GETTING CURIOUS | How Can Progressives Stick The 2020 Election Landing? with Ben O’Keefe

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The 2020 election season has been anything but routine. To coach us through all the ways we can help flip seats, add balance to any check on our democracy, and win big on election day, Jonathan is turning to political strategist Ben O'Keefe. Ben is a human rights activist, progressive strategist, and founder of the impact entertainment company Give A Damn. He is a former Senior Aide to Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign, and currently the Impact Producer on the forthcoming Untitled Stacey Abrams documentary from Amazon Studios. Follow Ben on Twitter and Instagram at @benjaminokeefe and at www.benjaminokeefe.com. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation
0:05.2	with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:09.6	On today's episode, I'm joined by former senior aide to Elizabeth Warren and founder of the
0:14.3	Impact Entertainment Company, Giv-a-Dam Ben O'Keefe, where I ask him, how can
0:19.6	progressives stick the 2020 election landing.
0:24.0	Welcome to Getting Curious,
0:25.0	This is Jonathan Van Ness.
0:26.0	I'm really excited for, I mean I'm always excited for our
0:29.0	guests, but I'm really excited for this week's guest
0:31.0	because I've met you in real life, I've had the opportunity to work with you
0:34.7	So with no further ado as miss Kathy Dooley would say
0:45.4	Ben O'Keefe is our guest this week. He is a former senior aide to Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign and he's the founder of Give a DM. Welcome Ben.
0:46.8	Thank you. Thanks for having me.
0:49.0	So I mean our question for today is kind of multifaceted. We're kind of serving an onion episode because now that I have I have you here I want to ask a lot of things and you're an incredibly brilliant
1:03.2	strategist and thought leader and advisor to literally Elizabeth Warren
1:09.8	who he had the opportunity to get to interview earlier
1:12.8	and getting curious,
1:13.3	so just like one of the defining moments of my career.
1:15.3	But I digress.
1:17.3	So, but really, I think one thing about you
1:19.8	that I really look up to and love is your activism in the political space and knowing how to convert
1:29.8	thoughts and plans into a career and into action on social media but also in real life. And I think so many people are
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