What about Bill?

Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

Ana Marie Cox, Open Mike Eagle, and Andrew Steven

Arts, Business, Society & Culture, Performing Arts

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week, New York Mag writer and author Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) stops by to mark one year since the election of Donald Trump with an episode dedicated to Hillary Clinton. No, we don’t re-litigate her campaign or make jokes about Wisconsin. We do put in context the first female presidential candidate ever nominated by a major party, her life and her feminism — and help Ana, a self-described Hillary skeptic, make sense of some complicated feelings about the historic figure that is HRC. In the face of mounting scandals regarding sexual predators, Ana and Rebecca also take on the question that haunts many modern feminists: “But what about Bill?” If you have had experience with any kind of sexual assault or violation, you are not alone. There is help. Two resources available: - RAINN (the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network): Call their hotline (800-656-4673) or use their anonymous chat feature at their website, RAINN.org - The Crisis Text Line is anonymous and available 24 hours a day to help with a wide variety of problems, including sexual assault and mental health or just an emotionally difficult time: 741741. Find us on Twitter at @crooked_friends and email your questions and comments to withfriendslikepod@gmail.com. Our sponsors! ZIPRECRUITER: Post jobs for free at ZipRecruiter.com/friends THRIVE: Get $60 of free organic groceries, free shipping and 30 day trial membership by going to thrivemarket.com/FRIENDS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Anna Mrycox.
0:03.6	Welcome to With Friends Like These, a show about messy coalitions and difficult conversations.
0:10.9	Today's conversation I thought was going to be difficult.
0:14.5	It turned out to be both remarkably easy and incredibly productive.
0:20.6	Today's show is all about Hillary Clinton.
0:23.5	I had the idea to do it out of a rather selfish impulse, which is that I have called myself
0:31.3	in the past a Hillary skeptic.
0:33.3	I think I have been in the past a Hillary critic.
0:36.9	I voted for her.
0:38.0	I was happy to vote for her.
0:41.3	But even since the election, as we've continued to relitigate and relitigate and relitigate,
0:48.0	I have found myself.
0:50.9	I don't even know how to put it.
0:51.9	I don't know what to say about her.
0:53.8	I do feel like I've had to have a position about her.
0:57.6	And I don't know what it is anymore.
1:00.1	Or I didn't know what it is.
1:01.8	I decided to do this episode all about her so that maybe I figure it out.
1:06.0	And we do have a bonus episode coming up that includes interviews with Hillary fans online
1:10.8	to get their book signed, Simone Sanders from the Sanders campaign to talk about what she
1:15.0	thinks about Hillary Clinton.
1:16.8	And a conversation with my best friend of the world who happened to work for Hillary Clinton.
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