Oprah BETRAYED Whitney Houston... Jennifer Welch Doesn't Hold Back
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I have a little bit of tea. The problem with America is people are whores for money. JD Vance is this country's top prostitute. He is a two-bit, dirty, skanky hoe. This is the cultural damage that Trump has done, that he has untethered these people and emboldened them to just be walking, talking dicks. like at the UFC, all racists there showing up to the White House.
You don't always have to say explicit things about racism or mention race in order to be racist. Yes, Barack Obama is classy. Yes, Michelle Obama is classy. I wonder if they think that that is something that is foreign to black people.
What these people fear so much is that black excellence will reveal their white mediocrity. That's not normal. You're racist. They're all idiots. This is an idiotic movement of dipshits. It's a really disgusting moral rot to observe.
I don't wish illness on anyone, but I mean, there's certainly a lot of evidence that something is going on with Donald Trump.
Trump gets everything he wants, and it's so frustrating to watch. This guy should be in the memory care wing of a military prison right now.
Jen Welch, it's our time again. I'm so glad we have this time together.
Me too. Friday, Friday fun day with Dawn and Jen.
So let me say this, Jen, because I'm in Cannes, you can see I'm not in my studio, I'm not in the US. I'm at Cannes Lions, which is a festival, not a festival, it's a conference here where advertisers and streamers and we work on things and we try to get sponsors for our shows. But also at Cannes Lions, Oprah Winfrey was here and she was accepting the festival's Lion Heart Award. And during her acceptance, as she was on stage doing an interview, she said this and it broke the internet, watch.
Whitney did, I think it was her last show with us, and she had gone back on drugs. The first interview I did with her when we'd gone behind stage and I asked her about her attention, she was clean. But the day she came to my show then to perform in front of the audience, she was not. And she fell off of the stage. And I knew that if that story got out that she'd fallen off of the stage, that everybody would be, that she would be destroyed by that. And so even though the audience was there and the audience had cameras, I begged them not to put those pictures out because it would ruin her life. And they did not. And what about... That would not happen today.
I can tell you that. Okay. A couple of things there. And she's right. It would never happen in that day and time. But people are wondering, why Oprah, even that, well, they're denying the veracity of the story. First, the Houston family has denied it. Pat Houston said that Whitney did have issues, but this was not related to it. And the internet and especially the community, black folks, Whitney fans as well, of all different ethnicities are wondering why Oprah shared that and was it necessary for her to share? What do you think?
It's absolutely not necessary for her to share, and it's hurtful, and here's why. All of us know people that struggle from addiction.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–11:13
2
Why did Oprah's Cannes remarks about Whitney Houston spark outrage and who is denying the story?
11:13–17:36
3
How do Don and Jen argue Oprah's disclosure affects addiction stigma and the Houston family's dignity?
17:36–26:33
4
What perspectives did Ricky Smiley and Don share about why Whitney's private struggles shouldn't be publicized?
26:33–42:19
5
Why did a UFC fighter calling Michelle Obama 'a man' become a national controversy and how did he respond?
42:19–43:20
Speakers
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