3124 - The Doomsday Machine w/ Daniel Ellsberg
The Majority Report with Sam Seder
Sam Seder
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The MR Crew are off today so we're coming to you with a special mid-year best of! In an episode from February 2018, Sam spoke with the late, great Daniel Ellsberg about his book The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Monday, July 3rd, 2023. |
| 0:12.5 | My name is Sam Cedar. |
| 0:13.8 | This is the five-time award-winning majority report. |
| 0:18.3 | We are broadcasting live. |
| 0:21.0 | Steps from the industrially ravaged Goannas Canal in the hard land of America, downtown |
| 0:26.6 | Brooklyn, USA. |
| 0:29.8 | On the program today, we are playing a reprise of an interview we did back in February, |
| 0:41.7 | and it was February 19th of 2018 with Daniel Ellsberg. |
| 0:48.2 | As you know, and let's bring Emma in here, Daniel Ellsberg passed away just about two |
| 0:54.9 | or three weeks ago. |
| 1:00.2 | I wanted to play two interviews with Daniel Ellsberg, the one that we did in February of |
| 1:08.4 | 2018 about his book, The Doomsday Machine, Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, which is |
| 1:14.4 | fascinating. |
| 1:16.8 | Also, the first interview that I had ever done with Daniel Ellsberg with Janine Graflow, |
| 1:21.1 | he came in studio on the majority of Port-Eyer America back in, I think it was 2004 or |
| 1:27.4 | 5, and I've not been able to find it. |
| 1:32.0 | If you happen to know when the date is, let us know. |
| 1:35.4 | But he thought I'd maybe already clipped that for a best of before. |
| 1:39.7 | I feel like we did at one point, but I'm not sure. |
| 1:47.2 | I don't even remember what we talked about necessarily at that time. |
| 1:50.6 | I remember afterwards, we went out for a drink with a couple other people at Air America |
| 1:57.0 | and in Janine and Daniel Ellsberg, and he was doing magic. |
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