#2556 - Siddharth Kara

“on what's going on in the Congo with the cobalt stuff. Your book was so important. And the fact that you risked your life to get the kind of footage that you got, you legitimately risked your life. It is a very dangerous part of the world right now with enormous amounts of resources being pulled out and insane amounts of money being made.”

“And I haven't been back to the Congo since Cobalt Red came out, and I knew it would be too dangerous for me to go back. Yeah, definitely don't go back. You know, it's just, my colleague said pretty soon after Cobalt Red came out, you know, there's a bounty for you.”

“I had documented the human horror taking place. And that's what cobalt red is about. But I had not done enough to quantify how many people exactly. And so in this same report I mentioned, blood batteries, ran prevalence estimates just sample at all the sites how many people”

“Or close to it. Yeah, same. No. This ship, you know, what I learned writing this book, the Zorg is the most consequential slave ship that ever crossed the Atlantic. There are more than 40,000 slave ship voyages across the three and a half centuries of the slave trade that carted 12 and a half, 13 million Africans.”

“And we have to do the same today. And it will require acts of conscience. And by the way, the Zorg, I've figured out who wrote that letter. 240 years, no one had known who was this person whose conscience bent history towards goodness.”

“with the rising of the sun. I can't quote his words exactly. They're in the Zorg at the end. With the blink of an eye and the rising of the sun on that day, freedom was won. Every African person woke up free.”

“9.5, and you know, you want your alkaline water for your body because it's healthy, right? You don't want acidic. Acidic system is not good, then you get disease, cancer, and so on. So we tested pH.”

“But for phones? But you can recycle it for phones. I know that Apple has talked about by a certain year, maybe it's 2030, the iWatch being only recycled cobalt, you know, and then 2030. It's like the five-year-old.”