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Side Effects of Challenging The Administration (with Prem Thakker)

Smart Funny & Black Productions

Amanda Seales

Education, News Commentary, News, Politics, Comedy, Self-improvement

4.89.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week, we talk to journalist Prem Thakker about holding the powers that be accountable, corporate influence in the mainstream press, the basic moral compulsion to acknowlege what is happening to journalists in Palestine, and why independant reporting is so important.

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0:00.0

Small doses self-help from the hit.

0:06.0

Small doses.

0:07.1

We're talking at shit.

0:08.6

Small doses.

0:09.8

And keeping it real.

0:11.2

Small doses.

0:12.4

With me and in Seals.

0:14.2

It's so funky.

0:16.7

Welcome to another episode of small doses podcast.

0:20.7

I, in the last two and a half years, really began to. Welcome to another episode of Small Doses Podcast.

0:30.0

I, in the last two and a half years, really began to get into the weeds of geopolitics,

0:35.6

not just because I wanted to not be left out of conversations, but I also wanted to be a part of envisioning a different future. And so I needed to know the past

0:39.9

and the present. And one of the people that would keep coming up into my consciousness was

0:45.3

journalist Prem Thacker, because in the present, he was very directly challenging the Biden

0:52.3

administration's impact and involvement in the genocide in

0:56.8

chasse.

0:57.4

In a way that was like nobody else there was doing.

1:01.7

I learned in this episode that he actually is pretty young, which explains why he's not

1:07.9

willing to actually like point fingers at the shady spinelessness of his

1:12.8

elder journalists but also why he was also more willing to like put it out there all along the

1:18.2

line and i so appreciate that because him standing or sitting sitting on business in the White House press corps, I don't know if I would say it would give me hope, but it at least gave so many of us a sense of groundedness that we were not bugging in what we were hearing from these elected officials and how in contrast it was to what we were seeing

1:46.3

and hearing and learning from the Palestinians on the ground.

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