(How did he 'master' making smoothies, Psaki asks him. And at the root of that is the failure to embrace our spirituality.' (That 'experiment' is a myth, but the mayor's proposed budget cuts to libraries, education, and social services are very real.)Īfter the pair exit the subway, they walk to Gracie Mansion and make a smoothie. I think then our country, we're boiling ourselves to death. If you place it in cool water, turn up the temperature, it will stay there and boil itself. 'If you place a frog in hot water, it jumps out right away. And you know there's this old experiment in labs, it's a hideous experiment, but it's real,' Adams replies. ''When you take prayer out of schools, guns come back into schools'-what do you mean by that exactly?' Psaki asks. Psaki's gentle questions contrast delightfully with pure, uncut Eric Adams, who is bullshitting America's former top bullshitter over a soothing reality TV soundtrack of acoustic guitars and revelatory cymbal crashes. The resulting seven-minute 'Weekend Routine' segment with Adams (which disappointingly does not elaborate at all on the mayor's actual weekend routine) is a surrealist masterpiece of cable television. When former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced that she would be joining MSNBC as a host, Joe Biden's recently departed chief of staff described Psaki a 'superb explainer,' and someone who 'is very effective in the TV medium.'īut that was before Psaki tried to interview New York City's club-hopping, rat-killing, gemstone-rubbing, ice-bath-plunging, real-estate-loving mayor, in a segment that aired on Sunday.

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