RadixJournal - November 11, 2026


Slow Horses

The Wicker Man

Episode Stats


Length

17 minutes

Words per minute

122.59

Word count

2,111

Sentence count

46

Harmful content

Misogyny

11

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Toxicity

33

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Hate speech

14

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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Anyway, he struck me as a sort of left-wing, you know, anti-globalization, organic, whatever.
00:00:09.480 And then in COVID, he started flirting with the right and was sort of Joe Rogan adjacent.
00:00:22.720 I'm sure he went on Rogan.
00:00:26.120 That was a weird time. 1.00
00:00:28.480 Was that Chud 1? 0.52
00:00:30.000 really covid maybe chad one was crazy anyway he got involved in that and he was increasingly 0.91
00:00:38.160 tracking right and by 2023 he was embraced by the right and and not just the alternative media he
00:00:49.220 was embraced by ben shapiro who vouched for him megan kelly all sorts of people
00:00:55.240 uh tucker carlson tucker carlson published his book or some kind and i do think that
00:01:03.840 russell brand is in all likelihood a sociopath and that doesn't mean that he's not an interesting
00:01:11.820 presenter he is a charismatic psychopath and he goes for the money goes he goes for the money is
00:01:19.840 He goes hunting where the ducks are, and he might have some principles or affinities of some kind, but he is open and ready to be hired and jumps on the vibe waves, and he jumped on Christianity, and it showed how little you have to do to become a Christian leader. 0.97
00:01:44.120 If you're pretty charismatic and you have the gift of gab, you can just talk, you can say all sorts of nonsense. 0.83
00:01:52.440 You can just go get baptized in the Thames in your tighty-whities, and that's good enough.
00:01:58.740 You can have no clue what's actually in the Bible, but just sort of have a vague, if somewhat accurate, understanding about what this vibe of Jesus Christ is all about.
00:02:10.540 you can start selling trinkets and magic crystals and crucifixes and trump bibles all sorts of
00:02:19.900 things you can start selling this stuff online and make a lot of money money that you could
00:02:24.080 use to pay lawyers in your criminal case um i don't know what to say i never took him very
00:02:31.620 seriously at all now i when i first when i i had heard about his trials for a while and when i
00:02:43.260 when i first heard that you know it was coming to a head and it was he was going to be senate he got
00:02:50.840 convicted he's going to be sentenced to be honest my because i don't like him my instinct was like
00:02:58.200 ah this guy I bet he did it he desperately pandered to the right so that he would have a base of
00:03:05.680 support uh so on and so forth but when I look into the case um I'm I am sure that he was a bad guy
00:03:19.480 And is he that unusual as a man who is a celebrity?
00:03:25.720 I don't think so.
00:03:27.640 And after looking into it, I do find all of this stuff to be tenuous at best.
00:03:36.340 So let me just run down the charges and convictions here.
00:03:40.940 he was acquitted actually on rape an allegation that he raped a woman in a hotel room during a
00:03:51.060 labor party conference in 1999 i mean we're really going back a far away as he was he was
00:03:59.260 first off he was with the labor party but he was uh acquitted of that there's another allegation 0.96
00:04:05.460 from 2004, forced a woman to perform oral sex in a bathroom. That didn't stick. Attempted 0.97
00:04:12.980 indecent assault. Allegation that he attempted to sexually assault a woman by dragging her
00:04:17.680 towards the bathrooms at MTV's London office. I mean, I don't even know what to say about these
00:04:24.220 things. They seem like something that might very well have happened, but is being spun and inflated
00:04:32.660 in ways now here's the problem so he was he was convicted on on four counts sexual assault in
00:04:40.960 london in 2004 it's more than 20 years ago we should remember uh there is a statute of limitations
00:04:46.980 for a reason multiple reasons but one of them is that evidence fades memory fades um
00:04:54.600 sexual assault at a london bar uh during a birthday party at a bar in soho london
00:05:02.620 brand grabbed a woman's breast without her consent okay um this is the same woman who 0.61
00:05:12.280 was claiming that he forced her to engage in oral sex and he was acquitted of that
00:05:20.260 sexual assault in 2004-2005
00:05:23.600 Bran assaulted woman
00:05:24.880 working at a radio station
00:05:26.240 by grabbing her, pushing her
00:05:29.020 against the wall, kissing her without
00:05:30.740 consent, and 0.99
00:05:32.760 painfully groping her 0.99
00:05:34.040 okay 0.87
00:05:36.320 maybe
00:05:39.140 something like that happened
00:05:40.620 here's the
00:05:42.960 one from 2009, a woman met
00:05:45.000 Bran after one of his comedy
00:05:46.880 performances
00:05:47.540 and subsequently visited his home.
00:05:52.780 According to her testimony,
00:05:53.980 they initially engaged in consensual sexual intercourse. 0.99
00:05:59.560 That included, by the way, anal linguists. 1.00
00:06:05.220 Bran then turned her over and penetrated her anally without her consent, 1.00
00:06:10.980 removing a condom in the process. 1.00
00:06:13.280 The woman subsequently confronted Bran by text message
00:06:16.580 and he replied with an apology
00:06:18.100 so the apology was used
00:06:20.660 as evidence that it happened
00:06:22.600 or a confession rather
00:06:24.100 the jury convicted him of rape
00:06:26.440 I listened to the
00:06:32.780 sentencing
00:06:33.380 by this
00:06:36.160 jurist
00:06:40.460 and he was
00:06:42.860 saying you know you listed her
00:06:44.600 in
00:06:46.060 tea in your context
00:06:48.440 tea for tart
00:06:50.060 how 1.00
00:06:51.940 disrespectful to this woman
00:06:54.480 well
00:06:55.140 look
00:06:57.340 I get it
00:07:00.440 I mean
00:07:01.340 to give her
00:07:04.520 the benefit of the doubt
00:07:05.740 let's just say that we believe
00:07:08.800 her claim that this
00:07:10.680 happened 0.99
00:07:11.200 that they had consensual sex
00:07:14.640 and then he 1.00
00:07:15.880 forced her to have anal sex without a condom okay i understand how that is 1.00
00:07:22.500 sexual assault or rape on some level um now 1.00
00:07:28.060 you were 0.82
00:07:34.200 giving this guy 1.00
00:07:37.620 i i'm trying to make this like family friendly um you were eating him out in a bathroom
00:07:50.240 like hours before that and do you really not know who this guy is i mean
00:08:00.080 his whole jam and I want to talk about this a little bit more but his whole jam was I am 0.79
00:08:09.120 a pervert and I am sexually out of control I'm a wild man so on and you went down on him 0.93
00:08:21.100 shortly after meeting him and then you went to in a threesome like scenario also and then 1.00
00:08:30.180 you went to his bed I mean I'm not is this what did you fucking expect I guess is my point 0.92
00:08:42.500 and this way of like presenting her as somehow this innocent victim i think is just a bit much 0.99
00:08:55.300 to be honest now you could say this there's a prostitute who is selling herself to a man 0.98
00:09:06.040 and they they they reach a contract and then after they have sex he beats her up and 0.98
00:09:12.940 of course that's terrible that's beyond the pale he assaulted her and in a way the sexual act
00:09:21.160 is irrelevant to whether an assault occurred i know it is relevant of course on some level but
00:09:28.300 You get my point.
00:09:30.340 I understand that.
00:09:32.260 But I just feel like in cases like this, it's like these women, his father, Russell Brand's father was saying these women were harassing Russell.
00:09:43.180 And I don't disbelieve that.
00:09:46.860 Like on some level, they're sort of asking for it, aren't they? 0.99
00:09:51.400 and this presenting him as like sneaking into people's homes and raping them and 0.99
00:10:01.980 dashing out the window or grabbing them in Central Park and raping them behind a bush 0.92
00:10:09.580 like this is not what he was doing and the women were really going for it and I think could expect
00:10:18.980 to be treated like this by russell brand and again my my overall point with this is that we
00:10:27.400 seem to focus on this consent and consent can be given and withdrawn and we don't we're we just
00:10:34.800 not focused on the act itself and so there seems to be this like conspiracy between a certain kind
00:10:45.620 of feminist the me too feminist and a conspiracy of even conservatives now keep in mind all of
00:10:53.460 these accusations first came out in the times of london the most conservative paper in the country
00:10:59.300 legendarily so so this wasn't just liberals jumping on russell brand this is actually the
00:11:06.140 Tory wing. And just this sort of conspiracy between prudishness and me too. They don't agree
00:11:19.320 on everything, but they agree on this absurd romanticization of the female. So what I mean
00:11:28.740 by that and also the criminalization of male lust.
00:11:34.860 So in the Bible, it's 0.91
00:11:36.780 the woman who's to blame. It's Eve who is attracted 0.87
00:11:40.640 to that snake and gets seduced by the snake and then brings the fruit
00:11:44.560 to Adam. It's female lust that is criminalized 1.00
00:11:48.760 so to speak in the Bible. In the Me Too era, it's male lust that's
00:11:52.600 criminalized. The fact that this woman
00:11:56.060 met russell brand and was eating him out in the bathroom while her friend was sucking him off
00:12:05.320 like that's not criminal that's not criminalized that's not viewed as terrible
00:12:10.000 it's the fact that russell brand would want that that's viewed as terrible it's just
00:12:17.540 you know see and i'm not talking about the letter of the law here i'm kind of going
00:12:22.080 going deeper on this and so the me too people once they don't want to really
00:12:32.520 go against the sexual revolution they want to have their cake and eat it too
00:12:40.080 they want women to be able to have one night stands 0.99
00:12:46.960 have a fling here and there have sex with their boyfriend all the time before marriage
00:12:53.960 cheat on their boyfriend whatever it's all about consent you do you etc but the second
00:12:59.800 she is uncomfortable the second she withdraws consent is the second that it becomes a criminal
00:13:06.040 act and graham platner's evil and russell brand's a criminal etc but they want to make they want to 0.77
00:13:15.180 their cake and eat it too in the sense that sex is inherently dangerous if you go and have dirty 0.99
00:13:26.460 sex with russell brand i mean you might as well be jumping out of a plane without a parachute i mean 0.98
00:13:35.580 you are asking for it on some basic level and i'm sorry to say that 0.97
00:13:40.380 but sex itself is dangerous sex itself involves pregnancy now that can be the most wonderful thing
00:13:52.640 or or or it can't sex and sex often involves disease sex involves heartbreak 0.99
00:14:00.680 the heartbreak you feel when you you know fuck that rock star and you in in in that moment he 0.99
00:14:09.280 makes you think like you are the most special woman in the world. And he doesn't ever call you. 0.99
00:14:18.440 And in two or three days, he's forgotten your name, forgotten that you even existed. There
00:14:23.340 have been so many. I understand the real heartbreak with something like that. That's a danger about
00:14:30.400 sex. And in a way, the danger of sex is what makes it great. That's what makes it special.
00:14:39.280 But Me Too feminists don't want, they don't appreciate that and they don't want to admit this.
00:14:44.360 And so whenever there's something, whether it's something goes a little too far, he's a little too pushy, whether there's heartbreak or regret, resentment, then they take it and they criminalize the man.
00:15:02.180 it's just an unserious
00:15:09.640 way of engaging
00:15:12.500 with everything
00:15:13.620 of engaging with the sexual revolution
00:15:15.440 of engaging with sex itself
00:15:16.920 it's just fundamentally unserious
00:15:19.760 and it is in fact wicked
00:15:21.720 because there are people
00:15:24.260 who have to pay the price
00:15:25.480 for their way of thinking
00:15:27.800 the other people who are conspiring against russell brand and i use that term loosely of
00:15:37.800 course i don't know if they're literally in a dark room planning his destruction but they
00:15:42.960 are conspiring him on some with they are conspiring against him on some level 0.97
00:15:47.160 are the conservatives i i saw this that totally ridiculous 0.95
00:15:51.620 foppish man reese what is it reese mogg or whatever this catholic aristocrat or whatever 0.99
00:16:01.940 he was like you know the the the real problem is not russell brand it's the sexualization in
00:16:07.600 our society so there's conservatives who will go along with all this because they want to end
00:16:16.740 the sexual revolution and
00:16:18.640 me too
00:16:19.440 are sort of doing that
00:16:22.440 if unintentionally
00:16:23.840 criminalizing
00:16:26.860 male desire so let's
00:16:28.680 go in their minds 0.88
00:16:30.240 let's work with them
00:16:32.300 let's buy
00:16:34.860 into all these charges and allegations
00:16:36.780 and just go with it
00:16:38.620 because we might end the sexual revolution
00:16:40.480 sex becomes not necessarily
00:16:42.300 it becomes dangerous it's inherently dangerous 1.00
00:16:44.780 as I said but it becomes so costly
00:16:46.720 at least if you're rich and famous
00:16:48.940 it becomes very costly
00:16:50.000 it could even become costly for normies
00:16:52.840 at the very least you get cancelled
00:16:56.440 and it might be criminalized
00:16:58.480 so they want to end 1.00
00:17:00.180 the sexual revolution
00:17:01.900 they're terrified of sex itself
00:17:04.400 re-smog or whatever
00:17:06.700 so yeah they'll work with me too
00:17:10.420 they'll conspire with me too on some level
00:17:12.880 Fjord.