Back to episode — Episode 2427 CWSA 03/28/24
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Herridge, as you know, had some kind of weird exit from her job at CBS. But there is rumor that she's negotiating with X to be on the X platform. How awesome would that be? To me that would be probably the single most important thing that happened on X since the takeover. And I say that because she has such a good reputation as a solid investigative journalist that having her on the platform would…
← Previous segment →g to get into the who-did-what part. But there's a story that's bigger than the story. The story is about the people observing it. So there's a whole bunch of people observing a divorce in which the wife was not working and the husband had made a ton of money, especially recently. And they had to work out the financials because there's no prenup. And I guess it's not super friendly, or as friendly as it could be.
And so Tim Pool and others are watching in horror as they're learning for the first time that the husband has to pay his opponent to take his money. So the court will charge the husband, because he's the one with the assets, for the legal services of both the husband and the wife. I mean, the husband will get his own attorney, but the wife will get her attorney. She'll pick it on her own. And then she'll use the husband's money to extend the lawsuit because the lawyer for the wife is going to want to keep it going as long as possible because that person gets paid by the hour.
So the wife will hire the lawyer from hell and just torture the husband for extra money until he just psychologically gives up and writes a big check. And can't stand paying his opponent to negotiate. How long can you pay your opponent for negotiating with you? There's some point where you just can't do it. Like your brain just says, "I can't pay people to take my money." It's bad enough they're going to take my money, but I can't pay them to take my money. Like that's just too far.
Now anyway, the bigger story here is that the whole enterprise of marriage and divorce is a really poorly designed system. I'm not going to take sides in this specific divorce because we don't know enough and it's not fair and I wish them well and we don't know what's going on. And any judgment that we make about what they are doing or not doing is completely inappropriate.
But the larger story that people watching it are horrified at the system. They're not horrified at what the people are doing. People are kind of working the way you do within the system. It's all ugly anyway. That really needs to be fixed. But I don't have any ideas for doing it.
There's a weird and alarming trend of women in New York City doing selfie videos showing that they had just gotten punched randomly while walking down the street. Now I don't know yet if this is really a thing or were there just three examples of it and we think it's a thing. But there are — I just watched three videos of young women in New York w
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ho said they were just walking down the street and somebody walked up and punched them in the head. And now they've got a big black eye or bump on their head or something. Now I don't know if that's really a trend or a weird little blip statistically. But I will tell you this: if you're having any conversation on the topic of young women being punched in the face randomly because they walked down…
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