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Pod Save the People

Know Your Limit (with Professor Richard L. Hasen)

Pod Save the People

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week DeRay, Brittany, Clint, and Sam discuss Seattle's smartphone voting, Florida's felon fines, Houston's cancer clusters, and criticism of the 1619 Project. Then, DeRay sits down with election specialist Richard L. Hasen to examine frightening gaps in our voting security, regional pockets of governmental incompetence, and why he thinks we're in the midst of democracy's meltdown. Also, please watch Matthew A. Cherry's Oscar-nominated animated short film Hair Love. Show Links The Verge: Seattle is the first area in the US where residents can vote via smartphones NPR: Florida Supreme Court Rules Convicted Felons Must Pay Fines To Vote The Boston Review: The fight over the 1619 Project The Houston Chronicle: Map shows racist government policies that contributed to conditions for Houston cancer clusters

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Duret and welcome to Possible People.

0:04.5

In this episode with me, Brittany Clinton, Sam, as usual, then I'm joined by Professor

0:08.4

Hayson, who studies elections.

0:10.1

He's an expert on elections, election law, learned so much that I didn't even know I

0:14.3

didn't know.

0:15.6

My message for this week is to know your limit.

0:17.7

I was recently at a conference.

0:20.0

I was actually at two conferences in Notch Long Go.

0:22.6

People were like, we're going to stay up all night.

0:23.6

And it was like, you know, I hit my wall.

0:26.2

And normally I'll just push through, but it's like I'm tired.

0:29.2

And I should honor the fact that I'm tired.

0:30.8

I should go take an app or I should go lay down and come back later maybe.

0:34.0

But like, I know my limit.

0:35.6

And sometimes we push to other people's limits because we don't want it to be awkward

0:40.3

or we don't want to make people uncomfortable or, you know, this is pure pressure.

0:44.7

But like, no, you're limits y'all.

0:46.3

No, you're limits so that you cannot break the best you have.

0:49.8

Let's go.

0:50.8

Hey y'all, it's the news.

0:54.4

This is Brittany Peknek, cutting him at Miss Pekgetti on all social media.

0:58.2

And this is Samson Youngway at Samson Way on Twitter.

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