From Migrants to Midterms, Chao 2018
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The year 2018 will be remembered for quite a few milestones: migrant children being held in cages, the growth of the #MeToo movement, Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez becoming the youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress. Maria and Julio take a look back at the most unforgettable moments of 2018 for In The Thick, and they discuss why POC voices are needed now, more than ever.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up? You're listening to In The Thick, I'm Marilla Inahosa. Happy, almost New Year and Happy New Year-ish. |
| 0:07.0 | And I'm Ulu Ruyu Lourica. And are we doing the countdown? The In-The-In-The- Thick countdown or do we have like an apple coming down or something? |
| 0:14.4 | I don't know. |
| 0:15.4 | Like a taco, no? |
| 0:16.4 | Or an in the thick logo, you know. |
| 0:17.8 | Yeah, there you go. |
| 0:18.8 | Happy New Year's Eve. What a year 2018 has been, huh? Oh gosh. I mean, on the one hand, it seemed like it dragged on forever and every single day was worse than the next in terms of the news. |
| 0:36.2 | I mean, you just think about, you know, just starting with the children in cages, that's the first thing that, you know, is they write Kavanaugh and the way Dr. Blasy, I mean, like we could go on, like horrible, horrible stuff. |
| 0:50.3 | And yet it also came and went so quickly. It's kind of crazy, right? |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, it's so, it goes so fast, but you know, we need to reflect Maria. Like here we are in the thick. |
| 1:01.0 | It was actually a really amazing year for us as a show as always because we love this show. We love our fans. We love our listeners. |
| 1:08.5 | Well in a lot of ways it's like we, our show, our community, our staff, we are |
| 1:14.7 | are responding very specifically to this moment in time. |
| 1:18.2 | I've often wondered what would have happened if Donald Trump had not won. |
| 1:22.1 | Would our work be perceived as being so urgent and necessary? |
| 1:25.7 | I believe yes, but there is something on top of this particular moment that it's the reason |
| 1:31.8 | why we do this. I mean, and I and our all-stars and |
| 1:34.9 | our guests, we do this because we understand the tremendous responsibility |
| 1:38.8 | that we have to be present and to own our voices and to own our power. |
| 1:42.8 | So we do want to say goodbye to 2018, |
| 1:45.8 | talking about some pretty, you know, |
| 1:47.4 | pretty unforgettable moments for us. |
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