E112. Kmele Foster Doesn’t Care About Breaking News

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Kmele Foster is a partner at Free Think, a media company that tells stories about the people and ideas that are changing the world, he’s also a co-host of The Fifth Column podcast. He and Bridget discuss the weirdness of signs like “Black People Welcome Here,” and how they give him a Get Out sort of feeling, what he would teach kids about media literacy right now, why he prefers lukewarm takes over hot takes, and the worrying trend that violence has become a clear attribute of our politics recently, that it isn’t going away, and isn’t only coming from one side. They cover using ridicule as an effective weapon, how easy it is to become what you hate, encouraging people to be brave, and wonder happens in a society when people don’t trust each other and are being trained to hate each other. Check out The Fifth Column podcast here.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production.
0:02.4	Now available on Apple Podcasts.
0:04.1	Podcasts.
0:05.0	Spotify and anywhere else you get your podcasts.
0:08.0	This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Petticy.
0:11.0	I'm Bridget Petticy, and you are welcome. You know the drill.
0:25.0	the drill.
0:27.0	Please subscribe, rate, comment, share, reach out, tell your friends, send smoke signals,
0:32.0	whatever. We love your feedback and we want to hear from you.
0:35.0	This week on the podcast I'm excited to finally have Camille Foster on to sit down and talk.
0:41.8	We have been trying to make this happen for probably five or six months
0:45.8	Camille is one of the few people I turn to when things are insane and I look to him for reason.
0:53.0	He's reasonable and I love his takes and he is just such a great mind speaker human.
1:02.0	He's a partner at Free Think, a venture-backed original media
1:05.2	company, Free Thanks Award-winning film and original content projects
1:08.8	explored the intersection of culture and revolution, pop revolution, reimagined
1:13.9	fractious political debates, we need that, crossing the divide,
1:17.8	and introduce audiences to the innovators reimagining
1:21.2	entire industries.
1:23.1	Camille is a regular contributor to various national media outlets and co-hosts the
1:27.2	syndicated media commentary podcast, The Fifth Column.
1:30.8	Many of you listen to this, I hear from you all the time. In addition to his work in media and
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