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Now, an important thing to note about the story, which I did talk about in 2023, is that the majority of Russell's accusers admitted that they chose to speak speak up years later, like 20 years later in 2023, because he was gaining popularity as a political conspiracy theorist because he had this new career. He was no longer in comedy and the movies. He was in political conspiracy theorist media. And like I said at the time, when I did my first initial episode on this, like, the entire thing because of that just felt fishy. And I was not the only one who thought this, because these accusers only spoke up after they were approached by journalists who were seeking a story, and it was all coordinated with a documentary that was prepped and ready for release around the same time as that article came out. Now, at the the world was very obviously split on the issue of Russell Brand, but people, especially on the right, were willing to stand behind him, especially if they believed this to be a political shakedown. And regardless of whether they actually believed him or not, they were disgusted with how YouTube immediately kicked him off, immediately demonetized him, and that the UK Parliament literally got involved when it was just accusations. It had not even been investigated by the police yet, and yet the UK Parliament got involved. They were sending letters to Rumble saying, you need to take him off your platform again. It smelled fishy. It just smelled like coordination. And I said that at the time. Like, I will be the first to say that I think Russell Brand is a weird dude. He has a very openly torrid past. But I do believe that he has since tried to redeem himself, turn his life around, and he has done a lot of good in the political landscape in helping people wake up to what is actually going on in the world. Now, all of that being said, even though I do feel that way, it does not mean that these accusations necessarily are false. Because even though they were not brought up for more than 20 years, even though they were only really brought to light after journalists approached them. The BBC, where Russell Brand was working at the time that these alleged incidents took place, has now admitted years later that they did receive complaints during his time working there and they chose to ignore them, which apparently they found in their own internal investigation. Listen to this. Thursday's report found that only one formal complaint was made about Brand's inappropriate conduct in the workplace during his stint on air, and that beyond that, there was no evidence that his behavior was raised with management formally at the time. But the BBC acknowledgement Brand was perceived to be too influential for staff to complain about. Many of those interviewed for the internal investigation believed, rightfully or wrongly, that Russell Brand would always get his way, and therefore they stayed silent, the report said they also believed that he had the support of the BBC station management. After this 2023 article came out, all these accusations, then the local police, after that, then they launched their own investigations. And then after 18 months of a formal investigation into him by the police, he was charged last April 2025 with three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault. And he is scheduled to stand trial this year in October. Jumping forward to where we are right now, why he is going viral today, some will see say very conveniently he's coming out with a new book, how to Become a Christian in seven Days, which by the way is the first book coming out of Tucker Carlson's new publishing imprint, his new publishing house for politically incorrect voices. It is the first book coming out of that and so Russell is on a press tour and some people are not so thrilled about this book. Like this person said, in summary, how to become a Christian. And then they added a new subtitle before your criminal trial. I will say the timing is suspect anyway, moving on from that. But this is why he has been doing interviews with people like Megyn Kelly and Tucker himself and Piers Morgan. And the Piers Morgan interview objectively is the most viral because of how absurd it truly was. 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