Weekends: The Fall of Andrew Cuomo w/ Liza Featherstone
Jacobin Radio
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Jacobin columnist Liza Featherstone joins Weekends to discuss how elite feminists worked with Andrew Cuomo behind the scenes to help bury his own sexual harassment scandal. On Fridays, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live to subscribers on 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 August 13, 2021.
Liza's article for Jacobin: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/08/elite-liberal-feminism-times-up-roberta-kaplan-andrew-cuomo-metoo
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| 0:00.0 | We're coming in a little earlier from the music than we usually do. |
| 0:22.5 | We know what happened there. |
| 0:24.8 | You know? |
| 0:25.8 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:27.5 | We got that music in the background, a nice little fade going on to bring us in. |
| 0:32.5 | Nando, how are you? |
| 0:33.7 | I'm good. |
| 0:34.7 | Typically, I do like Ron Burgundy, where I just chug a full glass of scotch right before |
| 0:38.8 | the show starts. |
| 0:39.8 | And I'm glad I finished mine just before the music cut out early and no one caught me |
| 0:44.1 | because that would have been very embarrassing. |
| 0:46.8 | You love scotch, scotch, scotch, scotch. |
| 0:49.0 | You got to have your scotch before the show, right? |
| 0:50.7 | It gives you a little bit of message. |
| 0:52.2 | Absolutely. |
| 0:53.2 | No, I can't be charming in front of you. |
| 0:55.0 | People have too much social anxiety, and I'll just, I'll just, I'll just clam up and, yeah, |
| 1:00.3 | no, I need, you need to, you need to scotch. |
| 1:03.0 | You're definitely the last person I know who would have social anxiety, you're like a social |
| 1:08.0 | butterfly. |
| 1:09.0 | It's pretty impressive. |
| 1:10.0 | But maybe you'll show off some of those skills on the show today, where we're going |
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