More To The Story with Al Letson

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🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

From the unflinching investigative team behind Reveal comes a new weekly podcast that delivers More To The Story. Every Wednesday, Peabody Award-winning journalist Al Letson sits down with the people at the heart of our changing world for candid—sometimes uncomfortable—conversations that make you rethink your entire newsfeed. Whether he's sounding the alarm about the future of democracy, grappling with the shifting dynamics of political power, or debating big cultural moments, Al always brings his unfiltered curiosity to topics and perspectives that go too often ignored. Because, as Al reminds us every week on Reveal, when you take the time to listen, there’s always More To The Story. Find it in your Reveal feed beginning March 5, 2025.

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0:00.0	President Trump is moving at a breakneck pace to reshape the federal government.
0:04.5	Right now new laws banning abortion.
0:06.3	Multiple pre-dawn raids targeting undocumented immigrants.
0:09.4	And head sets embrace of extreme Christian.
0:14.2	Stop, stop, stop.
0:18.6	Look, I get it. It's too much. I'm with you.
0:22.6	At every turn, you're bombarded with information. Oftentimes, disinformation.
0:28.6	It seeps out from every part of your life.
0:31.6	Your phones, your social network, your newsfeed, your colleagues, even your friends and family get in on the act,
0:38.6	giving their spin on the big events of the day. But I'm here to help you make sense of it
0:43.9	and remind you as I do every week on reveal that there's more to the story. In fact, that's
0:52.7	the name of my new podcast, More to the Story with me, Al Letson, that I want to share with you.
0:59.1	I get to have conversations with people at the heart of our changing world, candid, sometimes uncomfortable conversations.
1:07.7	Do you think the work that you did helped create the runway for what we're seeing now with Trump
1:13.6	in Christian conservative circles?
1:16.6	Yeah, I'm afraid I helped build the ramp that Trump took to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
1:26.6	We'll talk about race, gender, and power. took to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
1:28.3	We'll talk about race, gender, and power.
1:31.3	White dudes who are mad?
1:33.3	It's like, you set up this structure.
1:36.3	If you can't succeed in your own framework,
1:40.3	that's a you problem.
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