Hello, and welcome to another episode of Weekends. I am your host, Nando Vila. It is Memorial

Day, so my regular co-host, Danic Asperin, is off today, which means producer-kill Brooks.

You got your big shot. Well, this is your big opportunity. You know, you're stepping in front of

the camera. You know, it's your beautiful place, but I mean, all I got to say is just don't

fuck it up, dude. This is your big shot. Yeah, I'm just your chance to blow. This opportunity

comes once in a lifetime. You know, I'm totally fine right now. It's going to work out. I have

good takes. It's okay. Well, we got a great show for you guys today. We're going to talk about

wokeness and how we love it. And we're going to talk about Chile with Renee Rojas, because it's

pretty remarkable what's going on there right now. I think you can safely say maybe it's the end

of an era in Chile, or maybe the beginning of the end of an era, if that makes sense. It's kind

of the, I mean, there are two topics are just so kind of splits of this moment in neoliberalism

of like on the one hand, just like kind of what liberalism has become in America and in a lot

of the world. And just like kind of how like how far the left is from kind of being at the heart

of like our zeitgeist right now, that it's just redounded into like just the dumbest shit.

Like, but as as we were saying, you know, and we'll get to, you know, it hits everyone,

you know, so it's not just, you know, we have to deal with wokeness, but so does the ruling class.

So do all their minions up at top. But then in Chile, it's like the exact opposite. We're like,

there's this like inkling of like what a better future could be. And it's so it's still very far

from it. But like God, it's just it's night and day with like where the US is and where so much

of the left is right now globally. No, absolutely. And you know, in order to capture the left zeitgeist,

you need to read books, specifically versus books. That's right. You know what time it is. It's

time for the verso ad read, baby. You can join the verso book club and get every new ebook that

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