The Weekend on MSNBC: With Alicia Menendez and Symone Sanders-Townsend
The Michael Steele Podcast
The Bulwark
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The trio discuss their reaction to getting the call to host a new weekend show together, how their personalities balance each other's voices and what The Weekend will look like as a show. They also discuss Nikki Haley omitting slavery as the cause of the Civil War, Elise Stefanik calling jailed January 6th rioters “hostages” and the minds of voters heading into 2024
The Weekend, hosted by Alicia Menendez, Symone Sanders-Townsend and Michael Steele, premieres Saturday, January 13, just two days before the consequential Iowa caucuses. The new program will air 8am to 10am ET on Saturdays and Sundays.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody to the Michael Steele podcast. I'm Michael Steele. Today I am joined by Simone Sanders |
| 0:06.2 | Townsend and Alicia Menendez, my colleagues, and soon to be co-host of our new MSNBC show The Weekend, which premieres this Saturday, January 13th at 8 a.m. Eastern on |
| 0:19.4 | MSNBC. Simone Sanders Townsend was most recently the host of Simone on MSNBC and |
| 0:26.3 | Peacock. Prior to joining MSNBC in 2002, she was a senior advisor and chief |
| 0:31.7 | spokesperson to Vice President Kamla Harris from 2020 to 2021 and |
| 0:36.2 | National Press Secretary for U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders then presidential campaign in 2016. And Elisa Menendez joined MS NBC in 2019 and most recently |
| 0:47.0 | anchored MS NBC's American Voices with Elisa Menendez on Saturdays and Sunday. She is the author of the likeability trap, how to break free and succeed as you are, and the host of the podcast Latina to Latina. My conversation with Simone Sanders Townsend and Alicia Menendez coming up on the Michael Steele podcast right after this. What up everybody? Welcome to the Michael Steele Podcast. |
| 1:23.0 | Well, I am the luckiest man on the planet, period. |
| 1:27.0 | End of story right here, because I've got the opportunity to hang out in the neighborhood with two women who I am so happy to be joined up with partner with for our new show the weekend |
| 1:41.0 | Alicia Menendez and Simone Sanders Townsend, welcome to the podcast crew. |
| 1:47.0 | Greetings! |
| 1:50.0 | Hello, sir. |
| 1:51.0 | Uh-oh, uh-oh, we got that, we got that. |
| 1:55.3 | Alicia, hello there, how are you? |
| 1:57.6 | Are we about to do the news? |
| 2:01.0 | After I just spilled water on myself myself so really not that swap. |
| 2:06.4 | So hey, the weekend, we get to, we get, |
| 2:09.7 | I mean look, we've all been at MS MS NBC for a while. We've been involved in a lot of projects. |
| 2:17.2 | Both of you had two great shows on the weekends. And now we're teaming up to do a program called the weekend 8 to 10 a.m. Eastern every Saturday and Sunday. |
| 2:29.0 | So here's the question. give me your reaction. |
| 2:33.8 | When you got the word that A, you were going to be doing a new show called |
| 2:40.9 | the weekend, and B, you are doing it with this bald brother from Washington DC. |
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