Guest Spotlight: Near Death Experiences with Sebastian Junger and Freedom Through Music with John Legend
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Comedy Central
4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Michael Kosta speaks with author, Sebastian Junger, about Junger’s many experiences with death and how they inform his view of life. Junger’s new book is “In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face-to-Face with the Idea of An Afterlife.” Kosta is also joined by John Legend to discuss the power and freedom expressed through music by Afghans living under Taliban control in Legend’s new audio documentary, “Afghan Star.”
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| 0:31.2 | You're listening to Comedy Central. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is an award-winning journalist, |
| 0:49.8 | filmmaker, and best-selling author whose latest book is called In My Time of Dying, |
| 0:55.0 | How I Came Face to Face with the idea of an afterlife. |
| 0:58.0 | Please welcome Sebastian Younger. hunger. I mean amazing to hear all that you had a near death experience. |
| 1:20.0 | I mean amazing to hear all that you You had a near-death experience. You had an aneurysm. You bled |
| 1:29.7 | out inside of your body. Did you die? I'm still working on that. Okay. I'm pretty sure I didn't. |
| 1:37.0 | Yes. But that's one of the great mysteries is how do we know how do we know we're here? Well let's's talk about that. I mean, you're here, so I know that you're here, but I guess it begs a question of belief, of faith, of... |
| 1:52.0 | Well, I mean, this is the problem after I came back from |
| 1:57.1 | the hospital I mean I I lost 10 units of blood okay I came very, very close to dying. |
| 2:04.4 | They barely saved me. |
| 2:05.8 | And when I woke up in the ICU, I didn't know |
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