Welcome to Friends. Welcome to Weekend's Friends. That was a bad intro. How are you guys doing?

She's such a Monica. I hate when I get ahead of myself like I want to get the words out and like I'm in such a rush that I'll just skip words. Sometimes it happens on a regular basis. I need to just like chill and relax. But I'm excited about the show. Like we have so many great interviews to share with you today. We're not doing one but two interviews. We're switching it up, baby. Switching it up. We're doing two interviews. We got Ross Barkin talking about

Andrew Cuomo and we got the vice president of the of the painters union, which we talked about last week. We're going to talk to him and it's going to be great. So yes, yes. Lots of things have happened since we spoke to you guys last week. We have updates on the stimulus bill. Unfortunately, some pretty negative updates. We have the interviews where we will discuss the pro act, which is what Nando's decode segment was on. Biden did something surprising.

Regarding the, you know, effort to unionize in Bessimer, Alabama. Do we believe what he has to say about it? We'll discuss. And in my decode today, we're going to talk about the politics of personal responsibility and how Democrats are really bungling this moment, this political opportunity for themselves because they're awful, absolutely awful.

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Tomorrow, sex will be good again. Women and desire in the age of consent by Catherine Angel. Wow, I need to get that one liberalism at large. The world according to the economist by Alexander Zévin and a new edition of the emancipated spectator by Jacques Anciet.

I think that's how you pronounce that name.

Some provocative titles there. I like it. Yeah, sex will be good again tomorrow. Finally, I've been waiting for that. Jesus.

I will withhold comment because I don't feel like I need that book, but I'll read it. I'll still read it anyway. It's showing that I'm going to win, bro.

Okay, we're already having too much fun. So I'm going to bring it down a notch by talking about how disasters, Democrats are segway.

Yes, speaking of sex. So you heard of a bisexual senator.

Yes, yes, apparently that's the only thing she wants us to focus on, but that is not going to be the topic of discussion today.

Kirsten Sinema decided to vote down the $15 an hour minimum wage in the coronavirus relief bill. This was an amendment that Senator Bernie Sanders wanted to force a vote on in the Senate.

And we now have a clearer idea of which senators are against, and I'm specifically talking about Democratic senators are against including the $15 an hour minimum wage in the stimulus bill.

And the person who got the most attention for voting it down was Senator Kirsten Sinema, who let's bring the video up, decided to kind of do a celebratory vote down.

There was no reason for her to vote that way. She gave a thumbs down. You know, she seemed very jovial during this moment and understand what that no vote means. It means that she is against ensuring that people in this country get something close to a living wage at this point $15 an hour still isn't enough if you take inflation into account.

But Nando, you know, does she really deserve the ire she's getting on, you know, the ire of the people on social media today and yesterday.

Yes, absolutely. I mean, this is just one of the most grotesque bits of political theater that I can remember just like everything about it. I mean, Megan Day tweeted at me and she was like, if a skilled cartoonist couldn't even capture like a caricature.

She was kind of just blase contempt as perfectly as Sinema did when she voted down the $15 minimum wage. I mean, it was just it's one of those things that will.

It's one of those images that I will never forget. I will never forget it just like that.

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