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Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Edward Snowden

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

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

4.815.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 96 minutes

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0:00.0

All right, it's me Russell Brand, look on under skin from Luminary. It's a big and exciting

0:05.5

episode with Edward Snowden. He's a renowned whistleblower and former computer intelligence

0:10.8

consultant who worked for the CIA and the NSA. He copied and leaked highly classified information

0:15.5

from the NSA in 2013 when he was a CIA employee. His disclosures revealed numerous global

0:21.1

surveillance programs many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance, which

0:26.6

I think is a sort of like, they're trying to have fun. Hey, we're the Five Eyes, we're

0:31.8

the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments. Edward no longer lives

0:36.6

in the US since his passport was revoked and they became clear they can plan to murder him.

0:41.2

He's still waiting to see if he'll be allowed to return. He's written a book about his

0:43.6

life called permanent record, Nice, which is available now. And I hope you've had a look

0:46.9

at some of those clips on YouTube of us talking to him and me analyzing what it's respectively

0:51.6

of this conversation because I didn't want to interrupt him at the time. Although, mates

0:55.8

of mine have said it is a good discourse, but I've not had a single compliment from my

1:00.1

producer and co-worker and colleague. There you go, Jen. The compliment about what? The

1:08.1

style of the attract. You know, you've got your new styles in the last year. What new

1:13.3

styles? A tentative listening. It's pretty good isn't it? The old new style. But why

1:21.4

is it different forms of listening? Isn't just one hearing. What do you mean? You obviously

1:27.9

been thinking about this on your own and one of your long car journeys are in terminable

1:32.1

stretches of solitude in your grim little dwelling by the sea. I almost said your picture

1:37.8

of my run. You went up what? I almost said your picture of my run. I went on the first

1:42.3

round for a year yesterday. Well, I ran it up from my MOT, but it was along the beach.

1:49.0

Why? We've been dumped for fraud. You ran home from MOT. Why did you sprint away from

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