Will AI improve our lives or exterminate the species?

What would it take to abolish poverty?

Are you eating enough fermented foods?

These are some of the questions we tackled recently on the next big idea.

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And this is Hello Monday, our show about the changing nature of work,

and how that work is changing us.

There are public intellectuals, and then there are comedians,

and then there's Baratunde Thurston.

He's a public intellectual who uses comedy to make his point,

and he's having a moment.

Also, this summer, he released a limited series podcast

which coincidentally is called We Are Having a Moment,

which we are.

I met Baratunde a long time ago, because we both wrote about the internet.

He also writes about race, like eight years ago,

he wrote this satire slash memoir called How To Be Black.

Baratunde has made a career out of writing and talking.

In this New York Times profile last spring,

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