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An Irishman Abroad

Is This What They Voted For? - Irishman In America Podcast

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

Society & Culture, News, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture:personal Journals, Personal Journals, Politics

4.8834 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Marion McKeone examines the latest news from America with the help of comedian Jarlath Regan. The image of Elon Musk and his booger eating child in the Oval Office is one that will last. How much of what he says can he actually do? The profound constitutional questions his cuts are raising will test US institutions. Are they up to it? From Gaza to Ukraine, mass deportations and Kendrick Lamar, there is no stone left unturned in this week’s episode. Pop over to www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad  to hear the full conversation ad free and start enjoying all of the Irishman Abroad podcast network. While it’s very hard to laugh, we have to try. Why not come and see Jarlath on tour in 2025! www.jigser.com/gigs

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0:00.0

it's all fun in games till Elon Musk is standing next to you sitting looking sour at your desk

0:06.7

ranting about this is what the people voted for while his son wipes boogers into your desk

0:14.5

Marion you couldn't write it you couldn't like if you talk about dystopian futures, one of my friends

0:21.5

said it's like watching that series V. Do you remember that series? It just... Oh my God, I'd

0:27.1

forgotten it, but now that you mention it, yeah. I believe. It defies logic. It would make you

0:34.8

very scared if you were that way inclined.

0:48.2

But surely Elon Musk standing there saying these things has triggered something in America or did they lap it up?

0:50.6

You tell me, what did we just watch this week?

0:56.2

Do you know, Jarlet, it is so hard to know where to begin because, you know,

1:02.3

what you just said there, and it's, you know, there are very few chuckles to be had at the moment about things, but while I was watching that child and he's only four years of age,

1:07.2

and it's, I find it disgusting the way Elon Musk parades him around like an accessory.

1:12.4

I really do. And, you know, I think as well, not to do what aboutism, but if a woman brought her

1:17.8

child to work in the way that he did and parades him around like that, all these maga pros would be

1:23.3

going absolutely bat shit, you know. But when he, like he's a little four-year-old child and

1:29.5

you know he's picking the nose and you can see he's looking around and you're just wondering

1:33.3

where's it going to land where's it going to land is he going to put it on the emergency button

1:37.2

where the coke that trump presses to get his diet coax or is he going to put it on the nuclear

1:42.5

button or is he going to put it on where is he going to put it on the nuclear button or is he going to put it on?

1:44.6

Where is he going to put it?

1:46.3

And we didn't see.

1:47.5

But it was interesting because when the little kid just looked up and Trump to chat,

1:51.2

the expression on Trump's face and he just turned away and the narcissism and the self-centeredness,

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