Episode 78 Teaser - JFK Every Day

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🗓️ 31 January 2017

⏱️ 19 minutes

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UPDATE: We unlocked the whole episode, listen here. https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-78-1-31-7941890 We're releasing a section of this week's premium episode because a shitload of protests have happened since we recorded our interview with Matt Taibbi and we want everyone to be able to hear and talk about it.

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0:26.8	I'm going to Hello friends it's a special treat for you. It's a bonus episode with me, Matt, and Amber. The adults of Chappo Trappas. Let's be honest. The ground folks.
0:30.7	Yeah. We just have to talk about straight away what happened last night, you know, at JFK,
0:38.8	at Logan, at Dulles, and elsewhere in the country.
0:42.4	So I don't know, where do don't know where do you guys where do you guys want to start with that?
0:47.2	I mean first of all it was awesome. Yeah I mean it was I was genuinely overjoyed seeing it happened I was moved I was really I felt
0:56.6	emotion for sure it is embarrassing yeah I feel like I'm becoming a normal gross yeah
1:02.0	feelings suck but I had quite a lot of them seeing everybody
1:06.7	at JFK last night yeah people I never expected to show up to a protest you know showed up to yeah definitely
1:14.3	incredibly exciting we're all gonna be posting inspirational Facebook names
1:18.6	soon I'm going with minions I think that's gonna be my wheelhouse yeah I'm going yeah I'm going with minions I think that's going to be my wheelhouse yeah a minion and he's waving
1:26.1	it says sees the means of production yeah I'm gonna have a big sign that says minions
1:31.0	welcome no but sign that says minions welcome. No but I mean again like I I feel
1:39.3	over matched because I just feel like sincerity is really the only way I can can respond to this like I thought it was just
1:47.3	Amazing and exactly what we need right now like a hundred percent yeah and and exciting in a way that I'm not you know I've
1:59.3	participated in a lot of protests and things over the years but honestly most of them don't really
2:06.8	do anything they're not usually very effective I mean and these were effective
2:12.0	almost immediately yeah I think for two reasons one was
2:16.9	like the sheer mass chaos of that number of people and two two, this cannot be, you know, erased from I think our
2:28.9	evaluation of the efficacy. It was the taxis. Right, the New York City Taxi Commission.
2:35.0	Yeah because I mean there's this idea that you know the power cannot ignore you know masses of people in the street.
2:43.2	Yeah, they can, they do all the time.
2:45.2	I mean, there are huge demonstrations that
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