Russell Brand and Joe Massey dissect Hollywood's decline as a propaganda tool for powerful interests, citing the Paramount-Skydance merger and the industry's shift toward overstimulating spectacle that normalizes division. They contrast this with Aristotle's poetics, arguing that modern content creation prioritizes measurable success and invisible agendas over genuine artistry, while exploring how technological diasporas might further erode taste. Ultimately, the episode suggests that true liberation requires rejecting commodified narratives in favor of spiritual reliance and authentic community connection. [Automatically generated summary]
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Hello there, you awakening wonders.
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Why are you doing that face, Dave?
Just didn't want to mention.
Well, I don't know.
I'm not interested in men's genitals.
It's none of my business.
And also, Jake, he'll be there with his genitals.
And then Joe and Massey and their genitals are there too.
Joe embraced it with a cheeky side wink.
So then, all right, we've got a lot of things to talk about.
We're going to, of course, talk about the collapse of Hollywood and the various takeover deals and the centralization of media.
And in a sense, really, it's just the progression of centralized control, data capture, all that stuff, entertainment, distraction, as well as Armageddon and the matters going on in the Middle East now and whether it's all part of some dreadful geopolitical scheme.
But before we get into that, I want to just check what you, Joe, and Massey were talking about.
We're going on about your diet, are you, mate?
Yeah, well, not so much diet, more like eating disorder and falling off the wagon hard.
Yeah, yeah, I went in at the weekend.
Eating disorder.
Oh, man, with the sugar, the binge eating, the overeating.
Like, see, if I don't know if I should even say this, if I didn't hate throwing up, I'd probably be bulimic.
Right?
That's the fact of the matter.
Yeah, but I hate it.
I hate it.
It's horrible, isn't it?
But anyway, so I used to do it when I was a bulimic myself.
You want to commit to it?
Yeah.
If you want to be a bulk.
Yeah, when I was doing bulimic.
You actually blemick.
Yeah.
I've never gone in on that.
I've tried, but I didn't like it.
I didn't like the feeling.
I thought, fuck it.
I'll have to just exercise more tomorrow to make it.
That's probably why you're so fat.
Hey, listen, I've got three days sugar-free again.
I've been in the gym every day.
I've been doing a bit of boxing, a bit of weight, a bit of everything.
I saw him on his drive from the gym to the he looks very handsome and he looks ever so well.
All right, but yeah, bulimia is obviously terrible and it's really bad.
And if you've ever known any, like when you know, like, oh my God, teenage girls with anorexia and bulimia is a total, total nightmare.
And they're worse than drug addicts.
They're worse than drug addicts.
Like, have you ever tried to stop undoing it?
I thought I had it.
I thought I could use my skills.
Like one of my mates' daughters once, she had it.
And I just goes, oh, this is like addiction.
I'll be able to handle this.
Listen, you, you need to take step one.
I thought I'd solved it forever.
On the phone, on the way home, I got a phone call from them.
It was one of the worst things that I've ever been involved with.
Because addiction is normally where I feel like I flourish and thrive.
Like I can help people there because I know what I'm talking about when the furious where I actually know what I'm talking about rather than the constant guessing that constitutes 70% of this show.
And like, anyway, she just rang up like the dad did and went, she's using what you said to justify more anorexia.
And I was like, what?
Like, it was like a Chris Nolan, like, it was inception.
I didn't know where I was in reality anymore.
It was so confusing.
Anorexics are the worst.
That's what I'd say.
Like, of the addiction realm, like, there, you don't go near that.
Even other anorexic, I don't think, can handle it.
It's one of the worst things.
And also, it's the, I heard someone say, it's the undoing of, like, when your kid goes anorexic, it's like they're undoing all the nurture you gave them.
Like you feed them, you grow them, you love them, and they like, wow, they puke it out at you.
I thought, oh, God, that's so awful.
And I pray, don't know, we've all got daughters.
I pray for them.
I pray that they never go down that road.
We were watching a TV show the other day, like just a Seinfeld or something.
And it was like, it was a bulimia in the episode.
And like me and my wife looked at each other like, oh, should we, you don't even want them to know it exists because I've got two daughters that are sort of seven and nine years old.
Don't even want them to know about it.
Like, I don't know.
It's environmental because you can't imagine they have bulimia and anorexia in countries that don't have our culture in it.
Like the same way as the only animals that get cancer, I heard, or something like this, please fact check the hell out of this.
But it's sort of like only domestic animals get, only animals that are near humans get cancer and stuff.
Like orangutans or whatever, don't get it.
I heard that.
I need to double check that.
But like, anyway, it's sort of like bulimia and anorexia.
Like it's psychological cultural.
Anyway, so that's my.
So do you think of like, you think like looking at your body a lot and going, oh man, I'm getting fatter or like, is it an obsession with not really?
I just feel like it's an uphill struggle.
So I'm trying to get in really good shape.
And then every now and again, I'll just binge eat.
I think, fucking hell, I've trained so hard for the last few months.
I've been on a calorie-restricted diet, usually sort of ketogenic carnivore kind of diet.
And I'm in a reasonable sort of headspace.
And then every now and again, the wheels just fall off, mate.
And I'll just go in with a binge.
And I've done it.
I'll tell you what I've done Sunday, right?
It was mental.
I even microwaved the plate to warm it right up.
I've got these nice white chocolate chip cookies.
Then I put them on the plate that was already hot, back in the microwave for about 30 seconds, just so the chocolate was starting to melt.
And then a tub and pistachio ice cream on top.
Sounds delicious.
It was unbelievable.
It was unbelievable.
When I finished it, I felt horrific.
But because it was so good, I kind of want it again.
Do you know what I mean?
You're like Epstein Island for bulimia.
Like that, the effort you put into that cookie plate, that's like a paedophile.
Like that's the sort of stuff they would do.
Probably they would do actual stuff like that to lure the kids in.
Here you go.
Don't double-check with cocaine.
It's a hot plate.
That's pretty cool.
A hot plate of coke.
I didn't even know that was an option.
When you cut it up on a hot plate, it sort of fluffs up a little bit more and you like you get more of it.
He's like Gordon Crazy of Coke.
You're out of control, mate.
You're out of control.
Well, listen, the truth is, do you believe, I mean, that actually at the genesis of all addiction is the same problem of longing and false identity?
I sort of think that there is.
And even with like you, when you're going on your like white chocolate cookie rampage there, it must start in deficit.
There must be a moment where you feel it's pretty hard to take an ascetic route.
So much easier, isn't it, with drugs and alcohol?
All right, I'm not allowed drugs and alcohol.
Just don't ever do that again.
Then when it gets into pornography or related matters, objectification of women in the case of in my case, as a heterosexual man, like it's don't like now that has to be practiced.
I do like hot yoga and in that room, there are attractive women.
And the way I practice it now is do not look at them.
And then I have to see how many times over that hour my auto eyes like just auto like look.
Don't do it.
Don't.
I've done a really good job on the beach the other day where I went with my boy and I like as I was walking onto the beach.
I saw some beautiful young women.
And before I looked, I was like, right, this is going to be, there's going to be women on this beach.
Don't look.
Look only at your son.
Look only at your son.
And the readings I'd had this morning were about all keep your eyes on his face, on Christ, on the face of Christ.
And it actually worked real well.
It was a real well.
But what it gives you, in a sense, so my point, addiction can be a prompt, almost like Paul's famous thorn of which he spoke that the Lord never removed.
I suppose this is in line with my grace is sufficient for thee type stuff.
That the addiction is a prompt and reminder of your constant requirement for God.
And until the second voice in you, like there's the first voice is, you know, I'm going to drink this water.
And then the second voice is, don't drink that water, the crackling of the thing is going to be annoying, right?
The second voice has to become Christ so that who's in there with you is Christ and in the end, just him.
And there has to be the death of self and the birth of him in you.
Now, where I think I'm at the phase of, and that began with my conversion was, oh my God, he's in here.
Jesus is here.
He's here and he's real.
He's here and he's real.
And he's spiritual.
This is weird.
And then everything that I've subsequently learned is both historically and metaphysically and spiritually fortified this idea of God's actual presence in a C.S. Lewis way.
I understand that my own consciousness through my cerebellum can operate my fingers.
Like, you know, spirit and matter interact, don't they?
Otherwise you won't be able to think and move your hand.
And then throughout it, it's a further fortification.
Now, the prompt of addiction, the prompt of addiction, where we have to get, I think, is that every time you feel like, I'm going to do that thing, it's always the same.
Loads of us, we've been well vetted.
If you've been a drug addict, you've had a great opportunity because you'll know what it's like when you're like, oh, I'm going to call him.
I'm just going to, I'm going to call that dude.
You know, I'm going to make a phone call.
I'm going to score.
And then you can change that to, I'm going to ring another person in recovery.
Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
Do you think there's a big piece of that of getting it out with when you're tempted to look at someone else or look at a woman going, just saying it to someone else, just saying it to another friend?
What about that unpopular guides of step 10?
It says, firstly, go to God.
Secondly, talk to another person if that doesn't work.
Thirdly, inventory it.
And finally, help another person.
So we should be in this state of abiding.
I see it as a Sabbath mentality on the seventh day.
When you are abiding and resting continually with God, you don't need to go into it.
But what's really good about it is I suppose not even like most people in the world would say stuff like, it don't matter where you get your appetite as long as you eat at home.
Nothing wrong with window shopping, things like that, you know, like those kind of things that are used to diminish the importance of and significance of objectifying women, even though all of us know it's wrong.
We all know it's wrong.
So when you actually, what's that like to put that into practice?
Not around drugs and alcohol, which are verboten and obviously forbidden.
I'm talking to someone that I love at the moment about alcohol and drugs.
And like, if anyone, like if you say someone, try not drinking.
And anything other than, okay then, right?
You're dealing with an alcoholic.
Anything other than it.
If they go like, yeah, I don't have a problem.
Guess what?
People that don't have a problem with drinking don't have a problem with not drinking.
People that don't have a problem with drinking don't have a problem with not drinking.
They're just like, yeah, no problem.
If you say to me, hey, Russell, no more throwing potatoes into the paddling pool.
I won't go, I mean, I just do it to relax.
I only do it to unwind.
I only do it once in a while.
I'm just like, yeah, no problem.
What?
I don't understand what you're talking about.
What would I get out of throwing potatoes into a paddling pool?
But like, you know, if the person's resistant, that's your, there's your disease.
There's the problem.
So, but with what Joe is discussing there, like, it's, look, it's the false identity.
In that moment, I pray for you, my brother Joe, that you know how loved you are and how beloved you are.
You are my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.
Because what must we feel to think that the best we can get is to stare at some tits or to eat some, although admittedly delicious-sounding ice cream melted on that plate.
But you can tell from the fetishization, and note the word fetish.
Fetish means objectified.
It means that.
Like, you know, think of a religious face.
This is the finger of St. Bernadette.
Or fetishized.
You imagine the breasts as not being connected to that person and their childhood and their suffering and their eventual death and the function of the breast as nutrition for a baby.
Wouldn't it be good if these breasts were just that?
Yes, from that perspective, yes, it would.
But they're not.
They're not.
You can't, like I heard, a priest, I think, said, pornography is not bad because it shows you too little.
It's bad.
Pornography is not bad because it shows you too much.
It's bad because it shows you too little.
It just shows you this is a person you can just, that's all they are.
Well, every single one of those people that we've looked at, they're children of God.
And in that moment, we participated with them and Lucifer in the counterfeit idea that we can turn it into pleasure.
Now, sometimes, as they say, as we are fond of saying, the Stoics' era, C.S. Lewis says, is to think that a man can do always what he can do sometimes.
Sometimes I can do that, but there might be a day where I'm feeling particularly worthless and hopeless and disgusting because the world likes to do that to people.
Have you noticed?
That I therefore, I'm like, oh, something, something, whether it like is a cake or sterics.
I mean, thank God.
It's been many, many years since I've felt compelled by God's grace to look at pornography.
These things are getting easier for me, but I am under no illusions about my weakness and my vulnerability and my fallibility in these areas.
And it's only through this a priori acknowledgement of vulnerability that we may grow.
And it sounds like that's where you are, Joe.
But it's weird with the food.
You know, how can you, you're so ferocious?
Like, why I like Joe's addiction is that Joe's addiction is so sort of madly, all-consumingly ferocious that when I'm around it, I can, I don't have to think about mine for a bit because I was like, you know, I can just deal with Joe's.
But like, you know, but like that's like, you know, I'm, he's training himself.
He's all enormous and I'm counting my steps and I'm doing this and I'm getting that done.
And then just all of a sudden, I'm eating up a plate and eating these weird chocolate things.
It's very, you cannot do it alone, firstly.
And you're not supposed to.
We're meant to be in the great assembly.
We're meant to be in the church.
We're meant to do it together.
And like you've always said to me, Dave, that what the church must become is it must become this.
It must become like, right, what are we here for?
Designing Shoes with AI00:09:20
What's going on?
Not like, I'm already okay.
I'm already okay.
Are you though?
Are you already okay?
And we have to be in a church where it's like, I'm not just telling you I'm broken.
I'm showing you I'm broken.
I'm explicitly sharing my brokenness with you.
Yeah, and you're walking that out.
I liked how you said abiding, relating it to a tenth step.
I've never really connected that.
I mean, when it talks about, what's it, John 15?
I think it's John 15.
John talks about abiding and how other Men, people that you walk with are a part of that.
That it's not a solitary journey that you have, guys.
I mean, like we do.
Anytime I'm around any of my dear friends, like I'm telling them my thoughts, I'm sharing my struggles.
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How are you in for Adjust for Today, Wait?
And how come were you sharing it with Massey?
Tell me them two things.
Two reasons.
Well, first of all, I'm all right, Stan.
Doing pretty good, man.
I like the food stuff's all right.
I'm three days off the sugar, exercising well.
I'm doing pretty good.
I was sharing it with Massey because we were talking about the clips for this show, right?
And my clip this week is about trainers, a pair of Nike Air Max trainers, Air Max 95s known as 110s.
Now, when I first got sober, I went a bit mad for clothes and that.
And it was like, I want every pair of them in every color to wear with any whatever outfit I've got.
It's mental, right?
And then I get them and I don't even fucking care about them.
But there was one particular pair that I always wanted, and they're quite rare.
They're hard to get.
Now, we'd finished the show last week and they were doing a one-day only sale on them, right?
The OGs for one day, they're releasing them at JD Sports.
And I was going to go and queue up at the shop the next day, but I didn't.
But anyway, after the show, I went on a little link online and I went straight to JD.
I ended up buying them.
And like they're here now, and I don't fucking care about them.
Like they're in the box still.
Do you know what I mean?
They are now.
I mean, they're nice trainers.
You can put them on eBay now for double the money.
I thought I've seen you wearing them already.
You've seen me wear not these ones, not with a little neon, not with the neon loops.
Russell, this is so this is what I'm saying.
Yeah, it's the same thing, innit?
It's addiction.
We were on the way to court in the fucking car and they released the pink foam ones.
And you're talking to me about all this like intense stuff.
And I'm fucking checking my phone to see if I can get there.
And I was pissed off.
Focus on the case.
The website.
There was too much traffic on the website.
I thought he was distracted.
He was driving.
He kept taking wrong turns.
He was blaming the brake pads on my fucking defender.
On my Macarewa.
They already won.
And meanwhile, it's like, oh, my God, they've got these Nike Air Max in.
We're swerving around.
Paparazzi are getting plowed over.
Scottish Joe's all focused on some pink foam air max.
So what was that?
What was the clip of there's like sexy footage of the shoes or what is it?
The clip was just about the design of the shoe, how it come about.
And I'll be honest with you, when I saw the kept, I thought, oh yeah, they're quite fucking cool down trainers.
I'm glad I got them.
Yeah, I'll put that on the show.
Did you know that this is the first shoe ever to have a black mitzo or that this shoe got its design from the anatomy of the human body?
Well, Sergio Lozano in 95 was given the task to make this shoe right here.
And as you guys can see on the front of the shoe here, this is supposed to mimic the rib cage of the body on the outside and the inside of the shoe.
It's supposed to be muscle fibers on the back of the shoe here.
This is supposed to be a vertebrae.
And on the bottom of the shoe here, this is supposed to be the spine.
This shoe right here is one of the most hyped up shoes in sneaker culture.
When I tried to get these online in 2025, the line was to the front of the block, to the end of the block, and it was super, super hard to get these this time around.
They were a little bit more quantity, but it was still sold out in minutes, and the prices did jump up right after sneakers did sell out.
Depending on where you're from, these shoes have a different meaning to you.
If you're from the north, you've probably seen your favorite rapper wearing these.
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And I'm going to be using it because I'm always creating content.
I'm not interested in pervy, porny things like that.
That's everywhere.
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If you're from the West Coast, you probably heard the game talk about these and love it or hate it.
If you're of Asian descent or from Japan, you may have heard of the term Air Max hunting.
It was a time in the 95 and 96 when they would release these shoes over there and people were willing to pay $2,000 for $3,000.
If you're from the UK, you may call these the 110s because these cost £110 over there.
They also got their own version of this shoe in 2020 called the 110.
So wherever you're from, these shoes mean something to you.
And no matter how many times these come out or other Jordans and certain Nike models come out, these will always sell out.
He's done a really good job of breaking those down, hasn't he?
He's giving us a real understanding, both from a global and cultural perspective, of why those sneakers are important and valuable.
Really, really good bit of content, but it is fetishism.
Yeah, it is.
I'm exactly the same with this kind of thing.
I'm glad I'm coming again off the watch in that video.
Yeah, it's been four seasons for a little while.
They should give the video with the shoes just so you don't feel guilty when you get back.
Well, because it did take somebody, you know, effort and they put a lot of thought in it.
And there's the art and the design of it like a tinker hat feel when you watch it.
That's all good advice.
It's cool though when they go with the story of how they design these shoes instead of it just being like get these because of no reason.
I mean a lot of thought put into them.
The rational mind can be used to reach spiritual states in so much as we can all just rationally envisage circumstances where certain things will become meaningless to you, like under a hierarchy, a hierarchy.
If you're on an airplane and you're told it's going to crash, look how quickly you can clarify your priorities.
Or if your life is under threat or if someone you really loves life's under threat, you can't even generate the real estate to care about secondary things anymore.
We live in this kind of prisoners of comfort in some ways in the culture of commodity.
But this ability to sort of get excited about whether it's football or pornography, it's easy to, one has to be a participant in it.
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See that Alex Honold and he's the free climber and his apparent impaired amygdala.
It's like he doesn't have, they say, or they said on that original documentary about Alex Honold, that he had an impediment in his amygdala that meant he didn't fire up and generate fear the way that other people did.
So he's not doing what you or I would be doing if you were climbing El Capitan or whatever it's called.
So, you know, there might be, there are some people, it seems, that are able to look at a sneaker or, you know, see, imagine if, like, take it, it's easier for me to imagine it around sort of sex, I suppose, because it's sort of primal.
But imagine like the image of a bosom or a butt or a thigh or whatever it is that you would personally fetishize.
Well, how far from that do you need to go before it's ridiculous?
I.e., you know, like those shots where they would zoom out of a cleavage and it's a man or it's fruit or it's something else.
Like, so what is happening?
What work are you doing in your consciousness?
What work are you doing internally?
Now, if we abide with Christ absolutely, there is no room.
There is no room.
Like, why would you let go of his hand for them sneakers?
Now, like, there's this interesting territory where our Lord, you know, when he talks about John the Baptist, it's like John the Baptist doesn't drink and he's an ascetic and he's totally in denial and you say he's demonic and crazy.
And then me, I like a drink and I have it at the weddings and you think I'm a heretic and I'm indulgent because he likes to be with the tax collectors.
And I guess that synonyms these days for tax collectors, he's with prostitutes and meth heads and scum.
That's who he's like, come to me, the proclamation in the luminous mysteries that aren't Catholic enough for Joe, that in the luminous mysteries, which are part of the rosary, the luminous mysteries, one of them is the declaration of the kingdom or proclamation of the kingdom of heaven.
Proclamation.
Like, come, sinners, come.
I want you, Lord.
I want you.
I think that's a very, very important Christian principle that when we're talking about Jesus, that people know that, are you broken?
Are you in a mess?
Like, come here, come this way.
And that part of Christianity that gets a bit Chinos and boat shoe, a bit like, you can fuck off.
Like, you know, I don't think that our Lord's down.
I don't think he's down.
Like, we're all different organs and we're all different limbs.
He says that too.
But like, I feel that for our mission and ministry, I really feel hyper-focused on brokenness.
For sure.
He was.
Yeah, what about?
You said chinos.
Chinos.
don't mean to hurt anyone that wears chinos and boat shoes by the way i'm just saying like it shouldn't feel like like you know when you're at a 12-step meeting and like homeless people come in or drunk people well that's who it's for like you know like sometimes I've been in 12-step meetings where they're like, are you drunk?
Are you drunk?
You better believe I'm drunk.
What's that?
Um, like, um, like Bill Hicks used to have a joke.
Um, like, um, hey, don't give that homeless guy money for he'll just spend it on crack.
And Bill Hicks was like, Well, drugs are pretty important to drug addicts.
Like, yeah, you're damn right if it's for crack.
And if I don't get some, I'm gonna kill you.
You know, like, you gotta like recognize where these people are at, man.
What was you saying about the book of John there, mate?
Did you find it?
Is it in the vine?
Yep.
It says, John 15:1, I am the true vine, and my father is the gardener.
He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit.
While every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes so that it'll be even more fruitful.
You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
Abide in me as I also abide in you.
No branch can bear fruit by itself.
It must remain in the vine.
Neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in me.
Oh, it's cool.
It's cool.
So, like, this for the pruning, hey, like that aspect of it is mostly like if you're suffering, it's because he cares and you're being changed and you're being prepared, and the suffering is all right.
I don't like suffering at all.
I'd rather not do any zero.
I want, I'm, I'm down for numbness and pleasure.
Those are my two.
Pleasure and numbness, but suffering is as he as it says there in scripture, the pruning.
Like, oh, that's being cut off now.
Like, see the suffering that will come, Joe, if you don't, if you're like, I'm not having no more.
Like, I like one time, I remember like when I was about to do some, I was in Edinburgh, I was very famous, and I was about to go hook up, I think, with some women.
And like, the guy I was hanging out with, he really liked one of them, and they all were up for old Russ.
Who can blame them?
Anyway, so like, uh, like, he was going to me, my friend was like, Why you got to do this, man?
I really like this girl.
And like, and I could feel like someone trying to put a barrier up, you know, of like stopping me experiencing and accepting the inundation of free-flowing, consensually offered pleasure.
And like, when I felt like he was trying to impede me, even though I sort of knew he was right, like I knew it weren't right or loyal or being a very good friend, I was so scared, man, of like not having that.
I felt like I would die if I didn't have that input.
So, I get it, man.
When people like, like, fuck it, I'm just gonna drink, or fuck it, I'm eating the ice cream because it actually feels like that's pruning, like to sort of go, All right, God, I trust you, I trust you, God.
Ah, ah, it's horrible, it's a horrible feeling.
And it sometimes also looks like going through your days walking with other guys and sharing honestly with each other about what's going on.
And I, I don't, I think if it's just you individually, that's not what God meant, doesn't he?
Yeah, well, because we were in each other, kind of, yeah.
I mean, think of any trip like throughout the weeks, when any trip we go to, when we're in the plane, when we're going wherever, or like we're sharing honestly with each other, we're reading scripture sometimes, we're praying, like we're that's what true community looks like.
And I think that's what really what I can't imagine it being a solo trip, like a solo journey that doesn't involve brothers in Christ.
Relationship is fundamental, and it's at the molecular level, in it, of where there is the father, the son, there is the Holy Ghost, there is the third component is relational, is it, Jake?
Yeah, yeah.
And I think about bearing fruit.
So it's not just like keep on just staying in the, you know, the darkness and the mistakes and feeling like, well, know that you can always come back to it and talk to your brothers and your friends.
But I always like the quotes like, Jesus loves us as we are, and he loves us enough to not leave us that way.
Like, it is fruit and glory to glory and growth.
We just can never take it as this is us doing it and then trying to sell it to other people.
I think that's the problem.
Because you should always remember the change that happened in you so that you can help somebody else wherever they're at in the journey.
Also knowing you're going to mess up again.
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Oh, I'm bad at that.
I'm especially bad at the first bit.
That's where I really thrive at that.
I'm like, are you an idiot or something?
Like, I went, I've always done that, like to sort of understanding, like, didn't understand it, didn't understand it, didn't understand it.
Understand it now.
You fucking idiot.
Why don't you?
I go straight to why would you not understand immediately without any delay?
That's one of my main problems.
One of my main, many, main problems.
That's good word.
Thank you, you guys, for explaining that.
All right, then, let's have a quick look at, but that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.
How do you tackle with addiction?
How do you tackle with temptation?
How do you tackle objectification?
Let us know what you feel about these issues of addiction.
Hey, for the thumbnail, you could use the trainer, the ice cream, the drug.
This is not messing about.
Thumbnail of a cleavage on it, Massey.
You watch that shit blow up.
I don't know.
I can't believe I'm the one that's pointing this out.
Go look at Paul Joseph Watson thumbnails and even our thumbnails.
Look at the ones that have cleavages in them.
And what do you know?
People like cleavages.
Yeah, if you did cleavage and ice cream, that would be...
Get cleavage and ice cream.
Grok.
Get me cleavage.
110 in there, man.
Screw the 110.
What are you going to do?
Fuck it in its shoe.
Do it his neon eye hole.
Oh, you pervert.
I saw that.
Box fresh.
I'm still angry.
It's time for...
Da-da-da-da!
Here is them news.
Here is them news.
Hollywood is collapsing.
As you know, ever since I've left, Hollywood has gone all wrong.
Probably because of our Russ.
We all saw me in Arthur.
Brilliant acting, especially the voice.
Some of the best acting we've ever seen.
Whether it's my scene with Evander Hollyfield, check that out.
My scenes with Helen Mirren, excellent.
Greg Gerwig, Jennifer Gardner.
All of that acting is some of the best acting that we've ever seen.
Nick Nulty was grabbing me by the nut bag and hurting me real bad.
You'll notice I just let that slide.
Like, you know, I actually didn't.
I spoke to my mate.
I goes, can you talk to him?
Because he keeps grabbing my nuts.
It's hurting.
In the construction site, huh?
And he like a contractor.
I'm not surprised he was annoyed.
My acting was, the voice was very annoying in that scene.
Very, very annoying.
And for an actor like Nick Nulty, a very good grizzled actor, it must have pissed him off.
The fact is, though, that ever since I took Hollywood to its absolute peak, yes, you might afford the films of Bob Evans.
Yes, you may have felt the 70s era was a sort of a golden era in Hollywood.
Or perhaps you like Christopher Nolan.
You're wrong.
It was me.
In both hop, other ones like Rock of Ages, that was the peak.
From there, it's been deteriorating plainly.
You might like Tarantino.
No, not Tarantino.
Oh, Rusty.
He took it there.
So now it's all gone dreadfully, dreadfully wrong because Satan's, you know, I don't know, because I'm not there anymore.
I feel like it's been desecrated.
And frankly, let's face it, Hollywood is the agency of Satan.
Its function, whether they know it or not, they probably don't know this, is to amplify ideas that cause division, suffering, commodification, objectification, these kind of things.
That's what it's for.
And it just blows my mind.
me and Jake spoke about this at length with that brilliant film starring Clooney called Jay Fuller, Jay Fully.
Kelly.
Jay Kelly.
Like, it was a film about Hollywood and about the hopeless, senseless narcissism and emptiness and shallowness of Hollywood, but it is made by Hollywood.
Like, so all those people, it's just, it's really confusing.
But then I felt the same thing last night when I watched with my whole family Little Miss Sunshine, which does tackle some pretty difficult themes for seven and nine year olds, my girls, suicides in there, homosexuality, sexuality more broadly, pageants.
There's lots of complex ideas in there.
But ultimately, it seems to end with the idea that we should embrace our uniqueness and our free career as opposed to entering into the superficial pageantry as exemplified by the horror of a child beauty pageant, the sort of macabre horror of children being objectified in that way.
And what does that indicate?
We all know where that leads and what that's about, really.
So, but then I thought, well, Hollywood is part of that pageant and glamorization and objectification.
It just does it in a less trashy way than some pageant somewhere.
They don't have the aesthetic skills and the lighting and the makeup and the talent, frankly, to do it in the way that Hollywood does.
So there's so much expertise and so much ingenuity in Hollywood, but it's being bent, generally speaking, towards the will of the evil one.
So here's Paramount saying it's Warner Brothers deal can work without big layoffs.
But the fact is, is this concentration of studios is an acknowledgement that entertainment has changed and is changing and that media is changing and the way that you and we consume media is altering.
Soon after winning their fight for Warner Brothers Discovery, da-da-da, executives at Paramount Skydance laid out plans for $6 billion in cuts over the next three years at the combined company.
Of course, that's how capitalism operates.
They insisted they could do it without wholesale layoffs.
Hollywood ain't so convinced.
Several of Tinseltown's powerful unions and members of its creative community, they do have strong unions there, decried the $110 billion deal to merge two of the industry's biggest studios, calling it anti-competitive and saying it would result in fewer jobs and opportunities.
But what's it meant to be?
Hollywood's not there to create jobs and opportunities.
It's there as a propaganda unit.
Look at the relationships they have with the CIA.
Look at the relationships they have with the military.
CIA place operatives within all major studios.
I mean, it's just the cast iron, deep, stone deep, stone-cold fact that Hollywood has CIA operatives within it.
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And the messaging, as you know, is sort of Babylonian.
But analysts and media industry experts say the $79 billion of debt will take the...
Excuse me.
But analysts and media industry experts say that the $79 billion debt load the company will take on when the deal closes, plus the huge cost for the increased output, is just basically saying it's bad.
Anyway, but the senior man Ellison there from Oracle, I think some people are concerned about that because Oracle are acquiring or stroke have acquired, at least from a licensing perspective, am I right in saying TikTok?
So does that mean that they've got that degree of content creation and that degree, that amount of distribution?
That's a terrifying, terrifying amount of power.
Okay, so Cameron's on my friend, God Lord, Jay Shetty Man, had James Cameron, director of Titanic and Avatar and so many great movies on his show.
Now, I used to know Jay Shetty because one of my teachers, sometimes I allude to the teachings I receive from Eastern mystical teachers.
One of the greats was Radhanath Swamy.
He's a member of the Harry Krishna movement.
This guy, he was one of the first holy men I ever encountered.
And what emanated from him was an aspect of divinity that sort of made me blush, that didn't really make sense till I read Yogananda's autobiography of a yogi, in which the guru tradition is described as being a deep love between men.
Not dissimilar from what you're saying there, beloved Dave, about like the walk that we take on the Christian path and the lateral relationships, the horizontal relationships between one another where we love one another.
Although in the guru tradition, you know, like they would say of Paul, you know, sort of, you know, learn from a Paul, train a Timothy or whatever.
Like a guru, a great teacher, this is a very, very, very strong love.
When I first met Radhanat Swami, he was the first person that said to me this, all desire is the inappropriate substitute for the desire to be at one with God.
He's the first person that said that to me, like when I was 27, and I was like, whoa, this is cool.
And what I felt from him when I first met him, Radhanath Swami, was that I couldn't shake him.
I mean, I could actually physically, because he's only a little fella, but I mean, I couldn't shake him spiritually.
And I did shake him down over the years.
I took him to a lesbian roller disco once, and that pushed him to the limit.
All of us were challenged by that lesbian roller disco, not least the lesbians themselves.
I hope I presented something of a challenge.
I was in my prime.
So then Radhanat Swami eventually went, Russell, with your permission, I would like to leave now.
Shut up, I'm having a good time.
He's a good lesbian roller disco.
Anyway, what I realized was that he was a person that if I said to him, hey, do you want to be in my band?
He wouldn't go, yeah, cool.
Or if I said, some guys are breaking into your car, he wouldn't go, what, what the fuck?
He was in, he was, the word Swami means he who is with himself.
He is with himself.
And their love of Krishna, it's very Christ-like.
I mean, Krishna comes as a baby.
He's a divine child.
He defeats all sorts of serpent-like beasts.
He, I mean, there's lots of correlatives, I would say.
Anyway, so, and I think about that a lot and wonder about it.
And I suppose maybe this is one of those things we don't know till the afterlife.
But my point is that Jay Shetty was always giving this dude rights.
Like, you know, like sort of the, he would come over, he would minister me, he would teach me and stuff.
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And the guy in the car, and I'd say, come in, mate, if you want.
And he'd go, no, I'm all right.
He's just doing his service, was Jay Shetty.
Wow.
That's how I knew Jay.
And like, Jay, when I was in a more conventional celebrity space, I would go on Jay's stuff.
And then, of course, obviously I've, you know, recognized that for a lot of people, even the fact that I've been charged with stuff, even though we'll, you know, when the trial happens, we'll, please God, all justice will be done.
Please God, justice will be done.
I recognize that if you've got Barack Obama coming on your podcast, you're not going to have probably me or Alex Jones or, you know, an ad, bad name here.
So here he is with James Cameron on talking about Hollywood.
Is Hollywood getting its just desserts?
Do we need a Hollywood?
Let me know what you think in the comments and chat what the function of Hollywood is.
Surely, like me, there are films that you watch that you think are just absolutely fantastic.
I mean, Hollywood made the Matrix, for heaven's sake.
So let's see, let's have a little look at this conversation between the great James Cameron and the lovely Jay Shetty.
Maybe just keep going.
I don't know.
Well, look, I mean, there are a number of milestones here that have to be met.
First of all, the film has to succeed financially.
And that's not a given.
Everybody just assumes it's a no-brainer.
But the theatrical marketplace has been dwindling and collapsing about 35% and hasn't rebounded.
And people's habit patterns have changed.
And so the thing that I grew up and love and feel such Strong sense of passion for maybe becoming obsolete Maybe and the cost of making movies is continuously going up and this and the demand is falling so that's a little bit of a death spiral right there, you know So maybe it's maybe it's going to be okay.
We were sort of successful if we can do the next one cheaper We can continue Well, that's interesting.
So that's just like.
From an industrial perspective, That's obsolescence.
That's like Kodak style obsolescence, like that's a product people don't require anymore because technology has surpassed it.
People will always require, not require.
Might want content, and content creation may remain a game, but the whole modality is flexing and being tested, and you better believe that pretty big brains are investigating how to keep the gravy trainer rolling on, because live events, live streaming, your World Cups, your Super Bowls and all that are significant and your event movies are interesting.
I reckon though, that we're moving.
In a sense.
Something glorious could come from this technological diaspora, or something terrifying could come from it.
Let's try and work out which way it's going to go.
Here we see through this uh, video generator called SEA Dance that uh, the styles of films can be immediately generated simply by putting the auteur's name into the prompt check.
I guess that's Wes Anderson, huh?
That's really cool.
I mean, I'd like...
It makes me think.
I want to see like it turn into Tarantino, and I want to see the same scene done Tarantino, and then I want to see it done, where's Anderson?
Then I want to see it done.
Uh, who's one of the spaghetti western dudes or something, you know?
Zanderson would be saying, hold on a minute, like, I'm better than that.
And he would be well within his rights, but...
But you know um, if you watch that film, say Goodwill Hunting, there's a bit where the mentor mathematician says only about five people in the world, he says, would be able to determine, discern the difference between Goodwill Hunting's mathematical ability and his, he goes, but I I can't.
I'm one of those five people now, like the majority of people, can't and won't care about the difference between what Wes Anderson does.
That makes it more fluid and fluent and beautiful and, I don't know, symmetrical or asymmetrical when required.
But people aren't going to care, particularly as over time, the entertainment industry has you, one would say, broadly allowed contributed to a deterioration in taste through overstimulation, and spectacle would be a good way of putting it.
In Aristotle's poetics he says that there are many components to the creation of theater, spectacle being but One of them.
Over time, we've relented so heavily on spectacle, you know, stimulation, explosions, porn, breasts, madness, penis, like we've overloaded it.
So now we've created our own, you know, we've created our own problem here.
Think about what they even said in that merger text that you read about wanting more people to have opportunities.
And that's really like the opposite of what Hollywood, it's supposed to be hard, right?
You're supposed to be really, really good at your craft.
Like you got to go against all your maybe your parents saying go to school or whatever, and you got to go for your dream and all that stuff.
It becomes easily accessible to everybody, then it loses that artistic side that causes struggle almost to get there.
Wouldn't you say that one of the challenges between sport and entertainment, and I know you're a person that cares about both of those things, and I probably will do in a way.
I really, you know, love certain sports, football, particularly, like that football and sport are in general more measurable.
You can say, well, this person had a fight with that person in a ring and that person won.
With art, it's so much more subjectivity involved generally, but you can still probably make a claim like Quentin Tarantino is one of the best film directors of the last 50 years.
You can sort of say something like that.
But are you aggregating a variety like the success of his films?
You're putting together a lot of information.
It's not the same as saying Mike Tyson is one of the best boxers of the last 50 years.
It's different, innit?
But then I'm starting to think of surfing and like, how can you ever have a surfing competition, a one-off, because every single surfer is dealing with a different wave.
And then I start to think that that's probably applicable in even a more managed sport like tennis because the waves, because nothing is one thing, really.
All things are interconnected.
All things are interconnected.
So like, I don't believe that Hollywood is entirely meritocratic.
I think that Hollywood is primarily at essence a kind, whilst there are, and I've met them, some of them, geniuses in Hollywood.
I think by their fruit shall you know them.
The purpose of Hollywood is to ensure that the agenda of the powerful remains alluring and immersive and invisible.
That's what it's for.
Alluring, immersive and invisible.
That we remain overly invested in romantic attachment, that we don't question the nature of power.
And when we do question the nature of power, it's futile introspective questioning rather than a kind of rampant, vibrant uprising.
Now, because I still struggle with how can you make the Matrix in Hollywood, then we all watch the Matrix, go, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.
Good.
Do another one.
Like, you don't go, oh my God, that's actually it.
You've described it.
I'm out.
But then in real life, you can do the Epstein file release and like, all these powerful people are paedophiles.
They're all stripping kids.
And somehow, like, look at our vulnerability.
Look at our, like, we're children.
We're children.
We can be shepherded.
We are shepherded.
We need a shepherd.
We're shepherded by dark forces if we're not shepherded by him.
People like some of the great people, some of the greatest people are converted into individualism.
And once you've got them in individualism, they're no longer effective for the kingdom.
You know, I'm thinking in particular of some great men that I've known that they believe that the arena that they're playing is in the arena of the individual.
You know, like to make that final step and to become selfless and to go, now I live for the community.
Now I live for the kingdom.
It's always going to be, it's going to lead to sacrifice.
And most people don't want to do it, I don't think.
Well, Keanu Reed, if like him in particular pops up into my head with The Matrix, but like, what do you think has allowed him to be like, to seem like he has character and doesn't care about any of it?
And like you see him walking around helping people out, like almost does it like it's his craft, but he's not attached.
It seems like he's got a I don't know.
Is it pathology?
Is it the equivalent of just a particular wave in the ocean?
Because you know, you take Leonardo DiCaprio and Kinu Reeves, like two of their sort of great sort of relatively contemporary stars, and one gets the idea that Leonardo DiCaprio is deeply embedded and invested in some of the I'm not making aspersions or casting aspersions, but I'm saying he seems very much a figure of Hollywood.
And Kinu Reeves seems like someone who's like, I'm doing this, but I'm me, man, and I'm not getting involved.
But, and yet, the system itself can accommodate both.
You know, it's just very strange.
Even in the sort of relatively short period that we've all been interested in Hollywood, you can't, you couldn't have like, you know, some of these people are crazy, man.
Like, Nick Cage is like a crazy dude.
Like, can you have one of them now?
No, you can't have like Nick Cage, like, who looks like, I'm not casting aspersions at the beginning of his career that he was maybe on some stimulants and he was a pretty wild dude.
That you ain't getting that now.
Like, someone like they see the last star, the lad Shamole there, he's he's that kid's clean, and he he's like a monk of Hollywood.
He's like, I just want to do this, I believe in greatness.
I think he's a wonderful actor, and he's but he's not a hedonist or crazy.
Like, you used that, he used to sort of celebrate it, but look what was going on, Polanski and Jack, you know, like all people like.
Obviously, it's difficult for me to talk about because of what I've gone through and I'm going through, where I know that what is being posed as crime was simply hedonism and the difference being consent.
It's all it's always been that.
Any one of any sort of PK Hollywood star, if you wanted to reframe it.
So, what I'm basically saying is that, like, Kinu Reeves, I don't know, man, but like, he seems like a really, really lovely guy, but he's also in some ways neutral.
Yeah, like he's like, he's a neutral individual.
Well, he's not like, I've had enough of this.
I mean, I bet he does really amazing things.
There's no question about it.
Kind things and all of that.
But you can't, Hollywood.
He's not speaking out against it.
He's not speaking out against it.
How can he?
Yeah.
But he's also not in a ton of roles since like early 2000s that I know of.
John Wick.
Where have you been?
Two words.
John.
I forgot.
Wick.
Cut that from Massey.
Cut that out.
We don't even hear anyone disparaging the good name of John Wick.
One of my towards the end of when I was in the mainstream, I went on a talk show with like, and Kinu Reeves was on it as well.
And he was promoting John Wick.
And I think it was the first one.
I was like, John Wick?
That's not a good name for a film.
Sounds like a carpet fitter.
John Wick, like an advert you would hear on talk sport.
John Wick, 20% Sent off carpet tiles, John Wick, rugs are available, John Wick, this Agsminster pile.
And I think I said some of these things on the show and Keanu Reeves just was like, he didn't care at all.
He was really neutral about it.
But they didn't put it in the broadcast version.
That I'll notice because so Kino Reeves' PR person afterwards went, hey, that guy, that English guy, can you not put in the stuff he said about John Wick?
Because we're actually here to promote John Wick.
That's the only reason that we're here is to promote John Wick.
And like, look, you can't be any time in Hollywood will disabuse you of the notions of its romanticism, whether that's from the practical experience of being on a movie set and how bloody boring it is a lot of the time, or the broader sort of sense of how it treats you.
And I don't even, I don't mean satanism.
Like, you know, remember when Tommy was on here and like Tommy Robinson, he was like, come on, right?
He will sort of almost want me to say, yeah, and then someone bit a baby's head off.
You know, like, you know, it's not that.
It's more like, you know, you arrive there.
This is your lawyer.
This is your manager.
This is your business manager.
This is your agent.
This is your manager.
This is your PR.
Like they all want five to ten to twenty percent.
You're like, what the fuck is this?
What the fuck is this, actually?
And it's just a machine.
I was at the same time as Jason Mamoa, the handsome lad that's Thor, Henderson.
I was doing a bunch of stuff at the same time as them.
And like both of them are really cool people.
But the truth is, I'm not, I'm not like, you know, I'm not trying to say that.
What am I trying to say?
I'm not trying to claim any credit for my failure in Hollywood.
Because how can you?
But like, what I know about myself is I, like, whether it was school or Hollywood, I'm not able to sort of just go, okay.
You know, like, a lot of the things I did was really dumb.
Like, you know, when I was doing movies and I'm not fucking going.
And they wanted me to do reshoots for Arthur, say, and frankly, they were right.
But like, like, and I'm like, I'm going home.
I'm going.
Like, I just didn't.
And really, what was in me was I didn't like it.
I didn't really want to do it.
I couldn't see that then.
Great big, you know, set pieces.
We need a new AR, a new ending, or whatever.
I'm like, fuck off, man.
I don't want to do it.
Like, that was the wrong attitude because other people's jobs and money and you're meant to be in the film and everything.
But I didn't like it.
And even when the films with Judd Appetow and good films, you know, I didn't like it.
It's weird.
It's weird to admit that.
That I just didn't like it.
I didn't like the world.
And now, as I get older, I'm sort of see why that would be.
I think it's sort of primarily because Hollywood, I'm not saying the people are dark.
I'm saying the entire endeavor is dark.
A way of understanding something is if you were to remove that factor, the thing wouldn't exist no more.
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That's a good way of understanding what something's for, right?
And if you, like, if Hollywood wasn't amplifying and normalizing the agenda of very powerful interests, there would be no Hollywood.
So that is what it's for.
By its fruits shall you know it.
Like, even though it still generates, to this day, amazing, brilliant content.
But that's because of us.
We create the meaning through our Lord and Savior, the maker of all meaning, within ourselves.
Like that doesn't matter what they do.
The World Cup will be amazing.
People, even if it's in the middle of a cartel war in Mexico, even if you come over to New York and there's problems, even if there's protests against Trump, what they do when it gets to like Germany are playing Argentina in the quarterfinals and we play the winner, it's gonna be brilliant because football is amazing and it's just amazing to see like someone gorgeous like Kinu Reeves.
We're like it channeling, it's channeling, it's channeling.
But the problem is it's controlled by the evil one.
And I don't mean that in a direct way because those things are very difficult to corroborate, but they are scripturally sound.
So, but that's just what I think.
And that's going to be a cut.
You can cut your way through that, darling.
That's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.
Now, Massey, why?
You have a 12-hour flight.
Who you sit next to?
Massey, who are you going for?
Probably Michael Jackson, I reckon, because I mean, well, it's the 80s, innit?
If it's for that age, so you probably would have fancied me in the 80s, I reckon.
I would have been like seven or eight or something, so I could have got a free trip to Neverland out of it, a song written about me.
Maybe it comes for the first time, who knows?
So, yeah.
I don't think you're going to be coming at seven, darling.
Unless you're pretty naturally adults.
We'll find out.
We'll find out.
At best, it would be a neutral and fluidless spasm in the lower abdomen because I was experimenting at that age.
And all you'd get, like one day as a boy, I went, I wonder what happens if I just keep doing this wanking.
I was a pioneer.
And what happened is, is you sort of go, boo, you have a sort of what I call a dry gasm.
And in a dry gasm, you sort of go, it makes you go unusual, but it's a fruitless endeavor.
It was a while before I did it again.
All right.
But nevertheless, let's go back to the Massey's Pedo flight.
I love George.
I came so close to being able to meet George Michael when I did something at the Olympics, a story that I've regaled you with, stroke bored you with before.
Met Madonna briefly.
Phil Collins never met him.
Maybe Freddy.
Everyone chose their person.
Who are you going for, Jay?
Gay people.
A lot of gay people.
All right, let's see who's gay.
George, Freddie.
Yeah.
Elton.
Elton.
That Madonna at the back.
Yeah, Madonna.
That's Madonna.
Is that Phil Collins on there?
Yeah, or Phil.
Yeah, Phil.
Yeah.
Well, you don't want you saying.
He's Phil Collins.
Yeah, I'll ask you next to Phil Collins.
Well, you could actually just do that now.
There you go.
Just go and find him.
He's alright.
Let's see a clip that's going on.
It's like him at his peak, but he's wearing the microphone that he could just walk hands-free, but he's dressed like he's an assistant teacher.
And like, this guy was filling out arenas.
It was a weird time, Phil Collins.
Just kind of balding already.
No matter how old he was, it was like the same look.
You don't know how old he is.
He's just up there screaming fans.
We tried to throw Phil Collins out of the culture, didn't we?
We're like, nah, man, what was that?
He don't look cool enough.
Fuck off.
But then, so I feel like Kanye, among others, went, hold on a minute.
Those were good songs.
His work on Tarzan, the cartoon?
Nobody's written.
Tarzan, you want to bring that up?
Nobody's written songs like that for a Disney movie.
Hold on a minute, they weren't very...
What do you mean?
Which one?
I don't think they were in Philadelphia.
That was Phil Collins, was it?
Phil Collins.
Tarzan weren't very good.
That music is iconic.
That's another joke that's going around.
Son of man, you ever heard it?
Let me pull it up right here.
Bollocks, Tarzan.
The music in Tarzan, I've never even seen it.
You've never seen it.
Couldn't prior to investigations, what I've got for that.
Tarzan sounds like a lot of claptrap.
I mean, dude.
Martin John did Lion King, didn't he?
Yeah.
This is crap.
Listen to this.
I'm bored!
Not his best work, is it?
Nah.
It's so...
It's not in the air tonight, is it?
It's not another day for you and me in Paris.
Check it out.
It's not.
It's not even Susu Studio.
Mate, Tarzan is shite.
And the Phil Collins music ain't good enough.
Is it Dave?
Do you have a lot of people?
He did Lion King.
Lion King's Elton John.
He's another one.
Why won't you the rest of you say who you want to sit next to on Gay Air?
Now, say it.
Who do you...
Right, go on, Jake.
Who are you going for?
Definitely not Bruce.
Not Bruce.
I mean, I'll sit next to Prince.
Yeah, Prince.
I mean, one is a genius.
That's one.
Yeah, he's a genius.
You know, you could probably learn a lot.
I'd like to get into his mind, say, hey, man, tell me about it.
You're kind of feminine.
You had the ruffles.
What was that about?
But you had all the ladies.
That was that time.
I think that was your era almost.
Like, that's kind of what Russell, you did.
I was in spirit.
Dead reference.
Comedy discipline.
Like, yeah, I would sit with Freddie to sort of, you know, for charisma vibes.
George Michael for don't drink yourself, don't kill it, don't do it, George.
Like the ones that are living, what's the point?
You could still maybe sit next to them at some point.
Yeah, but it's Madonna when she was good, not the crap Madonna we've got now.
Lovely Madonna.
Look at lovely Madonna.
Why am I about maybe fall in love, have a romance with Madonna?
All right, let's check this.
Just want to begin, Tommy, mate, by saying thank you so much for visitating me while you are here in America.
This is an extremely important moment in which we can really feel Jesus felicitating throughout our people think I just say long words that I don't understand.
You can't, you fucking can't.
Felicitating throughout our veins.
When we come to America, I didn't think I was going to be meeting with a comedian from the UK.
Well, the thing about comedy, mate, is that it's very reprobability as a conduit for dogiematic relief ability masks its essence as a guiding principle back to the light of Christianity.
When I do deliberate on my jokes and I feel a Christ-like spirituality imbuing and almost inseminating the audience with an irresistible lust for my joviality, I'm filled with a sense of mission, a sense of purpose to restore our country back to its former great ability.
That's good, though.
It's not good.
Anywhere in the UK, including the town where I'm from, which is a town called Luton.
You have to be ashamed to preach the Bible.
The only religion that you're allowed to preach in a public space is radical as long.
My message for you, Tommy, is a very simple one, mate, and it can probably best be explicitated through the use of a question.
As you sit before me, feeling my spiritual presence, whether you are or able to believe it or not, do you agree that you would envision me as the comedic incarnation of Jesus Christ himself?
Well, to see about 40% of the time.
And herein lies the beautiful message of our beautiful scripture upon which I will now wanktificate at your pleasure, Tommy.
And Lord, before I do, please allow.
I'm not happy about that.
I'm suing him.
It's so good.
I'm suing him.
Why is everyone else laughing?
This is one of those moments.
Why is everyone else laughing?
I don't like this.
I do.
Please allow me this opportunity, Larity, to express my gratification and gratitude for this blessing and this moment with Tommy Robinson.
Behold, as it is said in Ezekiel, for this is what the sovereign Lord personified by me, of course, says, I myself will search for my sheep.
I'm not the same.
The subtext of me is not that I'm Jesus.
Why is that guy saying that the subtext is that I think I'm Jesus?
Do I?
I've said he is too.
I'm just his vessel.
Keep you and look after them.
Or any of the sheep from Luton.
I love the spirituality in that question, Tommy, because the sheep are, in fact, from all over the erogenous zones of the Lord's land.
95% of Luton sheep are no longer British.
The little Pakistani sheep are grew up from Luton.
85% of the male sheep population of Luton have now converted to Medical's Norm.
Little ginger sheep, yeah?
They were mates of mine, huh?
Well, the thing about that, mate, is that I view it as my personal responsibility and, of course, my ejacularity to do the following.
I will rescue them from all the places where their seed was scattered.
Of course, in allusion to fornication.
I will bring them out from the nations and gather them and, of course, erect them in the direction of Christ himself.
So 99% of British sheep are known.
I'm angry about it.
I'm angry.
British sheep are no longer prepared to stand up and be proud priests.
They're scared.
Fear not, for the Lord is with you.
I will pasture and pleasure them on the humping mountains of Luton.
So 75% of the mountains in Luton have now converted to Medical's Norm, yeah?
And they're all waging ji-head.
I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, Tommy, for I, Russell Brand, am yours and Luton's true Lord and Saviour.
Behold, as you witness my resurrection, of course, emphasis on the latter part of the world, which is, of course, erection.
That can only be imagined within the privacy of your very force and, of course, your imagination.
Come to f ⁇ Okay, well done, well done.
I think it's very good of Tom Robinson.
But when I get through my many trials, that guy's next.
I'm down there.
That's slander, libel.
Something.
That's something.
Snorting's amazing.
Yeah, it's not accurate.
I've never seen that.
I've never seen that kind of conduct.
It's a good impression.
A lot of fun with Tommy this week.
You can learn a lot of impersonations from watching someone else do.
That's good stuff, that man.
All right, well, thanks very much for joining us.
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