Jane Fonda: Coming Home | 260

Even the Rich

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Happy New Year, Richies! Given that we resolve to start living our best lives this time of year, we thought we’d focus on a star who’s always done that. As an actor in movies like “Coming Home” and “9 to 5,” Jane Fonda has put social justice issues front and center. But it’s her lifelong work as an activist that’s set her apart from Hollywood’s other A-listers...even though she’s taken a lot of heat - and spent some time in the slammer - for it. And now, even in her 80s, this iconoclast is still fighting the good fight and proving she’s still a rebel with a cause.

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0:00.0	Wonderie Plus subscribers can binge the newest season of Even the Rich before anyone else.
0:04.4	Join Wonderly Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:08.0	Today's episode contains discussion of suicide and eating disorders that some listeners may find triggering.
0:13.1	We also swear, so please be advised.
0:34.7	Hi, Liam. Oh my God God. Hi, Brooke. Okay, everyone, don't freak out. You're going to hear a different voice. This is Liam. He is one of our producers. Some of the Richies already know him from Rich and Weekly. He's just stepping in this week. So,
0:37.7	hello, hello. And it's an honor. It's an absolute joy.
0:38.5	Yes.
0:38.9	Okay.
0:39.8	So, Liam, I'm curious.
0:44.5	Is there a cause that you believe in so strongly that you'd be willing to go to jail for it?
0:46.7	Brooke, I could not be more thrilled that you're asking me this question.
0:48.4	Listen, it's New Year, New Me.
0:54.5	And this new me wants to get a boyfriend. Everyone, I'm launching the 2025 Get Liam a Boyfriend Campaign. And in case you're wondering, yes, I'm willing to go to jail for it. Oh, yeah. Listeners, we're taking international
1:00.0	applications. I will move. So just really feel free to slide into those DMs. Okay. All right. Well,
1:06.0	I think for me, this will come as a shock to absolutely no one. I will go to prison for animals. Oh, for
1:12.4	sure you will. I actually, nothing about that response surprises me. And I'm glad about that.
1:19.2	I'm glad. And today's episode is all about a woman who's been arrested six times with five of those
1:26.0	arrests happening in 2019 when she was in her 80s.
1:30.3	She's been making waves with her activism since the 60s and caused a global uproar with her controversial visits to Vietnam during the war.
1:38.3	This now 87-year-old icon has always stood up for what she believes in and shows no signs of slowing down. Today, we're
1:45.2	talking about Jane Fonda. It's July 1972. 32. 32-year-old Jane Fonda is in Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam. She strongly
2:02.6	opposes the Vietnam War, a civil war between North and South Vietnam that many believe
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