Joe Rogan Experience #1368 - Edward Snowden

and uh okay that'll just be you're very professional. Well, you know, people are like uh how do you live and and things like that. They're like you taking money from the Russians and of course the answer is no. But uh I I do this for a living. Like I I speak I'm I don't have a YouTube

channel where it's you know I'm I'm Joe Rogan but I give speeches at universities and things like that. I do a lot of interviews and so we're recording now my own setup. Could is it possible that you could do a YouTube channel? Would that work? I mean if Yeah. Like I I mean if you

introduce me so like I get followers. Yeah, we could do that. Dude, I'm all in. That that could absolutely happen. Do you want to do that? Is that something you want to do? No. No, I mean this is a big question. So I I came on um because I had just uh written a book uh called Permanent

Record. Um which is the the story of my life because that's what publishers make you do when when you're writing your first book. Um but it it's more than that because I didn't just want to talk about me. It's actually about the changing of technology and the changing of government in this sort of post 911

era which you know our generation just sort of happened uh to be growing up during and I was at the CIA and the NSA and all this stuff but the day that the book came out uh the government hit me with a lawsuit um and they hit the publisher of the books uh with a with a

lawsuit because they don't want to see books like this get written. They especially don't want to see books like this uh get read. Um, and so the big thing was, you know, we we didn't know where this was going. We didn't know what was going to happen. Um, and my publisher, of course,