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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.