Bonus: SchadenFriday | Muslim, Millennial, Mr. Mayor Mamdani
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🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Well well well. Looks like being a truculent, aging sex pest who clearly hates the constituency he aspires to rule only works in national elections. In New York City, Zohran Mamdani overcame the longshot odds that came from being charismatic, energetic, and actually interested in government.
Guest: Aymann Ismail, Slate staff writer and author of “Mamdani’s Win Is a Reminder of What’s Possible.”
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday Slatesters. |
| 0:01.5 | Welcome back to another edition of Shoutin Friday. |
| 0:04.7 | You know what this is. |
| 0:05.6 | This is our very special. |
| 0:07.0 | You know what time it is. |
| 0:08.5 | Sorry, I'll shut up. |
| 0:09.9 | A-Men! |
| 0:11.0 | I'm getting in my like funk flex vibe right now. |
| 0:14.0 | I'll just be in the back doing the... |
| 0:15.2 | Okay. |
| 0:16.2 | Amen Ismail needs no introduction. |
| 0:18.8 | Slate staff writer. |
| 0:20.7 | And we have brought him on for Shoutin Friday because I got to |
| 0:24.6 | tell you, this is the shout and Fridayest Shout in Friday that we've yet had. And that is because |
| 0:30.3 | this week, what happened that gave me the smiling devil emoji energy is that the Democrats |
| 0:37.3 | kind of kicked ass on Tuesday in the election. |
| 0:41.2 | I mean, I'm not, I don't want to say it out loud. I feel like I could jinx it. I don't know. |
| 0:44.9 | How do you feel about this, amen? I try not to like subscribe to any political party. |
| 0:49.6 | Agree. But I am a Muslim American and I have a heart and I have empathy. And so I tend to skew one way or another. |
| 0:55.6 | And if that tells you which party I usually vote for, I think that says it all. Yeah. I mean, it's really not about the Democrats because I got plenty of bones to pick with them. It's more, it's the anti-Trump energy. Let's be real. Yeah. it's the you don't want your the person working at your daycare with your kids to get deported yes it's the you don't want your, uh, the person working at your daycare with your kids to get |
| 1:12.7 | deported. Yes. It's the, you don't want the buses to crash and you don't want airplay to fall out |
| 1:17.6 | of the sky, that kind of energy. I would like people who need food benefits to receive them. |
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