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couldn't make much use of it. And so I think ranked choice voting is
similar. It's very hard for candidates to coordinate support without
making it look like an endorsement of the other guy. And it's very hard
for voters to know enough about up to five candidates to make an
informed choice.

Nicole Gelinas: It's especially true when our campaign finance board and
board of elections continues to send out inaccurate mailings and so incompetent. They sent a little booklet to my house just this weekend,
the same weekend that I got my absentee ballot, and the booklet
incorrectly said Adams is in the Democratic primary. That's just
inexcusable because if I'm carefully making out my ballot and learning
about these candidates and I decide, yeah, I'm going to pick Adams and I
go into voting booth and he's not there, what do I? And there will be
people like that. I you cannot send people incorrect information when
you are already starting early voting.

Rafael Mangual: I think if I had to make a prediction it be Adrienne
Adams.

Charles Fain Lehman: That was what I was thinking too. She’s the speaker
of the City Council.

Rafael Mangual: Yeah and I think she might actually throw her weight
behind Mamdani.

Charles Fain Lehman: I think there's a real possibility in terms of, and
this gets to the point of who was going after Cuomo. She was, think,
among the most aggressive anti-Cuomo partisans. She sure doesn't seem to
like him. I think a lot of people in New York City politics don't like
Andrew Cuomo, and there might be another star they can hitch their wagon
to, to mix my metaphors.

Nicole Gelinas: So we go right from this debate to official early
voting. So any dropouts and endorsements would have to happen very, very quickly.

Charles Fain Lehman: The other question is Michael Blake, who is very aggressive on Cuomo in the election. He's not going to be on this,
excuse me, in the debate. He's not going to be on the stage either. I
don't know where he ends up. He is going to continue to fight to be on
the stage, I think he said. And he's not pulling a lot of votes, but
could make some degree of difference.

All right, before we go, I’m going ask one last question. Last night, as
of recording this, I think it was last night, was the 70th annual Tony
Awards, celebrating the… all things Broadway. So I'll ask our panelists,
are you musical fan? if so, what are your favorite musicals? We'll start
with Nicole.

Nicole Gelinas: There was this obscure musical like 10 years ago called
If/Then with Idina Menzel, who was famous of course from Wicked, and
strangely the main character Idina Menzel played an urban planner in
sort of Bloomberg-era New York City. It did very badly. closed after
like six weeks.

Charles Fain Lehman: You were the target audience.

Nicole Gelinas: I saw her twice. If there's a video out there I would
recommend people go watch the video.

John Ketcham: You know, Nicole, every New Yorker has a side hustle,
right? I think we've got something going here guys, okay? I like
Broadway, I go a couple of times a year. Last year I saw The Great
Gatsby and Stereophonic. Stereophonic had won all these awards and the
critics were raving about it, and I'm sitting there I'm like okay, where
are we going with this? we get to the end and I realize it's just a
critics’ play, right? Whereas Gatsby was much more of a crowd pleaser, something I would have expected to be, you know, Broadway.

Rafael Mangual: I've only ever seen three musicals, two by force, one
out of curiosity, which was Hamilton, which I kind of enjoyed, but I
have no opinion, just...

Charles Fain Lehman: You're not a musical guy.

John Ketcham: Opera’s better.

Charles Fain Lehman: You're an opera guy?

Rafael Mangual: I've been to the opera once. It was an interesting
experience, but yeah, also not my thing. saw...

Charles Fain Lehman: UFC on the other hand.

Rafael Mangual: I forget the name of it.

John Ketcham: The production for Nozze di Figaro, The Marriage of Figaro?

Rafael Mangual: No.

John Ketcham: Don Giovanni?

Rafael Mangual: Don Giovanni.

Charles Fain Lehman: He wasn't going to stop until he figured it out.

Rafael Mangual: It was Don Giovanni, yeah.

Charles Fain Lehman: Fair, okay.

Rafael Mangual: Is that Mozart?

John Ketcham: Yes. It was the second of the three written by De Ponte.
Rafel Mangual: I got that right. Yeah.

Charles Fain Lehman: You know, was raised on classic musicals. My kid,
my wife has been exposing my older son too. Earlier this month it was
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and now I think it's Cats, so she's
just really getting him into the entire repertoire, and I've enjoyed
revisiting those. I think she's going to take him to see a very small production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and that will be a great
deal of fun. So I like musicals. I enjoy them on the merits. I'm not
sure I want to pay Broadway prices, but…

With that, I believe that's about all the time that we have for this
very special in-studio episode. Thank you to our panelists. Thank you as
always to our producer, Isabella Redjai. Listeners, watchers, if you've
enjoyed this episode, or even if you haven't, please don't forget to
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guess.

Rafael Mangual: Don't break into my house.

Charles Fain Lehman: Yeah, don't break into Ralf’s house. You don't want
to break into his house. Until next time, you've been listening to the
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flowerplough
36 minutes ago edited
Ketcham: " ...Americans should come together as and say, you know, this
is just not acceptable."

Ketcham seems to fail to realize the depth of frenzied frustration with
and irrational rejection of America, or coming together, or a condition
of acceptability. Should he attempt to mingle with the street people to verbally discourage their acting out, he would very likely be quickly
injured.
Kyle Rittenhouse stood armed against Saint Grorge Floyd rioters and a
few of those enraged eedjits tried to run right up inside his gun
barrel. With berserkers, or the rabid, there is no reasoning or warning.
There is only force.

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Troll Hunter
12 hours ago edited
They are completely justified. These masked Gestapo goons are literally
taking people off the streets and sending them to prison in another
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David C. Troll Hunter
3 hours ago
Five minutes in front of an immigration judge is plenty of process. An
illegal isn't due any more than that.

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