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Another Day with Ana Marie Cox

Day 38: Akilah Hughes

Another Day with Ana Marie Cox

Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

News, Arts, Performing Arts, Business, Society & Culture, Politics

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Day 38 of "90 Days with Ana Marie Cox." Today Ana talked to writer and comedian Akilah Hughes about the first entirely online election, climate change, biscuits versus overt racism and other election topics. — Voting Alert! If you haven't registered to vote yet, time is running out. Many states have strict registration deadlines and other may have booted you from they rolls, so make sure you're ready for Election Day. Visit your state's election website or vote.gov to check your registration status, or register today. — Watch along on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/@90DaysWithAnaMarieCox Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So we know the climate crisis is real in spite of some people who will call it a hoax and we know there's so much good that we can do so much work that we are prepared to do.

0:09.2

So let's get involved, let's stay in touch. Please if you are interested in doing more work,

0:15.0

text climate at 30330. See you out there.

0:20.0

Hi, I'm Onamery Cox. This is 90 days with Honor Mary Cox dates, a countdown to the election, which is just 38 days away, that's less than a thousand hours,

0:33.3

then all of our troubles will be gone,

0:38.3

or they'll be worse, or they'll just be the same.

0:41.8

But on this show, we talk to smart people about what they're thinking,

0:46.1

noticing, obsessing about within this wild historic

0:53.4

unprecedented election and the smart person I'm talking to today is

0:56.6

Akila Hughes.

0:58.0

She is the host of a brand new podcast Rebel Spirit,

1:01.4

which is about her quest to unseat her high school's mascot,

1:08.0

the Confederate general. And to replace him with a biscuit, which yes.

1:19.0

Who would not want to rally around a biscuit?

1:21.0

She's also the author of Obviously Stories from

1:25.4

my timeline and a person that I knew in my in my work life from a couple

1:32.2

generations ago.

1:34.0

A couple iterations of my resume.

1:38.0

She was the co-host of What a Day when I was also at Kirkendia.

1:42.0

So, yeah.

1:43.5

A Kila, hey.

1:44.8

Hi, thank you so much for having me, Anna.

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