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Zach Stafford

Zach Stafford

Journalist and former editor

Sep 7, 2026

15:06
[laughs]
15:07
Is she a gay straight person? I wanna answer this authentically.
15:12
Um, or honestly, rather.
15:14
Uh, she's kinda.
15:16
She's, like...
15:17
She's been through a lot.
15:18
You know, Jennifer Hudson I got to know through, uh, this show, and she was a producer on the show.

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41:50
Uh-oh.
18:42
Fruit Riot?
18:43
Fruit Riot.
18:44
My true lover of lovers is Tru Fru, which is frozen raspberries, uh, that have been covered in chocolates, um, white chocolates, dark chocolates, milk chocolates.
18:54
And just the other day in New York City, I was at a dinner party that a friend hosted, and for dessert he pulled out Tru Fru, but bananas dipped in chocolate with peanut butter.
19:04
And these were gay men who were very obsessed with their physiques, and this is what they are serving for di- for dessert at dinner parties to be healthy and clean eating, but have a little delicious treat.
19:13
And so there is this interesting way in which, in this kind of culture where we're optimizing everything and trying to make everything about being like our best version of ourselves, even dessert has become kind of this weird, uh, site of health protein maxing or fiber maxing.
19:28
And I will say, it is delicious.
24:03
What is your hot take?
6:15
And it's
6:15
also become a thing because, you know, as Oscar season gets so protracted, There is this game of what film can be released right at the start of the season that has the legs to run the longest race.
6:28
And Sinners was one of those movies that when it first was being marketed, you didn't know what it was.
6:33
I go to the theaters once a week, famously.
6:35
We talk about this on the show.
6:36
Saeed doesn't go to theaters very much.
6:38
I go way too much maybe.

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12:23
all said we wanted Tiana Taylor to win and But I felt that Amy Madigan.
5:51
Yeah.
5:51
... extraordinary moments are really heartbreaking.
5:52
So he is the most recent case.
5:54
If he is ever to leave this prison, he will be sent back to Venezuela and, you know, historically, folks in his situation die within the first year of returning back to their country of origin due to various things that they were literally trying to escape, now being able to find them quicker.
6:08
Um, but back in 2019, we saw a real spike in reporting around Trump and ICE.
6:13
I mean, that's when the caravans were really arriving in Tijuana and there was a lot of pressure and focus on it.
6:18
And while I was there, I would report and visit safe houses.
9:27
Hm.

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