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Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

Doing what’s in your pleasure with Andrew Gillum

Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

Ana Marie Cox, Open Mike Eagle, and Andrew Steven

Society & Culture, Business, Performing Arts, Arts

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Former mayor of Tallahassee and Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum joins to talk how about recovery influenced his perspective on politics and his own sense of self as a former politician, bi-erasure, and what Matt Gaetz’s behavior can tell us about projecting. Then on “With Adorables Like These” Pod Save America co-host Jon Favreau tells us how his dog Leo made him a better flyer. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/withfriendslikethese. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Anna Marie Cox.

0:06.8

Welcome to With Friends Like These.

0:09.2

I am especially excited for this week's show.

0:12.6

I got a chance to talk to Andrew Gillum, the man who came within 30,000 votes of becoming

0:17.4

Florida's governor, who was a rising star in Democratic politics until he crashed in

0:24.3

a Todry and Public Way last March.

0:30.4

If you follow politics, you probably remember some of that.

0:34.5

It involved drugs, a male sex worker, and photos, and all of that was leaked to Twitter by

0:42.0

Trump fan Candace Owens.

0:45.7

If you don't follow politics, well, all of that is pretty easy to find.

0:50.5

Today, Andrew is 14 months clean and sober.

0:56.2

He's walked away from politics and embraced being of service in a different way.

1:01.1

He wants to destigmatize addiction and mental health struggles as a person in a community,

1:07.0

not necessarily leading it.

1:09.5

He has a great podcast called Appropriately Real Talk, and that's what I got on this

1:15.1

show too.

1:17.3

Stay tuned for some frank discussion about sexuality, spirituality, hitting bottom, rising

1:23.1

up, and what he thinks about another Florida politician who's going through his own

1:29.8

sordid scandal.

1:31.6

That gets one of my favorite conversations in a long time, Andrew Gillum, coming right up.

1:41.9

Andrew, welcome back to the show.

1:45.0

Yes.

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