Chapter 1: What challenges does the Mamdani administration face?
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Welcome to It Could Happen Here, a podcast about things falling apart and how to put them back together again. I am your host, Neil Wong. So a week ago, we did some episodes about the election of Zoran Mamdani and a lot of the very funny reactions to it. And, you know, on Executive Disorder, we've talked about what this sort of means for politics.
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Chapter 2: How does the bond market impact city funding?
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The episode also tracked the conservative infighting at Heritage Foundation and Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire in the aftermath of Tucker Carlson's friendly sit-down interview with Nick Fuentes. In the episode, I mentioned that I had an extra segment covering the final section of the interview.
Now, most coverage of this interview, including my episode last week, focused on the first two-thirds, which ranged from Nick Fuentes' political background, early beef with Ben Shapiro, and his Nazi-esque anti-Semitic theories of a quote-unquote organized world Jewry, corrupting America, which he now lightly couches in anti-Israel framing to profit off of the genocide in Palestine.
But the last third of the interview changes course to discuss the mechanisms of quote-unquote reality distortion, which are ruining young men, drugs, alcohol, the internet, and most importantly, pornography.
After receiving a universal response demanding the release of the porn cut, I have sat down with Robert here to finally, finally air what no other news platform is brave enough, brave enough to cover. Yeah, what no other news platform can legally cover because they have a duty to their employees to not make them research this stuff. Yeah, or like an actual healthy HR department.
Yeah, we have not finished our classes on what we're not allowed to make people do, so... To be fair, Garrison couldn't be stopped from researching this. There was no way of stopping you from doing this. I have a sick drive. You would have quit and started working for someone else if we hadn't let you do this. No, if Sophie told me I wasn't allowed to cover this, I would have quit immediately.
Yeah, you'd be putting this out for Wired or someone. So now I am very pleased to present to you probably 30 minutes of Nick Fuentes explaining to a performatively confused Tucker Carlson the concept of pornography.
And I guess if we're going to view, you know, Fuentes and the Groypers as like a serious legitimate threat that's able to sway the national political discourse, I think it's also important to cover his weird sexual politics. Just as explaining the weird sexual practices of like, you know, the Proud Boys is important for understanding their whole deal as like a neo-fascist street gang.
The kind of closeted gay incel women issues of the Groypers is actually really important, especially for Nick. And let's discuss that. But thankfully, we get to start off with the majority of this section, which is on pornography. Let's start one of the first clips. What is porn exactly? Like, describe how available is porn? What is it? Oh, my God. Okay. Oh, man.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of state government negotiations?
And people don't like how weird they are when they're confronted with it. No. Right. Mostly what they're concerned about is whether or not there are jobs and shit is more or less expensive. they don't want some weirdo telling them that living with women will make them weaker. No, even, even Tucker doesn't like that. Yeah. Well, I think that does it for us today at It Could Happen Here. Great.
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Chapter 4: What challenges does the Mamdani administration face in New York City?
That makes me a bit of a long hauler. Like we have people who have been at the company for like 15, 20 years. Like there are people who are like near retirement age who standing on a subway platform, again, it's New York city. People aren't really in air conditioned cars driving to work. Like there are people for whom like at all ages standing on a subway platform in that kind of heat is like,
a really life-threatening and like really dangerous thing to demand people do yeah which is like one of the things that we were thinking about when we like fought for that contract language and like one of the things that we were thinking about when we were like nearly ready like in fact that we were ready to go on strike yeah and like disrupt the met gala in may of 2024 like that is one of the things that we were thinking about when we drafted that and one of the things we were really excited that the company agreed to give us when we won our contract
And so for them to immediately just say, oh, just kidding. Well, oh, well, now if we file a grievance, it might take like months to rectify. Well, just kidding. Those rights that we gave you, they don't exist anymore. Sorry. And again, it is like clear, easy to understand language that they are somehow willing to just say, like the contract doesn't say what it says. It's interesting because
I mean, you know, there's like on the one hand, like companies have always like not followed contracts. It's always been like, OK, if you want your contract to do what it says it does, you have to force them to do it.
Chapter 5: How does Nick Fuentes explain pornography to Tucker Carlson?
But on the other hand, like the thing that it reminds me of is like one of the things happened with the Trump administration when I've been talking about them pissing off their base is there's been a bunch of unions that they've just unilaterally been. This is said this is national security. We don't recognize your contract anymore. Yeah.
So, for example, like the funny version of it is they do this to the prison guard union, which is hilarious. It's like, yeah, I don't know. You guys, you guys shat in your own bed. Now you have to lie in it. Like, I don't know what to tell you. But like, yeah, but like, you know, the national government has been doing this to a bunch of unions as they've just been going.
Oh, yeah, no, we don't have to follow this contract anymore because national security. And that's the future that all of these people want. And that they're like, you know, this is part of what they're fighting for. This is part of that fight is that they want to fight where contract union contracts don't exist and they can just do whatever they want to anyone.
I mean, there's also like a clear line you can draw from say like,
Chapter 6: What is the impact of Conde Nast's union busting?
like the Reagan era and the like air traffic controller union strike break and then like the way that from like the federal government unions and like the way that the federal government treats its unions that like basically the rest of the American labor movement and rather the management side responses to the American labor movement generally flow. Yeah. Yeah.
Is there anything else that you want to make sure that people know? Well, I mean, in the coming days and weeks, the union is planning a lot to fight back against the company. Hell yeah. That said, one of the things that we know most about... media organizations generally is that they are very concerned about public pressure and they are very concerned about public image.
This is like a PR obsessed industry for better and for worse. So we are hoping that like readers and fans and followers will keep the pressure up, I against CondƩ Nast to show employers like them that we will not stand for this. We have an Action Network petition up right now that we are going to keep collecting signatures for that we hope to deliver to management soon.
Depending on when this comes out, I mean, we'll be collecting signatures regardless. And that is also one of the best ways, signing on to that. We'll get you updates for other ways that you can support us from the outside.
Chapter 7: Why is Palestinian knowledge production important?
But otherwise, I mean, we've got a lot of fighting to do. We've got a lot of organizing to do. I... certainly don't think my days at CondƩ Nast are over. I expect that, like, however long it takes for the law to shake out, like, I hope to be reinstated, as do the other, like, three terminated employees.
I also am certain that, like, we will be able to win justice for ourselves and the other people who were, like, illegally, retaliatorily disciplined following the action. And I also think that this is nowhere near the last action that CondƩ Nast upper management should expect. If anything, like,
This is just showing us that if we want our contract to be enforced, if we want the rights that they said that they would give us, we are going to have to keep holding them to account and we are going to have to keep fighting for them. Trying to figure out whether or not I can get away with saying you have sown the wind and now you'll reap the whirlwind. Oh, God.
You have sown the Bon Appetit and now you will get the... I can't finish that. I don't know where that goes. You've sown the Bon Appetit and now you'll get Teen Vogue 2. You have sown the Bon and now you'll get the Appetit. That doesn't mean anything. That's not anything. You know, look, it's a struggling time for the whole industry.
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And if you want actual news that's fit to print, you're going to have to fight for it. Amen to that, sister. You know, we always say new year, new me, but real change starts on the inside. It starts with giving your mind and your spirit the same attention you give your goals. Hey, everybody, it's Michelle Williams, host of Checking In on the Black Effect Podcast Network.
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