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Episode Transcript: #689 - Abby Martin
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We are doing the show in the honor of Derek the safari guide who was killed by Cecil's cousin in Africa today
All day my fucking Facebook has been a mess because of people angry at me thinking that I really cared that this fucking safari guide got killed
But Abby Martin's here to straighten everything out
Did you did you cry when Cecil? No, I didn't shed any tears. No, no. I cried when Jimmy Kimmel cried
Yeah, see these stories are just I just feel like they're manufactured kind of outrage and feign outrage for people to just feel better
I mean yes, of course you should
You know love animals and love humans and have solidarity with all living things
But it just seemed really manufactured especially when I read interviews with people who lived there and they were like who the fuck is Cecil the lion?
Like the way the hysteria in this country made it seem like he was like their national animal
Yeah, this was the the lion that was like a loved the lion right this beloved creature and everyone was like
Why do Americans care so much about this line?
Well, no one had heard anything about him at all
Until this guy killed them and then once we decided there was a name to Cecil
You know then it became this big thing well, I had a Justin Ren who's a friend of mine who works in a Congo
He he builds water wells for these people in the Congo that don't have fresh water and he said the most sobering statistic yesterday
He said 5,000 children between the age of up to the age of five die every day in the Congo because they drink dirty water
5,000 a day a day I can't even comprehend it's insane. It's impossible to wrap your head around and
You know black lives don't matter lions matter
No, seriously, I mean when you're that someone else wrote a really poignant editorial like this African woman and she was just like this
You know, there's so much death and destruction basically because of just so many things globalization