What Happened to Russell Brand?
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- --An exploration of Russell Brand's content over the last year, including his subtle encouragement of vaccine hesitancy and conspiratorial thinking
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What’s going on with Russell Brand is… he tipped his toe into Political content and quickly learned how many views and dollars were in it… especially from right leaning viewers. Now he’s all in
So true man. I use to dig him but I am sure he has a lot of bills and TH-cam is Anti-vaxx central so he is now all in with this nonsense.
Watch him slowly drift further right, while pretending to be progressive.
Correct. Hes a grifter
Exactly this.
I don't think a libertarian, living off grid is affected by any of this or needs to argue freedoms. They want to be balls deep in society. Schools, Chinese products, healthcare and still pretend to have a independence.
I am 75 and was a young adult in the 1960's. Listening to Russell Brand reminds me of all the pseudo-intellectual young men affecting superiority in order to manipulate their circle of people to adore and revere them. He is a bad mannered child who believes in nothing. He always reminds me of that old saying, "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit."
Well, you remind me of people that base their opinions on their own subjective appreciation rather than actual facts and you know, reading about a subject. You people are so ignorant that think that you don't need to listen and pay attention to others views, opinions and facts. You just take the opinion of the media you trust as absolute truth, and inform yourself of the other sides stance from the very media that stands against them, lol. People can be so dumb, yeah, even 75 year old people. The fact that you are older does not always equate to being wiser, smarter or have more truth, most of the times just perpetuates biases, bad habits, wrong world views and gives them a sense of righteousness.
Indeed. He only impresses those who have.no idea what's gone before. Most of his starry-eyed followers appear to be either (a) decidedly uncritical (b) not very well read (C) fairly young (d) easily impressed.....or all of the above. Problem is that, as with most of these new age prophets over the years , characters like Brand complain, endlessly, about "the system" .But, as Russell has shown on numerous occasions, when they have to provide specifics in regard an alternative, they suddenly go silent. Critical thinking amongst viewers serms to have declined in direct proportion to the rise of social media
You must remember Barry Goldwater-Rush Limbaugh's rise very clearly. That's what Russell finds himself in
He is absolutely a pseudo-intellectual!
If you are looking to Russell Brand for enlightenment you deserve what you get.
He has an 'awakening wonders' button (on his Rumble channel I think) whereby you have the opportunity to send him $$$$ 😅
I fully take your point. I thought "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" was hilarious. He is a human so he does have a right to his opinions, I'm sure he (as a former addict) may have some unique takes on life, possibly even thought provoking. However, he's just another human. I watched part of one of his random TH-cam videos & was honestly confused. I haven't been following him so I had no idea he'd full on drank the Kool-Aid. At 1st I honestly thought it was a bit. Until I left a very tame, yet left leaning comment & was absolutely dog piled by his "followers". The amount of vitriol & hate that came my way (granted not from him, but still his peoples) was surprising. I learned my lesson & will never share my opinions on that particular forum again. Peace
David is 100% right, Russel Brand has correctly profiled Joe Rogan's / Tucker Carlson's / FOX news audience and he is simply repeating their talking points, defending what they defending, attacking what they are attacking, and using that as a blueprint to build his podcast. And that would be just fine if he is honest about it - but he is not - and that is the problem. He is "branding" himself as the objective, and someone you can trust - as opposed to big media (the part that is not owned by Murdock) - when he is merely telling his audience what they want to hear it.
his problem is too much drug taking mixed with insanity
@@martincarey577I think it’s more calculated than that. He’s grifting.
@@temsedgwick9494 yes I agree he is making a living out of other peoples misery A real Rat
@@temsedgwick9494I think your right. He is giving them a new platform to toss the lies out to. To a new audience that wouldn’t have heard it otherwise. He’s opening the barn door, and then acting surprised when the horse got away. I am sure he is making money doing this. He isn’t even American and he is stirring the pot of the zealots.
Needing vaccinations to travel is nothing new it isn’t a new conspiracy a Country can deny you entry, and make you jump through many hoops , not just vaccinations. England requires you to produce bank records to prove you have $10,000 in the bank , a round-trip ticket and proof of accommodations while you’re applying for a visa to visit. Americans don’t need that to go to England, but if you were from India Bangladesh, many Middle Eastern countries, they have those kinds of rules for you. What he is complaining about is trivial because customs can decide anything they want or you could just not go there.
I'm starting not to like the phrase "do your own research". It is something I have said a lot, but now it seems to mean "search until you find someone that agrees with your batshit crazy ideas".
I've been seeing the fake Halloween tombstones in yards near my house with the epitaph, "Did his own research "
😆😆😆😆👍
Imagine if he said it like "spend a few million of your own dollars on double-blind studies with 1000+ participants" instead. All this 'research' done by vaccine-skeptics is googling & reading facebook/reddit posts. When I was in school, they did NOT accept any internet-based sources for the simple reason that anyone can post a lie on the internet and it will remain as long as it doesn't defame someone.
Very well said 👍
If you have no clue how to validate "research" from any source, what use is that? Whole courses teach one how to tell what is valid and what isn't. Your ordinary person has no idea. That's why we have experts--I have no problem with them.
He’s what we call in Ireland ‘a blagger’ - he’s good at sounding erudite but doesn’t actually have any depth of knowledge.
See also: Gobshite.
That's the right in a nutshell.
See also 'chancer'.
Bingo, but if you can become PM like that why not have a successful youtube channel too
Yep. He was put forward against farage during Brexit debating on TV. He came across as clueless whilst using occasional big words. His whole ' I don't vote schtick' is rubbish.
Brand is the greatest example of “say a lot of big words that don’t mean anything”
Doesn’t help if you can’t understand English, he articulates his points completely fine. You might have trouble understanding plain old English.
@@KhanSahinkaya yeah i guess i just dont understand the language ive been speaking for 27 years. Silly me!
@@KhanSahinkaya one can articulate something and be wildly wrong at the same time. Big words don't equal correct. There's your first English lesson clown
@@themilkmansfuckinyawaaaf sure seems to be the case
@@KhanSahinkaya you sure seem to get your shit pushed in
This is what happens when a one hit wonder actor realizes he can't get work or a real job. He decides to join the grift train.
nailed it.
and there's more money on the rightwing grift train because of all the funding from money interests and the rank&file who will do pateron support for those feeding their fear and anger.
He was hugely successful and very funny actually. Maybe not in the states but elsewhere.
“Reality isn’t real”, “lost in fields of invisible energy”, “word salads reveal imperative truth”. Thank you for that Deepak! 🤔
it's crap mumbo jumbo guru wanna be
He loves magic crystal, holy water, self-healing and rest of all the 💩 and probably; only my opinion; he still believe for alchemy! 🤯
We cannot see atoms molecules and virus particles and individual cells with our eyes
He's always talked like this, even way back before he did movies and worked for MTV and presented Big Brother (no I didn't watch it but family members did lol) so that's nothing new really-what did change was when he finally got clean from heroin and crack more and more of this woo woo bullshit crept in and frankly I think that whoever helped him get clean influenced or still does influence this
@@teethgrinder83 I never understood how people got behind his nonsense - he showed up on Newsnight and started spewing stuff about disenfranchisement with the political system, and people held him up as some sort of deep thinker when he kept waffling behind some vague phrase (specifically pre-existing paradigm which can be taken in multiple ways) with no ability to elaborate on them. He then released a book which included some vague 9/11 conspiracy theories, and looked a compete fool when he cried about graphs being used by "people like you" when shown one that illustrated his own talking point. That was getting on towards a decade ago.
He actually managed to morph in to Aldous Snow - the celebrity who despite clearly being a moron, feels like he can tell the world how to fix their problems
Who else here a year later after the accusations? 🙋♀️
Haha yep!
Russell Brand sure does use a lot of big words to say nothing.
Funny I just said the same thing about David. You know David who is not a democrat, not part of the corporate media and dates exclusively women.
It impresses many females, and attracts wannabe men.
He's obnoxious & thinks highly of himself.
I can do without hearing his opinions on anything, ever.
It's a rough time for contrarians.
MsFairy7 you hit the nail on the head. He always struck me as a completely vain little man.
He woke up because he's highly intelligent. He has the ability to use logic and reason to deduce reality independently. It's about how sheltered someone is from the factual information. Democrats on average are highly sheltered.
Hey, look at me, I am a rebel. I disagree with society therefore you will follow me ! Russell, s0d off !
@@kenhiett5266 How so?
He used to have some really great views. He’s gradually devolved into a moron. He is an award winning writer.
He was MUCH better at being a comic actor. His neutrality is an attempt to wash his hands of responsibility. Which in itself is irresponsible.
He's making sure no lawsuits show up at his doorstep for sure, or even just trying to avoid backlash. It almost feels like he's consulted a lawyer.. lol. The ole, "I'm not an anti vaxxer BUTTT"
I agree. He is trying to play both sides of his grift.
And He really was never THAT funny. Quite the B list comedian at best imho.
He’s just saying he’s neutral while not being neutral at all.
He should just shut up and dribble
I was watching his TH-cam channel a year ago or so because he was constantly talking about spirituality, meditation and generally enhancing wellbeing. He wasn't getting nearly as many viewers then. It seems that his primary goal now is just to get as many hits as possible without much regard for damage being done.
Then ironically he takes up the right wing highly profitable and deeply divisive cause of the American right wing Christian zealots. 🤔 sounds like a cash cow to me. When clearly he has no dog in this race, He needs to mind British conspiracies.
Watching Brand is giving me serious cult leader vibes. Fast-talking, quick hand movements, lofty words all cloaked in a passive 'only I can show you the real truth, open your eyes' vibe...
i was literally thinking the same, i think they should cast him to play a cult leader
Yet you probably suck up all the far left fascist propaganda without question.
I did listen to him but it all got a bit flat earthy for me .
Just how much do you not know?
@@borispsalman It's funny to see how people base their opinions on subjective observations rather than facts, analyzing arguments and contrasting narratives. No wonder why you watch this guy's channel.
A year on and he's even deeper in his audience capture rabbit hole. You should do an update video.
sad to see how far he's fallen off the deep end. Almost past the point of no return
Agree - he's best buddies with Tucker now, and has pretty much a 100% Trump supporter audience now. Maybe the biggest case of audience capture out there
@@mrtambourineman6107every time iv seen him mentioning Trump he so clearly expressing how he disagrees with Trump on many fundamental things, he likes the aspect of trump due to his anti establishment stance. Clearly you haven’t watched him.
"neutral" guy coincidentally spews one QAnon talking point after another
He's a leftist you Podunk numbskull.
Like the US “independent” from ohio I met in Hong Kong who took the Republican position on every issue. Funny how that always seems to be the case with Americans who claim to be independent
@@onlyme2579 yeah, just like other enlightened centrists such as tim pool
@@RideTheTrack He's a fence walker. Andy Ngo is a true centrist.
@@onlyme2579 not anymore he isn't. He found where the clicks are.
"I'm just measuring and judging the conversation that takes place around it."
Yeah Russell, we call that having an opinion.
This guy has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about. At one point he said “invisible energy”. Yes Russell. If it was visible we would call it matter.
@@erikdayne5429 Lol anything can be invisible if you're willfully blind enough. If insurance offered scanning electron microscopes as readily as eye glasses, these fools wouldn't be as skeptical of "invisible energy".
@@erikdayne5429 Another artist confused by an amount of money he thinks is a gift from God or some higher BS .Hey Russel , count the dead fish in your own polluted water in merry ol' Englund .
Dude has been a frequent guest on the Alex Jones Show.
He's absolutely bat shit.
Well, it is possible to have an opinion *about* a conversation, without taking a position on the subject being discussed. That seems to me a perfectly attainable position, and valid distinction to want to make.
Excellent video. I was such a fan years back. He was always a bit annoying but very funny/ iververent. Him telling young people not to vote was the first red flag. To see fire how down the rabbit hole he's gone though is just sad.
Totally agree with your comment.
He was never funny
I loved his early stand up stuff and that, very funny! Even his 1st book was a really good & honest story of his early life and mental health issues. However, now, i truly believe he is 100% money grifter. Full stop. It is truly sad how much he has changed for the worse. Too big an ego, thinks he is smarter than everyone else because of his fanciful lexicon.
"Neutrality and objectivity are two different things" -- That's what I call insightful. Thank you for putting it so succinctly.
He's doing his best Rogan impression, "Don't listen to me for advice, I'm just asking questions",
Perfectly avoiding any accountability.
boom!
exactly, UKs Rogan
Isn’t this the tack T Carlson takes?
why does someone need to be held accountable?
why is everyone such babies nowadays going after comedians like rogan & brand for their views on science on freaking youtube.
these a freaking comedians!!!
it's one thing to be outraged at the things trump said as president but why does russell need to he "held accountable" ?
like should he go to prison? can he no longer do a podcast on youtubes..
@@mmafyasco Maybe if they were actually doing comedy this wouldn't be an issue. These are people with massive audiences that they are pushing misinformation and lies to which creates further vaccine hesitancy screwing us all over to the point that this covid shit will never go away. People have gotten seriously ill and even died from covid misinformation, this shouldn't be hard to understand. Come on dude, work that baby brain.
@@markmiko5312
but what if they dont feel like doing comedy and want to rant?
a comedian doesnt Always have to be doing stand up.
Most people have stupid opinions, you want to censor most people, or what do you propose happen to him?
also "work that baby brain", and do what?
what is our disagreement, can you name it. Im fully vaccinated and think russell is overblowing things but unlike ya'll i feel people the left have real issues, not policing ehat the guy from get him to the greek said on youtube 🤦♂️
I don’t know but I tend to trust 90% of the science when it comes to airplanes and trains and medicines. Especially when something has been tested around the world and used millions of times
only 90%?
@@MichaelMusson-en7be Trusting 90% of science means he believes in science. He just knows that nothing is perfect. Not even scientist trust science 100% of the time. Science does fail sometimes
You are such a good person.
*billions of times
6.5 Billion doses of the covid vaccine have been administered worldwide. My trust in that is more like 99%
"Do your own research" has become code for "Find stuff that you would like to hear"
Find your echo chamber on social media
You do realise that your comment is suggesting that someone encouraging self education is somehow a wrong un?? I really hope your problem is actually that you think people with differing views to yourself are simply not intelligent enough to understand competing information...because the alternative, that self education is merely an exercise in confirmation bias has incredibly negative connotations, I can think of many powerful forces who would love nothing more than self education being frowned upon, none of them benign, are u really wanting to align yourself with them...either way you are talking absolute nonsense
I think it is more like the modern version of "Take my word for it." No one who says it is really expecting any kind of research to happen, and would not accept it anyway if you showed them the results of your research.
@1Step_TOOfar however if you are cognitively weak you will connect 2+2 and get paranoia.
I think doing your own research is important but I sort of agree with skaffertape. It's about what your research tells you and how you act on the research. If you think the vaccines are worthwhile and your research tells you otherwise, what will you do? Will you change your position? If you do research within your own echo chamber you will get the results you want to get...."find stuff you want to hear".
Now that my dad who sends me emails with clips and articles from Glenn Beck, Breitbart, etc has started sending me Russell Brand videos, I think that's a clear sign that ol' Russ is (whether it's intentionally or not) attracting the wrong crowd
Go on then, point out in any of these videos that your dad sent you that you disagree with and why..?
@@troyburgeon518 oh sure, random nutter on the internet! Let me write out an essay on why Glenn Beck is 1 crazy point away from Alex Jones to appease you in the time honored tradition of TH-cam Debate! As you people always like to say, “the information is out there! Do your own research!”
@@troyburgeon518 He doesn’t owe you that; he merely states his opinion.
Or maybe it's just a political realignment. You have MAGA people teaming up with hippy naturopath types. Never in a million years would that have happened back in the day. And then you've got liberals siding with neocons (Bush, McCain). It's almost like a line is being drawn between establishment, and anti establishment types.
@@xpirate16 daddy didn’t give enough cuddles? Poor little boy😢
Russel Brand is a prime example of someone being so open-minded that their brain has fallen out.
Yes.
Indeed
LOL
Ah, so THAT'S what's happened!
Lol no he's right on
If you want to take your health advice from a failed musician, failed actor, failed comedienne and failed junkie go right ahead. For him to claim neutrality is ridiculous. He has tried to hang on to any glimmer of fame he can get. I will take my advice from people who have studied medicine and science all their life.
Seconded
Comedian. Last time I looked he was male.
@@17jat15 Not hate. Just disgust.
He became very wealthy failing at all those things. I wish I had failed in a similar fashion. Despite this, I do not turn to him for medical or political advice.
Wouldn't mind some of that "failure" then. Well known, funny, thinks for himself, wealthy, attractive wife, seems quite happy, and more importantly, in touch with his spiritual side. That doesn't sounds like "failure" to me, but it does sound like a touch of envy from you my friend.
Disclaimer strictly for legal purposes, "I'm Switzerland, I'm neutral"
So there, now no-one can sue me, and I'm never responsible for anything I ever say.
Brand sounds like the pot-infused “enlightenment” I ran into at parties in the 70s.
Yeah, most of them "hippies" have been our leaders for 40 years. Of course, they're in democrat party.
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
Yes. The ol' "what if our entire universe is just an atom under a giant being's fingernail" type of sh*t.
The neutral stance would also mean you refuse to talk about it. When I have a neutral stance I literally say “I don’t have an opinion.” Then end it there.
It's a way for him to not have any responsibility.
The “I don’t have an opinion on that, so here’s my opinion on that” kind of grift.
Not sure how that's a "grift", sounds like someone who prefaces his opinions with the disclaimer of not being an expert. Which seems honest & opposit of a grift, term thrown so losely on the left these days it seems..
@@mmafyasco It's his grift to pull in more followers. Nobody doesn't have an opinion anyway. He's lying.
Tucker Carlson plays the same game
@@eddy71454
again how is that a grift? Serious question.
this is coming from someone who voted for Joe Biden, I'm obviously skeptical of big Pharma, but believe in science so I have obviously received my two Covid shots. Not sure why some of his questions seem to be a grift to you when I have some of the same questions, I feel if I made TH-cam videos I would be accused of the same..
@@mmafyasco Your point is clear. I agree!
edit: after watching the video i am definitely getting grifty vibes from Russel
"I have no opinion" - while having opinions is the new trend. The thing that frustrates me about the issue of vaccine mandates is the anti-vax people completely ignore the fact that it's not just a personal health issue, it's a PUBLIC health issue. I'm sure if you told people "Should a person who knowingly has an STD like AIDS, or syphilis, be allowed to not disclose their disease to their partner and have unprotected sex?", people would have different ideas on the sanctity of personal freedom.
Estella Vega...your comment pretty much nails it.
Brand's "I have no opinion" mantra is just another grift. At least as a junkie the harm he caused was limited to those unfortunate enough to be in his personal orbit. The public harm he causes now is exponentially worse. No matter how much Brand denies and lies about what he is doing he is promoting an irrational fear of vaccines that save lives. Anyone with a brain can see that Brand was, is, and probably always will be a toxic, narcissistic, addict.
Faulty analogy, since not being vaccinated with the Covid vaccine isn't the same thing as actively being infected and having close contact with others.
@@Opelteanit not a false analogy at l...unless unvaxxed keep themselves completely separate from the rest of the population...especially since they often don't know if they are infected or not. We older ones deeply resent the callousness and utter self-centeredness of the unvaccinated
@@Opelteanit You're right, the analogy doesn't work 100%: it's much easier to spread a virus through breathing/coughing than through sex...so it's actually worse.
He's being rewarded with many times greater number of views since making this turn.
It started with one video:
“Why Donald Trump triggers the left”
That’s when he changed.
The one thing I know for sure about Russell is that he likes a low-cut shirt.
Lol
The deepest of V-Neck T's. Never seen anything like it.
Truth!
He likes them a little too much
😂😂😂
“I have no opinion” he says on his show where he does nothing but share his opinions
Concerning vaccines, if you state "I have no opinion," you're telling us what your opinion is!
@@JulianCommodus kind of like in 2016 if anyone said “I don’t care who wins” you knew they were a Trump supporter
@@ryancurwen-walker6076 No, in 2016, "I don't care who wins" meant "I didn't understand the consequences."
It's like when someone says, "I'm not racist....." and you brace yourself for the line of racist shit that immediately follows.
sounds like he needs more drugs in his system, maybe a vaccine and a booster shot as well~
A really big foil to Brand's logic is that the people who are against most safety measures, whether they be masks, vaccines, lockdowns, curfews, whatever, are very... selectively kind or compassionate. Empowering them will fail that requirement.
His instinct is to stand up for persecuted minorities and his sense is that people who have chosen not to vaccinate are being persecuted. But he is wrong, and this is why.
I do not see any issue in short term restrictions on the unvaccinated to limit the stresses on health systems. Many people rely on the health services for illnesses and injuries unrelated to Covid and they may suffer and die if health services are disproportionately focussed on caring for unvaccinated people with Covid at this time.
I do not agree with vaccine mandates however.
@@robsengahay5614 But vaccine mandates and health mandates have long precedent. The new tinge on them occuring now to rip away freedoms is dishonest in the least and shows narrative and bias
a top comment on a mid 2021 video of Russell Brand interviewing Ben Shapiro:
_"I'm a conservative but over the last couple of months I've become a big fan of Russell Brand. I don't care how much I agree with him, he's intellectually honest, thoughtful, and considerate. I imagine the civil debates that Brand can engage in were what the founding fathers had in mind."_
Yikes.
He's a self-proclaimed narcissist; He's charming and convincing, and is controlled completely by his ego, with no sense of irony.
How much have you watched of his show? Prbly none of it. You, and David don't know wtf you're talking about. Literally every political position Russell Brand holds is left wing. You just.cant get over the fact you're dead wrong about the vaccine... And even more.wrong to want to violate individual human rights... All for a vaccine that barely works
@@03stmlax, Russell Brand has really become a preacher of bullshit.
Wait ...isn't he into some form of eastern religions and meditation and letting go of one's ego and fear and resentment?
@@03stmlax Bullshit, Sean. Every single person who is dying of Covid at this moment is unvaccinated. The vaccines work in that they keep you off a ventilator and out of the hospital. You're dead wrong, and I hope you don't end up dead.
I really don't see "charming". I see a guy who hasn't showered for awhile and his accent is very pronounced which leads me to believe that he is full of shit. Sounds Scottish from the working classes. 🤔
I used to like Russell. I've since lost a lot of respect for him.
Same here
@@davestravelling He's been fucking double vaccinated. I've been a fan of Pakman's for over 10 years and I'm dismayed by this complete smear. All of these clips are totally out of context lol
@@RenewedRS hi there, how do you know he's been double veed? I've not heard that fact before?
@@justaman1721 He's said he's vaccinated.
@@RenewedRS I haven't seen that, I've had a good look around too. Where did he say that mate?
I hate to say it, but I think you need to do another one on Brand, he has fallen sooooo much more down the right-wing conspiracy 🐇 🕳 . He basically is best friends with Tucker now!
I've been worried about Brand for a while. I think he's been hurting for clicks and is throwing out some crazy bait.
You're too generous. He believes every word of his rhetoric.
Worried about him? Lol what are you his mother. Worry about yourself.
@@apocalypsepow I believe it's a turn-of phrase. Not to be taken too literally!
“Keep an open mind” Russel?
“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out” -Carl Sagan
My version is open minds are like open windows. If they aren't screened something crazy might fly in.
Such nonsense and just demonstrates you can't follow the information without someone leading you. Russell has started to wake up because he's highly intelligent. He has the ability to use logic and reason to deduce reality independently. It's about how sheltered someone is from the factual information. Democrats on average are highly sheltered in our current political paradigm.
@@kenhiett5266 I feel sorry that this dirty weirdo has convinced you he’s some kind of intelligent, enlightened philosopher
Best of luck, and have a nice day
Bless Carl Sagan , he was one sharp mind.
@@Jack-sy8mr 😂
Saying “I have no opinion on this” doesnt make Russell sound smart and objective, it makes him sound stupid and like he’s trying to walk the tightrope and appeal to both sides without upsetting anyone. If he doesn’t have an opinion about the vaccine, why the hell is he talking about it?
Yes, Russell the guy who is very opinionated on politics but yet does not vote. I am so bored of him.
It makes Russell a coward
Oo hmm.
@@winstonsmith2079 He’s done good activism in the past, but yes, he’s been a huge disappointment
He gets bigger money that way. He's a tease.
Russell "the system is broken we shouldn't pay for X or Y"
Also Russell "come buy my merch!"
What's happening with Russell Brand now? Yikes!
Honestly, he doesn't strike me as being particularly bright. He just sounds like a guy who likes the sound of his own voice.
Best summary? a 10c mind dressed up in $50 words... If you peel back the vocabulary and simplify, he never says anything of actual insight or worth
He's definitely not too bright, he just leans on whatever's popular and tries to maximize his viewership. Nowadays it just happens to be antivaxx stuff. Several years back he was on the train of "don't vote" camp during the UK election. Johnny Rotten actually had an interview blasting him calling him stupid and useless, which was pretty funny. Some more years back he was in the "occupy" camp staging shit around big corporate headquarters trying to pull the old Michael Moore shit. He's just doing whatever gets him publicity, because he knows he'll be irrelevant if he doesn't.
@@zxbc1 so true!
@@zxbc1 That is hilarious. I'm going to see if I can find that Johnny Rotten interview!
"I'm just asking questions" is a Tucker Carlson line.
dO yOUr oWn rEsEArcH? I'm not a scientist. I don't have time to run a clinical trial. I'll trust the experts with their research.
The experts being big pharma who owns the WHO and FDA and the government picked scientists - defs not anything to question here. Just going to trust it blindly I rekon. Not like these people would be sick enough to put a monopoly on insulin or literally the whole American healthcare system. And it's not like this is the most profitable drug in history by a fucking massive margin or anything....
"Defs not anything to question here" -- And that, in a nutshell, is everything wrong with conspiracy mindsets. It is the exact opposite of Occam's Razor. You use the fact that in reality we cannot know most things 100%, to perform a logically fallacious creep towards a 50/50 "it's just as unlikely as it is likely", and worse, hopping from that to "it's definitely got to be a lie!"
You don't apply the same standards to "doing your own research". You'll gaslight the scientific consensus with thin "but what if, maybe, they're paid off by the industry" just-asking-questions, but you'll respond with an article from OANN or some other self-proclaimed "independent" media without also questioning their motives, biases or potential for human error.
The scientific consensus is ultimately superior precisely because the very same criteria for authoring misinformation are mitigated compared to any other way. It is the scientific method.
@@adr1annn129 "The experts being big pharma who owns the WHO and FDA and the government picked scientists - defs not anything to question here."
So every expert on virology and vaccines in the world either works for:
The WHO
The FDA
Or the US government.
There are no "experts" outside of these organizations? There are no other nations? These other nations don't have their equivalent of the FDA?
Are you saying that ALL world governments and national health agencies across the globe are in it? Different creeds, different ethnicities, different cultures, different ideologies managed to put their differences aside for this project?
The US government can't even pass a budget nowadays but it can orchestrate the most complex and logistically demanding conspiracy in earth's history?
This would be "the world is flat" level of power and coordination by world governments.
@@adr1annn129 the FDA under Dlanod Pmurt developed these vaccines. Did Pmurt's government select these experts?
@@jaidev777 I just have principle. If there is blatant opportunity for capitalist abuse, I'mma be uncomfortable with that product. Whether it's a 50/50 or much less I'm not placing my bets on big pharma considering their history of manafacturing scientific consensus for profit especially when the profit is this large. Whether the Vax is 100 percent safe which it most certainly is not perfect it's just the lesser of two evils - Vax or covid. Hell perfect or not the means we used to reach this point has been unethical asf in my opinion no matter how you put it unfortunately.
'The best way to insulate oneself from criticism is to prime these near you with the conspiracy, lying enemies are out to get you.' *- dear leader Russel Brand* .
I'm very disappointed with Russel. The last few months he went totally off the deep end.
All he ever does is promote the Russell "Brand"...he couldn't hack it as a comedian so now he's adopted the role of some kind of know-it-all prophet. I'm not sure which is worse - his stand-up comedy or his sudden all encompassing knowledge. Neither are funny. The problem is, his charisma attracts thousands of people who are lacking any discernment of their own.
His know-it-all prophet thing is potentially the most damaging, as his advice can in the end get people killed, on the stand up stage he merely bombed.
I guess I've always been immune to the 'charisma'. His voice is like a child's and does nothing to help him sound intelligent (if anything can). It's worrying that he is apparently admired in the wider, political world.
He's trying to be a guru. Cult leader perhaps?
@@zilliongadzillion It is like a child's, and to me repellent.
For someone who doesn't have an opinion on the issue he sure is opinionated.
Indeed, with esoteric nonsense.
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Right. Guess I’ve had him pegged all wrong since the song “we’ve got to do something” when it turns out he’s indecisive
I can’t think of anyone who’s less qualified to have a political opinion. Like when exactly did he study politics, in between doing drugs and chasing rainbows?
@@starastro4591 He isn’t indecisive. He is here to provide contradiction. He holds up the mirror for you. He is so simple to read.
Russel is very good at saying a lot but saying nothing at all, he has been that way for years and yet people follow him like he is some moral compass.
I've been a fan of Russell Brand's entertainment stuff for a while now. A few months ago I discovered his TH-cam channel and dove in. Right away I realized that many of this statements were laced with the same negativity and fear mongering that has become synonymous with the darker reaches of the conspiracy movement. Meanwhile he's constantly reinforcing to his audience of his intellectual honesty and his neutrality. I found this to be bogus. After skewering Russell in the comment sections of his own videos numerous times I finally asked myself "does anyone else notice this?" That's why I'm here. :-)
Right, we definitely don’t need to pay attention to the World Economic Forum.
Negative yes. But is he wrong? Unfortunately, no he's not. Gp watch Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro etc. All o the same page
@@benink5690 I have. Both hacks
@@jamesfinch691 They're not hacks. How can honest news be a hack? Dude...
th-cam.com/video/DYPlXrqT5-E/w-d-xo.html
@@benink5690 Opinions are not news.
Funny to see that an actor who often plays roles where is he pretending to be naive is actually playing very much himself.
He was good in the Adam Sandler flick Bedtime stories. But that's because he fit that particular role perfectly, if I saw him as lead in something not sure I would like him that much.
Total space cadet. Someone who has done so many drugs that their brain is now permanently fried.
He has actually said he's basically playing himself in all his movies.
Ah yes naïve. It's not like he presents valid scientific sources in all his videos. Like all his videos are literally "don't listen to me but this guy who actually is smart"
His comment section is an absolute mess and further proves how low our society is… many people get information from people like him and Rogan. Truly sickening.
they are killing us all
Both of them are like Gwyneth Paltrow for men.
Well put
@@nearthefarworld I’ve watched the videos myself and I think you’re the one that’s not based in reality.
@@nearthefarworld I watch him out of interest and he does decent meditation videos, the way he put it, he doesn’t want to say if he took the vaccine and just said make your own choice I won’t influence you. I think that’s wrong of him and David was 💯 here at pointing out the things Russell has been saying lately.
But I disagree with you to call Russell Brand an anti-vaxxer is not lazy, It's accurate.
Nothing wrong with Russell Brand he asks some questions that some people just take for granted like Gates is good, vaccine is always good. I took the vaccine and booster but the machinations, the conflicts of interests, lack of transparency, troubling. Glad that David mentions “what you’re not being told”.
He sure had a lot to say in one direction for someone claiming to be neutral.
Exactly. He would be genuinely neutral if he would have questioned the anti-vaxx narrative as well.
I’ve seen plenty of his stuff. He’s not someone I feel like following his every move.
It’s almost like you’re watching chopped up clips tailored for David Pakman show and to help David make his points. Man, critical thinking eludes the left more and more.
@Rosemary Flanders Hmmm, I sure did. He should grow some balls and stop hiding behind this "I'm-just-asking" strategy. You know the type - Oh, well, it's a pity the victim got raped but maybe if she had been dressed more properly and modestly ... I'm not saying it's her fault but .... I'm just asking... you know...
I noticed this too. I can't believe Russell joined the dark side.
Why? Hes always been into the woo.
@Luis Trump lost and you clearly aren’t over it. You sound more delusional than Brand somehow
@@ese_cholito you again. Lord
@@ese_cholito i watch brand’s content frequently and absolutely refuse to give him a hall pass on the broader nature of his content. Russel is a leftist, despite what anyone else might think but his content is mainly focused on criticizing democratic neoliberals as opposed to all neoliberals….that’s the fishy part that I’m trying to get at. There is a reason why he attracts a fanbase that is mainly conservative and fiscal libertarian it is because he mainly produces content criticizing the democratic establishment with a couple of fox news caveats sprinkled in there. I have NEVER met a progressive who solely criticizes democrats because frankly speaking there is a whole of a lot more blame to throw around to the other political factions INCLUDING progressives. But the nature of his content and the fact that the titles of his videos, the message that he is spreading within them, and the opinions of his followers seem to shield anyone but democrats away from criticism and I CANNOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME UNDERSTAND WHY. I just want to ask him what his end goal is because it certainly is not making his subscribers believe that the world ought to be governed by communities with worker co-ops/ syndicates, it’s making A LOT of them regress into authoritarian right wing talking points.
@@ese_cholito lay off the Reich wing "media", who are the SAME MONSTER as your feared MSM but you guys can't ever see that! All you are doing is going 180 degrees the other way, which is a MUCH MORE DANGEROUS ROUTE THAT LEADS TO FASCISM.
The problem with Russell Brand is that he often half thinks through an idea and then opens his mouth and expresses those thoughts. Later he then sees the results of his expressing those thoughts, rethinks and comes up with a contrary view. Sadly many only hear the first thoughts and ignore what comes later. A few years ago he told young people (his main audience) that voting was a waste of time and that they should use their energies elsewhere. However this was in the lead up to the UK Brexit vote and a large number of young people followed his suggestion. The result was that the UK voted to leave the EU which was very much against the best interests of those same young people. After the result was announced he rethought his position and said that maybe it was a mistake to suggest people didn't vote but then excused himself by saying but I'm a comedian and not a politician. He seems to want the notoriety and fame of his actions but not have to face the consequences of those actions.
Remoaner still crying. Get over it, and no.. what a pathetic thing to think then say.. maybe take a lead out of your own book and stop making pathetic comments that hold NO factual value. Brexit happened with or without Russell get over it.
@@troyburgeon518 oh touched a nerve there. You and those like you need to realise that the reality of Brexit is now emerging and it's just as bad as the experts we were told to ignore said it would be, it never was Project Fear but Project Reality. Now no doubt you and those like you will continue to blame anything and anybody for the failure you wanted. however there is a very strong British characteristic that will come to the fore in the coming years and that is looking for somebody to blame when Brits feel they've been lied to and conned and you among others will be among those that get turned on.
Come this or next Summer when people return to their Mediterranean holidays and suddenly they have to queue where the last time they visited they just sauntered through. when they discover that many of the things they took for granted have been taken away from them they will come back angry. When the cost of living increases with no benefits that anger will grow.
No doubt the right wing media lies will continue until the point when those media owners realise the tide is about to turn and they too will be the target and suddenly they will revise their opinions. Just how many other countries have the Daily Express now told us are about to leave the EU over the past five years? It would be easier and shorter to name those they haven't claimed were leaving. But they're all still there and when there is any talk by right wing parties of leaving the people take to the streets to demand nothing of the kind happens.
As Winston Churchill said the truth always eventually comes out and those responsible for the lies are held to account. Sadly however there will be no rapid return to the EU for the UK because the nations of the EU no longer trust us and will only take the UK back on their knees because as we see every week it turns out that the UK needs the EU much more than the EU needs the UK.
@@stephenhodgson3506thinks Russell caused brexit🤪..Russell brand!! 😁...what a plum
@@tomwilko7841 You clearly have a problem understanding English don't you? The largest demographic that didn't vote in the referendum was the youth. That youth are more heavily influenced by celebrity influencers. When an influencer says don't vote there's no point that has a real impact.
Just as the older generation who did vote were influenced by the lies of the Leave campaign who told them the EU was out to get them and we were going to be flooded with immigrants.
Both groups voted or didn't vote against their own interests. The youth have suddenly seen their future advancement curtailed and will now have to pay much of the cost of Brexit. The elderly are suddenly discovering that their care homes are now short staffed because those immigrants who cared for them went home and new carers can't get in because they don't get enough points. What many of the elderly also did not realise is that they will now miss out on phase two of the EU Pensions Directive. Phase one involved equalising the EU retirement age Phase Two involved raising Pension amounts to the best in the EU. As the UK has some of the worst State Pensions in Europe UK pensioners were in for huge increases which they voted away.
Back to the original point the younger generations are hugely influenced by celebrities and influencers and in 2016 Russell Brand was such an influencer and according to those questioned did deter a large number of young people from voting. so yes he was a large factor in the outcome of the vote. From the comments that came after the result was announced and people were questioned as to why they voted the way they did he himself realised that he had had a negative impact hence his statement "I'm just a comedian, people shouldn't listen to me on such important matters." But clearly your understanding of English fails to allow you to comprehend those facts.
I agree with everything you said. Thoughtful, intelligent, and restrained. In addition, if I may, I would add, that he needs his teeth kicked in.
When I was working with people in and out of drug addiction and running addiction management programs some years ago Russell Brand was getting himself clean from years of abuse. His videos back then were pretty supportive of others on the same track and I'd sometimes use them with clients. He was honest about his drug use and honest about what it had cost him over the years, and also honest about the struggle to keep clean over time. Then there came a change when he started to become a bit of a life commentator offering his views as an outsider looking in on British culture. He began appearing on TV talk shows etc as if he had some special wisdom. I think people bought into his persona out of respect for his journey in getting clean from drugs. As time went on he became a parody of his previous self and I tuned out. This is the first time I've seen him in action for a long time. He seems to be standing at the top of the rabbit hole and saying to people, '"f you want to know whats really happening, here's where you can start."
Actually its pretty common that people who are recovered from drug adicction replace their adiccion with this kind of spiritual, new age, conspiratorial thinking adicction, and they dont even know they have that adicction, I speak from a place of knowledge because I also went trough that myself, I even let my hair and beard grow like Russell to look like Jesus, but a few years ago I realized it and changed my adicction for another one more healthy and a more realistic point of view, but it wasnt easy, I faced a depression because of realizing that, but it was necesary.
@@javoferoz4819 Dude I’m being a dick right now but *addiction*. Usually misspelling is a common error when typing too fast but you typed it out 3x the wrong way which indicates to me either it’s under autocorrect on your device or you think that’s how it’s spelled. In either case I feel i should point it out to you so you can avoid any unnecessary embarrassment further down the line.
If this is the first time you’re seeing him in a long while it might make sense to give one of his entire segments a fair listen as opposed to a choppily edited, non contextual, non-sequential series of clips designed to paint him as a vacuous moron. Your conclusion may be the same but it’s worth the ten or so minutes just to validate where you stand.
@@ocan1033 I’ve done it, it’s a dumpster fire sounding board. He tells his base nothing relevant while insisting he doesn’t tell them what to think. It’s exhausting and all those views he gets are making him a lot of money. For a guy who says you can’t trust the main stream media due to corporate overlords throwing money around, it’s quite the hypocrisy when he’s essentially doing what he’s warning against. The fact that his audience either doesn’t realize this or goes along regardless shows how “free thinking” they really are
@@HowdyDuty4 Interesting take. Did you listen to him five years back as well? And who do you reckon his 'base' is? Have they changed? Did he just sell out to another group of idiots to stay relevant? Who do you figure his corporate overlords are .. who does he answer to? Does he acknowledge monetization as part of his current scheme? Is he interested in opposing views? What are his key interests .. would you say he's a demagogue or more interested in large power structures and how people come to think as they do?
He's exhausting, no doubt. Not sure I'd put him as high on the hypocrisy or cynicism hierarchy as you do. Nor can I casually label an audience of 5M all delusional. I have a friend who hated him back in his old incarnation and finds him equally repelling now, even though he agrees with some of his material. Everything seems like team sports these days. Pick an opposing view and shit on those holding it. Not a great formula for harmony or success.
Crazy how people flock to entertainers rather than those with actual expertise.
Yep, thats the absolutely loony part of it all. They believe a pillow saleseman, comedians and reality show celebrities know more than actual doctors…
Wheres Ja??
The GOP has trained them not to trust "experts or empirical evidence."
People have always been this way. Julius Caesar started out as a wandering minstrel.
That is a fake fact but if it entertained you then that should add to my credibility, right? ; )
@@moistpeanut5986 my pillow guy ✔️, joe rogan ✔️, reality show celebrity…hmm 🤔. Oh wait, I got it. Big ass orange check mark!
I will be lazy. Russell Brand and Roseanne Barr are opportunists who never met an opportunity to which they wouldn’t acquiesce. Thank you. Great video.
Don't forget Katy Hopkins....another tosser.
Watching Russells latest videos has been somewhat heartbreaking. I followed the guy from his days on BBLB and saw the full evolution from a funny man talking about his ball bags to the night he called Farage a "pound shop Enoch Powell", on to his guru phase and it's genuinely sad to see that he's becoming an overtly right wing icon. There's a bit of me hoping he's secretly working on a documentary showing how people can easily manipulate the right wing to become cult leaders, but I think it's more likely that he's had his head turned by the likes of Joe Rogan and Tim Poole. It's worth remembering that the chap is known for being an addict and given that right leaning content tends to be the most engaging, he's probably getting those dopamine hits from the number of comments/thumbs up/views and that could quite easily be messing with his mind.
snap! just what I was thinking, this 'guru influencer' stage is really unhinged, and his weird verbose speeches of little substance peppered with all the key words, His 'problem' with smack surely a thing of the past-he can buy all he needs now.
Actually it is an adicction, he's just replacing drugs with this new way of feeling a revolutionary hero spiritual awaken element to the world, I went trough that myself and realizing that wasnt easy.
I only occasionally catch his clips now but he must have moved an unbelievable amount to be classed as right wing...u do realise that covid is not a right v left thing...distrusting politicians of all stripes is not right v left, despite what the lad on here seems to think..if u wanted to know his t true allegiance u would ask his opinions on child poverty...unemployment...welfare...freedom of religion and foreign policy, I would be astounded if u still thought he was on the right, u people are either being disingenuous, scolding a former good boy for forming an original idea or you are genuinely politically clueless...oh and the amount of addict shaming on this thread is off the charts, it is genuinely difficult to tell whether this is a left leaning channel, a real nasty edge
@@tomwilko7841 Left and Right can be more accurately described as Selfless vs Selfish, in that every dividing line, the left want the selfless acts, where as the Right want the selfish acts. How we respond to COVID is very much a Left vs Right issue.
For example, the benefit of masks are to protect others around you. Wearing them is therefore the selfless act (left) and the people who tend to speak out about wearing them tend to be thinking of their self often leaning on personal freedom.
And it's not addict shaming to point out that a person with well documented addiction problems put himself in a dangerous position because right wing echo chambers are the most engaging... and social media engagement triggers dopamine.
You do not like him for being against Pharma and Bill Gates' idea of the world ?.. but still you know what he has done and said about Farage the Tories and fascism in general ... he has not changed ,it is not about losing touch . The mass media has convinced the majority that anti vaxxers are rightwing. You have been tricked and fooled by them. Start watching Russell Brand properly ..Under the skin is a fabulous podcast and watch his conversation with Adam Curtis about political hypnosis 👍
The thing that drives me crazy about RB is his whole "I have no opinion. I'm Switzerland" etc bullshit. I've liked the guy overall but don't pretend to be neutral when all you do is share your opinions.
i am 70 years old....never had mumps, measles, rubella, polio, chicken pox, tb, .... my dad was career military and we moved a lot always having to get vaccines ...... i have had 2 covid shots and 1 booster....i am still alive and i think all these vaccines helped me to be such....
Anti vaxxers need to realise that the basic principle components (if that's the right word to use) of vaccines have been used for decades successfully. It's not as if the Covid jab is the first vaccine that's ever been developed and nobody knows how to go about it.
Exactly. People don’t know how lucky they are. We have great modern technology and we get the shot for free. People in disadvantaged countries don’t have access to these vaccines yet. So many entitled westerners.
...and it helps thy neighbor which is almost as important if not more...
My father's brother died at age 12 of Diptheria, before there was a vaccine. Families were not allowed onto the Diptheria ward. Children went in and close to 100% never came out. An uncle on my mother's side had polio,because there had been no vaccine for it, and he spent a lot of his life in an iron lung. We visited him in hospital once. I have never seen anything so horrifying.
Vaccines are so successful that these ( ironically vaccinated for everything else) anti vaxxer people don't understand how protected they are because of them.
Immunology has, in effect, become a victim of its own success.
i think a major factor for anti vaccine stupidity is the dumbing down of the general population of america...a great book on the subject is fantasyland by kirt andersen....in general a history of the fantasy aspects of the u s of a from 1514 to 2014....sorry for all your famiuly losses
It's faux agnosticism. There's no plausible way to be neutral on this topic because one side has no basis in reality.
nothing wrong with what he's saying, and I'm not neutral, but my view does not mean others gotta have it
Hi Ben Davis, there certainly is a way to be neutral but it would require you to understand that being a bully is not acceptable.
Hell yeah, Ben. You can't be neutral on facts.
@@patmahinie5728 you can be neutral on opinions, you can’t be neutral on facts. There is no both sides. You can say “I don’t know. I’m not sure where the truth lies” ,but in that case why even post anything at all?
@@vernlaw Hi vernlaw, the progressives have far too many unanswered inconsistencies from the Russian collusion to how covid originated to be taken seriously. They do not care about social issues but instead are using them as a cover to push an agenda. I post comments because I am extremely concerned and disturbed by their behavior.
Thanks for sharing this! I used to love him, but his video titles have gotten so over the top, and after seeing a few friends go off the deep end during covid, I haven’t had it in me to watch his newer stuff and figure out what’s going on with him.
Yeah, and seeing his recent videos on the war in Ukraine where he is echoing ideas of contrarians/anti-establishment figures. Ideas like that Russia's invasion of Ukraine could have been prevented if the US had given Russia the 'security guarantees' it asked for such as barring Ukraine from joining the EU or NATO while at the same time ignoring why exactly Ukraine would want to be part of EU or NATO in the first place and also at the same time somehow being naively confident that Putin wouldn't have done so eventually anyways. Past behaviour is usually a good indicator of future behaviour, Putin is no exception.
At the same time, they are also peddling ideas that border on conspiracy theories that the US/WEST has intentionally psyop-ed Putin/Russia into starting this war by not giving enough visible support to Ukraine in the years prior and not condemning Putins' prior war-mongering enough to keep him in check. Knowing that he would get bogged down in Ukraine, so they are saying the US/WEST/EU has manipulated Russia to further their geopolitical goals. So which one is it?
Russell is revealing himself to be more and more comfortable with being contrarian/anti-establishment to a point where it borders on lunacy because he's getting rich from all the attention he gets for being 'edgy' most notably he is very popular with right-wing adjacent types.
you really need to open your thopghts and go and watch his stuff, dont watch it tinking he is now against you and swapped sides to the right, watch his video from today and tell me he isnt just speaking facts and truths and doing nothing other than offer your mind a free spac to think for itself. PLEASE do it
omg harper, same experience here. Used to love his videos pre-pandemic...but the guy's gone down a dark road. And he's brought friends of mine with him. Super depressing.
Harper, I don't think you're missing anything. He was always sort of nutty, but now he's a full-blown lunatic.
Russell needs money after his divorce. His videos are meant to monetize. His sea change of content is mostly due to clicks and being controversial. It’s sad but true. It’s all about money
He’s not “neutral”. He is ignoring the real implications of what he is saying, like someone who simply understands freedom in terms of what they want to say without a thought given to how it is understood or taken by the listener. Integrity is often a measure of taking into account the context of ones words and actions with regard to others. It is something Brand likes to think he is challenging in others, but unfortunately often overlooks in himself.
He lives in England. He's just cashing in on the subs on his channel by pandering to all the manufactured outrage. I'm sure he's having a laugh.
Russell Brand is a guru
by which I mean he's a self-appointed pseudo-intellectual clown
Haha, This is a dead on. He s got the 'guru look' down pat too. Theres too many of these clowns
@@annamin294 He certainly has a chest. With hair on it. A hairy exposed chest. Chest.
Honestly I think Russell, as he is getting older, is looking for easier ways to make money since he doesn't have the same energy he used to have. And one of the easiest ways to make money (if you're already a well-known minor celebrity) is to grift for the right. They're just so gullible and easy to manipulate.
It's really, really easy to grift money from Rightists. Example: the NRA.
@@alexcarter8807 Good example. The NRA is a systemic grift. It's got the entire Republican party and leadership convinced that it's a legit gun rights group.
@@alexcarter8807 And donation to DiaperDon!!!🤑🤑
He strikes me as someone enamored with hearing himself talk.
Agreed. He needs to be permanently silenced. And you can take that any way you want.
I am suspicious of people who are so firm about not having opinions. I don't believe him. He has opinions, if he doesn't want to share them, then that's fine.
His career ended he just didn’t notice. However everyone else did
This is one of the most on point comments I've seen as of late...hell, maybe even ever!!
…you talking about Packman? I can’t imagine you are. Because Brand’s current tour is a complete sellout at the time of each show (worldwide). What are you talking about? Or are you just spewing crap in an effort to discredit him? I agree, Brand is facilitating the spread of false information, but then so are you with such facetious comments.
"Career ended" but everyone's talking about him all the time, he has a successful show, etc. Ok bro, thank you for your comment lol.
"His career ended", which one of his careers are you talking about?
Also, i'm sure he's currently making way more money than you in his 'non-career' which would speak volumes of you as a person if that's what we're judging people by.
I also find it funny, when somone finds extreme success, then goes back to normal job, those who never had that extreme success and only always had that normal job, make fun of the person who for a while had greater success and is now closer to your level of very little success. It's Quite hilarious.
never heard of him.
"Look beyond the mainstream media"
"I'm not offering any advice"
Also, look beyond the mainstream media to where? Your TH-cam channel, russell?
Isn't this whole "Mainstream Media" thing basically the ad hominem fallacy writ large? It's not engaging with the information, it's dismissing it because it's easier than trying to actually understand it and counter it
being neutral is like saying 2x2=6 because some people that know nothing about math keep saying that 2x2=8
Russel Brand is just selling his 'Brand'. He's a young Alex Jones for the 'cool' people.
lol ... for the cool people? Brand is cool now ??? ok
@@MrAllister9 Cool as a windswept arctic tundra not, cool as in 'hip', but not yet as in titanium hip. He craves relevance in a gluten-free world. [Will this do?]
he's just "Big Brother's Big Mouth" - Russell Brand Fans Say He’s ‘Officially Lost His Mind’ After Latest Right-Wing Conspiracy Videos. He's an overgrown disillusioned flower-child wannabe
Oh no….and Tim. Go back to 2010 when I met him, after requesting Kevin Breslin sent him and 5 other “citizen journalists” to our city, to premiere “#WhileWeWatch,” Occupy Wallstreet. Tim’s best work 2010-2011 was when he didn’t say a word. Tim had to brand himself, the money game. Prolly still evolving.
Flower child wannabe. Yes, the exact vibe I was getting at times listening to him here. And isn't he kinda grown for that? Like, shouldn't he have gone through that phase two, almost three decades ago?
Spot on!
Russel: Big pharma's bad and shouldn't be trusted
You: LEFT WINGER NOW RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY THEORIST LOST HIS MIND
Nah, Brand missed the 60's, if he's trying to be a flower child he needs some lessons. He's getting it wrong, it wasn't all about $$ ME $$. It was about us and life, the planet and living in peace. ✌️
Russell Brand is a perfect example of when a British accent hypnotizes an entire group of Americans who are unable to think critically of what is being communicated to them
Sadly think it's a little more cynical then that $
I noticed Americans think of the English as highly intelligent and sophisticated. In Europe, we think of them as fat drunk tourists or fat drunk and angry football hooligans.
@@octavianpopescu4776 hahaha oh dear. I apologise for those that fit the stereotype 😂🤦♂️ Particularly the holiday makers and travelling football fans 😬
Agreed.....and his accent though, is for an english one....not that good. rather icky not like Hitchens....or stephen Fry's anyway cheers.
So in other words, the American Rasputin
This is exactly what the flat earthers say. "Research beyond the mainstream experts", they say, meanung watch youtube videos of horribly wrong intentionally wrong people.
So no one is aloud to do alternative research… just because of a subject YOU disagree with? And now any alternative news is ill news because of one particular belief group? Please do one, there are tons of alternative news that dont lie because they are not fulfilling an agenda of some pay master… most of human history and knowledge is based on objective reality not the narrative. I dont believe in flat earth but i will entertain the thought and give them there free right to do so. If you disagree with something provide solid factual evidence from a variety of sources to conclude what might being hidden from you.
Good luck.
@@troyburgeon518 Nowhere did I say anyone should be stopped from saying anything, including "the earth is flat" and "flat earthers are idiots".
The flat earthers, Q, anti-vaxxers, etc make money from their advocacy. You think the round earth scientists are in the pay of some mysterious paymaster while the flat earthers are noble truth tellers, doing it for no money? Big FE names have monetized youtube, books, merch, etc. Mark Sargeant for instance.
I have investigated flat earth, assumed it true, and looked at what implications would follow. North star/latitude/sextant, gyrocompass, gps, no FE map, sunset/sunrise, ham radio moonbounce, navigation, a hundred things that make perfect sense on round earth and no sense on flat earth. Do you think we should continue to be skeptical about round earth? Could the earth be flat?
Q has made many predictions. Q adherents argue with each other and ask why none came true. Do you think we should consider the possibility that Tom Hanks traffics babies in tunnels with Hillary Clinton? I have watched their videos, they are full of preposterous claims and they have no proof.
I have taken the vaccine, all my family, friends co-workers. None of us have died or become magnetized or anyhting, and no one I know has gotten covid. I know people in Kansas and Missouri who are anti-vax and all of them have had it, one is a long hauler who may never draw a full comfortable breath or be able to do physical exertion.
The medical industry has lied, mostly about new medicines they want to sell on safety and efficacy. But if I get a health problem, I am going to a hospital and not a faith healer because most of the time they are doing the best they can honestly. Their imperfection is not proof that snake oil is true.
What I am saying is there are ways (rational analysis, facts and logic) to tell what is true, this is a skill. One must trust others, we can't all figure everything out personally. I am skeptical of everything, but mostly the mainstream is right about the shape of the earth, medicine, etc. One indicator of truth is how much conspiracy is necessary for your narrative. Q, anti-vax, and flat earth all require multiple huge conspiracies. Q requires that conservative republicans endorsed or appointed by Trump that became lying conspirators in at least 4 states. Another indicator is consistency with known facts. Another is consistency with itself, do all the advocates tell the same story. Flat earth is all over the place, each FE has their own version. RE has one story that all REs tell and checks out with physical realities.
The mainstream is imperfect, but the alternative stuff has always been preposterous when carefully checked out in detail. I will continue to check out all possibilities, I won't rule out that some alternative web site could reveal a mainstream conspiracy, but so far, haven't found one.
Exactly
Great vid... have found Brands take on this stuff somewhere between pointless and dangerous
He has found the key to making money by appealing to the conspiracy theorists.
Absolutely and he has been doing it for quite a number of years now.
Like Gardening the gourds but his has worm holes?
Conspiracy
noun. noun, plural con·spir·a·cies.
1. the act of conspiring.
2. an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot.
Yes, it seems preposterous that politicians and for-profit pharmaceutical giants could even be capable of such a thing, what with that glowing track record of transparency and moral integrity etc... 🙄
Exactly!! Joe Rogan, same thing (and I'll eat my hat if Rogan actually got a Covid infection). These people are vultures picking at the bones of all the dead people their lying has caused in exchange for gold.
@@chuck1804 Conspiracy theories =/= conspiracy.
Russell is doing what TH-cam channels do, he's working the algorithm.
Yeah, I would agree with that. That’s why he’s not outrightly saying if he’s pro vax or anti vax either and not having an opinion… despite being very opinionated.
@@RachaelLink I don't have anything against people like Russell, everybody's got to make a living. It just seemed like there are a lot of people who are confused and don't understand the game. These people aren't stupid, they're just a little behind the curve.
@@darkpassenger65 yup, I don’t get why people are calling him stupid. Russell is a very intelligent man who is totally using it to his advantage. He’s purposely saying he’s no opinion on it and he’s neutral on it all. It’s a tactic.
I will say though in some respects he’s right to say people need to research beyond the media… that’s right but he carefully avoids saying what to look at from what I can gather.
@@RachaelLink I'm not going to point any fingers but a lot of people are angry, afraid, frustrated and confused right now. They don't know where to turn and it's having a very disruptive effect in our country. Social media does more harm than good, but what can you do? I'll be glad when all this is behind us. Right now might be a good time to get off the grid and check back in a decade or two and see if it's all been sorted out.
@@RachaelLink He may be intelligent, and he may be using it to his advantage on TH-cam, but what of his moral responsibility to the public? And with regard to "doing one's own research," I doubt that many people will be reading scientific, peer-reviewed papers on Covid vaccines. That's what real research would entail.
Great to see someone talking about this. A friend of mine gets her “news” from him and, well, let’s say I don’t discuss current affairs with her anymore cos she thinks everything is a conspiracy. I’ll never forgive him for this shit.
Gee, can't discuss a topic your blinkered view on the world doesn't agree with? How understanding and liberal of you. Your attitude is typical of everything that has gone wrong with people during the pandemic.
@@vasil7410 I never said that, I’m talking about the belief of genuine conspiracy theories as “true hard facts” or “real news”. But continue to go around the internet picking apart strangers comments on TH-cam videos 👍🏼😂
Now there is a photo of Russell with Donald Trump Jr., for those who still don't believe he has gone far right.
Russell Brand is a narcissist who says things that will create controversy and therefore drive up views. It is entirely about money and ego for him.
Sounds like something a close-minded, naive, brainwashed goober would say. Pakman is the grifter; repeating someone else's words with a sarcastic tone -with no follow-up isn't clever or helpful. None of you morons actually use any of Brand's examples or points...you just tar him with the brush you should be using on Pakman. Whatever.
@@jeremybartlett1706 Somebody is upset. Russel is a dumb persons smart guy. He issues big words and just keeps rambling about religion and science and doesn’t understand most of it. He is very egotistical, used to be an addict of drugs and sex. I mean if you want to listen to a comedian for life advice, I’d go with bill burr is down to earth. Don’t have a clue how you think DP is a grifter. Wow he has adds and comments on other peoples work. Well that’s TH-cam commentary.
@@justinmiller2655 So...you're upset? Good. You should be; you're not very smart if you side with Pakman who didn't argue any of Brand's points...he just repeated his words in a sarcastic tone. All Pakman is, is biased. Bias isn't a guarentee of correctness or intelligence. Brand is at breast an advocate of open-mindedness/thinking for ourselves. You brainwashed drongos aren't worth bothering with to argue...which is one thing Russell said...if we are all so stupid on two opposing sides of an issue and calling the others stupid...what's the point of even saving a society like that? We may as well all just get fucked. Neither of us give a shit about the other because you think your corrupt govt is suddenly on your side and want the best for you...but are blind to an alterior motive and the implications of that and you think anyone opposing that position are nuts because we don't agree with you, that a conspiratorial agenda is crazy-talk, I guess from the outside it would look like sheep calling other sheep 'sheep'...we are all looking like the same people, but we have been diving...think about it objectively...how do you conquer the masses? Divide and conquer...that alone should give you a clue, there's something bigger going on here...put it this way, one day when we are deciding whether a one world govt with a one world currency actually makes sense...and a mark or implanted chip is actually a GOOD idea...you can think back to this exchange and think...oh yeah...there really WAS something going on back then that I was too blind to see, because I was too busy sticking up for DAVID PAKMAN...who wanted everyone to take the vaccine and trust their govt. Anyway, whatever. Enjoy.
@Jeremy Bartlett we get it, you like conspiracy theories. Pakman did argue, successfully, Russell’s point: that he’s not unbiased. When you only conveniently “ask questions” about one side, that’s called bias.
@@VeritableSmorgasbord 'We' get it...you and your sheep. All Pakman did was repeat Russell with a sarcastic tone, so whatever, be lazy and stupid and listen to your leader. "We love the leader. The leader is good, the leader is great, we surrender our will -as of this date".
At least Brand is an advocate for free thinking, all you jokers and Pakman do is advocate for doing what your govt deems good for you and to shoot down anyone who thinks for themself. The US citizen is the most lied-to citizen in the world and you're so head-up-your-ass brainwashed, you'll defend your rights to be gullible and naive and ignorant to the death. Ok well, whatever. You're allergic to free thinking and the truth. You've made Pakman your golden calf and so... do.
He believes that he's this enlightened, super intelligent guru. He's just not.
It takes one to know one, right?
😎😂
I’m not sure he believes that himself, in fact I think deep inside, he knows he’s not, hence the unquenchable narcissistic craving for people telling him he is.
@@KM-pm6qe Might be even worse, he's intelligent, but wasted away the learning-opportunities in his youth, realizes the wasted opportunities to do something great and has turned to grift...
@@pablogh1204 No
When it come to recovery he’s has some excellent things to say. He’s helped me quite a bit when it comes sobriety and self worth. I appreciate him for that…however he did end his marriage through a TEXT to Katy but worse than that he knew she was about to do a show & GODDAMNIT HE KNOWS EXACTLY how extraordinarily F*CKED UP that is to do to any performer, much less a woman with arena full of fans. Evil
Brand likes to hear himself talk, he also likes to over talk people……with his trash, I mean rubbish.
‘The left is pushing us towards civil war’ = abusive parent yelling ‘look at what you made me do!!!’
He has just traded one addiction for another… his new addiction is feeding the monster of his still unaddressed extreme narcissism.
Unfortunately, I think you are correct. And, now he is seeking out his enablers and codependency fanatics.
Kind of sad!
@@slavikmama sad indeed! He’s just found another way to stroke his oversized ego, that’s now a little more full proof because there’s no shortage of people that want to be afraid of their own shadow. His new shtick is even more toxic than his old one but both were entrenched in over-inflated self importance. He’s seemed to have learned that fear sells but even though that implies a monetary bonus, I think that that takes a back seat to his unending and insatiable need for attention.
Bingo
He's doing the "Tucker Carlson"... "Just asking "Questions""
The dialogue, if you can call it that, never goes anywhere meaningful or helpful. Circular reasoning, logical fallacies and word salad.
He’s found his audience now it’s all for the views.... intellectual dishonesty at its finest.
He is, at the end of the day, a narcissist. With his flagging career, he did one video that saw a spike in likes and followers and instantly he knew he was onto something. The rest is history.Say hello to the age of outrage manufacturing.
Russel Brand is becoming that which he is trying to avoid. In the words of the philosophers of the band Rush, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
Can't remain neutral on a moving train.
@@jasonMontalvo1 Or planet?
So totally on the edge…always a good place to be when no where else to go..🇨🇦
Rush also said, on the train to Bangkok they burn the midnight oil...
Not that it has anything to do with the Russel Brand of non existent opinion.Rush were also into talking trees. It may be someone behind the tree in Trumps case... "Hey, its a wood pecker, may not in fact be the opinion of the tree or any of its affiliate broadcast leaves.
I'm pretty sure that adage has been around centuries longer than Geddy Lee, but ok.
The man really has a high opinion of himself... Although he'd probably argue he doesn't have an opinion on that either.
Classic.
He constantly makes fun of his sense of ego/self-obsession. He is fully aware of it.
Your sense of humor is great
Get an opinion dammit...
...Not mine either.
Brand has long been riding the conspiracy theory train. He DID appear once on an Alex Jones podcast. I still kind of root for Brand. The way he turned his life around. And I like him as a spokesman for drug addiction. And I rather like the way he seems have settled down and embraced married life and fatherhood. I don't think much of him, however, as an "intellectual."
Russell Brand like many in the grift-o-sphere has lived long enough to become a villain.
I know what happened, he switched from alcohol and blow to thinking he actually knows something. His career went into the toilet and now he wants to do a poor mans Howard Stern.
“I don’t have an opinion” is a way to try to immunize himself from any criticism for his opinions. It’s an understandable effort because his opinions are vapid and stupid.
Mollllly cules! He makes me anti-british & I know that is wrong!!
Or because his content would be censored and banned if he did give his actual opinion.
@@ehr470 Good.
Well said. It’s calculated to shield himself from the consequences of doing what he _knows_ is wrong, while pretending he’s guiltless. What a grotesque, cold, money-grubbing, blithely selfish wretch, yet dressed up in soft warm fuzzy clothing he reveals himself to be.
@Nick Broomhall - Precisely. He loves himself enough to not care who he hurts, so long as he thinks nothing sticks to him. And how many mirrors do you suppose are in this guy’s house(s)? I’m going to guess at least one per room.
Russel brands motto “say your right wing, without actually saying your right wing”
Here is something that will blow your tiny mind. You can be left wing without agreeing with everything the far left says.
@@andrewreaney he's not left wing
Use to like him, eh?
Just watched a handful of Brand's most recent videos...wow. The guy has literally lost his mind. He's actually as bad as Alex Jones.
What the hell happened to him?
Can we get a follow up video on this? I think Russell has gone further and further into the nuts category, he makes a good case study into the issue of people becoming trapped by the conspiracy narrative.
I second your request.