Chelsea Handler Checks Her Privilege. (And spars a little with Meghan.)
The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
Meghan Daum
4.7 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's all about being a white man in this whole world. |
| 0:07.0 | That's what it's been about. |
| 0:08.0 | And now that we're changing the narrative, people are not into it. |
| 0:12.0 | Because people who are your age or my age or older are like, wait, well, what? |
| 0:17.0 | We have to come up. |
| 0:18.0 | What's the pro? |
| 0:19.0 | What's up with the pronouns? |
| 0:20.0 | What now can you be a furry animal? Can you be |
| 0:22.4 | identified as a furry animal? Everyone's so defensive about progress and change. It's not our |
| 0:29.3 | job to obstruct change. It's our job to embrace it. To say, oh, there's a new way of thinking. |
| 0:35.8 | Oh, these are different kinds of people. |
| 0:37.9 | And just because I didn't grow up experiencing this firsthand makes it even more important |
| 0:43.6 | for me to learn and do everything I can to have tolerance and acceptance for something |
| 0:47.8 | I know very little about. |
| 0:52.2 | Welcome to the unspeakable podcast. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm your host, Megan Down. My guest is author and comedian Chelsea Handler. You almost certainly know who she is. She was for seven years, the host of the late night comedy talk show Chelsea Lately on the E-Network. Her books, which include Are You There Vodka, It's Me, Chelsea, |
| 1:18.2 | and My Horizontal Life are bestsellers, and she's had numerous comedy specials and documentary series on streaming networks. So this is an interesting episode. Chelsea is arguably, |
| 1:25.7 | maybe inarguably, the most famous guest I've had on the podcast so far, |
| 1:30.5 | at least the most famous in the traditional media sense as opposed to the podcasting celebrity sense, |
| 1:36.2 | though she does now have her own podcast, of course. |
| 1:39.6 | She is an unusual kind of guest for this show and probably someone I would not have had on if we |
| 1:45.9 | didn't happen to know one another personally. We met several years ago in the context of trying |
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