What's up QAA listeners?

Fun games have begun.

I found a way to connect to the internet.

I'm sorry boy.

Welcome listener to the 250 second chapter of the QAA

podcast, The Russell Brand Part 2 episode.

As always, we are your host, Jake Rakatanski.

Annie Kelly, Julian Fields, live Agar, and Travis View.

On last week's Russell Brand Part 1 episode, we explored the rise of the British comedian

slash TV presenter slash Hollywood star and his conversion to a YouTube talking head with increasingly

conspiratorial and right-wing views.

This week we'll be picking up where we left off

and getting into the allegations of rape,

sexual assaults, and emotional abuse

which were the topic of a joint expose

by UK newspaper The Times in collaboration with Channel

4 Dispatches.

As a reminder, at the end of the last episode, we were in conversation with Dr. Rob Topinka, a senior lecturer at Birkbeck, the University of

London, who researched Brands YouTube channel and was explaining that its audience had shifted

from discussing specific conspiracy theories to supporting conspiracy theories in general as a way of understanding the world.

Another change Dr. Topinka mentioned was that Brand's audience who previously were more likely to

reject all mainstream political parties were now using slogans or topics associated with the American

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