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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Noam Chomsky + The True Story of the Rolling Stone Breakup

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We interview some guy named Noam Chomsky (extended interview coming next week), get to the bottom of why we broke up with Rolling Stone, and scrutinize the thrilling PBS interview of former al-Nusra/al-Qaeda leader-turned-very-handsome-man Abu Mohammed al-Jolani. Katie taps her beard-crit background, while we both investigate the two most important questions of our time: which four goateed male celebrities combined look like one PBS interviewer Martin Smith, and why do I keep thinking Smith is British? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to you, Felidia. I'm Katie Halper. And I'm Matt, tell you the

0:12.5

this week we're mixing it up a little bit because we have so much great material. So the

0:16.1

four basic food groups is in our sub-stack only segment, but we got some great stuff for you

0:21.6

that we think what you will really enjoy. But the world needs each other right right now,

0:26.4

right? That's basically the headline because of the Georgia fame, right? Yeah, I guess I don't

0:31.8

think it's a, I think it's pretty consistent with like recent history trends. That's true.

0:36.7

That's true. Matt, all of a sudden is like, you know, there's a lot of hate in this world.

0:40.7

You think you hadn't written a book called, uh, Hate Day?

0:43.2

Hate Day, right? Exactly. You also wrote another book which no one, which you never talk about.

0:48.8

Which one? The drug dealer book. Business secrets of drug dealing? Look at it. Yeah.

0:52.9

We'll get to it. All right. You got to see, you got to leave people wanting more. That's like the

0:56.8

own, it's like the, the, the, of all the books I've written, it's the one I'm probably most proud of.

1:02.0

But I never talk about it. Yeah. You know what? We should offer sub-stack only people a Matt,

1:06.8

tell you, be book club. What would happen in the Matt, tell you, be book club? They could ask you

1:11.3

questions. We could just read your books. God. I don't even want to join that club. I mean,

1:17.2

yeah, I'll run it. Okay. Katie Halper's Matt, tell you, be book club. And then they can ask me

1:22.0

questions. And I'll just guess. Katie, what was Matt thinking? Well, you know, Matt was thinking.

1:27.8

I think we were both thinking. You know, when I was interviewing Goldman Sachs people.

1:32.0

Right. Right. Right. Right. What was the inspiration for this phrase?

1:35.2

Yeah. No, but I think people, yeah, we should read your books. So also people keep asking about,

1:40.4

people did a video about our, our going rogue. And they really were like, I can't believe they

1:46.3

did that because of the serious stuff. Really? Yeah. So. When actually did a video of that?

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