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Hey everyone, my name is Vanessa Gregoriotis
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and I'm the co-host of Infamous, a
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podcast about the world's most powerful
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people and everything they
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don't want you to know. Right
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now, we're looking into the story of Andrew
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Cuomo.
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It's about his rise, his
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spectacular fall, and
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his choice of body jewelry.
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Here's a preview of Infamous. Let's
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take a step back in time.
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Not too far back, but
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just to a few years ago.
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A time that might be a
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little fuzzy in your memory because
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everything was sort of boring and scary
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and insane all at once.
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Most of the nearly 300 confirmed
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cases are at hospitals like this one
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here in Wuhan, ground zero
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for this mysterious virus. Growing concerns
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about the deadly coronavirus officially
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hitting the U.S.
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Now here in New York City, a state of
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emergency declared as well. The NCAA tournament
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canceled, the NBA season suspended.
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Now 4.9 million school children
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across the country at home. This
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is a sub-optimal time to be a human being.
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It would be a great time to be a dog.
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In the early days of COVID, lots of us
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were stuck at home and we of course watched
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a lot of TV. If you're like me,
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you were probably watching these three
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things. This guy's press conferences,
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what do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who
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are scared? I say that you're a terrible
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reporter. That's what I say. I
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think it's a very nasty question and I think
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it's a very bad signal that you're putting out to
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the American people.
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I also watched a lot of this
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guy's press conferences. And
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we're going to get through it because
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we are New York and
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because we've dealt with a lot of things
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and because we are smart and
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because we are New York tough.
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And I watched Tiger
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King. About an hour ago we had an incident
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where one of the employees stuck their arm through the cage
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and a tiger tore her arm off. I can
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give you your money back or I can give you a rain
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check.
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As I said things were weird
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and bad and these three
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weird bad men were so much
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a part of our lives. Except
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that second guy,
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Andrew Cuomo, he actually
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seemed pretty great at the time. Social
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distancing, no restaurants. Yes,
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they are burdensome.
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By the way, they are
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effective and they're necessary. A voice
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of reason, a source of calm. People
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loved Andrew Cuomo so much that they
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came out as Cuomosexuals. Trevor,
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you call yourself a Cuomosexual and
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I agree with you. I feel like I'm a Cuomosexual
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too.
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It's just so seductive
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to see anybody in politics
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speak like that. I mean someone
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even wrote a song about it.
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So it was all anybody could talk about
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when
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a major scandal broke. Does
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Governor Andrew Cuomo
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have a nipple piercing? He
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either has pierced nipples or he has three
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nipples on each nipple. One reporter led
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the charge on investigating
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nipple gain. Joining us here at the table is Olivia
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Knutzi. She is a Washington correspondent for...
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So Olivia Knutzi, how are you doing? Oh
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my
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god. Like, Gee, Rach Knutzi.
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She's actually an old colleague of mine. I
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mean I myself am Greek and not
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Italian but you have... I
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do consider you like an Italian-American even
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though I know intellectually that you
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are not technically an Italian-American. I am a Greek and
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I'm an Italian-American. But
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you know you're shit talking to Italian-American
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man here. I think I'm celebrating
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his
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body.
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If you want to hear
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more about Andrew Cuomo's
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alleged nipple ring, yes, but also
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about the political scandals that he survived
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and the one that finally took his
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family's dynasty down, it's
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all on the podcast, Infamous.
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So please, listen to Infamous
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wherever you get your podcasts.
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