Welcome to Under the Skin with me, Russell Brand. This show is sponsored by my new book,

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This is a very special edition of Under the Skin because I'm not even hosting it. I am the guest.

This week under the skin will be hosted by the great Welsh philosopher, the Dylan of Emergent

New Consciousness. It is Brad Evans. And what this man doesn't know about violence isn't worth knowing.

And I should, I'll lacerate myself and kick me own ed in before I deny his knowledge of the

subject of violence with the, with my book coming out, Brad has kindly agreed to interview me

on the subject of recovery. Brad, I admire you very much as a philosopher over the course of these,

of this excursion into the subcutaneous world. We have become friends and I'm very grateful

for you doing this. I will now hand over full authority to you and how was I do?

Yeah, like, I'd like to begin by saying, I've obviously read an advanced copy of your book and

it was actually a real privilege to read it. And I was actually taken by a lot of the courage that

you put down on the pages. So that to me is something to be deeply applauded. Now the one thing,

I guess, you know, I'm also, I guess kind of humbled that you actually shall trust in me to do this.

So to thank you and thank you for our friendship. That's something with, you know, cherishing.

I'd like to go, you know, directly into this question. I say it's kind of, you know,

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