Streaming Censorship and More Bad Blood | Damage Control (Ep. 557)

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Netflix removed an episode of Hasan Minhaj’s show ‘Patriot Act’ in Saudi Arabia after the country claimed that it violated its anti-cyber crime law (2:08), and now Netflix is facing accusations of censorship (8:09). The Huffington Post published an investigation last week into the medical company Ambrosia (28:49), a flashy blood-based startup that doesn’t appear to be all it is cracked up to be (35:38). Read the Huffington Post investigation here. Hosts: Kate Knibbs and Justin Charity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy New Year and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network. I'm Liz Kelly.
0:03.9	The NFL playoffs are officially here and that means tons of coverage up on the site.
0:08.3	Robert Mays is writing about Philip Rivers' legacy.
0:10.9	Danny Kelly discusses Russell Wilson and the Seahawks offense,
0:14.2	and Danny Hyphids gives us his wild card weekend viewing guide.
0:17.7	On the pop culture side, we have a live Golden Globes win's pool featuring Sean Fantasy,
0:22.1	Amanda Dobbins, Chris Ryan, Micah Peters, and Kate Hallowell.
0:25.4	You can check that out on YouTube.
0:30.3	I'm Justin Charity and I'm Kate Nibbs.
0:34.3	Welcome to Damage Control on the Channel 33 Network.
0:45.9	A podcast would be impacted with upsets, excites, and divides us in popular culture.
0:51.0	It's a new year!
0:51.7	You're me!
0:52.5	Woo! Time for resolutions, a time to make positive changes,
0:56.8	and hopefully a year to finally stop falling for weird wellness startups and Silicon Valley's
1:02.5	strange promises.
1:04.0	We're going to discuss the story of Ambrosea, a company selling transfusions of young blood to people.
1:10.0	They'll huffing to post-published an investigation into the company last week,
1:13.6	and we're going to talk about how it fits into a larger trend of sketchy wellness companies
1:17.7	getting way overhyped.
1:19.1	But first, we're going to talk about the bad blood between the Saudi royal family and the
1:24.7	comedian Hassan Minhaj.
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