This is No Time to Grow Weary
Pod Save the People
Pod Save the People
4.7 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2017
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
DeRay, Brittany, Clint and Sam discuss the week’s news and Andy Slavitt joins for a timely health care bill update. Valerie Jarrett, former senior advisor and head of public and intergovernmental affairs for President Obama, joins DeRay to talk about criminal justice, reparations, and reflections on eight years in the White House. Former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak meets with DeRay to reflect on local leadership and talk about the future of the DNC.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Durey and welcome to Pond Save the People. |
| 0:05.0 | Now today we have Valerie Jarrett, the former senior advisor to the president and RT |
| 0:12.4 | Ryback, the former mayor of Minneapolis, excited to talk to both of them. |
| 0:17.1 | And then as you know, the news with me Clint, Brittany and Sam. |
| 0:22.2 | We also have Andy Slavitt giving us an update on where we are with healthcare. |
| 0:26.3 | Before we jump into the podcast and have heard people say over and over panels and speeches, |
| 0:32.8 | this notion that the system is working as it was designed to. |
| 0:37.4 | And they say it often in response to a tragedy and response to deep inequity. |
| 0:43.8 | And while it is true that the system was designed to be one that disadvantaged a certain |
| 0:50.0 | set of people over another one, but I also know to be sure that we can change it. |
| 0:54.1 | People made the system this way and people can undo it. |
| 0:57.2 | People can transform it. |
| 0:59.7 | They can reform it. |
| 1:00.8 | They can structurally alter it. |
| 1:05.8 | We actually have a lot of agency here. |
| 1:07.8 | So just because it was designed this way, it doesn't mean that it has to be this way forever. |
| 1:12.6 | And my advice to you would be to definitely understand the intentional parts of the system, |
| 1:18.8 | the things that didn't happen by happenstance. |
| 1:22.2 | But also to remember that we can do this, so we can change it. |
| 1:25.2 | Won't always be quick. |
| 1:26.3 | You might not be here when the fruits of your labor actually impact people's lives in a positive way. |
| 1:32.7 | But that we fight because we know that this is not the way that we'll have to be. |
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