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Le Show For The Week Of August 11, 2024

Le Show

Harry Shearer

Politics, News, Society & Culture, Sports, Music, Tech News

4.6972 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s edition of Le Show Harry brings us News of Musk Love, News of Inspectors’ General, News of the Godly, Mind Your Own Business, News of Crypto-Winter, The Apologies of the Week, News of the Atom, great music, and more.

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Ladies and gentlemen, my favorite news story of the week,

0:12.0

not including Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s story of

0:17.6

picking up a dead bear and driving on he's sitting in Brooklyn and then going back to drop the bear off in Central Park

0:27.2

before he went to the airport, Kennedy Airport, which is in the other direction from where he was eating dinner in Brooklyn.

0:37.2

There are parks in Brooklyn where you could drop off of Dead Bear.

0:41.2

Anyway, my favorite news story of the week concerns a story

0:46.8

Donald Trump told during his much ballyhooed by him news conference this week. It was a story about him being in a helicopter

0:59.1

with California, then Assembly speaker

1:03.0

speaker Willie Brown and a near-accident that they experienced together

1:11.8

much like the Brian Williams near accident in his helicopter.

1:19.1

And it turns out Willie Brown still alive, says that never happened. I was never in a helicopter with Donald

1:27.3

Trump. And a lot of news agencies scampered around to try to figure out what was, if anything, the truth behind that story.

1:40.3

And at the end of the week, a revelation, a non-a-genarian, former city council member in Los Angeles,

1:52.3

Nate Holden, said, well, I was in a helicopter

1:55.8

with Donald Trump once in the early 90s, I believe.

2:07.0

What did Nate Holden and Willie Brown have in common? They're both black.

2:12.0

Willie is a short black man. They're both black.

2:15.0

Willie is a short black man. Nate Holden was is a tall black man.

2:20.0

But to be fair, in a helicopter probably, either one of them would be sitting down.

2:29.0

Hello, welcome to the show. I live for the sun because it makes fun

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