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Still Watching: Mrs. America - Ep. 4, “Betty” with Rose Byrne and Tracey Ullman

Still Watching

Vanity Fair

Arts

4.21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Joanna Robinson and Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair are Still Watching: Mrs. America, the FX on Hulu miniseries about the debate over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s. This week, Joanna and Richard cover the fourth episodes of the series: “Betty” This podcast includes two special guest interviews: Rose Byrne discusses finding Gloria Steinem the woman and not just the icon while Tracey Ullman expresses her love for the messiness of Betty Friedan and her personal memories of being a teenager during the second wave feminist movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Please join me, welcoming, Ellis, Clark Day.

0:04.0

They say that women are like teabags.

0:09.0

You don't know their strength until they get into hot water.

0:14.0

We need to talk about the threat of the women's liberation movement.

0:19.0

So let me be clear, I am not against women working outside the home. That's your choice.

0:25.0

What I am against is a small elitist group putting down homemakers.

0:31.0

They want to create a sex neutral society which will mean that women are

0:36.3

going to find themselves with two full-time jobs. Though you need to tell your

0:41.0

senators you want them to vote no on this equal rights amendment

0:46.1

so we can have a country that we are proud to leave our office.

0:51.5

Hello and welcome back to the second episode of still watching Mrs America. I'm

0:55.6

Vanity Fair Senior writer Joanna Robinson and I'm Vanity Fair Chief

0:59.2

Critic Richard Lawson. So right now we're in a funky little time and still watching where we are covering the end of Westworld and beginning of Mrs America.

1:07.6

So this is the second episode we're recording covering Mrs America, but we are talking about the fourth episode of the

1:15.2

Mrs America season titled Betty. So if you're not cut up to the episode titled Betty

1:20.1

episode 4 which should be available for you FX on Hulu.

1:24.8

You might want to press pause and catch up, but our first episode that we recorded last

1:29.1

week covered episodes one through three.

1:31.6

And that was Fred Barney Wilma and now we're about Alice Ted yes

1:38.9

Yeah, so so we covered those episodes last week.

1:43.4

We have a little bit more space this week

1:45.5

to go a little bit more in depth in the episode,

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