Episode 167 - Noam Chomsky (plus Dr. Ashish Jha of the Harvard Global Health Institute)

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

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Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 12 April 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Who better to guide us through this darkness than Noam Chomsky? The esteemed linguist, author, and political activist joins us this week to provide a historical perspective to the pandemic (44:02). He also offers his diagnosis of the Trump administration and its failure to effectively respond to COVID-19. At 91, Chomsky is a beacon of hope in these trying times.

Before speaking with Noam, Sam calls up Dr. Ashish Jha, Director of Harvard Global Health Institute (2:57) to walk us through life on the front-lines, inside hospitals, when we can expect to return to normal, and how we can ultimately beat this virus.

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0:00.0	Pushkin For every problem that we face we know of solutions, the question is, will enough people, young people,
0:25.0	find the ability, the commitment, the dedication
0:30.0	to implement the kinds of solutions that we know are possible.
0:35.0	There's no way to predict it's a matter of will and choice.
0:40.0	It's a matter of action and not speculation.
0:44.0	That was Nome Chomsky.
0:47.0	I'm Sam Fricoso and this is Talk Easy.
0:51.0	Welcome to the show. Oh, Hey everyone. Thank you for being here this week. Today on the show we're doing
1:20.3	something a little bit different.
1:22.6	As the coronavirus crisis carries onward,
1:25.4	I want to have on two people that I thought could speak
1:28.6	to our current situation.
1:31.1	The first is Nome Chomsky, a philosopher, author, linguist, professor, and historian.
1:36.8	He is also Nome Chomsky and needs no further introduction from me. My talk with him comes later in this episode and in
1:46.0	it he addresses the potential political and sociological ramifications this crisis may
1:52.3	have on us. But to start I called up Dr. Ashish
1:56.1	Jaa. He's the director over at the Harvard Global Health Institute. Some of you
2:01.4	may remember Dr. Jaa from an episode we aired just a month ago.
2:06.2	Many more of you are probably familiar with Dr. Jaa from your television sets as he's been
2:12.0	a recurring face on MS NBC, Fox, CNN, and PBS throughout
2:17.3	this pandemic. This week I ask him about the current climate within the
2:22.3	medical industry and the stories he's
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