Listen Again - Baratunde Thurston: How To Citizen

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🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Original broadcast date: December 4, 2020. Last year's election saw historic voter turnout. But in a divided democracy, how else can we commit to our civic duties? This hour, Baratunde Thurston joins Manoush with ideas on how to citizen.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Manouche.
0:01.7	And maybe you've noticed, but one of the things
0:04.2	that we are doing more of here on the Ted Radio Hour
0:07.0	is featuring some of our favorite speakers
0:09.7	and taking more time with them to go in depth
0:12.8	into their work, go beyond their Ted Talk.
0:16.0	One of the people with whom we've done this
0:18.2	is one of my favorite humans in the world,
0:21.1	Beratunde Thurston.
0:23.0	Beratunde is a writer, a comedian, a political commentator,
0:27.2	and he not only has his own fascinating personal story,
0:31.4	but he has a lot of big ideas and a lot to say
0:34.5	about what it means to be a citizen in this world at this time.
0:39.5	So please take a listen or another listen
0:42.8	to my conversation with Beratunde Thurston.
0:46.2	This episode is called How to Citizen,
0:48.9	and it originally aired back in November of last year.
0:52.4	Enjoy.
0:53.8	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
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1:00.5	Our job now is to dream big.
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