Russell Brand
speaker
1,785 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2 Jun
Russell Brand’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What's really interesting about this, when you talk about the establishing of the 12 steps, right, which seems like divinely inspired the way that came about, like the sort of latter day,
Some might say prophet Bill W, like a sort of a very broken, messed up man who's trying to express himself through entrepreneurialism and whatever the culture at the time is telling him he has to do to be great, but he just can't stop drinking because his appetite for God, I would say, is so great that he's trying to drown it out or fulfill it through chemical means.
There's so many strange things that happen to him.
Like you can see that there's a sort of a perfection in his story, but I mention it in the instance now because...
And when he encounters someone who's gotten sober with the Oxford group because, you know, AA don't exist yet.
But he meets a guy just like, I've caught religion.
And like, you know, and since getting religious with the Christian, first century Christian group, the Oxford group.
Okay.
this guy sort of tells him i don't drink no more and bill sort of sees wait a minute this dude it was as bad a drunk or maybe a worse drunk than me and he's all right now so something's going on then he has some weird personal intimate encounter we're talking peter on the water style where he's alone
in a room and he gets like a sort of transcendent flash of light and running well you know with a blowing wind and sort of weird stuff weird supernatural stuff and he knows in that moment he's never going to drink again but then a third thing happens there's always a trinity a third thing happens where he encounters dr bob
And like Dr. Bart, like, you know, Bill W, he's had these two experiences of meeting a mate that's gotten sober of, of like this supernatural encounter in Towns Hospital, New York City.
But then when he's in Akron, Ohio at the Mayflower Hotel on a business trip in 1930, whatever, early 30s, I figure.
He feels like he's going to drink.
He feels like he's going to drink.
And there's a famous photo in AA folklore of the bank of telephones and the bar in the Mayflow Hotel.
And he has to make a choice which way is he going to go.
And he calls up a priest and says, is there anyone in your parish that's like a serious fuck up?
Because I need help.
I'm a drinker.
But like I can help them.
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