Episode 49: The State of Debate and Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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4.2 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Colson Whitehead reimagines the Underground Railroad, Jill Lepore assesses the sorry state of political debate,and Sharon Horgan finds humor in “Divorce.”

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0:00.0	438.
0:04.0	I'm excited to be having a conversation with someone when they have that revolution.
0:11.0	It's making sure pretty huge.
0:15.0	You mean you could get if you have a source for it?
0:17.0	Yeah, the telegraph.
0:19.0	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:30.9	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.
0:34.7	Now here's Chris Getherd, who's got something he really, really wants to show you.
0:41.4	Look what I just got. They're not even knocking these off in China yet. Check out the memory
0:47.6	specs. It knows more than there is to know. That connector there? The teeth whitening feature.
0:55.9	Yeah, you can get the tracheotomy option, but it's not compatible with most insurance
1:01.4	plans.
1:02.7	Or surgeons.
1:05.7	This I love.
1:07.7	Multi-tap here and voila.
1:10.2	That's me on the screen showing you how I can show you this,
1:14.9	right at the same time, that I'm showing you. Watch. I'm sending myself a video of me showing you how
1:21.6	I can send myself a video. How on earth did we ever live without these things? Uh-oh, an alert.
1:29.3	Never mind, false alert.
1:32.3	Previous model, you had to check for alert.
1:35.3	This one is twice as fast as itself.
1:38.3	No, no, no.
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