RuPaul's America
Eating For Free
Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape: Where it comes from, who wields it, and who suffers at the hands of it. Find out the stories behind the stories, as together they look beyond the headlines of troublesome YouTubers or scandal-ridden A-Listers, and delve deep into the inner workings of Hollywood's favorite pastime. The truth, they've found, is definitely stranger than any gossip.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, you were talking about politics and speaking about that, let's talk about the dragoon that is running this country into war, into debt, into a whole. |
| 0:09.7 | I think we talked about the Downey Abbey thing in the sort of transformation from 20th century to 21st century. |
| 0:16.0 | I think this is all a part of it. |
| 0:17.9 | I think that, and when you talk about a transformation or metamorphosis, |
| 0:21.8 | that is a very violent exercise when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly. |
| 0:28.2 | We're experiencing that violence now, that tumultuous, er. |
| 0:32.8 | So what we're witnessing, and he's a representation of this, |
| 0:36.2 | is people with the old 20th |
| 0:39.3 | century idea who cannot make that transition. |
| 0:43.3 | So they're kicking up a fight. |
| 0:45.3 | They won't win. |
| 0:47.3 | Now, they can make things really difficult for us. |
| 0:50.3 | You know, he won on this idea that they were going to turn back the hands of time. |
| 0:55.5 | Well, the only person to do that is share. Okay. So, but... |
| 1:01.0 | These gays, they're trying to murder me. What do I think of her? |
| 1:19.5 | Yes? |
| 1:21.0 | I don't think of her. |
| 1:26.3 | Wait about down to the New York fucking post. |
| 1:30.6 | Well. |
| 1:31.7 | Well. |
| 1:32.8 | I have to tell you. |
| 1:34.3 | Oh, already. |
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