Mia
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Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
The Diddy Trial: Week 4 of Testimony Begins
That's when she said, I'd guess you'd have to speak to my therapist because she can't even explain why she was acting or reacting the way she was because perhaps it took time to put it all into context. I do think it is interesting that when he did try to reach out to her, when Cassie's
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lawsuit became public she did refuse to speak to him and that is telling when she had some space and time away from all of it but certainly that is a powerful exchange for the jurors to hear
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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I also thought one of her responses was also similar to, you'll have to ask my therapist, when defense attorneys asked her how she could be around a man who traumatized her so much, she just said, it's called psychological abuse.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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I thought that was a very powerful response to their questioning of her reaction to working for and being around a man for eight years who she claims did so many things to her.
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that were so terrible and so traumatizing it's called psychological abuse and that is something we have heard from so many of the folks who have taken the stand to testify they all have said similar things they loved him because when he loved you it was the highest of highs and then when he turned when they say he suddenly became dark and did horrific awful things it was
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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unexpected, but the moments of highs were almost worth the low moments. It's hard to get your head around, but that is what all of these witnesses have testified to.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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Well, you know, I think that even maybe someone you're afraid of, you still want to keep in their good graces because, you know, he had something over her. Maybe he could blacklist her. All of the things that so many of these witnesses have testified to that they were afraid of what Diddy could do to them if he turned on them.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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And so perhaps when you have somebody, they say, keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer. Maybe she was just trying to keep it all good between them. And I can understand that, like just wanting it to all stay okay and stay good. So saying, you know, yes, I love you with all my heart.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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But that makes sense to me, especially the person I'm terrified of that speaks exactly to that keeping somebody who you're afraid of in a good place with you so that they don't do any more damage. I can understand that as a human being. I am curious if the jurors can as well.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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Yes, they asked him if he would consider pardoning Diddy. And the big headline here is that he didn't rule it out. He said he had not looked at any of the details of the case, but that he and Sean Diddy Combs were friends a while back. Years ago, he said they hadn't talked recently, but he absolutely did not say he if you read between the lines, he'd consider it.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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And because this is a federal case, President Trump absolutely could pardon Diddy if he's convicted, and he could also wipe away the charges if he wanted to right now in the middle of the trial, if he so chose. He actually has the power to change the course of this trial and the trial and certainly change the course of Diddy's life.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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Right.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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Just in case Trump wanted to indict him on anything. Biden tried to give him a blanket preemptive pardon is what they called it, I guess, at that point. So yes, the pardoning powers of the president are extreme, extensive, and completely at his choosing. We shall see on that.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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He loves making headlines, though.
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Just the idea that he could is headlining up for him right now. We'll see if that keeps him satiated.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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So that's four hours a day they're getting with their client to prep and deal with going into court and coming out of court. So after they complained, the judge said, hey, guess what? You guys are getting more time with your client than almost anyone else. So no other federal prisoner is getting this much time with his attorney.
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So he shut that argument down or at least that complaint down very quickly and said, you're getting plenty of time. Four hours is seemingly a lot.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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We don't know how much longer Mia's cross-examination will go with defense attorneys today, but there are four other witnesses that are slated to potentially show up today. I can't imagine they'd squeeze all these in, but you never know. Enrique Santos, he's a radio and podcast personality, tried to do a deep dive onto what he could possibly be testifying to.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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It's unclear, but perhaps just maybe the lifestyle, maybe he was in that world or knew some of the celebrities or surrounding some of this, who knows? Eddie Garcia, who's a security guard at the Intercontinental Hotel, he actually got immunity for his testimony. So to what he may have seen or participated in, a hotel custodian, Frank Piazza, who is a forensic video expert.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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So there are several other folks slated to potentially take the stand today. And we will, of course, keep you updated on all of that.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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That could be some very disgusting testimony, given what we've heard.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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Yes, we have been fascinated by this trial and have been a little fascinated by how much all of you listeners want to know the details of what's going on in court. There aren't cameras in the courtroom, so we're relying on some of the members of the media who are there in that courtroom.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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And if you go through all the different websites, you can kind of piece together what's happening inside this rivening courtroom. I mean, one witness after the next just keeps filling in details, jaw-dropping details that are really hard to believe except for all of these witnesses seem to corroborate what the others have been saying. It's a theme that is consistent.
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It's been a little surprising how long she's been on the stand, not only given her testimony with direct testimony telling what happened. She claims that just to catch you up, Diddy, she says, raped her. She says she was sexually assaulted by him. And she goes through psychological abuse that she says she suffered underneath him.
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And she, of course, offered corroborating testimony about what she saw happening. him due to her friend, Cassie Ventura, fine. So she's been corroborating a lot of that testimony as well. But man, the cross-examination where Diddy's lawyers get to question her and question her credibility, that has been relentless.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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She has been on the stand for hours dealing with his attorneys really trying to poke holes in her testimony and question whether or not she actually suffered the way she claimed she did. And that is continuing today.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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Yeah, and she says she did not talk to Diddy. He said, I just need 10 minutes with you. I just want to make sure I'm remembering everything correctly. But she did not pick up the phone. She didn't talk to him. She spoke to his bodyguard, the guy who she knew, D-Rock, I believe he's being referred to by most witnesses. But she said she spoke to him.
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She never spoke to Diddy because she knew what he wanted.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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That's right. And she even says, Mia says, to date, she can't get a job. She says she can't keep a job because she's so triggered by everything she suffered under the hands of Diddy. And so, yeah, she testified about so many instances. But somehow this was so interesting to me. We've heard different versions of this from other personal assistants. But she says she was suspended multiple times.
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without pay throughout her eight-year employment with Diddy. And she detailed a couple of those incidents. Once she said she was suspended without pay because she laid out workout clothes that he didn't like. That's how upset he could get about little seemingly insignificant things. And she also talked about being on a yacht in St. Barts.
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She said she was tasked with counting the money in his safe and And she said that he started screaming at her because she was counting the money too slowly and screamed for her to get out of here. She was on a yacht. So he told her, you better learn to walk on water like Jesus did. And so she ended up having to run up, trying to get... to safety, to get on a boat, to get to shore.
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And before she got to shore, he called her back and made her go to Las Vegas because he just abruptly ended the St. Barts trip to go to Vegas. She said, that's just how erratic and, and stressful and uncertain every moment was. He could be in a good mood one moment and then seemingly just get triggered by something insignificant.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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Yes. So she had to duck several objects, but for things that you wouldn't think would even be, well, they weren't her fault, and things that she couldn't control, and somehow she would suffer all of the blame.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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Yeah, they said that this was all an act, that the video spoke clearly to the level of fun she was having, how much she loved Diddy, and they wanted jurors to see this video. Ultimately, the judge ruled against showing the video, saying that it had little relevance whatsoever. according to the judge, to the case. And so it was not admissible in court, but certainly the defense went after Mia.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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They didn't have the video, but they had Instagram posts, they had text, and they used them against her saying, how could you say this about Diddy years after you claim you were sexually assaulted by him?
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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Yep, we'll give you a couple other ones just because they had her read these out loud in court. On the fifth anniversary of the initial sexual abuse, this is according to the defense attorney, he says this to Mia, you are saying to Sean Combs on your social media, and here's where he quotes Mia, thank you for being the good kind of crazy and continuing to inspire me Every single day.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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So the defense attorney read that one. And then this is the other one he made Mia read about Combs on his birthday. This is what Mia had to read. She had put this on social media. Legend, rapper, actor, entrepreneur, an extraterrestrial was born. Happy birthday. Thank you for showing me the path to Pluto and beyond.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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Yes. Go talk to my therapist. Try to understand why. Yes. Yes. Because that is the big question. How could you say one thing and then be feeling another? I do think it's interesting because this has been something that's been alleged about him, that he had an expectation of praise.
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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And so even from having some people pointed out to having his kids post all of this stuff on Instagram about his birthday, she said his birthdays were something that everyone who worked for him knew you were expected to praise him and talk about him on social media on his birthday, especially.
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right is it regret versus assault because at a certain point if you're looking at her social media accounts and of course she mentioned that instagram is a place where you always put your best foot forward where everyone who's on instagram understands that you're actually painting a picture of your happy life you're not posting things about what's going wrong in your life however like you say they just need one juror to think hmm she loved him she idolized him she wanted to do right by him
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
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was it really assault was it consensual was it just regret I mean these are all the doubts that they're trying to put in jurors minds in terms of her testimony because she is um one of the few who is claiming he flat out raped her that is what she said she woke up to him on top of her saying shh and she just let him do it because saying no wasn't an option
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
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Yeah, I think there's construction that literally started outside the window one minute ago.
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If you'd like me to call back, I can also do that.
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So I'm currently calling from San Francisco. I live in San Diego, but we're up here for the week visiting friends and my husband's family. And funnily enough, this is where the story takes place. Late 2015, one of my best friends, Dominica, shout out, she and I were living together. We were living in a typical old Victorian style apartment.
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san francisco apartment we were on the first floor we had a neighbor who lived directly above us prior to this event we had very typical kind of almost expected noise complaints walking with shoes on in the middle of the night performatively loud sex always like on weekdays did you get a visual on the upstairs neighbor what kind of gentleman was he Sorry, I should have clarified. It was a girl.
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I would say up until this point, it's sort of noise you kind of sign up for living in an old apartment. Anyways, one night, Dominica and I are coming home from a night out. It wasn't all that late for like a Friday night. It was maybe 11 p.m. And we are walking up to our building. We get out of our Uber. Dominica's a little bit ahead of me. She turns the corner to walk into our building.
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And there's a few steps up, a very large glass door looking into our lobby. Dominica quickly turns back around, walks to me and is like, someone's getting eaten out.
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A hundred percent. In order to get to the lobby, there's a few stairs and then the first floor is sort of on an elevated level. So she walking up and had bent over to give you a visual and the skirt was lifted from behind.
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I would say she was a bit older than us. So we were mid twenties. I would guess around 30.
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We sort of step back and decide what to do. And Dominica and I decide like, okay, I'm going to knock and then step back to give her.
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If it were me, I would probably sprint to my apartment and like shut the door. So we step back, give it a second. And then we walk and they're standing there, like almost waiting for us.
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Yeah, I think she's an exhibitionist for sure. I agree. And I had a feeling you guys were going to say that as well. So we punch in the code, we walk in and we kind of are like, okay, let's just walk right by, leave it be. And the girl says to me, oh my God, what are the chances?
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We didn't know her very well. So we think she was an alcohol distribution. I wasn't maybe looking to be her friend.
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That's my mode too. You're just cordial in the hallway, Sasha.
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It didn't after that. I mean, she continued on with her regular antics.
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I think there was some substance that evening for sure. God, if she was sober, that's scarier.
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Wild experience. I think she moved out shortly after that.
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It got me here. So I'll end on the typical fangirl moment. I've been listening to you guys from the beginning. So I've been listening through many, many phases of life. Most recently, I just had a baby boy six months ago. Oh, congratulations. I did also want to share that our baby boy is named Crosby. Oh, cute.
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Sweet. And if it's okay, I'll bring him in.
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What a beautiful family you have here.
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Oh, thank you. Yes, this is my husband, Benji.
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Yeah, speaking of everything being on fire, we need to take an ad break and then we will come back and I think the deliberate political intervention here. We are back from capital hellscape to mildly less capital hellscape. Yeah, actually, you were going to say?
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And that brings me to something I wanted to sort of ask about like more deliberately, which is like, what's the kind of specific political intervention that you're trying to make into this moment with, with this project and both sort of, I guess a bit more generally too.
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Love it. Yeah, I think the way I've always thought about it was this kind of like, it's this like flame-tending process, where in these sort of flow cycles, your job is to keep the flame alive. And eventually, you know that you're going to see it, like, you know, you're going to see the explosion again, right? You're going to see the flame...
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but like that that doesn't happen unless the flame is still there and unless people have been tending it and people have been trying to make it grow and you can't necessarily just like add fuel to it and be like ah it's gonna it's gonna grow now right it you know you don't you don't really have control of how it sort of moves and grows it expands but you have control over your ability to like make sure that it keeps going absolutely all about the embers yeah
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And I think also, like, I think about the punk metaphor a lot. Like, one of the ways that I've been thinking a lot about, like, what we're doing here and it could happen here is we kind of took the...
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We took the Rage Against the Machine gambit, which is to say we were like, okay, we're going to try to go somewhat mainstream in order to... I mean, Rage obviously went way bigger than we did, but we're going to go somewhat mainstream so we can spread this thing to a larger group of people.
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That's also very, very dangerous in the sense that it's very easy to just lose yourself in the mire of the field you've walked into. But on the other hand, the upside about it is that we're not the only people...
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doing this right and there's all of you out there who are doing this like everyone on this call is doing this like is doing the like like the DIY work that is going to be the core of what this whole thing becomes and the more the more of these media projects we get and the more that people are able to sustain themselves doing this the more that we're sort of able to break like I don't know just like the monomaniacal sub stack control of like taking your money and giving it the transphobes
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Kind of thing, the better shape we're going to be in in the years to come.
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Yeah. And I'm, I don't know. I'm, I'm, I'm excited for this. There's already been a bunch of great stuff that's up on the site. We will, we will have links to everything in the description. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you three for coming on the show. And I'm, I'm really excited about this.
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That's not true. Hold on. Oh, second time. Dang it.
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Yeah. In that spirit, you too, dear listener, can do things together and go disrupt this world. So go do that now instead of listening to whatever else is happening on the show. This ending's not going well, but go disrupt things. Thanks so much.
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Welcome to It Could Happen Here, a podcast about the worst coups in all of history. I'm your host, Bia Wong. And we are returning to one of the worst coups I have ever seen. Because a whole bunch more stuff has happened in our most recent unbelievably dogshit coup in South Korea. The six-hour coup in which President Yoon declared martial law and tried to shut down the National Assembly.
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And then the National Assembly... got together and voted to end the martial law, and then it stopped. Extremely bizarre and baffling series of events. And, you know, when we last left our intrepid heroes, the people of South Korea, they had just successfully overturned a coup. No one quite knew what was going to happen in the aftermath.
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We knew an impeachment vote was coming, a vote to impeach President Yoon. The reason we're coming back to this, though, is that the aftermath of all of this has been absolutely baffling. And I think this has all been lost in the news cycle because about a trillion things are happening right now. But the situation in South Korea has been unbelievably weird.
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And so we're now going to take a look at the actual impeachment of President Yoon and the unbelievably bizarre path that led to it. Because, oh, my God, the more I talk to people, the more I realize that people don't know how unbelievably unhinged everything has been since since the military coup, because everyone has moved on. So we're going back.
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So immediately after the coup, there was this whole wave of military guys going like, we didn't know we were taking part in a coup. We're totally innocents like they just let us out of the trucks. And suddenly we were at the National Assembly. We were like, oh, what are we doing? And
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there's also been this whole thing of all these special forces guys going like oh yeah no no yeah we totally could have taken the national assembly in 20 minutes if we wanted to we just uh we just like didn't want to take a national assembly like we didn't really want to do it man like our heart wasn't in this coup and like Really, I have seen the videos of that shit, man.
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Like, I didn't see you, like, going in there and kicking ass and taking names. I saw you getting your ass kicked by a guy just, like, blowing your ass up with a fire extinguisher and, like, not being able to break a bunch of very well-constructed barricades set up by, like, fucking Senate aides. So that's been extremely funny.
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So you like vanished the entire time this coup was going on and like nobody knew where he was and no one had seen him and things were kind of fiasco. He was just gone. So he finally like reappeared. Right. And as he sort of reappears, he tries to, like, do this explanation of why he did the coup.
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It goes about as badly as you would expect from someone who just failed the worst coup that we've ever seen. Here's from NPR. Quote, In his speech on Thursday, Yoon, a former chief prosecutor, attempted to justify his actions and downplay its significance. He argued that the opposition's, quote, legislative dictatorship, unquote, paralyzed state affairs and disturbed social order.
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Now, this is going back to the thing he did at the time, right? He has this thing where he keeps calling the parliament, which is controlled by the Democratic Party, which is like the liberal opposition party. He kept calling the parliaments like opposition anti-state forces. And like, my brother in Christ, what the fuck is a legislative dictatorship?
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I mean, like, you know, you could be really strictly anarchist about it and be like, well, yeah, all legislators are dictatorships. But my dude, you are not living under a dictatorship because the parliament that your country elected hates you and refuses to pass your dog shit budget because no one likes you. That is simply not what the word dictatorship means.
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It reminds me of this thing where, like, you know, if you go back and you read, like,
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people in the 1800s talking about or like in the 1800s like 1700s too you'll read them talking about monarchies right and they'll be like ah if the king can like overrule the will of the nobles we would be living in a pure dictatorship it's like what the fuck are you talking about like sir you live under a monarchy like you are already in a dictatorship you are also like part of the authoritarian apparatus of the dictatorship and this is just like the inverse of that where it's like ah the legislature won't let me do whatever the fuck i want so this is now a dictatorship
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and so like you know that's simply not what the word dictatorship means and you can't get away with that shit as much in a country where people like in living memory have lived through an actual military dictatorship and understand what that's like the parliament refusing to pass your terrible budget that's not an excuse to institute martial law and try to shut down the legislature
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So this this was not received well, as you would expect from whatever unhinged speech that was. He did apologize for imposing martial law, which is a very funny place to end up is like you try to do a coup and then you have to go on TV and apologize for trying to do the coup and also try to argue you didn't just try to do a coup. So this is received very poorly.
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As we sort of predicted immediately, the opposition Democratic Party immediately tries to impeach Yoon. And from the way the headlines kind of work in the West and from the way this is being talked about, and even from the way this episode sort of opened, you'd think that this impeachment vote was how we got impeached. But no, no. The first impeachment vote is not how Yoon gets impeached.
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Everything is way, way weirder than that. Now, Yoon's party, the People's Power Party, which is henceforth going to be called the PPP because I am not going to say the words People Power Party over and over again. Good Lord.
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The PPP got a lot of credit from people outside of South Korea for like, you know, some of their members legitimately did show up to parliament to vote against the martial law declaration. And at the time in the last episode, I said, that's bullshit. You don't get credit for voting against martial law. And also, like most of them weren't there. And I kind of got shit for this.
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And I have been absolutely 100 percent vindicated because the impeachment vote, the first one rolls around. The first one happens very quickly after the first coup. Right. Well, the first coup, hopefully the only coup, hopefully is not a second coup, but this happens very quickly. And OK, so the vote rolls around and the entire PPP, the entire party, except maybe like two people.
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Just walk out of the chambers. And because they walk out of the chambers, the vote fails because they don't have they don't have quorum.
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If you don't have a quorum, is it like there's there's like a minimum number of members that has to be in attendance for for whatever you're doing to be legal to stop like two people from showing up in the middle of the night and being like, ha ha, I am in the parliament. We've just passed this like order that makes me dictator or whatever.
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And again, the entire PPP just walks out and they leave and the vote fails because the PPP managed to whip basically its entire membership into trying to keep Yoon in power. And here begins the what the fuck is going on part of this episode, because A, all reports we have suggest that Yoon was planning to have the leadership of the PPP arrested.
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And B, he just literally tried to do a coup, and they're still backing him. And C, we stumble into a very, very thorny question that I saw from people in Korea, like, the moment after all this stuff happens, but didn't really hit the Western press until later, if at all, and didn't really hit, like... the mainstream consciousness? And this question will become apparent in a second.
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So here's from The Guardian. Senior PPP politicians have claimed you can continue as president while delegating his powers to the prime minister. An arrangement Park, that's Park Chan-dae, who's a very powerful Democratic Party politician, an arrangement Park described as, quote, a blatant constitutional violation with no legal basis. Now, this is true. What Park is saying is right. Right.
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And the fact that the Guardian is saying like that their way of framing this is, oh, the opposition party person says that this is a blatant violation of constitutional law with no legal basis. That's not just a thing that he says, like, this is true. Like, there is no legal mechanism for, well, we don't want to impeach our president, but also he just tried to do a coup.
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So instead, we're going to take his powers away and give it to the prime minister so he can still serve without us impeaching him. Like, that's not a thing. You can't do this. There's no mechanism for this. The Democratic Party people are just completely correct here. But because for some reason, the Guardian feels it. I mean, it's the Guardian, right?
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Like, but they feel it necessary to sort of both sides. Again, a fucking coup. This is where we are. Here's more from The Guardian. Quote, the leader of the PPP, Han Dong-hoon, said at the weekend that Yoon would not be involved in foreign and other state affairs with control of the administration shifting to the prime minister, Han Deok-soo.
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Han said Yoon's televised apology was effectively a promise to leave office. Now, no, it wasn't. It was not a promise to leave office. What the fuck are you talking about? Like, everyone could just go listen to his apology. He didn't say that. He did not say he was going to leave office, right? And no, how he says it's effectively a promise to leave office, but it simply isn't, right?
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Everyone could just, like, see this. And again, like, you know, OK, so like the thing that the thing that the PPP is trying to do, right, the PPP is trying to have their prime minister like gain control of the administration. Now, there is a mechanism to do this under the Constitution. It's called impeachment.
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The thing that happens when you get impeached is that you get kicked out of office as we're going to get to this later. But you get kicked out of office and the prime minister gets put into power. And this happens until the Supreme Court decides whether whether your impeachment should go through or not. Right. So, like, there's a mechanism for this.
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The PPP doesn't want to, like, impeach Yoon, but they also don't want him seemingly running the country because he appears to be, like, absolutely unhinged and just, again, declared martial law and tried to knock off the legislature.
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So you have this you have this whole sort of steaming mess of a situation where the PPP is trying to, like, have it both ways of, like, not having union power, but also not impeaching him. But this also begs one very important question. Who the fuck was running the country between the first impeachment vote and the second one? No one knows. No one knows who was running this fucking country.
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This is a country with 51 million people and nobody knew who was fucking running the country. And this, this barely made the news. I'm going insane. How, how, why, why, why is this a thing that just like completely disappeared beneath the fucking like chatter of the news waves? This just, this just vanished entirely.
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And, and speaking of vanishing entirely, we were going to vanish entirely to do these ads. And we are back. So as you would imagine from a situation where, again, you have a country of 51 million people where no one knows who is running the country, things have been extremely chaotic. So, you know, we covered in the last episode that like a bunch of ministers were resigning, right?
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Because, you know, they had just taken part in a coup and they were like, well, shit. The ex-defense minister, who's one of the people who's been sort of implicated as being like Saying that he's to a large extent behind the coup is true, but this was a cooperative effort between Yoon, the defense minister, and a bunch of the people in the army.
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And the defense minister who resigned in disgrace got thrown in jail. So that's fucking wild. He just got arrested by the police. A bunch of testimony also has come out from the National Assembly investigation, which I'm not covering much of the testimony from the National Assembly investigation because it's really unclear exactly how reputable all this stuff is.
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Because a lot of people are just saying shit, right? And some of it may be real. Some of it may be stuff that people have obtained through their sources, but some of it's probably not. But to get a sense of the kind of stuff that is coming out in this investigation... One of the big claims was from I think it's from like a TV host who claimed he got texted it by a guy in the army.
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But apparently he was saying the plan by you in the army, the plan was to have the head of the PPP killed and then drop a North Korean uniform nearby to like do a false flag and implicate North Korean special forces. Now, this is crazy. unbelievably unhinged, right? What the fuck? And it probably isn't true, but, you know, the source isn't great. But, like, who knows, right?
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Like, we don't actually know if they were planning to do this and fucked it up, or if they weren't planning to do this, or if this person is just lying, this person did get this text, but the person was misinformed. We don't know if this is just, like, misinformation that's being spread around. This is a good demonstration of what the sort of chaos... of this moment has been.
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And, you know, there's been a lot of other stuff that I think in any other time and place probably would have been like front page news. So one of one of the things that happens in this whole process is that the South Korean police tried to raid the house of the president.
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And, you know, like as part of their investigation, there's a whole thing where Yoon's been ordered by the investigatorial services to not leave the country because he's just actively under investigation for this military coup being illegal by just like the regular ass police.
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And so South Korean police like try to raid his house and they can't do it because the South Korean equivalent of the Secret Service stops them from doing the raid. And this in and of itself is something that like, again, would be a giant news headline at any other point in time. And it's just been completely lost. And it's like it's not sort of clear enough.
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Right now, how this is all sort of going to play out and whether the police are going to be able to do this. And, you know, what's actually going to happen to you after he presumably leaves office? I mean, I guess the Supreme Court could save him. But like, you know, there's there's there's a real chance that he we're going to get into this more in a second.
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There's a real chance that he just like fucking goes to prison. Right. And unlike the last president who was removed from office, like I can't imagine him getting pardoned by the next administration because that was merely an unhinged corruption scandal involving the president of South Korea being under the influence of a shaman and doing a bunch of corruption that did a bunch of horrible shit.
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But this is, you know, this is like he tried to do a coup. Right. So it's sort of unclear if he's going to get saved from that. It does seem very likely that he's going to face a bunch of charges for this because everyone is unbelievably pissed off. Here's from DW.
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On Monday, former head of Special Warfare Command Kwok Jung-guen and former head of the Capitol Defense Command Lee Jin-woo were arrested on charges of deploying military personnel to the parliament. Former chief of the Defense Counterintelligence Command, Yeo In-hung, has been accused of orchestrating the implementation of martial law, and Army Chief Park An-soo has been suspended from his role.
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Yoon's former defense minister, Kim Yong-hyun, who stepped down immediately following the aborted martial law declaration, and former interior minister Lee Song-min also faced investigations. So what we're seeing here effectively, right, is the housecleaning of the ranks of the Korean military who have been involved with this whole thing. Right. And they're going through a lot of different people.
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Part of this is also clearing out some of like the cliques in the military who've been sort of backing Yoon and who people have suspected have been a bunch of people behind a lot of this stuff. And this is a good and necessary process. The entire time this has been going on, everyone has been terrified of the possibility of a second coup.
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And the only way to avoid that in the short term is to remove the senior leadership of the military and get them away from their troops. They don't have the ability to sort of plan anything. And sometimes this can make people just go for it, right? Like that's what happens in Bolivia, it looks like.
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Where the failed Bolivian coup was a product of, you know, people trying to do house cleaning and get rid of military guys before they did a coup. And so this makes them go off half cocked. And like, you know, that's that's a bad situation for I mean, it's a bad situation for everyone in the sense that there's a coup happening.
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But it's a bad situation, especially for the military, because they don't have their coup preparations in place. So it's easier to knock them off. But what's interesting about this, too, is that to a large extent, we're seeing other parts of the Korean state like really go after the military. Right. And this I don't know. I mean, like, I'm hoping this kind of like.
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has a precedent inside of the sort of Korean like liberal democratic societal norms that like you can't let this just unhinged military do all of this stuff. The precedent of this sort of like military house cleaning, I think, is a good one. Right. This is going to be a rare a rare Mia agrees with the people who founded the U.S.
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moment because, oh, my God, those people suck shit like a bunch of slave owning genocidal bastards. But, you know, one of the things that they were right about is the political danger to any democratic system of having a standing army.
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right and especially when you have a set a standing army that's like permanently on a semi-war footing the way the south korea's is there's always a real political risk that they attempt to seize power and you have to fucking stop them from doing that And ideally, you just fucking axe as much of it as you possibly can, right?
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I mean, I think you should axe the entire political system to make sure this doesn't happen. But, you know, this is hopefully a good first step. I also want to mention that the specific charge of insurrection is being thrown at a lot of these people, and also at Yoon himself. And, like, he absolutely did it, right? Like, there's not much of a dispute that he did, in fact, do...
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An insurrection under under sort of Korean law. And this technically like carries the death penalty. But I don't think they're going to kill him. But, you know, this is the sort of severity of of this stuff under under the Korean legal system. And OK, so like all of this fucking chaos is happening. Right. And eventually there's a second impeachment vote.
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And this time, the public pressure is enough that the PPP stays in the chamber to vote no. And only about a dozen, like per NPR, only about a dozen PPP lawmakers actually vote to impeach the guy who just tried to have their fucking parliament disbanded. You know, and this is like one of the really depressing things about this, right? Even after everything, right?
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And this is something that we can trace back to sort of the roots of the conservatism of the PPP. Even after all of this shit, right? Like these people still backed him. And that's a really, really grim and depressing thing.
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And part of the reaction to this has been from the South Korean trade union movement, which has been calling for just straight up the disbanding of the PPP as a political party. Right. And that's something that I think is extremely reasonable. Again, if your party's president tries to do a military coup, I think I think you shouldn't be allowed to have a party anymore.
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This is the meal meal liberal opinions. Right. OK, so like eventually this vote does go through and the stage that we're at right now is that, OK, so once you get impeached by the National Assembly, you're suspended from all your duties and the prime minister takes power. So what's happening right now is he doesn't have any power formally, but we're still in this sort of holding period.
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We're waiting for the Supreme Court to weigh in and either like approve the impeachment or not. And that's kind of where things stand now after an unbelievably unhinged week and a half of just everything being extremely, two weeks, I guess, everything being just unbelievably, extremely weird.
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And yeah, but I think there is a mild hopeful note, which is that if you fight back against these people, they can be defeated. It sucks, but you can eventually get them to crumble. And all I can really say for this is I hope the South Korean people prevail over the shitty military dictators. And I hope that we, too, are able to sort of prevail in the U.S.
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against our sort of equivalents of these forces.
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Welcome to It Could Happen Here, a podcast that I introduce the same way almost every time. I don't know, you listen to the show, right? You're listening at like some point in the future. You probably know the things falling apart, putting back together again intro. I don't have to do it.
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We are doing something that we have done before and I guess we'll continue to do, which is talking to other anarchist media projects about their work and how things are going and stuff. Yeah, the general why, how, what of it all. And today we're talking with the Collective of Anarchist Writers.
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And very specifically, we're talking to Shuley Branson, who is a writer, translator, and teacher currently living in so-called New York. Carla Joy Bergman, who lives across the border in Canada and is a mom, writer, artist, and loves crows. Very important. We'll be coming back to that in a second. And Vicky Osterweil, who is a worker, writer, and agitator based in Philadelphia.
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And all three of you, welcome to the show. Hi, thanks for having us. Hi. Thanks so much for having us.
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Yeah, I'm excited to talk about this. And partly I'm excited to talk about it because the acronym for this is C.A.W. And there's a whole crow theme going on. And we love a crow here in Portland. It is maybe our big thing.
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Yeah. Yeah, there's a huge thing in Portland here where we have the mega murder. So every morning, all the crows sort of fly off into their different little murders and they go out and hang out in the city. And then at around sunset every day, all of the crows fly back into the city to have their giant mega murder meeting. There's thousands and thousands of them.
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You look up and you just see them, like the herds. The murders of crows flying past. There's specific spots in Portland where you can just go see all of the crows hanging out. And, you know, doing whatever the things crows do when literally an entire city is where the crows gather together every night.
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It's not a spokes council, though, because all of them are there. So I feel like that's an assembly.
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Yeah. One of the things that, you know, you kind of have to do here in Portland is you have to kind of like negotiate with the crows. You have to like you leave them like peace offerings and you sort of, you know, when your friends come, you let you introduce them to the crows. So the crows know that you're OK. It's very sweet.
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Yeah. We love a crow based society. And speaking of a crow based society. Yeah. Do you want to, I guess, give a brief sort of overview of what Caw is before we get sort of more into it?
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Yeah. And I think one of the other issues with this, too, also, like the pay is just so bad, like even the like almost especially the leftist groups like pages so rancid and all of the combinations of those things make it really, really hard to just sort of be an independent writer. And also, OK, jumping back a second to their racing anarchism exists.
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This is why I the one that makes me always lose my mind is like I'm specifically going to name Jacobin here because I don't like them. But like one of the things that Jacobin will do is they'll be covering a strike that is organized by the IWW. It is an IWW union that they will have pictures of the strike.
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where there are a bunch of people holding IWW banners, and they will never mention that it was the IWW who organized the strike. So like, yeah, there is this real sort of conspiracy of silence, I guess, about our politics and the stuff that we do in the world.
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yeah very involved and they just will not mention them i'm like and they sometimes there's really good history and analysis on that podcast but like this is an omission that they clearly are choosing yeah and i think you know self-organization is effectively the only way out of this because otherwise you just sort of i don't know how to deal with all the sort of media gatekeepers like sitting there in front of you with a stick going no anarchism
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Unfortunately, speaking of sustaining work as a platform, unfortunately, the way we are sustained here is with these ads. So hold on. And we are back. And this, I guess, brings us to the kind of work that's happening here. I was very excited because one of the things y'all have done is an interview with Raul Zabecki, who is the author of, like, one of my favorite quotes of all time.
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I think I've said on this show, like, multiple times. I weirdly ran into... In a sort of completely unrelated book called Rhythms of the Pachacuti, which is about the water and gas wars in Bolivia. I talk about this book on the show like all the time. This quote goes roughly like struggle illuminates the divisions of a society like lightning illuminates the sky. And I love it.
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It's like it's like it's the best explanation of what happened during 2020 that I've ever seen. And this is sort of what's happening. Like right now, too, is like you have these sort of flashpoint moments where we're, you know, suddenly like all of how society works very briefly becomes visible and you have this sort of moment when you're illuminated by it to act.
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And so I'm I'm really excited that you are talking to him and. Yeah. Can you talk a little bit more about what's been going on and what's to come?
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Yeah, and that's something I think is useful for everyone listening to this, is that it's a lot easier to develop better ideas, and it makes your writing more clear, it makes the way that you, just the way you act in the world a lot more clear when you're working with other people, and it's the process by which the best stuff gets created.
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The older anarchist movement. I mean, when I say older, I mean like anti-globalization era stuff. It seemed like there was a lot more of a kind of anarchist media sphere.
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But yeah, no, no. Well, this is good, too, because like I think that's everything I've been realizing is like people don't I mean, in my generation, too, but like people younger than me don't really know the history of this stuff. Like all the time I have conversations, people where I start talking about like the Oaxaca uprising and they have no idea what I'm talking about.
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And I'm like, oh, no, we need to like we need to like resuscitate the history of like the 2000s because stuff happened there.
CreepCast
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Yes, of course. To the bathroom I go. Yeah, now I'm gonna go take my regular afternoon poop.
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I come here. I come every now and then. My boyfriend... Oh, boo! No! No!
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I come here every now and then. My boyfriend didn't like these movies, but we just broke up. Oh, we're back!
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But we just broke up, so I plan on coming from now on. What was that moan?
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I just a baby. I'm a little baby. Mommy want milky. Baby want milk.
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hi you found my balloon my name is blank and i attend blank elementary school you can keep the balloon but i hope you write me back i like mighty max exploring building forts swimming and friends what do you like write me back soon here's a dollar for the mail on the dollar i wrote four stamps
Diddy On Trial
Hotel worker: Room needed ‘deep cleaning’ after Diddy stay
Hey Vodafone, ich weiß ja, schnelles Internet für meinen Betrieb hat seinen Preis.
Diddy On Trial
Hotel worker: Room needed ‘deep cleaning’ after Diddy stay
Es war mehr das Gleiche. Wenn man sich über all diese E-Mails und Instagram-Posts erinnert, die zeigen, dass es eine liebevolle Beziehung zwischen Combs und Mia gibt. Die Defense hat das wieder gemacht. Sie haben sich wirklich darauf konzentriert, das richtig zu machen. Du hast gesagt, ich liebe dich. Du hast gesagt, Glückwunsch. Du hast gesagt, ich bin für dich hier, für immer.
Diddy On Trial
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Es gab einige sehr lange E-Mails, die wir heute gelernt haben, die zeigen, dass jemand als ehemaliger Assistent, der viel Liebe für Sean Combs hatte, viel Respekt für ihn hatte, ihn als einen der brillantesten Unternehmer auf der Welt genannt hat, Was Mia gemacht hat, ist, dass sie erklärt hat, dass das für sie psychologisch ist. Sie sagt, dass sie gebraucht wurde.
Diddy On Trial
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Also diese Idee, dass man kind zu jemandem ist, der sie gesagt hat, dass er ihr sexuell verabschiedet hat, geht darum, auf der guten Seite zu bleiben, der viel Macht hält, wie sie sagt.
Diddy On Trial
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So her employment ended around 2017 and there are a number of exchanges between that time up until November of 2023 that show a relationship that is filled with again the I'm here for you. I respect you. So the question, the defense asked, why then are you continuing to talk to this person who you say sexually assaulted you multiple times, who you say was disrespectful.
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The person that you said threatened your life. Why are you still talking to them? Why are you still posting about them? In some instances, when the Als die Entschuldigung zurückkam, sagten sie, Mia, das war Teil deines Jobs, korrekt? Du wurdest gefordert, zu posten, korrekt?
Diddy On Trial
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Sie posteten sogar einige der Job-Deskriptions, um sicherzustellen, dass sie jede Stunde auf sozialen Medien-Seiten postet und sogar seine Kinder-Social-Media-Posts monitoriert.
Diddy On Trial
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So he asked Mia if she was a strong person and if she was someone that would be helpful. And throughout her testimony, she would say things like, well, I mean, I don't know if I would say that, but I sometimes do that. Or she would ask Brian Steele to repeat the question again. Sie hat ihre Zeit genommen. Sie wurde von einigen Fragen verwirrt.
Diddy On Trial
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Selbst der Gericht hat ein paar Mal gesagt, ja, das war ein Doppel-Negativ da. Können Sie die Frage wiederholen oder so weiter. Also, ich denke, sie kam bereit, zu wissen, dass sie für eine Weile auf dem Stand sein könnte. Und es scheint, dass die Übertragung nur so lange wie die Direktverhandlung war. Vielleicht sogar etwas länger.
Diddy On Trial
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Hast du das auch aufgenommen? Absolut. Wahrscheinlich das meiste, was ich seitdem ich dieses Trial beobachtet habe. Und wir sind in der vierten Woche jetzt.
Diddy On Trial
Hotel worker: Room needed ‘deep cleaning’ after Diddy stay
Genau, Sylvia Oaken. Sie arbeitet an dem Beverly Hills Hotel. Sie hat dort 17 Jahre gearbeitet. Und sie war da, um die Idee zu bringen, dass viele Celebriten, insbesondere Combs, einen Alias benutzen, wenn er einsteigen würde. Und es gab zusätzliche Anzeichen für Telefonnutzung, für eine private Bar.
Diddy On Trial
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Aber vor allem die tiefe Kleidung, weil wir darüber gehört haben in den Erklärungen, dass diese Person diese Hotels benutzen würde und es so viel übrig sein würde, laut der Verwaltung, dass es eine spezielle Bezahlung für die tiefe Kleidung gäbe. Und es gab ein paar Beispiele, als sie die zusätzliche Bezahlung zu einem relativ teuren Geld von den meisten Menschen erhielt.
Diddy On Trial
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Very short time. I believe she had a flight that leaves tonight. So she was someone that they knew going in. It would not be a long direct or redirect.
Diddy On Trial
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So Jane is somebody that is likely to testify, they say, sounds like for a few days because they said she has an international flight next Thursday. So the goal is to get her on the stand possibly as early as this Wednesday. But that was an inkling into, wow, this person will probably play a significant role and be questioned quite a bit between now and maybe even next week.
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Jerika, thank you so much for filling us in on what happened today. You're so welcome. And don't forget, you can catch my podcast, I Am That Reporter, The Diddy Trial.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
Don't think I don't know what you did to the pool boy, Diego. I did what I had to do, you hear me? Fine. Okay, you win.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
Honey, you're home.
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I... I don't understand. Of course you don't. Look at this stuff. And you just think it's trash? This is Sunday cool. They produce super soft teas with super softing and have a 72 hour turnaround. This isn't trash. This is my life!
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
They do the same because Americans do it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
But mostly the thing that I'm trying to hit on is how many immigrants are being persecuted right now, including Kilmar Obrego-Garcia. Before you respond, or before I even say anything, I just want to acknowledge the fact that we are right now on stolen land, and that we are on indigenous land, and that we are on original Mexican land right now. And for a lot of you guys that are Latinos for Trump,
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Personally, me, I am a second-generation Mexican Guatemalan, and I am blessed to have been born in America, although I do not think that Mexicans for Trump should stand for the Latinos in this country. Okay.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
If we stole the land and you're mad about it... Well, I'm not saying that it's not a better country right now. I'm just saying that right now, especially like the things that were taught in school, in public education, were taught about the Alamo and how it was this amazingly... A patriotic act, though it was literally stealing a base from the Mexicans in their own land.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
I think that that's kind of the wrong angle to be looking at things. And that's why I really make it a point to notice that I'm on stolen land at all times, especially when we think about things like this manifest destiny.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
Actually, the Mexicans were there originally in Texas because... Wrong.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
Originally, Mexicans were Aztecs and Mayans.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
Okay. So my question is, how can we protect American-born Mexican people?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
I'm sorry, but this is going to connect to it. It's going to connect to it. I promise you. Okay, so now that the body cam footage has been released and everything, one, they were purely basing the idea that he was part of MS-13 on the idea that they had that he was... No, he's not.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
So they're purely basing that on the fact that he had tattoos and the fact that he had eight men in his car that were going to a construction site. Do you think personally that toothbrushes and toothpaste is purely the only thing that we can go on to gratify the idea that somebody is a human trafficker?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
I've never seen anybody affiliated with MS-13, but I think that it could be a multitude of things.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
Uh-huh, he wore a Michael Jordan Bulls jersey.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
No, the fact that I'm wearing a jersey.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
White fence, white fence, and Bulls. the Crips of this area wear Dodgers jerseys. So do you think that I would be affiliated with White Fence in East L.A.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
You can't bring that up because multiple people wear multiple jerseys and multiple hats.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
Look at these people that are wearing MAGA hats right now.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
Yeah, yeah, of course, of course.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. But to sort of put that on you, right, he had a green card.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
Well, the fact that he was deported was wrong because he didn't have any due process. Hold on.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
That's actually incorrect. He's going through it right now while he's in El Salvador. He's going through it right now while he's in El Salvador.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
Okay, you do know the fact that Donald Trump has raped multiple women and his wife. Oh! Okay, yeah. He's a rapist. He raped his wife and multiple women. Oh, he raped his wife, really? And he's on record saying... Which wife did he rape, exactly? Ivana.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
I do believe so, yes.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
Has he specifically stated that his tattoos were an affiliation of MS-13 or is that a narrative being controlled by the Trump administration? Well, let me bring this up. Trump did believe that he physically had MS-13 in the interview that literally just aired a few days ago, where he said that he didn't believe that it was photoshopped MS-13.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
Because weed, smiley face, and how are the skull and crossbones and the cross going to be... Well, that's an interesting question.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
I mean, yeah, you're actually, that was a good point.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
Now, let me just bring that up into like a, let me, I want to.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
Now, I kind of want to just transition then to the entirety of immigration.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
Okay. So, obviously, Trump has floated around the idea of, quote-unquote, deporting homegrowns for, you know, the, quote, most horrible and violent offenders or whatever. So how can we as Americans stop Americans from being persecuted by those, especially ones that aren't of white color, especially ones that are not of white color?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
Because ICE has repeatedly persecuted Mexican-Americans and or just Latino-Americans for having tattoos and dark skin. How can we prevent people from being persecuted? That's actually not a lie. That's actually not a lie. What is your evidence for this? Multiple articles and multiple news broadcasts that have let us know that ICE is racially profiling people.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
My father is obviously not white-skinned and has multiple tattoos. How can I make sure that he is not taken?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
I'm talking about when we get into... Is he a legal citizen? Yeah, I mean, yeah, of course. Okay, then he's got nothing to worry about. But I just brought up the fact of the idealization of homegrown... He's got nothing to worry about then.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
And what makes them inherently bad? Because there's multiple people that overstay their visas.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
That doesn't really work because we were moved in a specific order. The same thing happens here where we're moved into a specific order. Other people are prioritized.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
I mean, I guess from personal familial experience, my family are all American citizens now that came in illegally. I will admit that. They came in illegally, but my family did the right process. They overstayed their visa. They came on a trip, but they did the right process. Why is it that, like, we are simply only persecuting those that are, like,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
coming in illegally and want to just live a normal life. It does not matter your intention. Hold on. Everybody's bringing up murderers. Everybody's bringing up rapists.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
But what's wrong with that is when rape is committed by men, 51% of all rape is committed by white men. White men. Okay, yes. And guess what? So why are we pinpointing a Mexican from the crowd and saying, oh, he's a rapist?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
Personally, me, I think we should help them get processed into the country. Help them home. That's the only thing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
The country should become home.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
So when you go to a random person and say, hey, come over to my house, what happens?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
Why are we comparing a homeless man to somebody in need?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
And I think it is ironic of you to bring up especially Guatemala right now with the thing that just happened in Tucson, Arizona. A Guatemalan woman was detained after giving birth. That child is now an American citizen. Why should the mother be sent back and not be here to help her child grow? Yes, they could both be sent back to Guatemala together. That's not true because the child was born here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
First of all, I just want to say I have a lot of respect for you, but obviously we just disagree on a few things. The main thing that I just want to talk about is the issue of immigration. And personally, Mia, I don't think it's a bad thing for America. In fact, I do think that it's an amazing thing for America.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
citizen and live in Guatemala. Well, under the Constitution, it is now an American-born citizen.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
Why not? Why not? Because we've already been going for quite a while.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
Yet the people that, again, going back to what we originally spoke about, the people that came over here were then given birthright citizenship. So that means that everybody here should not have birthright citizenship. It just does not make sense in your opinion, the way that you just stated. That just doesn't make sense. That just does not make sense.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
People do it all the time.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
People do it all the time.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
Are you saying if you get caught?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Immigration, Harvard, and Biden — Charlie vs. UC Riverside
I guess deport you.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
He said he used to look at the world the way you did, but now I've done everything. What's left of I've done everything? I was addressing this conversation with him. I had where he felt sad to me. It's hard to get somebody who has a lot of money, a birthday present. So I thought this would make him happy.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
It wasn't horrible all the time. If it was, it would have been easy getting punished. No one around us ever reacted. Everyone acted like it was normal. Adults in the office upheld his behavior.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
That could be explained with any sexual assault victim and the shame that they carry when you're in it. I was young and manipulated and eager to survive. I'm unraveling a lot of this now in therapy. Nobody was there to say these things were wrong. There were no documentaries, nobody around us that even flinched at his behavior. I don't know how to explain that.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
I was always in trouble and finding a way to not be in trouble. When things were great, things were so great.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
I'm a people pleaser. I'm an empath. I'm a rule follower. I wanted to do my best and make everybody happy all the time. I tend to take a lot more than normal people. I don't know if I should apologize for that. I forgive people all the time for things like that.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
What I said in this courtroom is the truth. I have not lied to anyone at all.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
So many magical and hilarious things, like drinking 1942 on the Parakeet Beach and champagne under the Eiffel Tower at 4 a.m.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
in the dark and singing with Jimmy at Interscope and Mick Jagger trying to take me home and that random underground baccarat game where you won 650 grand and that little prick ran away from me and Leo grabbed my pink bedazzled Blackberry and you said that Titanic motherfucker doesn't know shit. He won 10K, I won 650K. Ha ha ha. Gosh, there were trillions of stories that are amazing.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
I was in an environment where the highs were really high and the lows were very low. me trusting my instincts. I was punished whenever Puff would be violent and I'd react, confusing me and making me believe I'd done something wrong. I tried so hard to get back to the good space and work harder and be nicer and nobody around batted an eye. He was still praised by everyone around him and in public.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
I felt like I had done something horrifically, like I'd betrayed him by going to meditation and I felt horrible about it. I'd done something wrong and was always constantly seeking his approval. He was my authority figure.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
I was hired to help lead her film division, but she also needed help restructuring her executive team. It morphed into multiple roles.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
Initially, I said I'd stay three months and allowed it to extend to eight.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
Blacklisted? Oh, she didn't care about that. But no, I, of course not.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
I can't look my niece or my goddaughters in the eyes and advise them on the future if they happen to be in this situation.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
What would you be afraid would happen? He'd fire me and ruin my future and somehow twist the story into making me look like a threat. I knew his power and his control over me. I didn't want to lose everything I had worked so hard for. What were you worried would happen physically? I would be somehow attacked, or I just didn't want to die or get hurt.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
How? He threatened that he was going to tell everybody and tell Cassie as though I had something to do with it. I felt so desperate and terrified and trapped. I would have done anything to stop that from happening. Did you ever speak to anyone? No. I was going to die with this. I didn't want anyone to know, ever. And if you spoke up? I would have been silenced. Exiled from my second family.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
He was talking and all of a sudden his face was closer. My eyes couldn't focus on his face because it was so close. I didn't really know what was happening. He put his arm next to my head against the wall and leaned in to kiss me and put his other hand up the side of my dress.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
No. I was shocked and I froze. I didn't even process what was happening.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
I remember it was sort of like him telling me, shh, be quiet, and using one hand to get his pants off. What did he do?
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
I don't remember, but I know he didn't leave the job unfinished. So whenever he was done or got what he wanted...
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
The character, yeah, it was a funny video and it was produced and directed by Andy Sandberg. I was proud I was in a funny video.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
Thank you for constantly inspiring me and giving me an extended family. You are forever one of my greatest friends. Thank you for being funny. You're really fucking funny. I love you.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
Those were the only people who were around, so it was my life. Promoting was part of it. You had to support the things Puff supported. Very confusing cycle of violence and ups and downs.
The Trial of Diddy
Are You Done?!
Yes. I was in fear any time Puff was not happy. I wanted to make sure he was because then I'd know I was safe.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
They have exceeded Jace and I for sure. Our children, Jace, they've taken it to the next level.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
Oh, yeah. It was thousands of people. What was the auditorium? Was it the Ryman? The Ryman?
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
Grand Ole Opry, I don't know. It was whatever it was. It was Grand Ole Opry. It was cool.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
It was the doxology.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
I have a question. I have a question, though. What award, do you remember what award you were giving away, and do you remember who won the award?
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
I don't remember the category. Okay.
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Brandon Lake. I do remember Brandon Lake, I believe, after that came out with a song that had the doxology in it. Now, of course, Missy didn't write the doxology, but I wonder if he heard that and thought, you know what?
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
I wonder if he I'm not not not we're not claiming credit here. I'm just I'm just wondering. I'm just all I'm doing is I'm saying I saw this. I saw this app. I'm just wondering if there's a connection.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
Luckily, it was a Christian event, so there was a cursing. Yeah, but I'm on the production side, so even I was like, oh, what are we doing here?
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
Hey, Normie doesn't ask, I bet, but he saw you and thought I better.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
Yeah. You know, what's funny about that is we, we sing that song. Every Sunday, that's the that's how we end our service is we all sing the doxology together. And it's such a beautiful moment and such a great kind of rhythm or pattern or just kind of we just do it. We always end that way before we send everybody out. And I love that. It's one of my favorite songs.
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And, you know, you know, the first time that I remember seeing it, they can't camp around that box. We get around every meal. We would get around that.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
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Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. And then everyone comes in at the harmonies at the end. Amen.
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Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
It's a big year. Yeah. I tried to do that in my marriage. Just set the bar real low. Set the expectations really low so that anything, any turnout, you'll say, wow, that's a bad theory.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
And the crowd was great.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
Even the fans there. I mean, the Kate Love Fan Awards, if you're there – You love Christian music, period. That's why you're there. You love Christian music.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
It's a good strategy. Yeah. It's a good strategy. But you want to talk about the exceeding all expectations that anyone ever had is the Christmas story. Emanuel. Yeah. God with us. I mean, think about all the expectations for the prophets that, that Israel had.
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And I guess the Gentiles had no expectation because they weren't even in, we weren't even in the, in the, the discussion and then God becoming flesh. I mean, that is the, that is probably the great, that is the greatest exceeding of expectations in the history of the world is God becoming flesh, which is a Christmas story.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
Yeah. Yeah. Cause you get it into this passage, particularly like family stuff. I don't think it's an accident that when you think about the current cultural climate and really this has been in every culture that the assault, Typically or always, the main assault of the enemy tends to be focused on the family unit.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
And I think that's because if you think about the construction of the family and where that first started, that institution started in the very beginning of the Bible in Genesis chapter 10. when he said, let us make man in our image. And there's that passage in Genesis 2 where God looks at Adam and all that exists is Adam And then the triune God, there's no like other people outside of Adam.
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He's there by himself. He's in a vertical relationship with God. And you would think that at that moment, God would say, oh, this is all you need is me. This is perfect. This is exactly what I had planned. But God, when he looked at Adam by himself, he says something that's profound. He says, it is not good that man be alone.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
And that is the basis for the entire thing right there, that it is not good for man to be alone, which the opposite of that would be it's good for man to be with someone else. If it's not good for man to be alone, then it is good for man to be with someone else. is because to be created in the image of God, I don't think that simply means that us individually.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
I also think that means that man and woman together, because when it says in the Bible that in the image of God, he created them both male and female. So he makes that distinction in Genesis 1 when he says in the image of God, he created them both male and female. And I don't think he's just saying separately.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
I also think he's talking about together because to be alone is to not really reflect the nature of who God is. It's not to reflect the nature of the Trinity because God's not alone. God is Father, Son, Holy Spirit. He's three persons in one being. And so the marriage and the institution of the marriage is, That's what it is. Ultimately, it is a fulfillment and a reflection of the triune God.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
So when he says it's not good for man to be alone, he's making female to be a companion and a helper for man. And it's interesting. We can get into a little bit to look at that word that he uses there for helper. And I think that's why these things get so controversial when you start talking about marriage and.
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different functions inside of a relationship is because people say, whoa, if I'm in that position, then that must mean that I'm less than the other one. But that's not the truth if we're looking at God as the ultimate source of how we reflect Him.
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Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
Paul is establishing the centrality of Christ first, and then this is kind of what flows out of that. And I've heard people try that. When you try to talk about cultural issues centered around family, even the right to life and sexuality and all these things, if you don't root and anchor that entire discussion first in who God is, then I think we're left with a fairly impotent argument.
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And it becomes more about like, well, this is just the way it's always been. It loses its teeth. Like the real teeth of what we're talking about is anchored in the first and foremost. Who is God? And then God has created us in his image. So therefore, how does that connect? And so I think that's where this discussion should lead.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
Yeah. And I want to invite us to 23rd today. So tomorrow we're going to have a Christmas special on the not yet now podcast. I'm going to have my kids on.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
No, I'm too deep in, but, um, but to be fair, I did have the first comment of somebody saying Jace is right. You should have chose a different name, but we love the podcast, but the name, you should have, you should have changed it.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
And, and, and I, I can tell you this. I never saw Phil cry until about 2015 when we were at the beach. And, uh, And I've told that story. But but then since then, you know, the last 10 years, nine years, I think I've seen Phil cry about eight or nine times, maybe more. And so I think about that. I mean, I think that's all of us. It's not there's a danger of coming to emotional.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
But I want to say this to Jason when you mentioned my mom's funeral. Here's a song that we sang, and I love this because in this text here it says, Let the word of Christ dwell in you, richly teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms. Hymns and spiritual songs. And so often there's like these worship wars, like, oh, we only sing the hymns.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
Or, man, we don't sing the hymns. Those are old. Or we only sing the psalms. But I love that it gives us like these three categories, psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. And then at my mom's funeral, I think we did all three of those. And one of the songs we sang at church the other day, and they just said, we're going to introduce y'all to a song we've never sang before.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
So you, you gotta, you got someone there. And I've had a few say it's too, this last one, they said it's too deep, too much, but I, but you know, it's, we're, we're going places and, but, um, we're going to have on the, on Christmas, we're going to have a little thing. Cause the kids wrote a, They wrote and released a really good Christmas song.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
And they started to sing it. Of course, I started weeping because I'm like, I remember this song we sang at my mom's funeral. And it was the last time I'd heard that song sung publicly. And it was by Sean Curran. And it was about the kingdom. I want to see heaven, so let your kingdom come. And it was all about heaven coming to earth.
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And like this, like these, an invasion almost of God coming to earth and his kingdom coming. And I think that in that moment of pain and suffering, the reason why we could worship and sing out, because those moments for us, yeah, we're moved in pain, but we're also like, these are sobering moments for us.
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Um, and moments filled with hope because what they do is they're like these moments of, um, I don't even know how to describe it, but it's like putting our hope on steroids and these moments. Cause it like fast forwards, everything like, you know what, this is where everything is headed, which means that we know there's more. And it, and it, and that's how we kind of find this weird piece, um,
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
in the moments that would wreck a lot of other people.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
Did that kind of kill the mood sometimes? Are they like, I'm out on that?
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Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
They say that they say you were weird and you were like, yep, I sure.
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And I don't think I'm saying that because I'm biased, which I'll put the links in the show notes. No, you're kidding.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
No, I'm not. Just say, I'm biased. You need to talk to my wife because Jill says I'm overly critical of my own family, which would include you guys. So she says I'm overly critical if it's someone that's related to me. She said, I don't give them a fair shake. So I don't know what that is. But but they write a good song. We're going to we're going to do it on the podcast on that podcast tomorrow.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
It's a Christmas song. And it's about I mean, I mean, I mean, when we listen to it, me and Jill both cried because it's a lot of kind of. They're really good at writing kind of like about nostalgic memories. And so, you know, we would always come to Carolina for Christmas because we lived in Louisiana pretty much the first half of their life.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
But we would drive the 13 hours to Carolina to come to Christmas to be the grandparents where her Jill side of the family lives. So it's called Carolina Christmas Day. but it's, it's, it's, it says all these, but maybe I am biased now that I'm sitting there saying this. That's why I said, just go ahead and own it.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
a let's save christmas mini series that's what it turned into yeah you guys say this is a good hug this is someone who pitches this kind of stuff all the time this is a great hook
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
Thank you, Matty. The old classic.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
And as time went on the, to get a seat in the duck blind became a, I mean, that was hard. I mean, I remember growing up, like if you got in on the duck hunt, that was like a, yeah, exactly.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
So that was a tradition. You were lucky.
Unashamed with the Robertson Family
Ep 1012 | Mia Announced Her Return to Jesus with a Piano & Jase Was Wrecked
Cause I don't want to go top ends as the song says.
Watch What Crappens
#2655 RHOP 0911: Virgin Lagoon
Okay, well, you can get lit if you want to, but I shall not be getting lit because I'm going to so much. That's where I crashed into a median because it was too much for me. What Ray did that caused me to crash into the grass, the road, the clay and the rocks and the Monopoly board games and such.
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#2655 RHOP 0911: Virgin Lagoon
And Ashley's like, I'm very excited to go to Panama. I mean, the Panama Canal. Hello. I get to see it in person.
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#2655 RHOP 0911: Virgin Lagoon
Mia's like, well, I know that your invite says bring a special someone. And I know that you asked me to bring Gordon, but he can't make it.
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#2655 RHOP 0911: Virgin Lagoon
No. And that's not a thing anyone can get on a plane. But anyway, I wanted to know if maybe I could bring... No. No. I'm just going to say no right now. No.
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#2655 RHOP 0911: Virgin Lagoon
That's right, I said no, because I'm pouring into myself.
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#2655 RHOP 0911: Virgin Lagoon
And Cameron goes, there she goes! There goes the mermaid! Yay!
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#2655 RHOP 0911: Virgin Lagoon
No, I'm just touching the temperature of the water. She goes, stop that. Don't touch the water that has mermaids in it, Ray!
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#2655 RHOP 0911: Virgin Lagoon
She's like, oh, and everyone, I'm going to pull the first question. Oh, my God. What are the odds that I pulled out this question first? Who's cheated?
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#2655 RHOP 0911: Virgin Lagoon
But that doesn't count as cheating if you're sleeping with a merfolk fictional character. I don't think so. So, yes, I don't think you ever cheated.
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#2757 RHOA S16E01 Part Two: Pretty As a Peach
And Portia's like, I'm so sorry, Emily girl.
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#2757 RHOA S16E01 Part Two: Pretty As a Peach
And Kenya's like, hide your husband, hide your wife.
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#2757 RHOA S16E01 Part Two: Pretty As a Peach
So Portia's like, well, with my divorce being so public and so stressful, like I haven't been outside for like for real. So like Shamia is like such a great friend. And like if she says that, like my ass clapping shot, ass clapping and shots going to make you feel better, then I'm going to roll with her on this one.
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#2757 RHOA S16E01 Part Two: Pretty As a Peach
And Forrest is like, this trick is weird.
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#2757 RHOA S16E01 Part Two: Pretty As a Peach
And Portia's like, I got invited to your birthday.
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#2757 RHOA S16E01 Part Two: Pretty As a Peach
She's like, well, Dennis invited me to your birthday.
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#2746 RHOP S9E20 Reunion 3: Rent a Poor
I never should have, they never should have, but I never should have put myself in a position where they could talk about my meetherhood. Yeah.
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#2746 RHOP S9E20 Reunion 3: Rent a Poor
And she's like, how do I get out of here? How do I get out of here?
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#2746 RHOP S9E20 Reunion 3: Rent a Poor
He's like, well, okay. Did you ever loan TJ money for groceries?
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#2746 RHOP S9E20 Reunion 3: Rent a Poor
And he's like, okay, I'll go sit next to you then. Now she's like, what about me? I can't get up either.
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#2746 RHOP S9E20 Reunion 3: Rent a Poor
Amazing. No one applauded me, Ray. Not one. And then I knew the tides were turning.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
But he was like, alright. I guess he was like, he wrote it, yeah. Billy Joel invented piano.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
You're about to close on a CRV. Ron DeSantis.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
But that's not worth it. There's no height that I would want to be to have to sit like that.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Wait, so his shoe is way too small?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
I don't know, man. I went and got a measure. Apparently I was dead wrong.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
That rules. For the audio listeners, there is someone's dash cam. They're going down a dark Pennsylvania road and some sort of high speed buggy chase is happening and he drifts out and sparks are... That's sick. What do you think he's getting away from? Taxes? I don't know.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Giddy up, boys. I gotta get the fuck out of here. The devil's in his barn. Wait, so is this a thing? Sorry to cut you off. Is this just a thing that you guys dealt with? They were just like around?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Oh, this is another one. Hey, it was drifting the buggy in a parking lot.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Wait, so do they have to... This might be a really dumb question.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
There's like scurrying animals in our walls.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Rats? I don't fuck with rats.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
There's, like, one guy... There's, like, one guy who's like, how'd you know? Yeah, yeah.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Have you ever seen him? I think this might have been in his first term. There was an eclipse, and everyone around him is usually took us. He's just staring directly at it.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Alex! Alex! It was 10.30 in the morning. It's Rusty from work. As you were crashing and scraping parked cars on the side.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
i saw a guy um doing like man on the street stuff yeah and this guy comes up and he's like he has this uh ankle tattoo of the fighting irish logo my uncle has that tattoo yeah it's like you go there no no but that's okay that's what it is is like these it's it's so clearly like the notre dame logo or the like i think the only other person that uses it is like northern illinois or something and the
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
It was just, like, white.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
We're going to do desserts that don't exist, which I'm very excited about, and sayings that don't exist.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
And so he pulls up next to them, and it's a girl not, she's zero, he still doesn't know how she was steering the car, but she had one hand on the bong and another hand lighting it and was looking down, not looking.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
I walked into our office today and the cleaning people had totally been spraying it because the whole room smelled like someone had tried every single scent. Let me tell you, they got hooked. I also like just saying getting sprayed in the face sucks when you're shopping at a department store and then just doing it to each other.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
remember i'm your employee we're rolling it was 10 30 in the morning and i was going to in and out and he was like where are you going and i was like the hardware store he didn't want to be like getting a cheeseburger maybe a milkshake i don't know you're gonna get it all right guys our good friend dan carney joins the pod today yep episode 89
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Do you have the... No.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Put this hard drive with all my Bitcoin on it.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Pause that. That was a fucking bar.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Yeah. I'm kidding. It's insane.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
I was like, I got it. Tierra you soon.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
Or that number or someone who is that.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
life as shaq's illegitimate son (the dan carney story)
I would rather just get a new phone than kill a homeless guy. If he tried to come at me or something.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Wait, so that's just someone's random car?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
I thought that's what it was going to be.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
Oh that's funny.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
professor has EMOTIONAL MELTDOWN after meeting son’s brother
I'm so excited to go home tonight and just relax.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
when Will and I were in Vegas we were leaving it was after the Kenny the Jet thing we were leaving like alright do we call an Uber do we get in a taxi and the guys outside the hotel will like call a taxi for you and then we were like what are those over there
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
You're kind of waving a baby in front of a pit bull there.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
Everyone was like, yeah, I had a guy yesterday that refused to come upstairs. Like usually, like they're supposed to bring it to your door if that's like what the option you click. And he goes, I've arrived. And I go, great. Can you come upstairs and bring it upstairs? And he was typing for a second. Then he like deleted it all. And he just goes, I've arrived.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
We are going to do... Sorry. We are going to do your pitches followed by our pitches, and then Lauren has some Am I the Assholes? We are then going to do Teach Me Something...
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
It's like you're looking around, just throwing words together.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
Did I ever tell you if I ever meet Action Bronson, what lyric I'm going to pitch him?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
Whipping a Honda Civic with a Jewish bitch. Her name is Christian.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
How insane is the fact that Mary gave birth to the Son of God?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
I'm gonna be the guy sleeping you be the pillow let's reenact it okay are you sleeping yes would you like a bedtime story sure
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
Yeah, that's awesome. That would actually be, I didn't think, I thought I was going to, I thought I was going to hate it.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
Amen. I like the second thing the boys can do when they become squirrels is just get in the girl's bed.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
No, I don't. Are you leaving the office to go do it?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
Why is your penis open? Why is it so small and open?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
I saw a tweet one time that said it was like my girlfriend rubbing my circumcision scar and going, who did this to you?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
Yeah, there's also probably nutrients in my piss.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
Who fucking knows? All right, should we hear another pitch?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
And, uh, and so I was like, I was like, is everything in this hotel room shocking me to Will? And he was like, yeah, but it's not doing it to me. So it's something wrong with like me.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
Yeah, I've seen this before and it doesn't... It's these guys that are obsessed with doing Xbox controller tricks.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
It's like of a park. He should be able to keep it.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
Did you see that person that fell asleep on their flight and woke up, and there was no one on the flight, and it was pitch black?
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
You want to go? Yeah. Don't scratch an itch with a razor blade.
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
Kronkuga. alright guys we love you have a great rest of your week I'm stealing Tom Cruise's personality minus his fucking Scientology part because I'm flying a plane in a couple hours or tomorrow actually but I'm flying to Denver right after this to do it and I'm flying it apparently she's doing the takeoff and landing and I'm doing everything else
Will & Rusty's Playdate
I was blind for an afternoon
Oh, yeah. They took him back to... Liam took him back to his hotel and apparently he... Liam was like, what floor are you? And he goes, 14. And then fell into all the buttons. There were 10 people in the elevator.