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Under The Skin with Russell Brand

#023 Al Gore - Can We Protect The Planet When It's Not In The Interests Of The Powerful?

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy

4.815.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Environmentalist and former Vice President Al Gore joins me to discuss his new film “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power”, his feelings about Donald Trump, the corruption of big money, and the future for renewable energy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Under the Skin, where I ask what's beneath the surface of people we admire,

0:03.6

of the ideas that define our time of the history we're told.

0:06.6

The show is sponsored by my new book Recovery.

0:08.8

Pre-order your copy by going to russlebrand.com.

0:12.0

Have a look at it, the website's all new now.

0:14.7

Now, on Under the Skin this week, we've got our gore.

0:16.9

It's a shorter episode, not because our gore walked out in disgust.

0:20.5

In fact, he seemed to enjoy the experience.

0:23.5

You can look at it on our YouTube channel,

0:25.5

or you can look it on Facebook.

0:27.6

We've got all the footage up.

0:30.1

It was interesting because time is limited, and it's a much more high profile

0:34.0

interview than we used to.

0:35.1

We've had Frankie Boyle on here.

0:36.3

We've had Naomi Klein on here, but mostly we took to academics and intellectuals.

0:40.5

Now, when saw the film, we enjoyed the film.

0:42.6

But because only had half hour to talk to our gore,

0:45.5

I wanted to get across my main points.

0:47.8

Normally, these interviews are obviously prepped by Gareth,

0:50.1

who produces the show to be writes out, sort of like, you know,

0:52.5

get these areas, get these areas.

0:54.0

But of course, you know me.

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