Live! From The Riyadh Comedy Festival (Part 2)
Eating For Free
Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson
4.8 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In which we break down the controversial state-sponsored Riyadh Comedy Festival and its connections to the ongoing whitewashing of political violence committed by the Saudi regime.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm I'm a I'm a |
| 0:21.6 | I'm |
| 0:22.6 | I'm |
| 0:23.6 | I'm |
| 0:25.6 | I'm |
| 0:26.6 | I'm |
| 0:27.6 | I'm |
| 0:28.6 | I'm your baby, losing all my innocence at the Riyadh comedy festival. |
| 0:57.8 | Do you see how I make this topical? |
| 0:59.7 | Do you see how I make this on brand? |
| 1:02.3 | Do you see how I segue into a joke here at Eating for Free, the podcast recording live from the absolute edge of the Saudi wealth fund? |
| 1:09.5 | My name is, hmm, my name is Dubai expat, |
| 1:16.1 | Joan Summers. |
| 1:18.4 | Dubai-based expat influencer, Joban Jones, Summers. By way of Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, |
| 1:24.3 | do. Um, yeah, well, no, this is, well, I was summering in Mekanos and then I just kind of opened a beach club there for a little bit, using money that I got from kind of questionable sources. |
| 1:33.7 | There was maybe a little bit of arms dealing in there. |
| 1:35.6 | Maybe there was a little bit of drug trafficking. |
| 1:37.7 | Maybe there was a little bit of oil money. |
| 1:39.8 | But then, you know, COVID happened. |
| 1:41.2 | The beach club shut down. |
| 1:43.0 | And I moved to Dubai to basically be on |
| 1:46.0 | Instagram live selling Deep Hop clothing and also Ali Express links to fake product glasses, |
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