Episode 106 - Work No Play feat. Miya Tokumitsu & Tim Faust (5/7/17)

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4.6 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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It's a jam-packed sode with special Chapo health correspondent Tim Faust returning to brief us on the dystopian Republican healthcare bill that passed in the House. Then we hop on the line with writer Miya Tokumitsu to talk about the tyranny of work over your life, and a future without it. We wrap things up with a reading series with Chapo all-star David French. Here's Miya's article in the New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/141663/united-states-work

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0:00.0	Hello everybody. It's me, Will. This is your Chappo for this week.
0:03.5	I'm just giving you this brief introduction here because this week's episode we got a double
0:08.5	shot of interviews lined up for you. First we got Chappo Healthcare Correspondent Tim Faust is back again for a follow-up
0:17.1	on the debacle and abomination that is the AHCA a more health care disaster then we talk to the writer Mia Tukamitsu
0:28.3	about work why it sucks and how we can begin to imagine a world in which we don't have to fucking go to the office every day
0:36.7	So hope you enjoy it
0:38.7	Cheers All I'm going to be is a joke. All I'm going to be is a joke.
0:45.0	A problem.
0:47.0	We're problems and basos.
0:50.0	All I'm gonna be a joke. Chappo everybody let's go we're back this week joining me is Felix and Matt but special
1:11.7	guest coming in, health care correspondent, Tim Faust is back again.
1:16.2	Tim.
1:17.2	It's the biggest atrocity in health care history.
1:21.0	Indeed it is.
1:22.4	We got Tim to come on sort of semi last minute to respond to the
1:26.5	events of this past week regarding the 8HCA. I'm going to do my Kent Brockman thing now and just say Tim would you recommend that it's time to panic and go crazy in the streets?
1:40.0	I love to panic it comes naturally to me so yes I mean yeah absolutely there's a there's a certain
1:48.0	coalition of I guess smug or disaffected liberal which might posit that, oh well the Senate's still there
1:55.8	and now there's all these checks and balances in place to prevent this thing from
1:58.3	becoming law but those are the same checks and balances that were intended to keep Trump from becoming president.
2:04.5	So we live in the Iglesias world now.
2:07.4	Nothing is forbidden anymore, Bilemos.
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