't reckon that we would, left to ourselves, left to our own devices, escalate these conflicts in the casual, faceless, anonymous way that seems to be possible when you're operating under the auspices of giant nations that appear to be puppeted by interests that go beyond all of us.
	Do the people of Israel benefit from the policies of Netanyahu?
	Do the people of Gaza benefit from the ideals of Hamas?
	Do the people of the UK Before we get into that, eat the bugs!
	It's being popularised.
	Eat 'em.
	I don't think that you can have, like, an Ironman athlete that's living on a diet of bugs.
	Let me know what you think, Paul Schrober, Desert X rider, Noel2024.
	I'm talking to all of our friends in the Rumble chat, as well as my beloved friends, ploughing on in locals, even as it becomes evident and clear that Rumble Premium is ultimately the paywall financial goal of this business model.
	I love you, Claude, Jude Psych, What's It to you, all of the locals'members.
	So I'm seeing...
	Rusky73.
	Free Israel.
	Israel took my lunch money.
	The last of the Mohicans was a dirt worshipper Jew.
	I mean, wherever you look, you will eat the bugs.
	Let's have a look at British media normalising eating bugs, which to me seems like, even when you were a fan, say, let's call it a fan of St. Peter and St. Peter's vision, the canopy is being lowered from the heavens.
	And on that canopy, there are reptiles, birds and four-legged beasts.
	There is no one that is unclean.
	Go out to the Gentiles.
	Start converting the Gentiles to the faith.
	Because it was assumed up till then that the only followers of the way, as they called it then, could be circumcised Jews.
	But increasingly we believe it's the heart that's got to be circumcised.
	The heart.
	Circumcise your heart.
	Have a raw, bare heart.
	Although I'm in a room with American men, and I know I'm the only dude in this room with a foreskin.
	Here we go.
	Here we go.
	The flavour is quite light, they're sort of hollow.
	I'd say it tastes a little bit like a very mildly flavoured nut.
	There's nothing revolting about it, no back taste, nothing makes me want to heave.
	In fact, I like a bit of salt on that.
	Richard Madeley, man.
	That dude's been operating in TV spaces for a long time.
	It was one of the thresholds that I crossed over into normal UK domestic fame.
	If you're, like, a European person or a non-US resident or citizen, you go through the threshold of becoming famous in your own country, generally.
	Like, that's a nice little threshold to become UK famous, to appear on UK daytime TV.
	To go through normal, exciting, non-controversial fame before you go into the, ooh, I'm controversial.
	I'm getting my own COVID.
	I'm getting my own me too.
	I'm getting my own everything heaped upon me.
	There was an innocent time where being famous just meant, you know, wow, I'm getting a table at a restaurant.
	Wow, girls are attracted to me, man.
	This is pretty cool.
	I'm talking about decades ago, early fame.
	And Richard Madeley, he's one of the gatekeepers out there.
	And there he is now, just gnawing on the bugs, gnawing on the bugs.
	You can, like, when you've got a little bit of first-person schooling in media spaces, you get to understand how this particular New York Times article or this particular Rolling Stones cover all are e-mails.
	You will eat the bugs.
	You will vote for this war.
	You will carry an ID card.
	In this instance, it's just simply normalising, chowing down on bugs.
	you know when um...
	Don't look at a plague of locusts as a problem, that's a snack.
	Yeah.
	So that would be the snack.
	Right, now this is the dinner, this is minced cricket in a kind of a, well, chilli sauce I think.
	I just don't want to hear minced cricket.
	I don't want to arrive home after a day's graft and toil and hear the phrase minced cricket.
	I don't want to hear that.
	I'll take one as my conscience, like little Pinocchio, but I will not take one as my dinner.
	You will not make me eat those things.
	I feel the saliva in his chica boos.
	I feel the hand of the WEF on my shoulder.
	I feel the global policemen pushing the barrel of their gun into the small of my back.
	And even though we got bigger fish to fry, we ain't got bigger cockroach.
	It's a war.
	Who's going to be involved in this war?
	Do you want your country funding it?
	Do you want your tax dollars funding it?
	What do we do now, baby?
	Let's forget about the bugs.
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	In fact, we'll show you over the course of the week some of the stuff that we made while we were over there in Nashville.
	Interesting, man.
	Like, while sitting ringside at an MMA event, you know, PFL's a much smaller league than UFC.
	And I think that when you enter into the sort of storm of glamour, of brutal glamour around a UFC event where Trump might arrive like Caesar, where you might see Elon Musk, where you'll hear the familiar tones of Joe Rogan, all of that paraphernalia accompanies the excellent brutality in the ring.
	You don't have...
	watching someone crane around to get a better view of some brutality, like sort of the indifference of an attractive woman tapping away on their phone as they kind of work.
	That final fight of the night, there was some excellence on display.
	And it is brilliant to watch warriors practice their craft.
	But when you're watching brutality conducted in front of a crowd that's sort of like drifting around or munching on snacks or shouting drunken, xenophobic phrases, you feel like, at least I feel like, wow, man, we've got to edge back from the violence in us.
	We've got to find some compassion in us.
	This has got to be a season of mercy or it's going to be a season of relentless destruction.
	I don't like it either, Rumble Foreskin, when I get a peanut stuck on my tongue.
	Like, if I get something stuck in my tooth and it's got an antennae on it, it's over for me.
	The apostles were Jews, says the devout.
	No doubt about it.
	There's no doubt about that.
	Let's get into the serious business of war.
	Iran and Israel are involved in a hot war.
	They are bombing each other's sovereign nations.
	there's no nice way of describing it, in the Yemen...
	I guess that's where we live now.
	I guess we're in an age where political leaders come from entertainment backgrounds, whether it's Donald Trump.
	Or Vladimir Zelensky.
	And we now, thanks to technology, thanks to GoPros and easy access and drones, we live in an age where the actual process of bombardment can be streamed live into your home.
	Have a look at this sort of uneasy spectacle of the citizens of Yemen enjoying the retaliatory strikes of Iran on Israel.
	And ask yourself, can either side be right when this is the business of war?
	Make sure you push me through the...
	...
	Games have a spiritual component and a component of brutality.
	Obviously, when it's physical combat like MMA and the UFC or PFL, but even baseball or football or soccer have a conflict component that allow us to catharsis our own deep feelings of...
	Every day I nurse the injuries of my childhood.
	I walk wounded through life.
	And turning sport into sanitized war, or at least observing it as such, is something that I guess we can accommodate.
	But when war becomes emboldened and more punitive and consequential sport...
	Let me know how you feel about war as entertainment.
	I suppose it's a natural evolution as news as entertainment.
	Once we had 24-hour cable news, well, I guess that was a step in that direction.
	Now we have independent news medium.
	Whatever your flavor, there's someone that will support you.
	You could be watching Rachel Maddow right now in Consternation or Joe Scarborough or Brett Byer or Stephen Crowder or me or Sam Cedar, like he's like a left-wing version.
	Or Owen Jones, who does such great reporting on Middle Eastern conflict, and in particular the situation in Gaza.
	There's someone that has your view.
	Maybe you like the Tim Dillon perspective, or Tucker Carlson.
	Tucker Carlson, I reckon, is one of the early and significant voices that travelled from the mainstream into independent media, and holds and heralds a significant audience.
	In our item unpacked, where we offline do a deeper dive into the news of the day, we talked about Tucker Carlson's article.
	That will be posted on the Rumble channels a little later today.
	Here's Tucker Carlson's post, which in a sense, I reckon, captures the sentiment of many Americans and the challenge of trying to be anti-war without being anti-Semite.
	Let's have a look.
	Tucker turns on Trump is how it's been reported by some Xbox News host blasts, complicit president for backing Israel.
	And of course, Alex Jones, who's been a significant figure.
	For a number of years now, whether you figure that's in the conspiratorial or more mainstream, mainline, MAGA space supports Tucker.
	Here he is.
	He's right.
	Trump is aiding and abetting Israel's attempt to trigger total war with Iran.
	Most military experts agree it leads to closing the Strait of Hormuz and all-out war in the Middle East.
	The world's never been closer to thermonuclear war.
	Trump doesn't deny the possibility of American financial and even military support.
	Says it's a possibility.
	Now, many people believe that the key motivation is to impede and prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons.
	The assumption being that Iran are a state or a nation that can't be afforded that capacity or that ability.
	And I reckon that people that know a lot more about this conflict than I do would say that Iran have been backing Hamas and various agitators in this conflict.
	And to view it through the lens of Gaza as a bombed out and genocided region and population is myopic because there are, whether it's Hezbollah or Hamas or the Houthis, there are Iranian-backed interests in that region and war for the last 100 years and maybe always has been fought by proxies, i.e.
	the Ukraine-Russia war is ultimately a NATO-Russia war and perhaps even a United States and Russia war that's having to be navigated and negotiated.
	And many people thought that the election of Trump would mean the seizing of that sublimated dynamic and an explicit conflict that could be explicitly resolved.
	Now we have the complex and In short, a world war.
	A world war.
	A true world war that perhaps won't be conducted in the good old glorious sentimental manner of the Second World War, or even the grinding early industrial terror of the First World War, but in a kind of new capacity that's truly apocalyptic, that's Armageddon.
	At the end of a hand, because, of course, of the facility and utility that we now have.
	Now, Tulsi Gabbard testified not so long ago that she doesn't believe that Iran have nuclear capacity, but the idea of Iran developing nuclear weapons is a trope or narrative that's gone on for a long, long time.
	People have always said, oh, well, we can't let Iran develop nuclear weapons.
	Well, I don't know, man.
	Why not?
	Do you think that there's a point that we get to where people might grab you up by the throat and say, listen, you, imagine it was me, imagine it was you, say, listen, do you know what the real threat is?
	Like if China get in true ascendancy, they will house us all in cells, we'll all be hived off.
	If Russia assume the role of a unipolar population, We're all finished.
	You need to back the United States of America.
	You need to back the United States of America's allies in the Middle East.
	Do you think that that's the real threat here?
	How do you see this playing out?
	Let me know in the comments in chat with emergent potential BRICS, with all Alternative currencies emerging.
	With the dollar potentially tanking.
	With America still, I suppose, in a fragile position.
	What does American debt mean when it comes to American military action?
	What does the various bifurcations, separations, fissures and conflicts across the United States right now?
	I mean, like, last week we were just talking about LA riots.
	Then we were talking about the spat between Elon and Trump.
	Now we're talking about potential war in a nation that seems quite divided, even with MAGA, within MAGA, within a movement that necessarily was somewhat cohesive.
	It was cohesive enough to get Trump elected by a near landslide.
	There are now divisions.
	Sectarianism.
	Let's have a look at first what Tulsi Gabbard said about Iranian capacity.
	Hey, yo, thanks Crowder for the raid.
	And if you're joining us from Mug Club, I hope you're having a good time here.
	If you're watching us on X or YouTube, get over and join us on Rumble.
	It's Rumble that ensures that we're financially, spiritually supported and that we're protected from various nefarious forces that seem less and less important and relevant as we stand on the brink of a holy war.
	What are my problems, man?
	The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khomeini has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.
	The IC continues to monitor closely if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program Jake was your take home from that clip her great streak did it kind of move is Tulsi Gabbard's Superhero grey streak moving across her forehead.
	Is she signalling to us?
	Wow, since I've been in government, I've been captured, I'm being controlled.
	I know Tulsi Gabbard.
	I know her husband.
	I don't know him well.
	I've not seen him since I've been in office, but I like her a lot.
	I think she's a beautiful human being.
	I don't know what happens to people once they're in government.
	and I'm not in a position to understand the complexity, but maybe she's communicating through the follicles of her very scalp.
	Now, this idea that Iran can never be allowed to have nuclear capacity...
	Maybe no one should be allowed to have nuclear capacity.
	That seems like a perfectly reasonable perspective to me.
	Sorry for the belching.
	Let's have a look at this ongoing What about when Iran was, like, sort of democratizing itself and, like, America disrupted its ass and balls that all up for us in the 1970s, man?
	80s.
	80s.
	Iran-Contra.
	This is our good time for...
	He's got a lot of good Jewish followers.
	Let's have a look at this, and then we will do Ask a Jew.
	Only if we've created an asset for it, though.
	Take Iran about 12 months to enrich enough nuclear material for a single nuclear weapon.
	United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken is warning that Iran is potentially just months away or less from nuclear breakpoints.
	Iran is two months away from a nuclear weapon, and it's a victory to get them one year away?
	Iran could be less than a month away from building a nuclear weapon.
	Netanyahu has made two tough-talking TV appearances.
	I'm saying that Iran is just months away from making a nuclear bomb.
	What is important to understand is that you have to dismantle the entire terror empire, and especially before its main practitioners, the terrorist states of Iran and Iraq, acquire nuclear weapons.
	And this, I think, has been a wake-up call from hell.
	It is telling us.
	Okay, we're going to be asking a Jew about this in a matter of moments, but also an Iranian.
	Is Massey on the line?
	Can we get Massey as well?
	Because I'd like to hear what he's saying all the way from Persia.
	One person whose views are always explicit and always consistent are Lindsey Graham.
	Lindsey Graham wants war.
	He wants it bad.
	Game on.
	Pray for Israel, says Lindsey Graham.
	Marjorie Taylor Greene, she's got some, she's essentially in a sort of a wild call, a Tucker position.
	And America first, we don't want to escalate this war.
	If you want to watch our show Unpacked, that's when we record offline deep dives into a news item.
	But Tucker Carlson essentially has come out and said, America should not be involved in this war in any way at all.
	Like if Israel want to have a war with Iran, then American taxpayers shouldn't fund it.
	Let me know what you guys think.
	Here's Thomas Massey on the subject.
	Thomas Massey, he's been pretty consistent.
	Israel don't need US taxpayer monies for defensive.
	It already has enough to start offensive wars.
	I vote not to...
	Here's Rand Paul.
	I mean, this is an alliance of people that over the last few years, and I'm talking primarily about matters relating to COVID, where I've come to think, I can rely on this dude.
	Like Thomas Massey, Rand Paul, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
	I met her at the RSC.
	She blew my mind.
	She was like, I think people like that should be in politics.
	People that are just like, yeah, come on, man.
	She's like a yeehaw truck driving politician.
	She'll come on the show.
	Good.
	Get it right up.
	I like them.
	The Ameri...
	Let's just read this, I kind of like him.
	The American people overwhelmingly oppose our endless wars, and they voted that way when they voted for Trump.
	Is that a good assessment?
	I urge Trump to stay the course, keep putting America first, and not to join in any war between other countries.
	Every American should hope and pray for peace.
	Excuse me.
	War of Iran is not in America's interest.
	It would destabilise the region, cost countless lives, and drain our resources for generations.
	We should pursue diplomacy, not destruction, engaging in dialogue.
	Thank you.
	I don't know.
	difficult to argue with that, but in a minute we will try to do exactly that with Massey, our Iranian producer and his I don't know why you're being called in to support Israel.
	I mean, you're Jewish.
	I mean, I'm sure that...
	We could get on a whole variety of very vocal Jewish people who demand less aggression from Israel in this conflict.
	Anyway, listen.
	We'll get into all of that in a matter of moments.
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	David Icke, one of the forefathers of the conspiracy movement, you might call him, a free thinker, a radical, ever vocal on these matters, says, look at this, current events in Israel or Iran are the latest step in a calculated global cult sequence that goes back to Trump's first term and beyond.
	It involves Obama, Blair, Boy Bush, as they seek step by step to bring the West against the East in a global conflict.
	This sequence isn't working through right and left, and what's happening now is the latest stage.
	This is what I said in the Renegade film about my life in 2017-18.
	Note how NATO build-up on the Russian border, or how the NATO build-up on the Russian border, contributed to the later Russia-Ukraine war.
	The key trigger is Israel Netanyahu's long-time desperation for war in Iran.
	Here's David Icke right about that.
	Here to represent those views are an Iranian...
	And you, my dear friend Isaac, are, above all else, a Jew.
	Now let's get to the bottom of this situation.
	Firstly, Massey, mate, did you grow up in Iran?
	When did you leave Iran?
	He's frozen.
	Oh, that's not him.
	Did he cut out?
	Now, that's interesting.
	The person involved that's in charge of tech is a Jewish person.
	And once again, he's APAC'd him into total silence.
	Massey, bear in mind that the tech is being controlled by an APAC-funded Jew.
	Would you please let me know that you're speaking now and that you've not got, even now, a gun in the small of your back.
	So that audio, he just spoke there, Isaac.
	That didn't come through.
	Oh, there you go.
	There you go.
	So, Matthew, what are you saying?
	You grew up in Iran, is that right?
	Yeah, I was lived in Iran between 83 and 88, so we were mostly in Iran.
	When I look at your eyes, you've got those kind of blue Persian eyes that people sometimes have.
	Now, what kind of affinity do you have with your homeland, mate?
	And what do you feel about, for example, the activity in the 70s and 80s and this continuing escalation?
	I don't know much about the Iran-Israel stuff.
	I obviously know a little bit about the Iranian Revolution.
	Most of my family fled Iran during that time, so most of them are in England now.
	But obviously we've got, like, my uncle Faramaz, he's got friends that died, really close friends.
	He was reading about that stuff in the newspapers, so pretty crazy time to be there.
	But, like, this current thing, I mean, I only found out the other day that I've already had distant relatives that have died due to the Israel bombings.
	Oh, my God.
	So, yeah, I mean, I've put an image in the drive, Isaac, there, of those two that actually died, if you want to bring it up.
	Until it actually affects people that you know.
	And obviously I don't know them, but they're both Radfars and, you know, part of my family.
	Yeah, and it's no longer a TV show.
	People I know, even though, you know, people part of my family, even though I don't know them, have already died in this due to these strikes.
	Yeah, well, I suppose what this space becomes, the online independent media space, Is a vitriolic rhetorical space where it's easy to have strong views, and in fact you're rewarded for having strong views on increasingly vast and insurmountable subjects.
	And there's two things that I'd like to comment on.
	Firstly, when we're just hanging out and running our team, it's kind of irrelevant what people's racial and national identities are.
	And then, on the other hand, suddenly something that becomes like a sport, like you saw that footage out of Yemen, now has to be handled, you know, like, I've been sort of guilty of, I suppose, because my own personal challenges of not...
	in particular, I suppose, Israel and Gaza.
	It just seems like I've got so many friends who are Israeli or Jewish, and I've got so many...
	friends and former colleagues that are deeply invested and infuriated by the ongoing conflicts in that region and the impact on people in Gaza.
	I've sort of, you know, I sort of uncustomarily signed, you know, like...
	But I guess like you, like as an Iranian person who's now got sort of skin in the game and blood on the carpet and you've lost people that you, even if like tangentially, that you are related to, you don't have that privilege anymore.
	In fact, the only thing I've ever been able to say that kind of makes any sense to me is those of us that are not directly affected by it have a kind of responsibility not to sort of leap in.
	What are you saying, Isaac?
	How do you continue to handle even working here with us lording the triumphs of Kanye West or just inquiring into the sort of general impact of Israel's relationship with America on sort of, you know, America First sort of aficionados?
	How do you feel about all of it, mate?
	My main, well, one of the questions I want to give to Ask Massey is what are his thoughts on the regime specifically in Iran right now compared to what was there potentially before, right?
	I think that's a good starting point because I think a lot of what Israel is trying to do in general is to damage the regime enough and obviously civilians are going to die.
	Civilians are dying in Israel.
	You know, my wife's friend's home was completely obliterated by the strike in Tel Aviv last night.
	And they were in the bunker, you know, so thank God they were, you know, they were all right.
	But they have a newborn.
	They could have been just as easily killed if they weren't in their bunker.
	So I think that Israel is really just trying to instill enough damage onto the Ayatollah regime to allow for the people to kind of rise up and take over their country back.
	Like you said, it was democratically, you know, it was very Western prior to the regime change that was Jimmy Carter's doing.
	You know, I don't really think he was a great president.
	I think he did a lot of damage, you know, across the world and to our country.
	So, you know, I think that's a good starting point, right, is like kind of going over the regime itself and seeing, you know, is that something that's going to happen?
	Of course.
	So we ain't going to do as well as that.
	So why don't we just convey our personal connection?
	Because that's the thing.
	What I feel, Isaac, is we could talk to Mehdi Hussain or we could talk to Owen Jones.
	When it comes to expertise and a granular understanding, there are such articulate people on both sides of this conflict.
	Well, my personal reaction to it is that reaction that, like, I don't see it, you know, you could look at it as an unprompted Israeli aggression onto Iran, but I see it as, you know, they're waving a gun in their face endlessly, kind of saying, hey, you know, if we get a nuke, we will use it against you.
	Like, that's the difference.
	You know, when we talk about should they not have a nuke, who's to say?
	Like, the part of it is, you know, if you're going to flagrantly use it as a threat against another nation, then...
	I see it.
	Massey, can you get back on?
	Is he getting back on?
	Yeah, don't worry about that.
	Let me handle that.
	Right, so listen, here's the, I reckon what a lot of people in this country, in the United States of America believe.
	That's the view that Tucker Carlson has articulated in his article and in a sort of pretty succinct post.
	Here's Tim Dillon commenting on a British political figure up until recently and maybe even now the leader of the opposition talking about how this is a proxy war already.
	Have a look.
	It's interesting.
	Israel is fighting a proxy war on behalf of the UK just like Ukraine is on behalf of Western Europe against Russia.
	We have to.
	Stop it right there.
	Israel is fighting a proxy war on behalf of the United Kingdom?
	Is that the most insane thing anyone's ever heard?
	Are people right now in the United Kingdom, is their biggest problem Iran?
	What is this woman speaking of?
	What is she talking about?
	What is anyone talking about?
	Is Iran the reason that no one can afford a house?
	Is Iran the reason that There's fentanyl everywhere.
	Is Iran the reason that we've got political corruption?
	Is Russia the reason?
	Is Iran the reason that we have 12 people that own everything in this country?
	Is Iran the reason that we have an epidemic of poison food that's killing people and children?
	Is Iran the reason for any of this?
	Is Iran the reason that corporations in America just pillage and leave the trail of death and destruction in their wake?
	Is Iran the reason we have no healthcare?
	I mean, this is the most insane thing I've ever heard.
	She's saying Iran's the enemy of the UK because people pop off.
	The mullahs in Iran talk a lot of shit.
	What are they doing?
	Did Iran attack the UK?
	Did Iran attack the United States of America?
	Am I complete?
	Is Russia attacking the United Kingdom or the United States of America?
	Am I wrong?
	But when she says, just get her out of here, but when she says, we are there fighting a proxy war on behalf of us, and that that's what the Ukraine is doing for Russia, it's on behalf of us.
	Number one, it's very dangerous to say, because number one, there's a lot of people in this country that are not trying to get in a war with Russia.
	I mean, we're not trying to do that.
	I don't want to be in a war with Russia.
	So, this framing of the issue that I just don't agree with, that you're in a proxy where your own society is collapsing.
	Your own society is declining perpetually, year after year.
	Annually, things get worse.
	People are fleeing.
	Yeah, Tim Dillon there.
	I think I'm going to go on his show soon.
	I think he might be coming on this one.
	We're working that stuff out because I suppose now in an increasingly divided America, is there a strong enough mandate to continue to pursue various wars that were pretty defining in the last election?
	Seems like...
	Listen, we're going to be back in a minute.
	We're going to be talking about some of the other, until very recently, significant news issues that were defining this space.
	We were talking about the LA riots.
	We were talking about the murder of a couple of lawmakers.
	I mean, the world is moving so quickly.
	If I don't have a taste of eternity, if I don't have some resource that goes beyond this ever-shifting, fluctuating madness of our online space, I don't know what we're going to cling on to.
	Let's have a quick message from one of our partners, and then we'll be back.
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	An apocalypse that none of us want nor need either.
	Spore about at the behest of people that seem to live in an inaccessible.
	You know, like, if you were just to step outside your house right now, look around for a moment, it's just people like you and I. It's extraordinary, isn't it?
	Here's a...
	Should we look at Jeffrey Sachs on this?
	Here's the insights of someone who's covering these issues from the not...
	It's Jeffrey Sachs.
	War with Iran will be World War III.
	Iran is not alone, and it will not remain alone.
	With Russia, we are at a possibility of peace, but we're also at a possibility of nuclear war.
	They're both very close.
	And if we go to war with Iran...
	Do you think that the people pushing us toward war with Iran understand that?
	No, I think that they're following a plan, clean break 1996, and a plan 1991, seven wars in five years.
	That has been deep-set and that has been Netanyahu's baby all the time.
	Netanyahu I regard as one of the most delusional and dangerous people on the planet.
	He has engaged the United States so far in six disastrous wars and he's aiming to engage us in yet one more.
	We're not standing up for Israel.
	We are engaging in war on Israel's behalf all over the Middle East.
	That's a completely different thing.
	Nothing that has happened in the Middle East has been for American national security.
	Okay, there you go.
	Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.
	A lot of positive perspectives on Jeffrey Sachs because he's been pretty reliable throughout this late, whether it's been Russia, Ukraine, or these new potential emerging conflicts.
	Let's now have a look at events in California, because prior to this weekend, most of us were concerned about the potential of civil war in the United States of America.
	Here's Mel Gibson talking about Karen Bass.
	And then we're going to have a look at Trump's military parade.
	Does that play into the hands of Trump's critics and detractors that believe that he wants to bring about a Handmaid's Tale style dystopia?
	Or is it just some patriotism and pride?
	Now as we experience rampant lawlessness and civil unrest, it's never been more clear.
	They're unable to respond effectively and responsibly during calamity.
	Whether it's sheer incompetence or outright malevolence, the reality is stark.
	California's in a state of turmoil, and I ask my fellow Angelenos, why are Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass still in office?
	How much more of their destructive decision-making masquerading as leadership are we going to tolerate?
	It's time to take back our community and our state and put the power and the privilege in the hands of competent leaders whose goals are to protect us and the way of life this nation was founded upon.
	You know, like, I'm watching Braveheart at the moment, so I'm really predisposed towards Mel Gibson and his opinions.
	It's a good voice.
	I mean, I was thinking about the Patriot just now.
	Like, I wanted him to run back into his house, grab his hatchet from underneath his bed, a couple of guns.
	What a legend.
	He's sitting on a lot of energy, Mel Gibson.
	He's someone that you might be able to lean into in a crisis.
	You know, when we went to Mar-a-Lago, he just said, my house is burning down.
	It's like he's on an inferno at all times, particularly when he's discussing an actual one.
	Let me know which of the world's recent action heroes' perspectives you want to hear.
	is Arnold Schwarzenegger, saying he don't blame Trump, but a broader political decline and the uniparty politics that I suppose has even led to the emergence of this space.
	This wouldn't happen if the politicians...
	Think about it.
	What do you mean by that?
	What do you mean by that?
	For decades, almost four decades, we have had a problem where they talked about immigration reform.
	Comprehensive immigration reform.
	But the Democrats and the Republicans, both of the parties, have no interest in solving this problem because they use that to raise money.
	What they do is they just keep pointing the finger at each other, and then they're surprised.
	They've all of a sudden, we are using our middle finger on them, right?
	But I mean, it's all bogus, because I think that we can do better than that.
	Democrats and Republicans, and you know, when I talk about Democrats and Republicans, even though I'm a Republican, I tell you, it is sometimes disappointing.
	I think even just when you look at the symbols of the party, think about that.
	I mean, the Democrats, donkey, Republicans.
	Elephant.
	And a donkey is a jackass.
	And, of course, wherever the big animal goes, lives a pile of dump.
	Right?
	I mean, so the symbols say it all.
	And I just get very frustrated because we send those politicians to Washington to solve the problems in all their eyes.
	Instead of public servants, they are party servants.
	And I think this is really the bad thing about it.
	Our culture is running out of ideas.
	There's going to be radical change real fast.
	It's going to be a giddy ride for the next few months.
	A little bit of pageantry and attempts to reboot patriotism took place over the weekend.
	Trump held that much-voted military parade.
	But I don't know, man.
	I didn't see much of it.
	Apparently, it didn't live up to expectations.
	They're not even in unison.
	That's not a march.
	They're just like walking.
	Everybody's doing their own thing.
	And to give us a glimpse of them and the work that we do and how seriously we're taking.
	Oh, lordy lord, we're in trouble.
	Maybe this is the standard that was being inspired to.
	Let's have a look.
	I mean, if it comes down to synchronicity and parades, North Korea are in with a serious chance as the global holy war begins to unfold.
	Let's have a look at the tanks in the parade.
	The parade tanks.
	Oh, I get it.
	I get it now.
	There are no tanks.
	Let's have a look at this.
	I can't feel it.
	I'm gonna be okay, okay, okay, alright.
	It's about that time.
	I need a sentimental, and I'm gonna be too far.
	Look at my mouth.
	Look at my senior walking in my belly.
	I see this time when I'm about to watch.
	Cause I don't give a word, I get too much.
	I'm gonna get like some more.
	You want to get up, I want to get out.
	Oh, that's all I'm good.
	That's a pretty nihilistic spectacle, but I think this is a comparison between the expectation and the reality of that event.
	Oh, no.
	These could potentially be the end times.
	Well, around this election, it felt like potentially we were in an important and significant moment where new political ideas were emerging from us.
	That the right might provide an anti-establishment perspective that could revivify old values and could potentially help us turn the corner in a real pivotal moment.
	Now though, man, it don't look good.
	It don't look good.
	I'm trying to cast my eye somewhat objectively across Iran, Israel, emergency civil war, execution of people in Congress, my own crazy country.
	Where they're legitimising ID cards for a variety of reasons.
	First it was a pandemic, now it's for migration.
	Pretty concerned about it, let me tell you.
	Do you want to see Soldiers Parade in March?
	Have a look at Trooping the Colour in the UK.
	We do that stuff well.
	We do pageantry well, baby.
	That we're clinging on to.
	All right, listen, before we go, let's have a look at these...
	We begin with breaking news and the manhunt for the suspect wanted in the killing of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband.
	Multiple sources tell ABC News police arrested Vance Bolter near his farm in Minnesota.
	Good evening, I'm Tanya Rivero.
	And I'm Joe Torres.
	Tonight's arrest would bring the two-day manhunt to an end.
	Investigators say Bolter shot.
	And killed beloved Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark early Saturday morning.
	A second lawmaker, State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette, were shot in a separate attack.
	Eyewitness News reporter Lucy Yang is following all the breaking developments.
	Lucy?
	Well, Tanya and Joe, multiple sources are now telling ABC News that Vance Bolter has been arrested near his farm in Green Isle, Minnesota.
	Residents no doubt sleeping easier tonight.
	We're told he was spotted on a trail via a camera and tonight was taken into custody.
	Flowers and condolences outside Minnesota's state capital, while churchgoers an hour away in Sibley County learned the killer may have been way too close for comfort.
	There's a nationwide warrant for his arrest.
	The night of terror began 2 o 'clock Saturday morning in Minnesota.
	Police found State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette shot in their home.
	We understand he was hit nine times, his wife Yvette eight times.
	Amazingly, doctors were able to save them, the state senator now recovering from a collapsed lung.
	90 minutes after the first shooting, officers went to check on another local politician nearby.
	When they arrived at the Hortman residence, we're told there was a car similar to a police cruiser already in the driveway.
	When our officers confronted him, the individual immediately fired upon the officers who exchanged gunfire, and the suspect retreated back into the home.
	Inside the home, authorities discovered the former Speaker of the House, Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark had been assassinated.
	But in our darkest hours, we're reminded of the strength and resilience of community.
	We come together not only to grieve, but to stand strong.
	Inside the mock police cruiser in the driveway, authorities say there was a long hit list of Democrats and abortion providers scribbled in a notebook and a stack of flyers saying no kings.
	The suspect has now been identified as 57-year-old Vance Luther Bolter.
	Authorities report he wore a latex mask on the night of the methodical shootings.
	Bolter worked at a private security firm, Praetorian Guard Security Services in the Twin Cities.
	Which featured police-like protection.
	How bitterly ironic.
	Sunday morning, police found this second car with apparently more evidence tying the vehicle to Bolter, including his hat.
	Authorities also confirmed the family has been questioned, but they are not under arrest.
	This friend, stunned to learn his roommate is now a fugitive.
	He doesn't kill anybody else.
	And I hope he gives.
	More than 100 law enforcement were part of this dragnet.
	Local, county, state, and federal investigators linking arms to find the assassin before any more blood was shed.
	There was a $50,000 reward being offered by the FBI.
	Indeed, an arrest could not come soon enough.
	We're live in the newsroom.
	I'm Lucy Yang for Channel Zine.
	I'm exhausted by it.
	It's only Monday, man.
	Listen, I feel like we're going to wrap it up because I've got a lot more to do.
	I've got a lot more to do.
	I want to talk about what Bobby Kennedy's been doing at the CDC, and I want to have a deeper understanding of what's happening in your country right now before I delve any more deeply into this complex, unfurling and difficult situation.
	Yeah, he's been caught and arrested.
	Yeah, thank God for that.
	Hey, Trish McLeod, don't go yet.
	Yeah, extraordinary.
	Alright, you love, thanks very much for joining us.
	We'll be back tomorrow, not for more of the same, but for more of the different.

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