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Still Watching: Mrs. America - Ep. 9, “Reagan” with Cate Blanchett, Dahvi Waller, and Stacey Sher

Still Watching

Vanity Fair

Arts

4.21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

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 finale episode of the miniseries: “Reagan” This podcast includes three special guest interviews: Star Cate Blanchett on the painful loneliness of playing a character as toxic as Phyllis Schlafly. Showrunner Dahvi Waller reflects on writing a fiction that reflects a real moment in history. Executive producer Stacey Sher clarifies how the insurance industry impacted the ERA. 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 their 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 going

0:36.4

to find themselves with two full-time job. So you need to tell your senators you want them

0:42.4

to vote no on this equal rights amendment

0:45.6

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

0:50.6

Hello and welcome to the finale episode of still watching Mrs America.

0:56.0

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

1:00.0

Critic Richard Lawson.

1:01.0

If you are just joining us for this last episode of this little mini series we're doing,

1:06.6

what Richard and I like to do on this podcast is every week.

1:08.8

We break down one episode of a show that we are currently sort of watching closely or obsessively.

1:14.4

We are finishing up our run on the FX on Google series Mrs America.

1:19.9

and then after this episode we are taking a break for a couple months and we're back in the fall.

1:26.7

So, you know, we are, end of an ERA era, recording this podcast for just a little while, but we will be back.

1:38.1

Yeah, I got appointed to a cabinet position.

1:41.0

Oh, I was told I was too divisive to get a cab.

1:45.0

Well, no, so I got, like all men are given a special phone and sometimes it rings and you just

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