Hello you beautiful humans, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Mahamadu Alslaki and

this is an intense one. We're talking about surviving 14 years in Guantanamo Bay. Mahamadu is

the subject of the film The Mauritanian, which you might have seen on Amazon Prime at the moment

with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jodie Foster and he's been called the most tortured man in Guantanamo Bay.

Mahamadu lived for 14 years in Guantanamo. He was subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques,

otherwise known as torture. Sexually assaulted by prison officers was force-fed food, water-borded,

subjected to a mock execution and spent nearly 20 years away from his home country without being charged.

This story is so intense. I don't even know, I can't really even put into words how it feels to

hear so much suffering from one person. It's very moving and it consists of almost a completely

unbroken one hour monologue of Mahamadu's right in the middle of the episode where he just takes

us through the full story. God, I don't even know what to say. I don't even know what to say about this.

It is, it's crazy how brutal and raw and emotional and sad and insulting and inspiring

all at the same time and it's hard not to feel amazement at how positive and happy and forgiving

and peaceful Mahamadu is after he's been through hell. We have so much to learn from someone who

is able to deal with this much suffering and come out of it in the way that he has.

I really hope that you enjoy it. This is something else entirely.

If you are new here or if you're a long time listener, please go and hit the subscribe button.

It makes me very happy indeed and it ensures that you will never miss an episode when they are

uploaded every Monday, Thursday and Saturday. So just open your podcast up. Come on. Take

your thumbs for a walk. Go and press that subscribe button for me. In other news, this episode is

brought to you by my protein. I'm still in love with my proteins clearway. Orange and mango clearway

is the biggest game changer to the supplement industry since steel shakers were created. Plus,

...