Working: A Newspaper Comic That Shows a Changing America
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🗓️ 21 July 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Most of you aren't just listening right now. You're driving, cleaning and even exercising. |
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| 0:37.4 | between June 2022 and May 2023. Potential savings will vary. Discount's not available in all states and situations. Before I started the strip I wrote a 50 year long outline but it's a loose outline. I had no idea where it was going to go. I didn't |
| 1:04.8 | know where the country was going to go. I did think I'd be doing less and less of it because |
| 1:09.6 | I thought things were going to improve and I'd have less to be upset about. That's not the case. |
| 1:18.2 | Welcome back to Working. I'm your host, Isaac Butler. |
| 1:21.2 | And I'm your other host, Ronald Young Jr. |
| 1:23.4 | Ronald, it is always great to see your smiling face on our Zoom call while we record |
| 1:28.1 | this. |
| 1:29.1 | Who is that we heard at the top of this week's episode? |
| 1:31.6 | That was the voice of Darren Bell. And who is Darren and why |
| 1:35.8 | did you want him on the show? Darren Bell is a Pulitzer Prize winning |
| 1:39.6 | cartoonist who recently published the audio book of his graphic novel The Talk, which is a pontification |
| 1:46.5 | on race relations in the United States framed around his life story. |
| 1:50.8 | I know that's a mouthful, but it's incredible. It's a very poignant work and since |
| 1:55.2 | he also publishes a daily comic strip called Canderville, I was very interested in exactly how he gets all |
| 2:00.9 | of his work done. Yeah, now I am too. |
| 2:04.0 | Do our Slate Plus listeners get a little something extra this week? |
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