We Need To Talk About Congressman George Santos
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Lies, lies and more lies.
We chat to Republican and newspaper publisher Grant Lally who's known George Santos for years. Why were the concerns he raised about the freshman congressman ignored?
And what's behind America’s long-term weight issues? Public health policy advocate, Rhea Farberman, talks obesity.
Americast is presented by North America editor Sarah Smith, Today host Justin Webb, the BBC's social media and disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring, and North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher.
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This episode was made by Phil Marzouk and Alix Pickles. The studio director was Jonny Hall. The assistant editor was Simon Watts. The senior news editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | One question reverberates around the world. |
| 0:07.2 | What is going on with Anthony? |
| 0:09.5 | What is he on? |
| 0:10.8 | The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame has now come out with a Martin Luther King doll. |
| 0:16.0 | So these are, these are little plastic dolls that are very popular in America. |
| 0:20.4 | They're on a stand so you can put them on a shelf or on your desk or something. |
| 0:23.8 | And they have an oversized head that wobbles about and sometimes they even speak. |
| 0:27.8 | So I actually have a modest Bobblehead doll collection. |
| 0:30.9 | They give me a way at watching baseball games. |
| 0:33.1 | So I have a number of different watching to the National Space Ball players. |
| 0:37.1 | My wife got a Bobblehead of LBJ with big cowboy hat Stetson holding a little beagle. |
| 0:42.6 | I have another one of Teddy Roosevelt. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm not sure I'm going to add it. |
| 0:46.3 | And yes, we actually have some special guests here in the studio with us today. |
| 0:49.7 | I want to show you, introduce you to Teddy. |
| 0:52.3 | Well, Anthony, I have to confess I have some Bobblehead dolls as well from the last presidential |
| 0:56.8 | campaign I covered. |
| 0:58.0 | That's John McCain and Barack Obama who is inexplicably considerably smaller than John McCain. |
| 1:02.9 | Even though his you know, he is a very, very tall man in real life. |
| 1:07.4 | This one is not technically a Bobblehead, but it's George W. Bush from a souvenir store |
| 1:12.2 | that they had down in Crawford, Texas when the Western White House used to be there. |
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