Frotcast 637: Say Hi to Your Mamdani, with Dave Weigel (Patreon)

This week, Dave Weigel from Semafor joins the Frotcast to tell us all about Partners, a 1982 gay-themed buddy action comedy starring John Hurt. Okay, not really, he's mostly here to discuss Zohran Mamdani's win in the Democratic primary for NYC mayor. But we definitely WOULD'VE talked a lot more about Partners if Dave hadn't waited until the end to bring it up.

I actually had a big bummer of a show planned, about how Israel goaded the president into bombing Iran and congressional Dems hadn't even decided whether to be angry about it yet, but then Mamdani won a primary and a lot of those same establishment Dems got kicked in the teeth. Frankly I didn't know that much about Mamdani other than that all the worst people in the world seemed to be doing a lot of scaremongering about him (most of which only made him sound kinda cool).

Dave joins us from "across the pond" (how I describe the East Coast) to break down what it all means, and especially to answer the big questions: are good things possible? How soon will I be disappointed?

Meanwhile, Brendan is back from Ireland and has seen 'Kneecap' (the movie, he didn't get to see the group play music), and Matt is back from Hawaii. So we discuss all of the biggest issues those trips brought to light, such as biffos between delivery drivers and the impossibility of a relaxing vacation as a parent.