Hello and welcome to Under the Skin from Luminary. This week I spoke with Chris Hedges,

a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and bestselling author. Chris spent nearly two decades as a

correspondent reporting from more than 50 countries. He spent 15 years at the New York Times

and more recently was teaching in the New Jersey prison system. It's a fantastic conversation

between me and Chris, a lifelong journalist, a person who's seen the way that media has changed

from something that's in the surface of people, something that's about transparent communication

and investigation, gone other days of Bernstein and Woodward. Now has the media simply become the

propaganda arm of the state corporate world. It's a fantastic conversation. If you're not a member

of my mailing list yet, you should join my mailing list over at RussellBrand.com where you'll

learn about all sorts of special events, not least I'm doing a one day event with Wim Hof in July

in the UK with only got a thousand tickets. If you want to register your interest, get on my mailing

list right now. If you're not following the YouTube videos, have a look at them. Please,

for God's sake and do you meditate? If you don't meditate, you should and you can listen to a weekly

meditation on above the noise on this platform luminary. Trying to achieve a quality with the

annihilation of category is not successful. That's exactly right. We're in this era where it turns out

we were never the boss. What's beneath the surface of people with my ideas that define our time,

the history we're told. Welcome to Russell Brand. Under the skin. Chris, thank you very much for

joining us on Under the Skin. Sure. What's been unique would you say about reporting on the

Ukrainian conflict? Are you finding any unique challenges given that it's a military conflict? Are

you finding any corollary between the restrictions on reporting in the last couple of years domestically

and internationally and what's immediately occurring in this conflict? What challenges are you

facing in trying to tell stories and try and fool as best you can at the moment? Have you noticed

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