this Sunday I'm taking the plunge I'm getting baptized Speaker 1: in the midst of various
sexual assault allegations. The last true leftist, Russell Brand, is becoming religious and getting
baptized and praying. I've been interested in Russell Brand as one of these kind of post left
figures. And the reason that we're going to look at a couple of clips in a moment, the reason I
find brand interesting is there is a tool Gabbard type vibe to him, where he has done a really good
job of suckering in the sorts of folks that get pulled in by by people like Tulsi. And next thing
you know, some of them snap out of it and they go, this is another one of these kind of anarcho
libertarian populist clowns that isn't really offering me anything of substance other than
alluding to the deep state and other conspiracy sort of stuff. Oh, but David, conspiracy theorist,
is it? That's a pejorative. Now save it. Okay, Russell Brand has become exactly, exactly. What we
predicted when we did our. What the hell happened to Russell Brand video sometime ago? It's a it's
the Dave Rubin type root. It's the Tulsi Gabbard type root. And now accused of rape multiple times.
Russell Brand is pivoting to religiosity. He's pivoting, I guess, to Catholicism. He is now
being paid to promote a Catholic prayer app called Halo. Take a listen to this.
Speaker 2: Hey, we got a lovely partner today is our friends at hello.
Speaker 1: By the way. Hello. Like hello. Somehow I don't think it's that sort of h,
Russell, but I don't know. That is funny. Hello. Speaker 2: Hey, we got a lovely partner today
is our friends at. Hello. Hello is the number one prayer app in the world. I use it. You can
explore Christianity with over 10,000 prayers, meditations and music. And as lent continues,
what better way to deepen your connection to the loving Lord Christ? It's been downloaded 4
million times in 150 countries. Be like calm or headspace. But for Christians, hello! Helps you
pray and meditate and sleep is help. Speaker 1: It actually seems
like satire, but it's not. Speaker 2: They build a daily
routine of habit and prayer. I do the rosary. I know it off by heart, except the end. I've got to
learn that you can pray alongside Mark Wahlberg. Jim Caviezel. He was Jesus Jonathan roommate.
He was Jesus in The Chosen. You can choose your own Jesus. What version of Christianity.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine praying alongside Jim Caviezel? That's really
an eye opening experience. I can only imagine. Speaker 2: And, you know, from Rumi was my body
double in bullet Jesus on my body double. Download it today. Reclaim your rightful peace and grow
closer to God. Go to halo.com/brian to try the hallow prayer. Hey. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So anyway, he's pivoting to religiosity in the midst of these really
serious allegations against him. He also tweeted a picture of himself where he says,
baptism this Sunday I'm taking the plunge. How was it for you? And he even talks a little bit,
I guess, about his planned baptism. There are people who are falling for this guy as
the truth teller of the day. It's really scary. Speaker 2: I and be reborn. This Sunday I'm taking
the plunge. I'm getting baptized at the moment. I'm very curious as to what you who have been
baptized feel about it, what your expectations are of the event prior. What it's actually like.
What's been explained to me is it's an opportunity to die and be reborn. An opportunity to leave the
past behind and be reborn in Christ's name. Like it says in Galatians, right? That you can live as
an enlightened and awakened person. Sometimes I think of non-Christian perspectives on it,
like Marcus Aurelius saying, you are already dead. Now live the rest of your life properly.
Or the Buddhist saying, put down the corpse. All of these things seem so inviting and beautiful.
I know a lot of people are sort of cynical about the increasing interest in Christianity.
Speaker 1: I didn't think there was increasing interest in the West. We
see decreasing interest every single year. Speaker 2: And the return to God, but to me is
obvious as meaning deteriorates in the modern world. As our value systems and institutions
crumble, all of us become increasingly aware that there is this eerily familiar awakening
and beckoning figure that we've all known all of our lives within us and around us. And for me,
it's very exciting. One of my concerns is I'm thinking about doing it in the River Thames,
so I could be getting sort of baptized in toxoplasmosis and E coli based on what I've
learned. So I may be leaving behind the sage, but I might be picking it up some
pretty serious viruses. Let me know what you guys. Speaker 1: Hey, at least he believes in viruses.
That's definitely the upside. So, listen, I don't know if this is a whole calculated thing now as
he's facing all of these allegations of sexual assault. I don't know if this is just the natural,
turn that we are seeing. We've seen even in this and even like a Dave Rubin did the thing where
when he became conservative and right wing and MAGA, he will pay lip service to religiosity, even
though I guess he still says he's not religious. But this is something that a bunch of them seem to
seem to do. So it's it's a no for me, dog. Okay, to quote Randy Jackson, but, if other people are
still getting sucked in by this stuff, I'd love to hear what you find interesting about Russell Brand