Episode 372 - In Defense of Punching Back (w/ Kate Willett)

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Chapo, Bernie, Left, Leftism, Socialism, Socialist, Berniesanders, Comedy, Democrat, News, Politics

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🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Comedian Kate Willett returns to Bad Faith to talk about her new comedy special, weigh in on recent comedy controversies involving Bill Burr, Bill Maher, and Jerry Seinfeld; and dig in to Jonathan Chait's new article defending the age-old liberal practice of "punching left." Now that new polls show Biden way behind in 5 out of 6 swing states, the center is coming out swinging at progressives, looking for someone to blame. Kate breaks down what Hillary Clinton, Jonathan Chait, and so many others get wrong about the left.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

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0:00.0	The So, All right faithful. I am so excited to have back on Bad Faith Podcast again. Kate Willa, you know her, you love her as an amazing comedian. Also, you should be very well aware
0:54.2	that her special loopholes just came out April 23rd
0:57.8	on Prime Video, Apple TV, YouTube, and other platforms.
1:01.6	You have seen her on the late show with Stephen Colbert,
1:04.8	Netflix's comedy lineup and on and on and on. Kate, I'm endlessly
1:09.6	impressed by you. We don't get many like mainstream cool regular stars in our midst here in the
1:16.7	lefty podcast landscape so I'm always grateful for you to join. Oh thank you. Thank you
1:21.6	thank you. All right, so first up, can you tell us a little bit about this special?
1:28.3	So yeah, it's just a straight up stand-up special, but I did work some leftus themes in there it's a lot about
1:35.2	romance which I know we've talked about on this show before you're learning of
1:39.3	course the fact that you're part of one of our famous dating on the left episodes.
1:43.7	Yeah, that caused a lot of controversy.
1:46.1	I was getting people in my mentions for weeks.
1:48.8	Did it really?
1:49.8	What were they saying to you?
1:51.0	I don't totally remember, but I feel like it was kind of like a lot of guys
1:54.8	arguing over if what we were saying was reasonable of like they have a right to deserve that
1:59.8	versus not all men I don't know it know, it was just dudes being tunes.
2:05.0	But, you know, this special, it's 45 minutes of stand up.
2:08.6	It's a lot about various pressures that I feel like are part of life as a woman.
2:15.0	Pressure from one side to be a plus trad wife and then pressure to be you know
2:21.7	feminist girl boss killing it in every way and to also be like very sexy and you know I called it
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