Speak Freely Podcast

Speak Freely Podcast

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Speak Freely Podcast episodes

  • S01 E03: Free Speech and Political Correctness
    Our guests this week are Lindsay Church, a former Navy cryptologist and longtime veterans’ advocate and Max Wilson, a current public policy graduate student and former Army medic. Our topic this week is “Freedom of Speech and Political Correctness” and we explore the question, “How far should free speech go?”
    1 hr 40 min
  • S01 E02: Polarization In Politics
    Our guest this week is Ross Cohen. Ross was an enlisted Army paratrooper for three years out of college. While he was in the service, he deployed to Afghanistan, and when he came home he pursued a masters degree in public affairs from Princeton University. For the last decade since, he’s been working on a number of Democratic political campaigns and in the veterans affairs space, championing veterans issues nationally. Our topic this week is “Polarization in Politics” and we explore the question, “How do we make our system more representative of the people?”
    1 hr 6 min
  • S01 E01: Racial Equity in America
    This week's guests are Ignacio Cabezudo, a former Army communications specialist and Iraq war veteran, and current sociology student at the University of Washington; and Monique Brown, a 26-year Army vet who now works as a veterans outreach specialist. This episode's topic is “Race” and we explore the question, “How far can discourse go towards achieving racial equity in America?”
    Caution: experiences may vary...
    Music used with permission from Stubborn Son.
    1 hr 29 min
  • S01 E00: Introducing Speak Freely
    The Speak Freely podcast is a brand-new, veteran-led show that seeks to broadcast blunt politics and policy discussions between military veterans, regardless of their political persuasion. The show is hosted by two Army veterans--Andrew Peppler and Joy Turner--who are public administration students out of the University of Washington in Seattle. This week's guests are Jake Tozier, a former Army helicopter pilot and the program director at Bunker Labs Seattle; Chris Yeakel, a student at UW-Bothell and a former Marine; and Katherine Pratt, a former Air Force officer and current UW engineering PhD student.
    Caution: experiences may vary...
    Music used with permission from Stubborn Son.
    51 min

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“Speak Freely” seeks to broadcast the opinions of the nation's veterans to show listeners how service members think about policy issues, and work past their political differences. Both producers (Joy…