Undistracted Transcripts

S4 Ep 20, What’s Still Worth Fighting For, with Kamala Harris

S4 Ep 19, Stop Waiting for Permission, with Danielle Brooks

S4 Ep 18, We Tell Our Own Stories, with Jocelyn Bioh and Whitney White

S4 Ep 17, It’s Impossible Until It’s Not, with Rep. Angie Nixon

S4 Ep 16, The Best and Worst Case of What Happens Next, with Angela Rye

S4 Ep 15, How to be a Leader, with Dr. Shavon Arline-Bradley and Bishop Vashti McKenzie

S4 Ep 14, "I'm Not here to Bend the Knee," with Governor and First Lady Moore

S4 Ep 13, Time to Kiss Kumbaya Goodbye, with Brian Tyler Cohen

S4 Ep 12, Nikole Hannah-Jones Explains It All: Reparations, Rage, and How we Have Hope

S4 Ep 11, The Power of “I Deserve This” with Jemele Hill

S4 Ep 10, Final III: Juneteenth and the Debt We're Still Owed, with Adam Serwer

S4 Ep 9, Final II: Serena’s Back, Slush Fund Is Dead and…They Tried to Ban Roots?

S4 Ep 8, Final: We should all be Backtalker, with Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw

S4 Ep 7, Girl, AI Is Not Unstoppable

S4 Ep 6: Don’t Mansplain to Us, with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal

S4 Ep 5: Have They Even Read the Constitution? with Law Professor, Melissa Murray

S3 Ep20: “Guard Your Joy, Siblings!” with The Machetes

S3 Ep19: “Women are the Secret Sauce”: Talking Activism with Shannon Watts

S3 Ep18: “We are the Evidence” MLK, Inauguration Day and The Road Ahead, with The Group Chat

S3 Ep17: “If We Ever Felt Like Fighters, Now’s The Time to Prove It,” with Cori Bush

S3 Ep16: Does America Have a Man Problem?, with Anand Giridharadas and Liz Plank

S3 Ep15: The Year of Our Power: The Group Chat and Rev. Neichelle Guidry Make Resolutions

S3 Ep14: “Staying Quiet is Not An Option”: Sitting Down with Women Who Have Accused Trump and Kennedy

S3 Ep13: “How Am I??”: Ilana Glazer Takes on Motherhood

S3 Ep12: “I Think the Best Advice Is Just to be Skeptical,” with Max Tani

S3 Ep11: “Are We the People We Said We’d Be?” with Alicia Garza

S3 Ep10: “Heartbreaking, Maddening and Ready to Fight”: Cecile Richards and Paola Ramos

S3 Ep9: “We Did Not Consent To Chaos”: The Group Chat Talks Election

S3 Ep7: A Girl's Girl Fight for Abortion, with Kaitlyn Joshua

S3 Ep6: Hip Hop's promise and pain, with Drew Dixon

S3 Ep5: Everybody Watches Women’s Sports

S3 Ep4: The Group Chat Decodes Your Week's News

S3 Ep3: Our Right to Party with Rep. Ruwa Romman and Maurice Mitchell

S3 Ep2: “We Elect Partners, Not Saviors”: Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Dr. Brittney Cooper

S3 Ep1: - Ava DuVernay Want Us to Dig Deeper

Season 3: We’re Baaaaaack

Exclusive: Vice President Kamala Harris on a Year Without Roe

“Every Hashtag is a Human Being”: Honoring the Five-Year Anniversary of #MeToo

The End of the World as We Know It? Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Rates our Climate Future

“You Can’t Win if You Don’t Start”: Rep. Cori Bush on Running for Office—and Making a Difference

Derecka Purnell on Living (and Loving) Outside the Police State

The Queen Died. Now What? Three Brilliant Women on Colonialism and the Future

The Hidden Latinx Stories We Don’t Hear, with Julissa Natzely Acre Raya

The Kids Are All Right. The Adults Are F***ing Up!

Will We Be Smarter About the Next Epidemic? Two Experts Break it Down.

A Future Without Police? Andrea Ritchie on Crime and Abolition

“People’s Kids Are the Center of Their World” - Caitlin Dickerson on the Horrors of Family Separation

Beyoncé’s Renaissance, According to Four Brilliant Black Women

“The System Works For Those Who Occupy It”: María Teresa Kumar on Voting Rights

Phoebe Robinson is Writing Her Own Rules (on TV and in Life)

“Covering the End of the World”: A Reporter on Gun Violence

Tiffany Cross on Roe, Resistance and What Comes Next

Michelle Colón is Living Through The Last Days of Legal Abortion in Mississippi

The Roe v. Wade News—and Finding Hope

Having a Baby While Black: Martina Abraham and Gabrielle Horton Know *All* The Stories

You Can Be Successful Where You Are: Majora Carter on Reclaiming Communities

God is Big Enough for Our Questions:” Candice Benbow on Faith, Feminism, and Lipstick

During a Dark Time, A Little Light with Bevy Smith

“Tell the Truth to Set Us Free”: Kimberlé Crenshaw on White Supremacy, CRT and Lies

WTF, TEXAS?! Cisneros, Crockett and O’Rourke on The Madness (and Promise) of The Lone Star State

What Happens Now? Gloria Steinem and Renee Bracey Sherman on the Future of Abortion

The Senator of TikTok: Morgan Harper’s Run for Office (and Our Hearts)

Motherhood, Love and the “Trayvon Generation,” with Elizabeth Alexander

“I’ve Been Proud So Many Times”: A Texas Family Fights the Anti-Trans Laws

“We See Who Pays the Price”: Muzoon Almellehan on War and Refugees

“You Deserve to Be Safe”: Nicole Chung on Parenting in a Wave of Anti-AAPI Violence

“Buckle Up:” Senator Elizabeth Warren still has a plan for change

“I don’t believe in the guilt:” Real climate talk, with Mary Annaïse Heglar

Anita Hill on the Supreme Court’s future—and its past

“We are here to fight disinformation”: Sara Lomax-Reese and Akoto Ofori-Atta build the future

Ai-jen Poo on caregiving: “We take for granted that women will just figure it out”

Jemele Hill and Cari Champion on racism (and liberation) in sports

Dr. Uché Blackstock on pandemic fatigue—And the new COVID normal

Elaine Welteroth on the “Great Resignation” and rewriting your own definition of success.

“This big old lie:” Heather McGhee on the real cost of racism

LaTosha Brown on our “Moment of Reckoning”

One Year Later: “The Next Coup is Already Happening”

Nikole Hannah-Jones on America’s “400-Year Racial Pandemic”

Beyond Roe: Gloria Steinem and Renee Bracey Sherman on How We Got Here and What Happens Next

From SCOTUS to white womanhood: Dr. Brittney Cooper decodes our world

Bonus: Your UNDISTRACTED Highlights Reel 

Tarana Burke on her powerful new memoir — and the future of #MeToo

Pleasure activist adrienne maree brown on conflict, canceling, and community

Jemele Hill on “The Cursed Olympics”—and Simone Biles choosing her peace

The billionaire space race and patriarchy in physics, with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Connie Walker on covering the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women

Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw on the truth about Critical Race Theory

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on finally fixing the military’s sexual assault problem

The “grandmother of Juneteenth” on the holiday’s past, present, and future

Lawyer Chase Strangio on “genocidal” anti-trans laws—and resistance

Amani on why this moment “feels different” for Palestinians

"Queen Sugar" author Natalie Baszile on the new black farming revolution 

Travon Free wants to flip the script on masculinity

Nikole Hannah-Jones wants us to confront the truth of who we are 

Insecure's Yvonne Orji on Black joy...and her "homie" Jesus 

Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on the "feminist climate renaissance" 

Andra Day on the tragedy and triumph of Billie Holiday  

Sophia Bush on surviving "relentless" harassment in Hollywood

Alexis McGill Johnson on the “Dire” Landscape for Abortion Rights

Shannon Watts Believes We're at a Tipping Point for Gun Reform

Rep. Cori Bush Is What "Keeping It Real" Looks Like

Comedian Amber Ruffin Wants to "De-Gaslight" America

Lisa Ling on Anti-Asian Violence—And the Rising Movement Against It

Padma Lakshmi on the New Food Revolution

The Squad is Big, Y’all: Rep. Ayanna Pressley on the Power of the People

What Would a Future Without Prisons Look Like?

Opal Tometi on the Righteous Rise of Black Lives Matter

Raquel Willis Believes in Black Trans Power

Want A Safer Internet? Listen To Black Women

A Historic Day… And Why The ‘Nap Bishop’ Believes Rest Is Radical

Valerie Jarrett on Impeachment...And the Next 100 Days

America Ferrera Is Talking ‘Bout a Cultural Revolution

Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew Are Building Black Futures

Flattening the Curve of Inequality

Sue Bird Won't Shut Up and Dribble

Tracee Ellis Ross Is The Lead in Her Own Life

Nikki Giovanni Believes Your Dreams Are Worth It

Rebecca Traister Is Still Good and Mad

LaTosha Brown Is Betting On the South

Soledad O’Brien Is Calling It Like It Is

Cecile Richards Is Ready for the Uprising