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Pod Save the People

Every Little Bit Counts (with Mondaire Jones)

Pod Save the People

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

DeRay, Brittany, Clint, and Sam discuss how an IRS notice saved 700 lives, death penalty repeal, Kentucky's voter rolls, and UNC's Silent Sam problem. DeRay talks to Mondaire Jones, who is running to be the first black and openly gay Congressman. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/upshot/irs-letter-health-insurance-fine-study.html#click=https://t.co/JFuWkzTTaY https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/07/opinions/unc-sons-of-confederate-veterans-silent-sam-cox/index.html https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/12/kentucky-ex-felons-vote-democratic-governor-andy-beshear https://theintercept.com/2019/12/03/death-penalty-abolition/ https://burrow.com/PEOPLE Babbel.com, promo code PEOPLE

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Durey.

0:04.0

I'm welcome to Batsy with the people in this episode.

0:05.7

We have the news with me, Brittany Clinton, Sam, as usual, and then we're joined by Mondeur

0:09.0

Jones to talk to us about his campaign to be in the U.S. Congress representing New York

0:15.3

17th.

0:16.8

The message for this week is that every little bit counts.

0:19.6

One of the things that I learned as a teacher is that every day we were building skills

0:22.9

that in the end were turned into something that allowed my students to do something they

0:27.6

didn't think they could do before.

0:30.0

So when I was teaching them that when two things touched it means multiplication or when

0:33.5

we were learning what a reciprocal was and when we were learning what an integer was,

0:38.0

he's building blocks early in the year.

0:40.7

It was to set them up so that later they would see it, maybe they got it, got it, they

0:44.6

could do the process, they understood the number theory behind it, they got it, but it

0:49.2

took all these pieces to get us there.

0:51.6

And I think so often that what you don't ever see is the piecework.

0:54.9

You don't see people's craft growing the pieces.

0:58.5

Mostly you see the beautiful artwork at the end, but I'm always reminded that every little

1:02.4

bit counts.

1:03.4

So keep going with every little bit.

1:05.2

It always counts.

1:06.2

Let's go.

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