260: LA Is Burning & Fact Checking Meta
Without A Country
Corinne Fisher
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2025
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Summary
Corinne Fisher talks about the massive fires raging across Los Angeles, reports of the mayor heading to Africa despite dire warnings, budget cuts to the fire department, how LA ran out of water, and more about the fires, the back-to-back terror attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas, a look at Justin Baldoni clapping back at the New York Times article posted about him and Blake Lively, the Laken Riley act being passed through congress despite concerns that it could unfairly target migrants, and a deep dive on Meta's move away from fact-checking to community notes and so much more!
Original Air Date: 01/08/25
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MAIN STORY
Mayor of LA in Africa?
LA Budget
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/los-angeles-mayor-slashed-fire-budget-prioritized-homeless
Conditions in LA that led to fire
https://time.com/7205622/california-wildfires-climate-change-conditions/
How LA ran out of water
https://nypost.com/2025/01/08/us-news/how-la-ran-out-of-water-in-the-middle-of-the-palisades-fire/
Exploiting Incarcerated People to Fight Fires
Canceling Fire Insurance in California
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New Orleans Attack
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/07/us/new-orleans-truck-attack-suspect-planning/index.html
Cyber Truck Explosion
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/nx-s1-5251611/cybertruck-explosion-las-vegas-chatgpt-ai
Laken Riley Act
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/laken-riley-act-passes-house-with-48-dems-all-republicans
Blake Lively Update
https://www.newsweek.com/blake-lively-accusations-compared-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-2010478
Megta Fact Checking
Conservative
Liberal
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/technology/meta-fact-checking-facebook.html
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Running from the man, yeah, the madman's coming, yeah, the man's cutting for me tonight. |
| 0:30.6 | I spent the last week running from the heat, but the beat beats coming alive. |
| 0:36.6 | Let's get lost tonight. Hello, the heat, but the beep beats coming alive. |
| 0:41.3 | Let's get lost tonight. |
| 1:00.0 | Hello. Hello, Wackos. Welcome to another episode of Without a Country. |
| 1:03.0 | This is the first, well, the first episode that I'm actually recording in 2025. |
| 1:09.0 | Mike, I still don't hear myself in my own headphones. I look dead on |
| 1:15.8 | the screen, but I promise you I'm alive. I just look very pale. It is very cold here in New York. |
| 1:21.6 | So there we go. Now I hear myself. Thank you. Welcome to the show. Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:46.1 | Sorry, I got to be honest. I was in jury duty all day and I'm just realizing that I didn't update the Patreon list. I wanted to, I possibly might rectify reading all the names every week for 2025. |
| 1:47.7 | Do you know when you make a promise? |
| 1:52.0 | And then you're like, I don't know that this is of service to the show. |
| 1:59.0 | So I think that was perhaps something, a Freudian, a Freudian slip on my part. |
| 2:00.6 | I don't know if I'm using that correctly. I don't know if you, |
| 2:02.1 | a Freudian slip is usually when you say something you don't mean to say. This is like me. |
| 2:07.0 | Can a Freudian slip also be used when like you don't do something? And then you're like, |
| 2:12.4 | I think I kind of didn't do that on purpose. I had been thinking that I should stop reading all |
| 2:17.1 | the names. But I don't want you guys to think I don't appreciate you. I just don't do that on purpose. I had been thinking that I should stop reading all the names, but I don't want you guys to think I don't appreciate you. |
| 2:20.3 | I just don't know that, like, if hearing everyone's – maybe I'll do it once a month or something, like every time it updates. |
| 2:25.8 | It's just the problem is the Patreon list does update rather frequently. |
| 2:32.8 | So we'll figure that out. |
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