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How do we talk about a thing where we really disagree? Host Dan Gordon (@itsdangordon) and guest Adam Epstein (Twitter: @adamepsteinprod / Instagram: @akepstein) dig into their different views on fixing our broken healthcare system.

Adam Epstein is the liberal pundit on Trish Regan Primetime on FOX Business Network. Read Adam's essays on politics and culture at www.clydefitcheeport.com.

Credits where credits are due:

Produced by Dan Gordon (@itsdangordon).

Edited by Brett Epstein.

Original theme music by Carlos Foglia.

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Weekly roundup of the storylines in the news and why they matter. With Dan Gordon (@itsdangordon) and special guests Amy Wiwuga (@amywiwuga) and Adam Epstein (Twitter: @adamepsteinprod / Instagram: @akepstein).

Special Guests

Amy Wiwuga is a political strategist based in Los Angeles.

Adam Epstein is the liberal pundit on Trish Regan Primetime on FOX Business Network. Read Adam's essays on politics and culture at www.clydefitcheeport.com (http://www.clydefitchreport.com).

Credits where credits are due:

Produced by Dan Gordon.

Edited by Brett Epstein.

Original theme music by Carlos Foglia.

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Dan Gordon and Adam Epstein explore our country’s contradictions and built-in capacity to go insane. Hopefully, they find a compass for where we’re going and how we get there. They use Adam Epstein’s latest essay as a guide — “Our Sweet Land of the 'Indigenous American Berserk’.

Links:

https://www.clydefitchreport.com/2019/10/american-berserk-roth-trump/ (https://www.clydefitchreport.com/2019/10/american-berserk-roth-trump/)

Special Guest:

Adam Epstein (Twitter: @adamepsteinprod, Instagram: @akepstein) is the liberal Pundit on Trish Regan Primetime. Read Adam's essays on politics and culture at www.clydefitcheeport.com.

Credits where credits are due:

Hosted and produced by Dan Gordon (@itsdangordon).

Edited by Brett Epstein.

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Can someone be fired simply for identifying as LGBTQ? In most states, yes. And there are currently no federal protections for LGBTQ people in the workplace. Some argue existing law should include LGBTQ, others disagree. What are the cases and what’s at stake?

Special Guest Adam Epstein (Twitter: @adamepsteinprod, Instagram: @akepstein) is the liberal Pundit on Trish Regan Primetime. Read Adam's essays on politics and culture at www.clydefitcheeport.com. Adam Epstein on Twitter @AdamEpsteinProd and Instagram @akepstein.

Hosted and produced by Dan Gordon.

Edited by Brett Epstein.

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What did Trump do this time? How does impeachment work? What does it all mean for our 2020 election? ...Does any of it matter?!?

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Amy Wiwuga (@amywiwuga) is a political consultant based out of Los Angeles.

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Gilroy. El Paso. Dayton. It’s not even the whole picture. Why are we so angry? Why are we so violent? Is Trump a cause or a symptom in today’s America?

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Special Guest: Adam Epstein, the liberal pundit on Trish Regan Primetime on FOX Business Network. Adam earned his masters degree in American studies from Brown University. Read his essays on politics and culture at www.clydefitcheeport.com.

Adam Epstein: Twitter @AdamEpsteinProd / Instagram @akepstein

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The electoral appeal of the once-insurgent-now-mainstream Senator Bernie Sanders. Also: what are polls good for and looking back at a different presidential election upset.

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Special Guest: Adam Epstein, Liberal Pundit on Trish Regan Primetime on FOX Business Network. Adam earned his masters degree in American studies from Brown University. Read his essays on politics and culture at www.clydefitcheeport.com. Adam Epstein on Twitter @AdamEpsteinProd and Instagram @akepstein.

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Special Guest: Adam Epstein! Adam is a Liberal pundit on Trish Regan Primetime on FOX Business Network. He got his masters degree in American studies from Brown University and has published over 30 essays on politics and culture at www.clydefitcheeport.com. Follow Adam Epstein on Twitter @AdamEpsteinProd and Instagram @akepstein.

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Part 1: How do we reconcile the difficult choice between picking the best candidate and the best president? Adam Epstein drops some history on us. Turns out that famous Nixon/Kennedy TV debate changed more than just how politicians think.

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Part 2: Many of us are evaluating the crowded field of Democrats for president based on who would be the best candidate not who would be the best president. Does thinking like a strategist make us savvy or cynical? Amit Thakkar from (CEO of lawmaker.io (lawmaker.io)) wrote this super great article, “Shopping for a Candidate? 5 Things NOT to Do (https://medium.com/@wearelawmaker/shopping-for-a-candidate-5-things-not-to-do-f96199da8351). (https://medium.com/@wearelawmaker/shopping-for-a-candidate-5-things-not-to-do-f96199da8351)”

Special Guest Inman Moore. Inman is a civil rights activist, retired Methodist minister, author, and columnist for the Pasadena Weekly. Inman was born and raised in Mississippi and found himself in the middle of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Inman faced a choice to either remain silent and keep his life as it was or risk his livelihood by speaking up taking action. Also with Paul Cole Padilla.

 

If there’s just one thing I’ve learned in my short time in activism, it’s that to create lasting change we need to support each other and keep showing up.

 

This episode was mixed by Josh Wagner.

 

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RESOURCE LINKS!

 

Pasadena Weekly: Inman Moore

https://www.pasadenaweekly.com/author/inman-moore/ (https://www.pasadenaweekly.com/author/inman-moore/)

 

Book: On the Road to Civil Rights by Inman Moore

https://www.amazon.com/Road-Civil-Rights-Inman-Moore/dp/1514407205/ (https://www.amazon.com/Road-Civil-Rights-Inman-Moore/dp/1514407205/)

 

Born of Conviction Statement

https://www.seedbed.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/BoC-text2.pdf (https://www.seedbed.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/BoC-text2.pdf)

 

MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail - April 1963

http://okra.stanford.edu/transcription/document_images/undecided/630416-019.pdf (http://okra.stanford.edu/transcription/document_images/undecided/630416-019.pdf)

 

ThoughtCo.: Civil Rights Movement Timeline From 1960 to 1964

https://www.thoughtco.com/civil-rights-movement-timeline-45361 (https://www.thoughtco.com/civil-rights-movement-timeline-45361)

 

Book: Born of Conviction: White Methodists and Mississippi's Closed Society by Joseph Reiff

https://www.amazon.com/Born-Conviction-Methodists-Mississippis-Society/dp/0190246812 (https://www.amazon.com/Born-Conviction-Methodists-Mississippis-Society/dp/0190246812)

 

MUSIC CREDITS!

 

The Theatrical Poster for Poltergeist III by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license

Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/vendaface/

Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

 

Kumasi Groove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100183 (http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100183)

Artist: http://incompetech.com/ (http://incompetech.com/)

Clean Soul - Calming by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license