Beautiful and Not So Beautiful Things: Inside the Hive Reviews the Hunter Biden Memoir

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This week, cohosts Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan pour through the pages of Beautiful Things, the eye-popping new Hunter Biden memoir, to highlight the best revelations and insights—not only into a President’s son, but into the Biden presidency itself and this peculiar (but hopeful) moment in American history. A tearful and candid tale of addiction and familial love, the book describes in excruciating detail the death of Hunter's brother Beau, the Biden family's private struggles in the aftermath, and Hunter’s lurid descent into alcoholism and crack addiction. He also attempts to set the record straight on the Burisma controversy that made him the political whipping boy for Donald Trump. An Inside the Hive book review. Bonus: Speaking of beautiful things, Emily Jane Fox has a life-altering revelation of her own for podcast listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jane loved crisps! She ate them for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
0:05.5	Even at Fancy Pants restaurants, years went by, but then crisps stopped doing it for her.
0:12.8	They got her thrown out of cinemas, and were forever in the bedsheets.
0:19.6	crisps! They're kind of like your current account, just because they were good ones doesn't mean you have to stick with them forever.
0:26.4	Maybe it's time to switch with the current account switch service.
0:34.2	Welcome back to Inside the Hive. This is Emily Jane Fox. I'm here with my bud Joe Hagen. Hey, Joe.
0:40.9	Hi, buddy. How are you feeling?
0:43.2	I feel great. We have some real inside the hive inside the hive.
0:48.8	Way inside the hive.
0:49.9	Way inside the hive. I am seven months pregnant or almost seven months pregnant.
0:55.7	And it's time we talk about it here.
0:57.7	It's time we talk about it. I will admit I had the inside scoop.
1:02.2	You did. You've known about this from early days, and it's because I had to explain myself a little bit.
1:10.1	Should we back up? Should we tell them the way it is?
1:13.6	Tell the whole tale.
1:15.1	It presented itself. So we actually found out that we're having a baby the morning that Joe Biden
1:22.0	officially won. And I took a pregnancy test and he won in the three minutes that you're supposed to
1:30.4	wait. And I totally forgot about the test because I was distracted and then to find out that we
1:36.9	were having a baby that day felt overwhelming. It really felt like such hope for the future in a
1:45.1	bunch of different ways. And we recorded the podcast that week, Joe. And very loyal listeners may
1:53.8	remember that you told the story that I thought was so funny at the time that in our previous recording
2:00.1	of an episode, a random song had started playing in your headphones that you couldn't get to turn
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