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Today, Explained

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Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Jeff Bezos. Donald Trump. The Washington Post. The National Enquirer. This dick pic is not like the others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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first set of refills is F-R-E-E. Peter Kafka, your executive editor of Recode, host of the Recode

0:28.8

Media Podcast Jeff Bezos kind of broke the internet last night with with a blog post. Why is his

0:34.8

blog post so much more than a blog post? You don't usually have the world's richest man

0:39.8

writing about his dick pick, but that's what happened last night. He also accused the national

0:45.3

inquirer of trying to extort him with that dick pick photo. It's fun to say dick pick on the air.

0:52.0

And also there's a Donald Trump element. So that that that will break the that will break the

0:55.7

internet for you. You can find those elements. That'll do it.

1:01.0

So there's a lot of elements to this blog post. Where does one begin?

1:06.5

If you want to go all the way back, I guess you go back to January when Jeff Bezos announced

1:10.5

via Twitter that he was divorcing his wife of many decades. That's followed by a national

1:17.2

inquirer story saying, hey, Jeff Bezos has had a long running affair. For its current cover story

1:22.2

that hit new stands today, the tabloids seemingly spared no expenses to expose what they say is

1:28.0

Bezos's extramarital affair with Lauren Sanchez. We have photos, we have texts. Here's a lot of them.

1:34.8

That story blew up for a couple days.

1:37.9

Tabloid claims it tracked him across five states and over 40,000 miles. According to the inquirer,

1:43.6

Bezos's lawyer told the publication that it was widely known that he and his wife had been

1:49.5

long separated. The text there, the kind of text you send someone you're having an affair with,

1:55.7

which are mildly embarrassing, but it makes it clear they're having an affair. The inquirer in

2:00.0

his reporting says, we have photos, by the way, and some of them are so racy we can't show you them,

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