Hello there, you Awakening Wonders. Thank you for joining me for stay free with Russell Brand,

episode 1001. We couldn't celebrate the 100th episode because it was a terrible national tragedy

in your country, America. Today on show 101, we are celebrating having done this a century of times.

If you're watching this on YouTube, the whole show will be available on Rumble.

We're going to give you this first part for free to let you know what free speech sounds like, baby,

but we can only give you an inkling. We can only give you a tickle. The full thing will be over

exclusively on Rumble. And what a crescendo it promises to be. We're going to be talking to Chris

Best, the co-founder of Substack,

a online media organisation that hosts many so-called journalists like Matt Taibi and Michael Schellenberg, and many friends of the show. I suppose we're going to talk to him

about independent journalism and how because of Substack, counten narratives that centralised

authority would prefer to suppress, get out there into the world.

Written version of Rumble in a way.

Written Rumble.

They write Rumble.

They write it.

That's what they do over there on Substack.

So we're excited to talk to Chris Best about that.

And I suppose the success of Substack demonstrates your appetite, your ongoing appetite for truth in a climate of fiction and falsehood.

We do a deep dive into the TikTok hearing and ask, and indeed answer, because it's a rhetorical

device, what exactly is this congressional hearing about when so many of the accusations

leveled at TikTok could equally be leveled at US-based social media companies

where there is obvious deep state infiltration. One of the things that Matt Taiby and Barry Weiss and Michael Schellenberger's revelations showed us.

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