In this episode, Russell Brand explains why Joe Rogan is a hero to the right, and why the left is a villain to the left. He also explains the connection between the decline in trust in the legacy media and the breakdown of neo-liberal values, and the rise of the "lunatic left." Russell Brand is an American comedian, writer, podcaster, and podcaster. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, and host of the popular radio show and hosts regular stand-up comedy show . In addition to being a writer and comedian, he is also a frequent contributor to many other media outlets, including CNN, Fox News and NPR, and is one of the most influential voices in independent media today. He has been described as "the most influential voice in independent journalism" and has been a regular guest on Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News, and has a regular presence on the radio show Tucker Carlson Tonight, which is a must-listen for anyone who wants to know what's going on in the world of politics, economics and culture. Enjoy this episode of Stay Free with Russell Brand! Remember, there's an episode every single day, 7 days, to educate and elevate our consciousness together. Stay Free, and enjoy the episode! No, Here's the Fucking News! Stay Free! - Russell Brand Subscribe to Stay Free by becoming a supporter of the show and/or share it on social media using the hashtag on , and help spread the word about it! . . . and stay free! by spreading the word to your friends about it everywhere else! ! Thank you for listening and sharing it around the world! You'll get access to more episodes like this and more! and more like it. - The Best of What's Good, That's Good? - Stay Free With Russell Brand? - Pause and Share it on Insta: Thanks for listening! , & spread it everywhere you can be heard by your friends and share it everywhere and everywhere you get a chance to be heard! "I'm a Friend of the Truth and Freedom by Russell Brand" - Thank you, I'll be spreading the Word and I'll Think Soilwork by Gabor Mate and I'm Gotta Have It That's Great, Thank You, Too Good By Me,
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00:01:27.000We got a newsroom in shiny, I put a tie on!
00:01:29.000People are infuriated, but there it is, the genie's out of the bottle.
00:01:33.000It's no question now that Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan are the biggest voices in independent media and people are losing their trust and leaving legacy media resources in their droves.
00:01:46.000Could there be a connection between this decline of trust in the legacy media and the breakdown of neo-liberal values or what Joe Rogan referred to as the lunatic left?
00:01:54.000I know Joe Rogan, I've been on that show a few times, and I think he's a great person.
00:01:58.000And I would say that he has what you'd call liberal values, like he just wants to sort of be left alone, doesn't care about people's identities or cultural choices, believes in democracy and representation and voting and all that kind of stuff.
00:02:10.000So why is someone that the left could have grabbed and turned into a hero rejecting the left?
00:02:16.000Is it because the left has gone kind of crazy, lost all his values and principles, and doesn't mean anything anymore?
00:02:21.000Let's have a look at what he said in the framework of this being the most significant voice in independent media.
00:02:26.000I used to be a part of the blue bubble.
00:02:28.000I was 100% a left leaning person who lived in Los Angeles.
00:02:34.000I worked in Hollywood, worked in British media and when I was part of that establishment it seemed kind of ordinary and necessary that your values would be Democrat
00:02:44.000or Labour or progressivism and for me that was always based on kindness
00:02:48.000that everyone has the right to express themselves how they want to and I kind of I suppose didn't notice how the
00:02:54.000rights of people that had traditional values like say Christians were always alloyed to power
00:02:59.000structures that were regarded negatively how the framing around pro-choice
00:03:04.000versus pro-life or pro-gun versus anti-gun were always skewed in the media in a very particular way
00:03:10.000and how one of the perspectives that we were never offered is decentralization
00:03:13.000allow different communities to be run differently according to the principles and values of the people that inhabit
00:03:18.000that community that was oddly never And now you have a left that's taken progressivism into some interesting areas which I frankly don't trust.
00:03:27.000I don't think the left is all about looking after what they would call vulnerable communities.
00:03:31.000I think the left is about censorship and centralised liberalized authoritarianism, corporatism and globalism.
00:03:36.000That's what I think defines the left now.
00:03:38.000And if you look at the great experiments of the left, Maoism, Stalinism, perhaps it was always this way.
00:03:45.000Perhaps all of us massively understood that aside from a cultural blip in the 60s,
00:03:50.000where it's like, "Oh my God, hippies, Black Panthers, women's rights,
00:03:53.000and the uprisings of trade union movements,"
00:03:56.000maybe the left has always been about authoritarianism.
00:03:58.000I don't know. Certainly Joe Rogan's rejecting it.
00:04:20.000Are you, if you say, I believe in free speech, I believe in communities being controlled by the people in them, I believe in leaving people alone, I believe in minimum government, I believe in opposing rampant corporatism and extremist capitalism, particularly as it's practiced on a global level, I believe in freedom to worship, freedom to identify, freedom to love, freedom!
00:04:38.000I believe in freedom, and I recognize that other people's version of freedom might be different from mine, and if I leave you alone, you leave me alone.
00:05:05.000All of this emergent authoritarianism in the name of cultural progressivism makes me feel that it was never about freedom, that the left was never about freedom.
00:05:14.000Certainly, it doesn't seem to be about freedom now.
00:05:25.000Above all, the left used to be about supporting working people against the establishment, whether that establishment was the state or corporations, which were largely believed to have It's not like, oh my god, what are we doing to San Francisco?
00:05:35.000It's not like, oh my god, why are we letting these violent criminals out of jail?
00:05:38.000party of working ordinary Americans, ordinary British people now. It's a leist, it's progressive,
00:05:42.000it's exclusive, it's condemnatory, it's patronizing, supercilious and haughty. They clearly represent
00:05:48.000professional educated city class people. There's no doubt about it. If you see someone in a
00:05:51.000white van flying the flag of their nation, the left hates those people.
00:05:55.000It's not like, oh my God, what are we doing to San Francisco? It's not like, oh my God,
00:05:58.000why are we letting these violent criminals out of jail? Oh my God, why are we defunding
00:06:01.000the police? What are you doing? Yeah. You can't say any of those things. You say any
00:07:15.000I mean, if people are being secretly racist, well then, if you're not going to trust anybody's views, what I found when speaking to conservative people is they don't care what I believe in.
00:07:24.000They just want, basically, to be left alone.
00:07:26.000Now, I'm sure we could tear each other to shreds over the right to bear arms or pro-life, pro-choice values.
00:07:32.000I'm sure I could argue with numerous people on numerous subjects.
00:07:34.000But the fundamental principle of being able to freely and openly discuss our values, that That shouldn't be up for negotiation because that leads to hysteria when Tucker goes to Russia to speak to Putin.
00:08:27.000And as I've said to you before, I think it's become an elitist, authoritarian organization that doesn't like working or blue collar people.
00:08:35.000That's been insidiously creeping in for a while, from Clinton and Blair in our country onwards, and that was enshrined in policy, in our country at least, and in yours.
00:08:44.000You saw different kinds of financial deals and deregulation took place under Clinton.
00:08:48.000Basically, ordinary people got abandoned, so the left had to justify that by saying, those people, we should abandon them.
00:08:53.000And who we're looking after is vulnerable minority groups.
00:08:57.000That's what it's done, in my view, in order to give itself a moral backbone, which it now lacks because it has no raison d'etre.
00:09:03.000It has no purpose, because it's essentially the same as any party that goes, we're here to support the interests of big business and globalism.
00:09:10.000There isn't anything else they're offering except for, oh yeah, we think these groups are getting a hard time.
00:09:14.000And those groups historically have been getting a hard time.
00:09:17.000But again, most people are willing to say, you do your thing, we'll do our thing.
00:09:21.000That, along with an ongoing dialogue, is the only solution to this, as far as I can see.
00:09:25.000Especially with, like, any social issues.
00:09:28.000When it comes to financial things, I'm a little bit more conservative, but at the end of the day, I'm way more left than I am right.
00:10:14.000And again, if someone who plainly speaks to so many ordinary Americans in the way that Joe Rogan does in an unprecedented way can't be reached, that is a barometer that should be paid attention to.
00:10:23.000If you're part of the Democrat Party establishment, you should be like, that idiot, then you are unelectable.
00:11:18.000Perhaps the most identifiable and obvious point was during the pandemic, when left and right bifurcated at a point when everyone could, and was supposed to, come together.
00:11:28.000When the cult of wearing masks and taking medicines and posting on TikTok and shaming people And then acknowledging, wait a minute, minority communities are particularly vaccine hesitant.
00:11:38.000How do we move the pieces around on the board to facilitate that?
00:11:40.000The point about a cult is an important one because that is where authoritarianism and the refusal to engage in discourse really take hold.
00:11:48.000If your ideology is quaking, shaky and not solid, then you don't want to engage in conversation because you know that you don't have a robust ideology that can withstand discourse.
00:11:57.000Ultimately, what's clearly necessary in this age of mass communication is decentralization.
00:12:01.000Is the ability for communities to be governed differently according to the will of the people that occupy those territories, whether they're physical or online spaces.
00:12:09.000The idea that you can now have a country split down the middle with one half oppressing the other half is ridiculous and laughable.
00:12:16.000The pandemic period was when authoritarianism became normalized.
00:12:20.000Initially, well, you have to stay indoors because you're protecting other people.
00:12:23.000There's no evidence that it protects other people.
00:12:24.000There's no evidence that social distancing works.
00:12:26.000The whole argument fell apart and I think helped us to recognize that what neoliberalism in the form of this peculiar new form of leftism was masking was authoritarianism.
00:12:39.000A desire to signal virtue rather than practice principles and actual virtue.
00:12:44.000And if the left can't house the biggest voice in independent media, a person who's plainly not a communist because he's just done a massive, massive media deal, who says he's never voted Republican in his life, who clearly speaks the blue-collar America in a way that's unprecedented, if you can't get in alignment with that voice, then your political movement, I would say, is on its way to expiring.
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