ReAir 83 - Russia, Russia, Russia (& AIPAC) ft. Matt Taibbi & Francesca Fiorentini
The Michael Brooks Show
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🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 102 minutes
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TMBS 83 aired on March 26th, 2018 Episode summary:
Russiagate needs to be over.
Shoutout to Uber workers going on strike in LA.
Francesca Fiorentini of the Bitchuation Room calls in to talk AIPAC and the possibility of changing US foreign policy in the Middle East.
During the GEM, David breaks down how Uber is squeezing its workers and working to subvert democracy.
Matt Taibbi contributing editor at Rolling Stone calls in to talk about the Mueller report.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Michael Brooks show we're broadcasting live from downtown Brooklyn, USA where |
| 0:16.5 | left is best as it is everywhere else with super producer Matt Lecker. |
| 0:20.1 | You cheap economist David Gwiskum. |
| 0:23.5 | How's it going? |
| 0:24.5 | David Slavic is roaming the digitosphere in the ever expanding, ever global. |
| 0:30.2 | Potentially Russian influence. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm just playing TNBS universe on this week's program. |
| 0:36.1 | Francesca Fiorentini. |
| 0:37.7 | She's the host of the bitchification room standup comedian, former Al Jazeera plus journalist. |
| 0:44.4 | We're talking about APAC might be making fun of Megan McCain together a little bit. |
| 0:50.1 | Get her thoughts, potentially on Russia as well. |
| 0:53.6 | The Mueller report, Matt Tehibi, we just recorded this before we went live. |
| 0:58.8 | He's talking about the structural failures of this story and what it tells us about the |
| 1:05.8 | modern state of our democracy and oligarchy, the fights we actually have to win and the |
| 1:11.2 | terrifying prospect that this might actually have been a political gift to Donald Trump. |
| 1:16.1 | But we're going to explain how that can fight to make it not a gift for Donald Trump, |
| 1:20.7 | potentially. |
| 1:22.2 | We have some shout outs to give as Lyft and Uber drivers go on strike. |
| 1:27.6 | Bernie stands with graduate students in the University of California system as he goes |
| 1:33.8 | across the country campaigning for president in the post game. |
| 1:39.4 | We're doing a lot in the post game tonight and of course in the main show we have a Gwiskum |
| 1:43.4 | economic update. |
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