Baratunde Thurston (Part 2)
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Minnie continues her conversation with Baratunde Thurston, writer, activist and host of the How to Citizen podcast. Baratunde reveals why “how” questions scare us, his mother’s story, and how social media opened up his family tree.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:07.1 | Remember Movie Pass? |
| 0:08.4 | All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks? |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of Movie Pass who got pushed out of the company he built. Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. And then boom, it's everywhere. And that was that moment. Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. You're right. Love is in the accommodation of where people are out in their journey. |
| 0:39.6 | And it is amazing when you see them hang out and help lift you up or just hang out and wait. |
| 0:45.8 | I mean, you and I could basically distill all of this into like really cool fridge magnets. |
| 0:53.2 | I was thinking T-shirts, but productizing regardless, definitely. |
| 0:57.0 | But for sure, we could definitely like monetize our shared philosophy, which is cool. |
| 1:02.0 | Which is the point of life, yes? |
| 1:04.0 | I think it's the point of philosophy. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, certainly. Money is definitely the point of philosophy. |
| 1:09.0 | I think that Plato missed it. |
| 1:11.4 | He was too busy talking about, you know, the tyranny of democracy. |
| 1:14.5 | And he really need to be focusing on like, yo, how can I make some t-shirts for the same? |
| 1:18.3 | The promise of capitalism. |
| 1:19.5 | How about that, Plato? |
| 1:22.2 | Look at the bright side there, buddy. |
| 1:24.5 | Be a human. |
| 1:25.5 | Don't go into politics. |
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