America’s Caste System With Isabel Wilkerson
The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Comedy Central
4.5 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The season finale of The Problem With Jon Stewart is now streaming on Apple TV+, so we decided to go out with something light and noncontroversial: Race! Who could have guessed that even after a full hour of TV, there would still be more to discuss about race in America? Jon is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Isabel Wilkerson to discuss race, racism, and America’s caste system. Staff writers Jay Jurden and Kasaun Wilson also talk to Jon about their experiences writing this episode with him.
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CREDITS
Hosted by: Jon Stewart
Featuring, in order of appearance: Jay Jurden, Kasaun Wilson, Isabel Wilkerson
Executive Produced by Jon Stewart, Brinda Adhikari, James Dixon, Chris McShane, and Richard Plepler.
Lead Producer: Sophie Erickson
Producers: Caity Gray, Robby Slowik
Assoc. Producer: Andrea Betanzos
Sound Engineer & Editor: Miguel Carrascal
Sound Mixer: Ignacio Bonet
Senior Digital Producer: Kwame Opam
Digital Coordinator: Norma Hernandez
Supervising Producer: Lorrie Baranek
Head Writer: Kris Acimovic
Elements: Kenneth Hull, Daniella Philipson
Talent: Brittany Mehmedovic, Haley Denzak
Research: Susan Helvenston, Andy Crystal, Anne Bennett, Deniz Çam, Harjyot Ron Singh
Theme Music by: Gary Clark Jr.
The Problem With Jon Stewart podcast is an Apple TV+ podcast, produced by Busboy Productions.
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| 0:00.0 | We'll talk for a little bit and then we'll bring our more |
| 0:03.3 | Aerie Dite speaker on. |
| 0:05.0 | Not that Jay and Kason are an Aerie Dite. |
| 0:08.1 | Kason is interesting, runner up for the Pulitzer. |
| 0:11.5 | I think, what, what, you hear what's that Kason? |
| 0:13.4 | 1998. |
| 0:14.7 | I wrote a dissertation on Miss Frizzle. |
| 0:16.6 | Miss Frizzle, come on. |
| 0:32.6 | Welcome everybody to the podcast. |
| 0:49.4 | It's the problem. |
| 0:50.4 | We're here with our writers, Kason and Jay. |
| 0:53.1 | We had an episode this week. |
| 0:54.4 | I don't know if you guys are from, do you, do you have Apple TV plus? |
| 0:57.7 | Jay or Kason? |
| 0:58.7 | We do. |
| 0:59.7 | Do you guys? |
| 1:00.7 | Yes. |
| 1:01.7 | Absolutely. |
| 1:02.5 | I have right now I've got cinematics and I'm thinking of adding showtime to the package. |
| 1:10.2 | You got to get stars too, John. |
| 1:12.8 | Stars is the only one I watch. |
| 1:14.5 | We had an episode this week, the problem with white people. |
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