What's A Filibuster? with Wendy Davis

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Wendy Davis came into the spotlight in 2013 when she took to the Texas Senate floor to perform a 13-hour filibuster to block a bill that would severely impact abortion rights. She received her degree from Harvard and practiced law for several years before becoming Texas’s State Senator from 2009 to 2015. She is also the founder of Deeds Not Words, a non-profit organization that focuses on engaging young women in politics. She and Jonathan sat down backstage in Austin Texas while on the road for his comedy tour to discuss her epic filibuster, the current state of Texas politics, and why she passionately ran for Texas’s 21st Congressional District in 2020. Follow Wendy Davis on Twitter @wendydavis and on Instagram and Facebook @wendydavistexas. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Benes and every week I sit down for a
0:05.3	40 minute conversation with a brilliant person to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:11.0	On today's episode I'm joined by Wendy Davis, a former state senator from the state of Texas
0:15.5	where I asked her, how are you going to flip Texas's 21st congressional district blue in 2020?
0:21.6	If Wendy Davis brings a bell for you, she was a former state senator who's successfully
0:26.0	performed a gorgeous bill of usher in an incredible story that we're gonna get into now.
0:31.0	So without any further ado, here we go with Wendy Davis.
0:39.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm so excited to introduce our guests.
0:43.5	I'm just gonna jump right in, Senator Wendy Davis from Texas.
0:48.0	If you are like, why do we are like, I can't think of that as being one of the two senators from Texas.
0:54.0	That's because she's a state senator, was a state senator and you may remember her from
0:59.0	doing one of the most epic filibusters to help save people's rights to reproductive health care in Texas.
1:06.0	That's right.
1:07.0	Hi Jonathan, welcome to Austin, Texas.
1:10.0	Thank you so much for having me.
1:11.0	I'm so happy to be here.
1:12.0	I'm so happy to be here.
1:13.0	Okay, okay, okay.
1:14.0	I have a, is everyone will probably know I have a hard time calling people who I respect
1:18.0	by their first names when they are senators or have been senators because I feel you know what?
1:21.0	I've always loved a title.
1:23.0	I love Ph.D., Miss Universe.
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