SIO243: Alix Jules
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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It has been far, far too long since we've heard from Alix Jules on this show. I can't think of a more perfect guest to help us better understand the mayhem happening around the country right now.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 243. I'm Thomas Smith and I am |
| 0:35.8 | so happy to be joined by Alex Jules Alex how you doing? I'm doing wonderfully no I'm not |
| 0:42.0 | I'm okay I'm doing wonderfully. No I'm not. I'm okay. That was already a loaded question with just COVID-19 going on. |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah, and that's even more a loaded question. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah. I am, I'm healthy, family's healthy so I cannot complain about that. But I'm doing okay given what's going on in the world. |
| 1:03.4 | Sure, I just want to say from the outset, |
| 1:05.5 | I cannot believe how long it's been since we've spoken on the show. |
| 1:09.5 | I personally want to apologize to the audience for that |
| 1:11.8 | because what the hell I looked we were |
| 1:14.2 | looking at the time and I've let it go two years and I feel so bad about that two |
| 1:18.5 | years I still don't believe it that's and it is and you should and you should because |
| 1:22.4 | it's entirely your fault. It is entirely my fault. I don't know what's what's going on. I would have told you it's been like you know months. |
| 1:29.7 | Yeah, it's been two years. So but I cannot think of anybody else I'd rather have on. I am so glad to have you. Thanks for taking the time. I really do appreciate it. |
| 1:40.3 | Oh my pleasure. Thanks for having me. So question one, what the fuck? I don't really, where do you begin? I mean where does one begin with a time like this. Go? |
| 1:53.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:55.0 | So yeah, I am in Dallas. |
| 1:58.0 | I was out on, I think it was one of the first nights that we protested down here and we had |
| 2:07.7 | Thousands of people out in the street. It's only gotten you know significantly bigger |
| 2:28.4 | And we're not at all surprised. I mean, this has been bubbling and coming for a while now, right? I mean, this is, I think the last time we spoke, you know, we were talking about |
| 2:36.3 | racial inequalities in justice. I know that the backdrop and a lot of your audience does know and are aware of some of the racial inequalities and the police brutality and the many names who have |
| 2:45.0 | it's almost difficult to remember them all simply because you know they're all |
| 2:50.6 | just a string of hashtags over and over and over again and so I think we're seeing a result of an escalation, |
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