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Another Day with Ana Marie Cox

Day 26: Ben Collins

Another Day with Ana Marie Cox

Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

News, Arts, Performing Arts, Business, Society & Culture, Politics

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Day 26 of "90 Days with Ana Marie Cox." Today, Ana and Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion and former NBC News guy, talked about the misinformation beat, humor as a cure to our chaotic media landscape, political trauma and mental health and how satire is both coping mechanism and political resistance. — Watch along on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/@90DaysWithAnaMarieCox Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Imagine she's in a state with an abortion ban. One out of three women are, by the way, in our country.

0:05.0

And she's a mom. So she's going to have to figure out, one, God help her if she has affordable child care.

0:15.0

God help her if she has paid leave.

0:18.0

And then she's going to have to go to the airport, stand in a TSA line, sit on a plane next to a perfect stranger to go to a

0:30.4

city where she's never been to receive the care she needs.

0:35.0

She's going to probably have to get right back on that plane because she's got those kids.

0:41.0

Her best friend's probably not with her because that's who's taking care of the kids

0:46.4

to get back in that TSA line to get back on a plane to go home and that's all if they can even afford the plane exactly or the bus tickets.

0:57.0

Exactly.

0:58.0

Exactly.

0:59.0

Hi I'm Onim Marie Cox this is 90 days with Honore Cox. There are 26 days left until the election.

1:11.2

And I, that was my spooky season shark coming into the

1:16.2

frame version of the countdown because 26 days if you are in a place where

1:22.0

registration is still open, you should register, check your registration, and register to vote.

1:26.4

You might be in a place where voting is open.

1:29.1

If so, please vote because things are happening that are making it very hard to vote for a lot of people.

1:38.0

This is a show where we count down the days to the election and we talk to smart people about this wild, unhinged, historic, somewhat unprecedented, attention-soaking election and today's smart person has Ben Collins. He is the CEO of

1:56.4

the onion and a former senior reporter at MSMBC specializing in misinformation.

2:02.3

Ben welcome to the show. MSNBC specializing in misinformation.

2:03.0

Ben, welcome to the show.

2:05.0

Very excited to be here.

2:07.0

And I'm very excited to be here with you specifically.

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