The Problem With Freedom: It Ain’t Free
The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Comedy Central
4.5 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
We’re talking freedom and race in America (we know!). Jon, who is famously old and white, is joined by staff writer Kasaun Wilson and associate producer Trey Sherman before talking to Alex Stamos, former chief of security at Facebook and current director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, about the impact of social platforms on democracy—and guess what? It’s not great.
CREDITS
Hosted by: Jon Stewart
Featuring, in order of appearance:
Kasaun Wilson, Trey Sherman, Robby Slowick, Rob Christensen, Maria Randazzo, Chelsea Devantez, Tocarra Mallard, Henrik Blix, Jay Jurden, Kris Acimovic, Alex Stamos, Jennifer Lewis
Executive Produced by Jon Stewart, Brinda Adhikari, James Dixon, Chris McShane, and Richard Plepler
Lead Producer: Sophie Erickson
Producers: Caity Gray, Robby Slowik
Assoc. Producer: Andrea Betanzos
Sound designer & audio engineer: Miguel Carrascal Assistant Sound Editor: Brian Bonifacio
Senior Digital Producer: Kwame Opam
Digital Coordinator: Norma Hernandez
Supervising Producer: Lorrie Baranek
Head Writer: Chelsea Devantez
Elements Producer: Kenneth Hull
Talent Producer: Brittany Mehmedovic
Talent Coordinator: Haley Denzak
Research: Susan Helvenston, Anne Bennett, Deniz Cam
Theme Music by: Gary Clark Jr.
The Problem With Jon Stewart podcast is an Apple TV+ podcast, produced by Busboy Productions.
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| 0:00.0 | We're ready whenever you guys are. |
| 0:02.0 | Alright, this is episode, I don't know what episode this is. |
| 0:05.0 | This is episode three. |
| 0:06.0 | Three! |
| 0:07.0 | How do you not know what episode is when it's only three? |
| 0:11.0 | It's seemingly sad. It says something poorly about me. |
| 0:35.0 | Alright kids, we are here. It is the podcast. |
| 0:38.0 | I've got Kay and Trey here and we're going to talk a little bit during the whole show, |
| 0:42.0 | Kay, you're a writer? |
| 0:43.0 | Yes. |
| 0:44.0 | Trey, you're a associate producer? |
| 0:47.0 | That's right. |
| 0:48.0 | A producer of associates. |
| 0:49.0 | By the way, Kesson's birthday. |
| 0:51.0 | I don't know if that's in appropriate piece of information to put out on a podcast. |
| 0:56.0 | No, it's fine. Thank you, John. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, happy birthday Kesson. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, it's nice. |
| 0:59.0 | We're going to talk and later on in the program. |
| 1:02.0 | I am talking to this guy was the head security officer at Facebook. |
| 1:07.0 | Alex Stamos and it's very, can I tell you this? |
| 1:11.0 | Topical. |
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