Taxes for the Rich and Psychedelics for the Masses — SF707
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Russell Brand
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
A push to "tax the rich" in New York blurs the line between policy and performance, as big public promises, long timelines and simplified messaging—aimed even at children—raise questions about whether this is governance or branding. At the same time, a major shift in U.S. drug policy sees psychedelics move toward the mainstream as a response to the opioid crisis, with backing from Trump, RFK Jr. and voices like Joe Rogan, reframing how treatment, profit and public health intersect. Across both, it's a story about how ideas are packaged and sold—whether economic or medical—and who ultimately shapes what the public comes to accept as truth.
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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. |
| 0:18.8 | Hello there, you're awakening wonders. |
| 0:20.3 | Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand. |
| 0:24.1 | Are you looks maxing? |
| 0:25.9 | You're hideous. |
| 0:26.9 | Start hitting yourself in the face with a hammer. |
| 0:29.6 | It's a disturbing new trend. |
| 0:31.3 | Guys hitting themselves deliberately on the face with hammers and other objects. |
| 0:36.5 | Dave, you look like you've been doing it. You've never looked more chiseled. Guilty. Yeah, you've been looks maxing yourself, senseless. Wherever you're watching this right now, come over to Rumble. And if you don't have Rumble premium yet, get Rumble premium now. In the next few minutes, we'll be talking about Joe Rogan's visit to the White House and the use of psychedelic drugs as a new medicine. |
| 0:54.8 | My first thought is they cause that opioid crisis, like Big Pharma, and then they're using |
| 1:00.4 | Big Pharma once more to actually solve the opioid crisis, or at least sweep up some of the |
| 1:05.6 | human casualties. |
| 1:06.2 | But let me know what you think in the comments and chat. |
| 1:08.4 | It reminds you of COVID a little bit, like DARPA are over there in Wuhan, experimenting and gain a function. And then they benefit from the cure as well. I mean, I'm being very sort of general when I talk about the pharmaceutical industry, particularly in terms of DARPA. Whereas reborn, methylene blue from old Russ, where it lacks in FDA approval, it makes up for in being able to turn your teeth blue in an instant. |
| 1:32.9 | So, but instead of hammering yourself in the face, maybe hammer yourself in the heart with a bit of |
| 1:37.4 | methyl in blue. And if you haven't got a copy yet of my wonderful book, How to Become Christian in Seven Days is available. There's a link in the description. See, click on that and get it. I'm really, really pleased with it. And let me know what you think we should do with any profit that it accrues, because I'm not going to take no money from it, even though let me tell you, we could do with some money sometimes. That's the truth. And in fact, you could come and see me do my live show. A funny thing happened on the way to church. There's a link in the description. Come see me do that live. If you're in Florida, if you're in Florida, come to Florida. I'm doing it. When, when is it that I'm doing that? May 18th and 19th. May 18th and 19th. That's coming up soon. I'll see you then. |
| 2:18.3 | Come see me. It's really good fun. It's a great show and I think probably we'll have a book there for everybody. We'll work out something. Anyway, okay, let's get into this. So first of all, we'll start off with looks maxing. It's difficult to see how Jake could become more beautiful or Dave, but it seems like one of the options is smashing themselves in the face with a hammer. |
| 2:37.1 | In a minute, we'll have a nurse from reverse to ensure that we remain connected in some tertiary way to the divine holy power that is your birth rate. |
| 2:45.8 | Let's have a look at this. Looks maxing first, though. |
| 2:47.4 | It's a disturbing new trend. trend guys hitting themselves deliberately on the |
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