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Stay Tuned with Preet

From Braille to Yale (with Cyrus Habib)

Stay Tuned with Preet

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

4.832.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Cyrus Habib is the Lieutenant Governor of Washington State. He lost his eyesight to cancer at age 8, went on to Yale, and became the first Iranian-American to hold statewide office. He talks with Preet about his remarkable life, the midterms, and governing in a deeply divided America. Plus, Preet’s wish list for constitutional amendments. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.9

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0:11.1

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0:16.7

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0:20.9

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0:26.9

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0:55.9

From Cafe, welcome to Stay Tune. I'm Pete Barar.

1:02.9

I think about what it is that allowed me a three-time cancer surviving fully blind

1:09.3

Iranian-American from a mixed religion immigrant family to serve in this role. It is the

1:16.3

welcoming spirit and the desire to continually renew ourselves as a country.

1:23.9

That's Cyrus Habib, the lieutenant governor of Washington State, and he has a remarkable

1:30.5

life story. He's a Rhodes scholar, a Soros fellow, and a graduate of Yale Law School.

1:36.7

And now, Habib is the first Iranian-American ever elected to state-wide office in the

1:42.5

U.S. I talked to Cyrus about his remarkable life, the upcoming midterm elections, and

1:48.3

the future for the Democratic Party. That's coming up. Stay tuned.

1:55.3

Ideally, you'd have enough time to cook dinner every night. But life is really busy.

2:04.9

Podcasts, books, keeping up with the never-ending Trump news. So there are days you don't have

2:09.9

time to make dinner, and you don't want to sit around waiting for take-out. Instead of

2:14.5

wasting 20 minutes dressing about what to have for dinner, you can use that time to prepare

2:18.5

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2:24.4

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2:28.1

meals at home, no matter how much experience you have in the kitchen.

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