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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The

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Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments

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Speaker 1: from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment

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Speaker 1: last stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is

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Speaker 1: the Weekly Zeitgeist. What is something? And I'm gonna stick

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Speaker 1: with the gold gloves And I'm sorry to say I

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Speaker 1: think Bohemian Rhapsody is overrated. And I didn't think this

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Speaker 1: was going to be an issue because it didn't really

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Speaker 1: get the reviews, good positive reviews, and so I wasn't worried.

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Speaker 1: It made a lot of money. I'm happy when anything

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Speaker 1: makes money. You know, that's great making that money. But

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Speaker 1: the problem was it shouldn't have won the Best Drama

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Speaker 1: put it in a musical category. First of all. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I was confused. I had to like check. I was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: they mistakenly put it in the Best Drama. Those categories

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Speaker 1: are such trash, seriously seriously, like the comedy music just

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Speaker 1: we don't thought anything over here. Category. There's like one

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Speaker 1: like actual musical produced a year now, and then you

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Speaker 1: have A Star is Born and uh, which is a

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Speaker 1: drama sure, but it's also a musical drama. And then

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Speaker 1: and then Bohemian Rhapsody, which is basically just a concert film,

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Speaker 1: like a c G a concert film. Um, then that's

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Speaker 1: the musical too. But the issue for me is that

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Speaker 1: as a gay HIV positive man working in this society

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Speaker 1: to have the icon of queer HIV positive representation, whether

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Speaker 1: like very much associated with it. You know. It's like

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Speaker 1: it's like making a movie about Keith Herring without including

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Speaker 1: any of the gay sex or the HIV. Like they

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Speaker 1: allude to all of it a lot there is there.

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Speaker 1: They treat Freddie's homosexuality as like a curse that brings

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Speaker 1: him down. They treat it as like the thing that

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Speaker 1: ruined Queen, you know, and I just I'm like, I

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Speaker 1: I just couldn't leave. That's the direction they went with

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Speaker 1: the movie. No, I can't believe that the movie, but

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Speaker 1: I can't believe it's being honored, you know, like like

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Speaker 1: this makes us feel better when literally, like all the

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Speaker 1: homosexuality that is portrayed in the in the movie is

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Speaker 1: like passing glances at like dirty cock sucking bars, you know,

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Speaker 1: like dark temptations. They treat it like it's like a

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Speaker 1: heroin addiction or something what made his music what it was.

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Speaker 1: It's who made him who he was. It's a part

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Speaker 1: of who he is. And yeah, I know exactly what

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Speaker 1: you mean by that. And they're like and and the

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Speaker 1: like his poor suffering wife and it's like sure, but

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Speaker 1: also like that's not that's not the reality of their relationship.

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Speaker 1: They also funcked with the timeline hard, so like it's

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Speaker 1: not even a true like like true story, it's like

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Speaker 1: based on inspired by the life of Queen and then

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Speaker 1: and then sucking the rest of Queen. Oh well, only

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Speaker 1: two of them, I guess. John Deacon didn't m okay

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Speaker 1: any of and didn't like sign off on all of it.

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Speaker 1: But but the but the other two, Brian mayn Um

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Speaker 1: and Drummer he they were they were m It seems

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Speaker 1: like they wanted to save the legacy and not make

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Speaker 1: Freddie out to be the like fucking flamboyant, like proud

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Speaker 1: motherfucker that he was. He was a peacock. He was

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Speaker 1: a peacock. And you saw the peacock part, but you

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Speaker 1: didn't see the like the things that made him a peacock, right,

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Speaker 1: why he loved peacocks so much, you know, so so

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Speaker 1: overrated boheman hapsody, I mean Golden Globes, you know whatever.

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Speaker 1: Ellen at the end of last week had Kevin Hart

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Speaker 1: uh and great talent, please cut that out. He's very

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Speaker 1: power uh. And she basically was trying to, you know,

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Speaker 1: She was basically like, look, we want you to come

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Speaker 1: back and host the Oscars, like everybody wants you to

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Speaker 1: do it, like please do it. And he was like, nah,

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Speaker 1: because these people are like these trolls. If I come back,

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Speaker 1: I hear you. I'm not going to accept that you

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Speaker 1: I am making this willful. Yeah, willful is a good

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Speaker 1: from the show you you have grown, you have apologized,

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Speaker 1: He was like, well, you know, these people, though I'm

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Speaker 1: If he hosts the Oscars, there's gonna be like another

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Speaker 1: can't come out and say I have more to lose

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Speaker 1: by doing this than not doing it right exactly the

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Speaker 1: smarter move for me as a business person and as

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Speaker 1: a human being. He's like not walking into this trap.

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Speaker 1: And she was like, uh okay, yeah, I hear you.

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Speaker 1: We still want you to host the Oscars. Everybody chair,

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Speaker 1: we're going to break. He apologize. It's basically he said

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Speaker 1: the idea though that you know, you have to there

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Speaker 1: has to be a way for people to redeem themselves

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Speaker 1: and you show growth or whatever. But I haven't seen

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Speaker 1: I think it's fine and well, I mean, she is

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Speaker 1: as as somebody who is like a huge person for

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Speaker 1: she she talks about that and her latest special that

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Speaker 1: like a lot of people who made money off her

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know, like I I do think

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Speaker 1: that she's incredibly layered though, because it's they I know,

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Speaker 1: comedians that when they were younger had bits making fun

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Speaker 1: like a like one bad decision away from being that person. Right,

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Speaker 1: because but when they started doing stand up at twenty,

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Speaker 1: But they also where it's a weird. What it is

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Speaker 1: it's a weird. It's not about art and it's not

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Speaker 1: And I don't know. I mean other than that people

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Speaker 1: because a lot of his comedy is, like you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I have to see the whole thing,

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Speaker 1: It's just like, listen, that was ten or fifteen years ago.

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Speaker 1: So that's another thing we're talking about is two large

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Speaker 1: the oscars are strange where it's like it's clear that

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Speaker 1: these people care about it deeply, but they're also ego maniacs,

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Speaker 1: And then the right, well, we should put popular films

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Speaker 1: they already have a reward. They made billions of dollars. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Oscars still don't have a host. I'm available. I'll

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Speaker 1: do it for one year. There you go, have you

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Speaker 1: and Jamie Loft great thirty minutes long and they pulled

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Speaker 1: it's a little strange to me when he's when you

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Speaker 1: say I already apologized, you know that, it's like just

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Speaker 1: and I think women, you know, women talk a lot

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Speaker 1: about there was a British article that came out about

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Speaker 1: safety work, and so women are having to do even

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Speaker 1: added number of like I have to go this way

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Speaker 1: so I don't get fucking killed, Like there's all these

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Speaker 1: extra things. Were just like, oh, I'm gonna try and

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Speaker 1: survive truly truly, like I can't live certain places, walk

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Speaker 1: certain streets or some of that, like New York, right,

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Speaker 1: like the community they called it, like the Women's Commuter

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Speaker 1: talks about how women have to be more more consider

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Speaker 1: it or not consider it, but have to consider the

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Speaker 1: risks of like the modes of transportation they take or

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Speaker 1: the way they get to someone. I would pick apartments

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Speaker 1: in New York where I was like, listen, this place

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Speaker 1: is more expensive, but I'll be taking less cars home

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Speaker 1: because it won't be I won't be walking fourteen blocks

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Speaker 1: from train station to house at two a on because you,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you cannot do that. It's it is too frightening.

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Speaker 1: All right, we are going to take a quick break

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Speaker 1: and we'll be right back. And we're back, and we

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Speaker 1: are now joined by super producer on A Hosnier and

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Speaker 1: host of Behind the Bastards, Robert Evans. What's up, guys? Hey? Uh,

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Speaker 1: So I wanted to talk to you guys about the

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Speaker 1: Saudi teenager Rahafon, who is basically ran away from her

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Speaker 1: family barricaded herself in a Bangkok airport hotel room to

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Speaker 1: prevent officials from sending her back to her family. Uh

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Speaker 1: And Robert, I wanted to get you on specifically because

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Speaker 1: we kind of covered a similar ish story of a

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Speaker 1: young woman having to run away from her family in

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Speaker 1: Pakistan basically and and using a hotel is sort of

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Speaker 1: an underground railroad a while back. Yeah, yeah, we had

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Speaker 1: we had that woman talked to us about her family

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Speaker 1: essentially like trying to force her into marriage and needing

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Speaker 1: to escape through this hotel. And they kind of this

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Speaker 1: pack Pakistani hotel like already had like situate, like they

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Speaker 1: had plans in place for this sort of thing because

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Speaker 1: it happened often enough. And we did another article a

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Speaker 1: couple of years earlier, UH with a woman who lives

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Speaker 1: in or lived in Denmark, uh and so grew up

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Speaker 1: in you know, a pretty pretty western nation, but whose

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Speaker 1: family was very fundamentalist, and who was afraid of essentially

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Speaker 1: being murdered for the fact that she wasn't religious and

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Speaker 1: that she was dating guys and you know, doing all

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Speaker 1: these things that her family had forbidden her from doing.

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Speaker 1: And her fear was that she would go back home

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Speaker 1: to Pakistan a vacation at some point and essentially never

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Speaker 1: come back, which which happens to a number of women

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Speaker 1: who are in that sort of situation. So we've we've

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Speaker 1: dealt with, or we dealt with back at Cracked a

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Speaker 1: couple of different women coming forward with stories of this

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Speaker 1: sort of thing. Yeah, and and you were saying that

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Speaker 1: you're familiar with, Oh yeah, it happens all the time

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Speaker 1: where you know, like the Dubai, the King of Dubai's

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Speaker 1: daughter shik Latifa bin Muhammad al Muktim tried to escape

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Speaker 1: because she was basically being held held in a hospital,

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Speaker 1: just drugged because she was considered too wild by her father.

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Speaker 1: And you know, there was another story of a woman.

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Speaker 1: This was last year. She was trying to get to

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Speaker 1: Australia from Kuwait and she was held up in the

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Speaker 1: Philippines airport and basically sent back to Saudi Arabian has

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Speaker 1: not been heard from since Jesus Christ. So those are

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Speaker 1: the stories of when this doesn't work out well um

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Speaker 1: or doesn't work out for the for the person trying

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Speaker 1: to escape. But it sounds like Rahaf did all of

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Speaker 1: the things she would need to do to ensure that

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Speaker 1: that couldn't happen to her. Like she she learned her

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Speaker 1: English was good enough that she was able to get

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Speaker 1: across the details of her situation and like the videos,

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Speaker 1: and she was smart enough to like she had a

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Speaker 1: really I think I think the smartest thing she did

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Speaker 1: was record herself in that barricaded hotel room, because the

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Speaker 1: visuals of that were just so like of course that

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Speaker 1: was going to to take off and like once you

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Speaker 1: get I think she got something like forty five thousand

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Speaker 1: Twitter followers in a couple of hours, which is like,

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Speaker 1: if you're a young woman in her situation, that's the

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Speaker 1: only thing that's going to protect you is creating enough

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Speaker 1: of a media spectacle that they can't just send you home.

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Speaker 1: Does this I mean it does it ever happen to sons?

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Speaker 1: I mean it must, but it tends to happen more

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Speaker 1: and more to women and daughters. I think we we've

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Speaker 1: definitely Corre actually interviewed uh, some young men who were,

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Speaker 1: you know, living in more fundamentalist cultures, who were in

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Speaker 1: the closet and you know, having to hide that from

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Speaker 1: their family and had often had to consider, you know,

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Speaker 1: running away from their home country because yeah, again it's

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Speaker 1: it's a situation where you're fighting for your life. It's

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Speaker 1: not uh, you know, I want to be able to

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Speaker 1: go to the mall. It's like Jesus, these people right

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Speaker 1: for being who you are, but they have The men

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Speaker 1: in these situations have a lot more options. I met

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Speaker 1: a young Saudi Arabian male couple when I was in

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Speaker 1: the airport in a mon Jordan's who had been living

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Speaker 1: in San Francisco for most of the time, uh and

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Speaker 1: who something was clearly going on, but came back to

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Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia every couple of years to go see their families.

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Speaker 1: And it seemed like the situation was, you know, their

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Speaker 1: families had enough money that they could pretty much do

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Speaker 1: what they wanted and it was better for everyone if

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Speaker 1: they just did their thing, you know, outside of Saudi

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Speaker 1: Arabia and came back every couple of years to keep

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Speaker 1: up appearances. Like and I don't think someone like Rahaf

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Speaker 1: would would have that opportunity, even though she comes from

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Speaker 1: that prominent and wealthy of a family. Now, I feel

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Speaker 1: like the men get to go on they basically has

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Speaker 1: go on vacation, and then if a woman tries, it's like, no,

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Speaker 1: you're a woman. You need to understand your place. You

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Speaker 1: can't just be running around with anyone like your your

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Speaker 1: places in your home with your family until you're basically

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Speaker 1: arranged to be married to someone, right y. Yeah, So

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Speaker 1: now like Thailand, are they keeping her at the embassy

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Speaker 1: or is she going to be what? What's what's her

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Speaker 1: fate so far? I mean, she's been handed over to

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Speaker 1: the care of the United Nations and she's somewhere in

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Speaker 1: Bangkok with them right now, and I think from what

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Speaker 1: I've read it could take five to seven days to

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Speaker 1: get a decision. It sounds like they're going to basically

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Speaker 1: put her plea of of asylum status over to the

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Speaker 1: Australians in sort of a formal way, And it sounds

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Speaker 1: like from what Australia said, if for no reason other

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Speaker 1: than the prominence of this story, they're probably going to

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Speaker 1: grant her asylum status. So that that would be My

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Speaker 1: guess is that she winds up living living down under Mate.

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Speaker 1: So for her, a happy ending, but you know, an

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Speaker 1: ending where she survives. But for many if you don't

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Speaker 1: go viral, you're sent back. Yeah. I mean, like one

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Speaker 1: of the girls that time about last year who got

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Speaker 1: caught up DNA Alle. She didn't have a chance and

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Speaker 1: she was trying to go viral. There was like a

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Speaker 1: hashtag save dan Alle, and yeah, she couldn't do it,

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Speaker 1: and she got sent back and she hasn't been heard

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Speaker 1: from since. She had videos posted where she didn't show

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Speaker 1: her face because she didn't want anyone, you know, to

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Speaker 1: like actually report her if they saw her. Um. But

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Speaker 1: if she if this woman gets sent back, there is

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Speaker 1: a chance she will be killed for her behavior. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, well thanks for joining us, Robert. And obviously

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Speaker 1: it's a horrible story, but I think one that a

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Speaker 1: lot of people aren't aware is happening in the world,

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Speaker 1: like in the modern world. And yeah, thanks for joining us, Anna,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you hope they become activists, like the more

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Speaker 1: that can get out, the more that they can share

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Speaker 1: their story and be like, no, this is what's happening.

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Speaker 1: I know where this girl lives. This girl lives, This

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Speaker 1: girl lives, because if there's no survivors of it, then

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Speaker 1: there's no one to carry on this horror, right, yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: and then if there's an enough international pressure because you know, like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's on I mean us, are we even a part

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Speaker 1: of the U N I mean on paper. Let's talk

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Speaker 1: about this wall, you guys. I'm sure I love Wall. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's like I love LAMB. Yeah. I just love Wall though.

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Speaker 1: So two nights ago, the President interjected himself into our

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Speaker 1: nightly TV viewing. Not for me, not for my I

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Speaker 1: avoided it. How do you do that? I watched the

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Speaker 1: Lindsay Lohan Beast Club Show, and it's a fucking mess.

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Speaker 1: MTV knows where their priorities. Yeah, in a way, I

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Speaker 1: may have mentally fucked myself worse by watching watching the

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Speaker 1: Oval Office thing, but that is a mess too. So

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Speaker 1: the President came on and made a kind of kinder,

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Speaker 1: gentler case for his monument to racism. He was saying

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Speaker 1: that this is about compassion and you know, uh, he's

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Speaker 1: using imagery of like holding the hands of women and

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Speaker 1: children at the border as painted the families as people

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Speaker 1: he's protecting. Uh, and said that he's willing to compromise

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Speaker 1: with the Democrats, which none of that is really accurate,

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Speaker 1: but you know, Pelosi and Schumer then came on afterwards

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Speaker 1: and seemed like they had prepared to respond to the

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Speaker 1: typical Trump which is like having an eight minute temper tantrum.

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Speaker 1: And so conservatives are saying Trump won DEM's zero In

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Speaker 1: response to like how that went, the media seems to

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Speaker 1: be not as convinced. The mainstream media, Well, everyone was like,

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Speaker 1: we knew this is gonna be a bunch of lies

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Speaker 1: from him. What's the point of airing that when like

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Speaker 1: years before, they didn't want to air Obama talking about

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Speaker 1: DOCCA the whole other fucking thing. And so let's talk

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Speaker 1: about that. So this is something that presidents, you know,

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Speaker 1: use their power to do every once in a while,

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Speaker 1: and they almost always are given the latitude by the

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Speaker 1: networks to come on and address the nation, right like,

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Speaker 1: and usually it's done. I heard somebody put it that

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Speaker 1: usually the president is coming on to soothe a scared

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Speaker 1: nation or calm a scared nation, and this time the

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Speaker 1: president was using it to scare a calm nation. Right.

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Speaker 1: But there has been cases where the president tried to

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Speaker 1: do this and the networks were like, no, that's too partisan.

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Speaker 1: I guess was was their argument against Obama. Yes, that's wild.

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Speaker 1: I mean they just felt like, you didn't warrant the

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Speaker 1: nation's attention to talk about data, right. Um, yeah, because

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Speaker 1: I think it was just like some local affiliates did it,

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Speaker 1: but like on the national level they like but I

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Speaker 1: think just because they know he's going to say some

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Speaker 1: fucking wacky shit that people tune in. But like, the

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Speaker 1: odd part is more people watch the rebuttal than they

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Speaker 1: did even the Oval Office address, right, So that's got

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Speaker 1: to be chapping his little diaper awareness. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: it was like a four percent increase, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: it was just people tuning in late right, um, like

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Speaker 1: social media and seeing that it was trending. Although like

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Speaker 1: I couldn't think of two worst people to have do

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Speaker 1: the rebuttal talking about immigration or even though they were

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Speaker 1: focusing on other issues. But like you'll put some people

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Speaker 1: who like I think I can speak with a little

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Speaker 1: more passion, right than like the two figureheads of the party.

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Speaker 1: That was like one thing I was like combined age

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Speaker 1: of something. Yeah. Yeah, they just seemed I don't know,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't a wildly effective rebuttal that said, it was

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Speaker 1: two minutes long and it's not like yeah, and also

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Speaker 1: they rebuttal to what you know anyway, Like it's just

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Speaker 1: he was going to do his thing, just fan the

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Speaker 1: flames of xenophobia, but put it under the guys of compassion.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of the conservative analysis is taking Trump's

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Speaker 1: address and the Democratic rebuttal just completely on their own,

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Speaker 1: completely independent of context of you know the fact that

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Speaker 1: Trump hasn't really put himself in a position to persuade

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Speaker 1: anybody who's not already a part of his base because

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Speaker 1: he lies constantly, and I think people are well aware

641
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 1: of that. So if he started suddenly starts saying compassion

642
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 1: and hand holding, like nobody's gonna be persuaded by that.

643
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 1: And by handholding, I mean I'm holding the child in

644
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: the parents hands to break them apart, right, but I'm

645
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: technically holding their hands, but it's just you know, on

646
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: linked that because I'm kidnapping children. One of the things

647
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 1: that people speculated he might end up doing in this

648
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: address to the nation was declaring a state of emergency,

649
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:46,439
Speaker 1: which he did not do, but that was kind of

650
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 1: in the conversation in the lead up to this address,

651
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,800
Speaker 1: and that's actually really scary. There was this Atlantic article

652
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: back in December talking about the basically the insane broad

653
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: hours that are granted any president by their ability to

654
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: declare an emergency um and this was actually they wrote

655
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: this before the conversation about him declaring an emergency to

656
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: build the wall. Yeah, but we should be really very

657
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 1: afraid of him setting that precedent or just the fact

658
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: that he now is thinking in those terms, because I've

659
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 1: said before on this podcast that I don't think he's

660
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: going out without a literal fight, Like I think he's

661
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,439
Speaker 1: going to find a way to bring the Office and

662
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: America to new all time loads and create some sort

663
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 1: of constitutional crisis before he's either voted out or impeached

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Speaker 1: out of office, and this article really kind of outlines

665
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,880
Speaker 1: in detail how he could do that. And I mean

666
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: they set up a scenario at the end of the

667
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 1: article where Trump declares a national emergency and the lead

668
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,800
Speaker 1: up to the election because he's losing and he claims

669
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: to have secret in eligence that Iran is trying to

670
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: hack the election in his opponent's favor, and they basically

671
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 1: lay out, like this, point by point way that he

672
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 1: could use emergency powers. And the only way that it

673
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 1: was unbelievable was that it suggested that Trump gave a

674
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 1: ship what people think and like that is has never

675
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: been the case, like and he seems way more of

676
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: like a smashing grab type person who's just gonna grab

677
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: as much power as he can and not give a

678
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: funk about like whether people are protesting or angry about

679
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 1: how he's doing it right, And so basically they're just

680
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: making the argument that legally a president can basically do

681
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:42,800
Speaker 1: whatever they want. We have been relying on the fact

682
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: that no president to this point has been willing to

683
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: just ignore other politicians and the will of the majority

684
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: of the people, and that is right, George Bush, and

685
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: but not like he was just trying to He just

686
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: wanted a war and you don't want to be a

687
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: war room. Yeah, I think in this sense of like

688
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 1: the most self serving aspect of it, not just for

689
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,919
Speaker 1: the military industrial complex to get a check, but like, yeah, yeah,

690
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: I just hope that Trump just doesn't I hope he

691
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:15,919
Speaker 1: gets tired of this, Like I hope he's not having fun,

692
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: like if he wants to just like I hadn't done well.

693
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: It seemed like even then, like when he told reporters

694
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: about like him going to the border was just a

695
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: photo op and he's like, yeah, because those people think

696
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: I should go, I don't think it's going to change anything.

697
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: And he was like gesturing to Sarah Huckabee and like

698
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 1: Kelly and Conway like like I don't want to go,

699
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:33,919
Speaker 1: but they say I have to. Right. So I don't

700
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 1: know if he I'm hoping that he just does not

701
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: enjoy this enough to the point where he's like I'm done. Yeah,

702
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: we'll see something. There was an interesting guy, someone who

703
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 1: was an adviser to Bush also foresaw a scenario which

704
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: Trump takes a plea deal with d o J to

705
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 1: resign the office and leave peacefully if he gets some

706
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: kind of immunity for everything. But I just don't. I

707
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: can't see that would be to see to think that

708
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:58,879
Speaker 1: he could take some kind of deal and walk out

709
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: of here, I would be like, I'm tired of any

710
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: I'm through with any argument that he like does the

711
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: calm thing that we want him to do. It really

712
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: is like, you know, when when you're a sports fan

713
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: like that, I've heard Bill Simmons talk about how like

714
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 1: you always want to do the thing that the opposing

715
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: team's fans don't want you to do, and like that's

716
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: what Trump Like, you don't want to like push the

717
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: issue or like you know, be you don't want the

718
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 1: opposing team to be super aggressive and play to their strengths.

719
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 1: And I feel like we're always wishing slash kind of

720
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,399
Speaker 1: assuming that Trump is going to eventually just kind of

721
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: you know, go away quietly, and I just don't. I

722
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 1: think we need to be prepared for that never to happen. Right, Well, yeah,

723
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 1: that but the reason he would do is to stay

724
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: out of jail and keep every all his kids out

725
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 1: of jail, right, which is that that's the thing he

726
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 1: doesn't absolutely fears because if you what are dying, he's

727
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: definitely self serving. Yeah, oh he I just don't think

728
00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:00,040
Speaker 1: he hears wind. He fears wind, he fears rain, and

729
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 1: he fears himself going to prison and people making fun

730
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: of him for his children going to prison. I don't

731
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 1: think he really gives a shit about anybody except for

732
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: him and Ivanka going to prison. I know when that

733
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: sucks your your d J t J. And he's like,

734
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,879
Speaker 1: I don't know you, right, are you? Yeah? And super

735
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 1: Producer Nick just pointed out that there's still speculation that

736
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,880
Speaker 1: that might have been what happened with Nixon, because Nixon

737
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: was equally like on the hook power crazy, I can

738
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 1: launch nuclear bombs if I want, like drunk in the

739
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: White House type of loose cannon throughout his presidency, and

740
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 1: their speculation that that's basically how they got him to

741
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: go quietly was by saying, you pardon me, and I'll

742
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: go quietly. Hard in me. Do you have any great

743
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: poop on? Yes? All right, we're gonna take a quick break.

744
00:40:50,600 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 1: We'll be right back and back. Well, we got to

745
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:06,320
Speaker 1: bring in super producer on a hose Nier on this Mike,

746
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: get up in there, get up off of that thing.

747
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: Hi Hi, Oh so sorry, there's electricity coming shooting through

748
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: the room. So super producer on, you left the office

749
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 1: for three hours yesterday to engage in No, I didn't.

750
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: What is known as a Bachelor fantasy draft because when

751
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: you work on a Bachelor pocket what's a bachelor podcast called?

752
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: That's not on this network. What's it called again, It's

753
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:39,720
Speaker 1: called will you accept this? Yeah? So if you didn't know, however,

754
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 1: this new year, it's Colton the Virgin is the Bachelor player. Yeah,

755
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:49,720
Speaker 1: he's former football player, current bachelor. So he was runner

756
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 1: up on the Bachelorette. He was cut fourth. He was

757
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: a fourth person cut. What's the formula? If you're just cut,

758
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how deep you go. It's just like

759
00:41:57,840 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: if you're cut later in a later stage you get

760
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,800
Speaker 1: to be the bachelor. The formula is the focus group

761
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: who is popular? But he was one of the least popular.

762
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,800
Speaker 1: People were pissed he got picked because he's a virgin.

763
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: He was boring. All he does is cry. He clearly

764
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like he's ready for a relationship. Subsect that

765
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,240
Speaker 1: believes he's closet. He was the fourth he came in fourth,

766
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 1: or he was the fourth person fourth. He came in

767
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 1: fourth place. Okay, okay. I also think he benefited from

768
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 1: the Bachelor in Paradise, that girl from Arkansas. He just

769
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 1: kept Cowton Colton. I believe he went home. That is true.

770
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 1: The first episode was her cult. It's really true. It

771
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: was they sucked her over. Her edit was that she's

772
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 1: a psycho who's obsessed with cold. Yeah, was not on.

773
00:42:51,600 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 1: So basically what happened was he got caught if dear,

774
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 1: dear with sound like but you know, it's always funny

775
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: when they're like that and they're like I got my

776
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 1: PhD in social work and you're like, it's all learned.

777
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons I left. And they and

778
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 1: the people do it. The old ladies are the worst

779
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: because they're like, how how you get away from the

780
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 1: old lady? I know your fucking game. So basically what

781
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,359
Speaker 1: happened he came in fourth place. He was cut before

782
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,399
Speaker 1: the Fantasy suits because he's a virgin, and he literally

783
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,399
Speaker 1: goes up to Chris Harrison, who's the host, and goes,

784
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,360
Speaker 1: who do I do? When Chris Harrison's like, you're a

785
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:33,919
Speaker 1: grown ass man, figure out you don't need to lose

786
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 1: your virginity on TV Sir, it came out that Tia,

787
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 1: who was a contestant on um Ari season. Him and

788
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: Tia had had a relationship previous to the season, and

789
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:46,320
Speaker 1: so Tia was still obsessed with him and told Becca.

790
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: So that kind of helped in Becca deciding to kind

791
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: of send him on his day. Yeah, I don't know.

792
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: Becca was the bachelorette that cut him and kind of

793
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: was like, tis my friend. I don't want to do

794
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: so Anyways, the Bachelor this year is a virgin, so

795
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 1: that the whole thing. A former football player and uh one,

796
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 1: so you draft various Yes, So we do a draft

797
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 1: on our podcast where we go through just the images

798
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 1: and the bios, which is truly the most it's fucked up.

799
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 1: We're fucked up people on this episode. We go through

800
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:15,799
Speaker 1: just by their literally their looks and then being like

801
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 1: my favorite colors yellow, that's actually one of them. It's like,

802
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: that's not interesting. Uh, And then we pick our top three,

803
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:24,800
Speaker 1: we pick our top crazy, and we pick our drunk

804
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 1: on the first night. Are your top three? So my

805
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: number one is Hannah g my number two is Bree

806
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 1: who will get to and my number three is Kalin

807
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 1: and my top Craziest, Aaron, what does top crazy? It

808
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 1: just means they're going to be like Psycho the whole

809
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:41,719
Speaker 1: season and everyone's gonna hate them like all the other

810
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: Are there points you get for doing specific things? No,

811
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: we're just just you don't know. Eventually one person will

812
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 1: probably emerge with someone everyone unanimously agrees is the crazy one. Yeah,

813
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,319
Speaker 1: and then my drunk on the night is Erica, who

814
00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: in her bio is self described as the nut so

815
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: she's probably be wasted. Tell us about pick number two now,

816
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: because a lot of people were tweeting me about this.

817
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 1: I never saw this video, but what's going on? So

818
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 1: bree a video? A clip dropped of her during her

819
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: when she walks out of the limo to introduce herself

820
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 1: to UM and I think we have a clip. Yes,

821
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: she has a gimmick that is mind blowing. A nick

822
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: so nice to meet you. You get a nice accent.

823
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: Where are you from? Um? The accent it's Australian. I

824
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 1: was hoping that you're kind of a sucker for accents

825
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 1: and made you think about it. I love it. I'll

826
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 1: see you inside all right, Okay, sounds good. I'm not

827
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: really Australian, but you have to do what you can

828
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 1: to stand out. Yeah, ye, Vicine as Australian, that's like

829
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 1: going to the NFL combine and bringing in like a

830
00:45:55,800 --> 00:46:01,799
Speaker 1: baseball I'm going to stand out. A lack of her

831
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: voice afterward was just like fuck you, I don't care.

832
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 1: What I did was wrong and I'm not sorry for it.

833
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 1: She's not here to make friends. It was I think

834
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 1: you're starting to realize that these girls are now at

835
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 1: that age where they literally grew up watching the show.

836
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,799
Speaker 1: They understand the formula. And I'll tell you what Brie

837
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 1: is doing. Bree is saying, I don't really give a

838
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,280
Speaker 1: shit about Colton, but I'm here to act the fool

839
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 1: enough where i end up on Paradise and then boom,

840
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: my Instagram followers go up and I'm the spawn con

841
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 1: Queen with my thirst traps and I'm literally selling sugar

842
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 1: bear hair pill, gummy bear shit and uh diet T.

843
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: And that's the plan. And you see it from day one.

844
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: You know who's acting a fool to get on Paradise

845
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 1: because they understand Jamila Jamil will be very disappointed to

846
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 1: her pushing that old dumb shit. It's like some of

847
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 1: those real world road rules people, They're like, for a while,

848
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: that was their job was going on. There's like weird

849
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: game challenge. Yeah, and that's how like CT. I think

850
00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:59,399
Speaker 1: he was living off of that for many years. Yeah,

851
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,359
Speaker 1: but what's he up to now? Like, what what does

852
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: one do? What does the CT do after that career?

853
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 1: I mean he's just like a probably motivational speaker. They

854
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:12,240
Speaker 1: all find a way to be like, let me motivate, Yeah,

855
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: to do what I did. I started as a guy

856
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 1: from Boston. You know when d m you know, when

857
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: she got the cancer. It was really tough, but I

858
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:25,799
Speaker 1: was born with this bone structure. All right, Well, thank you,

859
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 1: super producer around Hosnie, we will be checking in with you.

860
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: As Bree continues to make news. Uh in the world

861
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:40,240
Speaker 1: of the Bachelor, She's like, I'm a shape shifter. She wins,

862
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 1: she wins. What is something you think is overrated? Oh,

863
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: there's a few things, Okay, I don't know which one

864
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 1: to political correctness, Okay, for sure, I feel like it's

865
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 1: hella overrated, especially right now right now. I just it's

866
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 1: a it's fraudulent. I feel like people do things under

867
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 1: the guise of political correctness where they don't actually mean

868
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: what they're saying. They just don't want to stir the

869
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 1: pot or say something offensive, but they still feel that

870
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:09,799
Speaker 1: way inside, which is phony. Um and being in this

871
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: industry of entertainment and seeing that people are like casting

872
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:20,359
Speaker 1: certain people because they look diverse, but they don't really

873
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: care about diversity. They just don't want to be called racist,

874
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 1: und right, it's so superficient. I'm tired of it because

875
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,720
Speaker 1: I'm a black person that obviously doesn't look traditionally black,

876
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: but like, I've been overlooked for so many things because

877
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: they want someone who's obviously looking black so that they

878
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 1: don't look racist. Like imagine, I remember one SNL was

879
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: casting when they were having they got called out for

880
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 1: not having any black women in the cast. And then

881
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:46,759
Speaker 1: imagine if they had hired me, right, they'd have been like,

882
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: who of all the black women, you had to pick

883
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 1: this one? That shouldn't matter, right, I'm talented and I'm

884
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 1: right for the job, but they obviously had to go

885
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:56,840
Speaker 1: with a more brown so they don't get called out again.

886
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: So and that's just a thing that I have to

887
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 1: deal with regularly. Um, But I know that other people

888
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: have to deal with it as well. It's like if

889
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:06,319
Speaker 1: you're not representing what this particular agenda is, then you're

890
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:09,439
Speaker 1: not good for it, which is not true at all. Yeah,

891
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 1: it's like it's almost like a thought stopping thing. Yeah,

892
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: political correctness, where you're just like, okay, and this is

893
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 1: the right thing to say, and then this fits into

894
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:24,839
Speaker 1: that the right thing to say. I believe it. Right.

895
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:30,280
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about Mackenzie Bezos uh and Jeff Bezos.

896
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: They announced that they were super amicably splitting after twenty

897
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 1: five years of marriage. This seems like something to aspire

898
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 1: to if you're going to get a divorce, Like the

899
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 1: way they're doing it, they just seem very positive. Well,

900
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 1: it seems like for the last year or something they

901
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: were separated, they're a trial separation and they were working

902
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: on it and then you know, but then they got

903
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: four kids, but I think they're mostly grown, so you know. Yeah, Well,

904
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 1: I mean, luckily for them or maybe from Mackenzie Washington,

905
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: the laws and Washington State and the lack of a

906
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 1: prenup means she she'll be getting half of his billion

907
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:12,479
Speaker 1: dollar fortunes. Will they be like the third and fourth

908
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 1: richest people in the world. Now, well, now he's going

909
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:17,200
Speaker 1: to be belttle Bill Gates and then she becomes a

910
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 1: wealthiest woman on Earth Rights And how long have they

911
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:25,439
Speaker 1: been together? And I think they said was in their

912
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 1: joint statement about their super amicable separation, is that they

913
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: were like, if we had known at the outset that

914
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:33,880
Speaker 1: we were going to have these twenty five years, we

915
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: do it all over again. I think that's a good

916
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:37,920
Speaker 1: way to think of it, you know, like, you know,

917
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: it was what it was, and it's over. Yeah, when

918
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 1: it's over, that's what happened. When you get to the

919
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: details of like what he's up to now, you get

920
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: into like the billionaire headspace, that's like, oh, you're on

921
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:55,760
Speaker 1: some next level ship because he's already dating his best

922
00:50:55,840 --> 00:51:01,839
Speaker 1: friend's wife. What wife, No? No, why current white? Current white.

923
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 1: So they're separated as well. They're separated now they planned

924
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 1: the separation. They're just gonna swap. This is like wife swap.

925
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, it's interesting. So it is somebody

926
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,400
Speaker 1: who Miles grew up having a crush on Laura Sanchez,

927
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 1: Fox eleven News, TV Anchors, TV Locix. Oh yeah, oh,

928
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: you don't know the vibe of our show, Wait till

929
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 1: we do our Brett bay Or sketch because he's so bay.

930
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 1: Uh no, Yeah, Laurence Sanchez, I used to man, I

931
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: love her, yes, but she was what she was married

932
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:37,200
Speaker 1: to Tony Gonzalez, I think before Patrick white Tony Gonzalez,

933
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:39,799
Speaker 1: then Patrick Whitesell, who is like the co head of

934
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 1: w M E. Right, and then now she's climbing on

935
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 1: up to that Jeff Bezos. Uh yeah, but it sounds

936
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 1: like Lauren Sanchez. She sounds like just based upon her

937
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: dating history and like she's been married twice. Is that what?

938
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 1: So she's probably age appropriate, right, Yeah, she's forty nine

939
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 1: that I love that. Well, yeah, it's I think, you know,

940
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: it's a good look for them. I guess if they're

941
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: splitting amicably, because there's nothing to say. The National Enquired

942
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:09,320
Speaker 1: now take this with like nine million grains of salt,

943
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 1: was like, you know they were dating even before the

944
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:16,320
Speaker 1: trial separation. Most people were like, no, once they separated,

945
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:18,320
Speaker 1: that's when he started dating her. But a lot of

946
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 1: people are also like, does any of their split have

947
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 1: to do with because like about almost two years ago,

948
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 1: eighteen months ago, when like swoll Bezos came out, everyone

949
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 1: was like I missed swollen basics like suddenly he just

950
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:35,439
Speaker 1: came out like Chappelle Chapelle and then made his head

951
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:39,320
Speaker 1: look even smaller. That's sort of what like what Jeff

952
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: Bezos and a lot of people like, oh, I wonder

953
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 1: if that's when the split began. And he was like,

954
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:47,279
Speaker 1: he's trying to get his group back, right. So there's

955
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:49,960
Speaker 1: a couple of quotes from him that seemed like they're

956
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: veering in the this dude the creep direction, but actually

957
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 1: I don't hate him for it. So he was like,

958
00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:58,799
Speaker 1: at a certain point, I was sort of a professional dater,

959
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 1: and I had to develop what he labeled women flow,

960
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:06,880
Speaker 1: which is like the equivalent of deal flow, when a

961
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:10,879
Speaker 1: Wall Street person is like, I won't have anything under

962
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:13,759
Speaker 1: a ten million dollar equity investment. But then he said

963
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 1: the number one criterion was that I wanted a woman

964
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:18,840
Speaker 1: who could get me out of a third world prison,

965
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:23,319
Speaker 1: which is very specific, but like when you look at

966
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 1: Laura Sanchez, so first of all, his wife who is

967
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:29,879
Speaker 1: separating from is actually very like smart Miles. We were saying,

968
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 1: Tony Morrison was her teacher at She was my greatest

969
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 1: student in literature or whatever taught her. That's and so

970
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 1: Laura Sanchez, uh, when she used to be you know,

971
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:45,400
Speaker 1: man on the street reporter, local news reporter, which is

972
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 1: kind of a badass job. I have a friend who

973
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 1: did that, and she was like kicking down doors and

974
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 1: getting like punched and ship like it's a Laurence Sanz

975
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 1: was doing that. She was, especially when she did Good

976
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 1: Day to become to become a local news reporter, you

977
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 1: gotta be in the in the ship for a period

978
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 1: of your career. It's like training, right. But now she

979
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: has started a new career where she launched a business

980
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:12,360
Speaker 1: where she is a helicopter pilot who shoots footage for films.

981
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:16,439
Speaker 1: She shot footage for Dunkirk. She has a credit on Dunkirk. Yes,

982
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:20,279
Speaker 1: she her company and she is a helicopter pilot, so

983
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:22,439
Speaker 1: she learned how to be a helicopter pilot. Was like, man,

984
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 1: this is a lot of fun gils gilts. Yeah. So

985
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 1: I mean he seems to be sticking with that because

986
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:32,400
Speaker 1: it seems like she could stage a literal helicopter based

987
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:35,239
Speaker 1: prison break from you know. He was like, tell me

988
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 1: about your skills, mom, a helicopter pilot. He's like, how

989
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:43,799
Speaker 1: are you with lock picking? Picking, safe cracking? I speak

990
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:48,480
Speaker 1: ninety languages, Yeah, it makes her disarma bomb. I know

991
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:51,319
Speaker 1: how to do more code with my eyes. Yeah. There's

992
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 1: also some ship in the National Enquiry that was like

993
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 1: leaked text messages that are just creepy. But I don't

994
00:54:56,719 --> 00:54:58,880
Speaker 1: know if they're real. But if they are real, I

995
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:02,279
Speaker 1: love you a Live Girl was a text he sent her.

996
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:04,360
Speaker 1: What the fund does that mean? I love you, Comma

997
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 1: alive girl. Now it's better than I love you Alive girl.

998
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 1: But a Live Girl being a nickname is very weird.

999
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 1: It just sounds like an algorithm trying to fuck I

1000
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 1: love you Alive Girl, and then the other way said

1001
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 1: I will show you with my body and my lips

1002
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:24,879
Speaker 1: and my eyes very soon. I want to hold you tight,

1003
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:27,279
Speaker 1: I want to kiss your lips. I love you, I

1004
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 1: am in love with you. I want bump. All right,

1005
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:35,760
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please

1006
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 1: like and review the show. If you like the show,

1007
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 1: uh means the world to Miles. He he needs your validation, folks.

1008
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:47,839
Speaker 1: I hope you're having a great weekend and I will

1009
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Speaker 1: talk to him Monday. By Sta