Learn Something New (with Sam Quinones)
Pod Save the People
Pod Save the People
4.7 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
DeRay, Myles, and Kaya cover the underreported news of the week— including unexploded bombs on Hawaiian lands, US army bases named after Confederate traitors, and a Strange Loop broadway play review. DeRay interviews Sam Quinones about his newest book The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth.
News:
Myles https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/theater/strange-loop-broadway-closing.html
DeRay https://www.propublica.org/article/native-hawaiians-land-housing-army-corps-engineers
Kaya https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/04/us/politics/army-bases-confederate-names.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/us/politics/army-base-names-south-confederates.html
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Drey. |
| 0:03.0 | I won't go to post it to people. |
| 0:04.0 | In this episode, it's me, Kay and Miles, talking about the news that you don't know from |
| 0:07.8 | the past week, the news with regard to race, justice, and equity that went underreported |
| 0:11.9 | or stories that you just didn't hear about but shouldn't know about. |
| 0:14.9 | And then I sit down with Sam Cunus to talk about his new book, The Least of Us, True Tales |
| 0:19.7 | of America and Hope and the Time of Fittin' All in Math. |
| 0:22.3 | I learned so much. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm familiar with some of his work, but this interview really taught me so much more than |
| 0:27.3 | I knew before. |
| 0:28.4 | My advice for this week is to go to the movies or watch a movie with a friend. |
| 0:33.2 | There's so many good documentaries out. |
| 0:34.5 | I've seen so many great things and the coolest part about it is I've been able to see it |
| 0:39.2 | with friends. |
| 0:40.2 | Also I've been obsessed with Young Adult Fiction. |
| 0:42.4 | I'll have some book recommendations next week, but my advice is to also read some Young |
| 0:47.6 | Adult Fiction. |
| 0:48.6 | You always get the lesson. |
| 0:51.6 | So today's news for me is actually not news. |
| 0:59.1 | It is just a reflection on me going to a couple of plays. |
| 1:05.9 | I saw The Collaboration, which was all about Andy Warhol and Basquiat and their collaboration |
| 1:11.6 | and that was cool and interesting and filled with lies and things historically that didn't |
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