How would you everybody? Welcome back to the Sean Atwood channel. We are here with the one and only Matthew Steeple's to dive into Russell Brand, the headlines. But I've just discovered that the wonderful Matthew Steeples has quite an array of knowledge and stories, shall we say, to tell us about Russell Brand. And before we do that, Matthew, how are

you? It's been a while since we've touched base. And I know I'm here in the south of France,

but it's not so sunny today. It's a little bit breezy today. But we've had very good weather.

And I've had some, a lovely weekend with my friends taking me out on their little boat on a little tour.

That was very nice.

And, you know, the food is good.

And I'm drinking some very nice wine that I got from a lovely vineyard that I went to visit by myself.

And I had a little visit to this vineyard because I went there once before with a wonderful friend of mine who introduced me to it a year

or two ago. Yep, there's lots of good things going on in the world. I'm very, very busy.

I'm pretty sure. I'm busy doing quizzes with my audience. Hopefully I'm going to write a quiz book.

That's the next thing because they love quizzes so I do weird quizzes but I keep busy so there we go and how are you doing it's wonderful up there and it's sunny Scotland this is a rarity don't let this sun coming through the window fool you. This is a rarity.

I love Scotland and I love Scotch whiskey and I think it's terrible that the Trump man is putting tariffs on Scottish whiskey.

Scottish whiskey should be allowed to prosper.

I think so too.

And it shall. It shall. But listen, Matthew, it's great to have you here. And let's, let's dive into the whole, your initial reaction to the Russell brand case that's broken in the charges. And we do want to pre-fix this that. Yes.

There is a judicial system here and a legal system here and everyone is presumed innocent until they're proven guilty.

We are here just having an open discussion and we've we've had different points of view.

We had one of Russell's ex-partners on.

We've had John Wedger on.

We've got Russell here and Matthew here now and we're going to just dive into I'm not

Russell I don't want to be him that's definitely the truth I would never want to be him I would never

want to be him I've never met Russell Brand I do know one of his ex-partners I won't say who but I do know one of his ex-partners. I won't say who, but I do know one of them. I know people who've

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