The Jackpod: The company they keep
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On Point new analyst Jack Beatty argues that Democrats are losing touch with working class voters. What could they do to change that?
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On Point is WBUR’s award-winning, daily public radio show and podcast. Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti leads provocative conversations that help make sense of the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken, a |
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| 0:07.9 | podcast for a preview of the first episode, |
| 0:10.8 | a conversation with Dean Susan Fournier, where she answers the question at the heart of the show. |
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| 0:44.0 | I'm Magna Chakrabardi and this is the jackpot where on point news analyst Jack Beady helps us connect history |
| 0:56.4 | literature and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world |
| 1:01.2 | we live in now. Hi there, Jack. |
| 1:03.0 | Hello, Megan. |
| 1:04.0 | We are at episode 31. |
| 1:06.0 | What's today's headline? |
| 1:08.0 | The company they keep. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay, so tell me more. Well, let me begin this way. Here's something you don't know about me, Magna. |
| 1:18.0 | I owe four of my surviving eight teeth to the Teamsters Union. |
| 1:25.0 | It's true, whose dental benefits really saved my rotting teeth years ago. |
| 1:31.0 | So when I bite into a steak, I silently say, the union forever. And that |
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