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🗓️ 3 June 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
We’re not huge celebrity news watchers, but we just couldn’t avoid the coverage of the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial. This week, a jury sided with Depp and awarded him $15 million in damages. Today, we’ll unpack how the case played out on social media platforms and what it could mean for the future of the #MeToo movement. Plus, the baby formula shortage is still really bad. And Ukraine might be headed to the World Cup. Gooooal!
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Amber Heard-Johnny Depp Trial: Survivors ‘Sickened’ by Verdict” from Rolling Stone
- “Depp-Heard verdict will hold back #MeToo movement, advocates fear” from The Washington Post
- “Monica Lewinsky’s Verdict on the Johnny Depp–Amber Heard Trial: We Are All Guilty” from Vanity Fair
- “Why the Depp-Heard trial is so much worse than you realize” from Vox
- “Baby Formula Shortage Worsens to 74% Out of Stock in US” from Bloomberg
- “US Will Airlift Baby Formula From Abroad as Shortages Grow Worse” from The New York Times
- “For Ukraine the World Cup looked unthinkable. Now they’re 1 game away after spirited win over Scotland” from ESPN
- “Do Swedish People Feed Their Guests?” from The New York Times
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, we're ready. |
| 0:01.0 | Go button. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:10.0 | I am Kimberly Adams and welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Samantha Fields in for Chi Today. |
| 0:18.0 | Thanks for joining us this Thursday. |
| 0:19.9 | We are here to do the news, share and make me smile, and then leave you to the rest of your |
| 0:23.9 | day. |
| 0:24.9 | So, Kimberly, should we get to the news? |
| 0:26.6 | Yes. |
| 0:27.6 | Welcome back to the news. |
| 0:29.6 | And I am not a huge entertainment celebrity news watcher person. |
| 0:37.9 | And so when I kept seeing all of this Johnny Depp, Amber, her trial stuff, pop up on social |
| 0:46.6 | media for the first several weeks, I kind of dismissed it. |
| 0:51.3 | All is sort of the latest celebrity gossip thing that I just not my business, not my monkey, |
| 0:58.0 | not my circus. |
| 0:59.1 | But as this thing has gone on, it has really become just something else. |
| 1:07.0 | And now that the verdict is out, where the jury basically ruled in favor of Johnny Depp |
| 1:14.0 | in this defamation case in almost all of the cases. |
| 1:17.5 | And Amber, herds favor in just one. |
| 1:22.3 | There are a lot of repercussions that are fascinating and disturbing. |
| 1:28.8 | So, for people who haven't been following this, Amber, herd and Johnny Depp, both actors |
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