4.9 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Host John Biewen is joined by Celeste Headlee, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Ellen McGirt, and Amy Westervelt, co-hosts of Scene on Radio's full-length seasons -- Seeing White, MEN, The Land That Never Has Been Yet, The Repair, and Capitalism -- for a free-wheeling conversation about the 2024 U.S. election of Donald J. Trump and what it all means.
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0:00.0 | But A, I feel people have been horribly misinformed. |
0:06.2 | And that's partly my fault. |
0:08.1 | It's partly the fault of our journalism industry, which has bought into horse race coverage and us versus them gamifying politics. |
0:16.4 | I'm sorry, I'm just going to say it. |
0:17.5 | This is like sloppy statistics, but white people don't elect Democrats. |
0:22.2 | So, you know, that's another thing that we really got to grapple with. |
0:25.4 | Pete Hanks, Robert Kennedy, Matt Gates. |
0:28.9 | It's like three people with like legitimate sexual assault claims against them. |
0:33.9 | Just like, here, throw them the keys. |
0:35.8 | It's fine. It's's totally fine all the things they |
0:38.4 | were told were needed to achieve real climate action and they didn't fucking do it sorry for |
0:44.4 | dropping the first f-bomb somebody had to do it hey hey everyone it's John Bewin, producer and host of C-On Radio, and it is so good to be together with this, well, virtually with this remarkable group of humans. |
1:07.4 | My co-hosts for the full-length season-long series we've done over the last eight plus years on scene on radio. |
1:16.8 | And we're here to talk about the 2024 presidential election, in particular through the lens of the work we've done together, exploring who we are as a society, really, as we say, and how we got |
1:31.4 | this way with me, four of my favorite people. And so we can hear your voices right away, |
1:39.5 | you all. Could I ask you to kind of help me introduce yourselves? And let's start with Ellen McGirt, |
1:45.6 | my most recent collaborator for season seven, capitalism. Ellen, remind us kind of what you do in |
1:53.4 | your work life and what you're working on these days. Oh, I sure well. Hi, everybody. This is the |
1:58.4 | best dinner party I never had. Thank you for being here. I'm |
2:01.8 | Ellen McGirt. I'm a longtime business journalist. I'm most recently the editor-in-chief of Design |
2:07.0 | Observer, which is a small independent media company, which feels like a really good place to be right now. |
2:12.2 | But I'm best known for my work at Fortune in the last 10 years where I focused on inclusive leadership, diversity, |
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