Is the Mamdani moment as big as it seems?
The Two Matts
The New World
4.4 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The Matts weigh up the success of New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and ask how much we should read into a good set of results for Democrats in the US. And will winning the election prove the easy part now Mamdani has to govern a city notoriously impatient with its mayors? Also - as Mamdani sets out to bring clarity to the unprecedented inequality in American society, what does Elon Musk’s $1trillion pay packet tell us about capitalism in the first quarter of the 21st Century? Enjoy!
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| 0:59.3 | Hello and happy Friday. Happy Friday one and all. We've never said that, but normally come |
| 1:07.7 | out on a Thursday, but today is Friday. I think we have once maybe after an election or something like that, but basically we've never said it. Yeah, and the reason is for this |
| 1:14.9 | historic moment, which will be marked in the annals of history, is that we're in France. We are. |
| 1:20.8 | At the wonderful Chateau Le Bonquire, Bonquier in Montpellier. And beautiful it is too. And there is a reason for us being here. |
| 1:30.3 | It's more work thing. We won't bore you with it. But we're having a lovely time. We'll be glad to hear, dear listeners. |
| 1:38.5 | We are. We wanted to talk this week about Mandani. |
| 1:43.6 | Yeah, it's been a big, actually it's been a very good week to be a way where we can kind of think |
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