0:00 I used to get so many questions from other students and you know people were from all over the world and I was like what's Saudi Arabia like you and you could just tell them anything and they' believe it you could just make stuff up you be like oh like you know my camel riding my camel to school through the desert and this and they're just like I would believe that right now I feel go like this you go like this I'm going to pour the sand out and you make a [Music] wish and welcome to the wel show on YouTube where today we finally get to confront and Destroy zubie with facts and logic so it's time to be destroyed sir no welcome to JK welcome zie happy to have you um we want to so
0:50 we like to um first kick off this series of videos we're going to have with you by getting to know you a little bit sure so uh who are you what are you all about um maybe people here don't know yeah sure so my name is zubie I'm an independent rapper from the UK I'm also an author of two books can you turn up the UK accd a little bit more then that's not believable is do it bot bot um yeah I'm a public speaker I also run a podcast called real talk with zubie I've had that going for five years interviewed some very big guests including Elon Musk Alex hosi um gosh a lot of people Mar yes bartco episode not dropped yet not dropped just yet billionaire thousand hey man getting
1:40 get in the whole Spectrum yeah a lot lot of big guests on there um I also do public speaking in many different countries I was born in England grew up in Saudi Arabia family background from Nigeria and I've been nomadic for the past two and a half years so I say I live in Dubai but I'm kind of all over the place went to 14 different countries just last year so you don't have any pets huh no pets to like I have six birds that was a top question no pets um but yeah man uh a lot of people know me for different reasons um but I just try to put out positivity into the world Inspire and motivate people through my words and actions and it's been going well thank God I was pleasantly surprised when um I saw your name on the call sheet because sometimes Bart just gets people randomly
2:30 but I've been following you on Twitter for quite some time oh and so I'm I'm basically a fan so I was like really like shocked when bark got you and I was like what the ████ how do you even know zubie and then barart was like he dm' me and I'm like what and then so my question is how do you know this guy um o o o OG Fitness OG Fitness YouTube man see Fitness connects people knew Fitness Guru but you so you didn't think he was a a comedian you knew him as a fit this guy I knew him as a power he's like that's news to me what do you mean he I knew him as a powerlifter um but kind of funny powerlifter maybe though he's a funny man cuz Bart like dances by the pool like this yeah I mean when did you start when did you start the barbell Brigade Channel 2013 before it was Barber it was just Fitness it was like I don't know 2009 or
3:20 something yeah yeah I want to say it was more more than 10 years ago yeah so I was just you know independent rapper in the UK doing my thing and watching YouTube and came came across some I don't I don't know what video it was but I've known who you are for a long time forgettable video but you know who he is you said uh a lot of people know you for a lot of different things like what's like your favorite thing that people know you for and what's your like least favorite breaking the British women's deadlift record that one's kind of fun all right so in in 2019 I identified as a woman and I broke the British women's deadlift record congratulations it went it went very viral and millions of people discovered me from that um now surely you had to pre for months and months and months and months Fe technically I'd prepped for over a decade yeah but on the day I just kind of walked up to the bar and that's a big accomplishment though that's huge man that's huge congrats on that thank
4:11 you man thank you that's big than you wow I didn't realize thank you takes a special women to do such a thing yeah Power yeah with the penis what the what is the deadlifting record oh gosh so man I remember that day so I think when I checked it it was 210 kilos at the time and that's an American American ma don't no man that's actually pretty strong 210 kilos is that's like 400 maybe 470 480 oh wow something like that a lot so um yeah I mean my my my PB was 275 which is 606 lb and so the video that went viral was like 230 it was like it was like 5115 something like that okay so um yeah that that was 5 years ago now and that put me on a lot of people's radar the strongest woman in Britain has that record held strong is it still your I
5:01 haven't checked I mean we could Google search British women's deadlift record and um did you ever did you ever identify back to man oh yeah I've been a man ever since I've been a man ever since I just um you look we live in modern times you had a calling and um I try to be as Progressive as possible so as uh yeah I do what suits me at the time they took it from you depending on which bathroom I need they took it from you oh yeah was it Richard Stevens somebody named love lace love oh it's been taken but but my my PB is still significant higher than that so we're going to edit that out cuz it was correct false information it was correct it was correct at the time I knew you going to give us some misinformation so what what made you feel like you had to like prove a point with that video was it like the world you f like the world was like what the ████ going on everything's upside down dude we've been living in clown world for at least the past decade and um I'd seen this
5:52 especially coming up from around 2015 or so and I remember having conversations with people saying hey like if these are the rules you're going to just start getting men saying that their women and entering female sports and breaking their records and stuff and then people thought that I was being overly alarmist or that it wasn't going to happen and then um here we are whether it's swimming weightlifting Athletics MMA you we we've seen this goofiness and all so obviously it's absurd and I was just like oh okay um what's the British women's deadlift record in my weight class oh that's what it is and I can do way more than that so I just posted the video when I did it I had 18,000 followers on Twitter at the time and um I didn't think it was going to be some big viral moment or some career defining thing I just was like lol you know this is kind of funny and it just went crazy it hit a million
6:42 views in under 24 hours it got it put geez it because you have to remember at this time I was just an independent rapper in the UK just doing my thing whatever I didn't have a big audience in the US or anything like that and that just catapulted me into a whole different realm um the US e set ████ up oh dude it it went crazy it went cuz it went viral globally so it was on it went viral in the Fitness World in the political world in the social commentary world and the com just all these different spheres I remember when the when the Tweet was going viral and there were just all these comments in comment started coming in in different languages this Mak sh there and there and there all the women were praising him it went it went crazy man it went crazy that sounds like you were an inspiration for all women and that's globally they needed that yeah man got to smash that
7:32 glass ceiling and um also whoever hit it before I don't think they went viral while doing it so like there's something to be said about I know something to be said about that yeah man it it was a funny moment that's how Joe Rogan discovered me um I ended up I mean I came out to the US I was there here like September to September to November 2019 did just a that was my first time coming to La that's when Joe Rogan was still out here so I did his show I did the Ruben report is when the daily wire were out here so I did like Ben of hero show and all these I just it just started this these dominoes and and then you fell off all the way here that's brutal this is where people come to Die the last Domino well I I would say we we we we were the first to discover Matt Kim so but that's cuz he's Asian who do you think is more Clowny you think America's
8:22 more Clowny or UK's more us really us easily you guys are cooler huh like about all this woke stuff like you guys created yeah you guys are exporting It All Around The World God damn it I know but it wasn't supposed to be it wasn't supposed to be like that we do feel accountable kind of you know if I was a better bully in high school maybe something would happen you know what it felt like it felt like I was marching with my friends and we're like yeah we're going to work for like rots and then they started saying crazy ████ and I'm like man I don't I don't know about that that's little crazy no it's too late it's too late it's too late like what like I just wanted like equality like this is good good and then they just went no quality is not good enough man they want equity and I'm like that's I don't understand yeah I think Canada might be even ahead of you guys though Canada seems Canada's taking that ball
9:12 and they're they're just running into what makes you cringe the most about our culture American culture yeah wow American culture that's even a strange term because there's so many different subsections of American culture this is we all like Hamburg well I don't know about that um goofiest thing wait phrase that question one more time well when when when you're in America what's the silliest ████ you see that we just seem to accept or whatever the silliest um do you know what this isn't answering the question directly but what always strikes me in the US is everything in look in the UK everything operates in this window in most country in some countries things operate in this window and some it's this window us is just on on on everything every type of human being that you can imagine exists in the this country there are human beings that exist here that like love
10:03 guns hate guns some countries no guns everything on on whatever it is social cultural uh political there's just there's just everything yeah there's just everything so there's certain types of people who you come across here and I'm just like this type of person just does not exist in any in America they do and they have a community and they have a group land of opportunities yeah it's crazy we made fun of furries on this show and we had actual furry lovers in the comments being like this is ████ up can't believe you guys make fun of us yeah this is probably the only country where I'm you could probably become a millionaire by being a furry like that's true if your feet are properly proportioned you can you can fly very high you can sink very low you can yeah you can do whatever you want crazy you're kind of making me it's a good and bad thing yes it is it is but that's why the freedom here is awesome
10:54 and that's why people fight for it cuz you could literally do whatever the ████ you want and be successful at whatever you want yeah the volatility compared to the freedom in the UK where they can literally do whatever the ████ they want and financially they don't have to pay a bunch of ████ like we do doesn't UK got doesn't UK got crazy taxes UK has crazy taxes it has crazy taxes but like if I want to do crypto things over there or perhaps I want to gamble over there gotta I don't get tax up and out the ████ yeah actually there's a there's a ranking of economic freedom scales and um UK ranks higher than the US in economic freedom but how do they Define it and I believe it now because my my neighbor he's the top earning poker player in the whole world online or whatever he's made so much money on online and he has to leave here to go play because he doesn't want to get taxed out the ████ it's a balance between how easy it is to open up a business taxes all these other things
11:45 but what I know of the UK just from Hannah is that they don't collect on certain like thresholds like the way that they Penny pinch here on every every person so like if you're making under a certain point like I don't know like 20,000 or whatever just throwing that number out there they don't even care but there's some ████ right so like you want to buy a car it's a lot more yeah right where in like the like Denmark like Sweden like Singapore you got to pay like 2x pay 2x basically yeah UK UK doesn't fit into that category you get like a car for like a th000 bucks there used used I was in Sweden and my buddy was like or Denmark and my buddy's like you got to buy the car I mean if you go to like Denmark or Sweden then I mean the top tax rates are above 50% so I think the top marginal tax I'm I won't get the countries right it's Denmark and Sweden I think one of them the top tax rate is 58% and the other's 5 and the
12:35 other's and the other I think is 62% and because I'm an American I just say like that's all UK yeah all that but a lot but a lot of Scandinavians don't don't mind that cuz I mean at least it includes all their healthare all their education all the way up to college level and so on there's visible benefits to that then you know yeah we pay like we pay like 40% and we have potholes yeah and no books in our schools what the ████ is that what's a book yeah but Seth Rogan says it's pretty good here oh that's right he's stupid is the concept of libertarian crazy in Europe is there like people don't know what it means right libertarianism is um if you if if you say you're a Libertarian in England or in Germany or France like they'll just they'll just look at you like what do you mean I heard because you're a crazy right winger then right um maybe so
13:27 that's how they see it right I don't they think our left wing is rightwing true well okay so let me let me clarify I was speaking to a journalist in Austria right and she used to work for the BBC's and we had a deep conversation and she said that the American left is still fiscally right and still considered conservative and not that crazy compared to Europeans so our Bernie which is crazy left to us is still kind of right and moderate to the Europeans is that is that how you guys that's true of some countries okay so you're I mean Europe is dozens and dozens of countries so they're they're all yeah they're they're all pretty yeah they're they're all quite different in that regard but that would certainly be true in some countries yeah um but yeah I mean if you're what's your
14:18 favorite country you've been to I don't have a favorite country damn no I don't have I have favorite countries but least favorite every everywhere's got a he's in it I don't know no no no the US in my top five countries man I love the USA well cuz he could be with this people here like he has the range right so that's why he USA us what do his people Joe right Wingers if you're when you're planning to have a kid if you are yeah where would you want your kid to be born and raised born wherever they get the most passports wherever it makes most sense for them raised um one of the golf count trees wow really okay UAE so there's not a lot of War there huh it's the safest part of the entire world I heard Bahrain
15:08 is like lit Bahrain is lit Bahrain Qatar UAE Saudi saudi's coming up man saudi's going to crush it in really next couple decades I also heard they have this wild thing that I don't think California is aware of called desalination plants where you can like you can actually there's like a whole ocean so like I guess we're running out of water and stuff but like there's this whole weird ocean that you can like just take from yeah and pull water from it and bahin does that h cuz we're screaming drought every ████ year but we have the ocean right there and it rains but they don't know how to catch it yeah just go like this and like this dude we have 10 million people in La if they just went outside did like that and put in the bucket isn't it like illegal to collect rain water in some places here maybe it in the states I believe it we have weird laws yeah I don't know about California but I don't there's some rules around collecting rain water so my American brain when I think about the gulf countries I go oh there's always War
15:58 it's dangerous no Wars at all there's there's there's always some kind of bombing or something going on no I mean that's another part that's another part of the Middle East I mean if you're yeah I mean if you're Israel Palestine Syria like that Iraq that Iran the UAE Dubai no the gulf countries no but at least we're trying to you know make those places more peaceful though more peace pretty lit you feel me yeah and you know I I I grew up in Saudi Arabia so I'm used to man what was it like growing up in Saudi Arabia really just perfect amazing um not perfect man noh's perfect but um it's also where it's saying like I I grew up in an xat community so where I grew up looked visually it looked like a suburb in LA or Houston yeah visually first time I ever
16:48 came to California remember when I went to Orange County and I was like it looks like Saudi what I felt the same thing when I first went to Houston maybe it's my ignorance cuz when I think Saudi Arabia I think like it is a giant like you well no I think I think zubie grew up in Aladdin's ████ Palace or something yeah everything everything squiggling magic carpets 100% camel yeah that's the national anthem yeah of the UK for sure that's so funny so you guys have regular ass houses like we have regular houses but with flying carpets yeah of course iMagic carpets just in the back I thought their houses would be way bigger it was actually funny cuz um I went to so I went to school in Saudi from kindergarten to fifth grade and then when I was 11 I went to boarding school in the UK so from 11 to 20 I was going to school in UK plus University
17:40 but I still lived in Saudi Arabia and when I was like when I was 11 12 in boarding school I used to get so many questions from other students and you know people were from all over the world I was like what Saudi Arabia like you and you could just tell them anything and they believe it you could you could just make you could just make stuff you be like oh like you know my camel riding my camel to school through the desert and this and they're just like I would believe that right now I feel you go like this you go like this I'm going pour the sand out and you make a wish yeah it was uh it was pretty fun everyone has a genie you're like the teacher turns his back we shake the sunnd dial we got a little bit longer of a lunch break like for all I know that's accurate yeah but um but yeah it was a cool place have any of you been anywhere in the Middle East mm no okay I think it's our propaganda to don't go there
18:30 cuz if we see it for ourselves we're going to fall in love yeah how how is it for women out there awesome um again suck on that yeah suck on that woman again suck on that woman again let let me not be not like the whole Middle East but um yeah like places I can speak if you're talking like a do do we're talking about like where you grew up specifically oh where I grew up fantastic no problem yeah no problems at all um yeah but people have different different people going to have different experiences got all this propagandas about women in in that area right in the Middle East yeah well in in and then specifically I say Saudi Arabia and and Dubai right U Dubai I've heard that's what I heard like if they saw her like this would they go cover up lady yeah or like if she if she's got like a ████ you know but light she's wearing much more than many women do in Dubai oh yeah I'm in Dubai and I'm like y this is
19:21 this is this is Haram these women need to cover you're in the US okay you have to remember um you guys probably don't know this I mean if you're talking Dubai I mean only 10% of the population is Emira 90 it's 90% experts really 90% 90% wow I'm pretending to understand what that means so 90% of the population is from other countries got it yeah it's Americans Brits Canadians Indians pakistanis Australians and emirati means type of illuminati people that it's a an amirati is someone from the United Arab Emirates I think it's a lounge at the airport I don't know I'm kind of thinking it's more what Steve said they're employees of the airline yeah I think it's the lounge at the airport oh it's the girls with the Red Hats yeah yeah the 10% of the country is just that hey zubie littlest known fact
20:13 about yourself or maybe the most misunderstood thing about you most misunderstood thing about me gosh there's a lot of conspiracy theories about me last couple years what's the best in juic the best one the best one is that I'm not real and that I'm AI what that's crazy wait I don't actually touch him Steve touch him yeah I can't he's a hologram this is just ADV someone's really going to believe that yeah yeah so that that's the that's the funniest one I hope they do we have a whole Guardian so if I didn't ask to touch you they would get on that's right they'll be like I can't believe they didn't ask them about the AI thing consent very important it's very important to our audience do you actually have a woke audience uh oh yeah the most woke ever they're so woke the woke show ever yeah this is the walk show on YouTube really show on YouTube we get actually accused for both sides
21:03 yeah yeah it's pretty fun yeah that's good that's good yeah one day where uh lip tards the next day were Trump supporting rightwing mag magga guys yeah and there's no way to say we're just we're just Bob do Republicans ████ who [Laughter] cares
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