Episode Details

Former public defender and former NYC candidate Maud Maron joins Lou to talk about Nicole Hannah-Jones's confession about her daughter's education, what happened to the "tough New Yorker," drug dealers on her stoop, and why she's done with the Democratic Party.

Maud is a New Yorker, a woman, an independent, and currently "independently unemployed." She ran against Alvin Bragg for Manhattan DA on the Republican line.

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0:00 — Intro: Maud Maron, independently unemployed

0:36 — We met at FreedomFest in Memphis

1:42 — The face cream the government doesn't want you to have

3:51 — Keeping tabs on Brooklyn through Nextdoor

4:33 — What happened to the tough New Yorker?

5:43 — Drug dealers on the stoop and two cops in the living room

8:38 — "He looked like Boston Rob from Survivor"

9:37 — Push-in robberies: safety is the baseline

13:03 — What's changed since Maud's public defender days

13:32 — Her grandfather and the old Democratic machine

14:39 — Mamdani, Rikers, and the Trinitario gang member

16:55 — Jumaane Williams vs. Target over ICE

18:28 — Democrats who defend gang members

20:44 — Maud's question: is there a path for NYC Republicans?

21:33 — The registration trap

23:31 — Pataki, Giuliani, Bloomberg, and Larry Sharpe

26:29 — The DSA took over the party

28:13 — Politics is a street fight

28:25 — Nicole Hannah-Jones and her daughter

33:11 — The teachers union nobody mentions

33:45 — $50,000 a year per student

37:18 — Lou's Queens public schools and the SHSAT

40:26 — When Asian kids don't count as people of color

41:06 — Argentina and Tucumán pride

42:41 — Running against Alvin Bragg, and what's next

43:17 — Saritha Komatireddy vs. Tish James

44:57 — Trump cleaned up Union Station

45:33 — Soho encampments with furniture

46:32 — The sidewalks are yours for the taking

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