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Speaker 1: Elon Musk is putting Ukraine on his family plan, dun
Speaker 1: Say Sloan is going full and Reggaeton and herschel Walker
Speaker 1: joins the paw Patrol. Plus Iraqi war whistleblower Chelsea Manning
Speaker 1: is our guest tonight. So let's do this people. Let's
Speaker 1: come straight into today's headlines, all right, everybody. Before we
Speaker 1: get into the big stories, let's catch up on a
Speaker 1: few other things going on in the world. Starting with
Speaker 1: some health news. The FDA has announced that there is
Speaker 1: a nationwide shortage of adderall so if you don't have
Speaker 1: a genuine need for it, please save it for anyone
Speaker 1: who has a legitimate prescription. And if you do have
Speaker 1: a prescription, now is the time to sell that. School
Speaker 1: kids catching make that money. In international news, the superstar
Speaker 1: K pop band BTS has announced that its members will
Speaker 1: soon begin reporting for mandatory service in the South Korean military. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is great news for South Korea because the army
Speaker 1: is basically unstoppable. Now there's no army in the world.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take a shot at these guys. Are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? Who's gonna be stupid enough to take a shot?
Speaker 1: Everyone's a fan. Enemy soldiers are gonna be like, I
Speaker 1: just got stand by Jim. This is the last best
Speaker 1: day of my life. Oh. In tech news, Kanye West
Speaker 1: announced today that he is going to buy the right
Speaker 1: wing social media platform Paula because quote, he wants to
Speaker 1: make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves.
Speaker 1: And thank god, because I've been waiting to hear Kanye
Speaker 1: is unfiltered thoughts and things. You just never get to
Speaker 1: hear that. You you gotta gotta hear of anything else
Speaker 1: to say, So shy, so shy. All right, let's move
Speaker 1: on to some of the biggest stories of the day.
Speaker 1: Starting as we so often do with Donald Trump. And
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. When Trump is in
Speaker 1: the news, it's usually because he was caught doing more crimes,
Speaker 1: but this time it's also because of that. The man
Speaker 1: loves to crime. What can I say? So let's find
Speaker 1: out about his latest one in our ongoing segment, America's
Speaker 1: Most Tremendously Wanted. Do you very remember that? After he
Speaker 1: left the White House, Trump creates his own social media
Speaker 1: app called truth Social, which is basically just Twitter up
Speaker 1: but for white supremacists. And before you say, wait, aren't
Speaker 1: the white supremacist already on Twitter? Yes, but on truth
Speaker 1: Social they're verified now believe it or not. Believe it
Speaker 1: or not. There might also be a dock side to
Speaker 1: truth Social. A whistleblower is now accusing former President Trump's
Speaker 1: social media company of violating federal securities laws. Will Wilkerson
Speaker 1: is a former executive at Trump Media and Technology Group,
Speaker 1: which launched the truth Social platform. He tells The Washington
Speaker 1: Post the Trump's company tried to raise capital by making
Speaker 1: fraudulent misrepresentations about its finances. The SEC is now investigating.
Speaker 1: The co founder told The Washington Post the former president
Speaker 1: asked one executive to relinquish his shares in the company
Speaker 1: to former First Lady Milannia Trump, and had him removed
Speaker 1: from the board of directors when he refused what Donald
Speaker 1: true social media platform was reportedly engaged in shady financial gimmicks.
Speaker 1: How it's called truth Social. I don't know what to
Speaker 1: believe anymore, you know. One of the most interesting allegations
Speaker 1: is that he tried to bully one of his board
Speaker 1: members into giving his shares to Milannia, which is just
Speaker 1: so romantic. Yeah, ladies, find you a man who will
Speaker 1: commit securities vote for you? Are you kidding? You have
Speaker 1: to admit the shares in truth Social are a weird gift.
Speaker 1: You know. It almost sounds like Trump didn't remember until
Speaker 1: the last minute. It was just like, of course, I
Speaker 1: remembered your birthday, Millennia, I got you. I got truth Socials. Surprise, surprise,
Speaker 1: truly love generally and also the time I'm wearing. The
Speaker 1: funny thing is truth Social is such a failure of
Speaker 1: a company that she probably didn't even want the shares.
Speaker 1: You know. It's almost like when your kids give you
Speaker 1: that that gift, but it's just like a piece of
Speaker 1: macaroni are for your birthday. You know, she was probably
Speaker 1: just like, oh so cute. Do you think this is
Speaker 1: worth something? Thank you Donald? Now, just to be clear,
Speaker 1: Just to be clear, though, I am totally on Trump's
Speaker 1: side in the story. Yeah, yeah. It's if you go
Speaker 1: into business with Donald Trump and you are surprised that
Speaker 1: you got scammed, that's on you. What were you thinking? Well,
Speaker 1: I know the last guy that Trump worked almost got
Speaker 1: hanged by an angry mob. But I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: turn out fine. I don't know what can go wrong.
Speaker 1: I never walking go wrong. So let's move on from
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. So this year's hot new Mini Trump, Herschel Walker,
Speaker 1: Georgia Senate candidates and closed captionings Worst Nightmare. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of controversies swirling around Walker, his attack on
Speaker 1: absentee parents despite being one, his opposition to abortion despite
Speaker 1: allegedly paying for one, his attempts to become a senator
Speaker 1: despite not knowing how many states America has, and then
Speaker 1: his first debates over the weekend. Walker tried to clear
Speaker 1: up one controversy with a little prop comedy. At a
Speaker 1: debate Friday night, Herschel Walker responded to accusations that he
Speaker 1: has pretended to be a police officer by flashing what
Speaker 1: appeared to be a fake badge, and you know what's
Speaker 1: so funny? I am with many. In a new interview,
Speaker 1: the former football star says the badge is real. He
Speaker 1: says he got it from the sheriff of Johnson County.
Speaker 1: Walker clarified it's an honorary badge. The National Sheriff's Association
Speaker 1: said an honorary badge, quote is for the trophy case.
Speaker 1: Why make the decision? You know, I don't know what's
Speaker 1: crazy in the story, the fact that this man lied
Speaker 1: about being in law enforcements, or the fact that he
Speaker 1: pulled out a fake badge during a debate, during a debate,
Speaker 1: all the fact that after the Sheriff's Association said that
Speaker 1: his badge is just an honorary one, he said, no,
Speaker 1: they're wrong, that's only wrong. That's like, it almost makes
Speaker 1: me wonder how many people have Usial Walker arrested? Huh?
Speaker 1: Is it someone locked up in his basement right now?
Speaker 1: Who's just like, is this a real present? There's a
Speaker 1: foodball table in here. He's like, it's an honorary prison.
Speaker 1: Does he treat every symbolic object like this? People say
Speaker 1: I'm an absentee father, But if that were true, why
Speaker 1: would I have this world's best dad mug huh not
Speaker 1: okay dad, not a good dad, world's best dad. That's official.
Speaker 1: In fact, I have seven of the must to prove it,
Speaker 1: and some I haven't even received yet. You know, the
Speaker 1: saddest part of the story is that there are people
Speaker 1: who are gonna believe that herschel Walker was in law
Speaker 1: enforcement because he pulled out this match. This is something
Speaker 1: I've learned in America. People see it, they believe it.
Speaker 1: It's the same way there were people who believed that
Speaker 1: Trump actually did step away from his company just because
Speaker 1: he posed next to a stack of empty folders like
Speaker 1: he's lying. People like, why would he be lying? He's
Speaker 1: standing next to empty folders? What would he standing next
Speaker 1: to that? Even wasn't true? Are you next to empty folders? No,
Speaker 1: you're not. But it's honorary like Tata Swift Winstance got
Speaker 1: an honorary doctorate from n y U this year, but
Speaker 1: you don't see her in the operating room, like, well,
Speaker 1: killed another one. Hi, Let's get lunch and try again later. Yes,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll try brains next time stead of hot ah.
Speaker 1: I will say. The one upside of this whole story, though,
Speaker 1: is there is some good news because this means that
Speaker 1: Georgia votes don't even need to elect herschel Walker senator
Speaker 1: than you just give him a certificate that says honorary Senator.
Speaker 1: You won't know the difference. Let's move on to some
Speaker 1: criminal justice news. Right now, a right wing militia member
Speaker 1: named Paul Vella is on trial for hatching a plot
Speaker 1: back in to kidnap the governor of Michigan, which means
Speaker 1: every day the jurors have to look at a man
Speaker 1: accused of an evil, heinous crime. Just imagine that every
Speaker 1: day staring into those eyes. Are you turned on? No?
Speaker 1: Because apparently someone was well. A juror has been dismissed
Speaker 1: from the trial three men in connection with the plot
Speaker 1: to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. She was dismissed by
Speaker 1: the judge on Friday after attorneys accused her of flirting
Speaker 1: with one of the defendants. Now, the flirtatious behavior was
Speaker 1: described as non verbal communication in the form of eye
Speaker 1: contact and smiles between the juror and defendant Paul Bellar.
Speaker 1: While the prosecutor originally pointed out the conduct, several others,
Speaker 1: including Bellar's attorney, stated that they had seen interactions between
Speaker 1: the two. The judge dismissed the juror out of an
Speaker 1: abundance of caution. God damn. First of all, congrats to
Speaker 1: this woman for finding a new way to get out
Speaker 1: of jury duty. Truly an inspiration for a soul. But
Speaker 1: I have to say, I have to say I'm kind
Speaker 1: of sad that they kicked off the case. Think of
Speaker 1: think of how great it would have been when they
Speaker 1: read the verdict. We the jury sentenced the defendant of
Speaker 1: life with me. I guess the real liston here is
Speaker 1: that bad boys stay winning. This guy is literally on
Speaker 1: trial for trying to kidnap the governor. Huh, and he's
Speaker 1: still getting love. It's always like this, every famous criminal has.
Speaker 1: All these groupies are like, is there a Mrs Serial Killer? Oh?
Speaker 1: There was, but you chopped her into little pieces, so
Speaker 1: you're single now. But I would like to know how
Speaker 1: this happened. How did this happen? Because when you report
Speaker 1: for jewry duty in America, they make you watch a
Speaker 1: video that expressly tells you what you should and shouldn't do.
Speaker 1: Lady whoever, while performing the sacred civic duty is important
Speaker 1: to avoid doing the following things. Reading about the case
Speaker 1: in the news, going like this to the defendant, going
Speaker 1: like this to the defenders, going like this to the defendants,
Speaker 1: thank you for your service, and please don't try to
Speaker 1: smash Everyone watches that video. How did that happen? Alright? Finally,
Speaker 1: that's ah the latest news in Russia's war with Ukraine.
Speaker 1: If you've been following the war, you know that almost
Speaker 1: everybody has been helping Ukraine fights off the world's worst
Speaker 1: botox customer America sending weapons, the e U s sending
Speaker 1: financial assistance. England is sending Prince Andrew not to help,
Speaker 1: they just want to get rid of him. But it
Speaker 1: may surprise you to know who has been giving Ukraine
Speaker 1: the internet service and how close it recently came to
Speaker 1: going away. Elon Musk reversing course, the billionaire now says
Speaker 1: his SpaceX company will continue to fund Ukraine's critical satellite service.
Speaker 1: SpaceX is Starlink internet service has been a vital source
Speaker 1: of communication for the Ukrainian military during its war with Russia.
Speaker 1: The reversal coming after exclusive CNN reporting that SpaceX sent
Speaker 1: a letter to the Pentagon warning that it may stop
Speaker 1: funding the service unless the U. S. Military kicks in
Speaker 1: tens of millions of dollars each month, must tweeting this weekend?
Speaker 1: The hell with it? Even though Starlink is still losing
Speaker 1: money and other company these are getting billions of taxpayer money.
Speaker 1: We'll just keep funding the Ukraine government for free. You know,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk is the only person who can do a
Speaker 1: good thing, but in the bitchiest way possible. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just like, guess I'll just keep helping Ukraine for free.
Speaker 1: Like I'm not gonna even try to tell Elon Musk
Speaker 1: how to use his money, but I will tell you this, Elon,
Speaker 1: this is not how you get remembered as an inspiring
Speaker 1: figure in history. All Right, you're doing a good thing,
Speaker 1: but then you're saying it like that. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: if Martin Luther King Junior had this attitude when he
Speaker 1: was trying to do his good I have a dream,
Speaker 1: I guess because I don't see nobody else on in
Speaker 1: a dream, so I guess that's on me. I gotta
Speaker 1: sleep twenty hours a day because these bitch asses don't
Speaker 1: want to come up with dreams of their own. People
Speaker 1: be like Martin, you want to go to the club,
Speaker 1: but I can't. I gotta go home to sleep because
Speaker 1: I gotta have a dream. That's some bullshit, but I
Speaker 1: guess I gotta do it anyway, it wouldn't be the same.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you what I think happened here? What
Speaker 1: I think happened here is Elon Musk saw an opportunity
Speaker 1: to be the good guy and make a lot of money,
Speaker 1: give the Ukrainians internets. But then over time have the
Speaker 1: American government step in and pick up the tab. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but because they said no, now he's stuck. He is
Speaker 1: keep losing money or be the asshole who cut off
Speaker 1: Ukraine's Internet. And I know some people think Elon is evil,
Speaker 1: but he's not cable company evil. Come on, And I
Speaker 1: actually get Elon's frustration because think about it. Think about it.
Speaker 1: Weapons manufacturers on donating missiles to Ukraine. The US government
Speaker 1: is paying them, so Elon is going, well, why shouldn't
Speaker 1: I get paid? And also, like everyone else, I'm sure
Speaker 1: Elon didn't expect the war to go on for this long.
Speaker 1: You know. It's sort of like when you hold the
Speaker 1: door open for someone, right, but then other people keep
Speaker 1: walking through the door, so you're holding the door for
Speaker 1: twenty minutes and finally you let go and then it
Speaker 1: slams some old lady in the face. You're like, are
Speaker 1: you broke by No? And then your buss runs off.
Speaker 1: He's like you're fired, and you're like, I don't even
Speaker 1: walk here. He's like, not with that attitude, you don't.
Speaker 1: Now you're an asshole and you're unemployed just because you
Speaker 1: were trying to be nice. All right, that's it for
Speaker 1: the headlines. But before we go to a quick break,
Speaker 1: let's check it on the stock market without finance expert
Speaker 1: Michael cost to everybody, but to see you my fake
Speaker 1: Monday markets. What is happening in the market today. I'm
Speaker 1: crushing it. I mean I am crushing it like a
Speaker 1: nineteen year old me used to crush adderall pills getting
Speaker 1: ready for the big party I wasn't invited to. But
Speaker 1: all right, so also got a hot tip for you. Okay. Now,
Speaker 1: the big financial news today is that Albertson's has been
Speaker 1: acquired by Kroger and if this deal goes through, it
Speaker 1: will become the second biggest grocery chain in America, right
Speaker 1: after Walmart. Okay, but before we get to that, I
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about that that flirting juror
Speaker 1: you know in Michigan. Yeah, everyone says she's flirt I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's not flirting. You know, she's just being nice people.
Speaker 1: People in New York thinks someone's flirting just because they
Speaker 1: have even pushed you down the stairs. Okay, she's just
Speaker 1: being Midwest nice. I'm from Michigan. Okay, I know about
Speaker 1: I thinking, all right, what's she doing this? You know,
Speaker 1: what do you do? What do you do? You see
Speaker 1: how good I am at? I thinking? Okay, Costa gets
Speaker 1: the girl's eyes wet all right, which which technically is crying,
Speaker 1: but it's a very it's a moist eye. Look, Kroger,
Speaker 1: let's get to Roger. Kroger bought Albertson's for two point
Speaker 1: six billion, all right. Now that's before you factor in
Speaker 1: any coupons they may have had. But look this big
Speaker 1: jumper right here. This is not when Kroger actually acquired Albertson's,
Speaker 1: in my expert opinion, this is when Albertson's implemented self
Speaker 1: check out. Okay, Now, this saved them a lot of
Speaker 1: labor costs, and that's why the value shot up. But
Speaker 1: what all grocery stores don't realizes that self checkout. It's
Speaker 1: really just inviting us to steal, isn't it. You know?
Speaker 1: And it takes people some time to figure that out,
Speaker 1: but when they do, it hurts profits. And that's what
Speaker 1: you start to see right here, I mean self check out.
Speaker 1: What I gotta know what type of mushroom this is? Now?
Speaker 1: I don't know. How about I just steal it, okay, Trevor.
Speaker 1: I had a bushel of carrots, okay, and it's not
Speaker 1: coming up, and I'm not coming up, and then it's like,
Speaker 1: what's the protuce number. I don't know the protus number.
Speaker 1: So now I'm spelling it out on the keypack carrots
Speaker 1: k A R r ot and it's still not coming up.
Speaker 1: It's just easier if I steal it, okay. I used
Speaker 1: to work at a grocery store. I did. I was
Speaker 1: in charge of stalking the orange juice, but I got fired.
Speaker 1: I couldn't concentrate. Actually, thank you, but actually actually I
Speaker 1: threw a candle up at an old lady. I thought
Speaker 1: she was stealing. So look, look, look everybody, look this
Speaker 1: supermarket merger. It's great news. Everyone's worried about the price
Speaker 1: of groceries. But now there's gonna be less competition, and
Speaker 1: a giant corporation will have more power than ever to
Speaker 1: decide the price of food. And I'm sure they're going
Speaker 1: to do the right thing. Speaking of doing the right thing,
Speaker 1: musk with the internet in Ukraine. I love that he's
Speaker 1: helping you, crage. This is so cool. Everyone's helping out.
Speaker 1: The US is sending weapons, Europe is sending money, Trevor,
Speaker 1: I assume Africa sending some of your child soldiers or oh,
Speaker 1: stop stop, I can make that joke. I'm an honorary
Speaker 1: African bad all right. Yeah, the cops out here, that's
Speaker 1: probably gonna what the African badger looks like. Okay, I
Speaker 1: got a hot tip. I got a hot tip. If
Speaker 1: here's my hot tip. If you work at a grocery
Speaker 1: store and you throw a cantaloupe at an old lady,
Speaker 1: you have to be a hundred percent shirting that she
Speaker 1: was stealing. All right, now back to you, Trevor, my
Speaker 1: fellow African. But it's not an official badge. Use that
Speaker 1: in the street. Start when we come back, don't said slow.
Speaker 1: I got to the club, so don't go away. Welco
Speaker 1: about two day to show. You know. Every now and
Speaker 1: then do we ask dul Say Sloan to report on
Speaker 1: the latest news, but dul Say just talks about what
Speaker 1: she wants to talk about. In another episode of dul
Speaker 1: Saying Hello, brand Hispetic Heritage months just wrapped up. But
Speaker 1: before we go, I want to talk about reggaeton. And
Speaker 1: if you don't know what it is, you've probably heard
Speaker 1: the unmistakable beat of reggaeton before, especially if you have
Speaker 1: upstairs neighbors. Can you keep it down up there? I
Speaker 1: will not like this song. The rest of the New
Speaker 1: to go back as far as the seventies and as
Speaker 1: far as south as Panama. It could have started further south,
Speaker 1: but the beast are so big they don't fit to
Speaker 1: the canal. It was here in the nineteen eighties when
Speaker 1: music artists started playing Spanish lyrics over Jamaican dance hall songs,
Speaker 1: creating a new sound of reggae. And that's Spaniards. And honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm glad I wasn't there because watching Spanish words and
Speaker 1: dance hall music timing together for the first time, not
Speaker 1: even two sexty to handle, there's no way you didn't
Speaker 1: leave that dance floor too pregnant. It's like being the
Speaker 1: Jelly and the Diego Lunar and Bad Bunny Sandwich, Oh Delicious.
Speaker 1: Two of reggae tones earliest pioneers were Leonardo and had
Speaker 1: Got the Funk. Franco would later be known as El
Speaker 1: Hannad and even looked like if the Fresh Prince got
Speaker 1: sent to military school instead of Bellair. These two and
Speaker 1: other artists grew their new sounds like giving taps to
Speaker 1: bus drivers who would bump their music, especially the way
Speaker 1: rappers in Atlanta give their singles the strip club DJ's,
Speaker 1: except in this case, you hope people jam out to
Speaker 1: your music while running late for work in La Who
Speaker 1: to New York City, where he began spreading early reggaeton
Speaker 1: in the club. It almostn't happen, though, because while he
Speaker 1: was in New York, El Henad I also pursued a
Speaker 1: degree in business administration in an effort to get a
Speaker 1: real job. You have to wonder what if that path
Speaker 1: had worked out. He beat an office going er instant. Y'all, Atlanta,
Speaker 1: I was speaking, how might I direct your call? Thankfully
Speaker 1: he was stuck back into music, hosting parties and performing
Speaker 1: in He put out the song through Boom Boom, a
Speaker 1: tribute to the power of the Past, and El Hanado's
Speaker 1: cover Blew Up. It was a hit in Mainland America
Speaker 1: in Puerto Rico and spread to Central and South America.
Speaker 1: The music was spreading so fast it would have made
Speaker 1: Covid Joe. Not too far from Brooklyn on Long Island,
Speaker 1: the defining beat a reggaeton the Damn Bot rhythm, popularized
Speaker 1: by Panamanian rapper Nandel Boom. The sound was originally created
Speaker 1: by Jamaica dance hall musician Chap Range, who looks like
Speaker 1: a blade, became a DJ instead of fighting vampires. From there,
Speaker 1: the sound moved to different Long Island where and here's
Speaker 1: where all the Panamanian and New York ingredients finally mixed
Speaker 1: together to make something special like Sofrito for your ears.
Speaker 1: It took over at the club called The Noise, founded
Speaker 1: by the Quincy Jones and reggaeton DJ Negro. He had
Speaker 1: been selling hot dogs on the street to get by
Speaker 1: and then had an idea to start a club. It
Speaker 1: was there that the genre became known as l underground
Speaker 1: and created a whole new generation of artists like Evy Queen.
Speaker 1: They also popularized reggaetones on famous dance that Ale. I
Speaker 1: know this dance, this is just me and two thous five.
Speaker 1: This is the dance you do when you don't want
Speaker 1: to pay for drinks. At one point, Puerto Rico's government
Speaker 1: crackdown on ill underground and tried to regulate the lyrics
Speaker 1: em Betty Oo dance moves, but all that did was
Speaker 1: make l underground more popular. This was like when your
Speaker 1: parents tell you how to date somebody, but then that
Speaker 1: person gets asked. I'm sorry, mama, you make some good points,
Speaker 1: but I can watch clothes off his stomach. Later, the
Speaker 1: genre exploded all over a stream with the release of
Speaker 1: the hit Big Godslina by Daddy Yankee in two thousand four,
Speaker 1: and Daddy Yankee was everywhere MTV, Time, Magazine, even the
Speaker 1: campaign trail. I just want to say thank you, Daddy
Speaker 1: yank kid. That's right. You know a genre is big
Speaker 1: When the old white Republicans started calling for a little while,
Speaker 1: reggaeton was huge, but then record companies moved on and
Speaker 1: it disappeared in much of America, which basically means most
Speaker 1: American side. It didn't exist anymore. It was like a
Speaker 1: baby who falls Topeka Boo but was Latin ye. But
Speaker 1: even as America forgot about it, reggaton went through a
Speaker 1: reverse in Meda and Colombia, the city who recognized from Narcos.
Speaker 1: Colombian artists like Jay Balvin, Reykhan and Carol g gave
Speaker 1: reggaeton a new, more mainstream sound with lyrics that focus
Speaker 1: less on violence and more on sex and romance, like
Speaker 1: if neo became neo. It grew and grew in popularity
Speaker 1: until America caught on again with Seed That's right? Who
Speaker 1: is fun Seeing Daddy? Yankee took over the globe with Death.
Speaker 1: It was number one for sixteen weeks. This song was
Speaker 1: so popular even the racist we're learning to Spanish, come mo,
Speaker 1: say d s, go back to your own country. And
Speaker 1: since Death by reggae tone has kept its hold in America,
Speaker 1: which is great because this is a genre that is
Speaker 1: still evolving and becoming more inclusive. You know, it grew
Speaker 1: out of a rich Hispanic heritage of oh seriously that
Speaker 1: neighbor again? Hey, sorry about before, but can you actually
Speaker 1: turn it up? Everyone downstairs started dancing and I just
Speaker 1: want to keep the party going. Okay, I don't know
Speaker 1: how you got in here, but sure you tigning up? Please,
Speaker 1: thank you, no, thank you, You can get out now.
Speaker 1: Everybody all right, straight true because when we come back,
Speaker 1: chose to Mauting will be joining me right on the truck.
Speaker 1: You don't talk about to day. My guest as an
Speaker 1: American chins fancy activist and former U. S. Army intelligence
Speaker 1: analyst who disclosed unauthorized government documents during her service. She
Speaker 1: was convicted of twenty charges and sentenced to thirty five
Speaker 1: years in prison, which President Obama commuted in seventeen. She's
Speaker 1: here to tell her side of the story and talk
Speaker 1: about her new memoir Read Me Dot Text, which comes
Speaker 1: up tomorrow. Please welcome Chelsea Manning, charl Manning, Welcome to
Speaker 1: The Daily Show. They is going well, and you know,
Speaker 1: your book is one of those books that's, strangely enough,
Speaker 1: I felt like I had read because of how much
Speaker 1: you had been in the news, because of how how
Speaker 1: big your story has been in not just American media,
Speaker 1: but in you know, the telling of America's military operation.
Speaker 1: Let's let's start with I guess the inception of the
Speaker 1: idea to write a book after pulling off one of
Speaker 1: the largest intelligence leaks in American history. You were vilified,
Speaker 1: you served time, you were labeled as a traitor, and
Speaker 1: it felt like the story taped off over time. And
Speaker 1: now you've come back and you've reignited many of the
Speaker 1: conversations with this book. My question to you is why why? UM?
Speaker 1: I think that it's the fact that my own version
Speaker 1: of the story, my first draft of history, if you will, UM,
Speaker 1: hasn't been you know, talked about as much. I feel
Speaker 1: like there's been all the discussion of things that have
Speaker 1: happened around me and involving the milits terry, involving other personalities,
Speaker 1: like like President Obama, who commuted my sentence. But I
Speaker 1: feel like my like my story, my coming of age story,
Speaker 1: really UM, you know, for just trying to tell the
Speaker 1: story of how I became who I am today, UM
Speaker 1: has been kind of left out of the picture, and
Speaker 1: so I wanted to tell that story. And in many ways,
Speaker 1: you became a lightning rod and an idea because what
Speaker 1: you did shook the world. You know, you came out
Speaker 1: as a whistle blow up and you just I mean
Speaker 1: to name a few of the leaks and you'll add
Speaker 1: to them. I mean, it leaks about murders that the
Speaker 1: American military had committed and not told anybody about you know,
Speaker 1: you had told the world about collateral damage and how
Speaker 1: you know this wasn't what we thought it was and
Speaker 1: there were way more deaths than than had been previously reported.
Speaker 1: As I put it, the true face, the true reality
Speaker 1: of asymmetric century warfare, which is basically like how an occupation,
Speaker 1: how holding territory with a large occupying playing army during
Speaker 1: an insurgency actually plays out. It's it's not surgical, It's
Speaker 1: very very messy. What did you hope to achieve by
Speaker 1: by leaking the information? I wanted another person like me
Speaker 1: to feel as as informed as I did finally about
Speaker 1: the true reality. I mean, that's why I call it
Speaker 1: remade dot text, because that is the document. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what I said. And did you hope it would
Speaker 1: change what the U. S. Militry was doing in the
Speaker 1: Middle East? Or did you did you think it would
Speaker 1: shift public perception? The public discourse? I feel like is
Speaker 1: what I really wanted to impact. I feel like, at
Speaker 1: least if the public is informed, then at least, you know,
Speaker 1: like like being a do like being a doct like
Speaker 1: having a conversation with your doctor you have informed consent.
Speaker 1: I I just always assumed that you went straight too
Speaker 1: WEEKI leaks, I didn't know how hard you tried to
Speaker 1: get American media outlets to look at the information And
Speaker 1: why do you think they said no? And why do
Speaker 1: you think nobody got back to you? It was very difficult.
Speaker 1: So it's the technical different cultis um. You know, we
Speaker 1: didn't have the tools, like signal encryption wasn't widely adopted
Speaker 1: by traditional media outlets, um, and you know, trying to
Speaker 1: and I didn't trust the telephone system, right, it didn't
Speaker 1: trust email. And I had my reasons for that. UM.
Speaker 1: So I you know, trying to avoid that, but also
Speaker 1: trying to do a physical thing while I only have
Speaker 1: a limited amount of time and there was a blizzard.
Speaker 1: It was just very logistically difficult. And if any one
Speaker 1: thing as a you know, somebody asked me earlier today,
Speaker 1: like if any one thing had changed, like yeah, this
Speaker 1: would have never happened. Interesting, So you were trying to
Speaker 1: maintain I mean there was a point in the book
Speaker 1: where I talked about how um, I you know, or
Speaker 1: I was sitting at Starbucks and uploading the stuff and
Speaker 1: it wasn't working, and because of Starbucks Internet. It almost
Speaker 1: didn't happen. I will say that there are parts of
Speaker 1: the book that are almost comical unintentionally because you talk
Speaker 1: about copying what is seven fifty government files onto CDs
Speaker 1: and then you just labeled them. You just wrote band names, right,
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga. So I wanted to know when
Speaker 1: I was reading this, like did you write those artists
Speaker 1: because you assumed that military personnel would be like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's that's there's no harm pretty much, okay, So you
Speaker 1: think there were some answers where would have been like,
Speaker 1: I want to listen to what's on that CD? Is
Speaker 1: that way okay? Because it's really interesting. You have these CDs,
Speaker 1: you go to the Starbucks, you start uploading all of this.
Speaker 1: Was there ever a part of you that was afraid
Speaker 1: that you would compromise the US more than you would
Speaker 1: help it. I don't think so. And I say that
Speaker 1: because I knew this information. I worked with it every day.
Speaker 1: I mean, and you know, and I think about, like,
Speaker 1: you know, senior public officials, whenever they have access to
Speaker 1: this information, they don't understand it. I mean, it's our
Speaker 1: job to tell them, but you know, it's it's a
Speaker 1: question as to whether they love not the list or not.
Speaker 1: So you're basically explaining it to them, and then they're
Speaker 1: working off what you've told them. Maybe Wow, it depends
Speaker 1: on how they interpret it. I couldn't help reading through
Speaker 1: the book and wondering how much of your life has
Speaker 1: informed the latter part of your journey. You know, you
Speaker 1: weren't just famous for being one of the biggest whistle
Speaker 1: blows in American history. You also then became famous as
Speaker 1: somebody who transitioned at a time when the conversation was
Speaker 1: was really really you even speak about it in the book.
Speaker 1: Was there not a part of you that thought, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm dealing with my gender. I'm I'm dealing with a
Speaker 1: world that doesn't accept me the way I am. Why
Speaker 1: get involved in leaking military secrets? Maybe deal with one
Speaker 1: thing at a time. I didn't think of it like that.
Speaker 1: I thought, uh, you know this, this despite my background,
Speaker 1: despite everything else. It was just it was just so
Speaker 1: clear to me, Like it was just it was crystal
Speaker 1: clear that something had to be done. And um, and
Speaker 1: I just I you know, I, I mean, I was
Speaker 1: very young and I didn't And I think it's also
Speaker 1: important to remember that the consequences for this weren't clear, right,
Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna lose my job, which was
Speaker 1: a big deal. You can think you'd be sentenced to
Speaker 1: three decades, right, Uh, nobody had ever gone to prison
Speaker 1: before me. Do you think the American military is more
Speaker 1: honest now in its operations? Do you think you've shifted
Speaker 1: the paradigm even slightly? I think that obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: the context has changed. I mean, I look at the
Speaker 1: war in Ukraine, and I've always found it fascinating that
Speaker 1: as the Russians invaded Ukraine, I knew more about what's happened,
Speaker 1: what was happening in the uh, you know, from my
Speaker 1: laptop at home, than I would have known about what
Speaker 1: was going on in Iraq while I was actually deployed there.
Speaker 1: And that's interesting. Intelligence center like this is just the
Speaker 1: sheer fire hose of information that we received from every
Speaker 1: single different angle. And I actually think that it's shifted
Speaker 1: from not having access to information to having access to
Speaker 1: so much information that you can't filter out accurate from inaccurate,
Speaker 1: misinformation from disinformation and uh, and that this is going
Speaker 1: to be the main struggle that we have moving forward.
Speaker 1: And now I was I was really just like joy
Speaker 1: poured out of me for you when I found out
Speaker 1: that you now DJing as well. Yes, it's like a
Speaker 1: quin journey to be on. Yeah, I'm DJ my own
Speaker 1: I'm DJ and my own relief party. What do you play?
Speaker 1: What do I play? Elect trying dance music? Hyper? Oh?
Speaker 1: I love that? Okay, So it's not tay this with
Speaker 1: God God like none? Do you? That's my old Okay,
Speaker 1: you don't? Do you listen Blakey Tora? Okay, I like that. Well,
Speaker 1: congratulations on your journey. Thank you so much for journey
Speaker 1: on the show. And it's a really thanking book. Thank
Speaker 1: you for being there. Read me God Text comes out tomorrow,
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