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The Katie Halper Show

Thomas Frank LIVE: What's the Matter with Liberals?

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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bonus: https://www.patreon.com/posts/20353124 Gable Pacheco and I talk to Thomas Frank at a live taping of the Katie Halper Show. Frank, the author of "What's the Matter with Kansas" and "Listen Liberal," whose writing appears in The Guardian and Harpers has just come out with "Rendezvous with Oblivion," a collection of essays. Thomas talks to us about how Hillary Clinton could have won, what turned him from Republican to Democrat, what turns him off about the Democrats, and what turned him from academic to journalist.

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0:00.0

Hello, and I'm here

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and welcome to the Katie helper show.

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I'm your host Katie helper, and I'm here with Kaye Pacheco.

0:09.9

Hello, everybody.

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You can find the Katie helper show Show on soundcloud on iTunes on

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patreon and at patreon you just become members it's patreon

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com slash the Katie helper show and on iTunes leave us a review how going, Gabe? I'm feeling really good. Yeah, yeah, I'm really excited about this

0:26.5

week's episode. Yeah, so excited. You look tan. Oh, thank you. Yeah, I went, I went out to the Hamptons.

0:33.4

Oh, yeah. Because I'm a 1% or adjacent.

0:36.4

Yeah, what's the deal with that?

0:37.6

Well, one of my good friends is a tutor, and so he, their tutor company has a whole bunch of clients out there.

0:45.0

Wow.

0:46.0

And yeah, the one percenters, they, their kids need constant stimuli and constant learning.

0:52.0

So it's like babysitter tutors or just like friend tutors?

0:55.0

No, they're just so no so I went out and stayed at the house where all the tutors live.

1:00.0

There's a tutor house. Yeah, they got to rent a house for all these people. I want to I want to live in a Tudor house. I wonder if it's you know it'd be interesting is if the Tudor house was a Tudor house.

1:11.0

How you like that architecture joke? I'm here all I like a nice

1:17.2

I like a nice ranch style house right for ranchers or for tutors. Yeah. Or mission, mission style. I do like mission style. I just hit the

1:27.5

microphone with my glasses. Yeah, just we want full transparency. I just need everybody to know what that sound was right not his snaz

1:37.0

It was not a snaz collision. So we're all right. We're cooking you guys like our loose understanding of architecture?

1:45.4

So it's over the summer?

1:46.6

Yeah.

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