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Oliver Stone - Nuclear Power, Putin & Snowden

Stay Free with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

Politics, Society & Culture, News:politics, News, Comedy

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Academy-award winning filmmaker Oliver Stone, behind Platoon, JFK & Snowden, joins Russell to talk about his new docu-film, ‘Nuclear Now’, and why he feels nuclear power is the future to unlock energy for years to come. PLUS, he shares exclusive anecdotes from his conversations with Putin, and his thoughts around new censorship laws in the wake of the Snowden revelations in 2013. For a bit more from us join our Stay Free Community here: https://russellbrand.locals.com/ NEW MERCH! https://stuff.russellbrand.com/

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0:00.0

Hello there, you awakening wonders. Thank you for joining me for stay free with Russell Brand.

0:04.9

In addition to a fantastic guest, we'll be taking a deeper look, a forensic look, in fact,

0:10.1

in one of the stories behind the news in our item, here's the news. No, here's the effing news,

0:15.5

but I've got a very, very exciting guest to present to you today. The Oscar winning director

0:20.1

behind Platoon, JFK and Snowden, a documentary maker who spent 20

0:23.8

hours in the company of Vladimir Putin.

0:26.5

And now we are going to be talking about nuclear energy and its propensity to change the

0:31.8

world, or at least the potential for it to change the world.

0:35.1

His film is called Nuclear Now.

0:37.0

And also, although he has forgotten it,

0:39.2

he did once make a documentary with me. Please welcome to stay free with the Russell brand, Oliver

0:45.0

Stone. Hello, Oliver. Thank you for joining us. Hi, Russell. Nice to see you again. You look great,

0:50.0

by the way. Thank you for starting with a compliment, and I'd like to begin our exchange for apologising

0:56.0

for my broad conduct during a time when we made a documentary.

1:00.6

If you remember anything about it at all, it will be the moment that I had to write a letter

1:04.0

of apology to Donald Trump after I did, I met him, which you organised because I think

1:09.0

you were working with him because of Wall Street

1:11.3

too.

1:12.1

And I did an interview with Donald and then subsequently made a bunch of jokes with him when

1:17.8

I was doing stand-up, and it led to a whole Ferroire.

1:20.5

It was a long time ago, but nevertheless, I apologize.

1:24.0

I see it hasn't impeded your ability to make other documentaries. And thank you for

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