Timcast IRL #215 - AOC Ignites Tabloid Drama Distraction Deriding Cop Who Saved Her w/ FreedomToons
Timcast IRL
Timcast Media
4.5 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 131 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Tim, Ian, Luke, and Lydia are joined by Seamus from FreedomToons to discuss ACO's recent dramatics, the 'reality czars', the media's slump post-Trump, and Bezos and the Washington Post.
Support the show (http://Timcast.com/donate)
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | It has now been nearly a month since the storming of the capital in Washington, DC. |
| 0:06.6 | And just the other night, Ocasio Cortez told this story, recount recounting this very |
| 0:11.6 | traumatic moment for her. |
| 0:12.7 | And I mean, it was for traumatic for her, she says so. |
| 0:16.1 | Where a police officer knocked on her door, she says, pounded very loudly, said where is |
| 0:19.7 | she, and she was afraid for her life, thinking it was the writers. |
| 0:22.5 | Well, it was actually a cop who was there to save her and then ushered her and her staff |
| 0:26.7 | out and told them to run and go to another building. |
| 0:29.2 | It's created kind of a tabloid controversy that I think is a dumb distraction because |
| 0:32.9 | right now we have the GameStop rebellion. |
| 0:36.0 | We have Joe Biden signing it or preparing an executive order to nationalize 9 million |
| 0:41.0 | immigrants. |
| 0:42.0 | So like we have a lot going on in this country. |
| 0:43.9 | But for some reason, the headlines are dominated by Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Michael Tracy. |
| 0:50.4 | It really is the weirdest thing. |
| 0:52.7 | And so here we are once again wrapped up in this. |
| 0:54.7 | But you know what? |
| 0:55.7 | We were sitting here talking about shouldn't we open with like China, threaten us? |
| 0:59.2 | threatening Taiwan and Joe Biden's immigration policies and I was like, you're right, you're |
| 1:02.5 | right. |
| 1:03.5 | But this is trending. |
| 1:04.8 | We should address it in a critical way to call it out. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Timcast Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Timcast Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

