American celebrity and dynastic politics collide in 2018 New York gubernatorial election

VICE U.S. politics writer Robert Wheel joins the show to discuss the Cuomo/Nixon contest and the election of Democratic Socialist Julia Salazar to the NY state senate

September 18 2018

New York Post

Plus: host Rob Rousseau makes amends to listeners for personally deleting The Great Awakening reddit community by presenting research that he thought QAnon conspiracy theorists would find interesting.

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