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🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Dr. Mehmet Oz has secured the GOP nomination for Senate in Pennsylvania. On our sister show Oprahdemics, Kellie Carter Jackson and Leah Wright Rigueur discuss his very dubious medical track record, how much Oprah Winfrey is responsible for promoting his brand, and whether she has any obligation to speak out about his political life.
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone Jody here over the next few episodes. We're going to bring you some |
0:04.7 | conversations you may have missed from our show and elsewhere. These are reruns I suppose. |
0:10.3 | Someone on Twitter was like as long as you don't call it an encore presentation will forgive you so yeah look we're taking a bit of an early |
0:16.6 | summer break but there's also a good chance you may have missed some of this stuff |
0:20.8 | so we'll bring you some things to listen to. Today an episode from our sister |
0:24.8 | show Oprah Demix which is of course hosted by Kelly Carter Jackson and we know that a lot of our |
0:30.4 | listeners a lot of you are a little more politically minded, and there is some very interesting |
0:34.4 | Oprah and politics stuff happening in the news right now, namely that Dr. Memon Oz is the |
0:39.9 | GOP candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania. |
0:42.8 | His politics are, it's safe to say, |
0:44.9 | very different from Oprah Winfrey's |
0:47.0 | and a lot of her fans. |
0:48.5 | So there's been a lot of pressure. |
0:49.8 | You've probably seen this and conversation |
0:51.7 | around what role Oprah had in promoting |
0:54.5 | Dr Oz and whether she should speak out in any sort of forceful way about his |
0:59.0 | candidacy. Kelly and Leah her co-host dive right into all the messiness and for my money have the most interesting and nuanced conversation I've heard out there about all of this |
1:09.5 | Look if you want to think of this through the esoteric history lens, let's just imagine this show in 10 years, |
1:16.1 | where I would probably say in the intro something like, |
1:19.3 | this day a former heart surgeon turned daytime TV heartthrob |
1:23.2 | Huckster turned MAGA outsider, took the nomination in the |
1:27.2 | GOP in one of the most politically diverse states in the country. |
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