Welcome to Weekend Friends, I'm Annie Casperian, joining us from prison, although he's

having a great time, is Nando Villa? What's up, Nando?

Prison's pretty fun, you know? You party, you get, you know, three hot meals a day, what

more could you ask for?

It looks like a great time, I end day let you wear whatever you want, apparently.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no dress code in this prison. Yeah, it's great.

I'm hoping that you're in a fun place. I heard Danny Bessner, Daniel Bessner in the background,

talking it up, which makes me think you're having a good time.

He's talking nonsense, Nando Bessner, he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.

I don't believe it, I don't believe it, I don't believe it. We have a giant show ahead for you guys

today. Later in the interview portion, we're going to have Lee Phillips on to talk to us about

the vaccine distribution and which countries have actually fared better than others and it's actually

pretty surprising. If you haven't been paying close attention to how distribution works and how

supply chains have basically been destroyed by neoliberalism, but we'll get to that later.

There's a possible global tax that's being pitched by Janet Yellen, Treasury Secretary, Nando's

going to talk about that. I'm going to discuss the housing market and what is currently happening,

which is basically an acceleration of what we saw after 2008, private equity firms snatching up

single-family homes and it's destroying our opportunities to find a place to live,

but before we get to all of that Nando, I wanted to figure out what to talk about for our banter

today and I want to banter about how there's nothing worth bantering about. Like the news has been

in my opinion just unbearable, difficult to care about. Every day we get a slow and steady

drip of Matt Gaetz drama every single day we hear arguments about whether or not progressives are

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