Glenn Greenwald, the Rio Olympics & Our Tribute to Prince

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Dave Zirin / The Nation

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🗓️ 29 April 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Despite heavy hearts due to the passing of Prince, we are honored to welcome one of the most prominent journalists of our time, co-founder of The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald. We speak to Greenwald primarily about the political crisis roiling Brazil and the effect it could have on the 2016 Summer Olympics… as well as the effect the Olympics could have on this political crisis. Greenwald is based in Rio and his recent writings on this subject are vital for anyone seeking to understand what is happening, with the Games less than 100 days away. Dave also pays a heartfelt tribute to Prince, reading a column about what it meant to go to college in the Twin Cities, the place Prince ruled. And sure enough, our ‘Just Stand Up’ award is to his Purple Highness for turning the 2007 Super Bowl on its head.--http://twitter.com/ggreenwaldhttp://theintercept.com/staff/glenn-greenwaldhttp://glenngreenwald.net--Column: Good Night, Sweet Prince: The death of the musical legend has me reeling, and remembering vividly what it was like the one time I was in his presence. http://thenation.com/article/good-night-sweet-prince/--http://edgeofsportspodcast.com | http://twitter.com/edgeofsports | http://fb.com/edgeofsportspod | email us: [email protected] by Prince and Morris Day & The Time. This episode is dedicated to the memory of Prince Rogers Nelson. We love you, and we we will never forget you nor your contribution to the world. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:15.1	Welcome to Edge of Sports, the podcast. I'm Dave Ziron.
0:18.7	One, two, one, two, three.
0:24.4	Heavy hearts over here after the passing of Prince.
0:27.3	We're going to be speaking about that a great deal on the show.
0:30.0	Our central guest, though, is New York Times best-selling author, columnist, and founder
0:36.0	of The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald. People may know him
0:40.2	through his revelation of Edward Snowden's leaks about the NSA, but Glenn Greenwald also lives in
0:47.7	Rio, site of the 2016 Olympics, and has been writing blistering pieces about the current
0:53.9	Brazilian political crisis
0:55.4	and I want to speak to him about how that crisis intersects with the coming Olympics.
1:03.1	And we are going to pay tribute to Prince because, man, that one cuts deep.
1:08.1	She wore a raspberry from the country man, that one cuts deep.
1:33.9	But first, thrilled to have him on the line. But first, thrilled to have him on the line, one of those prominent journalists of our time, Glenn Greenwald.
1:42.6	The Olympics are coming, and what is happening to President Rousseff, you and others have described as a judicial or even political coup.
1:45.1	That's obviously very strong language.
1:46.9	How do you justify that?
1:53.4	I personally haven't used the word coup just because it ends up provoking this unhelpful semantic debate about whether a coup requires the military forcibly invading a presidential
2:00.0	palace and physically removing a leader,
2:02.6	or whether or not it can actually be accomplished, as in the case of Brazil, through parliamentary
2:07.8	and judicial action. So for me, what I've said and what I firmly believe is that what this is
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