Watch John Oliver's Important Dick Pic Interview with Edward Snowden

On last night's episode of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver ended his show with a surprise video segment in which he flew to Russia to interview Edward Snowden, the man who single-handedly blew the lid off of the story of how our government has been using illegal surveillance tactics on not only its own citizens, but pretty much whoever else they felt like spying on across the rest of the world. Snowden is a very polarizing figure — he's the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary Citizenfour, as well as Oliver Stone's upcoming movie, in which Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play him — but regardless of what you think about his actions, it's easy to see that he's an intelligent, well-spoken, genuine guy who thinks that he's doing the right thing.

Oliver's interview with him is pretty brilliant, pushing Snowden to answer for what he did while also framing the entire thing around the concept of dick pics to make it easy for the American people to understand. As he mentions multiple times, this is a complicated issue, but it's definitely a conversation that we need to be having as a country. I'm not sure the place we need to be having it is in the comments section of an entertainment website (please keep it civil), but I felt it was important to share this with all of you so we can all be better informed about what's going on right now.