1 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,120 I'm the main problem. I'm the main problem. 2 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,560 Let's go full screen on Russell. Welcome to the AAA, the A A A, 3 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:58,400 the the the It's not baseball or a or a high end video game. 4 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:04,360 No, it's it's ask Al anything for you beloved patrons. 5 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:06,960 I thought it'd be interesting to see if you've got any questions 6 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:12,320 for me and questions you have, which is which is fun and 7 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:14,720 hopefully I've got a new camera here as well. 8 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:19,120 And hopefully you can see me in shining higher definition here 9 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:22,920 of of some description. So I don't know test run. 10 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:26,000 Anyway, we'll see how it goes. I've been fiddling with the 11 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,800 settings a little bit, so hopefully it looks decent. 12 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:34,160 Anyway, we're going to jump off with a a couple of kind of 13 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:36,840 Russell oriented questions because I'll put in a little 14 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,160 preview of this out on the main feed for people to get a little 15 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,320 taste. And I thought, you know, keep it 16 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:49,240 relevant and we'll get into some more personal stuff a little bit 17 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,240 later. So we're going to jump off with 18 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,880 a question from Natalie's Hot tea, The Elixir of Life. 19 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:01,360 And I must use the full name in that instance. 20 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,560 Oh, I think we've got Popo. Is it Popo or ambulance? 21 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,080 There's something, I tell you what. 22 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:14,320 Like, I live in a small town. Nothing ever happens here. 23 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,200 So like when you hear sirens, ah, it's an ambulance. 24 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,960 Ah, that's what I'm saying. Well, I hope whoever it is is 25 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:21,840 fine anyway. Nothing ever happens here. 26 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,720 So like when when you hear sirens, it's like, oh OK, 27 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,480 Natalie's hot TV likes of life. What do you think is the future 28 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:34,120 of Russell Brand and his brand of grifter in general? 29 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:36,480 We've been dealing with an epidemic of this kind of asshole 30 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,000 media figure over the last decade, and I wonder how this 31 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,880 pops is going to leave its mark on our collective Western quote 32 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:47,960 UN quote culture. Yeah, I mean, the future of 33 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:51,400 Russell Brand specifically. Hopefully prison. 34 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:56,200 That'd be good. I I would like prison if that's 35 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:03,760 an option. However, what I will say is even 36 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,560 even in the event of him going to prison, you know, he's 37 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:11,960 managed to kind of make the narrative so much of A 38 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,080 conspiracy against him. You know, oh, it's the MI 5 and 39 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,320 government and the CIA, all of them trying to take me down and 40 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:20,880 the, and the media. It's all, it's all a big whole 41 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:22,680 thing. That even if he does go to 42 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:27,600 prison, I reckon he'd be able to keep up the kind of martyr 43 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:32,280 status and still be able to, to get a good grift going when he 44 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,800 gets out. Which, you know, I mean, 45 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:40,160 unfortunately, I would say the charges for, you know, the 46 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:44,280 things he's on trial for, which would be rape, sexual assault, 47 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,160 etcetera. Like the, the actual sentencing 48 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,400 is pretty, in my opinion, lenient in this country. 49 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:56,280 So I think, you know, five years, 10 years, I don't think 50 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:57,920 he'd be gone away for long anyway. 51 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:03,200 And I think he would manage to turn it to his benefit, though 52 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,400 he'd probably have a miserable time while he was there. 53 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:12,840 But failing that, I mean, say he doesn't end up in prison. 54 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,720 The future of of this brand of grifter in general, the future 55 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:21,600 looks pretty bright for them. Unfortunately, You know, we're 56 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:27,480 we're reaching, we're reaching that point of I think as a 57 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:31,560 society where we're, we're collectively realizing that, oh, 58 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:36,000 it doesn't matter what I say to these people because they 59 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,200 believe the thing anyway. Like my show is, is never like 60 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,480 I, I will be shocked if my show changes anyone's mind. 61 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,480 You know, if, if, if someone comes into this with an open 62 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:51,360 heart, you know, and from Russell's kind of sphere of 63 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:53,840 things and is actually like, yeah, you know what? 64 00:04:53,840 --> 00:04:58,840 He is a shit, you know, then I, I'll be genuinely surprised 65 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:05,160 because we are, we are all kind of siphoned off and separated 66 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,000 off into different media bubbles. 67 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,800 And that one in particular, the one of, of right wing conspiracy 68 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:19,440 theory stuff is, is so incredibly toxic and, and 69 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:23,240 isolating in its nature. The, the people can't get out, 70 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,880 you know, and people, people become incredibly radicalized 71 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,160 even when they don't think they're particularly radical. 72 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:36,840 And you get a situation of of kind of programming not too 73 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:40,280 dissimilar to what happened a century ago in, in, in Germany, 74 00:05:40,280 --> 00:05:44,200 right. And so you kind of look at the 75 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:49,320 thing of like, well, you know, how how do you how do you kind 76 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:55,440 of de propagandize and kind of, you know, get people back to 77 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,960 some kind of neutral base of like at least appreciating 78 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,680 facts? And how do you do that on mass? 79 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:06,120 Like, I've no fucking idea. We we had to kill half of them 80 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:10,960 last time, you know, and, and and that whole thing was bad. 81 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:18,920 And so when you, when you then kind of think about all the 82 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:22,400 people that are doing it, I'm like, Oh yeah, no, they're, 83 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,040 they've, they've got a while to go. 84 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:27,840 They, you know, the things, things, things are still ramping 85 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:29,600 up. Things are still ramping up 86 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:32,440 politically and in and in every other aspect. 87 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:34,960 And I think we've got a while to go of that. 88 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:40,360 And I think, you know, line is going to keep going up until 89 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:42,360 something's got to give eventually. 90 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:46,280 But you know, in the, in the grand scheme of things, you 91 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:50,440 know, end of World War 2 is, is 1945, We're currently in like 92 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:54,440 1932, something like that. You know, we've, we've got some 93 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:58,240 time. And so these kind of asshole 94 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,840 media figures in general, they're going to keep ramping it 95 00:07:01,840 --> 00:07:05,760 up. Not to say they don't have a few 96 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,760 spanners in the works, though. Obviously, you know, a bunch of 97 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:12,760 them are starting to kind of eat each other over divisions over 98 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:16,320 Trump because a couple of them have realized, hey, this guy's 99 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:17,880 not going to be around that much longer. 100 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,480 I need to pivot, you know, to, to be able to kind of separate 101 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:25,080 myself from the pack. And, and, you know, because not 102 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,000 only is he not going to be around much longer, but also 103 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,480 he's, he's doing a bad job. And it's it's increasingly 104 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,680 difficult to defend him from the from the perspective that he's 105 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:36,760 going to do everything we want him to because he's not doing 106 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:41,320 everything we want him to. So, you know, there, there are, 107 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,640 there are, there are hurdles and pitfalls in, in the way for 108 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:48,560 these people. But but you know, most of them 109 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:52,120 are, are pretty adept at pivoting about the place to be 110 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:55,880 able to manoeuvre in this space, you know, and a good chunk of 111 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:59,560 the time, I mean, you see it enough with Alex Jones. 112 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:01,440 You know, they don't even need to get it right on the first 113 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:03,360 try. You know, they, they can, they 114 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,560 can pivot in that direction and be like, whoop, that's not 115 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:07,080 working. And then just go in the opposite 116 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:08,880 way. And and nobody seems to really 117 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:13,720 hold them accountable or give a shit about hypocrisy or, or any 118 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:18,360 of that side of things. So yeah, how it's going to leave 119 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,720 its mark on our collective, on our collective culture. 120 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,960 It's it's not good. It's not good. 121 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:30,240 What I will say is happening in the UK at the moment is kind of 122 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:35,880 interesting politically because the Conservatives after 14 years 123 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:38,000 of destroying the country, kind of imploded. 124 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:42,520 And now the Labour Party are, are in a position where like 125 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:48,240 basically they've shot themselves in the foot so many 126 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:49,720 times. And, and it's, it's been 127 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:53,000 fascinating to watch a government just be like, because 128 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:55,160 they'll shoot themselves in the foot with like a handgun. 129 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:57,480 And then they're just like, you know what, it's not enough. 130 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:00,880 And they'll graduate to like a fucking AK47, then a shotgun. 131 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,960 And, and at this point I'm just, I'm just looking at news about 132 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:05,600 the Labour government in general. 133 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:08,840 I'm like, oh, you're, you're aiming an RPG at your own feet. 134 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:11,680 Is, is what's happening here repeatedly. 135 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:18,520 And so they, they've kind of destroyed any hope of them, of 136 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:20,920 them coming in the in the next election. 137 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:26,320 And there is a, there is a Senate election happening in 138 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:28,360 Wales, right? The, the Senate is, is Welsh 139 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:34,800 Parliament and we, we don't have as much power as even Scottish 140 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:38,360 Parliament have because not as many things have been devolved 141 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:40,280 to us. It's it's complicated, but not 142 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:45,160 really just classic more, more discrimination against the 143 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:49,280 Welsh. But you know, this election's 144 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:51,920 coming up and traditionally Wales have always been like 145 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:56,760 Labour majority since forever, you know, and, and, and that's 146 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:00,840 based in kind of the roots of of kind of Welsh socialism being a 147 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:04,680 big part of the Labour Party. That was, and that being, you 148 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:08,720 know, what, what created the NHS essentially it was Welsh 149 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,600 socialism. It was, it was, it was based off 150 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:15,760 of minors essentially, you know, kind of grouping together and 151 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:18,320 looking after each other and then doing that on a broader 152 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:22,760 scale. But anyway, what's what's 153 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:29,320 happening there politically is, is, is neither the Tories nor 154 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:33,400 Labour are polling at all in Wales anymore in, in any 155 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:37,080 significant metric, which is remarkable. 156 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:41,640 And so the, the two parties you have left are Plaid Cymru, who, 157 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:45,160 who I support and have voted for, who are, you know, leftist 158 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:48,120 and, and very pro Welsh independence. 159 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:53,440 And then you've got Reform, which is Nigel Farage's party. 160 00:10:54,240 --> 00:11:00,520 And so in terms of the mark on our culture at the moment, 161 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:03,440 everyone is being driven further to extremes. 162 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:08,840 We are seeing almost in real time the death of centrism, for 163 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:13,680 now anyway, because it's just nobody's happy with it. 164 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:18,160 Everyone's pissed off. I, I had a family gathering, you 165 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:20,360 know, a little while back, you know, and I've, I've got a 166 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:23,000 couple of right wing family members, as do we all. 167 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:27,000 And what was really interesting was despite coming from total 168 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:31,040 fucking opposite directions, politically, we could all unify 169 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:33,800 around the fact that we fucking hated Keir Starmer. 170 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:39,800 That was something we all agreed on, you know, and, and I think 171 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:45,960 that's telling. So I, I get, I guess I don't 172 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:50,160 know, the best we can hope for as people are driven to extremes 173 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:55,840 is that the extreme left will somehow win out, you know, like 174 00:11:55,840 --> 00:12:00,760 I guess because ultimately that will be better for everyone in 175 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:02,400 terms of policy and everything else. 176 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:04,960 And that's what happened. There was a by election in 177 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:09,440 Caerphilly, you know, for, for the Senev and, and Reform lost 178 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:13,160 to Blight Cymru in that instance, which is a good 179 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:17,280 indicator, certainly positive at least. 180 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:23,000 But yeah, and, and I think what's going to happen in, in 181 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,480 the UK in the next election in general is we're going to see a 182 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:28,200 coalition government of some form. 183 00:12:28,560 --> 00:12:31,840 And it's whether it's going to be reform on the Tories or 184 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:37,680 Greens and maybe Labour, maybe Lib Dem, I don't know. 185 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:40,240 No, the Lib Dems are fucking you. 186 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:42,600 They, they just, they're like photo opportunities. 187 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:44,080 That's all. They that's all they really seem 188 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:50,320 to stand for. But of course, America doesn't 189 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:54,720 have that is the thing like you, you guys are somehow more 190 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:59,920 entrenched than we are in, in, in terms of in terms of 191 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:02,440 political parties. Here's the thing, like in France 192 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:05,040 and Germany and places like that that are more democratic than 193 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:08,120 the UK because they don't have a first past the post system like 194 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:10,440 we do. It's not surprising to see 195 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:14,240 coalition governments like throughout Europe, but you know, 196 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:16,840 to, to see a coalition government in the UK, something 197 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:23,200 has to have gone truly fucking disastrously wrong, which it 198 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,320 has. But you guys don't even have 199 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:28,840 that because there's, there's such a monopoly on both sides 200 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,320 and so much money and so much is entrenched. 201 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:38,040 It's unbelievable. And so you have this problem in 202 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:42,280 the US of of like you don't have leftist alternatives. 203 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:45,440 You don't have these because the DNC won't let them run. 204 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:49,000 You know, you know, you're you're going to get fucking. 205 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,480 I don't know someone else who decides that palling around with 206 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:57,360 the Chinese is a good idea. You know, on the left and then 207 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:01,280 the right are going to be like, no, we want literal Hitler this 208 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:03,320 time. We're going to revive him and 209 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:04,840 we're going to make him president. 210 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:06,960 We're going to change the constitution so that it can 211 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,560 actually be someone born in Germany, you know, in the 1800s. 212 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:13,360 That's. And that's who we want. 213 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:20,680 Yeah. It's it's not it's not a 214 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:25,040 positive outlook. I'm not going to lie to you, but 215 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:27,560 you know, that's not to say that all hope is lost. 216 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,800 Like I said, the, the, the, the main thing is, is leftism. 217 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:37,760 Leftism has to, has to be able to, to come together and go 218 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:39,760 further left. Like the, the further they go 219 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:42,880 right, though we should, we should just be openly advocating 220 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,720 fucking straight up communism at this point. 221 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:47,000 But like, you know what, screw it. 222 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:48,720 Universal basic income for everyone. 223 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:50,720 Yep. What are you going to do? 224 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:58,120 You know, you want to frigging, you know, put all of the, put 225 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:01,480 all of the migrants in prison. Well then you know, we're, we're 226 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,600 going to, I don't know, yeah, just give everyone money is what 227 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:07,680 we're going to do. And you know, in, in the US 228 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:10,040 healthcare, healthcare might be a start. 229 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:14,480 It's difficult for me to kind of measure in terms of metrics 230 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:20,200 because obviously, you know, the UK is is semi socialist in it's 231 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,360 nature. And and and it's it's easy for 232 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:25,920 me to forget like, Oh yeah, there's so many basic shit that 233 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:29,400 you guys just don't even have that like Christ, that's radical 234 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:36,600 to you people, to your country. Anyway, in any case, yeah, 235 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:39,080 that's where we stand. We just need to unify the left. 236 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:43,320 And Zoran Mamdani winning in New York is a good indicator as well 237 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:48,240 of like potential flat. But yeah, the problem that the 238 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:53,040 US has is, is, is that entrenchment and, and the amount 239 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:58,760 of control that the DNC has has over how that's going to go. 240 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:01,600 Whereas at least over here we do have the alternative parties. 241 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:05,640 So there's there's perhaps an easier Rd. of it comparatively, 242 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:08,480 though it's still going to suck in many ways and still require a 243 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:13,880 lot of fighting. OK, so I chatted for a long time 244 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:16,600 on that one, but there we go. That's my thoughts. 245 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:21,880 Hopefully prison for Russell. That's still where I stand. 246 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,880 OK, Next, a question from Mag 28. 247 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:28,200 I'm sorry if this is obvious, but I only started listening 248 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:30,640 recently. How much of Russell's bullshit 249 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:32,680 do you think he actually believes? 250 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:36,600 Like, what is his actual belief versus scam slash not going to 251 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:38,800 jail? Like the crunchy Wellness versus 252 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:44,040 Christian Republican shit? I mean, yeah. 253 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:48,120 So in terms of stuff that Russell believes, you know, I, I 254 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:52,200 kind of, if, if it's any, if it's any kind of story of the 255 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:55,280 week, I have to take whatever he's saying with at least a 256 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,880 grain of salt because he usually doesn't know what he's talking 257 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:02,760 about until he reads it on the auto queue for a start. 258 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:07,520 And he's just kind of making it up as he goes. 259 00:17:09,319 --> 00:17:12,200 In terms of the Christianity, I think that's sincere. 260 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,480 I think that's genuine that that he does. 261 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:21,720 He does believe in that and and and I think there's a fair body 262 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:25,520 of evidence to show that that he that that that is genuine and 263 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:28,079 has been going on for a lot longer than he would have anyone 264 00:17:28,079 --> 00:17:36,480 believe. And yeah, I think he believes 265 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:40,200 that like a bunch of the anti vax ship as well, like a bunch 266 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:44,200 of the Wellness stuff, you know, and it and it's it's it's easy 267 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,920 for him because he's again, he's among the nought point nought 1% 268 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:54,440 wealthiest people on the planet. And so he doesn't have to, you 269 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,560 know, he he doesn't have to eat the same food that that we do, 270 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,920 you know, he doesn't have to drink the same water that we do. 271 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:06,880 And he doesn't, you know, and and so he can believe that 272 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:12,480 everything is poison and merrily skirt that despite the rest of 273 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:19,280 us, you know, having all of these things and being fine for 274 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:23,800 the most part. And with the vaccine stuff, I 275 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:28,000 mean, that's, you know, it's going to affect his kids more 276 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,520 than it is him because obviously he's vaccinated up to the gills 277 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:33,800 for the most part. OK, good. 278 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:38,000 Because his mum seems to not be as much of A dipshit as he is. 279 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,520 As for what else he believes, yeah. 280 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:46,040 I mean, you know, tiny theocratic ethnostates. 281 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:49,600 He's a big fan of that. You know, he's he will tolerate 282 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,360 the existence of queer people as long as we're nowhere near him. 283 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:57,720 He just wants his, you know, theocratic, Christian white 284 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:00,320 people place. And, you know, all the African 285 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:04,520 Americans can go over there and blow it right in this, in this 286 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:11,760 kind of bizarre utopia of his where all these tiny communities 287 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,920 are self governing and, and, and there's no war between them at 288 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:16,920 all. You're like, OK, OK. 289 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:24,480 But in terms of like the conspiracy theory stuff, I don't 290 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:28,800 know. I, I think he likes to avoid 291 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,800 specifics because they tend to challenge his wealthy bit. 292 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:38,600 Because here's the thing, like in many ways he can be a dipshit 293 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,320 it but in many other ways he's not stupid. 294 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:45,600 You know, he's he's not a moron. He he's incredibly ignorant of 295 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:47,840 many things, but he's not a moron. 296 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:51,280 And so when something comes along the the the seems a bit 297 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:54,240 off to him, he'll be like, OK, interesting. 298 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,160 And and he he will kind of zoom out to be like, OK, at the very 299 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:02,000 least, this is representative of this other problem about how 300 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,640 Farmer is doing this and very, you know, and the systems of 301 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,280 control and we need a revolution, you know, and blah, 302 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:13,400 blah, blah, blah. And the other thing I'll say 303 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:20,160 about that is, is that Russell, he's infamously lazy. 304 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:25,440 To, to, to an incredible degree. And I, I sympathise, I like to 305 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:28,040 take the path of least resistance where possible a lot 306 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:31,440 of the time. I understand it and I sympathise 307 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:35,120 with the impulse. The, the, the problem, the 308 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:39,880 problem seems to be where like his values are also, you know, 309 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:42,800 in the direction of the path of least resistance as well. 310 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:46,040 You know, I'm like that, that that's those, those things 311 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,880 should not merge, which is why he's, you know, he's now eating 312 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:51,600 beet again. You know, he was smoking a 313 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:55,320 cigarette on Infowars. I'm like, OK, what's what's 314 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,240 going on here? Because he used to, you know, he 315 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:59,840 used to be a vegan and, and, and all this other stuff. 316 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:07,880 And he's just throwing that by the wayside, you know, And, and 317 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,960 so for, for him, it would be, you know, what he believes will 318 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:17,040 be a, a case of one of the things that I can, that I can 319 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:24,640 say and do that will make people like me and trust me and are 320 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,360 also the easiest to pull off. You know, what, what, what can I 321 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:29,360 do to, to lean in that direction? 322 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:34,560 And that's always where he will go because he's a phenomenal 323 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:39,200 trend hound, you know, and, and he's also incredibly insecure 324 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,680 and repeatedly Googles himself. So. 325 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:48,640 Yeah, Yeah. And in terms of the crunchy 326 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:54,000 Wellness stuff, yeah, a lot of that has fallen by the wayside, 327 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,360 you know, like he's not, he's not leading meditations anymore. 328 00:21:58,360 --> 00:22:01,800 You know, he was a year ago. He's not anymore, you know, 329 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:05,280 well, a year and a half ago, you know, he's, he's completely 330 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:11,360 gotten rid of that entirely. Because while you know, it's 331 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:15,560 it's, it's too much juice, you know, too much juice. 332 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,800 No, the juice isn't worth the squeeze. 333 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:22,000 Yeah, with his audience anymore, whereas it used to be. 334 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,400 Which leads me on to the next question actually, which is from 335 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,480 Ian from Iceland. Have you felt like Russell has 336 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,440 lost any of his audience slash supporters in recent years or do 337 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:35,280 you think he has gained in popularity now? 338 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:43,680 Then it's an interesting question because I think there's 339 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,720 been a bit of a transplanting of his audience. 340 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:47,760 Some of the old school have left. 341 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,600 Not all of them, but some of them have the, you know, the 342 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,120 kind of the crunchy Wellness ones who kind of knew him from 343 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:58,720 when he was doing videos about, you know, how to get through a 344 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:00,920 tough relationship crisis or whatever. 345 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,640 You know, back back when he was more in his guru phase. 346 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,480 You know, most of those people have kind of gone now, which 347 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:13,600 again, is, is why he will have stopped doing the meditations 348 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,360 and all of this stuff and why he's happy to abandon veganism 349 00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:18,200 and everything. It no longer serves his interest 350 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:24,360 to do so, you know, and, and it serves the new audience better 351 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:27,640 to not be doing meditations because because you know, some, 352 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,000 some Christians really take issue with the concept of it, 353 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,680 but as, as, as though it's some kind of blasphemy. 354 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:36,880 And same with same with veganism as well. 355 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,120 Like particularly in America, you know, the, the right wing 356 00:23:40,120 --> 00:23:44,000 Christians will all be steak eating and, and Bible thumping 357 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,560 individuals. And so, you know, he's he's 358 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:50,560 fitting in with them who are now his audience in Florida. 359 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,080 So he has lost a bunch, but he's also gained a bunch. 360 00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:59,560 I mean, because like the the allegations was kind of a big 361 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:04,880 turning point of a lot of people abandoning him, you know, from 362 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:09,200 his old audience. But at the same time, the week 363 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:15,280 following, in the, in the weeks, sorry, following the allegations 364 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:20,360 coming out against him back in September 2023, his, his 365 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:24,600 subscriber rate went up by like 800% or something. 366 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:31,400 You know, so like people, people were flocking to him on the 367 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,600 basis of his, his pre emptive response and, and everything 368 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:36,320 like that as well. And, and you know, the 369 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,720 presentation from people like Tucker Carlson be like, oh, he's 370 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:41,480 being attacked because he's a truth teller. 371 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:49,120 And I'm like, OK, Tuck, you know, so, so ultimately probably 372 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:52,600 a net gain. What has been interesting is, is 373 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,360 Russell, Russell took a break a few weeks ago. 374 00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:58,480 He was, he was off for a couple of weeks and he made like big 375 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:02,720 dramatic statements about like, Hey, I need to, I need to go 376 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:06,640 away and reassess, you know, what I can bring to this space, 377 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,120 you know, and, and, and if I should really be doing this at 378 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:11,960 all and things like that. And I was like, oh, is Russell 379 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,160 going to quit? That would be interesting. 380 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:19,120 He didn't quit, no at all. He he came back and doubled 381 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:26,040 down, went on info was right. But what what I had noticed is 382 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:31,280 obviously Russell, Russell has a, he has a personal deal with 383 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,120 Rumble, like his contract is with Rumble. 384 00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:39,400 That's how he gets paid, you know, and he has, he has other 385 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,280 revenue streams, obviously, but but that's kind of the main one. 386 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,600 And what I had noticed around the same time as as his break 387 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,880 happening was that his, his actual kind of viewership 388 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,080 numbers on Rumble have not been great. 389 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,560 They used to sit at like 400,000, half a million, 390 00:25:55,560 --> 00:26:00,640 something like that. And like for a while now they've 391 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:05,000 been hovering around like 200,000 Max on a good on a good 392 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,320 day, you know, and the rest of the time, you know, half that. 393 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:16,040 And you know, he, he's got, I don't know, 2.34 million people 394 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:17,960 on Rumble now, you know, subscribing to him. 395 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,600 And so I'm like, that's, that's low numbers in terms of 396 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,360 subscribers versus people actually paying attention to 397 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:26,880 your content. And then you look at the likes 398 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:31,160 of Steven Crowder and, and obviously you can't trust the 399 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,640 numbers on Rumble, particularly for actual Rumble creators. 400 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,200 But Steven Crowder has fewer subscribers and yet is pulling 401 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:43,200 in supposedly, you know, 700,000, you know, views on his, 402 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,280 on his Rumble and everything. I'm like, OK. 403 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,720 And I, I kind of, I had wondered whether like perhaps popularity 404 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:57,920 was waning and, and there were problems behind the scenes in, 405 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,040 in terms of people actually giving a shit about what he has 406 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:05,920 to say, which is possible because on the surface you, you 407 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,640 do kind of, you do kind of look at it and, and, and you have to 408 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:13,840 be like, well, what does he actually bring to this space? 409 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:19,720 You know, he's, he's, he's a useful, he's got a useful story, 410 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:24,040 had a useful narrative to to, you know, if, if he's going to 411 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,760 appear on other people's shows, you know, in many ways, you 412 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:29,920 know, being the martyr. And then you've got the, you 413 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,640 know, redemption story and Christian spark in lava 414 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:38,640 redemption story, right. But in terms of his own show, 415 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,720 like you watch it and it and it's just like, OK, you're just 416 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:47,640 regurgitating the same bullshit, you know, from from the news and 417 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,880 and you don't know that much. You don't have that interesting 418 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,280 a perspective. You vaguely waffle about 419 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,800 revolution every now and then. You know what, what do you have 420 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,640 to offer, you know, to society on this? 421 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,320 You know what, what do you bring to this space, you know, other 422 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:09,200 than just just more open shirts, I guess. 423 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:15,560 Yeah, Yeah. So, you know, it's, it's, it's 424 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:19,960 difficult to tell because whether he's gained popularity 425 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:25,560 or not, because in, in in some ways, like some numbers have 426 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:30,200 gone up, but others seem, seem to have gone down and others 427 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,200 seem deeply suspicious. At the very least, he is 428 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:38,920 certainly a much more popular figure within that sphere than 429 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,560 he was a couple of years ago. He seems to be much more 430 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,680 accepted now than he was when I first started covering him. 431 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:53,400 I'm not sure that's a good thing for him, but we'll see. 432 00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:00,320 OK. This one was a bit out of left 433 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:05,040 field. It's from Griff 24 or Gruff 24. 434 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:06,400 Sorry. I immediately went to the Welsh 435 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,240 pronunciation of that. It could be Gruff 24. 436 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,240 But I'm going to say Griff because I I I I know people 437 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:16,520 called Griff in this country. What do you make of Netflix 438 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,360 acquiring Warner Brothers? The right wing are freaking out 439 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,960 about it for some reason. Yeah. 440 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,120 All right. I'm going to finish now because 441 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,320 I'm hungry and I want to eat something. 442 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:28,360 All right, bye.