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A Safe House for Refugees

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to the journalist Jake Halpern about his latest piece in this week's New Yorker, "The Underground Railroad for Refugees." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

String the things, strings and things.

0:20.1

There's a whole range of strings and things, called strings and things.

0:23.7

Including cheese strings, yollies, and cheese shapes.

0:26.7

Find them all in the cheese and yaccatire.

0:28.9

The big sale is now on at home base, with up to 50% of selected home and garden products,

0:37.9

including garden furniture, barbecues, storage and lots more.

0:41.9

Don't miss out! Head in store or online at homebase.co.uk.

0:46.9

Home base, homes and gardens made easy.

0:49.9

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:54.9

I have great respect for women.

0:56.9

I respect women more than I respect men. Are the men insulted by that?

1:00.9

Nobody has more respect for women than I do.

1:03.9

My daughter Ivanka always says, Daddy, nobody respects women more than you, Daddy.

1:18.9

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernin.

1:21.9

I'm SCAB podcasting today crossing picket lines and shameful defiance of the women's strike for International Women's Day.

1:29.9

So my plan is a sort of psychological strike.

1:32.9

I'm determined to be uncooperative with the patriarchal producer of Trumpcast, Jason Delion, and I'm going to be lazy today too.

1:41.9

Just kidding, kind of, but I do stand in solidarity with my striking sisters and plan to join the March later.

1:48.9

You know what? Some days this president seems like a good, stringent opportunity for a late life civics lesson and a complete and healthy audit of moral and political life.

1:58.9

But other days, I feel almost mute in the face of the inhumanity and bonkers, bigotry and misogyny of this sicko president.

2:06.9

So today for some perspective and cool off, I'm talking to Jake Halpern, who has a deeply reported narrative piece of about 6,000 words in this week's New Yorker.

2:17.9

It's about a safe house in Buffalo, New York, where asylum seekers from places like Aretria and Columbia stay while they prepare to flee the US.

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