At The Table

Jared sits down with Steve Le [website: LeMobileFeast.com] about his project: traveling to all fifty states making 259 dinners for people in their homes. The purpose? To rediscover a country he didn't think he recognized after 2015-2016. We talk a lot about the virtue of hospitality here on At The Table; Steve has lived it and learned from it in a big way. 

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Thanks to Mike & Nancy Devine for use of their space to record.

Special thanks to Shawn Gee for connecting two people he knew would be kindred spirits.

Jared returns from a trip to Yosemite refreshed to face the news and reminded of the human connection that makes all this bearable. 

Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter: @JaredRizzi] 

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Gaza Sky Geeks, an organization founded in 2011 with Mercy Corps and Google.org as partners, aims to create opportunities in Gaza for young people. Dalia Shurrab is their social media coordinator and joins Jared in Washington DC to talk about their mission, and also funding challenges they've faced under the Trump Administration. 

Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter: @JaredRizzi]

Assistant Producer: Elana Morris

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Gun violence, mental health, intractable politics: when the solutions seem out of reach, sometimes our default is despair. We have to fight that impulse before we can suit up for the next, more important fight to come. I hope this conversation and community can be a shelter from the storm. Stop pacing outside; come in and join us. Live event at Local 16 restaurant and bar in Washington, DC.

Segment 1: poetry in the storm

Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter: @JaredRizzi]

We will be off from live shows at Local 16 next Tuesday (August 13) but back the Tuesday after that (August 20). Join us!

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This is an episode about guns. But it's also about mental health, and how we choose to break things down and rebuild them after. This isn't going to solve the problems. But, I hope it helps to make us want to recommit to solving them. 

Thanks, friends.

Host: Jared Rizzi [Twitter: @JaredRizzi]

Curious about the discussion of psychology? Read more here [more academic] and here [more general interest].

After we finished with our excellent guest, Carolyn Fiddler of DailyKos, we went around the room and spoke to some in the crowd at Local 16. Unsurprisingly, the folks were smart and funny and willing to chime in on everything we had all just seen heard from the second night of the Detroit DNC Debates. Producer David Ross is fired for the fourth time.

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After the first night of the DNC presidential primary debates in Detroit, it was clear that the framing of issues--both from the CNN moderators and the frontrunner, former Vice President Biden--would comport more with Republican talking points than with the preferences of the progressives in the Democratic party base. Jared is joined by Carolyn Fiddler of DailyKos to talk about the implications of those choices and expectations and reactions before and after the broadcast. Live event at Local 16 restaurant and bar in Washington, DC.

Segment 1: Jared and Carolyn react to the first night of ten candidates and expectations for the second slate, including presumptive frontrunner Biden.

Segment 2: Jared and Carolyn react to the debate.

A full version of this event is available for supporters of At The Table on Patreon.

Host: Jared Rizzi

Producer: David Ross

Thanks to Aman Ayoub and everyone at DC's Local 16

Heading into the first night of the second round of DNC presidential primary debates, President Trump has put the question of who is a real American front and center. Jared is joined by two guests to talk about this in a policy context: immigration lawyer and law professor Anam Rahman, and Ballot.org executive director Chris Melody Fields. Live event at Local 16 restaurant and bar in Washington, DC.

Segment 1: Jared, Anam, and Chris talk about their areas of expertise and their expectations heading into the first night of this round of debates.

Segment 2: Jared and Anam react to the debate.

A full version of this event is available for supporters of At The Table on Patreon.

Host: Jared Rizzi

Producer: David Ross

Thanks to Aman Ayoub and everyone at DC's Local 16

International affiliate reporter for the Associated Press Philip Crowther joins Jared from Detroit, where the next round of DNC Debates will take place this week.  We talk about what to expect on stage both Tuesday and Wednesday, and how candidates can beat expectations: possibly by embracing some of the Trump Administration's foreign policy principles. 

This week At The Table will be live Tuesday and Wednesday night at Local 16 in Washington DC: join us for live shows starting at 7 PM both nights. The debate begins 8 PM ET. Come and be a part of the community in person.

If you can't make it to Local 16: the live comedian opening act, all our guests' conversations, and full show before and after the debates will be available to all tiers of Patrons. Shorter, edited versions will continue to post here the morning after. 

Host: Jared Rizzi

Prof. Karla McKanders of Vanderbilt Law joins Jared to talk about Trump Administration immigration policy and recent raids around the country, carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Host: Jared Rizzi

Guest: Professor Karla McKanders, Clinical Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School where she directs the Immigration Practice Clinic and teaches Refugee Law and Policy and Immigration Law. [Twitter: @KarlaMcKanders]