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The Real Saudi Night of the Beating

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Tim reads the real account of Saudi Arabia's 2017 Ritz-Carlton purge and 'night of the beating,' interspersed with jokes about MBS interrogating Ringo Starr and Swedish House Mafia over their wealth.

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  • Saudi Arabia knows how to balance things—they torture people, then let women drive to seem progressive.
  • The first night of detentions in Riyadh: everyone was blindfolded and subjected to what Egyptian intelligence calls 'the night of the beating.'
  • The torturers were Americans—the interrogators didn't arrive until the next day after the beatings and stress positions.
  • Tim likes MBS and thinks he's great; he lives in Beverly Hills and doesn't criticize the Saudi royal family.
  • The interrogators arrived knowing very little about the offshore financial stuff and were basically winging it.
  • Two options when Pandora Papers leak: lock everyone in a hotel and torture them, or write real estate blogs about their stunning modern chic properties.
  • It's difficult to know what to do when MBS finds out his neighbors are stealing money through the schemes in the Pandora Papers.
  • Tim imagines Katie Porter kidnapping Jamie Dimon and other CEOs in a minivan dressed like a lunch lady to torture them at the Four Seasons.
  • Lunch Lady Katie Porter interrogates the chained-up CEO about his monthly expenses and asks if he remembers her previous questions about how people at his bank make ends meet.
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Mohammed bin SalmanJamie DimonKatie PorterSaudi ArabiaPandora papersEgypt

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