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The Assignment with Audie Cornish

The Gen Z Group Making Politics Fun

The Assignment with Audie Cornish

Podcast Admin

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.6844 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

“I vividly remember Donald Trump winning the election and waking up shocked the next day because I was told by everyone...this was impossible.” For Lakshya Jain, 2016 was a major wake-up call, and he decided to use his skills to address the gaps in understanding left by traditional political media. Together with a group of fellow Gen Z engineers and political enthusiasts, he founded Split-Ticket.org, a nonpartisan website that uses creative framing and interactive games to tell a new kind of political story. You Be The Campaign Manager game Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Contacting customer service, for a lot of people, that's an easy way to ruin a good day.

0:06.4

But at Zendesk, we make the customer experience better.

0:09.7

Better for your grand, better for your florist, better for the guy in Apartment 3A.

0:14.3

Better for you.

0:15.6

Better for everyone.

0:16.9

Because some say the customer is always right.

0:19.7

We say the customer is always human.

0:22.5

And as fellow humans, we want to do something better for all of us.

0:26.4

Zendesk, customer experience with AI built for humans.

0:30.5

In the chaotic world, the economist's fat-based reporting helps you find sanity in the circus.

0:36.0

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0:41.3

The Economist's correspondence are on the ground where world-shaping stories happen.

0:45.3

They connect the dots between major topics from economics and global politics to science, technology and culture.

0:52.3

So, go to Economist.com slash Black Friday offer

0:55.9

to take advantage of this half-price offer ending soon.

1:00.0

If your first election was 2016,

1:02.9

you experience politics in a way no other generation has.

1:06.8

The first woman nominee winning the popular vote

1:09.9

and losing the election.

1:12.0

I vividly remember Donald Trump winning the election and waking up shocked the next day

1:18.2

because I was told by everyone who I thought was way smarter than I was and in tune with everything

1:24.3

that this was impossible.

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