If I Was a Dragon
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
We’re talking elections! Whether it’s the 2020 candidates or the series finale of Game of Thrones, white males seem to be at the forefront. Maria and Julio are joined by Astead Herndon, national political reporter with The New York Times, and Brittany Packnett, activist and co-host of Pod Save The People, to discuss how the candidates approach POC voters, the notion of electability, and how similar issues of race, gender, and politics played out in the final season of Game of Thrones.
ITT Staff Picks:
- Read Astead Herndon’s reporting on the ground of the 2020 campaign trail, via the New York Times.
- The Root dives into the long and seemingly ever-growing list of 2020 white male candidates.
- How Game of Thrones let down its female characters, from The Guardian. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Dear listener, a quick favor. We're conducting an audience survey and we'd be really |
| 0:06.5 | grateful if you could take just a few minutes and answer it. So please visit survey. |
| 0:12.1 | ERX.org slash futuro to take our survey today. |
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| 0:23.0 | Grasias. |
| 0:25.0 | When I talk about electability, what am I really saying about myself? |
| 0:28.0 | What am I ready to do? |
| 0:30.0 | What am I not ready to do? |
| 0:31.0 | And how can I push my own imagination and actually really get down to |
| 0:35.6 | the business of who is going to govern well. |
| 0:37.6 | Hey what's up welcome to In The Thick. This is a a podcast about politics race and culture from a POC perspective |
| 0:45.2 | I'm Marianne Jose and I'm so happy today and I'm |
| 0:49.2 | And I'm juliorica lober ere and I'm happy that you're happy today I'm so happy today because we have two amazing |
| 0:55.5 | amazing people joining us in our Harlem Immigrant Studio is Astead Herndon |
| 1:00.2 | he's National Political Reporter with the New York Times. A little paper out there. Hey, |
| 1:03.7 | us dead. Hey, thanks for having me. And joining us from Washington, D.C. Yes, yes, yes. |
| 1:09.0 | It's only taken a long time, but we are so happy to have Brittany Packnet with us. |
| 1:13.0 | She's an activist, an educator, a writer, co-host of Pod Save the People. |
| 1:17.6 | Welcome, Brittany. |
| 1:19.1 | Hey y'all, thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:20.8 | I'm glad to be here. |
| 1:22.0 | Yes. So excited. Yes excited yes okay so we're |
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