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[evan] mary lynn, welcome. [mary lynn] hi. [both] nice to see you. Very nice to meet you. So, im catching you now as youre out on tour doing standup, which you do a fair amount of these days. Yes. Thank you for catching me. [evan] well, happy to catch you. Everybody coming here at the last minute. [evan] thank you for being caught. [mary lynn] its exciting. [evan] good to have you. Many of us know you through the front door as an actress. We know you from 24 or some of the other stuff youve done. Youve been a comedian for a long time. Do you selfdefine these days as a comedian who acts or as a...

Are you going to run for president . I think i just got an f from you guys, when this is over. audience applauding steve case, welcome. Good to be with you. Nice to see you. So when i heard about this book, before it was published, i heard third wave, i thought alvin toffler. I guess you also thought, i totally did. To some degree alvin toffler, so can you tell the alvin toffler, third wave, versus steve case third wave. Sure, no, i actually was in college in 1980, when that book came out, Alvin Tofflers third wave, yeah. And i was completely memorized by it. And it talked about this notion of...

Africanamerican feminist. So who are audience in. You know, you dont hear a lot of talk on Mainstream Television about africanamerican feminism and feminists. No. You know, its so interesting to hear people respond to that first book, 2004. You know, i started that book as a dissertation, right . It was sort of a set of a set of explorations, of ideas me trying to figure out a lot of how i thought the world worked in terms of race and politics but very much informed not only by my academic scholarship, but by, you know, a particular formulation that came from my life experiences. So you know, ...

Are you going to run for president . I think i just got an f from you, actually. applause diane guerrero, welcome. Thank you for having me. So nice to meet you. The book is amazing and maybe the most amazing thing about it is the bravery that had to have gone into the decision to write it. You could have gone along in your very successful career as an actress and never written this book, never told this story, probably not subjected yourself to what, im sure, youve been subjected to in writing it. Yes, its so, why do it . Well, first, you give me way too much credit. As somebody who is brave ....

Well, i actually came to mexico, and my real passion back then was covering immigration, covering the usmexico relations. And when i left mexico in 2000, i left mexico for washington, because i thought the story had died in mexico, you know . Hinojosa the immigration story. The immigration story, but also, you know, mexico now had democracy in the year 2000. And so i figured that maybe the story was going to be washington and mexico city. So i moved to washington. Three years later, september 11 comes around, theres no mexico story. I mean, theres no real us policy to mexico. And i returned to...