Crashing out

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🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Everyone from Love Island’s Huda to Hunter Biden is screaming, crying, or throwing up for the cameras. The big emotions are real, but so are the downsides of having them in public. This episode was produced by Rebeca Ibarra and Devan Schwartz, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Miles Bryan, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Noel King. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Huda Mustafa on the set of Love Island with Jeremiah Brown, the co-star she "crashed out" over. Photo by Kim Nunneley/Peacock via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hunter Biden's three-hour interview with Andrew Callahan started out normally enough.
0:06.9	Lure.
0:07.3	So you're born here in Delaware or born here in Pennsylvania?
0:10.7	In Delaware.
0:11.4	Okay, in Delaware.
0:12.6	Yeah, Wilmington.
0:13.5	Small talk.
0:14.4	What are your thoughts on Wilmington, Delaware?
0:15.9	Nice place?
0:16.6	Oh, yeah.
0:17.6	Work, family, addiction.
0:19.9	Anyway, I don't want to tell people how to make crack cocaine.
0:22.6	He did.
0:23.6	Then came the crash out.
0:25.6	I hear Rahm Emanuel is going to run for president.
0:28.6	Like, oh boy, there's the answer.
0:30.6	There's the fucking answer.
0:31.6	Do you have the Pots Save America, motherfuckers,
0:33.6	saying, you know, I don't think South Carolina,
0:35.6	that's only, we only there because you go buy him, go by him. What the fuck?
0:37.9	I mean, are they out of their fucking minds?
0:39.7	I don't have to be fucking nice. Number one, I agree with Quentin Tarantino. Fucking George Clooney is not a fucking, I don't know what he is. He's a brand. And by the way, and God bless him. We're not picking on him. keep coming back, Hunter. No, in fact, everybody has been crashing out lately, and today,
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