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The HeirPod - Royal News & Interviews

The impact of Harry and Meghan's Oprah interview

The HeirPod - Royal News & Interviews

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4.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Host and ABC royal contributor Omid Scobie breaks down the impact of Harry and Meghan's interview with Oprah alongside ABC News foreign correspondent Maggie Rulli. Omid is also joined by activist and NYC attorney Dr. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu and mental health advocate and author Bryony Gordon to bring some added insight on the big moments from the interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello friends and welcome back to the airport. We are what? Five days now from Harry and

0:11.2

Meghan's big interview with Oprah Winfrey, the special that the whole world watched it feels

0:18.3

like and those numbers Maggie keep getting bigger by the day. I think it's something like 48

0:23.8

million people around the world who have watched it now. How are you holding up? You and I are

0:29.0

not together today. I think I should preface this. We're saying that you are currently on the road

0:33.6

somewhere. So I've seen you, Omed, quite a few times this week, but always in passing,

0:39.1

waving from afar, each of us going to separate interviews all over the city. So it's only fitting

0:44.8

that when we catch up on this podcast, I'm in a car coming back from an interview. You're somewhere

0:48.9

else in London in between interviews, but this is what this week is all about. I think it captures

0:53.6

how much this interview has taken the world by storm. I mean, like you said, the numbers are

0:59.0

incredible. The interest in the US, in the UK, so many countries, you know, aired this interview that

1:05.2

it's becoming larger than just the royal family. This is sparking so many important conversations.

1:10.1

It's really been just an incredible week. Yeah, and I think, you know, listen, I've covered my share

1:16.4

of big tours. You've been on some of those big tours too. And obviously being there for the big

1:22.0

moments, the births, the weddings, the engagements, they are huge historical moments to the royal family.

1:29.1

But I would say, and I've certainly spoken with a number of other royal correspondents

1:34.0

around this time. This feels like perhaps the biggest story that I've covered in my

1:41.0

gosh, 10 years of covering royals. Yeah, it's interesting. You say that because I think,

1:47.5

now, I wonder why it is that for me, it's because it's bigger than the royal family. You know,

1:52.8

it is the royal family and the monarchy and the institution, the firm, whatever you want to call it.

1:58.8

But then, you know, we're also talking about mental health, about race, about America,

2:02.4

about the UK, about the world, the Commonwealth. You know, there are so many bigger issues that

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