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🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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0:00.0 | Today we're talking about even more disturbing allegations coming out about Netflix's Squid Game reality show. |
0:04.8 | Disney and Elon Musk go into war. Why so many are celebrating the death of Henry Kissinger. |
0:09.0 | Q&M believers in Canada are trying to build a mercenary army using homeless people, where next Airbnb could be deadly. |
0:14.8 | Treatment for postpartum depression is on the way, but good luck affording it. A new drug that makes your dog live longer could be out soon. We're talking about all that and so much more on today's extra large Thursday, |
0:23.8 | Philip DeFranco's show. |
0:24.8 | So just buckle up, hit that like button. |
0:27.0 | Let's jump into it. |
0:28.1 | Starting with. |
0:29.0 | Y, contestants on Netflix's Squid Game Competition series had such dry lips. |
0:32.7 | They used lubricated condoms to moisturize them since they weren't given chapstick. And of course, that's just one of the |
0:37.6 | many wild things we've been learning about the conditions on the show. Right, because I don't think we've |
0:40.9 | actually talked about this. If you didn't know, Netflix took his hit scripted series Squid Game, |
0:44.4 | or the one about people fighting such a debilitating poverty, they were willing to play games where they |
0:47.9 | might actually get killed to win cash. And they turned it into an actual reality competition series that just didn't have the murder. Though if you've watched it, you have seen people's souls and psyches crushed. Like, it's not too much of a spoiler. |
0:59.0 | There's like a whole part where it's like, hey, what if like everyone all of a sudden hated one |
1:03.3 | player? And he's being bullied and he has a straight up panic attack. And we just focus on that for a few |
1:07.3 | minutes. And so because of the conditions and some of the things that have been featured on the show, you have people having problems with it. You know, regarding the problems |
1:12.6 | we've known about some of them for a while, right? I mean, there were reports earlier this year, |
1:15.7 | claiming that some of the games were rigged that conditions on set were inhumane. And so it's |
1:19.3 | really not a surprise that some of the questioned if it is, is that the drama version is such a bitterly acute satire of the ruthlessness of late capitalism, whereas played out |
1:31.3 | for real, it loses the satirical beats and becomes the thing the drama railed against. |
1:35.3 | And with that saying, you know, there are moments that are hard to watch where you're genuinely |
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