ICYMI - Ta-Nehisi Coates Talks About "Between the World and Me" and More

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🗓️ 26 December 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Author Ta-Nehisi Coates reflects on how America has changed over the past four years and discusses the film adaptations of his books "The Water Dancer" and "Between the World and Me."

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:02.6	BAM!
0:03.6	So, the Hosse Cotes, welcome back to the Daily Social Distance Link Show.
0:09.6	Trevor, thanks for having me back, man.
0:12.1	This is truly an honor because I just found out today you were officially the number one
0:16.6	guest we've had on the show as in like you've been on my show the most frequent, yeah.
0:22.9	Imagine that.
0:24.4	Imagine that.
0:26.2	Six years.
0:27.2	What a journey it's been.
0:28.2	Well, five years, I guess.
0:29.2	You know, on the show, six times in five years, that's what it's been.
0:32.9	Wow.
0:33.9	Wow.
0:34.9	That's great.
0:35.9	I have no problem with that at all.
0:37.4	I would love to know as somebody who has been talking to you over these five years and
0:41.8	somebody who's watched your life change dramatically, but not necessarily your tenor, have you seen
0:48.4	a change in the world around you over the past five years, or have you just experienced
0:54.4	more of the world being the world?
0:56.0	And I mean specifically America, obviously, because that's what you write about most of the
0:59.4	time.
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