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Speaker 2: host Michael Costa.
Speaker 3: Welcome, Welcome to The Daily Show.
Speaker 4: I'm Michael Costa. We have so much to talk about tonight.
Speaker 4: Rudy Giuliani wants to be your barista, Scarlett Johansson does
Speaker 4: not want to be your AI, and we find out
Speaker 4: why Kamala Harris talks like that. But first, some major
Speaker 4: developments from the Donald Trump trial, So let's get right
Speaker 4: into it. In another edition of America's Most tremendous We wanted.
Speaker 3: The whole thing is a scam.
Speaker 4: Big news today, the Trump trial is coming to an end,
Speaker 4: and just like Stormy Daniel said, it was over much
Speaker 4: more quickly than expected. And we've heard from so many
Speaker 4: people during this trial, this blonde blob, this other blob,
Speaker 4: this one blob with the mustache. You know, it's just
Speaker 4: too bad. No one's invented cameras yet. But we haven't
Speaker 4: heard from the biggest blob of them all, Donald Trump,
Speaker 4: who has been going around telling anybody who will listen
Speaker 4: that he is just itching to testify under oath.
Speaker 5: I would have no problem testified.
Speaker 3: I didn't do anything wrong with you.
Speaker 5: I'm testifying.
Speaker 3: I tell the truth. I mean, all I can do
Speaker 3: is tell the truth. Do you plan to testify in court?
Speaker 3: Probably so, I would like to. I mean I think so.
Speaker 6: Will you testify in your own defense?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely stand I would that. I look forward to it. Yes,
Speaker 3: right at the buzzer, Yes, but yes.
Speaker 4: Donald Trump has been saying for months how much he
Speaker 4: wants to testify.
Speaker 3: He's like, let's do it.
Speaker 4: Swear me in on that shiny book that Mike Pence
Speaker 4: is always blah blah b lying about. And after four
Speaker 4: weeks of trial, today it was finally time for Trump
Speaker 4: to tell his side of the story.
Speaker 3: So here we go, big guy. It's the opportunity you've
Speaker 3: been waiting for.
Speaker 8: The defense has rested, testimony has wrapped, and Donald Trump
Speaker 8: notably did not take the stand.
Speaker 4: What what what what? After talking such a big game,
Speaker 4: he's not testifying. So he's doing the opposite of what
Speaker 4: he told us he was gonna do over and over again.
Speaker 3: That's not that Donald Trump. I know, and I played.
Speaker 4: I played full contact hockey without a helmet this morning.
Speaker 4: But it's just so peculiar that outside the courtroom with
Speaker 4: his legal pads of notes, he just talks and talks
Speaker 4: and talks. But then if you ask him to walk
Speaker 4: just a few feet inside the courtroom and to swear
Speaker 4: to tell the truth under penalty of loss, suddenly he's
Speaker 4: afraid to speak.
Speaker 3: I mean, what's the difference? Is Is it the fluorescent lighting?
Speaker 4: I mean, I hate to even come to this conclusion,
Speaker 4: but is it possible that Donald Trump is full of shit?
Speaker 4: I mean, mister Trump, mister Trump, are you just full
Speaker 4: of shit?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: I really wanted that. Yeah, well we should believe him.
Speaker 4: That we should believe. Let's move on from Donald Trump
Speaker 4: to his morally and financially bankrupt former lawyer, Room Juliani.
Speaker 4: Last week he had an eightieth birthday party, and he
Speaker 4: got a little surprised present.
Speaker 9: Rue Giuliani was served with an indictment over the Arizona
Speaker 9: twenty twenty fake elector's scheme during his eightieth birthday party
Speaker 9: late Friday. Giuliani was served two hours after boasting on
Speaker 9: social media that he would evade charge us.
Speaker 3: Goddamn, I mean, served in his own birthday party. Can
Speaker 3: you imagine, you know, hey.
Speaker 4: Can someone take a picture of me taunting the Arizona court. Hey,
Speaker 4: how about you man in a suit and a badge
Speaker 4: at my birthday party that I've never seen before? And
Speaker 4: this indictment is on top of a one hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty million dollar defamation judgment against him. Rudy need Cashi
Speaker 4: all right, But luckily he's got a side hustle.
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Speaker 4: Wow, gentle on my stomach and chocolately, I mean.
Speaker 3: I'll have mine with Malk and Schlager.
Speaker 4: Also cool apartment, dude, I mean your kitchen says serial killer,
Speaker 4: but the rest of your apartment says still serial killer.
Speaker 4: And look, I'm glad there's finally a coffee commercial that's
Speaker 4: somehow creepier than the Folger's one where the brother and
Speaker 4: sister clearly want to bone each other. I just can't
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Speaker 4: Let me keep going. And in case you're wondering where
Speaker 4: this delicious looking coffee is sourced from, I can assure
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Speaker 4: why is it that you only see right wing grifters
Speaker 4: hawking these cheap products coffee, Alex Jones's supplements, Donald Trump's everything.
Speaker 4: I mean, how come we don't see liberals getting grifted?
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you why, because liberals are too smart
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Speaker 4: Gross, No, not like that. Forget it, Take that away,
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Speaker 4: never mind a right, Let's let's move on to a
Speaker 4: story out of Australia. Australia the country named after the
Speaker 4: two thousand and eight Hugh Jackman film Australia. It's where
Speaker 4: one billionaire is learning that money can't buy you respect.
Speaker 11: An Australian billionaire is apparently not too happy with the
Speaker 11: portrait of herself that's on public display.
Speaker 8: That is Australia's richest woman, Gina ryan Hartch. He is
Speaker 8: one of twenty one people featured of the Australia in
Speaker 8: Color exhibit that's been on display since March at the
Speaker 8: National Gallery of Australia. It's reported Ryan Harder's demanding at
Speaker 8: the gallery remove the portrait.
Speaker 3: Wait wait, wait, wait, remove the portrait. What's the matter?
Speaker 4: You don't want people to know you testified at Donald
Speaker 4: Trump's trial. But anyway, what's the big deal with having
Speaker 4: an unflattering painting of you? You don't see any of
Speaker 4: Picasso's models complaining that their eye is on their forehead.
Speaker 3: Suck it up, lady.
Speaker 4: You mean, if you don't like it, don't whine about it.
Speaker 4: Whining is what the rest of us do. Whining is free.
Speaker 4: You have money, just pay another artist to paint a
Speaker 4: flattering portrait of you, then buy the museum and hang
Speaker 4: your portrait over the other portrait. Then burn the whole
Speaker 4: museum down for the insurance money, and you end up
Speaker 4: making a profit.
Speaker 3: Billionaire, shit, let's go. But this story. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: here's your head.
Speaker 4: But this story is really the proof that maybe billionaires
Speaker 4: aren't as smart as we.
Speaker 3: All think they are.
Speaker 4: You know, if this woman hadn't complained about this painting,
Speaker 4: practically nobody would have ever seen it. Hell, I never
Speaker 4: would have heard of Gena Reinhardt, or Australia for that matter,
Speaker 4: animals with pockets?
Speaker 3: Who thinks of this stuff?
Speaker 4: And finally, let's turn to a story about artificial intelligence.
Speaker 4: Last week, OpenAI released a new version of chat GPT
Speaker 4: that could talk, and a lot of people heard it
Speaker 4: and thought, huh, this AI voice sounds a lot like
Speaker 4: Scarlett Johansson.
Speaker 3: And one of those people was Scarlett Johansson.
Speaker 11: This morning, in AI, warning from Hollywood actress Scarlett Johanson
Speaker 11: saying this voice used by open AI's virtual assistant Sky, Hello,
Speaker 11: I'm really excited about teaming up with you. Sounds quote
Speaker 11: eerily similar to her own Hi, how are you doing.
Speaker 11: The actress famously played an artificial intelligence system in the
Speaker 11: movie Her In twenty thirteen. Johansen says open AI CEO
Speaker 11: Sam Altman wanted to hire her to voice Sky, but
Speaker 11: that she declined the offer due to personal reasons. The
Speaker 11: actress telling NBC News when she later heard the AI voice,
Speaker 11: she was shocked, angered, and in disbelief.
Speaker 3: This is not acceptable.
Speaker 4: Open AI should be punished for attempting to steal Scarlet
Speaker 4: Johansson's voice. In fact, from now on, they should have
Speaker 4: to use an off putting voice like my uncle Dan,
Speaker 4: who's been smoking his whole life.
Speaker 3: You know you don't want to go to that restaurant.
Speaker 4: That neighborhood's gotten real diverse, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I miss Vietnam all right.
Speaker 4: For more on the Scarlett Johanson controversy, we go live
Speaker 4: to Andan Francisco, home of Open AI headquarters with Ronnie Chank.
Speaker 5: Running.
Speaker 3: How did Sam Altman think you get away.
Speaker 12: With this because he's a nerd and nerds have too
Speaker 12: much power. Now, okay, look at Mount Zuckerberg vessels, Elon Musk.
Speaker 3: You can't trust these nerds. I don't think that's an
Speaker 3: appropriate term. What for nerds?
Speaker 12: Because what else do you call a bunch of weirdos
Speaker 12: who spend all day on computers and don't actor on women.
Speaker 4: I mean, I call them socially awkward, shy introvertis.
Speaker 3: You call nerds the nerds?
Speaker 12: The nerds, okay, and nerds used to know their place, Okay,
Speaker 12: they knew the rules. Don'tnat weird, don't make eye contact,
Speaker 12: don't bring up stop trek, just keep your head down
Speaker 12: and get a job at NASA, hosting a show on MSNBC. Okay,
Speaker 12: And it worked. Nature was in balance. But at some
Speaker 12: point we decided bullying was mean because nerds had feelings,
Speaker 12: and then we start treating them with respect, and that
Speaker 12: was a mistake.
Speaker 3: All right, running doesn't everyone deserve respect?
Speaker 12: I swear of got Michael, He's not like a fucking
Speaker 12: nerd right now? Okay, don't you understand? We gave them
Speaker 12: towards power, and look what happened. They took our financial
Speaker 12: system and now it's full of crypto. We let them
Speaker 12: build a tech industry and now all mentally ill from
Speaker 12: social media. We even shaped our pulp culture. The catered
Speaker 12: to them, and we got twenty years of nothing but
Speaker 12: shitty superhero movies, except for the Asian ones.
Speaker 3: Those are great.
Speaker 4: Ok Okay, alright, all right, all right, holy shit, all right,
Speaker 4: all right, so you're right, So then what.
Speaker 3: Do we do?
Speaker 12: The only solution is to make up for lost time?
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 12: We have to find Sam Autman and give him twenty
Speaker 12: years worth of bullying all at once. I'm talking two
Speaker 12: decades worth of wedgies and one wedgie okay. I want
Speaker 12: that underwear to go around his head and then again.
Speaker 3: Over and over, and old book to his ask and
Speaker 3: smell his face.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, but what type of fabric would have
Speaker 4: the tensile strength to support the recrusive force required to.
Speaker 3: I don't know what. I look like a nerd. Get
Speaker 3: that science shit out of here. So let me be clear.
Speaker 3: So you're advocating bullying.
Speaker 12: No, I'm advocating balance.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 12: Our ecosystem requires a proper mix of nerds and bullying,
Speaker 12: and it's out of whack right now, okay, And I'm
Speaker 12: willing to be the hero that will get things back
Speaker 12: on track.
Speaker 4: I don't know, Ronnie, I'm I mean, I don't know, Ronnie.
Speaker 3: Is bullying ever really the answer? Just shut the fuck up.
Speaker 12: Okay, don't put me in you and give me a
Speaker 12: lunch money.
Speaker 4: I'm right, you're right, you're right, Ronnie ching, everybody sorry.
Speaker 3: When we come back.
Speaker 4: When we come back, we find out why Condella's secret
Speaker 4: weapon is.
Speaker 3: So don't go away.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, you're right.
Speaker 1: Open daily.
Speaker 4: So Vice President Kamala Harris has been out on the.
Speaker 3: Campaign trail, which is very refreshing.
Speaker 4: For a long time, it felt like the White House
Speaker 4: was hiding her, possibly because whenever she speaks, it's mostly
Speaker 4: an unintelligible word salad.
Speaker 3: But it turns out that's all on purpose.
Speaker 13: Talking about the significance of the passage of time, right,
Speaker 13: the significance of the passage of time. So when you
Speaker 13: think about it, there is great significance to the passage
Speaker 13: of time.
Speaker 3: Time.
Speaker 13: It seems like maybe it's a small issue.
Speaker 3: It's a big issue.
Speaker 7: You need to get to go and need to be
Speaker 7: able to get where you need to go to do
Speaker 7: the work and get home and get home. It is
Speaker 7: time for us to do what we have been doing,
Speaker 7: and that time is every day, every day. It is
Speaker 7: time for us to agree that.
Speaker 14: She's come so far since our first session. My name
Speaker 14: is Dahlia Rose Hibiscus and I am Vice President Kamala
Speaker 14: Harris's holistic thought advisor. What is a holistic thought advisor?
Speaker 14: It's holistic, yes, and I am advising.
Speaker 3: And what do we mean when we say that?
Speaker 14: It means that I am the one by whom the
Speaker 14: thoughts are being advised from a place of advisement and then,
Speaker 14: once advised, communicated holistically.
Speaker 2: What mm hmm you gotta.
Speaker 14: I lead the Vice President on not so much sentences
Speaker 14: as idea voyages.
Speaker 13: You think you just fell out of a coconut tree.
Speaker 13: You exist in the context of all in which you
Speaker 13: live and what came before you.
Speaker 14: It's a process I call speaking without thinking. It's not
Speaker 14: about the destination of the thought. It's about the journey
Speaker 14: and how many words you use to describe.
Speaker 13: The journey that's on top of everything else that we
Speaker 13: know and don't know yet.
Speaker 7: Based on what we've just been able to see.
Speaker 13: And because we've seen it or not doesn't mean it
Speaker 13: hasn't happened.
Speaker 14: Whenever the Vice President gets a speech from her staff,
Speaker 14: the first thing I do is cut out all the
Speaker 14: words individually, and then I take those words to my
Speaker 14: word cave. That's where I wait to learn what order
Speaker 14: the universe wants them to be. In words, have vibrations.
Speaker 14: The feeling they give you is so much more powerful
Speaker 14: than what they need.
Speaker 13: We have the ability to see what can be unburdened
Speaker 13: by what has been, and then to make the possible
Speaker 13: actually happen.
Speaker 14: I hear the counter arguments all the time. People should
Speaker 14: be able to understand what their leaders are saying when
Speaker 14: they talk.
Speaker 3: But I prefer to leave Kamalist.
Speaker 14: Thoughts open to interpretation, like a work of modern art
Speaker 14: that you look at and go, I wonder what that
Speaker 14: was all about.
Speaker 13: See the moment in time in which we exist and
Speaker 13: are present, and to be able to contextualize it, to
Speaker 13: understand where we exist in the history and in the
Speaker 13: moment as it relates not only to the past but
Speaker 13: the future.
Speaker 14: It really is such a career highlight to be working
Speaker 14: with someone with such an advanced mind space as the
Speaker 14: vice president. I also sell essential oils on Facebook marketplaces and.
Speaker 1: Want to me on the show set Up All Away,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the very show.
Speaker 3: My guest Tonight is an.
Speaker 4: Award winning journalist, filmmaker, and best selling author whose latest
Speaker 4: book is called In My Time of dying, how I
Speaker 4: came face to face with the idea of an afterlife.
Speaker 3: Please welcome Sebastian Younger.
Speaker 4: All right, I mean amazing to hear all that you
Speaker 4: had a new your death experience. You had an aneurysm,
Speaker 4: you bled out inside.
Speaker 3: Of your body. Did you die? I'm still working on that. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure I didn't.
Speaker 6: Yes, But that's one of the great mysteries is how
Speaker 6: do we know?
Speaker 3: How do we know we're here? Well, let's talk about that.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're here, so I know that you're here.
Speaker 4: But I guess it begs a question of belief, of faith,
Speaker 4: of well.
Speaker 6: I mean, this is the problem. After I came back
Speaker 6: from the hospital, I mean, I lost ten units of blood.
Speaker 6: I came very very close to dying. They barely saved me.
Speaker 6: And when I woke up in the ICU, I didn't
Speaker 6: know that I almost died.
Speaker 3: The nurse told me. And when I came.
Speaker 6: Home, I was seized with this fear that I had
Speaker 6: died and that this was all a hallucination. That it
Speaker 6: was because I was reading about near death experiences and
Speaker 6: I thought, maybe I did die and this is just
Speaker 6: And I asked my wife. I said, just tell me
Speaker 6: I'm really here. Clearly I was slowly going crazy, right,
Speaker 6: But I said to my wife, just tell me I'm here,
Speaker 6: I'm really here, that I actually survived. And she said,
Speaker 6: of course you are, honey, And I thought, that's exactly
Speaker 6: the kind of thing a hallucination.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, tell us what happened.
Speaker 4: I mean, you start the book with this amazing, scary
Speaker 4: story of you surfing and almost dying, which I'm kind
Speaker 4: of reading this gone Sebastian.
Speaker 3: You're almost dying a lot.
Speaker 4: But then tell us what happened with you know, you're
Speaker 4: talking about losing so much blood.
Speaker 3: It was unrelated to the surfing, obviously. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean when I was young, I surfed and I
Speaker 6: almost round in the winter in January on Cape Cod,
Speaker 6: which was just stupid to be doing in the first place, right,
Speaker 6: But I got then. I was a war reporter for
Speaker 6: a long time. Yeah, and I had very close calls.
Speaker 6: I was almost killed a number of times, which is
Speaker 6: different from the experience of dying, right. I mean I
Speaker 6: had bo lets say, close to my head three inches away?
Speaker 6: Is that a lot or a little with a bullet?
Speaker 6: I don't know, like it was enough.
Speaker 4: Right, I've never ever had to ask myself that, Ques,
Speaker 4: I don't want it, and I don't want it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But then I stopped war reporting. I had a family,
Speaker 6: two little girls. I turned towards life, right, I gave
Speaker 6: all that optic war reporting now. And then one day,
Speaker 6: in mid sentence, I felt this pain shoot through my abdomen.
Speaker 6: And it was an aneurism, a ballooning of one of
Speaker 6: my arteries, which is just like a structural defect.
Speaker 3: Right, it ruptured.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And it'd been the aneurism had been growing my
Speaker 6: entire life, and it chose that moment June sixteenth, four
Speaker 6: years ago, round six pm, to rupture. And I was
Speaker 6: losing a unit of blood every ten or fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3: And how much units of blood can we lose?
Speaker 6: You have about ten or twelve units with you, and
Speaker 6: you can lose about two thirds of it, which I did, right.
Speaker 3: So, but we were I'm.
Speaker 4: Not laughing at your at you, y, I'm laughing that
Speaker 4: that's so much of you.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's insane, this is wild. Yeah.
Speaker 6: And the problem was we lived an hour away from
Speaker 6: a hospital, right, and I'm losing a unit every ten
Speaker 6: or fifteen minutes. You can do the math. I was
Speaker 6: basically a human hourglass. And when I got to the er,
Speaker 6: the doctors immediately knew, oh, this guy's dying. And suddenly
Speaker 6: I saw this doctor above me with this huge needle
Speaker 6: and he said, do I have permission to stick this
Speaker 6: into your jugular? And I was like, not really.
Speaker 4: I mean I can I read the terms and conditions
Speaker 4: exactly right.
Speaker 6: I had no idea I was dying, And so I
Speaker 6: said to him, you mean in case there's an emergency.
Speaker 6: He was like, this is the emergency right now.
Speaker 4: And you talk about that in the book. And that
Speaker 4: actually gave me chills to envision it from your perspective,
Speaker 4: looking up, hearing the noises of a hospital, which are
Speaker 4: just so deliberately hospitally, the noises, the faces, and to
Speaker 4: hear the doctors say this is the emergency and yes.
Speaker 6: And so I said, yes, of course, and so we
Speaker 6: started putting it, working on my neck with an ultrasound
Speaker 6: probe and the needle. And while he was doing that,
Speaker 6: suddenly and I have to stop here and say, I've
Speaker 6: been an atheist my whole life. My dad was a physicist.
Speaker 6: He was an atheist. I'm a rationalist. I'm not mystic.
Speaker 6: In fact, I'm anti mystic. I'm like anti woo woo.
Speaker 6: Just the works, right, so just to get that like
Speaker 6: that hair comes some woo woo. So all of a sudden,
Speaker 6: as he's working on my neck, I feel this immense
Speaker 6: black void appear under beneath me, this black pit, and
Speaker 6: I'm getting pulled into it. I don't know I'm dying,
Speaker 6: but I know I don't want to go into the
Speaker 6: infinitely black pit, Like I have this sense that if
Speaker 6: you do that, you're not coming back, right, this sort
Speaker 6: of animal instinct. And I started panicking. And as I panicked,
Speaker 6: my dead father appeared above me right and said communicated
Speaker 6: to me, it's okay, don't fight it. I'll take care
Speaker 6: of you. You can come with me.
Speaker 3: And I was like.
Speaker 15: You're dead. I'm not going with you, but Dad, we
Speaker 15: have nothing to talk about, right, Like, we'll talk later
Speaker 15: a lot later.
Speaker 6: And I said to the doctor, you got to hurry
Speaker 6: such a that's such a sun thing.
Speaker 4: I did ask you to come over here a complex exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6: And I said to the doctor, you got to hurry.
Speaker 3: You're losing me right now.
Speaker 6: I'm going yeah. And that's the last thing I remembered for.
Speaker 3: A while so.
Speaker 4: The the believer in me wants to think your dad,
Speaker 4: who you talk about in this book, maybe wasn't always
Speaker 4: there for you emotionally. It was this very rational person
Speaker 4: was maybe spectrum spectrum, okay, was crossing over to be
Speaker 4: there for you emotionally in this difficult time. The skeptic
Speaker 4: in me thinks you've lost all your blood and you're
Speaker 4: going mad?
Speaker 3: Is that? Are you there too?
Speaker 6: I'm very sympathetic to both ways of thinking. This is so,
Speaker 6: this is what happened. They saved my life. I went
Speaker 6: home five days later.
Speaker 4: There's such an unbelievable description of the doctors, and I
Speaker 4: had just I've already had respect for trauma doctors, but
Speaker 4: what they know about the human body, what they're able
Speaker 4: to do with in matters of seconds to save people's lives,
Speaker 4: is tremendous.
Speaker 6: It's incredible.
Speaker 3: And they did so.
Speaker 6: They saved me with a catheter, right and and so
Speaker 6: what they do is they put a catheter into your
Speaker 6: femeral artery at your groin, and they can thread it
Speaker 6: up through your vasculature and wiggle it around and get
Speaker 6: to almost anywhere in your body.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 6: This was discovered by a guy named Forsmut, a German
Speaker 6: physician a long.
Speaker 3: Time ago, talk about it in here. Yeah, he couldn't get.
Speaker 6: Permission to do this on a patient, so he did
Speaker 6: it to himself, threaded it all the way into his heart,
Speaker 6: and then he walked down the hall to the X
Speaker 6: ray room and asked the technician to take a photograph
Speaker 6: of his chest to prove he'd been in his own
Speaker 6: heart with a catheter. Right that.
Speaker 3: Imagine how good the kids will be today after all?
Speaker 3: The video goes totally right, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So I was on a fluoroscope for so long. It
Speaker 6: took them so long to do this that I was
Speaker 6: lying on this sort of square plate where they it
Speaker 6: admits X rays basically right. And I was on this
Speaker 6: thing for so long that when I got home, I
Speaker 6: had this square burn mark on my back from the plate.
Speaker 6: I had radiation burns on my back and this perfect square.
Speaker 6: Of course, my wife didn't like that much, needed did I?
Speaker 6: And then I tried to make it better by saying,
Speaker 6: we can just call it square noble.
Speaker 3: And it didn't work. You're a journalist and I'm a commandiot.
Speaker 4: Let's let's talk about having this experience touching death. How
Speaker 4: has it affected your life. I mean, does it give
Speaker 4: this more meaning? Should we all get close to death
Speaker 4: so we appreciate this tiny moment we have.
Speaker 3: Are these all the things you're grappling with?
Speaker 6: No, no, don't do that. Okay, there are shortcuts, I
Speaker 6: mean psychedelics, ayahuasca. So my eyes, I mean, I'm still
Speaker 6: an atheist. But what I'm gonna ask you that, Yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm still an atheist. I don't believe in God, but
Speaker 6: my mind was sort of open to the possibility that
Speaker 6: there is a some kind of post death reality, maybe
Speaker 6: at the quantum level, and I'm sort of reaching into
Speaker 6: my father's field of physics, maybe at the quantum level,
Speaker 6: that we just don't understand how this all works. I
Speaker 6: say in my book, we might understand reality like a
Speaker 6: dog understands a television screen, like there's no concept of
Speaker 6: the greater reality that's producing the image that the dog
Speaker 6: sees that we see. So God in an afterlife are separate,
Speaker 6: separate things. They don't need each other. You can have
Speaker 6: a God and no after life and after life and
Speaker 6: know God.
Speaker 3: Either or both.
Speaker 6: So I'm still an atheist, But what I would say
Speaker 6: is that the greatest and I say this in my book.
Speaker 6: I don't go to church, but I believe that the
Speaker 6: greatest worship of what some people call God's creation, which
Speaker 6: is the world and life and what atheists just called creation,
Speaker 6: the greatest worship of that is being fully engaged in
Speaker 6: your life, all in the moments of your life, in
Speaker 6: all of its emotional reality. If you none of us
Speaker 6: know that this isn't our last day. No one in
Speaker 6: this room, no one knows this isn't their last day.
Speaker 6: So who do you want to be on your last day?
Speaker 6: Be that person on every day.
Speaker 4: It's amazing to me that you've survived an ied attack
Speaker 4: in Afghanistan. You're a war reporter, but you are back
Speaker 4: home on a normal day. Is when you kind of
Speaker 4: came to this realization.
Speaker 6: That's why I got so crazy after wret right, so
Speaker 6: I'd go to war zones and I had to deal
Speaker 6: with myself like, Okay, you're rolling the dice. You're going
Speaker 6: to do this to get that, and you know whatever.
Speaker 6: It was a deal that I made and I had
Speaker 6: a few close calls, and then I stopped doing that.
Speaker 6: After my friend and colleague Tim Heatherington led out in
Speaker 6: the back of a rebel pickup truck in Libya, I'm
Speaker 6: not okay, I'm out right, and I turned towards life.
Speaker 6: I had a family, It's an amazing family, two little girls,
Speaker 6: and I thought I was safe, right, right, and what
Speaker 6: a helpful illusion, right, And then one beautiful June afternoon,
Speaker 6: turns out the front lines can come to you. It's
Speaker 6: like owing the mafia money.
Speaker 3: Right, you can get a cabin in the woods. They
Speaker 3: will find you for their money, right.
Speaker 6: They will track you down. And that's what That's what
Speaker 6: it felt like.
Speaker 4: What will you do on the anniversary of this moment
Speaker 4: or do you just kind of speed past that you
Speaker 4: don't need to honor it because June's coming up?
Speaker 3: Is there something is something you'll do? You know, it's
Speaker 3: a day. It's a thoughtful day, you know.
Speaker 6: And there's a number of days during the year where
Speaker 6: people very close to me have died, like tim they're
Speaker 6: thoughtful days. And you know, mortality is terrifying, but if
Speaker 6: you don't let it be terrifying, it could make life miraculous.
Speaker 3: And you can kind of choose.
Speaker 6: And if you're not sufficiently terrified, life isn't going to
Speaker 6: be sufficiently miraculous, and vice versa. And so that to
Speaker 6: me is how one lives one's life.
Speaker 4: Quickly, talk about some strangers that you didn't know helped
Speaker 4: save your life by something we all can do every day,
Speaker 4: which is provide blood.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so ten I needed ten units of blood. I'd
Speaker 6: lost two thirds of my blood. Right, I was sixty
Speaker 6: over forty when I hit the er, and ten anonymous
Speaker 6: donors gave a unit of blood that saved my life. Right,
Speaker 6: So now I give blood as much as I can.
Speaker 6: It doesn't hurt, it doesn't even take an hour. And
Speaker 6: there are very few opportunities where you can be part
Speaker 6: of something greater than yourself. In this modern society. The
Speaker 6: chance doesn't come up very much. It only comes up
Speaker 6: in three contexts. You need to vote right, you need
Speaker 6: to serve jury duty, and you.
Speaker 3: Need to give blood.
Speaker 6: If you don't do those three things, you're an awesome
Speaker 6: human being.
Speaker 3: I would say one more. You have to buy.
Speaker 4: You have to buy Rudy Giliani's coffee. Thank you so
Speaker 4: much for being heer and sharing your story. I very
Speaker 4: much oppresional in My time of dying is a bail
Speaker 4: by Alfe Basting Yonder.
Speaker 3: Let make a click, Greg get a wife back after
Speaker 3: what after? Show up for tonight now here. It is
Speaker 3: your moment of ZA.
Speaker 16: It's not prison Biden, who's not sharp. It's in fact,
Speaker 16: Donald Trump. Now let's look at public reporting. I'm only
Speaker 16: going to talk about public reporting. His criminals trial started
Speaker 16: on April fifteenth, and here's a summary of the press reports.
Speaker 16: On his first day of his trial, Reuter's reported that
Speaker 16: Trump appeared to doze off during joy selection.
Speaker 3: I think he's praying.
Speaker 10: But if he is sleeping, you know, he certainly looks
Speaker 10: pretty while he sleeps.
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