Episode 51: David Axelrod on the Cubs and the Candidates, and Kenya Barris on “Black-ish”

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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🗓️ 7 October 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In this episode, Obama’s former campaign strategist talks Clinton and the Cubs, a mathematician rocks out, and the “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris vents a little.

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0:00.0	How are you excited to be having a conversation with someone when they have that revelation.
0:11.3	It's making sure pretty cute.
0:14.9	How does this work as a national story?
0:19.4	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:28.6	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.
0:32.0	Ballots came today. Huh.
0:35.1	What?
0:36.1	They changed our polling place. Of course they did. They want to make it harder for us to find them. That is the reason I don't vote changed our polling place.
0:37.8	Of course they did.
0:38.4	They want to make it harder for us to find them.
0:40.0	That is the reason I don't vote in the first place.
0:42.3	You're kidding, Ray.
0:43.5	You vote.
0:44.7	You have to vote.
0:46.1	Of course you vote.
0:47.9	Kenya Barris is the creator of the series Blackish on ABC.
0:51.9	And over the summer, Barris got deeply frustrated with some of the questions he's
0:55.7	been getting. And he told a reporter, I'm so tired of talking about diversity. We'll find out what he
1:03.0	meant later in the show. But right now, there are two big contests taking place in America, the
1:08.0	presidential election and the playoffs. And if you live in Chicago,
1:12.8	you're excused for going, the presidential what?
1:15.5	Addison Russell, the batter. And a high fly ball, deep left field that is gone. For the first time
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