{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65efa8e34801c00017384f1b/6a875ff7041118f249f6aa1a?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Real Time s6e1 - With Two Dead Guys I Did NOT Care For feat Emma Arkell","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/65efa8e34801c00017384f1b/1787256899832-fa4b099f-5397-40bd-8bd6-b189ccb4b35b.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>THIS EPISODE WAS RECORDED WEEKS AGO! I'M SORRY IF IT'S SOMEHOW WILDLY OUT OF DATE!</p><p><br></p><p>...but not that sorry.</p><p><br></p><p>Oh boy, I was fucking whacked out of my gourd on my recently reupped Ritalin prescription on this one, so it's good the incredibly patient journalist EMMA ARKELL joined the show to listen to me go bleh bleh bleh. It's an off week for Real Time, so we dipped way back into the archives to talk about Real Time season 6 episode, aka THE FIRST EPISODE OF THE WGA STRIKE! Not the strike people reading this are likely to remember, but the one that happened back in 2008 when every writer's room was almost entirely white men. I watched a video of the WGA president at the time addressing strikers and it's insane how white the crowd is.</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.defactomedia.ca/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to the De Facto Journalism co-op</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/c/IHateBillMaher\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Support I Hate Bill Maher on Patreon</a></p>","author_name":"Will Weldon"}