Stick Around for Friends (with J. David McSwane)
Pod Save the People
Pod Save the People
4.7 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
DeRay, Myles, Kaya and De’Ara cover the underreported news of the week— including U.S postal workers dying from heat stroke, Minneapolis plan to fire white teachers, Kanye West on Fox News, and artist Isaac Julien breathes new life into the Harlem Rennaisance. DeRay interviews award winning investigative reporter J.David McSwane about his new book Pandemic Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick.
News
DeRay https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/20/business/ups-postal-workers-heat-stroke-deaths.html
De’Ara https://news.artnet.com/art-world/isaac-julien-barnes-foundation-2160491
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Dere. |
| 0:05.0 | And we're going to post it to people in this episode. |
| 0:07.0 | It's me, DR Miles and Kaya, talking about the news that you don't know from the past week. |
| 0:11.3 | The news that was under-apported, but really important about race, justice, and equity. |
| 0:16.7 | And then I sit down and talk to the award-winning investigative reporter, Jay David McSwing, to |
| 0:21.4 | talk about his new book, Pandemic Inc. |
| 0:23.9 | Chasing the Capitalist in Thieves who got rich while we got sick. |
| 0:27.2 | I know you weren't stories about PPP fraud and all that other stuff, but I learned so much |
| 0:31.6 | in this book and I wanted to mourn because I want to talk to next week. |
| 0:34.6 | So here we go. |
| 0:35.6 | Hope you learn too. |
| 0:36.6 | And my advice for this week is to don't give up on your friends. |
| 0:42.5 | Like I have a friend who used to talk. |
| 0:44.8 | I saw them around and then like their life changed. |
| 0:49.2 | They started dating somebody and they were really busy. |
| 0:52.2 | And I would text and like I didn't hear back, but I, you know, but we never had a fall |
| 0:56.8 | now care about her. |
| 0:57.8 | Good person. |
| 0:58.8 | And I would like when she was on my mind, I would text and did it. |
| 1:02.4 | I would see that she would read it and like she didn't reply. |
| 1:06.7 | And then the other day I texted her and she replied and was like, hey, did it not. |
| 1:10.9 | I'm like so much is going on. |
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