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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94. We're obviously here to discuss the most important sporting event of the year, the cage fight on the White House lawn.
Chapter 2: What is the significance of the White House cage fight?
Helen, you've been oiling up. Yes, I have.
Well spotted.
Better do that again.
Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.
Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94. My name's Andrew Hunter-Murray and I'm here in the iStudio with Helen Lewis, Adam McQueen and Sarah Shannon. We're here to discuss the most important sporting event of the year so far, obviously, the cage fight on the White House lawn. Helen, you've been observing the star-spangled biceps. What can you tell us?
I have. I mean, not with the actual cage fighting bit, because in a classic Trump stitch-up, the broadcast rights for that were exclusively given to, not CBS, the thing that they own... that's free to air, but Paramount Plus. So they were pay-per-view. What? Like this monthly subscription fee.
And sure enough, the two people who were in charge of Paramount, the Ellisons, were there at the match and our Trump donors and got his sign-off for their merger with Warner Brothers. And that is the story of the White House cage fight. Yes, okay. The main story is the fact that I've never seen a more tastelessly American occasion. Extraordinary.
Imagine something that you think of as like peak tasteless American.
Yeah, monster truck.
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Chapter 3: How did the UFC influence the White House event?
It was allegedly part of America 250. But really, it was America's favorite president, Donald Trump's 80th birthday. Right. And someone did a great tweet, which was like, this is the ultimate. He is Caesar maxing. Right. We have.
I don't like that. That makes me feel very queasy.
He had a peace deal with Persia, a gladiator fight in front of the imperial palace. Yeah. And then your elderly emperor and his sort of slightly useless sons all there. Like that is that he has Caesar maxed. You can't take that away from him.
Right. How did it end for Caesar? I can't remember just offhand. Anyway, so, I mean, we don't need to get too chinstrokey about what does this mean about America? But it is interesting that it comes the same within a day of the announcement that there's a deal with Iran that's going to end the war, supposedly with tremendous victory, although everyone can see that it's not really.
Right, but it does tell you something very interesting about the MAGA movement. All the posts about it were like, libs would say that they hate this because, you know, it's tasteless, but that's because they hate America. Trump's approval rating is bad, right? Actually, only 18% of people said they thought it was an appropriate time to be having a big cage fight on the White House lawn.
given that gas prices are so high, the economy's not doing particularly well. So it was one of those kind of great moments, like the election night, where it was just a lot of people exulting and owning the libs. And like, oh, I tell you who won't like this, which is the kind of animating glue of lots of bits of that. And they're not happy unless they feel that someone else is upset.
And, you know, you can say that that's, I think that's slightly decadent, but it's what makes them happy, Andy. And that's what we can say about the MAGA movement, apart from anything else. Aside from any of the ideological occurrences, they all just like the idea that they're upsetting people.
Right.
Some group of college professors.
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Chapter 4: What does the MAGA movement reveal about American culture?
Exactly, they did not. And young Baron was there, along with the other sons, including the one who got married last weekend and Trump didn't bother to go. He'll go to this, but not that.
It'd be one way to source out the succession, wouldn't it? All get in the ring, guys!
Baron would win. Baron is like eight feet tall.
He'd take the lot of them. But J.D. Vance has been looking much trimmer of late.
Helen, we can't do Helen's a Zempic watch every single fortnight of this podcast. We should turn to the other biggest sporting engagement of the year so far. Which countries have we all picked or had forced on us in the ISE World Cup sweepstake? I'll go first. Ghana.
Egypt. Germany.
Korea, who have won one match. I see. If they keep going like that. Right, so we're here to talk about the World Cup, but we thought we'd make it as eye-ish as possible. So the latest issue of the Mag has a World Cup theme. And Sarah, you write a great deal about sport at the eye. And this is a rather unusual World Cup in that it's a lot larger, so it's a lot easier to get in.
But it's also quite a lot harder to get in to the country that's hosting it. Is that fair?
I think that's fair, yes. There's never been more matches, more tickets available, but can you actually get there to watch your team? Iran is the sort of top story on this. They can't actually even have their training camp in the country. I mean, it's this extraordinary situation where the
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