How David Morales Won (Part 1) (w/ Ben Shanahan)

Well, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Fighting Fascism podcast.

I'm your co-host, Aaron Regunberg, and here with the energizing Matt DaSilva.

Yeah, I just lit my lighter, which I think it registered on my microphone, so that's going to be a sick sound effect.

That's great.

Matt, are you energized? I'm always energized.

I'm not always energized.

I'm particularly energized after the conversation that we just had.

So that was dope.

But broadly speaking, I don't know.

I worked like a 14-hour shift yesterday at a really horrible conference for startup-y people, some of which I'm sure are lovely people, many of whom – or not.

I did get, I did eavesdrop on a lot of like really dumb conversations as I was kind of walking through the day, you know, replenishing coffee and, and, and checking in on all these different rooms.

Uh, one, one piece I heard in particular that, that really got me fired up was someone, uh, someone saying something like, uh, Hey, have you heard about the, uh, the new IVs for dogs? I hear they're going to be huge.

Um, So whoever has the startup out there of IV drips, home IV drips for your dogs, let me be on record.

I think that's stupid.

If I'm a shark, I'm out.

Also, I don't have a dog.

So maybe I was never going to be.

Missing out, Matt.

I'm getting in on the ground floor.

It's going to be huge.

Love it.

This is my ticket.

My ticket to Easy Street.

Put all your kids' college fund right into the IV for dog.

Yeah, there's...