"Broad City" Star Ilana Glazer Takes Over the Podcast
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🗓️ 12 December 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On this week's show, host Jamilah King hands over interviewing duties to a surprise guest: Co-creator and star of the Comedy Central hit Broad City, Ilana Glazer. This podcast was recorded live in Brooklyn in October by Generator Collective, a group Glazer co-founded that, among other civic engagement gigs, gets interesting people in front of crowds to talk about policy and politics. Just a few days after this recording, Glazer closed down another event in the series when the venue, a synagogue in Brooklyn, was vandalized with anti-Semitic slurs in the wake of Pittsburg's Tree of Life massacre. In this episode, Glazer interviews our very own voting rights reporter, Ari Berman, about the dark history and current absurdities of voter suppression in America—and President Lyndon B. Johnson's toilet habits.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Mother Jones Podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.0 | This is the Mother Jones Podcast. I'm Jimmy King in New York. On today's show, it continues, our special holiday series of studio conversations with artists, activists, and |
| 0:27.0 | leaders. And this show is a total treat for us as we flip the script and I hand over interviewing duties to a surprise guest, the co-creator and star of the comedy central hit Broad City, writer, activist, comedian, and very lovely politically engaged human being, |
| 0:49.1 | Alana Glazer. I know it feels like a million years ago, but I want you to try to take yourself back to just before the midterm elections. |
| 1:10.0 | It was a stressful time. |
| 1:18.7 | The news was moving at a million miles an hour. |
| 1:28.0 | You were called. at a million miles an hour. You'll recall the horrendous shooting at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue that left 11 people dead. After that, one of those aftershocks of hate. |
| 1:36.2 | Parents dropping their kids off at preschool at a synagogue in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, |
| 1:40.3 | arrived to find class canceled this morning. |
| 1:43.0 | In Brooklyn, a historic Prospect Heights synagogue |
| 1:46.9 | was vandalized with anti-Semitic slurs. |
| 1:50.4 | Scrawled on the hallways, messages like, |
| 1:53.0 | End is now, and Jews better be ready. |
| 1:56.0 | There's little kids in the building, |
| 1:58.0 | and it's just, it's so upsetting. |
| 2:00.0 | People obviously are very upset, |
| 2:02.0 | they're concerned about security the |
| 2:04.0 | nyp d hate crime task force released this surveillance picture of the man they |
| 2:07.9 | believe wrote the hateful messages Thursday night around eight |
| 2:10.7 | at United 10 police on the bill to appear that night a get out the vote event hosted by |
| 2:19.1 | comedian and writer Ilana Glazer and the group she co-founded, |
| 2:23.6 | Generator Collective, which, among other things, |
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