Weekends: What's Wrong with an "Entitlement Society"? w/ Matt Bruenig
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🗓️ 12 October 2021
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
Matt Bruenig discusses Joe Manchin's remarks about the US becoming an "entitlement society" and explains why so-called entitlement societies like the Nordic states somehow still seem to function.
Weekends with Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from October 8, 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Jack of In Weekends, I'm your host Nando Villa. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm joined today by the lovely and brilliant and talented Jen Pan in the chair. |
| 0:34.3 | Jen, how are you? |
| 0:35.3 | Nando, uh, doing good. |
| 0:37.4 | It's always very fun to be on weekends. |
| 0:40.6 | Uh, I think that we have a super good show today. |
| 0:45.4 | Uh, we'll get into that in a minute. |
| 0:47.1 | But I, I feel like first I have to just shout out, uh, our friend and the |
| 0:52.7 | usual weekends co-host Anna Kasparian. |
| 0:55.2 | If you guys don't know this yet, |
| 0:57.0 | she debated Ben Shapiro at the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce last week, |
| 1:02.4 | which is why she has been absent from, you know, the Jack of In Weekends show. |
| 1:07.2 | And like, obviously, I mean, obviously we're biased, but she killed it. |
| 1:11.2 | Yeah, well, and talk about like walking into enemy territory, debating |
| 1:15.4 | Ben Shapiro at the Chamber of Commerce. |
| 1:17.9 | Like literally she was one woman standing in a room of thousands of people |
| 1:23.0 | who fucking hate her, you know, I don't have |
| 1:27.2 | I don't have that kind of brass, you know, to just like walk into a room like that |
| 1:30.2 | and just be like, no, this is what, this is what I believe. |
| 1:32.5 | And this is why you all of you are wrong. |
| 1:34.6 | And, uh, and yeah, no, it's a, I was very proud of her and, and very impressed. |
| 1:39.5 | Like, I don't know, I don't know, Jen, would you, would you, like, |
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