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The Rest Is Entertainment

Trump, TikTok & NDAs

The Rest Is Entertainment

Goalhanger

News, Books, Entertainment News, Arts, Tv & Film

4.3 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Trump returned to the White House with some new special envoys. Which Hollywood hardmen has he chosen to watch his back? Allegations against Neil Gaiman have revealed the use of NDAs as a tool of power by the rich against those more vulnerable. What are NDAs and what would happen if you break one? TikTok shut down for a few hours in the US on Sunday night before being reinstated by President Trump. Will the ban come again and if so will anyone really care? As ever, we really appreciate your feedback on The Rest Is Entertainment to make our shows and partnerships even better: https://forms.gle/RRtnYHRhxrbcqU8A7 Recommendations: Marina - Cue The Sun (read) Richard - A Real Pain (watch) Join The Rest Is Entertainment Club for ad free listening and access to bonus episodes: www.therestisentertainment.com Sign up to our newsletter: www.therestisentertainment.com Twitter: @‌restisents Instagram: @‌restisentertainment YouTube: @‌therestisentertainment Email: therestisentertainment@gmail.com Producers: Neil Fearn + Joey McCarthy Executive Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.4

Hello and welcome to this episode of The Resters Entertainment with me Marina Hyde.

0:37.1

And me, Richard Osmond.

0:38.5

Good morning, slash afternoon slash evening Marina.

0:41.1

Hello, how are you, Richard?

0:42.3

Yes, I'm all right. How has your half week been since I last saw you?

0:45.7

It's been agonisingly too long. I have longed to get back into this Coliseum of Chat.

0:51.7

I can't believe it off. Please, just to edit that out. No, but to be fair, it is a

0:55.6

Coliseum of Chatterseum. If you're not watching on YouTube, we are in a Coliseum. If you are watching

1:00.1

on YouTube, shh. I want there to be an inserted background. Now, what are we going to talk about

1:04.7

today? We are going to talk about a number of things. We're going to talk about Neil Gaiman and the allegations against him and the

1:11.2

rise of NDAs and how difficult they seem to make everything. We're going to talk about the shortest

1:16.6

lived corporate ban in history, the TikTok ban, and why Trump maybe doesn't want it banned, the reasons,

1:23.4

that people are given all sorts of reasons. I think there's one very specific reason why he's

1:27.0

brought it back. Trump has appointed three Hollywood special envoys, special envoys to Hollywood on his

1:34.6

behalf. What does it mean? Does it mean anything? We're going to talk about that. And they're as

1:39.2

fun as you'd imagine. I know we've said the word Trump there, but I promise you, we're talking about

1:43.1

entertainment stuff. Don't worry about that. You do not need to switch off.

1:46.2

Right. Well, let's begin with Neil Gaiman, partly a fantasy author, who was the subject of a podcast by Tortoise last summer called Master, in which various women came forward and alleged abuse, coercion and sexual misconduct by him.

2:02.8

The follow-up, as it were, has taken quite a long time to come out and it came out in New York magazine last week under the headline,

2:08.7

there is no safe word. And that featured eight women, six of whom went on the record. And I should

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