“We Act Like It’ll Never Happen” w/ Neena Satija and Jon Lovett

Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

Ana Marie Cox, Open Mike Eagle, and Andrew Steven

Society & Culture, Arts, Business, Performing Arts

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

First, [2:15] a conversation with Neena Satija (@neenareports) from Houston, about Harvey and the choice to not prepare for catastrophic events. Second, [32:04] Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) helps field a listener question! And then [47:18] we talk about Game of Thrones as a metaphor for climate change. Lastly: [57:18] A short reflection on the Nashville Statement and attempts by Christians to dehumanize and deny our LGBTQ brothers and sisters. We want to hear from you! Tweet us at @crooked_friends, or email us a question at withfriendslikepod@gmail.com and we’ll get a future guest to answer it. A reminder that we are still taking your adult sex ed questions for next week’s show. And don’t forget about our LIVE SHOW in AUSTIN, TX on 9/23 at the Texas Tribune Festival. Find out more at https://www.texastribune.org/festival/ Relevant to the discussion — Neena and team's March 2016 piece on Houston (from The Texas Tribune and Reveal/ProPublica): https://projects.propublica.org/houston/; a little more about the Nashville Statement and the progressive Christian response to it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hundreds-of-christian-leaders-release-lgbtq-affirming-response-to-nashville-statement_us_59a71bcee4b0a8d14572cf35; and for GOT fans: https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/7/14/15969034/game-of-thrones-theory-climate-change Much love to our sponsors! Framebridge: Get 15% off your first order at Framebrige.com with the code FRIENDS TrackR: Get 20% off any order at TrackR.com with promo code FRIENDS. Stamps.com: Get a four-week trial plus postage by visiting stamps.com, clicking on the Microphone and typing FRIENDS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Anna Marie Cox. Welcome to Friends Like These, a show about coalitions and friendships
0:06.2	and the limits and possibilities thereof.
0:08.2	And also Game of Thrones, Anna. Hey, it's John Love It, I'm here.
0:11.7	John Love is making a special guest appearance. He is going to help field a reader question,
0:16.6	and we're going to do a longer than I thought it would be digression on Game of Thrones.
0:21.9	But we loved every minute of it, and hopefully you guys will love it too. It is not spoiler-free.
0:27.2	It is full of spoilers.
0:29.3	But we warn you. So don't tweet at me about how we're worried about spoilers.
0:35.4	It's going to be very clear the moment at which there will be spoilers. So you can just
0:39.0	listen with impunity as you always do. And then when the time comes to talk about Game of Thrones,
0:44.9	we say what's coming up next is a spoiler, you'll know time to throw your phone in the
0:50.4	volcano.
0:51.4	And also I have taken to putting time code stamps in the show notes.
0:56.2	Oh, that's good too.
0:57.2	So you can also know where to skip to if you were really interested in Game of Thrones
1:03.0	spoilers. Also, I, other housekeeping item, is it, are we still selling tickets to live
1:08.4	shows for Potsay America?
1:10.4	You know, that's a great question, Anna. They may be all sold out.
1:15.4	Oh, wow.
1:16.4	Except sex. I think they're sold out except for Santa Barbara. But so I wouldn't worry too
1:23.4	much about it.
1:24.4	Okay, well, I have a live show coming up, which I think I think I told you guys about.
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