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The Joy Reid Show
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4.8 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 128 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Happy Friday, TG-I-F, happy, thank God it's Friday. |
| 0:18.7 | Even though every day is Wednesday, I have to be honest with you. Welcome to the Joy Reach. Every day is Wednesday. They're all the same. Welcome to Jerry Reach. I'm big up to everybody who is watching on YouTube. We can already see the chats already starting to heat up on the YouTube side. A lot of happy Fridays. Good evening. Lots of people saying good evening. Good reminders in the YouTube chat |
| 0:38.4 | to please hit that like and subscribe button if you're on YouTube. Please, and we thank you for doing |
| 0:42.8 | that and also hitting share to try to help us get to our half a million followers by our birthday |
| 0:47.8 | on June night. So we are well on our way. We are keeping it moving. Also big up to those who |
| 0:52.6 | are watching on Substack. Hello to our |
| 0:54.8 | substackies. Those chats are always a lot of fun, too. They're very different communities, and they're all sort of unique in their own special way. Big up to everybody that's watching on Facebook right now. We love you guys, but we do not get news from Facebook. Let us not do that, other than the Joy reach it. You can get that, but be careful on Facebook. But we appreciate everyone who is a Facebook |
| 1:12.9 | viewer. Also our LinkedIn fam, thank you for watching. |
| 1:16.2 | If you're watching on LinkedIn, and if you're watching on Twitch, welcome to our new Twitch subscribers. |
| 1:21.5 | We actually increased after interviewing Hassan Piker, who is probably the biggest Twitch streamer in the land. |
| 1:30.3 | And so welcome to all the new people who came to us because of our interview with Hassan. |
| 1:36.0 | I really enjoyed that conversation. |
| 1:37.4 | I was actually texting with Crystal Ball, who was actually who helped make that connection. |
| 1:42.3 | And she enjoyed the interview. |
| 1:45.0 | It's high praise because Crystal is one of the sort of most important voices in the progressive media. |
| 1:52.9 | She and her husband Kyle Kalkinski, if you guys are not watching both of them, you should be watching them. |
| 1:57.4 | Just like you're taking in, you know, Don Lemon and Midas Touch and Katie Fang, who's in a lawsuit right now. We're trying to get her for next week. She's filed a very interesting lawsuit against the regime. So everybody, it's all in together, Jim Acosta, all of our friends. We just big up everybody in independent media and ask you guys to keep on supporting all independent media because we are where the truth is coming to you from. |
| 2:17.9 | Like we are the ones who are unbiased, unbought. We are not held down by the sort of, you know, |
| 2:24.1 | oligarch interests. We basically only answer to you. We answer to our, to our, to our, our, |
| 2:31.6 | our, our, those who follow us. Somebody who said my lip gloss is popping. I'm on the New York side. So Lynette is responsible for the glam. Thank you, Lynette, for the glam. It's usually jeanise when I'm in the DMV. So depending on where I am, we get different glam, but the glam is always fabulous. We're always going to make sure that the news may be bad, |
| 2:55.1 | but the beat is good. We're going to make sure that the beat is good, even when the news is bad. |
| 3:03.5 | So we've got a lot to talk about on today. This is the final day to vote in our Vontel contest to try to pick one of these three styles for our readers. |
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