Yaa Gyasi | October Surprise
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.5 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Late Night writers predict what more surprises will arise from now until Election Day, although reality has outwitted them.
Then, Yaa Gyasi talks about shadowing her neuroscientist friend for her new book, "Transcendent Kingdom," how her Ghanaian heritage influenced her writing and the new readership of her first novel, "Homegoing."
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| 0:00.0 | In a four-part series, The Generation Y Podcast unravels the story of Khalif Browder, a young |
| 0:05.8 | boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held it Reikers Island for three years |
| 0:11.0 | without trial. |
| 0:12.4 | This is a story about a young life caught in the middle of the justice system. |
| 0:16.2 | Listen to Generation Y on Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:21.1 | You're, what up? |
| 0:23.1 | This is Rob Markman, watch Rotation Roundtable Live on Amazon Music's Twitch channel every |
| 0:28.6 | Wednesday at 9 p.m. Eastern or listen to the Rotation Roundtable Podcast, wherever you |
| 0:33.6 | listen to podcasts. |
| 0:34.6 | You'll hear us break down the latest in music, fashion, lifestyle, and sport. |
| 0:38.6 | See y'all next week. |
| 0:41.6 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast. |
| 0:50.0 | A late night with Seth Myers. |
| 0:52.4 | On today's show, Seth Jats with Yad Jesse, author of the new novel Transcendent Kingdom, |
| 0:56.6 | but first a special message about the upcoming election. |
| 1:05.0 | You guys, we wrote this piece back in September about October surprises. |
| 1:11.4 | You know, the kind of surprises that could potentially affect the campaign. |
| 1:15.3 | And the idea was there would be a different one every day from now until Election Day. |
| 1:20.0 | And shame on us, because as you'll see, when we show it to you, because we're still |
| 1:24.4 | going to show it to you, the best we could do is still not as crazy as the things that |
| 1:28.6 | have already happened in October. |
| 1:30.1 | So it was a fool's errand, but we did the work. |
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