Krystal Ball on Why Centrism Sucks

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

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🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie Halper. I'm Matt Tauyvi. And we are very excited about
0:12.2	today's show. We're going to be talking to journalist CPA and former Congressional candidate
0:17.6	Crystal Ball. Excellent. And I want to make sure that people knew in case you're watching this,
0:22.3	we are a podcast and you can rain review us and subscribe. You just go to iTunes, Spotify, Apple,
0:28.8	podcasts. You're looking at me like I know. I don't know. Yeah. Well, we just wanted to make sure
0:33.3	that you knew about it because we're video also. And if you're listening to this, you may want to
0:38.3	check us out on video at YouTube and you can then subscribe to us on YouTube. The point is,
0:42.7	though, tell your friends about it. Give us a good rating because together we can beat
0:47.4	PodSave America. Yeah, I'm starting to embrace this whole, let's, you know, beat PodSave America.
0:53.1	Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Last week, by the way, when we had O'Bernie, as he's known to people who speak
0:58.3	Arabic, which means Uncle Bernie, when we had him on, I was, because I didn't have my laptop,
1:02.9	because there was a bonus thing in his last minute, and I was looking on my phone, and I think I said,
1:06.7	I'm looking on my phone to look things up. Don't think I'm being distracted. Everybody was
1:09.6	slaughtering you about that. I know. I could have defended you, but I didn't. I just kind of let it out.
1:14.2	We don't waste your defense on me on this. I can take this. But listen, guys, and if you're
1:18.7	listening to PodCas, you don't know this. I'm looking straight into the camera. I was looking
1:22.8	things up, and whoever said that it's triggering when someone's not paying their full,
1:29.4	undivided attention, good. I want to trigger you more. Tell me what else triggers you.
1:34.4	Let's look at our phones. What we do the rest of the show now. How precious is that? Let's not
1:38.4	even look at each other. All right. So the four, four food groups of news, what do we have this week?
1:42.6	And what do we have in a Republican suck this week? Okay. So as listeners, viewers know, we have
1:47.1	this stick where we have their four types of stories, right? There's only four. So that's it.
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