Emily has been teaching Hannah Arendt's "We Refugees", which is timely. It's important to add personal testimony to facts in order to persuade people. Which reminds Sean of Varlam Shalamov the Soviet author who was published after his death. Sean talks about his service in Iraq. Then we pivot to Orwell. Do we really know what Orwellian means? Totalitarianism does not belong to a political party, but should be avoided at all costs. And for Sean - why the outrage against Trump that he didn't feel about Bush?

Ok, so what should the President have said in Helsinki? Sean takes a stab at it.

And then what happens if collusion is found? Does it invalidate the election? What happens next?

At what point is it a constitutional crisis? Sean and Emily tackle a lot of questions in this short but sweet episode.

Trump's Supreme Court nominee pick leads to a deeper conversation about abortion, Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, and how we are collectively debating the wrong part of the equation.

Introducing a new podcast from The Other 50% network - The Kiss My Age Show. This is a forum for women to talk about anything and everything - all the things that matter.

This conversation is around civility and asks the question: how are we to behave? Sean and Emily discuss the incident of The Red Hen. Emily explains the smokey eye joke.

What is the right way to dissent? If the desired outcome is to have the people in power change their perspective, what is the best way to do that? Sean is concerned at how quickly things turn into violence, and he wants the democratic process to work. Michelle Wolf gives Emily life.

Where Emily and Sean discuss border security, family separation, immigration policy and the political backlash that resulted.

This is the episode where will drill down on where Sean and Emily are coming from. What are their core values? Do they fit into a political box? Do they identify with a label? What informs their political perspectives?

Sean has a full bar, a double-decker couch and a ball pit at his house. All parties will be there from now on. Sean also has a foundation for parents of special needs kids called Care 4 Us.

The conversation wound its way to campus assault and reporting, Woody Allen, beach badge checkers, football, and cheerleading.

Apparently, Sean was a dominant force for the Ventnor Pirates in the late '80s. And Emily cheered her fanny off.

They circled back to go deeper on last week's racism conversation as well.

Eric Greitens resigned in disgrace. This is antithetical to the person Sean worked with in the Navy's Special Ops, sending Sean into a bit of a crisis of cognitive dissonance. Greiten's PHD thesis was on ethics and refugee studies. Among other things, the mental gymnastics that had to happen for him to embrace the Trump administration was really troubling to Sean.

Emily has more experience with sociopaths and is less surprised by people. Sean understands less about the world than he thought he did.

Emily was kicked out of the Ventnor FB forum.

This episode discusses the arc of systemic racism in America. How has it improved and how is it still a mess?

Sean believes as a nation we are less racist than we were at the beginning. Emily believes we are every bit as racist as we were in 1863. Sean is talking about racist feelings, Emily is talking about racist systems and institutions. What is racism vs what is implicit bias?

Your pre-work for this episode: "Hegelian Synthesis"