Notes for "Make it Plain" on 12/13/16

1:30: Discussed Nobel Prize

Awarded by Swedish Academy

• Chemistry
• Physics
• Biology
• Arts
• Economics
• Literature
• Samuel Beckett
• Seamus Heaney
• William Faulkner
• Ernest Hemingway
• Toni Morrison
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Peace
• Malala Yousafzai
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Barack Obama
• Nelson Mandela
• P.W. Botha
• Archbishop Desmond Tutu
• Al Gore

Alfred Nobel

• Founded Nobel Prize

1:49: Watched Patti Smith cover of “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” for Bob Dylan

2:15: Listened to speeches

• Ms. Smith
• On owning many fashion businesses
• Mr. Bustos
• On climbing Mt. Everest
• Ms. Spencer
• On being a reverse-vampire…? (Saving lives by giving blood)
• Mr. Claiborne
• On being remembered in history
• Mr. McGee
• On writing a book on himself (David Levithan, not Leviathan.)
• Mr. Frazier
• On proving the multiverse theory
• Mr. Lucas
• On gaining a seat on the Orleans Parish Task Force (Or mayor?)
• Mr. Rhodes
• On taking over the world through becoming a meme ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
• Ms. Harris
• On ending violence in her city (and leaving her mark)
• Mr. Landry
• On having and investing in a son

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