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Under The Skin with Russell Brand

#79 Creating! Growing! Accepting Fallibility with The Amazing Lena Dunham

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

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

4.815.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This week’s podcast discusses everything from anxiety, addiction and the effect fame has on the human psyche to post-structuralism and the myth of the goddess. A very open and frank conversation and hopefully one that you can relate to.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Under the Skin from Luminary Media. This week I spoke to a writer, director and producer, Lena Dunham.

0:07.6

Thanks for all this bloody good podcast by the way, with Lena Dunham, you can love it.

0:12.8

She's amazing, she's what you'd think she would be, she's lucid, she's bright,

0:16.8

funny, open, charming, insightful, brilliant, vocabulary quick. Did the thing one point which I will

0:24.8

not forget for a while is it was a bit of a rarzt thing in the story. I needed to remember the word

0:29.0

seed as in yield, you know, but I didn't remember it and I went for surrender. In her next bit of

0:35.6

talking she used the word seed as if like, there's that word you needed, like, oh, there it was,

0:44.5

it was in the next sentence. Anyway, what about your comments on last week's wonderful podcast

0:51.1

with Byron Katie? Here are those comments now. Someone said that they are scoops and this is what they say.

0:59.0

I know we're all human and idolatry is not good and meant to be found in a pond seeking out

1:03.5

external validation, etc, etc, but fucking hell Byron Katie said she loves our bees mind. That's

1:09.7

practically canonization. Hashtag made it hashtag under the skin. Thanks, soups for saying that

1:17.4

because I've always wanted to be canonized and wondered when it might happen and it's now. Dodger,

1:22.8

0-0-1. This was literally breath-taking. I've never felt compelled to write so many notes.

1:27.3

Thank you for so much learning. It was the best and I didn't think you could top

1:31.0

Karramo last week. Well, hopefully we will continue to top these experiences at Dodger,

1:36.9

0-0-1 until you eventually become like a pure orb of light or a mist or something.

1:42.4

KJ Ken Showflow just listened and loved hearing you do the work at the end. Thank you for being

1:47.7

willing to share your own work and inspiring me to do my own. Me doing Byron Katie's work is one

1:53.6

of the most liberary moments of my day. Well, you do every day. You do it as a daily practice because

1:57.7

I did my 12-step stuff of course. Generem, photo, dream team, Byron changed my life. People love Byron

2:05.4

Katie and I love there as well. She was so brilliant and bright and clear. I really, uh,

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