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The Byron York Show

E35. Behind The Scenes Of The New Clarence Thomas Movie

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.8 β€’ 1.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On Friday a new movie, "Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words," will open in theaters across the country. The most striking thing about it is obvious from the beginning: The famously publicity-shy Supreme Court justice is talking. A lot. Thomas spoke to filmmaker Michael Pack for 30 hours β€” yes, 30 hours β€” […]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Byron York show. If you've listened

0:10.9

you know this is the No Chit Chat podcast.

0:13.8

We'd like to get right into it.

0:15.8

And today, we're going to get right into it,

0:18.1

but you're probably expecting another podcast on impeachment, and there will be another one very very soon but this is a special

0:26.7

podcast because at the end of this week a movie is going to premiere about

0:31.0

Clarence Thomas be in several theaters across the country.

0:35.0

I've seen it and when I saw it I asked the filmmaker Michael Pack, who I've known for years,

0:40.0

if he would come on the podcast when the time came and the time is here so Michael

0:45.5

Pack thanks for joining us thank you biren

0:48.3

so that the thing that's most striking about this movie when you first began to see it is this man

0:54.1

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas never talks to anybody he doesn't do

0:59.0

interviews and yet there he is talking about himself for hours, well a couple of hours in your movie.

1:07.0

How did that happen?

1:08.0

Well, it's true that he doesn't give interviews, but as people who know him well know, he's actually

1:12.3

a great speaker, a great

1:14.8

raconteur, a good storyteller, and it happened because we had heard that

1:19.8

Justice Thomas was getting concerned about misrepresentations of his story, that his enemies

1:25.1

and the people didn't like them were the ones that were telling us.

1:27.9

Just now?

1:28.9

Well, it reached a peak.

1:31.0

I mean, and it started to be, there was a, shit, HBO was coming up with a movie about

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