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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Eli Valley on Drawing Bret Stephens, and Why Do Democrats Suck at Merch?

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.54.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Matt and Katie recap the news of the week, update on the field of presidential candidates (17:16), Matt's article on Trump's reelection campaign (24:26), Cartoonist Eli Valley joins the show to talk Bret Stephens' bedbug controversy and more (33:15) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Our Sponsors: * Check out Chilipad and use my code sleep.me/USEFUL for a great deal: https://sleep.me * Check out Mint Mobile and use my code mintmobile.com/USEFUL for a great deal: https://www.mintmobile.com * Check out Quince and use my code quince.com/useful for a great deal: https://www.quince.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Matt Taivy. Normally, Katie Halper and I will be discussing who is and is not in the

0:05.2

presidential race in each episode of Useful Idiots. But in the Friday of 13th sequel that is

0:10.4

this presidential race, the parties are just piling up too fast for us to keep track of.

0:14.5

So, we didn't forget New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. She just dropped out since we cut the

0:18.8

episode. We'll talk about her next week. Until then, thanks and enjoy Useful Idiots.

0:30.9

Welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Matt Taivy, your co-host. And I'm your co-host, Katie Halper.

0:36.5

How are you doing? Good, you. I'm good. Good. Great show last week. Yeah, it was.

0:40.6

It was. Yeah, we, uh, how do we do? We did great. We beat out Pots of America, which has

0:46.0

definitely been one of my goals in life. So, we came in for a week or for like a minute.

0:49.4

I'm not sure. There was definitely a second or two. A couple seconds. That's good.

0:52.9

That's cool. And so, yeah, we can, we can look at the files. But that's, uh, speaking of which,

0:57.7

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thing, uh, subscribe. And maybe we'll get a guest to come on and walk us through how you rate

1:22.0

and review. We don't even know how to rate her on show. That's a good start. We're so self-facing.

1:26.3

That's why, yeah. But you guys know how to do it. People have done it. It's been done. We got,

1:30.3

we have five stars. That's our average. Excellent. I just subscribed in real time. How many?

1:35.1

Out of five. Oh, okay. That's fun. We got 104 ratings. So, let's try to get that up to 200

1:41.3

by next episode. Sounds good. Right? That's good. For people who aren't familiar with the show,

1:44.8

we didn't really make it terribly clear last time. But we have a couple of features that, uh,

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for people who are only listening and not watching. Um, one thing is a, is the woke button.

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