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I'm Africa, but first catch up on today's headlines in the escalating trade war between the United States and everyone. One of the hardest hit groups has been: U S, farmers, second, Mary of Agriculture, sunny Purdue just announcing moments ago that the Trump Administration has approved twelve billion dollars in aid. Specifically, going to farmers and industry that has been hit very hard by what they call today illegal retaliatory. Tariffs from China, farmers, many of whom were Trump voters right. They ve really been hurt by the President's trade wars. Ok with me with, because I am not opposed to a prison using government assistance to help people through a crisis. You know like after Hurricane but in this case the president is the hurricane he made. This happened right like imaginative.

Working went through your house, like he has twenty dollars for the mess. That is basically happened here. So Donald Trump Screwed, a bunch of farmers and now he has to pay them off by now. They know how it feels to be stormy. Daniels and other the news in other news, Yvonne could trump is shutting down her fashion company, yeah, to focus on being a full time? Whitehouse aid yeah? that. That's it. You guys want a journey now, but I mean think about it. How are you supposed to run a successful business and stand in the background of pictures Be done. Hunted up over in Japan was an interesting story. Advertising space is getting so tight that they cramming adds into every

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Some and the sale of electric cars environmentalist charge bottom line would be devastating after years of cleaning up the air in California. I know the President hates California, but that's just mean california- has worked so hard to clean up its at its true that a lot of Progress came from deporting set Rogan terrorism, but it was also from the states strong car emissions standards. So if that ministration kills them off, it could put the health of millions of people at risk, but I mean, let's be honest: who cares about people the gross earlier, but sadly it turns out that the administration, is coming for our very friends to the term. Administration is calling for sweeping changes to the law that protects hundreds of animals and plant species from extinction. The proposal would end automatic protections and limit habitat safeguards provided by the endangered species. Act and decisions on shielding threatened species would be made on a case by case basis

This is insane like if the Trump Administration gives its way instead of automatically protecting endangered species. It would decide the fate of each species on a case by case basis, you know, that's gonna be arbitrary as hell, I'm just gonna be Trump like I've decided to let you live turn. Your brain, and you have a shell which makes you the closest thing we have to their sexy em and am those curves baby. And now you may be wondering why would anyone want to weaken the endangered species? That was the same reason. The Trump administration does anything experts say it will lead to easier construction of pipelines. Environmentalist say all of it is dangerous. Probably overtime and collectively degrade many of the natural areas that are part of America's heritage. This is really about rewarding the largest corporate polluters. That's right, Trump is willing.

Kill off whole animal species in favour of pipelines. Because I mean who doesn't love a nice adorable pipeline here. Yeah. I know about you, but I spent all my time watching Buzzfeed videos about adorable pipelines like in the big five line and the small pipeline becomes friends. I told the truth. There's. This administration loves big business, so this is go on for a while. Unless the endangered species come too And create their own lobby and send one of their own to petition the president and personally, if they do that I hope they send the same guy they sent last time I back. My guess tonight is a journalist and offer whose new book is called the deserts and the sea nine Seventy seven days captive on the somali pirates coast. Please welcome Michaels

more. What did you think you could see? This is one of those stories that, halfway through the book you have to stop and keep reminding ourselves that it is real real. It reads like a novel every story has so much detail. But let's start at the beginning, the question that my grandmother ass if she were interviewing you- and that is what were you doing- in Somalia. While I go right, I was writing a book about power it's. I was writing a very different book about pirates. I will I went because I had covered a trial of ten somali pirates in Hamburg. I was working in Germany at the time in Berlin and it turned out. Half of them were from this one town and central Somalia. I was already interested in the history of piracy because piracy-

have exploded off right coast, and I had a fabulous idea for a book, and so you went there and you tell me we're in the beginning of the book about how you know you these peoples, round your car there's a Google garden, you think yourself or they probably going to check my passport. You don't think that in this moment you will being kidnapped my mind actually recoiled from the idea was getting right and when, when that sinks into your brain, when that moment clicks, what does your greatest fear? Well, the first thing I thought about was family, I mean I knew that I was that moment on it was can be miserable for my mother and for the rest of my family and friends right and you you were kidnapped by these pirates and what at what I about. This book is like us recommending a genuine was, is out, say it's not about the results like spoiler you're here. I made it out like yeah, it's not about that.

Really is about the journey, the nine hundred and seventy seven days, because you you, you talk about the pirates and honestly, what I found commendable is that you humanised them. Thank you What why would you do that they kidnapped you, though? That was that's what I wanted to do with the book. I e No, I spent a lot of time with him. It was not twenty four hours of hatred all the time. And it's impossible to live like that. As a matter of fact, Well one thing I noticed when I, when I got out, I saw a movie by after months of Morocco called Timbuktu that made the Islamists who are coming in December to ridiculous but human? And that was my experience of the pirates you you also talk about in the book. The somali pirates problem started as a reaction to colonialism. You talk about how countries like China

You know, rubbed the fishermen of their of their livelihood. You talk about how these countries were thrust into poverty and and and it's an interesting idea, but it, but it's not an excuse to pillage and plan like when you are sitting in in captivity. Are you thinking to yourself? Well, I also stand, how they got here. You're, not thinking it at that time. No because the though the roots of somali piracy are definitely in illegal fishing, but by the time they were capturing, big cargo ships, and especially by the time they are capturing me was no longer about illegal fish right. There was simply about greed, it was about getting a lot of money and it ended had become a We ve seen it now and organised crime right it's now. It's now got into a place where people just accepting all somali pirates, somali pirates who might apart what what I really loved about the book, though, is you have a few moments? This humour in what many people think that completely, in a situation where you're laughing with your captors, like at one point you talk about sizing and I really loved because you decided to teach the somali pirates yoga where he

Ok, it didn't happen quite quite that directly. I new I was gonna need to exercise because I moved into a prison house that looked like it was going to be my home for a while right, so I asked them for a mad because I didn't think I was gonna be able Jog, around the room without them shooting at me, so I decided to get a mat and start to do yoga brows ice. Had this idea that I would do it while they weren't looking, but there was no Mamma where they weren't. Looking. So I started to do yoga and they started to. They thought it was funny. And then they came in and imitated me and slowly a few of the more joking, I realized, and I started to correct their past- I I might actually be the only western and has taught yogurt somali pirates, usually like like like moments like that: really really mean illuminated. You know how amazing your journey was in this experience because you go through moments of of of joys, fragments

of joy and then I mean there's a lot of pain throughout the story. One of the most powerful quotes you you haven't the book and I'll paraphrase it is basically where you talk about hope and how dangerous hope can be. So why do you say that? Because it was, I think the line is hope was like Heroin for a hostage and it could be justice destructive, and that was because you, you start to feel hope. The pirates actually cultivated that they said Michael you're, going to go out in two weeks, you're going to go out in one month. You know, and you would believe it at first and then you'd be fallen and afterwards it would be despair and each time to this would be worse than the time before, so you you went through this, the cycle itself became destructive and you had to sort of detached yourself from that from the hope, as well as the despair. So, if I might say when using is the best way for you to cope with this was to let go of desperate. At some point, I knew that there was at least a fifty percent chance. I wasn't gonna make it out alive, so

Had to let go of of that that notion right, I might die or might live the whole idea of a future had to Sir go away. And then there are moments when you you, you talk about your your wish to be free, I mean you know this is part of the book. We talk about seeing an unattended gun. Yeah and that's one of those moments where, when I'm reading it have played way too many places games so, oh yeah, you grab the gun in your way out, that's how you do it the eggs and when you're in that situation, you see the gun, you think about grabbing the gun like how many times Does that also mess with you in a way that I did that several times there was the principle always guns lying around, but if you're on a few occasions there was just the gun and the pirate had left the room, and I went through all the motions on my head- and I thought about where I think very carefully about doing- and I were If I'd been trained to do it right and even then it might have been suicidal in any.

Is there would always too many guides for me to have done it right? You know in any way that wasn't suicidal, so I I had to think about that. Often, and- so with it, and eventually I wonder you knows settling myself. You You also have a story of how the parts departs moved around and obviously was so that they wouldn't get caught, and you you talk about How at one point they took you onto a japanese tuna fishing the tuna vessels runabout Taiwanese composed time and he's right for your on the taiwanese vessel views for tuna fishing and what I like it in the book. You said you had the best food jury time because waiting, so she me every day known and I'm not every, but it was a tutor vessel with something like a hundred tonnes of tuna onboard Rosen and when they first took me on board, I was terrified. I thought my life is over him. This is it and First of all, I met twenty eight new hostages, twenty eight new friends then the food was good. That's true.

The food was good because the kitchen was operating, it was a bright operating. Fishing is fishing vessel with chinese food that came out of the kitchen rise, much better than the slump. Were fed on land and every weeks or so. They they would hall out of frozen tuna carved up with power, saw cook the tuna if the and whatever they didn't cook, they left a little red brick aside rights actually sliced it up for Sis II. Me you do in those moments. I know it's a creature, without that's. When I picked up a new book is in those moments, did you find like a like on a pirate. Happily, it was mean thirty other gryce, thirty thirty hostages enjoying to see me- and that was something they did when they were at sea right now, and then they treated That was something they did when they were at sea right now, and then they treated themselves. I couldn't do that after the ship gave out and those guys spent almost five years and kept

I was only there for two years and eight months only there for two years and eight months, it's it's it's it's it ready is a fascinating story and ain't. No one part in the book that really blew my mind is when you at home and, like I said, If you want to read the book, is this way too much for me to get through its beautiful story, but you you get back to Germany and you open your facebook, and one of Pirates have sent you a message. Yes took. Actually it took us took a couple of weeks but and we're not Facebook, friends or anything like that, but I have been message through that Hap by a former guard here, Mohammed, you, your first, you for instinct, is to block yes, but then you wouldn't know I'm going to catch up with Mohammed. I caught up with modern. We, we ve had a of an ongoing sort of slow burning conversation and and if he sent you a friend requested to examine,

I don't blame. You absolutely original blame you. It's such a beautiful book. It's a fascinating story, I'm so glad you're here. How much will being legit I have available. Now it's a beautiful story might have got more divided. Daily show the terminal ears at it. Wants unavailing, show weak nights at eleven ten central on Tommy, central and calmly, simple watch episodes. Videos at the daily show that follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram an subscribed to the daily show on you to exclusive caused in him. This has been a comedy central podcast.