Episode

9/6 CNN’s Surprisingly Good Climate Town Hall w/ Dave Roberts & Film Guy Matthew Weiss

September 6, 2019

Vox’s Dave Roberts (@drvox) and Film Guy Matthew Weiss (@langdonboom) join us for Casual Friday.

On today’s show: Biden wants to bring back CAFE standards at CNN town hall, spins his wheels, rambles.

Vox’s Dave Roberts (@drvox) of Vox.com joins us to recap CNN’s climate town hall. Who distinguished themselves, who looked foolish, and why did audience members have better questions than Wolf Blitzer? Bernie explains his labor bona fides and his commitment to a just transition. Warren says she doesn’t want to nationalize energy utilities.

Film Guy Matthew (@langdonboom) joins us for some film talk. Kevin Sorbo antifa movie “Reliant”: amazing, or the most amazing? A survey of what played at the Great Lakes Christian Film Festival. Matthew recommends the films of Hong Sangsoo, specifically: “In Another Country,” “Right Now, Wrong Then” and Tale of Cinema.”

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Flashback: Bill Burton risks the imagination of a new kind of possibility. Dave Rubin explains new show member terms of service. Ben Shapiro says left is implementing “top down policy,” setting “dangerous precedent” with boycott of Walmart. Fox and Friends asks cops if they’ve been assaulted, nobody raises hands.

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Past Episodes

It’s Monday, and everything is fine… On today’s show

It’s the NYC Primary Election Eve and an Emerson College Poll shows Zohran Mamdani winning in round 8 of the rank choice voting. 

We talk to Matt Duss over the conflict in Iran. Check out his podcast Undiplomatic and his work at the Center for International Policy

Also joining us is Professor Eskander Sadeghi for a discussion on the history that has led us to this point in Iran. Check out his piece for Jacobin

Plus, Anthony Conwright joins us to discuss the NYC Mayoral Primary and his piece in The Nation “Will Black Americans Vote for a Socialists”

In the Fun Half

The GOP continues to fold themselves into pretzels as they reframe their own previous statements on Iran.

Vinny from PBD attempts to be the voice of reason by pointing out the similarities between Iran and Iraq…attempts.

Marco Rubio goes on Face the Nation to argue that whether Iran has expressed intent of nuclear weaponization is irrelevant to US policy.

ICE agents continue to brutally and violently terrorize communities.

Mahmoud Khalil Returns Home, greeted by AOC and heads straight to Columbia University to continue his fight to end the genocide in Gaza.

All that and more, folks.

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