BONUS: Z for Zohran
Added 2025-02-06 22:39:37 +0000 UTCWill sits down with Zohran Mamdani, New York State Representative and candidate for New York City Mayor. After bonding over being just two boys from New York, their grade school rivalry, and touching on Zohran’s family & background, Will & Zohran discuss his plans to improve housing, transit, policing and homelessness services in New York City, as well as his plans to win this election.
If you’d like to help out or get involved in his campaign, go to: https://www.zohranfornyc.com/
Comments
This is where I first heard of Zohran. I cant believe he did it
Strug X
2025-11-05 05:39:09 +0000 UTCWe did it joe
Bitcoin wallet inspector
2025-06-29 21:43:17 +0000 UTCMan some people live all the life. My parents built tires and worked at the YMCA. Good luck zohran
bruce moment
2025-02-14 13:47:59 +0000 UTCPitt mentioned on Chapo and Kenny Pickett is a super bowl champ, what a week to be a panther
Brian Glatz
2025-02-13 13:50:29 +0000 UTCWho cares? I like the dude- and using a platform to promote a solid candidate is respectable. It’s a good interview- you should listen to it!
Isaac Suárez
2025-02-07 18:53:07 +0000 UTCNo Pasaran arrived on my bday as well!
Edging Candytuft
2025-02-07 18:43:33 +0000 UTCWhat's a "New York City?" Is that like Chicago?
Man2quilla
2025-02-07 17:56:51 +0000 UTCAstoria and Williamsburg, pump your little pockets out as the staffers of the DSA grift off the public financing so you can get Sewer Socialism. Pathetic. Never will learn.
ZioDiddy
2025-02-07 17:53:30 +0000 UTCShut up man
Gilberto Vargas
2025-02-07 16:58:48 +0000 UTCGreat interview! I wish this guy was a candidate in my city. Godspeed to Mr. Mamdani’s campaign!
Isaac Suárez
2025-02-07 16:30:18 +0000 UTCIf you're not familiar Columbia is the NYC real estate investment trust where they shot a lot of Ghostbusters.
Austin Williams
2025-02-07 15:15:33 +0000 UTCthis is good content for a Columbia dropout. a lot of places where I was on an eighth of mushrooms mentioned.
Austin Williams
2025-02-07 14:46:59 +0000 UTCI think I cited Zohran's dad (Mahmood Mamdani) in my thesis relating nationalism. Cool beans.
Brian Brain
2025-02-07 14:37:55 +0000 UTCHe doesn't have a shot. I thought we were done with these DSA grifters? Next!
ZioDiddy
2025-02-07 12:37:45 +0000 UTCMan, this discussion is so interesting and familiar to me. I'm at the other end of the Earth, with one of the most expensive housing markets in the world. (Literally, 2nd. I'm giving up my location by saying that.) I'm a severely, physically disabled person without much "traditional" support (ie no family, not really any close friends who still live in my country), being evicted for *officially* no reason. Certainly not for a lack of payment of rent. I have the equivalent of “rent vouchers” which are very rare and valuable, here, only available because public housing was built with almost zero accessibility for disabled people, thus I can get subsidised in the private market. My rent went up in Sep-2024 by 33% in one go. I was promised, at least, a new 1-year fixed lease in exchange. They put up the rent and then just never sent the paperwork for me to sign. I have the promise *in writing.* Yet I can't get a plebs' lawyer to take the matter seriously. I still have quite a lot *more* money to offer, which would put the rental increase up to *57%* above what it was in Sep-2024. It’s pretty obvious that I’m being discriminated against for being disabled, because there are so many rational reasons for keeping me on, but the landor and/or his agent got have gotten so used to a near 0% rental vacancy rate that they’ve gotten in the habit of constantly intruding in my home. We have a legal tenancy concept, here, about a tenant’s “right to peaceful use of the premises”, or words to that effect, but suddenly that has no legal relevance, either. When I tried to point out that I’m disabled and struggling with chronic health issues and I just want to free of their invasiveness in order to focus on my health. I gave the agent concrete examples of how their invasiveness had led me, for example, to end up in the hospital emergency ward with, literally, “symptoms of starvation”. I had told a friend that I was scared to admit this to the agent in case this prompted them to fear legal exposure evict me, but in the end I did it, and I was completely correct: within 24 hours of saying that, I was given an eviction notice. Free tenancy advocates (the free lawyers hide behind them) won’t deal with the fairly obvious discrimination angle because they “don’t deal with discrimination”, and disability law QuaNGOs won’t deal with the discrimination angle because they say they “don’t touch tenancy issues.” Suddenly, with a 0% vacancy rate, no relevant laws apply, anymore, apparently. There haven't been rent controls in this city since shortly after WW2. This country has the most insane tax policies in the world that basically allow sufficiently wealthy people to be subsidised by the government to use the property market as a tax-evasion scheme, whereby at the end, they own an investment property, outright. 75% of politicians at “multiple levels” (not sure exactly what this consists of, but that’s what I’ve heard in the discourse) are landlords several-times over. So they’re completely financially conflicted over this. The biggest single piece of evidence you need in order to understand this is that it took *17-freakin-years* for our politicians to *implement* anti-money-laundering legislation that they’d passed. It wasn’t until the Paris-based Financial Action Task-Force (FATF) was about to put us on their money-laundering “grey list”, along with countries like Afghanistan, that our politicians finally caved. The reason, of course, is that our housing market is one of the biggest *money-laundering* mechanisms in the world: you can turn up to buy a house with a suitcase full of physical cash and no-one is obliged to ask any questions. So lots of money gets embezzled out of places like the Chinese government and laundered through our housing market. And our politicians like that, simply because it adds to demand for our housing, which adds to the value of their property portfolios! That’s why it took 17 years. I’m now being pushed out, through an internal migration crisis, of the neighbourhood I’ve spent most of my life in, most of that living right by a sewage treatment plant. It wasn't a desirable property! The whole neighbourhood was poor. It’s been gentrified, of course, and now I’m being pushed out by massive immigration, mostly consisting of a certain group of people that colonised ¼ of the world. There are many videos online of them justifying this in terms of how, “Our own country and culture is being destroyed by brown immigrants.” I’m brown, and I’m being displaced by this lot! This is nominally “First World country”, nominally very wealthy, although much of that wealth is on-paper, arising from the value of housing as an asset casino. More than 20% of the people in this country are multi-millionaires, just because of this. These policies are so insane that it’s impossible to see how this country will recover. It’s been looted by politicians and the upper-middle-class and the rich, and will be left as a permanent wreck -- the next Argentina. I just wish we’d had some kind of rent controls since WW2, or indeed now.
Filius Fob
2025-02-07 12:02:59 +0000 UTCI have a theory that Adams will switch Republican in return for a pardon
Michael Kelliher
2025-02-07 11:58:59 +0000 UTCWE ARE PLAYING SOUP BOYS BY HEEMS I WILL VOTE
Big-Stink
2025-02-07 11:09:36 +0000 UTCMet Zohran at the launch of Not On Our Dime, great guy. I definitely believe in his politics, although it's hard to get excited once again over an election
Gubriel
2025-02-07 10:37:43 +0000 UTClol so nothing I just thought he was younger
Craig
2025-02-07 10:17:02 +0000 UTCSo?
TheHairyClevage
2025-02-07 10:07:45 +0000 UTCWill’s 41 years old?
Craig
2025-02-07 07:19:23 +0000 UTCHe’s NYC’s sweetheart. Really, Americans sweetheart if I’m being honest.
Jessica Rios
2025-02-07 07:11:14 +0000 UTCJust threw $25 to the boy from way out here in Washington State - let's get a Bernie Bro seated at the NYC mayor's table of success!
Devin Poore
2025-02-07 06:30:42 +0000 UTCWhen I was doing jail support at 1PP last year zohran was walking around giving everyone Yemeni tea without telling anyone who he was and it was beautiful
Ricky Tomatoes
2025-02-07 06:26:12 +0000 UTCHEEMS SHOUT OUT LETS GO
merfdiezel
2025-02-07 05:00:26 +0000 UTCGod bless you.
rough customer
2025-02-07 04:32:21 +0000 UTCShout out heems
Braedon
2025-02-07 03:56:14 +0000 UTCIt's my bday and the No Pasarans I ordered in Oct arrived right after dinner. My family is my wife and my tiny daughter, just like Matt's. We are having a wonderful evening. I am 87 years old today
Gavin Harmon
2025-02-07 03:43:51 +0000 UTCZohran is legit the first candidate I’ve been excited about since Bernie. NYC let’s show out for this guy
Kevin A
2025-02-07 03:29:12 +0000 UTCSorry guys but Adams still has my vote
ben sponseller
2025-02-07 02:34:13 +0000 UTCThis Will fella is a pretty good interviewer!
Smooth Shrek
2025-02-07 02:26:44 +0000 UTCHey Will and Chris! I loved this interview, would love to hear you guys interview DSA's national Co-Chair Megan Romer! If interested I can get you connected on her behalf!
Evelyn B
2025-02-07 02:16:04 +0000 UTCi’ll move to nyc if he wins
Kamran Husain
2025-02-07 02:05:15 +0000 UTCUniversity of Pittsburgh shout out H2P baby!
Tim Mullen
2025-02-07 01:44:21 +0000 UTC"Don't mess with the Zohan" distant 2nd
Degrassi Knoll
2025-02-07 01:30:55 +0000 UTCThis guy seems pretty cool, I hope he wins. Also I’m gay and my dick is small
admiral stiffplank
2025-02-07 01:01:09 +0000 UTCNew Yorker here, Zohran is the only candidate I’m ranking or willing to vote for in the general. He actually was the first New York pol to come to my wife’s pickets when her job was on strike (she was on the bargaining team). He was the most consistent presence at them too. He’s a real one.
Jeremy
2025-02-07 00:44:10 +0000 UTC“DONT BE A MORON, VOTE FOR ZOHRAN!” You’re welcome for your campaign slogan
NYCM&AHole
2025-02-07 00:25:25 +0000 UTChe's Mira Nair's son?? She's great!
Brad Plumb
2025-02-07 00:24:58 +0000 UTCNew York City is nothing without Pizza
Hilary is Pant-suited Syphilis
2025-02-07 00:13:38 +0000 UTCLove this guy. Hope I find the time to canvass for Zohran.
Joe
2025-02-07 00:12:02 +0000 UTC12:30 we sing "which side are you on" every week at our sunrise hub meetings!
Michael Wasniewski
2025-02-06 23:52:19 +0000 UTCThis guy seems great.
Noah Mickens
2025-02-06 23:52:17 +0000 UTCThis dude sounds cool as heck
nick
2025-02-06 23:34:35 +0000 UTCJust got Matt's SCW book, so stoked to dive in! It looks great
Karl Hungus
2025-02-06 23:29:12 +0000 UTCThrew this grey wolf a bone and my donation was 10x’d by nyc public financing. Consider boosting our boy and we New Yorkers will thank you
Grayson Sussman Squires
2025-02-06 23:22:59 +0000 UTCYeah I used to live in Astoria and saw him show up multiple times on local picket lines. Real af
Brian Martin
2025-02-06 23:20:53 +0000 UTCWe're going to win this erection! (Boioioioing)
Pvt. Jenkins
2025-02-06 23:16:09 +0000 UTChoping they break the curse on chapo-endorsed politicians with this one
buttface
2025-02-06 23:03:03 +0000 UTCwe know
buttface
2025-02-06 23:01:50 +0000 UTChe's doing his best give him a break man
buttface
2025-02-06 23:01:35 +0000 UTCI’m so tired of getting bullied online for what everyone at the office tells me is a totally normal chubby baby’s face 😭
JD Nonce
2025-02-06 22:50:40 +0000 UTCLFG!!!
Donald Borenstein
2025-02-06 22:49:22 +0000 UTCYour "cherubic" avatar is freaky
Khemith
2025-02-06 22:47:46 +0000 UTCread this as “Z for Zizian”
Synney
2025-02-06 22:46:49 +0000 UTCI remember a few years ago when I went to city hall in Manhattan to support NYC taxi drivers on their hunger strike against totally unfair medallion conditions and Zohran was there striking in solidarity with them and hadn’t eaten for weeks along with so many others. They pressured the city to negotiate more reasonable terms for yellow cab medallion holders. Dunno if it’s mentioned in this interview at all but he’s the real deal, folks.
JD Nonce
2025-02-06 22:46:06 +0000 UTCI'm gay.
Tommy
2025-02-06 22:43:47 +0000 UTCLFG
Go'Thrak
2025-02-06 22:43:13 +0000 UTCFucking wild finding out he’s Mira Nair’s kid.
KyleMSherry
2025-02-06 22:42:56 +0000 UTCFirst
LEAH NELSON
2025-02-06 22:42:29 +0000 UTC
