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Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy

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The Musical, With the Legions, George Tocquet

George Tocquet: I think we have made progress. We had an eminent and incredible candidate for the presidency of the United States in the last election, Pete Buttigieg. How do you turn something like that into a musical which also has to have joy and uplift? And much it has. It's fictional family. It's not my family. But they go through the same kinds of experiences that my family went through. My father, his personal philosophy, we have a term called gamma, perseverance, endurance. That doesn't mean just teeth-gritting and determination. It's also the strength to find beauty in harsh circumstances. If you could change the world in any way

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