Who is Worse: Trump, Pence, Kanye, or Zuckerberg?

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🗓️ 11 May 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Comedian and commentator, formally of The Onion and The Daily Show, Baratunde Thurston, joins this week to talk about whether Kanye West poses a bigger threat to civilization than Trump, how white men in Silicon Valley could destroy the future for everyone, especially African Americans, and why the future probably isn't as bad as Nick thinks it is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You started coffee and we haven't even started
0:05.0	you haven't even started yet?
0:08.0	Me me me me me me me me
0:10.0	welcome.
0:12.0	Thank you. It's good to be here.
0:13.0	It's good to have you.
0:15.0	Did you sing opera before you became a comedian and anti-Trump protester?
0:20.0	No, no, but I did a lot of musicals as a kid.
0:22.0	Got it. Okay, well, but I did a lot of musicals as a kid.
0:22.6	Got it.
0:23.1	Okay, well, let's jump in.
0:24.6	I'm gonna let you introduce yourself
0:26.4	rather than me have to create some boring introduction.
0:29.9	Who are you?
0:30.6	Why the hell are you sitting in my house? And should we finish this in the hot tub?
0:35.6	My name is Baratunday Thurston. I needed a place to crash and this is relatively
0:41.2	free and I am a comedian I'm a writer I'm an activist and I blend all this stuff into a life that somehow has mostly paid for itself at this point
0:51.2	And so I actually you needed to stay at my place and I said I
0:55.0	would only let you stay if you did this podcast. This is my rent. So this is your rent.
0:58.6	Yeah, I'm a border and this is the compensation. So I, let's just tell people,
1:03.8	so you wrote a book called How to be Black.
1:05.5	I did.
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