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Mariana van Zeller

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3010 total appearances

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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2092 - Mariana van Zeller

So his daughter has to send money via me.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2092 - Mariana van Zeller

to a friend of mine who lives in Mozambique.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2092 - Mariana van Zeller

So it's this whole bank exchange in order to provide food for this guy in prison.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2092 - Mariana van Zeller

They don't give you food in prison?

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2092 - Mariana van Zeller

They give you, like, a really bad porridge once a day or something like that, not something that's any good for your health.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2092 - Mariana van Zeller

And he has diabetes and has a bunch of other.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2092 - Mariana van Zeller

So they hire this woman to cook food and bring him to prison every day.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2092 - Mariana van Zeller

It's so crazy, right?

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2092 - Mariana van Zeller

And abandoned by your government.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2092 - Mariana van Zeller

Like no one's doing anything.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2092 - Mariana van Zeller

At least that's my, yeah.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2092 - Mariana van Zeller

And realizing that this is actually big and it's happening all around.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2092 - Mariana van Zeller

I'm very, very optimistic.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2092 - Mariana van Zeller

Very optimistic about the world.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2092 - Mariana van Zeller

But it's not because when you're able to sit down with a cartel member or a scammer in the Philippines or all these people that I meet around the world and I'm able to find humanity in them, I'm able to find commonalities between me and him, I'm able to see that if this person in the majority of cases was given other opportunities that he wouldn't be the person he turned out to be.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2092 - Mariana van Zeller

That shows me that it's not entirely humanity that's broken.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2092 - Mariana van Zeller

It's the system.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2092 - Mariana van Zeller

It's the systems that we human beings have created.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2092 - Mariana van Zeller

But the accountability at the end of the day lies in the people of power, the people that are able to make a difference in that system and not in the drug dealers or the coyotes, smugglers or the scammers, you know.