Hello there, you Awakening Wonders. Thanks for joining me on Stay Free with Russell Brand.

I'm very excited about today's show. For the first 15 minutes, I'm going to be on YouTube,

and that's going to be relevant to you, 6.5 million Awakening Wonders over there,

because you surely love the critical drinker, a man who has analyzed and critiqued contemporary cinema with a perspective that you're unlikely to see in the mainstream.

I think we are definitely stuck in a rut as a culture when it comes to just relying on the past.

As you say, the motivation behind these IPs and these franchise movies is no one's willing to take a risk.

What they lack with these modern characters that they try to do is that they're not willing to take that step of have them fail and be vulnerable and have flaws and weaknesses.

We're going to talk about Sound of Freedom. Why is this movie causing so much controversy? I'm also going to start

referring to the Critical Drinker by his actual human name and I'm going to ask you to remove

them aviators. Not yet, not while we're still, not while we're still on YouTube.

Stay free with Russell Brand. See it first on Rumble. It is the critical drinker. Welcome to the show. Thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having me on, man. I can't believe it. I'm sandwiched right between Tocco Carlson and Ronda Sannis.

I've got a lot to live up to on this one.

You better come up with some pretty powerful right-wing ideology right now. It better be, slide it into your reviews somehow if you can.

Otherwise, you simply will not fit in with the roster. Thanks for joining us, mate.

No, it's a pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me on, man.

One of your most recent videos that I enjoyed watching was your analysis and review of the latest Indiana Jones movie.

It seems you kind of reached a, in a sense, a zenith of your analysis in itself,

or what Lynch might call the duck's eye, the point within the point.

It seemed to me that what you were saying is that our culture is incapable of coming up with new and novel and innovative content.

And it's kind of like a tomb raider dragging cadavers from the soil, reanimating them and then not even respecting them.

It is that the essence of your perspective on sort of mainstream movie franchises and what do you think

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