Russell Brand the rapist

0:00This is Matt Rogers from Lost Culture East. That's with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. This is Bowen Yang from Lost Culture East. That's with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. You know when people try a new food and suddenly it's like, okay, hold on, I got a new favorite food. That's the reaction a lot of people are having when they first try Kewpie mayo. Yeah, it's the one with the red cap and the little baby on the bottle. You've probably seen it at the grocery store. And this mayo is different. Most mayonnaise uses whole eggs. Kewpie only uses egg yolks, which gives it this rich umami flavor. It's smoother, deeper, almost buttery. Once people try it, they start putting it on everything. Egg sandwiches, fries, burgers.

0:35Chefs use it. Restaurants use it. People who really care about flavor use it. Put it on just about anything. Then you'll understand. Kewpie, the original Japanese mayonnaise. This is a global production. Thank you for your time today. As I've repeatedly stated publicly and written about extensively, I led a very promiscuous life in the past, which I've spent years openly denouncing. I've never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity. That is Russell Brand in a police interview room after he had been arrested on allegations of rape. His counter to that was any sex he engaged in was always consensual. But today, a jury has found Brand guilty on one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault.

1:27The judge has warned him he'll spend a significant period of time behind bars. Welcome to the News Agents. It's John. It's Maitlis. And it's hard to overstate what a fool this is for Russell Brand, who has been a controversial figure, certainly. He was a superstar back when these allegations are said to have happened. Well, not allegations, when these things did happen, when this rape did happen, when these sexual assaults did happen. They are now proven against russell brand he is a convicted rapist as of today and the judge in his summing up brand will bland will be back for uh sentencing uh on monday has said that he is going to face a significant custodial sentence so he's going to be behind bars and after a case like this what happens is

2:26that Russell Brand is taken down and put in a cell and it is just such an astonishing image given how untouchable Russell Brand seemed for so long and what what this all stems from is an investigation carried out by the Sunday Times by Ross Ros Irwin and Charlotte Ways who did amazing reporting in bringing this to public attention and by Channel 4 as well and it led to a very different picture of the Russell brand the cheeky chappy the kind of funny guy, the late-night comedian, the Radio 2, you know, disc jockey, suddenly saw him in a much darker light, and the jury today voted and agreed to convict on one charge of rape and three of sexual assault. Yeah, this is going to be painful listening,

3:20but I'm going to tell you what the charges and the counts are now. Count six was a charge of rape between winter and spring of 2009 when Brand, and I know many of you will have followed this court reporting and followed some of the stories that came out of court, when he anally raped a woman at his home in Hampstead after previously meeting her at his gig at the Hammersmith Apollo, the jury has found Brand guilty. He's also been found guilty in the summer of 2004, a party at a bar in Soho when he grabbed a woman's breasts. He has been found guilty in the summer of 2004 or 5 when he sexually assaulted a woman at Choice FM and he's been found guilty of sexual assault in again the summer of 2004 or

4:052005 when he assaulted another woman also at choice FM so what you have here is a picture emerging of a pattern of behavior it wasn't one woman and one rape although frankly that would have been enough it would easily have been enough if he had been convicted of that. But it is a pattern that is emerging here of various women who have finally been able to come forward and talk about what happened to them. And I think it's important to understand this element of what the Met is now telling us, that Russell Brand used his influence, status and fame to exploit and sexually offend against women. As his profile grew, so too did his sense of entitlement. And I have to say, I remember at Newsnight interviewing Russell Brand.

4:59He was, as you say, John, a superstar. He was somebody who could command a crowd, who could flirt with a crowd. He was adored by the media, he was given jobs at the BBC, he was given jobs at Channel 4 and there was to some extent I think a wall of silence around what anyone felt they were able to say because of who he was and because of how popular and how powerful he became it is a story of sexual abuse we have now heard so many times of frankly men who have become so powerful and so entitled that no one dares speak out against them we can cross to andy hughes who is our crime agent back in the Newsagents HQ for us now. And Andy, you've been following this whole trial much more closely than we have

5:52here in Washington, D.C. Just bring us up to date with what we're hearing so far this morning. Well, before the verdicts, Russell Brand stood outside the door of the dock. He looked at his wife, Laura. He said, I love you to her. He then kissed a pendant before closing his eyes and waiting for the verdicts. The jury took over eight and a half hours to reach their verdicts and sat through three weeks of evidence. The key, most important charge that he is found guilty of is this rape in 2009. A young fan whose dad had bought her a ticket to watch her in Hammersmith. Brand had joked on stage that if anyone wanted to join him in his dressing room for sex, then they could. She said she was treated like an animal and taken

6:46by surprise. This was all about consent and these cases are notoriously difficult to prove. And the reason this one has been proved is that the victim told people contemporaneously about what Russell Brand had done to her. She told her friends, she told her family, she went to a sexual health clinic, and this all really helped the jury form their verdict and also really helped the prosecution because over the course of time, you are losing key forensic evidence and it comes down to in court what he said, she said. And in fact, the fact that she told people uh close people to her really helped the the prosecution case now today detective superintendent andy furphy from the metropolitan police he says that the verdict is first and

7:41foremost a testament to the extraordinary courage resilience and determination of the women who came forward. Now, crucially, we are now told that the Metropolitan Police now believe there is more victims to come and they are appealing for more women to come forward. I can also tell you that Russell Brand in fact tried to get this case thrown out before the trial. He said he was too famous and effectively could not get a fair trial but the judge threw that out and said that was nonsense and today justice has been done for those victims who've bravely come forward. Andy I'm trying to understand the Russell Brand argument that he was promiscuous, but it was all consensual. It clearly wasn't. And and in fact they said it was only after they saw

8:46that documentary and the good work that those journalists did that in fact they realized that they did not consent um so that's really what this whole case centered on russell brand's defense team said that these women were only coming forward because of the documentary. They hadn't reported it beforehand. And why would he get in touch with the victims after the rape? That's not what rapists do. Well, the jury did not believe that defence. I interviewed Russell Brand a number of times, actually. But at one point, he wrote this sort of self-help book, Andy. And it was all about his sort of road to recovery and how he'd come to understand himself and how he'd found himself. Now he was married and he had a baby daughter.

9:38And I remember saying to him, this was on Newsnight, I wonder what you'd think if your own daughter met someone like you. Just have a listen. When you look back at that promiscuous lifestyle, do you think, does that appall you? Do you think, God, I was disgusting? Do you look at your daughter now and think, I hope she never meets Russell Brown when she grows up? Emily, don't get so worked up about it. It's only a rhetorical device. Does it appall you? No, my dear. I don't look back at the past and get all worked up about it like Ebenezer Scrooge. I simply think those are some things I've done, I've amended for them and as for the likelihood of some sort of Faustian kick up the arse from future Russell, if my

10:19daughter meets somebody who's caring and sensitive and knows how to communicate, then I think that will be a good thing. It is pretty chilling to listen back to that now. I mean, again, he tries to sort of laugh his way through it and he makes fun of me for being rather, I think, po-faced in that interview. But as we sit here now, and i'm sort of struggling to find the words he is facing a jail sentence right yes and a significant one at that um for anything like rape you will be um given a lengthy term and in fact the judge has told him that in the doc today he told him that he will be remanded in custody because you will receive a significant jail term this case really also um really throws out questions about enabling now

11:14every person every celebrity every person of power who commits these types of offenses they need enablers so really questions need to be asked. Who knew what? Who saw what? Who heard what? And what did they do about it, if anything? And do you think, Andy, that juries, judges, the Met Police, the police themselves are getting better at understanding these cases of sexual assault because we have traditionally notoriously low conviction rates when it comes to rape precisely because of of the conversation we're having now was it consensual you know did they did they really say no loudly enough all the questions that surrounds um you know women being believed in this space actually do you do you

12:03sense that that is changing now or was this a particular case because frankly there was this mountain of evidence that had come from investigative reporting first well there's no doubt that since the me too movement that um police and prosecutors have got a lot better at taking these cases to court but the reality is is that a lot of cases a lot of rape victims will come forward and it could be five years until that actually gets to court it has this one been rushed to court because it's so high profile the cynical part of me would say yes but i i speak to these victims all the time and quite often these victims get fed up of waiting they're having to put their whole lives on hold for several years and so this is an anomaly shall we say that this

12:53case has come to court fairly swiftly and that justice has been done for those victims. Obviously there is anonymity when it comes to the victims. But have we had people speaking on their behalf since that verdict came out? Well, I do know that the victims have been extremely upset by the fact that Russell Brand has been doing regular posts and updates. Took big, long podcast sessions with his wife while the trial is going on. In fact, he has been commenting on the case. He's been walking in and out of court. We've all seen that footage and those images, and I'm told by detectives that these victims are extremely upset by him doing that. And the detectives themselves, they were really worried

13:42that this could potentially lead to the case collapsing we already know that he tried to throw it out because he was in quotes too famous but the judge did not have any of that so it's so interesting this is a whole new kind of area for us so he was trying to collapse his own court by essentially court reporting on himself. Well that's what some people have suggested to me because frankly he was definitely, well potentially crossing the line for contempt of court. Now it is very difficult to collapse your own trial but I just think the authorities, the judge, the police, they just thought, let's just let this play out and see what the verdicts are. And if the verdicts don't go our way, then let's consider our next course of action.

14:36And frankly, the last thing the victims wanted was for this to collapse and then they have to go through that whole process again. But, you know, by law, defendants can't do that. A normal defendant can't just start streaming hour-long sessions talking about his mental state, how he feels, and commenting as you're coming into court. I do know quite a lot of broadcasters were in two minds whether to broadcast his comments. I believe it was one of the early days or the first day of when he was giving evidence. He was saying, you know, I'm finally grateful that the truth will be heard. I mean, that's suggestive. That is contempt of court. And yet people were reporting this. I think once one broadcaster went,

15:22I think everyone did. Will he appeal? We don't know. You would assume he would. But I assume since he has made no secret that he is innocent of all these charges, that he probably will appeal. But that is a very long process. You're looking at years and years. He will be sentenced before that and he will get a long prison term. Andy Hughes, thanks so much thanks. So I it was astonishing watching those pictures every day of him arriving for court and leaving for court because he was dressed as though going to a film premiere you know the shirt undone the wing collar the kind of scarf halfway down his chest. You're thinking, I mean, what impression was he trying to create for the jury by going into court looking like that every day,

16:10as if I'm still the grand film star and I'm arriving and, you know, the crowds are waiting for me? It was the Roy Cohn playbook. Never apologise, never explain. And I don't think that was coincidental because Russell Brand has taken himself into MAGA circles, into MAGA influencer circles. We saw him in 2024 at the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin, and he had set up a whole podcast studio. He was being interviewed by none other than Eric Trump, you know, and there was this whole kind of shtick around this poor guy, poor Russell Brand. He's being chased. He's being hounded by the liberal media. They don't really understand. And it was it was all the bro talk, you know, that he was going towards. He'd found his home

17:01on Rumble. Do you remember that kind of incredibly toxic site, which was where MAGA went to shout even more loudly than they were everywhere else? Emily, you're talking about two years ago. I mean, he appeared at a Make America Healthy Again summit in Washington just a few weeks ago. Just before the trial started, he was about to go back and appear in court, and he's appearing at a Make America Healthy Again rally. And look, you know, we can't draw too many lines. Without RFK. Yeah, without RFK Jr. Snap, you know, poses for a photo with him. I mean, look, we can't draw too many lines. You know, this is a guy who's been found guilty of rape. But what you have had is this sense among certain people,

17:42and we've been talking about it all this week, that the people around Trump behave and act as though they have impunity and immunity from any consequences for their actions. What we've seen in court today is that no, the rule of law still applies. No matter how famous you are, no matter how powerful you are, no matter how big your bank balance is. And Russell Brand has been found guilty of rape and three counts of sexual assault by, you know, 12 men and women, his peers. Look, I don't want to go too woo-woo about all this, but there is a strange sort of alignment of the stars, isn't there? That 48 hours after Trump has his biggest kicking of any president in a midterm election since post Watergate since 1974 there is this moment where Russell Brand in a completely

18:36different time zone with a completely different set of jurors is found guilty and there is something that feels as if it's happening in the in the air there is a sort of sense of change sense of things maybe getting done i won't go further than that but it's been one hell of a week and just to say that the police have said that two other women have now come forward with allegations of rape so So, you know, he's been found guilty in the court today, but there could be further legal action being taken against Russell Brand. When we come back, we're going to be talking about the response of all those who used to be very close to Trump about what happened on Tuesday night. And we'll be asking if the Democrats are shaping up

19:24to be more centrist than anyone saw coming. This is Bowen Yang from Lost Culture Research with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. Okay, we've been talking about Kewpie mayo for a minute now, Bow, and wow, the feedback we're getting. I mean, so many of y'all love this stuff. You're stopping us in the street going, I love Kewpie. And if you're thinking, wait, what is Kewpie? Uh, do you not have the internet? It's the OG Japanese mayonnaise. The one with the red cap and the little baby on the bottle. Once you know it, you start seeing it everywhere. People ask what makes it different from basic mayo. Well, the answer? Egg yolks. Kewpie is made with egg yolks only, giving it this incredibly rich umami flavor that

20:16elevates everything. Burgers, fries, sandwiches, chicken, noodles. Chefs use it. Restaurants use it. People who really love food and flavor use it. Whatever you're eating, Kewpie it. So if you haven't tried Kewpie yet, find the bottle with the red cap and see what everyone's talking about. You'll understand. Kewpie, the original Japanese mayonnaise. Did you go see the helipad from up top? How beautiful that is. It's incredible. It's awesome. It's incredible. Have you seen my helipad? That's Donald Trump. Yesterday, the first response to the absolute nightmare defeat that he suffered was to bring White House correspondents into the building site that is now his ballroom and also show them the

21:15wonderful new helipad he's built on the south lawn it's sort of I don't know Kubla Khan and Xanadu he's now in his little private heaven full of little gold edging and you know columns and pillars and all the rest of it and it's like the outside world he's cut himself off from and it's the outside world that has delivered this horrendous result and has led i think with astonishing speed to some of the republicans the leading Republicans, kind of creating a bit of distance between themselves and him with an eye to 2028. Look, the scale of delusion inside his head is something to behold. He is unable, unwilling to fathom what has just happened in the last 48 hours and what it says directly about him.

22:03But here's the thing, that the longer Trump spends on his helipad, on his ballroom, on his beams, on his arches, the easier it is literally for everyone else in the world. It's easier for the Democrats to get on with the job. And it's easier, I think, for Republicans to start to find that distance that they are searching after so rapidly now. We told you yesterday that J.D. Vance was the first to come out of the traps, pointing the finger directly at Trump's Iran war for the chaos it had caused in the world and at the ballot box. And today we had a similar message from Ted Cruz. Now, to put this in context, Ted Cruz has never liked Donald Trump. He stood against him in 2016. He was the last bastion, basically, of people that were trying to tell the party

22:56he was not the right man for the job. And Ted Cruz is the Texas senator who came round to Trump ultimately because, frankly, he had very little choice. Is Ted Cruz now seeing an opening for himself? Is J.D. Vance trying to see an opening for themselves? There is a race now to be the first, the loudest, and create the most distance from the man who, frankly, put them in the places many of them they are today well that is what is so interesting and i think the jd vance one particularly you know ted cruz he's the texas senator he doesn't hold a post in the administration he's pretty free to do what he likes jd vance is in a much more uh difficult position because he has to be the cheerleader for the president as vice president and i think that

23:47what jd vance has seen is what happened in the last election cycle when kamala harris was trying to run as a candidate of being something new and different from joe biden whilst at the same time defending everything that joe biden did it's very difficult to pull that trick off to be both separate both be offering something new and defending everything you've just done. And I think that J.D. Vance has said, if I'm going to do this, I need to do it fast. And I think it showed real, you know, the extent of political calculation that what he posted on X was not something that he just alighted upon. It was something that he had been carefully calibrating about how to say it. And it brought a very sharp rejoinder from the Pennsylvania

24:32governor, Josh Shapiro, who really went for Vance. How about that? We're not even 12 hours or whatever since the polls closed and he's already trying to distance himself from Donald Trump. Let's be clear. You can't delete the stink of Donald Trump. Once it's on you, it is stuck on you. And J.D. stinks, man. And he is not going to be able to tweet his way out of that. I think J.D. Vance has proven to be a real liability for this administration and someone that the American people seemingly don't like or trust. I wish he would have come and campaigned here for my opponent. I might have been able to get a couple extra points in the election. And so, yeah, I think what is clear is that those who attach themselves to Donald Trump, they paid a price in this election.

25:22They'll pay a price going forward and J.D. will be exhibit A. And actually, whilst we're talking to you, The Independent in the UK is reporting that the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is on resignation watch. This is not breaking news in the sense that we don't have confirmation he is really going to resign or has resigned, but it is an inclination of what is going on, perhaps, in some of the heads of those next to Trump. Rubio was tied to Trump's war, I think, more closely than anyone else. And Rubio is the one who actually has been greeted with cheers and has become quite popular in the last few months, really probably at the expense of J.D. Vance. When he appears on the stump, he gets cheers. He gets pats on the back. I never really understood why, given that

26:11he has also been sort of in the middle of Trump's foreign policy. But if he does resign, and it is a big if, we will understand from that that he is trying to get away from this administration as quickly as his little legs will take him in the hope that in two years' time, people will have completely forgotten Marco who, what, Rubio who, did what, and he can reinvent himself as a brand-new person and come back into the fray as a candidate. I think it's absolute chaos in the White House now. And I think that maybe Rubio is thinking, I need to resign before I get sacked, because Donald Trump is going to want scalps for the various kind of things that he... Look, Donald Trump has acknowledged to some extent that, you know, the defeat in the midterms

26:55was down to the Iran war. I mean, the Iran war, sure, contributing factor, but it was overwhelmingly a whole pile of other stuff. But Rubio was seen to be a champion of it the other person I think who will be walking the plank soon or facing impeachment is Mr. War himself Pete Hegseth because I think that there is a real feeling that he misled Congress over what was happening in Iran he was disingenuous about the money that had been spent. He has a huge number of questions to answer. And it's possible that those Republicans who've lost their places, their seats, their states, because Donald Trump kind of forced them out, Tom Tillis et al., will vote for Pete Hegseth's impeachment. And therefore, how much better to

27:44get in ahead of it? and so Pete Hegseth could resign or Trump could fire him I think there is going to be score settling I think there's going to be a bloodbath in you know amidst all the golden arches and guilt in the White House behind us it's so interesting fascinating how quickly this went south for Trump, because if you look at the first year, he sounded like a man on a mission. He had this whole Project 25 and he was doing the things that Americans, frankly, had told him they wanted him to do. And he said, do you want mass deportation now? And they said, yes, we're going to vote you in for mass deportation now he did get immigration under control in the most horrific inhumane way but he was responding to something that americans

28:31had said they wanted you know maybe they didn't understand maybe they didn't really believe the consequences of what happens when you you round up your neighbors you round up your communities you put people on dark flights to places that they will never return to. But he was answering what people had told him they wanted. And there was a period, I think for about six months, where he will have looked and said, well, you know, you told me you wanted tariffs. You wanted to equalise trade. You told me you wanted to get immigration under control. You told me you wanted to secure the border. And then it's almost as if he ran out of things to do in his immediate facility. The Epstein Papers scandal came along,

29:10or I should say he created it by not releasing them. And then the war that started in February is the only thing people can remember now. I mean, that's what's so fascinating. You know, do we remember that he went after the lawyers? Do we remember that he went after the lawyers do we remember that he went after the universities do we remember that he went after the campuses do we remember the comeys of this world that he tried to lock up do we remember all these other bits of his kind of project 25 agenda of of you know whatever he would call it de-wokifying or stopping lawfare or creating lawfare whatever he was doing. But now if you talk to people, the only thing that they actually remember,

29:50the only thing that is front of anyone's mind is gas prices linked to Iran war. I would add one other thing, which is partly to do with what you've just said about Epstein. It's the corruption. I think the twin effects of the rising prices and the astonishing monetisation of the presidency and the self-enrichment of those people around Donald Trump who are making millions in backhanders and contracts and all the rest of it. New York Times reporting today by Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman, as ever, where they talk about this call that took place last week by all the key people that are part of the midterms campaign. And they were kind of, the call starts with them, do I take the white cyanide or the

30:37black cyanide pill first? They knew that shit was coming. They knew they were in for an absolute brutal kicking. And that it was just gallows humour all the way through the call. But the pollster, the chief pollster said, look, if you look at how we are doing and put it against the timeline of the Trump war in Iran starting at the end of February, that is when their poll numbers start to go down and then the prices go up and the Democrats seize on affordability absolutely brilliantly. Yeah and the Democrats are I think today working out what their response is to too much good news and we started to look at this a little bit yesterday the different responses that are coming from the new senators to be the ones

31:27who say we've just got to get them or we've got to go after them or we've got to tell them to lawyer up and the ones like Tallarico in Texas. I am not interested in retribution. The people of Texas did not elect me last night for retribution. They elected me to deliver for them, to make their lives easier and better and less stressful. And that's what I plan to do. And I plan to do it even for the Texans who didn't vote for me. Who are saying, I will pray for my opponent, you know, Ken Paxton. I will look after him as I will all Texans and have tried to find this sort of graciousness in victory. And I do think it actually tells you a story about the Democrats now, which I hadn't really seen until I went back over the results last night.

32:14There has been so much concentration on the DSA, on the Democratic Socialists, and on whether they were going to seize the party and whether they were going to be, you know, the voice of radicalism and were they going to be the populists on the left that countered populists on the right. And actually, because of the size of the victory, because of the size of that blue wave, the edges don't seem to matter as much. The extremes don't seem to matter as much. And you can see the pull for Democrats now is much more towards the centre. You know, if you've got an Adam Hamilton in Kansas, or you've got an Ossoff in Georgia, or you've got a Tallarico in Texas, then they're not going to be pulled towards the hard left of their party

33:01because they know that's probably the end of their own seats, their own states. And so I think when I said, you know, that the party had sort of un-Hillaryed, in a way that was unfair because what Chuck Schumer has done, Chuck Schumer's come in for a load of criticism previously from people who said, oh, he's too old, he's too establishment, he's too tied up with the stuff that didn't work, the Biden administration, the Hillary years, all the rest of it. Chuck Schumer pulled off a blinder. Unbelievable. He pulled off a blinder because he's actually put into the Senate or he's chosen, pushed forward for the Senate, people who are now taking the party to the centre, but not in the old way, in a new way.

33:41And there's this, I don't know if you've heard this phrase that I've started picking up, which is the mountain Democrats. Have you heard this? You know, it's the Democrats who've won this time round. And there's a cow in the background. And there's a barn dance. And there's, you know, a haystack. These are the people who are saying, like Josh Turek in Iowa, you know, Josh Turek gets in by saying, I'm just here for common sense. I'm not going to be pulled into radicalism. I'm only going to please the people of Iowa if I stick to something that feels unpartisan. You know, it's not a party thing. It's a get things done thing. And I think that will be critical to the fight that they then choose to take on in 2028.

34:20You see, I think that's absolutely spot on. Obviously, if you are watching Fox News or One American News Network or Newsmax, which are all the Trump loving networks, you're going to hear that the Democratic Socialists of America are about to turn the United States into a communist country with Sharia law. reality is that indeed there are a block of democratic socialist uh congress men and women who have now been elected but they can't hold hakeem jeffries the who's going to be the speaker to ransom they haven't got enough votes for that the the size of the democrat victory is so huge and so wide that hakeem jeffries i think will have a much easier time than, say, when Nancy Pelosi was Speaker

35:05or when Mike Johnson was Speaker for Trump and he had a few moderates or a few on the far, far MAGA ultra-right who couldn't be reconciled. I think that, actually, the Democrats have put themselves in a position where they still look like an establishment party, but they have got some really impressive new talent coming in who are communicating i mean we keep talking about you know is it going to be john ossoff and what will abdul al-saeed do what there's all the other people that are still there there's this you know the pete butter judges and others from last time around who will be thinking i could also run so i think the democratic party now it doesn't have an obvious leader. It doesn't have, you know,

35:48a kind of Hillary Clinton or a Barack Obama style figure yet. But you're going to see that emerge, I think, quite quickly. And look, I want to hear from, let's hear from someone now who's not going to be a candidate in 2028. He's can't be. The Ugandan born, that's the disqualifier. But Zoram Amdani, the mayor of New York, has really articulately put his finger on what the Democratic Party as a governing party is all about now. Our job is not to lecture Americans on the choices that they've made. Our job is to listen. And then our job is to lead. And now we have the opportunity to lead with a mandate the likes of which we haven't seen in our country for generations. And that is an opportunity to deliver the kind of change that Americans can feel in their wallet,

36:36to deliver the kind of change that inspires a newfound faith in politics, and to deliver the kind of change that understands that dignity is a non-negotiable for every American across this country. I will be back after the break. This is Matt Rogers from Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. This is Bowen Yang from Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. Okay, we've been talking about QBpie mayo for a minute now, Bow, and wow, the feedback we're getting. I mean, so many of y'all love this stuff. You're stopping us in the street going, I love Kewpie. And if you're thinking, wait, what is Kewpie? Do you not have the internet? It's the OG Japanese mayonnaise. The one with the red cap and the little baby

37:24on the bottle. Once you know it, you start seeing it everywhere. People ask what makes it different from basic mayo. Well, the answer, egg yolks. Kewpie is made with egg yolks only, giving it this incredibly rich umami flavor that elevates everything. Burgers, fries, sandwiches, chicken, noodles. Chefs use it. Restaurants use it. People who really love food and flavor use it. Whatever you use it. Restaurants use it. People who really love food and flavor use it. Whatever you're eating, Kewpie it. So if you haven't tried Kewpie yet, find the bottle with the red cap and see what everyone's talking about. You'll understand. Kewpie, the original Japanese mayonnaise. So before we go, and i don't want to overdo the sort of links between various things happening whether it be russell brand going down for rape or donald trump going down to the most astonishing

38:17midterms defeat it looks like benjamin netanyahu is going down as well because the Arab bloc of MPs who will sit in the Knesset I think 19 of them out of 120 have said they are going to back Gaddy Eisenkot to be prime minister that doesn't mean they've gone into a formal pact or alliance and I think that would be very risky for Eisenkot to do such a thing because I think Israeli public opinion might turn against him for doing it but that this bloc have said we will support him to become prime minister, which presumably will get him over the line in terms of forming a coalition. Look, there are 37 parties in the Israeli election, so nothing here is simple. But a lot seemed to hinge on one man, one candidate, Lieberman,

39:00who had said four or five days ago that he was not prepared to work with the Arab parties, but he was prepared to work with the Haredi parties, the very orthodox parties, and maybe make them a carve-out in terms of whether they had to serve military service. It looks now as if there has been movement from the Arab parties who can come towards Eisencott because they recognise that Eisencott, for a whole host of political and PR reasons, cannot go towards them. But I think it is quite significant that one of Netanyahu's closest sort of tweeters, Amit Sehgal, a man who is very prolific on social media, has said this is a very bad day. He was talking about the Trump shellacking, but he was also talking about the fact that it has all become much harder for Netanyahu now to see a path through.

39:55It is too early to call anything. But blimey, that would be quite the end to this week. And blimey, what a week it's been. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll see you then. Bye-bye. Bye for now. This is Matt Rogers from Lost Culture East. That's with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. This is Bowen Yang from Lost Culture East. That's with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. Okay, we've been talking about QB Mail for a minute now, Bow, and wow, the feedback we're getting. I mean, so many of y'all love this stuff. You're stopping us in the street going, I love QB. And if you're thinking, wait, what is Kewpie? Uh, do you not have the internet? It's the OG Japanese mayonnaise. The one with the red cap and the little baby on the bottle.

40:35Once you know it, you start seeing it everywhere. People ask what makes it different from basic mayo. Well, the answer, egg yolks. Kewpie is made with egg yolks only, giving it this incredibly rich umami flavor that elevates everything. Burgers, fries, sandwiches, chicken, noodles. Chefs use it. Restaurants use it. People who really love food and flavor use it. Whatever you're eating, Kewpie it. So if you haven't tried Kewpie yet, find the bottle with the red cap and see what everyone's talking about. You'll understand. Kewpie yet, find the bottle with the red cap and see what everyone's talking about. You'll understand. Kewpie, the original Japanese mayonnaise. inventory and budget while sourcing critical supplies across the operation. Too much inventory? Cost climb. Too little? Production slows.

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