Maddow: Advice on defiance in the age of Trump
6/29/202643 min
Rachel Maddow talks with Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer, authors of "On Courage: How to be a dissident in an age of fear," about "the central question of how to live right as an American citizen right now," and the variety of ways people can throw sand in the gears of authoritarianism to preserve democracy.
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So one of the jobs, um, one of the specific tasks in my line of work that is harder than you would think, um, it, it just, it, it takes a longer time than you think it will, it kinda wipes you out in a way you might not expect. One of the unexpectedly hard things that comes around in the, the, the chore wheel, um, in my job is the recording of an audiobook. Which seems crazy, right? Like, it seems like such a cushy thing, but I'm telling you, it is weirdly exhausting. And I love audiobooks. I love listening to audiobooks. I like them in nonfiction. I like them in fiction. I like experimental audiobooks. I like, like, full cast ensemble ones. I like ones with great actors. I like ones read by the author. I love audiobooks. And in my experience, I've got a lot of, like, relevant, um, sort of reps [laughs] that I've done. I've done a lot of radio work. I've done a lot of podcasting. I've also got easy access to