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Behind the Bastards

Part Six: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

Behind the Bastards

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History, News, Society & Culture

4.4 • 17K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Oh god, we are finally done. Unfortunately Oprah's greatest harms, like her role in birthing the anti vaccine movement, live on.

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  11. Why Everyone is Hating on Oprah Lately
  12. An Open Letter to Oprah, Whose ‘The Life You Want’ Tour Asked Me to Work for Free
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  23. Did Oprah Make Us Terrified for Our Kids? - Free-Range Kids
  24. Despair disguised as entertainment: Does Oprah Winfrey sensationalize human suffering in order to fuel her media empire and encourage other media to follow?
  25. Oprah Winfrey helped create our irrational pseudoscientific American fantasyland.
  26. Oprah’s School Rocked by 2nd Sex Scandal – NBC4 Washington
  27. 'A Culture of Distrust and Fear': Oprah Winfrey Turns Off Her Comments After Celebrating the Graduation of One of Her Former Students Following Years of Accusations About Her Leadership Academy for Girls
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  29. The Education Of Oprah Winfrey: How She Saved Her South African School
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  31. Oprah Winfrey 'Shamed' for 25 Years Over Her Weight
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  60. Generation Z, values, and media: from influencers to BeReal, between visibility and authenticity - PMC

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0:00.0

Welcome to Behind the Oprah's A Podcast about bastards.

0:09.9

This is, you know, the Oprah Winfrey show or the Oprah Winfrey show, where we talk about the Oprah Winfrey show, where we talk about the Oprah Winfrey show.

0:20.0

Yeah, that's as good as I could do the intro here.

0:22.9

Look, we're on part six.

0:24.3

I'm exhausted.

0:25.6

You're exhausted.

0:27.2

Sophie's exhausted.

0:28.4

I'm so tired.

0:29.0

Let's exhaust everything we have to say about Oprah.

0:35.0

How are we all feeling Andrew T.

0:37.4

And Bridget Todd at this point in the Oprah Winfrey's story?

0:43.8

Conflicted, I will say. Conflicted, but ready to hear more.

0:48.5

Okay. Yeah. It's starting to feel like the six parts or the five parts have been have been leading

0:58.3

to this so well yeah I'm ready he was a boy scout leader a husband a father but he was leading

1:09.7

a double life he was was a monster, hiding in plain sight.

1:16.2

Journey inside the mind of one of history's most notorious killers, B.T.K. Through the voices of the

1:23.8

people who know him best. Listen to Monster BTK on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

1:30.7

or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Do you want to see into the future? Do you want to

1:36.1

understand an invisible force that's shaping your life? Do you want to experience the

1:40.5

frontiers of what makes us human? On tech stuff, we travel from the minds of Congo to the surface of Mars, from conversations

1:48.0

with Nobel Prize winners to the depths of TikTok, to ask burning questions about technology.

1:54.0

From high tech to low culture and everywhere in between, join us.

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