Michael K. Williams on the Debate, Police Reform, Lovecraft Country and More

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Renowned actor Michael K. Williams joins the show to discuss his activism, the presidential debate, his acting process and more. Katie and Matt discuss a few moments from the debate and a frustrating Fox News story. Merch Link: https://teespring.com/stores/useful-idiots Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello listeners and viewers, it's Katie. Before we get into today's show,
0:03.6	just wanted to explain that we recorded this week's episode on Wednesday after the debate,
0:09.1	which was obviously before the news of Trump's positive COVID test. So we weren't able to mention
0:14.8	that. We will, of course, next week. Also, we refer to being a little bit tipsy during the episode.
0:21.7	That's because Matt and I played one of his legendary drinking games. And we are going to be doing
0:27.8	that again for the vice presidential debate, which amazingly enough as of now is still going on.
0:33.6	That's of course between Kamala Harris and vice president Mike Pence. And that is Wednesday,
0:39.8	October 7th at 9pm and we'll start the stream at 8.30pm. On my YouTube channel, which is youtube.com
0:48.0	slash the Katie helper show. Thanks. See you soon.
0:58.7	Welcome to use video. It's welcome to usefully it's I'm Katie helper. Don't have my mug on me,
1:03.8	but I do have a useful idiot's mug. Matt has to get his and I'm bringing that up to encourage you all
1:10.0	to buy your own usefully it's merch. Of course, that's exactly what you have to do. And uh,
1:16.0	you know what? Everybody's freaking out because of the debate. They're like, oh my god,
1:19.8	it's the lowest moment in American history. Like I'm I'm panicking. Like, what are we going to do? It's
1:26.7	so like it's going to get worse because we have three more. Of course, it was completely incoherent
1:32.0	and embarrassing, but that's so as America. Like, I don't know. Perfect snapshot. Perfect
1:37.8	snapshot of the country. Thank you guys. You did really well. Trump and Biden. You captured our
1:42.8	our soul. I found myself. Maybe I should maybe there's something wrong with me. Maybe
1:46.8	maybe I've been doing this too long and I found it entertaining. Yeah. Well, so did Michael K Williams.
1:51.8	Yeah, so Michael K Williams, I have a sense. Well, that's a good segue. We have a great show,
1:56.4	right? Really great. With Michael K Williams, a star of many great dramatic series including
2:04.9	boardwalk empire. He's a love friend now. And of course, the wire where he played the iconic Omar
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