Weekends: Jeremy Corbyn Interview, GameStop Stock Explained, & End the Filibuster
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🗓️ 1 February 2021
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Summary
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 political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from January 30, 2021.
Jeremy Corbyn joins us to discuss his history of activism and his legacy as leader of the Labour Party. We also cover how Reddit users have been undermining Wall Street investors through apps like Robinhood to trade GameStop and AMC stock and what it will take for the new Biden administration to end the Senate filibuster.
Jeremy Corbyn is the MP for Islington North who served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2015 to 2020, and he’s the recent founder of The Peace and Justice Project.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. Welcome friends you're watching weekends with Anna Casparian and Nando Vila. |
| 0:19.0 | Kale Brooks on the ones and twos, Super producer, helps us out quite a bit with this show and really |
| 0:26.4 | looking forward to the show today, Nando. |
| 0:29.0 | Really, Kale is really the brains behind the operations. |
| 0:31.6 | We're just the looks. we just provide good looks. |
| 0:34.3 | Kale is also very good looking but he really provides the brains so yeah very happy |
| 0:39.9 | to have Kale's support throughout the week and building this show. I'm very excited for this show. |
| 0:46.0 | You're talking stonks, which I'm very curious to hear about because it is like the story. It's already like the story of the year. I mean, it's gotta be a it's gotta be in the in the |
| 0:55.3 | the story of 2021 and 2021 is still got a long way to go and then we have |
| 1:00.0 | the absolute boy himself. |
| 1:03.0 | Jeza, Jeremy Corbin, Arsenal fan, hero of mine, |
| 1:09.3 | very excited. |
| 1:10.8 | It's going to be such a great show. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm really, really looking forward to that conversation. |
| 1:15.0 | And your segment as well, something that is certainly being focused on by all sides of the political spectrum. |
| 1:25.0 | It's the filibuster, the legislative filibuster in the Senate. |
| 1:29.0 | I can't wait to hear what you have to say about that and I know that you have some pretty good sound to |
| 1:33.7 | share with the audience and yes stonks I can't wait to talk about that we're |
| 1:39.3 | gonna take a little while I think with our decodes today and then we'll follow that up with our |
| 1:43.8 | interview with Jeremy Corbin and then we're going to take your questions so if |
| 1:47.8 | you're watching live please leave your questions your super chat questions and we'll try to get to as many of them as possible. |
| 1:55.9 | And thank you to everyone for watching and for supporting the show. |
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