Elizabeth Warren Holds Onto Hope
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Lemonada Media
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
An outspoken advocate for working families, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) has made a career out of taking on Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and the Beltway. And while she may be tired of Washington, she’s not too tired to make it better.
At the top, we discuss the constitutional crisis (5:00) surrounding the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia (9:00), this administration’s attack on public education (12:00), and the GOP’s fealty to Donald Trump (13:25). Then, we dive into Senator Warren’s proposed bill to limit the power of special government employees like Elon Musk (25:48), her fight for campaign finance reform (28:05), and the values her Oklahoma upbringing instilled in her (35:43).
On the back-half, Senator Warren reflects on her early work in bankruptcy law (39:47), why she’s devoted her career to fighting for the middle class (45:45), the challenges she’s faced in the past decade in office (1:00:19), and what she sees for the future of the Democratic party (1:05:30).
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| 0:00.0 | Lemonada |
| 0:02.0 | Lemonada |
| 0:04.0 | This is Talk Easy. I'm Sam for Goso. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:25.4 | Today, Senator Elizabeth Warren. |
| 0:41.0 | My introduction to Warren was, of all things, a viral video. |
| 0:45.6 | This was back in 2011 when I was a junior in high school. |
| 0:49.8 | And I remember in between writing movie reviews of films like Contagion and The Hangover Part 2 for the local paper, |
| 0:57.3 | both of which, by the way, have aged just beautifully. I came across this clip of Warren. She was giving |
| 1:04.4 | an impassioned speech on taxation and income inequality and what appeared to be someone's living room. |
| 1:11.3 | Maybe you saw it too. |
| 1:13.2 | There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. |
| 1:18.3 | Nobody. |
| 1:19.2 | You built a factory out there. |
| 1:20.9 | Good for you. |
| 1:21.9 | But I want to be clear, you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. |
| 1:28.6 | You hired workers, the rest of us paid to educate. |
| 1:33.4 | You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us |
| 1:41.2 | paid for. |
| 1:42.2 | You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything |
| 1:46.5 | at your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did. |
| 1:52.7 | Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea. God bless, |
| 1:58.5 | keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take |
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