America's Talking

Harry Nathan Gottlieb is the Founder of Unify America, Jackbox Games, and Jellyvision. For the last 25 years Harry has focused on making learning and decision-making delightful and creating unique games that bring people together. With Unify America, he is now trying to bring Americans together to directly participate in solving big problems by deliberating multiple solutions together.

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Niels Jorgensen worked as a New York City Firefighter for almost 22 years. His firefighting career was cut short by an advanced form of Leukemia diagnosed in 2011, which was attributed to exposure to toxins at 9/11/2001 World Trade Center rescue and recovery operations. Niels is also the host of the 20 for 20 podcast, which tells 20 stories of heroism that will make sure our country doesn't forget that fateful day and its meaning.

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Jimmy Song is a bitcoin advocate, developer and author who has been contributing to open-source bitcoin projects since 2013. Previously working as a software developer in a number of industries, Song joined Monetas, a crypto-finance software company, in 2014. In this episode, Song discusses how bitcoin could be viewed as digital gold, the growth of the cryptocurrency movement, and the dangers with what Song calls cryptocurrency "scams".

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Dan McCaleb is the Executive Editor at The Center Square and the host of the "America in Focus" podcast. The Center Square was launched in May 2019 to fulfill the need for high-quality statehouse and statewide news across the United States. Dan is a veteran editor who has worked in journalism for more than 25 years . Prior to joining the Franklin News Foundation in 2017, McCaleb served as editorial director of Shaw Media and was the top editor of the award-winning Northwest Herald in suburban Chicago.

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Shakira Mills is the Deputy Chief of Staff at the Bridge Alliance. The Bridge Alliance is a coalition of 100 plus organizations working together to promote healthy self-governance in our democratic republic. Bridge Alliance member organizations span the ideological spectrum, but are unified to work efficiently, outside arbitrarily defined political lines.

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Ciaran O'Connor is the Chief Marketing Officer for Braver Angels. Ciaran O’Connor leads marketing, digital, and communications strategy for Braver Angels. Launched in 2016, Braver Angels is a national citizens’ movement to bring liberals, conservatives and others together at the grassroots level — not to find centrist compromise, but to find one another as citizens. Through workshops, debates, campus engagement, and more, Braver Angels helps Americans understand each other beyond stereotypes, form community alliances, and reduce the vitriol that poisons our civic culture. Before joining Braver Angels in June 2017, Ciaran served as a staffer on the 2012 Obama campaign and the 2016 Clinton campaign, and worked as a political consultant at Precision Strategies.

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John Papola is an American video producer and director who has worked for Spike TV, Nickelodeon, and MTV. John is also the co-founder, CEO, and creative director of Emergent Order and the channel "Dad Saves America" which is on a mission to celebrate, empower, and entertain Dads, could-be Dads, and father-figures of all stripes.

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Eric Kohn is director of marketing and communications at the Acton Institute. In that role, he works to bring Acton's vision of a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles to a wider audience. Every week he hosts Acton Unwind, Acton's roundtable podcast, and he's a part-time host of Acton Line, Acton's weekly interview podcast.

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Angel Eduardo is the Director of Messaging & Editorial as well as an Advisory Board member for the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR), where he helps shape the organization's pro-human approach to our often contentious and divided discourse. Angel is also a columnist for the Center for Inquiry, where he writes on science, communication, skepticism, and morality.

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Matt Briney is the Vice President, Media & Communications at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Matt joins Austin today to discuss the importance of Mount Vernon, Washington's internal struggles with slavery, and how he became one of the most revered men in the history of the United States.

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