Ladies and gentlemen, Russell Brand,

controversial conspiracy theorist, trying to bring real journalism to the American people.

Hello there, Awakening Wonder, thanks for joining us today for Stay Free with Russell Brown.

We're having some complications over on Rumble because J.D. Vance sat in for the sadly

departed Charlie Kirk on Charlie Kirk's posthumous show. I will show you a little of that later

if you want to see it. I feel like most people in this space are feeling a little bit of bewilderment at this point.

It's difficult not to, isn't it?

Because since the murder of Charlie Kirk on Thursday, God rest his eternal soul. There's been extreme reactions, extreme feelings,

and even just here in the office where we are in the Florida Panhand, there's like a 14-year-old

kid out there, little dear old Gabe who's got cerebral palsy, who's really like impacted and

affected and frustrated by it. I realize that since the murder of Charlie Kirk,

a different Charlie Kirk has emerged.

Charlie Kirk has an emblem and token of rhetoric and argument for both sides.

People will vie for how the item, the object of Charlie Kirk is subsequently utilized through hagiography, eulogy,

condemnation and criticism.

And I suppose in a way, that's no different than any other news event.

And when we were doing the show last Wednesday, which was the last live show, we did prior to Charlie Kirk's murder, I was feeling a kind of sense of, I don't want to say fatigue because I'm not tired about a kind of exhaustion that I periodically feel in this space.

This is prior to Charlie Kirk's murder that just, I think,

is, if I can try and explain it this way, when something seismic happens, an example of that

would be the China and Russia meeting and the potential implications of new near-peer alliances that are opposed to

America and Western interests, you might say. It's almost impossible to analyze it. And when cultural

matters occur, whether they're insignificant events like crack a barrel changes its logo,

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