Energy Lockdowns, Media Power and the Fight for Reality — SF695
Russell Brand analyzes energy lockdowns triggered by the Iran war, citing a $580 million oil spike from a Trump post and speculating on elite plans for digital regulation via IEA mandates. He critiques Bill Gates' micro-needle vaccine passport theories while contrasting mainstream media's narrative control with new platforms like Rumble. The discussion shifts to Louis Theroux's documentary on the manosphere, where Piers Morgan attempts to shame influencers but is outmaneuvered by their direct audience access. Ultimately, Brand argues that while old media maintains restrictive prisons, new digital spaces allow creators to bypass censorship, even as both sides fuel conflict for platform profit. [Automatically generated summary]
Ladies and gentlemen, Russell Brand and Russell Conspiracy Theory.
Trying to bring real journalism to the American people.
Hello there, you Awakening Wonders.
Thanks for joining me today for stay free with Russell Brand.
But for how much longer exactly will we be free with increasingly novel ways of imposing lockdowns being suggested, even including now energy lockdowns.
Some people say look at the result of an event and then you will understand what the event was about.
So we're asking you today: are we in the midst of chaotic and escalating geopolitical matters, or more terrifyingly, the midst of a global conspiracy, the result of which will always be to further regulate populations and restrict individual freedoms on the basis of health and safety?
Let me know in the comments and chat what you think about that.
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It's terrifying to the mainstream media.
We could say anything at any time.
And that for some reason is frightening to them because control of information is pivotal.
Control of energy is pretty important.
We're beginning to learn that.
Control of movement is pretty important.
We've understood that for some time.
But now we know just how important the control of information is.
Our first subject is, of course, going to be the Iran war and its impact on oil production.
Let's get straight into it.
This was the Donald Trump social media post, Truth Social, that for a lot of people made them think that maybe...
I suppose we're starting with, I suppose, the idea that potentially...
One of the ways we knew that people were definitely dying in an unusual way subsequent to the vaccine rollout...
and I'm not suggesting there's a definite and definitive connection between excess deaths and mass vaccination.
But one of the ways we knew that people were dying in a different way in larger numbers in previously unimpacted age groups after the vaccine rollout was insurance companies had to change their premiums for people in their 40s and 50s.
They had to suddenly pay more because, well, people were dying that hadn't been dying before.
So finance often shows truths that you won't get in narrativized news simply because you can't argue with money in the same way.
And when it starts to impact and inflict results on corporations or markets, then those results are easy or easier to measure.
So have a look at this.
Was someone making a profit?
In a minute, we're going to be talking to this whole little crew of people.
Dave's over there, Jake's over there, branded up nicely in a reborn t-shirt.
Joe smoking steadily and gratefully.
And Massey there, who is Iranian, still safe and I would say looking quite optimistic because it turns out Iran are quite good at wars.
And think that maybe this war might be coming to an end.
At the very least, it had a big impact on markets.
This is just the volumes of people going into that oil market and kind of for the most part selling after that Donald Trump post.
You can see there's this real spike in activity, a lot of people going in there kind of this frenzy and that's the kind of flip side of prices.
But look at this.
15 minutes before that Donald Trump post there was a very big amount of trading volume.
Very big.
In fact actually when you're looking at that amount of volume, that spike that was the biggest trading volume that we saw that day.
We're starting here just at eight o'clock in the morning.
We're going through to that moment of the Donald Trump post.
Relatively quiet volumes, not much going on in the market.
And then all of a sudden that.
Now it's unclear whether it's just an individual or whether it's a kind of group of people but what you do know from just imputing what the potential value, the notional value of those trades just on oil would be it is staggering amounts of money, life-changing amounts of money.
$580 million.
Life-changing amounts of money there, but are they death-changing amounts of money?
Because we all know how this ends.
Certainly this war has already become complicated.
Tel Aviv taking many more strikes than was anticipated.
A lot of people surprised by Iran's ability to withstand and inflict damage and their control over vital regions for trade and transportation.
Some of these things are surprising.
Some people believe this war is not going how it was anticipated to go.
One thing though, I suppose is predictable if you pay attention to media in the independent space is that cataclysmic events and crisis events will always be advantageous to elite groups and institutions.
Put simply, what's a crisis to you might not necessarily be a crisis to everyone, but an opportunity in the same way that I suppose that graph demonstrated that this war with advanced knowledge is a trading opportunity.
Well in the same way if your business is regulation, if indeed there is a grand vision, a 2030 type plan to implement mass control, digital ID, currencies that are centrally controlled and bio data used to manipulate and control populations, then anything that's severe and justifies regulation is a potential opportunity.
A lot of people think that this war will result in energy lockdowns.
Let's have a look at some of the available evidence or at least speculation that's causing people to talk about that.
First of all, this is a video from Cuba where energy blackouts and energy management and energy lockdowns are already in practice, I understand.
So this is Cuba and there is no electricity anywhere because there's no oil, there's no energy.
And this is what it looks like.
Except that hotel, because it's a five-star hotel.
That's it.
Everybody else is in the dark.
Okay, so it's like possible, it's plausible.
Did you hear that detail about the capture of Maduro from Venezuela?
The deep state organizations were able to shut down the electricity grid in Caracas for a few moments to facilitate Delta Forces easier capture of Maduro.
And do you know this crazy fact that the CIA manufacture valves, like they have valve factories all over the world that just are like sort of neutral factories making valves that are sort of funded by CIA carve-outs.
So these valves are put into institutional electricity places and water places so that at some point in the future, if they need to shut down the electricity in some Latin American or Middle Eastern country or maybe even European countries, the CIA can go, yeah, do that thing with the valves.
And all the valves just suddenly switch off.
That's how kind of deep and pervasive it is.
Meaningful Resistance Escalates00:02:29
And even I suppose to watch that speculative bit of news shows you, does it show you that in the last five, ten years, the way that news is produced and the way that news is discussed has to alter?
When you have outliers, the mainstream have to adapt and emulate in order to stay relevant, otherwise the outlier will become the dominant mainstream.
So even in the way now that on YouTube, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Sky are the trusted news sources, they've recognized that they're online, analog, or even digital, their audiences through conventional television viewing is irrelevant now.
They have to operate in these fields.
Obviously, luckily for them, Google Alphabet or a reliable partner will promote what they would call trusted or mainstream media news sources over independent news and journalism.
Of course, saying that misinformation and malinformation is a threat.
But once you understand they don't understand you, they don't care about you being misinformed or they don't care about you having misinformation.
What they care about you having is independent information.
And I don't know, man, it seems that that is already happening.
It's been disseminated, it's been proliferated.
People in significant numbers don't think in accordance with the way the mainstream would have you think.
But there's an interesting story about this a little later because there's dramatizations of that very phenomena coming out of my country, the UK.
But they still are able to significantly control us.
One of the things I saw recently is that even post the Epstein revelations where like a significant number of people now believe that stuff like ritualized murder of children, sexual abuse, pedophilia is practiced by members of elite and powerful institutions, people still are willing to pay their taxes.
And I think until there's meaningful resistance, and meaningful resistance means significant disobedience and non-participation in controlled social systems, until there's meaningful disobedience, I reckon this will continue.
I feel like we're experiencing an escalation.
Do you feel like that?
Like, has it got like the sort of clown world escalation?
Dan Bongino, the beloved of Rumble, goes in and his deputy head of the FBI comes back and is at Rumble again.
The Israel situation seems to be getting more and more nefarious and terrifying and expansive and concerning.
People like openly discuss now demonic forces.
Governments Frame Security as Lockdowns00:09:17
And yet, largely, you look out your window, people are just carrying on, pulling over at service stations, paying whatever they're asked to pay for gas, you know, participating in award ceremonies.
In short, the Bread and Circuses show is going on.
It's continuing.
Now, let's have a look a little more this.
The International Energy Agency has released a plan titled Sheltering from Oil Shocks.
The IE, I mean, this is another one of these type of organizations that I'd never heard of before.
How long has this existed?
Like, this is like, do you remember when you hadn't heard of the WHO?
I do.
Like, WHO, what's that?
Like, you know, literally would have thought who meant the band of the WHO.
Well, now, WHO, that means it's meant to care about your health.
Actually, it's marshalling resources.
Well, now it's the IEE.
I mean, that's even harder than WHO.
It's not in any way a word.
I want to say IKEA.
IEA's 10-point plan and why it sounds like a lockdown.
The ongoing conflict involving Iran has thrown global oil supply into serious trouble.
The Strait of Humuz, which I know I'm going to have to learn.
I was trying to grope for that phrase earlier.
I thought there's no way I can rely on anyone on this call to know the phrase, the Strait of Humuz.
Like, I'd ask one of this lot, and they'd say something about Ewoks.
I know they would.
They'd say something from Star Trek or something.
Straight of Homuz, the Strait of Humuz.
Okay, so the Strait of Humuz, through which a large share of the world's oil moves, 20% I understand, is now disrupted.
Oil prices have climbed to $112 a barrel, went as high as $120, I heard.
And in the United States, gas prices have hit $5 a gallon.
Pause.
Does that matter?
Do you care about that, Dave?
No.
You're an American, though.
You don't care about gas prices?
Jake, he's got, I mean, he's got money.
But what do you think about it, Jake?
I mean, you still got to do it.
It's not like you're going to stop.
I mean, I paid, I have a big truck.
Yeah.
It's bigger than yours.
It's an almighty gorgeous, throbbing truck.
I've never seen a truck like it.
It's actually disgusting.
It makes my temperature go up just looking at it and it's a gorgeous truck.
But I paid $100 and I was like three quarters of a tank.
So there you go.
It's hitting real folks like Jake right in this sexy truck hole.
As transportation costs rise, everything from store-bought goods to food is getting more expensive.
Fertilizers, which are critical for farming.
Yeah, I was talking to a farmer the other day in Indiana and he told me, yeah, we're concerned the fertilizers.
I bet there is a way of domestically producing fertilizers.
I bet there's ways of handling all this stuff domestically.
And I bet the reason that it's an international business is, you know, because of profit.
And also move from, also move through hummuz are becoming harder to source, putting food security at risk as well.
The International Energy Agency has replaced a plan titled, The International Energy Agency, who none of us had ever heard of, of now in charge.
Like, I'm going to start one of these things.
I'm going to start, right?
You know, CI used to have Pablo Diablo's legitimate business firm.
How about Pablo Diablo's legitimate energy and climate crisis and pandemic protection global umbrella?
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The International Energy Agency has released a plan titled Sheltering from Oil Shocks.
They've used the word shock there, huh?
Interestingly.
It includes assigning driving days based on license plate numbers.
Once they start thinking of these things, it's irresistible to them.
Lowering highway speed limits, reducing air travel, encouraging work from home.
They already did that.
Who would have thought that would have happened as a result of the pandemic?
Switching to electric stoves.
The IEA draws a direct comparison to COVID, saying similar measures work then.
Oh, yeah, when we look back at COVID, one word comes to mind.
Success.
Here's another one.
Triumph.
Here's a pair of words.
Glory days.
None of us look back and think, terrific con, rip-off.
Measures work then and can work now.
Governments may frame it as energy security, but the outcome could be restricted movement without permission, much like a lockdown.
Find out who funds the like how long is it?
Bill Gates donates 40% of the IEA's annual requirements.
But the outcome could be restricted, much like a lockdown.
If oil prices continue rising, this plan could roll out across multiple countries and may eventually evolve into long-term digital systems that regulate vehicle use, travel, and even household energy consumption.
There's nothing that can happen that don't result in some sort of restriction and lockdown.
I suppose what it might be is mass communication and the miracles of technology that we all largely take for granted by their nature mean that centralization is less legitimate and required because you can organize stuff.
You can organize stuff locally.
Just think about your own personal use of Facebook and your own telephone devices and how it simplifies organization planning and communication.
Well obviously that's happening everywhere at scale.
So to continue to justify control and use these very same devices so that we're all sort of on a bracelet on a tag, centrally controlled and malleable, you have to increase the temperature in the pan.
They tried the pandemic.
That was pretty successful.
They were able to ring about lots of measures of control and social change that would never be reversed.
People work from home now generally and like in much larger numbers than would ever have been anticipated or you could have ever brought about through suggestion.
Something like this.
It'd be fascinating to see how it plays out.
It'll be fascinating to see how it plays out.
And also just think about this.
Can you remember for how long we were talking about don't have a war with Iran?
Remember them boxes that got found in Trump's garage that were to do with war with Iran?
Remember Trump said there's not going to be a war with Iran.
Do you remember all of this?
And now this is sort of a war, isn't it?
We're sort of in a war with Iran now.
And is it going to benefit you?
Is it going to improve your situation?
Do you really believe?
No, the reason is this though.
Iran, they're developing nuclear weapons.
And because we love you so much, we've got to protect you.
You know, you see everything else we do, how it's geared towards protecting you.
This is that again.
This is more of us protecting you.
I suppose my only real disappointment is the lack of significant change under this administration.
And perhaps that's the trend in independent media, isn't it?
Whether it's figures like Tucker Carlton or Candice Owens or Ben Shapiro, one by one, this coterie of packed together, independent, right-wing media commentators who, in a sense, forged a new space which was attacking the media, attacking in particular liberal democratic media and the left, saying they were kind of fake and phony and all of their posturing and compassion was really whether they knew it or not in certain cultural spaces.
I'm talking about say Hollywood or social justice warrior types.
What they were actually participating in is legitimizing more and more centralized control.
As a result of the success of this new media, we have Donald Trump in government and Hegzf in the Department of War and man, great victories like Secretary Kennedy in the HHS.
But what we have more broadly still too, though, is the general recognizable trends towards the kind of political situations that you would have got anyway had Kamala Harris been your president right now.
If Kamala Harris was your president right now, you'd probably be in a pretty similar situation with regard to the single issue of Iran.
Certainly.
Would anyone really take issue with that?
And that's because it appears, and we've known this for some time because of documentation.
One thing that comes to mind is that Kissinger document where Kissinger said, you know, this is the way that we want the next 20 years to go or manifest destiny in the immediate aftermath of 9-11.
We're going to attack these countries, Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Iran.
And I always wondered how they'd get around to Venezuela and Iran.
But now we know it's happened.
It's already actually happened.
All those things were predicted.
And I don't know, man.
I don't know how we can, you know, keep it up, like keep an erection, a stiffy, a hard on for this stuff when it's in a way entirely not only predictable, but has been predicted and foreseen and described by as mundane and bureaucratic resources as the ones I just mentioned, that manifest destiny document from the Cheney, Wolfovitz, Rumsfeld era,
or more shamanic and poetic resources like Alex Jones, who, you know, he's got a different kind of tombre, but he's right about a lot of things and has been right about a lot of things for a long time.
Terrifying Direction of Nanoparticles00:08:29
All right.
So now, will you be sheltering from an L shock, from an oil shock?
Will you shelter from an oil shock?
Here's, this is a former U.S. housing official, Catherine Fitz, warning that we could be on the verge of a major famine, I suppose, as a result of these transport issues and a digital control grid.
Yeah, I bet we are.
I bet we're at grave risk of that.
Farmers plant in the spring.
Right now, we are shutting down the critical ingredients to most European factories who make fertilizer, right?
Okay.
And so by the time that gets through, whenever it gets through, it's going to be too late to make the fertilizer.
You're going to miss the whole spring season.
So I don't know.
I just saw a headline.
Goldman Sachs, leading member of the New York Fed, says that it's going to be shut down for 21 days, right?
Miss the planning season.
Okay.
So if you look at the material coming through that's critical to chip production, the material coming through the straits that's critical to fertilizer and food, and the material coming through that's critical to energy, you're talking about massive dislocation of the global economy.
And if it goes on for long enough, I mean, we have Peru, Thailand, other people talking about doing COVID kind of shutdowns to save gas and fuel.
Right.
But you're talking about intentionally shutting down the global economy.
And it didn't start with Iran and it didn't start with the United States.
It started with the city of London.
So Lloyds of London shut down the straits with all their insurance company friends and reinsurance company friends, right?
So the city shuts down the straits.
And now the Iran is helping supposedly to keep it shut down.
They run a risk themselves, too.
If we have a nuclear escalation and a nuclear holocaust, what's in it for them?
So, well, what's in it for them is implementing the control grid and depopulation together.
That's what's in it for them.
If this is, you know, because we don't know yet.
I think it's too early.
I can't tell whether you're looking at massive incompetence on the basis of the US or you're looking at an intentional desire to shut down.
So this is COVID 2.0.
Yeah.
Because yeah, this is how you shut down.
This is a new excuse to shut down to preserve energy and food.
I think the big problem here is famine.
Okay, well there you go.
So possibly famine.
Certainly it looks like this will impact you directly.
I'm not talking just about people who are in the forces or services, military I mean, or love someone that's in the forces or military.
I mean this likely to have a domestic impact.
Some people, Laura Luma I noted, was predicting domestic terror attacks in the United States.
The UK, I don't know if anyone noticed a domestic terror attack.
I mean the whole place is just like a thriving, throbbing, pollating hive of terror, just never-ending terror.
The place is already a terror state.
Let me know what you think about that in the comments and chat.
So Bill Gates has got a new, well at least has funded a new micro needle patch implant that installs both mRNA and quantum dot markings into the bottle.
Now I know body, excuse me, I know what mRNA is and so do you because of the pandemic.
I don't know what quantum dot markings even means and I'm curious as to how it relates to this story other than in the general sort of timbre and flavor of Middle Eastern conflict escalating, surprising people, having peculiar occultist connotations, serious sense that the nexus of world power is beginning to hum and throb.
There are relationships between Iran, Russia and China that we don't fully understand.
My best hope, I suppose, is that we still live in a kind of bipolar, terrifying term generally, or tripolar world where China, Russia and the United States have covert agreements about how they're going to carve the planet up into iterations of new empire.
The United States have Venezuela nicely secured so to a degree the oil can keep flowing.
Russia is occupied with Ukraine.
Presumably there are going to be some concessions there.
And hey, anyone want to bet against China taking Taiwan in the next week or so?
Maybe this is like a global showdown moment.
But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the comments and chat and let me know if this would be a good time to start taking a Bill Gates funded quantum dot marking injection.
I mean I don't even know what this is.
Let's get into this.
We're moving on to micro needle patch implants funded by the Gates Foundation.
These are already developed and they'll actually install nitcomb.
It's a nitcomb for the leg.
Like at school if you get nits or lice, you have that in America, don't you?
I've seen Simpson's episodes on it.
You have like a head lice, you put like a little nitcomb like that, you scratch those little guys out.
But now Bill Gates has ensured that it's loaded up with delicious chemicals.
And I'll actually install quantum dots in your skin which are detectable with smartphones in real world settings.
That will be used as a biological vaccine passport system where you won't need it on your phone.
You'll just scan your, you know, your wrist or wherever this quantum dot material is inserted into your body.
So that's what they have planned, I think, for the next vaccine passport system.
They have the mRNA construct factories in place already across the world.
mRNA vaccine factories.
You know, we just need to mess around.
There's a lot of lipid nanoparticles.
Fun with those lipid nanoparticles, Bill.
Don't let people tie you down.
Sure, you weren't popular at school.
Sure, people saw you as a nerdish figure with a sort of a bulbous dome where your penis should be.
But this is your time to fight back and fart back with lipid nanoparticles.
Get yourself a dog comb thing, tiny, embed it in people's skin.
You're in charge now.
Finally, Bill Gates has seized control of the planet.
I don't want lipid nanoparticles, it's asserted.
Do you know, when I came to this country, I didn't realize the significance of weapon ownership and the Second Amendment.
Now I do, because it changes people to know that you're armed.
To know that you're armed, you think, well, if it all comes down to it, I can at least have a gunfight on the way out.
Whereas in the UK, you're already in the situation they want you in, which is without any defense.
They can and are just doing what they want.
I mean, when you see stuff at British police, except for that very good-looking police woman that actually did seem to know the law quite recently and went, hey, no, they are people are allowed to protest in that way.
You see them, and they're such extraordinarily exhausted, peculiar bureaucrats.
They feel like their houses aren't nice enough, that their washing machines aren't working correctly, just wearied and sort of broken and laden.
This is not how to run a country.
This is not how to run a world, man.
You need to be in control of your own individual life, in control of your own family, under the authority of higher purpose, a higher purpose ordained by God.
If you have not really got that, you ain't got a great deal.
The whole house of cards is coming to tumbling down.
But don't worry, because Bill Gates is ready to inject you with some lipid nanoparticles, which sounds to me like a pretty good description of his sperm.
Particles, and some are very self-assembly.
They already have the vaccine passport applications in place, right?
So this was all prepared.
That's why Gates, Bill Gates keeps saying he's like, oh, COVID was just a trial run.
Albert Borla even says COVID was for me like a recursive.
You know, we'll have to prepare for the next one.
Manufactured Culture and Narrative Control00:05:07
That wife already knew about Effstein Island, didn't she?
In that food, you can tell she already knows.
She's sitting there like, I'll sit here while me and my lawyers work our shit out.
But I'm not staying married to you.
I'm planning it.
I'm planning the exit.
I'm taking a few B's, baby.
I'm taking a few B's.
You're going to pay a big price for the visits to that island.
You know, I'd say we'll get attention this time.
They're so pleased with themselves, aren't they?
How extraordinary.
There you go.
It all seems to be moving in a terrifying direction.
I had a quick look during one of those videos to see what their specific scriptural reference to crows above Tel Aviv was because there was no Tel Aviv, or at least it wouldn't have been called Tel Aviv.
And it's getting increasingly difficult to track what Israel is and what Israel will be in a few years and where the limits of Israel are.
It's one of the most controversial things you can actually discuss.
What is Israel?
How far does Israel go?
Is that crow over Israel?
Hey, maybe everything's Israel.
Maybe we're in Israel right now.
But one thing's for certain: crows are hovering above Tel Aviv.
Plaguey, baby.
That's Plaguey.
What's happened there?
I suppose that's because of what?
Because of Iranian missiles have disturbed a rookery somewhere.
Very, very interesting.
Jake has pulled a bit of scripture for us.
Let's have a look.
Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear.
Is life not more than food and the body more than clothes?
Look at the birds of the air.
They don't sow or reap or store away in barns.
And yet your Heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not much more valuable than they?
Reminds me that all of our culture is instituted, instituted, manufactured, laying upon the earth.
And when I find myself excited, as I sometimes might by a cultural artifact, less and less these days, less and less do I spend time thinking about WEST HAM, United or Morrissey, and like, whenever my children are interacting with the culture via some screen now, I'm always a little concerned and like, do you know what I've had to tell them?
I told my daughter, my nine-year-old daughter, the culture is not your friend.
Of course, our family very specifically, but in general, in general, you might not know yet that the culture hates you.
You might have no need for that, but when you see today's stories, how something as vast and wide and yet remote still for those of us in western countries as this escalating Iranian war if that's what we're calling it will encroach upon your life, will affect the way you move and what it costs you to move will likely be at some point, if not this conflict,
then another one implemented to augur new controls, new, established and already discussed controls.
You can see it now, can't you?
You can see the silhouette of your dreadful future, a one world government where everybody is marked, like it says in scripture, with the mark of the beast, unable to buy or sell without that mark, unable to travel without that mark, it's not gonna seem diabolical.
It's not going to seem diabolical.
I suppose that's the thing that um prophecy can't deliver.
Prophecy because it's mysterious, sounds and seems poetic.
And poetics is a form of, or can be aligned with, drama.
But do you see, it's non-dramatic.
Is there anywhere in the world less dramatic than an airport?
And the whole world will be like one.
Did you not note, when looking at that image of people scanning the quantum dots over the green ray scanner, how banal it is, how anodyne it is, how clear and crisp?
But we all know that there's always been barbarians.
Outside the citadel there will always be a surf class, a professional class running ai ensuring that sewage pumps are functioning and that the robot armies are well kept and well kept for.
But what will we be part of the barbarian hordes out in wastelands?
What will we be wiped out by some virus as yet being devised in some far flung lab somewhere?
What will become of us all?
What will become of our many children?
What will become of our varied and imagined futures if we don't found ourselves and ground ourselves in something more powerful than the mind of man and something more powerful than the institutions we have lain upon the earth, engraved in silver and gold and with Wood and with various materials, with our own hands, and that we now bow down before and worship.
Perhaps we must consider the lilies they're taken care of, consider the birds of the fields.
Betting on the Future with Rumble00:04:08
Perhaps we would be better off to remain connected to that which is beyond the quantum, the mind of God, accessible to you and me right now.
But that's just what I think.
Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and the chat?
We'll be back in a moment talking about the manosphere and new media and old media colliding in that Netflix Louis Theroux special.
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Now, before we leave YouTube, which we will do imminently, let's have a look at polymarket.
How many times?
Look, they can even be like, you can bet on numerous things.
Like here, we could bet on when will the US stop attacking Iran by Dave?
You've got to interpret that.
I don't, you know, I told you while we were on holiday that I don't understand what these mean.
I said to me, it just looks like some mountains.
Like, you know, like goes, that mountains that we're looking at in Arizona means as much as this polymarket graph.
I don't know what it's saying.
That's not the language I talk.
I don't talk lines.
I talk words.
Now, what's that?
86% are saying that there's going to be military action through March 31st.
So by far the majority of people.
Dead war never ends.
There's always a war.
All was right.
All right, says that.
And then the Elon Musk tweeting one.
That can't be so complicated.
Oh, that one's actually even harder.
That one looks like Tron.
Look at that.
There's three or four different lines arguing with each other.
Now, Dave, it looks like the Elon posting one.
Now, there's four caterpillars arguing.
Yellow caterpillar, two blue caterpillars.
That's a Siamese twin caterpillar.
And then there's Olange Caterpillar.
Look at Dave.
Dave, who runs a software business.
I've never seen him so confused.
You got lines on your face that look like that now.
Don't he?
It's kind of hard to see from this, but I mean, it's through a date time.
The fact is, polymarket's working.
People are buying that stuff.
People are spending money hand over fist on polymarket.
Polymarkets, I just saw it.
It's unified itself with Samaka's.
Massey knows something.
What, darling?
It's so that people are betting on Polymarket on how many times Elon Musk will tweet between March 24th and March 31st.
So you can bet on that or you can bet on how many people are going to die in Iran.
You can bet on whatever you want on polymarket.
It's amazing.
Death.
Tweets.
Yeah.
Why restrict what people bet on?
Why do it?
If you believe in freedom, you believe in freedom.
I also am against gambling.
But not like, I mean, you know, for polymarket, that's a sponsor.
I'm not against it.
I just don't do it because it's a sin.
Independent Media Chaos and Concerns00:07:09
There's loads of things I don't do.
I'm like porn.
I won't look at that.
That's wrong.
Staring, that's wrong.
Polymarket's just like, well, well, that's the end of it.
That's enough.
That's enough.
No, it'll do it.
It's already successful.
They're already successful.
It's good.
It works.
It's an accumulation of data.
You can bet on anything.
It's probably fun.
If I was young, I'd probably do it.
I'd probably do it if I was young.
You use it to vote.
Oh, well, no.
What we will do is when we eventually, if we can get it, if I can keep my gander up, we'll use that tech to run whole cities.
We'll break things down.
I don't mean break down the culture.
I'm not talking about destruction.
I mean break down these invisible webs that are laying upon our collective freedom so that we can again breathe freely as the Lord intended.
Consider them lilies, baby.
Go on and get there.
Polymarket is working.
People are into it.
Okay, let's have a look at now.
Let's do my next bit of job.
It's the Manosphere Fallout.
Now, hey, did you see that program?
Of course you probably did.
You live in this space and maybe you didn't.
Maybe you saw content about Louis Theroux into the Manosphere.
Now, Louis Theroux was a very innovative journalist and broadcaster.
He was on, Michael Moore launched his career.
He used to do a sort of a 10-minute bit on that.
Then he had his various Louis Theroux weird weekends where he spoke, first of all, to weird subcultural groups like the Klan or Ku Klux Klan, I mean, or survivalists, or sort of like, I don't know, weird little groups of magicians or porn actors or then kitsch kooky celebrities like Paul, you know, like sort of weird naff celebrities.
It'd be like someone like that lad off different strokes in your country.
Remember lad off different strokes, little black.
What are you talking about?
Will it's him?
He'd like maybe go and live with him for a week.
Or in our country, Paul and Debbie Daniels, the magicians.
You know, you had Copperfield, didn't you?
David Copperfield, remember him?
Didn't he marry Cindy Crawford or one of those?
Didn't he make Statue of Libby disappear?
Did he marry Cindy Crawford?
I don't know.
Am I dreaming that?
This is the sort of thing he would have done.
I mean, he can get away with it.
He's magic.
Anyway, so Louis Thoreau makes kooky documentaries.
Interestingly, he's made a documentary about male social media influencers, including HHS Tiki Toky, a British content creator.
He spoke to some people that we know, particularly through Dave, Justin Wallet.
He's like a sort of an affiliate and friend of the Tate Brothers.
And what was Fass and Myron, whose show I've been on a couple of times from Fresh and Fit or Fit and Fresh, you know?
Anyway, what was pretty interesting about this whole thing is that there was a moment where Louis Theroux, in his own way, represented a new voice in media.
now he is the voice of traditional media so this show into the manosphere is in effect about new media which has is very sort of raw and old media which can that has something i'm struggling to think of anything positive about it anymore But I must have something good about it.
I mean, like, it's done all of the great things it's done.
It may Godfather came out of it.
It was filmmaking, I suppose.
Let me think.
I'll think something before the end of the show.
Even though primarily the function of mainstream media now is to ensure that you remain entirely ensnared in a web of deception that facilitates your ongoing ignorance, you can make laments, at least, about some of the participants in what here is called the manosphere, i.e. that they still remain sovereign in self, not sovereign in God, not subject to God.
But if you think the solution to your problems is like get a bunch of cars and sleep with loads of women, then you're in for a succession of terrible shocks if you are one of the few people that achieve those goals at some point in your life.
So even though I really like the fact that independent media is causing some chaos and disruption, I too have comparable questions and concerns about a modality and mindset that's about subjugation and denigration.
However, many of the people in that space would say that isn't their position.
I know that Myron Gaines felt he was treated very badly by Louis Theroux and indeed he was able to provide a piece of material that showed this is what they did on the documentary.
Look at what actually got shot, including all of the pieces that they cut in order to create a somewhat negative impression of him and his girlfriend in this particular instance.
So let's have a look at the manosphere.
Let's have a look at this clash of cultures.
Let's try and understand if there's anything from it that we can learn from in a valuable way.
So here we go.
We'll start with Myron Gaines who released his own video demonstrating how poorly he felt he was treated by the Netflix documentary by Louis Faroux.
Although my favorite bit was there was one bit where one of the mates of that HHS Tiki Toky does a sort of a paedophile hunter show where you know those shows where people hunt paedophiles and he was talking to Louis Faroux like on a square and some lads went by and went, is he a paedophile?
And I went, no, no, this AE ain't a paedophile.
It's Louis Farrocks.
That was very, very valuable to me that.
Culture, right, who advocates for the idea of like the 1% male, that ultimate masculine that he's also if you could clean up the room too.
I need some help, yeah, with that.
Ways to deal with that.
And I just respect it because he's somebody with me, and I try not to mingle with what he does, like, in his gut.
Thank you.
That's just something that is mainly him and I try not to mingle with that because it's just different what work together.
So yeah.
Sorry guys, we hope that thoughts.
I was just talking about you.
And it's fine Andrew, you guys get pulled out.
I think I had to hold.
Give me one second.
Okay.
Also, I need a, if you could clean up the room too.
Yeah.
I need some help here with that.
They recorded the room?
No, no, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sorry.
Oh, yeah.
You try not to think about it too much.
I try.
Let's just not really think about it, but let's mingle that much.
You try not to get involved with it.
Involved, yeah, because that's his business mainly.
Like, that's really his business.
And I said on Twitter on a post that...
Let me put her in the bathroom.
Of the culture, right, who advocates for the idea of like the 1% male, that ultimate masculine.
That he's also, I need a, if you could clean up the room too.
I need some help here with that.
Was that okay?
By the way, I always feel weird.
Like, no, no, no.
You know, it's awkward, though.
No, no, no.
What did you feel?
Power a little.
That's been Louis Faroux's stick, though, for as long as there's been Louis Faroux, giving people enough rope to hang themselves with.
New Media Forms and Masculinity00:13:30
And I suppose documentaries are fictitious models of filmmaking.
Not talking about in relation to anything in my own life, of course.
But documentaries are not factual programming because what music do you use?
What do you include?
What do you not include?
All these things are editorial choices.
These editorial choices are there to create a particular impression or outcome.
Most people, even in 2026, don't watch media in that way.
I'm not just talking about ordinary members of the public.
I mean, even professional people, you watch a documentary and you kind of treat it like a document.
But usually in order to make a documentary, you're dealing with, you know, Mass is an editor.
You're dealing with hours and hours and hours of footage.
You need cutaways and what's called B-roll.
Like when you're filming something, you film the person's hands so that if they talk too much, I mean, I would never have that problem, but you can then get cut away with their hands so you can cut whole passages of the things that they're discussing.
So even looking at any content as if it's real is a problem.
And I guess in a way, that's the one of the defining problems or issues of our time.
When, like a generation ago, war concrete or whatever, people go, okay, this is the news.
And everyone's like, all right, so we're going to war in Vietnam and okay, the Viet Cong and that's bad.
But like now, gosh, 80 years later, people know that the news is an entertainment show, that documentaries are constructed.
People have a different impression now of the way that information is compiled and presented.
And this is interesting that this has gone on in the way that it has because it represented a clash of media, a clash of media cultures.
Okay, so have a look at what's next.
Much of the manosphere is made up of relatively uncontroversial comedians and podcasters who broadcast about women, fitness and wealth to a mainly male audience.
Relatively uncontroversial.
That's the concession.
That's him admitting that most of this space is just normal guys.
Talking about self-improvement, talking about health, talking about building a life.
But he's not here for that.
But at its edges is a community of more extreme content creators.
It was this world and its motivations I was most intrigued by.
There it is.
He admits it out loud on camera.
He's not here to understand the manosphere.
He's here to explore the edges, the extremes, the controversial content creators.
And then he named the documentary Inside the Manosphere.
The foolishness.
Imagine if someone made a documentary called Inside America and spent the whole time in a maximum security prison.
Would that be Inside America?
Or would it be inside America's prisons?
Taru didn't make a documentary about the Manosphere.
He made a documentary.
That's fair enough.
But in a way, that's any editorial endeavor has to make selections about what the content is it's going to explore.
And for me, the age I am, the type of media I've worked in, watching that documentary was fascinating because I've had a foot in both worlds.
There were people in that documentary that I've met and know.
And I don't think of Justin as particularly extreme.
He's one of those guys that talks about finance and cars and women and is plainly troubled by the restrictions that those kind of ideas place upon a person.
It seems to me he obviously can talk for himself, has his own very successful channels in which he can do that.
As well as people like the HHS ticky-toky lad who was like, man, that shit blew my mind.
And it made me realize that if I had been 20 or 25, my God.
I mean, like, so what they do is they go out and they chab women.
And then if you pay for their Telegram services, you can watch them screwing women in the bathroom, man.
It's like the way I'd lived my life.
I would have maybe made even more money, but probably would have had more court cases.
Complicated business, but I also would have had the footage, man.
What I wouldn't have done for that?
Crazy days, crazy days, crazy days.
So it's really interesting because I don't agree with glib sexism or anything that's not reverential and loving to you know God's creation.
I.e.
Like you know, when the lad says as he does, rather blithely I'm talking about this, lad Harrison, who's the dishwasher.
But I think that people are playing a kind of part.
Don't you think, like in hip-hop, when people are like you know, I've got my Glock and I'm spraying up this and that and I'll wet you up?
Like these things are not.
It's a kind of a theater, it's a kind of camp, it's a kind of macho camp, is what I would call it, and to sort of take it seriously to and then straw man.
It is a degree of editorialization that goes too far, but in a sense it was the first shot in in now an ongoing kind of culture war.
That seems pretty insignificant compared to the actual war between eg, Iran and the United States.
But Piers Morgan had our man HS Tiki-toky.
I've given him too many H's in his name and this is how new media is.
It's.
A little more on the front foot.
Check out this you'll.
Perhaps you've seen it already, but I found it pretty interesting.
Here's what I think about you.
I watched the documentary.
I think you're a fucking idiot.
I think you're a sexist misogynist, homophobic twerp who got exposed, who got exposed in a global way by Netflix, by Louis Theroux, for what you are.
You're a little halfwit and you'll make your little follow.
There's no point me wasting my time talking to you, is there?
What's the point exactly?
No no, do you know what?
Let's chill it down then, because what I just said there's 50 more things that we can have, 50 more things that we can have a stupid back and forth and try and run up each other.
Just talk to me normally insults, normally.
I don't care about your silly insults.
What do you mean?
You don't care?
What do you mean?
You don't care?
What I said is factor.
I can flip it around and show you right now.
I couldn't care less about your silly little insults.
You're it's like a two-year-old.
Why would I care?
A two-year-old, a two-year-old.
Listen sir, I don't know why you come on and you talk like you're holier than owl as soon as you're a one-sided, are open, all right, let's do this.
Let's end this, please cooked.
You know what I'm not doing this, sorry guys.
It's pointless.
It's gonna be difficult to contain that kind of energy and that kind of mischief.
That's what it's like now.
That's what it's like now.
They're online, they're armed, these young men, and they're sort of playing a different type of game.
It's interesting because definitely you would have to say, Piers Morgan's a person whose background is in red pop tabloid media.
Red pop means like the SUN and the Mirror and the STAR.
These were the exploitive national inquirer style newspapers that were a big deal and controlled the British media space for 20, 30 years solid, maybe even longer than that, and they were all about gotchas stings, dressing people up, hacking celebrity phones, hacking famous people's phones, hacking a dead schoolgirl's phone who had gone missing on one occasion.
And now the technology is available, anyone can be a journalist.
It's going to create all kinds of obviously variety.
The variety is going to be endless and it's not always going to be entirely benign.
But you can't really make a moral stand from the position that uh Piers Morgan's in, because they've done all sorts of stuff and participated in all sorts of interesting media and it's um interesting to see him on the other end of that.
When that image of his wife was shown, which i'm sure most of you are familiar with, I guess they just went through the social media sites of Piers Morgan's family found images of his wife, son babying and slightly postcard-ish suggestive things about man wanting to clean pools and stuff like that.
It's really, it's pretty interesting.
I see that lit.
You look right up.
you liked that did you i mean it was great yeah i thought i thought with i thought when i mean for pierce to get up and leave like that and in a sense it's like ah almost like he won you know in that exchange he was He was coming at him.
He came at him too hard.
And in a way, I mean, you just saw his reaction to it.
He was laughing at it.
He thought, hey, this is great.
I'm getting a rouse out of you.
Yeah.
And then has to get up and leave.
Do it.
His own show?
His own show.
So he went from dressing down this kid, speaking to him like a child, like he's a teacher telling him off, basically.
And they didn't realize, oh, shit, I'm in a completely new media environment.
This guy has bought receipts and I don't want on my own show, so I'm going to leave my own show.
So it's a completely different world that he's living in now.
And although I don't agree with everything that Age Sticky Tucky did, I think it's funny to show a guy like that who's dressing you down like a kid.
There's your wife.
What do you think?
No, I'm leaving my own show.
Flustered.
Yeah, I think it's kind of sad because you debate everything like that.
No, you don't.
They're armed, these boys are.
They're living like, I mean, he's super rich.
He's having sex all the live-long day.
He's living a very particular and interesting life.
I mean, it's, yeah, it's interesting.
It's interesting.
But I do like in the same way that the culture's changed a bunch because in the way I used to think, what if football fans had the level of passion that they have for their individual clubs for the kind of political causes that would meaningfully change all of our lives, i.e. sort of inequality, corruption, control.
Now there's this new class of like working class men in this instance that are passionate and powerful, but the energy is getting sort of spent on, you know, chasing and women and getting rich and stuff.
And it's understandable, I suppose, because, yeah, if you're going to live in this world, it's better off to be, you're better off being rich than poor.
And you're better off, one might argue, having sex with loads of women than none.
But it's, in a way, is still, you're still kind of in the prison.
And there was one part of that documentary where he talked about the Matrix Louis Faroux did, and he was sort of derisory about that.
But actually, that's what, that's where the old media has failed.
It's not failed because indeed part of its function is to stop people waking up and confronting the restrictions that prevent them being free.
But what I think is amazing is nowadays people have this language about being red-pilled and waking up and not trusting the narrative and breaking free from the system.
But if you're breaking free from the system only to operate within another slightly more luxurious prison, then that's not enough of a name.
But he's a very young man.
And why would he know that?
I certainly didn't know it when I was his age.
I was doing my own version of what he's doing.
I was trying to make money and trying to have sex with loads of women.
That's how I lived when I was in my 20s.
Yeah.
Well, I think it's unfair too.
They're basing it off the what he knows about that kids off the documentary.
Like, you don't know him.
Like, I know Justin.
You know Justin a little bit.
And Justin's primary thing is going and helping men that are struggling, like blue-collar guys that are struggling.
That's his passion.
And so they just focused on sex stuff and women and cars and all that stuff.
But they didn't, like, his big mission is really helping blue-collar guys.
And that's who he really speaks to a lot.
And I think that they didn't focus on that a lot.
I don't know about the other guys, if they have a bigger thing or they're just trying to sleep with girls all the time or they're making a show.
And as well, I suppose if the alpha figure in this space is still Tate, huh?
Like, Tate is the kind of the Genghis Khan at the epicenter of it all.
And he is like extraordinarily bright, extraordinarily brave, successful.
And I think he, like any sort of, it's interesting because it's not really art anymore, is it?
Like this kind of new media is creating sort of new forms.
In hip-hop, you would have like sort of a great or punk or whatever, some sort of outlier art form.
You'd get brilliant pioneers and then you'd get people emulating them.
And some of those people would be brilliant and other people wouldn't.
But certainly anyone who's succeeding, they've understood economics, they've understood marketing, they've understood how to reach their audience, they've understood how their technology works, they've understood a lot of things in order to get in that position.
They've been innovative, they're probably very, very hardworking, dedicated, devoted.
The only sort of question that I have is not a question that Louis Theroux can genuinely ask because they're similarly nihilistic actually.
Like that mainstream media is similarly nihilistic.
All they want you to do is kowtow to a different god.
They want you to kowtow to that sort of guardian liberalism, this sort of flat grey gruel sort of squeezed out the teats of Netflix and the BBC.
And these kids are like, fuck off.
We're going direct to market.
We're doing our own thing.
Direct to Market Without Censorship00:04:01
We can handle it.
And they're showing that they can handle it because in the confrontations, when they're in charge of the edit or there isn't an edit, they come off better.
They come off better.
But like, I guess us, because we're sort of wearied, worn, old, bedraggled warriors on the edge of the path, I know what's on the other side of that womanizing lifestyle for one thing.
That I do know.
And it might be different for them because they're in charge of the means of production.
They're in charge of the means of production.
When I was doing this stuff, I was being brokered by Warner Brothers or the BBC or Sony or in Fox or whoever, all those different people that I worked with and for over all those years.
I weren't dealing directly with an audience like these young men are.
So it's, yeah, it's a different world.
But what I reckon this shows us is both sides, say the culture war in your country, it's understood that MSNBC are happy with Trump because Trump means better viewing figures for them, right?
And now what we're seeing is even in secondary media spaces, both sides are content to sort of vie with one another.
This whole documentary has been good for Louis Theroux.
It's been good for Netflix.
It's been good for HS Tiki Toky.
The conflict is good.
And that's probably not a good ecosystem for all of us in the end because really what we all want is peace.
We all want peace.
And people are reveling in dispute and conflict about increasingly ridiculous things.
But that's just what I think.
Let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.
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