A World Watching Iran — Pressure, Power, and Consequences - SF669
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We’re back with a new season! Today we reflect on a world sliding deeper into confrontation as Iran faces growing unrest at home and rising pressure from abroad. Images of protest, power, and control collide with warnings of escalation and the sense that something is reaching a breaking point. Technology, ideology, faith, and force all intersect here, raising questions about authority, truth, and what happens when regimes respond to dissent with brutality rather than accountability.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Russell Brand and Jenny Russell, trying to bring real journalism to the American people.
Hello there, you awakening wonders.
Thanks for joining me for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
Good to see you guys.
Welcome to 2026.
Welcome to, I don't know, it's just time, isn't it?
Really?
It's just time.
I'm here with Dave.
All right, Dave.
Hey, how's it going?
Yeah, I feel okay.
What about you, Jake?
I feel great.
On the line, we've got Joe, we've got Massey.
We're going to talk about that Iranian revolution, try and understand that for a bit.
We'll be talking about the death of that lady or murder, depends how you see it.
In fact, we're going to be talking about the divisiveness and try and understand or see or determine whether or not there's a way through it.
Let us know in the comments and chat what you want to talk about, though.
We're going to start with Iran.
Let's just get straight on with it.
Okay, let's look at some legacy media reporting on the subject so we can at least see what they're saying and try and determine what they want us to think.
Is this a legitimate?
You know, I guess, look, you could regard it as the people of Iran want to return to a 1970s style secularized Iran where they have the privilege of like going to Dior or buying a McDonald's or whatever.
But it could be something else.
We don't know that insurgency ain't paid for on the ground.
One thing's for sure.
you know, systems of mass centralized government don't seem to be working particularly well, whether it's under the auspices of secularism, like in the United Kingdom, that's sliding towards tyranny in ways that you're aware of, although that digital ID program's been scrapped.
Well done, if you were one of the people that actively protested against that, probably more important that you actively protest and protest online.
Let me know in the comments and chat what do you think.
Where do you think these decisions are made now?
Are they made on the streets?
Are they made online?
Are they made in some ethereal realm difficult to access except through prayer or your version of prayer?
Anyway, before we get into the metaphysics of it, let's look first of all at Iran, then we'll look at Minneapolis, then we'll have a bit of a laugh, then we'll promote polymarkets, promote some of our own stuff and all.
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Yep.
I still, I've tried to understand Bitcoin so many times.
I still don't, but I don't understand a lot of things.
Just because I don't understand something, that don't mean it's not real, does it?
Because I only understand about 10 things.
And I know that there are other things beyond those 10 things.
Firstly, let's get into this Iran stuff.
Massey claims to be Iranian, so, you know, we'll listen to him on the subject for a bit.
But every time I speak to him, he's from somewhere else.
One minute is Canada, next minute it's Birkenhead, next minute it's Iran.
I mean, I think he's exactly part of the problem.
If anyone, if ICE needs to crack down on anyone, it's Massey.
Keep still.
Now, let's have a look at this Iranian revolution thing.
Attack Iran in support of the protesters says he's reviewing military options.
The Speaker of Iran's parliament today warned if the US attacks, American bases will burn.
President Trump said that would be a big mistake.
If they do that, we'll consider things targets that they wouldn't believe.
If they do that, we will hit them at levels that they've never been hit before.
And they won't even believe it.
I have five options that are so strong.
So, I mean, if they did that, it'll be met with a very, very powerful force.
In Iran, state media, the only media amid the communications blackout, is telling Iranians the government is in full control.
In a general way, when people report on instances in foreign countries and they say, state media, the only media, as if elsewhere you have access to all sorts of information, I think it's always wise to bear in mind that stratified information applies wherever you are.
If you're in China, you only get the information they want you to have in China.
If you're in the UK, you only really get the types of information they're happy with you having in the UK.
Or certainly they're involved now in the process of ensuring that.
And the same is true to a degree in the US.
Although it perhaps exists within a larger overt window, indeed, isn't that the nature of the culture war?
That you can look at the same incident, literally you can look at footage of the same incident when it comes to the death of the young woman there, good was her surname.
And some people can absolutely verify that it was brutality on the part of the state.
And other people can completely say hand on heart that the woman's actions were deserving or at least the ICE agent was warranted.
Let me know in the comments and chat where you stand on that.
But remember that whatever side of the argument you stand on, you have to check your own biases and prejudices, as the old woke postmodern brigades used to say before they were rinsed into annihilation by the rising tide of MAGA nationalism.
But nevertheless, the tools of discernment that they offered, like the compassion that woke is contains, better accessed through Christ, are of some value.
And when we look at these events in Iran, let's try and keep a handle on at least what is it they want us to think about this.
Because say for example, when I read how AI pre-sees the assets that we're using for the story, check it out.
This is a brilliant description, but also you can tell where the biases want to lead you from the way that certain characters and participants in the story are highlighted in a positive way.
Check it.
The assets collectively frame Iran as a regime under pressure responding to growing protests with lethal force while escalating tensions with the United States.
That already tells you lethal force, that's pejorative to the Iranian state, and it accredits them, or at least blames them, with escalating tensions with the U.S. You know, in a sense, whatever's going on in Iran, there's no question the United States of America is more powerful than Iran.
And if there's a dispute between me and a less powerful entity, you've got to be somewhat sympathetic towards the less powerful entity, regardless of the circumstances and the truth of the situation.
There has to be sympathy, doesn't there?
Like if I was arguing, I don't know, with a dog or a mouse or something, and I was saying this mouse is a right little bastard.
At some point you'd go, well, it's a mouse though, Russell.
Why are you venting all these grievances on that mouse?
And I'd say, that was my cheese.
That was my cheese.
My cheese.
Why did you put it in a mousetrap?
I'll say, look, I've got to look after.
I've got to look after the house.
I've got responsibilities you can't even begin to understand.
If I need to kill a few mouses or even create a Richard Gere-style botty hole burrow, then that's my business.
That's my business.
It was my cheese.
It's my burrow.
Then it continues.
Footage of the crackdown establishes the severity of the unrest, followed by Trump meeting senior military leaders and issuing a Leave Iran Now warning reinforced by his true social post declaring the US locked and loaded.
Certainly, as I continue to try to understand what Trump is and what Trump means, I recognize that my initial instincts when meeting Donald Trump probably 20 years ago now were correct.
He's a genius where it matters.
We live in a world now where a particular type of communication and a particular way of thinking are significant and important.
You can't be continually swayed.
You can't be full of doubt and inner turmoil, friction and tension, and Trump is not.
Trump has a sort of beautiful certainty that supersedes even whether things are morally ambivalent or it's difficult to detect what the right outcome would be.
And that in itself is powerful because in a fractured and fragmented time where everyone's got an opinion and everyone is divided, the certainty of Trump is appealing and attractive and continues to be.
And if this is going to be the system, i.e. great big populations of 330 million people centrally organized by a massive government and, you know, to a degree, devolved through state authorities, if you want to stick with that system, you need people like Trump.
The best the left is offering is, what, I don't know, AOC, Gavin Newsom, is that the sort of thing you want?
It's not going to work, is it?
You can't have those kind of people.
It doesn't make sense anymore.
You're going to have to change the entire system unless you want Trump-like people.
And some people really, really love Trump, some people don't.
I mean, that's the point.
All right, so locked and loaded.
Alongside this geopolitical escalation, Elon Musk's decision to activate Starlink, so it looks good for Musk, for free positions, external tech as a lifeline, or positions external tech as a lifeline against the regime's internet blackout.
The Imam clip exposes the ideological brutality underpinning the system.
So, right, yeah, it is pretty good that Elon Musk's given them access to Starlink.
I'm still not entirely certain about the origins of the social uprest and unrest and uprising.
Is it generally, we the people of Iran demand the right to buy a variety of different shoes and cornflakes?
Is that what it is?
Is that what it is?
Let me know in the comments and shout.
Iran's government has tried for weeks now to quell the growing protest movement fueled by economic unrest.
The heavy-handed response has reportedly killed hundreds.
Airstripes would be one of the many, many options that are on the table for the commander-in-chief.
At the White House today, they're talking about options, with the president sitting down with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Pentagon Brass.
But don't expect a public declaration.
And so, what President Trump will do next, only he knows, so the world will have to keep waiting and guessing.
The U.S. government has a clear warning for any citizens in Iran.
Leave Iran now.
Have a plan for departing Iran that does not rely on U.S. government help.
And yesterday, the president announced a new 25% tariff on countries that trade with Iran.
The Iranian regime has been here before, but this could be a tipping point.
You're looking at a doomed regime.
It's just a question of whether change occurs because the regime decides it must change itself to survive, or the people change it, or change occurs because of U.S. military action.
But if the U.S. intervenes, the president may have a tough time selling it to many of his supporters who reject foreign entanglements.
The more isolationist MAGA base is going to need to be really pulled along to help them understand why the U.S. is getting involved in this way in the Middle East.
Why is there all these blackouts?
Like, that's what I keep seeing.
Like, Jake, you said you saw on our Rumble comments.
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So why does it say in the chat, Jake, that a bunch of people are saying, oh, talk about Iran, talk about Iran.
What do you would think that is?
I don't know, but all the comments is a bunch of different people all saying the same thing.
And it didn't seem like it was crazy.
It was just talk about Iran.
All this is going on.
I mean, it could be bots.
I clicked on a few of them.
They have followers.
Some of them don't.
But it's all the same message.
I was looking at my ex-feed, and a lot of high-profile people that I sort of follow, say John Cleese, the great genius from Monty Python, or Graham Linehan, the Irish writer of basically just comedy writers.
They're like posting this.
Why is the BBC not reporting on this?
And certainly the BBC aren't reporting on it.
It's so hard, isn't it, to diagnose?
Can you tell me in the comments and chat why is it that some mainstream media outlets are not reporting on this?
Who benefits?
Why?
I don't understand anymore.
Let me know.
I know that I understood from that news report: economic civil unrest provoked by economic conditions.
I get it.
But if that's the problem, why is there not more civil unrest in the United Kingdom where economic conditions are more punitive than they've been for, gosh, certainly since the 1970s?
Here's the kind of thing people want you to look at during times of unrest of this nature.
It's an imam saying women are animals created by Allah to be used by men.
We'll have a look at that in a minute, which I consider to be a brilliant insight.
Now, it's obviously a provocative thing.
Yo, Massey, because your family's from Iran, ain't they?
And you've got still got family members out there.
Will you tell us what your basic take on it is?
And Jake, can you punch them up so I can see him, mate?
Thanks.
It's mostly down to the economic situation, what I've heard.
But, you know, it's like anything.
You don't really know what's going on on the ground because what gets everyone out on the streets, it can be something completely different.
There's women out there taking the hijab off, but apparently what's kicked it off has been economic.
But then the argument is: well, the US sanctions that have been put on the country have been so horrendous that it's going to exacerbate any economic situation.
But the big thing going on right now is whether their leader is going to execute a protester, a guy of like 24, who's going to be like executed, publicly hanged today, which they still do that stuff, like public hanging.
Off of Ukraine, isn't it?
Off of Crane.
Yeah, off of Crane.
So Trump's warned not to.
So we'll see what happens.
Look at Joe.
Joe, you don't think it's right to execute a geezer off a crane?
Otherwise, how are people going to learn?
Wow.
Definitely sets the standard, doesn't it?
Yeah, this is the standard.
Shut up or we execute you off a line.
get the idea this is or you shut up or i don't know there's good old craney There's always Craney.
It's a hard line for sure.
It's a hard line.
So, you're wondering why.
I don't know, man.
I'm not sort of a super Sharia law type person.
I don't reckon that Islamic state solutions are really ultimately tenable.
But the history, even the recent history of Iran has been so sort of convoluted, complex, and so continually subject to intervention, interventionism, and undeclared economic interests, it's difficult to make an assessment without being glib.
But glib assessments do seem to be the order of the day these days.
You know, there'll be people, I reckon, that know less than me.
Can you imagine such a thing?
Being sort of full of passion and intensity saying this should happen in Iran or that should happen in Iran.
But, you know, all of the information that we're assessing has likely been to some degree pre-tued by people with a preferred outcome.
But it don't seem that that kind of Islamic fundamentalism is particularly successful in the Middle East.
But I don't know, people are making comparable arguments against secularism and the UK and stuff.
Certainly, I'm making that argument.
It's hard enough to parse US news, much less Middle East news.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And don't you think in general, because of the sort of tide of it and the flow of it and the relentlessness of it?
Imagine if you're like, I'm really going to nail my colours to the mast on this Iranian revolution.
Tomorrow there's going to be some other thing you're really meant to care about.
I don't care about it.
But everything now is like Shawwadi Waddy or the monkeys.
Everything's just like, or pogs.
Everything's just some craze like the Iranian revolution.
Yeah, I don't fucking really care about that Iranian revolution.
Don't be like, I didn't think it was nice when you said like we made jokes about like that geezer hanging from a crane.
I really care about it.
What?
What's happened now something else somewhere else I'm supposed to care about?
I care about that now.
No one gives a shit.
Like when you think about it, honestly, don't you care a lot more about stuff that's happening in your actual life than the Iranian revolution?
Like imagine if we went, listen, we can save that geezer from hanging on a crane or you can have in your bank account right now $100,000.
What do you want?
No one's ever going to know.
No one's ever going to know.
Like, yeah, let me know in the comments and chat.
Maybe you shouldn't be protesting if you just find a way of reverse engineering.
I want that $100,000, innit?
No, so how much do you care really?
Question.
How much do you care really?
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Now, this is from the book of Job, but only because my kids have been in it.
Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge?
Yeah, anyone who comments on any political issue.
Brace yourself like a man.
Hold yourself firm.
I will question you and you shall answer me, says Yahweh to Job.
Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?
Don't know, sorry.
Tell me if you understand.
Who marked off its dimensions?
Why I love that is whenever there's scriptural reference, not whenever, but on the few occasions where I've noticed it, Daniel, Ezekiel, where like celestial entities mark stuff off and measure things.
I feel like they're establishing not only the particular proportions of whatever's being measured, but systems of metrics themselves.
How do you even measure reality?
What do you mean?
How do you even understand love?
How do you understand righteousness?
How do you understand vengeance or hate or truth or justice or any of these principles or any of these words that you think you understand to the degree where you might even get them tattooed on your skin?
Where do you think they come from?
Who marked off its dimensions?
You did, God.
Sorry, you did.
Surely you know.
You're so fucking clever.
God's getting on the front foot with Job now.
Having put him through, or allowing the devil at least, to put Job through a few tests involving losing everything and getting a pretty bad skin disease.
Surely you know who stretched a measuring line across it.
Love it.
On what were its footings set?
Or who laid its cornerstone while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy.
And I suppose that's the fundamental question.
The atheists and the secularists believe that the rules of nature are self-contained, that nature, whether that's the cosmos or microbiology, come from itself and all of its rules are interconnected.
The religious person or the theist believes that there has to have been some moment of creation or at least there is something outside of and beyond the rules of nature.
And obviously scripture being a religious document attests that there is a God, a mind, a power, a truth, a spirit that establishes these rules.
And let me just ask you some secondary questions.
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Now, let's have a look at Polymarket right now, baby, because this is an aggregation of people's intelligence.
I suppose along the lines of Malcolm Gladwell's, you know, if we all guess how many beans are in the jar, our average guess will be closer to the number than any individual guess, which is a sort of an argument for collective and aggregated intelligence versus divine principle, because Malcolm Gladwell is a secular, he's what you might call a secular prophet.
I saw him jogging in Central Park one time.
I had him on the podcast one time.
Remember, the intellectuals that are promoted by the culture are carrying a message that the culture wants you to receive.
One of the best examples being Yuvalno Harari, perfectly nice person, perfectly brilliant book, Sapiens.
But what's the central message of sapiens?
Everything's made up.
Surrender to AI.
I watched him do it live one time.
Let's have a look at polymarkets, which will offer you some insights into when Iran might get invaded.
How exactly is it?
How does this work?
You understand it, don't you, Jake?
Yeah, it's just everybody that's putting their money where they think when this stuff will happen.
It could be anything.
Polymarket.com.
So what, like you look at that and you can go, well, I think it's going to happen on that Iranian airstrikes will take place on the 31st of March and you can sort of bet $100 on it.
And if that does happen, you'll win money.
But how do you feel like if you're watching the news and it's like, today in Tehran, under the rubble, we discovered a kindergarten.
And, like, you'll go, like, well, I've got good odds on that.
Like, here's the...
Yeah, make some money.
Might as well, all the bad news happen and make some money on it.
Like Tate, when Tate bet against himself in that fight.
Isn't that what happened?
Like Andrew Tate staged the fight, bet against himself in the fight.
That's what I heard.
But did you see the press conference for that that Tate done?
It looked like a normal press conference.
And that sort of shows you now how the world is, I figure.
Like Andrew Tate can say, I'm going to have a fight.
And you go to Polymarkets, the links in the description.
We took some money to do that.
That's an advert that was.
Like, Tate goes, like, he does a fight, but he's sort of paying for the fight, funding the fight, so setting up the press conference and everything.
And it's sort of indiscernible and indecipherable from UFC or whatever.
But of course, the UFC, you know, was once a construct.
But any guild or any, you know, when you watch a movie like Gangs of New York, the brilliant Scorsese movie, you see how simultaneously the police departments emerging, the fire departments emerging along with gangs and stuff.
And the reason your country, America, is so fantastic and exciting is because it's rich and resourceful and recent.
Rich, resourceful and recent.
So you can sort of feel and see its tendrils into the past.
You can sort of still feel the furriers and the railroads and the gold prospectors and the Rockefellers and the Carnegies.
And you can feel that there's this big throbbing protein mass that could sort of still go anywhere.
And you know where I think it should go.
Decentralization, the radical use of the technology that's being used to control you and monitor you turned around on them.
Transparency for them, autonomy for you.
And the very technology that polymarket are using to aggregate when Tehran might suffer, you know, a rain of brimstone and sulphur from above could be used to determine how much money it's spent on hospitals, how much money to spend on schools.
And indeed, whether or not you think that lady, good was her surname at least, deserved to die in the manner that she did.
You could certainly be running city-state principalities democratically and directly, which would be favourable.
And it certainly would be one thing.
It would be democracy.
So next time there's a war somewhere to bring democracy to some far-flung country populated by the brown, you could say, well, we do believe in democracy because we actually are doing democracy.
And that's why, that's the thing I believe in most of all, direct democracy where possible, using the technology that's currently being used to spy on us.
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Your country is divided by events in Minneapolis.
Sorry.
Minneapolis.
Minneapolis.
Your country is divided by events in Minneapolis, but your country is continually divided.
It's as if the culture is a machine that you can chuck anything into.
Let's throw in Carl Rittenhouse and see that guy get shredded up.
Toss in George Floyd, see him get shredded up.
Toss in this lady that's got murdered by ICE or killed lawfully, dependent on how you regard law enforcement to be undertaken.
Let me know in the comments and chat or indeed on Polymarket how you feel you want people to be executed.
Now, of course, there's lots of ways to look at this story.
Let us look at it together and start with two polarized views, one from the left, one from the right, to see if we're capable of finding a deeper truth.
Let's establish: is there such a thing as deep truth?
Remember, we just had that verse from Job there where the Lord says, What are you talking about?
You don't even know nothing.
You don't know.
You weren't there.
You weren't there when I created reality.
You're interpreting and you're probably interpreting in accordance with your will, unless you conquer the will by surrendering to Christ.
Of course, Yahweh wouldn't have said that to Job then because Christ only incarnates a bit later, but he was there.
In the beginning, we are told and we believe.
Ah, we certainly believe.
Let us get into it.
Here's some analysis from a right-wing commentator.
And I love this.
It reminds me a bit of that YouTuber called WTF who will take something like the moon landings and go, those moonlandings were definitely faked.
And then he'll like do 10 minutes and he'll convince you.
And you're by the end of it, oh man, those moonlanders were faked.
And then you go, but alternatively, look.
And you go, oh, no, no, them moonlandings happen.
He could keep you like that for hours and hours, this guy.
You should have a look at his YouTube.
It's pretty fantastic.
Although I will say, YouTube is in the final analysis, evil, I think is the word I would use.
But let's have a look at this first.
You can see she very clearly looks at him.
She acknowledges she's smiling at him.
I want to just say I look a bit like that guy.
That's me divided by Joe.
It's me gingered a bit.
It's me gingered by Joe.
Let's have a look.
Cling at him.
This isn't somebody who's scared.
At least they don't look scared.
Missouri, she is in a totally different state looking for trouble, intentionally breaking the law.
But when they were saying that about Kyle Rittenhouse, the people that wanted Carl Rittenhouse to be wrong were like, well, why was he there?
He went and got a gun and he went there.
So people, and I reckon the same people would have to make the reverse arguments.
That's what's sort of exciting about now.
Since the ascent of MAGA, you're seeing people say free speech stuff that's really confusing for me.
Like, you can't just, free speech doesn't mean the right to hurt people's feelings.
You're seeing it all like flip and stuff.
Now, let's have a look at, you know, remember, this woman is, she's dead now.
So I don't know, man.
Isn't don't you feel like you've got to get to the bit where Gandhi got, where he goes to a Muslim geezer?
This is in the film.
He goes to a Muslim geezer who had killed a Hindu kid.
You're going to have to raise a Hindu kid and raise him Hindu.
That's the only way out for you.
That's the only way out for you.
Now, of course, it was the British that caused all that aggravation with its poor division of its former colony.
And some would say should be still its colony, India and Pakistan.
Breaking the law.
intentionally going out and breaking federal law, obstructing federal investigations.
Get out of the car.
Get out of the car.
You can hear the thump.
Did drive, baby, drive.
Did she say that?
Let me hear it again.
I don't think she was men who have said.
I think someone else, like her friends, did drive, baby drive.
What I do recognize is that I reckon if you're a person that believes that the ICE investigations and expatriations are wrong, you probably are to some degree, I pray, motivated by compassion.
Like that, oh, these people, they're over here, they've got rights.
But surely you would have to acknowledge that the election of Trump was on a significant mandate that was oriented towards expatriation of migrants.
Trump couldn't have been clearer about we're kicking migrants out day one.
And he won that election, unless you dispute that.
I mean, that's the other thing, isn't it?
The continual dispute of legitimacy.
But I was a person that used to go to a lot of protests.
I love it, man.
And the reason I did, I see now, is I'm very, very angry with the way that reality is being run by corrupt institutions.
And before, my biases were it's because of a total lack of compassion and it's because of corporatism and commercialism and globalism.
And that was very left-wing at that time.
Now, of course, I still feel many of the same feelings, actually, but I believe that it's beyond the purview of left and right, and that there are sets of interests that are happy to endlessly divide us that benefit regardless of which team is in the ascendancy.
Kind of a, you might say a George Carlin or even Noam Chomsky style take before this is Noam Chomsky before he got Epstein off in the island of Pinocchios.
What I mean to say is that there was a time where the left's righteousness was a facsimile of Christ's compassion.
And one might consider that many of us that are Christian and associated with the right don't do enough to afford Christ's compassion, his love of the dispossessed, the foreigner, the alien, the stranger, the wanderer.
These are all specific scriptural dictums and that that deficit has to be taken up because the law is the law.
And I don't mean man's law now, I mean God's law.
The law, the law of I am, is an expression of righteousness.
It's not an external cage or imposed structure.
So if the governing don't express the level of compassion that Christ would if he were in his throne, then the culture will express that deficit elsewhere.
Do you understand what I'm trying to say?
Let me know in the comments and chat.
Why would you say this?
Oh my God.
What the fuck is wrong with this bitch?
Holy shit.
She's dead.
She's dead at the point that he's making that video.
She's already dead and he's still bitching her off.
You can see she very clearly looks at him, she acknowledges, she's smiling at him.
I wouldn't be comfortable doing that on a dead lady's face myself.
person playing at him this isn't somebody who's scared at least they don't look scared oh no i didn't mean that I was just pausing.
All right, so that's an appraisal from the right, obviously.
Here's the same footage covered by someone from the left.
And it's pretty amazing to see the disparity that the same sort of this is the point I'm trying to make.
The same source material can be used to generate a variety of emotions.
And I want you to hold that paradigm in mind while you're experiencing whatever you experience in accordance with your own biases.
Let me know in the comments and chat how you're feeling.
The car turning right from the other angle as Ross steps out of the path of the vehicle.
The moment before the car purportedly hits him, if you synchronize the footage with the other angle, you can see that he was already outside of the path of the car.
It only looks like he was hit because this is from the same angle as a Hollywood film would shoot an action scene to make it look like a punch connects with an actor's face.
Love that, because if you were doing that in a Hollywood film, that's sort of deliberately to misrepresent reality or to create a favorable illusion.
Pow!
Bam!
But that just happened in this instance to be where the camera was.
There's no trickery at play.
It's just that's where the camera was.
In the same as a Hollywood film would do it in order to make it look like Sylvester Stallone is being struck by Apollo Creed.
Well, let me tell you, if Carl Weathers and Sylvester Stallone were to slug it out for reals, there's going to be only one winner.
Didn't Carl Weathers, after all, only have one hand in Happy Gilmore?
So there you have it.
Only one winner, John Rambo.
Brick.
No, he was not ran over.
Shit, not that meh yet.
Not that me yet.
I want to do this.
He's walked out of there with that guy.
This guy.
As far as I can tell, these are his legs.
I'm going to highlight them in white so you can see what they're doing.
I love this as far as I can tell.
These are his legs.
And he's highlights someone's legs in white.
Look at the media landscape we live in.
With something so granular where every pixel can be scrutinized, how can there ever be consensus again?
Particularly, how can there be consensus again when we reject the idea of an absolute truth in favor of endless preference, endless argument?
How could we ever again have a consensus on how to run Minneapolis, let alone the United States of America?
Doesn't this tell you, isn't the culture screaming in your face from both directions?
We need institutional systemic change.
That we can't forever operate in a system where the left are in charge now, the right are in charge now.
You can't have a system where the unstated truth is, I want to annihilate my opponent.
I want to annihilate them.
I want to annihilate them with words or violence or whatever's available to me.
That can't be the tacit systemic flaw.
Eventually we have to say, my God, if two sets of people can look at the same bit of footage and see something different, why are we all trying to live in the same little Wendy house?
Why are we all trying to live in the same allotment?
Why don't you guys live here?
Why don't we live here?
And when I say that, it might not necessarily be geographic, but with the technology we have now, polymarkets, X, isn't it possible that we could have forms of more direct democracy?
Remember, how did we arrive at representative democracy?
It was the best idea available at the time.
You needed some centralized systems of organization when it came to municipal resources, and you needed it for protection.
These were legitimate arguments 100 years ago, 200 years ago, 500 years ago.
But as technology increases, the very technology they're using in the UK for facial recognition surveillance and until very recently, mandatory ID, that very technology could be used to enhance and increase direct democracy.
That's precisely the solution that the culture wars are endlessly suggesting, not least in this Minneapolis matter, where it'd be perfectly reasonable to say this woman was exercising her right to protest and she's been killed.
This ICE agent was frightened for his life and had previously had an encounter where he was dragged by a vehicle.
He was doing his job and protecting himself.
Both of those positions are entirely reasonable.
They cannot live in the constant tension, the sort of magnetic repulsion of left and right unless, hold on, wait a minute.
No, they could, if part of the design of the system was to trap people in continual tension to create a kind of babble where people could never find accordance, where resonance was never available because people were continually quarreling.
Indeed, we have diffused this technology, this ticking time bomb of instantaneous communication and instantaneous organization by allowing it to be used for rhetoric, invective and perpetual hatred.
Chuck in a Rittenhouse, chucking a George Floyd, chucking this lady good.
What's her first name?
Does anyone know her first name?
Can you Google that for me?
Yeah, they're just fodder for the machine.
They're just fodder for the machine.
You will never ever win.
What do you think?
What should we do?
Every single person that thinks that the ice agent was wrong should be rounded up and in prison.
All right, that's one option.
Every single person that thinks the protester was wrong should be rounded up in prison.
That's in microcosm what our system is.
It's a system that requires division, that has as its fuel division, and it's unnecessary.
Its day is done.
The time has come for new systems.
Not because of some ideological shift or some tectonic change.
No, because the technology exists now.
The technology exists.
Obviously, what it will require is a strong, robust ideology underneath it.
Otherwise, even that technology would just create chaos, endless chaos.
But if you believe that God is real, then you believe that truth is real, that justice is real, that kindness is real, compassion is real, that the highest possible position attainable is service, that we're here for a short time, that we're going to die, and that we're here to love one another.
And if you have that reset available to you continually when you fall once again into the flesh and into the self, metronomically pinging between God and self, if you accept God and then you use this technology, there's a way out for us.
Let me know in the comments and chat if you know what I'm getting at and if you've got any suggestions as to how it might be deployed.
While you're considering that, let's have a look at the leader of Minneapolis, at least explicitly that's the case.
It's Jacob Frey, who's the mayor, who I don't know, man.
Tell me what you think about him.
I did find him a little bit annoying.
The way you put it, it's pretty grim.
What you just said, and I think to repeat for everybody.
What's lesbian Jonah Hill doing with interpretations over at the sides?
And also, to interpret this, we've got lesbian Jonah Hill.
Donald Trump said that Renee ran the ice agent over.
Don't take my word for it.
I like how lesbian Jonah Hill's doing sort of like having to sort of act it a little bit.
Well, did Rene do it?
Or did Renee not do it?
For it.
Don't take their word for it.
Watch the video from every single angle.
I mean, the ice agent walked away.
Also funny, because there's that, it's essentially body language.
It's literally body language, isn't it?
The sign language for the deaf.
It's affecting the people in the ensemble because they're feeling like, oh no, I need to do something as well.
I can't just stand here.
Maybe I'll do something.
Poor Renee Good, she drive you dead.
She drive you dead.
But Ice Agent, he too panic.
He panic shoot.
Everyone feels like they've got upon some mad fucking pantomime.
You've got lesbian Jonah Hill in the background.
You've got thin Seth Rogan.
You've got a whole Jad Appato cast of people trying to mime their way through an irresoluble tragedy.
That's what it is.
An irresoluble tragedy.
The woman's got every right to protest.
Of course she fucking has.
That's part of what's baked into a democratic republic like America.
And the ice agent's got every right if he's frightened to do his fucking job.
Oh no.
Irresistible force meets immovable object.
That's the problem with centralization.
Decentralize, you mad fools.
Walked away with a hip injury that he might as well...
He's even doing too much.
The mayor's doing too much.
A hip injury.
He could have done that.
And I'm going to say this.
He could have done it by banging his hip on the fridge.
Yeah, check out the Rocky Pants, baby.
I'm living large and I'm living real.
And that's before we get to my old pal.
Well, pal Gunchester.
Gunchester's here, Joe.
Let's get over this.
The injury that he might as well have gotten from closing a refrigerator door with his hips.
He was not injured.
I've seen worse injuries from doing that.
Worse injuries from using your hip to shut a fridge door.
I'm really pleased with this.
I know this is what happens.
When you sort of think of an idea before you do a speech and you think, that's actually quite a good idea, that then you do the speech and you figure, oh, it's not landed as well.
Or even if you're not able to tell how it's landed because the room can't give you much because they're doing it in some weird museum or something for some reason, they've got some false idol behind them, and that's a reclining Zeus or something behind them.
I don't know what it is.
I don't know about Minneapolis.
I don't know what their culture is.
I don't know what his museum that is, but they've made a decision to do it in front of that fucking statue thing.
Anyway, he's not landed his fridge idea that he was so pleased with when he said it to his wife or husband or whatever the fuck it is he does when he's at home.
Like, like he was pleased with his fridge idea.
I'm going to say it again.
I've seen worse injuries.
Fridge hip, I call it.
I've seen worse injuries when someone puts their dick in the toaster.
That's right.
I've seen worse injuries.
Oh, yeah, we get it.
We get it.
Yeah, we get it.
And so give me a break.
No, he was not ran over.
So the left thinks she got a laugh a little bit.
Yeah, see, oh, he's obviously really trying to land this fridge idea.
Ran over?
He walked out of there with a hop in his step.
A hop in his step.
You won't feel that good about it.
Someone's dead.
Have you ever spoken to service people that have killed someone?
Like, I don't, whenever I've spoken to them, they don't ever go, oh, it's fucking brilliant.
I killed this geezer.
Or people that have been involved in violent crime with consequences.
They don't go like, oh, man.
Like, that kind of bravado, the bravado with which our mayor there describes the fridge.
People don't feel like that when actual deaths have happened.
You've completely misjudged it.
You've completely misjudged it.
Let's see what old JD Vance says.
I like JD Vance.
I've met him a couple of times.
He's alright.
I can see why people do their memes about him.
I think he should get rid of the beard.
Outrage after ICE officer kills U.S. citizen in Minneapolis.
Well, what that headline leaves out is the fact that that very off ICE officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his legs.
So you think maybe he's a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile?
What that headline leaves out is that that woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation in the United States of America.
What that headline leaves out.
Problem is with politics is it imposes on you the necessity of taking a rigid position continually.
It denies you the flexibility.
And the thing is with Trump is he's cool with those conditions.
He doesn't give a fuck.
Like JD Vance is actually quite, I think, has quite a sophisticated intellect.
Like he's a sort of not a dissimilar background to you, Dave.
I think he comes from nothing.
He's like a trailer park dude, I understand from that book and everything.
And he's clever as fuck and he's been Harvard and he's written books and all this kind of stuff.
And now he's got to try and be the next president after Trump.
So he's got to be all presidential.
He's probably a little bit too young and he's and it's not an easy thing to follow that Trump.
Like Trump is, I think, a historical anomaly.
Like he's a product of the time.
Like the thing that follows Trump's going to be, I mean, it's going to, I don't know, man.
This soap opera is amazing that we're all in.
We're in an amazing show.
We're in an amazing show.
You like him?
You like the Vance?
You like the Vance?
You're Americans.
Yeah, I like him.
Well, Christian and that.
Yeah, I mean, he seems pretty level-headed most of the time.
His beard's certainly very level.
Looks like he's done it with a geometry set.
You think he needs a bigger beard?
No beard?
One of the two.
One of the two, Jake.
One of the two.
Bigger or none.
No beard's interesting.
Have we seen him with no beard?
We wonder what you wonder about the moon face?
Do you wonder?
Because like, do we wonder that it'll be like when I shaved my beard off for Arthur and my mate Matt said it's like when Darth Vader took his helmet off?
I might do it.
Yeah.
I mean, the thing is with JD Vance, and I say this with all respect, JD, if you're watching, I know you're a fan of the show, that it's like when people trim their pubes too much.
You know, like if you trim your pubes too much, it's like, what are you expecting down there?
Is it a banquet?
Better keep these in order.
It's like a Smurf's banquet.
We've got Gargamel coming later.
We've got Smurf there.
We've got the brainy Smurf.
Like, what are you spending so much time on your pubes for?
Are you a porn star?
Are you a stripper?
Why are you spending so much time?
What are you expecting with your pubes?
Just, you know, like me, there was a time, obviously, when I was a sex person.
I don't know if you've read about it.
It crops up in the news from time to time.
Like when I was a sex person, I had to keep the pubes, the a-hole.
The whole set had to be in mint condition.
And when I say mint, I mean it because I'm thinking of a lifesaver in you guys' language, polo in my language.
The A-hole, you've got to be able to run your hand through that like a credit card and come away with nothing.
And if you can't, you've got no business in the game.
You've got no business in the set.
Just let yourself go.
Come on.
That's since I've had Gunchester.
Gunchester!
Get him.
Where's my Gunchester?
He's behind you.
He's playing a trick on you.
I wish we had a...
Yeah, mate.
Just in case, right?
Because what it is, the truth is, I mean, we can make light of Gunchester all we like.
Gunchester!
Gunchester!
We can make light of Gunchester.
Double check, doesn't it?
I've checked it.
I've checked it.
There's old Gunchester.
There is double check.
The magnum is in there.
And as you know, my old friend Alec Baldwin, when I was making friends, we're making moves in him.
You check it, you check it there, you check it there, you fire it in a safe direction.
Gunchester, your friend and mine.
Because the truth of the matter is with old Gunchester, even though I'm being sort of blithe about it, is several people in secret services and special ops have told me, you want to be careful, you're going to get killed.
That's what I've been told by a couple of people.
So I thought, well, I didn't think.
They went, one of them goes, I'm going to sort you out.
I'm going to give you weapons training and get you a weapon.
And I was like, well, I'll take it.
Why not?
Gunchester now.
So Russ, ready to go.
And if that lad can learn to shoot Charlie Kirk from that building at a couple of hundred meters with a rifle with what seems to be just a couple of sessions on the range, oh, Russ can learn to protect himself in a few sessions.
And some, yes, I've been doing some training with some special ops folks.
Getting ready for it.
Getting ready for the old, you know, not saying like no one lives forever anyway.
I'm completely, not completely ready to die.
I don't like suffering too much.
Suffering's a total pain in the ass.
But on some level, it'd be a total relief, wouldn't it?
No.
No.
You don't like me saying that when I've got a gun.
Paul Schover said when you hold a gun, you have to talk in a Texas accent.
And you have a good one.
Well, hold on.
Honestly, win-win.
Like, Dave's my reference for Texas.
Anyway, we finished old Minneapolis.
That can be cut up all nice.
And we've done that job.
What about you guys?
What do you guys want to talk about?
Us?
Yeah, any of you.
I mean, it says here that I'll put the gun down.
I've got a gun.
I mean, how American have I fucking become, man?
Look at that.
The Bible and a gun.
I swear it's a good idea.
I've been here six months, Joe.
Six months.
Where do you go from here?
Check out my underpants.
You look great.
Brilliant.
I've got Apollo Creed underpants on.
You're fucking a bitch.
The Patriot.
You love the Patriots.
Well, now, hang on.
It's your favourite.
Cornwallis!
Jake, right, every time we go anywhere on an airplane, Jake watches the Patriot, I think, to annoy me.
Now, The Patriot is like brave art, but America, Joe.
Have you ever seen it, mate?
I've seen it.
Yeah, Mel Gibson.
Good son.
That's right.
I fucking love Mel.
God, I love Mel.
He's your Catholic brother.
He's good as gold, isn't he?
Mel Gibson.
You've got to love him.
I did it on purpose.
I know you're looking.
I can see you're looking at my screen.
Every time you look, I put up the Patriot.
I have it on just ready.
Yeah, I look over.
What's he watching?
Because I can never get my shit together to watch something on an airplane.
You know, the either battery's not working or I don't have headphones or whatever.
So I have to just sit there with Jesus and think my thoughts to nightmare.
Like, well, he's watching that.
And every time I think, ah, like, you know, because The Patriot covers the sort of time in the Revolutionary War where the British were sort of stepping it up a little bit.
But we made some crucial errors that made us very, very vulnerable.
Notably, with their guerrilla warfare, they did start taking out officers and stuff like that, didn't they?
The old Americans.
Don't be proud of it.
Yeah, y'all have y'all's big hit movie, the equivalent of that in the UK is old, what's it called?
Old.
What do you mean?
There is none.
There's the reasons.
We've got fucking loads of those.
Right?
Listen, we've had a lot of military triumphs.
Yeah, how do you describe your military movies?
It's like we gave it a good try.
No, Chip.
But we gave it a good shot.
Okay, fellas.
Like, it's the way we always do.
No, nice of you to show up.
James Yanks.
Put the kettle on.
That's actually every single movie.
That's cold.
I got a bit of a cold.
Yeah, Fastbender in, you know, in the Tarantino one in Glorious Bastards.
Fastbender in that.
He's so good in that, man.
He's so good.
Yeah, that's how that is the British perspective.
Yeah.
Also, though, whenever you watch war movies, they always have the American sort of soldiers always like, you know, like Steve McQueen in Great Escapes, all like, oh, yeah.
And like, where's the British ones?
We're all really trying our hardest to escape.
And McQueen just thinks, I'll fucking jump over any minute now.
I'll be good.
The Man Who'll Be King?
Man Who Will Be King, Connery and Kane.
Very fine film.
Have you watched it, Joe?
I was going to tell you.
I haven't seen that film.
I haven't seen it.
I bet that's good, though.
Do you remember The Battle of Britain?
That was a good one.
Really old.
Like about the RAF and that, all the Spitfire.
I think Michael Kane might have been in it.
I think he was a Spitfire pilot.
No, I might have.
I know Michael Kane's career very well, and I don't think he is in that.
I know that Michael Kane's breakthrough movie is Zulu, then Alfie.
I've read his brilliant autobiography.
But Battle of Britain, I know it's a good film.
I've heard it's a good film.
I've not watched it.
But Man Who Would Be King is based on a Rudyard Kipling short story that charts two British mercenaries left behind after Britain to some degree are demilitarizing India, even though we're still occupying it.
And they go on like a Pica-esque adventure into the Indu Kush and they encounter like Indian villagers who mistake them for gods on account of Sean Connery's character's got a sort of a Masonic tattoo on his body that they is in their iconography and stuff.
And like Michael Kane's, well, yeah, this is a good little number.
We'll fucking rinse these cunts.
Like Sean Cotton, Sean Connery is like, well, actually, I think I am a god.
Sean Connery gets into it and forgets.
Forgets.
Like how I definitely would.
If people started telling me, like, if I was in some Indian village and they went, we got a feeling that you're a divine incarnation.
I go, yep.
I feel like you might be right.
And I'd erase all my memories of like what I know about myself from when I was a kid and all my feelings I have inside me of worthlessness and weakness and vulnerability and fallibility and broken.
I just forget all that and go, no, you probably are a god.
This is probably what it's like.
But like that, like Stone Cutter's episode Massey of The Simpsons, you know, stone, like, I've always wondered if there was a god and now I know there is and it's me.
Yeah, I'd be Michael Kane.
Belhamo.
Yeah, all right, listen.
Your audio ain't loud enough, I don't think, unless it was my earpiece falling out.
What's a good war movie, Massey?
Dunkirk and 1917.
Both good war movies.
Yeah, I ain't watched 1917, actually.
It's good.
I watched Dunkirk.
Dunkirk's good, too.
Yeah, I like Dunkirk's.
I like Branner in Dunkirk.
Branner's well good, like going down with his ship type, old school British naval person.
Listen, the news fuckers bought stuff, so why don't we look at it?
Joe, you've bought, well, tell me what you've bought, Joe.
What on earth it is you're doing?
Two different clips.
One about Our Lady of Guadalupe, all the miracles that are covering the shroud.
I don't know if you know about Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Give you a brief history.
So it's when this was 10 years after the Spanish invaded Mexico and they were converting all the Spanish, but they weren't really having it.
Anyway, our lady appeared to this guy, Juan Diego, who was like just a poor normal person, weren't a priest or nothing.
And she told him to build a basilica where this temple had been, where the Mayans had been like sacrificing humans and kids and all sorts.
And he went to see the king, and when he told him about it, he didn't believe him the first time.
He's gone back again.
And then like this shroud just fell off him and all these flowers that are from a real like rare exotic place or whatever.
And this shroud had like an image of our lady on it.
I'll show you a picture actually here.
Two seconds.
I bought one when we was in El Salvador.
I can show you exactly what it looks like.
Here she is.
Oh, she looks brilliant.
Yeah, and there's like constellations of stars all around her that look the same as if you was to look up at the sky in Mexico.
What else?
And like, there's all sorts of stuff in here.
There's like loads of different miracles.
And in her eyes, like they zoom right in, you can see the reflection of people in front of her.
Like it's a whole scene playing out.
It's amazing, but a little bit in her eyes.
Yeah, yeah.
And it's been examined by like some geezer from NASA.
And he says it's legit.
There's also.
I love how he talks, this bloke.
It's been examined by some geese from NASA.
Like NASA, it's like rockets and everything.
Get something over there.
Get something from NASA over.
Yeah, that's legit.
That's legit.
He said it's legit.
He said it's legit.
You could trust NASA.
Of course we can.
Never even been to the moon.
They ain't even doing what they're supposed to be doing, the fuckers.
Going to the moon.
Go on in Joe.
The other clips from The Godfather.
Watch The Godfather part one too this week.
Look, don't emulate my idiotic presenting style.
One subject.
You've done well.
You teed that up good.
The problem is, is you're emulating what I do, which is talk about too many things at once.
None of it makes sense.
Massey's got a fucking nightmare to cut it afterwards.
Let's just do, let's have a look at this lady of Guadalupe and we'll pretend that we went straight into this when we clip it.
And that, by the way, that gunny stuff I think is well funny, as well as all that stuff I've seen about lesbian Jonah Hill and that before you take stuff.
I'll tell you what, you did miss something there though, and I've got a comment on it.
That fella you said looked like a cross between me and you, the right-wing bloke, talking about the woman in the car, he looked like the South Park Jesus.
You're just a South Park Jesus.
South Park Jesus.
You're just a South Park Jesus.
This single piece of fabric defies all scientific explanation.
It's the Tilma of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and no one can explain why it still exists today.
See, 500 years ago, it was a cloak belonging to Juan Diego, an indigenous Catholic convert in Mexico.
The Virgin Mary appeared to him saying she wanted the bishop to construct a church on a hill outside Mexico City.
When the bishop asked for a sign, Mary told Juan Diego to gather some flowers in that cloak or tilma and bring them to the bishop.
But this was December when nothing is blooming and the flowers weren't even native to that area.
So that should have been a good enough sign.
But when Juan Diego opened his tilma, everyone in the room was shocked to see this image of Mary imprinted on the cloak.
The rest is history.
Nine million people were baptized in Mexico over the next decade.
But what's even crazier is the tilma shouldn't exist anymore.
Agave fiber normally decays after 15 to 30 years, but it's still in perfect condition today.
A NASA scientist examined it with infrared light and found no signs of preservation techniques.
Fatilma also survived an acid spill that should have dissolved it and a terrorist bombing that took place directly beneath it.
Not only that, but there is no trace of paint or brushstrokes making up the image.
A Nobel Prize-winning chemist discovered the pigments come from completely unknown material and the stars on Mary's mantle are arranged exactly as the constellations above Mexico City appeared at that time of year.
This is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to freaky forensic facts.
There's tons more you can learn online, but this might be the most important detail.
Mary appears in the image as a mestiza, a mixed child of Spanish and indigenous parents and the lowest class of Mexican society.
This means Mary chose to appear as a lowly, mixed-race girl in order to unite Indigenous Mexicans and Spanish colonials in the worship of her son Jesus Christ.
That is beautiful.
That's also what a great video.
He put all that information together so beautifully.
Oh, I love that, mate.
That's that makes me want to go and look at it.
Especially all the stuff about the infrared analysis and the pigments and the constellations.
Oh, that is very beautiful.
Also, you did a good job of describing it.
Like, okay, and I think my mate Kyle said there's some other stuff around there.
Like, I feel like some other artifacts appeared and like some staircase that there might be something to do with a staircase in a chapel that was built there that's geometrically not easy to achieve.
Like it was a little bit of a land of miracles that part of Latin America for a minute.
Oh mate, I'm gonna go.
Well, you can go there.
You're allowed in that country, aren't you, mate?
It's gonna be a little bit more.
I'm allowed there, yeah.
I want to go.
Yeah, also, there's like musical notes.
They looked at it and they worked out that if you played these notes that appear around there, it would make some beautiful tune.
And there's all sorts of like Fubonacci sequence stuff in there as well that can't be explained.
I mean, you'd have to look into this stuff in detail, but they're like, it's covered in miracles.
It's smothered in miracles from top to toe.
It's absolutely drowning in them.
Oh, that's lovely.
That I love that.
There you go.
Our Lady of what, how do I say it?
Guadalupe.
Our Lady of Guadalupe.
So beautiful.
Well, let's maybe we need to go there because it's going to be good.
We're going to make some interesting content, by the way, over the coming weeks.
I'm going to go that women's prison, the irony.
And then also, I'm going to.
There's something else I'm doing.
I'm going to go hang out with them Christians that are dropping a load of DMT.