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Cannonball with Wesley Morris

The Kanye-thon | Episode 17

Cannonball with Wesley Morris

The New York Times

News, News Commentary, Arts, Society & Culture

4.79.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week we devote the entire episode to one question: What is happening with Kanye West?

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Wesley Morris and I'm Jenna Wortham and welcome to

0:09.4

I just can't do it the way you do it. I can't do it the way you do it. It's not the same thing

0:13.8

You're you two how's that make a hole

0:17.1

So what are we processing this week?

0:19.8

Well, it's the end of the year. Yes, we have done all of the important things

0:23.7

We've talked about our our stuff. We liked a lot

0:26.3

We let other people talk about the stuff they liked a lot like who's even listening to the show this week

0:31.1

Hey everybody everybody yeah fine sure

0:33.4

So I figured it'd be really great to to spend a good chunk of time trying to unpack something that I

0:40.6

Have been wrestling with I would say since February and it's only that snowball has only gotten bigger and bigger

0:46.2

Is it's gone down the hill right right it's Kanye West and I love you like Kanye loves Kanye

0:53.4

It's Kanye and Mara West and we've been texting about him every time we see each other we've been talking about him

0:59.6

Everybody's been texting about him. Yeah, no, but specifically

1:02.6

You and I are like we have been able we've been talking about Kanye all year and we finally were like okay

1:09.3

We should just do an entire episode about Kanye West because this is important to us

1:14.1

Maybe it's important to you. It's certainly occupying all the new sites that we're reading and tweeting and you know what I mean

1:20.3

It's like it's everywhere. We wouldn't have done this episode if he had just gone on the life of Pablo tour and

1:27.9

Released the famous video and then released the fade video at the VMAs

1:32.6

And that was it, you know went on Saturday night live

1:35.9

I'm at me a rate day of be friends

1:38.7

If we get love the same cheek

1:41.9

Game at a hit it first

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