#50: Work Your Class Off
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
So… we need to talk about class. In a lot of ways, this election was about the forgotten working class, but how should we talk about class and its relationship to race? And how are the two interconnected?
Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela lead a discussion with comedian Cristela Alonzo and rapper Victor “KOOL A.D.” Vazquez.
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| 0:00.0 | If we talk about economic class, that means that we're actually accepting that there's a problem. |
| 0:04.8 | We as a country, a lot of times, have a hard time accepting that we're not great. |
| 0:18.4 | Hey, welcome to In The Thick, this is a podcast about politics, race, and culture from a POC perspective. I'm Maria Inohosa, and I'm Julio Ricalo Varela. |
| 0:21.4 | And guess what? Yo, this is our 50th episode! |
| 0:25.0 | We are so excited about it and so to mark this amazing moment, we've invited some pretty seriously awesome guests we have |
| 0:34.9 | been cracking up in the studio already for about an hour. So with us in our Harlem |
| 0:39.3 | studio is comedian Cristella Alonso who recently released her first Netflix comedy special |
| 0:44.2 | Lower Classy which I loved Kristela. Yeah what's up everybody it's so good to have |
| 0:49.8 | you and so good to be here and also here in Harlem is Victor Kool-A-D Vasquez. |
| 0:54.2 | He's a rapper writer and an artist. |
| 0:55.6 | Hey Victor! |
| 0:56.6 | What-ow-wada, what-up? |
| 0:57.6 | Thank you for coming. |
| 0:58.6 | And what's up, Julio? |
| 0:59.8 | I'm doing great. |
| 1:00.5 | 50 episodes. |
| 1:01.6 | 50 episodes. This is crazy, Maria I know but we did it we did it. Okay we want to start this |
| 1:06.7 | week's show by looking back at a couple of key things that President Trump has said over the |
| 1:11.8 | last week and rather than trying to cover it all and |
| 1:14.2 | believe me there was a lot I want to just focus on one thing in particular and |
| 1:17.6 | this is Trump's war with the media. Yeah I mean we could definitely talk about that over-the-top Thursday press conference, but instead I really just want to zoom in on his Saturday campaign rally. |
| 1:29.0 | It was basically a campaign rally in Florida, where you could hear this coming out from the audience. And if you can't tell exactly what they're saying, they're chanting CNN sucks. |
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