Welcome to Under the Skin with me Russell Brand in which I ask what's beneath the surface of people weird Maya the ideas that are defining our time and the history we're told.

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Today's episode of Under the Skin is a chance to listen to me and Adam Curtis Adam Curtis I think he's one of the most innovative media broadcasters of our time.

A brilliant filmmaker, a brilliant thinker, John Ronson says of him he's five ten years ahead of the curve always in which he's

convenient because we made this podcast six months ago see how the world has changed since we made it Adam Curtis truly a brilliant mind a brilliant broadcaster and what you don't know is he's

blushing while we're doing this because he responds to my tormenting with his cheeks even if he doesn't with his voice under the skin.

Today's guest is Adam Curtis do you know Adam Curtis have you seen hyper normalization is new film did you watch that thing a bit of lake did you see the power of nightmares did you see sent through the

self the May fair set I've seen all them things and that is why I'm much more clever than what you are in this episode of Under the Skin I talked to Adam Curtis about well manner of things

actually but he's a brilliant political mind if you want to understand what's going on in the world Trump Brexit terrorism the way that media news narratives are contrived conspiracy theories what

their value then you could do a lot worse than to watch Adam Curtis's films I've become friends with him actually and I find him to be an

absolute darling man do you know you may not know that he was actually made films for that's life and that if you're a person that's about my age you were born in the 70s or 80s you

might remember uncle that's life of Esther Renson where she would get sort of like you know good news type stories like a dog going sausages a dog talking the same sausage is sort of

pap mindlessness well Adam Curtis made that but he went on to be one of the great narrators of our complex media age if you're an

American listener and not familiar with Adam's work you want to get familiar with it right now by checking out his blog but he's a

fantastic storyteller on great sort of cultural events such as you know like defining events such as 9-11 the group of the Berlin war coming down he gives us an

interesting perspective so check out his stuff check out this interview remember to go and give me a nice positive review listen to Russell brand under the skin I've been giving you your

intro a whole time that you've been shambling through the corridors like a great ghost want about like Jacob Marley with the chains being your own

archive saying most wonderful things about hyper normalization what do you mean that we're living in an unreal world as some sort of

simulacrum what do you mean by it what is the point of this film hyper normalization tell us what you mean what I remember

happened normalization I mean it's stern what I meant by happen normalization is that it get the term comes from a guy a rather interesting guy who wrote about what

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