Sarah Kay: 12/15/15

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

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🗓️ 15 December 2015

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Moment, Brian Koppelman talks to Sarah Kay, the world famous spoken word poet. Brian and Sarah talk about how 9/11 impacted her life as a young artist and why people feel unwelcomed in the “house of poetry.” Plus, Sarah reflects on her life on the road as an educator and poet, why she sees art as an exchange of gifts, and how she was confused for the waitstaff just before giving the TED Talk that changed her life. Topics mentioned:“If I Should Have a Daughter” a TED Talk by Sarah KayProject Voice“The Type” by Sarah KayBrown UniversityBowery PoetryNuyorican Poets Cafe28 Pieces from 2015 That Should Be Required Reading For Women by Emma GrayI’m 15-Years-Old And This Is What Love Feels Like by Anna Koppelman“Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie” by Bob Dylan30 Rock “Reunion” episodeElection“On the Discomfort of Being in the Same Room as the Boy You Like” by Sarah Kay“Winter Without You” by Sarah KayCUPSI Poetry Slam“What We Build” a Scripps commencement address by Sarah Kay People mentioned:Sarah KayDavid BermanMary KarrAnna KoppelmanLou ReedTina FeyPhil KayeAl GoreBill GatesChris AndersonCarly FiorinaMorgan Spurlock This episode of The Moment is brought to you by Braintree. Looking to set up payments for your business? Braintree gives your app or website a payment solution that accepts just about every payment method with one simple integration. Plus, we’ll give you your first $50,000 in transactions fee-\xadfree. To learn more, visit BraintreePayments.com/Moment. Email: themomentbk@gmail.com Twitter: @BrianKoppelman iTunes: itunes.com/themoment To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of moment is brought to you by Braintree.
0:02.0	Looking to set up payments for your business,
0:04.0	Braintree gives your app or website a payment solution
0:06.0	that accepts just about every payment method
0:08.0	with one simple integration plus.
0:10.0	We'll give you your first $50,000 in transactions, fee free.
0:16.0	To learn more, visit Braintree Payments.com slash Moment.
0:20.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:24.0	Hey, this is the moment.
0:30.0	Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Koppelman.
0:33.0	Thanks for listening. Our guest today is Sarah Kay,
0:36.0	who I'm going to say some words like she's a poet and a spoken word poet
0:41.0	and a teacher, but you should stop listening and you should go find
0:45.8	her TED Talk and I'm sure Sarah that you're tired of the TED Talk being the introduction to you.
0:50.7	No that's fine I think that's many people's introduction to me and you
0:55.4	should go watch it it yes it's 18 minutes but it's worth it for you to listen at
1:00.3	least to the opening poem but if, watch the TED Talk and then come back because Sarah
1:05.9	does a great, you do such a great job of introducing yourself and your sort of mission and everything
1:10.9	you've, you know, in a way you you stated in that thing
1:15.5	this ambition for the kind of life you wanted to lead and then you've been
1:19.3	leading it ever since. Well I that wasn't the plan per se, but it's been nice that it has worked out.
1:28.0	I want to get into your story and what the plan, whether there was a plan, was there a plan?
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