Energetic thinker Russell Brand — whose brand new book is called Revolution — has a YouTube show called The Trews (“The Trews is news if the news were true”) on which he discusses current events and world problems. Back in August, The Trews gained attention through Brand’s public feud with Fox News.
Above, in Monday’s installment (the second half of a two-parter that began with a discussion of Ebola and ISIS on Thursday), we find host Russell Brand joined by actor Alec Baldwin, plus Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert, co-hosts of something called Keiser Report on RT, the Russian TV network that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry criticized as a “propaganda bullhorn” for Russian President Vladimir Putin back in April.
Perhaps we should all start figuring out where our favorite stars are relocating, and which ones we want to be growing kale for in 2029. If you’re planning on working for the notoriously hot-tempered Lord Baldwin himself, you would do well to study the “Harlan, Kentucky” chapter of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success beforehand.
Amazing stuff. There’s an old saying about a squirrel, in the America before Europeans, being able to climb a tree on the Atlantic coast and not come back down to the ground until the Mississippi River. Now, we may have fewer trees, but more conspiracy theories and secret beliefs. It would be entertaining to be able to hop from dinner table to dinner table this Thanksgiving, sampling the sincerest suspicions of all the crazy uncles.