TMBS ReAir: 144 - The Present Moment & Bill de Blasio's Budget ft. Noam Chomsky & Madina Touré
The Michael Brooks Show
Michael Brooks
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
TMBS aired on Jun 16, 2020
Episode summary:
Tyson is using the pandemic to hyper exploit their workers.
Madina Toure on what De Blasio’s budget promises actually mean.
Charlie Kirk’s sloppy history of philosophy.
During the GEM, David breaks down why the Trump recovery is BS.
And we debut the 1st half of our interview with Chomsky.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Michael Brooks show. We're broadcasting live from our various still quarantine zones. We're actually still doing that |
| 0:21.3 | because we were still in the middle of a fierce pandemic |
| 0:24.6 | that this absolute schmuck that runs this country |
| 0:29.7 | has helped make infinitely worse than it needed to be. |
| 0:34.8 | I'm Michael Brooks, along with super producer Matlack. Yo. A theoretician and |
| 0:41.3 | economist in residence, David Griscombe. How's it going? It's going well on this week's program, |
| 0:47.1 | Medina Torre. She's an education reporter for political, and we're talking about what does it actually |
| 0:52.6 | mean? Bill de Blasio has belatedly and radically insufficiently, |
| 0:57.9 | but to some tiny degree, responded to the democratic uprisings |
| 1:02.2 | that have taken place in New York City and across the country and globe |
| 1:05.4 | around police, violence, racism, murder, and, in fact, budget priorities. He's saying that he's going to cut |
| 1:14.0 | the NYPD, which has a $6 billion budget a little bit, redirected into education to some extent. |
| 1:20.3 | Well, what does that exactly mean? We're going to be talking about the numbers and the budgets |
| 1:24.9 | with the great reporter Medina Torre. |
| 1:28.3 | And then an icon of public intellectualism, linguistics and resistance, |
| 1:33.3 | Noam Chomsky. |
| 1:35.3 | We just recorded this conversation about an hour and a half ago. |
| 1:38.3 | He supports free speech substantively and across the board, folks. |
| 1:43.3 | We're talking about that we're also talking |
| 1:45.0 | about his perception of the autonomous zone in Seattle the uprisings as well as |
| 1:50.5 | Lula Brazil Trump the fate of the earth and more they'll heal the first part of it |
| 1:57.3 | in the main show and the second part of it in the post game for TMDS patrons. |
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