How To Find Your Political Power with Adam Conover

I Weigh with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

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🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Comedian, host, writer, and activist Adam Conover joins Jameela this week to encourage us all in the ways local government matters. They discuss the importance of - and Adam's involvement in - local politics, how to access your political power, why LA's upcoming mayoral election is so important, the Supreme Court's impact and how we got here, the homelessness problem and ways to fix it, and more. Check out Adam Conover's show - The G Word - on Netflix! Listen to Adam's podcast - Factually - wherever you get your podcasts. Follow Adam on Instagram and Twitter @adamconover You can find transcripts for this episode here: https://www.earwolf.com/show/i-weigh-with-jameela-jamil/ I Weigh has amazing merch - check it out at podswag.com Jameela is on Instagram and Twitter @JameelaJamil And make sure to check out I Weigh's Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube for more!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of iWave to me, the Jamil, a pub cast against shame.
0:05.9	Sorry, for laughing, but my dog has decided to come and sit right next to me and then give
0:11.8	himself what can only be described as blowjob. But I'm not going to shame him about it because that's
0:19.0	not what we do here over our iWave is it? Everyone, no. So I'm just going to try and pull the microphone
0:26.7	away from that very vivid licking sound and I'm sorry if you can still hear it. Anyway, I
0:35.5	I'm very excited for you to hear today's episode. It's one of those hugely important ones that we're
0:41.7	going to need to share with everyone we can because it directly relates to everything that's going
0:48.8	on politically right now, especially for people with euteruses, but also across every marginalized
0:55.6	group. I invited Adam Conover to come and talk to me about political engagement and political
1:02.4	activism and things that we can tangibly do other than cry and scream and shout and retweet
1:08.5	and protest all of which are important, but we need tangible organizational efforts. And he is a
1:16.2	comedian and a podcaster and just an excellent guy all around, but barrel, stop it, sit, please
1:25.3	were you just sit, just sit, just please stop terrorising me, please, thank you. I've got
1:31.2	any of you have got a dog at home and you work from home, I fucking feel you, I feel you so
1:36.8	hard, especially right now, I apologise. Anyway, what is so great about Adam is the fact that he
1:42.9	has proof that you do not have to be an expert in politics, you do not have to have studied politics
1:48.9	your entire life, you don't have to come from a political family to educate yourself about
1:54.2	political engagement and every level of government and what you can do right now to help change
2:01.0	your country, your state, your town, your future. We discuss his journey into politics and the best
2:08.5	place to start for anyone who is interested in getting involved and we talk about how to access
2:13.0	your political power and make a difference rather than just talking about it. We discuss why
2:17.2	LA's mayoral election is so important for the whole of America due to what's going on with
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