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The Joy Reid Show

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4.8 • 719 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 127 minutes

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On tonight's episode of The Joy Reid Show, bombs, boobs, and birthright citizenship. No this isn't an April Fools joke, we just live in a news cycle straight out of an article from "The Onion". But, luckily our guests of the night: Mehdi Hasan, Maya Wiley, Krystal Ball, and Uncle Luke are here to help us wade through the chaos! Krystal Ball: X: @Krystalball IG: @krystalmball Maya Wiley: IG: @maya4civilrights X: @mayawiley Mehdi Hasan: IG & X: @Mehdirhasan And be sure to subscribe to ⁨@zeteo⁩ news! Uncle Luke: IG & X: @unclelukereal1 Support his campaign at: luthercampbellforcongress.com THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: Willie’s Remedy: Order now at drinkwillies.com and use code "JOY" for 20% off of your first order + free shipping on orders over $95 HeliX: Go to helixsleep.com/JOY for 20% Off Sitewide. Make sure you enter our show name after checkout, so they know we sent you! Mosh: Head to moshlife.com/REID and subscribe today to get 25% OFF your first Variety Pack and 20% off your monthly subscription with code "REID" ABOUT JOY REID: Joy-Ann Lomena Reid (AKA Joy Reid) is a best-selling American author, political journalist and TV host. She was a national correspondent for MSNBC and is best known for hosting the Emmy-nominated, NAACP Award-winning political commentary and analysis show, The ReidOut, from 2020 to 2025. Her previous anchoring credits include The Reid Report (2014–2015) and AM Joy (2016–2020). STAY CONNECTED WITH THE SHOW: Website: https://www.joyannreid.com Merch: https://shop.thejoyreidshow.com/ Substack: https://substack.com/@joyannreid Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Joy-Reid-Show/61576759980854/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyreidshow/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thejoyreidshow FOLLOW JOY ON SOCIAL: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joyreidofficial/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyannreid/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@joyreidofficial Want to hear more of our theme song? Check out the Foodchain page on BandCamp: https://pthefoodchain.bandcamp.com/track/the-foodchain-basically-ft-jd-era ============================= Copyright Notice: This video and my YouTube channel contains content that is property of The Joy Reid Show, a production of Image Lab Media Group. You are authorized to share the video link and channel, and embed this video in your website or others as long as a link back to this YouTube Channel is provided. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, well, happy Thursday, Jr., everyone, welcome to the Joy Reid Show. I see Denver in the chat. I just saw it in the
0:22.3	YouTube chat. Who's that from Denver? Good evening to my sorrows. Always jumping in. The
0:26.3	Lemonheads jumping in in the YouTube chat. Hello to everybody that is watching on Substack.
0:30.7	And I am watching my Twitchies. Oh, oh, you adorable Twitchies. We see you. Thank you so much for being here.
0:37.1	Our Facebook fam, as well as our LinkedIn's. We love our LinkedIn's as well. Wherever you, there we go. Terrence Scott, big in up, Denver, Colorado, the former hometown. We appreciate everybody that's here. Thank you all for tuning in to the Joy Reach. We always appreciate your presence. If you're already here, we assume you've already hit like and subscribe, but you know what? It's never too late. You can also go ahead and hit that little thumbs up, even though I haven't said anything yet. I haven't done anything to deserve it. Let me give you something that you can like. So when we did the No Kings protest, you guys, remember you tuned in here or at the Don Lemon Show or at the Tim Acosta show.
1:12.6	I had on the purple version of this shirt, but then I realized the whole time all you saw was the no Kings.
1:17.6	Hold on.
1:18.6	I'm going to stand up and see if I can show you guys the rest of the shirt.
1:21.6	It says no Kings, just frogs.
1:26.6	No Kings, just frogs. We don't like, we don't want kings, but we do love a frog. No kings just frogs. So that I wanted to show you guys. We do have these shirts available in the shop if you want to buy one. And there are in many, many colors. Did you get on your mark, please? Let me sit on my market for a minute. But yeah, no king's just frogs.
1:44.8	That is the theme.
1:46.1	We do love frogs.
1:47.1	The frogs are our favorite fairy tale creature that protests against fascism.
1:52.7	We got someone watching from Canada.
1:54.7	Is it to me a welcome from Canada?
1:56.6	People saying they love the shirt.
1:57.6	Spicy frogs are the best kinds of frogs.
2:00.3	It says zero Cool TV.
2:01.3	Yes, spicy frogs are even, even better.
2:04.9	But we love all frogs, especially frogs who stand on two feet and are five feet or four or taller.
2:10.8	We love a big tall freedom frog.
2:14.9	And we're going to start to call them freedom frogs, Jason.
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