Russell Brand: All of a Sudden, He’s One of the Most Forceful Voices for the Truth

How to bring the Left and Right together: Russell Brand got Bill Maher and Tucker Carlson to love him in the same week

Joseph Serwach
Leadership Culture

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Russell Brand by Eva Rinaldi via Wikimedia Commons.

The truth unleashed Russell Brand. He simultaneously captured the hearts of the internet, Bill Maher and Tucker Carlson.

“As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths, we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion,” Brand says.

He’s becoming a cross between an English spiritual mystic and a funny — and fun—wise guy court jester throwing truth to power with many winks and smirks.

How Brand leaped from a 9 to 100 (on a scale of 1 to 100)

How hot is Russell Brand? He instantly shot from a safe 9 (on a scale of 1 to 100) to a perfect 100 (the peak popularity for a search term) on the Google Trends measure of search topics.

Nine days after the new Russell Brand wave erupted, he slipped to a 65 but was back to 86 out of 100 today. As a point of reference, Joe Biden scored a 62, and Donald Trump a 70 on the same scale.

What’s his appeal? Showing how wrong all those “boys who cried wolf’’ were while…

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Joseph Serwach
Leadership Culture

Story + Identity = Mission. Leadership Culture, Journalism, Branding Education. Inspiration: Catholic, Polish. https://serwachjoe.medium.com/membership