Another Wrench In The (Voting) Works, Plus Robin Thede On 'A Black Lady Sketch Show'

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🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Everyone's talking about obstacles to voting this year, from the post office to the pandemic. Sam talks with NPR's Miles Parks about how everything's supposed to work with the election in November. Then, Sam calls up historian Martha S. Jones, author of the forthcoming book Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All. They talk about why voting looks the way it does even in a normal cycle, and what the U.S. Constitution actually says about voting. Plus, Sam talks with comedian Robin Thede, creator and showrunner of A Black Lady Sketch Show, which is nominated for three Emmys this year. They talk about her long career in comedy, which includes her time as head writer for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore and as host of The Rundown with Robin Thede, and play the game Who Said That.

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0:00.0	Are you unwrapping something?
0:03.4	I was but I couldn't tell.
0:05.3	Oh okay.
0:06.3	What was it?
0:07.3	Actually I was just folding the receipt.
0:12.3	Turned my phone out of the blue, sent me a card with $30 in gift cards to Amazon and
0:18.0	I was just filled in with that.
0:20.3	Look at you getting stuff in the mail I see.
0:23.0	I'm out in cash no less.
0:27.1	So I'm calling you up to actually talk about the mail Betty.
0:31.1	You know part of what we're going to talk about in this show.
0:33.5	This episode is just how so many people got so offended when it seemed like the USPS was
0:40.4	going to be messed with.
0:42.4	It's strangely enough the postal service is the federal agency with the highest approval
0:49.0	rating across the country.
0:50.6	91% of Americans say that they like or love USPS.
0:55.6	Well I depend on them a lot because I live so far from my family.
1:00.6	So it's a lot easier for me to send a package just by running to the post office.
1:05.5	So I'm still very comfortable with the postal service.
1:08.1	Yeah.
1:09.1	It's fun to hear you say that you love this and stuff to your family.
1:11.3	You're really bearing the lead here.
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