Ep. 225 - Ana Marie Cox

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Ana Marie Cox, host of the podcast "With Friends Like These," joins David at South By Southwest to discuss her career in journalism from Wonkette to MTV and how an attempted suicide seven years ago in Texas changed her life and led her to turn to faith.

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0:00.0	And now from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles with your
0:12.5	host, David Axelrod.
0:16.4	The two decades, Annemarie Cox has been one of the most incisive, original, sometimes
0:22.1	caustic, often hilarious critics of our politics and our culture.
0:26.9	You may remember her as the originator of the Juan Cat blog on which she cast much
0:32.4	deserved shade on the Washington political scene.
0:36.2	She continues to speak and write broadly and has just started a great new podcast on
0:42.5	Crooked Media called with friends like these.
0:45.4	She was a great fellow at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics and maybe
0:50.0	most important.
0:52.0	Annemarie has made a huge impact by speaking openly and frankly about her own battles with
0:58.0	alcoholism, with bipolar disorder, with suicide, and has given people who are struggling with
1:05.4	mental illness and addiction, some hope that there's light at the end of the tunnel.
1:10.3	To that end and before we start, I want to encourage anyone who is considering suicide
1:15.6	to call the National Suicide Hotline at 1-800-273-TALK.
1:21.3	That's 1-800-273-8255.
1:28.6	The Annemarie Cox, so good to be with you here, down at South by Southwest.
1:35.4	The eight grows on the city like a fungus.
1:38.6	It's amazing.
1:39.6	I actually lived in Austin, 30 years ago.
1:40.8	You're a Texan, yeah.
1:41.8	I lived here 30 years ago and it used to be a music festival.
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