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Pod Save the People

Midterm Review Session

Pod Save the People

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

DeRay, Clint, Brittany and Sam discuss the midterm elections, ballots to watch, decreased protections for transgender people, a new DUI law, and hiring discrimination. Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley joins DeRay to talk about her historic run for Congress.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Durey and welcome to Piotr Save the People.

0:04.4

On this episode, we're joined by Anna Presley, who is a Congresswoman elect and

0:07.9

Massachusetts 7th Congressional District.

0:10.3

She also did my book talk with me in Boston, which was so incredible.

0:14.1

I'm gonna do this because I wanna fight to save girls, girls that don't even know they need saving.

0:19.1

And I'm going to do this because this is really a furthering of a lifetime of public service.

0:24.4

And we have the news as usual with me, Brittany Clinton, Sam.

0:27.3

We're doing special for this episode is that we're doing shoutouts.

0:30.0

All of us, me, Brittany Clinton, Sam, may have shoutouts about the election,

0:33.4

about different ballot initiatives and races across the country that we want.

0:36.7

You pay attention to and we have those introsperts in the episode.

0:39.8

The message for this week is, you know, I talked to a lot of teachers.

0:42.6

I used to teach Brittany Todd, Clinton Todd.

0:45.0

And they asked me like, what's the advice about being a teacher in this moment?

0:48.2

And like what I tell them is, is I remember that young people often have the experiences

0:52.1

before they have the language.

0:53.5

And we often penalize them for not having the language.

0:56.6

And I know I think we've talked about this before, but I just want to bring it up again

0:59.6

because I'm in so many rooms there where people have had these experiences

1:02.7

that they haven't had the language to talk about.

1:05.0

They like are in the proximity of white supremacy, but it's a little more subtle.

1:09.0

Or they are like a round-transfoal beer, or they think that their gut is right about something

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