The Tiger's Balls with Roberto Lovato & Wajahat Ali (Ep 196)

The Bitchuation Room

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Comedy, News, Government, News Commentary

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

From El Salvador to the United States, in order to fight fascism we need to remember our radical history and use it to seed real revolution. We also need to "touching the tiger in the balls" Roberto Lovato, Salvadoran journalist and author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas, joins to talk about the importance of remembering and healing from historic trauma, current Central American politics, and U.S. foreign policy. Then the wonderful Wajahat Ali is back to disown both Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy as the ambassador of the South Asian community. Also, in honor of Bob Barker, we play a round of The Price Is Right with numbers from the latest news. Featuring: Roberto Lovato, author and journalist https://twitter.com/robvato Get his book Unforgetting here Wajahat Ali, author and commentator https://twitter.com/WajahatAli *Catch Francesca and Matt Lieb LIVE at the Punchline in San Francisco on Tuesday October 17th! Tickets: bit.ly/3OCzLiB The Bitchuation Room Streams LIVE every TUESDAY and FRIDAY at 1/4pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifio Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Friday *BONUS BISH* Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So you don't get fascism unless you have layered lies and so one of the ways we need to fight
0:07.5	fascism is in the is what I call the theater of memory.
0:11.1	Yeah and you know you don't get military people like those that we fought. You don't get
0:16.2	fascist dictators. You don't get death squad operative like those I interviewed unless you get people who forget who they are.
0:25.0	What is up?
0:27.0	What is up? How is it going everybody? Welcome to the Bituation Room live. I am your
0:39.7	host Francesca Fiorentini excited for a very, very strong pod, just the strongest pod.
0:49.4	Author and Professor Roberto Lovato Lovato is here.
0:54.2	Also writer and commentator Wajahat Ali is here.
0:58.8	We're gonna get into some things.
1:00.6	We're gonna have some fun at the end we're going to play a game based on the
1:04.5	prices right r. i p bob barker but have you been following the news everyone can play
1:09.6	along so i'm going to subject a watch to that a little bit later on. But thank you so much for pressing play. Thank you for being here. Thank you for giving this podcast five stars on iTunes. Oh my God. Thank you so much for sharing and liking the stream right now. And of course, y'all know that this is not the only time we stream. We also have a bonus bish every Friday, 1 p.m. Pacific 4 p.m. Eastern there's a bonus
1:36.6	episode and a lot has happened since the last time we all spoke. The president
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