A Matter of Scale (with Megan Rapinoe)

Pod Save the People

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.7 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

DeRay, Kaya, De'Ara, and Sam dive into the underreported news of the week, including hospital coronavirus infections, virtual learning, sports arena voting, and COVID-19's rural devastation. Then, DeRay sits down with soccer star Megan Rapinoe to talk about her new book "One Life." Links: DeRay: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/11/08/when-going-to-the-hospital-is-just-as-bad-as-jail Kaya: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/opinion/virtual-school-racism.html De'Ara: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/14/opinion/coronavirus-poverty-us.html Sam: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2020/11/13/how-sports-arenas-ran-up-score-election-thousands-voters/6175568002/

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Duret and welcome to the Vuvon this episode.
0:04.4	It's me, Sam, Kaya and Diora.
0:07.4	As we talk about the news that you don't know from the past week, and then I sit down
0:11.7	and talk with soccer star Megan Rapinoe who talks about her new book One Life.
0:17.3	My advice for this week is about scale that I'm obsessed with this idea of scale.
0:20.3	Like how do we make sure that we have solutions that impact as many people as possible, that
0:25.1	we figure out scale solutions?
0:27.7	That's why we talk about systems and structures so much because this is a matter of scale.
0:32.1	So when you think about the issue that you care about, when you think about police violence,
0:36.1	or you think about education, or whatever the issue is, the anime to you, we're always
0:40.2	trying to figure out how do we put together a set of solutions.
0:42.5	So it's not just one neighborhood, it's not just one person, it's not just one school,
0:46.0	it's not just one neighborhood or community, it is all of them.
0:50.1	It is like how do we make the solution spread, and that to me is the work of scale.
0:54.2	So think about what it would look like if the solutions you have were applied everywhere,
1:00.1	how they look, how they feel, what they in the problem.
1:03.8	Let's go.
1:04.9	Welcome to this week's episode of Pod Save the People.
1:08.4	I'm Kaya Henderson at Henderson Kaya on Twitter.
1:12.0	And I'm Samson Young, way at Sam's Way on Twitter.
1:14.0	I'm Dre at DIY on Twitter.
1:16.9	DR is not with us for the recording, but you will hear her news in a moment.
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