Abortion: Mission Impossible | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On Mondays, Jon Stewart hosts The Daily Show, but now on Thursdays, he hosts The Weekly Show — a new podcast featuring in-depth conversations exploring some of the biggest threats to our democracy. In this episode, Jon addresses the backward slide of reproductive rights in America. Joining him are NYU Law professor Melissa Murray, who also co-hosts the Strict Scrutiny podcast, as well as Jessica Valenti, founder of AbortionEveryDay.com and author of the forthcoming book, “Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win.” Catch new episodes of The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart every Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | You already take the Daily Show with you on the go now you can rock our official merchandise |
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| 0:18.8 | tDS 20 at paramount shop dot com. Hey, it's John Stewart. |
| 0:26.0 | No Daily Show Ears Edition this week. |
| 0:29.5 | So we're gonna jam the Weekly Show. |
| 0:32.4 | Back onto your EARS Edition channel. |
| 0:36.5 | I don't know how this works. |
| 0:38.1 | We plugged into some kind of an outlet, USB, |
| 0:41.2 | I don't know what it is, but you're going to hear our show this week. |
| 0:43.4 | It's the weekly show with John Stewart, it's a podcast. |
| 0:46.4 | We're kind of, the theme of it is to discuss the kinds of soft threats to our democracy that make us vulnerable to these larger threats of |
| 0:56.0 | authoritarians and demagogues and on and on. |
| 0:59.2 | It's sort of the things within our democracy that cause people to believe that the government no longer really represents |
| 1:06.8 | The best interests and the needs of the people that they are supposed to be representing and if they would we would love it. |
| 1:14.0 | So I hope you do enjoy this latest episode and we'll see you next time. Hey everybody. Welcome once again to the weekly show with John Stewart. I'm John Stewart and I apologize if that was too enthusiastic. I have |
| 1:34.9 | yet to understand in terms of a podcast how to open it up what level of |
| 1:40.5 | enthusiasm is appropriate for when people are just listening to something as opposed |
| 1:46.9 | to on cable television when you're coming in and very clearly somebody's making popcorn or |
| 1:52.3 | something else. |
| 1:52.8 | So that may have been too forceful, and I'm sure that our grand producers, Brittany |
| 1:58.5 | Mmedevick and Lauren Walker, who are here with me, would be able to tell you. |
| 2:02.8 | Last week, we had our military industrial complex show. |
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