TMBS ReAir 137 - Class Matters & How To Be World Champions ft. Judah Friedlander & Yolian Ogbu

The Michael Brooks Show

Michael Brooks

Education, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

TMBS 137 aired on April 28, 2020.

Episode summary:

Yolian Ogbu tells us about organizingessential workers in the Covid era.

Comedian Judah Freidlander talks comedy, politics, and being a world champion.

Also, Not Being Naive & responding to “Why Americans Don’t Vote Their Class.”

On the GEM, our economic crisis and the importance of collective action.

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0:00.0	We're broadcasting live from all of our respective quarantine zones with super producer Matlack.
0:18.3	Yo.
0:19.8	Chief economist and China advocate, David Griscombe.
0:23.8	How's it going?
0:25.3	Dude, you're very shadowy shot today, brother.
0:27.9	I know.
0:28.5	I'm just watching the sunset.
0:29.7	We can get on a second.
0:30.9	I love it.
0:32.4	Continue to bring a poetic vibe.
0:35.1	Lord knows we need it on this week's program. Great doubleheader,
0:40.3	Judah Friedlander is here, stand-up comedian. You've seen him in many places, most especially.
0:48.3	I want to really plug his most recent stand-up special. We'll be talking about that. And of course,
0:53.3	how to be number one how to
0:55.7	be a world champion that's what you talk to judah about and we'll definitely get his thoughts on
1:00.8	politics very very excited uh to have him on the show yoleon ag. I will get this right.
1:13.0	Always as I deal with my, for an international relations major who does all this global
1:19.2	content, the pronunciations are trash, but you know, I do my best.
1:23.5	We're talking with her.
1:24.5	She's an organizer, an activist. We're talking about strikes in the age of corona, including one planned for May 1st. And we're going to be talking about how to get active in that way right now. Very excited about that conversation. Of course, we've got a gem with David Griscom.
1:46.6	We've got a jam-packed post game. Donald Trump is threatening to use federal aid to punish states and try to take away sanctuary cities.
1:57.1	Sergio Morrow is out. He's glorified by the global media, but he's the U.S.-backed head of the Lavajato farce, which made Lula a political prisoner and paved the way for Jaya Bolsonaro, who is in the political crosshairs in Brazil, even as Corona continues to wreak havoc across that country.
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