TURNOUT Episode 10: ‘If we raise our expectations we would have a better system’
Next Question with Katie Couric
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4.4 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This series began in the past, to better understand the origin and history of our ongoing fight for voting rights. And as Turnout comes to a close, we consider its future. Where do we go from here? What lessons can we take with us, and what impact might this election have on our ongoing push for a more inclusive democracy and a more perfect union. In this last episode of Turnout with Katie Couric, we hear from some of our previous guests — including Wendy Weiser, Gilda Daniels, and Tyler Okeke — about the biggest takeaways from the 2020 election and their impact on our democracy. But first, an interview with someone whose job it is to lay a civics foundation for the next generation of voters. Greg Cruey is a middle school social studies teacher in War, West Virginia — a one-time coal mining center that is now one of the poorest areas in the country. Because Mr. Cruey explains our voting system, our elections, and our democracy to his 6th, 7th, and 8th graders each year, we wanted to hear how he might put our 2020 experience into context.
Read more about the people and organizations mentioned in this episode:
What it’s like to teach children about the election, and its results, in deep-red Trump country, by Hanna Natanson (Washington Post)
Wendy Weiser is the Vice President for Democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School
Gilda Daniels is an associate professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, as well as litigation director at Advancement Project national office and author of ‘Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America.’
Tyler Okeke is a Vote at 16 Youth Organizer with Power California and a second-year student at the University of Chicago.
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| 0:08.6 | They just kept telling us from the beginning, she'll be back, she'll be back. |
| 0:12.4 | We had no clue where she was, they didn't know where to begin to look. |
| 0:16.0 | Tammy's story shocked the nation. The deeper I searched, the more troubling things I found. |
| 0:22.2 | The best lead, the best evidence, the best witness was blown off. |
| 0:28.4 | Listen to Paper Ghosts on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your favorite shows. |
| 0:36.0 | Have you ever watched the Exorcist and wondered, are demons real? |
| 0:40.2 | What we interviewed a leading exorcist to find out and the truth was shocking. |
| 0:44.8 | Tell me who you are, the one who won't get out. The one who can't. |
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| 0:58.8 | Listen to the Exorcist files on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:05.6 | What's up y'all, I'm Guillermo Diaz and I played hook on Scandal. |
| 1:09.7 | And I'm Katie Loes, aka Quinn Perkins and we're the hosts of unpacking the toolbox. |
| 1:15.5 | The Scandal Rewatch podcast where we're talking about all the best moments of the show. |
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| 1:31.1 | Listen to unpacking the toolbox on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 1:38.8 | Look for your children's eyes and you will discover the true magic of a forest. |
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