Episode 78: Mailbag! Tulsa feedback! ALSO Media in the age of COVID + Protests
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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BONUS EP BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT! - Mailbag questions on Tulsa, electoral college, police reform and more! - Interview with Pete Freedman of Central Track in Dallas, Texas about the desperate place COVID left his website, the unexpected rise in traffic with the lockdown, the intensity of covering a month of protests, how Facebook made an old article go viral and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The following is brought to you by Andy Beach, Paul Boyer, Michael Bolick, and Will Harris. Paris. Hello and welcome everybody to a surprise |
| 0:39.2 | surprise edition of the politics politics |
| 0:43.0 | politics podcast I am coming to you |
| 0:46.0 | I'm working on my off day |
| 0:50.0 | for the three dollar club this is five episodes in five days we began in Tulsa and we end |
| 1:00.5 | Finally the germs has come back to his studio. |
| 1:10.0 | Yes, I went and got a rapid COVID test yesterday, still waiting on my COVID test that I took on Monday, |
| 1:21.0 | but I found out there was a place around the corner from where my motel was that I could pay |
| 1:25.0 | out of pocket and get a rapid test. |
| 1:27.9 | Got the rapid test. |
| 1:30.0 | I'm clean. |
| 1:31.9 | So I'm home. Very, very, very excited to be home. |
| 1:38.0 | Excited to do a little surprise, fun episode for you guys and |
| 1:44.0 | it's gonna come with an interview |
| 1:47.0 | Dallas Texas is currently the intersection of so much |
| 1:51.0 | a rise in COVID cases a month's worth of protesting the |
| 1:57.3 | tearing down a removal of statues and we're gonna speak to somebody that has been really at the epicenter of all of it. |
| 2:07.0 | He is the founder and publisher of Centraltrack.com, a website that primarily was arts and culture in |
| 2:17.8 | Dallas and then COVID hit all their advertisement went away and and amidst the chaos they have become something bigger than they were before. It's |
| 2:26.6 | the chaos they have become something bigger than they were before. |
| 2:33.1 | It's a great story and Pete Friedman, who's gonna be the guy to come on and talk to us, is great. |
| 2:39.6 | So please stay for that because if you like I often think I get too pedantic about |
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