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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Cuomo's Kiss Compilation & Dystopian Media "Bullshit" w/ Walter Kirn

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Subscribe for the full interview at http://usefulidiots.substack.com “America finally had enough media awareness after being taught in high school to look for bias that they suddenly were able to see, with new eyes, just how slanted and silly and contradictory and boring [corporate media is.]” Thus spoke Walter Kirn, writer for Time magazine and author of eight novels including Up in the Air (which was turned into a George Clooney movie), on this week’s Useful Idiots. And, like Matt and Katie, Kirn ditched the mainstream and made the move to Substack. where you can check him out. Years ago, Walter tells us, he would complain that every Time article ended the same way: “Some experts believe this while others believe that, but one thing is for sure, the issue is not settled and only time will tell." But now he yearns for the days of yore when the media would take the burden off of itself and leave readers with vague cliches. But at least the readers were left with a chance to think for themselves. Today there is no two sides. There is no debate. They tell you what to think. And at that point, can it still really be called journalism? The answer to that question is hard to say. Some experts believe it can, others believe it can’t, but one thing is for sure, it’s all a lot of bullshit. Plus, after reading 165 pages of the attorney general’s report on Andrew Cuomo, Katie and Matt come to the (hot take) conclusion that the Governor is, indeed, a sexual harasser and dick. And we mourn the loss of Nina Turner’s congressional campaign. Oh yeah, and a bunch of penis stuff. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out now and stand by for the Substack-only portion where Kirn talks about the novel he’s working on, his parents’ divorce, and the fall of Stephen Colbert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, welcome to use Lidia. It's on Matt's A.E.V.

0:07.0

And I'm Katie Halper.

0:08.4

And this is absolutely the first time that we're recording this.

0:13.3

Today, yes. Today. We did not just not record by accident and have a really long chat.

0:19.6

Right. Now about how it was cold and yeah, you should say Katie, you look cold.

0:24.9

Katie, you look cold, right? I didn't get that.

0:27.3

Yeah. Didn't happen. I didn't say that. Right. So yeah, no, I'm the long story short as I was

0:33.6

telling Matt a couple of minutes ago, it's weird because I'm cold.

0:37.6

It's cold inside, but it's warm outside. I don't know why that is.

0:41.1

And you mean you're anemic, yeah. So you should just go out and sort of, you know,

0:46.0

in zombie fashion, just start eating any, anything that's got blood inside of it.

0:51.4

Right. Yeah. I don't even read read me. This is a problem. But I can have pills. What else has

0:56.0

iron? I mean, I can take the vitamins, but you don't absorb that as well. So what else has iron?

1:01.1

I don't know. Just eat something. Eat something that's a, you know, that's alive.

1:06.4

You know, like while it's alive, bite something's head off.

1:09.6

Yeah, exactly. Have you had beyond burgers? We should get sponsored by them. Have you had them?

1:13.8

You mean like with the things that aren't meat? Yeah. Okay. I used to be a vegetarian,

1:18.6

but I just cannot cosine the beyond meat. It tastes like real meat.

1:23.4

It's phenomenal. It really doesn't have you. I'm not talking Boga burgers, which I like.

1:28.3

I like Boga burgers, but it doesn't taste like meat, but these actually do have you tried them?

1:32.4

No, I guess I have. Okay. So I'm speaking with that experience, but I've tried things like that.

1:38.8

And it's just have a burger. You know what I mean? Like, you're going to have to have,

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