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🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi Raviya. Hey Ellen, how you doing? I am so excited today. How are you doing? What's today? I don't know what day it is. Is it Wednesday? |
0:17.0 | Great. Happy Wednesday. I don't know. The long weekend threw me off, but I do think it's Wednesday, but I'm ready for for the weekend and no better way to start off the weekend |
0:25.0 | than with today's guest. I am so excited. You all know them you love them. I just tell them that they're like, I feel like we're |
0:34.3 | best friends. At least they are in my world. |
0:37.4 | Rabia, tell them who our guest is today. Our guest today is Bitis Spear, |
0:41.5 | better known as V Spear. |
0:43.2 | V is an American journalist and podcast host best known for their Tik-Toc account |
0:47.0 | Under the Desk News, which by the way I love that name, |
0:49.0 | which currently has 3.1 million followers. |
0:51.8 | Before entering journalism, Spear worked in the |
0:53.9 | culinary and hospitality industries in New York City, Tampa, Florida, and DC. This |
0:58.3 | included working at catering companies, the James Beard Foundation and |
1:01.8 | Hungry Harvest, an organization that addresses food |
1:04.6 | insecurity. |
1:05.6 | Their first Tik-Toc videos focused on preparing and cooking food during the early months |
1:09.4 | of the COVID-19 pandemic, but then during the January 6th insurrection of 2021 |
1:14.4 | Spare created a short video address to then Vice President Mike Pence |
1:18.6 | while crouched under a desk. That video that's the origin That video took off and Spear continued to make videos |
1:26.0 | focusing on explaining current events simply. After under the desk news |
1:30.4 | gained popularity, Spear was hired to oversee the Los Angeles Times |
1:33.7 | Tik-Toc account and they currently produce podcast American Fever Dream. |
1:37.6 | B, welcome to Robia and Ellen Solve the Kays. We are so excited that you could make time for us and come and join us. Welcome. |
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