Will America continue to make Russell Brand rich?
The News Agents - USA
Global
4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Russell Brand famously hated big tech. He ranted about their power as recently as last year. Yet now, he’s all over the websites he purports to despise - YouTube, TikTok, Rumble. How has he reinvented himself as an alt-right interviewer.
And we ask why Donald Trump has changed his position on abortion. Is he already fighting the general election on the airwaves?
Editor: Gabriel Radus
Planning Producer: Alex Barnett
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producer: Will Gibson-Smith
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA Podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.9 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | I've got a copy of The Courage to Be Free. |
| 0:15.1 | Ron DeSantis' book in my hand now, to endorse it by proximity and contact. Ron, thank you so much for joining us on Stay Free with Russell Brand. |
| 0:23.6 | Well, thanks for having me and thanks for plugging the book. |
| 0:26.6 | Not everyone does that. |
| 0:27.6 | I didn't even ask you to do it, so appreciate it. |
| 0:30.6 | That was the Florida Governor Rhonda Sanders being interviewed by |
| 0:33.6 | checking my notes here, Russell Brand. And the reason that we're talking about this today |
| 0:40.6 | is because of a weekend of allegations after an extraordinary investigation by the Sunday Times, |
| 0:47.1 | the Times and Channel 4, which has brought to light the behaviour and the possibly criminal allegations of Russell Brand in the |
| 0:58.4 | UK and in the US. And the response in the UK has been pretty overwhelming. We've seen so far |
| 1:06.3 | more young women coming forward, more women coming forward to tell their stories. |
| 1:11.6 | And we have seen the Met Police contacted. |
| 1:13.5 | And we have seen YouTube today talk about demonetization of Russell Brand. |
| 1:20.3 | In other words, the removal of their ads, their advertisers from his content. |
| 1:25.6 | But we thought we would introduce the subject to our US news agents |
| 1:31.6 | as a way of trying to understand the cross-Atlantic currents |
| 1:36.9 | between what Russell Brand was doing here so successfully in the mid-2010s. |
| 1:43.1 | And then later in the US where he started playing to a very |
| 1:47.4 | different audience, talking to a very different crowd, monetizing, making money in a very different |
| 1:54.3 | way. Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
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