Suzanne Lambert, Maya Wiley and How To Fight Back For Real
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Who are today's guests and what fights are they bringing to the podcast?
Hey, everybody, and welcome back to the Andy Beshear podcast. Today is a good one. I've got two guests who couldn't come at this moment from more different angles, but who are both in their own way fighting for the same thing. First up is Suzanne Lambert. You probably know her as the creator behind Mean But True, where she's built a following of over a million people with a simple idea. Democrats have spent too long being polite while the other side plays dirty. She grew up a conservative Republican in Georgia, spent years doing standup comedy, and now she's using both of those instincts, the political fluency and the comedic timing to say the quiet part out loud. We're gonna get into why she thinks nice hasn't been working and what she thinks Democrats still don't understand about how to actually reach people.
Then I'm joined by Maya Wiley, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. That's the nation's oldest civil rights coalition. Maya spent her career in the middle of the biggest fights over justice and democracy in this country. Right now, she's tracking something serious. The confirmation hearings for Trump's pick for Attorney General, an unprecedented indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and a wave of pressure coming down on nonprofits across the country. She's going to walk us through what's actually happening. So one guest fighting with humor, one fighting with the law, but the same fight. So let's get into it. Our first guest this week on the Andy Beshear podcast is Suzanne Lambert.
Suzanne is a DC-based comedian, internet personality, and general menace. Known as the Regina George liberal, she delivers engaging and biting wit to an audience of over 1 million fans across TikTok and Instagram. Her style could best be described as quick, sharp, amused bewilderment. She pairs strangely strong opinions about inconsequential topics with beauty tips and hot political takes. Originally hailing from Georgia, she had a very normal upbringing in a gun-loving Bible Belt town and remains unaffected to this day. Suzanne, welcome to the podcast.
So great to be here, Gov. Thanks for having me.
Well, that was one of the most fun intros that I've gotten to read. So I'm looking forward to this interview. I've got to start with how you grew up. So you grew up in Kennesaw, Georgia.
The one and only. For those unfamiliar, the slogan of my hometown is it's the law in Kennesaw, which means it's actually a city ordinance to own, I don't know if I can say the G word on here, a weapon in Kennesaw. It's not enforced, but just to give people an idea of just how deeply red and conservative that area was growing up. I'm one of six kids, and we were kind of an outlier. We were Catholic kids. You know, it was mostly like very, very Protestant, a very evangelical area, right? And I was actually the president of my Young Republicans Club in high school because I think that if I was going to be, you know, insufferable, I was going to be the most insufferable.
So how do you move from being president of your high school Young Republicans to being outspoken on the other side?
Yeah, I mean, you know, for me, it was it was definitely a sequence of events. It wasn't something that happened overnight. One major event in particular, that I think is where it a thread started unraveling a little bit was that I had an unintended pregnancy in my 20s, which is not something I had ever expected or pictured for myself. And I Up until that point, viewed reproductive choice, I was very, very anti, right? And it's kind of crazy how that can all be undone literally in an instant. For me, it was undone in an instant. And then when something like that happens, you're like, okay, if I was maybe misinformed or deliberately misinformed, right, about these topics, what else am I wrong about?
And it was actually when I started doing stand-up comedy more and I got to hear people talk about their own experiences in a way where I didn't feel like I had to be defensive. I didn't have to respond and I could laugh, right?
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Who are today's guests and what fights are they bringing to the podcast?
0:07–8:09
2
How did Suzanne Lambert go from Young Republican in Georgia to political comedian?
8:09–22:48
3
What role did stand‑up and social media play in launching Suzanne Lambert’s 'Mean But True' brand?
22:48–57:39
4
How does Suzanne explain what national Democrats misunderstand about reaching Southern voters?
57:39–1:10:27
Speakers
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