Indefensible: The Jena Friedman Interview

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🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Important reminder! We're phone banking with our friends at Indivisible for Reverend Raphael Warnock who we need to keep in the Senate, because he's a good person; Dems need a 51 majority in the Senate to have a stronger hand negotiating with the ruthless GOP/Manchin/Sinema; and we cannot normalize bonkers Herschel Walker in the Senate for six years. And finally, the Senate map is abysmal for Dems in 2024 so we must ensure Warnock wins the December 6th Georgia runoff to stand a chance of keeping the Senate majority. Join us at any or all of the below phone banks. We're selecting one volunteer at each event to receive a signed copy of Sarah's new book They Knew and a Mr. Jones film poster! Sign up here:

Comedian Jena Friedman has a long career in stand-up comedy and production, which has often earned her harrassment online from the MAGA crowd and Kremlin trolls. In this interview, Andrea discusses the role of comedy in a time of dictatorship, who's afraid of a good abortion joke?, Jena's 2016 election night live TV moment that still earns her hate messages, and how far comedy has come, or not, for women, whom Christopher Hitchens once declared are inherently not funny.

We're grateful for the fearless comedy of people like Jena working on the frontlines of white male patriarchy grievance and their culture wars. If you like Gaslit Nation, check out Jena's series True Crime Story: Indefensible on the Sundance Channel and AMC+ streaming, available on Amazon, YouTube, and several other places here. Indefensible pulls back the veil on legal warfare and corruption in America in the style of The Daily Show, Jena's old stomping grounds where she worked as a producer. Also, check out her stand-up comedy on reproductive healthcare, violence against women, and other lighthearted subjects called Lady Killer, streaming on Peacock.

In our bonus episode for our Patreon subscribers, Sarah and Andrea discuss the disinformation war in Elon Musk's battle against Twitter and why he spent $44 billion on the site now, especially as his chaos endangers an important plaform that has brought so many of us together in the fight for our democracies and against global corruption. That's a conversation not to miss as it puts our struggles here in the US in greater perspective. Sign up to access that and our full back catalogue of bonus episodes by signing up at the Truth-teller level or higher on Patreon. Thank you all for your support of the show and for keeping our independent journalism alive in a time of emboldened far-right oligarchs.

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0:00.0	All right, everyone. It's all hands on deck. We absolutely must win the Senate race in Georgia
0:09.3	for Raphael Warnock for a long list of reasons. Number one, Reverend Warnock is a good human
0:16.3	being and we need more people like him in the Senate to set the standard of the type of public officials we want.
0:22.7	He's a decent, empathetic, wonderful person.
0:26.0	Number two, a clean 51% majority in the Senate gives democracy, gives the Democrats,
0:33.7	the closest thing we have to people actually fighting for good governance at the moment.
0:38.4	A stronger hand in negotiating with ruthless Mitch McConnell, ruthless mansion and cinema.
0:43.5	The Dems don't have to power share on this committee.
0:46.0	And it streamlines the whole process of pushing in these judges that we need to balance out the court packing by McConnell and Trump,
0:53.9	which saw 30% of our courts taken over by
0:57.2	these ideologue Federalist Society judges. The third reason why we need Reverend Warnock to be
1:04.2	elected, and this is extremely urgent, the Senate map for Democrats in 2024 is going to be extremely tough. That is why we need a bank as many
1:16.0	Democratic senators as we can now this year. So we absolutely must get Reverend Warnock in there.
1:22.3	And obviously the final reason is who wants to deal with six years of Herschel Walker.
1:28.3	So join us for these two extremely urgent, all hands on deck phone banks for Georgia.
1:35.3	Thursday, December 1st, 6 p.m. Eastern.
1:38.3	That's Thursday, December 1st, 6 p.m. Eastern.
1:42.3	And then the final one is election eve, Monday, December 5 p.m. Eastern. And then the final one is election eve Monday, December 5th, 5 p.m. Eastern.
1:48.2	Monday, December 5 p.m. Eastern. You can RSP for each of these events. Come join us, hang out on Zoom.
1:55.7	At each one, we're going to select a volunteer to get a signed copy of Sarah's latest book
2:00.6	they knew and a Mr.
2:02.1	Jones film poster.
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