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Glenn Greenwald is the now-legendary journalist and Pulitzer Prize recipient who broke the Edward Snowden story, documented in the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour, showing how the U.S. and British governments were spying on ordinary citizens. Glenn is also the co-founder of online media publication The Intercept and, in 2019, published leaked messages that broke a watershed corruption scandal in the Brazilian government, which implicated officials in the highest levels of office of serious wrongdoing. This publication made him and his family the target of a political prosecution and ongoing death threats. But how did he get here?

In this episode, Wayne Hsiung digs deep into Glenn's adolescent upbringing, unearthing his struggles as a gay kid in Florida, his rambunctious teenage years and failed run for political office, his double life as a corporate lawyer and radical gay rights activist, and his transition to exposing The Game-That-We-Call-The-Justice-System for what it is: a fraud.

“It’ll eat you up before you can start eating it up.”

“Courage means you do it despite that fear.”

Music by Moby: Everything That Rises

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