This week Faiz Shakir joins Sean O'Brien on Better Bad Ideas. Faiz is the senior advisor to Bernie Sanders and executive director of the nonprofit media organization More Perfect Union. New episodes of Better Bad Ideas drop every Wednesday! Subscribe and hit the bell to be notified when they go live! Also available where ever you download podcasts! Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00 39 - Getting to know Faiz 00:03:52 - Why Faiz is a Democrat. 00:08:40 - Faiz's first job 00:11:30 - 911 Changed Things 00:15:10 - Lost faith in institutions 00:18:48 - The DNC Emails 00:21:20 - ACLU 00:23:00 - Bernie Sanders hires Faiz 00:27:58 - Bernie Sanders impression 00:34:34 - Have Democrats lost sight of who they are? 00:42:30 - What voters want 00:45:00 - Fix the Democrat brand 00:54:00 - President O'Brien 00:54:30 - Can we agree on good ideas? 01:00:00 - Learning from the workers 01:02:45 - DNC Election popularity context 01:06:21 - Faiz's family life 01:09:30 - School nurse advocacy 01:10:37 - More Perfect Union 01:16:45 - Podcasts replacings Mainstream media 01:22:00 - Democrats not showing up 01:29:53 - Hasan Piker 01:33:00 - How Faiz supports working people Better Bad Ideas • https://www.instagram.com/betterbadideas • https://www.tiktok.com/@betterbadideas • https://x.com/betterbadideas Subscribe to Better Bad Ideas on Spotify & Apple! • https://open.spotify.com/show/5Br4YZ6h20M6VZGBtIsaBs?si=eaa75a585c7f4ccd • https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-bad-ideas-with-sean-obrien/id1786675550 This is a 7EQUIS Network Show http://www.7equis.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
