she really was and let me tell you larry this child's a vicious thing even today alone she's ahead by mouth i mean this kind of behavior from an apple outside a beer for sure and people the same thing that people to put figures and not reveal a lack of integrity. it was cool to speak the language that is superficial and donald trump ninety many things and he almost certainly. well you also if he's authentic drugs would destroy him either i remember why you started. when i was a kid a very direct and i there was something else i feel very every some mystery that is very difficult for us to contact as long as we feel. and grounded materialism you don't want to. get laurie that they're not fascism look at my head. and fascists it's a rule almost jesus what exactly all next stop larry king now. cheerio

and welcome to larry king now in london where we welcome comedian actor radio host activist and best selling author. iis amidst a stand up tour of england the island called rebirth is a weekly news show on you to call truth and has a new book due in september called twelve so good to have you back russell it's really lovely to be on any of your shows any of the of so many whatever format you want to talk to people in sit in happily that's correct what is twelve about twelve is using the formula that i used to get clean from drugs and alcohol to change anything in your life that you want to change when i stop taking drugs i mean an abstinence based recovery program i found do you know what larry the minister

taking drugs as not having problems in every area is my sexual appetites became it they call them healthy healthy robust greedy and then and also in areas such as food or won enough of people's approval i found that interesting ones of taking drugs all these other problems rose up but the twelve step program worked in lee's areas twelve steps is a there are that is the original format for twelve steps alcoholics anonymous narcotics anonymous all of these various programs brilliantly deploy twelve step recovery but what we've learned is that the twelve step program in my life and in the life of millions of other people can be worked across all sorts of addictive tendencies and i think it's because it addresses the core of many of us we have an emptiness a deep spiritual yearning that people try to fulfill for sex or drugs or food or doesn't depend on a belief in god it depends on a belief in a higher power and in

a way larry got becomes a sort of a curious semantic tool doesn't god i mean i'm not a creationist so particularly christian or not surrendered to islam but i do believe in a powerful conscious force i do believe that in consciousness there is a mystery that come. the result for materialism and mechanics when you say the book is that this manual is for self realization comes not from a mountain but from the mud that my qualification is not that i'm better than you but worse what led you to it. what led me to that book was the realisation that there is a tendency in me and it keeps manifesting itself in realising itself that there is a need and a hunger that doesn't seem to be able to be fulfilled without some kind of spiritual component and spirituality larry i spoke to that yanis varoufakis the

other day and he said to me interestingly does it really matter if if the material world preceded spirit or if spirit preceded the material world whether or not a conscious being created the manifest world or not the fact is all of us feel the tendency towards kindness compassion and love and when we live in alignment with these tendencies we feel better and c.s. lewis wrote extensively about how we need to be good that somehow is enough this tendency to be good what led you to get recovered the drugs would destroy in my life there are could not stop taking drugs it was good and was a load as you get i was addicted to crack and if you go to this jenison often is the future of you is your very beautiful and that's very that's a very good skill pursue it. and it was crack and heroin larry like us that had to let the clubs that started to have lots of pretty ordinary recreational drugs that would seem fun and i'm sure often if you have that type of personality above

me in the end go into the taking crack and heroin because they have more effective more powerful so you're doing that when i interview you the worst was me trauma artist to be polite you know lumped in with a fifty eight is cleaner came to my home i'm. then gulden i'm in it and then come to your home of crack an era when i was not a thing clean about ten yeas the night of fifteen years clean melee i wasn't anywhere else going for your wife's underway jewel looking for crack and heroin what i found in there was perhaps worse some of the underwear is extremely morally dubious and i would like to know what goes on in that man. now i kid you came from our home how did you lean in there a how low you that you were able what was the step you took what was the first step of the how did you manage to break it for. me is what happened was is it was game with us because that crack and heroin

a lot of people the ease that street sleep is of people hotness i was using of a lot of homeless people and homeless myself in fact i was starting to do ok in sort of in media but now that all has people and i'm on occasion i went to see it like a set of like what you'd call a low level celebrity shindig not top celebrities not to came to acne hussan and now i'm talking about so people that might crop up blocks of orangey people with very white teeth that come in very early in the morning and then act to jolly nine of them i was with that is guys and the high mistaken say well the homeless was paling if i was hanging out there and if i went to a party with them up to i was hanging out of homeless people and people when i see an odd juxtaposition these homeless people and low level celeb race was going on in this guy's life and a man in management at times it walked off a druggie that day are you taking it in and i was introduced to the twelve step recovery person i've met a man with the so much dickensian name of chips on this because in that one that sounds quite jolly but chips i was in fact was a. drug and

a heroin addict at that time was fifteen six they need clean and ran a treatment center that used to twelve step principles to get people claim to remember why you started. hi jane i ain when i was a kid i feel very a raft and very aligned and very lost and that there was something else they said i feel failed arey there is something else there is some mystery that is very difficult for us to contact as long as we feel caged and grounded by materialism except that we live in this material world and we have to come to terms with it i accept that i have a body that requires food and oxygen but there is some other component that is extra material perhaps supernatural as we understand natural and it's very difficult for a person like me to leave without some access to that if you started to attain success whoa being an addict a little bit of success but i think the addiction is wrongly diagnosed i think it

diction is the tendency not the symptom i think that before i started to take drugs the way that i food the way that i watched television the way that i used for not profane all had to the qualities of addiction present was in too much truck that i was eating chocolate obsessive play when a food found pornography it was very fun if obsessive and excited not like a normal jolie update relationship with pornography can be found in a healthy home due to make you happy drugs open not free not as a distraction as an anaesthetic for me happiness now is about connection and is about presence. moment to moment you became a father last year as parenthood changed you yes yes it has an area because it is difficult to maintain my personal devotion to self centeredness when so obviously i am not the nexus of the universe that become clear when the baby was

born he said extraordinary by the carnal animal and somehow divine the ruler ring the plot to the screaming but the presence of something magical made me understand michelangelo sistine chapel in a different way it is consciousness that is gifted to us from the theory of the realm not the material life when so much the of of time i understood us i and this did meaning and dependence hugh needed you she really does and let me tell you larry this child's a vicious little thing she's even today alone and she's had by mother she's grabbed hold of a means of my chest hair and pulled it i mean this kind of behavior from an atoll out would be a short prison sentence six months nothing to you as fatherhood changed your comedy yeah has done it has done because it means it's changed absolutely everything about

me because our the sort of now i am and this is who i am now before ourself sometimes used to feel that i had a troubadour spirit that could walk out of my house and i might end up anywhere i could just meet someone or a street corner. ok with that folks and that khaki just wandered off with them then they will now find me a fox in the cap after all this and that it's of a calendar by the dungaree and i what it gives me is a sense of domesticity in the sense of connection a child everything comedically i think it does ring can still be filthy and very very rude but now i know it comes from a sort of a kind of a crucible of connection what do you think of our present. back across the pond i met and i'm sure you've met him a number of times i've if you know what i think is what is determining the numerous global political changes of our time is people of big government despair of a lack of authenticity people are sensing that people the political figures are not

real a lack of integrity what we would call to double speak the language that is superficial and donald trump ninety many things and he almost certainly is but what he also is is authentic i think he really saw that conflict not that it was does he have a philosophy that i don't think for loss of fear and authenticity necessarily correlate larry i think that when donald trump says like he's glib about race or about agenda even if you think on god i don't agree with what he's saying or agree with what he's doing compared to other figures the occupied the political landscape he has a kind of veracity the only other figures that have it. i think jeremy corbyn in this country is an authentic man but i would agree that he's a principled and beautiful human being but he saw on this in your country seem like he had a kind of integrity but was stifled uncontained and marginalized by this sort of

political process and i think that that i think that that will then to city to use a ludicrous pun trumped the political turn if this is aimed more appealing to a liberal sensibility what is happening in the world are we going through some of the yeah i think so don't you i mean you don't what is it what do well i think the rejection of globalization and a return to nationalism as a result of that there's a danger in that we'll get a raise of course because of fascism for kick off but like but but also nationalism one isn't going to work at this point nationalism is a bogus ideology and all of these ideas i mean this. base of political and financial elites i think that what we are an important point and the result of the last british election gives me some cause for optimism because that was a return to socialist valleys and you know socialism in the nineteen fifties in your country was attacked aggressively and settlement online and that is impossible

for people to have a kind of an open view of it now is simply sharing norway or they have like a nicer general socialism you know it seems like that would be the onset isn't it larry does what they're only five million people right you think is manageable so be centralisation seem to be other the other sort of communities trope that one would challenge is that mass centralization doesn't seem to work we need smaller communities we need really what i think a more your man chumps cases is that close of what the close are ordinary people are to political power the better it is so d. centralized where possible have people politically engaged in their own communities and i think if the powerful continue to resist ordinary people having any form of power there will be these bizarre grotesque anomalies such as donald trump or breaks it or are turned to nationalism while people reach for identifiable signal identifiable symbols and recognizable narratives unless there is significant real

change you don't want to turn fascist though i'm good larry at that and not fascism look at my head you can't have learned fascists it's a rule you're almost jesus ojt exactly what james is a fascist i don't think so i don't think you can go to rob him as a good place for a break isn't it true that like jesus and jesus one of fascists will be right back . i'm john harshman i'll give you what the mainstream media can't know the big picture. and when. question more find what you're looking for. we'll go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture.

redacted tonight is a comedy. not sang by the. goal after the corporations it's just more your. tactics night for me it's like medicine it's like a cancer from the stress that the news put to wonder redacted tonight is it where you can go to cry from laughing about the stuff that's going on in the world as opposed to just regular crying we're going to find out what the corporate mainstream media is not telling you about how we're going to filter it through some satirical comedic lenses to make it more digestible that's what we do every week hard hitting radical comedy news like redacted tonight is where it's at. the back with russell brand a reporter recently wrote this about your comedy you

quickly realize brand is humble and he's given credit for likes the idea of making a difference despite not always knowing the best way to achieve it well i don't know the best way to achieve making a difference who does i mean it i mean i think it probably is true i am returning in my own life to quite simple principles such as kindness and compassion and the acknowledgment all of us on some level feel lonely and all of us on some level feel fear that there is a you know day around food michel fuko god love him coming along saying there's no universals what i think they're all universal is i think all of us feel fear i think all of us feel inadequate and i think all of us have the. city for love and compassion and i think that i'm a my personal philosophy is about trying where possible to overcome my own personal tyranny my own personal narcissism our friend saying this is a new russell some of my friends are saying this isn't a russell that russell has changed as a result of becoming a father that i'm interested in different things it's not put aside my grandiosity

and my grand ambitions is that i'm content to see what what develops i'm content to say where things go i'm interested to see what will happen now like that it's not a foregone conclusion what's going on in the world now i don't think it necessarily has to be a dreadful deterioration but it evidently will have to be change all right we're going to play a little game of of you only knew i'd like to do it who was your childhood celebrity crush i was always a big fan of elvis presley and the girl girl quiet that were common areas to facets are i wonder woman i like to wonder woman a lot of you do like to kiss the screen sheepy that even those days you get a static shock from the screen because technology was not as announced linda carr i think she was going oh oh kate in owner i was with robert all great man got us on the other that i never. was your guilty pleasure guilty used to

be chocolate i don't feel i don't feel guilty it was pointless just pleasure i mean what about that today again i did this really bad plan those bloody computer games that play station i lose myself in a world around a pretend pirate home myself into a pixilated world of meaninglessness or does some people like that was his name and clever clogs tests like i ain't on moscow every scold he would say this reality is a construction anyway but he says that in the back of my data you have a seat with talent yes i've been trying to show people that i was interested. who would you trade places with food. just for one day larry one day i think i'd like to spend a day as larry king mostly set up a guy for your wife's underwear drawer with a little more detail because that ten minutes i spent rummaging around in there but did you find there was some beautiful laundry or i simply useful learned to write by an absence of sex toys which leads me to believe that you are doing

a great job in that marriage keep it out just in case she was mad that you did not match the broad in the panties she was annoyed about that she was i was hoping that she might step in a self what is something we should all be paying more attention to contract dismissiveness within ourselves the thing that feels the feelings who is it feels inadequate who is it that feels sexually around with while going through diary king's wife's draws luxury you can't live without luxury a conclave rebound for wishing for some sort of hair tonic or some sort of meditate i mean i don't know if it's some sort of horseless strangers job. i was nearly the man introduces strippers in a strip club outpatient to be that guy but i think i was a blip it out larry i couldn't hold it back even in the nation there were there were women there that were going to be working the strippers and i was like oh my god how much easier they meant in what this guy is not and be reliable links what

do you wish you were better at i wish that i could get in an out of a person's bedroom more quickly revile been noticed while they're doing a live t.v. show down stay as grab their wife's lawn dry out the door of up and saying i've got a what's on my cab very do you have a favor advice no no vice larry no more vices no more gloves really had a glove that might turn funny as famine counter room. fanning countess will do what happened do that was them that was kind of weird. well of course larry as a younger man that i used to approach my fans on an agricultural basis as if they could be humans that could be harvested in kano fashion so i mean every i was a player i was a placid this not on stopping a plane i mean it was numerous i mean i don't know if they were meeting larry but i

was certainly very enjoyable sometimes how families they treat me like a dialler thing. so be something do people don't know about you. russell what is it that happened i don't know about you that i kate base you know who's sixty thousand base. sixty thousand babies that cape him a garden there in a pipe i've done coming they have not taken their honey i'm not sure that it's moral i've got some chickens i'm not sure i can take their eggs in a moment or that small so i've got all these animals and i'm not taking their stuff off them anymore so no one knows that about me and also you may not know i'm doing a degree in religion in global politics as university laying all about the intersection between the political world and the religious vote so i'm privately keep in base ball there in chickens and learning about ontology. brilliant genius do weird. we have many social media questions for you meghan beth kenney

were three if you could have dinner with any could be a living or dead would you want to have dinner with comedian hoover. if i want i'd like very much to bill hicks place i'd like to have dinner with bill hicks is a very amazing american comedian he was a very great genius of your country your culture he died sadly in about nine hundred ninety two a was as i was he was somewhat like george carlin somewhat like lenny bruce i knew george and lenny very well and never heard of bill hicks or given the least minute dead i'm not in the dead of any of them am i ok satellite can mean whichever of they once great men that's now sadly date i mean are take any one of those three ok the new labor if this hero is every school for him to get drugs for him nope and i know how he got addicted he got addicted when he was very sick there he gave a morphine and that's how he got to probably spend in tommy here i imagine he probably wanted to unwind own son a hospital i am

a beach. he was for terrific do you have do you have a do one liner jokes ryan clark asks. did no one want i see any young women no not really a con everything seems to take a long while i wish i had the brevity i wish i could be like your great president lincoln you said like i didn't have time to write a show a letter from a everything is very bias call monro any helen mirren stories from martha to oh my god yes there's amazing we've had a mirror in a really lovely woman she's terrific she used to give a lot of the same worship to give me a bath and awful just forget that this is acting and actually use it for sexual fulfillment or just ignore these people to hang around filming and just you know had there's a particular area that needs a damn good scrap metal she was a very game woman she thought. it makes me think you know larry that there is a people have a sort of

a spirit their core because the fact that she was older was irrelevant it was some spark in a very very strange girl just that spark was i want to go hunting on a movie that's kind of his acts are a factor strum artist mike dancy do you invest in any interesting projects with your own money. does. your eye money now i know sure bally's show business and i want to ask that question he. had that africa wants to know why it did you go to university and what do you play any day what do you plan to do after you graduate. if i graduate because i can get in a lot of trouble for not doing the homework because the problem is even though my adult now now i'm in this educational context whenever they say they're home from doing that because i've still my little kid mind you study religion in global politics or cycles of ontology political favor a is deep max weber's heavy stuff to cause they're all in there you know getting good grades and look at any grades to

that and give the stuff i've. not done it and then do the speeches at the front that's what they do you know are you going to school i want to understand i want to understand how power works i want to understand how these systems work you've been working this job for ages and ages you've interviewed probably some of the greats the most influential political fair figures great raw is about time i want to know what patterns there are and if there are patterns how can you use them how can you or them most importantly how can you convey to people on mass what's actually happening so that they can split this veneer of nonsense that most people live and labor around and tell them the truth that there is no reason that a small economic elite should prosper while ordinary people suffer maria law and do you want to have more children and what's the best thing in your part now that made you to be the mother of your child i do want more children and she has

easy compassion my girlfriend she's real and beautiful and fun there are loads of qualities but for me being with her feels like coming home wherever i am if i'm with her for i couldn't have to try and write new new movie plans. really a month might want to bow out and i know that i'm talking to some people but the moment read on the show are i want to do and finally is small mom what's your biggest regret memory deprogramming da i mean not going to so i regret which i had . never smoked. come on you've got that lovely voice yeah go so i also got a heart attack yeah but come on the how hot i have a now and we could be sitting on. the show coming up after the break oh good we're going to break you know if i. want you to actually don't include both you probably would know would you oh really no thank you very much i still owe you haven't really changed thank you very king larry king also gramophone read look for his new

book twelve it's coming this september for get information to see him live if you want to see him live go to his website have a look if you want russell brand dot com do you want i'm not part of it and as always you can find me on twitter today that at kings thing he talks things when he's drunk and looks like a president boy she had a four for a night well that's very respectful to my culture thank you.

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