250. Kat Timpf: 'I Used to Like You Until...'
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Comedian and TV personality Kat Timpf on her new book and the perils of "binary thinking."
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison |
| 0:07.0 | Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | Today a special treat |
| 0:14.6 | comedian and TV personality cat-temth on her new bestseller, I used to like you |
| 0:21.3 | until how binary thinking divides us. |
| 0:28.4 | I'm an author, I'm a comedian, I'm a TV personality, and I work on Fox News, which is interesting for me because I'm also independent, I'm not a Republican, I'm not a MAGA person. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm on air with a lot of people who are obviously and so that's why I was |
| 0:44.4 | inspired to write this book for a few different reasons. First of all I think that |
| 0:49.7 | people when they hear that I work at Fox News they think people who view Fox News because I'm not conservative enough and I'll get it |
| 1:03.3 | people on the other side because I work here in the first place and then also |
| 1:07.3 | being a comedian I'm on tour right now and I was on tour for my last book last year. I went to 40 cities for my last tour. I mean I went to a lot of different places. I went to Portland, Oregon, but also Midland, Texas. Those are super different places. And I found out what I'd always |
| 1:25.0 | kind of suspected, which is as different as people are, and yeah people are from those places are very |
| 1:28.6 | different. A lot of us want the same things. It's just a question of how do we get there. So this book is basically I use what |
| 1:36.8 | unique position that I'm in to kind of provide a guide for people for how to connect with |
| 1:41.2 | people who might have written you off. |
| 1:43.0 | Well, you sound a little bit like me. |
| 1:45.0 | I'm an independent journalist. |
| 1:47.0 | I worked at CNN, CBS, PBS, PBS, a lot of different places. |
| 1:51.0 | And most of my career was accused of or called liberal. |
| 1:54.0 | You're not sure in some respects I've really tried hard to look at my bias and where I come |
| 2:00.1 | from and why trying not to be one way or the other, but I'm sure I was, particularly when I was a young journalist. |
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