Disruptor, Criminal, or Threat to the State? — SF686
Stay Free with Russell Brand
Russell Brand
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
We're back after a week away, diving into *Free Joby*, a documentary about early Bitcoin advocate Joby Weeks, who was arrested and later convicted on fraud-related charges tied to crypto promotions during the industry's chaotic early years. The film presents the case that he was made an example of — targeted as a disruptive figure in a space threatening traditional finance — rather than treated proportionately under the law. We explore the idea that when governments perceive someone as a threat, they neutralise first and justify later, asking whether this was prosecution for crime or punishment for disruption. Watch the documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YATaGGO57o8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YATaGGO57o8
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, Russell Brand, actually, |
| 0:11.5 | controversial conspiracy theorist. |
| 0:14.4 | Trying to bring real journalism to the American people. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello there, you're awakening wonders. |
| 0:20.5 | Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand. |
| 0:23.6 | It's Monday, no one can deny that. |
| 0:25.6 | And the same challenges and themes that we've always been dealing with we deal with yet. |
| 0:30.6 | A corrupt and hypocritical world divide of resources to change things. |
| 0:34.6 | We've got to do something though. |
| 0:36.6 | Do you remember when I sang that? |
| 0:38.3 | You may not have done because it was a sort of in a sense of B-side for a fictional character. |
| 0:42.3 | But here's a look at it now. |
| 0:44.3 | Laird'A-Leglid Mother Earth has been feeling unsatisfied. |
| 1:01.0 | I'd say it's playing from the rain, the sweet lady has started to cry. |
| 1:08.0 | Fires crackling blaze in the rays of her burning heart, and I don't think it's more to |
| 1:12.6 | laying wait for the day that she dies in our arms We gotta do something |
| 1:16.6 | We gotta do something |
| 1:19.6 | Before Mother Earth gets any more hurt |
| 1:23.6 | We gotta do something |
| 1:25.6 | Dave joins us in the studio. Dave, you okay? |
| 1:30.3 | I'm doing good. |
| 1:31.3 | Good, good, I'm glad. Yeah, I feel pretty good actually. I've just been finishing this book. |
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