Russell Brand: Spiritual Transcendence and Anarchic Revolution is Praxis

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2020

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Russell Brand is a hip bohemian Englishman on the path to enlightenment. And he likes the ineffable. Like, a lot. The decoders kinda like him too, despite the fact they really struggle to eff him at all. Really, Matt has no effing idea what he is babbling about most of the time, but Chris, being 'English-adjacent', seems to make a better job of it.

Imagine smoking pot and talking big ideas with your precocious college room-mate at 2am in the morning. Now give him some methamphetamine, and you've got some idea of the fast-talking stream of consciousness that is Russell Brand.

A pair of milquetoast moderates like Chris and Matt just aren't the right audience to properly appreciate the mystical anarchism that Brand advocates. It's probably got something to do with the limits of the bandwidth of their instruments of perception given that knowledge and wisdom are infinite and being-ness itself is.... Well, you get the idea.

The lads also reveal some of the exciting progress of the podcast!

In exciting news... DTG has broken into the top 100 podcasts! In the Culture and Society category... in Iceland.

Regardless, come ride this unstoppable and frenetic juggernaut of mind-expanding concepts with us, and get these cosmic ideas downloaded directly into your squishy little brain!

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0:00.0	You're going to. Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guoos. It's the podcast where two academics listen to content from the greatest minds the online world has to offer and every couple of weeks we try to understand what they're talking about
0:30.0	So my name's Matt Brown. With me is Chris Kavanaugh. I'm a psychologist. He's a
0:36.1	cognitive anthropologist and he is from a place that definitely isn't England.
0:43.0	So, Chris, are we ready to get into it?
0:47.0	Are we ready to get into it today?
0:50.0	Yeah, I also mentioned that you, Matt, are also from somewhere that definitely is not England.
0:57.5	Yeah, yeah.
0:58.5	Interesting introduction you've gone with this week.
1:02.0	Yeah, but you know, unlike where you're from no one could possibly be confused about that. So, you know, I thought my accent means that people are often mistaking me for a high-class elite English man.
1:17.0	So you're right, it's a perennial cross that I have to bear.
1:22.0	Yes. Well this week we have got a few
1:26.4	introductory things to get through and then we're going to get into Russell Brand
1:29.7	aren't we? He's going to be fun. Oh yes yes that's right. You put the spoiler up front, not no build up.
1:35.4	Just there he is, the big-haired buffoon. It's not a secret, Chris. We do advertise it beforehand.
1:42.0	Oh yeah, that's right.
1:44.0	And it was posted in advance this week.
1:47.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:48.0	Yeah, good idea Chris, you pulled your finger out and got that done.
1:50.0	Right.
1:51.0	So that, yeah, I seem to recall somebody saying I'm definitely going to do that don't you do it I'll do but but anyway you know memory is fallible so you can say what's what's real in the past and what's not.
2:06.5	It's lost of the myths of times now.
2:08.3	We'll have that, we'll let that go.
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