The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Guest Spotlight: Near Death Experiences with Sebastian Junger and Freedom Through Music with John Legend

Episode Date: May 26, 2024

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.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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My guest tonight is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker, and best-selling author whose latest book is called In My Time of Dying, How I Came Face to Face with the idea of an afterlife. Please welcome Sebastian Younger. I mean, amazing to hear all that. I mean, amazing to hear all that. Wow. I mean, amazing to hear all that. You had a near-death experience. You had an aneurysm.

You bled out inside of your body. Did you die? I'm still working on that. Okay. I pretty sure I didn't. Yes. But that's one of the great mysteries is how do we know we're here? Well, let's talk about that.

I mean, you're here. So I know I that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that. I mean, you're here. So, so I know that you're here. But I guess it begs a question of belief, of faith, of... Well, I mean, this is the problem. After I came back from the hospital, I lost 10 units of blood. I came very, very close to dying. They barely saved me. And when I woke up in the ICU, I, I that that that that that that that that that that that th you that th you th you that I th you that I th you that I that I that I that I that I that I that I that I that I that I that I that I that I that I that I that that you tho I that that that that that that you're that you're that you're that you're that you're that you're that you're that you're that you're that you're that you're that you're that you're that you're that you're th you're th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thoes thoes tho tho thoes tho thoes thoes thoes. I thoesa to dying. They barely saved me and when I woke up in the ICU I didn't know that I'd almost died. The nurse told me. And when I came home, I was seized with this fear that I had died. Right.

And that this was all a hallucination. And that it was because I was reading about near-death experiences and I thought maybe I, maybe I did die and this is just, and I asked my wife thuuuuu th, I, I, I, I, I, I, I th, I th, I th, th, th, th, th, and th, th, th, and th, th, thu, thu, and when the the the the the the the, and when thi, and when the, I the, and when tho, I tho, I the, I the, I the, I the, I thu, I thu, I thu, I thu, I thu, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, th, th, th, th, th, the, the, the the the the the te te teeeeeeeeeeeean, I teeean, tell, teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeean, I the an the an the an th-death experiences and I thought maybe I maybe I did die and this is just and I asked my wife I said just tell me I'm really here right clearly I was slowly going crazy right but I said to my wife just tell me I'm here they're really here that I actually survived and she said of course you are honey and I thought that's exactly the kind of thing a hallucination Well, tell us what happened. I mean, you start the book with this amazing scary story of you surfing and almost dying, which I'm kind of reading this going, Sebastian, you're almost dying a lot. But then, tell us what happened with, you know, you're talking about losing so much blood.

It was unrelated to surfing, obviously. Yeah, I mean, when I was young I surfed and I th I th I mean I mean I mean I mean I mean I mean I mean I mean I mean I mean I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you, you you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you know, when you're talking about losing so much blood. It was unrelated to surfing, obviously. Yeah, I mean, when I was young, I surfed, and I almost drowned in the winter, January on Cape Cod, which was just stupid to be doing in the first place, right? But I got, then I was a war reporter for a long time. Yeah, and I had bullets take close to my head three inches away. Is that a lot or a little with a bullet? I don't know.

Like, it was enough, right? I've never ever had to ask myself that question. And I don't want to. And then I stopped war reporting. But then I stopped war reporting. their towards life, right? I gave all that up, they're more reporting. And then one day, in mid-sentence, I felt this pain shoot through my abdomen.

And it was an aneurysm, a ballooning of one of my arteries, which is just a like a structural defect, right? It ruptured. And it had been, the aneurysm had been growing my entire life, and it chose that moment, June 16th, four years ago, around 6 p.m. to rupture. And I was losing a unit of blood every 10 or 15 minutes. And how much units of blood can we lose? You have about 10 or 12 units in you, and you can lose about 2 thirds of it, right? Which I did. So, but we were...I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing that so much of. that, I. that, I. that, I. that, I, I, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, I that's that's that's that's thi and thi. thioumi. thioli-I. th. th. th, th, th, th, th, th, th. th. th. th. th. th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. th. thi. th. th thi. tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Yeah, th. Yeah, but we were. I'm not laughing at you dying. I'm laughing that that's so much of your, I mean, it's insane.

This is wild. Yeah. And the problem was we lived an hour away from a hospital. Yeah. Right. And I'm losing a unit every 10 or 15 minutes. You can do the math. I was basically a human hourglass. Yeah. And when I got to the ER, the doctor, the doctor, the doctor, the doctor, the doctor, the doctor, the doctor, the doctor, the doctor, the doctor, the doctor, the doctor, toe, toe, the doctor, the doctor, the doctor, the the tooomk, the the too, the the the too, too, th. th. th. tho, thoomoomo, thoomorrow, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. It, th. It, th. It, th. It, th. It, thi, thi, to. It, too, too, too, tooome. We. It. It. It's. It's. It's. It's, toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. It's, that's, th. It's. And suddenly I saw this doctor above me with this huge needle.

And he said, do I have permission to stick this into your jugular? And I was like, not really. Can I read the terms and condition? Yeah, exactly. Right. I had no idea what was dying. And so I said to him, you mean, in case there's an emergency? He was like, this is the emergency? the the the the the emergency? the emergency? the emergency? the emergency? the emergency? the emergency? the emergency? the emergency. the emergency? the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. And so I said to him, do you mean in case there's an emergency? He was like, this is the emergency right now. And you talk about that in the book and that actually gave me chills to envision it from your perspective, looking up, hearing the noises of a hospital which are just so deliberately hospitaly, the noises, the faces and to hear the doctors say, this is the emergency.

And I, yes. And so I said yes, of course. So we started working on my neck with an ultrasound probe and the needle. And while he was doing that, suddenly, and I have to stop here and say, I've been an atheist my whole life. My dad was a physicist. I'm a rationalist. I'm not mystic, and I'm anti-wowowoic, I'm like anti-Woo, just the works, right? So just to get that like on paper. That being said, here comes some woo-woo. So all of a sudden as he's working on my neck I feel this immense black void

appear underneath me at this black pit and I'm getting pulled into it. I don't know I'm dying but I know I don't want to go into the infinitely black pit. Like I have this sense that if you do that you're not coming back, right? This sort of animal instinct and I started panicking. And as I panicked, my dead father appeared above me and said, communicated to me, it's okay, don't fight it. As I panicked, my dead father appeared above me and said, communicated to me, it's okay, don't fight it, I'll take care of you, you can come with me.

And I was like, you're dead. I'm not going with you. Dad, we have nothing to talk about, right? Like, we'll talk later, a lot later. And I said to the doctor, you gotta hurry. That's such a son thing to say. to say. to say. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, you, you, you, to say, to say, to say, to say, to say, to say, to say, to say, to say, to say, to say, to say, to say, to say, to say, to say, it, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the try. the the the the the that. the the tooo. It. It's too, it, it, it's, it, it's to later, a lot later. And I said to the doctor, you got to hurry. That's such a son thing to say. Oh, I didn't fucking ask you to come over here. Total authority complex.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And I said to the doctor, you got to hurry. You're losing me right now. I'm going. And that's the last thing I remembered for a while. So the believer in me wants to think your dad, who you talk about in this book, maybe wasn't always there for you emotionally, was this very rational person, was maybe... Spectrum, okay, was crossing over to be there for you emotionally in this difficult time. The skeptic in me thinks you've lost all your blood and you're going mad.

Is that, are you there too? I mean, I'm very sympathetic to both ways of thinking. Right. So this is what happened. They saved my life. I went home five days later. There's such an unbelievable description of the doctors. And I just, I've already had respect for trauma doctors, but what they know about the human body,

what they're able to do with, in matters of seconds to save people's lives is tremendous. It's incredible. So they save me with a catheter, right? And so what they do is they put a catheter into your femoral artery at your groin and they can thread it up through your vascular and wiggle it around and get to almost anywhere in your body, right? This was discovered by a guy named Forsman, a German physician a long time ago. You talk about it in here.

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Right. them so long to do this that I was lying on this sort of square plate where they it admits x-rays basically right and I was on this thing for so long that when I got home I had this square burn mark on my back from the plate I had radiation burns on my back in this perfect square of course my wife didn't like that much neither did I and then I tried to make it better by saying we can just call it square noble. It didn't work. th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th at th th at th at thus thus thus thus thus thus thus thus thus. thus thus the. the. the. I'm the. I'm the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th th th them them them them them th them th them th them them th them th the the them so the the the the the theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee the the the the tried to make it better by saying, we can just call it Square Noble. It didn't work. Which is why you're a journalist and I'm a comedian. Let's talk about having this experience, touching death. Let's talk about having this experience, touching death.

How has it affected your life? I mean, does it give this more meaning? Should we all get close to death so we appreciate this tiny moment we have? Are these all the things you're grappling with? No, no, don't do that. There are shortcuts. Yeah, I mean, psychedelics, Iowaska. Yeah, right. So, um, my eyes, I mean, psychedelics, ayahuasca. So my eyes, I mean I'm still an atheist, but what I'm going to ask you that. Yeah, I'm still an atheist. I don't believe in God. But my mind was sort of open to the possibility that there is some kind of post-death

reality, maybe at the quantum level, and I'm sort of reaching into my father's field of physics, maybe at the quantum level, that we just don't understand how this all works. Like I say in my book, we might understand reality like a dog understands a television screen. Like there's no concept of the greater reality that's producing the image that the dog sees that we see. So God in an afterlife are separate things. They don't need each other. You can have a God and know afterlife and afterlife and know God, either or both. So I'm still an atheist. But what I would say is that the greatest, and I say this in my book, I don't go to church,

but I believe that the greatest worship of what some people call God's creation, which is the world and life, and what atheists just call creation, the greatest worship of that is being fully engaged in your life, in all, in the moments of your life, in all of its emotional reality. Right. If you, none of us know that this isn't our last day. No one in this room, no one on this earth knows this isn't their last day. No one in this room, no one on the earth knows this isn't their last day. So who do you want to be on your last day? Be that person on every day. It's amazing to me that you survived an IED attack in Afghanistan. You're a war reporter,

but you were back home on a normal day is when you kind of came to this realization. Well that's why I got so crazy after it, right? So I'd go to war zones and I had a deal with myself. Like, okay, you're rolling the dice, you're gonna do this to get that, and you know, whatever, it was a deal that I made and I had a few close calls. And then I stopped doing that after my friend and my friend, bled out into back of a rebel pickup truck in Libya. I'm not, okay, I'm out, right?

And I turned towards life. I had a family, it's an amazing family, two little girls. And I thought I was safe. Right. And what a helpful illusion. And then one beautiful June afternoon, turns out the front lines can come to you. It's like owing the mafia money. You can get a cabin in the woods.

They will find you for their money, right? They will track you down. And that's what it felt like. What will you do on the anniversary of this moment, or do you just kind of speed past it? You don't need to honor it because June's coming up. Is there something you'll do? You know, it's a day, it's a thou-a. It's a day. It's a day. It's a day. It's a thoughtful. It's a day. It's a day. It's a thoughtful. It's a thoughtful. It's a thoughtful. It's a thoughtful. It's a thoughtful. It's a day. It's a day. thi. to bea. to bea. to bea. to bea. to bea. the the the the the the the the the the their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. It's a their. It's a their. It's a their. It's a their. It's a their. It's a t. It's a t. t. toda. today. today. today. today. today. today. today. today. today. today. their. their. their. It's. It day, it's a thoughtful day, you know, and there's a number of days during the year where people very close to me have died, like Tim, they're thoughtful days. And you know, mortality is terrifying, but if you don't let it be terrifying, it could make life miraculous. And you can kind of choose, and if you're not sufficiently terrified, life isn't going to be sufficiently miraculous, and vice versa. And so that to me is how one lives one's life.

Quickly talk about some strangers that you didn't know help save your life by something we all can do every day, which is provide blood. Yeah. So ten, I needed ten units of blood. I lost two-thirds of my blood, right? I was 60 over 40 when I hit the ER. And 10 anonymous donors gave a unit of blood that saved my life. So now I give blood as much as I can. It doesn't hurt. It doesn't even take an hour. And there are very few opportunities where you can be part of something greater than yourself. In this modern society. The chance doesn't come up very much. It only comes up in the th. And. And. And it. And it. And th. It. It. It th. th th th th th th th th th th th th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thirty thirty th. th. th. th. the. the. the. th. the. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to. to. to. to. to. to. toe. the. the. the. the. th be part of something greater than yourself in this modern society. The chance doesn't come

up very much. It only comes up in three contexts. You need to vote, right? You need to serve jury duty. And you need to give blood. If you don't do those three things, you're an awesome human being. I would say one more. You have to to buy... Okay. You have to buy Rudy Giuliani's coffee. Thank you so much for being here and sharing your story. I very much appreciate it. Hey, everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast. The Weekly Show. It's going to be coming out every

Thursday. So exciting, you'll be saying to yourself, TGID, thank God it's Thursday. We're going to be talking about all the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me. The election. Economics. Earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're gonna be talking about Ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches and I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday? I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. My guest tonight is an EGOT winning multi-platinum artist, an activist who hosts the new original audio documentary, Afghan star.

Please welcome John Legend. Thank you for coming for the team. You all right? Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Whoa. You're right? Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Wow. Here we go.

What's up? Egot winning multi-platinum. I wasn't expecting to see your name on audio documentary, Afghan star. Yeah, I'm a podcast host now. My biggest aspiration, finally come to life. Tell me about this new project and how did you get involved? Afghan star is the name of a competition show, so it's like American Idol or the voice, but the revolutionary fact was that it was in Afghanistan. Yes. And prior to the US invasion,

the Taliban was in charge and they had basically outlawed music in the U.S. invasion, the Taliban was in charge, and they had basically outlawed music in the country. So literally they would have bonfires to burn CDs and records and musical instruments. And so there was a whole generation of people that were growing up not having access to the most basic thing that we all love that's a part of all of our lives, music. And so when the Taliban was deposed and there was this new freedom that was permeating through the country, one of the producers there who had started this network called Tolo TV, he decided to start a singing competition show and he had no idea how revolutionary

it would be. Because not only was it displaying music on television but it was giving women opportunities that they never had before it was challenging a lot of the societal norms and and some of the religious strictures that had been on the country for a long time and it was quite a cultural moment that impacted the entire country I mean you talk about in the podcast how the Taliban used to stop people's cars, and if there was a cassette tape in there, they would beat up the driver and then rip up the cassette and hang it from a tree as like a trope. They would unspool the actual tape from the cassette and hang it up so people would

know you can't have this. As an American, I listen to this stuff, it almost seems fictitious. I just, it's never even, I mean this is how it's spoiled I have, it's never crossed my mind that people cannot have music. Yeah. Is your approach to music any differently now knowing that? Is your approach to music now any different knowing that? Well, I always knew music was such a gift, but I think you can take it for granted because it's something that's just part of your lives.

And you know, we've had it as part of our culture forever. And every country's pretty much had it as a part of their culture forever. But to have it taken away is quite a thing. And to see the links people went to get music back into their lives, their, to, to, to, to, to, to, their, their, their, their, and, and, and, and music, and music, and music, and music, and music, and music, and music, and music, and music, their, their, their, their, their, their, thiiiia, and, thi, thi, their, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, their, their, their, their, their, their, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and their..a, their?a, their?a, their?a, their.a, their.a, their their, their, their, their, you're theyyyymea.a.ea.ea.ea.a.a.a.a.a. Wea. Wea, their lives, the underground networks that they would have to use to smuggle in records that they want to listen to, the parties they would have with live music out of the reach of the government and police. All of these things just shows you how important music is to our lives and how meaningful it can be. And to see it taken away makes it really appreciate it. It's almost the Taliban hasn't seen footless. I know. Exactly.

You gotta watch footloos. There's still, they're still going to do music. And, you know, what's happened since the Taliban's back in charge again. So you know, you would think maybe there is no music again in Afghanistan, but once you let the genie out of the bottle, it's really hard to suppress the people's desire to get music. And now with the internet being more prevalent and everyone kind of getting used to the fact that music was in their lives, it's kind of hard for the Taliban to stop them from listening to music now.

One of my favorite parts in the pod was when he decides to have auditions, and he's like, is anybody gonna show up? Oh my God, and then he gets to this hotel and security's furious at him because there's hundreds of people there. Everybody wanted to be part. But then he starts rolling cameras and he's like, guess what? Everybody's a bad singer. And he's like, which wasn't the case?

there was good singers, but there's also a lot of a the through the audition process. Yeah, exactly. You know, it showed a lot of things because one of the things that Afghanistan hadn't done was vote for anything. And so this was like an opportunity for them to vote. That's crazy. And they were like, I mean, I'm laughing at this, but it's like, holy. thi th We take for granted. You know, it's like, yeah, vote, mother fuckers. You know what I mean? Let's talk, and another thing, I mean, let's talk about the role of women in Afghanistan.

This was such a, this was such a groundbreaking cultural change for them. Yes, so one of the most controversial things at the beginning of the show was when a woman was performing on the show and she started dancing just a little bit, a little shimmy and they were very upset about that and then her hijab starts to sneak back a little bit, you see a little bit of her hair and these are you know norms that had been enforced with with the gun with the threat of death and so the fact that people were doing this on national television was quite daring and then we had a judge named Ariana Saeed, who was a pop star, and she was very well known in Afghanistan, and she became a judge. And her life was under threat all the time because she was a symbol of women's liberation just by the fact that she was there

as a judge. And she actually mentored a few of the female contestants and one of them finally won after several years of the show being on the air and it was quite a moment for women in Afghanistan to have access to this and one of the things that we're doing with our fundraiser with the art sale that we're doing is making sure we raise money for the Norr Foundation in Afghanistan which makes sure women have access to education and all the things they need. And yeah. There's some unique pieces of art per episode. There's art created or something.

Yeah, so we have unique pieces of art. I've signed some of them. And each of them represents stories from the episodes and yeah. And so they're very vivid and and beautiful and and people can check them out. Cool. It's nice to have you here in New York. I mean Trump's in the Bronx today. Yeah. I was wondering, you know, is that why you're're, you're politically outspoken. I feel like he would be here a lot of days nowadays. That's true. I think he has to be.

It's true. Um, how are you feeling this election? I mean, you're politically outspoken. Yeah. What, what can people be doing? What should people be doing? Well, of course they should vote. And I'll be voting for Joe Biden. I think it's a clear choice. You know, it's a clear choice and we talk about things we take for granted but there is one candidate that isn't too keen on democracy. Isn't too keen on us having the right to vote? He literally tried to steal an election and nullify the votes of the American people.

And I feel like that is utterly disqualifying and he should not ever be anywhere close to the the the to the the to the the the the the to the the the the the the to the the the the to the the the toe the the the the the the the toeui.. Wea. toe. toe. Um. Um. the. the. toe. toe. toe. th. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. Ume. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. toee. toeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaa. thea. thea the American people and I feel like that is utterly disqualifying and he should not ever be anywhere close to the nuclear codes, the White House, the Ova office. And, um... And, um... And I'm going to do my best to make sure he doesn't get back to it. I appreciate you chatting with me. Thank you very much. John Legend everybody. Explore more shows from the Daily Show. W. the Daily th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. tho. thi. thi. tho. tho. the to the to the thi. to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the. the. to. to. to. to.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e. to.e. to. to. to. to. the to. the th Podcast Universe by searching the Daily Show, wherever you get your podcasts. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central and stream full episodes

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