Recode Decode: Senator Michael Bennet

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Michael Bennet, the senior U.S. Senator from Colorado, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the intersection of social media and politics, and running for president in 2020. In this episode: Denver schools and the racial education gap; Bennet’s assessment of his past 10 years in the Senate; why people voted for Trump; the changes in Washington; why Frederick Douglass (and you) are founders of America; why Bennet believes he can win; politicians who over-index on Twitter and the "downward spiral" of social media; "the Russians, for Christ's sake"; should tech companies be broken up?; Facebook’s regulation of speech; keeping America innovative; fixing education; the 90 percent of Americans not benefiting from economic growth; universal health care; why a Democrat can win in 2020; and Kamala Harris in the first Democratic debates. Vote for us Recode Decode has been nominated for best technology podcast in this year’s People’s Choice Podcast Awards! Cast your vote for Recode Decode at https://www.podcastawards.com/app/signup before July 31st. One vote per category. Follow us Kara Swisher (@karaswisher), host Michael Bennet (@MichaelBennet), guest Erica Anderson (@EricaAmerica), executive producer Eric Johnson (@HeyHeyESJ), producer More to explore If you haven't already, subscribe to Recode Decode Subscribe to Recode's other podcasts: Recode Media, Pivot, and Land of the Giants Listen to Vox's Ezra Klein interviewing Bennet on The Ezra Klein Show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary Lisa's final act now on YouTube.
0:19.8	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor-at-large of Recode.
0:25.3	You may know me as someone who would hate to share a debate stage with Kamala Harris,
0:29.4	but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media
0:33.4	Podcast Network.
0:35.1	But today in the red chair, we have someone who has been on that stage.
0:38.1	It's Senator Michael Bennett from Colorado who's also running for President of the United
0:42.4	States.
0:43.4	He announced his candidacy in May and has made no secret of the fact that he thinks many
0:47.0	America's leaders are corrupt and possibly sociopathic.
0:50.7	Senator Bennett, welcome to Recode Decode.
0:52.9	It's wonderful to be here.
0:53.9	Thanks for having me.
0:54.9	So I have to tell one thing.
0:55.9	I know you, I work for your brother a little bit.
0:58.4	I don't really work for him.
0:59.4	I don't listen to him at all, but James Bennett.
1:00.9	That's what he tells me.
1:01.9	Yes, exactly.
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