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🗓️ 18 July 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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McGhee discusses her powerful book, The Sum of Us, about how white people have been told that anything that benefits people of color hurts them - i.e. a zero-sum game. It ain't true!

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Al Franken podcast add free on Amazon music download the Amazon music app today
0:13.2	Hey, everybody as you know
0:16.2	Peter and I are on vacation Peter as you might know is my executive producer and
0:22.3	We recorded
0:24.3	Four new shows in advance to run while Peter takes his family on their annual adventure vacation out west
0:32.5	So we have these four brand new shows. We're playing while we're away and we always pick a favorite to rerun
0:41.2	during this vacation and
0:43.4	This time it was a no-brainer today. We're playing my interview with Heather McGee
0:49.4	the brilliant activist the brilliant lawyer
0:52.2	former head of demos
0:54.9	This is a stunning interview a batter book the some of us
0:59.8	The some of us is is about how
1:03.1	Republicans have sold white people in this country the idea that it's a zero-sum game that anything that helps people of color
1:12.0	takes away from them and
1:14.2	The opposite is true. We you know Paul Wilson said we all do better when we all do better
1:18.9	I
1:20.9	Mean no insult to every other wonderful guests. I've had I just want to say that this is
1:27.0	the best one we've done and
1:29.9	You will get so much out of it. I promise now before we go to Heather
1:35.4	I just want to remind folks that I'm starting the only former US Senator currently on tour tour on
1:44.0	September 18th in North Hampton, Mass
1:46.0	Then over to Milwaukee across to Minneapolis
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