Episode Transcript: #1556 - Glenn Greenwald
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Hello, Glenn.
Hello, Joe Rogan. How are you?
I'm great, man. It's great to finally make your acquaintance digitally, at least.
Yeah, yeah. We've been trying for a while.
We've been trying for the pandemic, so I'm glad we're at least finally able to do this version of it.
Yeah, I hope we do it in person eventually. That would be nice.
For sure.
What is it like down in Brazil?
In general or...
No, I've been to Brazil.
Everything that's going on.
Like, right now. I've been to Brazil multiple times. I love it down there.
Yeah, I mean, so obviously it's a fraught situation politically because the country in 2018 elected,
you know, a genuine fanatic, someone who explicitly prefers the military dictatorship that ruled the country until 1985,
as opposed to democracy, which succeeded it, Jair Bolsonaro.
And then beyond that, the coronavirus has hit this country almost harder than any other,
probably just right after the United States, but because of extreme poverty here and inequality.