Saying Goodbye to Bear — SF673

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Russell Brand

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🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

We talk about grief without sanitising it — how losing Bear cracked something open, exposed anger, faith, resentment, and the limits of control. From a botched goodbye to questions of forgiveness, authority, and what love looks like when it costs everything, the show circles the tension between raw human pain and spiritual surrender, with the wider backdrop of power, systems, and false grace never far away.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Russell Brand, actually,
0:11.5	Rousal, controversial conspiracy theorist, trying to bring real journalism to the American people.
0:18.9	There you're awakening wonders, thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
0:22.6	It's Friday.
0:23.6	It's a wonder why day.
0:25.6	It's named for the goddess Freya, a pagan goddess.
0:28.6	I don't know really what she was up to.
0:29.6	She might have been all right.
0:30.6	But she ain't the one true God, that I will tell you.
0:34.6	Joining me today for a fantastic conversation and look at the corruption that seems to
0:38.4	have consumed our world like a cancer are some great men. Some of them Christian, one of them,
0:43.9	atheist. You can stare at their faces, choose the atheist from among them, and then we will
0:49.2	chuck them down a well filled with flammable fluid and burn them. Not out of cruelty in preparation for what awaits them. Jake the producer is with me, all right, Jake? Good to be here. Nice hat. Thank you. Where could an N-word like me buy such a garment? Tryreborn.com. Get over there, you sick pedos. Dave, thanks for coming. How are you, mate?
1:11.5	Doing great. Yeah, I love you. And over there is my beloved friend, Massey, who has to cut this together, so ultimately has final authority. He can just take out whatever he wants. He could just have me say, Massey's great. You're so I might as well say, anyway, Massey's great. How are you doing, mate? Hail Satan.
1:27.2	I'm good, mate.
1:27.8	Cheers.
1:28.8	Oh, no.
1:29.8	I would have wished that.
1:30.8	I'd re, mate.
1:27.8	Cheers. Oh, no. I would have wished that.
1:30.8	I rebuke it. I have a Buc it.
1:32.9	If their BBC lady would have just said, yeah, I hissed because I don't like Jesus.
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