I see that. Thanks for joining us. How are you?

Oh, fine. Thank you. Stephen, how are you?

Wonderful. Thank you very much for asking. I've been looking at your work.

A lot of detail recently and very pleased to see it getting a lot of traction and a lot of eyes and ears on your work.

Maybe you could tell us a little bit about your background and what you do before we get into the specifics.

Yes. Thank you. And thank you for having me this evening.

I have been traveling the world for the last 22 years researching

modern-day slavery and child labor in dozens of countries around the world.

In numerous different sectors and industries from commercial sexual exploitation to

forced labor and agriculture in seafood and a range of different construction

different sectors, my most recent work the last several years, which is culminated in my book

Cobalt Red, which came out last week, has been on Cobalt Mining in the Democratic Republic of

the Congo. Excellent. So maybe you can just explain a little bit about what brought you to Congo.

Why did you end up there? Yeah, of course. Let's say six, seven years ago, I started hearing

from colleagues in the field that, oh, Siddharth, have you heard about Cobalt Mining in the Congo?

It's in the batteries. The conditions are very bleak under which people are mining.

You know, maybe you should look into that. And it took me a little time to plan my first trip and

to establish ground relationships so I could move into the mining areas safely to conduct

undercover investigations and document testimonies. I took my first trip in 2018 and what I saw there

exceeded anything I could have imagined in terms of bleakness, degradation, exploitation of some

of the poorest people in the world. And so then I started going back again and again and again to

try to bring this truth out into the world. Okay, Siddharth, I think we appear to have maybe

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