12-12-22 Hour 1 - The Twitter Files Keep Keeping On
The Chris Plante Show
WMAL | Cumulus Media Washington
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🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I know you guys saw today Morocco beat Portugal in the quarterfinals of the World Cup. |
| 0:09.8 | It is, uh, yeah, it's the best World Cup performance by a team of Africans since the unpaid |
| 0:15.4 | workers who built the stadiums. |
| 0:17.4 | I didn't do it. |
| 0:23.4 | Yes, I suspect most of them were actually from India, and they're about, uh, but, you |
| 0:33.2 | know, comedy doesn't have to be accurate, like journalism does. |
| 0:37.4 | What do they say that, uh, 6,000 people died building the stadiums or something? |
| 0:43.3 | Because it's like the pyramids, except they'll tear them down in a couple of years. |
| 0:48.6 | Is that what they say? |
| 0:50.6 | Is that the report? |
| 0:51.6 | I think that's right. |
| 0:52.6 | I saw the report that the, uh, this is what people claim, but, you know, people claim a |
| 0:59.2 | lot of things. |
| 1:01.6 | Don't people, yes, they do 6,500, 6,500, yeah, and who's, who's, who's reporting that? |
| 1:09.9 | That's, uh, oh, yeah, they're guardian. |
| 1:12.2 | This is the number 6,000 or 6,500, uh, you know, now we call everybody workers, workers. |
| 1:22.5 | They, uh, in, uh, a lot of the Arab countries, they use what is effectively slave labor. |
| 1:28.1 | Uh, I've witnessed it myself in many instances in, uh, different countries, uh, but they |
| 1:33.8 | say that, uh, 6,000 or 6,500 of the construction workers died or were killed during the, uh, |
| 1:43.5 | building of the stadiums, which is a point of pride. |
| 1:46.5 | Are they buried in the end zones or anything like, like Jimmy Hoffa, you know, like 6,500 |
| 1:51.7 | Jimmy Hoffa's there, because they used to do that, you know, around the pyramids. |
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