Weekends: Covid Recession, Toxicity of Spectacle, and Foreign Policy w/ Daniel Bessner

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🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 125 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 3, 2020. The guest today is Daniel Bessner. Daniel is associate professor at the University of Washington and a contributing editor at Jacobin.

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0:00.0	The You're watching weekends with Anna Casparian and Nando Vila. Nando what's up?
0:20.0	How's it going? I'm doing well. I'm in a new place, but this is an undisclosed location.
0:23.8	I'm not going to tell anyone.
0:25.4	You move more than anyone I know.
0:27.8	You do two things more than anyone I know.
0:30.8	Attend weddings, although during COVID you've you know slowed down with
0:34.8	that and also move around I'm an excellent wedding guest I don't blame all my
0:40.6	the people who invite me to weddings all the time.
0:43.0	I'm an excellent wedding, I'm very generous.
0:45.0	I dance a lot, you know, it's, you know, I'm a big hype man, always, yeah, life of the party.
0:52.0	So, yeah, I miss, it's one of the things I miss the most
0:55.0	about COVID but uh yeah no I'm moving around my life is pretty hectic right now but I hope to be
1:01.4	settling down very, very soon.
1:04.7	Awesome.
1:05.7	Well, we have a huge show ahead for us.
1:08.8	You know, it's Saturday, so we wanted to keep things light.
1:11.9	In the interview section, we'll talk about the ethnic cleansing of
1:14.7	Armenians. Obviously I'm being sarcastic about the lightness of the show, but Daniel Bessner
1:20.8	who's honestly one of the smartest people I've ever had a conversation with, will be joining us to talk about what's happening in the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, and we'll also talk a little bit more about Turkey's role and how its foreign
1:36.8	policy has I wouldn't say evolved but how it's changed and what it means for that region.
1:45.4	We have great decode segments that could be the name of our new brand.
1:51.2	New brand decode. Yeah I don't know I don't know if I love it I
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