ICYMI - Barack Obama on "A Promised Land," Nurturing Future Leaders and Black Lives Matter

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🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Barack Obama talks about his memoir "A Promised Land," discusses the goals of his many leadership programs around the world and gives his take on the Black Lives Matter movement.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:02.7	Now!
0:04.9	Are you gonna fill a bust of me?
0:06.3	Or like, because I don't have all the time.
0:07.9	You want me to be very good at like-
0:09.0	So is this like a roundabout way of saying you just want me to give short pithy answer?
0:13.2	No, I don't want short questions.
0:14.1	You want me to speed up? You want me to talk faster?
0:16.1	No, no, no, no. Please, Mr. President.
0:18.2	I will not purposely fill a buster, but sometimes I will have a pause
0:23.5	as I'm formulating my thoughts, as you well know.
0:26.7	Michelle has been speeding up my audio book.
0:33.5	So, you know, I guess you can press a button so it plays like one at a time.
0:36.7	Yeah, you're like 1.25 or 1.5, yeah.
0:38.7	Yeah, wait.
0:39.7	Yeah, you were a 1.5 guy.
0:40.7	Yeah.
0:41.7	You're definitely a 1.5 guy.
0:42.7	I was a little offended by that, but that's okay.
0:44.7	That's fine.
0:45.7	It doesn't communicate the depth of feeling with which I'm doing the reading, but that's okay.
0:53.7	How do you like being referred to, like just as a human being?
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