Tim Robbins on Art, Activism, and Bernie, Plus Coronavirus in the Media

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

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4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Actor, writer, and director Tim Robbins joins the show to discuss his play The New Colossus, balancing art and activism, and Bernie Sanders. Matt and Katie catch up on the coronavirus story and talk Iowa caucus. **We now have Useful Idiots merch! Feel more useful with our mugs, t-shirts, and totes: https://teespring.com/stores/useful-idiots Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Useful Idiots.
0:08.0	Welcome to Useful Idiots.
0:09.3	I'm Matt Taibi.
0:10.1	I'm Katie Halper.
0:10.9	How are you doing?
0:11.9	I'm good, you know what I saw last night?
0:13.9	What?
0:14.9	I saw Joker.
0:15.9	How was it?
0:16.9	So I feel alienated and incited to violence.
0:18.9	Okay, so it's a not because it's a weekday.
0:22.3	Because it's a weekday, yeah.
0:23.3	For a variety of reasons.
0:24.3	Because you saw Joker, yeah.
0:25.3	Yeah, yeah.
0:26.3	I thought I was disrupted on a train.
0:28.3	Yeah.
0:29.3	Do you like it?
0:30.3	I did.
0:31.3	I can't make it.
0:32.3	In fact, I thought it was really funny because the movie is so much a metaphor for Trump
0:37.6	ism and other things like that.
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