#177 Interconnection (with Merlin Sheldrake)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

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

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🗓️ 20 March 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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This week I spoke with Merlin Sheldrake! Merlin is a biologist and author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures. He has a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science. In this podcast we discuss the incredible world fungi. Merlin helps us understand how much of of world around us is due to the power of change these organisms can affect and the fundamental role they play in creation and destruction. Fungi can even be used to solve some of the ecological challenges we face, if utilised correctly. They demonstrate to us how really interconnected we all are. Could learning about this underground often invisible world help us create a more interconnected and harmonious world? Listen and let us know know what you think! For more information on Merlin’s work go to merlinsheldrake.com More Info Elites are taking over! Our only hope is to form our own. To learn more join my cartel here https://www.russellbrand.com/join/ and get weekly bulletins too incendiary for anything but your private inbox. *not a euphemism If you’re not already signed up to Luminary you can here - I release a new Under The Skin podcast every Saturday! http://luminary.link/russell Subscribe to my YouTube channel, I post four videos a week including video clips from these episodes! https://www.youtube.com/russellbrand My Audible Original, Revelation, is released on 25 March http://adbl.co/revelation Instagram: @russellbrand Twitter: @rustyrockets Facebook: @russellbrand TikTok: @russellbrand

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to what I call my podcast under the skin from luminary this week I spoke with Merlin
0:09.2	shell Drake Merlin is a biologist author of entangled life and if you're listening Merlin
0:15.0	hello mate how funky makes our world change their minds shapes our futures he's the son of
0:21.0	renowned signers he won't want this you don't tell people who people's dads are do you?
0:24.0	Yeah but he loves his dad. Oh he loves his dad. He's talking about him in the podcast.
0:28.5	He loves his dad. Well he's talking about him in the podcast. His name is Rupert
0:33.6	shell Drake he's also been a guest. Yeah he's relevant to the podcast. We could get every
0:37.7	generation. We could get this brother on. I never met a shell Drake that I didn't like. Get
0:42.3	them all on under the skin, have them on the mic. Merlin's just the beginning of my hip hop career
0:46.6	but I'm keen to explore new territory. Yeah well I love him and I love his book entangled life
0:53.1	and I love reading about him in Robert McFarlane's book Underland who devotes a chapter to his
0:57.7	escapades with Merlin's children. I've got a lot of one of them things I'm supposed to be saying.
1:02.5	I'm supposed to be saying something. Oh yeah I'll be menoried out Charlie said we should read out
1:05.8	comments. I've got an included it. You thought I'm going to include it. You don't trust me.
1:11.0	I don't trust you Jen because of that time you put my email address in a podcast and I got emails.
1:17.3	It was a terrible time of the year a lot of changes happened. I got emails very menacing emails
1:23.1	all week long. It's terrible terrible unprofessionalism from Jenny.
1:32.0	Act.
1:38.0	That is my email. You left your email in there? You just said my email.
1:42.6	Who's that your email? Of course. What's it?
1:45.0	I'm not a famous person. I don't have a letter but my name is me.
1:52.3	If any of you fancy Jenny May Finn particularly those of you of Chisley Chin's
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