7. Baratunde Thurston (Comedian, Cultural Critic) – Stupidity Scaled/Robot Rights/Brand You

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

Big Think / Panoply

Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 594 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2015

⏱️ 24 minutes

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At what point do sex robots become sex slaves? How are bandwidth and storage capacity changing our lives? Can you have a "personal brand" and "be yourself" at the same time? In this week's episode of Big Think's Think Again podcast, host Jason Gots is joined by author and tech pundit Baratunde Thurston, "a philosopher comedian fighting for the future." Interview clips from Rick Smolan, Lawrence Krauss, and Guy Kawasaki launch a discussion of human potential, social status, identity, and how Kim Kardashian's butt didn't actually "break the internet". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm Jason Gots, and you are listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast.
0:06.1	Big Think is an online forum for the world's most interesting thinkers and doers to share
0:10.4	their ideas on video. Since 2008, we've shared over 10,000 of them. On Think Again podcast,
0:16.2	we surprise our guests and myself, your host, with unexpected clips from these vast and mysterious archives,
0:22.0	and then we discuss them. I'm very happy to be here today with Baratunde Thurston,
0:27.0	a philosopher-comedian fighting for the future. He's the founder of cultivated wit,
0:31.9	author of How to Be Black, and host of the excellent podcast about race that's talking honestly
0:37.1	and openly about the issues of race and identity that America is too freaked out to discuss rationally.
0:43.0	Welcome to the show, Baratunde.
0:44.3	Thank you, Jason.
0:45.1	Got a couple corrections.
0:47.4	Uh-oh.
0:48.0	And a question.
0:49.0	All right.
0:49.8	I'm the co-founder of Cultivated Witt.
0:51.5	Oh.
0:51.8	Not the founder.
0:52.5	All right.
0:53.0	Which would greatly upset the other,
0:55.0	whoever their names are.
0:56.0	And 10,000 videos.
0:58.0	Yeah, it's a lot of videos, and that's one of the reasons why this show exists.
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