Episode Transcript: #1149 - Michael Scott Moore

Boom and we're live

So just to give everybody a

Good way to start this you have a book the book is called the Desert in the Sea and you have one of the most

Disturbing and craziest stories. I think I ever read

You were kidnapped by Somali pirates

And you were held hostage for more than two years

What the fuck was that like and what does it feel like to be a free man now after all that?

Are you kidding it feels great in America wandering around the Valley?

The Valley where I was born and raised by the way were you yeah

This is the first time I've been back in the Valley for a couple of years now

What what happened and how how did it happen?

Long story

So I went to Somalia in the first place to write a book a very different book about Somali pirates

and I

So I'm a journalist

I was working in Berlin at the time and I had followed the very long trial of 10 Somali pirates in Germany in Hamburg

for about a year all of 2011 and

before that I had already

Thought about going to Somalia because the pirate story was interesting in all sorts of ways that I thought other writers weren't getting to