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Pod Save the People

One Hurdle at a Time (with Valerie Jarrett)

Pod Save the People

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

DeRay, Kaya, De'Ara, and guest Myles E. Johnson cover the underreported news of the week—including Black inventors, New Jersey verdicts, J. Marion Sims, and Soul Train. DeRay interviews Valerie Jarrett about Civic Nation's "Made to Save" initiative to increase vaccine access. DeRay: https://newjerseymonitor.com/2021/09/23/judges-cant-ignore-jury-verdicts-in-deciding-sentencing-n-j-s-top-court-rules/ Kaya: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/mothers-gynecology-alabama-memorial-statue/2021/10/01/cca0a788-21fd-11ec-8200-5e3fd4c49f5e_story.html De'Ara: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1040795026/patricia-bath-marian-croak-national-inventors-hall-of-fame-first-black-women Myles: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/30/1041793651/its-been-5-decades-since-soul-train-was-first-nationally-syndicated For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/podsavethepeople

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Doraia and we're going to pass you the people in this episode of SMEKID,

0:16.6

DR and Miles talking about all the news you don't know from the past week.

0:20.5

And then I sit down and talk to Valerie Jarrett to discuss civic nations made to serve initiative

0:24.3

for expanding vaccine access.

0:26.5

You heard me say that Miles is joining us. Miles is Miles Johnson. He's an incredible

0:30.2

writer, cultural critic and think of helping us understand the way that popular culture

0:35.0

impacts the way that we understand systems, structures and societal change.

0:39.4

He'll be joining us for a set of episodes. We thank you, Love, and we learn so much every

0:43.8

time we talk to Miles. And now you'll get to hear him more. Here we go.

0:49.9

Family, welcome to another episode of Pod Save the People. I am DR a manager. You can

0:55.7

find me on the Twitter and Instagram at DR a Ballinger. I'm Miles E. Johnson. You can find

1:00.1

me at Rapture on Instagram and Twitter. I'm Kaya Henderson at Henderson Kaya on Twitter.

1:05.9

This is Doraia at DR a while on Twitter. So we spend a lot of time talking about black

1:11.3

excellence, but we're going to spend a moment to talk about white failure today.

1:15.8

DR and the leader representation matters. You know, we want to be equitable here on Pod Save

1:23.5

the People. So we thought we would talk about some of the goons on of white women in particular.

1:29.8

Namely, Elizabeth Holmes, who, you know, there was a documentary on her now. She's in court.

1:36.3

It's literally the United States of America versus Elizabeth Holmes, where she is charged

1:41.6

with frauds, conspiracies, wired fraud on types of things. But namely, she was able to get

1:49.7

her company to be valued at $9 billion and didn't have not near one piece of technology

1:56.1

that worked. And her attorney said, and I love this failure isn't a crime. Okay. All right,

2:04.1

white people. But lying, lying is a crime. Lying is a crime. Let me just be very clear

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