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🗓️ 20 October 2020
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and left political strategy, as well as interviews with prominent individuals on the left. This is the podcast version of the show that broadcast on October 17, 2020. The guest is Ben Burgis.
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0:00.0 | The Hey everyone. Welcome to weekends. I'm Anna Kasparian with Nandovila. I love that slow |
0:21.2 | fade in or is it fade out whatever that was it was good good work |
0:25.2 | Kale we we always forget Nando to ask our audience to send us super chat questions we We wait until we're ready to take |
0:34.7 | super chat questions which is a bad idea. So send us super chat questions. We'll |
0:39.5 | address them in the last segment of the show and there might be a healthy debate on the show today. |
0:45.2 | You want to tell the audience Nando who we're going to have on for our interview segment? |
0:49.5 | We're going to have the wonderful friend of the show, Ben Burgess, you know who is the philosopher, academic, |
0:57.0 | writer, thinker, very smart man he knows like all the arguments I mean that's his whole thing is right it's like not the left should not be afraid of engaging in arguments both with each other but also with the right you know this there was a tendency for a long time of like we don't even |
1:14.1 | talked about people and he's like no no you have to confront them head on and you have to |
1:18.1 | argue with them head on and so I'm excited to have that he's a Ben's an expert at giving people an argument |
1:25.0 | and logic for the left. |
1:27.7 | Logic facts. |
1:28.3 | I love Ben. |
1:29.7 | Yeah. |
1:30.9 | So we'll have a great interview segment with him. We're actually going to talk about a recent debate between Nome Chomsky and Brianna Joy Gray on Brianna's new podcast, relatively new. everyone should check that out and oh my gosh I'm |
1:46.7 | blanking right now is a bad faith the name of the podcast yes yes and it's |
1:51.0 | excellent so everyone check that out But it's an interesting debate about whether or not it makes sense for people on the left to vote for Joe Biden even as he has refused to concede on some policy proposals for Progressive. |
2:05.9 | So we'll talk about that later. |
2:07.6 | And then I'm just gonna rage about the fact that people are getting their news |
2:10.7 | from like failed reality show stars. |
2:13.0 | Yes. |
2:14.0 | Well, I mean, we're being governed by one, so I guess it is what it is. |
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