Episode 9: Dylan Ratigan

Krystal Kyle & Friends

Krystal

News, Politics

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2021

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Episode 9 of Krystal Kyle & Friends focuses on Dylan Ratigan’s critiques of money in politics, but in order to understand how Dylan became a populist who “flew under the radar” at institutions like MSNBC, we were also eager to hear about his upbringing and political journey. He absolutely didn’t disappoint.

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0:00.0	Howdy y'all. Welcome to the show this week. Hello, Crystal. Hello, sir. How are you going?
0:12.8	I'm doing wonderful. So we are going to be talking to guy by the name of Dylan Radigan.
0:20.0	Yes. I'm really excited. You know, it's funny. I don't know what percentage of the audience
0:26.4	has heard of him because it has been a while since he's been on MSNBC since he's been sort of prominent
0:32.4	in the political commentary game, if you will. So I feel like some of the younger people in the audience
0:36.4	might not know who he is, but for the people who do know who he is, the fact that I just said Dylan
0:40.7	Radigan, they were like, and they should feel that way. Yeah, because he's sort of like, you know,
0:46.9	he was one of the most amazing commentators. And this was back in the era when you were on MSNBC,
0:52.9	OG Janky, who grew up on MSNBC. Glenn Greenwald was on MSNBC. And Dylan Radigan was at their
0:58.5	screaming at everybody in sight. So yeah. And Shultz was there at that point. Shultz was there at that.
1:03.7	Right. There's a lot more interesting. It was just interesting. People had different opinions.
1:08.5	They didn't all just like. And they really believed in some people actually believed shit. It
1:13.3	wasn't just resistance drone nonsense where you know exactly what they're going to say before
1:16.9	they even come on air. So yeah. Anyway, it really was the golden era of MSNBC. And I think he's a
1:22.2	fascinating guy. So I'm really looking forward to talking to him. A couple of things we could
1:26.8	talk about this week, you know, apparently we got the news that there was a Biden aid who said
1:35.7	COVID, this is the best admission of all time. COVID is the best thing that ever happened to him.
1:41.4	It's just true. That's quite admission, isn't it? It is. So this is the first, this is Jonathan
1:48.2	Alan and Amy Parns. Next week are coming out with the book that's like the game change version
1:54.6	of the Biden campaign. That title is lucky. How Joe Biden barely won the presidency.
2:02.8	That's so true though. It's so true. And so this is Anita Dunn who is one of his senior
2:07.9	strategies. She's credited with the sort of like low key no drama approach to Trump, which I think
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