The One Thing Elites Don't Want You to Look at | Russell Brand | MEDIA
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 19 March 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Russell Brand about his controversial appearance on "Real Time with Bill Maher"; pandemic profiteering; if he considers himself a libertarian; what sustainable communities would actually look like; how corporatism has replaced capitalism; why he doesn't buy into the "Enlightenment Now" ideas of Steven Pinker; why it's a waste of time to talk about the differences between Republicans and Democrats; how he went from stand-up comedy to Hollywood actor to activist thought-leader; why we should be worried about new forms of authoritarianism; why maximum democracy is so essential to fix our broken systems; how the liberal establishment got corrupted by the military-industrial complex; and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Alright, we're not doing a normal intro today. I think you might know this guy Russell Brand. |
| 0:12.8 | Welcome to the Rubin Report here in Locals in Miami on your American tour. |
| 0:18.0 | Thanks for having me on the Rubin Report. |
| 0:20.0 | Pretty good. We get our own mugs. You can have that. You want to keep that mug? |
| 0:23.0 | Yes please. I'd like to sign it and I'd like to... I'll keep it as a memento of a already lovely occasion |
| 0:29.0 | just arriving here and meeting everyone's been so lovely. |
| 0:31.0 | You're bouncing all over the place man. It's been a wacky week. Do you have like a word |
| 0:36.0 | that would sum up what has happened since you got to America, the Bill Mar thing, |
| 0:40.0 | and then you've done 800 shows and all over the place? What word would sum it up for you? |
| 0:45.0 | This is a dude. |
| 0:47.0 | Like it's sort of like a vacillating, undulating, shape shifting, state-autoring kind of. |
| 0:57.0 | It's been... It's interesting, isn't it, mate? |
| 1:03.0 | Because we're rather than the vanguard of the political conversation, |
| 1:09.0 | would you want to be where else would you want to be? |
| 1:13.0 | But the truth is that I don't do well with antagonism. I don't do well with it. |
| 1:19.0 | I don't care for it much. I don't... I... a prize serenity very highly. |
| 1:26.0 | I don't really particularly enjoy being at the centre of... of incendi matters. |
| 1:34.0 | Nor do I enjoy being criticised. Like, say if you ask someone for feedback, |
| 1:39.0 | this is what I mean. I've got... Oh, have you got any feedback? |
| 1:41.0 | Do you know what I actually mean? Can you give me a series of very sincere and specific compliments now? |
| 1:46.0 | That's what I mean. Serious and sheer and specific compliments. |
| 1:50.0 | The way you did that was brilliant. That's it. |
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