The Waves: How Drake Betrayed Megan Thee Stallion
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🗓️ 17 August 2023
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Tory Lanez has been sentenced for shooting Megan Thee Stallion, and we have THOUGHTS. Scamfluencers co-host and former BuzzFeed reporter Scaachi Koul is joined by Refinery29 deputy director Kathleen Newman-Bremang to unpack why so many people turned against Megan despite Tory Lanez being a wasteman. They explain what exactly is a “Toronto Mans” and why this dangerous subsection of man is crossing American borders in the forms of Drake, the Weeknd, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | explicit language warning. We're cursing a lot in this episode so don't listen to it with your |
| 0:04.7 | kids. Or do, I'm not their mother. Welcome to the Waves, Slate's podcast about the terror of |
| 0:15.9 | gender, feminism, and today, one of Canada's worst exports. It's not how we handle, not this time. |
| 0:22.8 | Though we do feel very sorry about that one. Every week, we talk about what |
| 0:28.5 | fresh hell is being unleashed on the girls in the gays, the bays and thems, and anyone else |
| 0:33.4 | similarly committed to a society free of cis male dominance. Indeed, this is a community |
| 0:39.3 | full of she sheds. No man caves. I'm your host, Sachy Cole. You probably know who Megan |
| 0:46.2 | V. Stallion is. Otherwise known as the hottest woman in America. That's actually fact-checked. |
| 0:52.4 | You can look it up on snopes right now. I will wait. |
| 1:17.2 | But maybe I have to tell you who Torrey Lanez is. Here he is yelling about where he is from. |
| 1:22.5 | As we all do sometimes. Torrey is a rapper from, like he said, Ontario Canada. But I have |
| 1:31.6 | serious, significant doubts that you know him from his music. In all probability, you know who |
| 1:37.6 | Torrey is because of what he did to Megan in 2020. Here she is telling part of her story to |
| 1:42.4 | Gil King of CBS last year. So I get off the car and it's like everything happens so fast. |
| 1:49.6 | And all I hear is his man screaming is he said, that's |
| 1:53.9 | and he started shooting. And I'm just like, oh my god. Like he shot a couple of times. |
| 2:02.4 | So it's in the car shooting from the car. He is standing up over the window shooting. |
| 2:09.4 | And I don't even want to move. I don't want to move too quick. Like because I'm like, oh my god. |
| 2:15.8 | If I take the wrong step, I don't know if he can shoot something that's like super important. |
| 2:22.2 | I don't know if he can shoot me and kill me. Like were you afraid for your life? |
| 2:26.4 | I was really scared because I hadn't ever been shot at before. |
| 2:30.9 | In July 2020, Torrey and Megan were friends. They were on their way home from a party at Kylie |
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