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The Anatomy of a March

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Jo Miller, the showrunner/head writer of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, about this weekend's Women's March on Washington, the smaller Trump protest marches popping up around the country, and why those can have an even more sustainable impact. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:04.5

I agree with you that there were lots of, you know,

0:06.8

divisive comments, especially and unfortunately about the press.

0:09.7

We found out via tweet early this morning that Mr. Trump

0:12.6

was, had decided to cancel.

0:14.3

When I first heard that he was tweeting about something that was on this broadcast,

0:18.2

a number of tweets last night,

0:20.3

I kept thinking,

0:21.3

doesn't he have like a briefing book on ISIS to be reading at 10 o'clock?

0:31.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

0:32.5

I'm Virginia Heffernan.

0:33.8

On Trumpcast, we are partying like it's the last day of Disco today

0:37.2

because tomorrow the music dies.

0:40.7

We're talking to Joe Miller,

0:42.3

the head writer, showrunner and executive producer of Full Frontal with Samantha B.

0:46.8

And we're talking today in advance of Saturday's planned women's protests.

0:50.8

They're from C to shining C.

0:52.8

We're talking about protesting and resisting and agitating.

0:57.1

Joe's a veteran protester, a fork-tongued feminist

1:00.6

and the woman who with Samantha B has created a solid bulwark

1:05.0

against the He-Man Woman Hater's Club embodied in one Donald Trump.

1:11.5

I'm still glad we're talking about protesting today

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