Grief (with Patton Oswalt and Sybrina Fulton)

You and Me Both with Hillary Clinton

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Society & Culture, Government

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Nearly all of us have experienced grief this year – whether it’s the loss of a loved one, the loss of a job, or the loss of normalcy. In this episode, Hillary talks with stand-up comedian Patton Oswalt and Sybrina Fulton, advocate and mother of Trayvon Martin, about finding purpose after a terrible loss.

Patton Oswalt is an award-winning stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. After the tragic death of his wife Michelle McNamara, he finished the book she was working on: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: The Search for the Golden State Killer. The book was recently turned into an HBO documentary series of the same name. His newest stand-up special, I Love Everything, is out on Netflix.

Sybrina Fulton is an advocate and the mother of Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed in 2012. Along with Trayvon’s father, Tracy Martin, Sybrina co-founded The Trayvon Martin Foundation to empower families who have lost children to gun violence. Sybrina recently campaigned for a seat on the Miami-Dade County Commission, ultimately losing by less than one percent.

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0:00.0	Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard.
0:07.0	I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister.
0:11.0	In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island.
0:16.0	A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger.
0:23.0	Listen to Death Island every Wednesday on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.0	You and me both is a production of I Heart Radio.
0:34.0	The standup was just another extension of that of, hey grief, I'm going to go on stage tonight and tell jokes for seven minutes.
0:41.0	In the world that you trap me and I'm still going to go up and do it like, at a sheer defiance.
0:48.0	I'm Hillary Clinton and this is You and Me Both, where I get into some of today's biggest questions with people I admire.
0:56.0	On today's episode we're talking about finding a path forward after a terrible loss moving from grief to action.
1:08.0	You know, when I think about the times I've gone through grieving losing my parents,
1:14.0	and in particular last year was really hard on me. I lost one of my very close friends, my best friend from literally sixth grade and my younger brother.
1:26.0	It happened in the space of, you know, less than six months.
1:30.0	It was painful, missing them and wishing I could talk to them practically every day.
1:37.0	And I often find myself trying to figure out how do other people confront feelings of sadness and anger, disbelief, outrage.
1:46.0	How do we all summon the strength to keep going?
1:51.0	So I'm talking to two people who have really endured very tough losses.
1:58.0	Later I'll be talking with Sabrina Fulton.
2:01.0	She's the mother of Trayvon Martin who was shot and killed on his way home from a store in 2012.
2:10.0	You know, Sabrina has become a powerful advocate for parents and communities harmed by violence.
2:16.0	She's someone that I've been inspired by over the years.
2:20.0	But first, I will be talking with actor and comedian, Patton Oswald.
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