GameStop Madness with David Dayen

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

David Dayen joins hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper to break down the GameStop/Wall Street Story. They also discuss the early days of Biden's presidency, and the moves that are available to him with his new authority. Merch Link: https://teespring.com/stores/useful-idiots Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Alright, welcome to Useful Idiots, I'm Matt Taiyibi.
0:09.4	And I'm Katie Halper.
0:11.6	And this is what, it's our first full week of Trump, Trumplessness.
0:16.0	Yeah.
0:17.0	Alright?
0:18.0	I feel the democracy growing back in my bones.
0:20.8	Do you feel like tweeting a hashtag sleep?
0:23.8	You read about that, right?
0:24.8	No.
0:25.8	How sleep was trending the day after the inauguration because people were...
0:32.8	Oh, wow, that's not a metaphor for anything like how we got Trump in the first place or
0:37.4	being asleep at the wheel or anything like that.
0:39.4	Sleepy Joe, is that why I was trending?
0:41.4	Sleepy Joe?
0:42.4	Maybe, I don't know.
0:43.4	It's just like a little tiny bit funny.
0:45.8	Yeah, no, it's very funny.
0:47.8	But we're back in the space where like a tiny bit funny is okay.
0:50.8	We're like, you know, again, this is the post Trump, or I think we're going to be allowed
0:54.6	to have a sense of humor.
0:55.6	There's much more of an optimist I think about this than I am, which is funny because in
0:58.7	general, I would say I'm more of an optimist.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -1521 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Useful Idiots, LLC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Useful Idiots, LLC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.