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🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from 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 May 8, 2021.
Journalist Doug Henwood joins us to discuss how the American ruling class has developed overtime and led us to our dystopic present. We also cover the massive protests in Colombia and the international fight over vaccine patents being waived.
Read Doug's latest here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/04/take-me-to-your-leader-the-rot-of-the-american-ruling-class
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0:30.0 | What's up, everyone? Welcome to Weekends. I'm Anna Casparian, joined by Nando Vila, bringing |
0:40.5 | you in with that happy sounding music. I wish I was as awake and peppy as our opening |
0:47.0 | song is, but I'm not. We're gonna have a great show. |
0:51.0 | We are gonna have a great show. Yeah, I was woken up at three in the morning by my dog, |
0:55.4 | just having like a wretching fit and vomiting. And I was like, Oh, no. And, you know, yeah, |
1:01.9 | but she's okay. She's she's doing fine. But yeah, so I was woken, you know, I usually |
1:06.7 | need to get my beauty sleep Friday nights for weekends, but yeah, I had, I was interrupted |
1:12.7 | in that. So I may be slightly less beautiful. |
1:16.1 | I was caught up in a very passionate game of cranium. What's that drinking? |
1:24.3 | It was a board game. It was the first time I had ever played it. But it was nice. You |
1:28.4 | know, I'm kind of vaccinated. I've gotten my first shot. My friends are fully vaccinated. |
1:36.7 | They work in the entertainment industry. Well, I guess we do kind of as well. But, you |
1:41.0 | know, they're unionized. You're not entertained. Exactly. But they're unionized in order |
1:47.1 | to get back to work in person. Like they've had to be fully vaccinated. So few of us got |
1:51.3 | together and decided to play board games. And I forgot how much I enjoy being around |
1:56.6 | people, drinking, eating. And before I knew it, it was like midnight. So I'm, you know, |
2:02.6 | I woke up in a panic today. Poor kale had to do a lot of last minute work because of our |
2:08.4 | late submissions to the show or our graphics and video requests. But you know what? It's |
2:12.8 | going to be a freaking fantastic show because I'm going to do a deep dive on Columbia and |
2:18.0 | what's happening on the ground there. Nando, what are you going to talk about? |
2:21.7 | I'm going to talk about the patent waiver for the coronavirus vaccine and all the ins, |
2:28.8 | all the outs, all the what have yous and everything around because I see it as probably the |
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