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 guy got killed.

But Abby Martin's here to straighten everything out. 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

the

beloved, in this was the lion.

That was like a beloved, the lion, right?

This beloved creature and everyone was like,

why do Americans care so much about this lion?

Well, no one had heard anything about him at all until this guy killed him.

And then once we decided that there was a name to Cecil,

you know, then it became this big thing. Well I had Justin Wren who's a friend of

mine who works in the Congo. He builds water wells for these people in the Congo that

don't have fresh water.

And he said the most sobering statistic yesterday.

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