# Foxes and Lions: Russell Brand and the Weaponization of Scandal

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Podcast: [The Reality Taboo](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-reality-taboo-6726333)
Published: 2026-04-26T13:00:15+00:00
Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/therealitytaboo/2768220
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Antidepressant use among American adults has quadrupled in a generation and a half, and Canada's dramatic expansion of assisted suicide may be part of the same story. Then Ness and Jeff turn to Burnham's The Machiavellians and apply it to the Brand scandal — the allegations, the timing, the 77th Brigade connection, and the Christianity pivot. Is this accountability, or elite competition by other means?

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