#42: Hari Kondabolu Won’t Back Down
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2016
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Hari Kondabolu is an outspoken, passionate, darkly funny comedian and the co-host of the podcast Politically Re-Active. In this discussion, co-hosts Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela talk with Hari about the craziest stories of 2016, what we got wrong, and whether Donald Trump will cancel our podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | Politics is often about concession. I have the heart of an activist. I don't believe in compromise. I believe in pushing for justice. |
| 0:08.5 | Hey everyone welcome to In the Thick. This is a podcast about politics, race and |
| 0:16.0 | culture from a POC perspective. I'm Maria Inahosa and I'm Julio Rico |
| 0:20.0 | Loberella. Joining us is Hari Kondabolu. He is a stand-up comedian, co-host of the podcast |
| 0:25.3 | Politically Reactive. Hari also just released his second comedy album. It's |
| 0:29.8 | called Mainstream American comic and he's actually on tour right now and we are so |
| 0:34.8 | excited. Sike to have him excited! Sike! |
| 0:37.8 | Hari thank you for joining us on In The Pick. Oh I'm so happy to be here thank you. |
| 0:41.5 | So Hari this is our last show for the year of 2016 we're actually |
| 0:45.8 | going to be taking two weeks off because um yeah we need to catch our breaths need a |
| 0:51.1 | break it's been a year so So if you listen to In The Fig, you know that we often end |
| 0:56.6 | with a tough question. But today, we're actually going to start with a tough question aimed at ourselves. |
| 1:03.8 | The truth is that so many of us in the media got so much wrong this year. |
| 1:08.6 | You know, the mainstream media essentially never took Trump seriously until it was too late. |
| 1:14.8 | I mean listen to George Stephanovolus's reaction to Congressman Keith Ellison |
| 1:19.4 | and he said this in July of 2015, The congressman here is suggesting that everyone needs to |
| 1:25.5 | take Trump more seriously. All I want to say is that anybody from the Democratic |
| 1:30.4 | side of the fence who's terrified of the possibility of President Trump better vote |
| 1:34.4 | better get active better get involved because this man has got some momentum and we |
| 1:39.9 | better be ready for the fact that he might be leading the Republican ticket. |
| 1:43.0 | Next. |
| 1:44.0 | I know you don't believe that, but I want to go on. |
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