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Speaker 1: Welcome to the very Show. I'm Michael cock.
Speaker 3: I this is my third night hosting and I'm really
Speaker 3: getting the hang of this. It's almost like I've worked
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Speaker 3: you tonight. So let's get into the headlines. Let's start
Speaker 3: in the Middle East. The war is now and its
Speaker 3: second week and shows no sign of stopping. But today
Speaker 3: President Biden landed in Israel to try to help out.
Speaker 1: He made it all the way down.
Speaker 3: The stairs, mission accomplished, already off to a great start.
Speaker 3: And while he was there, he had some important advice
Speaker 3: for a country going to war in response to a
Speaker 3: terrorist attack.
Speaker 4: Justice must be done. But I caution this. While you
Speaker 4: feel that rage, don't be consumed by it. After nine
Speaker 4: to eleven, we were enraged in the United States. While
Speaker 4: we saw justice and got justice, we also made mistakes.
Speaker 1: Wow, wise words from President Biden.
Speaker 3: Anytime an American president admits a mistake, it's a big deal.
Speaker 3: So Israel, please learn from us. Don't stay in Afghanistan
Speaker 3: for more than twenty years tops, but Biden's right America
Speaker 3: made some serious mistakes after nine to eleven, Iraq, Guantanamo
Speaker 3: frosted tips. By the way, I'm sure his visit is appreciated,
Speaker 3: but as someone who had as a parent roughly the
Speaker 3: same age as Joe Biden, sometimes when they fly into
Speaker 3: help it ends up being.
Speaker 1: A little more of a burden than help.
Speaker 3: Don't mind me, don't mind me, I'm not even here.
Speaker 3: Just write down all the steps for how to get
Speaker 3: Hulu on the TV and I'll be five.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm happy to do the laundry.
Speaker 3: Just tell me where everything goes and where everything is.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what I feel like is going on
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 3: All right, let's move on to domestic news and talk
Speaker 3: about the speaker race.
Speaker 1: The Sonos one.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, in the Congress of the United States, the House
Speaker 3: is having its own speaker race, and it continues to
Speaker 3: be an absolute disaster.
Speaker 1: The House remains speakerless.
Speaker 5: Congressman Jim Jordan's second bid to become speaker was defeated
Speaker 5: on the House floor.
Speaker 1: He actually lost some of the support he had in
Speaker 1: the first round.
Speaker 6: The people that are involved don't actually know what's going on.
Speaker 1: It is frankly embarrassing.
Speaker 7: The biggest circle jerk at the history of circle or jerks.
Speaker 1: Apparently you can just say circle jerk on TV. What's next.
Speaker 3: Congressional leaders met today and what can best be described
Speaker 3: as a violent BUUKOCKI.
Speaker 1: But that's right.
Speaker 3: Jim Jordan lost by twenty votes yesterday, spent all night
Speaker 3: meeting holdouts one on one trying to win them over,
Speaker 3: and then lost by twenty two.
Speaker 1: Votes this afternoon.
Speaker 3: I crunch the numbers and it turns out twenty two
Speaker 3: is more than twenty, so he's doing even worse. So
Speaker 3: at this point, three Republicans have tried and failed to
Speaker 3: get the votes for speaker with no end in sight,
Speaker 3: which is why now there's a growing movement to just
Speaker 3: let the temporary speaker, Patrick McHenry keep the job.
Speaker 1: And he seems qualified. I mean, he's wearing a bow tie.
Speaker 3: A bow tie says a lot about a man. It
Speaker 3: says that every morning he spends twenty minutes watching a
Speaker 3: YouTube toy on how to tie.
Speaker 1: A bow tie.
Speaker 3: And that's the kind of focus you want in a speaker.
Speaker 3: But more importantly, Congressman McHenry is perfect for the job
Speaker 3: because he's already there. Sometimes you just got to go
Speaker 3: with the guy who's already sitting in the chair.
Speaker 1: I mean, why keep looking.
Speaker 3: He's not fighting up, he's maybe even crushing it. Some
Speaker 3: people are saying, maybe he doesn't have as many Instagram
Speaker 3: followers as some of the other guests speaker candidates.
Speaker 1: But let's not over complicate things. He's right there.
Speaker 3: Just give him the job already, right, Let's move on
Speaker 3: to a heartwarming story. New Yorkers get a bad rap
Speaker 3: for not caring about strangers.
Speaker 1: It's true.
Speaker 3: When tourists asked me for directions, I stabbed them. But
Speaker 3: thankfully there's still good people out there.
Speaker 5: Firefighters responding to a call about a serious blaze inside
Speaker 5: a Manhattan high rise, a New Yorker is watching from
Speaker 5: an apartment down the street.
Speaker 1: Can't believe his eyes.
Speaker 5: From a distance, he thinks he sees out of control flames.
Speaker 7: A cold nine one one, and within minutes the streets
Speaker 7: were echoing with fire engines.
Speaker 5: But wait, those aren't real flames, it's the yule log video.
Speaker 5: Turns out the video was being played on a big
Speaker 5: screen TV, which made the illusion of a fire all
Speaker 5: the more real.
Speaker 1: From that window.
Speaker 3: Oh man, how embarrassing for that guy, especially after last
Speaker 3: week when he called the police to report that sharknado. Anyway,
Speaker 3: what a heartwarming story. That costs the city a quarter
Speaker 3: of a million dollars, And it was nice to see
Speaker 3: this man looking out for his neighbor safety, although it
Speaker 3: did make me wonder why he was staring at this
Speaker 3: particular neighbor's window in the first place.
Speaker 1: It was Ally Lion's apartment. I see what's going on here?
Speaker 1: Go on.
Speaker 8: It was a rainy Saturday and I had to work
Speaker 8: a little bit, so I got my laptop, I made
Speaker 8: some tea. I put on some candles in the fireplace.
Speaker 1: Inside.
Speaker 5: EDITION brought the neighbors together, so this is where the
Speaker 5: fire happens.
Speaker 1: I was having a cup of tea.
Speaker 8: Oh window, I was having a cup of tea here.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The one thing she's learned.
Speaker 6: I really do need to get curtains now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you do, and maybe some pepper spray while
Speaker 3: you're at it. For more on this ulogue and or
Speaker 3: a possible stalker story, we go live to Midtown Manhattan
Speaker 3: with our very own DESI LIDEC doesn't do Are you
Speaker 3: actually in that lady's apartment.
Speaker 8: Oh no, no, no, I'm at my place. It's crazy.
Speaker 8: I've got a dangerous fire in here too, just you know,
Speaker 8: waiting for a super tall European snack to come rescue me.
Speaker 3: But that guy who saw the fire was looking into
Speaker 3: her apartment.
Speaker 8: That's creepy, Kosta, were you not listening to me?
Speaker 1: He's tall?
Speaker 8: I mean, did you see him? He's like if Timothy
Speaker 8: Schallomey took his vitamins.
Speaker 3: But if a guy's basically stalking you through his window,
Speaker 3: that's not someone you want to date.
Speaker 8: No, that's not someone you want to date. For me,
Speaker 8: this guy's got the two most important qualities. He's interested
Speaker 8: in me, and his apartment has a window. I mean,
Speaker 8: did you.
Speaker 1: Do you see that guy?
Speaker 8: He's like if Timothy Schallomey had a window.
Speaker 1: Look.
Speaker 3: Even if you're into the idea of a guy noticed
Speaker 3: you from his apartment, it's just not practical.
Speaker 1: This was a one off incident.
Speaker 3: Guys don't just stare into random windows looking for fires.
Speaker 1: You'd be better off thinking about Excuse me, little lady,
Speaker 1: I thought I saw a fire at Jackpot.
Speaker 3: I can't wait for the wedding. Does he Lidac everybody.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick break.
Speaker 3: When we come back, I save the planet. You don't
Speaker 3: want to miss it. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about water. It's the thing you hope you
Speaker 3: just sat in on the subway. According to doctors, we're
Speaker 3: supposed to drink water basically every day, and in America,
Speaker 3: most of most of us do that with the help
Speaker 3: of these The number one package drink in the United
Speaker 3: States isn't coke or gatorade or even haterade.
Speaker 1: It's bottled water.
Speaker 3: We Americans buy fifty billion disposable water bottles a year.
Speaker 3: And I know what you're thinking, Oh shit, another depressing
Speaker 3: environment story. So can I not even drink water without
Speaker 3: ruining my children's future?
Speaker 1: But that's the thing.
Speaker 3: This is one environment story that actually has a really
Speaker 3: easy solution. And I'm gonna tell you what it is.
Speaker 3: Another installment of long story short. For most of human history,
Speaker 3: people got by fine without bottled water, got water from
Speaker 3: their well or the local stream, or by throwing a
Speaker 3: virgin into a volcano so it would rain. It was
Speaker 3: a perfect system for water. Bottles started to become popular
Speaker 3: in the eighties, mainly for health reasons. In nineteen eighty six,
Speaker 3: the EPA warned Americans that their tapwater it might be
Speaker 3: turning them into number two pencils. This might sound familiar
Speaker 3: to you if you grew up in the eighties or
Speaker 3: in Jackson, Mississippi. Last week and then marketers smelled money
Speaker 3: and soon bottled water wasn't just about health, but a
Speaker 3: whole healthy sexual lifestyle.
Speaker 1: Keep your body at its peak.
Speaker 2: Drinking avion pure avion spring water from a French house.
Speaker 2: It's refreshing, it's natural, and it doesn't have one single calorie.
Speaker 1: Important.
Speaker 4: It goes with good food.
Speaker 1: That's what I drink instead of a content. It's what
Speaker 1: I drink instead of a cook too.
Speaker 3: Sure, but you can just say you've got DUI's all right,
Speaker 3: we've all got duiy's look.
Speaker 1: Props to these water companies.
Speaker 3: They turned water into something sexy as opposed to something
Speaker 3: you just need to survive.
Speaker 1: These ads were basically.
Speaker 9: Like oxygen, it really helps me lay pipe.
Speaker 3: So fast forward to today, Thank you great performance. So
Speaker 3: fast forward to today, and the average American drinks upwards
Speaker 3: to one hundred and sixty seven bottles a year, usually
Speaker 3: right before a long haul flight when I'm in the
Speaker 3: aisle seat. Hey, just be an adult and wear a
Speaker 3: diaper like the rest of us. Now you might be asking,
Speaker 3: where does all that water come from the ocean?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I tried that once, I got so sick. In reality,
Speaker 3: in order to get bottled water to the masses, water
Speaker 3: companies like Nestleie often suck up water from public lands
Speaker 3: for little to no cost. It's not awesome, right, we
Speaker 3: love it when multinational conglomerates find success. The problem is
Speaker 3: this creates a massive environmental impact. When these companies are
Speaker 3: called out for it, they come up with explanations like this.
Speaker 7: Nelson Switzer is Naslie Water's chief sustainability officer.
Speaker 1: Some people say, this is the people's water. Is it
Speaker 1: fair that you guys make so much money off of it?
Speaker 7: Neslie has water rights, of course in this area. From
Speaker 7: a legal standpoint, of course, it's fair. From a perception standpoint,
Speaker 7: I understand why people are asking that question. But water
Speaker 7: belongs to no one.
Speaker 3: Oh really, really, NASTI, water belongs to no one. That's
Speaker 3: the dumbest thing anyone has ever said about water. And
Speaker 3: keep in mind Gwyneth Paltrow once said that you can
Speaker 3: hurt water's feelings by yelling at it. If water really
Speaker 3: belongs to no one, then why can't I go swimming
Speaker 3: in my neighbor Eric's coy pond?
Speaker 1: Why did it scare his kids? Per the police report.
Speaker 3: But sucking up all the fresh water is just the
Speaker 3: beginning of our problems. Making the bottles and shipping them
Speaker 3: to you uses seventeen million barrels of oil a year.
Speaker 3: That's enough oil to fill one million cars for a
Speaker 3: whole year, or grease up Don Junior for one week
Speaker 3: ANFD plus. Most bottles just get thrown in the trash.
Speaker 3: Oh but I recycle it, okay, thanks for putting it
Speaker 3: in the green bin before they send it to Malaysia
Speaker 3: where they put it in the trash there. And the
Speaker 3: stupidest part is it's totally almost unnecessary. The majority of
Speaker 3: the country has access to safe, free tapwater. We're transporting
Speaker 3: a product from three thousand miles away that we can
Speaker 3: get from our kitchens. In fact, most of the bottle
Speaker 3: water we drink is literally tapwater, including aquafina and desani.
Speaker 3: That's right, Dasani just takes tapwater, adds fart smell to it,
Speaker 3: and that's how they make it. And maybe you buy
Speaker 3: natural spring water because it's healthier, but it turns out
Speaker 3: not always. In fact, the study of Fiji water found
Speaker 3: that it has more arsenic than tapwater from Cleveland. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you thought bottled water was safer, turns out it's slowly
Speaker 3: poisoning you like a wife on dateline. So, considering that
Speaker 3: tap water is good enough for the vast majority of us,
Speaker 3: the solution to the huge environmental problems of bottled water
Speaker 3: is obvious.
Speaker 1: Boom problem for all.
Speaker 3: Using a refillable water bottle cuts down on fossil fuels,
Speaker 3: creates less waste, and could even save you sixteen thousand
Speaker 3: dollars over its lifetime. That's enough to pay for a
Speaker 3: luxury vacation or sixteen shitty vacations. So, long story short,
Speaker 3: this is like the easiest choice in the history of
Speaker 3: no brainers. If everyone in the United States just went
Speaker 3: with the reuse of water bottles, we'd save money, solve
Speaker 3: an environmental crisis, And the best part of that is
Speaker 3: then that's one less environmental crisis you'd have to hear
Speaker 3: people like me bitching about.
Speaker 1: You probably already have nine of these.
Speaker 3: Open a cabinet in your kitchen and one will fall
Speaker 3: on you, and tomorrow start using it.
Speaker 1: That's how you save the plane. All right.
Speaker 3: When we come back, the incredible singer Rhiannon Giddins will
Speaker 3: be joining me on the show, so don't go away.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest to note as.
Speaker 3: An award winning singer, composer and instrumentalist whose new album
Speaker 3: is called You're the One. Please welcome Rhiannon Giddons.
Speaker 1: Like great, they're great, They're great. Thank you for being here,
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me, Thank you for chatting with us.
Speaker 3: You are a MacArthur Genius Award winner, Grammy winner, Pulitzer
Speaker 3: Prize winner. You studied opera in college. But this is
Speaker 3: what really got me. You write all your music with
Speaker 3: the banjo.
Speaker 1: I write a lot of.
Speaker 6: My music of the band with banjo and voice and
Speaker 6: fiddle and whatever instrument I have around.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when I think of the banjo, and correct me
Speaker 3: on this, but when I think of the banjo, I
Speaker 3: know you will. I picture that scene in Deliverance and
Speaker 3: it's down in the South and it's scary, and it's
Speaker 3: Is that an accurate depiction of the banjo?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 6: And that's part of the problem is that media has
Speaker 6: really warped our idea of how American music came to be.
Speaker 6: The banjo is an African derived instrument was invented by
Speaker 6: people of the African diaspora and the Caribbean and African
Speaker 6: American people are co creators of old time and what
Speaker 6: became bluegrass music and country music. And it's only in
Speaker 6: the nineteen yes, thank you.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but it's you know, it's really in the nineteen
Speaker 10: early nineteen hundreds and twenties when the media and how
Speaker 10: we segregated American music with into.
Speaker 6: These different buckets in order to sell it. It just
Speaker 6: changed our perception and we've lost a lot of our history.
Speaker 6: And so that's been a drive of mine for a
Speaker 6: really long time. Is to change is to change that?
Speaker 1: Can I be ignorant for a second?
Speaker 3: If you like a guitar versus a banjo, I mean,
Speaker 3: I know they look different, but what's the what is
Speaker 3: the difference?
Speaker 1: I how.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Well they come from different I mean, look to
Speaker 6: break it down, the banjo really is. It is descended
Speaker 6: from a lot of different West African loot instruments and
Speaker 6: there's a percussive mode about it. There's on a lot
Speaker 6: of banjos, there's five strings, a little short string which
Speaker 6: is a drone string, which means it's in one key
Speaker 6: and it's so it's very different. And actually the banjo
Speaker 6: was more popular than the guitar for a long time
Speaker 6: in America. The guitar is a relative latecomer. So it's
Speaker 6: kind of like the banjo is like our indigenous instrument.
Speaker 6: You know, if you are also you have to remember
Speaker 6: all the indigenous instruments with indigenous people. We were here,
Speaker 6: you know, before a lot of people came. But in
Speaker 6: terms of America as a nation state, yes, I mean,
Speaker 6: but this is they're still here. By the way, they're
Speaker 6: still here, but in America as a nation state called
Speaker 6: a colonial state. Whatever. The banjo is. This this co
Speaker 6: creation between different cultures of working class poor people that
Speaker 6: you know made it and it's unique.
Speaker 3: Thank you for answering that question. I know, is you know,
Speaker 3: appeasing my question.
Speaker 6: That's my job.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, opera, you're in town to accept the Politzer
Speaker 3: for this opera called Omar about an enslaved African Muslim
Speaker 3: that you took the memoirs and converted into an opera.
Speaker 1: Explain this, I mean, we went from banjo to opera.
Speaker 6: It's all just yeah, it's been really interesting because it
Speaker 6: was the opposite. I went to Oberlin learned opera, and
Speaker 6: then kind of got burnt out and went down in
Speaker 6: North Carolina where I'm from and learned the banjo, and
Speaker 6: then full circle came back. I was asked to write
Speaker 6: this opera about Omar and Ben said, who was a
Speaker 6: Senegalese Qoranic scholar at thirty seven sold into slavery. And
Speaker 6: it's just an incredible story because we're talking about like
Speaker 6: who gets to represent the American story, you know, and
Speaker 6: it's to complicate that narrative. It's all these different kinds
Speaker 6: of people who represent the American story. And he's went
Speaker 6: and his autobiography was written in Arabic while he was enslaved,
Speaker 6: and it's the only document of that kind that we
Speaker 6: know of in existence, and it's just a really special story.
Speaker 6: So I just feel amazingly overwhelmed by the fact that
Speaker 6: I got to make it with Michael Abels, my co composer,
Speaker 6: and that for the Spiletto Festival, and that it's been
Speaker 6: honored with a Pulitzer. It's just like it's a dream
Speaker 6: come true.
Speaker 1: That's great, that's awesome. Fasin, this is your latest album.
Speaker 1: It's great. I love this album cover. This is awesome.
Speaker 1: This album is a little more playful.
Speaker 3: That is that a good word to use totally than
Speaker 3: your previous albums.
Speaker 1: Was that an obvious choice for you? Yeah?
Speaker 6: I mean like, for the last fifteen years, I've been
Speaker 6: that girl at the party on a Friday night that
Speaker 6: you back away from. Man, you don't talk about slavery
Speaker 6: or the banjo or both, and I'm just like really
Speaker 6: not into it. And I just like I was kind
Speaker 6: of getting burned out and I just needed to change
Speaker 6: things up. And I had these songs I've been writing
Speaker 6: over fourteen years and just wanted to explore the other
Speaker 6: sides of my artistry on this album. Though there is
Speaker 6: one really important song. Well, you know, the other thing
Speaker 6: is that I'm forty six and this is the first
Speaker 6: original record I've ever like all original songs, right that
Speaker 6: I've made, And it's like my first sol album was
Speaker 6: when I was thirty six, and so it's kind of like,
Speaker 6: you do it on the time that it's time to
Speaker 6: do it, you know, you don't do it on anybody
Speaker 6: else's you know, you just like you take the opportunities
Speaker 6: as they come. So this was a really amazing project.
Speaker 6: With producer Jack Splash to just explore and to also say,
Speaker 6: bleep the categories, bleep the genres. Right, I'm just saving
Speaker 6: your guys the trouble later, you know, just like forget
Speaker 6: like what is blues and what is jazz and what
Speaker 6: is country?
Speaker 1: It's all the same thing.
Speaker 6: It's all coming from the same American well of cross
Speaker 6: cultural collaboration. So I was just like, yeah, put it
Speaker 6: in whatever box you want. It's just fun music, you know.
Speaker 1: I'm really inspired.
Speaker 3: I just had two acts that didn't clap once for me,
Speaker 3: I'm really inspired by what you just said because it
Speaker 3: feels like everything that I've looked at with your.
Speaker 1: Work has true integrity.
Speaker 3: But then we're also mixing in the commercialism of the industry,
Speaker 3: and as someone who's trying to be a comunic artist
Speaker 3: that make money and also stay authentic and make your
Speaker 3: work have integrity is near impossible.
Speaker 1: I've sold out, of course, But.
Speaker 3: Everyone wants to put you in a box. They want
Speaker 3: to tell you this, So this is your demo. You
Speaker 3: sell to these people and speak to them. How are
Speaker 3: you navigating that? How would you advise a younger artist
Speaker 3: to navigate that?
Speaker 6: It's really hard because it's antithetical to making art is
Speaker 6: the capitalistic system that we forced artists to work within.
Speaker 6: So we're all having compromises, we're all having to prad
Speaker 6: out where's our line? And so my line for a
Speaker 6: long time has been pretty far out. And it's like,
Speaker 6: I just want to tell these stories. And I've just
Speaker 6: been really lucky with the opportunities that I've gotten, and
Speaker 6: I stuck to my guns. I said, I'm doing what
Speaker 6: I need to do to make the world a slightly
Speaker 6: better place, or to add to the positive converse. And
Speaker 6: I come back around and here I am doing it
Speaker 6: exactly as I want and being you know, getting the
Speaker 6: MacArthur and being able to do so. I just I
Speaker 6: tell young people, you got to tell what is your
Speaker 6: story that you can tell that nobody else can tell,
Speaker 6: and get people around you who believe in you and
Speaker 6: your story and who aren't out for what money you
Speaker 6: can make them. And so I'm surrounded by an amazing
Speaker 6: team red Light Management, none such, who believed in me
Speaker 6: and I, you know, waiting for this record. They let
Speaker 6: me do projects that I really felt, you know, I
Speaker 6: was really felt passionate about. And so it's really a
Speaker 6: give and a take and you're part of a team
Speaker 6: and you just have to have people around you who
Speaker 6: believe in you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the passion then comes out in that project.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean it's way better because you're enthusiastic.
Speaker 6: Well, this is it, and this is what people are
Speaker 6: actually looking for. They might say they're looking for something else,
Speaker 6: but they're looking for that energy, that brightness, that passion,
Speaker 6: which you can only get when you're following your arrow,
Speaker 6: you know, and not trying to be what other people
Speaker 6: want you to be. And you see that a lot
Speaker 6: in the industry, and I was just like, you just
Speaker 6: got to do you.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that. I love that.
Speaker 3: Speaking of the story that inspired you, the story of
Speaker 3: Khalif Browder and the song that you're going to sing
Speaker 3: for us called Another Wasted Life, you've teamed up with
Speaker 3: the Pennsylvania Innocence Projects, tell me how this story inspired you.
Speaker 6: Well, I, you know, this was a few years ago
Speaker 6: and I heard about the story of Kliff Browder who
Speaker 6: was incarcerated. You know, he was an innocent teenager incarcerated
Speaker 6: for three years and two of those were in solitary confinement,
Speaker 6: which is horrific. And when he was released finally exonerated
Speaker 6: because he was innocent. I just keep repeating that he
Speaker 6: couldn't really readjust to the outside world, and he committed
Speaker 6: suicide and yes, And I was just like, I couldn't
Speaker 6: contain my anger at the waste of this young man's life,
Speaker 6: what we don't get of him. So I wrote this song,
Speaker 6: I put it away, and then when this album came,
Speaker 6: you know, came around the idea of this, I was like,
Speaker 6: this needs to be a centerpiece of this because this
Speaker 6: is this is what I actually do. This has been
Speaker 6: really fun, Yeah, but another waste of life is what
Speaker 6: I do. And so we reached out to the Pennsylvania
Speaker 6: Innocence Project because it's a huge problem. People aren't aware
Speaker 6: of how many innocent men are sitting in jail, and
Speaker 6: men and women sitting behind bars because somebody wanted to
Speaker 6: close the case, wrong place, wrong time, witnesses telling you know,
Speaker 6: being intimidated and telling.
Speaker 3: Lies, and it's so easy to just forget about it.
Speaker 1: This is it. It's so easy to forget about it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And the thing is, it's like, so we're working
Speaker 6: with a lot of edocence projects, but we especially teamed
Speaker 6: up with a Pennsylvania Innocence project, and we made a
Speaker 6: video involving twenty two exonerated men who between the twenty
Speaker 6: two of them spent five hundred years in prison. Because
Speaker 6: what people don't understand is that once you are in,
Speaker 6: it's really hard to let you out because the system
Speaker 6: is not geared to letting people out, right, So even
Speaker 6: if you were proven innocent, like Chester Holman at twenty
Speaker 6: one was convicted of murder and they finally proved him
Speaker 6: innocent and it took fourteen years, fourteen more years to
Speaker 6: get him out of prison. He was in prison for
Speaker 6: twenty eight years for a crime that he did not commit. Right,
Speaker 6: So it's like, and all of these guys who participated
Speaker 6: in the video that I made with him and whose
Speaker 6: images you'll see, they are all doing it because of
Speaker 6: the guys who are still inside, you know, because there's
Speaker 6: so many. And they said they're sitting there like in cages,
Speaker 6: like with no hope because it's so difficult to get out.
Speaker 6: So organizations like the Pennsylvania Innocence Project need resources, they
Speaker 6: need money, they need support because getting them out is
Speaker 6: actually just the first step that's incredibly hard, and then
Speaker 6: they need resources, you know, to reintegrate and so It's
Speaker 6: been a really amazing partnership to work with them, because
Speaker 6: it's like, not everybody. We all don't do things on
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